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The 21st century is when it all changes

Torchwood is a spin-off from the popular show doctor who and premiered on 22 October 2006 and was created by  Russell T. Davies.

Plot:
It follows the Wales branch of a covert agency called the Torchwood Institute which investigates extraterrestrial incidents on Earth and scavenges alien technology for its own use. Ex- Time Agent and part-time con-man Jack Harkness heads up the Cardiff branch of the Torchwood group.He is joined by genius medic Owen Harper, technical expert Toshiko Sato, assistant Ianto Jones and outsider Gwen Cooper.

Each episode runs for approximately 50 mins long and so far 25 episodes have been shown with a confirmed third series.

Main Cast:

John Barrowman	Captain Jack Harkness
Eve Myles	Gwen Cooper
Burn Gorman	Dr. Owen Harper
Naoko Mori	Dr. Toshiko Sato
Gareth David-Lloyd	Ianto Jones

Info taken from: wikipedia & IMDb
Picture taken from tv.com

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Season one of Torchwood picks up where second series of Doctor Who left off.

Episode 1: Everything Changes
WPC Gwen Cooper is at the scene of a brutal murder, when the "special ops", known only as Torchwood, arrive. After witnessing the group bring the dead man back to life, Gwen goes in pursuit of this mysterious organisation, only to see weirder things than she could ever imagine existed. Soon after, she begins to regret giving in to her curiosity, when she meets Captain Jack Harkness.

Episode 2: Day One
It is Gwen's first day on the job, and it's not going very well. After accidentally releasing a mysterious gas from a comet that landed, a new type of alien is let loose on the streets - an alien that's addicted to sex. Torchwood must find the inhabited body, and prevent any more deaths from the violent form of sex.

Episode 3: Ghost Machine
Whilst chasing a man, Gwen retrieves an unusual machine that allows the user to see back into the past. It is considered dangerous, and no members of Torchwood are permitted to use it. But Owen has other plans, and witnesses a violent murder that took place over forty years ago. Using the information he gathered, Owen starts to track down the still-living murderer.

Episode 4: Cyberwoman
Ianto Jones hides a very big secret at Torchwood - his half-converted girlfriend from the Canary Wharf Battle - down in the basement. He is quick to hire a Japanese doctor who believes he can "cure" her. But things soon go wrong, and the Cyberwoman's destructive powers are released to the whole of Torchwood. Upgrading is compulsary.

Episode 5: Small Worlds
Jack catches up with a very old friend of his, who is investigating fairy sightings in the local wood. After having visited her, Torchwood are informed of a man's mysterious death in a prison cell. Then, Tosh uncovers a series of localised, extreme weather patterns. Nobody at the organisation is sure of these events, or how they may be connected. Except Jack, who has witnessed the creatures causing this, almost a century ago.

Episode 6: Countrycide
Whilst investigating a group of unexplainable deaths in a village, the Torchwood team are separated. Discovering further, Jack, Gwen and Owen find a scared man, hiding from the thing responsible for the murders. But Tosh and Ianto go that one step extra, and locate the killer, who wants them as their next victims.

Episode 7: Greeks Bearing Gifts
Tosh meets an unusual woman, Mary, at a bar, who gives her a strange pendant. She is upset, yet amazed by what she now has - the ability to read people's minds. However, Tosh finds this terrible curse, that contains her friends darkest secrets, must be broken. So she asks for help from Mary, the only person who knows, but first, Tosh has to get her into Torchwood.

Episode 8: They Keep Killing Suzie
Using the Resurrection Gauntlet that former Torchwood member Suzie Costello originally had, the team are able to bring a number of murder victims back to life. However, these all have a link with the now-deceased Suzie, and the group have no choice but to bring her back. After the process goes wrong, and permanently keeps her alive, Suzie manipulates the naïve Gwen into taking her to see her father.

Episode 9: Random Shoes
Eugene Jones wakes up, finding himself lying on the middle of a road. He then discovers that he has been the victim of a hit-and-run incident, and is, now, not only dead, but invisible. Eugene recalls events leading up to his death, involving a mysterious alien eye. Simultaneously, Gwen investigates the suspicious circumstances around his fatality.

Episode 10: Out Of Time
Three passengers from 1953 arrive in modern day Cardiff, when their plane flies through the Rift. With no means of travelling back, each person must adapt to their new life, starting personal relationships with the separate members of Torchwood.

Episode 11: Combat
Weevils are appearing all over the streets of Cardiff, and then disappearing again - but not by alien forces. People are abducting them, and using the Weevils for their own purposes, so Owen investigates.

Episode 12: Captain Jack Harkness
Whilst investigating an old, derelict dance hall, Jack and Tosh are transported back to the 1940s, during the Blitz. Owen, Ianto, and Gwen realise, in modern day, that this has happened, and go in search of clues Tosh may have left. Meanwhile, back in the forties, Jack meets a very interesting man. One with the name Captain Jack Harkness...

Episode 13: End Of Days
With the Rift having been opened, people and objects throughout time are falling through it, and being spread across the world. "The thing in the darkness" has finally come, and Jack realises that he is the only one who can save planet Earth from the destruction that "the son of the Beast" will cause.

Descriptions taked from: http://www.tv.com/

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Episode 1: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
A 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.

Episode 2: Sleeper
When a burglary turns into a slaughter, Torchwood suspect alien involvement. However, when the investigation escalates into a city-wide assault, Captain Jack realises that the whole planet is in danger.

Episode 3: To The Last Man
A soldier from 1918, being kept cryogenically frozen by Torchwood, is being woken up for one day each year. But something's different this year. His time is colliding with ours, and he needs to go, although Toshiko isn't so sure whether she wants him to...

Episode 4: Meat
Conflicts abound when a truck owned by Rhys's trucking company is investigated by Torchwood... and Rhys is there to see it. The meat it carries is tainted, or is it even meat at all? Rhys does a little investigating of his own, and might have something to contribute to the team this time around. But he's no longer sure who he can trust anymore. And can Gwen and the team trust him?

Episode 5: Adam
Torchwood encounter an alien called Adam who can change memories. Things take a turn for the worse as Jack is haunted by memories of his brother, Gwen struggles to remember Rhys, Owen professes his love for Toshiko, and Toshiko becomes convinced that she loved Adam. It takes Jack's love of Ianto to reveal the truth, but there's always a price to pay.

Episode 6: Reset
Jack calls in an old friend for a favour, none other than Martha Jones, as they attempt to stop a pharmaceutical facility that uses aliens in the hope of discovering a cure for all diseases.

Episode 7: Dead Man Walking
Captain Jack resurrects Owen with a resurrection glove, only to find out that the new glove isn't quite what they'd bargained for. Owen, in an undead state, helps the team figure out why he's still around.

Episode 8: A Day in the Death
Owen is determined to find absolution, can the girl on the rooftop help? How about retrieving an alien device? And will Toshiko help him?

Episode 9: Something Borrowed
Gwen's hen night and wedding do not go according to plan, when an alien shapeshifter intervenes and Jack must destroy the big day.

Episode 10: From Out of the Rain
An old cinema reopens and mysterious horrors of the past return to Cardiff. Why are people trapped between life and death? Questions are asked about the Night Travellers, and what Torchwood can do to stop them.

Episode 11: Adrift
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 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.

Episode 12: Fragments
As the team are knocked unconscious we find out how Jack, Toshiko, Ianto and Owen were initiated into Torchwood.

Episode 13: Exit Wounds
Captain John Hart returns to wreak havoc upon Jack's world, who ends up getting captured. It is up to the Torchwood team to rescue him and save the city. Will they all survive?

Sources: tv.com; imdb.com


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Day One
There is a mysterious signal reaching out to large groups of helpless children. When the Torchwood team gets involved, they inadvertently place themselves in mortal danger.An ordinary day becomes one of terror, as every single child in the world stops. A message is sent to all the governments of Earth: "We are coming." But, as a trap closes around Captain Jack, the sins of the past are returning and long-forgotten events from 1965 threaten to reveal an awful truth. Torchwood is forced underground as the government takes swift and brutal action. As members of the team are hunted down, Britain risks becoming a rogue state. Meanwhile, the mysterious and powerful 456 draws ever-closer. Captain Jack, Gwen and Ianto are helpless as events escalate to such a degree that mankind faces the end of civilisation itself.

Day Two
As the government makes plans for Floor 13, Torchwood must go underground. As the new Torchwood adventure continues, the team is forced underground when the government takes swift and brutal action. With members of the team being hunted down, only Lois holds the key to Torchwood's salvation. But she is helpless as her superiors make plans for the mysterious Floor 13.

Day Three
As the 456 announce that they are here, the world focuses on Britain. The eyes of the world turn to Britain, as the 456 announce: "We are here," as the new Torchwood adventure continues. As a pillar of fire descends upon London, the members of Torchwood must battle to protect their own families as the fight gets personal. But will Clem's memories destroy everything?

Day Four
Torchwood finally learns the truth about the events of 1965, as the adventure continues. But Britain is in danger of becoming a rogue state, and everything now pivots around John Frobisher, as the Ambassador of the 456 destroys its old allegiances and reveals its true intent.

Day Five
As the world descends into chaos as the final sanction begins, Gwen must stand alone. With Ianto dead, Gwen must return to the Welsh council estate where his sister lives to break the sad news. She has a fight on her hands when the Government puts into action its plans to remove the underachieving ten percent of British children. Ianto's nephew and niece fall into that category, and soon the army is after them. Jack is reunited with his daughter and grandson after the assassin decides that something must be done. However, there is only one way to save the children of Earth - making the ultimate sacrifice that will cause him to alienate him from his daughter forever. The episode ends with Gwen heavily pregnant and Jack desperate to keep on travelling, staying away from the world that he feels he has ruined, forever.

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Episode 1: The New World
The failed execution of a convicted murderer and pedophile marks the beginning of "Miracle Day." Across the globe, people become immortal, mysteriously incapable of dying no matter what the circumstances. At the same time, a mysterious email draws the CIA's attention to the Torchwood Institute. Agent Rex Matheson travels to Wales to find the last known surviving member of Torchwood. Meanwhile, the world's population begins to realize the consequences on a planet of ultimately limited resources where no one dies and 500,000 children are born each day.

Episode 2: Rendition
After the team are reunited, Jack ends up realising that he is now the most vulnerable person on the planet. A trip to America by plane ends up turning into a desperate battle to stay alive.

Episode 3: Dead of Night
As the Soulless cult takes to the streets, the new Torchwood team goes undercover to discover what Friedkin is hiding and who he works for. Meanwhile, PhiCorp recruits Oswald Danes as their spokesman to promote their new plan for the world.

Episode 4: Escape to L.A.
The team travel to California, where a trap is waiting as they continue their fight against PhiCorp. Oswald and Jilly have to face an enemy of their own.

Episode 5: The Categories of Life
While Gwen and Rhys try to rescue Geraint Cooper, the Los Angeles Torchwood team infiltrates an overflow camp to discover what PhiCorp really has planned. Meanwhile, Oswald Dane's popularity wavers and Jack asks him to make a choice.

Episode 6: The Middle Men
With Gwen, Rex and Esther trapped on both sides of the Atlantic, it's a race against time as Jack goes straight to the heart of the conspiracy.

Episode 7: Immortal Sins
Gwen must fight to protect her family and takes a terrifying journey, covering both miles and decades, as the long history of the Miracle is revealed.

Episode 8: End of the Road
Jack faces a showdown with a man he thought was long since dead. But while Rex takes extreme action, is it too late to prevent the collapse of society?

Episode 9: The Gathering
As The Three Families plunge the world into a recession, the Torchwood team - defeated, powerless, hunted - must strike a bargain with the devil himself.

Episode 10: The Blood Line
As the Torchwood team launch a final, desperate mission against the seemingly undefeatable Three Families, they realize it may come down to the ultimate sacrifice.

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