Jack marched his prisoner down to the interrogation room, Owen, Gwen, and Ianto following curiously in his wake while Tosh watched on camera. Tosh had spotted the girl taking photographs of Torchwood-related things on the Plass, including the paving stone that disguised the invisible lift, so Jack had gone to apprehend her and find out what she was up to. He had been planning to talk to her and find out how retcon-laced the coffee he'd buy her would have to be. And then she'd had the audacity to make him look silly. Right out in the open, too!
"Jack, why'd you have bring her into the hub?" Owen asked. "I thought the idea was to find out what she knows without giving her more information than she already has."
Jack thought fast, trying to come up with an explanation. He'd hoped nobody would question his change of plans. Nobody had actually been watching what the girl did to him, but it had been in full view of several CCTV cameras, and he didn't want to give his team a reason to check what had happened. "I decided she was dangerous, and that I should bring her in for a more thorough interrogation," he said in his most authoritative Boss Voice.
Owen harrumphed. "She doesn't look dangerous. She's just a teenage girl, not even terribly fit."
The prisoner in question glared at him. "Gee, thanks."
Tosh's voice was heard over the comms. "I've run a few scans on the room. She's completely human, unarmed, and she doesn't appear to be psychic or have any control over electromagnetic radiation. If she's any more dangerous than any civilian, it's either in a way that we can't detect, or it's just because of the knowledge she has about us."
Great, the team was still questioning Jack's decision. Jack tried the Boss Voice again. "She almost got away from me before I even knew she was running, and normal humans just can't do that as easily as she did. If she was able to do that to me, just think what she could do to a normal, twenty-first century person. If I hadn't been so quick, she could've just walked right in here and none of you would probably have noticed." He mentally congratulated himself for thinking to pull the from-the-future-and-therefore-more-advanced card.
"Erm, Jack," Ianto started, with a look that said he knew what Jack was up to, and was amused by it, "What did she actually do to get away from you? If she's as dangerous as all that, we should know what she's capable of, don't you think?"
Bugger.
A sudden giggle over the comms, and Jack realized that Tosh must have taken the liberty of looking up the CCTV footage to see what had happened.
"She just pointed behind him and made a run for it while he turned to look! He didn't even go after her until she was already halfway across the Plass!" Tosh snorted.
Jack flushed. "She did not just point behind me and bolt! I am not that easily...er...diverted," he finished rather lamely.
"Really, Jack?" Gwen smiled. "So how did this dangerous suspect distract you?"
Jack opened and closed his mouth a few times, trying to think of an answer that wouldn't make him look like an idiot. The prisoner started to snigger at him, drawing the team's attention.
"So," Owen grinned at her, "Would you care to enlighten us as to what has our dear Captain so flustered? What did you do to so completely take his attention away from you, so that you could run?"
The girl smiled evilly at Jack as she revealed exactly what she had done to make him feel so ridiculous. "Well, I realized he was trying to interrogate me, so got I ready to run and then pointed behind him and shouted, 'Look! A distraction!'"