The Cyberwoman Ianto was keeping alive in the Torchwood base was Lisa Hallett, a former employee of Torchwood One that had cyber-components grafted onto her during the Battle of Canary Wharf before being rescued by Torchwood Three’s support man. Now, love makes people do stupid things – I once sent a letter to an ex with a picture of Julian Clary, for example – but bringing in a cybernetics expert to help an artifact of a genocidal line of cyborgs breathe on its own? Oh, love is blind et cetera et cetera. And even if Jack didn’t die, there was plenty of pow! and whack! to go around this episode, most importantly from Ianto. Growing some backbone, he punched Jack and told him that “One day, I’ll have the chance to save you… and I’ll watch you suffer and die!” So what if he went on to get owned by the good Captain a minute later? It’s all good character development, hinting that there may be something dramatically interesting in this new-found animosity. Although there were slight niggles – Lisa’s final words left me wondering whether Cybermen can actually eat cheese toasties rather than focusing on the drama – this episode was a step in the right direction. Tension, good acting, tight scripting, some good laughs (Owen to Jack, post-Cyberattack: “You should be dead!” Jack: “I’m the stubborn type!”), up-to-par FX, Toshiko giving Owen a Glare O’ Death (Toshiko episode NOW, PLEASE) and a pterodactyl trying to eat someone. Basically, everything I could have wanted from a Torchwood episode. Things just got promising.