Torchwood: "Adam" (S2, E5)

Jack: "You changed us."

Adam: "For the better. You didn't remember who you were. I helped you."

Adam, Season Two, Episode Five

("An alien with the power to change memories infiltrates Torchwood. Can the team save themselves before it's too late?")

WHAT I LIKED

* Insight into Jack's mysterious past as a boy on the Bo Shen Peninsula, along with the revelation of who Gray really is.

* Moving music.

* The role-reversal of Tosh and Owen when they're affected by Adam's memory swipe. The actors are so good, you could imagine them having always been like that.

WHAT I DIDN'T

* They made it too obvious too quickly what Adam was doing and that he didn't belong; they could have played with his presence a little more, like in the earlier Torchwood novel with the same concept, Border Princes.

* The roundtable discussion at the end, where Jack convinces everyone to take the ret-con, was pretty cheesy.

WHAT I'M NOT SURE ABOUT

* Apparently, nothing.

DELETED SCENES

* Owen gives Gwen a medical exam and sees no physiological clues as to her memory loss.

* Gwen lays down next to Rhys and snuggles; Owen calls his mother and she brushes him off.

TORCHWOOD DECLASSIFIED

* Brief discussion of the scenes depicting Adam's membership in the group.

* Filming Jack's life as a boy; creating the colony through CGI but using a real house for some of the exterior scenes.

* Brief discussion of Ianto's false memories of being a serial killer.

* Filming the scene where Adam tries to persuade Jack not to kill him.