Quotes
Captain: Hey, are you a volunteer too?
Jack: Yeah.
Simultaneously: I'm Captain…
Jack: You go first.
Captain: I'm Captain Jack Harkness, 133rd Squadron.
Jack: I should be heading out.
Captain: I didn't catch your names...
Toshiko: Toshiko Sato.
Jack: I'm Captain James Harper, 71st.
Captain: 71st? That's where I'm hoping to be posted next. What's your poison?
Jack: Maybe later - my friend and I, we're in the middle of something.
Captain: Sure.
Toshiko: Why does that man have your name?
Jack is silent.
Toshiko: I'm lost enough here without your holding back on me.
Jack: It's not my name. It's his... I didn't realise he was so hot!
Toshiko: Jack!
Jack: I know too much
Toshiko: Then share.
Jack: You wouldn't want that, trust me.
Toshiko: This period. You look like you fit in. Have you been here before?
Jack: Yes. I can't explain, but I served in the war in 1941. I was undercover. I needed a false identity, so I took his name.
Toshiko: Who were you before you took his name?
Jack is silent.
Toshiko: Why him?
Jack: It was convenient.
Toshiko: But if you chose his identity to steal, then he...
Jack: Dies. In battle.
Toshiko: When?
Jack: Tomorrow.
Jack: Toshiko, do you want me to come with you?
Captain: Oh ho, you can't run out on me, I've just got you a drink.
Jack: Was that it?
Captain: She's a sweet kid, but I need to look after my men tonight. It's their last day tomorrow.
Jack: Go after her. Kiss her goodbye. Anything can happen tomorrow.
Captain: It's just a routine training exercise. I'm hardly going to die.
Jack: That's when they catch you, when you least expect it. You don't know what's ahead. Kiss her goodbye.
Captain: That just made things 20 times worse. Now she thinks she's in love with me.
Jack: Hey! Her falling for you is hardly my fault. Play it cool in front of your men but not in front of me. Look, it's ok to be scared.
Captain: A captain has to keep his head.
Jack: A captain needs to explain the risks, tell his men what's ahead.
Captain: So what do I do? Tell them I saw a young boy get shot in the eyes mid-flight?
Jack: I understand.
Captain: Do you? Did you hear him on the radio yelling for his Mum while the Messerschmitts pumped him full of holes and blew his plane apart. Before I could get on the radio...
Jack: I went to war when I was a boy. I was with my best friend. We got caught crossing the border over enemy lines. They tortured him, not me, because he was weaker. They made me watch him die. Then they let me go.
Captain: Who were they?
Jack: The worst possible creatures you can imagine. I persuaded him to join up, I said it would be an adventure. He hadn't lived.
Captain: Have any of us?
Captain: I'd like some time in private with Captain Harper.
Captain: Why did you make me kiss her goodbye?
Jack: I just think you should live every night like it's your last. Make tonight the best night of your life. You're alive, right here, right now. Your men are fine.
Captain: What are you trying to say?
Jack: Go to her. Go to your woman and lose yourself.
Captain: Maybe I should.
Jack: Yes.
Captain: Is Toshiko your woman?
Jack: No. There's no one... Go to her.
Jack: I thought you were gone. This could be your last chance.
Captain: That's why I came back.
Jack: I might have to leave before the night is over.
Captain: Well, make the most of now.
Jack: We'll go somewhere else.
Captain: No, you've told me all I need to know.
Jack: Tomorrow's their last training exercise. Just another day. They go out on a sortie and they're surprised by two formations of Messerschmitts. He destroys three of the enemy. His men listen to his whoops of joy over the radio. Then it all goes quiet. Can't bail out because his whole plane is on fire. But his men, all make it back to safety.
Toshiko: Who were you?
Jack: A conman. That's why I took his name, falsified his records, so it seemed he was still alive.
Toshiko: How did you end up in Torchwood?
Jack: Someone saved my life. Brought me back from the dead. And ever since then it's been like they're keeping me for something, I don't know what it is. I'm sorry for dragging you into this.
Toshiko: It was my choice!
Jack: I'll look after you. But there's nothing I can do for him.
Jack: I have to go. It's my duty.
Toshiko: It was wartime, but it was beautiful.
Jack: There were angels dancing at the Ritz.
Toshiko: He would have been so proud that you took his name. Because here you are, saving the world. To Captain Jack.
Jack: To Captain Jack.
