Torchwood (2006–2011): Season 4, Episode 10 - Miracle Day: The Blood Line - full transcript
An underground bloodline flows from Buenos Aires in South America to Shanghai, where Mother Colisanto shows Jilly that she is planning to blow up her hide-out whilst the Blessing maintains its immortality. In Buenos Aires an explosion kills Rex and Esther's army escort, as they become aware of a CIA mole whom they allow to believe they are dead. They are nonetheless caught and taken to the South American lair of the Mother's cousin, where the other half of the Blessing is kept. Gwen, Oswald and Jack infiltrate the Shanghai hideaway where they learn how the families, using Jack's blood, attached it to a force field to give them immortality but how the aliens misunderstood and recently gave immortality to the Earth in the spirit of benevolence. Sacrifice and redemption on two continents lead to the destruction of Miracle Day with the capture of the mole and the restoration of order. For one of the survivors there is an amazing discovery.
WOMAN: I wonder what you'll see.
JILLY: How far down does it go?
WOMAN: All the way
to the other side of the world.
- Buenos Aires.
- Shanghai.
A mission on both sides of the world?
And you're taking me with you.
- Oh!
- Ok?
I never knew about that.
I think it's showing us the way.
It's the Blessing.
It's somewhere over there,
and I think it's calling you, Jack.
When I was about five or six...
my dad came home from work early.
And I knew there was something wrong.
I could hear voices from the kitchen.
So I looked through the door, and...
I could see him crying.
It turns out money
had gone missing from work,
and he'd got the blame.
So, I went to get all my pocket money
and I put it in his hand.
It must've been about £2.50.
And he looked at me and he said,
"It's not about the money."
He said, "I can't stand anyone
thinking I'm not an honest man."
And I will always remember that.
Always.
Cos that was the first time in my life
anybody had spoken to me
like an adult.
And then we went into the back garden
and we played till dark.
So, that's my dad.
Geraint Wyn Cooper,
the nicest man in the world.
And today's the day that I kill him.
(HE GRUNTS SOFTLY)
- Whoa!
- (GASPS)
- ESTHER: Oh, my God.
- REX: All right.
That's it. I'm done.
You know, I've seen some crazy shit
with Torchwood,
but now I'm at the limit.
$0, we've got blood
heading northwest, 15 degrees,
38 minutes, 39 seconds north.
What have you got?
Er, it's heading southeast 23 degrees,
six minutes, four seconds south.
You keep that blood safe.
They've destroyed blood banks
in both cities.
- That's gotta be important
- I've got it. It's safe.
(GROANS)
- REX: Who was that?
- Damn it!
- Is that World War II? What's wrong?
- It feels like
all the blood inside me
is trying to get out, churning.
- Tell me about it.
- Why? What's wrong with you?
You're not the only one
affected by the miracle.
It saved Rex's life,
and we don't know what happens next
if we stop this thing.
Maybe death catches up with him.
OK, OK, enough of the superstition.
Let's get back to the mission, people.
If both cities are connected underground,
- it's like a pole.
- A secondary pole.
The magnetic pole goes north to south,
and now this,
from Buenos Aires to Shanghai.
What is it?
(SPEAKS MANDARIN)
Forgive me,
but according to our contacts,
there are forces moving in,
so we're advancing the plan.
Midnight tonight, long after we're gone,
we're blowing this whole thing sky high.
Won't that stop the miracle?
On the contrary.
It'll become never-ending.
The Blessing won't be hurt,
just buried
so that no-one can ever change it again.
GWEN: I'm gonna follow.
If I keep going 15 degrees,
38 minutes north, I'll find it.
Wait for my call. And, Rex, Esther?
You take care, OK?
You never know,
we might meet in the middle.
Yeah, well, I guess
there's a first time for everything.
Good luck.
And hey, you take care. Don't do
those stupid, lame-ass Torchwood things.
Be professional for once.
- Like you taught me, yeah?
- Yeah, that's right.
- just like I taught you.
- See you soon, yeah?
- When all this is over.
- Speaking as a man
who's walked to his death,
can I say I did it
- with a lot less sentiment?
- Just you wait.
If this goes right,
murder's coming back.
REX: Jack, listen to me.
I've got no choice now.
I need to bring in the CIA for backup,
because if we find this place,
we're gonna have to move in
and take it fast and hard.
Don't give away our location.
Keep Torchwood a secret. Promise?
Sure. And, hey,
let's meet up for drinks afterwards.
Well, you always wanted to be a part
of Clandestine, didn't you?
Well, you just got promoted.
(PHONE DIALS, DIALING TONE)
Yeah, this is Rex Matheson.
(PHONE RINGS)
Ladies and gentlemen, as of this moment,
Clandestine is running this room.
I am declaring special ops, station one,
as designated
by field agent Rex Matheson.
Adam, secure linkup.
Charlotte, we're gonna need translation
in this room now.
- Yes, sir. What language?
- Spanish.
We need experts in Rioplatense Spanish.
Now, listen up, everybody.
It's 11:09am in DC,
12:09pm in Buenos Aires.
To confirm, this operation is active
in Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires, this is Shanghai.
We're setting detonation at 12 midnight.
Confirm 1 pm your location. Over.
One hour postmeridian confirmed.
What a beautiful day. Over.
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
Buenos Aires and Shanghai...
perfect antipodes,
give or take 100 miles or so.
There's a slight deviation,
because the Earth's
not a perfect sphere...
- Are you getting all this?
- Oh, yes. Every word.
If that runs right through
the center of the Earth,
why isn't this thing a volcano?
Again, no idea.
Isn't that wonderful?
The laws of the Blessing are beyond us.
That's why it took us so long
to work out what it can do.
How did you even find it?
Well, we had to wait
until the world grew up,
until the information age
became fast enough so we could
crunch the numbers on a massive scale.
Facts became visible
that were never visible before,
such as a tiny little statistic,
hidden in the heart of Shanghai Old Town.
The average life expectancy
of those living
within a two-mile radius
of this point was exactly equal
to the average life expectancy
of the world.
And it always had been.
Say in 1998,
the average life expectancy
from birth on this planet
was 66 years, 5 months and 33 days.
In this area in Shanghai,
it was 66 years, 5 months
and 33 days exactly.
Try going back 100 years to 1898.
The average life expectancy
was 49 years, 9 months and 5 days.
Shanghai - 49 years, 9 months, 5 days.
It was as if something on this spot
was calibrating a matrix,
subsisting alongside humankind
in harmony.
- But the Chinese didn't know about it?
- We pay them to look the other way.
It does make you seem kind of colonial.
Well, is that such a bad word?
Besides,
we changed the whole of the world,
and this is just phase one.
REX: Mr Shapiro, sir.
This is Sandra Lopez.
She's handling translation.
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
He said, "Good morning, " sir.
Listen, Rex. Confirming your request
for armed support. Your liaison
is going to be Captain Federico Santos.
He's gonna need strict ratification.
The Argentinean army
is not allowed by law
to get involved in civil conflicts
on their own soil.
Yeah, well,
these are the three families, sir.
They can classify it
as a North American incursion.
Oh, and by the way,
Esther needs help.
- She's with me.
- If you mean Esther Drummond,
can I just point out she's officially
on the run from the CIA?
I knew it!
- She'd follow him anywhere.
- Miss Drummond,
remind me to arrest you
when this is all over.
Yes, sir. Now I need a check
on all properties,
residences and businesses
falling in the path of this line.
Sending it to you now.
But that's one of the densest
populations on Earth.
With a backwards economy, half
that information won't even be recorded.
Excuse me, but foreign investment's
still rare in Argentina,
so we've been tracking
contract-intensive money since 1980.
The information's on file,
just waiting to be filtered.
Excellent. Good call. Thank you.
Hey, might be a good time
to start that trace.
In the middle of this? It's not tested.
It could bring down the whole system.
I want that line passed through
every single intel division.
Hey, so what's the trace?
Uh, it's, er, it's new software
from the DIA.
So, the three families,
they use that vine technology
to piggyback their calls
on 50,000 different lines.
But the trace runs backwards,
so it detects vine activity
and then follows it back to the source.
If there's a mole working
in this department,
it means we can find him.
Excellent.
Good news.
(CHICKENS CLUCK)
(WOMAN SHOUTS IN MANDARIN)
Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I've just got to keep going
15 degrees north,
and your shop is in the way,
so tough, really.
Whoa.
I need to get out. Can I get out?
(SPEAKS MANDARIN)
Well, if you open it, you get rid of me.
OK? So, door, gone - me, bye-bye.
- No door.
- No door? Why no door?
Bad place.
Many ghost.
OK. Listen,
if you open that door, I will give you
all the money in the world.
Yeah?
(DOOR CREAKS)
Very bad, yes?
Very, very bad.
(DIALING TONE)
I think I found it.
Oswald, we're moving.
Esther, this is Captain Santos.
4th Maneuver Unit, 2nd Brigade.
I think they found it.
NOAH: Uh, there's been no paperwork
around this site since 2001.
Access is via an alley between
South Pacheco Street and Rivadavia.
- What's the name of the alley?
- That's the point, sir.
It's not designated.
It hasn't got a name.
Just like the three families -
they wiped it off the map.
All right, that's it.
Rex, prepare to mobilize.
Anything you don't need,
leave behind.
We're coming back, though,
isn't that right?
We're coming back?
I don't know. Are we?
(CHUCKLES)
So much for your death fetish.
When it all gets too real, huh?
Still, that victim of yours,
Susie Cabina,
how much choice did she have?
Who are you?
Captain Jack Harkness.
No.
I spent a long time in prison...
and I know the smile of a man
who's done terrible things.
And your friends.
I've been watching them.
Sometimes they like you,
sometimes they love you...
and sometimes,
just once or twice,
glittering away
in those tiny little gaps...
they fear you.
I'm from the future.
Well, now!
I come from the future.
(CHUCKLES WRYLY)
Then you must know.
Do we make it through this day?
The future can change.
It's being written right now.
But one thing I do know.
I've seen the stars.
I have seen the universe.
I have seen the human race become
vast and magnificent and endless.
And I wish you could see it, Oswald.
I wish you could see that too.
Cos then you'd know how small
you've made your life.
(PHONE DIALS)
(PHONE RINGS)
It's me. Still alive.
You'd better be or there'll be
trouble. Anwen says hello.
No, she doesn't. She's tiny.
She hasn't got a clue.
All right, OK!
Sorry...
- Ready?
- Yeah, we can get into the camp.
Andy's worked it out. He's here now.
He's got me this, um...
police visa.
- That should get me in.
- Torchwood calls and here I am.
Tell him thanks.
- She says thanks.
- She'll be the death of me.
The trouble is, um,
there's only the one visa, so, um...
(SIGHS) ...can't get your mum in.
I wouldn't go,
not to that godforsaken place.
RHYS: Andy's checked the list
and your dad, he's still there...
Category 7. He's in one of the wards.
They haven't sent him...
(SIGHS)
they haven 't sent him off yet.
Is there anything
you want me to say to him, Gwen?
I mean...
I feel like I'm killing him.
Cos if this goes right,
the miracle ends, my father dies.
(SIGHS) Well, you know what?
Let him die.
I mean, bless the poor bugger.
I mean, he's had his time.
You just come back alive. You got that?
- She'd better. Tell her for me.
- Yeah, you come back
or I will be furious.
Will do. Gotta go.
Sad girl.
Yes, I am.
Crazy girl.
Yes, that's me.
Thank you. Cheers.
If that happens,
the regrouping will go through me.
We'll have to ratify that
with Washington...
I help you, yes?
- Give it to me.
- Thank you. There you go.
We take care. American goods.
And that.
Someone help me up?
(GROANS)
(GROANS)
- Are you all right?
- You OK? What's wrong?
- He was injured.
- No, no.
No, it's... it's nothing.
It's just an old war wound.
It's getting worse.
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
(PRAYS IN SPANISH)
(SHOUTING)
(GUNFIRE)
(MUFFLED RUMBLING)
- (SPEAKS SPANISH)
- No, no, no. No!
We're dead! Don't you get it?
We're dead!
We were in that explosion. Come on,
let's go inside. Let's go. Get up.
Sir... we've lost radio contact.
The link with the army just cut dead.
Can't have. Get hold of them.
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
That's an explosion.
That's special ops station two, sir.
That's Rex and Esther.
- All my men.
- Captain, snap out of it. On your feet.
Now, listen to me.
I need you to go to that base, OK?
But I want you to tell them
that we died.
Understand that?
Now, look, you can try
to get another squad, but do not tell
them Esther and I are still running.
- OK?
- What are you gonna do?
They think that we're already dead.
So, now's the perfect time,
and I'm going in...
on my own.
I'm coming with you.
Oh, shit.
All right, yeah, whatever. Come here.
But you've only got handguns.
There's two of you.
You-you need more than that!
Our special weapon went up in smoke.
We had the blood. The only mortal blood
in the world and it's on that truck.
- (PHONE RINGS)
- It's Gwen.
Don't answer it. Everyone needs
to think that we're dead, OK?
Now, come on, let's go. Let's move!
Somebody betrayed us.
They had information
inside the directorate.
All right, Miller, run that trace.
- I need clearance from the section...
- I don't care about the protocols.
I don't care if it brings down
the whole pissing system.
Run the trace and find the bastard.
Now, let's go!
OK.
If there's a vine, this should
track it right down to the handset.
(BEEP)
- Any luck?
- Almost.
I hope you catch that traitor.
Oh, hey, Sandra. I think Mr Shapiro
wanted to see you.
OK, thanks.
- You wanted to see me, sir?
- No. What for?
I don't know. The analyst said...
I'm sorry, what's her name?
Charlotte?!
Oh, fuck.
What's going on? What was that?
Was that a bomb?
- (ALARM BLARES)
- (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
Ah!
(SHE SHOUTS IN MANDARIN)
OK, what have we got?
The sublink's just said there's been
an explosion in Buenos Aires.
Special ops.
It's Esther and Rex.
They're dead?
What do you care?
- Why don't you just shut it?!
- OK.
I'm sorry, but we can't do this,
not now.
This is about you, Jack.
If the miracle is connected
to your blood, then God help them,
but they had the only reserve.
The only blood we have now is in you.
- Then I'd better be careful.
- But you could die this time.
That's the game.
Yeah.
- Let's go.
- Uh-huh.
How do we get down there?
I'm looking, I'm looking.
There's gotta be stairs somewhere.
You know, you could stay up here
if you want.
Oh, I was kinda hoping
you wouldn't say that.
I got you in a whole lot of trouble, huh?
- I did that all on my own.
- I never did thank you, did I?
No, you didn't.
Yeah, well, don't expect it now.
There... stairs.
West block, hallway.
Right here, come on.
Over here.
There's gonna be guards all the way in.
You can't keep doing this.
- They're gonna find us.
- Shut him up!
- Of all the bastards to bring!
- You condemn me?
You Category 1 these men
with your bare hands...
Keep your voice down.
He's got a point. He's got a point.
We're just like bandits.
We're just on the perimeter here.
How are we meant to get deep inside?
- (PHONE BUZZES)
- Come on...
Damn!
It's Rhys. He's found my dad.
Hey...
It's me,
the useless article.
I brought you a message.
Gwen sends her love.
Mary sends her love.
We all do.
All of us.
He's the lucky one.
See that girl over there?
She was brought in as Category 1.
She must be 15, 16.
No-one's tried to claim her.
We don't even know her name.
And why
you've got till the end of the shift,
and then we're moving this lot.
- They're going to the furnace.
- No, I...
I want to spend more time with him,
please.
- Make the most of it, then.
- Can't we delay the transport?
We've got this place
running like clockwork now.
You've got ten minutes,
then they're gone.
But they're still alive!
And you're gonna burn them?
Yeah, all clear.
Wait a minute.
I was in China
for the Boxer Rebellion
and I know what that lettering means.
(LAUGHS)
Oswald, I've changed my mind.
I'm so glad you're here.
(COMPUTER BEEPS)
- WOMAN: I knew it.
- JILLY: What's happening?
You're about to meet the Creator.
JILLY: It's that soldier.
Hmph.
He's with Oswald?
(WOMAN SPEAKS MAN DARIN)
(GUNS COCK)
Captain Jack Harkness. At last.
No, no, no, no,
this isn't about Jack. No, ma'am.
Excuse me, but it's not at all.
My name is Oswald Danes.
Well.
Hmm.
(CHUCKLES) Good evening, Miss Kitzinger.
You've been promoted.
And this is the new empire
you're servicing?
My, my, my, my. My, my, my.
With all due respect, Mr Danes,
you're a by-product of the miracle.
Not really relevant at all.
That's what the Captain said.
He tried to tell me that my life...
has become a very small thing.
Tiny...
And yet right here, right now,
at the very end,
I would describe myself differently.
I would call myself...
vital.
Madam, you're a fine woman.
You should be careful now,
very careful indeed.
It seems like you've been planning
some kind of an explosion,
but I'd love to make sure
you're still inside.
Advantage Torchwood.
Well, I'm afraid we have a major
disagreement here in Buenos Aires.
I'd say advantage families.
Say hello to your friends.
JACK: What's that supposed to mean?
- He means us.
- GWEN: Rex?
Oh, my God. And Esther?
I'm here.
They caught us.
Just glad to hear you're alive.
I'll swap your standoff for my standoff.
- REX: Don't you do it.
- (GUNS COCK)
But nobody dies.
She'll keep on living - just perforated.
- Threaten me, you coward, not her.
- Rex.
- Hey, I'm OK.
- (REX GROANS)
If you hurt her, we've got
explosives here ready to go.
And don't imagine I won't!
Whatever happens here tonight,
there's no place on Earth that I can go,
and I wasn't planning
on coming out of here alive!
So, who's gonna lose their nerve first?
The thing is,
we don't need explosives,
or guns or threats,
cos I've got
the most powerful thing of all.
(CRUNCHING)
It wants me...
mortal blood.
The only one in the whole world.
So, I suggest
you're very careful with me, OK?
And if you fail to take
the Captain's advice,
you can certainly come to oblivion
with me.
Jack, you're the future man.
You've seen wonders
beyond this world,
so tell us of these Blessings
and miracles.
GWEN: What the hell is that thing?
- Can you feel it?
- Yeah.
Oh, yeah. God, I can... OK. God.
Oh, my God.
It is said that it reflects
your own self back at you.
What can you see?
Enough guilt to last me a lifetime.
But that's OK. I'm a working mother.
I don't need the Blessing
to tell me that.
And you, Jack?
I've lived so many lives.
And now I can see them all.
HEY
Not so bad.
Well, you might want to question
your choice of weapon, soldier.
Let's see. You brought
the world's biggest bastard,
wired him up to a bomb,
then showed him his soul.
Hmm, that's good work. You know,
I feel really safe right now(!)
- JACK: Oswald? Oswald.
- (GRUNTS)
Don't lose it.
Sin.
- The Blessing feels like sin.
- Oswald, don't. I need you.
(PANTS)
I guess I'm accustomed to sin.
- Ah!
- Thank you.
GWEN: I still don't get it.
What are we looking at? The Blessing -
is it the rock or is it the edge? What?
It's the gap in-between.
The nothingness.
The space.
It's alive.
It's like they broke the world.
GWEN: You're the expert.
- What is it?
- The world's been turning
for over four billion years.
There's so much buried under its skin.
The Doctor used to say
there's Silurian mythology,
Huon particles, Racnoss energy,
an expansion of their
hibernation matrix, maybe...
You don't bloody know, do you?
- No. (LAUGHS)
- (LAUGHS)
It's been here since the Earth began?
Could be.
Yeah. Oh, it has. I can feel it.
We're so used to these things
being extraterrestrial,
but this might be the most
terrestrial thing of them all.
Wow.
So, you found the Blessing
- and you worked out this morphic field.
- The Blessing exists
in a symbiotic relationship
with the human race.
It transmits a morphic field
around the planet,
binding us together
like magnetism, like sunlight.
But finding it wasn't enough.
You had to experiment on it.
Oh, we fed it.
We fed it the blood of an immortal.
We had one remarkable artifact.
We found a second remarkable artifact.
The comb/nation was inevitable.
So the Blessing absorbed the blood,
copied it like a new template.
- So, the system changed its setting.
- You know why it did that?
I think you hurt it.
It was being attacked, so it took
the blood pattern and made it a gift.
It's exerting itself to sustain
every person on the planet.
This whole miracle...
it's trying to be kind.
You've seen immortality.
I'm living it.
Why would you want this?
This is only stage one.
But you ruined the world out there!
The miracle shocked the economy.
The economy collapsed.
We tear down in order to rebuild.
And now it's almost within sight...
the new world.
Yeah, with no room for the poor,
the weak or the ones that don't fit in.
That's the way the world works now.
We're just making it official.
The families have just been waiting.
Now we can step in to control the banks.
The banks control government.
The government controls people.
Soon we'll be able to decide who lives,
how long, where and why.
It's about time!
Oh, great(!) So, it's the world
according to Kitzinger, is it?
Listen, you can bleed your liberal heart
all over the place,
but are you really gonna tell me
the world was working before?
Cos I have worked for the rich
and the powerful and the obese.
I have stared into the high end
of Western society, and let me tell you,
it is like shoveling an open sewer.
These families...
they wanna to make the world fitter,
more compact, more disciplined.
And I like the sound of that.
That sounds like salvation.
But before you launched
this brave new world,
you had to deal with one more thing.
Yeah.
Me.
So, as soon as the miracle happened,
you sent the Torchwood e-mail.
His blood endangers the plan.
- We had to draw him out into the open.
- Well, you failed.
I got to Shanghai
I've got the only mortal blood
on the planet.
If it gets into the Blessing...
life switches back.
I can make the whole world mortal.
(LAUGHS)
- No.
- Oh, no.
Sadly not.
- He's not listening.
- He doesn't seem to get it.
No, no, no.
- Polar dynamics, Jack.
- Everything on this axis
operates in a polar-dynamic field.
You could reset the Blessing,
your blood could
make the whole world mortal again,
but only by introducing it
to both cities at once.
- Blood in Buenos Aires.
- Blood in Shanghai.
- Entering the Blessing simultaneously.
- That's how we fed it.
That's how
we made the world immortal.
- For you, I'm sorry, it's impossible.
- You did well, almost worked it out
but all that spare blood of yours
went up in flames.
So... we're just gonna have to kill you.
(SPEAKS MAN DARIN)
No, no, no. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Whoa! Whoa!
Jack, I know how your mind works.
Even now, you're ferociously calculating
how you can get your blood
to the other side of the world.
But I can't allow that. Absolutely not.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
I'm warning you, I'll do it.
Then I'll die.
And that's a shame,
because you can blast his blood
into that wall,
and it won't make any difference at all.
(BARKS ORDER IN MANDARIN)
- JACK: Listen to me, don't do it.
- I'll do it!
If you need the blood of Jack Harkness
on the other side of the world, then...
I'll do it!
REX: just listen to me! Jack!
All right.
All right.
(PANTS) As I was saying,
if you need Jack's blood.
How about this?
- What was that? What happened?
- Rex, what did you do?
That's impossible. No way.
There's nothing special about you.
Oh, but there is, when I've got Jack's
blood flowing through my veins.
I t is inside me
- What?
- Oh, my God.
See, we knew this blood was important,
so as soon as we arrived...
We transfused it into Rex.
We exchanged his blood for Jack's.
(GRUNTS AN D GROANS)
Most days it might've killed me.
But we're all living on Miracle Day.
And everyone thought the blood
was gone, so no-one even suspected.
All we did was keep one final bag,
filled the rest with Rex's blood,
- and Jack's mortal blood...
- Just walked right in.
Hey, Oswald,
you want to be a walking bomb?
- Get him out of there!
- Well, try this.
Shoot me! Shoot me!
Come on! Shoot me!
- Don't! Don't! Don't!
- Pull that trigger! Splatter my blood!
- Shoot me!
- Get him out! Get him out!
- Nobody move!
- Huh?
Oh, Rex, you're a genius!
(GROANS) You just shut the hell up.
All right? This shit hurts.
Yeah, we've got blood on both sides
of the world, Jack, but...
They will die. Is that what you want?
The Blessing will take every last drop.
You'll both die, gentlemen.
You'll both kill yourselves.
You will in a pit in Shanghai.
Is that what you want?
I think I've lived long enough.
Are you ready, Rex?
Oh, you know, I wish
I'd never met you... (CHUCKLES)
you World War II idiot.
Good times, huh?
Yeah.
I'll see you.
- Just one last thing, Jack.
- What is it?
You're never gonna be a suicide.
Thank you.
Bye, then.
- Bye.
- Face front.
This is it, Rex.
Nothing's gonna stop me.
I think this might.
(GUNSHOT)
No!
No! No!
- What was that?!
- Rex, what was that?
You bastard! You son of a bitch!
Esther, come here. Oh, God.
These are the days of the miracle,
Mr Matheson.
She can't die, and we have
infinite resources. We can help her.
- We can make her better.
- WOMAN: If the miracle ends, she dies.
Is that what you want?
All of you
with your fine and noble deaths,
do you really want to bring about hers?
Jack, what do I do?
- I don't know.
- Oh, God, what do I do?
What do I do?
I'll tell you what you do, Rex - you
carry on. Keep going. Back to the plan.
- We'll kill her.
- I know.
This is Esther we're talking about.
Yes, I know it's Esther
and it's my dad...
and it's everyone who's ever gonna die.
But, Rex, we've gotta do this,
and I'm gonna tell you why.
Because I'm standing here
and I'm staring at Oswald Danes.
And he chose when that girl lived
and he chose when that girl died.
And no-one should have that power.
Not the rich, not the mad, not anyone.
- You're choosing now.
- Yeah, you watch me.
You'll kill Jack
and Rex and that girl, Esther...
all of your Torchwood team?
You'd kill them all?
Yeah...
Yeah.
Oh, you are magnificent.
Ready?
Rex!
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
- I'm so sorry.
- Don't do it! Don't!
Don't do it!
You'll kill her!
(GUARDS SHOUT IN MANDARIN)
GWEN: And that's what I did.
In a pit in Old Shanghai...
I brought death back to the world.
They said it was like a breath...
the breath that went around
the whole wide world.
The last breath.
And then no more.
We said goodbye to them then...
the dads and the mums...
the sick and the old...
the friends and the neighbors...
and the people we once met...
and the people
whose names we never knew.
We said goodbye to them all...
on the day that death... came back.
(RUMBLING)
Jesus Christ Almighty!
Shit!
Ah!
- WOMAN: Ah!
- OSWALD: Go!
I'm giving you this one chance.
I'll give you estates!
I'll give you places to hunt!
(GASPS) Ah!
Hold that lift!
- Guess what... Death came back.
- No!
(SCREAMS)
He changed back!
He's immortal!
Wait!
(JILLY SCREAMS)
At last! A miracle!
How... much... bloody... lipstick
can you wear?
OSWALD: Better run, Torchwood!
I'm taking this thing with me!
The whole thing!
Please! For God's sake, help me!
Help me!
- Oh, soon I'll see her!
- You won't see anybody!
You're going to hell, Danes!
But that's where they go!
All the bad little girls, they run
straight to hell, and I'm following!
Come on!
Susie, keep running!
I'm coming to get you!
Run! Faster!
Faster!
Jilly!
Ahhh!
FEDERICO: Get 'em out!
Get 'em out!
Get them out!
Esther and Rex,
did I just kill them?
(CHURCH ORGAN PLAYS)
♪ The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended
♪ The darkness falls at thy behest
♪ To thee our mourning hymns ascended
♪ Thy praise shall sanctify our rest
♪ We thank thee that
thy church unsleeping
♪ While Earth rolls onward into light
♪ Through all the world
her watch is keeping
♪ And rest not now by day nor night
♪ As o'er each continent and island... ♪
We meet again.
I have been coming here
every day for weeks...
waiting for you.
We tend not to repeat
patterns of behavior.
But... just this once.
I've got nothing.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
I had to buy my way out
of that godforsaken country.
I had to sell my own jewelery!
I can't go home.
I've got the CIA watching out for me,
the FBI, everyone.
What do I do now?
You start again.
With who?
Us.
Why would I do that
after everything
you have put me through?
Because we very nearly succeeded.
As trial runs go,
it was good.
Trial runs for what?
Plan B.
Interested?
I'm sorry, Rex.
She was more than a colleague.
I'd like to think she was a friend.
Thanks. Appreciate it.
Ready?
Lucky she got a full service.
There's ten funerals every hour
these days...
catching up with the backlog.
Well, that's made us all feel better(!)
You'd think
if that Blessing was so kind,
it could've shown some sort of... grace.
Esther died right in front of it.
That morphic field could've reached out
and saved one last life. Why not?
We'll never know.
UNIT'S sealed those sites up for ever.
- Let that thing stay buried.
- Yeah.
What about you two, this Torchwood
team? You reunited or what?
Say no, please.
- Dunno. You staying?
- Do you want me to stay?
Please say no.
(BEEPING)
Oh, boy. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- JACK: Anything wrong?
- It's about Noah.
You know, the analyst
that died with Shapiro?
They just retrieved his software
from the explosion.
The good thing is, he told me
his password, because it's the same place
I used to go for doughnuts.
His last job was to look for that leak.
- What is it? What's it say?
- Shit.
Charlotte!
(SHOUTS) Charlotte!
Charlotte!
Get help! Clear the area!
- There might be more!
- GWEN: Oh, no!
JACK: No way.
Come on. No, no. Not after
everything he's gone through. No!
JACK: There's nothing we can do. I'm...
I'm sorry, Gwen.
I am so sorry.
He's dead.
(GASPS)
- What?
- What?
What?
What?!
What the hell?
That's impossible.
You,
World War II,
what the hell did you do to me?
JILLY: How far down does it go?
WOMAN: All the way
to the other side of the world.
- Buenos Aires.
- Shanghai.
A mission on both sides of the world?
And you're taking me with you.
- Oh!
- Ok?
I never knew about that.
I think it's showing us the way.
It's the Blessing.
It's somewhere over there,
and I think it's calling you, Jack.
When I was about five or six...
my dad came home from work early.
And I knew there was something wrong.
I could hear voices from the kitchen.
So I looked through the door, and...
I could see him crying.
It turns out money
had gone missing from work,
and he'd got the blame.
So, I went to get all my pocket money
and I put it in his hand.
It must've been about £2.50.
And he looked at me and he said,
"It's not about the money."
He said, "I can't stand anyone
thinking I'm not an honest man."
And I will always remember that.
Always.
Cos that was the first time in my life
anybody had spoken to me
like an adult.
And then we went into the back garden
and we played till dark.
So, that's my dad.
Geraint Wyn Cooper,
the nicest man in the world.
And today's the day that I kill him.
(HE GRUNTS SOFTLY)
- Whoa!
- (GASPS)
- ESTHER: Oh, my God.
- REX: All right.
That's it. I'm done.
You know, I've seen some crazy shit
with Torchwood,
but now I'm at the limit.
$0, we've got blood
heading northwest, 15 degrees,
38 minutes, 39 seconds north.
What have you got?
Er, it's heading southeast 23 degrees,
six minutes, four seconds south.
You keep that blood safe.
They've destroyed blood banks
in both cities.
- That's gotta be important
- I've got it. It's safe.
(GROANS)
- REX: Who was that?
- Damn it!
- Is that World War II? What's wrong?
- It feels like
all the blood inside me
is trying to get out, churning.
- Tell me about it.
- Why? What's wrong with you?
You're not the only one
affected by the miracle.
It saved Rex's life,
and we don't know what happens next
if we stop this thing.
Maybe death catches up with him.
OK, OK, enough of the superstition.
Let's get back to the mission, people.
If both cities are connected underground,
- it's like a pole.
- A secondary pole.
The magnetic pole goes north to south,
and now this,
from Buenos Aires to Shanghai.
What is it?
(SPEAKS MANDARIN)
Forgive me,
but according to our contacts,
there are forces moving in,
so we're advancing the plan.
Midnight tonight, long after we're gone,
we're blowing this whole thing sky high.
Won't that stop the miracle?
On the contrary.
It'll become never-ending.
The Blessing won't be hurt,
just buried
so that no-one can ever change it again.
GWEN: I'm gonna follow.
If I keep going 15 degrees,
38 minutes north, I'll find it.
Wait for my call. And, Rex, Esther?
You take care, OK?
You never know,
we might meet in the middle.
Yeah, well, I guess
there's a first time for everything.
Good luck.
And hey, you take care. Don't do
those stupid, lame-ass Torchwood things.
Be professional for once.
- Like you taught me, yeah?
- Yeah, that's right.
- just like I taught you.
- See you soon, yeah?
- When all this is over.
- Speaking as a man
who's walked to his death,
can I say I did it
- with a lot less sentiment?
- Just you wait.
If this goes right,
murder's coming back.
REX: Jack, listen to me.
I've got no choice now.
I need to bring in the CIA for backup,
because if we find this place,
we're gonna have to move in
and take it fast and hard.
Don't give away our location.
Keep Torchwood a secret. Promise?
Sure. And, hey,
let's meet up for drinks afterwards.
Well, you always wanted to be a part
of Clandestine, didn't you?
Well, you just got promoted.
(PHONE DIALS, DIALING TONE)
Yeah, this is Rex Matheson.
(PHONE RINGS)
Ladies and gentlemen, as of this moment,
Clandestine is running this room.
I am declaring special ops, station one,
as designated
by field agent Rex Matheson.
Adam, secure linkup.
Charlotte, we're gonna need translation
in this room now.
- Yes, sir. What language?
- Spanish.
We need experts in Rioplatense Spanish.
Now, listen up, everybody.
It's 11:09am in DC,
12:09pm in Buenos Aires.
To confirm, this operation is active
in Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires, this is Shanghai.
We're setting detonation at 12 midnight.
Confirm 1 pm your location. Over.
One hour postmeridian confirmed.
What a beautiful day. Over.
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
Buenos Aires and Shanghai...
perfect antipodes,
give or take 100 miles or so.
There's a slight deviation,
because the Earth's
not a perfect sphere...
- Are you getting all this?
- Oh, yes. Every word.
If that runs right through
the center of the Earth,
why isn't this thing a volcano?
Again, no idea.
Isn't that wonderful?
The laws of the Blessing are beyond us.
That's why it took us so long
to work out what it can do.
How did you even find it?
Well, we had to wait
until the world grew up,
until the information age
became fast enough so we could
crunch the numbers on a massive scale.
Facts became visible
that were never visible before,
such as a tiny little statistic,
hidden in the heart of Shanghai Old Town.
The average life expectancy
of those living
within a two-mile radius
of this point was exactly equal
to the average life expectancy
of the world.
And it always had been.
Say in 1998,
the average life expectancy
from birth on this planet
was 66 years, 5 months and 33 days.
In this area in Shanghai,
it was 66 years, 5 months
and 33 days exactly.
Try going back 100 years to 1898.
The average life expectancy
was 49 years, 9 months and 5 days.
Shanghai - 49 years, 9 months, 5 days.
It was as if something on this spot
was calibrating a matrix,
subsisting alongside humankind
in harmony.
- But the Chinese didn't know about it?
- We pay them to look the other way.
It does make you seem kind of colonial.
Well, is that such a bad word?
Besides,
we changed the whole of the world,
and this is just phase one.
REX: Mr Shapiro, sir.
This is Sandra Lopez.
She's handling translation.
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
He said, "Good morning, " sir.
Listen, Rex. Confirming your request
for armed support. Your liaison
is going to be Captain Federico Santos.
He's gonna need strict ratification.
The Argentinean army
is not allowed by law
to get involved in civil conflicts
on their own soil.
Yeah, well,
these are the three families, sir.
They can classify it
as a North American incursion.
Oh, and by the way,
Esther needs help.
- She's with me.
- If you mean Esther Drummond,
can I just point out she's officially
on the run from the CIA?
I knew it!
- She'd follow him anywhere.
- Miss Drummond,
remind me to arrest you
when this is all over.
Yes, sir. Now I need a check
on all properties,
residences and businesses
falling in the path of this line.
Sending it to you now.
But that's one of the densest
populations on Earth.
With a backwards economy, half
that information won't even be recorded.
Excuse me, but foreign investment's
still rare in Argentina,
so we've been tracking
contract-intensive money since 1980.
The information's on file,
just waiting to be filtered.
Excellent. Good call. Thank you.
Hey, might be a good time
to start that trace.
In the middle of this? It's not tested.
It could bring down the whole system.
I want that line passed through
every single intel division.
Hey, so what's the trace?
Uh, it's, er, it's new software
from the DIA.
So, the three families,
they use that vine technology
to piggyback their calls
on 50,000 different lines.
But the trace runs backwards,
so it detects vine activity
and then follows it back to the source.
If there's a mole working
in this department,
it means we can find him.
Excellent.
Good news.
(CHICKENS CLUCK)
(WOMAN SHOUTS IN MANDARIN)
Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I've just got to keep going
15 degrees north,
and your shop is in the way,
so tough, really.
Whoa.
I need to get out. Can I get out?
(SPEAKS MANDARIN)
Well, if you open it, you get rid of me.
OK? So, door, gone - me, bye-bye.
- No door.
- No door? Why no door?
Bad place.
Many ghost.
OK. Listen,
if you open that door, I will give you
all the money in the world.
Yeah?
(DOOR CREAKS)
Very bad, yes?
Very, very bad.
(DIALING TONE)
I think I found it.
Oswald, we're moving.
Esther, this is Captain Santos.
4th Maneuver Unit, 2nd Brigade.
I think they found it.
NOAH: Uh, there's been no paperwork
around this site since 2001.
Access is via an alley between
South Pacheco Street and Rivadavia.
- What's the name of the alley?
- That's the point, sir.
It's not designated.
It hasn't got a name.
Just like the three families -
they wiped it off the map.
All right, that's it.
Rex, prepare to mobilize.
Anything you don't need,
leave behind.
We're coming back, though,
isn't that right?
We're coming back?
I don't know. Are we?
(CHUCKLES)
So much for your death fetish.
When it all gets too real, huh?
Still, that victim of yours,
Susie Cabina,
how much choice did she have?
Who are you?
Captain Jack Harkness.
No.
I spent a long time in prison...
and I know the smile of a man
who's done terrible things.
And your friends.
I've been watching them.
Sometimes they like you,
sometimes they love you...
and sometimes,
just once or twice,
glittering away
in those tiny little gaps...
they fear you.
I'm from the future.
Well, now!
I come from the future.
(CHUCKLES WRYLY)
Then you must know.
Do we make it through this day?
The future can change.
It's being written right now.
But one thing I do know.
I've seen the stars.
I have seen the universe.
I have seen the human race become
vast and magnificent and endless.
And I wish you could see it, Oswald.
I wish you could see that too.
Cos then you'd know how small
you've made your life.
(PHONE DIALS)
(PHONE RINGS)
It's me. Still alive.
You'd better be or there'll be
trouble. Anwen says hello.
No, she doesn't. She's tiny.
She hasn't got a clue.
All right, OK!
Sorry...
- Ready?
- Yeah, we can get into the camp.
Andy's worked it out. He's here now.
He's got me this, um...
police visa.
- That should get me in.
- Torchwood calls and here I am.
Tell him thanks.
- She says thanks.
- She'll be the death of me.
The trouble is, um,
there's only the one visa, so, um...
(SIGHS) ...can't get your mum in.
I wouldn't go,
not to that godforsaken place.
RHYS: Andy's checked the list
and your dad, he's still there...
Category 7. He's in one of the wards.
They haven't sent him...
(SIGHS)
they haven 't sent him off yet.
Is there anything
you want me to say to him, Gwen?
I mean...
I feel like I'm killing him.
Cos if this goes right,
the miracle ends, my father dies.
(SIGHS) Well, you know what?
Let him die.
I mean, bless the poor bugger.
I mean, he's had his time.
You just come back alive. You got that?
- She'd better. Tell her for me.
- Yeah, you come back
or I will be furious.
Will do. Gotta go.
Sad girl.
Yes, I am.
Crazy girl.
Yes, that's me.
Thank you. Cheers.
If that happens,
the regrouping will go through me.
We'll have to ratify that
with Washington...
I help you, yes?
- Give it to me.
- Thank you. There you go.
We take care. American goods.
And that.
Someone help me up?
(GROANS)
(GROANS)
- Are you all right?
- You OK? What's wrong?
- He was injured.
- No, no.
No, it's... it's nothing.
It's just an old war wound.
It's getting worse.
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
(PRAYS IN SPANISH)
(SHOUTING)
(GUNFIRE)
(MUFFLED RUMBLING)
- (SPEAKS SPANISH)
- No, no, no. No!
We're dead! Don't you get it?
We're dead!
We were in that explosion. Come on,
let's go inside. Let's go. Get up.
Sir... we've lost radio contact.
The link with the army just cut dead.
Can't have. Get hold of them.
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
That's an explosion.
That's special ops station two, sir.
That's Rex and Esther.
- All my men.
- Captain, snap out of it. On your feet.
Now, listen to me.
I need you to go to that base, OK?
But I want you to tell them
that we died.
Understand that?
Now, look, you can try
to get another squad, but do not tell
them Esther and I are still running.
- OK?
- What are you gonna do?
They think that we're already dead.
So, now's the perfect time,
and I'm going in...
on my own.
I'm coming with you.
Oh, shit.
All right, yeah, whatever. Come here.
But you've only got handguns.
There's two of you.
You-you need more than that!
Our special weapon went up in smoke.
We had the blood. The only mortal blood
in the world and it's on that truck.
- (PHONE RINGS)
- It's Gwen.
Don't answer it. Everyone needs
to think that we're dead, OK?
Now, come on, let's go. Let's move!
Somebody betrayed us.
They had information
inside the directorate.
All right, Miller, run that trace.
- I need clearance from the section...
- I don't care about the protocols.
I don't care if it brings down
the whole pissing system.
Run the trace and find the bastard.
Now, let's go!
OK.
If there's a vine, this should
track it right down to the handset.
(BEEP)
- Any luck?
- Almost.
I hope you catch that traitor.
Oh, hey, Sandra. I think Mr Shapiro
wanted to see you.
OK, thanks.
- You wanted to see me, sir?
- No. What for?
I don't know. The analyst said...
I'm sorry, what's her name?
Charlotte?!
Oh, fuck.
What's going on? What was that?
Was that a bomb?
- (ALARM BLARES)
- (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
Ah!
(SHE SHOUTS IN MANDARIN)
OK, what have we got?
The sublink's just said there's been
an explosion in Buenos Aires.
Special ops.
It's Esther and Rex.
They're dead?
What do you care?
- Why don't you just shut it?!
- OK.
I'm sorry, but we can't do this,
not now.
This is about you, Jack.
If the miracle is connected
to your blood, then God help them,
but they had the only reserve.
The only blood we have now is in you.
- Then I'd better be careful.
- But you could die this time.
That's the game.
Yeah.
- Let's go.
- Uh-huh.
How do we get down there?
I'm looking, I'm looking.
There's gotta be stairs somewhere.
You know, you could stay up here
if you want.
Oh, I was kinda hoping
you wouldn't say that.
I got you in a whole lot of trouble, huh?
- I did that all on my own.
- I never did thank you, did I?
No, you didn't.
Yeah, well, don't expect it now.
There... stairs.
West block, hallway.
Right here, come on.
Over here.
There's gonna be guards all the way in.
You can't keep doing this.
- They're gonna find us.
- Shut him up!
- Of all the bastards to bring!
- You condemn me?
You Category 1 these men
with your bare hands...
Keep your voice down.
He's got a point. He's got a point.
We're just like bandits.
We're just on the perimeter here.
How are we meant to get deep inside?
- (PHONE BUZZES)
- Come on...
Damn!
It's Rhys. He's found my dad.
Hey...
It's me,
the useless article.
I brought you a message.
Gwen sends her love.
Mary sends her love.
We all do.
All of us.
He's the lucky one.
See that girl over there?
She was brought in as Category 1.
She must be 15, 16.
No-one's tried to claim her.
We don't even know her name.
And why
you've got till the end of the shift,
and then we're moving this lot.
- They're going to the furnace.
- No, I...
I want to spend more time with him,
please.
- Make the most of it, then.
- Can't we delay the transport?
We've got this place
running like clockwork now.
You've got ten minutes,
then they're gone.
But they're still alive!
And you're gonna burn them?
Yeah, all clear.
Wait a minute.
I was in China
for the Boxer Rebellion
and I know what that lettering means.
(LAUGHS)
Oswald, I've changed my mind.
I'm so glad you're here.
(COMPUTER BEEPS)
- WOMAN: I knew it.
- JILLY: What's happening?
You're about to meet the Creator.
JILLY: It's that soldier.
Hmph.
He's with Oswald?
(WOMAN SPEAKS MAN DARIN)
(GUNS COCK)
Captain Jack Harkness. At last.
No, no, no, no,
this isn't about Jack. No, ma'am.
Excuse me, but it's not at all.
My name is Oswald Danes.
Well.
Hmm.
(CHUCKLES) Good evening, Miss Kitzinger.
You've been promoted.
And this is the new empire
you're servicing?
My, my, my, my. My, my, my.
With all due respect, Mr Danes,
you're a by-product of the miracle.
Not really relevant at all.
That's what the Captain said.
He tried to tell me that my life...
has become a very small thing.
Tiny...
And yet right here, right now,
at the very end,
I would describe myself differently.
I would call myself...
vital.
Madam, you're a fine woman.
You should be careful now,
very careful indeed.
It seems like you've been planning
some kind of an explosion,
but I'd love to make sure
you're still inside.
Advantage Torchwood.
Well, I'm afraid we have a major
disagreement here in Buenos Aires.
I'd say advantage families.
Say hello to your friends.
JACK: What's that supposed to mean?
- He means us.
- GWEN: Rex?
Oh, my God. And Esther?
I'm here.
They caught us.
Just glad to hear you're alive.
I'll swap your standoff for my standoff.
- REX: Don't you do it.
- (GUNS COCK)
But nobody dies.
She'll keep on living - just perforated.
- Threaten me, you coward, not her.
- Rex.
- Hey, I'm OK.
- (REX GROANS)
If you hurt her, we've got
explosives here ready to go.
And don't imagine I won't!
Whatever happens here tonight,
there's no place on Earth that I can go,
and I wasn't planning
on coming out of here alive!
So, who's gonna lose their nerve first?
The thing is,
we don't need explosives,
or guns or threats,
cos I've got
the most powerful thing of all.
(CRUNCHING)
It wants me...
mortal blood.
The only one in the whole world.
So, I suggest
you're very careful with me, OK?
And if you fail to take
the Captain's advice,
you can certainly come to oblivion
with me.
Jack, you're the future man.
You've seen wonders
beyond this world,
so tell us of these Blessings
and miracles.
GWEN: What the hell is that thing?
- Can you feel it?
- Yeah.
Oh, yeah. God, I can... OK. God.
Oh, my God.
It is said that it reflects
your own self back at you.
What can you see?
Enough guilt to last me a lifetime.
But that's OK. I'm a working mother.
I don't need the Blessing
to tell me that.
And you, Jack?
I've lived so many lives.
And now I can see them all.
HEY
Not so bad.
Well, you might want to question
your choice of weapon, soldier.
Let's see. You brought
the world's biggest bastard,
wired him up to a bomb,
then showed him his soul.
Hmm, that's good work. You know,
I feel really safe right now(!)
- JACK: Oswald? Oswald.
- (GRUNTS)
Don't lose it.
Sin.
- The Blessing feels like sin.
- Oswald, don't. I need you.
(PANTS)
I guess I'm accustomed to sin.
- Ah!
- Thank you.
GWEN: I still don't get it.
What are we looking at? The Blessing -
is it the rock or is it the edge? What?
It's the gap in-between.
The nothingness.
The space.
It's alive.
It's like they broke the world.
GWEN: You're the expert.
- What is it?
- The world's been turning
for over four billion years.
There's so much buried under its skin.
The Doctor used to say
there's Silurian mythology,
Huon particles, Racnoss energy,
an expansion of their
hibernation matrix, maybe...
You don't bloody know, do you?
- No. (LAUGHS)
- (LAUGHS)
It's been here since the Earth began?
Could be.
Yeah. Oh, it has. I can feel it.
We're so used to these things
being extraterrestrial,
but this might be the most
terrestrial thing of them all.
Wow.
So, you found the Blessing
- and you worked out this morphic field.
- The Blessing exists
in a symbiotic relationship
with the human race.
It transmits a morphic field
around the planet,
binding us together
like magnetism, like sunlight.
But finding it wasn't enough.
You had to experiment on it.
Oh, we fed it.
We fed it the blood of an immortal.
We had one remarkable artifact.
We found a second remarkable artifact.
The comb/nation was inevitable.
So the Blessing absorbed the blood,
copied it like a new template.
- So, the system changed its setting.
- You know why it did that?
I think you hurt it.
It was being attacked, so it took
the blood pattern and made it a gift.
It's exerting itself to sustain
every person on the planet.
This whole miracle...
it's trying to be kind.
You've seen immortality.
I'm living it.
Why would you want this?
This is only stage one.
But you ruined the world out there!
The miracle shocked the economy.
The economy collapsed.
We tear down in order to rebuild.
And now it's almost within sight...
the new world.
Yeah, with no room for the poor,
the weak or the ones that don't fit in.
That's the way the world works now.
We're just making it official.
The families have just been waiting.
Now we can step in to control the banks.
The banks control government.
The government controls people.
Soon we'll be able to decide who lives,
how long, where and why.
It's about time!
Oh, great(!) So, it's the world
according to Kitzinger, is it?
Listen, you can bleed your liberal heart
all over the place,
but are you really gonna tell me
the world was working before?
Cos I have worked for the rich
and the powerful and the obese.
I have stared into the high end
of Western society, and let me tell you,
it is like shoveling an open sewer.
These families...
they wanna to make the world fitter,
more compact, more disciplined.
And I like the sound of that.
That sounds like salvation.
But before you launched
this brave new world,
you had to deal with one more thing.
Yeah.
Me.
So, as soon as the miracle happened,
you sent the Torchwood e-mail.
His blood endangers the plan.
- We had to draw him out into the open.
- Well, you failed.
I got to Shanghai
I've got the only mortal blood
on the planet.
If it gets into the Blessing...
life switches back.
I can make the whole world mortal.
(LAUGHS)
- No.
- Oh, no.
Sadly not.
- He's not listening.
- He doesn't seem to get it.
No, no, no.
- Polar dynamics, Jack.
- Everything on this axis
operates in a polar-dynamic field.
You could reset the Blessing,
your blood could
make the whole world mortal again,
but only by introducing it
to both cities at once.
- Blood in Buenos Aires.
- Blood in Shanghai.
- Entering the Blessing simultaneously.
- That's how we fed it.
That's how
we made the world immortal.
- For you, I'm sorry, it's impossible.
- You did well, almost worked it out
but all that spare blood of yours
went up in flames.
So... we're just gonna have to kill you.
(SPEAKS MAN DARIN)
No, no, no. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Whoa! Whoa!
Jack, I know how your mind works.
Even now, you're ferociously calculating
how you can get your blood
to the other side of the world.
But I can't allow that. Absolutely not.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
I'm warning you, I'll do it.
Then I'll die.
And that's a shame,
because you can blast his blood
into that wall,
and it won't make any difference at all.
(BARKS ORDER IN MANDARIN)
- JACK: Listen to me, don't do it.
- I'll do it!
If you need the blood of Jack Harkness
on the other side of the world, then...
I'll do it!
REX: just listen to me! Jack!
All right.
All right.
(PANTS) As I was saying,
if you need Jack's blood.
How about this?
- What was that? What happened?
- Rex, what did you do?
That's impossible. No way.
There's nothing special about you.
Oh, but there is, when I've got Jack's
blood flowing through my veins.
I t is inside me
- What?
- Oh, my God.
See, we knew this blood was important,
so as soon as we arrived...
We transfused it into Rex.
We exchanged his blood for Jack's.
(GRUNTS AN D GROANS)
Most days it might've killed me.
But we're all living on Miracle Day.
And everyone thought the blood
was gone, so no-one even suspected.
All we did was keep one final bag,
filled the rest with Rex's blood,
- and Jack's mortal blood...
- Just walked right in.
Hey, Oswald,
you want to be a walking bomb?
- Get him out of there!
- Well, try this.
Shoot me! Shoot me!
Come on! Shoot me!
- Don't! Don't! Don't!
- Pull that trigger! Splatter my blood!
- Shoot me!
- Get him out! Get him out!
- Nobody move!
- Huh?
Oh, Rex, you're a genius!
(GROANS) You just shut the hell up.
All right? This shit hurts.
Yeah, we've got blood on both sides
of the world, Jack, but...
They will die. Is that what you want?
The Blessing will take every last drop.
You'll both die, gentlemen.
You'll both kill yourselves.
You will in a pit in Shanghai.
Is that what you want?
I think I've lived long enough.
Are you ready, Rex?
Oh, you know, I wish
I'd never met you... (CHUCKLES)
you World War II idiot.
Good times, huh?
Yeah.
I'll see you.
- Just one last thing, Jack.
- What is it?
You're never gonna be a suicide.
Thank you.
Bye, then.
- Bye.
- Face front.
This is it, Rex.
Nothing's gonna stop me.
I think this might.
(GUNSHOT)
No!
No! No!
- What was that?!
- Rex, what was that?
You bastard! You son of a bitch!
Esther, come here. Oh, God.
These are the days of the miracle,
Mr Matheson.
She can't die, and we have
infinite resources. We can help her.
- We can make her better.
- WOMAN: If the miracle ends, she dies.
Is that what you want?
All of you
with your fine and noble deaths,
do you really want to bring about hers?
Jack, what do I do?
- I don't know.
- Oh, God, what do I do?
What do I do?
I'll tell you what you do, Rex - you
carry on. Keep going. Back to the plan.
- We'll kill her.
- I know.
This is Esther we're talking about.
Yes, I know it's Esther
and it's my dad...
and it's everyone who's ever gonna die.
But, Rex, we've gotta do this,
and I'm gonna tell you why.
Because I'm standing here
and I'm staring at Oswald Danes.
And he chose when that girl lived
and he chose when that girl died.
And no-one should have that power.
Not the rich, not the mad, not anyone.
- You're choosing now.
- Yeah, you watch me.
You'll kill Jack
and Rex and that girl, Esther...
all of your Torchwood team?
You'd kill them all?
Yeah...
Yeah.
Oh, you are magnificent.
Ready?
Rex!
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
- I'm so sorry.
- Don't do it! Don't!
Don't do it!
You'll kill her!
(GUARDS SHOUT IN MANDARIN)
GWEN: And that's what I did.
In a pit in Old Shanghai...
I brought death back to the world.
They said it was like a breath...
the breath that went around
the whole wide world.
The last breath.
And then no more.
We said goodbye to them then...
the dads and the mums...
the sick and the old...
the friends and the neighbors...
and the people we once met...
and the people
whose names we never knew.
We said goodbye to them all...
on the day that death... came back.
(RUMBLING)
Jesus Christ Almighty!
Shit!
Ah!
- WOMAN: Ah!
- OSWALD: Go!
I'm giving you this one chance.
I'll give you estates!
I'll give you places to hunt!
(GASPS) Ah!
Hold that lift!
- Guess what... Death came back.
- No!
(SCREAMS)
He changed back!
He's immortal!
Wait!
(JILLY SCREAMS)
At last! A miracle!
How... much... bloody... lipstick
can you wear?
OSWALD: Better run, Torchwood!
I'm taking this thing with me!
The whole thing!
Please! For God's sake, help me!
Help me!
- Oh, soon I'll see her!
- You won't see anybody!
You're going to hell, Danes!
But that's where they go!
All the bad little girls, they run
straight to hell, and I'm following!
Come on!
Susie, keep running!
I'm coming to get you!
Run! Faster!
Faster!
Jilly!
Ahhh!
FEDERICO: Get 'em out!
Get 'em out!
Get them out!
Esther and Rex,
did I just kill them?
(CHURCH ORGAN PLAYS)
♪ The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended
♪ The darkness falls at thy behest
♪ To thee our mourning hymns ascended
♪ Thy praise shall sanctify our rest
♪ We thank thee that
thy church unsleeping
♪ While Earth rolls onward into light
♪ Through all the world
her watch is keeping
♪ And rest not now by day nor night
♪ As o'er each continent and island... ♪
We meet again.
I have been coming here
every day for weeks...
waiting for you.
We tend not to repeat
patterns of behavior.
But... just this once.
I've got nothing.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
I had to buy my way out
of that godforsaken country.
I had to sell my own jewelery!
I can't go home.
I've got the CIA watching out for me,
the FBI, everyone.
What do I do now?
You start again.
With who?
Us.
Why would I do that
after everything
you have put me through?
Because we very nearly succeeded.
As trial runs go,
it was good.
Trial runs for what?
Plan B.
Interested?
I'm sorry, Rex.
She was more than a colleague.
I'd like to think she was a friend.
Thanks. Appreciate it.
Ready?
Lucky she got a full service.
There's ten funerals every hour
these days...
catching up with the backlog.
Well, that's made us all feel better(!)
You'd think
if that Blessing was so kind,
it could've shown some sort of... grace.
Esther died right in front of it.
That morphic field could've reached out
and saved one last life. Why not?
We'll never know.
UNIT'S sealed those sites up for ever.
- Let that thing stay buried.
- Yeah.
What about you two, this Torchwood
team? You reunited or what?
Say no, please.
- Dunno. You staying?
- Do you want me to stay?
Please say no.
(BEEPING)
Oh, boy. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- JACK: Anything wrong?
- It's about Noah.
You know, the analyst
that died with Shapiro?
They just retrieved his software
from the explosion.
The good thing is, he told me
his password, because it's the same place
I used to go for doughnuts.
His last job was to look for that leak.
- What is it? What's it say?
- Shit.
Charlotte!
(SHOUTS) Charlotte!
Charlotte!
Get help! Clear the area!
- There might be more!
- GWEN: Oh, no!
JACK: No way.
Come on. No, no. Not after
everything he's gone through. No!
JACK: There's nothing we can do. I'm...
I'm sorry, Gwen.
I am so sorry.
He's dead.
(GASPS)
- What?
- What?
What?
What?!
What the hell?
That's impossible.
You,
World War II,
what the hell did you do to me?