The Conspiracy ( audio story ) Publisher ' s summary . Captain Jack Harkness has always had his suspicions about the Committee . And now Wilson is also talking about the Committee . Apparently the world really is under the control of alien lizard s . That ' s what Wilson says . People have died , disasters have been staged , the suspicious have disappeared . It ' s outrageous . Only Jack knows that Wilson is right . The Committee has arrived . Plot . Captain Jack Harkness ' s attention is caught by ex - news reporter turned professional conspiracy theorist , George Wilson . Jack recounts Wilson ' s rise to popularity : he ' d quit his job reading the evening news , disgusted by the propagandised horror of war and politics , and then quickly went on to grab the spotlight of the people by purporting the story of " The Committee , " an extraterrestrial organisation from the planet Erebus that ' s playing a significant hand in the movements of mankind . But it ' s more than just an interesting story or outlandish conspiracy nut ' s ramblings — it ' s the truth . And Jack ' s caught on . Wilson has been travelling , spreading the story of The Committee . He eventually stops in Cardiff , and Jack decides to attend his talk incognito — Torchwood ' s presence is best kept a secret . Jack , pretending to be a member of the press with secretly - Torchwood - funded Plexus Magazine , attends the show , where he meets amateur conspiracy theorist Sam Hallett . Jack recognises him as one of the snoops that Torchwood keeps tabs on ; Sam , too , thinks that Jack looks familiar . But before any further questioning can be done , Wilson ' s show starts . On stage , Wilson speaks to a sold - out theatre . He assures his audience that he speaks only the truth , and that the cynical " herd " that would call them crazy for listening to him ought to be dismissed as nothing more than " drones of The Committee . " He says that there are three types of person : the people at the top , The Committee ; the enablers , the people who know what The Committee are and serve them out of greed ; and the drones who know nothing . He details The Committee as a secret group who have orchestrated every war , famine , and disaster in the history of mankind . Everything , Wilson says , has been crafted by the extraterrestrial Committee . After the show , Jack approaches Kate , Wilson ' s daughter . He introduces himself as Jack Harkness , press member for Plexus Magazine , and asks her for an interview with Wilson — with charm and lies , he secures one . In the parking lot , Sam , the conspiracy theorist , follows Jack , evidently having indeed recognised him . Jack begins to question how Sam could recognise him , but before he can stop and question him directly , Jack gets a call from Gwen about a Weevil attack , and makes his way to the scene post - hate . The next day , Jack arrives for the interview with Wilson , and meets Kate . She asks him how long he ' s been writing for Plexus . Jack lies and says he ' s been writing for a few months . Kate hints at her scepticism of her father ' s beliefs . Jack doesn ' t need a hint : he ' d found her on the internet , where she ' d voiced , very openly , her disbelief of the alien conspiracy . Kate tells Jack , before the interview , to avoid any topics regarding his divorce and his alcoholism , which he ' s apparently recovering from . Jack meets Wilson and they exchange niceties . Kate leaves them alone for the interview , and Wilson tells Jack of his fondness for Plexus Magazine . Jack then turns on a device that ' s disguised as a recorder ; in actuality it scans the room for alien life . Jack finds no traces . The interview proper begins . Jack asks outright about The Committee . He asks Wilson how he learned their name . Wilson says that a contact in the CIA informed him . He also tells Jack that many intelligence organisations are aware of The Committee and their movements . Jack continues to ask more questions about The Committee , and Wilson gives standard , logical answers . He goes on to claim that many wars and constructs , including World War II and the Nazi Reich , were devised by The Committee . Jack asks Wilson about his years as a reporter , and begrudgingly , Wilson answers . Jack implies that Wilson ' s time covering wars has left his psyche damaged . As Wilson asks Jack where his line of questioning is going , Kate returns and admonishes Jack from bringing up Wilson ' s past . Wilson , though , admits that while his time in the field did horrify him , and while he was , subsequently , an alcoholic because of it , the trials that he faced brought the world into a much sharper focus . Later , Jack views Sam Hallett ' s website , where Sam ' s made a vlog wherein he talks about his encounter with Jack , the man whom he had found to be so familiar . Sam talks about how he followed Jack into the parking lot , took photos of him in a Valencia filter and uploaded them to Instagram , and then asks his followers to look at the photos and see if they recognise Jack . Jack concludes that Wilson was not , in fact , crazy . Upon leaving the interview , he encounters Sam , who approaches him disgruntled at the fact that Jack got an interview and he did not . But he quickly forgets this and starts to question Jack so as to who he is . Sam produces a photo of Jack outside The Brampton Hotel after Torchwood had dealt with a poltergeist . Sam accuses Jack of being the man in the picture , though Jack denies it . Sam , though , persists . Sam produces another photo , but Jack accuses him of being a stalker . Sam then tells Jack that he knows about Torchwood , but Jack leaves and threateningly bluffs to send Sam to a Siberian Zinc Mine if he tells anyone about their encounter . Jack returns to the Torchwood Hub , which he finds empty . He spends the night watching Wilson ' s talks , over and over . He finds that Wilson ' s talks are filled with a mixture of truth and lie , about The Committee , and about the world , but all of it is filled with enough charisma to convince most anyone . Then , Jack listens to his interview with Wilson . Towards the end of their interview , Wilson voices his belief in the reality that The Committee could very well kill him someday . After that , Jack gets a call from Sam , who ' s been taken hostage . His captors want to talk to Jack — and Jack obliges . At the under - construction SkyPoint building , Jack sees Sam , sixty feet off the ground , standing on a narrow construction ledge . The captors send a concise message to Jack : they push Sam off of the ledge . Later , on Sam ' s website , Jack watches Sam ' s final testament , where he claims that he ' s going to commit suicide . Jack can tell that it ' s a lie . Jack breaks into Wilson ' s hotel room in the middle of the night , enraged at Sam ' s death . He confronts Wilson , questioning him about Sam . Then , he confronts him about Wilson ' s CIA contact , at gunpoint , but Wilson admits that there is no contact . He admits that he made everything up , but Jack says that that doesn ' t make sense : Jack knows that The Committee is , in fact , real . Jack presses this fact , but Wilson , believing that there is no Committee , speaks to Jack condescendingly , assuming that the Captain is nothing more than another fanatic conspiracy nut . Wilson grabs a drink from the minibar and tells Jack the entire truth . Wilson laments the banality of his time as a reporter . He talks about how every story seemed to be fraught with the same , constant themes of war and death . After he left the journalism scene , he wrote a book about his time as a reporter , but no publisher wanted it . They all claimed , according to Wilson , that no one would take what he said seriously . So , Wilson , with his daughter , Kate , devised the story of The Committee . They crafted names and a backstory , and put it out into the public eye . After recounting his story , Jack tells Wilson that The Committee and the story of The Committee were all true , but Wilson laughs at him . Jack , though , wonders to how Wilson knew the story . The next morning , Wilson tells Kate that Jack broke in the night before and confronted him . He tells Kate that Jack told him that The Committee was real , and Kate says that she ' ll take care of the situation . Jack , later , watched this exchange : he wiped himself from the hotel ' s security footage , and then saw their conversation . Unable to hear through the security monitor , he studied their expressions , and saw that Kate ' s countenance flinched from rehearsed sympathy to something darker . And then his phone rang . It was Kate . Jack asks Kate how she got his number ; she tells him to meet her in the hotel room . He arrives , quickly , and bursts into the room , but Kate shatters his spinal cord and he ' s left disabled . Jack saw that Wilson was tied and gagged in a chair . Kate admits that she ' s with The Committee , and it ' s revealed that she was adopted . Then , she calls his mind back to Kepri 5 . Long ago on Kepri 5 , in the constellation of Fornax , Jack found himself in the middle of a war . Many planets were engulfed in war and subsequently fell to The Committee . When The Committee started nearing Sol 3 , Jack told them that Earth was a barren planet and of no use to them , and he pointed them in another direction . Presently , Kate confronts Jack about his lie . Kate admits that she fed Wilson details and fragments about The Committee in order to spread a vague message about them , in order to take control of the human love for stories , and the equally - great human tendency to dismiss them . Wilson was , in a sense , a disarming boy - who - cried - wolf , a man whose tall tale would never actually be taken seriously by the masses when the wolf truly did come . Kate tells Jack that Sam ' s death would be pinned on Torchwood , as would her father ' s to - be death . She then kills Wilson . Then , she kills Jack . When Jack wakes up , he finds himself alone with Wilson , with sirens looming in the distance . Unable to cover his tracks , he leaves a message for the Torchwood Team , recounting the story before he flees . As a final message , he declares his intent to deal with The Committee and to end their reign of terror .