Torchwood2006

Captain Jack Harkness:
We know the dead man was a convicted pedophile. Used to hang around schools.

Gwen Cooper:
But why the petals in his mouth?

Captain Jack Harkness:
Just a bit of fun on their part.

Gwen Cooper:
[referring to the victim thrashing on the CCTV footage] You call that fun?

Captain Jack Harkness:
That's the way these creatures like to do things: they play games, they torment, and then kill.

Gwen Cooper:
Why?

Captain Jack Harkness:
As a punishment, or a warning to others. They protect their own, the chosen ones. Somehow, children and the spirit world, they go together.

Toshiko Sato:
So how do we stop them?

Captain Jack Harkness:
First, we have to find out who they want. And we can't trap them. They have control of the elements: fire, water, the air that we breathe. They can drag that air right out of our bodies. Sometimes I think they're part Mara.

Toshiko Sato:
Mara?

Captain Jack Harkness:
Kind of malignant wraiths. It's where the word "nightmare" came from. They suffocate people in their sleep.

[telephone rings, snapping Gwen's attention away]