Ianto Tharmus Addams Jones was well aware of the game that his family were playing, and he wasn't intending to interfere unless they did something that could interfere with the workings of Torchwood as an organisation or with his and Jack's relationship. He had already vetoed several plots and schemes he had heard about aliens in the city centre. He had explained to Jack about the families game and bet and he was surprised to find that Jack was completely amused by the game and he had a feeling that he was going to try and throw his hat into the ring.
Ianto came out of his thoughts to the sound of Lockdown procedures initiating, he looked quickly to Toshiko knowing that if she hadn't set the Lockdown she would be already hunting out the reason for it.
"It was me." She called out, "Bomb threat called into the police for the Plass. I need to initiate a Lockdown to get the shielding I have been working on to come online, I haven't managed to isolate it to work independent of the Lockdown yet."
Jack who had appeared from his office when the lockdown initiated sighed loudly, "A credible threat? Or do we think it's a hoax?"
Toshiko just glared at him as if she hadn't thought to verify that. "Someone reported a woman with a bomb in her car screaming and shouting in a line of traffic about getting to the Plass. It sounds suspicious, the caller wanted to remain anonymous as well. The police are certainly taking it seriously, and I am not taking any chances. This is a human threat, nothing alien in nature about it and we have too much technology down here to risk a massive hole in the ceiling. From what I got from the police we have about five minutes."
"Lower levels guys, just in case." Jack called out, making sure Owen could hear him in his domain. "Ianto can you tempt Myfanwy down."
Everyone started to scramble to get out of what could potentially be part of the blast zone. Toshiko grabbed her laptop and her handbag, immediately beginning to fill her bag with tech lying around she may need. Owen came out of the med bay a large field med pack slung over his shoulder, Wednesday following behind him carrying a second rucksack. No-one even commented on her being there as Ianto let out a sharp whistle to call down their resident pterodactyl as he made his way to the kitchenette. He grabbed the emergency backpack he had stashed in there and a large bar of dark chocolate to tempt Myfanwy with. This took less than two minutes and Jack was leading them down to the lower levels and into Ianto's domain.
They set Tosh up at Ianto's desk as quickly as they could so that she could try to keep them in the loop, or as much as she could in their self imposed lockdown. On Ianto's computer she had the CCTV of the Plass up, watching as the police seemed to take control of the area, diverting as many people away from the area as they could. She was also using it to try and monitor the police radio chatter to hear what was happening. Her own laptop was displaying the coding for the shielding that was implemented with lockdown, she was staring at the lines of code avidly, looking to see any discrepancies in what she thought in the programming.
It was only when Ianto began to make coffee for them with the small coffee pot he kept in the archives did anyone realised that Gwen was not with them.
"She's late as usual." Owen griped, "Probably still asleep knowing her. Should be interesting watching her trying to get in though."
"She won't get through the police." Toshiko informed them. "They have scrambled quickly, all the anti-terrorism training seems to have paid off for them. They are blocking access to the area, and taking a particular interest in anyone who seems to have a disinterest in taking another route. Bomb squad are a few minutes out, the plan is to search the area in case a bomb has already been placed."
"Nah, that's not going to work with Gwen though." Owen explained, "If she arrives during this she will either try to take command of that lot or force her way through them using her Torchwood ID."
It wasn't long before Owen's predictions were proven true, Gwen driving right up to the Plass through the police, and Ianto sighed as she parked right on the Plass. "Gwen pays all her own parking fines from now on, and deals with the paperwork for them. I've told her too many times to count not to park there."
Whatever Jack's response would have been was muffled by the sound of the small explosion from above them through the CCTV. They didn't actually feel anything or hear it down in the archives and Ianto hoped that the hub had no damage in the upper levels.
"Gwen's car was the bomb." Toshiko spoke softly, unable to tear her eyes away from Ianto's computer, watching as events unfolded. There didn't seem to be any damage to the area, the bomb couldn't have been very big as it only really affected the car. Gwen had been blasted back away from the car and was now being dragged away from the wreckage by two police officers, one of them cuffing her even as they pulled her from the immediate vicinity of her burnt out car.
Ianto and Wednesday shared a quick look, unnoticed by any of the others knowing immediately who was responsible now. While a bomb threat was often enough to scare the population in some places, those in Cardiff were made of stronger stuff and it would take more than a car bomb to scare them. Pugsley hadn't won this time round, but he had just got himself some work to do. Ianto was definitely not cleaning up this one, Pugsley could do all the leg work on this one convincing the police that it was a training exercise and getting Gwen out of custody, after all Ianto doubted that his cousin would be impressed that his wife was locked up as a terrorist as a result of a family game.