A Day In The Death

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PRODUCTION INFO

Name

A Day in the Death

Serial Code

H

First Transmitted

27 February 2008

Final Ratings

4.26m

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CAST

Regular Cast

John Barrowman (Captain Jack), Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper), Burn Gorman (Owen), Naoko Mori (Toshiko), Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto)

Guest Cast

Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones), Richard Briers (Parker), Christine Bottomley (Maggie), Louis Decosta Johnson (Farrington), Brett Allen (Taylor), Gil Kolirin (Webb)

CREW

Written by Joseph Lidster
Directed by Andy Goddard
Produced by Richard Stokes

SYPNOSIS

Jack relieves Owen of his duties at Torchwood so Owen’s state after being killed and resurrected three days ago and can be examined. Martha assumes his position as Torchwood’s medical officer, and Owen is given Ianto’s job of making coffee. Martha concludes that Owen is 100% human yet will not age. The team discus a series of energy spikes coming from the estate of Henry Parker, a reclusive collector of alien artifacts. They devise a plan to find out the origin of the energy spikes, excluding Owen from the task.

Owen goes home. Toshiko arrives to keep him company, but Owen becomes angry when she offers to help. After insulting Toshiko, Owen intentionally breaks his finger (which cannot heal) to show her how “broken” he is, before attempting suicide. He fails to drown since he has no need for breath. At the Hub, the team realise that heat sensors on the Parker estate make it impossible for them to get inside. When Owen points out that he has no body heat, Jack agrees to take him on the mission.

After successfully entering the house, Owen reaches Parker, an old man linked up to many ventilators and medical machines after having three heart attacks. Parker says he is being kept alive by a glowing object he calls the Pulse. Owen explains that it isn’t keeping him alive; hope is doing the job. Owen promises to help Parker face his fear of death, but Parker suffers another heart attack. Unable to draw breath himself, Owen cannot perform CPR, and Parker dies. The energy from the Pulse is not as dangerous as originally thought; it was an alien species sending a reply to messages NASA sent into space in the 1970s, which appears as a beautiful light.

After Torchwood says farewell to Martha, Owen promises to tell Toshiko whenever he’s feeling bad. Owen walks on a footpath, looks up and spots a woman called Maggie Hopley, who is ready to jump off a roof on the anniversary of her husband’s death. Asking Maggie if she is ready to jump and revealing his undead state, Owen tells the story of his day to her as a frame story throughout the episode. He later takes the Pulse out of his backpack and shows it to Maggie as a way of showing her it does get bette

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