Torchwood, Series 4: Miracle Day

Jack:
The truth.

Stewart:
About what?

Jack:
The Miracle. How was it done? Why was it done? How can it be undone?

Stewart:
Why would I have the answer?

Jack:
When the day came, PhiCorp was ready. We found warehouses stocked with painkillers waiting for the Miracle to come along.

Stewart:
That's your smoking gun?

Jack:
You're a man in charge. You knew it was coming.

Stewart:
Mister...?

Jack:
Harkness. Captain Jack Harkness.

Stewart:
Are you with the military?

Jack:
Freelance. I represent the people who are trying to stop PhiCorp.

Stewart:
So that security breach on the thirty third floor?

Jack:
That was us.

Stewart:
It's not me you're after. In fact I've been trying to find out the truth just as much as you. I'm not a bad man, Mr. Harkness.

Jack:
Captain.

Stewart:
I'm not a bad man, Captain. I'm not a good one either. I'm a middle man in every sense of the word. And faced with the thought of being who I am for God knows how long, I'm just as keen as you to find out exactly what's going on. Especially with the stock market threatening to collapse, a man like me needs insurance. You don't believe me. You think I'm the epitome of evil, the devil in a three piece suit.

Jack:
In my experience, that's how it works.

Stewart:
You're experience must be rather simple. You have a rather archaic view of good versus evil, don't you?

Jack:
Tell me who's behind this.

Stewart:
I've been trying to find out. I've sent agents all over the world following the paper trail, the backroom deals, the holding companies within holding companies. That's when I came face to face with the true face of evil.

Jack:
The system itself.

Stewart:
Precisely. If the schemes and conspiracies are being plotted, then they must be seen only as patterns, waves, shifts that are either too small or too vast to be perceived. Someone is playing the system right across planet Earth with infinite grace, beyond any one person's sight. No, I'm sorry, Captain, but PhiCorp isn't controlling this. Profiting, yes, but this is part of a much larger design way beyond any of us.

Jack:
But how can you be part of it and not know what's going on?

Stewart:
Let me give you an example. These warehouses full of drugs, no doubt you'd love to uncover an incriminating memo dated the day before Miracle Day signed by me authorising the stockpiling of painkillers. The truth is, a pattern like that began say maybe five years ago with the systematic increase in production in random factories around the world, based on market share projections. What was the warehouse?

Jack:
Washington DC, Third and Boston.

Stewart:
I'd imagine transportation of the drugs to the Third and Boston was then carried out over a twelve month period by, say, maybe five different haulage companies outsourced to seven or eight different independent suppliers.

Jack:
So that means everyone's to blame.

Stewart:
Everyone and no one. Whoever's behind this, they don't show themselves. Not to me, not to you. But to play the system like this-the markets, the politics, industry-they had to be planning this for a very long time. I wish I knew who they were.

Jack:
I was told that the miracle involves geography. Does that mean anything?

Stewart:
No. But there is one word that my operatives picked up dating back to the mid-nineties and then erased.

Jack:
What is it?

Stewart:
The Blessing.

Jack:
What does it mean?

Stewart:
There was a document from Italy, from a source inside the Council of Ministers. A contact then-deceased. It simply referred to the Blessing. It said, "They have found The Blessing."