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*The first time Rex has his phone taken from him on the plane, the arm is bare. However, during the flashback, the arm is covered with Jack's vortex manipulator and sleeve. This is apparently  deliberate to keep Jack's identity hidden.
*The first time Rex has his phone taken from him on the plane, the arm is bare. However, during the flashback, the arm is covered with Jack's vortex manipulator and sleeve. This is apparently  deliberate to keep Jack's identity hidden.
 
*The television station most prominently covering [[Oswald Danes|Danes]]' parole has an on-screen graphic identifying it as both in [[Kentucky]] and yet having the call sign of [[KCNU]].  This is an impossibility, as all Kentucky stations have a first letter of "W".  Since all the stations on [[Rex Matheson]]'s [[Washington, D.C.]] hospital television properly have "W" call signs, it doesn't appear that the production team are ''trying'' to establish a different paradigm for the [[Doctor Who Universe|DWU]].  It just looks like they didn't know the dividing line between "K" and "W" stations is the Mississippi River, a natural feature to the ''west'' of Kentucky.  Thus, this seems more like production error on the part of the graphics department than anything else.
== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
*Esther finds files that show pictures of the [[456]] incident. ([[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'')
*Esther finds files that show pictures of the [[456]] incident. ([[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'')

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The New World was the first episode of the fourth series of Torchwood.

Synopsis

One day, nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. And then the next day, and the next, and the next, people keep ageing – they get hurt and sick, but they never die. The result: a population boom, overnight.

With all the extra people, resources are finite. It’s said that in four month’s time, the human race will cease to be viable. But this can’t be a natural event – someone’s got to be behind it. It’s a race against time as CIA agent Rex Matheson investigates a global conspiracy. The answers lie within an old, secret British institute. As Rex keeps asking: “What is Torchwood?”, he’s drawn into a world of adventure, and a threat to change what it means to be human … for ever. [1]

Plot

Oswald Danes is about to be put to death by lethal injection. As he is receiving the fatal concotion, he starts thrashing around on the gurney. At the CIA, Esther Drummond is on the phone with Rex Mattheson, who keeps asking what Torchwood is. She starts to tell him, only to be impaled by metal from a truck. Gwen Cooper, former Torchwood agent, has woken up from a nightmare. Oswald is talking to a govenor's assistant who tells him he can't be incarcerated again because of the Fifth Amendment. Gwen is talking to her daughter telling her about Torchwood, but Rhys walks in, upset she is going on about that again.

Cast

Crew

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References

This also suggests that Jack's earlier suggestions of being non-human alluded not to his species, but to his immortality.

  • After Esther comments about how she feels responsible for Rex's life-threatening accident, Jack replies he knows the feeling, possibly referring to the deaths of many Torchwood members and his grandson, which he previously claimed to feel responsible for. (Children of Earth: Day Five)

Story notes

  • Oswald Danes's release from prison is a reference to an old urban legend which claims that anyone who survives an execution is automatically set free. As this urban legend is actually untrue, the episode correctly depicts a series of legal pressures that lead to Danes's release, rather than Danes being released automatically because he survived.

Ratings

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Myths

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Filming locations

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Production errors

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.
  • The first time Rex has his phone taken from him on the plane, the arm is bare. However, during the flashback, the arm is covered with Jack's vortex manipulator and sleeve. This is apparently deliberate to keep Jack's identity hidden.
  • The television station most prominently covering Danes' parole has an on-screen graphic identifying it as both in Kentucky and yet having the call sign of KCNU. This is an impossibility, as all Kentucky stations have a first letter of "W". Since all the stations on Rex Matheson's Washington, D.C. hospital television properly have "W" call signs, it doesn't appear that the production team are trying to establish a different paradigm for the DWU. It just looks like they didn't know the dividing line between "K" and "W" stations is the Mississippi River, a natural feature to the west of Kentucky. Thus, this seems more like production error on the part of the graphics department than anything else.

Continuity

  • Esther finds files that show pictures of the 456 incident. (TW: Children of Earth)
  • Esther also sees a picture of Jack, actually a publicity still from DW: The Empty Child.
  • Gwen joined Torchwood in October 2006. (TW: Everything Changes)
  • After the events of Torchwood: Children of Earth, Gwen has been declared dead.

Home video releases

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/torchwood-miracle-day-the-new-world-22214.htm#ixzz1QgdaVZG2

External links

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Children of Earth: Day One • Day Two • Day Three • Day Four • Day Five
Series 4
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