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Main character(s):	Jack, Gwen, Rhys, Rex, Esther, Oswald
Featuring:	Vera, Jilly, Friedkin, Andy, Charlotte, Noah
Main enemy:	CIA, Lyn Peterfield
Main setting:	A flight between Heathrow and Dulles, 2011
Key crew
Writer:	Doris Egan
Director:	Billy Gierhart
Producer:	Kelly A Manners
Release details
Episode number:	33
Season/series:	4
Premiere broadcast:	15 July 2011
Premiere network:	Starz
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Rendition^[1] was the second episode of the fourth series of Torchwood.

Synopsis Edit

Jack and Gwen travel to America by plane. Rhys is left behind in England. Jack is poisoned en route, while Esther discovers more about Torchwood and those seeking to stop her. Vera Juarez attends a conference and finds out there will be even more ways for the human race to run itself to painful extinction. Oswald Danes appears to a national audience, winning, of all things, sympathy.

Plot Edit

Jack and Gwen are bundled onto a plane headed to America, with Rhys and Anwen left behind. Jack's vortex manipulator is taken. Jack and Gwen are stuck handcuffed on a plane with Rex and Lyn Peterfield, CIA agent.

Oswald Danes, convicted rapist and murderer, is interviewed on TV. Before the interview, Oswald takes most of the food for the people at the station, to a female production assistant's disgust. On TV, asked if he has anything to say, he cries and says he's sorry. Esther and other CIA agents watch on the TV. Oswald wins some agents' sympathy. Afterwards, Oswald and a police officer enter a lift. Jilly Kitzinger congratulates him on his performance, certain he was acting. Jilly offers her card, but Oswald makes a point of tearing it up outside the lift after he had received news of another interview.

On the plane, Rex examines Jack's vortex manipulator, but hears only beeping. Jack tells him he has low sodium levels and he needs salt. Rex calls Dr. Vera Juarez, who confirms this diagnosis.

Dr. Juarez attends a conference in Washington, D.C. She learns the Miracle isn't without problems. People still age and can be critically injured. She overhears that skin cells will continue to grow as old cells die and the Miracle is species-specific to humans. Vera also learns food and medical supplies will drop rapidly, and the ever growing population could become a big problem.

Meanwhile, Esther discovers her account has been deleted from the CIA database after she sees agents she doesn't know in Rex's office. She has received a lot of money from a Chinese bank account, framing her as a double agent. She prepares to contact Rex.

Back on the plane, Jack asks for a Coke. Lyn slips arsenic into it. When she is discovered, she is handcuffed and Gwen and Rex work, with help from Vera and the others at the conference, to create an antidote: improvised EDTA. Lyn tries to stop them and frees herself, but Gwen knocks her unconscious. Gwen and Rex save Jack, and Gwen is handcuffed again.

When Jack, Gwen, Rex and Lyn arrive, Esther contacts Rex and tells him about his office and her account. Lyn slowly unlocks her handcuffs. Rex notices via a text message that he has received even more money than Esther. He lets Jack and Gwen go, knocks the guards out and twists Lyn's neck. Vera and Esther arrive in cars outside the airport, and Jack, Gwen and Rex get into Esther's car. Vera drives off. Lyn, with a twisted neck, stumbles in front of their car, surviving because of the Miracle. The four drive off.

Cast Edit

Crew Edit

Created by Russell T Davies

Executive Producers Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter

Co-executive producer(s) Vlad Wolynetz and Doris Egan


Written by Doris Egan	Produced by Kelly A Manners	Directed by Billy Gierhart	Director of Photography Christopher Faloona	Production Designer Gregory Melton	Visual Effects Lion Visual Effects, Inc.

Key Make-up Artist Todd McIntosh	Casting by John Frank Levey, CSA and Melanie Burgess	Score Murray Gold assistant composer Stu Kennedy	Costume Designer Shawna Trpcic	Editor Padraic McKinley	Key Hair Stylist Susan Boyd
Science Advisor - John Sotos, M.D.


General production staff Production Executive - Shelley Stevens Associate Producer - Skip Schoolnik Location Manager - Joe Akerman Unit Production Manager - Robert D. Nellans Production Accountant - Vince Robinette Transportation Coordinator - Heath Culp Camera and lighting department 1st Assistant Director - Jefferson Kibbee 2nd Assistant Director - Carla Bowen Script Supervisor: Paula Hunziker Camera Operator - Jeff Greeley Key Grip - Isaac Chee Chief Lighting Technician - Don Mosley	Art department Set Decorator - Natali Pope Set Designer - Arthur Chadwick Property Master - Eric Bates Construction Coordinator - Chris Forster Computer Graphics - Twisted Media	Make-up and prosthetics Special Make-up Effects - Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger General post-production staff Post-production Supervisor - Kenneth Requa High Definition Post-Production - Modern Videofilm, Inc. Special and visual effects Visual Effects Supervisor - Michael D. Leone Sound Production Sound Mixer - Julian Howarth Supervising Sound Editor - Walt Newman Co-supervisor - Ken Young Music Editor - Tom Trafalski Re-recording Mixers - Dan Hiland, Gary Rogers Post-Production Sound - Warner Bros.

General production staff

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Make-up and prosthetics

Special Make-up Effects - Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Visual Effects Supervisor - Michael D. Leone

Sound


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.
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

Biology Edit

The continued use of antibiotics (and other drugs and medicines) and the lack of people dying will further the production/evolution of drug-resistant bacteria.
Human flesh affected by Miracle Day continues to age.

Drugs and medicines Edit

Rex is given an aspirin on the plane by Danny. It was found in the co-pilot's shirt pocket.

Elements Edit

Jack is poisoned with arsenic and saved by chelation with EDTA, made on the plane from (amongst other things) silver, cyanide, and degreaser.

Food and beverages Edit

Jack asks for a cola while on the plane.
Gwen drinks water whilst on the plane.
Rex requests some pretzels while on the plane.

Individuals Edit

Jack had a boyfriend who took arsenic for his skin.

Theories and concepts Edit

Jack speaks at length about morphic fields and how their manipulation may have created the Miracle Day.

Vehicles Edit

Esther steals a blue Mini.

Story notes Edit

Unlike broadcasts of Doctor Who and previous series of Torchwood, this series was broadcast in the United States, Australia and Canada before the United Kingdom.

United States - 15 July 2011
Australia and Canada - 16 July 2011
United Kingdom - 21 July 2011

Ratings Edit

UK: 5.75 million

Filming locations Edit

to be added

Production errors Edit

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

While in the Washington, D.C. City Hall, Dr. Juarez can clearly be seen walking past the Colorado state flag. A Colorado flag would not usually be displayed in an official city building outside Colorado. However, the appearance of a California state flag in the same building in TW: The Categories of Life suggests that it is one of a collection of the flags of all fifty US states.
The needle Gwen uses on Jack is far too big to be a standard insulin needle. Instead, it's obviously a standard IM (intra-muscular) needle, which a diabetic like Danny wouldn't carry.
While EDTA is a chelating agent, it's not useful for all heavy metals—in particular, arsenic. (This may have been intentional dramatic license rather than a mistake.)
Rex breaks Lyn's neck and she is later shown walking with her head twisted 180 degrees on her body. Standard neck breaks of the type administered by Rex do not spin the head around like that.
When Jilly is smoking a cigarette with Vera Juarez, on the camera shot behind her the lighter isn't in her hand, then on the front shot the lighter is.

Continuity Edit

Jack and Gwen discuss Jack leaving Torchwood. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Five, DW: The End of Time)
The moon landing is mentioned as being among the things the human race has achieved. (DW: Blink, Day of the Moon)
The Doctor previously survived a poisoning by producing an antidote out of materials around him. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Timeline Edit

This story takes place after TW: The New World.
This story takes place before TW: Dead of Night.

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.^[2] In Australia, it was released in Region 4 DVD and Region B Blu-Ray on 1 December 2011.^[3] In New Zealand, the same sets were released on 7 December 2011.^[4] In North America, it was released on Region 1 DVD and Region Free Blu-Ray on 3 April 2012.^[5]

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
↑ Amazon.co.uk listing
↑ EZYDVD.com.au listing
↑ Mightyape.co.nz listing
↑ Amazon.com listing

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.

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