Something Borrowed

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Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 Cast 4 Production crew 5 References 6 Story notes 6.1 Ratings 6.2 Myths 6.3 Filming Locations 6.4 Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors 7 Continuity 8 DVD releases 9 See also 10 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Gwen Cooper is about to get married to her fiancé Rhys. Only one problem on her hen night she has forgotten what happened and she is heavily pregnant with an alien shape shifters baby the next day. With the alien on the lose it set out eating people and trying to find its egg and the only way for the alien to get the egg is to rip open its carrier, Gwen...

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[edit] Cast

• Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
• Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
• Owen Harper - Burn Gorman
• Toshiko Sato - Naoko Mori
• Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
• Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
• Brenda Williams — Nerys Hughes
• Mary Cooper — Sharon Morgan
• Geraint Cooper — William Thomas
• Barry Williams — Robin Griffith
• Carrie — Collette Brown
• Megan — Danielle Henry
• Trina — Ceri Ann Gregory
• Banana Boat — Jonathan Lewis Owen
• Mervyn — Morgan Hopkins
• Registrar — Valerie Murray
• Shop Assistant — Pethrow Gooden

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[edit] References

• The Singularity Scalpel is given a name.
• Jack mentions Evil Dead when he sees Rhys with a chainsaw.
• All of Gwen's wedding guests are given level 6 retcon (with champagne), Jack also offers it to Gwen and Rhys.
• The Nostrovite doesn't attack Owen, realizing that he is actually dead. Owen was killed in Reset and returned to partial life in Dead Man Walking.
• At the end of the episode Jack takes out a photo of himself and presumably his wife.

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• William Thomas previously appeared in DW: Remembrance of the Daleks and Boom Town, making him the first actor to have appeared in the 'classic series', the BBC Wales series and Torchwood.
• Nerys Hughes previously appeared in DW: Kinda.

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[edit] Myths

• It was rumoured Rhys would die in this episode. (This was false)

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[edit] Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

• At the end, Jack administers retcon to everyone at the wedding reception, to make them forget the alien encounter (not to mention Gwen's sudden pregnancy). Wouldn't this result in them, therefore, forgetting the wedding of Gwen and Rhys? Made even more complicated is the fact Gwen and Rhys are themselves offered retcon, so they too might have forgotten the wedding. Perhaps retcon allows for the implantation of false memories; this is in fact implied by Jack's statement about there being a long evening ahead after the retcon goes into effect.
• Even if retcon allows false memories to be implanted, it's somewhat more difficult to rectify the fact one of the wedding guests in fact died. Perhaps the false memory omitted the man, who would turn up dead in another venue, as per established Torchwood cover-up policy.

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• The singularity scalpel was last used in Reset.
• Owen is unable to properly use his left hand because of the damage sustained to it in A Day in the Death.

[edit] DVD releases

• This story along with the rest of Torchwood Series 2 is due to be released in a complete series boxset.

[edit] See also

• NA: Happy Endings

[edit] External links

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Torchwood 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