Two episodes in and already, Russell T Davis has allowed an idea normally saved for more well-known shows in their later seasons: I’m talking of – yes- sex aliens! Wacky. In episode two, entitled Day One, we got to see work get in the way of a romantic night between ex-Cardiff PC Gwen Cooper and her boyfriend Rhys, with a giant meteor crash jump-starting her first day as a part of Torchwood Three. (For the uninitiated, the team are: hunky Yank leader Jack, sarcastic git Owen, computer whizz and exposition machine Toshiko and random tea-boy Ianto). Being a newbie, of course, Gwen duffs up at the site of the crime, allowing a mysterious gas to escape from the crime. Don’t these guys have basic training at least? But oh, this is where the fun begins – the alien possesses a young woman, who has sex with someone in a club bathroom, causing them to turn into dust particles upon climax! At one point in the episode, Gwen remarks sarcastically that the team are looking for a “woman possessed by gas, knobbing people to death”. I think it’s fair to say that K-9 isn’t going to be joining in the fun. Jack Barrowman, who plays the mysterious Captain Jack, is obviously the most well-known of all the characters, even though Eve Myles is just as watchable in this episode, giving Gwen an endearing sweetness that makes me eager to stick about for more episodes – I loved her interrogation methods, for example: “Invade Earth?” she says, all wide-eyed and out of her depth, “that’s what you lot do? …Aliens?” While Jack has the best story arc, involving a mysterious severed hand, Gwen seems to be the soul of the show and the one I want to see succeed in the end. Or should that be, fittingly enough, the climax?