Toshiko Sato sighed and put down her empty coffee cup. On her desk in front of her, was a small, remote-shaped, object. Tosh was certain it had to be a piece of alien technology, but she still hadn't found out what it was supposed to do. There were no buttons on it. Just a smooth, gold-coloured surface.

"Have you figured out what that thing is?" Tosh was slightly startled to hear Owen's voice come from behind her.

"No. I tried doing a full scan on it earlier, but..." Tosh held up the device.

"Well, I'm going to grab a couple drinks and then head home." Owen put on his jacket and picked up his bag.

"Maybe we could-" Toshiko started.

"Tosh!" Jack walked down to Toshiko's desk, cutting off her sentence.

"See you later, Tosh!" Owen said once the cog-wheel vault door rolled open. "And you, too, Jack," he added as he exited the Hub. The cog-wheel door closed behind him.

Toshiko felt disappointed. She wanted to ask Owen if she could come along, but it looked like she was going to stay at the Hub after all. Besides, Jack clearly wanted to talk to her about something, so she turned around to face him. "Can I help you with something?"

"Have you made any progress with that thing?" He leaned against her desk.

"No, I did a full scan, but there were no results. I think I'm going to stay here for another couple hours," Toshiko replied. Since she couldn't go to the pub with Owen, she thought that she might as well stay up late at the Hub.

Jack looked like he was deep in thought for a moment, then he said, "Earlier, I was reading about this abandoned warehouse. I detected some unusual rift activity there, and some people have gone missing in the area. I was going to go myself, but I have some phone calls I have to make. So, could you go check it out?"

"Am I going by myself?" Toshiko stood up. She decided that the alien artifact would have to wait until tomorrow.

"Ianto has to work on some stuff, Gwen and Owen have already left, and I have to make phone calls to a bunch of people, so you'll have to go on your own. Is that okay, Tosh?" Jack answered. He looked at the gold-coloured artifact, sitting on Toshiko's desk.

"No problem. Can I take this back to my flat?" Toshiko picked it up. "I think I'm going to need a lot of time with this. Once I'm done checking out that warehouse, of course." She smiled.

"Okay. See you when you get back. Contact me using the comms if something goes wrong," Jack walked back towards his office.

Toshiko put the artifact in her purse, and made sure she had a good supply of bullets for her gun. There was a good chance that there might be nothing at the warehouse, but you can never be too careful. After she put on her jacket and attached the comms device to her ear, she picked up her purse and left through the cog-wheel door. As she was leaving through the main entrance, she passed Ianto, who was sitting at the desk, drinking coffee.

"Going home?" He asked, putting down his cup.

"Jack asked me to go check out an abandoned warehouse. He picked up some unusual rift activity there," Toshiko answered.

"Did you want to take the SUV?" He asked.

"No, I'll just use my own car. I'm planning on heading home afterwards," Toshiko smiled and waved at him, as she walked out the door. "See you later, Ianto."

It took about twenty minutes to drive there. Driving onto the street, Toshiko noticed how dark this area was. If it weren't for the street lights, this street would have been pitch black. She spotted the warehouse, and turned onto the driveway. After parking fifteen feet away from the warehouse, she got out of the car and turned on her flashlight.

The warehouse was huge. This place definitely hadn't been cleaned in a long time. The exterior was filthy, covered with graffiti, and the windows were broken. Toshiko wondered if the inside would look any better.

Toshiko decided to leave her purse inside her car. She thought that she wouldn't need anything besides her mobile phone, car keys, flashlight, and gun. She approached the large warehouse doors and realized that they were locked with a giant metal padlock. Where on earth was she supposed to get the keys? Toshiko glanced around to see if there was anyone around. Once she was sure that no one was watching her, she went back to her car. A few minutes later, she had successfully used a lock pick to unlock the warehouse doors.

Toshiko hesitated before opening one of the doors a little bit. She peered inside the dark and smelly place. Wrinkling her nose in disgust, she stepped inside the warehouse, closing the door behind her. Using her flashlight, she glanced around the place, looking for anything out of the ordinary. The place was completely empty. No shelves or boxes. Nothing was still stored here.

Toshiko knew that something had to be wrong. There was a nasty smell in the building, but she couldn't see the source of it. There was also the fact that the interior was very clean. She expected cobwebs, dust, dirt, anything, but there were none. "Someone's been here recently,"She thought.

She began walking around the place, searching for the source of that awful smell. After walking around for a while, she began to feel as if there was another presence in the building, but she couldn't see anyone. She decided to go back to the Hub and pick up some equipment, so she could run a scan for anything out of the ordinary, but as soon as she started walking towards the door to leave the warehouse, she felt something hit her leg.

Toshiko immediately fell to the floor from the intense pain in her leg. When she looked at her leg, she realized that someone or something had shot her with a dart. She pulled out her gun and looked around, unable to get up because of the pain. She couldn't see where this dart had come from. The room still appeared to be empty.

Then she heard footsteps.

They were getting closer and closer, but Toshiko couldn't see anyone. She gripped her weapon tightly.

Then more footsteps.

"There's more than one of them,"Toshiko thought, "What am I going to do?" Toshiko looked in the direction that the footsteps seemed to be coming from.

Then she heard a grating voice come from behind her, "You should not be here."

Toshiko quickly turned her head towards the voice and then held back a gasp.

"You made a mistake coming here, Toshiko Sato."