History Recap / TorchwoodS1E10OutOfTime

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: For three time-displaced people from TheFifties, this is a given. John's attitude towards [[StayInTheKitchen Emma letting her hair down]], for instance. While Emma has grown up around such an attitude, she's slowly learning to get past it.
* PlayedForLaughs with Diane asking what he words “Smoking Kills” on her cigarette packet mean.

* NotSoDifferent: Jack's bonding with John is deeper than most, as they're both displaced in time and barely coping with it.

* WholePlotReference: There are similarities between this episode and the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recpa/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E25TheNeutralZone The Neutral Zone]]", in which three people from the late-20th century are discovered cryogenically frozen in the year 2364 and must adjust to the era they find themselves in. The primary difference between the two episodes is that the temporally-displaced people are the focus of the narrative here, while in that episode theirs is the B-story for the episode.

* WholePlotReference: There are similarities between this episode and the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recpa/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E26TheNeutralZone The Neutral Zone]]", in which three people from the late-20th century are discovered cryogenically frozen in the year 2364 and must adjust to the era they find themselves in. The primary difference between the two episodes is that the temporally-displaced people are the focus of the narrative here, while in that episode theirs is the B-story for the episode.

* LoveHurts: Owen learns this. HarsherInHindsight because he previously fell in love with someone before and wanted to marry them, [[Recap/TorchwoodS2E11Adrift but lost her, too]].

Owen and Diane hit it off and have a ''lot'' of sex. They quite accidentally fall in love within the week, which terrifies Owen. In the end, the sky ends up being more important to Diane, and despite Owen's feelings for her, she departs in her plane for the wild unknown. Owen, very heartbroken while watching her go, is [[[ManlyTears brought to tears]] when Diane flies back through the rift.

* SoaplandChristmas: It's set at and broadcast shortly before Christmas, and two of the three story threads end on fairly depressing notes.

[[caption-width-right:350:Sex becomes more than empty pleasure for [[LovableSexManiac Owen]]. And that horrible discovery's gonna bite him [[LoveHurts in the arse]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E11Combat Again]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E12CaptainJackHarkness And again]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E13EndOfDays And again]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Sex becomes more than empty pleasure for [[LovableSexManiac Owen]]. And that discovery's gonna bite him [[LoveHurts in the arse]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E11Combat Again]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E12CaptainJackHarkness And again]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E13EndOfDays And again]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Sex becomes more than empty pleasure for [[LovableSexManiac Owen]]. The discovery's gonna bite him [[LoveHurts in the arse]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E11Combat Again]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E12CaptainJackHarkness And again]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E13EndOfDays And again]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Sex becomes more than empty pleasure for [[LovableSexManiac Owen]]. That discovery's gonna bite him [[LoveHurts in the arse]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E11Combat Again]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E12CaptainJackHarkness And again]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E13EndOfDays And again]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Sex becomes more than empty pleasure for [[LovableSexManiac Owen]]. And that discovery's gonna bite him [[LoveHurts in the arse]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E11Combat Again]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E12CaptainJackHarkness And again]]. [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E13EndOfDays And again]].]]

-->- '''Jack''' finds Torchwood's latest problem quite simple, yet quite difficult

Owen and Diane hit it off and have a ''lot'' of sex. They quite accidentally fall in love within the week, which terrifies Owen. In the end, the sky ends up being more important to Diane, and despite Owen's feelings for her, she departs in her plane for the wild unknown.

* LoveHurts: Owen learns this.

-->- '''Jack'''

-->''There's no puzzle to solve, [[NoAntagonist no enemy to fight]]...just three lost people who have somehow become our responsibility.''

Owen and Diane hit it off have a ''lot'' of sex. They quite accidentally fall in love within the week, which terrifies Owen. In the end, the sky ends up being more important to Diane, and despite Owen's feelings for her, she departs in her plane for the wild unknown.

Jack, Gwen and Owen wait patiently at an airstrip as a prop plane makes its touchdown. The pilot and two passengers disembark and introduce themselves, although Jack seems to be more interested in what day they think it is. The pilot believes it's the 18th of December, [[TheFifties 1953]].

The time-displaced trio are led into the Hub, where Jack explains to them that they've fallen into a "transcendental portal" triggered by the Cardiff rift. From here, we spend the episode following our fish out of water as they grow acclimated to their new surroundings. Pilot Diane Holmes aches to get into the sky again, but finds a confidant in Owen. Businessman John Ellis bonds with Jack and yearns to find his son, who may still be living. Proper young lady Emma-Louise Cowell is having a harder time, having lost the family she depended on, and realizing that the modern woman is a much different person these days -- but even she finds companionship in two young chavvish girls living in her temporary building.

As for John, he's the one having the toughest time adjusting to TheFuture, which is punctuated when he [[StayInTheKitchen warns Emma not to, either]]. He does finally find his son, now in his seventies and in a rest home with Alzheimer's. With no family and no place, he tries to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself]]. Jack stops him and explains that, being a FishOutOfTemporalWater himself, he can promise that it gets ''better''. John won't have it and kills himself regardless, with Jack dying by his side out of sheer sympathy.

* IUhYouToo: Inverted. Owen describes in detail how horribly off and out of focus he feels when he's not with Diane. Diane's response? "I love you, too".

As for John, he's the one having the toughest time adjusting to TheFuture, which is punctuated when he [[StayInTheKitchen warns Emma not to, either]]. He does finally find his son, now in his seventies and in a rest home with Alzheimer's. With no family and no place, he tries to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself]]. Jack stops him and explains that, being a FishOutOfTemporalWater himself, he can promise that it gets ''better''. John won't have it and kills himself regardless, with Jack by his side.

Three people come to Torchwood, and they each leave in their own way. As a result, three members of Torchwood learn more about themselves in the process.

As for John, he's the one having the toughest time adjusting to TheFuture, which is punctuated when he [[StayInTheKitchen warns Emma not to, either]]. He does finally find his son, now in his seventies and in a rest home with Alzheimer's. With no family and no place, he tries to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself]]. Jack stops him and explains that, being a fish-out-of-water time traveller himself, he can promise that it gets ''better''. John won't have it and kills himself regardless, with Jack by his side.

The time-displaced trio are led into the Hub, where Jack explains to them that they've fallen into a "transcendental portal" triggered by the Cardiff rift. From here, we spend the episode following our fish out of water as they grow acclimated to their new surroundings. Pilot Diane Holmes aches to get into the sky again, but finds a confidant in Owen. Businessman John Ellis bonds with Jack and yearns to find his son, who may still be living. Proper young lady Emma-Louise Cowell is having a harder time, having lost the family she depended on, and realizing that the modern woman is a much different person these days, yet even she finds companionship in two young ladies living in her building.

Gwen takes Emma under her wing as if she were a little sister and teaches her about the new world. It ends up grating things with Rhys as he begins to discover the lies she has had to tell him while working for Torchwood. Emma takes the decision out of Gwen's hands by accepting a job in London, which she had always wanted to do.

Owen and Diane hit it off have a LOT of sex. In the end, the sky ends up being more important to Diane, and despite Owen's feelings of love for her, she departs in her plane for the wild unknown.

As for John, he's the one having the toughest time adjusting to TheFuture, which is punctuated when he [[StayInTheKitchen warns Emma not to, either]]. He does finally find his son, now in his seventies and in a rest home with Alzheimer's. With no family and no place, he tries to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself]]. Jack stops him, but after John's incessant pleas and appeals to Jack's own situation, he relents and stays with John until the end.

The time-displaced trio are led into the Hub, where Jack explains to them that they've fallen into a "transcendental portal". From here, we spend the episode following our fish out of water as they grow acclimated to their new surroundings. Pilot Diane Holmes aches to get into the sky again, but finds a confidant in Owen. Businessman John Ellis bonds with Jack and yearns to find his son, who may still be living. Proper young lady Emma-Louise Cowell is having a harder time, having lost the family she depended on, and realizing that the modern woman is a much different person these days, yet even she finds companionship in two young ladies living in her building.

* AcePilot: Diane

* NotSoDifferent: Jack's bonding with John is deeper than most, as they're both displaced in time and barely coping with it.