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series number=[[Series 1 (Torchwood)|Series 1]]|
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|series               = ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''
featuring= <ul><li>[[Jack Harkness]]</li><li>[[Gwen Cooper]]</li><li>[[Toshiko Sato]]</li><li>[[Owen Harper]]</li><li>[[Ianto Jones]]</ul>|
|season number         = Series 1 (Torchwood)
enemy= [[Sex Gas]]|
|series episode number = 2
setting=[[Cardiff]], [[2007]]|
|scripturl      = https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/documents/torchwood-1-episode-2-day-one-green-revisions-08052006.pdf
writer= [[Chris Chibnall]] |
|main character        = [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Owen Harper|Owen]], [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]]
director = [[Brian Kelly]] |
|featuring            = [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]], [[Andy Davidson|Andy]], [[Janet (Everything Changes)|Janet]]
producer = [[Richard Stokes]] |
|enemy                 = The [[Sex Gas]]
broadcast date= [[22nd October]] [[2006]] |
|setting               = [[Cardiff]], [[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 {{cs|Ghost Machine (TV story)}}, {{cs|Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)}}, {{cs|Random Shoes (TV story)}}, {{cs|To the Last Man (TV story)}}, {{cs|Reset (TV story)}}, {{cs|Adrift (TV story)}}, {{cs|Fragments (TV story)}}, {{cs|Exit Wounds (TV story)}}, and {{cs|The New World (TV story)}}. As episode 10, {{cs|Out of Time (TV story)}}, is set at the end of [[December]], this means that episodes 11-13 are almost certainly set the year after episodes 1-10.}}
previous story = [[Everything Changes]] |
|writer               = Chris Chibnall
next story = [[Ghost Machine]]
|director             = [[Brian Kelly]]
}}{{TV stub}}
|producer             = [[Richard Stokes]]
:''For the [[Series 3 (Torchwood)|Series 3]] Torchwood episode ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]'', see separate entry.''
|network              = BBC Three
'''Day One''' is the second episode of [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|Series One]] of [[Torchwood]].
|broadcast date       = 22 October 2006
==Synopsis==
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Gwen's first day on the job sees Cardiff's nightlife at the mercy of an alien who consumes its victims during orgasm, leaving behind only dust. Torchwood tracks the alien to a sperm bank, but too late for the patrons within. Gwen tricks it into leaving its host and captures it within a portable cell, where it peters out, turning itself to dust.
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|clip2                = Carys Escapes Torchwood Day One Torchwood
|clip3                = Jack's Life-Saving Kiss Day One Torchwood
|format                = 1x50 minute episode
}}{{you may|Children of Earth: Day One}}
'''''Day One''''' was the second episode in the [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|first series]] of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''. It was written by [[Chris Chibnall]] and directed by [[Brian Kelly]].


==Plot==
Taking advantage of its post-watershed allowances, it was the first ''[[Doctor Who]]''-related onscreen production to explicitly centre its conflict around [[sex]]. The episode explored [[sexuality]] in the [[21st century]] and took a look at an [[alien]] interested in something more than just [[Slavery|enslavement]]. It saw [[Gwen Cooper]] take on her first mission for [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]], following her induction in {{cs|Everything Changes (TV story)}}.


== Synopsis ==
[[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]]'s first day on her new job at [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] sees [[Cardiff]]'s night-life at the mercy of [[Sex Gas|a gaseous alien]] who consumes its victims during [[orgasm]], leaving behind only dust. And it's all her fault — she let it escape a fallen [[meteorite]]. The gas is devouring [[Carys Fletcher|its teenage host]]. She's fighting for control as the alien inside takes down victim after victim. Torchwood tracks the alien to [[Conway Clinic|a sperm bank]], but too late for the patrons within. Soon, if they don't act quickly enough, it'll be too late for everyone else too!


== Plot ==
[[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] is having [[dinner]] with [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]], after [[bowling]] and a movie. He asks her about her new job at [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]]. Gwen lies, saying she will mostly be handling filing. A [[meteor]] falls through the sky and Gwen notices it crash on the town's outskirts. They run to get a better view, then Gwen gets a message and tells Rhys that she has to go to work.


''“Torchwood. Outside the Government, beyond the police. Tracking down alien life on Earth and arming the human race against the future. The 21st century is when everything changes and you’ve got to be ready.” ''
Gwen is picked up by the team in the [[Torchwood SUV]], commenting on the dual [[computer]] stations and a seemingly illegal link to the [[police]] [[CRIMINT]] [[computer system]]. They arrive at the crash site and find, to their disappointment, that the "amateurs" — the [[British Army]] — have beaten them there. [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] tells the team to employ the "usual formation"; [[Owen Harper|Owen]] informs Gwen that the usual formation varies. While the rest of the team head to the meteor to examine it, Gwen remembers her equipment and returns to the car to get it.


Gwen Cooper is spending an evening out with her boyfriend Rhys Williams. They enjoy a game of bowls (although he’s unhappy when she thrashes him), they see a film at the cinema (although she’s unhappy with his choice and claims she fell asleep), and then go for a drink at a nearby bar. He asks her about her recent secondment to Special Ops, which she’s due to start tomorrow, but she assures him it’s no big deal and her job will mainly consist of filing. They decide to have an early night and are just about to leave when they see what appears to be a plane on fire in the sky above them. Everyone in the area looks up and sees the approaching fireball and it soon becomes clear that this is an enormous meteorite, billowing clouds of smoke in its wake. The meteorite seems to change course and Gwen drags Rhys onto the street to see where it’s going. They chase after it and hear the noise as it disappears over the horizon and crashes to the ground somewhere nearby. Immediately, Gwen receives a text message from Torchwood and tells Rhys she has to go to work…
Army security stops Gwen until Jack comes back to collect her and tells them to back off. The others move into action, taking samples and readings, and Gwen feels inexperienced and out of place. When Owen starts trying out nicknames, the least of which is "New Girl", and asks for a bigger chisel to help get a part of the meteor, Gwen cracks a joke about Owen needing a bigger tool for the job and tosses the chisel at him.


Captain Jack, Gwen, Owen and Toshiko jump into the car and race through the streets of Cardiff. This is a simple locate and clean-up operation - they need to find that meteorite before anyone else gets their hands on it. Gwen is amazed at the ultra-modern tracking and surveillance equipment they’re using, but she warns them they shouldn’t be hacking into the police computer system. Jack reminds her it’s time she started thinking of herself as part of Torchwood, not the police. They arrive at the crash site only to find that the army are already there and have sealed off the road. Dismissing the army as amateurs, they use their credentials to get through the police cordon and head straight for the command tent. Gwen is the last to enter and is nearly turned away from the restricted area by Private Moriaty and Sergeant Johnson, but Jack vouches for her and rebukes the soldiers for treating her as a little girl. He orders them to leave his team alone while they do their work.
She misses. It punctures the skin of the meteor, and, as Jack tosses around gas masks, it begins to release a purplish gas that coalesces and rises into the air. Gwen looks around at her team guiltily.


Jack leads Gwen down into a crater where the others are already setting up their equipment around the huge meteorite. Owen has established that it’s bog-standard space debris so they decide to take the usual readings and then vacate the area. The group casually toss each other various bits of equipment and when Gwen is asked to pass Owen a chisel, she does the same - but her aim is poor and the chisel smashes into the meteorite and imbeds itself into the stone. Almost immediately, a strange gas-like substance seeps out and Jack throws gas-masks to everyone. The gas takes the form of what appears to be a sentient energised cloud and then shoots up into the sky. Gwen is mortified.
At an alley near an underground night club in [[Cardiff]], a young woman, [[Carys Fletcher]], is leaving a distraught voice mail for [[Eddie Gwynne|Eddie]], who she says has stood her up again for another woman, when she is confronted by the [[Sex Gas|gaseous creature]]. It backs her against a wall, then flows into her body. Carys, confused and shocked, inhales the Sex Gas through her mouth and nose. After all of the gas was inside of her body, she exhales. She suddenly goes from upset to sexually aggressive, and gains re-entry into the club by kissing the bouncer. She picks out a man, [[Matt Stevens|Matt]], and nearly drags him into the women's toilet. They have sex, and, at the moment of climax, Matt dissolves into a glowing cloud of dust, while the energy portion of Matt is absorbed by Carys.


In an alleyway round the back of a nightclub in the centre of the city, a tearful young girl, Carys Fletcher, is trying to phone her boyfriend Eddie Gwynne. She’s been standing in the club for hours on her own and it’s obvious that he isn’t turning up. She’s sick of his behaviour and wishes she’d never met him. After she leaves a message on his voicemail, she turns to leave and finds herself facing the alien-looking cloud. She’s forced against a wall as the cloud absorbs itself into her body. Moments later, she tries to return to the Night Spot, but is refused admission by the doorman Banksy. She argues that she’s already been inside once and only came out to make a call, but he says they have a no-readmission policy. Without warning, she grabs him and gives him a long and very passionate kiss. She’s allowed back inside.
Gwen keeps apologising, Owen keeps taunting her, [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]] wants him to lay off, and Jack just wants her to get past it and back to work. [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] thinks he can help, as he's heard an unusual 999 call for the nightclub. The team investigates, and [[Andy Davidson|PC Andy]] is surprised to see Gwen. They find the dust and the CCTV tapes that show Carys and Matt having their deadly sex and the alien taking her over in the alley. Jack arranges for a body to be taken out of storage to fake a suicide for Matt, which shocks and dismays Gwen. Jack confiscates the tapes.


Inside the busy nightclub, Carys looks around for the right person. That person is a young man she‘s never met before called Matt Stevens, who she approaches and drags straight into the ladies toilet. The other girls in the room swiftly leave and let them get on with things in private, Carys begins kissing Matt. He responds, and within moment they are having sex. As he reaches a climax, his cries of ecstasy turn to screams. There is an explosion of light and Matt is turned into a cloud of golden energy which is then absorbed into Carys. All that remains of Matt at the end is a small pile of dust on the floor.
While the team analyses the meteorite and scene data, Carys is feeling the effects of the previous night. She spends most of [[Ivan Fletcher|her dad]]'s breakfast monologue staring into the distance, claiming a hangover. Gwen tells Tosh, Owen, and Jack about Rhys, and finds the other three don't have time to date. Tosh tries to track Carys by cross-checking video from the surveillance cameras with a database of the faces of the UK population. Meanwhile, Carys breaks down crying in the shower. As she brushes her hair afterwards, she is racked with pain several times as she stares into the mirror. The postman arrives and Carys pulls him into her house, throwing him down on the couch and pulling at his clothing, but the team arrives before she can do the deed.


The Torchwood gang return to the Hub and Gwen can’t seem to apologise enough for her mistake. Jack urges her to stop saying sorry, but the others are less sensitive to her embarrassment. She promises to sort out the problem and hopes that it can’t be anything too serious. On the plus side, they do have some undamaged samples from the meteorite, but on the down side there’s an alien on the loose and they don’t know where it is, why it’s here or what it’s going to do. For Gwen this has been the worst first day ever! Ianto joins them and reports that there’s been a death at a nightclub with unusual circumstances.
She breaks away but Owen catches her with an alien device that he didn't have permission to carry. After dressing Carys and bringing her to [[the Hub]], Jack puts Gwen in charge of interrogating her. In a holding cell, a [[consciousness]] takes over Carys momentarily. It tells Gwen it is not here for conquest, but to feed off human orgasmic energy. Carys pleads for help and doubles over in pain, causing Gwen to open the door and help her up. However, the alien presence takes over and Carys kisses Gwen. After pulling herself away, Gwen suddenly begins passionately kissing Carys.


It’s the very early hours of the morning by the time the gang arrive at the Night Spot. Jack leads them in, but Gwen holds back when she realises the police office on duty outside is her former partner, PC Andy. She apologises for not calling him, but she’s unable to satisfy his curiosity about her new job. She tells him he might as well go off duty now that they’ve arrived and he’s disconcerted by the fact that she’s in a position to give him orders. Inside, the group examine the remains of Matt on the toilet floor and Jack wonders how the doorman Banksy knew the dust was once a human body. ''(We then see a flashback scene in which Banksy is masturbating as he watches the CCTV footage of Matt and Carys having sex - and the shock on his face when he witnesses the boy’s fate.)'' Jack and the others watch the CCTV footage themselves and ask Banksy if he knew who the couple were or had any other information about them. Unfortunately the club gets hundreds of punters every week and he’s not able to tell them anything.
[[File:Team watch gwen.jpg|thumb|The team watch Gwen and Carys on the monitor.]]
In the main Hub room, Owen notices this on a monitor and is amused. He informs Jack and Toshiko, calling it a "treat".


As they leave, Jack gives instructions to the others to select a body from the cryo-chamber that matches the boy’s appearance, then disfigure the face and dump it somewhere remote so that it looks like a suicide. Gwen is horrified to learn that Torchwood keeps a stash of bodies for just such an eventuality. She’s worried about the boy’s family, but Jack points out that they can hardly tell them what really happened. He traces the elements from the crash site and it leads them to the alleyway behind the Night Spot. He also notices another CCTV camera on the street, and later they watch the footage of Carys being taken over by the alien gas. Gwen sadly realises that the whole thing was her fault. The boy would still be alive if it hadn’t been for her actions at the crash site. She’s determined to make sure the girl doesn’t kill again…
Back in the cell, the presence in Carys realises it needs a man for its energy. Carys breaks through and pleads for Gwen to help her. Gwen regains her senses, walking out of the cell and locking it. Gwen receives a call from Rhys just as Jack and Tosh arrive to help get her away from Carys. She signals them that she is all right and vaguely tells Rhys how her job is going so far.


Carys has returned home, but she appears to be in a state of shock and is oblivious to the conversation her father Ivan is having with her. He thinks she’s probably just hungover from the night before, but she says she can’t remember. Later, she breaks down in tears as she takes a shower.
Returning to the main Hub area, Gwen is confronted by Owen, who jokingly congratulates her on her "methodical investigation" before telling another dirty joke. Angered at Owen's lack of care for Carys' plight, Gwen pins Owen to a wall and yells at him; they should be helping her instead of studying her like a lab rat. Jack breaks it up, saying that throttling Torchwood staff is his job. Ianto shows up with dinner.


Back at the Hub, Jack is using satellite tracking data to determine the inward trajectory of the meteorite. Gwen observes that it’s a sort of route planner, similar to the job her boyfriend does. This is the first time any of her new colleagues realised she had a boyfriend, and when Gwen asks about the others she discovers they are all so involved in Torchwood that none of them have partners. She wonders how they switch off from their work if none of them have time for a personal life, but they don‘t really have an answer for her. Owen starts work on analysing the gases from the meteorite while Toshiko uses a computer programme to try to find a match for the CCTV footage of Carys. Gwen is once again concerned that Torchwood has a photographic database of everyone in the UK and Jack has to remind her that she is now part of the group too. Unfortunately the footage isn’t very clear and the computer can only narrow the search down to 119 possible matches. Ianto offers to cross-check all 119 suspects manually, but Jack suggests Toshiko search for CCTV footage from other street cameras to see if they can find the moment earlier in the evening when the girl first arrived at the nightclub.
At dinner, they all laugh over alien anecdotes until Jack excuses himself for the restroom. Ianto, Owen, and Tosh quickly ask Gwen if she has learned anything about Jack yet. Gwen's surprised they're asking her, but they know nothing, except that Owen believes Jack is [[sexuality|gay]], which Tosh disagrees with. Tosh thinks Jack will go for anything if it's beautiful enough. Ianto doesn't care. They're not even sure he's [[America]]n, as Tosh found no US citizen by his name born in the last 50 years. Ianto thinks he's CIA. Gwen hears a faint crying and notices Carys on the monitor, and Jack returns. She tells Jack that they should be doing something to help her. Jack explains the scans, tests, and searches that Gwen didn't know were already running. They are doing everything they can think of to analyse the problem. Gwen explains, "You've been hidden down here too long, spending so much time with the alien stuff, you've lost what it means to be human." Jack challenges her to show him "what it means to be human in the [[21st century]]."


As Carys sits in her bedroom, she starts to suffer from terrible spasms. The doorbell rings and it’s the postman with a package. She grabs him, drags him inside the house and begins seducing him on the bed. At that the moment the door is kicked in and the Torchwood gang burst into the room, fully armed and kitted out with gas-masks and protective suits. At gunpoint they order the postman to get dressed and leave. When they’re alone with Carys, Toshiko checks the air and confirms it’s safe, but as they remove their gas-masks, Carys takes the opportunity to escape into the hallway. Fortunately, Owen is prepared for her and as she runs past, he drops a strange metal device to the floor in front of her. She finds herself trapped inside an alien force-field which Owen describes as an inflatable cell. They have to work quickly as the battery will only power the cell for about an hour. Even though he stopped their prisoner escaping, Owen is still rebuked by Jack for bringing alien technology out of the Hub.
Gwen creates a complete profile of Carys' life, and Jack is curious about why Gwen put such effort into it. She insists Carys is not a threat, but someone in trouble who needs their help, and the information can help them help Carys fight the alien influence. Jack is momentarily speechless, and calls her brilliant, until she asks to bring in Carys' dad. Tosh breaks up the discussion with the results of the tests. The alien in Carys is producing a cloud of pheromones around her, turning her into a walking aphrodisiac. They can't let Carys near any man and realise Owen has gone down to her to get medical scans.


The group return to their base and Gwen is asked to interrogate their prisoner. She locks Carys into one of the underground cells and is surprised when the girl appears to know nothing about what happened the night before. She can’t understand why she’s been arrested as she’s never been in trouble before. Gwen tells Carys there’s something living inside her and suddenly the girl goes into spasms again and is hurled against the walls of the cell. Possessed by the alien, Carys accuses Gwen of breaking her ship. Gwen warns her she will not be allowed to invade or enslave the human race, but the alien has no such intention. All it wants is the energy drawn from the sexual climax - it feeds off orgasms. Carys is again thrown against the walls, and concerned for the girl’s safety, Gwen opens the cell door and rushes in. Temporarily restored to her normal self, Carys begs Gwen to get the creature out of her, but as she helps her prisoner to her feet, there is a sudden mutual attraction and the two women start to kiss.
[[File:Owen duped.jpg|thumb|left|Owen finds himself in an embarrassing situation.]]
They arrive to find him naked and cuffed in the cell; Carys took Owen's swipe card after the pheromones overpowered him. Toshiko tells Owen that he's very lucky that his card is all she wanted and frees him. Gwen asks if Owen is okay then cracks a joke at his expense.


In the main lab, Owen spots what’s happening on the internal CCTV screen. After watching for a few moments (and setting the video to record, of course) he alerts the others to what’s happening. They’re all transfixed for a second before realising they ought to get Gwen out of there. The alien inside Carys rejects Gwen’s advances, claiming she can only feed off men. Gwen suddenly realises what she’s done and backs out, rather embarrassed. Before the alien takes control of her again, Carys makes Gwen promise that she’ll help her. At that moment, Gwen’s mobile phone rings and it’s her boyfriend Rhys checking up on how her first day at work is going. Losing concentration for a moment, Gwen backs up against one of the cell doors and is attacked from behind by the Weevil. She returns to the lab and gets a round of applause from an excited Owen. Gwen is furious and attacks Owen physically and verbally for treating Carys’s situation as a joke. He reminds her that the girl in the cell downstairs is a murderer. Just then, Ianto arrives with the dinner.
The possessed Carys, meanwhile, makes her way to the Hub's exit and is confronted by Jack. They battle with the ambient weaponry until she takes [[The Tenth Doctor's hand|the mysterious hand]] hostage to keep Jack from following her to the exit. However, Jack soon catches up through a secondary exit. Even though Ianto offers to help, Jack opens the door in exchange for the hand, which Carys hurls to the floor. The ladies give chase and lose her in the plaza. Gwen berates Jack for caring more about a severed hand than a girl's life.


The five of them enjoy a meal in the boardroom and swap amusing anecdotes about their past experiences with aliens. When Jack pops out for a moment, the group question Gwen about what she knows of their leader. They were banking on her training as a police officer to find out who he is and where he’s from. They know nothing about him at all, but each of them seems to have their own theories. Owen thinks he must be gay and Ianto suspects he’s former CIA. Whatever the answer, Gwen is sure Jack must have good reasons for wanting to keep his details secret. They’re interrupted by the sound of Carys sobbing, alone in her cell. Gwen is horrified at the thought that they’ve been enjoying dinner while the girl downstairs is fighting for her life. Jack returns and assures her that they’ve been busy. The computers are running a full bio-scan, profiling her body to see what effect the alien’s having on her, and also taking samples of the air in the cell so they can analyse any changes in the environment around her. But Gwen realises they’ve all been hidden down here too long. They’ve spent so much time chasing aliens they’ve forgotten what it’s like to be human. Jack challenges her with the job of reminding them.
After Owen dresses himself, he demonstrates the results of his bio-scan of Carys on a [[rat]] showing that the physiological effects of the gaseous creature will make the body literally explode if it inhabits a person too long, dubbing the end result "Rat Jam". They then wonder where Carys could be as the alien in her wants orgasmic energy. Owen then jokes if he was possessed by the alien he'd come after Gwen, much to everyone's annoyance. Tosh then comes up with an idea.


Gwen spends the next few hours in the lab alone, preparing a full history of the life of Carys Fletcher from baby to young woman, including medical records, school reports, personnel files from her employers, swimming certificates, details of her mother‘s death in a car crash ten years ago, and a collection of emails discussing the merits of Orlando Bloom and Heath Ledger. Later, she gives a presentation to Jack and he’s forced to realise the problem they face is not about meteorites or gases. It’s about a desperate girl who needs their help. They need to remind Carys who she is and give her enough support to keep fighting. For once, Jack is almost speechless, but he thinks Gwen is brilliant. At least he does until she suggests bringing Carys’s dad Ivan in to see her. He argues that their priority is to contain the alien threat, not put civilians at risk, but she reminds him that no one else is going to help Carys.
The alien in Carys walks a street in a shopping district, in a daze of overwhelming sexual imagery. She drops in on her now ex-boyfriend and attempts to hold back the alien influence. After she learns her ex was only using her, she lets the alien kill him. The team arrive later. Jack makes a joke about his numerous exes.


The others have been busy too. Toshiko has the results of the air analysis which proves that the alien is secreting a powerful blend of airborne sex pheromones, thousands of times stronger than you would normally experience, making Carys a walking aphrodisiac. Gwen realises this is why she was so attracted to the girl when she was in the cell with her. This also means no man can possibly be let anywhere near her. They suddenly remember Owen was working in the cellar, and they rush down to discover Carys has gone and Owen is locked up in the cell, naked and feeling a bit of a thingy.
While driving through town, they discuss how to stop the alien before Carys dies. Gwen double checks the records, finding that she is working as a receptionist at [[Conway Clinic]]. Owen recognises it as a fertility clinic, an ideal source of orgasmic energy. They also determine that the alien takes hosts because Earth's atmosphere is poisonous to it. Jack gives Gwen a [[Firearm|gun]], and is surprised when she protests that she's never used one.


Carys tries to escape from the Hub, but is confronted by Jack. There is a face-off and both end up arming themselves with objects from around the laboratory. Suddenly Carys grabs the glass container holding the severed hand. Jack becomes almost desperate in his attempts to prevent her from damaging the specimen, saying it’s worthless to anyone but him. He threatens to shoot her, but she calls his bluff and backs into the lift. Jack races up the staircase to ground level and catches up with her just as she bursts into the tourist information office that leads out onto the street. Ianto is there and Jack tells him to open the door so she can escape. But when he asks Carys to give him the jar, she smashes it to the ground instead and flees while his attention is on the disembodied hand. Gwen and Toshiko arrive and race out into the street, but it’s too late - Carys has disappeared.
[[File:Sex gas contained.jpg|thumb|The gaseous alien is finally contained.]]
Carys is already at the clinic, dragging the sperm donors into the private rooms. When the team arrives, there are piles of dust everywhere. When they surround her, Carys collapses, too weak to fight the alien any more. Jack kisses her, and she glows as he gives up some of his life force to revitalise her, confusing Tosh and Owen. Carys faints. Gwen offers herself as a host for the alien, asking the alien to spare Carys. Gwen backs away, and the alien flows out of Carys' body. Jack drops a [[portable prison cell]] and traps it inside before it can reach Gwen. Separated from its host, the alien dies, falling into a pile of dust. Gwen kisses Jack in thanks for saving her life, causing Jack to pause and consider after she leaves.


Back in the Hub, Gwen wants to know why the hand is more important to Jack than saving Carys’s life, but all he will say is that she should make herself useful by using her police contacts to track the girl down. Owen calls the group together to demonstrate a discovery he’s made. He’s been trying to interpret the results of the bio-scan, but there were no definitive readings as Carys’s metabolism keeps changing as she fights again the alien trying to control her body. Instead, Owen had tried to recreate the circumstances by accelerating the process to see what will happen to Carys. He’s infected a rat with the two gas traces found at the crash site and discovered that once they start to flow around the body the heart rate triples, the brain swells and presses against the skull, the lungs begin to shrink making it impossible to breath and the pressure increases on all the internal organs until - the rat explodes!!! Rat jam!
Gwen and Jack take Carys back to her father. As Gwen clears up, Jack asks her to keep perspective on the job. She challenges Jack to come clean. Jack says the answers to her questions won't make her feel better. He asks her to be normal, for him. Gwen has dinner with Rhys, then they go to bed.


Carys explores the streets of Cardiff, looking for suitable men. Gwen is trying to think like Carys, to put herself in the girl’s position and work out what her next move is likely to be. The overriding instinct for the alien is to try to have sex in order to survive, but Carys knows that whoever she has sex with is going to die - so what would she do? The likely possibilities include brothels and lap-dance clubs, but it‘s Toshiko who knows what she would do if she were in Carys‘s position…
== Cast ==
* [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]] —[[John Barrowman]]
* [[Gwen Cooper]] — [[Eve Myles]]
* [[Owen Harper]] — [[Burn Gorman]]
* [[Toshiko Sato]] — [[Naoko Mori]]
* [[Ianto Jones]] — [[Gareth David-Lloyd]]
* [[Rhys Williams]] — [[Kai Owen]]
* [[Moriarty (Day One)|Private Moriarty]] — [[Adrian Christopher]]
* [[Johnson (Day One)|Sgt Johnson]] — [[Ross O'Hennessey]]
* [[Carys Fletcher]] — [[Sara Lloyd Gregory]]
* [[Banksy (Day One)|Banksy]] — [[Ceri Mears]]
* [[Matt Stevens|Matt]] — [[Justin McDonald]]
* [[Andy Davidson|PC Andy Davidson]] — [[Tom Price]]
* [[Ivan Fletcher]] — [[Brendan Charleson]]
* [[Gavin (Day One)|Gavin]] — [[Rob Störr]]
* [[Mikey (Day One)|Mikey]] - [[Lloyd Everitt]]
* [[Eddie Gwynne]] — [[Alex Parry]]
* [[Bethan]] — [[Felicity Rhys]]
* [[Receptionist (Day One)|Receptionist]] — [[Naomi Martell]]
* [[Weston (Day One)|Mr Weston]] — [[David Longden]]


Carys arrives at her ex-boyfriend’s flat and demands to see him. Eddie is unhappy about this as his partner Bethan could have been home. He complains about the message she left on his mobile the night before and reminds her that he never had any intention of leaving Bethan. She threatens to kill him, then starts to suffer from the terrible spasms again. She asks if he ever loved her, but his answer is no. She tells him that he could have saved himself if he’d given a different answer - and then she jumps on top of him. Later, Jack and Gwen burst into Eddie’s flat and find just a pile of dust on the bed. So where will she go next?
=== Uncredited Cast ===


The group drive around, trying to work out their next move. Gwen suggests putting bromide in the water supply, but Jack says it’s too hit and miss. In any case, the water company got really pissed off last time they tried that. As Gwen did a profile on Carys, they ask if there’s anything she knows that might give them a clue, but she can’t think of anything. Toshiko calls up her employment record and they discover she’s working as a temp at Conway Clinic, a sperm donor/fertility clinic where an unlimited source of young men can be found. As they race to the scene, Gwen is handed a gun…
* [[Weevil]] - [[Paul Kasey]]


Carys arrives at the Clinic and tells the receptionist that ‘it’ needs to deed and the energy she’s been absorbing for it is not lasting very long. She knocks the woman out and then calls the waiting room, summoning each of the men there one by one to a side room where she will be waiting for them.
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Toshiko has deduced from their tests that the alien has taken a human host because prolonged exposure to Earth’s atmosphere would be poisonous to it. If they can isolate it from Carys’s body, it shouldn’t survive for long. They arrive at the Clinic and race inside, drawing their weapons and kicking open the door. They order all the remaining men in the waiting room to leave and then start searching the building. In every room they find the same thing, just a small pile of dust is all that remains of the men. Eventually they manage to corner Carys, leaving her nowhere to run. The strain on her body becomes too much and she collapses to the floor in agony. The alien in Carys tells them that each time the host has sex, the effect of the energy it absorbs becomes less and it’s becoming steadily weaker. Carys begs them to help her feel human again, but there’s nothing anyone can do. Except for Jack. He claims he has a surplus of ’alive’ and he’s giving it away. In front of the others, he bends down and kisses Carys. Energy flows between them and Carys passes out. Gwen offers her own body as a host and implores the alien to leave the young girl. However, it’s a trick and when the alien comes out of Carys’s body, Jack throws down the metal device that Owen used earlier and the gas cloud becomes trapped inside the force-field. Owen is worried about how much longer the battery will last for, but luck seems to be on their side for once and the alien slowly dies in the atmosphere and ends up as nothing more than another pile of dust on the floor.
== Worldbuilding ==
* A picture of [[Torchwood House]] is visible in the background of [[the Hub]].
* Jack is surprised that Gwen, a [[police officer]], was never trained with a [[Firearm|handgun]].
* Carys is a fan of [[Heath Ledger]] and [[Orlando Bloom]].
* [[Owen Harper]] suggests "[[sweetheart]]", "[[sweetcheeks]]" and "[[freckle]]s" as nicknames for Gwen.
* Gwen's name is composed of one [[syllable]].


Jack and Gwen return Carys to her home where she receives a warm welcome from her father. Later, Jack finds Gwen tidying up in the Hub and he asks her a favour. He wants her to make sure the job doesn’t consume her. She still has a life and a proper perspective on things and he doesn’t want her to lose that. She asks who he really is and how does he know so much about what happens in the 21st century? He won’t answer her questions - he just wants her to go home to her boyfriend and live a normal life.
=== Influences ===


==Cast==
* To complete the effect of the gas, 3D artist [[Paul Burton]] based his design of the alien from the water creature in ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss The Abyss]''.
*Captain [[Jack Harkness]] —[[John Barrowman]]
*[[Gwen Cooper]] — [[Eve Myles]]
*[[Owen Harper]] — [[Burn Gorman]]
*[[Toshiko Sato]] — [[Naoko Mori]]
*[[Ianto Jones]] — [[Gareth David-Lloyd]]
*[[Rhys Williams]] — [[Kai Owen]]
*Private [[Moriarty]] — [[Adrian Christopher]]
*Sgt. [[Johnson (Day One)|Johnson]] — [[Ross O'Hennessey]]
*[[Carys Fletcher]] — [[Sara Lloyd Gregory]]
*[[Banksy]] — [[Ceri Mears]]
*[[Matt Stevens|Matt]] — [[Justin McDonald]]
*PC [[Andy Davidson]] — [[Tom Price]]
*[[Ivan Fletcher]] — [[Brendan Charleson]]
*[[Gavin]] — [[Rob Störr]]
*[[Mikey]] - [[Lloyd Everitt]]
*[[Eddie Gwynne]] — [[Alex Parry]]
*[[Bethan]] — [[Felicity Rhys]]
*Receptionist — [[Naomi Martell]]
*[[Weston|Mr Weston]] — [[David Longden]]


==Crew==
== Story notes ==
{|width="75%"
* This story had a working title of ''New Girl''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://shannonsullivan.com/drwho/torchwood/2006b.html |title=Day One |date of source=18th December 2011 |website name=A Brief History of (Time) Travel |accessdate=16 June 2013}}</ref> This would later be used as the name of [[New Girl (audio story)|the first ''Torchwood One'' audio story]], referring to [[Rachel Allan]].
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* The episode was repeated on [[BBC Two]], three days later at 9:50pm on Wednesday [[25 October (releases)|25 October]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]].
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* The alien is never given a name in the episode, although in ''[[Torchwood Declassified]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] refers to it as the "sex monster" or the "sex gas orgasm-eating monster".
*[[Executive Producer]]s - [[Russell T Davies]], [[Julie Gardner]], [[Marcus Prince]]
* This episode has the distinction of featuring the first same-sex kiss between two women in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise.
*[[Assistant Producer]] - [[Sophie Fante]]
* After Carys smashes the glass container of [[The Tenth Doctor's hand|the Doctor's hand]], as Jack picks it up, "[[The Doctor's Theme]]" begins to play.
*[[Co-Producer]] – [[Chris Chibnall]]
* [[Russell T Davies]] states in ''[[Torchwood Declassified]]'' that this episode "reflects how [[sex]]ualised our community is" and considered the scene when Carys is in the city surrounded in sexual images to be his favourite scene because it best defines it.
*[[Producer]] – [[Richard Stokes]]
* The alley where the "gas monster" takes its first victim is the same location later used at the end of ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'' to introduce [[Martha Jones]] to [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]].
*[[Script Editor]] - [[Brian Minchin]]
* Carys was originally meant to have two or three boyfriends, but because of scheduling restrictions, there could only be one. This ended up being beneficial to the episode, as it made it more emotive. There was a scene that would be filmed with Carys and a second boyfriend, but that would be cut and added on the deleted scenes on the DVD boxset of the first series.
*Casting Director - [[Andy Pryor]]
* This episode shares the same title as the [[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|first episode]] of ''[[Series 3 (Torchwood)|Children of Earth]]''.
*Unit Manager - [[Geraint Havard Jones]]
* [[Chris Chibnall]] wanted to write an episode that would centre on Gwen about her "first day in hell", and show the audience that Torchwood is unlike any normal job, as one small mistake can have major ramifications on the city. The scene where Gwen accidentally opens the meteor was meant to "extend the metaphor of breaking the photocopier on your first day at work". It is also set to show the separate dynamic between the team and Gwen.
*Senior Production Accountant - [[Endaf Emyr Williams]]
* The idea behind using the sex gas came from [[Chris Chibnall]], but he admitted to having "genuinely no idea where the episode came from". [[Russell T Davies]] stated "when we're launching a new adult science fiction drama, it's kind of inevitable you're going to do the sex monster." He also emphasised that the episode is not solely about "having a laugh" with the sex gas, as it also has "something to say about the world".
*Production Accountant – [[Ceri Tothill]]
* [[Chris Chibnall]] found that writing the second episode was hard, as there was a challenge to demonstrate how Torchwood works, and set the formula for the rest of the series.
*Sound Recordist - [[Jeff Matthews]]
* [[Russell T Davies]] stated that as the rest of the team are for the aliens, science, technology and mythology, Gwen is for "the people"; she's the only person in the team who cares about what happens to Carys.
*Costume Designer - [[Ray Holman]]
* [[Eve Myles]] noted in the episode's audio commentary that throughout the episode, it added a mix between her domestic life and the science fiction.
*Make-Up Designer - [[Marrie Dorris]]
* The episode was originally much lighter in tone, however, the majority of the comedic moments had to be cut on the final script, as they got in the way of the plot.
*Music – [[Ben Foster]], [[Murray Gold]]
* After it was written, [[Jane Tranter]] fed back to the producers and suggested that the Torchwood team take a "breather" and talk about the mysteries behind Captain Jack while having a Chinese takeway.
*Visual Effects - [[The Mill]]
* Through the read through of the script before filming, [[Burn Gorman]] noted that he saw "big smiles" and giggling from several readers because of its content. [[Sara Lloyd Gregory|Sara Gregory]] read the script with her mother.
*Visual FX Producer - [[Will Cohen]]
* The majority of the episode was filmed at night, in keeping with the majority of the series. However, because it was approaching summer when nights are shorter, all night sequences had to be shot between 10 pm and 4:30 am. Even the scenes set in the Torchwood hub were mostly filmed at night.
*Visual FX Supervisor – [[Dave Houghton]]
* The first sequence shot was the scene where the team stop Carys from having sex with the postman. However, the sequence had to be shot again twelve days later.
*On-Set Visual FX Supervisor - [[Barney Curnow]]
* The meteor crash site was filmed at a natural erosion site just outside of Cardiff. The location managers found the site by chance, and felt it was the perfect location for a crash site.
*[[Prosthetics]] – [[Neill Gorton]]
* The producers included an easter egg in the Torchwood Hub set by including the picture of Craig-y-Nos Castle, used as a location of [[Torchwood House|the Torchwood House]] in ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]''.
*[[Production Designer]] - [[Edward Thomas]]
* To film the kissing scene between Gwen and Carys, [[Eve Myles]] and [[Sara Lloyd Gregory|Sara Gregory]] (respectively) came up with a game plan beforehand to help them get through the scene. It was agreed that Myles would imagine Gregory as [[Johnny Depp]], and Gregory would imagine Myles as [[Brad Pitt]].
*[[Editor]] - [[William Webb]]
* To film the exploding rat sequence, [[Brian Kelly]] filmed a rat in a cage, and then replaced it with a fur covered condom filled with "chicken bits" and red dye to simulate guts, then exploded it with a squib.
*[[Director of Photography]] – [[Mark Waters]]
 
*[[First Assistant Director]] - [[Peter Bennett]]
=== Ratings ===
*[[Second Assistant Director]] - [[Steffan Morris]]
* 2.5 million viewers
*[[Third Assistant Director]] - [[Lynsey Muir]]
 
*[[Location Manager]] - [[Paul Davies]]
=== Filming locations ===
*[[Production Coordinator]] - [[Carmelina Palumbo]]
* Cyncoed Consulting Rooms - Cyncoed Road
*[[Continuity]] - [[Llinos Wyn Jones]]
 
*[[Camera Operator]] - [[Gareth Huges]]
=== Broadcasts ===
*[[Camera Assistant]] – [[Mani Paliwala-Blaxter]]
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*[[Best Boy]] - [[Steve Slocombe]]
|[[Sunday]] [[22 October (releases)|22 October]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]]
*[[Stunt Coordinator]] - [[Gary Connery]]
|21:50
*[[Stunt Performer]]s - [[Maxine Whittaker]], [[Curtis Rivers]]
|[[BBC Three]]
*[[Art Department Coordinator]] - [[Matthew North]]
|First broadcast.
*[[Concept Artist]] - [[Peter McKinstry]]
|-
*[[Production Buyer]] - [[Ben Morris]]
|[[Wednesday]] [[25 October (releases)|25 October]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]]
*[[Supervising Art Director]] - [[Keith Dunne]]
|21:50
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|[[BBC Two England]]
*[[Property Master]] - [[Nick Thomas]]
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*[[Construction Manager]] - [[Matthew Hywel-Davies]]
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*[[Stand-by Props]] - [[Brian Henry]]
|[[Sunday]] [[14 January (releases)|14 January]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]]
*[[Costume Supervisor]] - [[Debra Haggett]]
|22:00
*[[Costume Assistant]]s – [[Sam Benbow]], [[Bobbie Peach]]
|[[BBC Three]]
*[[Make-Up Supervisor]] - [[Claire Pritchard]]
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*[[Make-Up Artist]]s - [[Sarah Astley]], [[Kate Roberts]]
|-
*[[Casting Associate]] - [[Andy Brierley]]
|[[Thursday]] [[1 February (releases)|1 February]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]]
*[[Assistant Editor]] - [[Matt Mullins]]
|22:00
*[[Post Production Coordinator]] - [[Marie Brown]]
|[[BBC HD]]
*[[On-Line Editor]] - [[Matthew Clarke]]
|
*[[Colourist]] - [[James Bamford]]
|-
*[[2D VFX Artist]]s - [[Sara Bennett]], [[Bronwyn Edwards]]
|[[Friday]] [[21 September (releases)|21 September]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]]
*([[3D VFX Artist]]s - [[Paul Burton]], [[Andrew Guest]], [[Nick Webber]]
|21:00
*[[Dubbing Mixer]] - [[Peter Jeffreys]]
|[[BBC Three]]
*[[Sound FX Editor]] - [[Howard Eaves]]
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|[[Saturday]] [[22 September (releases)|22 September]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]]
|02:40
|[[BBC Three]]
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|[[Thursday]] [[22 April (releases)|2 April]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]]
|22:40
|[[BBC HD]]
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==References==
=== Production errors ===
*A picture of [[Torchwood House]] is visible in the background of the Hub.
{{Torchwood discontinuity}}
===Music===
*''Saturday Night'' - [[Kaiser Chiefs]]
 
==Story notes==
*This story had a working title of; '''New Girl'''.
*The alien is never given a name in the episode, although in Torchwood Declassified Russell T. Davies refers to it as the "sex monster" or the "sex gas orgasm eating monster".
*This episode has the distinction of featuring the first explicit sex scene in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise.
*[[Russell T Davies]] states in [[Torchwood Declassified]] that this episode "reflects how sexualized our community is and the scene when Carys is in the city surrounded in sexual images", Davies says this is his favorite scene because it best defines it.


===Ratings===
* When Gwen receives a message at the start of the episode, it has a file size below it, clearly giving away the fact that it is an image stored in the phone and not a text message.
*BBC3 - 2.5 million viewers
*BBC2 - 3.0 million viewers


===Myths===
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* Owen jokingly states he would have sex with Gwen. They later go on to form a sexual relationship as depicted in [[TV]]: {{cs|Countrycide (TV story)}} and {{cs|Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)}}.
* Andy Davidson states that Gwen is now part of special operations, referring to Torchwood. Special operations is how Torchwood maintains its secrecy, with it being a cover story within the British police force as first mentioned in [[TV]]: {{cs|Everything Changes (TV story)}}.


===Filming locations===
== Home video releases ==
*Cyncoed Consulting Rooms - Cyncoed Road
[[File:TWS1Part1.jpg|thumb|Series one, part one DVD cover]]


===Production errors===
=== DVD releases ===
* This episode, with four others, was first released on a DVD entitled ''Torchwood: Series 1, part 1'' on [[26 December (releases)|26 December]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]].
* It was later released in ''Torchwood: The Complete First Series'' on [[19 November (releases)|19 November]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]].
* It was also released in the Series 1-4 boxset (Region 2 release: 14 November 2011.)


==Continuity==
=== Blu-ray releases ===
{{Torchwood discontinuity}}
* Released in the US with the rest of Series 1 as a Complete First Season set on 16 September 2008.
*The severed hand seen in [[TW]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]'', which is from [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''. When Jack cradles the hand, a few instrumental notes of "Flavia's Theme" can be heard.
*The blue energy of the portable prison cell resembles the technology used by Jack in ''[[The Empty Child]]'' to rescue Rose and to stop the bomb in ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'' and also the lift in [[Forest of the Dead]].
*The first episode of the [[Children of Earth|the third series]] is also called [[Children of Earth: Day One|Day One]].


==Home video releases==
* It was released in the Series 1-3 Blu-ray boxset on 26 October 2009 in the UK. The US release was on 19 July 2011.
This episode was first released on DVD, with four other episodes entitle ''Torchwood: Series 1, part 1'' on 26 [[December]] [[2006]]. It was later released in ''Torchwood:The Complete first series'' on 19th [[November]] [[2007]]
* It was also released in the Series 1-4 Blu-ray boxset. (Region 2 release: [[14 November (releases)|14 November]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]])


==See also==
== External links ==
''to be added''
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* {{briefhistory|torchwood/2006b.html|Day One}}
* {{locguide|dayone|Day One}}
* {{whoniverse|tw1_02|Day One}}


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Day One was the second episode in the first series of Torchwood. It was written by Chris Chibnall and directed by Brian Kelly.

Taking advantage of its post-watershed allowances, it was the first Doctor Who-related onscreen production to explicitly centre its conflict around sex. The episode explored sexuality in the 21st century and took a look at an alien interested in something more than just enslavement. It saw Gwen Cooper take on her first mission for Torchwood, following her induction in Everything Changes [+]Loading...["Everything Changes (TV story)"].

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gwen's first day on her new job at Torchwood sees Cardiff's night-life at the mercy of a gaseous alien who consumes its victims during orgasm, leaving behind only dust. And it's all her fault — she let it escape a fallen meteorite. The gas is devouring its teenage host. She's fighting for control as the alien inside takes down victim after victim. Torchwood tracks the alien to a sperm bank, but too late for the patrons within. Soon, if they don't act quickly enough, it'll be too late for everyone else too!

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Gwen is having dinner with Rhys, after bowling and a movie. He asks her about her new job at Torchwood. Gwen lies, saying she will mostly be handling filing. A meteor falls through the sky and Gwen notices it crash on the town's outskirts. They run to get a better view, then Gwen gets a message and tells Rhys that she has to go to work.

Gwen is picked up by the team in the Torchwood SUV, commenting on the dual computer stations and a seemingly illegal link to the police CRIMINT computer system. They arrive at the crash site and find, to their disappointment, that the "amateurs" — the British Army — have beaten them there. Jack tells the team to employ the "usual formation"; Owen informs Gwen that the usual formation varies. While the rest of the team head to the meteor to examine it, Gwen remembers her equipment and returns to the car to get it.

Army security stops Gwen until Jack comes back to collect her and tells them to back off. The others move into action, taking samples and readings, and Gwen feels inexperienced and out of place. When Owen starts trying out nicknames, the least of which is "New Girl", and asks for a bigger chisel to help get a part of the meteor, Gwen cracks a joke about Owen needing a bigger tool for the job and tosses the chisel at him.

She misses. It punctures the skin of the meteor, and, as Jack tosses around gas masks, it begins to release a purplish gas that coalesces and rises into the air. Gwen looks around at her team guiltily.

At an alley near an underground night club in Cardiff, a young woman, Carys Fletcher, is leaving a distraught voice mail for Eddie, who she says has stood her up again for another woman, when she is confronted by the gaseous creature. It backs her against a wall, then flows into her body. Carys, confused and shocked, inhales the Sex Gas through her mouth and nose. After all of the gas was inside of her body, she exhales. She suddenly goes from upset to sexually aggressive, and gains re-entry into the club by kissing the bouncer. She picks out a man, Matt, and nearly drags him into the women's toilet. They have sex, and, at the moment of climax, Matt dissolves into a glowing cloud of dust, while the energy portion of Matt is absorbed by Carys.

Gwen keeps apologising, Owen keeps taunting her, Tosh wants him to lay off, and Jack just wants her to get past it and back to work. Ianto thinks he can help, as he's heard an unusual 999 call for the nightclub. The team investigates, and PC Andy is surprised to see Gwen. They find the dust and the CCTV tapes that show Carys and Matt having their deadly sex and the alien taking her over in the alley. Jack arranges for a body to be taken out of storage to fake a suicide for Matt, which shocks and dismays Gwen. Jack confiscates the tapes.

While the team analyses the meteorite and scene data, Carys is feeling the effects of the previous night. She spends most of her dad's breakfast monologue staring into the distance, claiming a hangover. Gwen tells Tosh, Owen, and Jack about Rhys, and finds the other three don't have time to date. Tosh tries to track Carys by cross-checking video from the surveillance cameras with a database of the faces of the UK population. Meanwhile, Carys breaks down crying in the shower. As she brushes her hair afterwards, she is racked with pain several times as she stares into the mirror. The postman arrives and Carys pulls him into her house, throwing him down on the couch and pulling at his clothing, but the team arrives before she can do the deed.

She breaks away but Owen catches her with an alien device that he didn't have permission to carry. After dressing Carys and bringing her to the Hub, Jack puts Gwen in charge of interrogating her. In a holding cell, a consciousness takes over Carys momentarily. It tells Gwen it is not here for conquest, but to feed off human orgasmic energy. Carys pleads for help and doubles over in pain, causing Gwen to open the door and help her up. However, the alien presence takes over and Carys kisses Gwen. After pulling herself away, Gwen suddenly begins passionately kissing Carys.

The team watch Gwen and Carys on the monitor.

In the main Hub room, Owen notices this on a monitor and is amused. He informs Jack and Toshiko, calling it a "treat".

Back in the cell, the presence in Carys realises it needs a man for its energy. Carys breaks through and pleads for Gwen to help her. Gwen regains her senses, walking out of the cell and locking it. Gwen receives a call from Rhys just as Jack and Tosh arrive to help get her away from Carys. She signals them that she is all right and vaguely tells Rhys how her job is going so far.

Returning to the main Hub area, Gwen is confronted by Owen, who jokingly congratulates her on her "methodical investigation" before telling another dirty joke. Angered at Owen's lack of care for Carys' plight, Gwen pins Owen to a wall and yells at him; they should be helping her instead of studying her like a lab rat. Jack breaks it up, saying that throttling Torchwood staff is his job. Ianto shows up with dinner.

At dinner, they all laugh over alien anecdotes until Jack excuses himself for the restroom. Ianto, Owen, and Tosh quickly ask Gwen if she has learned anything about Jack yet. Gwen's surprised they're asking her, but they know nothing, except that Owen believes Jack is gay, which Tosh disagrees with. Tosh thinks Jack will go for anything if it's beautiful enough. Ianto doesn't care. They're not even sure he's American, as Tosh found no US citizen by his name born in the last 50 years. Ianto thinks he's CIA. Gwen hears a faint crying and notices Carys on the monitor, and Jack returns. She tells Jack that they should be doing something to help her. Jack explains the scans, tests, and searches that Gwen didn't know were already running. They are doing everything they can think of to analyse the problem. Gwen explains, "You've been hidden down here too long, spending so much time with the alien stuff, you've lost what it means to be human." Jack challenges her to show him "what it means to be human in the 21st century."

Gwen creates a complete profile of Carys' life, and Jack is curious about why Gwen put such effort into it. She insists Carys is not a threat, but someone in trouble who needs their help, and the information can help them help Carys fight the alien influence. Jack is momentarily speechless, and calls her brilliant, until she asks to bring in Carys' dad. Tosh breaks up the discussion with the results of the tests. The alien in Carys is producing a cloud of pheromones around her, turning her into a walking aphrodisiac. They can't let Carys near any man and realise Owen has gone down to her to get medical scans.

Owen finds himself in an embarrassing situation.

They arrive to find him naked and cuffed in the cell; Carys took Owen's swipe card after the pheromones overpowered him. Toshiko tells Owen that he's very lucky that his card is all she wanted and frees him. Gwen asks if Owen is okay then cracks a joke at his expense.

The possessed Carys, meanwhile, makes her way to the Hub's exit and is confronted by Jack. They battle with the ambient weaponry until she takes the mysterious hand hostage to keep Jack from following her to the exit. However, Jack soon catches up through a secondary exit. Even though Ianto offers to help, Jack opens the door in exchange for the hand, which Carys hurls to the floor. The ladies give chase and lose her in the plaza. Gwen berates Jack for caring more about a severed hand than a girl's life.

After Owen dresses himself, he demonstrates the results of his bio-scan of Carys on a rat showing that the physiological effects of the gaseous creature will make the body literally explode if it inhabits a person too long, dubbing the end result "Rat Jam". They then wonder where Carys could be as the alien in her wants orgasmic energy. Owen then jokes if he was possessed by the alien he'd come after Gwen, much to everyone's annoyance. Tosh then comes up with an idea.

The alien in Carys walks a street in a shopping district, in a daze of overwhelming sexual imagery. She drops in on her now ex-boyfriend and attempts to hold back the alien influence. After she learns her ex was only using her, she lets the alien kill him. The team arrive later. Jack makes a joke about his numerous exes.

While driving through town, they discuss how to stop the alien before Carys dies. Gwen double checks the records, finding that she is working as a receptionist at Conway Clinic. Owen recognises it as a fertility clinic, an ideal source of orgasmic energy. They also determine that the alien takes hosts because Earth's atmosphere is poisonous to it. Jack gives Gwen a gun, and is surprised when she protests that she's never used one.

The gaseous alien is finally contained.

Carys is already at the clinic, dragging the sperm donors into the private rooms. When the team arrives, there are piles of dust everywhere. When they surround her, Carys collapses, too weak to fight the alien any more. Jack kisses her, and she glows as he gives up some of his life force to revitalise her, confusing Tosh and Owen. Carys faints. Gwen offers herself as a host for the alien, asking the alien to spare Carys. Gwen backs away, and the alien flows out of Carys' body. Jack drops a portable prison cell and traps it inside before it can reach Gwen. Separated from its host, the alien dies, falling into a pile of dust. Gwen kisses Jack in thanks for saving her life, causing Jack to pause and consider after she leaves.

Gwen and Jack take Carys back to her father. As Gwen clears up, Jack asks her to keep perspective on the job. She challenges Jack to come clean. Jack says the answers to her questions won't make her feel better. He asks her to be normal, for him. Gwen has dinner with Rhys, then they go to bed.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Uncredited Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Movement

Casting

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound



Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.


Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Influences[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • To complete the effect of the gas, 3D artist Paul Burton based his design of the alien from the water creature in The Abyss.

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This story had a working title of New Girl.[1] This would later be used as the name of the first Torchwood One audio story, referring to Rachel Allan.
  • The episode was repeated on BBC Two, three days later at 9:50pm on Wednesday 25 October 2006.
  • The alien is never given a name in the episode, although in Torchwood Declassified, Russell T Davies refers to it as the "sex monster" or the "sex gas orgasm-eating monster".
  • This episode has the distinction of featuring the first same-sex kiss between two women in the Doctor Who franchise.
  • After Carys smashes the glass container of the Doctor's hand, as Jack picks it up, "The Doctor's Theme" begins to play.
  • Russell T Davies states in Torchwood Declassified that this episode "reflects how sexualised our community is" and considered the scene when Carys is in the city surrounded in sexual images to be his favourite scene because it best defines it.
  • The alley where the "gas monster" takes its first victim is the same location later used at the end of Smith and Jones to introduce Martha Jones to the TARDIS.
  • Carys was originally meant to have two or three boyfriends, but because of scheduling restrictions, there could only be one. This ended up being beneficial to the episode, as it made it more emotive. There was a scene that would be filmed with Carys and a second boyfriend, but that would be cut and added on the deleted scenes on the DVD boxset of the first series.
  • This episode shares the same title as the first episode of Children of Earth.
  • Chris Chibnall wanted to write an episode that would centre on Gwen about her "first day in hell", and show the audience that Torchwood is unlike any normal job, as one small mistake can have major ramifications on the city. The scene where Gwen accidentally opens the meteor was meant to "extend the metaphor of breaking the photocopier on your first day at work". It is also set to show the separate dynamic between the team and Gwen.
  • The idea behind using the sex gas came from Chris Chibnall, but he admitted to having "genuinely no idea where the episode came from". Russell T Davies stated "when we're launching a new adult science fiction drama, it's kind of inevitable you're going to do the sex monster." He also emphasised that the episode is not solely about "having a laugh" with the sex gas, as it also has "something to say about the world".
  • Chris Chibnall found that writing the second episode was hard, as there was a challenge to demonstrate how Torchwood works, and set the formula for the rest of the series.
  • Russell T Davies stated that as the rest of the team are for the aliens, science, technology and mythology, Gwen is for "the people"; she's the only person in the team who cares about what happens to Carys.
  • Eve Myles noted in the episode's audio commentary that throughout the episode, it added a mix between her domestic life and the science fiction.
  • The episode was originally much lighter in tone, however, the majority of the comedic moments had to be cut on the final script, as they got in the way of the plot.
  • After it was written, Jane Tranter fed back to the producers and suggested that the Torchwood team take a "breather" and talk about the mysteries behind Captain Jack while having a Chinese takeway.
  • Through the read through of the script before filming, Burn Gorman noted that he saw "big smiles" and giggling from several readers because of its content. Sara Gregory read the script with her mother.
  • The majority of the episode was filmed at night, in keeping with the majority of the series. However, because it was approaching summer when nights are shorter, all night sequences had to be shot between 10 pm and 4:30 am. Even the scenes set in the Torchwood hub were mostly filmed at night.
  • The first sequence shot was the scene where the team stop Carys from having sex with the postman. However, the sequence had to be shot again twelve days later.
  • The meteor crash site was filmed at a natural erosion site just outside of Cardiff. The location managers found the site by chance, and felt it was the perfect location for a crash site.
  • The producers included an easter egg in the Torchwood Hub set by including the picture of Craig-y-Nos Castle, used as a location of the Torchwood House in Tooth and Claw.
  • To film the kissing scene between Gwen and Carys, Eve Myles and Sara Gregory (respectively) came up with a game plan beforehand to help them get through the scene. It was agreed that Myles would imagine Gregory as Johnny Depp, and Gregory would imagine Myles as Brad Pitt.
  • To film the exploding rat sequence, Brian Kelly filmed a rat in a cage, and then replaced it with a fur covered condom filled with "chicken bits" and red dye to simulate guts, then exploded it with a squib.

Ratings[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • 2.5 million viewers

Filming locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Cyncoed Consulting Rooms - Cyncoed Road

Broadcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Date Time Channel Notes
Sunday 22 October 2006 21:50 BBC Three First broadcast.
Wednesday 25 October 2006 21:50 BBC Two England
Sunday 14 January 2007 22:00 BBC Three
Thursday 1 February 2007 22:00 BBC HD
Friday 21 September 2007 21:00 BBC Three
Saturday 22 September 2007 02:40 BBC Three
Thursday 2 April 2010 22:40 BBC HD

Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.
  • When Gwen receives a message at the start of the episode, it has a file size below it, clearly giving away the fact that it is an image stored in the phone and not a text message.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Owen jokingly states he would have sex with Gwen. They later go on to form a sexual relationship as depicted in TV: Countrycide [+]Loading...["Countrycide (TV story)"] and Greeks Bearing Gifts [+]Loading...["Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)"].
  • Andy Davidson states that Gwen is now part of special operations, referring to Torchwood. Special operations is how Torchwood maintains its secrecy, with it being a cover story within the British police force as first mentioned in TV: Everything Changes [+]Loading...["Everything Changes (TV story)"].

Home video releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

Series one, part one DVD cover

DVD releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This episode, with four others, was first released on a DVD entitled Torchwood: Series 1, part 1 on 26 December 2006.
  • It was later released in Torchwood: The Complete First Series on 19 November 2007.
  • It was also released in the Series 1-4 boxset (Region 2 release: 14 November 2011.)

Blu-ray releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Released in the US with the rest of Series 1 as a Complete First Season set on 16 September 2008.
  • It was released in the Series 1-3 Blu-ray boxset on 26 October 2009 in the UK. The US release was on 19 July 2011.
  • It was also released in the Series 1-4 Blu-ray boxset. (Region 2 release: 14 November 2011)

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

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ 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 [+]Loading...["Ghost Machine (TV story)"], Greeks Bearing Gifts [+]Loading...["Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)"], Random Shoes [+]Loading...["Random Shoes (TV story)"], To the Last Man [+]Loading...["To the Last Man (TV story)"], Reset [+]Loading...["Reset (TV story)"], Adrift [+]Loading...["Adrift (TV story)"], Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"], Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"], and The New World [+]Loading...["The New World (TV story)"]. As episode 10, Out of Time [+]Loading...["Out of Time (TV story)"], is set at the end of December, this means that episodes 11-13 are almost certainly set the year after episodes 1-10.

Citations[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Day One. A Brief History of (Time) Travel (18th December 2011). Retrieved on 16 June 2013.
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