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The Blood Line (TV story)[1] was the tenth and final episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Synopsis

The Torchwood team travels around the world on a final, desperate mission, but the Three Families are unstoppable unless a terrible sacrifice is made.

Plot

As Oswald and Jack prepare for their confrontation with the three families, Gwen tells them about when she was a little girl and her father Geraint came home one day, and told them everyone thought he had taken money from his workplace, and that he wouldn't be getting as much money. She says that Gwen ran upstairs and came back with about £2.50, when her father replied "It's not about the money, it's just that I can't stand anyone thinking I'm dishonest." and as she played with him that night, she thought that he was the nicest man in the world. And Gwen then says "And today's the day that I kill him."

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Cast

Crew

General production staff


Camera and lighting department

Art department


 Make-up and prosthetics


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.
          

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

  • The Doctor, the Silurians, the Racnoss, and UNIT are mentioned. Jack was living on Earth during the events of DW: The Runaway Bride and referenced them in DW: The Sound of Drums, praising The Doctor's thwarting of them. Jack also mentions Huon energy, from the same episode; Torchwood One had been recreating Huon energy in that episode, leading to the original encounter with the Racnoss.
  • Jack says "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry", a common saying of the Tenth Doctor.
  • When Rex comes back to life, the Torchwood team say "What? What? What?", another line commonly associated with the Tenth Doctor.
  • Rex gains Jack Harkness' ability to resurrect through a blood transfusion of mortal blood and the reversal of the Miracle. Though, biologically speaking, Rex should've produced enough blood to dilute Jack's, the fact he was mortal at the time of the reversal caused him to gain immortality.

Story notes

  • This episode begins with a monologue by Gwen Cooper. Children of Earth: Day Five, also the final episode of a season arc, began in the same way. The key difference is that in the earlier episode Gwen is recording a message when she speaks; in this episode, although filmed as a monologue Jack is visible in the background meaning she is actually speaking to him.
  • Also as in Children of Earth: Day Five the Doctor's name is mentioned, and the epilogue takes place some time after the resolution of the story (though likely not as long as in Day Five).

Ratings

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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.
    On several occasions the reflection of the green screen can be seen on the knife Jack is holding.
  • The CIA software states that Charlotte's phone was last used on 9/9/11 at 12.49. This would have been 1.49pm in Buenos Aires, after the explosives sealed off the Blessing.
  • When looking at his phone after Esther's funeral, Rex is holding it vertically when facing the camera, but horizontally when the camera is looking at the screen.

Continuity

  • Jack mentions the Silurians and the Racnoss as possible explanations for the Blessing. The Silurians had lived underground for millenia (DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians et al), and the Earth was initially formed around a Racnoss nest, which was at the centre of the planet. (DW: The Runaway Bride)
  • Gwen says that the Blessing may be the most terrestrial thing Torchwood has encountered. Strictly speaking this is not correct. In the first-season episode TW: Countrycide, Torchwood encountered humans responsible for what they believed to be 'aliens' when investigating several disappearances. That episode stands as the first and (as of 2011 only) episode in the history of the Doctor Who franchise to feature no science fictional elements of any kind.
  • The CIA trace to find the mole states the phone was last used on 9th September 2011, meaning part of this episode occurred on the same day the episode was first broadcast, just like DW: The Big Bang. This theory is strengthened by the fact that a lot of references were shown (mostly outside episodes) claiming "Death Ends 7.8.11", which was the U.S. broadcast date for the first episode.

Home video releases

This episode will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on the 14th November 2011, alongside the other nine episodes.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Torchwood-Miracle-Day-Eve-Myles/dp/B005A5I9V2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314885858&sr=8-1

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