Dead of Night (TV story)

Dead of Night^[1] was the third episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Synopsis

Torchwood goes on the run and finds a new enemy, but as they launch a raid on PhiCorp headquarters, Jack must confront the mysterious Oswald Danes.

Plot

Rex and Esther have joined Torchwood out of necessity. The team successfully acquire the phone from CIA director Friedkin, through which Friedkin received mysterious orders to exterminate Torchwood. The team follow leads and uncover a stockpile of painkillers at the pharmaceutical corporation PhiCorp, indicating they knew the Miracle was going to happen. At a loose end, Jack takes the night off and picks up a man in a bar, and Rex seeks solace in his surgeon, Vera Juarez. Juarez tells Rex that PhiCorp representative Jilly Kitzinger has invited her along to an important meeting tomorrow; Rex recruits Juarez to listen in for Torchwood, while Gwen goes on mission with the special Torchwood contact lenses and steals information from Kitzinger's computer. The meeting turns out to be a seminar, where the PhiCorp CEO announces plans to make painkillers legal to purchase without prescription. At Torchwood HQ, Rex and Esther receive a mysterious phonecall from Friedkin's anonymous superiors and figuring their base has been compromised, realise that Torchwood must now leave D.C. Released murderer Oswald Danes struggles to fit in the real world, and after being assaulted by police officers accepts Kitzinger's earlier offer of representation. He attends a select board meeting at PhiCorp. PhiCorp award him personal security on the condition he promotes their new painkiller legislation on national television to his growing following. Suspicious of Danes, Jack confronts him at the TV station. Jack gets Danes to admit that he does not feel forgiveness, but also that he enjoyed the rape and murder of his 12-year-old victim; Jack realises from this speech that Danes has a deathwish that is being denied him. Danes' security assaults Jack and releases him onto the streets just as Danes tells the world about the need for PhiCorp's painkiller legislation.

Cast

Crew

Created by Russell T Davies

Executive Producers Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter

Co-executive producers Jane Espenson and Vlad Wolynetz


Written by Jane Espenson	Produced by Kelly A Manners	Directed by Billy Gierhart	Director of Photography Christopher Faloona	Production Designer Gregory Melton	Visual Effects Lion Visual Effects, Inc.

Key Make-up Artist Todd McIntosh	Casting by John Frank Levey, CSA and Melanie Burgess	Score Murray Gold assistant composer Stu Kennedy	Costume Designer Shawna Trpcic	Edited by Michael N. Knue, A.C.E.	Key Hair Stylist Susan Boyd
Science Advisor - John Sotos, M.D.

General production staff

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Make-up and prosthetics

Special Make-up Effects - Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger

General post-production staff

High Definition Post-Production - Modern Videofilm, Inc.

Special and visual effects

Visual Effects Supervisor - Michael D. Leone

Sound


Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.
The Starz broadcast carried a final credit of "Originally Developed and Produced by BBC Cymru Wales. The BBC One broadcast says, instead, "BBC Worldwide Productions for BBC Cymru Wales and STARZ Originals".

References

Drugs and medicines

PhiCorp has been stockpiling pain-killing drugs for over a year.

Individuals

Esther Drummond has an older sister, whom she cares for.
Esther's job at the CIA was to read and search through blogs.
Jack Harkness has protected sex with a bartender called Brad.
Ianto Jones is referenced in dialogue, and the deaths of past Torchwood members is also referenced.
Rex describes Jack as being a man in his 40s.

Technology

Gwen uses the Torchwood contact lenses, (which she retained following Torchwood's destruction) to infiltrate PhiCorp. She claims they are isomorphic, but this is a lie (as spotted by Esther and also as indicated in their use by Lois Habiba in Children of Earth .)

Jack states they are from a distant moon in a distant galaxy.

Theories and concepts

Jack states the PhiCorp warehouse is bigger on the inside.
Jack mentions doing a search for morphic fields.

Weapons

Gwen uses traffic spikes to stop a police car.

Story notes

The two sex scenes in the episode, one involving Jack and Brad, and another involving Vera and Rex, were seen in the US (Starz), Canadian (Space) and Australian (UKTV) broadcasts, but were edited in the UK (BBC) broadcast, with the scene between Rex and Vera excised completely.^[2]

Ratings

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Myths

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Filming locations

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Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

Note the car that Rex is driving when he pulls away from Gwen and Jack - Leaving them behind. It's a four door car. In the next shot of Rex driving down the freeway the model of the car has changed and is now a two door car.
Noticeable continuity errors involving arm and prop placement are seen in the sequence where Vera smokes a cigarette as she speaks to Jilly.

Continuity

When Rex decides what the team should do, Jack rhetorically asks him who's giving the orders, Rex then asks Jack what they should do, and Jack repeats Rex's suggestion, Jack had the same thing done to him by the Ninth Doctor in DW: Boom Town.
When Jack, Gwen and Rex discover the massive stockpile of painkillers that PhiCorp has stored, Jack comments that the building is "bigger on the inside then on the outside. "

Home video releases

DVD releases

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Blu-ray releases

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Footnotes

↑ As with all episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day, the episode title was not given onscreen, but comes instead from the official Starz Miracle Day website
↑ DigitalSpy - 'Torchwood' sex scene changes 'make little difference', says BBC

External links

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[1] As with all episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day, the episode title was not given onscreen, but comes instead from the official Starz Miracle Day website

[2] DigitalSpy - 'Torchwood' sex scene changes 'make little difference', says BBC

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