No worries, Suzie thinks. I wasn't meant to be seeing this anyway. I forget, sometimes to switch this thing back off. I can do that now, actually.

Not that she isn't curious -- the shadow wasn't speaking the last time she saw it -- but she's trying to hold herself to a higher standard. Something Jack might be proud of.

In the meantime, she's got no way of broaching the subject with any kind of delicacy. And, unfortunately for the Vesmier, this news isn't exactly good.

"I'm going to get close to Thane," she says, without preamble. "I can reach Jack, I might be able to turn Thane's subconscious against him, and I'm... Uniquely suited to portraying myself as someone who'd betray Torchwood. And if I can get close to him, I'll have Jack himself to get information out of, if not help. But I'll need some help before I'm ready to go in. You're my first choice, if you'd be willing or able."

And if he isn't... she'll find another alternative.