Norton Folgate
Norton Folgate was a member of Torchwood One in the 1950s. He spied on his teammates on behalf of the Committee, and later worked with his lover Jeremiah Bash Henderson to restore them to life after their defeat by the Enemy.
Biography
Norton's father was a vicar, which meant that he grew up in a church in London. His mother would sew hassocks for the church, spending most of her time during World War II doing so, but the church was bombed and her hard work was destroyed. She had been snobbish and not fond of the cockneys, and the couple moved to a parish in the Cotswolds.
Norton did not visit his parents, as they disapproved of his work with Torchwood and his being gay. He had often felt the spare child as his parents preferred his elder brother Gerald.
After the war, Norton and his team had to deal with a large amount of black market trading in alien artefacts as a result of the number of spacecraft shot down. However, they were mostly called out to the sites of unexploded bombs. At some point, he began working for the Committee. (AUDIO: Ghost Mission) He met Jack Harkness, and had a sexual relationship with him. (AUDIO: Outbreak)
Norton was reprimanded for using a soft-light projection device to visit the future. (AUDIO: Outbreak) He used it in 1953 to visit 2016 in order to find Object One, under the Committee's orders. He approached Andy Davidson in 2016 claiming to be an assessor for Torchwood. Norton and Andy investigated a spillage of a green liquid which killed a man, and found a clone factory in an abandoned set of flats. Norton found Object One, which gave him a body whilst he wore it, and was congratulated by the Committee. He left a note for Jane, telling her to say hello to Andy. (AUDIO: Ghost Mission)
In the 1950s, Norton gave an alien pathogen to the United States government for the development of Good Thinking. He found the tests abhorrent and, with Torchwood, destroyed the virus, although some survived and was kept by Heights Pharmaceuticals. He was brought from 1955 to 2009 by Ianto Jones to provide answers to Ianto's questions about Good Thinking. (AUDIO: Outbreak)
Norton boarded Flight 405 in order to obtain the lens for the Committee. However, he found himself caught in a time loop for which he blamed Jack Harkness, believing that he had put the plane in a time loop to stop the lens from falling into the wrong hands. After sixty years aboard the plane, he managed to hijack Yvonne Hartman's attempted summoning of Ianto as a hard-light hologram. As a hologram, he assisted Yvonne and Andy in saving himself. He and Yvonne later gave the lens to the Committee per their instructions. (AUDIO: Flight 405, Eye of the Storm)
Thanks to God, Norton switched bodies with Tyler Steele, with whom he had sex. He also had sex with Jay and proposed to him, causing him to flee. They were later restored. (AUDIO: Another Man's Shoes)
Norton continued to work with Yvonne to further the Committee's plans to utilise the power of the rift, during which he attacked both Jack and St John Colchester. Eventually, he realised that the Committee had double-crossed him and attempted to ruin their plans, resulting in him trapping himself aboard Flight 405. (AUDIO: Eye of the Storm)
Norton and his lover Jeremiah Bash Henderson planned to revive the Committee after their defeat by the Enemy, in part because they wanted their money. Jeremiah visited the Torchwood Archive and learnt about Object One and how they could use it to revive them. The two subsequently left, after blowing up the archive using a fake object. (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive)
Norton was still alive in 2009. (AUDIO: Outbreak)
Alternate timeline
As a member of the Torchwood Institute, Norton Folgate answered directly to John Hart in an alternate timeline in which he took control of Torchwood and became King of the British Empire. (AUDIO: The Death of Captain Jack)
Personality
Norton was camp, flamboyant and sarcastic. Andy remarked that he very rarely said anything helpful, preferring to make flippant comments. (AUDIO: Ghost Mission) He was sensitive about his age. (AUDIO: Outbreak)
