Another spoilery thought

[ffutures]

OK, another thought on Let's Kill Hitler...



How does a five-year-old with no papers or parents get from the USA to the UK in the early 90s(?) and become a schoolgirl in England?



And I don't think wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey really cuts it on this one...

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[pmcray.livejournal.com]

Presumably she was taken there by agents of the Silence.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Well, she gets there the same way that everyone in that universe gets to places, via technology (or magic, pace Clarke). How she stays there with no documentation is another question.

Hmm, this sort of implies that Torchwood isn't in the same timeline as Who, the latter seems a lot less bureaucratic (in our time period) than ours and T's seems more so. I think that the TARDIS doesn't just wobble in time and space, it also drifts between parallel universes and they don't notice.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

There's still trans-atlantic shipping, so, a stow away on a cargo ship?

[armb.livejournal.com]

But the actual question is how does an assassin "disguised" as a five-year-old working as part of a conspiracy do that.
And what pmcray said.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Anyone who needs it has unlimited time and space travel whenever the script requires it and the rest of the time they don't. Which is part of what "wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey" really means.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I thought she had escaped from them at that point, but maybe I'm wrong.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Except that they've specifically said they can't travel between parallel universes any more.

Yes, I know... The Doctor lies.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Good an answer as any.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Depends on the exact circumstances, which still aren't entirely clear.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Fair point.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Which may be why the Doctor doesn't pull Turchwad out of their hole (or vice versa), having split earlier...

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

There's also the issue of her parents. Who'd she live with all those years? I think the implication is that the Silence caught back up with her to continue the brainwashing.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

OK, that works.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Maybe - although someone got Jack back to Earth at the exact moment things went weird, I got the impression that was the Doctor.