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'''Emily Holroyd''' was an operative and leader of the [[Torchwood Institute]] [[Cardiff]] branch, known in her day as Torchwood Cardiff and later as [[Torchwood Three]]. She was in a relationship with fellow Torchwood agent [[Alice Guppy]], and was part of the team that recruited [[Jack Harkness]]. | '''Emily Holroyd''' was an operative and leader of the [[Torchwood Institute]] [[Cardiff]] branch, known in her day as Torchwood Cardiff and later as [[Torchwood Three]]. She was in a relationship with fellow Torchwood agent [[Alice Guppy]], and was part of the team that recruited [[Jack Harkness]]. | ||
Revision as of 23:26, 24 September 2024
Emily Holroyd was an operative and leader of the Torchwood Institute Cardiff branch, known in her day as Torchwood Cardiff and later as Torchwood Three. She was in a relationship with fellow Torchwood agent Alice Guppy, and was part of the team that recruited Jack Harkness.
Biography
According to one account, Emily was married to a husband by 1898. She would later describe their marriage as "complex". (PROSE: Diary of Alice Guppy [+]Loading...["Diary of Alice Guppy (short story)"]) Another account appeared to suggest she was unmarried. (PROSE: The Baby Farmers [+]Loading...["The Baby Farmers (short story)"])
At some point in the 1890s, she became the leader of Torchwood Cardiff. (PROSE: Torchwood: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Torchwood: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"]) In 1898, she lost an operative and mission partner to a "mutative infection". Emily burned him to death after he metamorphosed into the new Queen of a "snake-like race". In his place, Emily recruited criminal Alice Guppy, noting her skills as a thief and her attitude towards violence. Emily was confident of Alice's abilities as an operative, and ignored warnings about Alice's conduct from the governess at the prison.
Emily collected Alice and brought her to the headquarters of Torchwood Cardiff on 15 September. In her diary, Alice wrote of her fascination with Emily, saying that she found her company "most enjoyable". (PROSE: Diary of Alice Guppy [+]Loading...["Diary of Alice Guppy (short story)"])
By 1899, Emily and Alice were in a relationship. (TV: Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"], PROSE: The Baby Farmers [+]Loading...["The Baby Farmers (short story)"]) That same year, the pair began investigating Jack Harkness, believing he may know the whereabouts of the Doctor after several of his drinking den conversations were overheard. (TV: Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"], PROSE: Captain Jack Transcripts [+]Loading...["Captain Jack Transcripts (short story)"]) Their investigation lasted up to six months, during which they had discovered he couldn't die, having been killed fourteen recorded times.
After capturing Jack, Emily and Alice tested the lengths of his immortality, during which Emily attempted to electrocute him. Confident he did not know where the Doctor was following an interrogation, Emily agreed to let Jack go under the condition he serve as an uncontracted agent for Torchwood. When Jack attempted to resign, Emily told him that his liberty was at their discretion and that Torchwood would otherwise treat him as a threat. (TV: Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"])
Around 1899, she was contacted by William Mayhew about the HMS Hades. When Jack went in her stead and was captured, Torchwood began investigating. She and the rest of Torchwood infiltrated and destroyed the HMS Hades after it was found to be a lab for experimenting on aliens. (PROSE: The Baby Farmers)
Emily was still leader of Torchwood Cardiff by 1901. (PROSE: Stock Take [+]Loading...["Stock Take (short story)"]) After a future version of Jack Harkness was discovered in a twenty foot grave, (TV: Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"]) Emily agreed to freeze him in the morgue until the 21st century at his request, preventing him from crossing his own timeline. Jack was frozen and locked in bay 5, and the contents were kept secret. Emily left strict instructions to successive Torchwood operatives not to get it open until it was ready. (PROSE: Stock Take [+]Loading...["Stock Take (short story)"])
Emily, alongside Alice and Jack, investigated Ravenhall Manor in 1902 after receiving reports of visions. They attempted to destroy the house, only for it to reappear. The entity responsible appeared to have been defeated after Jack used an engine to contain it. Jack would recall this mission in the 2000s following the entity's return. (COMIC: Hell House [+]Loading...["Hell House (comic story)"])
In the early 1900s she wrote a manifesto for the Torchwood Institute in Cardiff. Among many things, it dictated that in the absence of a leader, the member of the team who had been serving for the longest time should assume the role. In 2008 this manifesto was invoked to make Toshiko Sato the temporary leader of Torchwood Three. (PROSE: Kaleidoscope)
At some point, Jack Harkness witnessed Emily's death. Her death was among those remembered by him on Cotter Paluni's World. (AUDIO: Red Skies [+]Loading...["Red Skies (audio story)"])
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