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story name = Everything Changes |
|image                 = Gwen arrives further.jpg
image = [[file:Everythingchanges.jpg|250px]] |
|series               = ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''
series= [[Torchwood]] - [[List of Torchwood television stories|TV Stories]] |
|season number         = Series 1 (Torchwood)
series number=[[Series 1 (Torchwood)|Series 1]]|
|series episode number = 1
number= 1 |
|scripturl            = https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/documents/torchwood-1-episode-1-everything-changes-shooting-script-28042006.pdf
featuring= <ul><li>[[Jack Harkness]]</li><li>[[Gwen Cooper]] (introduction; joins)</li><li>[[Toshiko Sato]]</li><li>[[Owen Harper]] (introduction)</li><li>[[Ianto Jones]] (introduction)</li><li>[[Suzie Costello]] (introduction; dies)</ul>|
|main character        = [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Jack Harkness|Jack]]
enemy= [[Suzie Costello]]<br>[[Weevil]]s|
|featuring            = Rhys Williams
setting=[[Cardiff]], [[2007]]|
|featuring2            = Andy Davidson
writer= [[Russell T Davies]] |
|featuring3            = Owen Harper
director = [[Brian Kelly]] |
|featuring4            = Toshiko Sato
producer = [[Richard Stokes]] |
|featuring5            = Ianto Jones
broadcast date= [[22nd October]] [[2006]] |
|featuring6            = Janet (Everything Changes){{!}}Janet
previous story = |
|featuring7            = Myfanwy
next story = [[Day One]]
|enemy                = [[Suzie Costello]]
|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.}}
|writer               = Russell T Davies
|director             = [[Brian Kelly]]
|producer             = [[Richard Stokes]]
|network              = BBC Three
|broadcast date       = 22 October 2006
|next                  = Day One (TV story)
|clip                  = Torchwood Meet Captain Jack Harkness BritBox
|clip2                = Gwen Enters Torchwood Everything Changes Torchwood
|clip3                = Gwen Officially Joins Torchwood Everything Changes Torchwood
|format                = 1x50-minute episode
}}
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'''Everything Changes''' is the first episode of the [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|first series]] of ''[[Torchwood]]''. It introduces three of the five members of [[Torchwood Three]]: [[Owen Harper]], [[Ianto Jones]] and [[Suzie Costello]], as well as [[Gwen Cooper]], who joins Torchwood following Suzie's death. It also features the first appearance of [[Jack Harkness]] since [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' and [[Toshiko Sato]] since [[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]''.
'''''Everything Changes''''' was the first episode in [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|series 1]] of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''.


==Synopsis==
It introduced the programme's regular characters, as well as recurring elements such as [[the Hub]], [[Myfanwy]], [[retcon]] and the [[Torchwood SUV]].
[[Torchwood Three]] arrives on the scene of a brutal murder. PC [[Gwen Cooper]]'s curiosity is challenged by their attitude; their approach and their technology is at odds with everything she believes in, but in investigating them she finds a dark, dangerous and mysterious world, right in the heart of Cardiff.


==Plot==
Written by [[Russell T Davies]], it had the distinction of being his only writing credit until the [[series 3 (Torchwood)|third series]]. It also bore certain structural commonalities with {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}, Davies's first episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Whereas the earlier script had introduced the mysterious [[Ninth Doctor]] through the eyes of [[Rose Tyler]], ''Everything Changes'' introduced its audience to the mysterious figure of Captain [[Jack Harkness]] through female protagonist [[Gwen Cooper]]. Indeed, long-standing fans of Davies's work would have recognised the structure from as far back as his early-1990s children's TV programme, {{wi|Dark Season}}.
During a murder investigation in [[Cardiff]], PC [[Gwen Cooper]] spies on a mysterious group of people from "[[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]]" led by [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]], with one member [[Suzie Costello]] using a [[Resurrection gauntlet|metal gauntlet]] to temporarily bring the victim of murder to life in an attempt to learn the identity of his murderer. Jack notes Gwen's presence, causing her to flee the scene. The next day, she runs into once more Jack at a [[hospital]], and following him, finds a sealed-off area where she runs into a [[Weevil]], who kills a porter. Jack arrives, spraying something at the Weevil giving Gwen a chance to escape. As she leaves the hospital she sees the Torchwood vehicle, and follows it herself while learning from her office that the vehicle is unregistered, and that while there was a "Jack Harkness" that [[The Doctor Dances|disappeared in 1941]], there is no record of one today. She follows the vehicle to Roald Dahl Plass, and though is able to follow them on foot, somehow loses sight of them as they pass by the Water Tower (the large fountain). She learns from [[Andy Davidson|her partner Andy]] that all personnel at the hospital have been accounted for.


Catching sight of a pizza delivery scooter, she inquires at the local pizza store and learns they make deliveries to Torchwood. Diguised as a pizza delivery girl, she enters a tourist centre where [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] allows her entry into Torchwood she walks down a secret passageway and lets her through. Following it, Gwen eventually finds herself at the Hub of Torchwood, where the rest of the Torchwood team initially tries to ignore her entrance but break out into fits of laughter, well aware of who Gwen is. Jack shows Gwen around the Hub, showing her the captured Weevil from the hospital, then they leave the Hub via a path slab lift, ending up right in front of the Water Tower in Roald Dahl Plass. Jack explains that a perception field exists around the spot they are standing, making them invisible to passer byes and why Gwen lost track of the team earlier. Jack takes Gwen to a pub, and over a drink, explains the purpose of Torchwood, there to help control the flotsam and jetsam of the time-space vortex that falls to Earth due to the presence of the [[Cardiff Rift|rift]] that exists right where the Hub is located. As Gwen wonders why Jack is telling her all of this, he explains that he has placed an [[retcon|amnesia pill]] in her drink, and she will have forgotten all of this in the morning. Gwen races home to try to type out a message to herself before the pill's effects are complete, but falls asleep; [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] hacks Gwen's computer and wipes the message clean.
The story was notable for an attempted bit of subterfuge: [[Indira Varma]] was included in the opening titles to suggest that her character, [[Suzie Costello]], was going to be a regular. Her death in the episode was meant to surprise the audience. Because [[BBC Three]] decided to air the first two episodes on the same night, however, the effect fell flat. Nevertheless, it did establish another recurring element of the programme: even main characters could die in ''Torchwood''. By the end of [[Series 4 (Torchwood)|series 4]], only two of the main cast listed in this episode would still be alive, namely Gwen and Jack.


The next day at work, Gwen is shown a drawing of the knife believed used on the victim two days ago, which begins to trigger a series of memories. These solidify when she spots a [[Wales Millennium Centre|Millennium Centre]] programme with the word "Remember" in her own handwriting at home, and she returns to the Plass. There, Suzie is waiting for her, and explains the effects of the amnesia pill could be broken with a specific image, that being the knife. Suzie goes onto explain that she was the one that killed the man before as well as other victims, all in order to test the metal gauntlet and to try to learn how to make the resurrection permanent. Suzie then pulls a gun on Gwen, but just as Jack rises from the pavement elevator, Suzie turns and shoots him in the head. However, Jack survives, his wounds healing themselves, and tries to coax Suzie to stop. Suzie puts the gun under her chin and kills herself. Gwen falls to her knees, remembering everything.
22 October 2016 marked the 10th anniversary of ''Torchwood''. In celebration, and due to its popularity, cast and crew were invited to the Chapter Arts Centre in [[Cardiff]] for a special screening of this, the very first ever episode, to be shown for the fans.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160913041412/https://www.bafta.org/wales/whats-on/special-screening-10-years-of-torchwood BAFTA: 10 Years of Torchwood via the Wayback Machine]</ref>


In the Hub, the metal gauntlet is sealed away, while Suzie's body is placed into their morgue. Standing on the roof of the Millennium Centre, Jack tells Gwen that [[The Parting of the Ways|he died once, but was brought back to life]]. Since then, he has been immortal, at least until he can find the [[Tenth Doctor|right sort of doctor]] who can explain what happened. Jack goes on to explain that in the 21st century, "everything changes", and agrees with Gwen that perhaps Torchwood can do more to help people, and offers her a job, which she accepts.
== Synopsis ==
The [[Torchwood Three]] team arrives at the scene of a brutal [[murder]]. [[Gwen Cooper|PC Gwen Cooper]]'s curiosity is challenged by their attitude; their approach and their technology is at odds with everything she believes in. As she investigates them, she begins to uncover a dark, mysterious and dangerous world right in the heart of [[Cardiff]].


==Cast==
== Plot ==
*Captain [[Jack Harkness]] - [[John Barrowman]]
[[Gwen Cooper|PC Gwen Cooper]] arrives on a [[rain]]y [[murder]] scene, the third of a series of recent killings, and watches as the forensic investigation unit is pulled, mid-investigation, to allow special access to a four-man team in civilian clothing from [[Torchwood Institute]]. A forensic tech believes that Torchwood is some kind of [[special ops]] group. Gwen's concerned about crime scene contamination and spots a good vantage point on a parking garage and runs up there to observe the team at work.
*[[Gwen Cooper]] - [[Eve Myles]]
*[[Owen Harper]] - [[Burn Gorman]]
*[[Toshiko Sato]] - [[Naoko Mori]]
*[[Ianto Jones]] - [[Gareth David-Lloyd]]
*[[Rhys Williams]] - [[Kai Owen]]
*[[Suzie Costello]] - [[Indira Varma]]
*[[Young policeman]] - [[Guy Lewis]]
*[[Andy Davidson|PC Andy Davidson]] - [[Tom Price]]
*[[Scene Of Crime Officer|SOCO]] - [[Jason May]]
*[[John Tucker]] - [[Rhys Swinburn]]
*[[Yvonne (Everything Changes)|Yvonne]] - [[Olwen Medi]]
*[[Jacobs|DI Jacobs]] - [[Gwyn Vaughan Jones]]
*[[Criminal Investigation Department Officer|CID Officer]] - [[Dion Davis]]
*[[Hospital porter (Everything Changes)|Hospital porter]] - [[James Thomas]]
*[[Weevil]] - [[Paul Kasey]]
*[[Security Guard (Everything Changes)|Security Guard]] - [[Mark Heal]]
*[[Pizza lad]] - [[Gary Sheppeard]]
*[[Colin]] - [[Gwilym Havard Davies]]
*[[Linda (Everything Changes)|Linda]] - [[Cathryn Davis]]


==Crew==
[[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]] is waxing philosophical about the taste of contraceptives in the rain as his team sets up around the body. [[Owen Harper|Dr Owen Harper]] complains about the rain. [[Suzie Costello]] puts a metal [[Resurrection Gauntlet|gauntlet]] on her right [[hand]], then places her hand beneath the head of the [[corpse|murdered body]] and he revives. [[Toshiko Sato]] attempts to question the murder victim, but he takes some time to calm down, and he didn't see his murderer. They have some time remaining, and Tosh doesn't know what else to ask, but Jack does — he introduces himself and asks the victim his name — which is [[John Tucker]] — and he wants to know what death is like. John tells him he saw nothing and then falls dead again. Torchwood bickers over what went wrong until, suddenly, Jack yells up to Gwen, "What do you think?"
 
Gwen runs for it. When she makes it home, her [[boyfriend]] [[Rhys Williams]] is watching a drama. He mentions he saw the story of the murder on the news and Gwen lies, saying she wasn't involved. She lies awake in bed, watching the clock until at least 2 am.
 
The next morning, Gwen asks her friend [[Yvonne (Everything Changes)|Yvonne]] to do her a favour and look up Captain Jack Harkness. She serves beverages at a briefing about a series of murders, where they mention that the murders were done with the same weapon, some sort of blade. She and her partner respond to a bar brawl and Gwen gets a good knock to the head. She sees a doctor at the hospital and, as she's leaving, she catches sight of a man in a long coat heading up the stairs. She follows up the stairs to the top floor, which is sealed with plastic and caution tape. She hears a porter entering from the floor below and asks him who sealed off the top floor. He'd assumed it was the police or somebody spraying chemicals. She returns and pushes her way through the plastic. She sees what she assumes to be a [[Weevil|strange looking man wearing a mask]] at the other end of the floor. She asks if he's seen the man in the long coat, but there is no reply, only a soft growl. She keeps talking, with no response. The porter comes through, saying he asked around and couldn't find why it was sealed. He admires the workmanship of the mask, especially the teeth, when the creature bites him in the throat and his blood sprays.
 
Jack bursts in, and as his team sprays the creature with something and hoods it, he rushes Gwen out of the hallway. She keeps running until she's outside, where she's catching her breath when the [[Torchwood SUV]] nearly hits her. She chases it in her patrol car, leaving her partner behind. She calls in the plate to control, and Yvonne asks if she's seeing ghosts, as there has been no Captain Jack Harkness save for an American volunteer that disappeared [[21 January]] [[1941]].
 
Gwen follows the SUV to the Wales Millennium Centre, where it drops off the four she'd seen before, and drives away. She quickly parks the patrol car and follows them, yelling to them, but they ignore her. Security distracts her, telling her she needs to move her car, and when she turns back they are gone. Control has no record of the plate, and her partner [[Andy Davidson]] shows up, complaining about the walk from the hospital. He says there is no staff missing from the hospital and takes her home.
 
Even though Rhys has dinner waiting, Gwen lies and says she needs to work. She stakes out the Millennium centre, eventually going to [[Jubilee Pizza]], where they say they deliver to Torchwood. Gwen brings [[pizza]] to a small office by the pier. She says they're for Mr Harkness, and [[Ianto Jones]] presses a buzzer and points her down a secret passage.
 
She enters [[Torchwood Three]] and a vault door rolls closed behind her, then a metal cage closes around the vault door. She gets her first view of [[the Hub]], including a water feature in the centre, a [[The Doctor's hand|severed hand]] in a bubbling container, and a woman welding. Jack walks down to a desk and they all ignore her... Until Owen and Tosh break down laughing, and we find they've been watching her stalk them for the last three hours. Jack immediately brings up the fact Gwen sneaked in as a pizza girl and asks his team, "And before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name of Torchwood?" Owen replies back, "Me. I'm sorry. I'm a twat."
 
Gwen confronts them about what she has seen. Tosh says she covered up the murder of the porter, as it's her job to do so. Gwen dodges a [[pterodactyl]] as Jack takes her to show her the murderer, telling her it's an alien being they call a Weevil. He brings her back to the main room and introduces the team, over Gwen's protest that it's classified. Jack ignores her concern and gives everyone an assignment, including Gwen.
 
Jack takes Gwen out the [[Invisible lift|scenic route]], a [[granite]] slab that lifts them up to the pavement in front of the water tower, where she saw them disappear the night before. Jack demonstrates that the people walking by can't see or hear them until they step off the paving slab. She asks how it works, and he says he has no idea, but he might guess that "there was once a [[TARDIS|dimensionally transcendental chameleon circuit]] placed right on this spot, which welded its [[Perception filter|perception properties]] to a [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|spatial-temporal rift]]."
 
They go to a bar, where Jack ridicules Gwen's disbelief after [[Sycorax invasion of Earth|the Christmas invasion]] and the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. He establishes that they catch aliens and scavenge their tech, and don't answer to anyone so that no one government can abuse the power. Gwen's pretty sure they can abuse it themselves, even if there's a rule about no tech leaving the base. They're the third Torchwood, and they're in Cardiff because there is a rift in Cardiff that drops all sorts of alien things there. Gwen assumes that they've been trying to solve the blade murders, but Jack tells her that's not what they're doing. They were only there to get practice using the [[resurrection gauntlet]], which requires recently deceased murder victims, the more violent the death, the better. Although Gwen feels she has a duty to act, Jack reveals that he's drugged her drink with an [[amnesia]] pill of Jack's design, laced with a sedative. She says she could just tell somebody else — and Jack threatens to do the same to anyone she tells. Gwen runs for home.
 
Meanwhile, Tosh, Owen, and Suzie have all taken alien items from the base. Tosh scans a copy of ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' with one touch and uploads it to her computer. Owen tries to pick up a girl, who shuts him down until he sprays himself with a spray bottle; then she grabs him, kisses him, and drags him out. Her boyfriend catches up with them and is about to punch him when Owen sprays himself again... and the boyfriend kisses him. Owen calls for a taxi. Suzie uses the gauntlet to resurrect a dead fly.
 
Gwen is home, hurriedly typing notes about Torchwood. Her vision gets blurry and she makes more and more typos until she passes out. Ianto hacks into her home computer and erases her notes. In the morning, Rhys brings her a drink, worrying that she'd been drinking with a head injury. At work, Yvonne asks her about Captain Jack, and Gwen doesn't know what she's talking about. Over by the murder investigation, they've reconstructed the very odd blade weapon from the shape of the wounds. Gwen says she hasn't seen it, but she spends the rest of her day in a daze, until it is 2am and she is, again, awake and staring at the clock. As she closes her eyes to sleep, she remembers that she's seen the blade. She goes back to her computer room and draws the blade on the back of an envelope. She can't remember, but her mental image includes sparks and smoke. She sees a brochure for the Wales Millennium Centre with the word "REMEMBER" scrawled on it.
 
Gwen goes to [[Roald Dahl Plass]], and Suzie is waiting for her outside the water tower. They face off next to the paving stones on either side of the lift. Gwen remembers the welding gear. Suzie pulls out the knife, saying she's the only one who bothered to read the police report, and she knew that the sight of the knife could break Gwen's amnesia. While Gwen tries to remember, Suzie fumbles with her bag and then pulls out a handgun, saying Gwen is the only person in the public that could make the link. She loves her job but it's driving her mad. She killed three people to practice with the glove, as she thinks that if she becomes good enough with it she could resurrect people permanently. While she is ranting, Jack comes up on the lift. Suzie continues to rant until she says that the perception filter doesn't work on her, and she shoots Jack in the forehead. Gwen gasps.
 
Suzie cocks the gun and aims it at Gwen, who gasps again as Jack stands up behind Suzie. The hole in his head heals before their eyes. He says it's over, but Suzie has her own ideas about that. She shoots herself in the head and falls down as Gwen says, "I remember."
 
Ianto seals away the gauntlet and the knife in a lockbox. Owen and Tosh return their devices to the base. Jack zips Suzie's body into a bag and puts her into a cold storage facility in the Hub.
 
On top of the Millennium centre, Gwen asks why Jack didn't tell Owen and Tosh he was shot in the head and survived. Jack says that Gwen didn't tell them either. He confesses that he was killed a long time ago and [[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|brought back to life]], and since then he can't die. Maybe if he finds the right sort of [[The Doctor|doctor]] he can explain it. He doesn't tell people because it freaks them out, so he asks Gwen to keep it quiet.
 
He offers Gwen a job, and she accepts, as the pterodactyl flies overhead.
 
== 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]]
* [[Suzie Costello]] - [[Indira Varma]]
* [[Young policeman (Everything Changes)|Young cop]] - [[Guy Lewis]]
* [[Andy Davidson|P.C. Andy]] - [[Tom Price]]
* [[Scene-of-crime officer (Everything Changes)|SOCO]] - [[Jason May]]
* [[John Tucker|Body]] - [[Rhys Swinburn]]
* [[Yvonne (Everything Changes)|Yvonne]] - [[Olwen Medi]]
* [[Jacobs (Everything Changes)|D.I. Jacobs]] - [[Gwyn Vaughan Jones]]
* [[Officer (Everything Changes)|Officer]] - [[Dion Davis]]
* [[Hospital porter (Everything Changes)|Hospital porter]] - [[Jâms Thomas|James Thomas]]
* [[Janet (Everything Changes)|Weevil]] - [[Paul Kasey]]
* [[Security guard (Everything Changes)|Security Guard]] - [[Mark Heal]]
* [[Pizza lad (Everything Changes)|Pizza lad]] - [[Gary Sheppeard]]
* [[Colin (Everything Changes)|Man]] - [[Gwilym Havard Davies]]
* [[Linda (Everything Changes)|Woman]] - [[Cathryn Davis]]
 
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==References==
== Worldbuilding ==
* [[SOCO]]s investigate John Tucker's body.
* Jack tastes [[oestrogen]] in the rain.
* Andy believes Torchwood are [[DNA specialist]]s.
* Andy jokes that in CSI Cardiff, "they'd be measuring the velocity of a [[kebab]]".
* The porter suggests the Weevil try [[plastic surgery]].
* Jack uses [[Retcon]] on Gwen.
* Colin calls Owen a "[[tosser]]".
* Suzie and Andy use the word "[[bollocks]]" as an insult.
 
=== Individuals ===
* Andy asks Gwen if she is going to [[Slimbo]]'s.
* Jack implies that, at one point in his life, he's been [[Pregnancy|pregnant]], as he's "never doing that again."
* Rhys has been visited by [[Banana Boat]].
* Beyond John Tucker, victims include [[Sarah Pallister]] and [[Rani Ghosh]].
* The porter asks [[Mahib|Dr Mahib]] about the cordoned off section of the hospital.
* Yvonne states that [[Temple (Everything Changes)|Temple]] has been asking about Gwen, suggesting she may be in trouble.
* [[Myfanwy]] flies over Gwen's head.
* Jack mentions investigating [[Chandler and Bell]].
* Rhys questions if Gwen has been "out on the lash" with [[Diane (Everything Changes)|Diane]].
* Andy has been arguing football with [[Geoff (Everything Changes)|Geoff]].
* Jack is looking for "[[The Doctor|the right sort of doctor]]".
 
=== Species ===
* Jack mentions the [[Bronze Dalek|Daleks]] and [[Cybusman|Cybermen]].
* Suzie resurrects a [[fly]].


===[[:Category:Individuals|Individuals]]===
=== Geography ===
*The only information the Cardiff police have on a Captain Jack Harkness is an American volunteer who went missing from RAF 133 Squadron on [[21st January]] [[1941]] at the height at the Blitz.
* John Tucker was murdered on [[Llangyfelach Lane]] in the [[Cardiff city centre|city centre]].
*Jack mentions to have investigated [[Chandler and Bell]].
* [[Rani Ghosh]] was murdered in [[Robintree Alley]].
* Police have cameras watching roads at [[Coryton]] and [[Tredegar Park]].
* Yvonne checks the SUV licence plate with colleagues in [[Swansea]].
* Torchwood has a base beneath [[Cardiff Bay]].


===[[:Category:Music from the real world|Music]]===
=== Events ===
Featured tracks in this story include;
* Jack mentions the [[Sycorax invasion of Earth|Sycorax ship over London]] on [[Christmas Day]] and the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. Rhys was convinced that such events were a form of [[terrorism]] and mass [[hallucination]]s caused by psychotropic [[drug]]s in the [[water supply]].
*''Amsterdam'' - [[Paul Oakenfold]]
*''Spitting Games'' - [[Snow Patrol]]
*''We Are The Pipettes'' - [[The Pipettes]]
*''She Moves In Her Own Way'' - [[The Kooks]]


===[[:Category:Objects|Objects]]===
=== Organisations ===
*The [[resurrection gauntlet]] and the [[life knife]] make their first appearances.
==== Torchwood ====
* [[Police|Local law enforcement]] considers Torchwood a Special Ops branch.
* Jack states that Torchwood is separate from the [[British government|government]], outside the [[police]] and beyond the [[United Nations]].
* [[Torchwood One]] was in [[London]], but it was destroyed during the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]].
* [[Torchwood Two]] is in [[Glasgow]] and is run by [[Archie (The Twilight Streets)|a very strange man]].
* [[Torchwood Four]] has gone missing, but Jack is hoping to find it again sometime soon.
* There is a staircase consisting of 105 steps between the [[Torchwood Tourist Information Centre]] and the [[Torchwood Hub]].


===[[:Category:Races and species|Races and species]]===
=== Technology ===
* There is a [[Pterodactyl]] living in the roof of the Hub.
* Torchwood owns an [[Torchwood SUV|SUV]]. The registration number is ''[[CF06 FDU]]''.
* There are a couple of hundred [[Weevil]]s living in the sewers beneath Cardiff. Their origin and name is unknown due to their inability to communicate.
* [[Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator|Jack's vortex manipulator]] remotely controls the paving-stone lift up to [[Roald Dahl Plass]].
* Toshiko uses a [[data scanner]].
* Owen uses a [[perfume (Everything Changes)|pheromone spray]].
* Suzie uses the [[resurrection gauntlet]].
* The murder weapon is a [[Life knife|three-bladed knife]].


===[[:Category:Technology|Technology]]===
=== Businesses ===
*Captain Jack Harkness' explanation for the "not-being-seen" square at Roald Dahl Plass is that they have detected signs of a [[perception filter]]; presumably this was created by the Tardis landing there in "Boom Town".
* Gwen visits [[Jubilee Pizza]].


===[[:Category:Torchwood|Torchwood]]===
=== Food and drink ===
*Jack explains to Gwen that the base in Cardiff is actually [[Torchwood Three]]. [[Torchwood One]] was in [[London]], but it was destroyed during the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. [[Torchwood Two]] is in [[Glasgow]] and is run by a very strange man. [[Torchwood Four]] has gone missing, but they’re hoping to find it again sometime soon.
* Rhys and Banana Boat have been drinking [[tea]].
* Rhys suggests Gwen eat [[Chinese]] food from the fridge.
* Rhys cooks [[hot pot]].


===[[:Category:Vehicles|Vehicles]]===
=== Popular Culture ===
* The SUV has a registration (CF06 FDU) and does not officially exist.
* [[Graffiti]] of [[Pac-Man]] in front of 2 [[Pac-Dot]]s is painted on a wall.
* Andy mentions [[CSI]].
* The porter likens the Weevil to ''[[Hellraiser]]''.
* Toshiko scans ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]]. Characters in the book include [[Cruncher (character)|Mr Cruncher]], [[Lorry (character)|Mr Lorry]], [[Manette|Miss Manette]], [[Doctor Manette]], [[Jacques One]], [[Jacques Two]], [[Defarge]], the [[Mender of Roads]], a [[hungry man]] and a [[Marquis (A Tale of Two Cities character)|Marquis]].
* A poster advertising a [[Doctor Who Exhibition (in-universe)|''Doctor Who'' Exhibition]] in Cardiff is present.


==Story notes==
== Story notes ==
* This story was filmed in HD.
* This story had the working title ''"Flotsam and Jetsam"''.<ref>[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/torchwood/2006a.html?id=omahony Production Notes for Everything Changes]</ref>
* It was transmitted back to back with the next episode ''[[Day One]]'' on its UK premiere.
* ''Everything Changes'' was transmitted back-to-back with ''[[Day One (TV story)|Day One]]'' on its UK premiere. The episode was repeated on its own on [[BBC Two]], three days later at 9:00pm on Wednesday [[25 October (releases)|25 October]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]].
*This story had two working titles; '''''The Valley of Death''''' and '''''Flotsam And Jetsam'''' (the former being the earliest title).''
* This is the only episode where [[Indira Varma]] has her name included in the opening credits. This was done to keep viewers from anticipating that her character would die in this episode, by making her seem like a regular cast member. She was also heavily featured in publicity materials released prior to the broadcast of the episode.
*As the first post-watershed production of the ''Doctor Who'' franchise, the episode features several firsts, including the first use of the F-word in a televised ''Doctor Who'' franchise production.
* As the first post-watershed production of the ''Doctor Who'' franchise, the episode features several firsts, including the first use of the F-word in a televised ''Doctor Who'' franchise production, along with a few other strong expletives. The frequency and intensity of swearing on ''Torchwood'' would be dialled back in its later seasons.
* A pre-credits sequence of Gwen and Jack on top of the Millennium Centre in a flash forward to the end of the story was cut but appears on the deleted scenes of the series one box set.
* Yvonne mentions [[21 January]] [[1941]] during [[the Blitz]] as the day Jack failed to report for duty. This would suggest that [[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'' took place on the evening of [[20 January]] [[1941]].
* This first episode uses the very human character of Gwen in much the same way as Doctor Who did with the character of Rose Tyler in 2005, taking the viewer along with them for the journey.
* Owen shows bisexual tendencies when he first seduces a girl and then, more or less to avoid trouble, seduces her boyfriend too and goes off with both of them.
* A scene showing [[John Tucker]] being chased and murdered was shot but dropped.
* After broadcasting, it was suggested that Owen's use of the [[perfume (Everything Changes)|pheromone spray]] in the episode was effectively "date rape".<ref>[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a84181/cult-spy-catching-up-with-torchwood.html Cult Spy: Catching Up With 'Torchwood'] Accessed on 11th October 2008</ref>
* Two alternative scenes where shot showing Gwen being retconned - with the one in a traditional bar being dropped, in favour of the Buffalo Bar that was used for transmission.
* According to a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] file in the 2011 episode ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', Gwen is said to have joined Torchwood in [[October]] [[2006]]. [[Aliens of London dating controversy|This clashes with and contradicts dates given in several other stories]].
* 'Buffalo' was also a password used by the [[Tenth Doctor]] to access [[UNIT]] files.
* Retcon is a reference to the 'retroactive continuity' a means of covering up plot discrepancies used in many sci-fi shows. Other names considered for Retcon were Goldfish or Scooter.
*Several scenes were trimmed from the episode for broadcast on the [[CBC]] in Canada, including a scene in which Owen, using the pheromone spray, also seduces the blonde's angry boyfriend.
*It has been suggested that Owen's use of the [[cologne|pheromone spray]] was effectively "date rape".<ref>[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a84181/cult-spy-catching-up-with-torchwood.html Cult Spy: Catching Up With 'Torchwood'] Accessed on 11th October 2008</ref>


===Ratings===
=== Deleted and edited scenes ===
*BBC3 - 2.52 million viewers (22/10/2006 at 21:00)
* A pre-credits sequence of Gwen and Jack on top of the Millennium Centre in a flash forward to the end of the story was cut from the finished programme, but appears on the deleted scenes of the series one box set.
*BBC2 - 3.03 million viewers (25/10/2006 at 21:00)
* A scene showing [[John Tucker]] being chased and murdered was shot but was eventually dropped.
* Two alternative scenes were shot showing Gwen being retconned — the one in a traditional bar was dropped in favour of the Buffalo Bar that was used for transmission.
* Several scenes were trimmed from the episode for broadcast on the [[CBC]] in Canada, including a scene in which Owen, using the pheromone spray, also seduces the blonde's angry boyfriend.


===Myths===
=== Ratings ===
*The missing Torchwood 4 is a sly Babylon 5 reference: Babylon 4 also mysteriously disappeared. Although if the TW novels can be counted as canon - Torchwood is 'somewhere in Yorkshire'.
* 2.52 million viewers


===Filming locations===
=== Filming locations ===
*Millicent Street, [[Cardiff]], [[Wales]] ''(Resurrection in the rain)''
* Millicent Street, [[Cardiff]], [[Wales]] ''(Resurrection in the [[rain]])''
*NCP Tredegar Street, Cardiff, Wales ''(Gwen spies on Torchwood resurrecting)''
* NCP Tredegar Street, Cardiff, Wales ''(Gwen spies on Torchwood resurrecting)''
*NCP Cardiff Rapports, Cardiff, Wales
* NCP Cardiff Rapports, Cardiff, Wales
*Old Natwest Bank, Cardiff ''(Entrance of police station)''
* Old Natwest Bank, Cardiff ''(Entrance of the police station)''
*Dorset Street, Cardiff, Wales
* Dorset Street, Cardiff, Wales
*Cornwall (pub), Cardiff, Wales ''(Pub where Gwen and Andy break up fight)''
* Cornwall (pub), Cardiff, Wales ''(Pub where Gwen and Andy break up the fight)''
*Newport Road Lane, Cardiff ''(Location where Gwen first sees Torchwood SUV)''
* Newport Road Lane, Cardiff ''(Location where Gwen first sees the Torchwood SUV)''
*A4232 (Grangetown/Butetown Link), Cardiff ''(Gwen in pursuit of the Torchwood SUV)''
* A4232 (Grangetown/Butetown Link), Cardiff ''(Gwen in pursuit of the Torchwood SUV)''
*Mumbai Bay Takeaway, James Street, Cardiff ''(Jubilee Pizza, where Gwen goes, tracking down Torchwood)''
* Mumbai Bay Takeaway, James Street, Cardiff ''(Jubilee Pizza, where Gwen goes tracking down Torchwood)''
*Cardiff Castle, Cardiff ''(Part of the tunnel entrance into Torchwood)''
* Cardiff Castle, Cardiff ''(Part of the tunnel entrance into Torchwood)''
*Icon, Cardiff, Wales ''(Location where Owen tries the spray)''
* Icon, Cardiff, Wales ''(Location where Owen tries the spray)''
*Buffalo Bar, Cardiff, Wales ''(Bar where Jack and Gwen have a beer, prior to him retconning her)''
* Buffalo Bar, Cardiff, Wales ''(Bar where Jack and Gwen have a beer, prior to him retconning her)''
*St Mary's Street, Cardiff
* [[St Mary's Street]], Cardiff
*Altolusso, Bute Terrace, Cardiff ''(One of the tall building shots with Jack standing on top)''
* Altolusso, Bute Terrace, Cardiff ''(One of the tall building shots with Jack standing on top)''
*King Edward VII Avenue (A4161 underpass), Cardiff ''(Location where Gwen runs home after her meeting with Jack and her subsequent retconning)''
* King Edward VII Avenue (A4161 underpass), Cardiff ''(Location where Gwen runs home after her meeting with Jack and her subsequent retconning)''
*Mermaid Quayside, Cardiff Bay ''(The tourist information shop/entrance to Torchwood)''
* Mermaid Quayside, Cardiff Bay ''(The tourist information shop/entrance to Torchwood)''
*[[Roald Dahl Plass]], Cardiff ''(Exterior of Torchwood)''
* [[Roald Dahl Plass]], Cardiff ''(Exterior of Torchwood)''
*[[BBC Studios]], [[Upper Boat Studios]], [[Upper Boat]] Tonteg Road, Treforest Industrial Estate, Pontypridd
* [[Upper Boat Studios]], Upper Boat Tonteg Road, Treforest Industrial Estate, Pontypridd


===Production errors===
=== Broadcasts ===
* A poster advertising a Doctor Who exhibition in Cardiff can be briefly seen in a background shot.
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==Continuity==
=== Production errors ===
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*Torchwood is first referred to in [[DW]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]''.
* When Jack and Gwen run from the Weevil at the hospital, Jack's [[Torchwood earpiece|earpiece]] falls from his ear, before reappearing on his ear in the next shot, then vanishes again in the next shot afterwards.
*Torchwood (as [[Torchwood One]]) makes its first 'physical' appearance in [[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'', and a weapon fired by them appeared earlier in [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''.
 
*Torchwood was formed in [[DW]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]''.
== Continuity ==
*It is implied that Jack's immortality is a side effect of his resurrection by Rose near the end of [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''. It isn't clear whether Rose remembers resurrecting Jack although she clearly believes him to be alive as does the Doctor ([[DW]]: ''[[Children in Need Special]]''). This is confirmed by the Doctor in [[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''. When Jack is exterminated by the Supreme Dalek in [[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'', Rose believes he is actually dead, implying she had no knowledge of the immortality she bestowed on him.
* The [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]] was first encountered by the [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] in [[1869]] when the invasion of the [[Gelth]] was stopped by [[Gwyneth (The Unquiet Dead)|Gwyneth]] as depicted in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Unquiet Dead (TV story)}}.
*Captain Jack was last seen on the [[Game Station]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''.
* Jack continues to wear [[Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator|his vortex manipulator]] on his wrist, which he was first seen wearing in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Empty Child (TV story)}}. It is revealed later that the [[time travel]] and [[teleportation]] functions of the manipulator are burned out during the events of [[TV]]: {{cs|Utopia (TV story)}}
:* How he reached the Earth in his subjective past is explained in [[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''.
* [[Jubilee Pizza]], a fictional brand of pizza introduced in the ''Doctor Who'' episode {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}} as [[List of references to other DWU media in live-action BBC stories|a reference]] to [[Jubilee (audio story)|the audio drama it was adapted from]], makes an appearance in this episode.
*The [[Cardiff rift]] first appeared in [[DW]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]''.
* Jack mentions the Sycorax spaceship over London as seen in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}, and the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] that happened in [[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}}.
* Jack continues to wear on his wrist, his [[vortex manipulator]] which will, throughout Torchwood, have many uses.
* The [[perception filter]] properties of the paving stone are implied to be a side effect of when [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] stood on that spot and, prompted by the trapped programming of the [[tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]], began to open the [[Cardiff Rift]] as shown in [[TV]]: {{cs|Boom Town (TV story)}}.
* Jack mentions the Sycorax spaceship over London ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'') and the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''/[[Doomsday]]'').''
 
*Toshiko Sato first appeared in [[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]''. The reasons for her appearance in that episode are revealed in [[TW]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]''.
== Home video releases ==
* Although not explicitly stated, the hand that Jack treasures and keeps in a jar is that of the Tenth Doctor - lost in a fight with the [[Sycorax]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' following his regeneration, and destined for a return in ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''.
[[File:TWS1Part1.jpg|thumb|Series one, part one DVD cover]]
* [[Jubilee Pizza]] is a brand visually referenced earlier in [[DW]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', which is itself a reference to the Big Finish audio Dalek story by Rob Shearman called [[Jubilee]].
 
* Jack's vortex manipulator is able to remotely control the paving-stone lift up to Roald Dahl Plass.
=== DVD releases ===
*The Resurrection gauntlet, the Life knife and Suzie Costello herself make a further appearance in [[TW]]: ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie]]'' (a similar glove appears in [[TW]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'').
* 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]].
*How Jack and the others came to work for Torchwood is seen in [[TW]]: ''[[Fragments]]''.
* It was later released in ''Torchwood: The Complete First Series'' on [[19 November (releases)|19 November]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]].
*Rhys mentions his mother talking to him about the Christmas events. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')
* It was also released in the Series 1-4 DVD boxset. (Region 2 release: [[14 November (releases)|14 November]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]])
* It was released in Brazil, with all the other episodes in the series, on a DVD entitled ''Torchwood: Primeira Temporada''.


==Home video releases==
=== Blu-ray releases ===
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]].
* This episode was released on Blu-ray in the US with the rest of Series 1 as a Complete First Season set on [[16 September (releases)|16 September]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]].


==See also==
* It was released in the Series 1-3 Blu-ray boxset on [[26 October (releases)|26 October]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] in the UK. The US release was on [[19 July (releases)|19 July]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]].
*[[Torchwood Declassified]]
* It was also released in the Series 1-4 Blu-ray boxset. (Region 2 release: [[14 November (releases)|14 November]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]])


==External links==
== External links ==
*{{dwrefguide|torchwood_01.htm|Everything Changes}}
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/sites/episodes/series1/ep01_everythingchanges.shtml BBC Website - Torchwood Episode Guide: '''Everything Changes'''] - Only accessible to UK residents
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/sites/episodes/series1/ep01_everythingchanges.shtml BBC Website - Torchwood Episode Guide: '''Everything Changes''']


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Everything Changes was the first episode in series 1 of Torchwood.

It introduced the programme's regular characters, as well as recurring elements such as the Hub, Myfanwy, retcon and the Torchwood SUV.

Written by Russell T Davies, it had the distinction of being his only writing credit until the third series. It also bore certain structural commonalities with Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], Davies's first episode of Doctor Who. Whereas the earlier script had introduced the mysterious Ninth Doctor through the eyes of Rose Tyler, Everything Changes introduced its audience to the mysterious figure of Captain Jack Harkness through female protagonist Gwen Cooper. Indeed, long-standing fans of Davies's work would have recognised the structure from as far back as his early-1990s children's TV programme, Dark Season.

The story was notable for an attempted bit of subterfuge: Indira Varma was included in the opening titles to suggest that her character, Suzie Costello, was going to be a regular. Her death in the episode was meant to surprise the audience. Because BBC Three decided to air the first two episodes on the same night, however, the effect fell flat. Nevertheless, it did establish another recurring element of the programme: even main characters could die in Torchwood. By the end of series 4, only two of the main cast listed in this episode would still be alive, namely Gwen and Jack.

22 October 2016 marked the 10th anniversary of Torchwood. In celebration, and due to its popularity, cast and crew were invited to the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff for a special screening of this, the very first ever episode, to be shown for the fans.[1]

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Torchwood Three team arrives at the scene of a brutal murder. PC Gwen Cooper's curiosity is challenged by their attitude; their approach and their technology is at odds with everything she believes in. As she investigates them, she begins to uncover a dark, mysterious and dangerous world right in the heart of Cardiff.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

PC Gwen Cooper arrives on a rainy murder scene, the third of a series of recent killings, and watches as the forensic investigation unit is pulled, mid-investigation, to allow special access to a four-man team in civilian clothing from Torchwood Institute. A forensic tech believes that Torchwood is some kind of special ops group. Gwen's concerned about crime scene contamination and spots a good vantage point on a parking garage and runs up there to observe the team at work.

Captain Jack Harkness is waxing philosophical about the taste of contraceptives in the rain as his team sets up around the body. Dr Owen Harper complains about the rain. Suzie Costello puts a metal gauntlet on her right hand, then places her hand beneath the head of the murdered body and he revives. Toshiko Sato attempts to question the murder victim, but he takes some time to calm down, and he didn't see his murderer. They have some time remaining, and Tosh doesn't know what else to ask, but Jack does — he introduces himself and asks the victim his name — which is John Tucker — and he wants to know what death is like. John tells him he saw nothing and then falls dead again. Torchwood bickers over what went wrong until, suddenly, Jack yells up to Gwen, "What do you think?"

Gwen runs for it. When she makes it home, her boyfriend Rhys Williams is watching a drama. He mentions he saw the story of the murder on the news and Gwen lies, saying she wasn't involved. She lies awake in bed, watching the clock until at least 2 am.

The next morning, Gwen asks her friend Yvonne to do her a favour and look up Captain Jack Harkness. She serves beverages at a briefing about a series of murders, where they mention that the murders were done with the same weapon, some sort of blade. She and her partner respond to a bar brawl and Gwen gets a good knock to the head. She sees a doctor at the hospital and, as she's leaving, she catches sight of a man in a long coat heading up the stairs. She follows up the stairs to the top floor, which is sealed with plastic and caution tape. She hears a porter entering from the floor below and asks him who sealed off the top floor. He'd assumed it was the police or somebody spraying chemicals. She returns and pushes her way through the plastic. She sees what she assumes to be a strange looking man wearing a mask at the other end of the floor. She asks if he's seen the man in the long coat, but there is no reply, only a soft growl. She keeps talking, with no response. The porter comes through, saying he asked around and couldn't find why it was sealed. He admires the workmanship of the mask, especially the teeth, when the creature bites him in the throat and his blood sprays.

Jack bursts in, and as his team sprays the creature with something and hoods it, he rushes Gwen out of the hallway. She keeps running until she's outside, where she's catching her breath when the Torchwood SUV nearly hits her. She chases it in her patrol car, leaving her partner behind. She calls in the plate to control, and Yvonne asks if she's seeing ghosts, as there has been no Captain Jack Harkness save for an American volunteer that disappeared 21 January 1941.

Gwen follows the SUV to the Wales Millennium Centre, where it drops off the four she'd seen before, and drives away. She quickly parks the patrol car and follows them, yelling to them, but they ignore her. Security distracts her, telling her she needs to move her car, and when she turns back they are gone. Control has no record of the plate, and her partner Andy Davidson shows up, complaining about the walk from the hospital. He says there is no staff missing from the hospital and takes her home.

Even though Rhys has dinner waiting, Gwen lies and says she needs to work. She stakes out the Millennium centre, eventually going to Jubilee Pizza, where they say they deliver to Torchwood. Gwen brings pizza to a small office by the pier. She says they're for Mr Harkness, and Ianto Jones presses a buzzer and points her down a secret passage.

She enters Torchwood Three and a vault door rolls closed behind her, then a metal cage closes around the vault door. She gets her first view of the Hub, including a water feature in the centre, a severed hand in a bubbling container, and a woman welding. Jack walks down to a desk and they all ignore her... Until Owen and Tosh break down laughing, and we find they've been watching her stalk them for the last three hours. Jack immediately brings up the fact Gwen sneaked in as a pizza girl and asks his team, "And before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name of Torchwood?" Owen replies back, "Me. I'm sorry. I'm a twat."

Gwen confronts them about what she has seen. Tosh says she covered up the murder of the porter, as it's her job to do so. Gwen dodges a pterodactyl as Jack takes her to show her the murderer, telling her it's an alien being they call a Weevil. He brings her back to the main room and introduces the team, over Gwen's protest that it's classified. Jack ignores her concern and gives everyone an assignment, including Gwen.

Jack takes Gwen out the scenic route, a granite slab that lifts them up to the pavement in front of the water tower, where she saw them disappear the night before. Jack demonstrates that the people walking by can't see or hear them until they step off the paving slab. She asks how it works, and he says he has no idea, but he might guess that "there was once a dimensionally transcendental chameleon circuit placed right on this spot, which welded its perception properties to a spatial-temporal rift."

They go to a bar, where Jack ridicules Gwen's disbelief after the Christmas invasion and the Battle of Canary Wharf. He establishes that they catch aliens and scavenge their tech, and don't answer to anyone so that no one government can abuse the power. Gwen's pretty sure they can abuse it themselves, even if there's a rule about no tech leaving the base. They're the third Torchwood, and they're in Cardiff because there is a rift in Cardiff that drops all sorts of alien things there. Gwen assumes that they've been trying to solve the blade murders, but Jack tells her that's not what they're doing. They were only there to get practice using the resurrection gauntlet, which requires recently deceased murder victims, the more violent the death, the better. Although Gwen feels she has a duty to act, Jack reveals that he's drugged her drink with an amnesia pill of Jack's design, laced with a sedative. She says she could just tell somebody else — and Jack threatens to do the same to anyone she tells. Gwen runs for home.

Meanwhile, Tosh, Owen, and Suzie have all taken alien items from the base. Tosh scans a copy of A Tale of Two Cities with one touch and uploads it to her computer. Owen tries to pick up a girl, who shuts him down until he sprays himself with a spray bottle; then she grabs him, kisses him, and drags him out. Her boyfriend catches up with them and is about to punch him when Owen sprays himself again... and the boyfriend kisses him. Owen calls for a taxi. Suzie uses the gauntlet to resurrect a dead fly.

Gwen is home, hurriedly typing notes about Torchwood. Her vision gets blurry and she makes more and more typos until she passes out. Ianto hacks into her home computer and erases her notes. In the morning, Rhys brings her a drink, worrying that she'd been drinking with a head injury. At work, Yvonne asks her about Captain Jack, and Gwen doesn't know what she's talking about. Over by the murder investigation, they've reconstructed the very odd blade weapon from the shape of the wounds. Gwen says she hasn't seen it, but she spends the rest of her day in a daze, until it is 2am and she is, again, awake and staring at the clock. As she closes her eyes to sleep, she remembers that she's seen the blade. She goes back to her computer room and draws the blade on the back of an envelope. She can't remember, but her mental image includes sparks and smoke. She sees a brochure for the Wales Millennium Centre with the word "REMEMBER" scrawled on it.

Gwen goes to Roald Dahl Plass, and Suzie is waiting for her outside the water tower. They face off next to the paving stones on either side of the lift. Gwen remembers the welding gear. Suzie pulls out the knife, saying she's the only one who bothered to read the police report, and she knew that the sight of the knife could break Gwen's amnesia. While Gwen tries to remember, Suzie fumbles with her bag and then pulls out a handgun, saying Gwen is the only person in the public that could make the link. She loves her job but it's driving her mad. She killed three people to practice with the glove, as she thinks that if she becomes good enough with it she could resurrect people permanently. While she is ranting, Jack comes up on the lift. Suzie continues to rant until she says that the perception filter doesn't work on her, and she shoots Jack in the forehead. Gwen gasps.

Suzie cocks the gun and aims it at Gwen, who gasps again as Jack stands up behind Suzie. The hole in his head heals before their eyes. He says it's over, but Suzie has her own ideas about that. She shoots herself in the head and falls down as Gwen says, "I remember."

Ianto seals away the gauntlet and the knife in a lockbox. Owen and Tosh return their devices to the base. Jack zips Suzie's body into a bag and puts her into a cold storage facility in the Hub.

On top of the Millennium centre, Gwen asks why Jack didn't tell Owen and Tosh he was shot in the head and survived. Jack says that Gwen didn't tell them either. He confesses that he was killed a long time ago and brought back to life, and since then he can't die. Maybe if he finds the right sort of doctor he can explain it. He doesn't tell people because it freaks them out, so he asks Gwen to keep it quiet.

He offers Gwen a job, and she accepts, as the pterodactyl flies overhead.

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.
          

This episode did not have a "created by Russell T Davies" credit.


Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • SOCOs investigate John Tucker's body.
  • Jack tastes oestrogen in the rain.
  • Andy believes Torchwood are DNA specialists.
  • Andy jokes that in CSI Cardiff, "they'd be measuring the velocity of a kebab".
  • The porter suggests the Weevil try plastic surgery.
  • Jack uses Retcon on Gwen.
  • Colin calls Owen a "tosser".
  • Suzie and Andy use the word "bollocks" as an insult.

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Andy asks Gwen if she is going to Slimbo's.
  • Jack implies that, at one point in his life, he's been pregnant, as he's "never doing that again."
  • Rhys has been visited by Banana Boat.
  • Beyond John Tucker, victims include Sarah Pallister and Rani Ghosh.
  • The porter asks Dr Mahib about the cordoned off section of the hospital.
  • Yvonne states that Temple has been asking about Gwen, suggesting she may be in trouble.
  • Myfanwy flies over Gwen's head.
  • Jack mentions investigating Chandler and Bell.
  • Rhys questions if Gwen has been "out on the lash" with Diane.
  • Andy has been arguing football with Geoff.
  • Jack is looking for "the right sort of doctor".

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Geography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Events[[edit] | [edit source]]

Organisations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Torchwood[[edit] | [edit source]]

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Businesses[[edit] | [edit source]]

Food and drink[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Rhys and Banana Boat have been drinking tea.
  • Rhys suggests Gwen eat Chinese food from the fridge.
  • Rhys cooks hot pot.

Popular Culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

  • This story had the working title "Flotsam and Jetsam".[2]
  • Everything Changes was transmitted back-to-back with Day One on its UK premiere. The episode was repeated on its own on BBC Two, three days later at 9:00pm on Wednesday 25 October 2006.
  • This is the only episode where Indira Varma has her name included in the opening credits. This was done to keep viewers from anticipating that her character would die in this episode, by making her seem like a regular cast member. She was also heavily featured in publicity materials released prior to the broadcast of the episode.
  • As the first post-watershed production of the Doctor Who franchise, the episode features several firsts, including the first use of the F-word in a televised Doctor Who franchise production, along with a few other strong expletives. The frequency and intensity of swearing on Torchwood would be dialled back in its later seasons.
  • Yvonne mentions 21 January 1941 during the Blitz as the day Jack failed to report for duty. This would suggest that TV: The Empty Child and TV: The Doctor Dances took place on the evening of 20 January 1941.
  • Owen shows bisexual tendencies when he first seduces a girl and then, more or less to avoid trouble, seduces her boyfriend too and goes off with both of them.
  • After broadcasting, it was suggested that Owen's use of the pheromone spray in the episode was effectively "date rape".[3]
  • According to a CIA file in the 2011 episode The New World, Gwen is said to have joined Torchwood in October 2006. This clashes with and contradicts dates given in several other stories.

Deleted and edited scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • A pre-credits sequence of Gwen and Jack on top of the Millennium Centre in a flash forward to the end of the story was cut from the finished programme, but appears on the deleted scenes of the series one box set.
  • A scene showing John Tucker being chased and murdered was shot but was eventually dropped.
  • Two alternative scenes were shot showing Gwen being retconned — the one in a traditional bar was dropped in favour of the Buffalo Bar that was used for transmission.
  • Several scenes were trimmed from the episode for broadcast on the CBC in Canada, including a scene in which Owen, using the pheromone spray, also seduces the blonde's angry boyfriend.

Ratings[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • 2.52 million viewers

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

  • Millicent Street, Cardiff, Wales (Resurrection in the rain)
  • NCP Tredegar Street, Cardiff, Wales (Gwen spies on Torchwood resurrecting)
  • NCP Cardiff Rapports, Cardiff, Wales
  • Old Natwest Bank, Cardiff (Entrance of the police station)
  • Dorset Street, Cardiff, Wales
  • Cornwall (pub), Cardiff, Wales (Pub where Gwen and Andy break up the fight)
  • Newport Road Lane, Cardiff (Location where Gwen first sees the Torchwood SUV)
  • A4232 (Grangetown/Butetown Link), Cardiff (Gwen in pursuit of the Torchwood SUV)
  • Mumbai Bay Takeaway, James Street, Cardiff (Jubilee Pizza, where Gwen goes tracking down Torchwood)
  • Cardiff Castle, Cardiff (Part of the tunnel entrance into Torchwood)
  • Icon, Cardiff, Wales (Location where Owen tries the spray)
  • Buffalo Bar, Cardiff, Wales (Bar where Jack and Gwen have a beer, prior to him retconning her)
  • St Mary's Street, Cardiff
  • Altolusso, Bute Terrace, Cardiff (One of the tall building shots with Jack standing on top)
  • King Edward VII Avenue (A4161 underpass), Cardiff (Location where Gwen runs home after her meeting with Jack and her subsequent retconning)
  • Mermaid Quayside, Cardiff Bay (The tourist information shop/entrance to Torchwood)
  • Roald Dahl Plass, Cardiff (Exterior of Torchwood)
  • Upper Boat Studios, Upper Boat Tonteg Road, Treforest Industrial Estate, Pontypridd

Broadcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Date Time Channel Notes
Sunday 22 October 2006 21:00 BBC Three First broadcast.
Wednesday 25 October 2006 21:00 BBC Two England
Sunday 7 January 2007 22:00 BBC Three
Monday 8 January 2007 03:25 BBC Three
Friday 14 September 2007 21:00 BBC Three
Saturday 15 September 2007 02:40 BBC Three
Thursday 15 April 2010 22:45 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 Jack and Gwen run from the Weevil at the hospital, Jack's earpiece falls from his ear, before reappearing on his ear in the next shot, then vanishes again in the next shot afterwards.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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 DVD boxset. (Region 2 release: 14 November 2011)
  • It was released in Brazil, with all the other episodes in the series, on a DVD entitled Torchwood: Primeira Temporada.

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

  • This episode was released on Blu-ray 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.

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