B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (144 page)

2007 - TW: Fragments
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Ianto Jones approached Captain Jack about a job at Torchwood Three. Jack resisted, but hired Ianto after he helped capture a pterodactyl that came through the Rift. Jack had Suzie dredge the reservoir for the Resurrection Gauntlet.

The alien viewer that fell into the Rift before life developed on Earth now emerged from it. Torchwood recovered the credit-card-sized device, which Suzie Costello had implanted into the skin of her belly, hoping it could convert energy and power the Resurrection Gauntlet.
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Jack saw the Perfection, a.k.a. Brendan and Jon, at Cardiff Gay Pride, where Owen used a flamethrower to help save singer Charlotte Church from a tentacle monster.
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Lance Bennett, the head of human resources at H C Clements, allied himself with the Empress of the Racnoss. As ordered, Bennett slipped some huon particles into the coffee of his co-worker, Donna Noble. The particles gestated within her, and Bennett had her re-dosed on a daily basis.
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2007 - Blink
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The Weeping Angels had developed as a race of hunters who could send people back in time, then live off the potential energy of the years their victims might have had. As a defence mechanism built in to their biology, they turned to stone if seen.

Sally Sparrow investigated the abandoned house Wester Drumlins, and discovered a message to her written on the wall by the tenth Doctor in 1969, before she was born. She returned with her friend Kathy Nightingale, who was sent to 1920 by the Angels.

Gradually, Sally discovered that the Doctor was a time traveller. The Angels had stolen the Doctor’s TARDIS key and transported him - along with his companion Martha - back to 1969. Owing to messages left by the Doctor, Sally sent the TARDIS back to 1969 - and in doing so, caused the Weeping Angels to look at each other and become forever immobile.

c 2007 - “Fellow Travellers”
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The seventh Doctor and Ace defeated a Hitcher at the Doctor’s house.

c 2007 - “Ravens”
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A notorious gang called the Ravens massacred everyone at a service station and used their blood in an occult ritual. Needing more blood, they tried to kill two passersby: Christine Jenkins and her daughter Demi. The TARDIS materialised, and the seventh Doctor let out Raven, a seventeenth-century Japanese warrior who butchered the gang apart from a woman named Annie - whose face he slashed in a deliberate way. A few months later, outside the house at Allen Road, Annie explained to other youths that she now understood the patterns of time.

2007 (late September) - The Nightmare of Black Island
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The tenth Doctor and Rose arrived on the Welsh island of Ynys Du, and discovered the children there were all having nightmares. The children contained the psychic residue of Balor, General of the Cynrog Hordes, but the Doctor dispersed him.

c 2007 (late October) - Cat’s Cradle: Warhead
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The Butler Institute - a huge conglomeration of corporations “from Amoco to Zenith”, and which had secretly been bought up over the last decade by the vast Japanese Hoshino company - made projections of the future. Butler could see no alternative but massive, irrevocable environmental collapse. The planet was now reaching the point of no return.

Butler’s executives secretly poured money into experiments that attempted to download human consciousness into computers. The Institute developed a weapons system run by an electronically-recorded human consciousness, but its ultimate aim was to “record” the minds of the elite and store them in indestructible databanks, safe from the ravages of pollution and the ozone layer’s destruction.

The seventh Doctor deemed Butler’s plan a perversion. He sought out Ace’s friend Shreela - now a renowned science writer, who was dying from an auto-immune disorder brought on by the increasingly toxic environment. Shreela died after agreeing to put her name on an article the Doctor had written (“A Doorway to Other Worlds”) that made connections between a type of protein and psionic abilities - all part of his efforts to deceive Butler.

The Doctor and Ace brought together two young psionics who could serve as a telekinetic “bomb”: Vincent Wheaton, who could transform dark emotions into destructive force, and Justine, a “battery” of emotional energy. The Doctor’s plan failed because Vincent and Justine fell in love, which quelled her inner rage. Vincent instead drew energy from Butler’s project director, Mathew O’Hara, and released a wave of energy that destroyed Butler’s memory-transfer project outside Albany. O’Hara was reduced to ash.

During these events, Ace was forced to kill Massoud, a Kurdish mercenary. With the collapse of Butler’s project, the directors of the world’s corporations realised their only option was to instigate a massive environmental clean-up programme.

c 2007 - Project: Lazarus
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The seventh Doctor happened to re-visit the Forge, and met his former self’s clone. The captive Huldran had died - it was part of a gestalt race, and its traumatised fellows assaulted the Forge via a gateway. The clone triggered the base’s self-destruct, but died at Nimrod’s hands. The Doctor and the Huldran fled as the Forge was destroyed. The Forge’s computer, Oracle, put the organisation’s beta facility on-line.

The Reconstruction kicked the King’s representative out of the British Parliament. Reconstruction Acts were passed to improve the environment. Large family farms started growing meat-substitute plants.
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Within a couple of decades, air quality improved, the oceans were cleaner and the ozone layer holes had been patched. Sophisticated traffic monitoring systems and a reconfigured road network eased congestion - and therefore pollution - in the South East of England. Central London, though, was still busy.
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Torchwood Series 1 (2007-2008)
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By now, the Cardiff Rift had attracted all manner of aliens and extra-terrestrial technology, and approximately two hundred Weevils were living in the sewers below the city.

The Battle of Canary Wharf had led to the destruction of Torchwood One in London - such was the devastation that Torchwood was reduced to “only a half dozen” operatives: Captain Jack Harkness, Suzie Costello, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato and Ianto Jones. They worked from the Hub - an underground base near Cardiff’s Millennium Centre.

The Cardiff branch of Torchwood was designated Torchwood Three. Torchwood Two was an office in Glasgow, and “a very strange man”
named Archie
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, who wasn’t very adept with computers,
worked there. Torchwood Four had gone missing.

Captain Jack stressed to his operatives that Torchwood had to arm the human race for what lie ahead...
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2007 (early October) - TW: Everything Changes
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Members of the police were obligated to grant Torchwood operatives special access, and - not knowing the truth about the organisation - regarded the group as Special Ops. A series of murders led to Cardiff PC Gwen Cooper encountering Captain Jack’s team. Gwen and Jack discovered that his second-in-command, Suzie Costello, had been committing the murders as a means of field testing an alien glove - the Resurrection Gauntlet - that could briefly bring people back to life. Exposed, Suzie killed herself. Afterwards, Jack recruited Gwen to work for Torchwood.

2007 (October) - TW: Day One

According to the official records, no American citizen had been born with the name “Jack Harkness” in the last fifty years.

A gaseous alien landed near Cardiff in a meteor, and possessed a young woman named Carys. The alien thrived on orgasmic energy and used pheromones to provoke sexual desire in its victims. Torchwood destroyed the creature, enabling Carys to return home.

2007 (October) - TW: Ghost Machine
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Torchwood recovered a piece of alien technology - a “quantum transducer” - that could convert and amplify human emotion as a means of witnessing the past, or making premonitions about the future. The device enabled Owen Harper to witness the murder of Lizzie Lewis, which was committed in Cardiff, 1963. A scuffle led to the death of Lizzie’s killer, Ed Morgan.

Torchwood dealt with a Cyclops and a robot.
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2007 (October) - TW: Another Life
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Torchwood defeated a plot by man-eating aliens that resembled starfish to manipulate the MMOG Second Reality.

2007 (late October) - TW: Border Princes
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Torchwood thwarted the Amok, zombie-animating aliens.

2007 - TW: Slow Decay

Torchwood investigated Doctor Scotus’ weight clinic - a business that was achieving dramatic results by having its patients, including Gwen’s boyfriend Rhys, ingest an alien parasite. They shut down the operation.

2007 - TW: Web of Lies
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An operative of the Three Families captured Jack and tested the limits of his immortality - which included throwing Jack out of a plane near Chernobyl. Gwen located Jack, who killed the agent, but the Families wiped their memory of the event with Retcon gas. Jack and Gwen only knew that they had a “missing day”, nothing more.

2007 - TW: Cyberwoman

Ianto had secretly been keeping his part-Cybertised girlfriend - Lisa Hallett - in the basement of the Hub, but her Cyber-programming finally won out, and she attempted to “upgrade” the Torchwood team into Cybermen. Lisa’s body was destroyed when Jack set his pet pterodactyl on her, and although she transferred her brain into a pizza delivery woman, the Torchwood operatives shot her new body to death.

The first generation of Arcan Leisure Crawlers were now considered collectors’ items as far as spaceships went - Torchwood politely warned one such vessel away from Earth, pointing out that they were scaring the locals. The Arcans themselves were mostly liquid, and rather boring.

2007 - TW: Small Worlds
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Fairies tried to claim a young girl named Jasmine, their “Chosen One”, and killed Jack’s old friend Estelle Cole. Torchwood was unable to stop the fairies, and Jack only ended their rampage by giving Jasmine over to their custody. She was retroactively seen in a “fairie photograph” that had intrigued Arthur Conan Doyle.

2007 - TW: Countrycide

Seventeen people had disappeared in the last five months in rural Wales, and Torchwood feared that the Rift’s effects were spreading beyond Cardiff. They investigated, and found a group of cannibalistic villagers, who “harvested” travellers every ten years. Jack and his team facilitated the cannibals’ arrest.

2007 - TW: Hidden
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The seventeenth century alchemist Thomas Vaughn was now passing as Sir Robert Craig. Through the research conducted at the CARU fertility clinic in Caerphilly, he hoped to achieve true immortality. Craig had a number of people - including Alice Proctor, the daughter of a friend of Jack Harkness - murdered to protect his secrets, and Jack killed Craig to avenge their deaths. Craig’s “son” Simon was actually his own clone, but Jack ascertained that Simon was undergoing genetic deterioration, and wouldn’t live past age 20.

2007 - TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts
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The alien named Mary sensed the unearthing of the transmat device that carried her to Earth in 1812. Mary approached Toshiko with a pendant that enabled her to read the thoughts of others, and seduced her in the hopes of retrieving the transmat from the Hub. Jack and his staff found that Mary was an exiled criminal who had been eating people’s hearts for years, whereupon Jack teleported her into the Sun. Tosh destroyed the pendant.

2007 (mid-December) - TW: They Keep Killing Suzie
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By now, Torchwood Cardiff had dispensed amnesia pills - each containing Compound B67, also known as Retcon - to two thousand and eight people.

Max Tazillion responded to Suzie’s mental programming and started killing members of the Pilgrim support group. Torchwood investigated, learned that Suzie Costello had belonged to the group, and used the Resurrection Glove to revive her. Suzie escaped, vengefully murdered her father and nearly drained all of Gwen’s life-force in a bid to stay alive. Jack realised the glove was diverting Gwen’s life-energy into Suzie and ordered its destruction, causing Suzie to die for good.