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==Plot==
==Plot==
During a mundane day at [[Torchwood Three]], the team decides to go get a drink, though [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] politely stays behind. Once the team is gone, he brings a Japanese doctor named Tanizaki into the Hub and takes him to a holding cell deep below the surface. There, a partially [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|cyber-converted]] woman is strapped to a conversion unit surrounded by instruments keeping her alive. Ianto introduces her to Tanizaki as [[Lisa Hallett|Lisa]], his lover when they both worked at [[Torchwood One]] in [[London]]. She was only partially converted during the [[Battle of Canary Wharf|Cyberman invasion]], and Ianto rigged the equipment in secret to keep her alive. Ianto hopes that Dr. Tanizaki, a [[cybernetics]] expert, can undo the conversion and make her human again. They take her to the [[autopsy]] lab and are able to let her breathe on her own, when Ianto learns that the rest of the team is on the way back to Torchwood to deal with a rogue UFO. Ianto leaves Dr. Tanizaki to take Lisa back to the cell while he prepares for the team's arrival. However, after he leaves, Lisa's Cyberman influence takes over, and she attempts to "upgrade" Dr. Tanizaki to repay him for his favor, killing him.
During a mundane day at [[Torchwood Three]], the team decides to go get a drink, though [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] politely stays behind. Once the team is gone, he brings a Japanese doctor named Tanizaki into the Hub and takes him to a holding cell deep below the surface. There, a partially [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|cyber-converted]] woman is strapped to a conversion unit surrounded by instruments keeping her alive. Ianto introduces her to Tanizaki as [[Lisa Hallett|Lisa]], his lover when they both worked at [[Torchwood One]] in [[London]]. She was only partially converted during the [[Battle of Canary Wharf|Cyberman invasion]], and Ianto rigged the equipment in secret to keep her alive. Ianto hopes that Dr. Tanizaki, a [[cybernetics]] expert, can undo the conversion and make her human again. They take her to the [[autopsy]] lab and are able to let her breathe on her own, when Ianto learns that the rest of the team is on the way back to Torchwood to deal with a rogue UFO. Ianto leaves Dr. Tanizaki to take Lisa back to the cell while he prepares for the team's arrival. However, after he leaves, Lisa's Cyberman influence takes over, and she attempts to "upgrade" Dr. Tanizaki to repay him for his favour, killing him.


As the rest of Torchwood deal with the UFO, there is a brief power flicker; Ianto quickly covers up by claiming that the generators have been acting up all day and offers to look into it. Returning to Lisa's cell, he finds Dr. Tanizaki's body with Lisa standing over him. Ianto tells Lisa to stay in the cell as he drags off the corpse to hide it from the team. Lisa reenters the cybernetic unit and begins to drain more power from Torchwood, soon noticed by the others. Arming themselves, they head for the holding cell where the power drain is occurring, believing themselves under attack. They find and recognize the cyber-conversion unit, but are attacked by Lisa. Owen is knocked out. Gwen points her gun and tries to reason with Lisa, who knocks the gun out of her hand and pushes her over. Gwen lands on her back on the conversion unit. Before she can sit up Lisa straps her down. Jack tries to shoot Lisa before she can start the unit up, but Ianto tackles him, allowing Lisa to escape after starting up the machine. The restrained Gwen is terrified and yells for help. Tosh manages to shut down the unit by entering lockdown, and finally Jack manages to free Gwen, alowing her to get up. The team regroups in the Hub as the power is drained further by Lisa to recreate a Cyberman army. Jack demands that Ianto tell everything. Ianto pleads that since he cleans up after Torchwood but is never asked about his life, they should help him restore Lisa, but Jack maintains that there is no cure. Ianto asks that he try to reason with Lisa before the team attempts to attack her again.
As the rest of Torchwood deal with the UFO, there is a brief power flicker; Ianto quickly covers up by claiming that the generators have been acting up all day and offers to look into it. Returning to Lisa's cell, he finds Dr. Tanizaki's body with Lisa standing over him. Ianto tells Lisa to stay in the cell as he drags off the corpse to hide it from the team. Lisa reenters the cybernetic unit and begins to drain more power from Torchwood, soon noticed by the others. Arming themselves, they head for the holding cell where the power drain is occurring, believing themselves under attack. They find and recognize the cyber-conversion unit, but are attacked by Lisa. Owen is knocked out. Gwen points her gun and tries to reason with Lisa, who knocks the gun out of her hand and pushes her over. Gwen lands on her back on the conversion unit. Before she can sit up Lisa straps her down. Jack tries to shoot Lisa before she can start the unit up, but Ianto tackles him, allowing Lisa to escape after starting up the machine. The restrained Gwen is terrified and yells for help. Tosh manages to shut down the unit by entering lockdown, and finally Jack manages to free Gwen, alowing her to get up. The team regroups in the Hub as the power is drained further by Lisa to recreate a Cyberman army. Jack demands that Ianto tell everything. Ianto pleads that since he cleans up after Torchwood but is never asked about his life, they should help him restore Lisa, but Jack maintains that there is no cure. Ianto asks that he try to reason with Lisa before the team attempts to attack her again.


Ianto tries to remind Lisa she is still human, but she is disgusted by her partially-human appearance. She offers to implant her brain into Ianto, believing that sharing the same life is true love, but Ianto refuses. Lisa declares him incompatible and throws him aside, knocking him unconscious, and sending the rest of the team into action. Jack orders Toshiko to go to the surface to recharge emergency power cells while Gwen and Owen are to search for any weapons, while he tries to delay Lisa's advance. Lisa electrocutes Jack twice, to Gwen's and Owen's shock. Gwen and Owen are momentarily trapped by Lisa in the autopsy lab but manage to escape to the main Hub, where they find Jack, very much alive. Jack sprays Lisa with a special "barbecue sauce" that helps their pet [[pterodactyl]] identify its prey, and as it attacks Lisa, the rest of the team, along with the recovered Ianto, escape through the [[invisible lift]]. Upon exiting the lift, Ianto immediately punches Jack and tries to go back inside, but Jack threatens him, warning that if he fails to kill Lisa within ten minutes, he will come down and kill them both. Ianto returns to Torchwood by himself.
Ianto tries to remind Lisa she is still human, but she is disgusted by her partially-human appearance. She offers to implant her brain into Ianto, believing that sharing the same life is true love, but Ianto refuses. Lisa declares him incompatible and throws him aside, knocking him unconscious, and sending the rest of the team into action. Jack orders Toshiko to go to the surface to recharge emergency power cells while Gwen and Owen are to search for any weapons, while he tries to delay Lisa's advance. Lisa electrocutes Jack twice, to Gwen's and Owen's shock. Gwen and Owen are momentarily trapped by Lisa in the autopsy lab but manage to escape to the main Hub, where they find Jack, very much alive. Jack sprays Lisa with a special "barbecue sauce" that helps their pet [[pterodactyl]] identify its prey, and as it attacks Lisa, the rest of the team, along with the recovered Ianto, escape through the [[invisible lift]]. Upon exiting the lift, Ianto immediately punches Jack and tries to go back inside, but Jack threatens him, warning that if he fails to kill Lisa within ten minutes, he will come down and kill them both. Ianto returns to Torchwood by himself.


Unbeknownst to the team, [[Annie Botchwell|a pizza delivery girl]], using Torchwood's other entrance to bring some pizzas ordered earlier by Ianto, finds the pterodactyl on the floor, and then Lisa is suddenly behind her. As Ianto makes his way to the holding cell, he finds that Lisa's body has died. The delivery girl, with a large cut across her forehead, claims that she is Lisa, and that she took the girl's body so they could be together. Ianto hugs her, then pushes her away and holds her at gunpoint. Lisa tries to explain she did this for Ianto, and promises that they can be upgraded together. The rest of the Torchwood team, arriving in time to hear that, open fire on the girl and kill her, leaving Ianto to mourn over Lisa's body.
Unbeknownst to the team, [[Annie Botchwell|a pizza delivery girl]], using Torchwood's other entrance to bring some pizzas ordered earlier by Ianto, finds the pterodactyl on the floor, and then Lisa is suddenly behind her. As Ianto makes his way to the holding cell, he finds that Lisa's body has died. The delivery girl, with a large cut across her forehead, claims that she is Lisa, and that she took the girl's body so they could be together. Ianto hugs her, then pushes her away and holds her at gunpoint. Lisa tries to explain she did this for Ianto, and promises that they can be upgraded together. The rest of the Torchwood team, arriving in time to hear that, open fire on the girl and kill her, leaving Ianto to mourn over Lisa's body.

Revision as of 16:46, 13 September 2011

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This is about the Torchwood episode. For the race see Cyberman. For the specifically known Cyberwoman, see Lisa Hallett.

Cyberwoman was the fourth episode in the first series of Torchwood. This episode marked the first time Ianto Jones had a major part in the show.

Synopsis

Ianto has a dark secret, tied to the basement of the Hub — a secret he will protect at any cost: a half converted Cyberwoman!

Plot

During a mundane day at Torchwood Three, the team decides to go get a drink, though Ianto politely stays behind. Once the team is gone, he brings a Japanese doctor named Tanizaki into the Hub and takes him to a holding cell deep below the surface. There, a partially cyber-converted woman is strapped to a conversion unit surrounded by instruments keeping her alive. Ianto introduces her to Tanizaki as Lisa, his lover when they both worked at Torchwood One in London. She was only partially converted during the Cyberman invasion, and Ianto rigged the equipment in secret to keep her alive. Ianto hopes that Dr. Tanizaki, a cybernetics expert, can undo the conversion and make her human again. They take her to the autopsy lab and are able to let her breathe on her own, when Ianto learns that the rest of the team is on the way back to Torchwood to deal with a rogue UFO. Ianto leaves Dr. Tanizaki to take Lisa back to the cell while he prepares for the team's arrival. However, after he leaves, Lisa's Cyberman influence takes over, and she attempts to "upgrade" Dr. Tanizaki to repay him for his favour, killing him.

As the rest of Torchwood deal with the UFO, there is a brief power flicker; Ianto quickly covers up by claiming that the generators have been acting up all day and offers to look into it. Returning to Lisa's cell, he finds Dr. Tanizaki's body with Lisa standing over him. Ianto tells Lisa to stay in the cell as he drags off the corpse to hide it from the team. Lisa reenters the cybernetic unit and begins to drain more power from Torchwood, soon noticed by the others. Arming themselves, they head for the holding cell where the power drain is occurring, believing themselves under attack. They find and recognize the cyber-conversion unit, but are attacked by Lisa. Owen is knocked out. Gwen points her gun and tries to reason with Lisa, who knocks the gun out of her hand and pushes her over. Gwen lands on her back on the conversion unit. Before she can sit up Lisa straps her down. Jack tries to shoot Lisa before she can start the unit up, but Ianto tackles him, allowing Lisa to escape after starting up the machine. The restrained Gwen is terrified and yells for help. Tosh manages to shut down the unit by entering lockdown, and finally Jack manages to free Gwen, alowing her to get up. The team regroups in the Hub as the power is drained further by Lisa to recreate a Cyberman army. Jack demands that Ianto tell everything. Ianto pleads that since he cleans up after Torchwood but is never asked about his life, they should help him restore Lisa, but Jack maintains that there is no cure. Ianto asks that he try to reason with Lisa before the team attempts to attack her again.

Ianto tries to remind Lisa she is still human, but she is disgusted by her partially-human appearance. She offers to implant her brain into Ianto, believing that sharing the same life is true love, but Ianto refuses. Lisa declares him incompatible and throws him aside, knocking him unconscious, and sending the rest of the team into action. Jack orders Toshiko to go to the surface to recharge emergency power cells while Gwen and Owen are to search for any weapons, while he tries to delay Lisa's advance. Lisa electrocutes Jack twice, to Gwen's and Owen's shock. Gwen and Owen are momentarily trapped by Lisa in the autopsy lab but manage to escape to the main Hub, where they find Jack, very much alive. Jack sprays Lisa with a special "barbecue sauce" that helps their pet pterodactyl identify its prey, and as it attacks Lisa, the rest of the team, along with the recovered Ianto, escape through the invisible lift. Upon exiting the lift, Ianto immediately punches Jack and tries to go back inside, but Jack threatens him, warning that if he fails to kill Lisa within ten minutes, he will come down and kill them both. Ianto returns to Torchwood by himself.

Unbeknownst to the team, a pizza delivery girl, using Torchwood's other entrance to bring some pizzas ordered earlier by Ianto, finds the pterodactyl on the floor, and then Lisa is suddenly behind her. As Ianto makes his way to the holding cell, he finds that Lisa's body has died. The delivery girl, with a large cut across her forehead, claims that she is Lisa, and that she took the girl's body so they could be together. Ianto hugs her, then pushes her away and holds her at gunpoint. Lisa tries to explain she did this for Ianto, and promises that they can be upgraded together. The rest of the Torchwood team, arriving in time to hear that, open fire on the girl and kill her, leaving Ianto to mourn over Lisa's body.

The next day, Ianto enters the Hub. Jack & Gwen watch Ianto cleaning up and they discuss how Ianto couldn't bear to live without Lisa. Gwen asks Jack if he would have shot her if she had stood by Ianto. Jack only replies that she had not. He refuses to tell Gwen that he loved anyone. They continue to watch.

Cast

Crew

General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Casting

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound



Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.


References

Individuals

Races and species

  • The Torchwood pteranodon attacks Lisa.
  • Torchwood sends a request to Arkan leisure crawlers, asking them to stop flying over Cardigan Bay.

Welsh Locations

Music

Story notes

Ratings

  • BBC3 - 1.4 million viewers
  • BBC2 - 2.2 million viewers

Myths

to be added

Filming locations

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Production errors

to be added

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.

Timeline

Home video releases

This episode was first released on DVD, with four other episodes entitled Torchwood: Series 1, part 1 on 26 December 2006. It was later released in Torchwood: The Complete First Series on 19th November 2007

External links

Footnotes

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