“Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke told me you Torchwood people always take the extreme view. We have a saying in basic training: "If you hear hoof-beats, you look for horses, and not zebras".''You don't know the half of it,' Gwen said. 'In my job, if I hear hoof-beats, I expect to see unicorns.”

Peter Anghelides

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