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Torchwood: 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.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 4x4 Airdate: Thursday August 04th, 2011 Alternate Airdates:
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Recap
In Washington, DC, Esther goes to her sister Sarah’s home and pounds on the door. Sarah finally unlocks the multiple locks and tells her sister that people came there to ask questions about her. Esther asks to see her nieces, Melanie and Alice, and Sarah insists that they’re fine. She tells Esther not to go to Boston, or Philadelphia, or New York, and insists that there is something godless in the air that is infecting everyone. Sarah refuses to let her daughters come out and slams the door shut. Esther tries to tell her that it’s safe and she’s working with people to stop the Miracle, and promises to come back as soon as she can. She asks to say goodbye to the girls but Sarah refuses. Crying, Esther promises to come back as soon as she can...Read the full recap
Episode Quotes
Gwen: Wow, look at the horizon. We've reached the edge of America.
Jack: It's been decades since I've seen the Pacific. Must be about 70 years.
Esther: Are you kidding me, you say things like that?
Jack: Oh-ho-ho. I wonder.
Jack: It's been decades since I've seen the Pacific. Must be about 70 years.
Esther: Are you kidding me, you say things like that?
Jack: Oh-ho-ho. I wonder.
Landlord: I don't suppose it's any good asking who you are.
Jack: We're traveling circus folk.
Rex: Yeah, and he's the clown.
Gwen: I'm the bearded woman but I've shaved.
Jack: Yeah, you missed a bit.
Jack: We're traveling circus folk.
Rex: Yeah, and he's the clown.
Gwen: I'm the bearded woman but I've shaved.
Jack: Yeah, you missed a bit.
Landlord: By the way, if you get hungry, there's a cafe on the corner that does a guava jalapeno cheese tart that's just fabulous. Laters.
Rex: Fabulous? What is it with you? You make everybody around you gay?
Jack: That's the plan.
Rex: Fabulous? What is it with you? You make everybody around you gay?
Jack: That's the plan.
Gwen: No, you know what Torchwood's like. It's terrible. I mean, we're living in this... shed thing. And there's no electricity, there's no water, it's dark and cold and damp.
Rhys: I thought it was boiling hot in Los Angeles all year round.
Gwen: Yeah, well, they lied, Rhys, they lied.
Rhys: I thought it was boiling hot in Los Angeles all year round.
Gwen: Yeah, well, they lied, Rhys, they lied.
Gwen: Anyway, so how's my little girl?
Rhys: Don't call me that, Gwen.
Gwen: You're very funny.
Rhys: Don't call me that, Gwen.
Gwen: You're very funny.
Jack: George Eliot wrote this chapter in Middlemarch. She said that if you take a piece of metal with random scratches written all over and hold a flame up to the metal, the scratches look like they're forming patterns, circling around the light. And that's Oswald. He's blazing away, and patterns are starting to revolve around him and all we have to do is keep watching.
Jilly Kitzinger: Listen, clear the schedule. It is Oswald 24-7 from here on out. Dr. Juarez!
Dr. Vera Juarez: This is disgusting.
Jilly Kitzinger: I know!
Dr. Vera Juarez: This is disgusting.
Jilly Kitzinger: I know!
Gwen: Who the hell are you?
The Gentleman: Names aren't important right now.
Gwen: Oh, great, he's cryptic.
The Gentleman: Names aren't important right now.
Gwen: Oh, great, he's cryptic.
The Gentleman: It's got to be said Miracle Day has hardly been advantageous for those in my line of work-- the day the killing stopped. But I can't tell you, Jack, how wonderful it is, how truly wonderful it is to meet somebody who's mortal. It's my holy grail.
Gwen: If he's the only one that can die, then it's in your interest to keep him alive.
The Gentleman: That's exactly what I'm doing. Haven't you noticed the absence of killing?
Gwen: If he's the only one that can die, then it's in your interest to keep him alive.
The Gentleman: That's exactly what I'm doing. Haven't you noticed the absence of killing?
Gwen: He was just about to tell us.
Rex: Thanks? Anybody? Thanks?
Gwen: And you shot him in the throat!
Rex: Well, dead is dead.
Rex: Thanks? Anybody? Thanks?
Gwen: And you shot him in the throat!
Rex: Well, dead is dead.
Jack: Thanks again for saving my ass yesterday.
Rex: I was saving her ass. You were just gravy.
Rex: I was saving her ass. You were just gravy.
Episode Goofs
When she is giving the hospital tour to Vera and the others, Bisme opens her report folder and it and the papers inside are upside down. Despite that, she keeps reading normally from the papers.
Cultural References
Escape to LA:
The title is a play on the John Carpenter 1996 movie Escape from L.A., a sequel to his 1981 movie Escape from New York.
The title is a play on the John Carpenter 1996 movie Escape from L.A., a sequel to his 1981 movie Escape from New York.
Jack: George Eliot wrote this chapter in Middlemarch.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1871-72) is a novel by George Eliot (aka Mary Anne Evans). It is a realism novel set in the Midlands town of Midmarch and is composed of eight books.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1871-72) is a novel by George Eliot (aka Mary Anne Evans). It is a realism novel set in the Midlands town of Midmarch and is composed of eight books.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Russell T. Davies |
| • Executive Producer | Jane Tranter | Russell T. Davies | Julie Gardner (1) |
| • Co-Executive Producer | John Shiban | Vlad Wolynetz |
| • Producer | Kelly A. Manners |
| • Associate Producer | Skip Schoolnik |
| • Production Designer | Gregory Melton |
| • Editor | Hunter M. Via |
| • Casting | Melanie Burgess | John Levey (1) |
| • Unit Production Manager | Robert D. Nellans |
| • First Assistant Director | Polly Ann Mattson |
| • Second Assistant Director | Carla Bowen |
| • Music Editor | Tom Trafalski |
| • Costume Designer | Shawna Trpcic |
| • Key Grip | Isaac Chee |
| • Camera Operator | Jeff Greeley |
| • Set Designer | Arthur Chadwick |
| • Set Decorator | Natalie Pope |
| • Location Manager | Brad Bemis |
| • Transportation Coordinator | Heath Culp |
| • Property Master | Eric Bates |
| • Construction Coordinator | Chris Forster |
| • Production Sound Mixer | Julian Howarth |
| • Script Supervisor | Anne Melville |
| • Assistant Editor | Matt Woolley |
| • Post Production Supervisor | Kenneth Requa |
| • Supervising Sound Editor | Walter Newman | Ken Young (1) |
| • Re-Recording Mixer | Dan Hiland | Gary D. Rogers |
| • Director of Photography | Nathaniel Goodman |
| • Key Makeup Artist | Todd McIntosh |
| • Visual Effects Supervisor | Michael D. Leone |
| • Production Accountant | Vince Robinette |
| • Chief Lighting Technician | Don Mosley |
| • Score | Murray Gold |
| • Key Hairstylist | Susan Boyd (1) |
| • Production Executive | Shelley Stevens |
| • Special Effects Make-up | Gregory Nicotero | Howard Berger |
| • Science Advisor | John Sotos |
| • Assistant Composer | Stu Kennedy |
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