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Torchwood: Everything Changes
Gwen Cooper, a police woman, comes across the mysterious organisation known as Torchwood. After investigating their world Gwen learns of technology and methods that she had never imagined were possible.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x1 Production Number: 101 Airdate: Sunday October 22nd, 2006 Alternate Airdates:
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Recap
Police officer Gwen Cooper arrives at the scene of a murder, but her team is ordered off when a new group arrives: Torchwood. As the plainclothes operatives look over the corpse, Gwen notices something above in a parking lot and goes to investigate. She looks down as one of the men, Jack Harkness, talks about tasting estrogen in the rain. One woman, Toshiko, dons a metal glove and touches the corpse, and the lights start to flicker and the rain stops. The man comes back to life and they tell him they have two minutes for him to talk. The man, John Tucker, doesn’t know anything about his death and Jack asks him about what he experienced when he died. Tucker says there’s nothing, and then the two minutes expire, the rain starts, and Tucker dies for good. Jack then looks up and asks Gwen what she thinks, and she hastily runs away...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
This episode reveals that Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) disappeared from London during the Blitz on January 21, 1941, placing the 2005 Doctor Who two-parter "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" on this date.
According to Jack, there are four different Torchwood facilities: Torchwood One in London (which was destroyed in the Battle of Canary Wharf, as seen in the 2006 Doctor Who finale "Doomsday"); Torchwood Two in Glasgow (which consists of a single office and is run by a "very strange man"); Torchwood Three in Cardiff (which is the main setting of the series) and Torchwood Four (which is missing but Jack claims that "we'll find it one day").
As of 2007, this is the only episode of the series written by creator Russell T. Davies.
Music
| Artist | Song Title | Played When |
| The Kooks | She Moves In Her Own Way | |
| The Pipettes | We Are The Pipettes | |
| Snow Patrol | Spitting Games |
Episode Quotes
Jack: There you go! I can taste it! Oestrogen. Definitely oestrogen. Take the pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle, feminiaes the fish, goes all the way up into the sky then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. I'm never doing that again.
Gwen: Who are they, Torchwood?
PC Andy: I'll bet you ten quid they're DNA experts. It's all this CSI crap these days. CSI: Cardiff. I'd like to see that! They'd be measuring the velocity of a kebab!
PC Andy: I'll bet you ten quid they're DNA experts. It's all this CSI crap these days. CSI: Cardiff. I'd like to see that! They'd be measuring the velocity of a kebab!
Jack: Before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name of “Torchwood”?
Owen: Er, yeah, that would be me. Sorry, I’m a twat.
Owen: Er, yeah, that would be me. Sorry, I’m a twat.
Gwen: I’m getting tired of following you.
Jack: No, you’re not. And you never will.
Jack: No, you’re not. And you never will.
Jack: The 21st Century is when it all changes, and you've got to be ready.
Jack: That is so Welsh.
Gwen: What?
Jack: I show you something fantastic. You find fault.
Gwen: What?
Jack: I show you something fantastic. You find fault.
Jack: I can’t die.
Gwen: Okay.
Jack: But I can’t. Something happened to me a while back. Long story and far away. But I was killed.... and then I was brought back to life, and ever since then... I can’t die.
Gwen: But how...?
Jack: I don’t know. One day I’ll find a doctor, the right sort of doctor and maybe he can explain it. But until then...
Gwen: Nothing kills you?
Jack: Well, it kinda freaks people out, so best if you don’t say anything.
Gwen: Okay.
Jack: But I can’t. Something happened to me a while back. Long story and far away. But I was killed.... and then I was brought back to life, and ever since then... I can’t die.
Gwen: But how...?
Jack: I don’t know. One day I’ll find a doctor, the right sort of doctor and maybe he can explain it. But until then...
Gwen: Nothing kills you?
Jack: Well, it kinda freaks people out, so best if you don’t say anything.
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