A booby trapped building explodes and knocks the team unconscious. As their lives flash before their eyes, we learn how each of them was recruited to Torchwood – Captain Jack's initiation into a shocked Victorian Torchwood in 1899; Toshiko's daring mission to trade alien technology for her mother's life; how Ianto woo'd Jack with coffee and a flair for alien-catching and; the medical revelation that changed how Owen saw the world.