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'''The Hub''' was the main | {{Torchwood Institute}} | ||
'''The Hub''' was the main base of operations for [[Torchwood Three]]. | |||
The Hub was built in and around the remains of a [[Victorian]] water pumping station. | == Location and entrances == | ||
The Hub was located directly below [[Roald Dahl Plass]] in [[Cardiff Bay]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'', etc.) built in and around the remains of a [[Victorian era|Victorian]] water pumping station. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Another Life (novel)|Another Life]]'') It was accessible by [[invisible lift|a lift]] at the [[water tower]] which benefited from the effects of [[the Doctor]]'s [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] [[perception filter]], making whoever used it [[invisibility|invisible]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'') The main entrance, however, was disguised as a [[Torchwood Tourist Information Centre|Tourist Information Centre]] on [[Mermaid Quay]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Another Life (novel)|Another Life]]'') There was also an entrance hidden in the basement of the [[Bute Place]] car park which was used for the [[Torchwood SUV]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]'') | |||
[[Ianto Jones]] once stated that the Hub was "the most secure place in Cardiff". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Bay of the Dead (novel)|Bay of the Dead]]'') | |||
== Features == | == Features == | ||
The main hall of the Hub included workstations, the [[Rift Manipulator]] and entrances to other rooms. ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'', etc.) The lowest level of the central area was several inches deep in [[water]] and hosted a colony of [[mosquito]]es in the [[summer]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]'') The water rose and fell with the tide, sometimes trapping [[fish]]. It had a [[valve]] to prevent flooding. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Another Life (novel)|Another Life]]'') | |||
Upstairs was [[Jack Harkness' office|an office]] used by [[Jack Harkness]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'', etc.) where he kept his personal belongings including [[TARDIS coral]].{{Fact}} Other rooms located off of the main room included the [[Autopsy Room (Torchwood Hub)|autopsy room]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'', etc.) the [[Interrogation room (Torchwood Hub)|interrogation room]] ([[TV]]: ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)|They Keep Killing Suzie]]'') and the [[Boardroom (Torchwood Hub)|boardroom]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'', etc.) | |||
Other rooms included the [[cryo-chamber]] room, ([[TV]]: ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)|They Keep Killing Suzie]]'', etc.) the [[holding cells (Torchwood Hub)|holding cells]], the [[Firing range (Torchwood Hub)|firing range]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'', etc.) the [[kitchen]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Another Life (novel)|Another Life]]'') the [[Torchwood Archive|archive]], the [[Aquarium (Torchwood Hub)|deep-sea aquarium]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]'') the rest and recreation room, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Another Life (novel)|Another Life]]'') the secret dock leading into the Bay ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sin Eaters (audio story)|The Sin Eaters]]'') and a [[pteranodon]] habitat for [[Myfanwy]].{{Fact}} | |||
== History == | |||
=== Headquarters of Torchwood Three === | |||
The Hub was in the process of being built as early as [[1898]] when [[Alice Guppy]] was recruited by [[Emily Holroyd]]. In [[Alice Guppy's diary|her diary]], Alice described it as "sprawling and untidy". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Diary of Alice Guppy (short story)}}) | |||
The Hub was still being built when [[Jack Harkness]] was taken there by Alice and Emily in [[1899]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'') | |||
In [[1901]], a later version of Jack was placed in deep freeze in the Hub’s cryo-chambers to avoid crossing his own timeline, as a younger version of him was currently working for Torchwood. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'') | |||
In [[1918]], [[Tommy Brockless]] was placed in deep freeze in the Hub on the instructions of future Torchwood. He was retrieved from the cryo-chambers once a year to check his health. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To The Last Man]]'') | |||
In [[1955]], [[Norton Folgate]] placed documents about the [[Good Thinking]] virus in a timed safe in the Hub so [[Ianto Jones]] could find them in [[2009]] and also pre-programmed the Hub’s cell doors to open, as revenge for Ianto threatening to find his future self. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Outbreak (audio story)|Outbreak]]'') | |||
On New Year’s Eve [[1999]], after being shown the future by the [[Last of Erebus|Red Key]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]'') Torchwood Three leader [[Alex Hopkins]] killed his [[Alex Hopkins' team|team]] in the Hub. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'') | |||
In [[March]] [[2005]], Director of [[Torchwood One]] [[Yvonne Hartman]] had the Hub frozen in a [[time bubble]] for a day so she could retrieve a [[Drahvin scanner]] without having to deal with the Torchwood Three team. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[One Rule (audio story)|One Rule]]'') | |||
In [[September]] [[2006]], Jack kept the entire Torchwood team on lockdown in the Hub to prevent them from seeing his younger self currently travelling with the [[Ninth Doctor]], and vice versa. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twilight Streets (novel)|The Twilight Streets]]'') | |||
In [[November]] 2006, [[Suzie Costello]] found the Hub had been sealed off during the alien hunt. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Moving Target (audio story)|Moving Target]]'') | |||
By the [[2000s]],{{note|Episodes 1-10 of the [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|first series]] of ''[[Torchwood (series)|Torchwood]]'' are set anywhere from [[2006]]-[[2009]] as a result of [[Aliens of London dating controversy|conflicting evidence]] shown in the episodes ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'', ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'', ''[[Random Shoes (TV story)|Random Shoes]]'', ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'', ''[[Reset (TV story)|Reset]]'', ''[[Adrift (TV story)|Adrift]]'', ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'', ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'', and ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]''. As episode 10, ''[[Out of Time (TV story)|Out of Time]]'', is set at the end of [[December]], this means that episodes 11-13 are almost certainly set the year after episodes 1-10.}} Jack actually lived in the Hub. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'') Despite this, [[Ianto Jones]] managed to smuggle his partly Cyber-converted girlfriend [[Lisa Hallett]] into the Hub, ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]'') keeping her in an chamber of the Archive set aside for the remnants of [[Operation Goldenrod]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]'') | |||
Just prior to recruiting [[Gwen Cooper]], Torchwood captured a [[Janet (Everything Changes)|Weevil]] and imprisoned it in the cells, ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'') with Jack eventually naming it Janet. ([[TV]]: ''[[Combat (TV story)|Combat]]'') On Gwen’s first mission the team captured [[Carys Fletcher]], who had been possessed by a [[Sex Gas]], and kept her in the cells, however she managed to escape the Hub. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day One (TV story)|Day One]]'') | |||
Ianto invited Dr [[Tanizaki]] to the Hub to attempt to help remove Lisa’s Cyber-implants. His efforts instead caused the implants to become fully active, causing her to embark on the Cybermen's mission to upgrade humanity and rampage through the Hub until she was killed by the team. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]'') | |||
[[Mary (Arcateenian)|Mary]] seduced [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]] so she would let her into the Hub to retrieve her [[Arcateenian transporter|transporter]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'') | |||
The team held [[Max Tresilian]] in the cells after he conducted a series of murders and retrieved Suzie’s body from the cryo-chamber tor resurrect her to ask about her connection to him. After the resurrected Suzie tricked Gwen into taking her out of the Hub, Max initiated the Hub’s lockdown by chanting "[[The Chariot]]"; which triggered a back door program Suzie had installed in the Torchwood computers. The team were forced to phone Cardiff police to find the necessary ISBN to escape their own base. ([[TV]]: ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)|They Keep Killing Suzie]]'') | |||
The Hub was seriously damaged when the team opened the Rift after being manipulated by [[Bilis Manger]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'') Afterwards,{{note|The [[Series 2 (Torchwood)|second series]] of ''[[Torchwood (series)|Torchwood]]'' is set anywhere from [[2007]]-[[2010]] as a result of [[Aliens of London dating controversy|conflicting evidence]] shown in the episodes ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'', ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'', ''[[Random Shoes (TV story)|Random Shoes]]'', ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'', ''[[Reset (TV story)|Reset]]'', ''[[Adrift (TV story)|Adrift]]'', ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'', ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'', and ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', as well as ''[[Meat (TV story)|Meat]]'' placing the series about a year after the start of [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|series 1]].}} during Gwen Cooper’s temporary leadership, the main area of the Hub underwent some remodelling, but remained basically the same. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'') | |||
When Captain [[John Hart]] was taken to the Hub by Jack, he derided the Hub’s interior as “sewer chic”. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'') | |||
Sleeper agent [[Beth Halloran]] was brought to the Hub to be studied and was later placed in deep freeze, however escaped. After [[Cell 114]]’s attack had been foiled she was returned to the Hub and tricked Torchwood into shooting her there by feigning being under alien control again. ([[TV]]: ''[[Sleeper (TV story)|Sleeper]]'') | |||
[[The Pharm|Pharm]] hitman [[Billy Davis]] was interrogated by Jack, Owen and Ianto in the Hub. ([[TV]]: ''[[Reset (TV story)|Reset]]'') | |||
During Torchwood’s investigation into the [[Church of the Outsiders]], Gwen was tricked into allowing [[Andromeda Ross]] and the [[Grey (Believe)|Greys]] access to the Hub. They released a [[Weevil]] from the cells in an attempt to befriend it and almost opened the Rift until being talked down by Jack. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Believe (audio story)|Believe]]'') | |||
[[Caite]] tricked Owen into allowing her to access the Hub, claiming she could use it to access the Rift to travel back in time and avert a death they’d caused, and used her “box” with the Rift Manipulator to open a portal so her people, the [[Threshold (species)|Threshold]], could reach Earth. She was stopped by [[Andy Davidson]], who had followed them into the Hub and used her box to send her away. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gooseberry (audio story)|Gooseberry]]'') | |||
On [[Gray (Adam)|Gray]]’s orders, John Hart lured Jack to the Hub whilst the rest of the team were busy with other disasters he’d caused. He used the Hub to open the Rift briefly to take Jack back to [[27]] AD. Gray later infiltrated the Hub himself, locking Gwen, Ianto and John in the cells and shooting Tosh. He was stopped by Jack who had finally been released from the cryo-chamber. Jack placed his brother in deep freeze in the cryo-chamber. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'') | |||
The Hub experienced more damage when the [[Earth]] was relocated to the [[Medusa Cascade]] in the 2000s.{{note|The present day of ''[[Doctor Who]]''{{'}}s [[Series 4 (Doctor Who 2005)|fourth series]] is [[Aliens of London dating controversy|not consistently dated]], with [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'', and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[SOS (audio story)|SOS]]'' setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in [[2008]] (heavily implied by [[TV]]: ''[[The Star Beast (TV story)|The Star Beast]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]'' as well), and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]'' setting them in about [[April]] to [[June]] [[2009]].}} When the Daleks invaded Earth during [[Planetary Relocation Incident|the relocation of Earth]], they traced the [[Sub-Wave Network|sub-wave network]] to the Hub and attempted to break-in, only to be stopped by the [[time lock]]. The time lock was broken when a Dalek trapped in it was detonated by the [[Tenth Doctor (Journey's End)|Meta-Crisis Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]], [[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') The door to the Hub had sustained damage in the Dalek attack. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sin Eaters (audio story)|The Sin Eaters]]'') | |||
When Jack was infected by [[Invictus]] he put the Hub into lockdown, however Ianto was trapped inside with him. Ianto contacted Norton in 1955 for information on the virus, retrieving the documents from the timed safe, however Norton had also programmed the cells to release the infected Jack. Jack pursued Ianto through the Hub until reaching Stage 4 and dying, which released the lockdown. A team from [[Heights Pharmaceuticals]] subsequently entered the Hub to retrieve Jack’s body. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Outbreak (audio story)|Outbreak]]'') | |||
=== Destruction === | |||
[[File:1j.jpg|left|thumb|The Hub in ruins. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Two]]'')]] | |||
During [[the 456]] incident in [[September]] [[2009]], Agent [[Johnson (Children of Earth: Day One)|Johnson]]’s team implanted a bomb in Jack’s stomach and detonated it when he entered the Hub, believing his immortality was connected to the facility. The Hub, and the Plass above, was reduced to a crater. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day One]]'', ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two (TV story)|Day Two]]'') | |||
In [[October]], the site was excavated, with the British Government retrieving alien technology from the ruins. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Long Time Dead (novel)|Long Time Dead]]'') Individuals also acquired artefacts from the wreckage; Gwen Cooper was able to retrieve [[Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator|Harkness' vortex manipulator]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]'') [[Angelo Colasanto]]'s men salvaged a [[null field generator]], ([[TV]]: ''[[End of the Road (TV story)|End of the Road]]'') and [[Joshua Naismith]] acquired the [[Immortality Gate]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') | |||
=== Restoration === | |||
[[File:Gwen ruined Hub.jpg|thumb|right|Gwen in the ruins of the Hub. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[More Than This (audio story)|More Than This]]'')]] | [[File:Gwen ruined Hub.jpg|thumb|right|Gwen in the ruins of the Hub. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[More Than This (audio story)|More Than This]]'')]] | ||
By [[2011]], Roald Dahl Plass had been rebuilt | By [[2011]], Roald Dahl Plass had been rebuilt. Gwen, Jack, and [[Rex Matheson]] visited the site prior to Jack and Gwen's rendition to the US, but all signs of the Torchwood Hub had disappeared. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'') | ||
When she restarted Torchwood, Gwen sought planning permission to rebuild the Hub. She was initially rebuffed by council planning officer [[Roger Pugh]], but he eventually granted her permission after she showed him a day of her work. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[More Than This (audio story)|More Than This]]'') By [[2017]] the reestablished Torchwood team had moved back into the ruins of the Hub. The invisible lift moved much faster than it was supposed to, with [[St John Colchester]] describing it as a "death trap" and commenting that the team should be wearing [[hard hat]]s at all times due to the Hub's damaged state. The Hub's power was being stolen from a local fusion restaurant called [[Thaixicana]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Changes Everything (audio story)|Changes Everything]]'') | |||
Whilst he was away for some weeks, Mr Colchester restored Jack's [[sauna]] to its original purpose as a [[conference room]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Empty Hand (audio story)|The Empty Hand]]'') After taking over as Torchwood's leader, [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|Yvonne Hartman]] restored the [[Boardroom (Torchwood Hub)|boardroom]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tagged (audio story)|Tagged]]'') | |||
The Hub was invaded by a [[Assassin (Herald of the Dawn)|Sorvix assassin]] pursuing [[Tyler Steele]] after he sought refuge there. He hunted Colchester and Tyler through the facility, whilst Colchester was also attempting to use the Rift Manipulator to prevent the Rift opening, until [[Ng]] shot him. The Rift opening again as the [[God (Future Pain)|Sorvix God]] arrived through it caused an explosion in the Hub. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Herald of the Dawn (audio story)|Herald of the Dawn]]'') | |||
Yvonne imprisoned [[Ro-Jedda]], leader of the [[Sorvix]], in the cells and kept [[Ng]] in the cell next door to extract information from her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Future Pain (audio story)|Future Pain]]'') | |||
During the Cardiff blackout, the [[Predator (See No Evil)|predator]] infiltrated the Hub and stalked [[Orr]] and Ng. God visited the Hub and directed the creature elsewhere, asking Orr to come with her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[See No Evil (audio story)|See No Evil]]'') | |||
Whilst the [[Night Sun]] was affecting the city, Yvonne, Ng and Jack tried to use the Hub's systems to scan it but found the scan being cancelled. Yvonne suspected the facility had been infiltrated and eventually was confronted by the [[Light (Night Watch)|Light]], until Orr arrived and contained them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Night Watch (audio story)|Night Watch]]'') | |||
After being convinced by Jack, Yvonne allowed the homeless [[Tyler Steele]] to live in a repurposed cell in the Hub. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hostile Environment (audio story)|Hostile Environment]]'') | |||
Yvonne and Tyler oversaw Torchwood's mission to the [[Sorvix power plant]] from the Hub. When [[the Committee]]'s manipulations of the mission resulted in a tsunami headed for South Wales, Yvonne used the Hub to activate Cardiff's old air raid sirens and opened the Rift as wide as possible to absorb much of the tidal wave. Water rushed into the Hub as the wave hit the city. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eye of the Storm (audio story)|Eye of the Storm]]'') | |||
=== Takeover by the Committee === | |||
Torchwood were locked out of the Hub by the [[Disaster Recovery Committee]] after they were found responsible for the deaths caused by the [[tsunami]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[ScrapeJane (audio story)|ScrapeJane]]'') | |||
[[The Committee]] used this opportunity to set up a new Rift Manipulator in the Hub, intending to arrive on Earth from [[Erebus]] through the Rift. Torchwood regained access to the Hub and Yvonne Hartman and [[Orr]] stopped the Committee's arrival using the [[Lens]], destroying the Hub again in the process. Jack used the lift to rescue Yvonne and Orr amidst the devastation. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thoughts and Prayers (audio story)|Thoughts and Prayers]]'') | |||
=== Abandonment === | |||
In the [[2020s]] [[Bilis Manger]] infiltrated the abandoned Hub to steal technology he knew would be crucial to Torchwood repelling future alien invasions. At the same time three urban explorers, [[Vijay Meghani]], [[Diana Lopez]] and [[Bryn Popkin]] explored the ruins to film ''[[Xplore Xtreme]]'', though in truth Diana was being blackmailed into retrieving a [[shard drive]]. The Hub was sealed by the [[Torchwood emergency hologram]], causing Bryn to attempt to use the lift to escape however damage to it prevented the hatch opening leading to him to be crushed to death. As Diana and Vijay attempted to leave by tunnels they were attacked by [[Weevil]]s, with Vijay surviving and being brought back inside by Bilis. Toying with Vijay and the hologram, Bilis flooded the Hub with Rift scar energy, which destroyed the technology he had stolen and killed Vijay. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cuckoo (audio story)|Cuckoo]]'') | |||
Torchwood | When Torchwood regrouped they setup base in [[Temporary Solutions]] in Cardiff, as the Rift scar energy rendered the Hub unsafe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[How I Conquered the World (audio story)|How I Conquered the World]]'') | ||
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The Hub was the main base of operations for Torchwood Three.
Location and entrances[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Hub was located directly below Roald Dahl Plass in Cardiff Bay, (TV: Everything Changes, etc.) built in and around the remains of a Victorian water pumping station. (PROSE: Another Life) It was accessible by a lift at the water tower which benefited from the effects of the Doctor's TARDIS perception filter, making whoever used it invisible. (TV: Everything Changes) The main entrance, however, was disguised as a Tourist Information Centre on Mermaid Quay. (PROSE: Another Life) There was also an entrance hidden in the basement of the Bute Place car park which was used for the Torchwood SUV. (PROSE: Slow Decay)
Ianto Jones once stated that the Hub was "the most secure place in Cardiff". (PROSE: Bay of the Dead)
Features[[edit] | [edit source]]
The main hall of the Hub included workstations, the Rift Manipulator and entrances to other rooms. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness, etc.) The lowest level of the central area was several inches deep in water and hosted a colony of mosquitoes in the summer. (PROSE: Slow Decay) The water rose and fell with the tide, sometimes trapping fish. It had a valve to prevent flooding. (PROSE: Another Life)
Upstairs was an office used by Jack Harkness, (TV: Everything Changes, etc.) where he kept his personal belongings including TARDIS coral.[source needed] Other rooms located off of the main room included the autopsy room, (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts, etc.) the interrogation room (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie) and the boardroom. (TV: Everything Changes, etc.)
Other rooms included the cryo-chamber room, (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie, etc.) the holding cells, the firing range, (TV: Ghost Machine, etc.) the kitchen, (PROSE: Another Life) the archive, the deep-sea aquarium, (PROSE: Slow Decay) the rest and recreation room, (PROSE: Another Life) the secret dock leading into the Bay (AUDIO: The Sin Eaters) and a pteranodon habitat for Myfanwy.[source needed]
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Headquarters of Torchwood Three[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Hub was in the process of being built as early as 1898 when Alice Guppy was recruited by Emily Holroyd. In her diary, Alice described it as "sprawling and untidy". (PROSE: Diary of Alice Guppy [+]Loading...["Diary of Alice Guppy (short story)"])
The Hub was still being built when Jack Harkness was taken there by Alice and Emily in 1899. (TV: Fragments)
In 1901, a later version of Jack was placed in deep freeze in the Hub’s cryo-chambers to avoid crossing his own timeline, as a younger version of him was currently working for Torchwood. (TV: Exit Wounds)
In 1918, Tommy Brockless was placed in deep freeze in the Hub on the instructions of future Torchwood. He was retrieved from the cryo-chambers once a year to check his health. (TV: To The Last Man)
In 1955, Norton Folgate placed documents about the Good Thinking virus in a timed safe in the Hub so Ianto Jones could find them in 2009 and also pre-programmed the Hub’s cell doors to open, as revenge for Ianto threatening to find his future self. (AUDIO: Outbreak)
On New Year’s Eve 1999, after being shown the future by the Red Key, (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive) Torchwood Three leader Alex Hopkins killed his team in the Hub. (TV: Fragments)
In March 2005, Director of Torchwood One Yvonne Hartman had the Hub frozen in a time bubble for a day so she could retrieve a Drahvin scanner without having to deal with the Torchwood Three team. (AUDIO: One Rule)
In September 2006, Jack kept the entire Torchwood team on lockdown in the Hub to prevent them from seeing his younger self currently travelling with the Ninth Doctor, and vice versa. (PROSE: The Twilight Streets)
In November 2006, Suzie Costello found the Hub had been sealed off during the alien hunt. (AUDIO: Moving Target)
By the 2000s,[nb 1] Jack actually lived in the Hub. (TV: Ghost Machine) Despite this, Ianto Jones managed to smuggle his partly Cyber-converted girlfriend Lisa Hallett into the Hub, (TV: Cyberwoman) keeping her in an chamber of the Archive set aside for the remnants of Operation Goldenrod. (PROSE: Slow Decay)
Just prior to recruiting Gwen Cooper, Torchwood captured a Weevil and imprisoned it in the cells, (TV: Everything Changes) with Jack eventually naming it Janet. (TV: Combat) On Gwen’s first mission the team captured Carys Fletcher, who had been possessed by a Sex Gas, and kept her in the cells, however she managed to escape the Hub. (TV: Day One)
Ianto invited Dr Tanizaki to the Hub to attempt to help remove Lisa’s Cyber-implants. His efforts instead caused the implants to become fully active, causing her to embark on the Cybermen's mission to upgrade humanity and rampage through the Hub until she was killed by the team. (TV: Cyberwoman)
Mary seduced Tosh so she would let her into the Hub to retrieve her transporter. (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts)
The team held Max Tresilian in the cells after he conducted a series of murders and retrieved Suzie’s body from the cryo-chamber tor resurrect her to ask about her connection to him. After the resurrected Suzie tricked Gwen into taking her out of the Hub, Max initiated the Hub’s lockdown by chanting "The Chariot"; which triggered a back door program Suzie had installed in the Torchwood computers. The team were forced to phone Cardiff police to find the necessary ISBN to escape their own base. (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie)
The Hub was seriously damaged when the team opened the Rift after being manipulated by Bilis Manger. (TV: End of Days) Afterwards,[nb 2] during Gwen Cooper’s temporary leadership, the main area of the Hub underwent some remodelling, but remained basically the same. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)
When Captain John Hart was taken to the Hub by Jack, he derided the Hub’s interior as “sewer chic”. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)
Sleeper agent Beth Halloran was brought to the Hub to be studied and was later placed in deep freeze, however escaped. After Cell 114’s attack had been foiled she was returned to the Hub and tricked Torchwood into shooting her there by feigning being under alien control again. (TV: Sleeper)
Pharm hitman Billy Davis was interrogated by Jack, Owen and Ianto in the Hub. (TV: Reset)
During Torchwood’s investigation into the Church of the Outsiders, Gwen was tricked into allowing Andromeda Ross and the Greys access to the Hub. They released a Weevil from the cells in an attempt to befriend it and almost opened the Rift until being talked down by Jack. (AUDIO: Believe)
Caite tricked Owen into allowing her to access the Hub, claiming she could use it to access the Rift to travel back in time and avert a death they’d caused, and used her “box” with the Rift Manipulator to open a portal so her people, the Threshold, could reach Earth. She was stopped by Andy Davidson, who had followed them into the Hub and used her box to send her away. (AUDIO: Gooseberry)
On Gray’s orders, John Hart lured Jack to the Hub whilst the rest of the team were busy with other disasters he’d caused. He used the Hub to open the Rift briefly to take Jack back to 27 AD. Gray later infiltrated the Hub himself, locking Gwen, Ianto and John in the cells and shooting Tosh. He was stopped by Jack who had finally been released from the cryo-chamber. Jack placed his brother in deep freeze in the cryo-chamber. (TV: Exit Wounds)
The Hub experienced more damage when the Earth was relocated to the Medusa Cascade in the 2000s.[nb 3] When the Daleks invaded Earth during the relocation of Earth, they traced the sub-wave network to the Hub and attempted to break-in, only to be stopped by the time lock. The time lock was broken when a Dalek trapped in it was detonated by the Meta-Crisis Doctor. (TV: The Stolen Earth, Journey's End) The door to the Hub had sustained damage in the Dalek attack. (AUDIO: The Sin Eaters)
When Jack was infected by Invictus he put the Hub into lockdown, however Ianto was trapped inside with him. Ianto contacted Norton in 1955 for information on the virus, retrieving the documents from the timed safe, however Norton had also programmed the cells to release the infected Jack. Jack pursued Ianto through the Hub until reaching Stage 4 and dying, which released the lockdown. A team from Heights Pharmaceuticals subsequently entered the Hub to retrieve Jack’s body. (AUDIO: Outbreak)
Destruction[[edit] | [edit source]]
During the 456 incident in September 2009, Agent Johnson’s team implanted a bomb in Jack’s stomach and detonated it when he entered the Hub, believing his immortality was connected to the facility. The Hub, and the Plass above, was reduced to a crater. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One, Day Two)
In October, the site was excavated, with the British Government retrieving alien technology from the ruins. (PROSE: Long Time Dead) Individuals also acquired artefacts from the wreckage; Gwen Cooper was able to retrieve Harkness' vortex manipulator, (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five) Angelo Colasanto's men salvaged a null field generator, (TV: End of the Road) and Joshua Naismith acquired the Immortality Gate. (TV: The End of Time)
Restoration[[edit] | [edit source]]
By 2011, Roald Dahl Plass had been rebuilt. Gwen, Jack, and Rex Matheson visited the site prior to Jack and Gwen's rendition to the US, but all signs of the Torchwood Hub had disappeared. (TV: The New World)
When she restarted Torchwood, Gwen sought planning permission to rebuild the Hub. She was initially rebuffed by council planning officer Roger Pugh, but he eventually granted her permission after she showed him a day of her work. (AUDIO: More Than This) By 2017 the reestablished Torchwood team had moved back into the ruins of the Hub. The invisible lift moved much faster than it was supposed to, with St John Colchester describing it as a "death trap" and commenting that the team should be wearing hard hats at all times due to the Hub's damaged state. The Hub's power was being stolen from a local fusion restaurant called Thaixicana. (AUDIO: Changes Everything)
Whilst he was away for some weeks, Mr Colchester restored Jack's sauna to its original purpose as a conference room. (AUDIO: The Empty Hand) After taking over as Torchwood's leader, Yvonne Hartman restored the boardroom. (AUDIO: Tagged)
The Hub was invaded by a Sorvix assassin pursuing Tyler Steele after he sought refuge there. He hunted Colchester and Tyler through the facility, whilst Colchester was also attempting to use the Rift Manipulator to prevent the Rift opening, until Ng shot him. The Rift opening again as the Sorvix God arrived through it caused an explosion in the Hub. (AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn)
Yvonne imprisoned Ro-Jedda, leader of the Sorvix, in the cells and kept Ng in the cell next door to extract information from her. (AUDIO: Future Pain)
During the Cardiff blackout, the predator infiltrated the Hub and stalked Orr and Ng. God visited the Hub and directed the creature elsewhere, asking Orr to come with her. (AUDIO: See No Evil)
Whilst the Night Sun was affecting the city, Yvonne, Ng and Jack tried to use the Hub's systems to scan it but found the scan being cancelled. Yvonne suspected the facility had been infiltrated and eventually was confronted by the Light, until Orr arrived and contained them. (AUDIO: Night Watch)
After being convinced by Jack, Yvonne allowed the homeless Tyler Steele to live in a repurposed cell in the Hub. (AUDIO: Hostile Environment)
Yvonne and Tyler oversaw Torchwood's mission to the Sorvix power plant from the Hub. When the Committee's manipulations of the mission resulted in a tsunami headed for South Wales, Yvonne used the Hub to activate Cardiff's old air raid sirens and opened the Rift as wide as possible to absorb much of the tidal wave. Water rushed into the Hub as the wave hit the city. (AUDIO: Eye of the Storm)
Takeover by the Committee[[edit] | [edit source]]
Torchwood were locked out of the Hub by the Disaster Recovery Committee after they were found responsible for the deaths caused by the tsunami. (AUDIO: ScrapeJane)
The Committee used this opportunity to set up a new Rift Manipulator in the Hub, intending to arrive on Earth from Erebus through the Rift. Torchwood regained access to the Hub and Yvonne Hartman and Orr stopped the Committee's arrival using the Lens, destroying the Hub again in the process. Jack used the lift to rescue Yvonne and Orr amidst the devastation. (AUDIO: Thoughts and Prayers)
Abandonment[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the 2020s Bilis Manger infiltrated the abandoned Hub to steal technology he knew would be crucial to Torchwood repelling future alien invasions. At the same time three urban explorers, Vijay Meghani, Diana Lopez and Bryn Popkin explored the ruins to film Xplore Xtreme, though in truth Diana was being blackmailed into retrieving a shard drive. The Hub was sealed by the Torchwood emergency hologram, causing Bryn to attempt to use the lift to escape however damage to it prevented the hatch opening leading to him to be crushed to death. As Diana and Vijay attempted to leave by tunnels they were attacked by Weevils, with Vijay surviving and being brought back inside by Bilis. Toying with Vijay and the hologram, Bilis flooded the Hub with Rift scar energy, which destroyed the technology he had stolen and killed Vijay. (AUDIO: Cuckoo)
When Torchwood regrouped they setup base in Temporary Solutions in Cardiff, as the Rift scar energy rendered the Hub unsafe. (AUDIO: How I Conquered the World)
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ Episodes 1-10 of the first series of Torchwood are set anywhere from 2006-2009 as a result of conflicting evidence shown in the episodes Ghost Machine, Greeks Bearing Gifts, Random Shoes, To the Last Man, Reset, Adrift, Fragments, Exit Wounds, and The New World. As episode 10, Out of Time, is set at the end of December, this means that episodes 11-13 are almost certainly set the year after episodes 1-10.
- ↑ The second series of Torchwood is set anywhere from 2007-2010 as a result of conflicting evidence shown in the episodes Ghost Machine, Greeks Bearing Gifts, Random Shoes, To the Last Man, Reset, Adrift, Fragments, Exit Wounds, and The New World, as well as Meat placing the series about a year after the start of series 1.
- ↑ The present day of Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008 (heavily implied by TV: The Star Beast and TV: The Giggle as well), and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos setting them in about April to June 2009.
