"What if the rift doesn't just leave stuff behind, what if it takes?"
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| Adrift | |
| Series: | Torchwood - TV Stories |
| Series Number: | Series 2 |
| Story Number: | 24 |
| Enemy: | Cardiff rift |
| Setting: | Cardiff, 2009 |
| Writer: | Chris Chibnall |
| Director: | Mark Everest |
| Producer: | Richard Stokes Sophie Fante Chris Chibnall |
| Broadcast: | 19th March, 2008 |
| Previous Story: | From out of the Rain |
| Following Story: | Fragments |
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When a local teenager disappears, Gwen is drawn into an investigation that reveals a darker side of Torchwood. Hundreds of people have disappeared without trace, but Jack is obstructing attempts to find them. The answer seems to lie in the rift -- literally -- and as Gwen follows the trail, she makes a shocking discovery.
Jonah Bevan is walking home across the Cardiff Bay Barrage when a bright light appears over him. One second later he is gone. Seven months later, at the instigation of PC Andy Davidson, Gwen is investigating the disappearance of Jonah. Her research reveals there are more cases that resemble Jonah's disappearance. Toshiko discovers that these disappearances happen during a negative spike in the rift activity, which were previously discarded as background noise. Gwen is able to compile a list of all missing persons and informs Jack. However, Jack tells Gwen that nothing can be done and instructs her to stop the investigation, which she refuses.
The investigation slowly turns into an obsession and takes a toll on the relationship between Gwen and Rhys. When Ianto secretly gives Gwen a GPS device with a stored hidden location, Gwen finds a facility on Flat Holm. It harbours 17 of the missing people that the rift took and subsequently brought back, including Jonah, the boy she has been looking for. However, he has aged 40 years and is very deformed. Gwen also finds Jack there, and she demands access to Jonah. Jonah tells how he was stuck on a "burning planet" and how he was taken into a building that was actually a rescue craft, from which he witnessed the burning of a solar system. Afterwards, Jack reveals that he set up the facility when he first took command of Torchwood, in order to care for the victims of the rift, who had previously been locked away in the vaults.
Gwen brings Nikki, Jonah's mother, in to see him. At first she is horrified, believing it to be a cruel joke, but Jonah starts telling her things that only he would know. Nikki calms and they hug for a moment, but one of the staff tells Nikki to get away from him. She resists and says that she can take care of him. However Jonah starts screaming, a scream so horrible that everyone flees. In a voiceover, Gwen reveals that he screams like that for 20 hours a day because he looked into the heart of a Dark Star, which drove him insane.
A week later, Gwen goes to see Nikki, who implores her not to show the island to anyone else. Gwen takes down her notes over the missing and Nikki packs up Jonah's room. At home that night, Gwen prepares a romantic candle-lit dinner for Rhys, who lets her cry into his chest.
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| Torchwood Series 2 |
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| Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang • Sleeper • To the Last Man • Meat • Adam • Reset • Dead Man Walking • A Day in the Death • Something Borrowed • From Out of the Rain • Adrift • Fragments • Exit Wounds |
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Episode transcript
[[{{{transcript2}}}|Part Two]]
[[{{{audiotranscript}}}|Commentary transcript]]
"Adrift" is the second episode of Season 2 of Lost and the 27th episode of the series as a whole. Occurring at the same point as the previous episode, emphasis shifts to Kate and Locke's perspective, and what happened to them before Jack joined them down the Hatch. Meanwhile, Sawyer and Michael try to come to terms with what happened to them on the raft.
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Michael visits his lawyer about fighting for custody of Walt, but is not overly impressed by the professional's lack of interest and forgetfulness of details about his circumstance. He explains that signing Walt for adoption so Brian can become his legal father would mean Michael has no rights at all, literally the same as to any kid one might pass in the street. Michael is prepared to fight all the way, but the lawyer admits that the proceedings will take a large amount of money, with the situation being David and Goliath in nature. Michael is adamant, however, that he is going to get his son back.
A hearing takes place between the two parents, accompanied by their lawyers. Susan's staff begin to nitpick at Michael's history as a father, culminating in the conclusion that "for someone who wants to retain his parental right you don’t know very much about your son". Michael, however, stands firm that he is Walt’s father.
After the hearing, Susan requests to speak to Michael alone. She admits that she thinks Michael will win in court, but cannot understand why he is doing this when he does not even know Walt, and could never provide what she could. She pleads for Michael to let him go, and hands him the adoption forms.
At a park, Susan arrives to meet Michael, and with her is a young Walt, but a few years old. Michael neglects to introduce himself as his father, and tells Walt that he will have a great life with his mother and Brian. He also promises that "your daddy" loves you very much, and "I" always will. Before leaving, he gives Walt a toy polar bear, asking Susan to one day, at least, tell him who it was from.
At the Hatch, Locke shouts down the shaft for Kate, who has vanished completely. Tying himself a line of rope, Locke heads down after her. Locke manages to reach the bottom of the shaft, and wanders round to discover he is in fact in some kind of concrete bunker. He removes his shoes and tiptoes further inside. He finds a kitchen, before discovering Kate dazed on the floor. A man suddenly appears behind him holding a gun, and asks if Locke is "him"?
Back at the Hatch, Locke decides to pretend that he is indeed “him”, if only to save their lives. However, when the man asks "what did one snowman say to the other" (presumably a password), he realizes that Locke is lying. The man orders Kate to tie Locke up, but Locke insists that Kate is more dangerous as a fugitive. The man allows it, and locks Kate instead inside a darkened room. Jack waits at the caves, deciding to head after the others down the Hatch. Claire and Charlie watch from afar, but Claire suddenly notices a Virgin Mary statue in his bag. He brushes it off as nothing important.
Gagged with her hands tied tightly behind her back and her barefeet tied tightly together, Kate attempts to free herself, but the bindings on her hands and barefeet are to tight; She tries calling for help, but is gagged She begins wiggling her toes. Kate maneuvers her arms in front, allowing her to move about more easily. She then pulls out a flick knife that Locke had slipped into her jeans while tying her up, releasing herself. She finds a light switch, discovering that she is actually in a pantry, full of food. She also notices a ventilation shaft, but before she climbs up, she notices Apollo candy bars on a shelf, and cannot help eating one. Moving up inside the vent, she begins to crawl through. Not ten yards away, Locke is explaining to the man about the plane crash. He reveals that his name is Desmond, and asks how many of the survivors have gotten sick. Suddenly, a buzzer begins to sound. Desmond orders Locke up, takes him to a computer and tells him to enter the Numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42. He is then ordered to press execute, and the buzzing stops while a timer on the wall reverts to 108:00. Jack can then be heard shouting for the others. Kate notices Jack through an air vent, but as Desmond sets off a record player sending out loud music, he is unable to hear her. Desmond confronts Jack, ordering him to drop his weapon, as in the previous episode, before Jack realized that he knows the man.
Sawyer re-emerges from the water to hear Walt, Michael and Jin shouting after the attack of their raft. He manages to grab some wreckage, and get to Michael before he drowns. However, Michael is still not breathing.
Sawyer begins to perform CPR, and manages to revive Michael, but is forced to restrain him to stop his struggling for Walt. He refuses to give up shouting despite the fact that the boat the kidnappers used is long gone.
Meanwhile, Sawyer screams for Jin, and Michael asks the conman if he feels guilty for making them fire the flare. The two argue, and Michael orders him to get off his raft, but not before they hear noises and are attacked. It would appear that Sawyer’s bleeding shoulder has attracted a shark. Sawyer decides to try and swim for another piece of raft wreckage after his argument, managing to hold on to a small piece. As Michael looks on, Sawyer tells him that he was trying to save Walt when he was shot, contrary to what Michael may think about him saving himself.
Some time later, Sawyer decides to pull out the bullet in his shoulder with his bare hand, as Michael insists he will not be able to do it. Nevertheless, Sawyer is successful, coldly asking Michael for a Band-Aid.
Still struggling at sea, Sawyer surmises that the kidnapping boat was small, so it could only be local. Rousseau had said that the Others were coming for the child, and while at the time they believed this meant Aaron, Sawyer believes they were after Walt all along. Michael splashes water at Sawyer for saying his son’s name, causing Sawyer’s piece of wreckage to break apart. He returns to share Michael’s section, and the two grudgingly sit together.
Michael and Sawyer discover one of the pontoons from the raft, which is much sturdier than their current piece of wreckage, made up of virtually loose bamboo rods. Handing Michael the gun, Sawyer heads after it. The shark emerges from the ocean, and Michael unleashes a full magazine of ammunition, venting his rage. Both manage to get to the pontoon, and lie down exhausted. As the sun rises, Michael promises to get back his son as the two realize that the current has brought them back to the Island. “We’re home”, adds Sawyer. The two wash up on shore, but immediately hear Jin shouting. He runs out to them, shouting in Korean. They finally realize what he is saying, “Others”, as a group of strangers carrying weapons ominously appear, advancing on the three.
| Recurring themes in Lost |
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| Black and white • Car accidents • Character connections • Deceptions and cons • Dreams • Eyes • Fate versus free will • Good and bad people • Imprisonment • Isolation • Life and death • Missing body parts • Nicknames • The Numbers • Parent issues • Pregnancies • Rain • Rebirth • Redemption • Relationships • Revenge • Sacrifice • Secrets • Time |
| Cultural references in Lost (direct references only) |
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| Art • Books • Cars • Games • Movies and TV • Music • Philosophy • Religion and ideologies • Science |
| Literary techniques in Lost |
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| Comparative: Irony • Juxtaposition • Foreshadowing Plotting: Cliffhanger • Plot twist Stock Characters: Archetype • Redshirt • Unseen character Story: Flashbacks • Flash-forwards • Flash-sideways • Regularly spoken phrases • Symbolism • Unreliable narrator |
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