Exit Wounds (Torchwood)
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| 26 – "Exit Wounds" | |
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| Torchwood episode | |
 Gray encounters Jack in the Hub. |
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| Production | |
| Writer | Chris Chibnall |
| Director | Ashley Way |
| Script editor | Brian Minchin |
| Producer | Richard Stokes Chris Chibnall (co-producer) |
| Executive producer(s) | Russell T. Davies Julie Gardner |
| Production code | 2.13 |
| Series | Series 2 |
| Length | 50 mins |
| Originally broadcast | 4 April 2008 |
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| ← Preceded by | Followed by → |
| "Fragments" | — |
| IMDb profile | |
"Exit Wounds" is the thirteenth and final episode of the second series of British science fiction television series Torchwood, and was broadcast on BBC Two on 4 April 2008.[1]
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[edit] Plot
[edit] Synopsis
Following the previous episode directly, the Torchwood team goes to a site of rift activity. Gwen goes to the police station where the four most senior officers have been killed by Weevils. Tosh and Ianto head to the central server building to deal with "ghosts" that appeared in the building. The ghosts turn out to be humanoid beings in cloaks holding scythes who look very like the Grim Reaper, but Tosh and Ianto easily end the threat by shooting them. Tosh mentions that the server building houses servers for the military, police, NHS and the nearby nuclear power station. Owen heads to St Helen's Hospital where a Hoix was found chewing on cables and subdues it with a sedative. With the rest of the team away dealing with their respective crises, Jack returns to the Hub alone and encounters John Hart, who after a brief conversation with Jack, kills him, then strips him of his weapons and restrains him while he proceeds with his task.
John gets the Torchwood members to approach the rooftops of their respective buildings to watch as he sets off 15 major and well placed explosions in Cardiff. The team try to cope with the workload of a crippled city. John, who is watching the mayhem in Cardiff Castle with a captive Jack takes him through the rift to the future site of Cardiff city in the year 27 AD. There John explains that he has not been acting of his own free will and shows Jack that his wristband has been molecularly bonded with his skin (rendering it unremovable) which is equipped with surveillance and remote detonation circuits to ensure his obedience. Before John can explain further he is interrupted by the arrival of Gray, Jack's long lost brother. Jack hugs him tearfully, happy to see him alive, only to have Gray stab him in the chest. When Jack comes to, Gray explains that he was tortured mercilessly for years by the aliens who captured him in his childhood, and that he blames Jack for what he had to endure. Gray taunts Jack saying that his grave will be the foundation of Cardiff and that his blessing of life is his curse. He then forces John to bury Jack alive as punishment for this. Before he begins his task John throws a ring into the grave, claiming that it is of sentimental value. He then proceeds to fill the grave, trapping Jack in a cycle of asphyxiation and revivification.
John, now gone free and released from his obligation to Gray, returns to the present to help undo the mess he caused. Gwen encounters him and they call everyone back to the Hub except Owen, who is trying to contain the nuclear power plant meltdown--a result of the explosions John had previously set up. Unbeknownst to them, Gray is lurking in the Hub with them. He first releases the Weevils with a signal, flooding the streets of Cardiff with them, and eventually traps Gwen, John, and Ianto in Weevil cells, and then shoots Toshiko, leaving her for dead. A loud banging noise is heard by everyone and Gray goes to investigate. The sound leads him to the morgue where a light can be seen coming from one of the compartments. Gray opens the compartment to find Jack waking in a cryochamber.
The scene then flashes back to 1901 where Jack is discovered by Torchwood personnel because the ring that John dropped was in fact a beacon and Torchwood had picked up the signal. They dig him out and place him in the cryochamber at the Hub, with a timer set to wake him up in 2008. Forgiving Gray for burying him, Jack requests that he do the same for him, but Gray says that as his hatred of how Jack left him behind is what keeps him living, he cannot absolve his older brother; Jack sorrowfully chloroforms Gray. Meanwhile, Captain John successfully sends out a 'recall signal' for the Weevils, causing them to return to the sewers; Jack then frees Gwen, John, and Ianto. While this has been happening, Toshiko had been helping Owen to try to prevent a meltdown; despite her life-threatening injury. After successfully averting disaster by venting the flow channels into the room Owen is in, she also sets a time delay so Owen can escape. However, a power spike triggers an emergency lockdown and Owen is trapped. Toshiko and Owen, who are both bound to die talk for a wile but before long the radioactive material is sent to Owen's location and the scene fades out back to the Hub. Jack discovers Toshiko who dies in his arms.
Jack places Gray inside a cryogenic chamber; due to Gray's damaged and disturbed mind John suggests killing him, but Jack says "there has been enough death". John mentions to Jack that he didn't struggle as John shovelled the dirt over him, with Jack responding that it was his penance. John informs Jack that rather than go back through the rift, he'd like to see a bit of Earth and maybe he'll see him around sometime.
As Ianto registers Owen and Toshiko's deaths on the Hub computer, a pre-programmed pop-up video of Toshiko appears, in which she says goodbye and confesses her love for Owen and the rest of the team, as well as thanking Jack for freeing her from the UNIT prison and showing her the many possibilities of the universe. The episode and second series closes with the devastated city recovering, and Jack, Ianto, and Gwen standing together in the Hub.
[edit] Continuity
- A Hoix creature, from the parent series Doctor Who in its 2006 episode "Love and Monsters" appears in this episode. This is the first time it is named onscreen.
- Owen refers to his status as "King of the Weevils", first mentioned in "Dead Man Walking" and seeded in "Combat".
- When Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato are discussing their early days together, Tosh describes pretending to be a medic in Owen's second week, to cover for him having a hangover. Owen asks if this was "the space pig", referring to Naoko Mori's appearance as Doctor Sato, a presumed pathologist in the Doctor Who story "Aliens of London".
- In the previous installment, "Fragments", it was established that the year was 2009, and that Owen Harper had been recruited to Torchwood in 2005, but "the space pig" incident, though it aired in 2005, took place in 2006.
- Jack tells the Torchwood team in 1901 to freeze him for 107 years, setting up a return date in 2008, but the previous episode established that the present date is 2009.
- Jack tells Gray "I forgive you", infuriating Gray. The Doctor said this to the Master in similar circumstance in "Last of the Time Lords", and Jack himself spoke the phrase to Owen Harper following his resurrection in "End of Days".
- In the video played after her death, Toshiko tells Captain Jack "I wouldn't have missed it for the world." Rose Tyler said this to the Doctor facing her death in the Doctor Who episode "Dalek".
- Paul Marc Davis, who plays the Cowled Leader, has previously played the Futurekind Chieftain in the Doctor Who episode "Utopia" and the Trickster in The Sarah Jane Adventures story "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?", making him the first actor to have starred in all three series.
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[edit] Cast notes
This episode marks the last episode starring Naoko Mori as Toshiko Sato and Burn Gorman as Owen Harper. In the Torchwood: De-Classified that covers this episode, Burn Gorman who plays Owen Harper jokingly remarks that Owen either is truly dead or will transform into the "king of the Weevils".
[edit] References
- ^ Programme Information Network TV Week 14. BBC Press Office. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
[edit] External links
- Torchwood at bbc.co.uk
- "Exit Wounds" at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel)
- "Exit Wounds" at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
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