A booby-trapped building explodes and knocks the team unconscious. As their lives flash before their eyes, we learn the bizarre circumstances in which each of them was recruited to Torchwood.

Long synopsis: A booby-trapped building explodes and knocks the team unconscious. As their lives flash before their eyes, we learn how each of them was recruited to Torchwood: Captain Jack's initiation into a shocked Victorian Torchwood in1899, Toshiko's daring mission to trade alien technology for her mother's life, how Ianto wooed Jack with coffee and a flair for alien-catching, and the medical revelation that changed how Owen saw the world.