Torchwood E-Mails: January

Just before series two aired, the BBC put up an on-line Torchwood game where the player is cast as an investigator helping out with an unsolved case. I haven't gotten around to playing the game yet, but I have read the in-character e-mails sent by Gwen, Tosh, Ianto, and Owen that are on the site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/sites/arg/pages/messages.shtml?1 Many of them have nice ties to elements of prior or future episodes, and here's some of the highlights of the first (of three) months of e-mails:

* An e-mail from Gwen to Owen telling him to write "a report of the Himalayas mission" so they can file it with the MOD (Ministry of Defense?) "so we can get to the bottom of who sent us out there." An e-mail from Tosh mentions the "slow-acting poison in that thing's spines" has kept her from coming into work, but that she's come up with an antidote--Tosh also praises Gwen for coming up with the tactics for "taking that thing down." The reference to a mission in the Himalayas was in the original script for the first episode of series two and the e-mails further the notion that Gwen took the lead after Jack's disappearance.

* A series of e-mails about Gwen's wedding. Gwen starts the trouble by sending the group a weird passive aggressive e-mail: "All I wanted to say was, I appreciate that it can be expensive and whatnot, going to weddings, and I don't expect a gift or for you necessarily to come. I won't be offended if you don't come. Really, I won't." Which of course, leads everyone else to think that they've been disinvited (and rather rudely, to boot) until Gwen apologizes and explains that she didn't want things to be awkward. Well, the wedding was really awkward, but it wasn't Torchwood's fault.

* A short e-mail from Gwen to Ianto, saying she was going to follow up on a report of a stolen car driven by a fish--which is the opening scene of the series two premiere. In a later e-mail, Gwen asks him if Jack has said anything about the mysterious "Gray" or "Grey" that Captain John spoke of at the end of the premiere--Ianto replies that Jack is never forthcoming about serious things.

* An e-mail from Tosh to Ianto, asking for his help in picking out clothes for Tommy (the soldier who is defrosted for one day every year). Tosh puts the kibosh on Owen's suggestion that they prank Tommy by telling him that "in the future, every one wears silver jumpsuits."