Theory:Torchwood television discontinuity and plot holes/From Out of the Rain


 * Although it is stated that Owen can no longer feel things, he is able to determine that one of the victims has a pulse.
 * A pulse is a physical movement of the body. It isn't the same sort of "feel". It's no different than Owen feeling a doorknob turn in his hand. In PROSE: Pack Animals, which takes place prior to TV: Something Borrowed as the first medic on the scene of a bus crash, he must direct uninjured passengers to check pulses for him because he cannot feel them himself. Yet when he enters the wrecked bus by walking on the side of the overturned vehicle, he can "sense" the metal panel flexing beneath his weight. Perhaps there is some kind of learning curve while he gets accustomed to functioning in a dead body and by this episode he has learned to recognize the movement of a pulse.


 * The Film the Night Travellers are trapped on changes format from 35mm at the Electro theatre to the much smaller 16MM format when it is screened at the Torchwood Hub.
 * possibly Torchwood is in possession of alien recording equipment that could be used to record early forms of film.


 * If the Night Travellers were manipulating the film, inserting their own images, why would they bother to include the footage of Jack, who indicates he wasn't involved with them?
 * Jack was part of the legitimate footage of Hope Street that happened to get mixed in with the circus footage, as he was on assignment to infiltrate the circus at the time; note the footage of Jack is not repeated in the way the Night Travellers footage is.


 * The silver flask comes along with the ghostmaker out of the film and it is recorded later on as well. This would mean it would be made out of celluloid and therefor it should have disappeared when the film was overexposed.


 * After the chase for the silver flask begins, Owen is seen coming running down from the stairs and is told to go back and "look after the family". When we get a closer look at Owen, we see him being tired and out of breath. But Owen is dead, so shouldn't it be impossible for him to get tired from running?