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|main character = [[Jack Harkness]] | |main character = [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] | ||
|featuring = [[Alex Hopkins|Alex]] | |||
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|setting = [[Cotter Paluni's World]] | |setting = [[Cotter Paluni's World]] | ||
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'''''Red Skies''''' was the ninth release of the [[BBC Torchwood audio stories]]. | '''''Red Skies''''' was the ninth release of the [[BBC Torchwood audio stories]]. | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
[[Jack Harkness]] is in need of a holiday. He wants to get away from [[Torchwood]], away from the human race — and where better to get completely away from it all than [[Cotter Paluni's World]], a [[planet]] surrounded by deadly scarlet lightning and cut off from the entire universe? | [[Jack Harkness]] is in need of a [[holiday]]. He wants to get away from [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]], away from the [[human]] race — and where better to get completely away from it all than [[Cotter Paluni's World]], a [[planet]] surrounded by deadly scarlet [[lightning]] and cut off from the entire universe? | ||
But there are some shocks in store for Jack: the "Devil's World" might be completely isolated and inaccessible, but its inhabitants worship Torchwood. And before he can find out why, or how this is even possible, he finds himself | But there are some shocks in store for Jack: the "Devil's World" might be completely isolated and inaccessible, but its inhabitants worship Torchwood. And before he can find out why, or how this is even possible, he finds himself [[arrest]]ed for [[murder]]. | ||
It looks as if someone on the planet knows who Jack is — and they're out to get him... | It looks as if someone on the [[planet]] knows who Jack is — and they're out to get him... | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | Wanting to get away from [[Earth]], [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] uses [[Jack Harkness's vortex manipulator|his vortex manipulator]] to travel from a [[Universal Heritage]] [[spacecraft]] to the surface of [[Cotter Paluni's World]], a [[planet]] subject to [[storm]]s of unexplained red [[lightning]]. He learns from [[Heather Blades|Heather]], a [[barmaid]], that her people worship [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]] and is [[arrest]]ed by [[Torsten Højer|Detective Torsten Højer]] for her [[murder]] after she is hit by the lightning and burns to [[death]], but he persuades Torsten to release him and bring down Torchwood. This results in Jack being hit by lightning and having a vision of [[Alex Hopkins]]'s [[suicide]] in [[the Hub]]. | ||
''to be completed'' | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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* [[Torsten Højer]] | * [[Torsten Højer]] | ||
* [[Martin Gibbons]] | * [[Martin Gibbons]] | ||
* [[Kim Ashman]] | |||
* [[Heather Blades]] | |||
* [[James Unsworth]] | |||
* [[Karen Baldwin]] | |||
* [[Alex Hopkins]] | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
* [[Kim Ashman]] works for [[Universal Heritage]]. | |||
* Kim is asked a question by a [[Crespallion (species)|Crespallion]]. | |||
* [[Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator|Jack's vortex manipulator]] is working. | * [[Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator|Jack's vortex manipulator]] is working. | ||
* [[Alex Hopkins]] killed [[James Unsworth]] and [[Karen Baldwin]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||