Hm, you're probably right, someone who doesn't at least have some tendencies in this direction wouldn't have come up with that kind of plan to get into Torchwood in the first place, no matter how desperate he was. I don't think he uses it like Owen did though, who was not manipulative as such, but extremely perceptive about others' weaknesses and used them very consciously to strike where it'd hurt most.


I'm inclined to think that after a year (or however much time elapsed before CW) he couldn't really think straight, pun not intended, about anything any more, carrying this burden and responsibility for the whole time with no one to even talk about it...