Also, despite my unhappiness with their storyline so far this year, I loved watching Hoyt and Jessica save Jason, and Jessica not even giving a second thought as to how she was going to save him.

Really bad stuff for Pam though. She's not going to deal with that well.

No, she is not. Drunken Eric was excellent. Eric in the swimming hole: excellent. Eric sad that he can't be in the sun again: excellent. I think I'm watching for Eric.

Jason's story was good this week. I was so glad that it was Hoyt and Jessica who happened upon Jason.

I'm guessing that the reason they've messed with the Bill storyline is because in the books - Bill isn't there at this time. (I think this is when he's in South America. )

TW: Better. Closer to the Torchwood spirit.

I'm 1/8 Welsh. So there are no prizes for guessing my favorite moment of the ep. Even if my ancestors were from Anglesey and nowhere near Cardiff.

I want Rhys to return, but I fear he won't. Torchwood without Rhys is like Buffy without Xander -- missing a tether to the ordinary world.

And now: the the GoT theme on acoustic guitar.

So lovely, sumi. Thank you for linking.

I thought Gwen was the tether to the ordinary world.

Maybe, ita. But Gwen is at least a trained police officer able to defend herself (as she proved so memorably in the last ep!). And after 2 seasons and one miniseries, she's been fully integrated into Torchwood. And even if she didn't volunteer for Torchwood, she got in because she did something.

Rhys is a truck driver with no special talents or skills. And he didn't do anything to get into Torchwood -- he just fell in love with and married Gwen. But every now and then he does something important. (Think Xander -- Glory -- wrecking ball.)

He didn't get into Torchwood, though. He's just TW adjacent. Xander, on the other hand, was a Scoob.

Fair point. Maybe Joyce. Or if a Scoob had a non-Scoob significant other.

I'll be very upset if we don't see Rhys again, and I am worried that he and the baby are not safe in Wales by themselves.