Believe (audio story)
Believe was a special full-cast release in the Big Finish Torchwood series. It featured Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato.
Publisher's summary
The Church of the Outsiders believe that mankind is about to evolve, to reach out into the stars. Owen Harper believes that Torchwood has to do whatever it takes to stop them.
Plot
Episode One
Davey Russell sets up his video camera and records a message for the world, saying that humanity must let go of the Earth and ascend into the stars. He says to praise the Outsiders and Captain Jack Harkness before dousing himself in petrol and setting himself alight.
In the Hub, Owen tells Jack, Gwen, Ianto and Tosh about Steve Ross and the Church of the Outsiders, identifying Val Ross and Frank Layton as the Church's current leaders and Andromeda Ross as a good way in. When Jack asks how this is relevant to Torchwood, Owen tells them that the Greys have stolen from a UNIT storage facility and shows him Davey Russell's video.
Although Jack refuses to be a part of it, Owen sends Gwen to find Andromeda, who is on the run from the Church, Ianto to sign up for the Church and Tosh to London to extract information from Layton, guided by Owen. Tosh joins Layton at a restaurant and flirts with him whilst Gwen forces her way into Andromeda's hotel room, running with her from the Greys. Ianto is accepted into the Church and is made Erin Lewis's co-pilot.
Tosh goes home with Layton, planning to sedate him. However, when he declines to drink, Owen encourages her to pretend that he is someone else and have sex with him, searching his flat once he is asleep. She does so, taking control of the situation and forcing Owen to listen, taunting him about his inability to have an erection. Layton catches her searching through his things and points a gun at her.
Gwen and Andromeda are on their way to the Hub when the Greys ram Gwen's car. The Greys go to have a look and one says that they think that they might have killed them.
Episode Two
to be added
Episode Three
to be added
Cast
- Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
- Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
- Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
- Owen Harper - Burn Gorman
- and Toshiko Sato - Naoko Mori
- Steve Ross - Mac McDonald
- Andromeda - Lois Meleri Jones
- Val Ross - Mali Harries
- Frank Layton - Arthur Darvill
- Erin - Rhian Blundell
- Val's Assistant - Chris Rankin
- Davey Russell - Lloyd Meredith
- The Greys - Jennifer Sims / Aled ap Steffan
References
- Davey has a dog called Isaac and says that his mother will look after him.
- The Outsiders believe that humans must become Homo stellar.
- Val's comics include The Heaven Out There, Tomorrow's Planet Today, The Celestis Index and Universal Passions.
- Layton asks for filet mignon (light on the oil) with green vegetables and oven-baked potatoes.
- Layton is gluten intolerant.
- Thanks to Layton, the Church was declared to be a non-profit organisation in the UK in 2003, giving them a number of tax breaks.
- Outsiders TV is a free television programme that acts as an advert for their products and courses.
- The biggest of the Church's communal centres was formerly Gilman Hall, a private school.
- Corporal Gates, Laura and a man work for UNIT.
- Ianto mentions The X-Files.
- Grinders are a new subculture inspired by cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick of Reading University, who inserted an RFID transmitter into his arm, allowing him to control his lights and doors. He used an interface which allowed him to move a robotic arm thousands of miles away, in New York.
- Jack mentions the Houses of Parliament.
- Tosh claims to work for an insurance company.
- Andromeda likens her father to a black hole.
- Layton sarcastically asks if the Tax Office have begun using undercover agents.
- Ianto mentions the Doctor.
- Erin says that the naan bread was great.
- The Greys mistakenly believe that Ianto's trouser press is an alien artefact.
- Gwen uses a Belitrusca stun wand on the Greys.
Notes
- This marks the first time all five members of the original Torchwood main cast have been performed by their original actors together since Exit Wounds in 2008.[1]
- This story takes place in-between Something Borrowed and Fragments.
Continuity
- The team mention the last time that the Rift was opened. (TV: End of Days)
- Owen mentions being undead, as well as 'King of the Weevils.' (TV: Dead Man Walking, A Day in the Death)
- Jack says he has been out among the stars and agrees that humanity's future is out among them; he later tells Val that he's travelled in time and space. (TV: The Empty Child et al.)
- Jack and Ianto discuss Jack's recent time with the Doctor. (TV: Utopia, The Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords)
- Once again, citizens of both Cardiff and London display knowledge of the existence of Torchwood, something Gwen bemoans as they are meant to be a secret organisation. (TV: Everything Changes, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)
- Toshiko has been hacking UNIT, which Jack says is "naughty." (TV: Fragments)
- Owen notes that Jack has left Torchwood Three several times now. (TV: End of Days; AUDIO: The Conspiracy, Serenity)
- Gwen mentions the last time that the Rift was open and the number of casualties there were. (TV: End of Days)
- Gwen lists Cell 114, (TV: Sleeper; AUDIO: Serenity) the Nostrovites, (TV: Something Borrowed) and the Cybermen (TV: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday, Cyberwoman) to Andromeda as reasons why Torchwood does what they do.
- Owen can't get an erection. (TV: Dead Man Walking)
Cover gallery
Episode one
Episode two
Episode three
External links
- Official Believe page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes
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