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|adapted from = Deadline (TV story) | |adapted from = Deadline (TV story) | ||
|image = Deadline.jpg | |image = Deadline.jpg | ||
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|series = [[BBC Torchwood audio dramas|BBC ''Torchwood'' audio dramas]] | |series = [[BBC Torchwood audio dramas|BBC ''Torchwood'' audio dramas]] | ||
|number = 4 | |number = 4 | ||
|scripturl = https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/documents/torchwood-radio-the-dead-line-recording-script-28042009.pdf | |||
|main character = [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] | |main character = [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] | ||
|featuring = [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]] | |featuring = [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]] | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = | ||
|setting = [[Cardiff]], [[2009]] | |setting = [[Cardiff]], [[2009]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Phil Ford | ||
|director = [[Kate McAll]] | |director = [[Kate McAll]] | ||
|post production = | |post production = | ||
|publisher = | |publisher = | ||
|release date = | |release date = 3 July 2009 | ||
|format = 1 Episode | |format = 1 Episode | ||
|production code = | |production code = | ||
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|next = The Devil and Miss Carew (audio story) | |next = The Devil and Miss Carew (audio story) | ||
|clip = Torchwood The Dead Line | |clip = Torchwood The Dead Line | ||
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'''''The Dead Line''''' was an original [[BBC Radio 4]] audio play. It was broadcast the week prior to [[Series 3 (Torchwood)|series three]] of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''. It was adapted by [[Phil Ford]] from his own unproduced TV story, ''[[Deadline (unproduced TV story)|Deadline]]''. | '''''The Dead Line''''' was an original [[BBC Radio 4]] audio play. It was broadcast the week prior to [[Series 3 (Torchwood)|series three]] of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''. It was adapted by [[Phil Ford]] from his own unproduced TV story, ''[[Deadline (unproduced TV story)|Deadline]]''. | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
[[Bob Roberts]] and twenty other people enter a [[coma]]-like [[trance]] after answering answering their [[telephone]]s and are taken to [[St Helen's Hospital]]. [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] and [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] deduce that there is something in the telephone network and Jack calls the number, a four digit one as would have been the norm in the [[1970s]], which turns out to be a dead line. When he answers an incoming call on a disconnected telephone, he too enters a trance and Gwen and Ianto invite [[Stella Courtney]], a [[neuroscientist]] he dated in [[1975]], to St Helen's to examine him. Gwen warns [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]] against answering his telephone and visits him whilst | [[Bob Roberts]] and twenty other people enter a [[coma]]-like [[trance]] after answering answering their [[telephone]]s and are taken to [[St Helen's Hospital]]. [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] and [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] deduce that there is something in the telephone network and Jack calls the number, a four digit one as would have been the norm in the [[1970s]], which turns out to be a dead line. When he answers an incoming call on a disconnected telephone, he too enters a trance and Gwen and Ianto invite [[Stella Courtney]], a [[neuroscientist]] he dated in [[1975]], to St Helen's to examine him. Gwen warns [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]] against answering his telephone and visits him whilst Ianto and Stella stay with Jack. | ||
Gwen and Rhys break into [[Madoc House]], the deserted former [[office]] of [[Cardiff and West Building Society]] that the number was registered to, and follow the sound of a ringing telephone to the [[corpse]] of a man who starved to death in a trance. They visit [[Tyler (The Dead Line)|Mr Tyler]] and are taken to Cardiff and West's private [[nursing home]] where thirteen employees were cared for after entering trances in [[1976]] after Madoc House was hit by [[lightning]] and the telephones rang all at once. These same telephones are the ones that the twenty patients answered and, when another twenty are afflicted, Stella finds that the calls were made at the same time as spikes in the patients' brain activity. | Gwen and Rhys break into [[Madoc House]], the deserted former [[office]] of [[Cardiff and West Building Society]] that the number was registered to, and follow the sound of a ringing telephone to the [[corpse]] of a man who starved to death in a trance. They visit [[Tyler (The Dead Line)|Mr Tyler]] and are taken to Cardiff and West's private [[nursing home]] where thirteen employees were cared for after entering trances in [[1976]] after Madoc House was hit by [[lightning]] and the telephones rang all at once. These same telephones are the ones that the twenty patients answered and, when another twenty are afflicted, Stella finds that the calls were made at the same time as spikes in the patients' brain activity. | ||
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* [[Tyler (The Dead Line)|Tyler]] - [[Brendan Charleson]] | * [[Tyler (The Dead Line)|Tyler]] - [[Brendan Charleson]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* [[Ellie Roberts]] is Bob and Jan's daughter. | * [[Ellie Roberts]] is Bob and Jan's daughter. | ||
* Rhys says that Captain Jack is similar to Captain [[Scarlet (fictional character)|Scarlet]] in that they both cannot die. | * Rhys says that Captain Jack is similar to Captain [[Scarlet (fictional character)|Scarlet]] in that they both cannot die. | ||