Web of Lies (webcast)
Web of Lies is a "motion comic"-style Torchwood animated serial. It was released online and on Apple iOS devices alongside series 4. It ties in with the events of Torchwood: Miracle Day. It has elements interactive with the story, particularly puzzles that unlocked portions of the story as the game/story progressed.
Synopsis
A young man is shot in Los Angeles, but he doesn’t die — this is Miracle Day. When it’s revealed that he knew the Miracle was coming, his sister, Holly Mokri, sets to work to figure out what he knew and why he was silenced. Back in 2007, Gwen Cooper saw Jack Harkness abducted in front of her — what happened to him and how is it tied to the events in LA four years later?
Plot
2007. Jack and Gwen are chasing a humanoid when Jack vanishes, and the humanoid with him. The only remaining thing is Gwen and green gas.
2011. Miracle Day. Miles Mokri promised his sister Holly that he'd celebrate her cancer remission with her. When he says he can't, she leaves for a nearby club. Outside two men grab miles but he slips out from his coat and run away through the night street, realising he is being chased he starts recording video on his mobile phone. Miles runs into a mysterious man who suddenly pulls a gun and shoots him 3 times before catching his body and then flees from the scene. Holly leaves the club to find paramedics outside tending to the shot Miles, A distraught Holly learns that Miles along with everyone else in the world has stopped dying, no matter what their injuries...no one dies. Holly finds Miles phone and realises he was recording video of his attack, figuring out the password to his phone she discovers his conspiracy blog "Watch Your Head" including an article about the miracle, which Miles wrote before the Miracle even began.
2007. Gwen bursts into a shop apologising to the shopkeeper but uses his mains power and Torchwood portable computer software to track Jack who's movement is shown at a high speed across a holographic map.
2011. With people with more serious injuries (including a man cut in half) not dying hospitals are in need of more space for the more critical paitents, Miles is deemed not critical and sent home with Holly and his best friend Nick. Meanwhile Holly has been studying the footage Miles recorded of his shooting, it appears that there were 3 shots fired but only 2 hit Miles, and after studying the footage carefully the killers face is seen. Further study of Miles phone reveals that Miles knew his killer as he possesses a picture of them together, and that he hid the killers phone number in a Sudoku puzzle. When Holly calls the number the killer arranges to meet them at the Ambassador Hotel High School.
At the high school, while surrounded by "The Souless" Holly and Nick discuss how dead is not the bad part but that the pain and suffering (such a Holly's chemotherapy) before it is the worst part and how that is now all that is left. Miles killer reveals himself and leads Holly and Nick into a van at gunpoint. Once on the road he reveals himself to be FBI Agent Joe Bradley who was working with Miles after he came to the FBI six months ago with evidence that the Miracle was being planned by someone and that he had discovered the key to the Miracle, however due the nature of the information no action was taken.
2007. Gwen has discovered Jack is on a plane and with the help of satalite tracking discovered he is being flown over Russia. Meanwhile on the plane Jack's mysterious kidnapper shoots Jack to discover if the rumors of his immortality are really true.
2011. Holly, Joe and Nick are tracked down by the men who tried to grab Miles on the night of his shooting and a car chase ensues. Holly still in possession of Miles laptop hacks into it to discover information implicating Phi-Corp has something to do with the Miracle
2007. With Jack's kidnapper seeing Jack ressuerection from being shot with his own eyes, he decides to see how much Jack can really survive and throws him from the plane at 30,000ft over Chernobyl. After recovering what parts of Jack's body could be found he comes back to life inside a building at Chernobyl with his kidnapper stating how interesting it is that Jack seems to be able to survive anything.
2011. Hacking further into Miles computer, Holly discovers that Miles set his computer to restrict access to 15 seconds at a time and after 3 tries the hard-drive self-destruct, before this happens she discovers holding information about Phi-Corp, documents relating to a flight from the US to Kiev, an "Iron Wheel", Satalite photos and plans for medical overflow camps including industrial oven blueprints. She also discovered four photos with coded letters for each person. S is a mysterious man in an military uniform with the word Torchwood on his photo, R is a red haired woman, Z is a shadowed photo of a blonde man (Jack kidnapper) and M is an executive man in a suit. Another coded message from Miles reveals that "Only S can die" and also that the secret to the Miracle is to be found on Coney Island.
Cast
- Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
- Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
- Holly Mokri - Eliza Dushku
- Miles Mokri - Bob Harris
- Paramedic - Andrew Fiscella
- Joe Bradley - TBA
Story notes
- The parts of the story involving Torchwood are narrated by Gwen. The parts involving Miracle Day are narrated by Holly.
Continuity
- Gwen contacts Toshiko Sato, meaning that she, Owen Harper and Ianto Jones are still alive. Toshiko and Owen died in TW: Exit Wounds, and Ianto in TW: Children of Earth: Day Four.
Timeline
- For Torchwood, this story occurs during: Torchwood Series 1.
- For Holly and Miles, this story occurs during: Torchwood Series 4.
Digital distribution and other releases
- The motion comic element of episode 1 was uploaded to Starz' YouTube channel on 6 July 2011.
- It was released as an iOS app onto the United States iTunes App Store on 7 July 2011[1], it was released onto the Australian iTunes App Store on 16 July 2011, and onto the UK iTunes App Store on 21 July 2011. Each subsequent episode within the app was released a week following the broadcast of Torchwood on television in each specific region.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ Torchwood: Web of Lies Release Information for iPhone/iPod. GameFAQs (2011). Retrieved on 4th October 2011.
- ↑ Philip Fleming (22.06.2011). BBC Worldwide and Starz announce interactive Digital Companion to Torchwood: Miracle Day. BBC Worldwide Press Releases. Retrieved on 4th October 2011.
