From Out of the Rain (TV story)

From Out of the Rain
Main character(s):	Jack, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, Ianto
Main enemy:	Night Travellers
Main setting:	Cardiff, 2009
Key crew
Writer:	Peter J. Hammond
Director:	Jonathan Fox Bassett
Producer:	Richard Stokes
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	12 March 2008
Premiere network:	BBC Three
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From Out of the Rain was the tenth episode in the second series of Torchwood.

Synopsis

When an old cinema re-opens, past horrors emerge to stalk the streets of Cardiff. As bodies are found with heartbeats but no breath, Torchwood must act fast. Who are the Night Travellers? How can Torchwood capture these mysterious breath takers?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
• Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
• Toshiko Sato - Naoko Mori
• Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
• Owen Harper - Burn Gorman
• Ghostmaker - Julian Bleach
• Pearl - Camilla Power
• Jonathan - Craig Gallivan
• Greg - Gerard Carey
• Dave Penn - Stephen Marzella
• Faith Penn - Hazel Wyn Williams
• Nettie - Lowri Sian Jones
• Christina - Eileen Essell
• Restaurant Owner - Anwen Carlisle
• Senior nurse - Yasmin Wilde
• Nurse - Caroline Sheen
• Mother - Lisa Winton
• Daughter - Gaia Davies
• Couple in Car - Alastair Sill, Catherine Olding
• Young boy - Tom Langford

Crew

Created by Russell T Davies

Executive Producers   Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner

Written by Peter J. Hammond	Produced by Richard Stokes	Directed by Jonathan Fox Bassett	Director of Photography Simon Butcher	Production Designer Edward Thomas	Visual Effects The Mill
Make-up Designer Marrie Dorris	Casting Director Andy Pryor	Music Ben Foster	Costume Designer Ray Holman	Edited by Fergus MacKinnon
Original theme music by Murray Gold

General production staff Co-producer - Chris Chibnall Script department Script Editor - Brian Minchin Camera and lighting department 1st Assistant Director - Nic Britz 2nd Assistant Director - Pru Mettyer 3rd Assistant Director - Suzanna Shaw Camera Operator - James Moss Focus Puller - Christopher J. Reynolds Gaffer - John Truckle	Art department Production Buyer - Clare Keyte Costume department Costume Supervisor - Charlotte Mitchell	Make-up and prosthetics Make-up Supervisor - Claire Pritchard Make-up Artist - Andrea Dowdall Movement Stunt Co-ordinator - Tom Lucy Casting Casting Associate - Andy Brierley General post-production staff Post-production Supervisors - Chris Blatchford, Helen Vallis On-line Editor - Mark Bright Special and visual effects Visual FX Supervisor - Barney Curnow Visual Effects Co-ordinator - Jenna Powell Colourist - Mick Vincent Sound Dubbing Mixer - Peter Jeffreys Sound Effects Editor - Howard Eaves

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

• Providence Park
• Christina describes hurdy-gurdy music to Jack and Ianto.

Story notes

• Julian Bleach (the Ghostmaker) would later play Davros in TV: The Stolen Earth / Journey's End and the Nightmare Man in TV: The Nightmare Man.
• Camilla Power (Pearl) would later play Councillor Kostal in AUDIO: The Foe from the Future.

Ratings

• 951,000 viewers

Myths

• Gwen Cooper is now known as Gwen Williams. In fact, the closing credits of this and succeeding episodes establish that her name is not changed, and this has been confirmed by off-screen sources including Eve Myles. In addition, she is referred to on screen as Gwen Cooper in TV: Journey's End.

Filming locations

to be added

Production errors

• Ianto said he used to go to the Electro with his father. According to the Torchwood Website, the Electro closed in 1977 and didn't open for thirty years. Ianto was born in 1983, six years after it closed.

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.

• The Ghostmaker realises Owen has no breath, as he is dead and his respiratory system has ceased functioning. He was killed in Reset but was revived in Dead Man Walking.
• Jack Harkness was working on behalf of an (as-yet) unidentified organisation in the 1920s when he was assigned to infiltrate a travelling circus in order to investigate the Night Travellers. Although he never encountered them, by coincidence film footage of him got mixed in with footage of the Night Travellers. As he did not become immortal until after he left the Time Agency, it is more likely he was working for Torchwood at the time. Also, in TV: Fragments an account of events from his mission searching for the Night Travellers can be read in the first of the handwritten reports prepared for his Torchwood file. Though if it was Torchwood, it seems odd that he did not properly answer Ianto's question.
• Although this is never addressed on screen, the closing credits for this episode established that Gwen continues to be known as Gwen Cooper, and not Gwen Williams.

DVD releases

• From Out of the Rain, along with the rest of Torchwood Series 2, was released in a complete series box set in 2008.

External links

• From Out of the Rain at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• From Out of the Rain at Shannon Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel)
• From Out of the Rain at The Locations Guide

Footnotes