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| {{Simm|n=The Master}}, [[disguise]]d as [[British Prime Minister]] [[Harold Saxon]], sent the [[Torchwood Cardiff]] team on a '''"wild goose chase"''' to the [[Himalayas]], preventing them from assisting [[Captain]] [[Jack Harkness]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
| | After searching for [[Planet 5]], only to discover it had been placed in a [[time loop]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] told [[Leela]] they had been on a '''"wild-goose chase"'''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'') |
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| On the [[Series 2 (Torchwood)|series 2]] version of the ''[[Torchwood]]'' [[Torchwood website|website]], [[Owen Harper]] did a report on the "wild goose chase" Torchwood Three went on that was mentioned by {{Simm|n=Harold Saxon}} during ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]''. At 5am, [[Ianto Jones]] picked up a phone call telling Torchwood about "[s]omething funny going on in the Himalayas", which Ianto specified was in [[Pakistan]]. Ianto claimed to Owen that the call came from [[UNIT]], who were "already there", calling for "all four of us" — Owen, Ianto, [[Toshiko Sato]] and [[Gwen Cooper]], and that according to them it was connected to [[Abaddon]].
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| Torchwood were briefed that there was apparently another [[space-time rift]], halfway up K2. While Tosh was setting up rift-detecting equipment at the location on K2 that was given, a humanoid doll resembling their missing leader, [[Captain]] [[Jack Harkness]] — described by Owen as "quite a good likeness" — was rigged to jump out of the [[snow]] from a spring at the moment the equipment was activated. Owen dubbed it a "Jack-in-the-box", adding, "How bleeding hilarious." The team realised it was a set-up. After two days waiting for transport, Torchwood Three headed back home.
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| On the trip back, they learnt Saxon had won the [[election]], murdered the [[Arthur Winters|American President]] and was himself murdered by [[Lucy Saxon|his wife]]. Owen noted from this that "a [[week]] really is a long time in [[politics]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/sites/arg/pages/episodes.shtml?folder=tw_case_ep01&tab=2 |title=Episodes - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Mission Report #2008/043 |author=Harper, O |date of source= |website name=[[Torchwood website|BBC - Torchwood]] |accessdate=24 July 2013}}</ref>
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