Written by Joseph Lidster as an "over-commission" for Series 2. After a series of other story pitches, Lidster was asked to work on one of Russell T Davies's standby plots concerning a spooky 24-hour supermarket to center on Jack and Ianto. Described as "Die Hard in a Supermarket", it was set after Ianto's imperfect resurrection from the dead (as was originally planned, before this storyline shifted to Owen). The store would have been possessed by a demonic creature from the Rift that manifested only late at night and which fed off of human life-force. Ianto would have able to save the day due to being already dead and got Maggie, the supermarket's last customer, out alive.