Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)

Children of Earth: Day One
Main enemy:	456
Key crew
Writer:	Russell T Davies
Director:	Euros Lyn
Producer:	Peter Bennett
Release details
Release number:	27
Premiere broadcast:	6th July 2009

Synopsis

When all the children stop and start chanting "We Are Coming". The Torchwood team have to investigate but could this be the start of a global crisis?

Plot

A bus is full of children in 1965 they are being taken somewhere unknown. Suddenly the children get of the bus and walk into a bright light and vanish. In 2010 Gwen Cooper is withdrwaing money from a cashline and notices that all the children in the street who are walking to school freeze. Gwen begins to investiaget this. Meanwhile at Cardiff hospital Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones walk into a ward where a man has just died. Jack asks the doctor there, Dr Rupesh Patanjali if they can see the man. When seeing the man Jack opens the man up and takes an alien body part out of him. Rupesh soon realises that this is Torchwood. Meanwhile a woman called Lois Habiba walks into the houses of Parlaiment and begins work her bose Brigit Spears. Brigits bose is John Frobisher she tells him what has been going on with the children. Jack and Ianto get back to the hub and Gwen tells them what has happened. They soon discover that a man Clemmet Macdonald in a Phycatric Hospital has also quoted what the children have been saying. Gwen pays him a visit and he says that when he was a child he was put on a bus and taken far out with a group of children. He escapes though from being upducted. He also reveals to Gwen that she is pregnant. Lois gets a phone call from torchwood and she begins to dig up information on them by Logging on as Brigit. John Frobisher learns the aliens that are responsilbe are the 456. He has a meeting with the Prime Minister Green. He says the government will cover up these events. Back at the hub Jack and Ianto decided they need to investigate a child that has been affected by the 456. Jack visits his daughter Alice Carter as she has a son i.e his grandson. She says to jack that she will not let him use Steven. Ianto on the other hand visits his sister and tries to get her to do so. But she has other prioritys. Ianto comes out to her. Frobisher orders Susan to order the deaths of Jack and Clement. Clement runs away detecting this but jack ends up going back to Cardiff hospital and is shot by Rupesh even though jack had considered hiring him as the new medical officer. Goverment Assissin Agent Johnson comes in and places a detonator in Jacks body. She then shoots Rupesh to stop Jack from using him to find out why he was shot. Using a scanner in the Torchwood hub Gwen realises that Clements claims are true. Jack runs in and scans himself. It is revealed that there is a bomb in his stomach. Seconds later Ianto and Gwen escape and the hub blows up.

Cast

• Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
• Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
• Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
• Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
• Lois Habiba - Cush Jumbo
• Dr. Rupesh Patanjali - Rik Makarem
• Alice Carter - Lucy Cohu
• Steven Carter - Bear McCausland
• Bridget Spears - Susan Brown
• John Frobisher - Peter Capaldi
• Johnson - Liz May Brice
• Clem MacDonald - Paul Copley
• Brian Green PM - Nicholas Farrell
• Rhiannon Davies - Katy Wix

Production crew

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References

• When Gwen walks into Torchwood 3 she says "Hello you two". This is to a photo of Toshiko Sato and Owen Harper who died in Exit Wounds.
• Martha Jones has gone on honeymoon with Tom Milligan. According to Jack.
• Colonel Mace who appeared in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky has been relocated to Vancouver by UNIT.

Story notes

Myths

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Filming Locations

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes and Errors

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DVD releases

• This Episode will be realised on DVD along with the rest of Children of Earth on the 13th of July.

See also

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