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Esther and Jack are on the run in Scotland. While in Scotland, Esther has been taking blood from Jack since they suspect it is significant to the Miracle, the families, and The Blessing. Jack's own blood bank is stored in a metal briefcase in case it becomes useful. Eventually when Oswald Danes travels to Gwen Cooper's home in Cardiff with information about a man behind the Miracle, the team reconvene in the Cooper residence. | Esther and Jack are on the run in Scotland. While in Scotland, Esther has been taking blood from Jack since they suspect it is significant to the Miracle, the families, and The Blessing. Jack's own blood bank is stored in a metal briefcase in case it becomes useful. Eventually when [[Oswald Danes]] travels to [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen Cooper's]] home in Cardiff with information about a man behind the Miracle, the team reconvene in the Cooper residence. | ||
Torchwood discover that Jilly Kitzinger was hired by PhiCorp to rewrite the English translations of foreign news clips, including a man in Shanghai who is actually saying he was saved by The Blessing. | Torchwood discover that [[Jilly Kitzinger]] was hired by PhiCorp to rewrite the English translations of foreign news clips, including a man in Shanghai who is actually saying he was saved by [[The Blessing]] . | ||
Esther notes blood banks were burnt down shortly before the Miracle in two of the most populous cities in the world: Shanghai and Buenos Aires. Rhys, examining a globe, realizes that they are the exact opposite points on the Earth. | Esther notes blood banks were burnt down shortly before the Miracle in two of the most populous cities in the world: Shanghai and Buenos Aires. Rhys, examining a globe, realizes that they are the exact opposite points on the Earth. | ||
Revision as of 15:23, 6 September 2011
The Gathering [1] was the penultimate episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day.
Synopsis
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Plot
Esther and Jack are on the run in Scotland. While in Scotland, Esther has been taking blood from Jack since they suspect it is significant to the Miracle, the families, and The Blessing. Jack's own blood bank is stored in a metal briefcase in case it becomes useful. Eventually when Oswald Danes travels to Gwen Cooper's home in Cardiff with information about a man behind the Miracle, the team reconvene in the Cooper residence.
Torchwood discover that Jilly Kitzinger was hired by PhiCorp to rewrite the English translations of foreign news clips, including a man in Shanghai who is actually saying he was saved by The Blessing .
Esther notes blood banks were burnt down shortly before the Miracle in two of the most populous cities in the world: Shanghai and Buenos Aires. Rhys, examining a globe, realizes that they are the exact opposite points on the Earth.
Meanwhile, police authorities under reinstated Category legislation have the authority to enter homes if residents are under suspicion of harboring Category One's. Considered legally dead, any Category One's are taken into custody and held until such a time that they can be incinerated in the ovens. Gwen's father has been hidden behind some wood paneling in the basement. When an inspector returns a second time with a new thermal imaging application on his smart phone, he removes Gwen's father. Gwen begs them to leave him alone, but nothing can be done. She reminds Jack and the others that all she wants is to stop the Miracle and have this authoritarian disaster end.
Rhys' discovery of two geographic points running across the center of the Earth reflects the logo of PhiCorp - a circle with a line running through it. They decide to split up and investigate: Rex and Esther travel to Buenos Aires; Jack, Gwen, and Oswald (who knows too much information to be released and who is at risk of being murdered by Rhys if he stays in the Cooper residence) are smuggled by gun runners into Shanghai. As Jack puts it, Torchwood has now gone global.
Meanwhile, Jilly Kitzinger is given an entirely new identity by the families as "Lucy Statten Meredith", effectively ceasing to exist under her former identity, and is promoted to a position in Shanghai. Meeting an unidentified member of the families, she is complimented on her storytelling skills and informed that she was hired to essentially write world history for the families. She is taken to The Blessing, which is revealed to be a massive crack or fissure running through the centre of the planet Earth.
In Shanghai, Gwen discovers that Jack has not recovered from his gunshot wound and is, in fact, fairing worse after traveling. Undressing the bandages, Gwen assesses his wound and a drop of blood falls to the floor of the apartment they are staying in. It begins traveling across the floor, as if magnetized by an invisible force, and Gwen speculates Jack's blood is being drawn to The Blessing - Jack is connected to the phenomenon of The Blessing.
Cast
- Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
- Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
- Rex Matheson - Mekhi Phifer
- Esther Drummond - Alexa Havins
- Rhys - Kai Owen
- Oswald Danes - Bill Pullman
- Jilly Kitzinger - Lauren Ambrose
- Sarah - Candace Brown
- Mary Cooper - Sharon Morgan
- Geraint Cooper - William Thomas
- Charlotte - Marina Benedict
- Allen Shapiro - John de Lancie
- Noah - Paul James
- Blue-Eyed Man - Teddy Sears
- The Mother Colasanto - Frances Fisher
- Finch - Ian Hughes
- The Young Man - Adam Silver
- Chinese Man - Willis Chung
- Surveillance Guy - Danny Szam
- Chinese Worker - Jesse Wang
- Old Man - Gilbert Wynne
Crew
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Created by Russell T Davies |
| Executive Producers Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter |
| Co-executive producer Vlad Wolynetz |
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| 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. |
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The Starz broadcast carried a final credit of "Originally Developed and Produced by BBC Cymru Wales". The BBC One broadcast says, instead, "BBC Worldwide Productions for BBC Cymru Wales and STARZ Originals". |
References
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Story notes
- The first time we see the footage of the chinese man in hospital, the mandarin-to-english subtitles read "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry". This is one of the Tenth Doctor's commonly-used sayings.
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Myths
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Filming locations
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Production errors
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Continuity
- Gwen hides her looted drugs in Jubilee pizza boxes. (DW: Dalek, TW: Everything Changes)
Home video releases
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Footnotes
- ↑ As with all episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day, the episode title was not given onscreen, but comes instead from the official Starz Miracle Day website
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