History Recap / TorchwoodS1E12CaptainJackHarkness

* GetBackToTheFuture

* MeanwhileInTheFuture
* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: Averted, as Tosh does get some undue attention for being Japanese in the United Kingdom in 1941.
** Tosh even notes that her situation is going to get much worse if she's stuck in the past, as "Pearl Harbor is a few months away." (Technically the UK went to war with Japan after the attacks on Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong; these happened the day after Pearl Harbor.)

* WriteBackToTheFuture

* TheUnreveal: While Tosh learns that "Jack Harkness" isn't Jack's given name, he doesn't tell anyone what his birth name actually is. The [[Audioplay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish audio dramas]] eventually reveal that it's Javic Piotr Thane. In Creator/StevenMoffat's original script for [[[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]], it would have been "Jax".

* TheUnreveal: While Tosh learns that "Jack Harkness" isn't Jack's given name, he doesn't tell anyone what his birth name actually is. The [[Audioplay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish audio dramas]] eventually reveal that it's Javic Piotr Thane.

* TheBigDamnKiss: Jack and his namesake get a pretty epic one in, violins playing and everybody watching and everything.

* NotSoDifferent: Owen calls out Ianto on this. When Ianto claims Owen's opening the rift for [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E10OutOfTime Diane's]] sake, Owen fires back that Ianto's [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E4Cyberwoman situation]] was hardly any less dangerous over someone he loved.

** Also, there is some graffiti that says "Bad Wolf"
** Jack mentions this isn't the first time he's been involved in World War II.

Jack and Tosh investigate an old dance hall where one can apparently hear mysterious 1940s music. They find themselves transported into, of all times, [[WorldWarTwo just before the Blitz]], at a lovely going-away party for soldiers.

* WhamEpisode: ''Huge''. "Jack Harkness" is '''NOT''' Jack's real name- he's been borrowing it all along. On top of that, Owen's still not over Diane's departure, ''really'' fucks things up the arse in the present day by tampering with the the Rift, and Ianto ''shoots Owen'' when he tries to stop him. But that's not the worst of it- the seemingly ordinary caretaker Bilis Manger is nothing of the sort. He's actually the BigBad, preparing to summon a BiggerBad.

** There's a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrus "Vote Saxon"]] poster on the door to the Ritz Dance Hall that Jack and Tosh first show up at.

-->-- The ''original'' '''Captain Harkness''' inadvertently blows the lid on '''"Jack Harkness's"''' [[DeadPersonImpersonation dirty little secret]]

* MythologyGag:
** There's a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "Vote Saxon"]] poster on the door to the Ritz Dance Hall that Jack and Tosh first show up at.
** Also, there is some Graffiti that says "Bad Wolf"

* WhamEpisode: ''Huge''. "Jack Harkness" is '''NOT''' Jack's real name- he's been borrowing it all along. On top of that, Owen's still not over Diane's departure, ''really'' fucks things up the arse in the present day by tampering with the the Rift, and Ianto ''shoots Owen'' when he tries to stop him.

* WhamEpisode: ''Huge''. "Jack Harkness" is '''NOT''' Jack's real name- he's been borrowing it all along. On top of that, Owen's still not over Diane's departure, and ''really'' fucks things up the arse in the present day by tampering with the the Rift, ''shooting Ianto'' when he tries to stop him.

* OhCrap: Jack has one when his fake identity is revealed, as does a completely gobsmacked Tosh.

While Tosh gets the equation ready to send into the future, Jack bonds with the real Captain Harkness. It turns out that Jack, [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E9TheEmptyChild when he was still a con man]], saw Captain Harkness' name on a list of the dead, and stole his identity. Because of this, he knows that his new friend will die soon -- tomorrow, in fact.

* MythologyGag: There's a [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E12TheSoundOfDrums "Vote Saxon"]] poster on the door to the Ritz Dance Hall that Jack and Tosh first show up at.

* RustproofBlood: Tosh's note is still quite red ''seventy years later''.

Back in 1941, Jack gets into a small scrape with a soldier, but his handsome superior breaks up the fight, introducing himself to Jack and Tosh as... as Captain Jack Harkness. At that point, a nearby creepy old man takes a picture of the Captain and our wayward travelers, a picture that Ianto and Owen notice when going through old files of the dance hall.

Jack and Tosh investigate an old dance hall where one can apparently hear mysterious 1940s music. They find themselves temporally shifted into, of all times, [[WorldWarTwo just before the Blitz]], at a lovely going away party for soldiers.

Jack has urged Captain Harkness to go spend what may be his last night alive with his girlfriend. Captain Harkness returns to the party and gently takes Jack's hand in makeout corner.

Time starts slipping as the bombs start dropping and Tosh is only able to get out part of the message. She hides the remainder in a coffee can in the bunker. Gwen finds it, but our friend Bilis scratched out the last few numbers in the interim. Tosh leaves a second message, this time scrawled in her own blood.

Back in 1941, Jack gets into a small scrape with a soldier, but his superior breaks up the fight, introducing himself as Captain Jack Harkness. At that point, a nearby old man takes a picture of the Captain and our wayward travelers, a picture that Ianto and Owen notice when going through old files of the dance hall.

So, with the only real plan being to open the rift, but Tosh having half of her magical equation to open it on her laptop, she scrawls down what she can get out before the battery dies, but they're interrupted by the old guy who took their picture, the caretaker, Bilis. After they make their excuses as to their odd behavior and leave, the caretaker pulls a file out of his desk named "Torchwood".

While Tosh gets the equation ready to send into the future, Jack bonds with the real Captain Harkness, a man he knows is going to die. Time starts slipping as the bombs start dropping and Tosh is only able to get out part of the message. She hides the remainder in a coffee can in the bunker. Gwen finds it, but our friend Bilis scratched out the last few numbers in the interim.

Owen, now losing it over the prospect of getting [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E10OutOfTime Diane]] back, is willing to open the rift and risk a lot of bad stuff happening. Despite Ianto threatening, punching, and shooting him, the Rift Manipulator is activated, Jack and Tosh make it home, and Bilis gets everything he wanted.

* WriteBackToTheFuture