Back in the hub the call ended. Toshiko looked over at Jack. She was almost afraid to ask. "Any news?"
Jack shook his head, "None of it good." He walked over to her, carrying a cup of coffee for her. Ianto's laptop hadn't yielded anything of value. Nothing weird on his facebook or email. He had a call from his sister, which eliminated the possibility he had ended up with family. Jack had just let the phone ring. Tosh noted Jack hadn't made a cup for himself. "You getting anything?"
"Getting no-where fast," she said, turning back to the paused footage on four screens at her desk. "Only thing of note is that camera four glitches."
"Glitches?"
She looked at Jack, he looked like he was clutching at straws. "What' d 'you mean glitches?"
"It's nothing, I went through it frame by frame. Just interference or something."
His gaze held her, he must've been desperate if he was thinking this was something. "Humour me."
She swivelled her chair back and found the time frame in the film. 2:14 am. She let him see the footage. He watched it intently, his eyes fixed to the screen. He saw something she didn't. "Go back."
She wound it back and let it roll again. This time she looked for it, but still didn't see anything of relevance.
"Stop."
Jack leaned forward, traced the image on the screen with his finger. He reached onto her desk, picked up a dry wipe pen and marked the screen of what looked like interference. "What does that look like to you?"
She took her glasses off, rubbed her eyes and put them back on again. It was... "That's a person."
Jack nodded and stood back, "Toshiko, you said glitches."
She nodded and rolled the footage on twelve minutes. She paused it and Jack studied the image. "Two figures this time." Jack swallowed, an audible gulp. "One much taller than the other."
"How did you-?"
He cut her off as he crossed the room to Iantos' jacket. "I had to know what I was looking for." She saw Jack dip his hand into the pocket and retrieve Iantos' wallet. Grasping at straws. He went over the table and started emptying the contents onto it. Three ten pound notes. Some small change. A credit card. Couple of Debit cards. Driving licence. National insurance card. Receipt for milk. A film ticket for last week. Jack prised his fingers into the clear film window section. He pulled out a train ticket to London from eighteen months ago. Along with it came a picture of Ianto and who Toshiko could only assume was Lisa.
Jack paused for a moment. Carefully put the picture of Ianto and Lisa to one side. Tosh wondered why Ianto still had a picture of Lisa in his wallet, especially as it had been covered up. Maybe he wasn't able to look at it every day. Maybe he just wasn't ready to not have it to hand.
"How did it know where to find him?" She asked Jack, still rifling through Ianto's wallet like an urban fox scrabbling at dustbins.
Jack shook his head, unclear of anything. "It got him the first time in the cemetery." Then he paused, and looked at what he'd just pulled out of Ianto's wallet. It was a ticket stub from the Aurora club. "No it wasn't."
He grabbed Toshiko on the arm, she gasped slightly at the sudden action and he loosened his grip, realising what he was doing. "At the aurora club, was Ianto on his own for any length of time?"
Tried to think back to it. She'd been drinking. It wasn't very clear. "I don't-"
"Please-," He sounded strange. Verging on desperate. "It's important."
She racked her brain, "He went to the bathroom. That girl... she followed him outside."
Jacks voice was quieter, but the intensity of it didn't waiver. "I need the CCTV of the aurora club." She made her way back over to her desk and brought it up as quickly as possible." Tuesday morning." He checked Ianto's phone to see when he'd called him from the taxi. "About 1:15."
Jack stood there and watched footage scroll past. Toshiko jabbed at the mouse on seeing Ianto walk into view of the camera. Shimmering out of nowhere a girl pushed him against the wall. She kissed him. He didn't want it, Jack could see that. She pulled away from him and sniffed the air, then walked away. Ianto staggered off. Seemingly drunk.
"Take it back."
She sniffed the air, then walked away.
No.
It wasn't the air.
A look of terrible realisation dawned on Jacks face. He went over to the coat stand and pulled on his greatcoat before turning to Tosh and giving instructions:
"Toshiko. If Ianto shows up here, you get him with the stun gun. Keep him under until Owen gets back."
"Jack," She had a lot of questions, but she knew full well none of them would get answered. He was already heading out the door. "Where are you going? Jack!"
