Everything Changes (TV story)

Everything Changes
Main enemy:	Weevils Suzie Costello
Key crew
Writer:	Russell T. Davies
Director:	Brian Kelly
Producer:	Julie Gardner
Release details
Release number:	1
Premiere broadcast:	22nd October 2006

Everything Changes is the first episode of the first series of Torchwood together with the following episode, "Day One". It introduces four of the five members of Torchwood Three: Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato, Ianto Jones and Suzie Costello.

Synopsis

When Torchwood arrives on the scene of a brutal murder, WPC Gwen Cooper's burning curiosity is challenged. Their attitude, their approach and their technology is at odds with everything she believes in. But investigating the investigators leads her into a dark, paranoid world she never imagined existed.

Plot

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Cast

• Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
• Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
• Owen Harper - Burn Gorman
• Toshiko Sato - Naoko Mori
• Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
• Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
• Suzie Costello - Indira Varma
• Young cop - Guy Lewis
• PC Andy Davidson - Tom Price
• SOCO - Jason May
• John Tucker - Rhys Swinburn
• Yvonne - Olwen Medi
• DI Jacobs - Gwyn Vaughan-Jones
• Officer - Dion Davis
• Hospital porter - Jams Thomas
• Weevil - Paul Kasey
• Security Guard - Mark Heal
• Pizza lad - Gary Shepheard
• Man - Gwilym Havard Davies
• Woman - Cathryn Davies

Crew

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References

• The Resurrection gauntlet and the life knife make their first appearance.

Story Notes

• This story had the working title; Flotsam And Jetsam.
• Owen's use of the pheremone spray might be construed as an attempt at "date rape"

Ratings

• BBC3 - 2.5 million viewers
• BBC2 - 3.03 million viewers

Myths

• The missing Torchwood 4 is a sly Babylon 5 reference: Babylon 4 also mysteriously disappeared.

Filming Locations

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

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Continuity

• Torchwood is first referred to in DW: Bad Wolf.
• It makes it's first 'physical' appearance in DW: The Christmas Invasion.
• It was created in DW: Tooth and Claw.
• It is implied that Jack's immortality is a side effect of his resurrection by Rose near the end of DW: The Parting of the Ways. It isn't clear whether Rose remembers resurrecting Jack although she clearly believes him to be alive as does the Doctor (DW: Children in Need Special). This is confirmed by the Doctor in DW: Utopia.
• Captain Jack was last seen on the Game Station in DW: The Parting of the Ways.

• How he reached the Earth in his subjective past is explained in DW: Utopia.

• The Cardiff rift first appeared in DW: The Unquiet Dead.
• The Perception filter is on the exact spot where the TARDIS landed in DW: Boom Town.
• Toshiko Sato first appeared in DW: Aliens of London.
• The glove, the knife and Suzie herself make a further appearance in TW: They Keep Killing Suzie.

• A similar glove appears in TW: Dead Man Walking.

• How Jack and the others came to work for Torchwood is seen in TW: Fragments.

DVD Releases

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See also

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External Links

• Doctor Who: Torchwood Reference Guide: Detailed Synopsis - Everything Changes
• A Brief History of Time (Travel): Everything Changes