Bilis Manger

INDIVIDUAL
Bilis Manger
Race	Unknown (Human?)
Home Planet	Unknown (Earth?)
Home Era	Unknown
Appearances	TW: Captain Jack Harkness, TW: End of Days
Actor	Murray Melvin

Bilis Manger: I can step across eras like you’d walk into another room. At first it was the most incredible gift. Now I know the reality. It’s a curse.

Gwen Cooper: Why?

Bilis Manger: I can see the whole of history but I don’t belong anywhere within it.

- TW: End of Days

A dangerous enemy, Bilis Manger has the power to effortlessly time travel, apparantly without technical aid. Manipulating Torchwood 3 in various ways, he eventually tricked them into opening the Cardiff rift.

Biography

Nothing is really known of Manager, not even his origin as a human or a being posing as human.

He first encountered the Torchwood team in the Ritz dance hall in January 1941, immediately taking a sinister interest in Jack Harkness and Toshiko Sato. Manger's possession of a file with the hand-lettered label "Torchwood" indicates he had some connection with 1940s-era Torchwood Institute.

Simultaneously, he seemed to exist it 21st century, managing the new-abandoned dance hall. In posession of a missing component of the Rift manipulator found at the the Hub, it seems possible that he deliberately allowed Owen Harper to find it in a grandfather clock and and to take it. At the same time, he deliberately scratched out numbers in Toshiko's rift equations so that the manipulator would not funciton properly and so cause the rift to widen after Owen used the manipulator to bring Jack and Toshiko back to the 21st century. (TW: Captain Jack Harkness)

Shortly after, Manger's appearances took an even more ominous tone. Jack and Gwen Cooper discovered that Manger owned a store named A Stitch in Time and met him there. He demonstrated to Gwen his power to time travel and showed her a vision of Rhys lying dead. Later, he proceeded to stab to death himself.

The visions of loved ones who appeared to the members of the team (except for Jack), inducing them to open the rift almost certainly have something to do with Manger.

Manger may have the power, himself to appear as other people or at least to induce illusions.

Having dissapeared claiming that his 'work was done' after Abaddon to Cardiff (TW: End of Days)

The letters of Bilis' first name, re-arranged spells, "Iblis", one name for Satan.

Personality

Manger has a quiet, guarded, sardonic demeanor. He does not display overt emotions. He has a fascination with clocks. Manger seemed to worship Abaddon as a god and worked to free him.

Abilities

Time travel (TW: Captain Jack Harkness), telepathy and teleportation and limited omniscience. He possibly also possesed the ability to appear as other people. (TW: End of Days)