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== Synopsis ==

[[Oswald Danes]] and [[Jack Harkness]] prepare for their confrontation with the [[Three Families]]. [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] tells them about when she was a little girl and [[Geraint Cooper|her father]] came home one day. He told them everyone thought he had taken money from his workplace and he wouldn't be getting as much money. Gwen says she ran upstairs and came back with about £2.50. Her father replied, "It's not about the money, it's just that I can't stand anyone thinking I'm dishonest." As she played with him that night, she thought that he was the nicest man in the world. "And today's the day that I kill him."

A detachment of the [[Argentina|Argentinian]] army under the command of Captain [[Federico Santos]] soon arrives to assist Rex and Esther. While the group is loading up, a Three Families agent with the army opens the briefcase and, seeing it contains packets of blood, detonates a suicide bomb. This makes the other soldiers [[Categories of life|Category 1]] and destroys the briefcase that contained Rex and Esther's supply of Jack's blood. Although Rex, Esther and Captain Santos survive unharmed, Rex tells Santos to report that Esther and he died in the blast to allow them to better infiltrate the Blessing site.

Jack, Gwen and Oswald infiltrate the Shanghai Blessing site and make their way to its exposed face, where they meet [[the Mother]], [[Jilly Kitzinger]] and several armed guards. The guards stand down when Oswald reveals he is wearing an explosive vest. This advantage seems short-lived. A radio transmission from [[the Cousin]] at the Buenos Aires site reveals that Three Families' operatives there have captured Esther and Rex, but when Oswald says he didn't expect to leave Shanghai alive, the operatives stand down.

When Jack moves to open his veins and release his blood into the Blessing, the Mother stops him. This will not undo the Miracle. The original effect required Jack's blood to be introduced at both Blessing sites simultaneously. Since Rex and Esther's supply of Jack's blood was destroyed, she confidentially informs them that there is no way to do this. The Mother orders all of Torchwood killed.

Oswald grabs the Mother and urges Gwen to leave. She does, but as the exit elevator rises, Jack returns to life. A brief struggle ensues between Jilly and Gwen. Gwen incapacitates Jilly and returns in the elevator to rescue Jack. The Mother begs Oswald to let her go, but Oswald proclaims he is happy to die and go to Hell, as that is where "all the bad little girls" go. Utterly unrepentant and gleeful, his final spoken words are directed toward his victim Susie Cabina, whom he believes was sent to damnation for being bad. Oswald beckons the girl to run away, because he's coming to get her in the depths of Hell. Jack and Gwen flee the facility seconds before Oswald detonates his explosives, destroying the Shanghai facility. Kitzinger follows close behind, but stumbles to the ground. Jack and Gwen cannot go back for her. The explosion engulfs the whole complex and Jilly disappears in the flames, and they can only assume the worst. The Buenos Aires team also move to leave, but before the Cousin can make it out, Rex regains consciousness long enough to grab him and throw him over the edge of the chasm around the Blessing. He vengefully tells Esther's killer, "Guess what? Death came back!", sending the Cousin to his demise. Rex falls to the ground next to Esther. They watch each other die, but are rescued by Captain Santos and members of the Argentinian Army. Paramedics immediately start work to revive them. Rex survives, but Esther's eyes weakly peek open for one last fleeting moment, and she dies on her medical cot outside an [[ambulance]].

Elsewhere, Gwen, Rhys, Jack, Charlotte and Rex attend Esther's funeral. Charlotte gives her condolences to Rex before walking away, the others following her not far behind. Gwen argues why the Blessing refused to save Esther, a last gift. Jack tells her to move on. Rhys presses his own question, wondering if Gwen and Jack will officially restart Torchwood. However, Rex receives the recovered data from Noah's [[computer]]. He finds the phone trace indicating that Charlotte is the mole. When Rex tries to stop her from leaving, Charlotte shoots him and is almost immediately gunned down by other agents.

* [[Oswald Danes]] - [[Bill Pullman]]

* [[Jilly Kitzinger]] - [[Lauren Ambrose]]

* [[Federico Santos|Captain Santos]] - [[Benito Martinez]]

* [[The Cousin]] - [[Chris Butler]]

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|FirstAssistantAccountant=Bethany Andriuzzo

|ScriptSupervisor=Anne Melville

|ProductionSoundMixer=Julian Howarth

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== Story notes ==

* The [[Australia]]n broadcast ended with the caption, "Jack will be back in January 2012." This led to rumour that Series 5 would air only a few months later, even though there had been no word of such a production. Ultimately, the caption referred to "Jackfest," a month-long event on UKTV Australia, not any new episodes.

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