Rupesh Patanjali was a doctor, originally from the Midlands, who worked at the A&E department at St Helen's Hospital in Cardiff. Jack and Ianto encounter him while they removed an alien Hitchhiker from within a patient. His interest in Torchwood piqued. Rupesh tracked Torchwood down to the Bay and Gwen talked with him at length.
He tud out to be in league with the government and shot Jack Harkness so he could be restrained and have a bomb planted inside him. He was later shot in the back while trying to escape.