This is my first fan fiction. It is written in screenplay format. When the act ends is when a commercial is played. This would be season four of Torchwood right after the Children of Earth mini-series.

Torchwood

"Jenny"

Act One

FADE IN:

1INT: CARDIFF STREET - DAY 1

Scene opens with a girl running down a normal Cardiff, Wales street and the words two months later at the bottom. She has long, layered, dirty blond hair. She is wearing an olive green short sleeve t-shirt and a pair of dark wash blue jeans with a black jacket. The way she runs is extremely disciplined and trained like she was in the military. Her hands are in blades and pump up and down. She keeps looking behind herself, but no one is in sight. She rounds a corner and slows down a little bit, but is still running. She crosses the street and starts looking at the numbers still running pretty fast. She passes the number she is looking for and comes to a complete stop. Then she walks back two doors slowly more relaxed, but her breathing seems labored. She goes up to the door and puts her hands on her hips and steadies her breath. When she has it under control she knocks on the door. You can hear footsteps coming to the door and it opens.

Rhys: (with a confused look on his face, because she doesn't recognize who is at the door) 'Ello, can I help you?

Stranger: (clears her throat, and has an American accent) Does a Mrs. Gwen Cooper live here?

(Rhys stands there quiet for a moment then closes the door. The stranger just stands there and you can hear footsteps approaching again. The door opens and Gwen opens the door. She's eight months pregnant and pretty big. She steps out the door closing it behind her, forcing the stranger to take a few steps back.)

Jenny: Hello I'm Jenny, you must be Gwen Cooper.

Gwen: I am. What can I do for you?

Jenny: I've been looking everywhere for you. I just came back from Torchwood One in London and it was abandoned.

Gwen: (shocked at the mention of Torchwood) What do you know about Torchwood?

Jenny: (smiles) I know a lot more than I have time to explain. I actually came here to ask for a favor. (Jenny leans in and Gwen does too) I need to borrow your pterodactyl.

Torchwood short theme

2INT: OUTER SPACE BAR – NIGHT2

The shows opens back up at a pub filled with lots of different creatures. The man behind the bar is purple with six tenticles. Then the camera focuses on Jack, sitting in a stool with a beer in his hand. His big jacket is draped over the back of the stool on his right towards the camera. He is looking down at the beer very dejected. He sighs and looks extremely broken. Then a sharp looking man with blonde hair and green eyes walks in from behind Jack. He sees him and his eyes light up. He puts his hand on Jacks back and leans in to his ear.

Strange man: Hey there, Jack. (Kisses him on the cheek)

Jack: Not tonight Anthony (Pushes him away)

Anthony : (looks at him confused) Ok then, let me know when your feeling better. (Anthony exits)

Jack: (saying into his beer) Right.

Octopus man behind the bar: (concerned) Jack, go home.

Jack: (not looking up from his beer) I will as soon as I finish my drink.

Octopus Man behind the bar: (shakes his head) No, Jack. I mean you need to go back where you came from.

Jack: (looks up from his beer for the first time looking very troubled and says hoarsely) I can't go back there. (Looks back down and takes a drink emptying it. He stands up and lays money on the counter) I'll see you tomorrow, Horace.

Horace: (Shakes his head) No, you won't.

Jack looks behind him and Horace has already turned around. Jack grabs his jacket and slugs it on. He walks out the door of the bar and someone is leaning up against the wall. They lean forward out of the shadows and it Anthony from before. Jack nods and Anthony follows him.

3EXT: CADIFF PARK – DAY3

Gwen and Jenny. They are standing outside in front of a stand. Jenny is waiting with Gwen behind her with her hands on her belly.

Man from behind the thing: That'll be four quid, Love.

Jenny: (handing him the money)Keep the change. (Turns from the hot dog guy to Gwen and hands her the hot dog. They walk away) So what happened?

Gwen: (in the middle of a bite) I have been craving these things like mad. (Back on subject) Well (swallows) do you remember when all the children were pointing to the sky and saying 'we are coming'?

Jenny: (nods) When the 456 wanted 10% of the world's population in children for their own personal drug supply.

Gwen: (looks at her astonished) Yeah, well the government didn't want Torchwood telling the world about the first time the 456 came to Great Brittan so they bombed the headquarters, which killed the pterodactyl and destroyed the hub.

Jenny: (cautious about how she asks her question) What happened to everyone?

Gwen: (finished her hot dog and looks down at her hands) Ianto was killed by the 456 and Jack ran away.

Jenny: (Still seeming uncomfortable looks out in the opposite direction of Gwen) And what about Owen and Tosh?

Gwen: (looking up from her hands) They're dead. (worried) How do you know so much about this? (Gwen starts to think that maybe she shouldn't be talking to Jenny and gets defensive) Who are you?

Jenny: (Trying to calm her) My name is Jenny and I am hunting a Zurgo. They are shape shifters, so it's hard to find them. (She looks around the area) They could be anyone. (Looks back at Gwen) Their natural form is like a giant beetle but it has disguised itself as a human. They were all over the word in prehistoric times, but the pterodactyls hunted them and ate most of them and the others fled to their home planet. (They come up to a child's playground. Gwen is tired, and sits down on the bench and Jenny sits with her. When Gwen sees a little girl sliding down a slide she puts her hand on her belly and smiles.)And know one of them have come back, and I have to find it. (She notices Gwen smiling) When is the baby due?

Gwen: (Looking up still seeing if she can trust Jenny) How do you know so much about Torchwood?

Jenny: A friend of mine told me if I ever needed anything that I could turn to Torchwood.

Gwen: (Thinking of Jack) Yeah, I was told the same thing. (She pauses deciding that she can trust Jenny because she must know Jack, and that sensitivity she has towards the people she meets that she knows she's supposed to help) Next month, on the fourth.

Jenny: (Confused) What?

Gwen: I'm having my baby next month. (Remembering the alien talk) If the Zurgo can hide as humans, how have you been tracking him?

Jenny: (Reaches in her pocket and pulls out a ring. It has a silver band with a big oval pink stone.) With this. (She hands Gwen the ring.)It's a ring that shows you your hearts desire (she looks down at it) it doesn't work anymore. (She runs her hand threw her hair.) Well, it still works, but it's not showing me the Zurgo. (Gwen puts on the ring and a beam of light shoots out of the ring and brings up a hologram like picture. It's her, Jack, Jenny, and Rhys in the old warehouse that they hid in during the 456 invasion. Jack hugs her and she pulls off the ring making the picture disappear. She hands Jenny back the ring with tears in her eyes.) That's odd.

Gwen: (sniffles) What? (She wipes her eyes) Damn these hormones.

Jenny: (looks down at the ring in amazement) I found this ring after helping a Slinger hunt down the alien who killed his mom and dad. Slingers are a race of aliens who specialize in hunting. They are bright blue with four hands. (looks up at the sky and smiles slightly) Wondering hands.

Gwen: (interrupting her private thought) But what was odd about it?

Jenny: (Coming back to reality) Well, usually it shows you where the thing your looking for is. But that showed you with someone.

Gwen: (Still teary eyed) Does that mean he's coming back?

Jenny: (crosses her legs and looks back at the clouds) I don't know.

Gwen: (trying to figure Jenny out) So where are you from?

Jenny: (looking up at the sky) No where really, just here and there. I followed the Zurgo from Dublin to Cardiff, buts as soon as I got here, the ring stopped working for me.

Gwen: (sadly) Had you met any of the team? (meaning the dead members)

Jenny: (with a smile) Ianto Jones, best coffee I've ever had. (laughs, then looks at Gwen) He told me about you, about your passion and drive. That's why I came to you. I knew that if anyone could help me, it'd be you.

As they sit there, a man runs by with a purse in his hand. Another person in the kids park tells him to stop, and he turns back and hisses at him with a mouth full of rows or razor sharp teeth. Gwen gets up as fast as an eight month pregnant woman can, and pulls a hand gun out from behind her. Jenny looks at the gun and starts to run after the thief/alien. He sees her chasing him and runs over a man hole in the street. There he turns to liquid that is a light purple color and seeps through the man hole, leaving behind his clothes and the purse. Jenny picks up the purse that is still covered in slime. She pulls a vile out of her pocket and slipped some of the goop in it. She turned and saw Gwen waddling towards her and laughed and slowly jogged towards her.

Gwen: (stops and puts her hand on her lower back) What are you laughing at?

Jenny: Oh, nothing.

Gwen: Where did that man go?

Jenny: (pointing to the sewer) Down. (she holds up the purse) He turned to goo and slid down the man hole. (They hear someone yelling "stop thief" in the distance) And we'd better give this back.

Gwen: (laughing) Yeah.

They see a girl running towards them. Girl: Hey, that's mu purse.

Gwen: Yeah. (she takes the purse form Jenny) Here you go Love.

Girl: (takes the purse and walks away. Mutters) Bloody savages.

Jenny: That's the thanks we get for helping.

Gwen: Yeah, a lot have things have changed since the 456. No one trusts anyone anymore.

Jenny sighs. Jenny: Do you know what leave this? (pulls out the vile and hands it to Gwen)

Gwen: I don't know, but we can take it to the Hub. I'm sure Ianto…(stops when she realize what she's saying) I don't know. (hands it back) I don't think I can help you.

Jenny: (shocked) What do you mean? You're Torchwood's finest. You're the only person on planet earth that can help me.

Gwen: (starts walking away) I'm sorry. I'm all alone here, there's nothing I can do.

Jenny watches her walk away with a sad look on her face. Jenny: She'll come back. (Jenny walks in the opposite direction.) Where can a girl get a hotel around here?

4INT: GWEN'S FLAT – DAY4

Camera follows Gwen. She walks home and the camera follows her waddle. She opens the door and Rhys is sitting on the couch.

Rhys: Who was that?

Gwen: (lowering herself onto the couch) I don't know. She asked to borrow my pterodactyl.

Rhys: (turns off the TV and leans forward) What?

Gwen: She knew about Torchwood and wanted to borrow the pterodactyl to hunt an alien.

Rhys: (shocked) Did you tell her about the bomb?

Gwen: Yeah, but not that it was inside Jack. She knew so much. She knew about Tosh, Ianto, and Owen. It scared me at first, but there's something about her that I trust. Then when we were talking and an alien ran by us and stole a person's bag. It was crazy (her eyes light up) she chased him to a sewer drain and he turned to slime and fell down the hole.

Rhys: (sadly)You miss it don't you?

Gwen: (snapping out of it and placing her hand on her belly. In a whisper) She said Jack was coming back.

Rhys: What? (leans back against the couch astonished)

Gwen: Yeah (she leans back too) she gave me this ring that shows you what your looking for and it showed me, her, you, and Jack, and we were in the Hub.

Rhys: So what does that mean?

Gwen: I don't know. (She sinks into the couch exhausted and closes her eyes) It's seems like I don't know anything anymore.

Rhys: Well (stands) I don't want you running down aliens in your condition. I want my son to be safe in there. (he runs his hand across his belly) Maybe you can do like Ianto and get the coffee. (Gwen opens her eyes wide and looks at him) Sorry.

Gwen: Don't worry, when she took off after the alien I waddled after her and couldn't keep up. (she uncomfortably arches her back and pulls her gun out setting it on the table next to the couch.) I can't do things like that anymore.

Rhys: Oi (grabs the gun, puts the safety on and puts it up high) You need to be careful where you put that thing… I don't want our baby to shoot off one of his toes or something.

Gwen: That's not going to happen he won't be up and walking around for a long time.

Rhys: It won't feel that way when he gets here. (he sits back on the couch with her and wraps his arm around her.)

Gwen: I know, I know.

Rhys: So is this Jenny going to try and put Torchwood back together?

Gwen: (standing up) She can't. There isn't a Torchwood with out Jack.

FADE IN:

5INT: OUTER SPACE BAR – NIGHT5

Back to the bar that Jack was in earlier. The seat he was in is empty and he walks in the door. He has a big smile on his face and his arm around Anthony.

Anthony: I'll see you later Jack (kisses him on the cheek)

Jack: Tonight (winks and laughs. He sits down at the bar and turns to Horace.)

Horace: What'll it be Jack?

Jack: Beer (A woman comes and sits by him as he drapes his jacket over the other stool. She orders a wine cooler and looks at Jack, but he doesn't notice. She looks forward and Jack looks at her. She has dark layered hair and looks like Gwen from the side. Jack jumps up scared.) Never mind that Horace, I'm headed out.

Horace: Go home Jack.

Jack: I am, I am.

Horace: (sticks out his tentacle and wraps it around Jacks arm pulling him close to him almost over the bar.) No, Jack. (His voice gets deep) I mean go home.

Jack: (hoarsely) I can't. I can't bear to have someone else die on account of me.

Horace: (still in a deep voice) if you don't, they all will. (Jack stares at him wide eyed, Horace lets him go and goes back to a normal voice) Have a nice night Jack.

Jack: (Grabs his jacket and starts to walk towards the door and smiles, folding his collar up) I haven't been man handled like that in ages, (he stretches his back) it felt good. (Jack walks outside and looks up to the sky. It is completely black with small dots like stars and in the left a giant planet. Anthony enters the ally.)

Anthony: Already headed home?

Jack: Yeah are you coming?

Anthony: (smiles and takes his hand) I like that Jacket by the way.

Jack: (looks at him sternly) What did you say?

Anthony: (shocked) Nothing, I like your jacket is all.

Jack: (grabs him by the collar and hold him up threateningly. Gets a flash of the last time he kissed Ianto when he was dead) don't ever say that again. (He lets Anthony down)

Anthony: What is your problem Jack! (runs off in the other direction)

Jack sinks down to where he is squatting on his knees. Then it starts to rain. He pulls his collar up, and looks up to the sky not bothering to get up. He hears a beeping noise and looks down at his wrist device. When he opens it a beam of light shoots out and the same hologram that Gwen saw plays out and stops right where hers did. He closes it and buries his face in his hand and you can hear him sob.

6INT: HOTEL ROOM – NIGHT6

Opens to a basic, empty hotel room. You hear the door unlock and it opens to Jenny. She closes the door behind her and sits down at the table. She reaches under the table and pulls out a brief case. Then she punches in the code and it opens on its own. She pulls out a laptop and there is a round container in there too. She puts the laptop on the table and turns it on and pushes it to the back of the table. Then she pulls out the round container. There is a number pad at the top of it. She pulls the computer closer and opens a folder with the number 5782435 on it and she types that number onto the key pad. An air lock seal opens and the seals making a sound. Jenny reaches in her brief case and pulls out a pair of thick gloves and pulls out what's inside the tube. She quickly jumps up and runs to the bathroom with the camera following her. When she gets in the bathrooms she drops the contents, a smaller container, into the tub which is filled with milk. She then instantly pulls the gloves off dropping them in the bath too and plunging her hands into the sink, which is also filled with milk. The camera pulls up to her face and she grimaces. She pulls her hands out and looks at them. The flesh is gone off of the part of her palms where the fingers start on both hands, but its not bleeding. She goes back into the room with the computer. She opens the desk and screams. She pulls out the first aid kit and bandages her hands. When she has that finished she opens her computer and gets an IM it says…

Stranger: Did you get it open?

Stranger: Did the code work?

Jenny: Yes, and just as we expected it was covered in acid.

Stranger: What did you do?

Jenny: dumped it in milk. It has to sit for a minute to completely neutralize.

Stranger: What type of acid was it?

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Jenny: I don't know I didn't stop to analyze it.

Stranger: Did it burn you?

Jenny: I'll be fine. I'll let you know when I open it.

Jenny closes the computer, and her room phone rings. She picks it up.

Other line: We found the number for a Mrs. Gwen Cooper, would you like us to connect you?

Jenny: (fake, but convincing British accent) No thank you, but can you give me the number? (Jenny tries to write the number down but it looks like huge scribbles because of her hands, but gets better as she gets to the end of the number.) Thank you so much.

She hangs up the phone and goes into the bathroom. She grabs a towel and fishes the container out of the tub. She takes it back into the main room and opens it and spills the contents onto the table, it's blue papers in a plastic bag. She hustles back to the bathroom and drops the container, stepping back so she doesn't get splashed. Then she goes back into the main room and grabs a paper mask from the bed and puts it on. Then she goes to the table and pulls out a fan out from under the table, and opens the window holding the bag in front of it and turning on the fan. When she opens the bag, a white powder comes out and she closes her eyes and counts to five. When she opens them, the powder has been blown out the window. She goes to another sink and washes her hands before she takes off the mask and goes back to the table. She puts the bag in the trash and gets back to her computer

Jenny: You were right, there was sleeping powder in the bag, but I got it open

Stranger: What do they look like?

Jenny unfolds the papers and they are blue prints, three blue prints. In the corner of each page is the Torchwood.

Jenny: It's them, the Torchwood blue prints.

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Stranger: Are they there?

Jenny traces her hand over the first page and flips it over, then goes to the next page and runs her hands over the second page and stops on some little symbol that looks like Chinese writing.

Jenny: It's here.

Stranger: Meet me tomorrow and I can get you what you need.

Jenny: ok

Jenny closes her computer and folds the blue prints back up. She opens the second drawer and pulls out a new container for the blueprints and put them in it with a key lock on the top just like the other one. She places it and the lap top into the brief case and locks it. Then she gets up and places it under the bed. Then she turns off the fain and closes the window. Then she turns out all the lights except for the one, with a very sad and haunted look on her face.

7INT: GWEN'S FLAT – NIGHT7

Then the screen changes and you see Rhys in bed. Gwen follows slowly behind and had a tank top on that shows the bottom of her pregnant belly. She climbs in bed and Rhys kisses her.

Rhys: Good night love.

Gwen: Good night.

Rhys turns out the light on his side but Gwen's is still on and she closes her eyes with the same depressed defeated look on her face.

8INT: OUTER SPACE HOTEL ROOM – NIGHT8

Then the screen goes to Jack. He's in a run down room and everything is dark. He walks in from the rain soaked. He goes into the bathroom and turns on the shower. You see his shirt and pants flung out from the bathroom. You hear him humming, and then singing "Fly me to the Moon". When he comes out, which it doesn't take long, he is wearing a white sleeveless undershirt and his boxers. He picks up his clothes and puts them on a little table. The room looks a lot like Jenny's but it danker.

Jack: (glumly) you can travel the universe, but still end up in a crappy hotel room.

He lies in bed with all the light except the one right by his head out. Then the screen splits in threes and on the left is Jenny, in the center is Gwen with her eyes closed, and on the right is Jack. They both sigh at the same time and turn out the light, making the screen completely black.

FADE OUT:

END OF ACT ONE