Rendition (TV story)

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Rendition was the second episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Synopsis

Jack and Gwen travel to America on a plane, with Rhys left behind in England. Jack is poisoned en-route. Esther discovers more about Torchwood and about those seeking to stop her finding out more. Vera Juarez attends a conference and finds out there will be even more ways that the Human race will run itself to painful extinction. Oswald Danes appears to a national audience, winning, of all things; sympathy.

Plot

Jack and Gwen are bundled onto a plane headed to America, with Rhys and Anwen being left behind. Jack's Vortex manipulator confiscated, Jack and Gwen are stuck handcuffed on a plane with Rex and Lyn Peterfield, CIA agent.

Oswald Danes, convicted rapist and murderer, is being interviewed on TV. Prior to the interview, Oswald takes most of the food for the people at the station, much to a woman's disgust. On TV, when asked if he has anything to say, he cries and says he's sorry. Esther and other CIA agents watch on the TV, and Oswald wins some agents' sympathy. After the interview, Oswald and a Police Officer go into a lift, where Jilly Kitzinger congratulates him on his performance, knowing that he was acting. Jilly offers him her card, when Oswald tears the card outside the lift, after he had received news of another interview.

On the plane, Rex attempts to examine Jack's Vortex Manipulator, but just hears beeping. Jack tells him that he has low sodium levels, and that he needs salt. Rex calls Vera Juarez, who confirms that he does have low sodium levels.

Dr. Juarez then attends a conference in Washington, D.C., where she discovers that the miracle isn't all a miracle. People still age when they're dead, and they'll eventually shrivel up and shrink. Also, supplies will decrease radically, and the ever growing population could become a big problem.

Meanwhile, Esther discovers her user has been deleted from the CIA database, after she discovered people in Rex's office. She then discovers she has had a bribe, and she gets ready to contact Rex.

Back on the plane, Jack asks for a Coke, when Lyn slips some arsenic into it. When she is discovered, she is handcuffed and Gwen and Rex work together, with help from Vera and the others at the conference, to create an antidote. Lyn attempts to stop them and frees herself, when Gwen punches her, knocking her unconscious. Gwen and Rex successfully save Jack and Gwen is handcuffed again.

When Jack, Gwen, Rex and Lyn arrive, Esther contacts Rex and tells him about his office and her user, and Lyn slowly removes her fake handcuffs. Rex then notices he has had a much larger bribe, as he has received a text message. He then lets Jack and Gwen go, and he knocks the guards out and twists Lyn's neck. Vera and Esther then both arrive in cars outside the airport, and Jack, Gwen and Rex get into Esther's. Vera drives off, and a Lyn with a twisted neck stumbles in front of their car, surviving still because of the miracle. The four then drive off.

Cast

Crew

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References

Biology

  • The continued use of antibiotics (and other drugs and medicines) and the lack of people dying will further the production/evolution of drug resistant bacteria.
  • Human flesh effected by Miracle Day continues to age.

[[::Category:Drugs and medicines|Drugs and medicines]]

  • Rex is given an aspirin on the plane by Danny, it was found in the co-pilot's shirt pocket.

Elements

  • Jack is poisoned with arsenic, and saved with a concoction made with (amongst other things); silver, cyanide, degreaser.

Food and beverages

  • Jack asks for a cola while on the plane.
  • Gwen drinks water whilst on the plane.
  • Rex requests some pretzels while on the plane.

Individuals

  • Jack had a boyfriend who took arsenic for his skin.

Theories and concepts

Vehicles

  • Esther steals a blue Mini.

Story notes

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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.
  • When walking in the Washington, D.C. City Hall, Dr. Juarez can clearly be seen walking past the Colorado state flag. A Colorado flag would not sensibly be an adornment in an official city building not located in Colorado.
  • Washington has no city hall, since it's the only city in America administered by the US Congress. The closest thing to a "city hall" in Washington is the John A. Wilson Building, but it's more akin to a state capitol than a city hall.
  • At the medical panels inside the "city hall", a graphic of a Facebook home page is projected onto a wall screen. There's no narrative rationale why multiple doctors in the middle of a crisis would need to be consulting the same Facebook page. Thus the graphics department made an error in the choice of on-screen graphics they chose to display in-scene.
  • The props department got the wrong kind of needle for Gwen to use on Jack. It's far too big to be a standard insulin needle. Instead, it's obviously a standard IM (intra-muscular) needle, which a diabetic like Danny wouldn't carry.

Continuity

Home video releases

DVD releases

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Blu-ray releases

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Footnotes

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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