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|main character = [[Jeremiah Bash Henderson]]
|main character   = [[Jeremiah Bash Henderson]]
|featuring       = [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]], [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]], [[Suzie Costello|Suzie]], [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]], [[Andy Davidson|Andy]], [[Yvonne Hartman|Yvonne]], [[Norton Folgate|Norton]], [[St John Colchester|Colchester]], [[Alex Hopkins|Alex]], [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]]
|featuring         = Jack Harkness
|enemy           = [[The Committee]]
|featuring2        = Gwen Cooper
|setting         = [[Torchwood Archive]]
|featuring3        = Ianto Jones
|writer         = [[James Goss]]
|featuring4        = Toshiko Sato
|director       = [[Scott Handcock]]
|featuring5        = Suzie Costello
|music           = [[Blair Mowat]]
|featuring6        = Rhys Williams
|sound           = [[Steve Foxon]]
|featuring7        = Andy Davidson
|cover           = [[Lee Binding]]
|featuring8        = Yvonne Hartman
|publisher       = Big Finish Productions
|featuring9        = Norton Folgate
|release date   = [[21 October (releases)|21 October]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]]
|featuring10      = St John Colchester
|format         =  
|featuring11      = Alex Hopkins
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|featuring12      = Victoria{{!}}Queen Victoria
|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-78575-423-4
|enemy             = [[Memory Core]]
|series         = [[Big Finish Torchwood series|Big Finish ''Torchwood'' special releases]]
|setting           = [[Torchwood Archive]], [[4421]]
|next           = Outbreak (audio story)
|writer           = James Goss
|director         = [[Scott Handcock]]
|music             = [[Blair Mowat]]
|sound             = [[Steve Foxon]]
|cover             = [[Lee Binding]]
|publisher         = Big Finish Productions
|release date     = 21 October 2016
|format           = 2 CDs<br/>Download
|production code   = BFPTWARCHIVECD
|isbn             = ISBN 978-1-78575-423-4 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78575-424-1 (download)
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|producer          = [[James Goss]]
|epcount          = 2
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a special release from Big Finish Productions celebrating the 10th anniversary of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''. It explored the origins of [[the Committee]] and the [[Last of Erebus|Red Key]].
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a special release from [[Big Finish Productions]] celebrating the 10th anniversary of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''. It explored the origins of [[the Committee]] and [[Object 1]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
''to be added''
=== Part one ===
[[Jeremiah Bash Henderson]] enters the [[Torchwood Archive]] and is greeted by a [[hologram]] of [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]], but he says that he has come to shut the Archive down. Holograms of [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] and [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] appear, with the latter leading Jeremiah to the library. [[Andy Davidson|Andy]] takes over, telling him that it is a Classic Torchwood theme week and asking what he wants information on. Jeremiah asks for the records on [[Object 1]].
 
The first recording is of Queen Victoria making a [[speech]] in [[1899]] saluting Torchwood. Andy then brings up a recording from [[Café|a café]] in [[Penarth]] in [[2009]], in which he tells [[Andy Davidson's date|a date]] about how he was Torchwood's official [[liaison]] with [[South Wales Police]]. He then tells Jeremiah about [[the Committee]] and shows him a recording of [[St John Colchester|Mr Colchester]] from [[2017]]. Mr Colchester recounts how he followed up a lead on the Committee and found them at [[Bide-a-Wee Care Home|a care home]], but [[Roy (Ghost Mission)|Roy]] only told him that they wanted Earth to reach its full potential.
 
As "something straightforward", Andy produces a recording of Jack. Jack says that he was given Object 1 by Queen Victoria and was told to throw it into [[the Rift]], but instead decided to keep it and stay in [[Cardiff]]. In [[1914]], he encountered the [[Weevil]]s and threw Object 1 into the Rift, believing that it was responsible, and burnt the Weevils alive with a [[proton flamethrower]].
 
Jumping ahead to [[2004]], [[Suzie Costello]] called [[Yvonne Hartman]] from a [[bus stop]] and told her how she found Object 1 in an [[Ovid Industries|Ovid]] factory in [[Aberfair]], offering it to her. She did so under Jack's orders, wanting to get it out of [[Wales]]. Yvonne calls [[Suresh (The Torchwood Archive)|Suresh]] and tells him to continue leading Ovid on as part of their investigation into the Committee.
 
The next recording is of [[Eve Trent]] at [[Aberdeen Airport]] leaving a message for Torchwood, telling them of her work for the Committee and how she built bodies for them. She visited one of the Committee's [[bunker]]s for the people chosen to survive [[the Reset]] and realised that the Committee would seal them in there and leave them to die. She is then shot dead.
 
As an example of people not realising that they work for the Committee, Andy shows a recording of [[Gwen Cooper]] and [[Rhys Williams]]. Rhys is called by [[Mandy (The Torchwood Archive)|Mandy]] from work, who tells him that [[Harwood's Haulage|Harwood's]] need to transport even more industrial [[refrigerator]]s to [[Troed-y-Rhiw]]. The next is of [[Ivan Putin]] of the [[KVI]], who is tasked by [[Maxim Ivanov]] with telling five of the richest men in [[Moscow]] that their girlfriends are members of the Committee and being manipulated into bidding for [[Galatine]]. He tells of how the KVI had dealings with the Committee.
 
Andy shows Jeremiah a recording of [[Toshiko Sato]] in a [[bar]], having reverse-engineered Object 1 to bring good [[luck]] with a [[field inverter]]. She sends it into the Rift. Andy then shows a recording of [[Alex Hopkins]] on the day that he killed himself, meeting [[Little girl (Dead Man Walking)|the little girl]] and being given Object 1. Andy asks Jeremiah why he is so interested in Object 1, prompting him to produce it from his pocket.
 
=== Part two ===
Andy is displeased with Jeremiah, who says that he has brought Object 1 to shut Torchwood down. He claims that he met with Jack at [[Space Station Cardiff]] before his [[wedding]] at the [[Great Cobalt Pyramid]] and was tasked by him with destroying the Torchwood Archive with Object 1 to keep it from falling into the hands of [[The Enemy (The Torchwood Archive)|the Enemy]], killing his possessed wife [[Delilah (The Torchwood Archive)|Delilah]] on the way after she was possessed.
 
To show Jeremiah that the system that the Archive was based on has always been erratic, Andy shows him a recording of [[Archie (The Twilight Streets)|Archie]] in [[Torchwood House]], inspecting a "knowledge sponge" taken from a [[Senedial observation drone]] and processing Object 1. Andy then shows him the destruction of [[Torchwood Four]] due to a separate alien artefact.
 
Further recordings show [[Norton Folgate]] in [[1953]], tricking [[Mandrake (The Torchwood Archive)|Madrake]] into swapping a [[Coberoid interface]] for Object 1 and handing it over to [[Mitford]] of the Committee, and [[Torchwood India]] in [[1924]] after Jack took their whole inventory bar Object 1, which they then sent. During the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]], Ianto is given Object 1 by a dying [[Kieran Frost]] to give to [[Lisa Hallett]].
 
Years later, he and Jack play with their dog, [[Untitled (The Torchwood Archive)|Untitled]], watched by Roy. Gwen meets with [[Madeline (The Torchwood Archive)|Madeline]] and asks about the Committee. She believes that she has been possessed by the Committee in the past which caused her [[tumour]]. She collapses, having taken a number of pills.
 
Andy has disappeared, replaced with Rhys and Gwen. Both of them advise Jeremiah to take Object 1 and put it in the Archive. Jeremiah meets the [[Memory Core]], which takes the form of Queen Victoria and plays him a recording of the real Queen relaying the story of the origins of the Committee and Object 1. She asks Jack to throw Object 1 into the Rift, thinking that that would be the end of it.
 
The Memory Core tells Jeremiah that Object 1 is a key to a [[pocket universe]] containing copies of the Committee. He places it in the Torchwood Archive, earning him the thanks of the Torchwood holograms, and leaves. The Memory Core, wanting to take the Committee's universe and leave [[N-Space]] to them, opens it whilst Jeremiah and Norton fly away. Jeremiah reveals that he had given the Memory Core a [[bomb]] disguised as Object 1 and that he and Norton would now open the real one to bring back the Committee.
 
In the [[2000s]], the [[Rift Manipulator]] goes wild and Object 1 returns. Jack, Gwen, Ianto and Tosh sigh.


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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* [[Rhys Williams]] - [[Kai Owen]]
* [[Rhys Williams]] - [[Kai Owen]]
* [[Andy Davidson]] - [[Tom Price]]
* [[Andy Davidson]] - [[Tom Price]]
* [[Yvonne Hartman]] - [[Tracy Ann Oberman|Tracy-Ann Oberman]]
* [[Yvonne Hartman]] - [[Tracy-Ann Oberman]]
* [[Jeremiah Bash Henderson]] - [[Richie Campbell]]
* [[Jeremiah Bash Henderson]] - [[Richie Campbell]]
* [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]] - [[Rowena Cooper]]
* [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]] - [[Rowena Cooper]]
* [[Alex Hopkins]] - [[Julian Lewis Jones]]
* [[Alex Hopkins]] - [[Julian Lewis Jones]]
* [[Norton Folgate]] - [[Samuel Barnett]]
* [[Norton Folgate]] - [[Samuel Barnett]]
* [[The Committee]] - [[David Warner]]
* [[Roy (Ghost Mission)|The Committee]] - [[David Warner]]
* [[Trent (Uncanny Valley)|Miss Trent]] - [[Emma Reeves]]
* [[Eve Trent|Miss Trent]] - [[Emma Reeves]]
* [[Maxim Ivanov]] - [[Krystian Godlewski]]
* [[Maxim Ivanov]] - [[Krystian Godlewski]]
* [[Archie (The Twilight Streets)|Archie]] - [[Guy Adams (writer)|Guy Adams]]
* [[Archie (The Twilight Streets)|Archie]] - [[Guy Adams]]
* [[Bartender (The Torchwood Archive)|Bartender]] - [[Geoffrey Breton]]
* [[Bartender (The Torchwood Archive)|Bartender]] - [[Geoffrey Breton]]
* [[Mitford|Miss Mitford]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
* [[Mitford|Miss Mitford]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
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* [[St John Colchester|Mr Colchester]] - [[Paul Clayton]]
* [[St John Colchester|Mr Colchester]] - [[Paul Clayton]]


== References ==
== Crew ==
* Jack sings [[What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?]] while talking about the sailors in Tiger Bay.
 
* Cover Art - [[Lee Binding]]
* Director - [[Scott Handcock]]
* Executive Producers - [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] and [[Nicholas Briggs]]
* Music - [[Blair Mowat]] and [[Steve Wright]]
* Writer & Producer - [[James Goss]]
* Script Editor - [[Steve Tribe]]
* Sound Design - [[Steve Foxon]]
* Theme Music by [[Murray Gold]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Torchwood holograms are technically [[intuitive hard-light simulation]]s.
* Roy mentions ''[[Homes Under the Hammer]]''.
* Jack sings "[[What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?]]" while talking about the sailors in Tiger Bay.
* [[Edward VII]] did not believe in aliens. Jack got Torchwood funded by taking Edward to Paris.
* [[Edward VII]] did not believe in aliens. Jack got Torchwood funded by taking Edward to Paris.
* [[Last of Erebus|Object One]] transformed Cardiff's sailors into [[Weevil|Weevils]].
* [[Last of Erebus|Object 1]] transformed sailors at [[Tiger Bay]] into [[Weevil]]s.
* The woman warning Jack about the committee mentions [[Johnny Depp]].
* Yvonne was once offered a [[sex doll]] of [[Brad Pitt]].
* Rhys works for [[Harwood's Haulage|Harwoods Haulage]].
* Miss Trent mentions [[Facebook]].
* Jack does not have an [[ood]] when he sends Jeremiah to destroy the archive.
* Miss Trent has a [[Springer Spaniel]] called [[Tavistock]].
* [[Alex Hopkins]] mentions the [[Millenium Bug]], which was actually a giant insect.
* Miss Trent mentions [[Johnny Depp]].
* Jack says the Torchwood archive is right at the edge of the great and bountiful human empire.
* Rhys works for [[Harwood's Haulage]], who are delivering [[fridge]]s to [[Troed-y-Rhiw]].
* The holograms of Jack and Ianto have a dog with no name, that they refer to as untitled.
* Rhys jokes about frozen [[Nazi]]s.
* The Committee manipulate rich Russians into bidding for [[Galatine]], built by the late [[Neil Redmond]].
* Jack does not have an [[Ood]] when he sends Jeremiah to destroy the Archive.
* [[Alex Hopkins]] mentions the [[Millennium Bug]], which was actually a giant insect.
* The Torchwood Archive's system was based on a computational, processing organic device taken from the wreckage of a [[Senedial observation drone]] seen hovering over [[Shadwell]]. Archie described it as a knowledge sponge.
* [[Object 3019]] and [[Object 3000512]] are weapons.
* [[Dwight (The Torchwood Archive)|Dwight]] is a [[gangster]]. Norton invites him back to [[Norton Folgate's flat|his flat]].
* Torchwood [[retcon]]ned [[Dwayne Peters]].
* Madeline's doctor is [[Rogers (The Torchwood Archive)|Dr Rogers]].
* Madeline put [[weed killer]] in Gwen's [[tea]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This story clarifies the dating system used in [[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Planet (TV story)|The Impossible Planet]]''/''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'', which was set in [[43K2.1]]. Years are read as "[century]K[decade].[year]" while centuries are read as "[millennium].[century]K" e.g. 19K7.9 corresponds to [[1879]], 21K0.7 corresponds to [[2007]] and 2.0K corresponds to the [[20th century]].
* This story clarifies the dating system used in [[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Planet (TV story)|The Impossible Planet]]'' / ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'', which was set in [[43K2.1]]. Years are read as "[century]K[decade].[year]" while centuries are read as "[millennium].[century]K" e.g. 19K7.9 corresponds to [[1879]], 21K0.7 corresponds to [[2007]] and 2.0K corresponds to the [[20th century]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]] founded Torchwood in [[1879]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'')
* [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]] founded Torchwood in [[1879]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'')
* [[The Committee]] is mentioned on a number of occasions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conspiracy (audio story)|The Conspiracy]] ''et al) They can be found in an old people's home. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'')
* [[The Committee]] is mentioned on a number of occasions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conspiracy (audio story)|The Conspiracy]]'', etc.) They can be found in an old people's home. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'')
* Tosh recovered Object One from Russia. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zone 10 (audio story)|Zone 10]]'') It was later recovered from a crashed spaceship by [[Andy Davidson]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'')
* Tosh recovered Object 1 from Russia. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zone 10 (audio story)|Zone 10]]'') It was later recovered from a crashed spaceship by [[Andy Davidson]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'')
* Suzie says "Torchwood One isn't going anywhere" to which Jack replies "more's the pity". ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
* Suzie says "Torchwood One isn't going anywhere" to which Jack replies "more's the pity". ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
* Jack had [[Suzie Costello|Suzie]] pegged as a "daddy's girl". She shows disdain for her [[Suzie's father|father]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)|They Keep Killing Suzie]]'')
* Jack had [[Suzie Costello|Suzie]] pegged as a "daddy's girl". She shows disdain for her [[Suzie's father|father]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)|They Keep Killing Suzie]]'')
* [[Ivan Putin]] mentions the trade of weapons by [[Neil Redmond]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Uncanny Valley (audio story)|Uncanny Valley]]'')
* [[Ivan Putin]] mentions the trade of weapons by [[Neil Redmond]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Uncanny Valley (audio story)|Uncanny Valley]]'')
* [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]] mentions that manipulating the world's fields could keep people from dying. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', etc.)
* [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]] mentions that manipulating the world's fields could keep people from dying. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', etc.)
* [[Last of Erebus|Object One]] is revealed to be the locket that showed [[Alex Hopkins]] the future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'') Among others, he saw the [[456]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'') and [[Miracle Day]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', et al.)
* [[Last of Erebus|Object 1]] is revealed to be the locket that showed [[Alex Hopkins]] the future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'') Among others, he saw [[the 456]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'') and [[Miracle Day]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', etc.)
* Ianto searched for Lisa during the destruction of Torchwood One. He told her to come into work that day. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
* Ianto searched for Lisa during the destruction of Torchwood One. He told her to come into work that day. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
* [[Zachary Cross Flane]], second-in-command of the [[Walker Expedition]], previously stated that he represented the Torchwood Archive. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'')
* [[Zachary Cross Flane]], second-in-command of the [[Walker Expedition]], previously stated that he represented the Torchwood Archive. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'')
* Jack notes that [[Cardiff]]'s [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|rift]] is a battery which "[[The Doctor|you know who]]" will pop by to refuel every now and then. ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'', ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
* Jack notes that [[Cardiff]]'s [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|rift]] is a battery which "[[The Doctor|you know who]]" will pop by to refuel every now and then. ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'', ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
* [[Madeline (The Torchwood Archive)|Madeline]] mentions the death of [[George Wilson (The Conspiracy)|George Wilson]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conspiracy (audio story)|The Conspiracy]]'')
* [[Madeline (The Torchwood Archive)|Madeline]] mentions the death of [[George Wilson (The Conspiracy)|George Wilson]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conspiracy (audio story)|The Conspiracy]]'')
* [[St John Colchester|Mr Colchester]] is revealed to be a member of Torchwood in 2017 ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Changes Everything (audio story)|Changes Everything]]'') and is heard talking to [[Orr (Orr)|Orr]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Orr (audio story)|Orr]]'', et al.)
* [[St John Colchester|Mr Colchester]] is revealed to be a member of Torchwood in 2017 ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Changes Everything (audio story)|Changes Everything]]'') and is heard talking to [[Orr]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Orr (audio story)|Orr]]'', etc.)
* The little girl says "You like guns, don't you?" to Alex. The [[Seventh Doctor]] once said the same thing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol (TV story)|The Happiness Patrol]]'')
* Archie mentions being attacked by the [[Life-stealer]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Victorian Age (audio story)|The Victorian Age]]'')


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The Torchwood Archive was a special release from Big Finish Productions celebrating the 10th anniversary of Torchwood. It explored the origins of the Committee and Object 1.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

"Welcome, visitor. The Torchwood Archive provides a complete history of our Institute from its distant beginnings to the present day. When we founded our great enterprise in the year of our Lord 1879, we decreed that there should be a record of this achievement, stored at the very furthest limits of the British Empire. By visiting you are spreading that legacy, perhaps out through the skies. For now, I shall bid you a good day and welcome you to the Torchwood Archive. Do, please look around."

The Torchwood Archive is a forgotten asteroid in the centre of a great war. Jeremiah is its first visitor in many centuries. He's come to learn something very important. And the ghosts of Torchwood are waiting for him.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jeremiah Bash Henderson enters the Torchwood Archive and is greeted by a hologram of Queen Victoria, but he says that he has come to shut the Archive down. Holograms of Jack and Ianto appear, with the latter leading Jeremiah to the library. Andy takes over, telling him that it is a Classic Torchwood theme week and asking what he wants information on. Jeremiah asks for the records on Object 1.

The first recording is of Queen Victoria making a speech in 1899 saluting Torchwood. Andy then brings up a recording from a café in Penarth in 2009, in which he tells a date about how he was Torchwood's official liaison with South Wales Police. He then tells Jeremiah about the Committee and shows him a recording of Mr Colchester from 2017. Mr Colchester recounts how he followed up a lead on the Committee and found them at a care home, but Roy only told him that they wanted Earth to reach its full potential.

As "something straightforward", Andy produces a recording of Jack. Jack says that he was given Object 1 by Queen Victoria and was told to throw it into the Rift, but instead decided to keep it and stay in Cardiff. In 1914, he encountered the Weevils and threw Object 1 into the Rift, believing that it was responsible, and burnt the Weevils alive with a proton flamethrower.

Jumping ahead to 2004, Suzie Costello called Yvonne Hartman from a bus stop and told her how she found Object 1 in an Ovid factory in Aberfair, offering it to her. She did so under Jack's orders, wanting to get it out of Wales. Yvonne calls Suresh and tells him to continue leading Ovid on as part of their investigation into the Committee.

The next recording is of Eve Trent at Aberdeen Airport leaving a message for Torchwood, telling them of her work for the Committee and how she built bodies for them. She visited one of the Committee's bunkers for the people chosen to survive the Reset and realised that the Committee would seal them in there and leave them to die. She is then shot dead.

As an example of people not realising that they work for the Committee, Andy shows a recording of Gwen Cooper and Rhys Williams. Rhys is called by Mandy from work, who tells him that Harwood's need to transport even more industrial refrigerators to Troed-y-Rhiw. The next is of Ivan Putin of the KVI, who is tasked by Maxim Ivanov with telling five of the richest men in Moscow that their girlfriends are members of the Committee and being manipulated into bidding for Galatine. He tells of how the KVI had dealings with the Committee.

Andy shows Jeremiah a recording of Toshiko Sato in a bar, having reverse-engineered Object 1 to bring good luck with a field inverter. She sends it into the Rift. Andy then shows a recording of Alex Hopkins on the day that he killed himself, meeting the little girl and being given Object 1. Andy asks Jeremiah why he is so interested in Object 1, prompting him to produce it from his pocket.

Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]

Andy is displeased with Jeremiah, who says that he has brought Object 1 to shut Torchwood down. He claims that he met with Jack at Space Station Cardiff before his wedding at the Great Cobalt Pyramid and was tasked by him with destroying the Torchwood Archive with Object 1 to keep it from falling into the hands of the Enemy, killing his possessed wife Delilah on the way after she was possessed.

To show Jeremiah that the system that the Archive was based on has always been erratic, Andy shows him a recording of Archie in Torchwood House, inspecting a "knowledge sponge" taken from a Senedial observation drone and processing Object 1. Andy then shows him the destruction of Torchwood Four due to a separate alien artefact.

Further recordings show Norton Folgate in 1953, tricking Madrake into swapping a Coberoid interface for Object 1 and handing it over to Mitford of the Committee, and Torchwood India in 1924 after Jack took their whole inventory bar Object 1, which they then sent. During the Battle of Canary Wharf, Ianto is given Object 1 by a dying Kieran Frost to give to Lisa Hallett.

Years later, he and Jack play with their dog, Untitled, watched by Roy. Gwen meets with Madeline and asks about the Committee. She believes that she has been possessed by the Committee in the past which caused her tumour. She collapses, having taken a number of pills.

Andy has disappeared, replaced with Rhys and Gwen. Both of them advise Jeremiah to take Object 1 and put it in the Archive. Jeremiah meets the Memory Core, which takes the form of Queen Victoria and plays him a recording of the real Queen relaying the story of the origins of the Committee and Object 1. She asks Jack to throw Object 1 into the Rift, thinking that that would be the end of it.

The Memory Core tells Jeremiah that Object 1 is a key to a pocket universe containing copies of the Committee. He places it in the Torchwood Archive, earning him the thanks of the Torchwood holograms, and leaves. The Memory Core, wanting to take the Committee's universe and leave N-Space to them, opens it whilst Jeremiah and Norton fly away. Jeremiah reveals that he had given the Memory Core a bomb disguised as Object 1 and that he and Norton would now open the real one to bring back the Committee.

In the 2000s, the Rift Manipulator goes wild and Object 1 returns. Jack, Gwen, Ianto and Tosh sigh.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This story clarifies the dating system used in TV: The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit, which was set in 43K2.1. Years are read as "[century]K[decade].[year]" while centuries are read as "[millennium].[century]K" e.g. 19K7.9 corresponds to 1879, 21K0.7 corresponds to 2007 and 2.0K corresponds to the 20th century.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Series 1
Series 2
"Series 3"
"Series 4"
"Series 5"
"Series 6"
"Series 7"
"Series 8"
"Series 9"
"Series 10"
 
The Story Continues
Aliens
Among Us
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
God
Among Us
Special
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Among Us
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
 
Torchwood One
Before the Fall
Machines
Latter Days
Nightmares
I Hate Mondays
 
Torchwood Soho
 
Special Releases
Single releases
The Sins of
Captain John
v • e
Weevil stories
For the purposes of this list, a "Weevil story" is one in which one living, authentic Weevil plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. Stories like Day One, End of Days, Sleeper, Fragments and The Pandorica Opens are also not included due to the Weevils' appearance being of no consequence to the plot of the story.
Television
Audio
Prose
Complete list of appearances
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