Torchwood (2006–2011): Season 1, Episode 4 - Cyberwoman - full transcript

Torchwood.

Outside the government,
beyond the police.

Tracking down alien life on Earth and
arming the human race against the future.

The 21st century is
when everything changes.

And you've gotta be ready.

Okay, come on.

Okay, you asked for this.
Coming over the top.

Gwen, this is for you, baby.

Let's go, baby. Let's go.

Just get it off him.
Take it out of his hands.

Oh, come to Daddy.



Yeah!

First round's on you, boss.
Girls, get your handbags.

- Of course, that was an illegal move.
- Totally illegal.

Yeah. Keep telling yourself that,
yeah? Losers. Bye!

Whatever.

- He's never seen a live rugby match.
- I have other things to do with my time.

Rhys knows a bloke whose cousin
works at the Millennium Stadium.

We should all go to the
next home international.

Can you make it two pepperoni feasts
tonight? And a tub of coleslaw.

My boss says I'm not eating enough
vegetables. Yup. Usual time.

See you then.

Good to see you again, sir. How are
they looking after you at the hotel?

I did all I could. I really did.

My God. It's not possible.



One of them survived.

This is Lisa.

- Is she awake?
- It's just a reaction to the medication.

She's the only one left
across the whole world.

Thank you. Thank you so much.
Bringing me here.

I never thought to get my chance...

to study, to work with...

- anything like this.
- Anyone.

Tell me, what happened?

She worked for Torchwood London.

It was the end of the Canary Wharf battle.
The Cybermen needed soldiers fast.

They started upgrading whole bodies
instead of transplanting brains,

using Earth technology.

Lisa was halfway through the process
when the machinery shut down.

You found her?

Please! Somebody!

- I pulled her out.
- Do you know the percentages?

The what?

Some elements have been augmented.
Some are still human.

Sensory capacity, for instance.

Her breathing and hearing
appears completely cybernetic,

and yet, there's also bare flesh.

Amazing.

Perhaps 5 5% augmentation,

with 45% awaiting completion.
Do you think?

Or perhaps maybe 60-40.

- It's fascinating!
- Can you make her human again?

You took parts from a cyber conversion unit

and modified them into a
life support for her.

- How did you know what to do?
- I told him.

I thought you were resting.
You should be resting.

How's the pain?
Are the new doses working?

A little.

- Is this him?
- I promised, didn't I?

- And you always keep your promises.
- I would like to ask her some questions.

My name is Doctor Tanizaki.

I specialize in cybernetics.
Your friend, Mr Jones, asked me...

My boyfriend.

Yes. He asked me to come.

We agreed. Together.

A few simple questions.

- What is your name?
- Lisa Hallett.

- How old are you?
- Twenty-six.

What is the last thing you
remember before coming here?

Pain.

I remember my body
burning with pain.

You said there was somewhere
I could work upstairs.

This first stage should enable her
to breathe without the respirator.

Once her body functions without support,
I can judge what work is needed.

What if she's not ready
to breathe on her own?

You must be prepared for
her not to survive.

Sometimes in order
to save what we love,

we have to risk losing it.

- She's not strong enough!
- Let me do my work!

And she said, " Do you know how difficult
it is to find a man in this city?

" He had a nice flat, all his own hair, so
frankly, a couple of tusks I can live with."

Ianto's mate.

UFO sighting over Cardigan Bay.
Seven calls to emergency services.

- Can we at least finish our drinks, please?
- Sure. Take 10 seconds.

If she dies because of you...

- Ianto?
- Yes. I'm here.

She's breathing. It worked!

- Why aren't I connected?
- You're alive! He kept you alive!

- Thank you.
- This is only the start.

We've got to move. Quickly!

I'll walk.

- You've only just woken up. You can't!
- I want to walk. Please.

Help her downstairs.
I'll clear up here.

I'm alive.

All I'm saying is, once in a while,
I'd like to drive.

- And all I'm saying is no.
- Why not?

I've shared cars with women before.
I know what will happen.

There'll be an emergency, we're all
raring to go, I jump in, what do I find?

Seat's in the wrong position,
the rear-view mirror's out of line.

The steering wheel's in my crotch.

In the time it takes to sort it all out,
aliens will have taken Newport.

What about a rota? Different
people drive on different days.

We're a secret organization hunting alien
technology from an underground base,

and you want a rota for who drives.

Just trying to help.

As soon as they're gone,
I'll be down.

Tosh, call up the radar within a 50-mile
radius of the bay for the last six hours.

Gwen, check with that man,
Neil I think his name was,

voice like Sean Connery,
at Jodrell Bank.

See if they picked up any chatter
around the time of the sightings.

Owen, access the airspace
provision over Cardigan Bay.

Also any RAF flight plans, see if
it's just a case of mistaken identity.

Take it slowly.
You are still very weak.

This way.

Is that Neil? It's Gwen
Cooper from Torchwood.

I know. We're always after
something, aren't we?

Ianto!

Would you work some coffee magic?

Lisa! Let me go!

I can help you. The
human race is weak. I can make you strong.

- What's happening?
- Internal power drain.

- What's causing it?
- Something big to drain that amount of power.

Tosh, run a system diagnostic.

Actually, we've been having
generator problems all evening.

I was down there checking earlier.

A couple of bits of cabling have come loose.
I thought I'd fixed it.

- Let me have another look.
- Fine. Go check.

- Want some help?
- I'm fine.

We've got to shut down the power!

- Oh, God. Oh, my God! What happened?
- His upgrade failed.

Was it an accident?

Tell me you didn't do this.

I wanted to repay him for helping me by
removing the weaknesses of his humanity.

What have you done?
You've killed an innocent man.

It's all right.

It's not all right! They're going
to come looking for me in a minute.

If they see the body, if they
find out what we've been doing...

- I can deal with them.
- Don't you go near them!

You didn't mean to do this.
Something's happened to your mind.

Um, just... Some kind of side
effect from this whole process.

It's post-traumatic. You didn't mean it.
You've ruined everything now!

How hard have we had to
work to keep you alive?

And now you do this.

I need you to stay in here. Rest.

Don't come out unless I tell you.

This can't happen again, Lisa.
If you harm anyone else, I'll...

Yes? What will you do?

Okay, the body.
I've got to deal with the body.

I can do this.

This is my fault.
I am responsible for this.

I'll hide the body.
Everything's going to be okay.

- That's a UFO?
- Only just.

Arkan leisure crawler.
First generation. Collector's item.

Don't see many of those around these days.
Tosh, send a polite message saying,

"Great to see them, but could they please
get the hell out of our atmosphere?

- "They're spooking the locals."
- Done.

Shouldn't we be apprehending it?
Investigating it?

Oh, please. You interrogate an Arkan,
you'll be in there for a month.

And that's just the first question.
They are so boring.

Besides, they're mostly made of liquid.
The cells would be a mess.

There it goes again.

Ianto, we've got another dose
of darkness. You find anything?

Ianto, I need to hear those
beautiful Welsh vowels.

Power's draining to the storeroom
at the bottom of the building.

I'm looking for human heat signals.

- We've got...
- Two signals.

- So assuming one's lanto...
- Who's the other?

I'm thinking we're under attack.
Security's been breached.

- We assume battle protocols.
- That's impossible.

Nobody can get in without
tripping seven separate alarms.

Yeah? Well, looks like our
system needs to be upgraded.

I'll head down and look for lanto.

- I'll come with you.
- You all right with that?

Keep your comms open at all times.
Any doubt, shoot first.

The priority is to find lanto.

I'm sorry.

- What's down here?
- Normally? Nothing.

- Progress report.
- Signs of activity in...

We're losing your comm signals.

We're going in to have a look.

Whatever that power source is,
it's interfering with the comms.

Gwen, Owen, can you hear me?
Damn! Can we get them back?

I'm trying other channels.
There's something else you need to see.

I've gone back through our internal CCTV
footage for the last couple of hours.

Someone's tried to remove
the images from our system.

See, now I'm starting
to get a little peeved.

These people come into my house,
start using my things...

I've dug into the system memory.

What the hell's going on here?

Jack.

Tosh.

Gwen, Owen, can you hear me?

- No comms.
- We're on our own, then.

What the hell is going on?

- What's the matter?
- Can't see well enough.

There's something in there.
There's some kind of operating table.

Get the bolts.

- Okay?
- Yup.

Okay. One, two...

- Oh, no, no, no.
- What the hell is it?

It's wrong. It's beyond wrong.
It shouldn't be here.

Turn the thing off. Turn it off!

- Internal levels are being restored.
- Gwen, Owen, can you hear me?

These things brought down Torchwood One.
They were all destroyed.

- Why is there one in our bloody basement?
- Just tell me what it does.

It's the remnants of a conversion unit.
This machinery turns humans into Cybermen.

If I don't hear something within 30 seconds,
I'm coming down there.

Jack, it's Gwen. The comms dropped out.
We're back on-line now.

- Any sign of lanto?
- No.

But we have found parts of
a cyber conversion unit,

fully powered up and working.

- This is no time to be kidding around, Owen.
- I'm deadly serious.

I don't know why it's here or how it got
here, but that's what's draining our power.

- Jack, are you there?
- I want you two back up here immediately.

We still haven't...

Jack. Code zero incursion. Repeat,
code zero incursion. We're under attack.

If you don't hear from
me within 1 5 minutes,

activate total shutdown procedures
and get yourself to safety.

But I can't just
leave you all here!

If there's a Cyberman in this building,
we need a last line of defense.

Just make sure it never
gets to the outside world.

Whatever you... Whoever you are,
I don't mean you any harm,

but come any closer, I'll shoot.

Let me go.

Do not struggle.
You will be like me.

Throw down your weapons.
Put your hands up and turn and face me!

- You're a woman!
- Owen! Jack!

- You don't know what you're doing!
- You are fighting the wrong guy!

Get me out of here someone, please!

- Switch it off!
- I'm trying!

She's jammed the circuits.
Shut off the power everywhere!

Toshiko, cut off the
power in the base!

If I do that, the base goes into
lock down. We'll be trapped!

Just do it!

Switch it off! Do it!

- Gwen?
- I'm fine.

I'm fine. I'm fine. Sort of.
Jack, please get me out of here.

It's all right.

Where is she? Where did she go?
Please tell me you got her.

Stand guard by the door.

I'm sorry.

- I'm really sorry.
- What for?

Let's just get out of here.

- Clear?
- Clear.

There she is. What is she?

Some form of Cyberman. They're us, upgraded.

Humans with emotions removed,

created on a parallel world that's
supposedly destroyed on this one.

- What are we going to do?
- I don't know.

She's gone.

- Get us back to the Hub.
- Jack, what are you doing?

Resisting the urge to shoot.

Tosh! Get everything from the
weapons room. Fast as you can!

- It's locked down. There's no manual override.
- Just open the store!

On your knees.
Hands above your head.

Jack, for God's sake,
what are you doing?

Tosh! I gave you an order!
Gwen, help her.

- Did you know that thing was down there?
- I put her there.

You hid a Cyberman within Torchwood,
and you didn't tell us?

- What else are you keeping from us?
- Like you care.

I clear up your shit. No questions
asked and that's the way you like it.

When did you last ask me
anything about my life?

Her name's Lisa.
She's my girlfriend.

Why didn't you tell us?
We could have helped you.

Torchwood exists to destroy alien threats.
Why would I tell you about her?

- A little loyalty, perhaps?
- My loyalty's to her.

She worked for Torchwood.
She was caught up in battle.

I owe it to Lisa.

We owe it to her to find a cure.

Ianto, you have to believe me.
There is no cure.

There never will be. Those who
are converted stay that way.

- Your girlfriend will not be the exception.
- You can't know that for sure.

Look, you need to know what's happening here
because this is where these things start.

Small decisions that
become mass slaughter.

These creatures regain a foothold
by exploiting human weakness.

Then they take a base,
rebuild their forces,

and before you know it, the cyber race
is spreading out across the universe,

erasing worlds, assimilating populations,
all because of the tiny beginnings here.

We need to stop her. Together.

You're not listening to me.
The conversion was never completed.

She already tried to kill Gwen.
You think she's going to stop there?

- There is no turning back for her now.
- I'm not giving up on her.

I love her.

Can you understand that,
Jack? Haven't you ever loved anyone?

You need to figure out
whose side you're on here,

because if you don't know,
you're not going make it out of this alive.

There's no way this weapons
store is going to open.

It's going to take six hours for
the power to come back on-line.

Let me talk to her. I can still
save her, save all of us.

She's not a monster.

- Ianto!
- Lisa.

- It's me.
- You can't just let him go...

The army will be rebuilt from here.
This building is suitable.

- Who are you?
- Human .2.

No!

- Lisa!
- So how come you look like Human .1?

- I do not understand.
- Look at yourself.

Go ahead.

Remember, Lisa.
Remember who you are.

- The upgrade is incomplete.
- You're still human.

I am...

disgusting.

I have...

I am...

wrong.

- We can help you.
- I must start again. Upgrade properly.

For God's sake,
have you heard yourself?

Lisa, please.

I brought you here to heal
you so we could be together.

Together. Yes.

Transplant my brain into your body.

The two of us together, fused.

We'll be one complete person.

Isn't that what love is?

No.

Then we are not compatible.

Code nine maneuvers! Go!

Wait! Gwen, get out of there!

Lisa! What are you
waiting for? Gwen!

Run. We all ran.

- She's coming after us.
- Well, there's a surprise.

- Could you be any less helpful?
- Oi! I just helped you escape.

Shut up, both of you! Okay, now,
this is a fight to the death.

We do whatever is
necessary to destroy her.

Forget what lanto said.
That thing is not human. Clear?

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

- What's this?
- Something Suzie scavenged last year.

She claimed that it could
open any lock in 45 seconds.

I want you out the exit gates,
up the emergency stairs to the reception.

She'll never open that door
without power. It weighs a ton.

- Anyway, I'm not leaving you here.
- Just do as I say. All of you!

Once in reception, panel next
to the desk, pull it out.

Take circuit 357 from the main system.
Patch it to these.

There should be enough power
in there for what we need.

Once the main circuit goes live, get out.
Meet us by the water tower.

Go!

You two, find anything that
even resembles a weapon.

Autopsy Room. There should be
some lethal equipment there.

- What are you going to do?
- Buy you some more time. Go!

Hey! Lisa. It is Lisa, isn't it?

You've been hiding in my basement.

That's okay. Draining my power,
I can live with that.

But now you're starting to hurt my friends,
this is going to stop.

Come on.

This building belongs to me now.
You will all be deleted.

I'm sorry for what they did to you,
but this ends here.

Jack!

- How did he survive that?
- Is that all you got? I'm not so easily deleted.

We can't help him.

Come on.

Shit.

- Is there another exit?
- No.

We're trapped.

- Get in.
- No way.

- Lie on top of me and it'll take us both.
- I am not lying on top of you.

I'm not saying it's a brilliant idea,
but it's the only one we've got.

What do we do?

Turn it off.

- Where is it? Where is it?
- It's in my pocket. Quick!

Turn the thing off. Turn it off!

All right, lover?
It's the man of your dreams.

I've had a couple of beers with Dav,
and we're off for a curry,

so can you video Wife Swap?

Don't you touch her!

What the hell was that?

- What?
- Snogging me.

Last kiss for the condemned man. Little
embarrassing given we haven't been killed.

- What? It's not like I fancy you or anything.
- I was on top of you. I could feel your hard-on.

Yeah, well, you didn't
exactly struggle, did you?

It was kill or be killed.

Owen's right. There was no choice.

Ianto, move. Get out.
Get out, I said! Move! Move!

- You should be dead.
- I'm the stubborn type.

Get behind me.

357, 357. Come on!

That's right. Stay back.
This'll at least give you heartburn.

The power will run out. I can wait.

- Jack, help her. Give her a chance to surrender.
- Have you not seen what she's done?

Let her stay in the cells.
We can help reverse the process.

I've told you, we're past that!
Hold him back.

- What are you going to do?
- Don't ask questions.

Just get him on there and hold him.

- What is that stuff?
- A kind of barbecue sauce.

- It helps it identify its food.
- Help what identify its food?

I'm sorry.

- Come on, Tosh, hurry up.
- You'll kill her!

Let me go! Let me help her!

Yes!

- Have a nice day.
- No!

Go and help her. You can do that.

Have some fucking mercy!

No!

It worked!

- What happened to...
- Don't.

- Oi.
- You could have saved her!

You're worse than anything
locked up down there.

One day I'll have a chance to save you
and I'll watch you suffer and die.

It was the only thing
that would stop her!

Listen, when I was at reception,
I managed to trip the lock down timer.

The power should be coming back on
any second. We could get back in.

Ianto!

Pizza.

Ianto?

Bloody hell.

Ianto? Do you want these or not?

- Ianto, stop!
- She can't have survived that attack.

I used my initiative. I'm sorry!

When I want you to think for
yourself, I'll tell you.

Maybe if you'd told me your plan,
I wouldn't have done it.

Ianto, don't be stupid.

- I have nothing left to lose.
- There's always something left to lose.

I'm going back in to save her.
Anybody tries to stop me, I'll shoot them.

Ianto, put the gun down.

You make a threat like that, you'd
better be prepared to follow it through.

See? You disobey me now,
I really will shoot you.

Get off me.

You want to go back in there?
You go in to finish the job.

If she's still alive,
you execute her.

- No way.
- You brought this down on us. You hid her.

You hid yourself from us. Now it's time
for you to stand as part of the team.

Jack.

The girl you loved has gone.
Your loyalty is to us now.

- You can't order me to do that.
- You execute her, or I'll execute you both.

I won't do it. You can't make me.

You like to think you're a hero,
but you're the biggest monster of all.

I'm giving you 1 0 minutes,
then we're coming in.

Pick it up.

- How can you ask him...
- I don't need your opinion.

Lisa!

Ianto?

Ianto, it's me. It's Lisa.

I'm human again.

You fought so hard for me,
I had to hold on for you

so I took this body and
transplanted the brain.

You're not Lisa.

You always said you didn't
love me for what I looked like.

Last time you said that,
it was a Saturday.

We were hungover.

You made cheese toasties and
moaned I hadn't descaled my kettle.

That night we camped
on a beach in Brittany.

It got so freezing, we wore our
coats and shared one sleeping bag.

When we woke up the next morning,
a dog was pissing on our tent.

Hold me, lanto.

I need you to hold me.

I need you to tell
me it's all right.

What are you doing?

Ianto, it's me.

You wouldn't shoot me.

I did this for you.

I'm sorry.

Lisa.

We can be upgraded together.

- You would never have shot him. Not really.
- Wouldn't I?

Would you have shot me if
I'd gone to stand by him?

- But you didn't.
- If I had, though...

But you didn't.

Will he stay?

All that deception because he
couldn't bear to live without her.

So have you ever loved
anyone that much?

When she had hold of you,
I thought...

Just for a moment, I thought
maybe you could die after all.

- Want to know a secret?
- Mmm-hmm.

So did I.

And just for a second there,
I felt so alive.

Are you kidding me?

They're here.

If that's them, we have to find
them before all hell breaks loose.

It's little girls.
It's the little bodies.

No one can hurt me.

They protect their own.
The chosen ones.

- Are you saying our machines can't pick them up?
- Nothing can.

She was beautiful.
I loved her at first sight.

It's going crazy.

No!

This means these creatures can invade my life
whenever they feel like it, and I am scared, Jack.

For the sake of the world,
this is our only chance.