Saving the planet watching over the Rift preparing the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes working 24/7 encountering & containing the alien the bizarre & the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. What links the Rules & Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a supermarket? How does a witness to an aliens reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? & why should Gwen & Iantos actions at a local publishers affect Torchwood more than a century earlier? For Torchwood the past will always catch up with them. & sometimes the future will catch up with the past... This work features stories by writers for the hit series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television including James Moran & Joseph Lidster plus Andrew Cartmel Sarah Pinborough & David Llewellyn.