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| Exit Wounds | |
| Series: | Torchwood - TV Stories |
| Series Number: | Series 2 |
| Story Number: | 26 |
| Enemy: | Gray Captain John Hart Weevils Hoix Ghosts |
| Setting: | Cardiff, 2009 |
| Writer: | Chris Chibnall |
| Director: | Ashley Way |
| Producer: | Richard Stokes |
| Broadcast: | 4th April 2008 |
| Previous Story: | Fragments |
| Following Story: | Children of Earth: Day One |
Contents |
Captain John Hart returns to have his revenge on Torchwood and take Jack as his prisoner. Jack and his long lost brother, Gray don't have a good reunion and can the rest of the team trust John?
Following on from Fragments, Toshiko detects Rift activity in three locations across Cardiff. She and Ianto go the central server building, where Three Cowled Men with scythes approach menacingly. The agents shoot them down as they get closer. Meanwhile, Owen sedates a Hoix in a hospital using a packet of cigarettes and a special mixture. Finally, Rhys drops Gwen off at the police HQ where Weevils have killed "the four most senior officers", causing panic.
During all this, Captain Jack goes to the Hub to face Captain John, who claims he loves Jack before shooting him with two machine guns. When Jack comes back to life, he is chained above the ground and finds out John is angry because he was very rude to him in front of people "that hardly knew me". After an electric shock to silence him, John tells Jack that he hopes he can stop him, he really does. Then, as the rift manipulator is activated, John tells the Torchwood gang to go to the roofs of their buildings.
They all make their way up to the top of the central server building, the hospital and the police HQ. Gwen, Andy, Rhys, Toshiko, Owen and Ianto look on as John, from atop Cardiff castle, detonates explosives in 15 prime locations that cripple the city. He then whisks Jack back in time, to meet Gray. As it turns out, Gray is in control, threatening John into action. Gwen takes control of the team and the police, directing them all as to what to do. She makes her way to the hub where she finds John has returned to help the team after being forced to bury Jack alive in Cardiff 27 AD. Gray activates a signal and weevils flood the streets of Cardiff. This prevents Toshiko and Ianto from reaching the nuclear power station to stop a meltdown.
Owen goes to the nuclear facility, reminding his teammates that he's king of the Weevils. John, Toshiko, Ianto and Gwen are attacked by Weevils at the Hub, but manage to subdue them - only to be locked into cells by Gray. Owen, at the nuclear facility, waits for instruction from Toshiko, as he tells a scientist to leave. Toshiko tells Owen her plan, but is then shot by Gray, who kicks away her device. A knocking interrupts his taunting and he heads for the morgue. Tosh agonisingly makes her way down the steps to the autopsy room, gets her device back, still bleeding from her wound. She denies that she's hurt when Owen asks and helps him to flood the room he's in with coolant, thus avoiding the meltdown.
As this is happening, Gray discovers Jack in a cryo-chamber in the morgue, placed there by Torchwood 1901 on his request. He tells Gray he forgives him and Gray refuses to give him absolution, so Jack uses chloroform to put him to sleep. He then frees the others from the cells and they head back to the main area.
At the same time, a power surge seals Owen in the room where the coolant will soon flood. Toshiko, dying, asks Owen to calm down, who refuses, demanding for her to give him one reason why. Tosh tearfully replies "because you're breaking my heart" and he calms down. The two talk as they prepare to die. Coolant pours into the room where Owen is trapped and he accepts his fate, telling Toshiko it's okay and apologising for not having that date because they "just missed each other". Toshiko slumps, bleeding to death as she watches the screen show Owen's signature vanishing. Jack and the others arrive, but Toshiko dies in Jack's arms.
Jack freezes Gray and says his goodbyes to John before helping Ianto and Gwen to do Owen and Toshiko's final logout. Upon finishing Toshiko's, a video appears in which she thanks Jack, admits her love to Owen and finally hopes she "did good" and didn't die for nothing. Gwen is unsure of whether she can continue, but Jack tells his last two comrades that they'll start from the end.
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Several other tie-in websites for both Torchwood and Doctor Who have made similar mistakes and/or contradicted on-screen information. No official announcement has been made as to whether or not the sites qualify as canon - if they do not (and there is substantial evidence to suggest they may not be canon) then this discontinuity can be chalked up as a simple error on the part of the website management and left at that.
Jack doesn't revive instantly and ageing only occurs in living bodies. He would have spent almost all of the time underground dead with occasional bouts of living lasting 3-4 minutes at a time until he suffocted. In End of Days he was shown dead for several days before revival, so if it was at roughly the same rate he would only be alive for an hour or two a month, so a day a year (especially since the deaths occurred so closely to each other). Also he has stated that his aging has slowed, but that he knows it still occurs. A few thousand years is a drop in the bucket compared to 5 billion. As for the clothes, they're never shown damaged (see Fragments for example), so presumably they're not of 20th century Earth origin. Also Jack's aging is at a rate unknown to all.
In Fragments, they mentioned that Jack had died thousands of times already, perhaps he was simply used to it. Also, he was uncovered in 1901 and we see that he talks to the contemporary Torchwood employees in which he tells them to freeze him, so presumebly he had that time to recover, he is seen there looking shaken and had recovered before he was frozen (we don't know precisely how much time he spent in 1901, granted the risk of meeting himself meant it was probably short). There may have been some technology which furthered a quick recovery.
John could however have told Gray that Jack was now the name his brother was going by, and could have used it for convenience. Jack could also have been his given first name or possibly a childhood nickname. He could have chosen the name "Jack Harkness" for convenience in case he ever bumped into a person he knew before he renamed himself. Jack Harkenss could have been Jack's real name completly but he assummed the identity (as in the life as well as the name).
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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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