Meat (TV story)

Meat is the fourth episode in the second series of Torchwood.

Meat
Main enemy:	Meat Organisation
Key crew
Writer:	Catherine Tregenna
Director:	Colin Teague
Release details
Release number:	17
Premiere broadcast:	6th February 2008

Synopsis

Gwen's fiancé, Rhys, discovers the truth about Torchwood and helps the team as they investigate a mysterious alien-meat supply. Will Rhys go too far? And can Torchwood save the alien from being used as cheap meat?

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
• Policeman - Colin Baxter
• Ruth - Patti Clare
• Vic - Garry lake
• Greg - Gereld Carey
• Dale - Matt Ryan

Production crew

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References

• Gwen mentions retcon (the drug).
• This is the second time Gwen has told Rhys what she does as a job, although it does not appear to trigger the re-emergence of the memories of the previous time, which Gwen suppressed with Retcon.

Story notes

• Coincidentally, the episode aired for the first time in Canada at the same time as a tainted meat outbreak in that country was causing mass recalls and deaths.
• The theme of humans exploiting alien life forms would be touched on again only two episodes later in Reset, as well as in the Doctor Who episode Planet of the Ood, which aired a few months later.
• [Ianto Jones| Ianto] shows a reaction to the exploiting of the defenseless alien and his endangered teammates; violently attacking the meat-traffickers, slamming one with a door, and stun-gunning another one on the head as he says "Pray they survive".

Ratings

• Unofficial Overnight - 2.9 million viewers

Myths

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Filming Locations

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

• Rhys' stated ignorance of alien life appears somewhat anachronistic given that the episode takes place at some point after the events of DW: The Runaway Bride, The Christmas Invasion, which made the presence of alien life widely known to the populace of Great Britain. But not the Battle of Canary Wharf which was passed off as a mass hallucination (TW: Everything Changes); so perhaps Rhys assumes the same is true for the other incidents.

Continuity

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DVD releases

• This story along with the rest of Torchwood Series 2 is due to be released in a complete series boxset.

See also

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External links

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Footnotes