- Toshiko Sato: Who were you?
- Captain Jack Harkness: A conman. That's why I took his name, falsified his records so it seemed he was still alive
- Toshiko Sato: How did you end up in Torchwood?
- Captain Jack Harkness: Someone saved my life, brought me back from death, and ever since then it's been like... they're keeping me for something and I don't know what it is. I'm sorry for dragging you into this.
- Toshiko Sato: It was my choice.
- Captain Jack Harkness: I'll look after you.
- [pauses; his voice breaks]
- Captain Jack Harkness: But there's nothing I can do for him.
- Toshiko Sato: Why does that man have your name? I'm lost enough here without you holding back on me.
- Captain Jack Harkness: It's not my name. It's his. I took his. But I didn't realise he was... so hot.
- Toshiko Sato: Jack!
- Captain Jack Harkness: I know too much.
- Toshiko Sato: Then share.
- Captain Jack Harkness: You wouldn't want that. Trust me.
- Captain Jack Harkness: I thought you'd gone.
- [the Captain shrugs]
- Captain Jack Harkness: This could be your last chance.
- The Captain: That's why I came back.
- [sits next to Jack]
- Captain Jack Harkness: I might have to leave before the night is over.
- The Captain: Well... then make the most of now.
- [the Captain takes Jack's hand; their fingers entwine and Jack looks at The Captain in surprise, before they are interrupted and The Captain quickly stands up, letting Jack's hand go]
- Captain Jack Harkness: Look, it's okay to be scared.
- The Captain: A captain has to keep his head.
- Captain Jack Harkness: A captain needs to explain the risks, tell his men what to expect.
- The Captain: So what do I do? Tell them I saw a young boy get shot in the eyes mid-flight?
- Captain Jack Harkness: I understand.
- The Captain: Do you? Did you hear him on the radio, yelling for his mom while the Messerschmitts pumped him full of holes and blew his plane apart? All I can hear on the radio is...
- Captain Jack Harkness: - Screams. I went to war when I was a boy. I was with my best friend. We got caught crossing the border over enemy lines. They tortured him, not me, because he was weaker. They made me watch him die. And they let me go.
- The Captain: Who were they?
- Captain Jack Harkness: The worst possible creatures you could imagine. I persuaded him to join up. I said it would be an adventure. He hadn't lived.
- The Captain: Have any of us?
- Ianto Jones: You have to let Diane go. Like I did with Lisa.
- Owen Harper: Don't compare yourself to me. You're just a tea boy.
- Ianto Jones: I'm much more than that. Jack needs me.
- Owen Harper: In your dreams, Ianto. In your sad wet dreams when you're his part-time shag, maybe. That rift took my lover and my captain. So if I die trying to beat it, then it will all be in the line of duty.
- Toshiko Sato: This period. You look like you fit in. Have you been here before?
- Captain Jack Harkness: Yeah. I can't explain but I served in the war in 1941. I was undercover; I needed a false identity so I took... his name.
- Toshiko Sato: Who were you before you took his name?
- [Jack doesn't answer]
- Toshiko Sato: Why him?
- Captain Jack Harkness: It was convenient.
- Toshiko Sato: But if you chose his identity to steal, then he...
- Toshiko Sato: Dies. In battle.
- Toshiko Sato: When?
- Captain Jack Harkness: Tomorrow.
- Ianto Jones: Maybe this is a trap. He could be sucking us back through time one by one.
- [to Gwen, via phone]
- Ianto Jones: Get out of there, Gwen. That's an order.
- Owen Harper: I'm sorry, but who exactly put you in charge?
- [Jack and Tosh walk into the ballroom of the Ritz dance-hall]
- Captain Jack Harkness: Wow. Look at the chandelier. No neon lights back then. Just dashing young soldiers and pretty young ladies.
- [Jack grabs Toshiko and starts dancing with her]
- Captain Jack Harkness: And as they dance, the girls would look into their partner's eyes, smile softly and say...
- Toshiko Sato: [as Jack spins her] Jack! Mind my laptop!
- Captain Jack Harkness: I was thinking more along the lines of, "and how long before you head off to war?"
- The Captain: Why did you make me kiss her goodbye?
- Captain Jack Harkness: I just think you should live every night like it's your last. Make tonight the best night of your life. You're alive, right here, right now. Your men are fine.
- The Captain: What are you trying to say?
- Captain Jack Harkness: Go to her. Go to your woman and lose yourself in her.
- The Captain: Maybe I should.
- Captain Jack Harkness: Yeah.
- The Captain: Is Toshiko your woman?
- Captain Jack Harkness: No. There's no-one.
- [pauses]
- Captain Jack Harkness: Go to her.