Immortal Sins (TV story)

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Immortal Sins (TV story)[1] was the seventh episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. For the most part, it consisted of a flashback which introduced the character of Angelo Colasanto. Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond were resigned to cameo roles.

Synopsis

Gwen must fight to protect her family and takes a terrifying journey with Jack, covering both miles and decades, as the long history of the Miracle is partially revealed.

Plot

Gwen drives Jack across America to bring him to the people holding her family.

Flashbacks are seen of Jack's past. In 1920s New York, he is awaiting his visa at Ellis Island, when Angelo Colasanto steals his visa. Jack confronts him, retrieves his visa, and visits Angelo in his cell. They talk, and Jack uses technology to create a visa for Angelo.

Angelo is freed. Jack and he quickly enter a relationship. At one point, they are retrieving an alien from a base when Jack is shot dead, and Angelo captured and imprisoned. Jack returns to America after Angelo is released. Angelo, believing Jack dead, is terrified by Jack's immortality.

Angelo takes Jack to the butcher shop beneath their room, where people arrive who are terrified of Jack and sadistically attack him with knives, guns, and meat hooks to kill him and collect his blood, despite Jack's protests that they are making a mistake. Three men visit Jack. They seem to know something about his immortality. Angelo, overwhelmed with horror and guilt, eventually lets Jack go. Jack quickly recovers and flees with Angelo to a rooftop, where he explains his immortality before jumping off to his "death". When Angelo reaches the bottom of the building Jack is gone.

As Gwen and Jack arrive, Rex and Esther have contacted Andy Davidson in Wales,. He has freed Gwen's family. They train snipers on the three people who want Jack. Jack states that he has won, but they say that Jack will come with them anyway. They have the information about the Miracle he wants. Angelo is still alive, and has something to do with the Miracle.

Cast

Crew

General production staff


Camera and lighting department

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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

Story notes

  • Jack explains that the brain parasite would rewrite history by enabling the Third Reich to win the Second World War. One week and a day after this episode was broadcast in the US and only two days after it was broadcast in the UK, the Doctor Who episode Let's Kill Hitler featured Adolf Hitler in a cameo role and was set in Nazi Germany in 1938.
  • This is the first time that Jack is killed onscreen during Series 4. He is killed at least seven times in this episode, including from being shot, stabbed, disemboweled, having his thoat slashed and from a high fall.

Ratings

  • UK: 4.48 million

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.

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Continuity

Timeline

In the present day

In flashbacks to 1927 and 1928

Home video releases

This episode will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on the 14th November 2011, alongside the other nine episodes.[3]

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. Technically, this character isn't named or credited in this episode.
  3. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Torchwood-Miracle-Day-Eve-Myles/dp/B005A5I9V2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314885858&sr=8-1

External links

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