N.B. there might (or might not) be spoilers in this article!

I’m not sure how I feel about UNIT having its own Guantanamo-style facility for political prisoners. It puts a bit of different spin on the old cozy feel of the UNIT family if you think all the while the Doctor and the Brigadier were cheerfully supping Sgt Benton’s tea he’s possibly down in the basement beating seven bells out of some poor lackey of the Master’s. I will concede it gives Toshiko a tougher edge than we’d perhaps imagined, though.

Fragments, or How I Came to Work for Torchwood, is the obligatory origins story and acts as a whacking-great prologue to the Series Two finale. Tosh’s story is, as I’ve suggested, the gritty one and it’s Jack who bails her out with the unrefusable offer of a five-year job at Torchwood.

Ianto’s is the cheesy, “humorous” fragment as he and Jack bond while pterodactyl hunting.

Owen’s slightly clichéd back-story is that he lost a loved one. To an alien. Guess that explains’s why he’s such a cold-hearted cynic.

Jack? Well, he takes a job to keep himself busy for a century while he waits for the right Doctor to show up.

And actually, despite my flippancy (and the somewhat flimsy nature of its framing device — bombs go off but the team all survive and have vivid flashbacks), Fragments is actually pretty good, making this the most consistent run of episodes Torchwood has had all series.