'Hey Tosh, did you get that new program set up yet?' Captain Jack Harkness asked coming out of his office followed by Ianto Jones. Jack leaned on the railing and looked out over the Hub awaiting a response.

Toshiko Sato looked up at the captain and removed her glasses. 'Almost. Sorry Jack, it's harder than I thought.'

'It's alright. Take your time, while it's quiet.'

'It is oddly quiet around here,' Ianto said from behind Jack. He approached the rail and said, 'Too quiet.'

'You know you just jinxed us right?' Gwen Cooper said coming inside. She carried a couple pizzas from their usual pizza place, Jubilee's. Ianto just shrugged. 'I've got the pizza.'

Jack and Ianto headed down the stairs. Tosh hit a few more keys on her computer and followed Gwen to the meeting room.

'Where's Owen?' Gwen asked when the four of them were seated.

'He's on his way up from the med bay, rewrapping his hand,' Jack answered, taking a slice of pizza from the box. It had been about a month since Owen had died and everyone was used to the things he had to do to stay well.

At that moment Owen Harper came in. 'Guys, you should check this out.'

Jack stood up and put his pizza down. 'What is it?'

Owen led the group to his station. 'The computers are going mental.' He said pointing to the screen, where a map was pulled up. There were little dots appearing in a certain area.

'What are they?' Gwen asked.

'Well, to a normal person, it would be meteorites.'

'But…' Jack said.

'They're not. They're capsules. Rather small capsules. About the size of a golf ball from the looks of it.'

Gwen looked between the screen and Owen. 'Capsules? Can you tell what's inside of them?'

'Not from here no, but,' he paused and hit a few keys. The map zoomed in on where the capsules had landed. 'There're five in total and they all landed in the middle of nowhere outside Cardiff.'

'How close together are they?' Jack asked.

'They're about ten minutes walking distance from each other.'

'Well,' Jack said clapping his hands together. 'Let's go get 'em.'

'And here I thought we'd spend a quiet evening together,' Ianto said, sighing.

Jack gave him a grin as he walked out of the room.

The five took the Torchwood SUV to the crash site. It was dark by the time they arrived. They all took out their flash lights and, as a precaution, carried their guns. Each had their comms and mobile phones to report their findings.

'All right,' Jack said getting everyone's attention. 'Let's split up. If these things are as small as Owen says then we should be able to just pick them up.' He laid out a map on the hood of the SUV. 'So, Gwen you head to this point, Owen here, Tosh there, Ianto there and I'll go to the last one here.' They all nodded. 'Now, be careful, we aren't sure what these capsules hold or if anyone else is around. This is pretty for from Cardiff so police shouldn't know about this yet. So, let's go,' he said with an eyebrow raise.

The team headed out together and split up when it was necessary and headed to the areas marked on the maps they each carried.

Gwen was the first to arrive at her spot. As she looked around and was surprised at was she saw. Nothing. No crater, no scorch marks, no disturbance at all. She bent down to look closer and pressed her comm to connect her to the group.

'Jack, I'm at the right coordinate,' she said looking around more. 'But I don't see anything.'

'Jack,' came Tosh's voice. 'I'm not finding anything either.'

'I'm with them,' Owen said. 'I think we've been set up.'

Jack sighed. 'Yeah, I think so too,' he said drawing his Webley. 'There's nothing at my coordinate either. Ianto what about you?'

'I've just arrived at the location,' said Ianto in his calm Welsh voice. 'I'm not seeing anything either…hang on…I do see something. It looks like a crater. I'm going to take a closer look.'

'Just be careful. I don't like this,' Jack said. 'Everyone else, head over to Ianto's point.' Everyone agreed and began to head over to Ianto.

Ianto drew his gun with his flashlight as a precaution and crept toward the crater. As he got closer he realised it was not a crater at all. It was a neatly dug hole.

He pressed his comm. 'Jack, this isn't a crater. It's only a hole about 3 metres across. It looks fairly deep though. I'd say about 6 metres.'

'Can you see the bottom?'

'Yeah, barely and there's something metallic down there. And my detector is going off, so it's alien,' Ianto paused. 'Should I retrieve it, sir?'

There was a pause from Jack then he said, 'Yes, but be careful. I'm almost there.'

Ianto kept the comm line open, tucked his gun into his belt, and began to climb down. Once he reached the bottom he drew his gun again and held it out with his flashlight at the metallic object.

'I'm down the rabbit hole,' he said. 'The object is a capsule so Owen was right about that.' He bent down to examine the sphere closer. Carefully he touched it. 'But it's cold, so it didn't just fall through the atmosphere. I'll take it with me though.' He put the capsule into his coat pocket.

'Alright, good,' came Jack's voice. 'I've just met up with the others and we are almost there.'

'Right.' Ianto looked up. 'That's good because I think I'm going to need help back up.' He heard Jack give a faint laugh and was about to press the comm but he heard something behind him. He raised his gun and was about to turn when someone grabbed him from behind. In surprise Ianto's gun went off.

'Ianto!' yelled Jack. Ianto could hear Jack's breaths coming quicker as he started to run. 'What's going on?'

Ianto tried to answer but the man put a cloth over his nose and mouth. In that instant Ianto smelled the chloroform. The man pressed the comm and pulled it from Ianto's ear and dropped in on the ground. Jack's voice still yelled, 'Ianto!'

The younger man tried to raise his gun again but the man easily knocked it from his hand. Then the ether began to kick in and Ianto felt dizzy and soon lost consciousness. The man laid him down on the ground and took Ianto's coat off and emptied the pockets. He also took everything from his pants pockets. The man pocketed the capsule and took out another small device and uploaded all the numbers on Ianto's phone. He then took out a stack of five letters and picked one, kissed it and placed it on the ground. After double checking Ianto's pockets he picked up the unconscious young man over his shoulder and disappeared with him.

The rest of the team arrived at the hole and began to look for their team mate. Gwen jumped down into the hole, while Owen and Tosh split up to search the area. Jack waited at the edge of the hole, keeping watch.

'Jack!' Gwen called. 'You'd better see this.'

The captain dropped down into the hole next to Gwen and looked around. There was Ianto's coat, comm, mobile, gun, wallet, and a letter. Jack picked up the letter. It was addressed to him. Gwen picked up Ianto's things and went to Jack.

'What is it?'

Jack tore open the letter and read it quickly. 'Dammit!' he swore and pressed his comm. 'Tosh, Owen come back over here.' He pressed the comm before either one could answer and climbed out of the hole, not waiting for Gwen. She followed him up, struggling a bit with Ianto's things.

As she got to the top, Owen was there to lend her a hand. 'Thank you, Owen,' she said. She went straight over to Jack. 'What happened? Where's Ianto?'

Jack just handed her the letter and took Ianto's things. She read the letter out loud. 'Dear Captain Jack Harkness, I have taken your lover, Ianto Jones. It is your fault that I got him, Jack Harkness. You sent him to this site. However, I am glad it was him. He is my favourite. I have been watching you and your team for quite some time now. I know everything about you.

'Everything that happened tonight has been planned out carefully to capture one of you. Again, I am glad I caught Ianto Jones. The capsule placed here was in fact alien. It can multiply its signal so it appears in several places. And if it is touched, as Ianto Jones did, it alerts it me so I can teleport to it. When I got here I drugged the office boy and left his possessions behind. His coat was especially left behind for you, Jack Harkness. You can have it as a keepsake.

'Now, onto the point of all this: I want all the alien technology from the Hub. I want complete access to all the computers. Therefore, I will need the passwords and access codes from you and your team. I want you, Captain Jack Harkness, and you alone to come to the address below at midnight tomorrow with the information. You will put the rest of your team into lockdown in the Hub. I will know if you do not and I will know if they try coming with you. I will shoot your team on site. If you do not comply I have no problems killing your lover, Ianto Jones. If you do comply, I will erase the tea boy's memories and send him on his way.

'Yours Truly,

D.A.M.

of the Scavengers

P.S. Don't try anything stupid. I have my men everywhere.'

Gwen's hands shook as she lowered the letter. 'Oh my God,' she whispered. 'We have to get Ianto back.'

'Let's go back to the Hub,' Jack said in an even voice.

'Jack, maybe we can trace the teleportation-'

Toshiko was cut off by Jack yelling, 'You heard was he said! He'll kill Ianto!' He took a deep a breath. 'Let's go back to the Hub,' he repeated.

Jack headed back to the SUV and was followed by the rest of the team soon after.