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| | |image = 456Arrival.jpg | ||
| | |series = ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' | ||
|enemy | |season number = Series 3 (Torchwood) | ||
| | |series episode number = 3 | ||
|director | |scripturl = https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/documents/torchwood-children-of-earth-episode-3-day-three-blue-revisions-28082008.pdf | ||
|producer | |main character = [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]], [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]] | ||
|broadcast date = | |featuring = Lois Habiba | ||
| | |featuring2 = John Frobisher | ||
| | |featuring3 = Bridget Spears | ||
|featuring4 = Clem McDonald | |||
|featuring5 = Johnson (Children of Earth: Day One) | |||
|featuring6 = Alice Carter | |||
|featuring7 = Andy Davidson | |||
|featuring8 = Trinity Wells | |||
|featuring9 = French newsreader{{!}}Newsreader | |||
|enemy = The [[456 ambassador]] | |||
|setting = [[London]] and [[Cardiff]], [[2009]] | |||
|writer = Russell T Davies, James Moran | |||
|director = [[Euros Lyn]] | |||
|producer = [[Peter Bennett]] | |||
|network = BBC One | |||
|broadcast date = 8 July 2009 | |||
|prev = Children of Earth: Day Two (TV story) | |||
|next = Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story) | |||
|clip = We are here - Torchwood Children of Earth - BBC | |||
|clip2 = The lost children - Torchwood Children of Earth - BBC | |||
|clip3 = We want the children - Torchwood - BBC | |||
|trailer = Torchwood Children of Earth - Day Three trailer - BBC One | |||
|format = 1x60 minute episode;<br/>Part 3 of 5}} | |||
'''''Children of Earth: Day Three''''' was the third episode of [[Series 3 (Torchwood)|Series 3]] of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''. It was written by [[Russell T Davies]] and [[James Moran]], directed by [[Euros Lyn]] and featured [[John Barrowman]] as [[Jack Harkness]], [[Eve Myles]] as [[Gwen Cooper]], [[Kai Owen]] as [[Rhys Williams]] and [[Gareth David-Lloyd]] as [[Ianto Jones]]. | |||
It notably introduced [[the 456]] after the buildup in the previous two episodes. [[Torchwood Three]] also established a new temporary base of operations and pilfered a new car to replace their stolen [[Torchwood SUV|SUV]]. | |||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
The eyes of the world turn to [[Great Britain|Britain]]. [[The 456]] announce: "We are here," as the new [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] adventure continues. A pillar of fire descends upon [[London]] and Torchwood must battle to protect their own families as the fight gets personal. Will [[Clem McDonald|Clem]]'s [[memory|memories]] destroy everything? | |||
== Plot == | |||
The [[Torchwood Three|team]], including [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]], have set up a base in an [[Torchwood holding facility|old factory]] once used by [[Torchwood One]] for storage. As a former [[police officer]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] knows all the tricks of the criminal trade, including stealing [[mobile phone]]s, debit cards and laptops from people off the street. [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] makes off with a car. Soon the base is stocked with creature comforts; [[coffee]], [[electricity]], access to the Torchwood server, toiletries, and new clothes for the group, including replacement [[World War II]] era apparel for Jack, thanks to an Army Surplus special. When he researches the other people targeted for [[assassination]], Jack is shocked. He seems to recognise them and he runs off. | |||
In [[Cardiff]], Jack's daughter [[Alice Carter|Alice]] is still trying to contact him; she goes outside and borrows a girl's mobile to phone the Cardiff police, but the government's scanners pick up Jack's name and try to find the connection between them. [[Johnson (Children of Earth: Day One)|Agent Johnson]] gets word of this. Her team take Alice and her [[Steven Carter|son]] away to "help" them. Suddenly, Steven points southeastwards to [[London]] as all the children on [[Earth]] are pointing towards London. | |||
A [[pillar of fire]] descends from the sky and enters [[Thames House]]. Fiery energy fills the gas containment system. [[John Frobisher]] and [[Dekker|Mr Dekker]] meet with the [[alien]]s, who instruct the humans to call them "[[the 456|456]]". During the discussion, Frobisher extracts a promise from the 456 that it will not mention its previous visit to Earth in [[1965]]. | |||
Gwen surprises [[Lois Habiba]] at a cafe and asks her to wear some [[Torchwood contact lenses|special contact lenses]] to allow Torchwood to see what is going on. Lois protests but takes the contacts. Gwen phones [[Andy Davidson|PC Andy]] to bail [[Clem McDonald]] out from police custody and brings him to the base. | |||
Jack sneaks into Frobisher's house and steals his wife's mobile. He phones Frobisher, having made the connection between the children and the events of 1965. He threatens Frobisher with "blow[ing] this thing sky high". Frobisher tells Jack they have taken his daughter and grandson into custody and will kill them if he does. Jack threatens to do the same, but Frobisher knows he would never do such a thing. | |||
That night, Frobisher, [[Bridget Spears]] and Lois Habiba enter the gas chamber room, which is being transmitted to a conference room where [[UNIT]], an [[American]] general and [[Brian Green]] are watching. Frobisher demands the 456 cease using human children to communicate; in return the 456 demand a gift: 10% of the children on Earth. | |||
Back at the warehouse base, Clem tells Gwen he can smell the man who brought the children to the aliens. When Jack walks in, Clem recognises him as the man who gave the twelve children up to the aliens in 1965. When Gwen protests that Jack is a "good guy" who fights aliens, Jack informs them that in this instance, he had done what was asked. He gave the 456 the children... "as a gift." | |||
==Cast== | == Cast == | ||
* | * [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]] - [[John Barrowman]] | ||
*[[Gwen Cooper]] - [[Eve Myles]] | * [[Gwen Cooper]] - [[Eve Myles]] | ||
*[[Ianto Jones]] - [[Gareth David-Lloyd]] | * [[Ianto Jones]] - [[Gareth David-Lloyd]] | ||
*[[Rhys Williams]] - [[Kai Owen]] | * [[Rhys Williams]] - [[Kai Owen]] | ||
*[[Lois Habiba]] - [[Cush Jumbo]] | * [[Lois Habiba]] - [[Cush Jumbo]] | ||
*[[Alice Carter]] - [[Lucy Cohu]] | * [[Alice Carter]] - [[Lucy Cohu]] | ||
*[[Steven Carter]] - [[Bear McCausland]] | * [[Steven Carter]] - [[Bear McCausland]] | ||
*[[Bridget Spears]] - [[Susan Brown]] | * [[Bridget Spears]] - [[Susan Brown]] | ||
*[[John Frobisher]] - [[Peter Capaldi]] | * [[John Frobisher]] - [[Peter Capaldi]] | ||
*[[Johnson (Children of Earth)|Johnson]] - [[Liz May Brice]] | * [[Johnson (Children of Earth: Day One)|Johnson]] - [[Liz May Brice]] | ||
*[[Clem | * [[Clem McDonald]] - [[Paul Copley]] | ||
*[[Brian Green|Brian Green PM]] - [[Nicholas Farrell]] | * [[Brian Green|Brian Green PM]] - [[Nicholas Farrell]] | ||
* [[Austin Pierce|General Pierce]] - [[Colin McFarlane]] | |||
* [[Dekker|Mr Dekker]] - [[Ian Gelder]] | |||
* [[Andy Davidson|PC Andy Davidson]] - [[Tom Price]] | |||
* [[Louise Minchin (in-universe)|Newsreader]] - [[Louise Minchin]] | |||
* [[French newsreader|French Newsreader]] - [[Anthony Debaeck]] | |||
* [[Trinity Wells]] - [[Lachele Carl]] | |||
* [[Augustus Oduya|Colonel Oduya]] - [[Charles Abomeli]] | |||
* [[Rhiannon Davies]] - [[Katy Wix]] | |||
* [[Johnny Davies]] - [[Rhodri Lewis]] | |||
* [[Anna Frobisher]] - [[Hilary Maclean]] | |||
* [[Parliamentary Secretary (Children of Earth: Day One)|Parliamentary Secretary]] - [[Rachel Ferjani]] | |||
* [[Press Officer]] - [[Christopher James]] | |||
* [[Operative (Children of Earth: Day One)|Operative]] - [[Ben Loyd-Holmes]] | |||
* [[David Davies]] - [[Luke Perry]] | |||
* [[Mica Davies]] - [[Aimee Davies]] | |||
* [[Holly Frobisher]] - [[Julia Joyce]] | |||
* [[Lilly Frobisher]] - [[Madeleine Rakic-Platt]] | |||
* [[Sandwich shop man|Sandwich Shop Man]] - [[Patrice Etienne]] | |||
* [[The 456]] - [[Simon Poland]] | |||
* [[Clement McDonald|Young Clem]] - [[Gregory Ferguson]] | |||
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== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
''to | * [[Clement McDonald]] is held at a police station on [[Albany Street]] in [[Camden]]. | ||
* Clem describes [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] as "[[queer]]", which he considers to be highly offensive. | |||
* Jack's lover, [[Lucia Moretti]], is said to have died in [[October]] [[2006]]. | |||
* [[Fishponds]], [[Huxley, Cheshire|Huxley]], [[Market Harborough]], [[Middlesbrough]], [[Streatham]], [[Watford]], [[Waverley]], [[Caersws]] and [[Greenham]] are located in Britain. | |||
* Alice's [[maiden name]] is Sangster. | |||
* Andy fears that the children are heralding the arrival of [[Godzilla]]. | |||
* Prior to Agent Johnson's raid on Alice's home, Steven watched the TV series ''[[Trapped! (TV series)|Trapped!]]''. | |||
== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
''to | * The footage of the lift going up is the same used in ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' and ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]''. | ||
* [[Trinity Wells]] and the [[French newsreader]] both make their first appearances in ''Torchwood'' and become the only two characters to have also appeared in both ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. | |||
=== Ratings === | === Ratings === | ||
* 5.9 million [[BBC One]] viewers, according to unofficial overnight figures | |||
* 6.4 million viewers, according to final official BARB viewing figures<ref>[https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-10/ BARB Ratings - July, 2009]</ref> | |||
* [[AI]] of 90% | |||
* 14th most-watched programme in [[Britain]] during the week of transmission | |||
=== | === Filming locations === | ||
''to be added'' | ''to be added'' | ||
=== | === Broadcasts === | ||
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|[[Wednesday]] [[8 July (releases)|8 July]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] | |||
|21:00 | |||
|[[BBC One]] & [[BBC HD]] | |||
|First broadcast. | |||
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|[[Thursday]] [[9 July (releases)|9 July]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] | |||
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|[[Thursday]] [[9 July (releases)|9 July]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] | |||
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|[[Friday]] [[31 July (releases)|31 July]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] | |||
|21:00 | |||
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|[[Saturday]] [[1 August (releases)|1 August]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] | |||
|01:45 | |||
|[[BBC Three]] | |||
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|[[Tuesday]] [[4 August (releases)|4 August]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] | |||
|22:00 | |||
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|[[Monday]] [[29 December (releases)|29 December]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] | |||
|23:30 | |||
|[[BBC HD]] | |||
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=== | === Production errors === | ||
''to be | {{Torchwood discontinuity}} | ||
* During the first scene in the warehouse, when Jack "lets slip" he knew about the pregnancy, Gwen mutters, "You promised, ''[[John Barrowman|John]]''," instead of, "You promised, ''Jack''". This was corrected in home media and streaming releases to "Christ, Jack." | |||
* When Lois Habiba wears the contact lens, she puts them both in the same eye (her left eye). | |||
* The green goo sprayed on the front of the tank disappears and reappears in different shapes several times between shots. | |||
* When Gwen is demonstrating the lenses to Lois, several times she looks in different directions and moves her head, but the display on the laptop doesn't move. Also, when Gwen blinks, the display is unaffected (although the computer program may be able to compensate the blinking). | |||
* When Torchwood accesses the (production mock-up) BBC News website, the word Minister is misspelled as "Minster". | |||
* ''Torchwood'', like many BBC-produced shows in the 21st century including ''Doctor Who'', is shot digitally at 50fps, and a film effect is introduced in post to remove every other frame, creating the illusion of more cinematic 25fps footage. However here are two moments in this episode where the film effect has not been applied to the footage. The first occurs during the high-wide shot of Frobisher addressing the 456, and is subtle enough to miss. The second occurs during the shot of the TV screen showing the news feed in the scene immediately afterwards, as well as close-up shots of the news feed later in the episode (particularly, after Frobisher receives the call about becoming the point-of-contact for the 456, and Jack leaves his daughter's house). | |||
** Of note, this error is noticeable because the BBC required production houses to provide material in 720p50 for broadcast purposes at the time ''Children of Earth'' was produced. The end credits of almost all BBC-produced or commissioned series are seen to scroll at 50fps. This is what allows this error to become apparent - if the material had been output at 25fps, it would go unnoticed. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* [[Lois Habiba|Lois]] wears [[Eye-5|contact lenses]] with the same abilities as the ones [[Martha Jones|Martha]] wore while infiltrating [[the Pharm]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Reset (TV story)}}) | |||
* Ianto asks Jack whether he felt being blown up when the [[bomb]] inside him went off at the [[Torchwood Hub]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)}}) | |||
* Jack tells Ianto that the [[Tenth Doctor|Doctor]] called him "a fixed point in time and space". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Utopia (TV story)}}) | |||
* Ianto shows his continued fondness for Jack's coat. ([[TV]]: {{cs|End of Days (TV story)}}, {{cs|Fragments (TV story)}}) | |||
* Gwen has taken Torchwood equipment home with her for "fun", as other members of Torchwood Three have. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Everything Changes (TV story)}}) | |||
== Home video releases == | |||
* ''Children of Earth: Day Three'' was released on DVD along with the rest of ''Children of Earth'' on [[13 July (releases)|13 July]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]. | |||
* It was also released in the Series 1-4 boxset (Region 2 release: 14 November 2011.) | |||
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