Mass public retcon. What's a retcon, when it's at home? His best guess would be some kind of clean up, like the IOA Field Operations Division, maybe trying to cover up evidence. Still.

"It didn't bother you?" he prompts, studying Ianto's expression thoughtfully. "Being the 'teaboy'?"

He remembers someone yelling that at him, months back in his memories. In the memory with the cyberwoman who wasn't a replicator, the one that neatly saved him having to think more about Holland or Atlantis. Maybe it's fitting the photographs are circling them all back through all of that again together.