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== Plot ==
== 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 asks "what is Torchwood anyway?" As Esther is talking he is impaled by metal rods that fall from the truck ahead. All of a sudden all instances of the word Torchwood are wiped from the system. Esther claims it is must have been a virus. Gwen Cooper, former Torchwood agent, has woken up from a nightmare. Oswald is talking to a govenor's assistant whom Oswald tells he can't be held and executed again because of the Eighth and Fifth Amendments. Gwen is talking to her daughter telling her about a singing alien she once met but Rhys walks in, upset she is talking to their baby abgout Torchwood. They are seen complaining about the number of helicopters that fly over their private estate of land, and are quick to pick up guns when the doorbell rings. Rhys placates Gwen as she has a panic attack, telling her that the Torchwood days are over. They recieve a phone call from Gwens mother telling her that her father is in hospital, and they rush back to Cardiff, despite Rhys's warnings. Her father is still alive due to The Miracle but still unwell, with both her parents telling her that she shouldnt have come; "What if somebody sees you?"
Oswald Danes is about to be put to death by lethal injection. As he is receiving the fatal concoction, he starts thrashing around on the gurney. At the CIA, Esther Drummond is on the phone with Rex Matheson, who keeps asking "what is Torchwood anyway?" As Esther is talking he is impaled by metal rods that fall from the truck ahead. All of a sudden all instances of the word Torchwood are wiped from the system. Esther claims it is must have been a virus. Gwen Cooper, former Torchwood agent, has woken up from a nightmare. Oswald is talking to a governor's assistant whom Oswald tells he can't be held and executed again because of the Eighth and Fifth Amendments. Gwen is talking to her daughter telling her about a singing alien she once met but Rhys walks in, upset she is talking to their baby about Torchwood. They complain about the number of helicopters that fly over their private estate of land, and are quick to pick up guns when the doorbell rings. Rhys placates Gwen as she has a panic attack, telling her that the Torchwood days are over. They recieve a phone call from Gwen's mother telling her that her father is in hospital, and they rush back to Cardiff, despite Rhys's warnings. Her father is still alive due to The Miracle but still unwell, with both her parents telling her that she shouldn't have come; "What if somebody sees you?"


Rex Mattheson is taken to hospital and Esther is told that his survival of such an accident was a "Miracle", of which there has been a lot of in the last 24 hours. Soon all the headlines are naming this day as Miracle Day, as no-one on the entire planet has died, but people soon begin to be concerned. Rex is soon recovering and talking to Esther on his mobile, realising that the Torchwood files were uncovered at the exact moment when the last person died/first minute of no-deaths. This prompts Esther to go looking for hard copies of the lost data, which were all catagorised under 456 files. She goes and finds the buried hard copies of all the data among boxes and files, discovering pictures of Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen, but is interrupted by Jack appearing behind her, shooting at a suicide bomber who had "killed" the receptionist and blew up the building as Jack and Esther jump into a swimming pool below. Jack tells Esther everything about Torchwood, Gwen and Extra-Terrestrial Lifeforms, and then gives her a dose of the 'smart drug' Retcon - a selective amnesia pill.
Rex Matheson is taken to hospital and Esther is told that his survival of such an accident was a "Miracle", of which there has been a lot of in the last 24 hours. Soon all the headlines are naming this day as Miracle Day, as no-one on the entire planet has died, but people soon begin to be concerned. Rex is soon recovering and talking to Esther on his mobile, realising that the Torchwood files were uncovered at the exact moment when the last person died/first minute of no deaths. This prompts Esther to go looking for hard copies of the lost data, which were all categorised under 456 files. She goes and finds the buried hard copies of all the data among boxes and files, discovering pictures of Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen, but is interrupted by Jack appearing behind her, shooting at a suicide bomber who had "killed" the receptionist and blown up the building. Jack and Esther jump into a swimming pool below. Jack tells Esther everything about Torchwood, Gwen and Extra-Terrestrial Lifeforms, and then gives her a dose of the 'smart drug' Retcon - a selective amnesia pill.


==Cast==
==Cast==

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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 concoction, he starts thrashing around on the gurney. At the CIA, Esther Drummond is on the phone with Rex Matheson, who keeps asking "what is Torchwood anyway?" As Esther is talking he is impaled by metal rods that fall from the truck ahead. All of a sudden all instances of the word Torchwood are wiped from the system. Esther claims it is must have been a virus. Gwen Cooper, former Torchwood agent, has woken up from a nightmare. Oswald is talking to a governor's assistant whom Oswald tells he can't be held and executed again because of the Eighth and Fifth Amendments. Gwen is talking to her daughter telling her about a singing alien she once met but Rhys walks in, upset she is talking to their baby about Torchwood. They complain about the number of helicopters that fly over their private estate of land, and are quick to pick up guns when the doorbell rings. Rhys placates Gwen as she has a panic attack, telling her that the Torchwood days are over. They recieve a phone call from Gwen's mother telling her that her father is in hospital, and they rush back to Cardiff, despite Rhys's warnings. Her father is still alive due to The Miracle but still unwell, with both her parents telling her that she shouldn't have come; "What if somebody sees you?"

Rex Matheson is taken to hospital and Esther is told that his survival of such an accident was a "Miracle", of which there has been a lot of in the last 24 hours. Soon all the headlines are naming this day as Miracle Day, as no-one on the entire planet has died, but people soon begin to be concerned. Rex is soon recovering and talking to Esther on his mobile, realising that the Torchwood files were uncovered at the exact moment when the last person died/first minute of no deaths. This prompts Esther to go looking for hard copies of the lost data, which were all categorised under 456 files. She goes and finds the buried hard copies of all the data among boxes and files, discovering pictures of Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen, but is interrupted by Jack appearing behind her, shooting at a suicide bomber who had "killed" the receptionist and blown up the building. Jack and Esther jump into a swimming pool below. Jack tells Esther everything about Torchwood, Gwen and Extra-Terrestrial Lifeforms, and then gives her a dose of the 'smart drug' Retcon - a selective amnesia pill.

Cast

Crew

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References

  • Jack uses the alias Owen Harper.
  • Gwen and Rhys have gone into hiding, seemingly under a witness protection program.
  • UNIT and Geneva are referenced to.
  • Rendition is when an individual is taken from one legal jurisdiction to another.

Story notes

  • Oswald Danes's release from prison plays with the audience's expectations. According to old American frontier legend, anyone who survives an execution is automatically set free. As this legend is actually untrue, the episode depicts a series of legal arguments — including unlawful imprisonment and force majeure arguments — that lead to Danes's release.

Ratings

1.51 millions (Starz)

TBA (BBC)

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.
  • A television station covering Danes' parole, KCNU, has an on-screen graphic identifying it as being based in Kentucky. This is an impossibility, as all Kentucky stations (and nearly all US broadcast stations east of the Mississippi River) start with the letter "W".

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 is said to have joined Torchwood in October 2006, the time the first episode of Torchwood aired. However, it was actually 2007, as Gwen joined Torchwood a year after the Doctor accidentally brought Rose Tyler to 2006 instead of 2005. (TW: Everything Changes, DW: Aliens of London)
  • Jack's comment about being "plain old human" after losing his immortality is similar to comments made by the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor in DW: Journey's End.
  • 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. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Five)

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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v • e
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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