Fragments (Torchwood) - Continuity

Continuity

  • For dating of this episode, see the Chronology.
  • The Little Girl reappears in this episode. She was last seen in the episode "Dead Man Walking". She tells Jack that the Doctor is coming, but "the century will turn twice" before that time. Jack's reunion with the Doctor occurs at the end of "End of Days" & the start of "Utopia".
  • Toshiko's mother, as played by Noriko Aida, reappears in this episode, having last been seen in "End of Days".
  • Toshiko's "sonic modulator" device based on stolen design plans bears superficial similarities to the Doctor's sonic screwdriver, and its ear-splitting effect is similar to that produced by holding together two similar sonic devices in Doctor Who's 2008 episode "Partners in Crime", airing just over two weeks later.
  • This is the first time the Doctor has been explicitly named in the series.
  • A blowfish alien, similar to the one seen in "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", appears in flashback sequences involving Jack's first mission for the Torchwood Institute.
  • Captain Jack radios orders to an offscreen Suzie Costello in Ianto's flashback, although Ianto's arrival in the scene prevents the character from being given any lines. She kills herself soon thereafter in "Everything Changes". Suzie was last mentioned in the episode "Dead Man Walking", and last seen upon her resurrection in the Series One episode "They Keep Killing Suzie".
  • In his flashback, Ianto Jones refers to his girlfriend, Lisa Hallett, as having died during the Battle of Canary Wharf. Lisa is seen again as a partly converted Cyberman in the Series One episode "Cyberwoman".
  • The Roald Dahl Plass, situated directly above the hub, was an active coal-shipping dock until after World War II. The Torchwood 3 hub is in the same location.
  • As in Jack's flashback scenes in "Small Worlds", the Edwardian Era photographs of Jack show him in the uniform of an Army captain, three grades lower than the RAF group captain's rank he wears in and after 1941.
  • The parasite that kills Owen's fiancĂ©e appears to be the same alien species as the one Jack and Angelo encounter in the Miracle Day episode, Immortal Sins.
  • Alex's multiple murders and suicide take place hours before the Doctor Who tele-movie; given the time zones between Cardiff and San Francisco, both are set on New Year's Eve 1999.
  • Alice and Emily tell Jack that the Torchwood Institute was founded to protect the Empire from the Doctor and other phantasmagoria, and they kill aliens whom they deem "a threat to the Empire". They are following Queen Victoria's charter of the institute, as depicted in "Tooth and Claw".
  • Jack tells Alice and Emily that the Doctor uses the Cardiff space-time rift to refuel the TARDIS, which he learned in "Boom Town".
  • The Torchwood emblem (a letter T within a hexagon) on the stationery Alice uses is the same in 1918, as shown in "To the Last Man".
  • In 1999/2000 and 2007, Jack is shown wearing the vest he later wears in the first series (set shortly after the 2007 scenes).
  • Immediately before killing himself, Alex tells Jack, "The 21st century, Jack; everything's going to change, and we're not ready." This parallels Jack's voiceover at the start of each episode of Series One and Two: "The 21st century is when everything changes, and ready."
  • An on-screen caption places the episode 21 months after Ianto convinces Jack to hire him in the aftermath of "Doomsday".
  • Gwen's recruitment story is deliberately omitted from this episode, as it was told in the pilot, "Everything Changes".

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