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- DirectorEuros LynStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesGareth David-LloydJack is forced to confess how he helped broker a deal in 1965 when the 456 aliens offered an antidote against a deadly universal flu virus in exchange for twelve children who would 'live forever.' Clem and the team watch via Lois's laptop as the aliens tell Frobisher they will 'wipe out the human species' if their request is not met, and a camera reveals the apparently zombic Scots victims, said by the aliens to be unharmed. Frobisher rejects Jack's offer of help in return for Alice and her son's release. He attends a Cabinet meeting which agrees that the Cabinet's children will be spared and that lower-class kids should be sacrificed instead.This is recorded by Lois and sent to safety with Rhys,giving Ianto and Jack leverage to talk to the aliens but the latter's' response is to unleash a virus which kills dozens, including Clem and,seemingly,Ianto. The government feels forced to capitulate.Season 3 Episode 4
- DirectorEuros LynStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesKai OwenWith little choice now but to give in to their demands, the British authorities begin to round up the children under the pretense of giving them inoculations. Panic begins to set in as parents begin to wonder what is happening to their children. Captain Jack is released as are his daughter and grandson and he tries to find a way fight the 456. Gwen and her husband return home to tell Ianto's sister what has happened but they arrive to find a house full of children, whom they try to save from the arriving soldiers. With Fobisher no longer available, Col. Oduya becomes the intermediary and the 456 reveal the reason they need the children. For Captain Jack his finding a way to fight the 456 forces him to make an incredible sacrifice.Season 3 Episode 5
SEASON 3 FINALE - DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanWhen the villainous Captain John Hart returns to abduct Captain Jack Harkness whilst unleashing a wave of destruction and terror upon an unsuspecting Cardiff, it's up to Gwen, Ianto, Owen and Tosh to save the day. Meanwhile, Captain Jack Harkness is forced to face some demons from his past.Season 2 Episode 13
SEASON 2 FINALE - DirectorEuros LynStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesGareth David-LloydTwenty-four years after a busload of schoolchildren mysteriously vanished in Scotland, children all over the world go into a momentary trance before chanting in a monotone, "They are coming!" Clem, an elderly psychiatric patient institutionalized since found wandering as a child, joins in the chant, declaring, "They have found me." MI5 officer Dekker tells government minister Frobisher that 'they' are the 456, of whom he once warned him. Frobisher tells the Prime Minister, whose chief concern is hushing up a past mystery. Gwen goes to see Clem, the child who escaped the aliens years earlier in Scotland. He is a psychic who senses before she does that she is pregnant and believes his friends were abducted by aliens, now poised to return to Earth. After visiting his daughter Alice, Jack is lured into a government trap by a seemingly friendly young doctor, Rupesh. Rupesh is shot and Jack escapes but with a bomb implanted in his body. Clem senses that government agents are coming for him and goes on the run.Season 3 Episode 1
SEASON 3 PREMIERE - DirectorEuros LynStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesGareth David-LloydThe team hide out in a former Torchwood holding facility, stealing to survive. Gwen meets with Lois, giving her a laptop and special contact lenses to report back to her. Gwen also has Clem, arrested for an affray, released and safe with the team. Ms. Johnson locates and captures Alice and her son after Alice has tried to ring Jack. Soon after, children all around the world state that 'We' have arrived and a pillar of fire turns into a green ooze as the alien leader communes with Frobisher, watched by the Torchwood team, thanks to Lois. Everything is bound up with the events of 1965, as the alien voice tells Frobisher and Jack also comes to realize. The aliens want ten percent of the world's children to go with them whilst Clem recalls Jack as one who allowed the alien abduction in Scotland, which Jack cannot deny.Season 3 Episode 3
- DirectorAlice TroughtonStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanWhen a passenger plane from 1953 arrives in Cardiff in 2007 due to the Rift, the Torchwood team try to help three temporal immigrants adapt a new life in the city.Season 1 Episode 10
- DirectorEuros LynStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesGareth David-LloydThe bomb explodes, blowing up Torchwood. Gwen escapes and goes on the run with husband Rhys, with an army detachment under tough female Captain Johnson in pursuit. Dekker gives Frobisher cryptic written plans for a mysterious edifice the aliens - the 456 - want building though not even the P.M. knows what it is. Lois, Frobisher's new temp, accidentally finds secret information on Torchwood in her computer and is curious but Frobisher tells her Jack was the terrorist who caused the explosion.Gwen and Rhys hide in a lorry bound for London, where she discloses her pregnancy. She is keen to get an explanation from Frobisher,unaware that he is out to kill her. Ianto escapes separately, seeking help from his sister, whom he meets in a park where children chant "We are coming. Tomorrow." Clem, on the streets, takes up the chant. Lois, now mistrustful of her boss, takes a call from Gwen and Rhys, meeting them secretly to tip them off that they are in danger. They infiltrate a 'funeral',saving Jack, whose body has regenerated, and are in turn rescued by Ianto. Frobisher and Dekker, having obeyed instructions, await the aliens.Season 3 Episode 2
- DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanJack and Tosh investigate when there are reports of music coming out of nowhere in an abandoned dance hall. While in the building, a temporal rift sends them back to 1941, but they soon realize they can't get back to their own time. At least not without Tosh sending those in the present day the necessary equations to make it happen. While at the dance hall, Jack runs into someone he knows, an American RAF pilot by the name of Jack Harkness. In the present day, Owen, Ianto, and Gwen are working to get them back. Owen wants to open the rift and try to get Diane Holmes back as well, but opening the rift could destroy the city. The dance hall manager, Bilis Manger, seems to have little trouble going back and forth in time, however.Season 1 Episode 12
- DirectorJames ErskineStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanThe invisible spirit of a hit-and-run victim tries to convince Gwen to locate the 'alien' who might have been responsible for his death.Season 1 Episode 9
- DirectorJonathan Fox BassettStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanAs the team is trapped in the rubble of a building, their paths to joining Torchwood are revealed.Season 2 Episode 12
- DirectorAndy GoddardStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanAdam, an alien in the guise of a personable young man, is a 'memory manipulator' who implants false memories into the Torchwood team, leading them to believe he is an old friend. Gwen is induced to forget Rhys and Jack recalls painful memories of his brother before he exposes Adam. The team take tablets to restore their memories, in the process 'killing' Adam, who fades away.Season 2 Episode 5
- DirectorAndy GoddardStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanEvery year since 1918, the team wakes Tommy from cryogenic sleep, because one day they will need his help. But they don't know which year, or for what. All indications are sealed in a box that will only open at the right moment.Season 2 Episode 3
- DirectorJames StrongStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanTorchwood is called into a murder investigation when a suburban couple are found in their beds with their throats slit and TORCHWOOD written on the wall in their blood. Gwen convinces them to use the gauntlet to reanimate the victims to see if they can get the identity of the killer. They have little success but when they learn that their former colleague Suzie Costello had a connection to the victims, they decide to revive her. Normally, the dead can only be revived for a minute or two at most but in Suzie's case, she seems to have been reanimated permanently. When they learn that she is drawing her life force from a member of the Torchwood team, the others have to find a way to stop her.Season 1 Episode 8
- DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanA conflicted Torchwood team is surprised to see Captain Jack suddenly return to their lives, and though he tries to come back as if nothing had happened, Jack soon finds that some things have changed since his disappearance. There's little time for explanations, though, as a mysterious stranger from Jack's past steps through the rift, and he's on a mission that only the Torchwood team can help him finish. But it becomes quickly clear that Captain John Hart is not all he claims to be, and as usual, Captain Jack Harkness has some secrets of his own.Season 2 Episode 1
SEASON 2 PREMIERE - DirectorAndy GoddardStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanBefore Martha can perform an autopsy on Owen, Jack uses the other Resurrection Glove to temporarily revive him but something goes wrong. A strange energy is keeping his corpse reanimated, and altering his DNA.Season 2 Episode 7
- DirectorAndy GoddardStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanOwen's been dead for three days and finds it unbearable. He meets a woman contemplating jumping off a roof and reveals that there is nothing after death. He then tells the woman how he ended up coming to the roof.Season 2 Episode 8
- DirectorBilly GierhartStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesMekhi PhiferAn underground bloodline flows from Buenos Aires to Shanghai, where Mother shows Jilly that she is planning to blow up her hideout whilst the Blessing maintains its immortality. In Buenos Aires, an explosion kills Rex and Esther's army escort, as they become aware of a CIA mole whom they allow to believe they are dead. They are nonetheless caught and taken to the South American lair of the Mother's cousin, where the other half of the Blessing is kept. Gwen, Oswald, and Jack infiltrate the Shanghai hideaway where they learn how the families, using Jack's blood, attached it to a force field to give them immortality but how the aliens misunderstood and recently gave immortality to the Earth in the spirit of benevolence. Sacrifice and redemption on two continents lead to the destruction of Miracle Day with the capture of the mole and the restoration of order. For one of the survivors, there is an amazing discovery.Season 4 Episode 10
SEASON 4 FINALE
FINAL EPISODE DUE TO INDEFINITE HIATUS - DirectorGuy FerlandStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesMekhi PhiferDr. Juarez joins the new Torchwood after category guidelines are released for patient care. Esther and Rex go undercover to find out what is happening to Category 1 patients being sent to 'modules' at overflow centers. Meanwhile, Gwen flies back to Wales to remove her father from an overflow center. Dr. Juarez manages to use her credentials to enter an overflow center as an inspector while Jack attempts to convince Oswald Danes to expose PhiCorp.Season 4 Episode 5
- DirectorBrian KellyStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanPolice Constable Gwen Cooper comes across the mysterious organization known as Torchwood. While investigating their world, she finds technology and methods she never imagined.Season 1 Episode 1
SEASON 1 PREMIERE
SERIES PREMIERE - DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanThe Rift is splintering - strange phenomena like UFOs and ancient soldiers are falling through time into various places around the world. These events resemble those in the prophecy of the arrival of Abaddon, the Great Devourer, who will lead the world into shadow and bring about the End of Days...Season 1 Episode 13
SEASON 1 FINALE - DirectorMark EverestStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanWhen a local teenager disappears, Gwen is drawn into an investigation that reveals a darker side of Torchwood. Hundreds of people have disappeared without a trace, but why is Jack obstructing attempts to find them? The answer seems to lie in the rift, and as Gwen follows the trail, she makes a shocking discovery.Season 2 Episode 11
- DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanJack calls in his old friend Martha Jones, now a doctor at UNIT, to investigate mysterious deaths. When the trail leads to a medical research facility known as "The Pharm", Martha must go undercover to discover the truth.Season 2 Episode 6
- DirectorBharat NalluriStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesMekhi PhiferWhen everyone in the world stops dying, the CIA is alerted by a single word: Torchwood.Season 4 Episode 1
SEASON 4 PREMIERE - DirectorColin TeagueStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanWhen a burglary turns into a slaughter, Torchwood suspect alien involvement. Who is Beth, and can she be as innocent as she seems? However, when the investigation escalates into a city-wide assault, Captain Jack realises that the whole planet is in danger.Season 2 Episode 2
- DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanFriday night: Gwen's late for her own hen party. This is because she's been chasing a man-eating shape-shifter, which bites her before Jack shoots it. Saturday morning: Wedding day. Gwen wakes up heavily pregnant.Season 2 Episode 9