Immortal Sins (TV story)

Immortal Sins (TV story)

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Immortal Sins
Featuring:	Jack Harkness Gwen Cooper Rex Matheson (cameo) Esther Drummond (cameo) Rhys Williams (cameo)
Main setting:	New York City, 1927 Los Angeles, California, 2011 Swansea Bay, Wales, 2011 Venice Beach, California, 2011 Sing Sing Prison, New York, 1928 New York City, 1928 Mesa, California, 2011
Key crew
Writer:	Jane Espenson
Director:	Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Producer:	Kelly A Manners
Release details
Release number:	38
Premiere broadcast:	19th August 2011

Immortal Sins (TV story) was the seventh episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Synopsis

Gwen must fight to protect her family and takes a terrifying journey with Jack, covering both miles and decades, as the long history of the Miracle is beginning to be revealed.

Plot

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Cast

• Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
• Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
• Rex Matheson - Mekhi Phifer
• Esther Drummond - Alexa Havins
• Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
• Mary Cooper - Sharon Morgan
• Unnamed woman - Nana Visitor
• Andy Davidson - Tom Price
• Angelo Colasanto - Daniele Favilli
• Inspector - Pat Asanti
• SWAT Member - Michael Chomiak
• Salvatore Maranzano - Cris D'Annunzio
• Young Priest - Will Green
• Costerdane - Paul Hayes
• Ablemarch - Everton Lawrence
• Young Man - Griffin Matthews
• Mr. Giardano - Frank Medrano
• Girl in Crowd - Angelica Montesano
• Frines - Shawn Parsons
• Elderly Woman - Vanna Salviati
• Mrs. Giardano - Jayne Taini
• SWAT Leader - Darren Dupree Washington

Crew

Created by Russell T Davies

Executive Producers   Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter

Co-executive producers   Vlad Wolynetz and Jane Espenson

Written by Jane Espenson	Produced by Kelly A Manners	Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton	Director of Photography Nate Goodman	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 Hunter M. Via, A.C.E.	Key Hair Stylist Susan Boyd
Science Advisor - John Sotos, M.D.

General production staff Associate Producer - Skip Schoolnik Location Manager - Brad Bemis Unit Production Manager - Robert D. Nellans Production Accountant - Vince Robinette Transportation Coordinator - Heath Culp Camera and lighting department 1st Assistant Director - Jefferson Kibbee 2nd Assistant Director - Matt Buckler Script Supervisor - Anne Melville Camera Operator - Jeff Greeley Key Grip - Isaac Chee Chief Lighting Technician - Don Mosley	Art department Set Decorator - Natali Pope Set Designer - Arthur Chadwick Property Master - Eric Bates Construction Coordinator - Chris Forster Computer Graphics - Twisted Media	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 Production Sound Mixer - Julian Howarth Supervising Sound Editor - Walt Newman Co-supervisor - Ken Young Music Editor - Tom Trafalski Re-recording Mixers - Dan Hiland, Gary Rogers Post-Production Sound - Warner Bros.

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

• Jack mentions Clarke's Law.
• Jack and Angelo Colasanto talk about the Doctor and his companions.

Story notes

• Jack explains that the Brain Slug would rewrite history by enabling the Third Reich to win the Second World War. The following week after this episode was broadcast, Doctor Who episode Let's Kill Hitler would be broadcast, featuring Adolf Hitler and set in Germany under the Third Reich.

Ratings

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Myths

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Filming locations

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Production errors

• Jack tells Angelo that he is a fixed point in time, and that is why he cannot die. This is what the Doctor told Jack in Utopia. However, at this point in Jack's timeline he hasn't seen the Doctor in nearly 30 years, and is still actively waiting for him so that he can properly explain Jack's immortality and perhaps help him become mortal, which will not happen for more than 70 years. It is therefore odd that Jack would tell Angelo this, as at this point he is supposedly completely ignorant as to why he cannot die, being unaware that he was resurrected by the Bad Wolf. This constitutes a continuity error, unless this is a previously unseen version of Jack from his more than 2,000 year lifetime.

Continuity

• Jack refers directly to the Doctor, and to his travels typically being with a companion.
• The Seventh Doctor and the Captain also mentioned Clarke's Law. (DW: Battlefield, The Pirate Planet)
• Jack has very similar dialogue with Angelo that the Ninth Doctor had with Rose Tyler. (DW: Rose)
• Jack stating to Angelo that "Men like you kill me" may have been a reference to his former lover Captain John Hart.
• Jack refers to time making him a fixed point (DW: Utopia)
• The creature Jack and Angelo find was intended to infect Franklin D. Roosevelt and disrupt history for the Trickster's Brigade. (DW: Turn Left, SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith, The Wedding Of Sarah Jane Smith)
• A brief video clip is shown of the "death" of Vera Juarez. (TW:The Categories of Life)
• This is the first time that Jack is killed onscreen during Series 4. He is killed at least seven times in this episode, including from being shot, stabbed, disemboweled, and from a high fall.

Home video releases

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