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'''''They Keep Killing Suzie''''' was the eighth episode of the [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|first series]] of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''. It marked the reappearance of [[Suzie Costello]].
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'''''They Keep Killing Suzie''''' was the eighth episode of the [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|first series]] of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''. It marked the reappearance, revival, and second death of [[Suzie Costello]], who had previously committed [[suicide]] in the [[Everything Changes (TV story)|first episode]].
   
It was intended to be the first in a line of seasonal reappearances for the character, but [[Indira Varma]] was not available for filming during the production of [[Series 2 (Torchwood)|series two]] as she was [[Pregnancy|pregnant]].
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It was intended to be the first in a line of seasonal reappearances for the character, but [[Indira Varma]] was not available for filming during the production of [[Series 2 (Torchwood)|series two]] as she was pregnant.
   
 
== Synopsis ==
 
== Synopsis ==
[[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] is linked to a series of brutal murders around the city. As Jack and the team investigate, it becomes clear somebody wants their attention. What is [[Pilgrim]] - and how is it connected to a figure from Torchwood's past? The resurrection days are far from over.
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[[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] is linked to a series of brutal [[murder]]s around [[Cardiff|the city]]. As [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] and the team investigate, it becomes clear somebody wants their attention. What is [[Pilgrim]] and how is it connected to a figure from Torchwood's past? The resurrection days are far from over. They have no choice but to [[Resurrection Gauntlet|bring back]] [[Suzie Costello|Suzie]].
   
 
== Plot ==
 
== Plot ==
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[[File:TorchwoodInBlood.jpg|thumb|left|"{{uc:Torchwood}}", written in [[blood]] across the victims' wall.]]
Torchwood investigates a serial killer writing their name in blood on victims' bodies. During the inquiry, they meet Detective [[Kathy Swanson|Swanson]]. A DNA analysis leads to a link between [[Retcon]] amnesia pills and the deaths. [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] finds she can use the [[Resurrection gauntlet]]. Using it, they find the killer's name is Max, a member of a neighbourhood religious organisation called [[Pilgrim]]. They also find [[Suzie Costello]] was a member.
 
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[[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] is called in when a [[Murder|serial killer]] writes their name on two of his victims' wall with their [[blood]]. They arrive at the murder site on 96 Oakham Street, and meet Detective [[Kathy Swanson]]; their relationship with her starts off on the wrong foot. A [[DNA]] analysis confirms that the killer has [[Compound B67]] in his blood. Now they're in trouble — #B67 is retcon, an amnesia pill administered only by them. Someone in Torchwood has caused this.
   
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While [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] wants to go through all their files to find a "patient" that matches the [[police]]'s descriptions, [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] has an easier and better idea: they have to bring back the [[resurrection gauntlet]]. [[Everything Changes (TV story)|When she first joined]], Torchwood was using a metal glove to bring murder victims back to life and ask them questions. Even though it caused their past colleague [[Suzie Costello]]'s betrayal and then death, Gwen convinces the team to give it a go. Torchwood essentially caused these murders; now it's their job to clean it up.
After resurrecting Suzie (apparently permanently), the team finds she overdosed a man with [[Retcon]] so severely, he became psychotic. They find Max and lock him in a cell. He is completely unresponsive except when the word "Torchwood" is said, at which he goes into a ten-second rage.
 
   
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After Jack tries and fails, Gwen brings back the first victim — [[Alex Arwyn]] — who wastes his twenty-four seconds screaming for his mother. The second resurrection goes a little better. [[Mark Brisco]] tells them that the killer, named Max, belonged to an organisation known as [[Pilgrim]]. In the last of his sixty-five seconds, Mark identifies a woman who was closer to Max, and knows more about this. The Torchwood team are shocked learn that her name is Suzie. [[Suzie Costello]].
Gwen starts to bond with Suzie. [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] and [[Owen Harper|Owen]] discover Suzie is draining Gwen's life. While the rest of the team is in the conference room, Gwen takes Suzie to see her father in [[Greenleaves hospital]]. The team plan to follow them, but the Hub goes into lockdown, caused by Max repeating the first quartrain of [[Emily Dickinson]]'s "The Chariot":
 
::''Because I could not stop for Death -''
 
::''He kindly stopped for me,''
 
::''The carriage held, but just ourselves -''
 
::''And Immortality.''
 
   
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[[Toshiko Sato|Toshiko]] does some research: Pilgrim was a [[religious]] support group, or a debating society, run by Mark's wife [[Sarah Brisco|Sarah]]. All the victims so far are members of this organisation. As they discover when they go through her possessions stored in a Torchwood warehouse, Suzie too belonged to said group, confirming her involvement with the case. Jack decides that they're no choice — "It's time Suzie came back."
As Gwen and Suzie proceed towards the hospital, the rest of the team works out that Suzie had created a plan for her to be brought back to life and escape. Ianto connects his cellular phone to the Water Tower to get reception. Having no one else to call, Jack calls [[Kathy Swanson|Swanson]], asking her to get a book of poetry and read the poems to them, trying to reverse the lockdown. After some time, [[Toshiko Sato|Toshiko]] guesses the book's ISBN might be the code, which proves to be correct.
 
[[File:Gunshot wounds.jpg|thumb|left|Suzie refuses to die.]]
 
Gwen and Suzie arrive at the hospital where Suzie reveals that Gwen is dying in her place. She disconnects her father from the machines keeping him alive. Knowing the team are nearing, she takes Gwen and drives to [[Hedley Quay]], intending to escape on a ferry. [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] and Owen catch up in the Torchwood SUV. Jack shoots Suzie. She does not die, so Jack shoots her again and again, to no avail. Jack realises the connection is being held by the [[Resurrection gauntlet]]. Jack tells Toshiko to destroy it to break the connection. Suzie tells Jack that "something is moving in the dark and it's coming ... for [Jack]". When Toshiko destroys the glove, Suzie collapses and Gwen begins to recover.
 
   
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Gwen tries resurrecting her, but has trouble with the empathy, seeing as Suzie tried to kill her when they first met three months before. They deduce that it's been too long since her death for the gauntlet to have effect. But what about the [[Life Knife]], used by Suzie to make the glove work more efficiently?
As Ianto and Jack put Suzie's body back into cold storage, Ianto asks what he should put on the death certificate. Jack answers "Death By Torchwood". Ianto suggests putting a lock on the storage unit in case she goes walking again, but Jack says the resurrections are over. Ianto points out that [[Dead Man Walking|gloves come in pairs]].
 
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Stabbing her in the chest with the knife brings Suzie back instantly, but she's unable to give them any new information in time. Gwen tries with all her might to keep Suzie alive, but gets pushed away with a mighty force. Except Suzie's not dead. She's just unconscious... What did Gwen do?
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The team learns in an interrogation session that Suzie had overdosed [[Max Tresilian|Max]] with [[retcon]], giving him a dose after speaking to him once a week for two years. Looking at the pictures of all those already killed, Suzie identifies [[Lucie McKenzie]] as a surviving Pilgrim member.
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Jack, [[Owen Harper|Owen]] and Gwen enter the [[Wolf Bar]] — where Lucie works — in hopes of catching Max before he goes in for the kill. Suzie watches from a screen in the Hub to help identify the two. While the team's distracted by a man fitting Suzie's descriptions but not actually Max, the real Max runs up towards Lucie with a knife. Suzie shouts to Gwen to get out of his way, saving her life. Jack knocks him unconscious with a [[stun gun]].
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They bring Max into the Hub and lock him up in the Vaults, where he refuses to say a word. He goes into a ten-second rage at the word "Torchwood", part of the drug-induced psychosis. Gwen finds out that [[Suzie's father]] has [[cancer]], and blames Jack for letting her access the one thing that could save him: the glove. Jack shifts the blame to her for wanting so badly to bring her back to life. Their argument is interrupted by Owen, who tells Jack and the team that Suzie is draining the life out of Gwen.
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Gwen, not at the briefing, secretly takes Suzie out of the Hub, and drives her to [[Greenleaves Hospital]] to see her dad. Just as her co-workers are about to chase after her [[car]], the base mysteriously goes into lockdown.
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[[File:Costello.jpg|thumb|Suzie's father.]]
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Jack realises that the lockdown must have been caused by Max in the Vaults. Going down there, they discover him reciting the first stanza of [[Emily Dickinson]]'s "[[The Chariot]]": "Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held, but just ourselves And [[immortality]]."
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As Gwen and Suzie proceed towards the [[hospital]], the rest of the team works out that Suzie had a plan all along to be brought back to life and escape. [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] connects his [[mobile phone]] to the [[Roald Dahl Plass]] Water Tower to get reception. Within no one else to call, Jack contacts [[Kathy Swanson]], asking her to get [[Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems|a book of poetry]] and read each and every one of the poems to them until the lockdown is reversed. After some time, Toshiko guesses that the [[book]]'s ISBN might be the code. This proves to be correct, and the power goes back online.
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Gwen and Suzie arrive at the hospital, where Suzie reveals that Gwen is dying in her place. She approaches her father, and disconnects his life-support — "just what the bastard deserves". Knowing the team are nearing, she takes Gwen and drives to [[Hedley Quay]], intending to escape on a ferry.
 
[[File:Gunshot wounds.jpg|thumb|right|Suzie refuses to die.]]
 
Jack and Owen then finally catch up in the [[Torchwood SUV]]. Jack shoots Suzie, but she does not die. He shoots her again and again, to no avail. Jack realises the connection is being held by the [[resurrection gauntlet]], and so orders [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]] to destroy it. In her last moments, Suzie tells Jack that "[[Dead Man Walking (TV story)|something is moving in the dark]] and it's coming"... for him. The moment Tosh destroys the glove, Suzie collapses and Gwen begins to recover.
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As Ianto and Jack replace Suzie's body into cold storage, Ianto asks what he should put on the death certificate. Jack answers, "Death By Torchwood". Ianto suggests putting a lock on the storage unit in case she goes walking again, but Jack says the resurrections are over. Ianto, however, points out that gloves come in pairs. They each give this a moment's thought, before getting back to their respective jobs.
   
 
== Cast ==
 
== Cast ==
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== References ==
 
== References ==
=== Objects ===
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=== Technology ===
* The [[Resurrection gauntlet]] is used by Gwen to revive [[Suzie Costello]].
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* The [[resurrection gauntlet]] is used by Gwen to revive [[Suzie Costello]]. It is later destroyed by Toshiko shooting it with a bullet to sever the connection between them.
* The [[Life Knife]] is removed from the [[Torchwood Hub]] vault to be used in tandem with the [[Resurrection gauntlet]].
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* The [[Life Knife]] is removed from the [[Torchwood Hub]] vault to be used in tandem with the resurrection gauntlet.
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=== Literature ===
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* Among [[Emily Dickinson|Dickinson]] poems quoted are "[[The Chariot]]", "[[Success is Counted Sweetest]]" and "[[My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close]]".
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* Suzie says, "{{w|O Captain! My Captain!|O Captain, my Captain!}}"
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=== Music ===
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* "[[Soley, Soley]]" plays on Gwen's [[car]] [[radio]]. Suzie's mother used to sing it to her when she was a child.
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* "[[Górecki]]" by {{w|Lamb (band)|Lamb}} plays [[Incidental music|incidentally]] at the end of the episode.
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* "Red is the New Black" by Funeral for a Friend is played in the club.
   
 
== Story notes ==
 
== Story notes ==
 
* This episode was originally known as ''They Keep Killing'' to preserve the surprise of Suzie Costello's return.
 
* This episode was originally known as ''They Keep Killing'' to preserve the surprise of Suzie Costello's return.
* The story's title may have been inspired by an episode of [http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0054518/|''The Avengers''] entitled [http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0516946/ "They Keep Killing Steed"].
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* The story's title may have been inspired by an episode of {{wi|The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers}} entitled "They Keep Killing Steed".{{Fact}}
* This episode contains the first reference to a sexual relationship between Ianto and Jack.
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* This episode contains the first reference to a [[sex]]ual relationship between Ianto and Jack.
* This episode also makes the first explicit reference to Jack's bisexuality in ''Torchwood'' (it had already been established in ''Doctor Who'').
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* This episode also makes the first explicit reference to Jack's [[omnisexuality]] in ''Torchwood'' (it had already been established in ''Doctor Who'').
* This episode reveals that there is some form of afterlife in the ''Doctor Who'' mythos. Suzie was apparently stuck in the dark, indicative of a purgatory-like domain. Suzie does not elaborate on whether there is a Heaven or Hell beyond this darkness, but that [[Abaddon|something]] was lurking around in the dark, hunting for Jack.
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* This episode reveals that there is some form of afterlife in the ''Doctor Who'' mythos. Suzie was apparently stuck in the dark, indicative of a purgatory-like domain. Suzie does not elaborate on whether there is a Heaven or Hell beyond this darkness, but that [[Death (Dead Man Walking)|something]] was lurking around in the dark, hunting for Jack.
* As is routine for ''Torchwood'', ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', and the revived ''Doctor Who'' itself, a "NEXT TIME" trailer for the [[Random Shoes|next episode]] is shown at the end of the episode.
 
   
 
=== Ratings ===
 
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* The second victim can be seen breathing whilst the camera pans over the couple lying on the bed the second time.
 
* The second victim can be seen breathing whilst the camera pans over the couple lying on the bed the second time.
 
* When Suzie and Gwen arrive at the dockside, the time of day changes from night to day.
 
* When Suzie and Gwen arrive at the dockside, the time of day changes from night to day.
* When Gwen begins to receive Suzie's wounds, she does not get one under her chin, where Suzie shot herself, but does gets one in the back of her head.
 
   
 
== Continuity ==
 
== Continuity ==
 
{{Torchwood discontinuity}}
 
{{Torchwood discontinuity}}
* A resurrection gauntlet last appeared in ''[[Everything Changes]]'' and would again do so in ''[[Dead Man Walking]]''. The latter episode would revisit the theme of reviving the dead on a permanent basis.
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* A resurrection gauntlet last appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]'' and would again do so in [[TV]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]''. The latter episode would revisit the theme of reviving the dead on a permanent basis.
* Suzie mentions something moving in the darkness, and says it is coming for Jack. This indirectly foreshadows Jack's confrontation with [[Abaddon]] in [[TV]]: ''[[End of Days]]''. However, the true meaning of Suzie's last words is different. They actually foreshadow Torchwood Three's encounter with [[Duroc]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'', the entity Suzie is alluding to.
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* Suzie mentions something moving in the darkness, and says it is coming for Jack. This indirectly foreshadows Jack's confrontation with [[Abaddon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days]]'') However, the true meaning of Suzie's last words is different. They actually foreshadow Torchwood Three's encounter with [[Duroc]], the entity Suzie is alluding to. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'')
* Retcon was first seen being used to cause Gwen to forget Torchwood in the first episode of this series, [[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]''.
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* Retcon was used to cause Gwen to forget Torchwood. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]'')
* While connected to Gwen, Suzie's immortality - living despite the injuries done to her - greatly resembled the immortality later bestowed upon humanity following [[Miracle Day]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'' et al)
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* While connected to Gwen, Suzie's immortality living despite the injuries done to her greatly resembled the immortality later bestowed upon humanity following [[Miracle Day]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'' et al)
   
 
== Home video release ==
 
== Home video release ==
 
[[File:TWS1Part2.jpg|thumb|Series one, part two DVD cover]]
 
[[File:TWS1Part2.jpg|thumb|Series one, part two DVD cover]]
*This episode was first released on DVD, with three other episodes entitled ''Torchwood: Series 1, part 2'' on [[26 February]] [[2007]]. It was later released in ''Torchwood: The Complete First Series'' on [[19 November]] [[2007]].
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*This episode was first released on DVD, with three other episodes entitled ''Torchwood: Series 1, part 2'' on [[26 February (releases)|26 February]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]]. It was later released in ''Torchwood: The Complete First Series'' on [[19 November (releases)|19 November]] 2007.
   
 
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Revision as of 22:16, 27 June 2014

RealWorld

They Keep Killing Suzie was the eighth episode of the first series of Torchwood. It marked the reappearance, revival, and second death of Suzie Costello, who had previously committed suicide in the first episode.

It was intended to be the first in a line of seasonal reappearances for the character, but Indira Varma was not available for filming during the production of series two as she was pregnant.

Synopsis

Torchwood is linked to a series of brutal murders around the city. As Jack and the team investigate, it becomes clear somebody wants their attention. What is Pilgrim — and how is it connected to a figure from Torchwood's past? The resurrection days are far from over. They have no choice but to bring back Suzie.

Plot

TorchwoodInBlood

"TORCHWOOD", written in blood across the victims' wall.

Torchwood is called in when a serial killer writes their name on two of his victims' wall with their blood. They arrive at the murder site on 96 Oakham Street, and meet Detective Kathy Swanson; their relationship with her starts off on the wrong foot. A DNA analysis confirms that the killer has Compound B67 in his blood. Now they're in trouble — #B67 is retcon, an amnesia pill administered only by them. Someone in Torchwood has caused this.

While Jack wants to go through all their files to find a "patient" that matches the police's descriptions, Gwen has an easier and better idea: they have to bring back the resurrection gauntlet. When she first joined, Torchwood was using a metal glove to bring murder victims back to life and ask them questions. Even though it caused their past colleague Suzie Costello's betrayal and then death, Gwen convinces the team to give it a go. Torchwood essentially caused these murders; now it's their job to clean it up.

After Jack tries and fails, Gwen brings back the first victim — Alex Arwyn — who wastes his twenty-four seconds screaming for his mother. The second resurrection goes a little better. Mark Brisco tells them that the killer, named Max, belonged to an organisation known as Pilgrim. In the last of his sixty-five seconds, Mark identifies a woman who was closer to Max, and knows more about this. The Torchwood team are shocked learn that her name is Suzie. Suzie Costello.

Toshiko does some research: Pilgrim was a religious support group, or a debating society, run by Mark's wife Sarah. All the victims so far are members of this organisation. As they discover when they go through her possessions stored in a Torchwood warehouse, Suzie too belonged to said group, confirming her involvement with the case. Jack decides that they're no choice — "It's time Suzie came back."

Gwen tries resurrecting her, but has trouble with the empathy, seeing as Suzie tried to kill her when they first met three months before. They deduce that it's been too long since her death for the gauntlet to have effect. But what about the Life Knife, used by Suzie to make the glove work more efficiently?

Stabbing her in the chest with the knife brings Suzie back instantly, but she's unable to give them any new information in time. Gwen tries with all her might to keep Suzie alive, but gets pushed away with a mighty force. Except Suzie's not dead. She's just unconscious... What did Gwen do?

The team learns in an interrogation session that Suzie had overdosed Max with retcon, giving him a dose after speaking to him once a week for two years. Looking at the pictures of all those already killed, Suzie identifies Lucie McKenzie as a surviving Pilgrim member.

Jack, Owen and Gwen enter the Wolf Bar — where Lucie works — in hopes of catching Max before he goes in for the kill. Suzie watches from a screen in the Hub to help identify the two. While the team's distracted by a man fitting Suzie's descriptions but not actually Max, the real Max runs up towards Lucie with a knife. Suzie shouts to Gwen to get out of his way, saving her life. Jack knocks him unconscious with a stun gun.

They bring Max into the Hub and lock him up in the Vaults, where he refuses to say a word. He goes into a ten-second rage at the word "Torchwood", part of the drug-induced psychosis. Gwen finds out that Suzie's father has cancer, and blames Jack for letting her access the one thing that could save him: the glove. Jack shifts the blame to her for wanting so badly to bring her back to life. Their argument is interrupted by Owen, who tells Jack and the team that Suzie is draining the life out of Gwen.

Gwen, not at the briefing, secretly takes Suzie out of the Hub, and drives her to Greenleaves Hospital to see her dad. Just as her co-workers are about to chase after her car, the base mysteriously goes into lockdown.

Costello

Suzie's father.

Jack realises that the lockdown must have been caused by Max in the Vaults. Going down there, they discover him reciting the first stanza of Emily Dickinson's "The Chariot": "Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held, but just ourselves And immortality."

As Gwen and Suzie proceed towards the hospital, the rest of the team works out that Suzie had a plan all along to be brought back to life and escape. Ianto connects his mobile phone to the Roald Dahl Plass Water Tower to get reception. Within no one else to call, Jack contacts Kathy Swanson, asking her to get a book of poetry and read each and every one of the poems to them until the lockdown is reversed. After some time, Toshiko guesses that the book's ISBN might be the code. This proves to be correct, and the power goes back online.

Gwen and Suzie arrive at the hospital, where Suzie reveals that Gwen is dying in her place. She approaches her father, and disconnects his life-support — "just what the bastard deserves". Knowing the team are nearing, she takes Gwen and drives to Hedley Quay, intending to escape on a ferry.

Gunshot wounds

Suzie refuses to die.

Jack and Owen then finally catch up in the Torchwood SUV. Jack shoots Suzie, but she does not die. He shoots her again and again, to no avail. Jack realises the connection is being held by the resurrection gauntlet, and so orders Tosh to destroy it. In her last moments, Suzie tells Jack that "something is moving in the dark and it's coming"... for him. The moment Tosh destroys the glove, Suzie collapses and Gwen begins to recover.

As Ianto and Jack replace Suzie's body into cold storage, Ianto asks what he should put on the death certificate. Jack answers, "Death By Torchwood". Ianto suggests putting a lock on the storage unit in case she goes walking again, but Jack says the resurrections are over. Ianto, however, points out that gloves come in pairs. They each give this a moment's thought, before getting back to their respective jobs.

Cast

Crew

General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Movement

Casting

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

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.


References

Technology

Literature

Music

  • "Soley, Soley" plays on Gwen's car radio. Suzie's mother used to sing it to her when she was a child.
  • "Górecki" by Lamb plays incidentally at the end of the episode.
  • "Red is the New Black" by Funeral for a Friend is played in the club.

Story notes

  • This episode was originally known as They Keep Killing to preserve the surprise of Suzie Costello's return.
  • The story's title may have been inspired by an episode of The Avengers entitled "They Keep Killing Steed".[source needed]
  • This episode contains the first reference to a sexual relationship between Ianto and Jack.
  • This episode also makes the first explicit reference to Jack's omnisexuality in Torchwood (it had already been established in Doctor Who).
  • This episode reveals that there is some form of afterlife in the Doctor Who mythos. Suzie was apparently stuck in the dark, indicative of a purgatory-like domain. Suzie does not elaborate on whether there is a Heaven or Hell beyond this darkness, but that something was lurking around in the dark, hunting for Jack.

Ratings

  • 1.1 million viewers

Filming locations

to be added

Production errors

  • The second victim can be seen breathing whilst the camera pans over the couple lying on the bed the second time.
  • When Suzie and Gwen arrive at the dockside, the time of day changes from night to day.

Continuity

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.
  • A resurrection gauntlet last appeared in TV: Everything Changes and would again do so in TV: Dead Man Walking. The latter episode would revisit the theme of reviving the dead on a permanent basis.
  • Suzie mentions something moving in the darkness, and says it is coming for Jack. This indirectly foreshadows Jack's confrontation with Abaddon. (TV: End of Days) However, the true meaning of Suzie's last words is different. They actually foreshadow Torchwood Three's encounter with Duroc, the entity Suzie is alluding to. (TV: Dead Man Walking)
  • Retcon was used to cause Gwen to forget Torchwood. (TV: Everything Changes)
  • While connected to Gwen, Suzie's immortality — living despite the injuries done to her — greatly resembled the immortality later bestowed upon humanity following Miracle Day. (TV: The New World et al)

Home video release

TWS1Part2

Series one, part two DVD cover

  • This episode was first released on DVD, with three other episodes entitled Torchwood: Series 1, part 2 on 26 February 2007. It was later released in Torchwood: The Complete First Series on 19 November 2007.

External links


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