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'''Combat''' was the eleventh episode of the [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|first series]] of ''[[Torchwood]]''. It heavily featured [[Owen Harper]] with the rest of [[Torchwood Three]] only receiving cameo roles.
'''''Combat''''' was the eleventh episode of the [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|first series]] of ''[[Torchwood]]''. It heavily featured [[Owen Harper]] with the rest of [[Torchwood Three]] only receiving cameo roles.
==Synopsis==
==Synopsis==
Savage aliens are being kidnapped from the streets of [[Cardiff]] and [[Torchwood]] want to know why. [[Owen Harper|Owen]] is sent undercover to find out who's behind it and soon befriends the charismatic [[Mark Lynch]]. Beneath the veneer of city life, Owen discovers a shocking subculture: can he avoid being sucked in?
Savage aliens are being kidnapped from the streets of [[Cardiff]] and [[Torchwood]] want to know why. [[Owen Harper|Owen]] is sent undercover to find out who's behind it and soon befriends the charismatic [[Mark Lynch]]. Beneath the veneer of city life, Owen discovers a shocking subculture: can he avoid being sucked in?

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Combat was the eleventh episode of the first series of Torchwood. It heavily featured Owen Harper with the rest of Torchwood Three only receiving cameo roles.

Synopsis

Savage aliens are being kidnapped from the streets of Cardiff and Torchwood want to know why. Owen is sent undercover to find out who's behind it and soon befriends the charismatic Mark Lynch. Beneath the veneer of city life, Owen discovers a shocking subculture: can he avoid being sucked in?

Plot

Jack is chasing a weevil. It evades him, having seemingly developed an immunity to the 'weevil spray' used by Torchwood. Gwen is meanwhile having dinner out with Rhys. Rhys is furious when Jack shows up unexpectedly and wisks Gwen away to help him. While chasing the weevil, Jack and Gwen have it snatched out from in front of them by masked men in a white van. The next morning, while Tosh is unable to trace the plates, she does use the CCTV to track the van to a warehouse near the docks. There Jack and Tosh find the dead body of a young man apparently attacked by a weevil. His cellphone rings, and an unknown voice warns jack not to interfere in things he doesn't understand... Further research shows a recent spike in hospital visits for apparent weevil attacks.

Owen, meanwhile, is still upset over the loss of Diane. At a bar, he gets into a short fight with the boyfriend of bartender who had been talking with Owen. He avoids for some time answering his phone, but ultimately agrees to come into the Hub. Examining the dead body discovered by the others, he determines that the man had first been assaulted by humans before being mauled by the weevil. As Owen is the only member of the team not yet seen by the unknown perpetrators, he agrees to go undercover to meet with real estate agent Mark Lynch , who may have something to do with the incident.

Jack and Ianto go to the hospital to speak to a patient with injuries that might be Weevil-inflicted. The patient refuses to talk, saying that "they" will kill him. Jack decides to take a desperate measure: they will release the weevil they have in captivity (which he calls "Janet"), plant a tracking device on its clothes and then see if it will be picked up by this mysterious group. Tosh and Ianto have grave reservations about letting it loose in the city, but Jack assures them they will be with Janet each step of the way. They do so, and watch Janet being captured. Gwen has meanwhile been sent home by Jack so she can spend some time mending things with Rhys.When she arrives home, Rhys leaves to spend a night out on the town with friends. Gwen is alone.

Posing as an exporter of jellied eels, Owen has met with Mark Lynch to supposedly investigate procuring a new warehouse for his business. Lynch invites him out to drinks, and they end up at the same bar as Owen was at the previous night. The same man whom Owen had fought with the previous night approaches him with friends. They attack Owen, but Lynch helps him defeat the men.

Rhys returns home earlier than expected, and Gwen hands him a drink. She then confesses to him that she has been having an affair with co-worker. Rhys initially does not believe her, and then starts to feel woosy. Gwen has put Retcon in his drink, so that she can confess to him, and hopefully gain his forgiveness, but he will not remember her confession in the morning. She tries desperately to get Rhys to say he forgives her, but he passes out before doing so.

After being invited over to Mark's home for drinks, Owen finds a chained weevil in a locked room in the house. Mark, aware that Owen isn't who he claims, is still intrigued by his anger and offers to take Owen with him for the evening's entertainment.

The entertainment is a fight club which Mark moves to a different empty building each night. Mark brings Owen into the fight club where Owen sees men fighting each other to warm up. Each contender pays $1000 to enter a cage with the weevil. The man who stays in the longest wins the pot. Mark informs Owen that he is up next.

Gwen shows up to the Hub with pizza, but finds it empty. While Gwen she sits there alone and sobbing, the deceased man's cell phone begins to chime in the morgue. Text messages with the location of that evening's event show on the screen and Gwen passes that information onto Jack, Tosh, and Ianto.

Owen seems more than willing to enter the cage and leaves his guard down as the weevil attacks. Just then Jack and Gwen bust in and have Owen pulled from the cage and send the participants scattering. While Jack is tending to Owen, Mark enters the cage to end his life. Jack does not stop the weevil as it attacks and kills Mark.

Owen is recuperating at the hospital when Jack appears and gives him grapes. Owen tells Jack that he did not want to be saved. Jack asks if Owen wants him and the team to apologise for saving his life. As he walks off, Jack tells Owen to be back at work tomorrow.

The next day, Owen returns to the hub. Down in the vaults, he looks at both the captive Weevils. They both groan submissively as Owen hisses at them in a Weevil-like manner.

Cast

Crew

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References

Music

Story notes

Ratings

  • BBC3 - 0.8 million viewers
  • BBC2 - 2.0 million viewers

Myths

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Filming locations

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Production errors

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Continuity

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.
  • Owen also shows a connection with Weevils in TW: A Day in the Death, Dead Man Walking & Exit Wounds.
  • Owen is still upset over the loss of Diane
  • Gwen and Owen break off their on-going affair. Gwen confesses the affair to Rhys, but uses RetCon so he will not remember.
  • Jack repeats his warning to Gwen to not allow her job at Torchwood to compromise her personal life.
  • Lynch references an oncoming 'darkness' in the eyes of the Weevils.
  • Frost Lynch is the realty agency promoting the house Rhys is visiting during Children of Earth: Day One.

Home video releases

This episode was first released on DVD, with three other episodes entitle Torchwood: Series 1, part 3 on 26 March 2007. It was later released in Torchwood:The Complete first series on 19th November 2007

See also

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External links

Footnotes

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Torchwood television stories
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Children of Earth: Day One • Day Two • Day Three • Day Four • Day Five
Series 4
Stories listed here are only those that have been officially licensed by the BBC.
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