SkyPoint (novel)

SkyPoint
Main character(s):	Captain Jack Harkness
Featuring:	Gwen Cooper Toshiko Sato Owen Harper Ianto Jones Rhys Williams
Main enemy:	Besnik Lucca
Main setting:	Earth, Wales, Cardiff
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Phil Ford
Release details
Release number:	8
Release date:	2nd October, 2008
Format:	Hardcover Book, 251 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84607-575-0

Publisher's Summary

SkyPoint is the latest high-rise addition to the ever-developing Cardiff skyline. It's the most high-tech, avant-garde apartment block in the city. And it's where Rhys Williams is hoping to find a new home for himself and Gwen. When Torchwood discover that residents have been going missing from the tower block, one of the team gets her dream assignment. Soon, SkyPoint's latest newly married tenants are moving in. And Toshiko Sato finally gets to make a home with Owen Harper. Then something comes out of the wall...

Story Summary

Rhys Williams and Gwen Cooper both return from their first day of work since their honeymoon. Rhys has a surprise for Gwen and quickly ushers her back out of the flat for an appointment at half six. The appointment was with an estate agent, Brian Shaw, at SkyPoint, the new high-tech, high-rise apartment block in Cardiff. Gwen immediately protests the price, but Rhys convinces her to at least look. As they enter the building, Gwen spots Besnik Lucca, a criminal she knew of from her police days, who never got convicted. Upon asking the receptionist, , what he was doing there, she informs Gwen that he owns the penthouse at SkyPoint. Gwen tries to leave, claiming it wouldn't be safe, but they are stopped by the arrival of Brian. He begins to show them around an apartment, but disappears after the tour is only half finished. Suspecting the Rift, Gwen returns to work.

However, back at the Hub, Toshiko Sato tells Gwen that there was no Rift activity at SkyPoint at that time. Wishing to investigate more, Jack Harkness and Toshiko head for SkyPoint, whilst Jack sends Gwen home to enjoy married life.

Characters

• Captain Jack Harkness
• Gwen Cooper
• Toshiko Sato
• Owen Harper
• Ianto Jones
• Rhys Williams
• Besnik Lucca
• Brian Shaw
• Carmen
• Ewan Lloyd
• Wendy Lloyd
• Alison Lloyd

References

• Harwood's Haulage

• Gwen mentions Rhys' job. Harwood's use Freightliner trucks.

• Gwen keeps her maiden name for work purposes
• Jack dies twice
• Rhys and Gwen have just returned from their 10-day honeymoon to Cuba.

Notes

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

• The novel takes place at the exact same time as the short story TWM: Plant Life, both featuring Gwen's first day back to work after her honeymoon and in both Gwen tells Jack that she is retaining her name professionally.
• Tosh has gone through the records of past team members and had noted all had died 'on the job'. But in TWN: Trace Memory it indicates Charles Cromwell leaves Torchwood in 1975 and lived for another 30 years.

Continuity

• Gwen remembers getting pregnant on her hen night (TW: Something Borrowed), the first time she saw a Weevil in the Royal Cardiff Infirmary (TW: Everything Changes, the
• Reference is made to the fact that Rhys has encountered a few aliens in the past few months. (TW: Meat, Something Borrowed, TWM: Harm's Way, TWN: Pack Animals)
• Gwen suspects that Brian Shaw was taken by the Rift, a concept that is further explored in TW: Adrift.
• It has been two months since TW: Reset and just under two weeks since TW: Something Borrowed.

Timeline

• SkyPoint occurs between: TWN: Something Borrowed and TW: Exit Wounds

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