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|partner4          = Gideon Lyme
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|voice actor        = Samuel Barnett
|other voice actor  = [[Jonny Green]]
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|partner5 = Jack Harkness
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'''Norton Folgate''' was a member of [[Torchwood One]] in the [[1950s]]. He spied on his teammates on behalf of [[the Committee]], and later worked with his lover [[Jeremiah Bash Henderson]] to restore them to life after their defeat by [[The Enemy (The Torchwood Archive)|the Enemy]].
'''Norton Folgate''' was a member of [[Torchwood One]] in the [[1950s]]. He spied on his teammates on behalf of [[the Committee]], and later worked with his lover [[Jeremiah Bash Henderson]] to restore them to life after their defeat by [[The Enemy (The Torchwood Archive)|the Enemy]].
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Whilst doing National Service, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'') Norton joined [[Torchwood One]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Outbreak (audio story)|Outbreak]]'') a choice that his parents disagreed with. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'') He worked in [[Alien Acquisitions]] under [[Reginald Rigsby]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')
Whilst doing National Service, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'') Norton joined [[Torchwood One]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Outbreak (audio story)|Outbreak]]'') a choice that his parents disagreed with. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'') He worked in [[Alien Acquisitions]] under [[Reginald Rigsby]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')


In the wake of the war, Norton and his team had to deal with a large amount of black market trading in alien artefacts as a result of the number of [[spacecraft]] shot down. However, they were mostly called out to the sites of unexploded bombs. At some point, he began working for [[the Committee]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'')
In the wake of [[World War II]], Norton and his team had to deal with a large amount of black market trading in alien artefacts as a result of the number of [[spacecraft]] shot down. However, they were mostly called out to the sites of unexploded bombs. At some point, he began working for [[the Committee]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'')


Norton met [[Lizbeth Hayhoe]] in [[1951]] as she prepared the [[Skylon]] for the [[Festival of Britain]] when Rigsby sent him to supply her with a list of additional requirements with which he disagreed. She described him as one of Rigsby's "bright boys" and was able to tell from his posture that he was the son of a pastor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')
Norton met [[Lizbeth Hayhoe]] in [[1951]] as she prepared the [[Skylon]] for the [[Festival of Britain]] when Rigsby sent him to supply her with a list of additional requirements with which he disagreed. She described him as one of Rigsby's "bright boys" and was able to tell from his posture that he was the son of a pastor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')
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In [[June]] [[1953]], Folgate was at [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s [[Coronation of Elizabeth II|coronation]] at [[Westminster Abbey]] with [[the Vicar]] and Rigsby. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')
In [[June]] [[1953]], Folgate was at [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s [[Coronation of Elizabeth II|coronation]] at [[Westminster Abbey]] with [[the Vicar]] and Rigsby. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')


==== Visiting the future ====
==== On the rise ====
Norton was reprimanded for using a soft-light projection device to visit the future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Outbreak (audio story)|Outbreak]]'') He used it in 1953 to visit [[2016]] in order to find [[Last of Erebus|Object 1]], under the Committee's orders. He approached [[Andy Davidson]] in 2016 claiming to be an assessor for Torchwood. Norton and Andy investigated a spillage of a green liquid which killed a man, and found a [[clone]] [[factory]] in an abandoned set of [[flat]]s. Norton found Object 1, which gave him a body whilst he wore it. He took Andy along with him to meet the Committee in [[Bide-a-Wee Care Home]]. There they congratulated him and told him to take it back to 1953. He left a note for Jane, telling her to say hello to Andy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'')  
Norton gave an alien pathogen to the [[United States of America|US]] government for the development of the [[Good Thinking]] virus and was later brought in to try to control it, but found that there was no cure but to contain and burn the infected. He watched [[Jack Harkness]] burn with a number of people that he tried to save and visited him in hospital, after which he helped to try to destroy all trace of the virus. He and Jack entered into a sexual relationship and devised a protocol should the virus return. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Outbreak (audio story)|Outbreak]]'')


On the Committee’s orders, Norton passed Object 1 on to a gangster, [[Mandrake (The Torchwood Archive)|Mandrake.]] Mandrake confronted him about why he came to his place and was very homophobic towards him. After being kicked out by Mandrake, Norton conversed with [[Mitford]] about the Committee's plans. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]'')
In 1953, Norton used a soft-light projection device to visit [[2016]] on the Committee's orders to find [[Object 1]]. He claimed to be a Torchwood assessor and manipulated [[Andy Davidson]] in assisting him in his search, locating the object in a [[spacecraft|spaceship]] in a [[clone]] [[factory]] and taking it to the Committee in [[Bide-a-Wee Care Home]]. Told by [[Roy (Ghost Mission)|Roy]] to take it back to 1953, he left a note for [[Jane (Ghost Mission)|Jane]] telling her to say hello to Andy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'')


==== The Good Thinking virus ====
[[Mitford]] told Norton to pass Object 1 on to [[Mandrake (The Torchwood Archive)|Mandrake]] so that Torchwood would investigate his gang and recover it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]'') He was reprimanded by Torchwood for his visit to the future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Outbreak (audio story)|Outbreak]]'') By the mid-1950s, he had killed somebody that he loved.
In the 1950s, Norton gave an alien pathogen to the [[United States]] government for the development of the [[Good Thinking]] virus, which was tested on death row inmates but spread out of control. Norton was brought in to control it, but discovered there was no cure except containing and burning the infected. He watched a number of other men who were infected burn and [[Jack Harkness]] rush into try to save them, burning in the process. Norton later visited Jack in the hospital. He found the tests had been abhorrent and helped destroyed all trace of the virus, although some survived and were kept by [[Heights Pharmaceuticals]]. He entered into a sexual relationship with Jack and devised a protocol with him if the virus returned. By the mid-'50s, Norton had killed somebody that he loved, something that he never wished to do again.


Via soft light projection, Norton was brought from [[1955]] to [[2009]] by [[Ianto Jones]] to provide answers about Good Thinking. Ianto eventually threatened him for information he’d kept as a backup, claiming he would track down his future self as there was no record of his death. Norton placed the documents in a timed sealed container in the [[The Hub|Hub]] vaults, exploiting the protocol he’d devised with Jack. and also programmed the cell doors to open to unleash the infected Jack on Ianto. After appearing to encourage Jack in hunting Ianto, he told Ianto how to initiate the [[emergency sterilisation system]]. Just before going into Stage 4, Jack broke the projector, sending Norton back to 1955. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Outbreak (audio story)|Outbreak]]'')
[[Ianto Jones]] brought Norton from [[1955]] to [[2009]] via soft-light projection to provide answers on Good Thinking. Norton told him what he knew and placed documents related to it in a time-sealed container in [[the Hub]]'s vaults, exploiting the protocol that he and Jack had devised, and programmed the cell doors to unleash the infected Jack on Ianto before telling Ianto how to initiate the [[emergency sterilisation system]]. Just before going into Stage 4, Jack broke the projector and sent Norton back to 1955. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Outbreak (audio story)|Outbreak]]'')


==== Bringing down the Vicar ====
[[File:Norton and Andy Goodbye Piccadilly.jpg|thumb|left|Norton and Andy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Goodbye Piccadilly (audio story)|Goodbye Piccadilly]]'')]]
Torchwood One’s leader, [[the Vicar]], started to suspect that Norton was a double agent and dealing alien weaponry with gangsters but allowed to bring a Torchwood assessor to help clear his name. Norton brought Andy back in time to [[Soho]] in the 1950s to assist him, however they were attacked by a gangster loyal to [[Fat Kim]] and the pair woke up naked in a bed chained to a bedstead. He took Andy to [[Alejandro (Goodbye Piccadilly)|his boyfriend's]] where he had stored an alien painting, which he used to implant the key to an [[Martian tripod|alien war machine]] in Andy’s mind. Andy insisted on them finding a way to remove it however as they were seeking a psychic they were pursued by Fat Kim’s men and encountered the Vicar, who chastised him for apparently selling alien arms on the black market. Norton took Andy to a public toilet to retrieve some hidden alien weaponry in a Soho toilet but it was raided by the police before they could leave and he was charged for gross indecency. The police hosed them down after Andy irritated them by criticising their procedure and left them to be interrogated by Fat Kim.  
Norton acquired an alien painting inside of which was the key to a [[Martian tripod]]. He stored at his boyfriend [[Alejandro (Goodbye Piccadilly)|Alejandro]]'s studio and, after summoning Andy to the 1950s to help clear his name when the Vicar began suspecting that he was a double agent and dealing alien weaponry with gangsters, he implanted the key into Andy's mind. After [[Fat Kim]] used Andy to activate a tripod under [[Leicester Square]], Norton killed her by transferring the key into her and the collapsing tripod killed the Vicar, removing the only two people aware of Norton's criminal dealings. Rather than admit his actions, Norton sent Andy back to the [[21st century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Goodbye Piccadilly (audio story)|Goodbye Piccadilly]]'')


Norton managed to grab one of his confiscated alien devices to transport them away and took Andy to meet a psychic at a brothel posing as a life drawing class. They were directed to a strip club to get an alien to try and remove the alien key in Andy's head, but they were unable to. They were ambushed by Fat Kim just as the Vicar arrived with Torchwood forces, with Norton insisting he wasn’t dealing with Kim. In the ensuing skirmish, Kim used Andy to activate a tripod under Leicester square, which the Vicar wanted to destroy with Andy inside, however Norton insisted on getting Andy out. He climbed into the tripod and helped Andy confront Kim, killing her by moving the key to her head, and the disabled tripod collapsed, killing the Vicar. With the Vicar and Fat Kim killed, the only two people aware of Norton’s criminal dealings were gone leading to Andy speculating that Norton had set him up. Rather than explain his complicated loyalties, Norton sent Andy back to the 21st century. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Goodbye Piccadilly (audio story)|Goodbye Piccadilly]]'')
==== Work at Room 13 ====
Norton expected to succeed the Vicar as the head of Torchwood. However, Rigsby instead got the job and relegated Norton to work with Lizbeth in [[Room 13]], a place where he quickly grew bored due to the monotonous nature of the work. To better fund their activities, Norton began tracking down and killing [[Nazi]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'') He lived for a time at [[Cartso Cottage Boarding House]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Madam, I'm (audio story)|Madam, I'm]]'')


==== Work at Room 13 ====
Torchwood sent Norton and Lizbeth to [[Ashenden]] to find out about [[Sidney Ornadel|Professor Sidney Ornadel]] and [[Isla Satterthwaite]]'s communications with the [[space eel]]s. Norton became a mouthpiece for the [[Department of New Towns]] when Lizbeth had them take over the project and, before returning to London, told Miss Satterthwaite to find a way for the eels to communicate. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ashenden (audio story)|Ashenden]]'')
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Whilst working in [[Room 13]], Norton was tricked into allowing [[Adam Smith]] into Torchwood after he promised to use his memory manipulation abilities to make Norton leader of Torchwood. With his memory falling under Adam’s influence, Norton managed to contact the [[Kernaz]] for aid as they were hunting for Adam. Norton and [[Lizbeth Hayhoe]] struggled to realise something was wrong as Adam took over Torchwood and rallied them to fight against the approaching Kernaz, however eventually deduced what was going on, despite numerous setbacks in their investigation when Adam kept altering their memories. On the day of war with the Kernaz, Norton and Lizbeth managed to disable Torchwood’s weaponry, enabling the Kernaz to send Adam into [[the Void]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Madam, I'm (audio story)|Madam, I’m]]'')
[[File:Norton Madam I'm.jpg|thumb|right|Norton whilst working with [[Adam Smith|Adam]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Madam, I'm (audio story)|Madam, I'm]]'')]]
Norton was tricked into allowing [[Adam Smith]] into Torchwood after he promised to use his memory manipulation abilities to make Norton leader of Torchwood. With his memory falling under Adam's influence, Norton managed to contact the [[Kernaz]] for aid as they were hunting for Adam. Norton and [[Lizbeth Hayhoe]] struggled to realise something was wrong as Adam took over Torchwood and rallied them to fight against the approaching Kernaz, however eventually deduced what was going on, despite numerous setbacks in their investigation when Adam kept altering their memories. On the day of war with the Kernaz, Norton and Lizbeth managed to disable Torchwood's weaponry, enabling the Kernaz to send Adam into [[the Void]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Madam, I'm (audio story)|Madam, I'm]]'')
 
Norton arranged for [[Lynne Sharman]] and [[Freddie Talbot]] to launch on a rocket, the ''[[Viola (rocket)|Viola]]'', to investigate the "Black Knight" object that Lynne speculated was causing the destruction of British rockets, accompanying them via hard light projection. They found her theories were correct, discovering a dead alien aboard an automated craft, with Freddie being killed trying to steal technology from the vessel. Reluctantly following his orders from Torchwood, Norton subsequently sabotaged the ''Viola'' so Lynne would die of radiation poisoning, ensuring the object remained a secret. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Black Knight (audio story)|The Black Knight]]'')
 
Having expected to succeed the Vicar, Norton struggled financially at Room 13 and was forced to downsize to [[Norton Folgate's house|an abandoned house]] on [[Russell Square]].
 
Norton planned to take over Torchwood by exposing [[Reginald Rigsby]] to the [[Project Hermod]] [[fungus]] and saving the day using the [[Skylon]], to which end he put an alert on the Torchwood computer which led Andy to save [[Gideon Lyme]], unaware that Norton wanted Lyme alive in order to get the power of the [[Parnaeum]] to power the craft. Lizbeth opened the package instead and exposed Torchwood to the infection, but he was able to go through with his plan and was left to rebuild Torchwood, which he invited Lyme to do with him, having begun something of a relationship with him. The two moved into [[14 Endicott Terrace]] together. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')
 
==== As leader ====
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Norton took Lyme to see Ashenden to show him "the town that Torchwood built", meeting with the possessed Miss Satterthwaite and the drunk Professor Ornadel and learning of the space eels' plans. He immediately decided to run away with Lyme, who was disgusted by Norton's role in Ashenden and refused to go with him. After escaping being possessed himself, Norton went on the run from the eels and planned to save Lyme from the town.
 
Norton summoned Andy and Lizbeth in order to create a [[time cone]] converter to snap shut the eels' rift and return them to their planet. He took them to Ashenden to attend the picnic where the rift would be opened but Lizbeth did not do so, leading Norton and Andy to go on the run to London for a time before being taken back by the possessed Lyme. Norton conformed to fit in, taking a number of undesirables to be killed on the "factory tours", before his plan worked and the eels were banished.


Norton planned to take over Torchwood by exposing [[Reginald Rigsby]] to the [[Project Hermod]] [[fungus]] and saving the day using the [[Skylon]], to which end he put an alert on the Torchwood computer which led Andy to save [[Gideon Lyme]], unaware that Norton wanted Lyme alive in order to get the power of the [[Parnaeum]] to power the craft. Lizbeth opened the package instead and exposed Torchwood to the infection, but he was able to go through with his plan and was left to rebuild Torchwood, which he invited Lyme to do with him, having begun something of a relationship with him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')
Aware that Lyme could be left hollow rather than restored, Norton waited with him to come to and told him that there was only room for one hollow man in the relationship. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ashenden (audio story)|Ashenden]]'')


=== Flight 405 and Torchwood Three ===
=== Flight 405 and Torchwood Three ===
Norton boarded [[Flight 405]] in order to obtain the [[Lens]] for the Committee. However, he found himself caught in a time loop for which he blamed Jack Harkness, believing that he had put the plane in a time loop to stop the lens from falling into the wrong hands. After sixty years aboard the plane, he managed to hijack [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|Yvonne Hartman]]'s attempted summoning of Ianto as a hard-light hologram by using the lens. As a hologram, he assisted Yvonne and Andy in saving himself. He and Yvonne later gave the lens to [[Roy (Ghost Mission)|Roy]] per their instructions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flight 405 (audio story)|Flight 405]]'', ''[[Eye of the Storm (audio story)|Eye of the Storm]]'')
Norton boarded [[Flight 405]] in order to obtain the [[Lens]] for the Committee. However, he found himself caught in a [[time loop]] for which he blamed Jack Harkness, believing that he had put the plane in a time loop to stop the lens from falling into the wrong hands. After sixty years aboard the plane, he managed to hijack [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|Yvonne Hartman]]'s attempted summoning of Ianto as a hard-light hologram by using the Lens. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eye of the Storm (audio story)|Eye of the Storm]]'') As a hologram, he assisted Yvonne and Andy in rescuing himself, during which he was visited by [[God (Future Pain)|God]] who advised him to remember who his "true friends" were. He and Yvonne later met with [[Roy (Ghost Mission)|Roy]] informing him they had the Lens. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flight 405 (audio story)|Flight 405]]'')


Thanks to [[God (Future Pain)|God]], Norton switched bodies with [[Tyler Steele]], with whom he had sex. He also had sex with [[Jay (Another Man's Shoes)|Jay]] and proposed to him, causing him to flee. They were later restored. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Another Man's Shoes (audio story)|Another Man's Shoes]]'')
Norton met [[Tyler Steele]] in the Hub after he was allowed to live there. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hostile Environment (audio story)|Hostile Environment]]'') Due to God using [[The Evolved|Evolved]] technology, Norton switched bodies with Tyler. Feeling liberated he had sex with [[Jay (Another Man's Shoes)|Jay]] and numerous other men. He proposed to Jay, however he fled so Tyler commiserated with Norton in a bar, during which their bodies were restored. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Another Man's Shoes (audio story)|Another Man's Shoes]]'')


Norton continued to work with Yvonne to further the Committee's plans to utilise the power of the Rift, during which time he attacked both Jack and [[St John Colchester]]. Eventually, he realised that the Committee had double-crossed him and were planning on wiping out the Earth. He attempted to ruin their plans by diverting energy using the [[Lens]], resulting in him trapping himself aboard Flight 405. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eye of the Storm (audio story)|Eye of the Storm]]'')
Norton and Yvonne worked to further the Committee's plans to use the [[Sorvix power plant]] to stabilise the Rift. At the plant he immoblised both Jack and [[St John Colchester]] to carry out his orders. With God's aid, he realised that the Committee had double-crossed him and his actions would actually cause the destruction of Earth. He attempted to ruin their plans by diverting energy using the Lens, sending it to Flight 405 causing the time loop in the first place and transporting himself there again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eye of the Storm (audio story)|Eye of the Storm]]'')


=== Fate ===
=== Fate ===
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== Alternate timeline ==
== Alternate timeline ==
As a member of the [[Torchwood Institute]], Norton Folgate answered directly to [[John Hart (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)|John Hart]] in an [[Alternate timeline (The Death of Captain Jack)|alternate timeline]] in which he took control of Torchwood and became [[King]] of the [[British Empire]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Captain Jack (audio story)|The Death of Captain Jack]]'')
As a member of the [[Torchwood Institute]], Norton Folgate answered directly to [[John Hart]] in an [[Alternate timeline (The Death of Captain Jack)|alternate timeline]] in which he took control of Torchwood and became [[King]] of the [[British Empire]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Captain Jack (audio story)|The Death of Captain Jack]]'')
 
== Appearance ==
Norton had tawny brown eyes. His [[britches]] were described by [[Reginald Hardgoing]] as "firm, impertinent peaches". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Restoration of Catherine (audio story)}})


== Personality ==
== Personality ==
Norton was camp, flamboyant and [[sarcasm|sarcastic]]. Andy remarked that he very rarely said anything helpful, preferring to make flippant comments. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'') He was very afraid of heights ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'') and was sensitive about his [[age]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Outbreak (audio story)|Outbreak]]'', ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')
Norton was camp, flamboyant and [[sarcasm|sarcastic]]. Andy remarked that he very rarely said anything helpful, preferring to make flippant comments. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Mission (audio story)|Ghost Mission]]'') He was very afraid of heights and [[duck]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'') and was sensitive about his [[age]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Outbreak (audio story)|Outbreak]]'', ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')


Norton liked [[ham sandwich]]es, [[scrambled eggs]] and [[tea]], which, after the end of [[rationing]], he realised that he did not enjoy with too many [[sugar]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')
Norton liked [[ham sandwich]]es, [[scrambled eggs]], [[wine]], [[pork pie]]s, [[pale ale]] and [[tea]], which, after the end of [[rationing]], he realised that he did not enjoy with too many [[sugar]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
Norton Folgate was named after [[wikipedia:Norton Folgate|a street in London]]. ([[BFX]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')
Norton Folgate was named after {{w|Norton Folgate|a street in London}}. ([[BFX]]: ''[[Parasite (audio story)|Parasite]]'')


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Norton Folgate was a member of Torchwood One in the 1950s. He spied on his teammates on behalf of the Committee, and later worked with his lover Jeremiah Bash Henderson to restore them to life after their defeat by the Enemy.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]

Norton's father was a vicar, which meant that he grew up in a church in London. His mother would sew hassocks for the church, spending most of her time during World War II doing so, but the church was bombed and her hard work was destroyed. She had been snobbish and not fond of the Cockneys and the couple moved to a parish in the Cotswolds. Norton often felt the spare child as his parents preferred his elder brother, Gerald. (AUDIO: Ghost Mission)

He did national service at the Joint Services School for Linguists. (AUDIO: Eye of the Storm) He did not visit his parents, as they disapproved of his being gay. (AUDIO: Ghost Mission)

He had an aunt named Faye. (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive)

Career at Torchwood One[[edit] | [edit source]]

Early career[[edit] | [edit source]]

Whilst doing National Service, (AUDIO: Parasite) Norton joined Torchwood One, (AUDIO: Outbreak) a choice that his parents disagreed with. (AUDIO: Ghost Mission) He worked in Alien Acquisitions under Reginald Rigsby. (AUDIO: Parasite)

In the wake of World War II, Norton and his team had to deal with a large amount of black market trading in alien artefacts as a result of the number of spacecraft shot down. However, they were mostly called out to the sites of unexploded bombs. At some point, he began working for the Committee. (AUDIO: Ghost Mission)

Norton met Lizbeth Hayhoe in 1951 as she prepared the Skylon for the Festival of Britain when Rigsby sent him to supply her with a list of additional requirements with which he disagreed. She described him as one of Rigsby's "bright boys" and was able to tell from his posture that he was the son of a pastor. (AUDIO: Parasite)

In June 1953, Folgate was at Queen Elizabeth II's coronation at Westminster Abbey with the Vicar and Rigsby. (AUDIO: Parasite)

On the rise[[edit] | [edit source]]

Norton gave an alien pathogen to the US government for the development of the Good Thinking virus and was later brought in to try to control it, but found that there was no cure but to contain and burn the infected. He watched Jack Harkness burn with a number of people that he tried to save and visited him in hospital, after which he helped to try to destroy all trace of the virus. He and Jack entered into a sexual relationship and devised a protocol should the virus return. (AUDIO: Outbreak)

In 1953, Norton used a soft-light projection device to visit 2016 on the Committee's orders to find Object 1. He claimed to be a Torchwood assessor and manipulated Andy Davidson in assisting him in his search, locating the object in a spaceship in a clone factory and taking it to the Committee in Bide-a-Wee Care Home. Told by Roy to take it back to 1953, he left a note for Jane telling her to say hello to Andy. (AUDIO: Ghost Mission)

Mitford told Norton to pass Object 1 on to Mandrake so that Torchwood would investigate his gang and recover it. (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive) He was reprimanded by Torchwood for his visit to the future. (AUDIO: Outbreak) By the mid-1950s, he had killed somebody that he loved.

Ianto Jones brought Norton from 1955 to 2009 via soft-light projection to provide answers on Good Thinking. Norton told him what he knew and placed documents related to it in a time-sealed container in the Hub's vaults, exploiting the protocol that he and Jack had devised, and programmed the cell doors to unleash the infected Jack on Ianto before telling Ianto how to initiate the emergency sterilisation system. Just before going into Stage 4, Jack broke the projector and sent Norton back to 1955. (AUDIO: Outbreak)

Norton and Andy. (AUDIO: Goodbye Piccadilly)

Norton acquired an alien painting inside of which was the key to a Martian tripod. He stored at his boyfriend Alejandro's studio and, after summoning Andy to the 1950s to help clear his name when the Vicar began suspecting that he was a double agent and dealing alien weaponry with gangsters, he implanted the key into Andy's mind. After Fat Kim used Andy to activate a tripod under Leicester Square, Norton killed her by transferring the key into her and the collapsing tripod killed the Vicar, removing the only two people aware of Norton's criminal dealings. Rather than admit his actions, Norton sent Andy back to the 21st century. (AUDIO: Goodbye Piccadilly)

Work at Room 13[[edit] | [edit source]]

Norton expected to succeed the Vicar as the head of Torchwood. However, Rigsby instead got the job and relegated Norton to work with Lizbeth in Room 13, a place where he quickly grew bored due to the monotonous nature of the work. To better fund their activities, Norton began tracking down and killing Nazis. (AUDIO: Parasite) He lived for a time at Cartso Cottage Boarding House. (AUDIO: Madam, I'm)

Torchwood sent Norton and Lizbeth to Ashenden to find out about Professor Sidney Ornadel and Isla Satterthwaite's communications with the space eels. Norton became a mouthpiece for the Department of New Towns when Lizbeth had them take over the project and, before returning to London, told Miss Satterthwaite to find a way for the eels to communicate. (AUDIO: Ashenden)

Norton whilst working with Adam. (AUDIO: Madam, I'm)

Norton was tricked into allowing Adam Smith into Torchwood after he promised to use his memory manipulation abilities to make Norton leader of Torchwood. With his memory falling under Adam's influence, Norton managed to contact the Kernaz for aid as they were hunting for Adam. Norton and Lizbeth Hayhoe struggled to realise something was wrong as Adam took over Torchwood and rallied them to fight against the approaching Kernaz, however eventually deduced what was going on, despite numerous setbacks in their investigation when Adam kept altering their memories. On the day of war with the Kernaz, Norton and Lizbeth managed to disable Torchwood's weaponry, enabling the Kernaz to send Adam into the Void. (AUDIO: Madam, I'm)

Norton arranged for Lynne Sharman and Freddie Talbot to launch on a rocket, the Viola, to investigate the "Black Knight" object that Lynne speculated was causing the destruction of British rockets, accompanying them via hard light projection. They found her theories were correct, discovering a dead alien aboard an automated craft, with Freddie being killed trying to steal technology from the vessel. Reluctantly following his orders from Torchwood, Norton subsequently sabotaged the Viola so Lynne would die of radiation poisoning, ensuring the object remained a secret. (AUDIO: The Black Knight)

Having expected to succeed the Vicar, Norton struggled financially at Room 13 and was forced to downsize to an abandoned house on Russell Square.

Norton planned to take over Torchwood by exposing Reginald Rigsby to the Project Hermod fungus and saving the day using the Skylon, to which end he put an alert on the Torchwood computer which led Andy to save Gideon Lyme, unaware that Norton wanted Lyme alive in order to get the power of the Parnaeum to power the craft. Lizbeth opened the package instead and exposed Torchwood to the infection, but he was able to go through with his plan and was left to rebuild Torchwood, which he invited Lyme to do with him, having begun something of a relationship with him. The two moved into 14 Endicott Terrace together. (AUDIO: Parasite)

As leader[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Norton took Lyme to see Ashenden to show him "the town that Torchwood built", meeting with the possessed Miss Satterthwaite and the drunk Professor Ornadel and learning of the space eels' plans. He immediately decided to run away with Lyme, who was disgusted by Norton's role in Ashenden and refused to go with him. After escaping being possessed himself, Norton went on the run from the eels and planned to save Lyme from the town.

Norton summoned Andy and Lizbeth in order to create a time cone converter to snap shut the eels' rift and return them to their planet. He took them to Ashenden to attend the picnic where the rift would be opened but Lizbeth did not do so, leading Norton and Andy to go on the run to London for a time before being taken back by the possessed Lyme. Norton conformed to fit in, taking a number of undesirables to be killed on the "factory tours", before his plan worked and the eels were banished.

Aware that Lyme could be left hollow rather than restored, Norton waited with him to come to and told him that there was only room for one hollow man in the relationship. (AUDIO: Ashenden)

Flight 405 and Torchwood Three[[edit] | [edit source]]

Norton boarded Flight 405 in order to obtain the Lens for the Committee. However, he found himself caught in a time loop for which he blamed Jack Harkness, believing that he had put the plane in a time loop to stop the lens from falling into the wrong hands. After sixty years aboard the plane, he managed to hijack Yvonne Hartman's attempted summoning of Ianto as a hard-light hologram by using the Lens. (AUDIO: Eye of the Storm) As a hologram, he assisted Yvonne and Andy in rescuing himself, during which he was visited by God who advised him to remember who his "true friends" were. He and Yvonne later met with Roy informing him they had the Lens. (AUDIO: Flight 405)

Norton met Tyler Steele in the Hub after he was allowed to live there. (AUDIO: Hostile Environment) Due to God using Evolved technology, Norton switched bodies with Tyler. Feeling liberated he had sex with Jay and numerous other men. He proposed to Jay, however he fled so Tyler commiserated with Norton in a bar, during which their bodies were restored. (AUDIO: Another Man's Shoes)

Norton and Yvonne worked to further the Committee's plans to use the Sorvix power plant to stabilise the Rift. At the plant he immoblised both Jack and St John Colchester to carry out his orders. With God's aid, he realised that the Committee had double-crossed him and his actions would actually cause the destruction of Earth. He attempted to ruin their plans by diverting energy using the Lens, sending it to Flight 405 causing the time loop in the first place and transporting himself there again. (AUDIO: Eye of the Storm)

Fate[[edit] | [edit source]]

When Ianto Jones looked up Norton in 2009, there was no record of his death. Ianto believed that an elderly Norton might be out there. (AUDIO: Outbreak) However, Norton found his own skeleton on Flight 405. (AUDIO: Parasite)

Undated events[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the far future, Norton and his lover Jeremiah Bash Henderson planned to revive the Committee after their defeat by the Enemy, in part because they wanted their money. Jeremiah visited the Torchwood Archive and learnt about Object 1 and how they could use it to revive them. The two subsequently left, after blowing up the archive using a fake object. (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive)

Alternate timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]

As a member of the Torchwood Institute, Norton Folgate answered directly to John Hart in an alternate timeline in which he took control of Torchwood and became King of the British Empire. (AUDIO: The Death of Captain Jack)

Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]

Norton had tawny brown eyes. His britches were described by Reginald Hardgoing as "firm, impertinent peaches". (AUDIO: The Restoration of Catherine [+]Loading...["The Restoration of Catherine (audio story)"])

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

Norton was camp, flamboyant and sarcastic. Andy remarked that he very rarely said anything helpful, preferring to make flippant comments. (AUDIO: Ghost Mission) He was very afraid of heights and ducks (AUDIO: Parasite) and was sensitive about his age. (AUDIO: Outbreak, Parasite)

Norton liked ham sandwiches, scrambled eggs, wine, pork pies, pale ale and tea, which, after the end of rationing, he realised that he did not enjoy with too many sugars. (AUDIO: Parasite)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Norton Folgate was named after a street in London. (BFX: Parasite)