Torchwood Four; Dublin, Ireland
General Trefor Williams quickly reinstated Liam's access and gave him one of the unused offices. The awkwardness meant they wouldn't be working together in the main office. The general wasn't sure what to say. Liam had trouble making eye contact.
"I'm sorry," Liam said quietly facing away.
"No. I should have known when you asked if we were kicking you out of bed." There had been a lot of clues before that the general knew he should have seen.
Liam lowered his head. "I'm jealous."
The general took a few steps forward slowly watching Liam's reaction. "I assumed you understood."
"I thought I did."
The general set a hand on Liam's shoulder. Liam reached up and set a hand on the general's. They stood in silence for a couple minutes until the general set his forehead to the back of Liam's head.
"I don't know how to fix this."
Liam squeezed the general's hand. "Enough whiskey and we won't remember the problem."
"No more Irish coffee." The general smiled.
Liam laughed.
The general ran his hand around Liam's waist and hugged him. "When this is over, we need to talk."
"Yeah."
The Arctic Observatory; Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut, Canada
Villetta Thirion spoke to Other Keara briefly. The attack on the Falklands was a direct result of Anwen sending information to Nova Scotia. They had a leak. It didn't take much to guess. Only three people outside of that office potentially had access.
She had to be sure and called Monty first. He couldn't lie convincingly. "Sarkisian."
"Hey."
"Ettie?" He sounded distracted. "Where are you calling from? I heard you dropped out of the university."
"Sorry I didn't call. I got a research opportunity."
"EM drive?" He took a moment. "I got funding for CO2 scrubbers. We're going to save the planet despite the politicians and businessman."
Ettie smiled. "Luc has a security problem. Did you try to remote access his office?"
"No. That new tech removed my access. I called and asked for atmospheric data." She could picture Monty's expression. Withholding scientific information was the worst crime he could imagine. "Since when was environmental data classified?"
"What do you need it for?"
"Monitoring a change in solar flares. There was weird energy over northern Alaska on January 12."
It took Ettie a moment to place to date. Toshiko Sata arrived that day. "Did Luc send you information?"
"No. I called and talked to a teenager with a serious attitude problem. Where did Luc recruit a South African?"
"You probably talked to Aman. Luc's dating his sister-in-law."
"Luc has a girlfriend?" Monty found that dubious.
Ettie smiled. "Yeah. I need to call Jerard and see why he's messing with Luc."
"I thought he was under permanent house arrest at a government lab?"
"He is."
"Look, I have to go. We're having problems with our prototype."
Ettie shook her head. The Sarkisian cousins. She was researching alien spaceships. Luc was taking on aliens. Monty was saving the planet from people. And Jerard, the criminally insane genius was aspiring to be Walter Bishop.
Kol stepped into her lab. "Keara wants me to abduct a Canadian scientist?"
Ettie laughed. "My cousin Jerard has been misbehaving."
Torchwood Four; Dublin, Ireland
Liam Doughtery reviewed his notes. He needed a new angle. Then he realized the one thing he hadn't determined was where Kevan Rossiter or his family got the bad ecstasy for the fake CN scare. They had to know about CN and the drug similarity. It was possible they got the information from the news. Liam doubted it. Either way the bad batch of pills came from somewhere. If anyone died, the Gardai wouldn't have let it go. That suggested the drugs had been carefully tainted to prevent bad reactions and deaths. That was complicated.
He quickly checked the blood work and other details the police sent. He then followed up on the names. There had been a bad reaction. Twenty-year-old Tiernan Meara was hospitalized but had a miraculous recovery according to his mother in a recent article. Liam suspected the drug. He'd located the Caribbean island because of a health miracle.
Jeannette stepped into the office. "Where's my hug?" She pouted.
Liam smiled and stood as she crossed the office. "I have work to do." He hugged her.
"More Rossiter shit?"
"Yeah." Liam returned to his seat while Jeannette leaned on the desk.
"Anything I can help with?"
"No." From what Liam knew of Kevan, he had an idea how the patient connected to Rossiter. He didn't want Jeannette hearing about it.
A few minutes later he concluded that Tiernan had two sisters. The younger of them attended school with Malcolm and Kevan. "Would you call your brother and ask if he knows a Shannon Meara?"
Jeannette took her phone from her back. "Why?"
Liam hesitated.
"Why?"
He reluctantly explained what he discovered. He suspected Kevan extorted sex from Shannon for the pills, but kept that to himself. Unfortunately, Jeannette realized what he was leaving out. After what she went through with Eddie, it wasn't surprising not that identified with Shannon.
"I will gut him."
Under different circumstances, he wouldn't take the threat seriously. Except she killed Eddie Cattrel with a fireball. She was hopped up on drugs at the time that he probably gave her. "Trefor will handle it. Please call Malcolm."
Torchwood Three; Cardiff, Wales
Jack Harkness stood with John in the maintenance room with the holographic reproduction of Cardiff. After Four returned Anwen from the archives, and Owen used the partial Nanogene station to heal her, John woke up. Between her initial injuries and the Rift ability usage, Anwen would be out for awhile. John wasn't completely steady. The psychic rampage had to affect him also, but he hadn't said anything.
"We have a few details from Leith Evanson. You were right about him being a sociopath."
John nodded slightly. "Deidre Austin."
"She's not his girlfriend. I got the impression Evanson is afraid of her."
"The Beddoe situation hasn't made any sense."
"What are you thinking?"
John looked at Jack. "How many people know you and Andy are friends?"
"He's Gwen's friend." Although Andy had been kind about the drugging situation and the fertility clinic investigation.
"Is Andy on the list of Cardiff PD people you're supposedly shagging?"
Jack set a hand over his face. He hadn't thought of that. None of them had.
"Who gave the alien bounty hunters the paperwork on Michael?"
"The attacks on Dr. Floyd, Andy, the general and Cory?" Jack shook his head.
"How far back? If Gray was behind the explosion at Cardiff Docks, he knew about that soft spot. Were Gwen's injuries accidental?"
"This is going to make us crazy." Another thought came to mind. Jack found his mobile.
"Harper."
"There may be a problem with Tosh. Are you sure the implants were completely removed?"
