Favorite Torchwood Episodes
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- DirectorBrian KellyStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanPolice Constable Gwen Cooper comes across the mysterious organization known as Torchwood. While investigating their world, she finds technology and methods she never imagined.
- DirectorBrian KellyStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanTorchwood must stop a sex addicted alien as it leaves a trail of gruesome deaths in its wake.>>> Gwen strangling Owen and team gossiping about Jack
- DirectorColin TeagueStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanAfter Gwen Cooper recovers an alien device from Sean Harris, the device seemingly takes her back in time to the 1940s where she sees a young boy, alone on a railway platform. Soon after, Owen has a similar experience only this time he is under a bridge in the early 1960s where a young woman is raped and murdered. They trace both the boy and the murderer and learn that the boy was well taken care of. As for the murderer, the case remains unsolved, something that outrages Owen.>>> Jack and Gwen at the shooting range
- DirectorJames StrongStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanThere's a dark secret in the basement of the Hub. Even Jack is unaware of it, but Ianto knows. And he'll go to any lengths, sacrifice anything and anyone, to protect what's down there.Adventures with Ianto Jones
- DirectorAndy GoddardStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanIn the countryside north of Cardiff, the Torchwood team investigates the disappearance of 17 people in the last few months. No bodies have been found and the police haven't a clue as to what may have happened to them. They set up camp in a field but when their SUV is stolen and then parked in a small village just a few miles away, they realize they're being lured into a trap. In the village, they find the remains of several inhabitants - stripped of flesh and organs - and one terrified survivor who promptly shoots Gwen with a shotgun. With Ianto and Tosh taken prisoner, they all soon come to realize that people are being hunted.***Owen Harper is bae DANG GWEN AND OWEN DO THE DO
- DirectorColin TeagueStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanThe team is asked to analyze a recently discovered 18th century corpse with a hole in its chest. Meanwhile, a mysterious charismatic woman seduces Tosh and gives her an alien pendant that allows its wearer to read other people's minds.***
- DirectorJames ErskineStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanThe invisible spirit of a hit-and-run victim tries to convince Gwen to locate the 'alien' who might have been responsible for his death.>>>
- DirectorAlice TroughtonStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanWhen a passenger plane from 1953 arrives in Cardiff in 2007 due to the Rift, the Torchwood team try to help three temporal immigrants adapt a new life in the city.
- DirectorAndy GoddardStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanThe team discovers a ring who are kidnapping Weevils - wild alien creatures that have come through the Rift and are hiding on Earth - which leads Owen down a dark path to confront the future of his own existence.Owen/Gwen affair drama plus plain old Owen drama
- DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanJack and Tosh investigate when there are reports of music coming out of nowhere in an abandoned dance hall. While in the building, a temporal rift sends them back to 1941, but they soon realize they can't get back to their own time. At least not without Tosh sending those in the present day the necessary equations to make it happen. While at the dance hall, Jack runs into someone he knows, an American RAF pilot by the name of Jack Harkness. In the present day, Owen, Ianto, and Gwen are working to get them back. Owen wants to open the rift and try to get Diane Holmes back as well, but opening the rift could destroy the city. The dance hall manager, Bilis Manger, seems to have little trouble going back and forth in time, however.***The real Captain Jack and Owen/Ianto fight
- DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanThe Rift is splintering - strange phenomena like UFOs and ancient soldiers are falling through time into various places around the world. These events resemble those in the prophecy of the arrival of Abaddon, the Great Devourer, who will lead the world into shadow and bring about the End of Days...***Dangit Owen
- DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanA conflicted Torchwood team is surprised to see Captain Jack suddenly return to their lives, and though he tries to come back as if nothing had happened, Jack soon finds that some things have changed since his disappearance. There's little time for explanations, though, as a mysterious stranger from Jack's past steps through the rift, and he's on a mission that only the Torchwood team can help him finish. But it becomes quickly clear that Captain John Hart is not all he claims to be, and as usual, Captain Jack Harkness has some secrets of his own.***James Marsters motherfrickers
- DirectorColin TeagueStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanConflicts abound when a truck owned by Rhys's trucking company is investigated by Torchwood... and Rhys is there to see it. The meat it carries is tainted, or is it even meat at all? Rhys does a little investigating of his own, and might have something to contribute to the team this time around. But he's no longer sure who he can trust anymore. And can Gwen and the team trust him?>>>“This is quite homoerotic”/BA Ianto
- DirectorAndy GoddardStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanAdam, an alien in the guise of a personable young man, is a 'memory manipulator' who implants false memories into the Torchwood team, leading them to believe he is an old friend. Gwen is induced to forget Rhys and Jack recalls painful memories of his brother before he exposes Adam. The team take tablets to restore their memories, in the process 'killing' Adam, who fades away.Dorky Owen plus Jack's past
- DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanJack calls in his old friend Martha Jones, now a doctor at UNIT, to investigate mysterious deaths. When the trail leads to a medical research facility known as "The Pharm", Martha must go undercover to discover the truth.>>> Ianto and Martha discussing Jack in bed plus Owen and Martha plus Owen and Tosh DANG FRICK CRAP NO OWEN
- DirectorAndy GoddardStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanBefore Martha can perform an autopsy on Owen, Jack uses the other Resurrection Glove to temporarily revive him but something goes wrong. A strange energy is keeping his corpse reanimated, and altering his DNA.***FRICK OWEN NO great Jack/Owen jail scene just a great Owen episode
- DirectorAndy GoddardStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanOwen's been dead for three days and finds it unbearable. He meets a woman contemplating jumping off a roof and reveals that there is nothing after death. He then tells the woman how he ended up coming to the roof.***
- DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanFriday night: Gwen's late for her own hen party. This is because she's been chasing a man-eating shape-shifter, which bites her before Jack shoots it. Saturday morning: Wedding day. Gwen wakes up heavily pregnant.Lol Rhys mad at Jack plus Ianto/Owen/Jack
- DirectorMark EverestStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanWhen a local teenager disappears, Gwen is drawn into an investigation that reveals a darker side of Torchwood. Hundreds of people have disappeared without a trace, but why is Jack obstructing attempts to find them? The answer seems to lie in the rift, and as Gwen follows the trail, she makes a shocking discovery.>>> Gwen walking in on Jack and Ianto
- DirectorJonathan Fox BassettStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanAs the team is trapped in the rubble of a building, their paths to joining Torchwood are revealed.***Backstories
- DirectorAshley WayStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesBurn GormanWhen the villainous Captain John Hart returns to abduct Captain Jack Harkness whilst unleashing a wave of destruction and terror upon an unsuspecting Cardiff, it's up to Gwen, Ianto, Owen and Tosh to save the day. Meanwhile, Captain Jack Harkness is forced to face some demons from his past.***James Marsters BUT OWEN AND TOSH NO
- DirectorEuros LynStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesGareth David-LloydTwenty-four years after a busload of schoolchildren mysteriously vanished in Scotland, children all over the world go into a momentary trance before chanting in a monotone, "They are coming!" Clem, an elderly psychiatric patient institutionalized since found wandering as a child, joins in the chant, declaring, "They have found me." MI5 officer Dekker tells government minister Frobisher that 'they' are the 456, of whom he once warned him. Frobisher tells the Prime Minister, whose chief concern is hushing up a past mystery. Gwen goes to see Clem, the child who escaped the aliens years earlier in Scotland. He is a psychic who senses before she does that she is pregnant and believes his friends were abducted by aliens, now poised to return to Earth. After visiting his daughter Alice, Jack is lured into a government trap by a seemingly friendly young doctor, Rupesh. Rupesh is shot and Jack escapes but with a bomb implanted in his body. Clem senses that government agents are coming for him and goes on the run.Ianto and couple talk plus Jack’s family
- DirectorEuros LynStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesGareth David-LloydThe bomb explodes, blowing up Torchwood. Gwen escapes and goes on the run with husband Rhys, with an army detachment under tough female Captain Johnson in pursuit. Dekker gives Frobisher cryptic written plans for a mysterious edifice the aliens - the 456 - want building though not even the P.M. knows what it is. Lois, Frobisher's new temp, accidentally finds secret information on Torchwood in her computer and is curious but Frobisher tells her Jack was the terrorist who caused the explosion.Gwen and Rhys hide in a lorry bound for London, where she discloses her pregnancy. She is keen to get an explanation from Frobisher,unaware that he is out to kill her. Ianto escapes separately, seeking help from his sister, whom he meets in a park where children chant "We are coming. Tomorrow." Clem, on the streets, takes up the chant. Lois, now mistrustful of her boss, takes a call from Gwen and Rhys, meeting them secretly to tip them off that they are in danger. They infiltrate a 'funeral',saving Jack, whose body has regenerated, and are in turn rescued by Ianto. Frobisher and Dekker, having obeyed instructions, await the aliens.>>> FRICK NO THAT'S GONNA BE HOW IANTO DIES
- DirectorEuros LynStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesGareth David-LloydThe team hide out in a former Torchwood holding facility, stealing to survive. Gwen meets with Lois, giving her a laptop and special contact lenses to report back to her. Gwen also has Clem, arrested for an affray, released and safe with the team. Ms. Johnson locates and captures Alice and her son after Alice has tried to ring Jack. Soon after, children all around the world state that 'We' have arrived and a pillar of fire turns into a green ooze as the alien leader communes with Frobisher, watched by the Torchwood team, thanks to Lois. Everything is bound up with the events of 1965, as the alien voice tells Frobisher and Jack also comes to realize. The aliens want ten percent of the world's children to go with them whilst Clem recalls Jack as one who allowed the alien abduction in Scotland, which Jack cannot deny.Family kidnappings and “Who’s the queer?” “Oi”
- DirectorEuros LynStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesGareth David-LloydJack is forced to confess how he helped broker a deal in 1965 when the 456 aliens offered an antidote against a deadly universal flu virus in exchange for twelve children who would 'live forever.' Clem and the team watch via Lois's laptop as the aliens tell Frobisher they will 'wipe out the human species' if their request is not met, and a camera reveals the apparently zombic Scots victims, said by the aliens to be unharmed. Frobisher rejects Jack's offer of help in return for Alice and her son's release. He attends a Cabinet meeting which agrees that the Cabinet's children will be spared and that lower-class kids should be sacrificed instead.This is recorded by Lois and sent to safety with Rhys,giving Ianto and Jack leverage to talk to the aliens but the latter's' response is to unleash a virus which kills dozens, including Clem and,seemingly,Ianto. The government feels forced to capitulate.***NOPE
- DirectorEuros LynStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesKai OwenWith little choice now but to give in to their demands, the British authorities begin to round up the children under the pretense of giving them inoculations. Panic begins to set in as parents begin to wonder what is happening to their children. Captain Jack is released as are his daughter and grandson and he tries to find a way fight the 456. Gwen and her husband return home to tell Ianto's sister what has happened but they arrive to find a house full of children, whom they try to save from the arriving soldiers. With Fobisher no longer available, Col. Oduya becomes the intermediary and the 456 reveal the reason they need the children. For Captain Jack his finding a way to fight the 456 forces him to make an incredible sacrifice.***Captain Jack’s grandson
- DirectorBilly GierhartStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesMekhi PhiferRex brings back Jack and Gwen to Washington. At the CIA office Esther realizes that the rendition is being sabotaged from within the organization. On the flight home Rex unexpectedly needs help from Dr. Juarez to get the team safely on the ground. In the meantime the medical community tries to cope with the new reality of non-death.Jack’s mortal
- DirectorBilly GierhartStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesMekhi PhiferRex forces his boss Friedkin to confess that, in setting him up, he was obeying orders from a mysterious source. By confiscating his phone Rex's investigations lead to an empty warehouse belonging to Phi-Corp, a global pharmaceutical firm, containing vast amounts of pain killers. Rex's wound reopens and he seeks medical help - and more - from Vera Juarez, who has been invited by Jilly Kitzinger to attend a Phi-Corp meeting. Vera takes Gwen and they hear the announcement that all pain-killers will legally be dispensed without prescriptions in future. This is endorsed by Danes to popular approval.Jack sex scene plus Jack confronts Oswald and gets beat up
- DirectorBilly GierhartStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesMekhi PhiferThe quartet escape to Los Angeles and attempt to enter the PhiCorp headquarters, but they have been followed by a man who claims to know Jack from long ago and believes he holds the key to Miracle Day before he is killed by Rex. A right-wing housewife, Ellis Hartley Monroe, achieves fame with her "Dead Is Dead" campaign, which involves herding the sick into ghetto hospitals. Oswald Danes, sensing that he will be eclipsed by her celebrity, publicly opposes it to general acclaim. However, Gwen learns that her father is to be put into one of these 'overflow camps' for the sick, back in Britain.C. Thomas Howell plus Gwen's accent
- DirectorGuy FerlandStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesMekhi PhiferDr. Juarez joins the new Torchwood after category guidelines are released for patient care. Esther and Rex go undercover to find out what is happening to Category 1 patients being sent to 'modules' at overflow centers. Meanwhile, Gwen flies back to Wales to remove her father from an overflow center. Dr. Juarez manages to use her credentials to enter an overflow center as an inspector while Jack attempts to convince Oswald Danes to expose PhiCorp.>>>“That crazy old boyfriend of mine”
- DirectorGwyneth Horder-PaytonStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesMekhi PhiferIn 1927 New York, Jack encounters a young man named Angelo. Meanwhile, in the present, Gwen kidnaps Jack in an attempt to save her family.***Gwen kidnapping Jack plus flashbacks
- DirectorGuy FerlandStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesMekhi PhiferWhilst the CIA look in vain for traces of the three families, Esther somehow gets Jack to Scotland, from where they join Gwen and her family in Wales - as, rather surprisingly - does Oswald Danes, claiming he wants to be helpful. He has stolen Jilly Kitzinger's computer, which shows her to be going to Shanghai. After the police have raided Gwen's house and taken her father, she sets out with Oswald and Jack to Shanghai, where Jilly is meeting a woman called Mother. Esther and Rex pursue a lead in South America.
- DirectorBilly GierhartStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesMekhi PhiferAn underground bloodline flows from Buenos Aires to Shanghai, where Mother shows Jilly that she is planning to blow up her hideout whilst the Blessing maintains its immortality. In Buenos Aires, an explosion kills Rex and Esther's army escort, as they become aware of a CIA mole whom they allow to believe they are dead. They are nonetheless caught and taken to the South American lair of the Mother's cousin, where the other half of the Blessing is kept. Gwen, Oswald, and Jack infiltrate the Shanghai hideaway where they learn how the families, using Jack's blood, attached it to a force field to give them immortality but how the aliens misunderstood and recently gave immortality to the Earth in the spirit of benevolence. Sacrifice and redemption on two continents lead to the destruction of Miracle Day with the capture of the mole and the restoration of order. For one of the survivors, there is an amazing discovery.