Over at Torchwood, Jack has a nightmare. He's on a train car circa 1950s where he finds all the soldiers in the car dead with rose petals coming out of their mouths. He goes over to his office and finds a single petal on his desk. Ianto reports odd weather patterns. This, grouped with the petal, disturbs Jack.

School has just let out and a young girl, Jasmine, is waiting for her stepdad to pick her up. He seems to be running late, so she starts to walk home alone, but she is being followed by a man who offers her a ride. When she refuses, he grabs her and tries to force her in to the car. Right then the wind kicks up, knocking him out of the way. Jasmine walks off, skipping as she goes. The man gets in his car, but hears giggly voices all around him.

Jack and Gwen go to see an old friend of Jack's, Estelle, an elderly lady who is giving a lecture, Faeries: Fact or Fantasy? Gwen's not a believer, but Jack listens intently. He and Estelle have a friendly argument about the nature of faeries. Estelle thinks they are good creatures, Jack believes they are not. Jack wants to see more of Estelle's recent faery photos, so the three head to her house.

The pedophile from before walks into a farmer's market, still hearing the voices and fluttering of wings. Something attacks him and he stumbles down the lane, coughing up rose petals. He grabs a cop and begs for help, but he is so violent that she arrests him. Over at Estelle's house, Jack is looking at the faery photos while Gwen spots an old picture of Jack on the mantle. Jack claims it's a picture of his father. His father and Estelle were an item back in the day.

Jack later tells Gwen that faeries don't have a proper name. Creatures from the dawn of time, they are not alien, but part of their world. They're dangerous - part myth, part spirit, part real, all jumbled together, unbound by linear time. Once they are back at Torchwood, Jack has Tosh look for anomalous weather patterns, as that is the only way to track them.

Back home, Jasmine gets in trouble for walking home alone. Jasmine tells her mom nothing can harm her and proceeds to go out to the garden to play with her faery friends.

The pedophile is put into jail where he confesses to being such, but asks to be locked up as something is trying to kill him. That night, he is murdered by the faeries. When Torchwood arrives to investigate, Gwen pulls rose petals from the pedophile's throat.

Estelle hears odd noises and sees something staring at her from her garden outside. She puts in a call to Jack and then realizes her cat is still outside. As she goes out to find him, she is suddenly locked out of her house. It starts to pour rain, but only on Estelle. By the time Torchwood arrives, Estelle is dead - drowned, although the area around her is dry.