End of the Road^[1] was the eighth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 Cast 4 Crew 5 References 6 Story notes 6.1 Ratings 6.2 Filming locations 6.3 Production errors 7 Continuity 8 Timeline 9 Home video releases 10 Footnotes

Synopsis Edit

Jack faces a showdown with a man he thought long dead. Rex takes extreme action, but is it too late to prevent the collapse of society?

Plot Edit

The Torchwood team arrive at the Colasanto residence. The woman who brought Jack is Angelo Colasanto's granddaughter. She explains that since meeting Jack, Angelo has devoted his life to making immortality possible. Angelo himself is now aged and infirm, bedridden and connected to life-support machines.

His granddaughter, Olivia Colasanto, explains the three men who witnessed Jack's resurrection represented three different families who are in some way responsible for the Miracle. When Esther tried to trace them, there was no record of them.

The CIA enter the residence, having tracked Rex through a phone call he made to Vera Juarez's brother. Rex confronts Friedkin, who confesses that he is working for the families, which he transmits through the contact lenses.

Allen Shapiro arrests Friedkin, but he triggers a bomb he is carrying, killing Olivia and him. Rex and Esther are once more allowed to work for the CIA.

While speaking to Angelo, Jack removes his breathing apparatus and kisses him. The life support machines to start beeping frantically and Angelo dies, leaving the CIA attempting to figure out how he died.

Esther notices the flooring under Angelo's bed is higher than the rest of the room. Jack examines it and says it is a null field, cancelling the morphic field causing the Miracle. Jack warns that any state with knowledge of this alien technology could cause a catastrophic disaster, since a null field can conceal mass weapons.

Jack begs Rex and Esther to get him out of there. As they do so, Jack is shot and Esther spotted, leaving Esther driving away with a critically wounded Jack in the back seat.

Cast Edit

• Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
• Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
• Rex Matheson - Mekhi Phifer
• Esther Drummond - Alexa Havins
• Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
• Oswald Danes - Bill Pullman
• Olivia Colasanto - Nana Visitor
• Sarah Drummond - Candace Brown
• Mary Cooper - Sharon Morgan
• Charlotte Willis - Marina Benedict
• Allen Shapiro - John de Lancie
• Brian Friedkin - Wayne Knight
• Jilly Kitzinger - Lauren Ambrose
• Noah Vickers - Paul James
• Blue-Eyed Man - Teddy Sears
• Claire - Megan Duffy
• Shawnie - Constance Wu
• Agent Baylor - David Desantos
• Wilson - Nayo K Wallace
• Angelo Colasanto - Uncredited

Crew Edit

References Edit

to be added

Story notes Edit

• Nana Visitor (Olivia Colasanto) and John de Lancie (Allen Shapiro) are both best known for their roles in the Star Trek franchise. They appeared together in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season One episode "Q-Less", first broadcast in February 1993, in which they played Major Kira Nerys and Q respectively. This means that Visitor and de Lancie have appeared together in spin-offs of both Doctor Who and Star Trek.

Ratings Edit

• UK: 4.64 million ^[2]

Filming locations Edit

to be added

Production errors Edit

• Esther hangs up the phone after Rex gives her the names of the three families, but the call somehow stays connected.
• When Brian Friedkin interrogates Rex, his voice isn't turned into the generic male voice by the Eye-5 contact lenses.

Continuity Edit

• Jack mentions Ianto when he is talking to Angelo, asking him whether he saw Ianto while watching Jack. He speculates about whether the two would have liked each other or not.

Timeline Edit

• This story takes place after TW: Immortal Sins.
• This story takes place before TW: The Gathering.

Home video releases Edit

This episode was released worldwide in a box set containing all ten episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day. In the United Kingdom, it was released on Region 2 DVD and Region Free Blu-ray on 14 November 2011.^[3] In Australia, it was released in Region 4 DVD and Region B Blu-Ray on 1 December 2011.^[4] In New Zealand, the same sets were released on 7 December 2011.^[5] In North America, it was released on Region 1 DVD and Region Free Blu-Ray on 3 April 2012.^[6]

Footnotes Edit

v • e Torchwood television stories Series 1 Everything Changes  • Day One  • Ghost Machine  • Cyberwoman  • Small Worlds  • Countrycide  • Greeks Bearing Gifts  • They Keep Killing Suzie  • Random Shoes  • Out of Time  • Combat  • Captain Jack Harkness  • End of Days Series 2 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 Series 3 Children of Earth: Day One  • Day Two  • Day Three  • Day Four  • Day Five Series 4 Miracle Day: The New World  • Rendition  • Dead of Night  • Escape to LA  • The Categories of Life  • The Middle Men  • Immortal Sins  • End of the Road  • The Gathering  • The Blood Line Stories listed here are only those that have been officially licensed by the BBC.