Immortal Sins (TV story)
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| Main character(s): | Jack, Gwen, Rhys, Rex, Esther | |
| Featuring: | Angelo, Andy, Mary Cooper | |
| Main enemy: | Olivia, brain parasite | |
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| Writer: | Jane Espenson | |
| Director: | Gwyneth Horder-Payton | |
| Producer: | Kelly A Manners | |
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| Season/series: | 4 | |
| Premiere broadcast: | 19 August 2011 | |
| Premiere network: | Starz | |
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Immortal Sins [1] was the seventh episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. For the most part, it consisted of a flashback which introduced the character of Angelo Colasanto. Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond were resigned to cameo roles.
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Synopsis 
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Gwen must fight to protect her family. She takes a terrifying journey covering miles and decades with Jack as the long history of the Miracle is partially revealed.
Plot Edit
Gwen drives Jack through California to bring him to the people holding her family.
Flashbacks are seen of Jack's past. In 1920s New York City, he awaits his visa at Ellis Island. Angelo Colasanto steals it. Jack confronts him, retrieves his visa and visits Angelo in his cell. They talk, and Jack uses technology to create a visa for Angelo.
Angelo is freed and enters a relationship with Jack. At one point, they are retrieving an alien from a base when Jack is shot dead. Angelo is captured and imprisoned. Jack returns to America after Angelo's release. Angelo is terrified by Jack's immortality.
Angelo takes Jack to the butcher shop beneath their room. There are people terrified of Jack. They sadistically attack him with knives, guns and meat hooks to kill him and collect his blood. Three men visit Jack. They seem to know something about his immortality. Angelo, overwhelmed with horror and guilt, eventually lets Jack go. Jack quickly recovers and flees with Angelo to a rooftop, where he explains his immortality before jumping off to his "death". When Angelo reaches the ground, Jack is gone.
As Gwen and Jack arrive, Rex and Esther have contacted Andy Davidson in Wales. He has freed Gwen's family. They train snipers on the three people who want Jack. Jack says he has won, but they say that Jack will come with them anyway. They have the information about the Miracle he wants. Angelo is still alive. He has something to do with the Miracle.
Cast Edit
- Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
- Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
- Rex Matheson - Mekhi Phifer
- Esther Drummond - Alexa Havins
- Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
- Mary Cooper - Sharon Morgan
- Olivia Colasanto[2] - Nana Visitor
- Andy Davidson - Tom Price
- Angelo Colasanto - Daniele Favilli
- Inspector - Pat Asanti
- SWAT Member - Michael Chomiak
- Salvatore Maranzano - Cris D'Annunzio
- Young Priest - Will Green
- Costerdane - Paul Hayes
- Ablemarch - Everton Lawrence
- Young Man - Griffin Matthews
- Mr. Giardano - Frank Medrano
- Girl in Crowd - Angelica Montesano
- Frines - Shawn Parsons
- Elderly Woman - Vanna Salviati
- Mrs. Giardano - Jayne Taini
- SWAT leader - Darren Dupree Washington
Crew Edit
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Created by Russell T Davies |
| Executive Producers Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter |
| Co-executive producer(s) Jane Espenson and Vlad Wolynetz |
General production staff
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| Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources. |
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The Starz broadcast carried a final credit of "Originally Developed and Produced by BBC Cymru Wales". The BBC One broadcast says, instead, "BBC Worldwide Productions for BBC Cymru Wales and STARZ Originals". |
References Edit
- Jack mentions Clarke's Law.
- Jack and Angelo Colasanto talk about the Doctor and the role of his companions.
- Jack mentions the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt being Governor of New York and President for at least two terms, World War II and the Trickster's Brigade.
- Jack tells Angelo, "It gets better. And worse again."
- When Esther says that Vera Juarez was from San Antonio, Rex says, "Go, Spurs." The San Antonio Spurs are an NBA team.
- A firebird is a bird made of fire. It sings and burns bright and only lasts a minute.
Story notes Edit
- Jack explains that the brain parasite would rewrite history by enabling the Third Reich to win the Second World War. One week and a day after this episode was broadcast in the US and only two days after it was broadcast in the UK, the Doctor Who episode Let's Kill Hitler featured Adolf Hitler in a cameo role and was set in Nazi Germany in 1938. In this episode Melody Pond expressed an interest in killing Hitler.
- This is the first time that Jack is killed onscreen during Series 4. He is killed at least seven times in this episode, including being shot, being stabbed, being disembowelled, having his throat slashed, and falling from a high place.
Ratings Edit
- UK: 4.48 million
Filming locations Edit
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Production errors Edit
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Continuity Edit
- Jack referred to the Doctor directly and to his travels typically being with a companion.
- The Seventh Doctor, the Fourth Doctor and the Captain also mentioned Clarke's Law. (TV: Battlefield, TV: The Pirate Planet)
- Jack had a dialogue with Angelo similar to the one the Ninth Doctor had with Rose Tyler. (TV: Rose)
- Jack told Angelo that he is a "fixed point in time" (due to the events on Satellite Five). (TV: The Parting of the Ways) Although the Tenth Doctor did not tell him this until Malcassairo, eighty-one years later in his personal timeline, (TV: Utopia) Jack had prior knowledge of temporal theory. (TV: Boom Town, The Parting of the Ways)
- Jack stated to Angelo, "Men like you kill me." This may be a reference to his former lover Captain John Hart. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang; Fragments; Exit Wounds)
- The creature Jack and Angelo found was intended to infect Franklin D. Roosevelt and disrupt history for the Trickster's Brigade. (TV: Turn Left, Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith, The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)
- A brief video clip was shown of the "death" of Vera Juarez. (TV: The Categories of Life)
- Jack was subjected to similar torture aboard the Valiant, where the Master killed him repeatedly for fun. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
- When Angelo asks what other secrets Jack learned from the Doctor, Jack tells him to run. (TV: Rose, The Doctor's Daughter, Amy's Choice, A Good Man Goes to War)
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
- ↑ As with all episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day, the episode title was not given onscreen, but comes instead from the official Starz Miracle Day website
- ↑ Technically, this character isn't named or credited in this episode.
- ↑ Amazon.co.uk listing
- ↑ EZYDVD.com.au listing
- ↑ Mightyape.co.nz listing
- ↑ Amazon.com listing
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