It's a bird, it's a plane- Owen, Gwen and Jack are standing in an open airfield watching an old timey bi-plane coming in for a landing. Its wheels touch down and the plane, the Sky Gypsy, steers towards them, coming to a stop as the propellers wind down. A woman pilot jauntily jumps out and introduces herself to the Torchwood kids as Amelia Earhart Diane Holmes.

Diane apologizes for the unscheduled landing – you know how it is, what with turbulence, running low on peanuts and such. She wonders if her and her passengers, Emma Cowell and John Ellis, have arrived at a secret airbase because nothing looks familiar.

Captain Jack introduces himself as well and asks Diane to confirm when she took off. She tells him they were wheels up 30 minutes ago. Jack presses her for the date they took off. She replies bewilderedly, December 18, 1953. Suddenly, Northwest Airlines' on-time record doesn't seem so bad after all.

Welcome to the batcave- Torchwood brings the three time travelers back to the hub. John asks a logical question: who the heck are you people? Too bad that information is on a "need to know" basis and they don't need to know. As they all walk through the Torchwood lair, the 1950s visitors' eyes are wide with wonder. Not sure how Jack is going to explain the pterodactyl and the weevils, except maybe he can say they're victims of a failed atomic bomb test.

Jack invites the guests to meet the team.

Tosh: Toshiko.
Gwen: Gwen.
Owen: Doctor Owen Harper.

Leave it to Owen to make sure everyone knows he's a doctor. He will introduce the strangers to his wife, Zira later, I guess.

It's Halloween in the conference room, with Emma and John looking all vintage and Diane dressed as Beryl Markham. Jack fits right in in his period military coat. He explains that their plane slipped through the time-space rift and that's how they ended up here. Hello. These people don't know about answering machines, let alone time-space rifts.

The three don't believe what they're hearing. To prove the year is 2007, Tosh shows the trio pictures of millennium celebrations in their hometowns, modern aircraft designs and the price of coffee at Starbucks.

And if that's not enough to put them into shock, Diane wonders how they'll get home and Jack explains they can't ever go home again. So it is true. Huh.

History shows their plane as lost at sea and never recovered. So get into some skinny jeans, buy an iPod and turn on Ugly Betty. You're here to stay.

Fifties-white-man John is most concerned about their families. I'm most concerned about him. Out of the three, he's the one least likely to like the new world. Maybe "concerned" is the wrong word.