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Torchwood the Lost Files. View source. History Talk 0. The brewery have called "time" and it's the last night at The House of the Dead — the most haunted pub in Wales. Barry the barman has invited renowned psychic, Mrs Wintergreen, to hold a special seance to mark the occasion, and there's a big crowd hoping for the chance of seeing their deceased loved ones for one last time.
But when Jack arrives on the scene, he's determined to stop them. Ianto is puzzled by Jack's behaviour, and Gwen is suspicious. Why is Jack acting so strangely? Then the ghosts start arriving — and all hell breaks loose. Ianto Jones is currently situated at the pub, waiting for Gwen Cooper to arrive. As Mrs Wintergreen conducts her seance, several objects of furniture are sent flying, and the letters "JAC" are spelled out on a Ouija board , announcing the arrival of Captain Jack Harkness.
Jack warns the patrons at the pub to leave and for Wintergreen to stop the seance. They do not comply. He embraces Ianto with unusually strong feeling and they assess the situation at hand. A fuse goes out in the pub, prompting Barry the barman to go change it. Jack follows him with a flashlight and tries to reason with Barry to call off the contact with the ghosts, but Barry is too wistful to cut short the last night his haunted pub will ever enjoy business.
Barry is upset by the thought that the pub is going to be torn down soon, and this may be their last chance to speak with loved ones they have lost. He has also kept the bar open in memory of his departed wife. Jack's insistence against the seance prompts Barry to ask for his torch; he then clubs Jack over the head with it. Ianto comes down to find Jack and helps him recover from the sneak attack.
Jack informs Ianto that Syriath , an entity from the oldest universe of all, one before time itself, is waiting on the other side, just beneath the Cardiff Rift. The contact Wintergreen keeps making could allow her to cross over into the living world if she continues to reach out. Jack and Ianto return to the upstairs floor of the pub to find Wintergreen and the visitors joining hands in a circle to contact the dead.
Wintergreen mentions that Barry's wife Helen has joined them, as has the brother of a woman named Ness, Tony.
She also asks Ianto Jones to come forward, saying his father has returned and has accused him of a betrayal, which upsets him greatly and causes both him and Jack to interrupt the seance by shaking Mrs Wintergreen out of her trance. Jack makes Wintergreen aware of the danger she is creating by reaching out to Syriath, but Wintergreen is actually pleased to know someone is granting them audience with their lost loved ones, wishing to speak to her.
Barry hopes to ease tensions by reopening the bar for the night. After noticing the coffee machine isn't working, he thinks that ones of his workers, Tim, has probably resigned without notice for the third time that week. He goes off to change the barrels in the wine cellar, but is disturbed by a series of crashing noises caused by shattering glass. He hears the voice of his dead wife Helen speaking to him, who admits she has accidentally knocked over the glasses due to her paranormal influence.
Barry simply commits to cleaning them up later and comments she hasn't changed, while Helen remarks he has put on weight, which looks good on him. He embraces her to find that she is cold to the touch, a side effect of her lifeless state.
They kiss and she asks him to have a drink for old times' sake, although Barry stopped drinking following Helen's passing. Helen says that she is hungry after being dead for so long. At this moment, it is revealed Helen is not who she appears to be and a cacophony of shattering glasses fills the room, while Barry screams in terror.
Moments after Barry leaves for the cellar, Ianto hears the voice of his father and seizes up with shock. The voice tells him to go upstairs, where he finds the man in corporeal form waiting for him. He gives his son a few compliments on his suit, but in earnest, he is rather unhappy at Ianto for not calling him during the three weeks he had eagerly awaited at least one call as he was dying in the hospital.
This causes guilt to rise out of Ianto and he is put on the verge of tears. His father continues on and tries to make Ianto convince Jack to turn around and leave so he and Ianto's mother, along with their lost friends can return.
After having a spat with his father, the man vanishes. Jack comes upstairs to find Ianto crying, who he then hugs and comforts.
Meanwhile, Ness seeks out the presence of her brother Tony, and soon falls victim to the same innocent facade that got Barry devoured. Against the wishes of Jack and Ianto, Wintergreen carries out her seance and contacts Syriath. The sounds of a crying baby become audible.
Wintergreen's enthusiasm toward the return of her baby convinces her to let Syriath come forth, who then instantly turns against her and possesses the psychic. Syriath reveals to the patrons that someone in the House of the Dead means everyone great harm.
She accuses Jack of wanting to kill everyone in the bar. As the patrons approach him aggressively, he orders them back and pulls a box out of his greatcoat, then demands every patron must leave.
The group exits the pub, leaving only Wintergreen, Jack and Ianto. Gwen asks Ianto if Jack has gone mad, informing him he should not trust the man. Syriath retreats for the moment and lets go of Wintergreen. She tells the men Syriath is reconnecting her to a child she lost after a complicated birth and must go to him.
Wintergreen begins singing a lullaby of "You are my Sunshine" to her son and loses herself to the dead world. Jack tosses the box to Ianto, who was led by Gwen to think it was a bomb. Though Ianto panics, Jack calmly tells him to open it. It is just a box of pebbles and coal. However, it does contain a small detonator. Jack intends to stir up a cloud of dust, but it will be laced with rift energy. All the stones of Wales have been embedded with the power of the Cardiff Rift, something the Cardiff council discounts as radon deposits.
The explosion will set off a reaction only effective between the crossing of two worlds. When Syriath attempts to escape the rift by pulling in the pub, Jack will detonate the stones and close the Cardiff Rift- forever. Ianto's father returns before Jack and his son. Jack compliments his partner in loving manner, as does his father. Despite the warm comments, Ianto's father once again makes demands not to prevent Syriath's exodus, because it would mean that he, his wife, nor Owen , Tosh , or any other loved ones they've lost will be allowed to return to the living world.
When these ultimatums do not faze Jack, Ianto's dad proclaims that Syriath will win, and Jack knew he would find Ianto waiting for him at the pub.
He concludes his arguing with a final, stinging point: would he allow Ianto, someone who once died, to die again?
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