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Sargasso was the twenty-eighth story in the Torchwood audio series by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Christopher Cooper and featured Kai Owen as Rhys Williams.
Publisher's summary
Torchwood vs Monsters!
The seas of planet Earth are choked by plastic. Plastic that no-one has a use for and no-one can get rid of.
Rhys Williams finds himself stranded on a container ship in a sea of debris. People on board are dying. Because, luckily, someone's found a solution to Earth's polluted waters. The Nestene Consciousness can never have too much plastic.
Plot
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Cast
References
Science
- Still conditions in the ocean are called dead calm.
Technology
- The Nestene Consciousness takes control of a plastic computer keyboard.
Businesses
- Kaitlin's family owns Bakin Petrochemicals.
Culture
- Rhys is listening to James Brown.
- Rhys remembers David Attenborough talking about the North Atlantic garbage patch on television.
- Kaitlin refers to the real possibility of "some asshole with bad hair" blowing the world to hell.
- Rhys refers to Kaitlin as a millennial.
- The Nestene attack with rubber ducks.
Notes
- Though unremarked within the story, the North Atlantic garbage patch is located in the Sargasso Sea. The story is named for this location.
Continuity
- Rhys refers to Gwen leaving Torchwood behind, (AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn) and bringing up their daughter away from it all. (TV: The New World, AUDIO: Thoughts and Prayers)
External links
- Official Sargasso page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes
- ↑ credited only as "Crewmembers" at the end of the audio