Torchwood is the new sci-fi programme created by Russel T Davies (the creator of Doctor Who) and follows a gang of six people who control alien activity and keep it secret from the general public. The Torchwood we follow is Torchwood three, based in Cardiff. Torchwood One was in London and was destroyed when the Daleks and the Cybermen fought for control over Earth; Torchwood two is in Glasgow and according to Captain Jack Harkenss (leader of Torchwood three) is lead by a very strange man. Torchwood four has apparently disappeared (not entirely sure how that works) but they'll find it eventually no doubt. Ahem... The main characters of the series Torchwood all have very unique personalities and sexiness appeal. Read through the bio's to find out more.
PLEASE NOTE THAT TORCHWOOD IS AN ADULT PROGRAMME AND THEREFORE THE PROGRAMME'S CONTAIN ADULT CONTENT. DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THIS.
CAPTAIN JACK HARKNESS:
Jack Harkness made his first appearence in Doctor Who in 2005 in the episode 'The Empty Child'. The ex-time agent from 51st century America was attempting to con other people from the time agency after thye stole two years of his memories. However Jack stumbles upon none other than the Doctor and Rose. They show Jack that his peice of 'space junk' is responsible for the 'zombie gas mask' people wandering round London. The three of them saved Earth by using nanogene's and Jack was then reported missing during the height of the London Blitz pressumed dead. In actual fact he had joined the Doctor and Rose on the TARDIS. They travelled together until they landed on Satelite Five in the year 200,100 when the Dalek's were descending on Earth. They fought bravely, but the Doctor knew they were going to lose so he sent Rose home and he and Jack continued to fight to the death. Rose returned as the Bad Wolf, destroyed the Daleks and revived Jack making him immortal, as shown in episode one of Torchwood when he simply heals himself after being shot by Suzie. Jack was abandoned by the Doctor and Rose and it is as yet unclear how he returened to Earth, Cardiff 2006. It is yet to be proved but Jack may believe that Rose is dead due to the events at Torchwood one in London when Rose was sent to the parallel universe but her name turns up on the list of the dead.
It is clear from episode one that Jack is most definatly the leader of Torchwood three and all the other members seem to share a secret desire to bed him. Well I say secret, since none of them have partners and they're very open with their feelings it's probably known by all that the others want Jack and will probably turn into some kind of competition later in the series. There is some debate as to whether Jack is gay or straight (for those who watch Doctor Who we already know he'll have sex with anything that'll stand still long enough, including at one point in his con man years, both his executions).
In episode one he realises that Gwen Cooper (a police officer) has witnessed Torchwood bringing a murder victim back from the dead. So when Gwen attmepts to deliver a pizza to the regular customers Torchwood (this was Owen's fault for using the name to order pizza) Jack shows Gwen everything, explains eveyrthing and then drugs her so she'll forget. It seems that being dumped by Rose and the Doctor and being made immortal has caused Jack to forget what it is to be human. Despite saving Gwen from the Weevil that Torchwood capture he still doesn't seem to connect with her and has no problem wiping her memory, even though he was extremely angry when the time agency stole Jack's memories. He has become very harsh and closed off from the world, starting to sound more and more like a certain Time Lord he used to know.
In episode two a sex crazed gas is released from a meteor that has crashed on Earth and the newly gained member of Torchwood Gwen is held repsonsible. Jack seems to be in his element with this new threat and when they trace the alien to it's host body they capture Cryss (?) and lock her in a cell next to the Weevil. Jack wants to give Gwen a chance to prove herself and asks her to interrogate the new girl. Mostly because she's a police officer, but a little part of it is due to Jack's inability to connect properly with other people. When Gwen finds herself snogging the enticing alien the other members of Torchwood simply watch in delight. Until Jack suddenly spurs himself into action and heads down to help Gwen before it's too late (the alien kills every person it has sex with). But it turns out the laien only wants men and Gwen is finally saved and comes to her senses. Owen is taken in by the girls power and ends up tied up naked in her cell while Cryss tries to escape. Jack attempts to stop her, but she greabs the Doctor's cut off hand and suddenly Jack's human side bursts through. He desperatly attempts to save the last remaining thing he has of his time travelling friend and even goes as far as letting Cryss out to get the hand back. Later the gang head to the fertility clinic that Cryss works for and Jack attempts to keep her alive by kissing her and asking the host to take him. Since Jack cannot die he thinks this will be fine, but Gwen steps in and stops him. Jack takes a back seat knowing Gwen has a plan and as the gas leaves Cryss Gwen capture's it in one of the portable cell's from Torchwood. The gas dies, Cryss lives, Jack shows he's more human than Gwen anticipated, Gwen kisses Jack and the rest of Torchwood welcome Gwen a little more as member.
In episode three Jack becomes darker. In the first few scenes he encounters some new alien technology and imediately decides that they need to find the kid they stole it from. Jack gets extremely annoyed when the rest of the team can't seem to locate Sean 'Bernie' Harris and assume's they're not trying because they prefer fighting aliens to tracking down kids. Later on in the episode when Owen is trying to track down a murdered girl Jack gets annoyed because he feels that Owen isn't focusing enough at the matter in hand. To calm himself down he teaches Gwen how to use a gun though he hopes she 'never has to use it'. When they eventually began to peice things together and Owen comes close to murdering the murderer Jack shouts at him and it's only at the very end of the episode when Gwen is doing the whole emotional human thing that Jack softens and hugs her.
In episode four Jack becomes less than human once again, the only able to remove himself from the situation and have an unbiased opinon. When 'Lisa' the Cyberwomen comes 'alive' the first thing Jack wants to do is get everyone else out quickly. Of course with the power out to stop anyone being 'upgraded' only Tosh is able to get out with the help of a little alien technology. She follows Jack's orders and using batteries sets up the stone lift so the 'others' can get out. However whilst this is happening Jack ends up kissing Ianto (well I think he kissed him, he might've been administering CPR, but it certainly didn't look like it. 
) and Jack is killed three times by the Cyberwoman. By the end of the episode Jack ends up holding a gun to Ianto's head and gets quite touchy when Ianto asks 'Have you never loved someone Jack?' Jack looks decidedly angry and hurt by this and is it any wonder when he was 'abandoned' by his two friends and possibly the two people he loved?
Episode five opens with, ooo let's see, only a woman following in the steps of Francis and Elsie Griifths. (Watch the film 'Fairy Tale' if you've just asked 'who?') Basically it turns out this woman knew Jack's 'dad' and that she is now looking for fairies. These dream scape beings only become a threat when they find a chosen one. This chosen one is guarded so closely that the faries show their true colours and murder three people to keep Jasmine, the knew chosen child safe. The fairies, who used to be children themselves, are only 'playing', but being part of our world we know nothing about, they don't understand the rules like we do, they don't realise that you can't just kill people, even if they are peadophiles/hating step dads/old women with nothiong better to do than look for faries. Gwen is the one who catches on and realises it was Jack himself who loved the old woman and not his dad and when they find her murdered in her back garden, we finally see a touch of human left in the now cold Jack Harkness. However as th episode progresses we realise that worst may yet be to come. When they finally figure out who the chosen one is by following weather patterns (nothing else will pick up the faries) and they meet Jasmine, Jack ahs to make a hard descion. Let her go to the forest only she can see with the faries, or keep her with her mother and leave the faries to kill everyone and find another chosen one. The first thing Jack wants to do is save the girl, keep her where she belongs, but the thing is, with her mother isn't where she belongs anymore. If Jack sends the faries off, they'll find another chosen child and kill even more inoccent people, but give them what they want and he'll be saving many people. But people will not look kindly on someone who willingly gives up a child. Letting Jasmine go means that her mother has lost both her knew husband and her daughter, she breaks down in Jack's arms and the team refuse to talk to Jack on the way home, suggesting that they disaprove of his actions. But the thing is, with the glimpse of next weeks episode, it seems that they're going to have to work as a team once more to stay alive.
In episode six it seems that, as with Ianto, the groups do not hold a grudge against Jack for what he did last time. When they head into the village after the SUV he helps Gwen after she's shot, but then leaves her in the more-than-capable hands of Owen whilst he questions a boy they've found hiding from the rest of the villagers. He is the only one not to be captured y the cannibals and in this way is able to save the rest of the team eventually from their clutches. He is reluctant to let Gwen question one of them, but she tells Jack that she needs to understand, but all she gets out of the cannibal man is that it made him happy. Cue Gwen going home in tears because working for Torchwood is starting to seem like just too much for her. Hence the reason she starts the affair with him. Jack can see that something is bound to happen between Gwen and Owen and despite feeling deeply about both of them he knows that they need each other more than he needs them and this is why he distances himself from them. The only hint of Jack's feelings is right towards the begining of the episode when Owen complains about camping. Jack replies to this simply by saying 'You're the only species in the universe that camps. Celebrate your own uniqueness.' He seems to be a little annoyed that Owen is always putting things down, but deep down this is because Owen was obviously made to feel very bad by a former partner, thus the casual sex in episode one. (Am I a good psychiatrist or what?) The other hint of emotion is when Ianto claims Lisa was his last proper snog and the look on Jack's face clearly says 'Hey what about me?' It is obvious that Ianto remembers from the way he talks of Lisa and the glances at Jack, but Jack is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that Ianto is not willing to accept they kissed yet.
In episode seven, Jack and the rest of the crew take a back seat as we explore the world through Toshiko's eyes. He's there at the begining when they find the body and the transporter, and again at the end when he ultimatly saves Tosh from Mary, but in the middle he steps back. When Tosh finds the pendant and wears it to work, deciding not to tell the rest of the team about it t is revealed that she can't read Jack's mind, a'most as though 'he's dead'. Judging by the look on his face he knows that his immortality has changed him, maybe for the worse. His heart to heart with Toskio at the end of the episode shows that he still has the mind of a human and the only reason he's so harsh is to stop himself getting close to anyone (cause presumably he'll outlive them). Looks like we've got a Time Lord type hero on our hands. His human side is definatly still there though. The only sign of harshness was when Toshiko asks if he killed Mary by sending her to the centre of the sun (stupid question but she was in shock) and he snaps 'yes' at her to stop her from going into one of those 'how could you kill her' tyraids.
In episode eight Jack starts off by flirting with a less than impressed police officer. They've just arrived on the crime scene of a murdered couple with Torchwood written in their own blood, so the police woman was ever likely to be a little annoyed, especially since Torchwood seem to walk all over Cardiff like they own it. If only Cardiff knew the good Torchwood was doing. Seems that they can only ever know about the bad stuff. Well Owen says that people pissed off with Torchwood only narrows their search to about three million. Not good. Except for the fact that the killer left a hair and when they tested the DNA they found that it had a substance called B26 present. AKA Ret Con AKA The amnesia pill. So this narrows the search down again to 2128 (I think that's the exact number). They can't get a match on the DNA so they take the murdered victims bodies back to the Hub and attempt to ressurect them. Jack can't seem to use the glove though (possibly something to do with his Immortality) so Gwen steps in. They talk to several corpses and find out that they were all aprt of a group called 'pilgrim'. So Tosh does a search and comes up with a few things and a guy called Max. One of the corpses also mentions Suzie's name. Now it could be any Suzie, but just to be on the safe side they take a look through what remains of Suzie's belongings. They find a certificate suggesting she was part of the 'pilgrim' group and Jack thinks that they've tried to ressurect the wrong corpse. Gwen can't seem to wake Suzie, so Jack has to stab her with the knife. Bringing back Suzie was probably the worst mistake they could make, yes she helps them find the killer and they now have Max locked up in their basement, but poor old Gwen who still thinks it's her fault that Suzie died, helps Suzie out of Torchwood to see her Dad. Suzie has a system to set the Hub into lockdown so Jack ends up calling the police to help them. The Hub lockdown was started by Max reciting poetry. So Jack asks the police woman to read from a certain book (after she and the rest of the force have had a good old laugh at the mighty Torchwood being locked in their own base) and they spend a long time trying to get out to save Gwen when they realise the link between her and Suzie was never broken, meaning Suzie is slowly coming back tolife by sucking Gwen's life force out of her. Tosh finally figures out that it's numbers they need to get out the Hub and whilst Tosh and Ianto man the Hub, Jack and Owen (with permission from the police) go speeding off towards Gwen and Suzie. When they finally catch up with them Gwen is almost dead and Suzie is almost alive again. Jack shoots Suzie again and again determined not to lose Gwen, but something's a miss. Jack realises they have to destroy the glove and they do, just in time. After such a shocking experience Jack can't bring himself to sign Suzie's death certificate so he watches as Ianto deals with her body in the morgue. Of course, Ianto is still trying to make it up to Jack after what happened with Lisa and Suzie's betrayal makes him even more desperate to gain back Jack's trust. So when he suggests that there is quite a list of things you cna do with a stop watch, Jack is more than happy to get rid of the rest of the team. >squee< How cute are Jack and Ianto together???!!!!???!!!??!
Episode nine opens and istantly we can tell this episode is going to be a little bit rubbish. One the characters accents are all over the place, two Gwen and Owen are back to acting how they did after episode two and three there is no Jack and Iantoness! My god. RTD really let himself go. This is a Love and Monsters stylee episode and it was really rubbish. Jack makes a few comments here and there over the odd death of Eugene Jones (who, apparently, is in no way related to Ianto) but apart from that this is another episode where he gets pushed to the back of the action. The next episode looks set to be better, but once again there doesn't look like there's going to be any Jack/Iantoness, I'm sorry, but I want my man on man action damnit!!!!
Episode Ten and still we have no Jack/Iantoness!!!! For the love of god people I'm dying here! Once again it was not one of the best episodes. More interesting than Random Shoes I grant you that but three people turning up from the 1950's was just a chance for them to hammer home the fact that Jack somehow got from Satellite five to sometimes in the 19th century and had to live until 2007 without the Doctor's help. Yeah, John was sweet and it was so sad when he decided to die and Jack agreed to sit with him, but Jack ignored Ianto for the entire episode... and in my eyes that's almost unforgivable.
Episode eleven starts off and for once we see that Jack and Ianto get some screen time together, building up the tension for the probably two tiny minutes of Jack/Iantoness in episode thirteen. Jack gets to drive the SUV round as he, Ianto and Tosh look for the people who are using Weevil's to supposedly carry out murders. They find one body and one Weevil. I think to be honest that this episode was a lot better and a lot more inkeeping with the series than the previous two/three episodes. However, once more, Jack does not get as much screen time as Gwen and Owen. (Patience Emma, Jack, Ianto and Tosh will get their chances in the next two episodes). lol. He barges into the fight club with the other two (Ianto and Tosh) and saves Owen, along with Gwen who appears from somewhere (hey I was tired when I watched the episode, ok?) and then the guy who knicked the Weevil for the fight club lets the Weevil kill him. Ok. Why is Torchwood full of nutters? Oh yeah... Never mind.
Episode twelve starts and Jack and Tosh are seen investigating mysterious music coming from a boarded up house. Just as they are about to leave however, the words 'Bad Wolf' are seen scrawled on the back of the stair case and Jack and Tosh find themselves walking out into 1940's Cardiff. When they enter the building again there is a dance going on and the same music which was once ghostly is very much playing. Jack and Tosh are forced to blend in (all well and good for Jack, he's not the same race as the enemy) and Jack finds this easy having been here before. However when Jack gets in a spot of trouble when he's rescuing Tosh from a soldier who is just a little too forward, who should he meet but Captain Jack Harkness. Thinking quick, Jack comes up with a fake name, James Harper. Whilst Tosh is focusing on getting the rift equation into the future to the others our Jack is making eyes at his name sake. Throughout the episode he talks to the real Jack and talks about his own experiences and towards the end, the real Jack shows his true colours. However just as he links his figners through our Jack's own, he gets scared off and it isn't until it's almost too late that the real Jack tries again, pulling our Jack up for a dance. The thing is, it's a guilt thing. The rift opens and Tosh runs towards the light that leads back to their own time. Jack meanwhile stops and turns back, pulling the real Jack in for a snog before leaving. It's a good job everyone thought our Jack was an angel otherwise the real Jack wouldn't have died fighting, he'd've been lynched for being gay.
In episode thirteen, the final episode, we find that opening the rift has consequences. People are falling through time and the rift is beginign to splinter. Illnesses such as the plague begin to spread throughout the world and though we can cure them now, Owen is right when he points out that somethingfrom the future migt slip through and then we'll be in trouble. Once again Jack struggles to maintain his position as leader and when Rhys is murdered (don't worry, it ends happily and Rhys is still alive) the team take things into their owns hands. In fact Jack ends up shot and by the time he comes bakc it's too late. He and the team evacuate the Hub and find Abadon, a mythical creature that kills by casting it's shadow over you, on the loose. So Jack commands Gwen to do one last good thing and take him to an open space. Once there, Jack sacrafices himself to the creature destroying it as it tries to feed on his immortality. It's over a week before Jack finally comes back from the dead this time. When he and Gwen (who kept vigillance beside him for those days he was gone (should've been Ianto)) return to the main part of the Hub, Tosh runs straight into his arms, hugging him, then Ianto approaches, intedning to shake Jack's hand, but Jack just pulls him in for a hug and .... wait for it... A KISS!!!!! YES!!! AT LONG LAST!!! This kiss unfortunatly only lasts a few seconds (but confirms Jack and Ianto's relationship!!!!) and then Owen comes in, looking slightly flabbergasted that Jack is alive but pleased and upset too. Finally Jack pulls him in for a hug as Owen breaks down into tears and Jack tells him he's forgiven. Afterwards, Tosh, Owen and Ianto head out for Starbucks coffee and in the meantime Jack and Gwen talk. But then whilst clearing up, Jack notices the Doctor's hand glowing. We hear the sound of what can only be the TARDIS and suddenly... the team find themselves without a leader...
PC GWEN COOPER:
Gwen Cooper is a perfectly normal human from 21st century Cardiff. She works as a pollice officer, has a boyfriend and is apparently not unusual in anyway despite her apparent ancestor being Gwynth the maid who possesed the power to allow the Gelth through the rift in Cardiff. It is not yet known whether this power will have any affect on our Gwen Cooper. She is outgoing, trusting and an asset to Torchwood. She is the only one to really see the human side of things and saves the day because of this empathic charataristic.
In episode one she is freaked out when she appears to see Torchwood revive a man from the dead. Nineteen year old John Tucker is bought back to try and answer the question 'Who murdered you?'. This unfortunatly doesn't work and Jack, who sees Gwen watching, asks her what she thinks hoping to scare her off. It works for a while until Gwen goes looking for them, asking a pizza delivery place if they have anyone by the name of Jack Harkness who orders from them. They don't of course, but just before leaving Gwen tries the name Torchwood. It seems some foolish person from the group does indeed order by that name and Gwen finds her way into the hub. Captain Jack Harkness shows her everything, explains what Torchwood does, why they were bringing John back from the dead and then takes her to bar for a drink. Unwittingly Gwen drinks her largar and the drug that Jack slipped into it to make her forget. Gwen runs home and tries to type up everything so she will be able to remember in the morning. But someone from Torchwood is watching her computer activity and wipes it all just before she falls asleep, meaning that in the morning she's forgotten everyhting. She returns to work and things start coming back to her slowly when the murder weapon used to kill John Tucker is drawn up and sparks a memory from deep in Gwen's mind. She's seen the weird knife before, she just can't remember where. Little by little, flashes of memory return and when Gwen see's REMEMBER written on a catalogue by her computer, she knows there's seomthing fishy going on. Returning to the heart of Cardiff, Suzie, who realises Gwen will have started to work things out, confronts her. Gwen (who still doesn't have all her memories) is confused and horro struck as Suzie prepares to kill her. Jack inervene's just in time only to be shot himself. Obviously he can't die so Suzie knows it's all over, turning the gun on herself and commiting suicide. Gwen who is shaken by this experience remembers everything and Jack offers her Suzie's now vacant job post. Gwen accepts and prepare's for the new world she's let herself in for. 'The twenty first century is when it all changes... and you gotta be ready.'
Episode two centre's around Gwen's first day at Torchwood. The team go to investigate a meteor that has fallen in Cardiff and sparks fly. Owen calls Gwen 'sweetheart' making Gwen slightly angry because Owen calls eveyrone else by their own names. She chucks the tool he wants at him (not trying to hurt him. Well not that badly anyway.) and she misses hitting the meteor and releasing a sex crazed gas on Cardiff. It takes host in Cryss's body and begins to kill men by having sex with them to keep itself alive. They capture Cryss and Gwen, who is trying to interrogate the girl, ends up snogging her instead. The rest of Torchwood watch this enraptured until Jack finally attempts to help her, by which time Gwen has been rejected by the alien who needs men only. Cryss escape's later on after Gwen has finished embarassing herself and the team race to get to her before she can kill many more men. Eventually after Jack prepare's to hand himself over knowing he can't die, Gwen steps up, knowing she has to redeem herself. The whole situation is after all her fault. So she asks the gas to use her body instead of Cryss's and as the gas leaves Gwen traps it, and the gas dies in the air because it cannot survive for long outside a body. Torchwood seem to forgive Gwen for her blunder and she becomes one of the 'team'. Kissing Jack, talking with Toshiko and Owen and even bringing the human side of Jack out again. Once again Jack is shown to be very doctorish in his own way, telling Gwen not to get too wrapped up with Torchwood, to remember she has a life seperate from it and to 'Go home...'.
Episode three opens with Gwen and Owen running after a youth who is apparently giving off alien signals. Gwen manages to grab the teenagers hoodie but loses the kid himself. Gwen discovers though that Toshiko was tracing an peice of alien tech in the pocket of the hoodie. Gwen takes it out and it lights up, so she does a very stupid thing of pressing the button. She then sees the memory of a boy from the war who was evacuated and was left all alone in the station because the people who came to foster all the children missed him. Gwen, totally freaked out, jumps out her skin when the image fades and Jack and Owen are at her side. She later tracks down the now grown up 'Tom' and talks to him about the memory (without mentioning what she's seen). They then try to track down Bernie, the teenager they got the alien tech from and when they have no luck they head home. Only for Owen to have a vision of his own. They start to search more quickly for the clue's to peice the mystery together and Gwen finds Bernie in the end and the Torchwood team talk to him. They find out that there's another half of the alien machinery. Half that tells the future. Gwen is haunted by an image of herself with bloodstained hands, clutching a knife and saying 'I couldn't stop it... Owen.... he had the knife... I couldn't do anything...' this leads her to believe that somehow she is going to be involved with the murder of Owen and she calls Jack up only to find out that they're on their way because the man who murdered Lizzie under the bridge in the vision Owen had is coming to find Bernie, the only other person to know the truth about Lizzie. Bernie begins to cry saying that he's seen his own death and he asks Gwen if it is soon. Everything starts coming together and everyone meets on the road outside. Gwen keeps Edwin talking while Owen and Jack come up from behind and there's a nail biting moment where Gwen thinks the knife will make contact with Owen, but Owen gets it off him and starts threatening Edwin, saying he would only be making him feel the way Lizzie had done the night Edwin murdered her. Jack shouts and Owena nd Gwen takes the knife off him before he can hurt Edwin. Edwin is so relieved by this he goes to hug Gwen, impaling himself on the knife as he does so. Edwin dies and Gwen feels she has yet another death on her shoulders. Gwen does the whole emotional human thing and gets a hug of Jack.
In episode four Gwen is once again laughing and having a great time with her new found friends at Torchwood. She ends up going to a bar with them and they all have fun joking about downing their drink in less than ten seconds when they get a call about a UFO. However when they come back and find the power failing Gwen begins to suspect somethings up, especially when Ianto goes to sort out the generator and the power is being lost even quicker than before. When she and Owen go to investigate they find Lisa and whilst Owen is knocked out Gwen is almost cybernised. When Jack finally rescue's the pair they all return up to the hub, Ianto with a gun pointing at his head and preapre for battle against the cyberwoman. But as Gwena nd Owen search frantically for weapons in the autopsy room Lisa heads towards them. With no chance of escape, they very reluctantly hide in one ofthe long cupboards designed for bodies, Gwen on top of Owen. Not only is this position obviously uncomfortable but it adds to the tension especially when Owen kisses Gwen. According to him it was a 'last kiss before they died and wasn't like he fancied her or anything' and that it was quite embarassing that they didn't die. Gwen gives him a withering look and simply replies 'Yeah, don't lie, I was on top of you, I could feel you're hard on'. Luckily both fight and survive the cyberwoman attack and watch with mingled looks of horror, hurt and sadness and Ianto desperatly tries to come to terms with losing the only woman he's ever loved.
Episode five shows evil fairies, which is something Gwen has little grasp over. But then being an ordinary person bought up in a world where aliens don't exist and fairies are a nice smiley child hood dream, some things are likely to be difficult for her to understand. She odes however get the fact that what they are facing is worse than a nightmare. These fairies can really kill and are part of the Marra, the strange creature's that the word nightmare is derived from. With a battle against time Gwen must race with the team to once again save the day. But she can't quite cope when she sees Jack willingly let Jasmine go, especially after the emotional reunion with the old woman.
In episode six, Gwen finds herself suddenly thrown into a very dark part of her own world. After being backed up against a tree by Owen, and when the SUV is stolen and they head off to the village she ends up getting shot and Owen treats her wound. Something which after their close encounters it doesn't look like she wants. His hands on her injury are obviously something she doesn't think she can resist and she's right. Throughout the episode she and Owen share glances, hints of flirtatiousness and at the end we see Gwen can no longer stand being in a relationship with someone so niave and inoccent to what's going on as Rhys. She heads to Owen's flat and starts an affair with him. This I can kind of understand. Whilst she needs Rhys in her life to maintain her grip on sanity she also needs the reassurence from someone who has experienced everything she has, and Owen fits this description perfectly. After the events of countrycide, things are starting to get a little too alien for Gwen.
Episode seven shows how much closer Gwen and Owen have become. She teases him constantly and he doesn't seem to mind as much as he did before. It seems that they think about each other a lot, as Tosh discovers, and have had sex more than once now. Again she is another character who takes a back seat whilst Tosh is on her journey of discovering how cruel and brutal alien tech really is. Even if Toshiko hadn't had the necklace the way Gwen and Owen are together, I think it's quite obvious there's something going on. When Toshiko leads Mary into Torchwood Mary holds a knife to Tosh and says that she'll swap Tosh for Gwen, this leads to Tosh hearing certain thigns she doesn't want to. Especially as she's had a crush on Owen for quite some time. In the end Gwen has to talk to Tosh about what she heard in their heads and Tosh and Gwen realise that they're both in a bad position. Being women they can forgive and try to forget a bit easier than the male members of the team, but both of them know that things won't be the same...
Episode eight opens and right from the off we knew things are gonna be strange. When Gwen starts using the glove her time with each corpse increases and they are able to get a certain amount of information. Enough to lead them back to Suzie. Gwen attempts to ressusitate her and when she finnally brings Suzie back she's determind not to let the former Torchwood member go. So determind that the link between them never breaks and Suzie beings to slowly take the life from Gwen. The first sign of this happening is when they corner Max (the murderer) who was set up by Suzie years before hand. She complains of a headache when they are in the club and is it any wonder when Suzie's wound is healing and Gwen is being slowly shot in the head. As the episode progresses Gwen gets annoyed that Jack won't do anything for Suzie excpt treat her like a prisoner so Gwen helps Suzie escape so she can see her father one last time. However whn they get to the hospital Suzie simply removes the tubes from her father and watches him die, whilst Gwen herself is overcome by her headache and when she finds blood onthe back of her head Suzie lets her know exactly what is happening. As the team race after them Gwen slips further and further from life and on the docks she dies almost completly, but Jack, who is shooting Suzie over and over again, stops the transaction from completling and when Tosh destroys the glove Gwen is instantly bought back to life. Back at the Hub it's obvious that she and Owen are starting to develope a bond stronger than that of a simple affair, but there will always be something between her and Jack. This is not the first time he's saved her life after all.
Episode nine opens and instantly we see tension between Gwen and Owen. Looks like we're back to square one with them. They're starting to fizzle out which is really sad... This episode was made to be put just after episode two and is placed very badly in the series just here. Bad episode, Gwen spends the whole time trying to figure out what exactly happened to Eugene and finds out that his friends decieved him, that Eugene wandered into oncoming traffic and that he was able to come back to reunite his family and save Gwen from being run over. Gwen has to watch sadly then as Eugene passes over to the other side, where, as we know from constant reminders, there's nothing.
Episode ten shows Gwen helping Emma one of three people who flew from the 1950's to 2007 to adjust to normal life. We see what is basically a really bad movie fitted into 45 mins. Sadly Gwen and Owen still don't seem to be on the road to recovery with their relationship. If anything they look worse. Which is bad when it seems that in the 'Next Time' bit on this Torchwood episode Gwen tells Rhys about her affair.
In episode eleven everyone was expecting Gwen to spill the beans to Rhys. Which she did. Right after she gave him an amnesia pill. Apparently she wanted to see if Rhys would forgive her. Gwen never gets the answer out of Rhys and slowly sinks into bout of depression, returning to the Hub looking for comfort and only finding a dead body. Owen (who is still pining after fly-girl) offers Gwen no comfort and they have a bit of a falling out. An argument they both clearly regret. The pair are pretty stony towards each other until Gwen and Jack save Owen from the Weevil attack. Please say this means that Gwen and Owen will rekindle the love they once had for each other!!!! *Crosses fingers*
In episode twelve, I finally have to admit that Gwen and Owen are never going to rekindle what they once had. Gwen panics when Tosh and Jack disappear back to 1941, and heads to the place they disappeared, following the creepy music and clues from Bilis Manger, the 'caretaker' (or as I like to call him 'Evil-Deamon-Raising-Dude, EDRD, for short) she wanders round the building, getting a very odd look from Owen. Obviously Owen feels bad for dumping Gwen the way he did (which is good, because it shows that Owen isn't a COMPLETE git) and the pair seem to be at least getting back on speaking as friends terms. After much clue finding from Gwen, she relays the numbers back to Ianto and Owen whose returned to the Hub and, using the Rift machine they bring Jack and Tosh back. Despite the consequences of their actions Jack willingly hugs Gwen who throws her arms round his neck the minute he returns. This I think, is a hint that the team cannot cope without Jack. Another reason they're going to hate him for leaving.
In episode thirteen we see that the end of the world is near. And I'm not talking some Doctor Who half hearted alien with no knowledge of Torchwood. I'm talking Bilis raises Abbadon a deamon who kills as soon as his shadow falls over you. Gwen is shown a vision by Bilis of Rhys dying and Gwen is so freaked she moves him to the Hub to keep him safe. Big mistake. Bilis breaks into the Hub and kills Rhys. Gwen breaks down and seems to no longer be able to cope. Jack tried to make her feel better by saying Torchwood will take care of everything, but Gwen is haivng non of it. She knows how Torchwood 'deals' with thigns and she knows that at Torchwood everyone ends up alone. She's had enough and joins forces with Owen in an attempt to open the rift completly and save everyone. Jack believe that this is tupid and as Ianto follows Gwen and Owen Jack orders Ianto to stop them. But it seems Jack has done enough ordering and the team rebel against him and decide to open the rift. Gwen is a little shocked when Owen shoots Jack, but she's not as shocked as the rest of the team because she knows he can't die. Ianto breaks down, Owen looks on shocked and Toshiko after staring wide eyed, decides to focus on the rift and not on Jack's dead body. Gwen pics Jack up when he revives and she and Ianto help him out of the Hub as the rift is torn open. She witnesses Jack destroy Abbadon and remains vigil by the bedside waiting for Jack to revive himself again. The rest of the team give up hope that he's coming back. Gwen gives him one last kiss after a week, about to give up hope herself, when Jack finally takes a breath and says 'Thank you'. She talks to Jack for a bit afterwards asking what his 'temptation' vision would've been. But she looks just as confused as the rest of the team when Jack disappears....
OWEN HARPER:
Owen is practically a genius and is very aware of his high IQ. This makes him somewhat stuck up and very forward with his requests. He's the Doctor of the group and makes Gwen's life hard on her first day resenting her for the attention she gets off Jack. He and Toshiko have a love/hate relationship and spend most of their time arguing about whether Jack is gay or straight. He also has a certain attraction towards Ianto who is very quiet and reserved and remains a mystery to much of the group.
In episode one Owen gets annoyed with Jack when they bring John Tucker back from the dead saying that it was a 'bad idea to tell him he was dead'. Jack counters this by pointing out that the last guy, who they told was mortally wounded, spent the two minutes he was given back shouting for an ambulance. Owen then makes another fatal error of ordering pizza under the name of Torchwood, thus allowing Gwen to find their base, the hub. He and Toshiko spend a lot of the episode play fighting in the background of the main action.
In episode two Owen starts to show his resentment for Gwen more and more. He likes Jack quite a lot and the fact that Gwen is getting more attention off him than the rest of them really winds Owen up. He then makes Gwen feel really bad for releasing the sex crazed gas on Cardiff. However when Cryss attempts to escape from the Torchwood cell she's in Owen ends up naked, handcuffed and with very little pride left intact. So when Gwen eventually saves the day Owen remarkably doesn't make another horrid comment to her. This might change in the next few episodes.
In episode three Owen is the second person on the team to have the 'vision' of the past. An echo. The vision unsettles him and he is determined to reopen the case of a murder that happened more than sixty years previously. His very human approach to this causes sparks to fly between Owen and Jack and it isn't long before Owen begins to act outside of Torchwood and things get very messed up. Owen discovers the truth and just as he does so Edwin, the murderer, heads to the second person who knows what he did. Bernie. Everyone meets on the street and Owen is spared the fate Gwen thinks is destined for him, but Edwin ends up dead in his place. This may result in a frosty tension in the next episode between Jack and Owen who came to blows again.
In episode four, Owen not only ends up kissing Gwen and claiming that it was simply because they were about to die, but he also ends up out cold on the floor with a rather nasty knock from the cyberwoman. He's able to understand better than Jack why Ianto wanted so desperatly to save Lisa, but he still doesn't understand fully why Ianto betrayed Torchwood (though Gwen does to a certain extent). His banter and obvious tension with Gwen is even more obvious in this episode and somehow I can see a thing between them, and maybe Jack... and Ianto... and I'm not even sure how this is going to work....
Episode five sees Owen, Gwen and Jack scanning an earily perfect circle of stones made by fairies. Judging by the shiver that seems to pass through the three of them, they all sense the fairies watching them. As they search for the fairies, Owen witnesses the human side of Jack when the old woman is found dead, but it still disgusted he can let a human child go off with the fairies. He seems to get on better with Gwen now, and whether this is because they trust each other now, or there really is something between them is still a little unclear.
In episode six OH MY GOD. What an episode, Owen tells everyone at the begining of the episode that his last snog was with Gwen, this causes Gwen to get annoyed and tell him to come and collect firewood with her so she can tell him off. He ends up backed up against a tree, but quickly resolves this by turning round and pushing Gwen against the tree and just as they're about to kiss Gwen notices someone watching them. Without moving from there tantalizingly close position they count to three, find a mangled body, and go with Jack to look for villagers after the SUV was stolen. Owen is then the one to treat Gwen when she gets shot and we can see that there is definatly something between them. As the episode progresses we see Owen end up pointing a gun at a cannibal villager, with a gun pointing at his own head and the guy who's pointing that gun, with a gun that's held by Gwen at his head. Seems Gwen has suddenly become fiercly protective of Owen. Which is sweet, but they're running from cannibals, maybe they should keep their eye on the ball? By the end of the episode we see that Owen has finally found someone to share the pain of working for Torchwood and he and Gwen embark on an affair which is ound to end in tears.
In episode seven, Owen performs a post mortem on a skeleton. At first glance he says it's female and been shot in the chest. When they get it back to the hub however he finds that the skeleton is that of a man and hasn't been shot. Quite the opposite in fact he's had his heart ripped out. Gwen finds it extremely funny that Owen could get nothing right about his prognosis and takes great delight in teasing him. A new, friendlier Owen (due to his affair with Gwen) takes the teasing lightly and claims that one the man was a very small woman like man and that two he's not listening. Such children. Tch. At the end of the episode when Mary says he'll swap Tosh fro Gwen, Owen's instant thought is no not Gwen which hurts Toshiko quite badly since she still has a bit of a crush on Owen. By the end of the episode however Owen is pissed off with Toshiko for reading their minds and invading their privacy and it's up to a calmer Gwen to talk to her and say that Toshiko is not the only one at fault.
In episode eight, Owen is the first one to figure out that Suzie is taking Gwen's life. Along with Jack he races to the dock and despite having his gun out and ready to shoot Suzie he comes to Gwen's aid and there's a definate note of panic when he realises that Gwen has no heartbeat, that she is clincally dead. As Jack tells Tosh to destroy the glove Gwen awakens in Owen's arms and we can see that the love they have for each other is growing. Apart from right at the very end the only involvement Owen has in the group is not being able to look Suzie in the eye and helping to corner Max. Oh and figuring out why Max has gone mad. Well you would two if someone gave you an amnesia pill once a week every week for two whole years. 104 of those pills triggers a psychosis reaction that makes you go mad. Apparently.
In episode nine Owen is a real git. He and Gwen are basicall back to square one and are acting the way they were after episode two. This episode is really badly placed, as I keep saying, and was frankly boring... Now that's not something I thought I'd ever say about Torchwood.
Episode ten shows Owen the git having sex with the stupid fly-girl three flipping times!!!! For gods sake man keep your pants on for once!!! One: You're supposed to be with Gwen: Two: Gwen is having an affair and now you're treating her like dirt by having dirty sex with some fly-girl from the 1950's! AND THREE: I WANT GWEN AND OWEN BACK TOGETHER!!!! So stop with the dancing and the champagne and the fancy car and forget fly-girl! You've got more important things to worry about and sort out!
In episode eleven Owen is STILL pining for that bloody fly-girl. GET OVER HER OWEN!!! SHE ISN'T COMING BACK!!!! PLEASE GET TOGETHER WITH GWEN AGAIN INSTEAD!!!!! He goes under cover for Torchwood needing something to take his mind of the pain of losing fly-girl (pain? I'll show you pain Owen Harper...) and he discovers who has the Weevil and what they're using it for. Ends up quite badly beaten after giving himself up to the Weevil in the cage. And when he goes down to the Weevils in the basement it seem like the attack might've done more to Owen than leave him with a few cuts and bruises...
In episode twelve, it's evident that Owen really did love Diane. And I have to admit (I didn't like the sex scenes) but they are a sweet couple. It seems that Owen is back on spekaing terms with Gwen and is at least attempting to make it up to her for betraying her. He is the one that most desperatly wants to open the rift and even goes as far as to steal a missing part from the EDRD and gets shot by Ianto who is trying to protect Jack and knows the one thing you should never do is mess with the rift.
In episode Twelve, Owen helps quarantine a hospital and in the end leads the others to open the rift machine fully, thus causing the end of the world. He has to shoot Jack (and of course Owen assumes that he's killed Jack, as does everyone else (except Gwen)) and this is after Jack fired Owen. He had left knowing he would be RetConned in the next twenty four hours and went to drown his sorrows in a bar where he saw Diane. This was the reason he came back. After the death of Rhys the rest of the team decide mutiny is the best option since Jack doesn't seem to be handling the situation well, but they are shocked when Owen kills Jack. When Jack comes back from the dead after defeating Abadon, Owen breaks down into tears and Jack just hugs him, letting him know that he's forgiven for killing him. He, Tosh and Ianto return after Gwen's heart to heart with Jack to find the Hub a mess and Jack gone...
IANTO JONES:
Ianto is Torchwood's receptionist, driver and computer hacker. He's the odd job man and is very quiet and reserved. He is good looking and seems to have gained the affections of Owen and Jack. Since Ianto has a partner (though mystery surrounds this person) it is unclear is he reciprocates Jack or Owen's feelings. It is believed that he has a deep dark secret that is yet to be revealed. One thing I can say is that there's more to this character than meets the eye. He's one to watch definatly. He's also the sweetest character and my favourite if I have to pick just one!
In episode one Ianto only really appears when Gwen finds the hub for the first time. Clutching the pizza's she says there for a Mister Harkness and Ianto opens a secret tunnel. Looking slightly freaked out Gwen glances at him and he only says 'Don't keep him waiting'. He doesn't turn up again until Jack is about to take Gwen out for a drink. Ianto doesn't talk he merely nods as Jack gives him instructions. Later on he is seen deleting the message Gwen tries to leave for herself as the amnesia pill and sedative begin to take effect.
In episode two Ianto drives the truck (I think, it might've been Owen, or maybe Jack... I'll have to re-watch the episode. lol) but this is the only time he appears. This dark sexy stranger seems to prefer it in the background and I don't think he even eats chinese with them when they are discussing what to do with Cryss.
In episode three Ianto is seen handing the team mugs of tea, but once again does not appear at any other point. It seems however that in episodes to come Ianto's dark secret is going to be revealed and the Torchwood Team may find they become their own worst enemies.
In episode four Ianto's dark secret is finally revealed. Long time girlfriend and Ianto's only love Lisa is locked up in the basement, part cyber part woman, Ianto is trying desperatly to save her from a cold fate of becoming a destroying machine. He calls in a Japanese technician to try and help, but he ends up dead and Lisa eventually loses her battle to remain human. Her cyber half begins to take over and as the power drains Ianto knows deep in his hear there's nothing he can do. Try as he might he's lost the woman he loves. When the Torchwood team first find out what Ianto has been hiding Jack shouts at him and Gwen asks why he never told anyone when they could've helped. Ianto turns to Jack, tears pouring down his face, hurt and angry shouting that 'I have to clean up your shit but you never ask about me! You don't care about my life!' Gwen, Toshiko and Owen seem to be made guilty by tis and realise that it's true, they've never asked Ianto and they never really talk to him, but Jack still can't believe Ianto would risk everything for a woman who is obviously dead. Ianto then asks a question that seems to touch a nerve with Jack 'Have you never loved someone?' As Lisa breaks the barriers and begins to attack the Torchwood team, Toshiko attempts to set up some battery power so the others can escape, Owena nd Gwen search for weapons, leaving Jack and Ianto to face Lisa. Ianto ends up unconcious on the other side of the hub and Jack is killed again and again and again by Lisa until she gives up. Whilst she goes to sort out Owena dn Gwen Jack ends up giving Ianto the shock o his lfie when he administers the 'kiss of life'. The mintue he regains conciousness Jack presses a finger to his lips and helps Ianto up. They wait for Tosh to give the wrd and when Gwen and Owen reach them they take the lift up to the outside world and freedom after Jack has thrown some special sauce over Lisa so the Pterodactyl will eat her. Ianto then tries to get back inside and the Jack has to hold another gun to his head saying that if he isn't going to fight with Torchwood he'll have to fight against Torchwood and Jack will shoot him. Ianto looks at him like he would lvoe nothing more than to die and be reunited with Lisa. So Jack sends Ianto in to finish what he started. Finding Lisa's cyber body in a pool of blood on the floor Ianto believes her dead until the pizza delivery girl steps forward, stitches across her head, blood covering her and speaks as though she is Lisa. Apparently Lisa has transplanted her brain. Ianto gives her one last hug but tells her that she shouldn't have done anything she did and points the gun at her. Lisa looks at him mournfully asking him not to shoot. So he doesn't. Jack and Owena and Gwen do. Several times. Ianto collapses to the floor next to Lisa, upset. As the episode comes to an end we see Ianto, having composed himself, once again cleaning up after the others. Though Jack is willing to give him a second chance, he still feels betrayed where as Gwen, Owen and Toshiko can understand why Ianto went behind their backs. After all none of them made the effort to get to know him, so why should he confide in them?
Episode five opens and we can see that the group are not holding a grudge against Ianto. They feel guilty about him not feeling like he can confide in them and they include him a bit more. Jack even makes a subtle gesture which suggest he might see Ianto as more than a friend >squee< which is so cute!!! He again appears only a few times in this episode and is still as quiet as usual. Judging by the next episode's highlights it seems that the group are going to need each other more than ever.
In episode six Ianto proves that he has just as much fight as the rest of the team. When he tracks the SUV (which was napped by... ahem villagers) to the local village and he and Tosh get kidnapped, it is Ianto who helps Tosh escape. This costs him dearly. His conciousness and his free-of-injury skin. That doesn't make sense does it? Basically he recieved more than his fair share of wounds. Although... when you look at what happened to Gwen. Anyway he ends up battered (and still managing to look cute) and I think the team will hold him in higher regard now. 
But OMIGOD!!! I forgot to mention at the start of the episode they're all asking each other who was the last person they snogged. OMIGOD!!! Jack looked really hurt when Ianto lied and said Lisa was the last person he kissed.... which was a lie... and... >sniff<....
In episode seven Ianto is about as far back from the action that I don't think he even gets a line. Poor old welsh guy. Still he does appear, which is good.
In episode eight Ianto times how long Gwen manages to bring each corpse back for. Not the use of a stop watch. Apart from being bloody gorgeous and a genius, the only other time he really feature's in this episode is when he rigs up a mobile during the Hub lockdown. Then of course there is the cute scene at the end of the episode where he uses said stop watch to appologise in a way to Jack and ask if there's anything else he wants to time. Ahem... lol. How cute are they?????
Episode nine, Ianto's accent has gone really wobbly and odd and we only get to hear his lovely voice once. Plus there is no JACK AND IANTONESS!!!! My god what is up with RTD???? Is he trying to make us slash fans mad!!!!????!!!???!!
In episode ten Ianto is once more shoved away from the action. His car gets stolen and he hands Jack his coat but apart from that he is not really featured. The welshman we all know and love still doesn't get that kiss of Jack we all know he sorely needs. Ok, so its us fangirls who need to see that kiss but you get the point!
In episode eleven he finally gets more screen time. Not enough, but more than the previous episode. He gets to sit in the front of the SUV with Jack (*squee*) when they go after the Weevil and at the very begining of the ep he and Jack are alone in the basement with the Weevil's. SQUEE!!! Roll on next week!!!!
In episode twelve Ianto is back at the Hub trying to help programme the rift mahine and let Jack and Tosh back into the 21st century, but with only half the equation it's going to be difficult. He ends up having to try and hold down the Hub alone and then shoot Owen when he tries to open the rift, which Owen manages despite many attempts to stop him. (Although Owen mentions that Ianto only means something to Jack in Ianto's 'sad wet dreams where he's a part time shag' and the look on Ianto's face clearly says 'full time, bitch'. lol)
Epsiode thirteen and even Ianto begins to doubt Jack's judgement. After being mostly forgotton during this episode he helps to open the rift fully but is shocked when Owen shoots Jack and Ianto says 'What have you done?' in this gut wrenchingly sweet way. Awwwww. When Jack revives it's Ianto (and Gwen grrrr) that he leans on. But it's Gwen that Jack takes with him to destroy Abadon (grrrr). However when revived, Gwen, Tosh and Owen only get hugs. *breaths* But Ianto *takes deep breath* not only does he get a hug but *breaths calmly* HE GETS A KISS AS WELL!!!!! OH YEAH!!!! AT LONG LAST!!!! AND THEN JACK FUCKS OFF!!! HAT THE HELL IS WITH THAT???? Poor old Ianto was devastated when he thought Jack was gone for good (the way he smells Jack's coat is so sad and sweet). Also, Ianto, Tosh and Owen return to the Hub after they've been out for instant coffe!!! Is the coffee machine broken or something??? Cause last time I checked Ianto's only job was tea-boy! You can't kick him out of a job!!! lol
TOSHIKO SATO:
Toshiko is clever, a computer genius and relies a lot on technology. She uses a special device that came through the rift to scan books and dowload every page onto her computer. She helped train the Pterodactyl so that it stopped eating the team's pizza and so that they could let it out and night and be garanteed that it would return before morning. She's the only other Torchwood member (bar Jack) to have met the Doctor.
In episode one Tosh is the one who asks John Tucker the questions when they revive him. Later on she is seen working and Jack gives her several jobs to do with the Weevil. She is keen to know all about Gwen and her job in the police though she keeps this quiet. Owen and her have a laugh when they are trying to freak Gwen out and the pair simply burst out laughing. It seems that they are going to be the jokers of the team.
In episode two Tosh helps take samples from the meteor and then later runs a check to see if she can match Cryss's then unknown face with the data base. Gwen says that she can't possibly have the face of everyone in the UK on her computer but Tosh simply gives her a look that says 'Guess again'. She manages to track down Cryss and find out everything about her. When they capture Cryss and Gwen is given the job of enterrogating her Tosh as well as Owen and Jack is enraptured by the footage of her snogging Cryss. Owen doesn't look like he's planning on trying to save her anytime soon so Jack and Toshiko have to spurr themselves into action and go to make sure she's ok. Tosh's inquisitive nature comes to light again when the team are having chinese and she asks Gwen what she knows about Jack, asking whether Gwen thinks he's gay or straight, an ongoing argument in the hub. It seems that by the end of this episode she has accepted Gwen as Suzie's replacement.
In episode three Tosh is seen in the opening scene's helping to direct Gwen and Owen towards an alien substance. She then uses a min alienated cat scan to examine the new peice of technology they aquire. She helps look for Bernie Harris and looks into the old case of the murder under the bridge. She's not involved as much with this episode as the other two as this particular episode centres more round Gwen and Owen.
In episode four, Tosh is the one who uses a peice of alien tech to escape the hub and wire up the batteries so the rest can get out safely. She misses all the action, both the kisses and doesn't know that Jack used the special sauce on Lisa until they come up on the stone lift and Ianto runs off to try and help his girlfriend. As this episode centres more round Ianto, she and the others aren't as featured, but we still see the bubbly, friendly nature of Tosh and somehow I feel a little sorry for her. After all she seems to be the only one that hasn't been kissed yet.
In episode five, she helps to track the funny weather patterns so they can track down the fairies. Once again she's another character that slips into the background as this episode centres more on Jack and his past.She is horrified that Jack, a person she obviously truts deeply (probably trusts him with her life knowing her trusting nature) would give up a child so easily. Poor old Jack seems to have annoyed every memeber of the team in one go. But the next episode looks set to scare, and test the teams joint courage.
In episode five, the team go camping. Ok, a little unorthadox for alien hunters but there you go. After seventeen funny dissppearences out in the country they decide they'd better investigate. So after grabbing a burger (and by the end of this episode you wanna be thankful Tosh made the comment about her friend getting food poisoning off them, cause these aren't beef burgers) they head for the nearest village. What they find is frightening to say the least. A totally deserted village, but with all the signs of recent evacuation. So whilst Owen, Jack and Gwen head off one way, Tosh and Ianto head another and instead of finding clues, they get kidnapped by two mad people. At first it seems that the man and woman who capture them are under orders from a higher personal, but this is not the case. It turns out that every ten years the village randomly decide to kill everyone travelling through and butcher them. Understanably, the team are freaked out and even by the end of the episode after Tosh has been captured, escaped, captured again, almost been killed and tied up blooded and battered they still don't understand why the village did what they did.
In episode seven Toshiko goes to the bar after a hard days work and being ignored by Owen (who she has a major crush on) she goes to a bar and meets Mary who gives her the pendant saying that she knows all about Torchwood and thought they should have it. Of course you did, Mary. So Toshiko says she'll have to let them know where she got the pendant from and what it does and Mary says 'nah, you won't tell them'. So Toshiko heads to the Hub intending to tell them but instead hears there thoughts. Gwen and Owen can't stop thinking about each other, Ianto is still hurting deeply from losing Lisa and Tosh can't read Jack's thoughts at all. She heads home to find Mary waiting outside, so Toshiko lets her in to question her about the pendant and they end up kissing and in bed together. Toshiko is a little freaked out, especially since she's supposed to have a crush on Owen. She soon gets over it though and decides to use the pendant in a more public place, listening to everyone's thoughts. Not a good idea. Most people's thoughts sound something like this: 'What am I going to have for tea?' 'I wonder if Aaron has remembered to record Bad Girls?' 'I hope Pari is being good for her nanny.' Apparently in Cardiff people think this: 'I hope Maria doesn't find out about me and Claire.' 'I wonder if the evil Bitch is gonna have another go at me tonight.' 'I'm gonna kill them. I'm gonna kill them and lie them down and lie next to them. Naked.' Ok so this last one frekas Toshiko and she follows the man who's planning to kill his ex wife and son and bashes him on the head before he can. Toshiko and Mary are in a coffee house talking and Toshiko says she didn't tell the team about the pendant and they snog and stuff. lol. It's sweet. For now. So Toshiko heads to the Hub again and this time what she hears isn't so good. Seems Owen is getting a little annoyed with the bore that is Tosh, so Tosh returns home to Mary in a state and needs to know what to do about the pendant. Well Mary reveals she's an alien and says she needs to et into Torchwood because they have her transporter. Tosh is a little bit freaked out that she's had sex with a woman/alien and isn't quite sure which one her parents would disapprove of more. Toshiko gets Mary into Torchwood though and at a price. Held at knifepoint by her lover the team are 'forced' to hand over the transporter which takes Mary to the sun. Now Toshiko not only has to put up with the fact that Owen hates her, but she's betrayed the team and lost her lover in the process. Suddenly she realises what it feels like to be Ianto. Toshiko and Gwen aren't quite sure where the whole thing leaves them and they forgive each other, but it looks like it might take Owen longer to forget. Toshiko has a heart to heart with Jack right at the end and he helps her to see the bigger picture in the whole thing, hoping that Tosh will recover from the experience.
Episode eight begins and apart from finding it frustrating that certain people's records have been wiped from the Torchwood database she figures out that they need the ISBN of Suzie's poetry book to reverse the lockdown. Poor old Tosh is once again shoved away from the action after having suck a traumatic episode last time.
Episode nine is another episode where all the characters except for Gwen have been shoved to the back. It reall needs better placing. Sadly we don't get enough Tosh. Or Jack, Or Ianto Or Owen.... *sniff*, I want them back!!!
In episode ten, Tosh gets pushed out of the lime light as well. I think she only gets the one line in the whole thing. Not good. Why are the most intriguing characters either pushed to the back of the action or aren't allowed to tell us about their intriguing pasts?
In episode eleven Tosh gets more screen time when she helps Jack and Ianto release another Weevil into Cardiff and track it and the people trying to capture it. It eventually leads them to the fight club where we see the whole episode come to a head and Tosh gets a gun (finally this woman gets to kick some ass), but once again we must wait another week for Tosh to get her overdue screen time. *breathes calmly*.
In episode twelve Tosh is sent back in time to 1941 along with Jack. Finally we get to see some action from her. Apart from being practically seduced on the dance floor and having to be rescued by Jack who's with her, she's accused of being an enemy (until Jack gives Tosh the cover story of being a very cleverly place spy, working with them, not against) and she then uses the clever method of photos and blood to get the numbers to close the rift off to the others. She is the only one to witness first hand Jack's sexuality and is the only one who knows of Jacks 'real' past. She mentions (not in the episode, but via a IM) to Ianto that Jack appears to be gay and though Ianto seems non-plussed, we all know really that he's jumping for joy. Once back in the present day, Tosh tries to comfort Jack who is still feeling guilty over the real 'Jack Harkness'.
In episode thirteen Tosh is the only member of the team who never explicitly says that she wants to go against Jacks orders and open the rift. After seeing her mother (who's presumably dead) and returning to the Hub, she is shocked when Owen shoots and kills (or at least they think that he's dead) Jack, though she doesn't stop them from opening the rift fully. After Gwen returns to the Hub with Jack's body Tosh tries to get Gwen to let him go and she and Ianto began to set about fixing some of the machinery destroyed when parts of the Hub collapsed. She's more than thrilled however, to see Jack return from the dead again and is just as shocked as the others when they return to find him gone...
SUZIE COSTELLO:
Torchwood's second in command and possibly the closest member of the team to Jack. This is possibly how he knew that Suzie was going to betray the team and try and kill Gwen. She is obbessive about alien technology and finds that she has a NEED to understand it all. The glove is her main tool and she uses it as often as possible to try and gain experience, because as she finds, to the cost of many lives, the more she uses it the easier it becomes.
In episode one she is shown welding something and then makes a comment about Tosh and Owen not being able to keep straight faces for more than 'Naught point two seconds'. She seems to be trying to act more mature than the rest of them to suck up to Jack. Maybe because she has a thing for him or maybe because she's trying not to raise suspition as to her actual motives. She is the one that uses the glove to bring John back from the dead and she is also seen using it at home to revive a fly as practise. Later on in the episode it is revealed that Suie used an alien knife that fell through the rift to kill several people so she could practise using the glove. She reveals everything to a bemused Gwen who can't remember anything at that moment and then goes to kill her. Jack turns up just in time and is shot but he can't die so Suzie does the only thing she can, turns the gun on herself and commits suicide leaving a shocked Gwen with the memories of Torchwood to come flooding back.
Epsiode Two: No appearence. Dead.
Episode Three: No appearence. Dead.
Episode Four: No appearence. Dead.
Episode Five: No appearence. Dead.
Episode Six: No appearence. Dead.
Episode Seven: No appearence. Dead.
Episode Eight: Hello. Not dead? Hmmm...
They have to bring Suzie back after a series of strange murders, but what the team don't reealise is that Suzie set the whole thing up. Should she die, she had a plan to get herself ressurected and she knew perfectly well that if she fought things the right way she could stay connected to the glove wearer and take their life. She's even more pleased when it turns out to be Gwen who she's going to be replacing. Suzie talks constantly about there being nothing after death, just darkness and something moving. She helps the team catch the killer but manages to subtly pursuade Gwen that she's being trodden on so Gwen agrees to take Suzie to see her father, not realising that Suzie has bigger plans. She sets the Hub into lockdown before leaving because she knows the team aren't stupid and they will realise what she's doing, so the lockdown ensures they can't follow her. Unfortunatly for Suzie they manage to get out and chase after her. Gwen takes Suzie to the hospital where Suzie wakes her dying dad up only to kill him. As we can see Suzie is pure evil. But she's not done. Oh no.... She takes a dying Gwen and begins to speed towards the docks intending to keep running until Gwen is dead and Suzie is fully alive. She believe that the team won't be able to kill her when she's the 'only bit of Gwen left'. Unfortunatly what she didn't bank on was Jack determined to kill her anyway. Suzie drags Gwen out the car, but Gwen begins to lsoe the battle with life so Suzie leaves her and keeps running just as Jack and Owen get there. Owen, despite having his gun out ready, runs to Gwen's aid. Meanwhile Jack shoots Suzie, again and again and again, but Suzie won't die. Jack realises the glove is keeping them connected and orders Tosh to destroy it. With a sickening crack Suzie dies and with a gasp Gwen suddenly comes back to life. Ianto decides to lock Suzie's chamber at the morgue just in case she goes walking. After all gloves come in pairs and Torchwood only found one...
Episode Nine: No appearence. Dead. (For good this time I think.)
Episode Ten: No appearence. Dead.
Epsiode Eleven: No appearence. Dead.
Episode Twelve: No apprearence. Dead.
Episode Thirteen: No appearence. Dead.
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