History Recap / TorchwoodS1E5SmallWorlds

* AgentScully: Gwen reacts this way when Jack believes they're dealing with Faeries.

* TheChosenOne: Jasmine is directly referred to as this for the Faeries.

* CreepyChild: TheFairFolk seem to have turned Jasmine into this.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Jack. Who else?

* ForTheEvulz: Jack claims this as the Faeries' motivation. Still, the only deaths we see are those protecting their Chosen One and a possible case of HeKnowsTooMuch.
** However, they can be reasoned with and appear to have a sense of morality (e.g. they did not attack Jack when his unit ran over a Chosen One, knowing that he had no part in the events). They do also reassure Jack that they will not harm Jasmine.
* GlacialApocalypse: TheFairFolk threatened this if they didn't get the child they wanted.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Seems to be the only reason the Faeries killed Estelle, since she didn't present a direct threat against Jasmine.
** Or because she was connected to Jack, whom they couldn't kill but could torment.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Essentially Jack's reasoning for giving up Jasmine to the Faeries.
* ImaginaryFriend: What Jasmine's mum and stepfather think the Faeries are.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The whole premise of the episode. Jack spends most of the episode trying to convince everyone around him that this is the case, and it's the reason Estelle's WrongGenreSavvy ends up getting her killed. Our fairies are... goblin-esque, vaguely demonic immortal time-benders who don't appear on any kind of surveillance equipment, weaponize weather and enjoy murder by flower petal. Fun.

* WhatTheHellHero: A lot of this is implied in Jack's reaction to the Faeries' last attack. They look on as Roy is killed and seem to be powerless to stop Jasmine's abduction.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The first victim is a convicted paedophile and potential kidnapper. He kind of had it coming.

* {{Mundanger}}: The creepy man hanging around in a car outside the school is not the episode's MonsterOfTheWeek or anything to do with the Faeries. He's a paedophile out to assault Jasmine.

* SlasherSmile: Jasmine pulls this off to creepy effect several times when her Faerie friends are making {{Asshole Victim}}s out of her tormentors.

* WickedStepmother: Roy is a male stepdad version, although it's unclear if he and Jasmine's mother are actually married. Around Lynn he just seems to be aloof with Jasmine, but in actuality he's a straight-up bully towards Lynn's daughter who enjoys belittling her and barring her from the forest with a fence to hurt her feelings.

* PoisonousFriend: The Faeries seem to be this for any one they take interest in.

[[caption-width-right:350:Were you expecting [[Franchise/DisneyFairies Tinkerbell]]? 'Cos she would sure be a sight for [[UncannyValley sore]] [[SurrealHorror eyes]] right about now...]]

* AdultFear: Choose: Your daughter never laughing, not seeming to have anyone at school but talking about her 'friends' who can be anywhere, anytime, even ''in this room, right now,'' or losing her forever to a timeless, evil supernatural race so that she isn't even human anymore, or the paedophile in a car outside school?

The Torchwood team finds itself against its first fantasy-based alien threat yet!... Faeries.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Gwen is initially derisive of the idea of real fairies.

* TheBadGuyWins: The Faeries get Jasmine, murder several people, and Torchwood can't do jack about it.

* EndlessWinter: TheFairFolk threatened this if they didn't get the child they wanted.

* KidsAreCruel: Some of Jasmine's classmates bully her, presumably because LonersAreFreaks. Jasmine smiles when she sees the Faeries attack people, doesn't grieve in the slightest for her admittedly {{Jerkass}} stepfather, and cheerfully abandons her mother forever to join her friends, unable or unwilling to conceive how this might affect Lynn. Then there's the Faeries themselves...

* WeatherDissonance: The Faeries can cause this and it's ultimately how Torchwood tracks them down.

Cut to a young schoolgirl named Jasmine waiting after class. When her stepfather is late picking her up, she decides to walk and is rather conspicuously tailed by an [[{{Lolicon}} unsavory character]]. His advances are derailed by the girl's little faerie friends. While he makes his escape, he finds himself continually tailed by these friends, and begins to cough up rose petals. He eventually turns himself in to the police, but to no avail, as he's later found dead inside his cell. Also, Jack is lying on his bed shirtless, thinking about his time in the war. Since he's previously established that he doesn't sleep, one has to assume it's a hobby.

* {{Lolicon}}: Mark Goodson. His death goes unmourned.

* BorrowedCatchphrase: The tenth Doctor's "I'm so sorry" is picked up by Jack at the end. [[WhatTheHell,Hero? No one seems to be buying it]].

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The whole premise of the episode, most of what Jack spends the whole episode trying to convince everyone around him of, and the reason Estelle's WrongGenreSavvy ends up getting her killed. Our faries are... goblin-esque, vaguely demonic immortal time-benders who don't appear on any kind of surveillance equipment, weaponize weather and enjoy murder by flower petal. Fun.