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| [[Cardiff]]'s old [[Electro]] cinema reopens as a museum of local history captured on celluloid. The showing of an old black-and-white film of Cardiff street scenes takes a turn for the bizarre when mysterious sequences of an early [[20th century]] travelling company interrupt the film. The film resists all attempts to stop it running--it reloads itself, and the projector continues to operate even without power. When the [[Torchwood]] crew visits, Ianto is convinced he has seen Jack in the footage. The Ghostmaker (the leader of the company) and Pearl ('The Mermaid Woman'), once captured on film, manage to escape out into Cardiff. Ianto witnesses the escape, noticing that two characters have suddenly disappeared from the film.
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| The escaped characters roam the streets of the city, taking an obscene delight in gathering an 'audience' to 'join their company – forever'. They steal the last breaths of innocent people, keeping them in a silver flask and leaving the victims severely dehydrated and only half alive – a heartbeat, but no breath. Torchwood investigates the mounting casualties and begins research on these old travelling companies. Jack was a member of one of the companies, under cover performing the act of 'the man who couldn't die'. He tells of the mysterious 'Night Travellers', who performed only during 'the dead of the night', coming 'out of the rain' and disappearing, taking people with them. The myths surrounding them suggests that 'young children were told to hold their breath while the travelling show passed by' – an old lady, [[hospital]]ised since her family all disappeared in her childhood, warns them of the danger.
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| The ghosts aim to bring all their other travelling carnival fellows back into reality at the old cinema but, after victims have been hospitalised and others kept frozen at a deserted former Lido by Pearl, the solution occurs to Jack. Being filmed again, the freed entities may be recaptured onto celluloid. He achieves this with a home movie camera, filming all the phantasmagorical creatures as they emerge from the screen and catching up with their fleeing leader. He exposes his reel to the sun. The carnival ghosts vanish forever. However, for its last act before disappearing, the Ghostmaker throws the open silver flask and, despite Ianto's quick catch, most of the human souls are lost in the air. The frozen victims hidden at the Lido simply disappear – Torchwood never even knowing of them – and the cataleptic victims in the Cardiff hospital all die, except for one child from an entire family. At his bedside, Ianto and Jack return his breath and bring him back to life. The silver flask ends up being stored by Jack in his safe at Torchwood.
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| Though the threat of the Night Travellers has been stopped now, Jack speculates that there could be more films with their ghosts trapped inside, confirmed by a scene at a car-boot sale where a man and his son purchase an old film reel. The metal case of the film is briefly opened and, back at the Hub, Jack hears a sliver of the Night Traveller's carnival music...
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| == Cast == | | == Cast == |
