Help with a Scene

[satanassa.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping you can help me identify which episode this scene is from:
Ianto is reading out some notes from a notepad and Jack is pacing around near him. Gwen comes up and grabs the notepad out of Ianto's hand, without even asking him.

I was struck by Gwen's extreme rudeness in this scene. I think it is from 'Day One', can you confirm? Thanks!

Comments

[milady-dragon.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the scene from "Day One" where Ianto comes to report the body at the club and he has that clipboard in his hand?

[slns7552.livejournal.com]

Yes it was Day One.

[sandysan2013.livejournal.com]

I didn't remember this at all so I re-watched that episode. It appears to me that she reaches for the notepad as Ianto is in process of turning it over to her. Not rude so much as useless, like everything else she did in this episode. She mostly stood around while everyone else actively worked to locate, identify, and neutralize the threat posed by the alien. Not even her research into Carys life was useless in the end. The dumbest statement ever was Jack's claim that she was brilliant for having located pictures of Carys as a baby and other dribble that did not prove useful.

[blucougar.livejournal.com]

What she was trying to do was be the kind of profiler she'd probably watched when she was still a PC. Might not have been a deliberate attempt to big-note herself at the time, but she was definitely trying to put herself on an even footing with her new colleagues. There was a definite element of needing to prove that she belonged there. Jack was so blinded by his vision of Gwen as his own personal Rose Tyler that she could literally do no wrong. Even when her incompetence got at least 17 blokes killed.
Then again, Jack had made so many mistakes of his own (remember "Are you my mummy?") that he didn't feel he was in a position to judge. That, and he was definitely paying forward the second chance the Doctor gave him.
It's just a pity that at that stage, instead of taking stock, accepting she screwed up and working to improve herself, she carried on like she was a cut above the rest - and Jack idiotically pandered to her, even if he wasn't aware of what he was doing.
*sigh*
Rant over.

[littleatem.livejournal.com]

I also took a look at that episode. One, Ianto probably wouldn't have given Gwen the clipboard if she hadn't run to his side... and two, Gwen may have 'profiled' the girl, but Owen had to say "Okay, you did the profiling, what did you learn?" To make her give them any information, she had probably forgotten up til that time. So much for being the 'heart'.

[mscatmoon.livejournal.com]

Sad to say that Jack wasn't very professional in his choices of who to hire and in what position. Here's Gwen, a lowly PC with just a few months on that job -- she should have been serving the coffee (like we see her do at the police station). But no, he had already hired Ianto to do that -- an uncommonly resourceful, tough, and smart young man who had a lot of experience via Torchwood One and was fully qualified for the job. Instead Jack hired him to clean up after them and so he could oggle the man in his suits.

And while I'm on the subject, wasn't that also the episode where Gwen kissed Jack? Who kisses their new boss first few days on the job?? Good thing for her that he hired her, because it's clear she wouldn't have lasted a year in her police job!

[stlscape.livejournal.com]

Good thing for her that he hired her, because it's clear she wouldn't have lasted a year in her police job!

I still wonder how she ever passed her police academy training. (Do UK police go to official training (i.e., 6-months/12-months), or is it all on the job, learn as you go?)

[satanassa.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, yes that awkward kiss! What was she thinking of? What was Jack thinking of, that he didn't bring it up later and admonish Gwen for crossing boundaries?

[satanassa.livejournal.com]

Thanks everyone. So it is 'Day One'. I was quite negatively impressed by Gwen's superior air when she grabs the notepad. But I must say I also didn't like the way Owen was baiting her at the beginning.

[shadowb3e.livejournal.com]

I rewatched that scene a couple of times and to me Ianto was simply handing it to her.