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A dangerous enemy, Bilis Manger has the power to effortlessly time travel, apparantly without technical aid. Manipulating Torchwood 3 in various ways, he eventually tricked them into opening the Cardiff rift.
Biography
Nothing is really known of Manager, not even his origin as a Human or a being posing as Human.
A week or so after events involving Mary and Toshiko Sato (TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts), Manger talked with Ianto Jones in a bar, pumped him for information on Torchwood 3 and revealed to Ianto that he had given him retcon. (torchwood.otg.uk)
Then he appeared as a greeter in the Ritz dance hall in January 1941, immediately taking a sinister interest in Jack Harkness and Toshiko. Manger's possession of a file with the hand-lettered label "Torchwood" indicates he had some connection with 1940s-era Torchwood Institute.
Simultaneously, he seemed to exist in the early 21st century, managing the now-abandoned dance hall. In posession of a missing component of the Rift manipulator found at the the Hub, it seems possible that he deliberately allowed Owen Harper to find it in a grandfather clock and and to take it. At the same time, he deliberately scratched out numbers in Toshiko's rift equations so that the manipulator would not function properly and so cause the rift to widen after Owen used the manipulator to bring Jack and Toshiko back to the 21st century. (TW: Captain Jack Harkness)
Shortly after, Manger's appearances took an even more ominous tone. Jack and Gwen Cooper discovered that Manger owned a store named A Stitch in Time and met him there. He demonstrated to Gwen his power to time travel and showed her a vision of Rhys lying dead. Later, he proceeded to stab Rhys to death himself.
The visions of loved ones who appeared to the members of the team (except for Jack), inducing them to open the rift almost certainly have something to do with Manger.
- Manger may have the power, himself to appear as other people or at least to induce illusions.
Bilis dissapeared claiming that his "work was done" after Abaddon rose over Cardiff. (TW: End of Days)
- The letters of Bilis' first name, re-arranged spells, "Iblis", an Islamic name for Satan.
Personality
Manger has a quiet, guarded, sardonic demeanor. He does not display overt emotions. He has a fascination with clocks. Manger seemed to worship Abaddon as a god and worked to free him.
Abilities
Time travel (TW: Captain Jack Harkness), telepathy and teleportation and precognition. He possibly also possesed the ability to appear as other people or create illuions or apparitions. (TW: End of Days)