Ever have one of those days? Torchwood sure did.
The plot didn’t advance much in this episode. We learned that the 456 are coming tomorrow and that they want their contact in the British government to build something for them–something that can contain an atmosphere they can survive in. The bulk of the episode was taken up by the various members of Torchwood trying not to get killed.
Gwen had barely climbed out of the rubble from the explosion when two fake EMS workers tried to kill her. It didn’t go very well. She escaped and was able to collect Rhys before the government agents found her home. Snipers were waiting for Ianto when he clawed his way free, but they proved to be pretty bad shots for snipers. Jack was a sitting duck. The agents collected what bits of him they could find and carted them off in a body bag.
Gwen and Rhys went to London to try to contact the government about the assassins on their tails, only to discover that the person they thought could help them, John Frobisher, ordered the hits in the first place. However, they did find an ally in Frobisher’s personal assistant, Lois Habiba, who has only been on the job for two days but was already highly disillusioned by what she’d seen going on in Frobisher’s office. Habiba was able to point Gwen and Rhys at the facility where Jack was being held, while Ianto found the same facility on his own by tracing the truck he saw hauling Jack’s remains away.
Meanwhile, Jack had just about the worst day in the history of ever. First, his body attempted to regenerate from a starting point of one arm, a shoulder, and part of his head, and he woke up in the middle of it while he was still pretty much all raw nerves. The screaming was perfectly understandable. Then when the government agents realized that blowing Jack literally to bits wasn’t enough to kill him, they buried him alive in concrete to contain him. Gwen and Rhys failed in their rescue attempt, but Ianto stole the entire block of concrete with a forklift and dropped it down a quarry. Gwen and Rhys were able to escape in the ensuing chaos. The episode ended with the entire Torchwood team alive and back together–which is exactly what Frobisher didn’t want.
Frobisher seems to be ordering the deaths of anyone who knows anything about the 456 and their previous visit. Jack is apparently one of those people. Gwen and Ianto were either ordered killed on the off chance Jack told them something, or possibly just to cover up the true nature of the explosion that destroyed the Hub. Whatever happened in 1965, the government certainly doesn’t want anyone to talk about it. Of course, if I handed over a busload of orphaned children to a bunch of space aliens, I wouldn’t want anyone to know about it either.
Despite everything that happened in the episode, the one question that keeps bugging me is if Jack was able to regenerate from an arm, a shoulder, and part of a head, are his other parts that weren’t recovered regenerating into Jacks too? Can the universe handle more than one Jack Harkness?
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