Torchwood (2006–2011): Season 4, Episode 9 - Miracle Day: The Gathering - full transcript

OLIVIA: Well, the story says
that it started with three men...

Ablemarch, Costerdane and Frines.
They formed an alliance.

Oswald, I...

Run as fast as you can!

You've got the most famous face
on the planet. Where are you gonna hide?

From this moment on,
Torchwood is defunct.

You will be removed
from American soil immediately

and God help Great Britain.

- Hey, stop. I said stop.
- Go, just go!

- (GUNSHOT)
- Jack!

REPORTER: Day 67
of the Great Depression.



And the government has announced
that all medical Overflow Camps

will now stay open.

Under the new emergency laws,

Category 7 patients
must be taken for disposal.

Campaigners have called this
institutional murder.

(TIRES SCREECH)

Go now or I will put a hole in your head.

Can you spare me
some of those metanec things?

- What?
- Metanec.

Just a couple of boxes.

My wife's suffering something wicked
with the arthritis, see.

And she's scared to go to the doctor's
because of the rumors.

Well, they say Huw Jenkins
has gone up in smoke

and all he had was a bad back.



Help yourself.
Hurry up, we haven't got long.

Go, get out of here.

- Oh, thank you.
- Go.

Come on, come on!

(DISTANT SIRENS WAIL)

TV: Prime Minister, there 3 notes
from members of the public...

OK, relax. She's back.

She's only been for pizza.

HEY

Oh, beautiful. Nice one. Right...

That's for the Reynolds
and the Llewellyns.

Oh, and, um, Iris Price called by.

- Oh.
- She was looking for painkillers.

She gets a bloody headache
and expects to go to the top of the list.

Tell her she can have them
if she pays double.

- That's the same policy as PhiCorp.
- Thanks for that. Thanks a lot.

Here we are. Careful now.
Make yourself useful, you big lump.

So, what did you get?

- Diamorphine.
- That'll do the trick.

- Come on.
- OK?

MARY: This won't last a week
the way he's going through it.

Don't worry. I'll get some more.

(SIGHS) You OK, Dad?
You'll be happy as Larry in a minute now.

Smiling away.

Poor sod. He's missing his bed.

- It's too risky upstairs.
- I know.

But whenever we went away, the first
night back he always used to say...

you can't beat your own bed.

Well, we can't be too careful, Mam.

It was only yesterday there was a raid
on Oystermouth Road.

They took two people away for the ovens.

You know?

I used to arrest people for selling
that stuff. It's practically heroin.

Strange days, sweetheart.

It's much better.

- The infection's almost gone.
- (SNORTS)

Yeah, the gunshot didn't kill me.
But I think you will.

I'll go into the village tomorrow,
see if I can buy a steak,

get you some iron.

As long as they don't start
asking questions again.

That last guy creeped me out.

If he's still there,
I think we should move on.

We're in Scotland.

- We can't go much further north.
- Yes, we can.

Keep running for as long as it takes.

I remember when you were
too scared to leave home.

Yeah, that was a long time ago.

You were the strong one, standing tall.
Look at you now.

And now you're a vampire.

More like a gunsmith.
Closest thing to a weapon we've got.

Esther, my blood isn't magic.

It didn't make me immortal.

They can't have cloned it or copied it.

All the same, Jack,

they took your blood and they keep
trying to spill your blood.

Someone wants you dead for a reason.

And I think this stuff's
the only hope we've got.

GWEN: The answer's
got to be here somewhere.

The Blessing, page 56 of 12 million.
God, I need Esther.

I've had a job offer...

driving for Matty Sheldon.

Oh.

Well, that's good, isn't it?

He's got the contract
for the Overflow Camps.

I'd be driving Category 1 s.

Well, it's not your fault.
We need money.

I won't take them to the ovens,

- just to the camps...
- I know, yeah.

It's funny, isn't it?

When they first opened the camps,
we all protested.

Second time, we're all too busy
looking after ourselves.

Aye. All part of the plan...

- ...to wear us down.
- Yeah, but what is the plan?

What's it all for, Rhys?

Oh, great.

That's just what I needed. That's...

Bollocks!

You know... those, um...

power cuts in the '70s?

Nine months later
there was a baby boom...

cos people took advantage
of the dark.

- Well, you know...
- Yeah.

Here, this could be
the one piece of paper that we need.

Come on, focus, people.
Let's go, come on. Let's go!

Hey, you been here all night?
Don't you have a home to go to?

Not any more. She left me, remember?

Oh, shit.

- Yeah, sorry.
- Cos of the hours which you imposed.

I know. I forgot.

But look, if you're gonna be here anyway,

why don't you
clean this place up a little bit,

empty out some trash bins or something?

(LAUGHS) Really?

Sir, I should tell you
that smoking is still illegal inside.

It can't kill you. Not any more.

But they still haven't changed
the building's insurance.

Insurance companies went bust
along with half the Western world.

Oh, did I tell you? Gas allowances have
been halved. You are way over limit.

Well, what do you expect me to do,
walk to work?

Hey, don't complain to me.

Recession became depression.

- We're all being rationed, even the CIA.
- OK, well,

since you're too busy housekeeping, then
you probably won't be interested in this.

What is it?

A lead.

All right, it's 1928
and there's a guy hanging

in the cellar of the Giordano butcher shop
and they're selling tickets.

For...$2 you can watch him get killed
and come back to life again.

So who knows if it's a miracle
or he's Harry Houdini?

Either way, it's news,

so plenty of people wrote about it.

Yeah, but that's where
the records disappear.

I've told you,
Ablemarch, Costerdane and Frines.

They went through the archives,
they scrubbed them clean.

Look at this place, Rex. We have tried.

According to the census of 1930,
the population of Manhattan

was 1,867,000.

That's more people than live there now.

Allow for an average
of two children per family,

across three generations, by 2011,

we're looking at a potential
six million descendants.

That's six million suspects.

We have to find and interview
six million people.

So do you see?

That proves my point.
You're looking too close at the facts.

- What else should we be looking at?
- Fiction.

Look, I'll trade you six million people
for one short story.

Because the London office,
they found a story.

It was published in 1935,
The Devil Within.

Now, it's just pulp fiction, it's all
blood and Satan and that kinda shit,

but it contains five points of reference
identical to the Harkness case,

which is more than a coincidence.

Now... I believe that
the author was in that cellar.

He saw Jack Harkness die,
decided to write about it.

And his name was...

Victor Podesta.

Then we follow the Podesta family.

Oh, sir, sir, this is...
this is where it gets interesting.

You see, the Podestas owned

a grocery store about ten blocks east
of the butcher shop

and they had connections
to organized crime.

Now, the youngest son... john
was stabbed to death back in '27.

Unsolved, mob-related. But check this out,

now we jump to 1938...

and the whole family just disappears
I mean all of them...

Mom, Pop, Victor, daughter Emmeline.
Just all gone.

Well, look, maybe the Podestas
changed their name.

Who knows? Maybe Emmeline married
into the three families.

We could look for a marriage license.

And where would we check that? Hmm?

- The Manhattan Central Repository?
- Damn it, every time.

The most effective thing they did
was burn that place down.

Yeah, and that was 1965.

I mean, everywhere we turn,

this conspiracy spans
the whole of the 20th century.

People, come on.
This is me you're talking to, remember?

You're forgetting about
the younger brother,

the murder of john Podesta, unsolved.
This is where we got lucky.

The case was bagged,
tagged and locked away,

just sitting on a shelf
collecting dust for almost 90 years.

We still have the murder weapon.

With blood on it? Is that blood?

We have blood.

We have DNA.

- We can trace the family.
- All right, everybody,

let's make a DNA profile
and start looking for matches.

Good job. Come on, let's go. Let's go!

REX: Group up, start working.

- Uh, hey, Rex, um...
- Yeah?

I've got Jordan and Carlyle.

They were exceptional
with the O'Grady DNA, remember?

And they're fast.

- Want me to use them on this?
- Sure thing.

Do what you've got to do.

Thank you for coming.

This is not the promotion I expected,

sitting in a nondescript office
distributing for Harry Bosco.

I thought you needed me.

This is for you.

- You've been invited to Shanghai.
- Well, that's impossible.

Don't you watch the news?

First sign of the meltdown,
China closed its borders.

Not to us.

This says Lucy Statten Meredith.

You'll be traveling under that name.

In fact, that is your name from now on.

But... the families
want to meet you... in person.

- It's one-way?
- Yes. Yes, it is.

I'm rather jealous.

They're taking you to the Blessing.

Thank you.

We won't meet again.

Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall...

(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

It's them.

(WHISPERS) They're here.

Remember, just do what we said.

GWEN: Take it upstairs and flush it.

Yes, I'm coming!

If you don't open the door,
we're legally empowered to knock it down.

- Mrs Cooper?
- Mm-hm.

You must be Gwen Cooper.

Ralph Finch. Can we come in?

- Not without a warrant, no.
- Oh! Not necessary, I'm afraid.

I have reason to suspect
you may be illegally harboring

an unsupported Category 1
deceased person.

And according
to the Emergency Powers Act,

reasonable suspicion is all I need.

You keep an eye on the front.
Gentlemen! We're in.

Oh, I'm gonna complain.
I'm gonna take this to the top.

Just you wait and see,
I used to be with the police.

Yeah, very much in the past tense
as I understand it.

Up you go, boys.
Check the rooms upstairs.

My father is dead. He's gone.

We never said goodbye. No funeral.
No chance to mourn him.

For all I know he was just
thrown into a furnace still alive.

I can't even have a bit of peace
in my own bathroom!

Are you allowed to barge in

- like this anyway?
- Husband, Rhys Williams.

You never shared a surname,
which says a lot.

But we're still missing one person.

So, where's Mary, Gwen?

- What's keeping your mother so busy?
- (GROANS)

Shopping...

(FLICKING SWITCH)

- No lights?
- Uh, no.

Whole house needs rewiring.

No worries. We've got torches. Boys!

Torches down here!

Lend us that, Joe.

All that's down there's rats,
so you make yourself at home.

(WHEEZING)

(WHISPERS) Shut up.

(VERMIN SQUEAK)

It's mice, not rats.

I'd recommend putting down traps.

We'll get rid of the vermin...
as fast as we can.

Out.

Your father is still unregistered.

And I can't leave you alone
until I know what happened to him.

So... you take care now.

Seriously... your whole family,

you'd better take a great deal of care.

God, that was close.

Never mind.
I told you this thing would work.

I had to... I had to pin him down.
(WEEPS)

It took all my strength.

It's OK, Mam.

It's OK. They've gone. OK?

They've gone.

Bad news. DNA trace,
it came out negative. No leads, nothing.

There's no bloodline from john Podesta
on file. I tried everything.

- Shit.
- Son of a bitch.

Sorry. I'll keep looking, but...

Hey, Charlotte...

the, um, Podesta short story,
we have that on digital format,

- right?
- Yeah, I think so. Why?

Great, can you send it to me?

It's not worth reading.
Like you said, pulp fiction.

Yeah, I know, just send it to me.

- You have an idea?
- No, no, no. Just send it, OK?

Sure.

It's the shopping.
Take it through to the kitchen, will you?

- Eh?
- All right, mate?

Oh, you're early.

Just put it by the fridge,
I'll sort it out in a minute.

It is posh getting deliveries, mind.

Oh, it's my mother's latest scheme.

She's starting to cook for the club,

raising money
charging two quid a cake.

Oh, isn't she pretty?

Are you eating that food, honey,
or are you wearing it?

Mm, sweet.

So sweet... your child.

I realize this might be
something of a surprise...

- but...
- What's going on?

I've been told that you have
certain information that I need.

(CLEARS THROAT) I apologize for
the subterfuge, but I do happen to have

the most recognizable face on the planet.

Not any more!

- What the hell are you doing?
- Look at him,

for God's sake! Look at him!

Look at him!
It's Oswald Danes in our house.

Oh, my God!

You touch my daughter again
and I will kill you.

Take her out of here, Mam, now. Good.

Thank you. Cos I don't want her
to see her mother...

Stop it! Stop. Stop. Stop.

Stop it there. Hush now. Come on.

We don't want you arrested for murder.

Thank you, sir.

They can arrest me for that.

Now you tell me.
Tell me quickly, you bastard.

You murdering bastard!

Eh? Come on, tell me,

before I get the boys round. Before
I shout your name out loud in the street

and fetch the bloody mob, tell me,
what do you want?

Jack Harkness.

The men who smuggled me
into this country,

they brought Harkness in seven weeks ago
and they brought him to you.

And then you, in turn, found him a haven.

Now I paid good money
for your name, Gwen Cooper,

so I really need to see Jack.

And you will do... exactly what I ask.

Why should I?

Because I have a name.

(LAUGHS) I have the name of a man.

I have the name of the man...

who created the miracle.

Look, someone's leaking information,
you know that's got to be true.

Maybe not from here,
but from somewhere down the chain.

You know, for the past two months,
every move we make, we get blocked.

Yeah, well, I wish it were me.
Then you could shoot me and I could sleep.

- Yeah, I'd like that very much, sir
- So what did you find?

Victor Podesta.
I figured anyone who writes pulp fiction

is gonna want to keep on writing
even if it's under a different name.

So... I ran the short story through
the pattern-recognition software,

identifying key points of similarity

- in prose styles.
- Did you find him?

I found 320. See, it's more difficult
with that sort of fiction

because everyone writes the same.

And that's only the ones
in the database. But...

out of that there's around 46
with pronounced similarities

scattered all across the world.
Look at this...

22 in the US,

nine in the UK, one in Sweden.
We've got Argentina, Germany, japan.

And I've got to check them all out.

Well, I think you'd better get started.

Yes, sir. But listen,

can we keep this between you and me?

I mean, this has to be mine
and mine alone, OK?

The, um, latest from the White House

is that they're gonna stop
all immigration.

China closed its borders,
now we're gonna do the same.

Every passing day, we are taking
one step closer to a dictatorship.

And we don't even know
who the real dictators are.

(PHONE RINGS)

Hello?

GWEN: Can you see my car keys?
I can't find them anywhere.

- Um... how did you get this number?
- Look...

whoever you're working for,

it's Jack Harkness they're after,
so you're wasting your time.

He wouldn't turn up here
in a month of Sundays.

$0 why not just take the night off?

Do you think we're stupid?

JACK: Yeah.

Now drink this.

It won't harm you.
You've had it before.

- It's true. I made you drink it.
- I need you

to have no memory of seeing me,

so I can leave you
with nowhere to put your hat...

or you can drink it.

Option two's better.

GWEN: Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

- Oh, my God.
- I know. Oh!

- Sorry.
- Oh, I know.

- Hey, I thought you were better.
- I'm fine. I am, don't worry.

Thank you for looking after him.

- Thank you.
- It's so good to see you.

Oh, God, I missed you.
I have so missed you. He's through there.

Jack...

I was told the correct
form of address is Captain.

You once asked me for help.

So you can remember that, the rest
of you - the Captain invited me in.

I want to ask one thing first...

at your trial, you said about that girl,

"She should have run faster."
Did you really say that?

Yes, I did.

Right. OK.

Cos let me tell you, Oswald,
I used to be a policewoman

and I worked
with pedophiles and murderers,

and God help me, I saw men so alone

and... and damned and... wretched.
But that's not you.

That's... That's nothing like you.

Because for the first time in my life

I've met a monster. Is that clear?

I feel very special. And well said.

- I'm gonna kill him.
- Leave it.

OK, everyone,
all we need is information.

Tell us what you know.

And what happens to me after that?

Oh, then we kill you. And don't forget,
there's no murder any more.

So I can make you
Category 1 for ever, pal.

I haven't agreed to anything.

So you just tell me what you know
or we are calling the police now.

You're keeping
a few secrets yourself, Gwen.

You had me tied up here all day,
and all those whispers,

all those looks towards... that cellar.

Are you hiding something down there
by any chance?

Excuse me, you were gonna call the police.

OK, there may be deals to be made...

There may not.

But before we can decide anything,

there needs to be a full and fair
exchange of information.

Mr Danes, there's no going back.
You need to tell us what you know.

I'll say this -
PhiCorp gave me an assistant,

a woman called Jillian Kitzinger,
and in my crate over there

I have Miss Kitzinger's laptop.

God's sake, is that it? (LAUGHS)
We raided her file way back.

Wait, wait. Wait, wait.

As soon as I'd stolen the laptop,

good little Jilly did exactly the right
things - she changed the passwords,

opened new accounts,
deleted the old ones.

But I was watching.

And I know my way around online
better than most.

I know how to keep myself hidden.

So I shadowed her,
and I've been following Miss Kitzinger

these past two months.

Here's a funny thing.

Yesterday at 12 midday she disappeared.

Her entire profile online vanished.

Jilly Kitzinger ceased to exist.

- You said you had the name of a man.
- (OSWALD SIGHS)

Soon as I say this,
I'll be at your mercy.

- Yes.
- Tell us his name!

I'll have to trust you, remember that.

I'm trusting you.

One man's name keeps reoccurring.

Kitzinger was employed
to send him information.

And his name's Harry Bosco.

Harry Bosco?

- His name, over and over again.
- Esther?

Harry Bosco.

- Sorry.
- Why can't you search him?

You think you're clever, Oswald?

Is that really all you had?

It's a name.

Harry Bosco isn't a man.

Harry Bosco is a process.

It goes back to Vietnam.

It was the first war to be televised,

and the government
didn't want US networks

taking feed directly from the Vietnamese

cos for the first time,
information was beyond their control.

So they put agents in every newsroom,

every major TV network,
filtering the output for the public.

Cleverest of them all
was a man called...

Harry Bosco.

- What did he do?
- He'd alter information.

It was subtle.
He did it by mistranslation.

He couldn't censor or change,

but he could manipulate
the English translation.

Change one word,
change the entire meaning.

If you say "victims" instead of
"bodies", you influence public opinion.

All the channels Harry Bosco these days.

So that's it? Dead end?

Done? You finished with him?
Can I have him now?

Could you keep your dog on its leash?

- Watch it, pal.
- My point still stands.

The name's still important
because Kitzinger works in PR.

Why would she be handling
this Harry Bosco process?

To be fair, it's a good question.

Why would the families hire Jilly
to do all this in the first place?

- What's she translating?
- What's she mistranslating?

Cos the three families changed their name,
now a Jilly's changing words?

Maybe they're connected.

Chicken and chips.
Didn't have any fish. Too expensive.

- World gone mad.
- And I've got the beers.

- Can I have mine?
- Oh, sure.

(RHYS LAUGHS) Hey!

They've been going great guns, this lot.
You know,

going through someone's e-mails, yeah,
is like reading their diaries.

- So what did we find?
- (ESTHER SIGHS)

Another problem...

Jilly processed this clip
from a local news station in Shanghai.

It's got three layers of language.

It's in the local Wu dialect
dubbed into Mandarin

and then she sent it out
for English subtitles.

How are we supposed to know
what's wrong or right?

- What? Nobody speaks Chinese?
- Shut it!

What do we do? I can't go down
to the takeaway and ask Kenny.

Esther?

Yeah, I know.

(PHONE RINGS)

What?

Rex. It's me. It's Esther.

Don '2' tell anyone,

but... l need your help. I'm sorry,
there's no-one else I can turn to.

- I've got a lead.
- All right, people, come on,

I need this room. Top priority.
Come on, clear the room.

Let's go, let's go, let's go.

Where are you?

Can't say, so don't make me.

We're safe. We're fine. We're OK.

Well, if that's the plural,
I take it that World War I! Didn't die.

It's going to take more than that!

I've been trying
to kill the silly sod for years.

OK, so that's Gwen,
which means you're in Wales.

$0 much for undercover work.

You /mom you're idiots.
[didn't even have to trace you.

Except you're not
tracing us anyway, are you?

No, I'm not.

We need help, Rex.

We need the CIA.
We need translations specifically.

Oh, Shit. Um...

OK, I'll try.

- Can't tell them why.
- Oh, I know, believe me

This place isn't safe.
What's the language?

Mandarin.
We think there's something in Shanghai.

Morning.

Guess you're my breakfast meeting.

I'm Jilly Kitzinger.

No, you're Lucy Statten Meredith.

Congratulations, you failed the test.

OK, I keep wondering, why me?

You're a storyteller.

- Thank you.
- Look at you...

the nails, the coat, the lipstick.

From the moment you walk through
the door, you tell a story.

You might have noticed
we're kind of good at keeping quiet.

So we need you.

We need experts.

So what's your story?

I'm the latest chapter in an epic.

Once upon a time,
there were three wise families.

And they went out into the world.

One family took politics,

one family took finance
and one family took media.

But... that's all in the past.

The stories yet to come,
they're the best.

So does that mean there's a story
about to break? With the miracle?

Not for me to say.

You want me to what?
Prepare a statement? Mount a campaign?

That's kind of small, don't you think?

Then what?

We need you to write history.

I could do that.

Good.

Nice recovery.

Your hair is a work of art.

If you ever come here at night,

try the mitten crab.
It's a local delicacy.

So what do you want me to do next?

Stay in your hotel and wait.

When we're ready,
you'll be taken to the Blessing.

I hope you survive.

I'm sorry... what do you mean by that?

Well, some people die.

The Blessing, it kills them.

Good luck. You won't see me again.

(DUBBED MANDARIN ON SOUNDTRACK)

This is pre-miracle.

He died two days later.

But he went crazy, burned down
a hospital, got caught in his own fire.

- This guy should win the Darwin Award.
- "Godsend",

- you got that; Rex?
- Yeah, yeah. I saw it first.

I knew it. The English isn't "godsend".
The actual phrase is

"It's a blessing my life was saved."

ALL: "Blessing."

It doesn't mean anything.
We'd all say that. He survived a fire.

REX: Hold on, hold on, hold on. Would
somebody shut the husband up, please?

That's the Mandarin,

but the original Wu dialect is different.

Are you ready for this?

He didn't say,
"It's a blessing my life was saved."

He said, "The Blessing saved my life."

They mistranslated it on purpose.

"The Blessing saved my life."

It's in Shanghai.

- The Blessing's in Shanghai.
- How the hell do we get to Shanghai?

Oh, for God's sake! You're not serious?

Well... they hid the word
"Blessing", Rhys.

It wasn't hidden from the bloody Chinese!

They saw it and there's enough of them!

But it was only transmitted once
and then it was scrubbed off the record.

Yeah, just because he said "Blessing"
doesn't mean it's in Shanghai!

I mean,

I could say "Jesus",
but I'm not in Jerusalem.

Why did they hide that clip? Now, stop it.

Hush, OK? Just for a minute.
The trouble is,

getting into Shanghai is going to be
impossible. They've closed the borders,

withdrawn from the UN. I mean,
the whole of China is a no-go area.

Yeah, and there's no way I can get in

without posting it as a full-scale
mission, and that's going to leak.

By the time we 'd get there
they'd be gone.

- You could take a slow boat.
- Shut it!

Wait a minute, who was that?

- Who else is there?
- Just... just Rhys.

Never mind.

Esther, is there anything
within mainland China?

Any open ports? Anything?

No, but... wait.

I knew a man once, way back,
um, worked out

- of Hunan Province.
- ESTHER: Wait, wait, wait, just listen.

OK, think about it,

who burns down a hospital? I mean,
who does that? Why would he do that?

Turns out we've got
another mistranslation.

The Mandarin says "medical facility",
but I looked up the address.

It was a blood bank.

Blood again.

- It's always about blood. Why is that?
- Wait, wait, wait.

OK. Run a check on that,
but reference it with Kitzinger.

She has a second clip in Span/sh. It's...

There's a second blood bank
in Buenos Aires,

a blood bank destroyed by fire

24 hours before Shanghai}
five days before the miracle

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

I had Argentina. Right there.
John Forester, died age 76 in La Boca.

I think he was in the cellar with Jack.

But that man said,
"Miracle in Shanghai, “ yes?

Then Why'd they burn down
a blood bank in Buenos Aires?

I mean, why burn down
a blood bank at all?

We don't even know what the Blessing is.
Maybe it's some sort of ritual.

Maybe it happens in both cities at once

Whoa, hang on a minute.

(SHOUTING)

(WHISPERS) Rhys, my dad!

Hello?

- Hello there, Gwen.
- Hello.

Got company?

Yeah, we're just visiting from London.

Don't worry, anyone who can
leave the house under their own steam

is of no interest to me.

What's going on?

Been busy down there, Rhys?

No.

Well, you won't mind
if I take a look, then.

In the old days, to find a dead body
you'd use a sniffer dog.

But they've gone the way
of the miner's budgie.

(CHUCKLES) Brand new app -
thermal imaging.

Brilliant, it is.

- Sony, hold up there.
- This is my house.

My name is Mary Cooper and I live here.

For God's sake, let me in!

This is good. I'm the most wanted man
on the face of the Earth,

but they want someone else.

Yeah, one more word out of you

- and I'm handing you over.
- But you can't.

Because then they'll wonder who you are.

We've got him!

Over there, boys. Behind the wall.

Pull it down.

He's not dead!

He's not dead.
Feel him, he's still warm.

- He's... He's... He's warm. Feel him.
- Not as warm as he's going to be.

Oh, you bastard!

Please don't, OK? Please don't!

- This man is Category 1.
- Please, please!

It's my duty to take him
from this place

and deliver him into safe keeping
until such time

as he can be disposed of
according to the laws of the land.

(WHISPERS) Please don't.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Good bye, my love.

- What do you want to do?
- Go to Shanghai.

I don't care if we have to walk.

I will travel the whole bloody world
to put this right, Jack.

I need your permission
to go off grid, sir.

Failing permission, I'm going anyway.
And I need to go now.

OK. What if you need backup?

Well, then and only then
will I contact you, sir.

Minimum notice.

Because if we've got a mole,
I can't risk anyone finding this out.

But this could be it, sir.
This could be the Blessing.

Good luck.

I think I can get us in.

Back in the old days, Torchwood
tracked down a black-market trade

in alien artifacts coming out of China.
Skullion metal and coins,

things like that.

We closed it down, but the route
stayed open... for arms dealing.

- We're going to trust arms dealers?
- I don't care. I'll do it.

OK, OK, wait.
What about Buenos Aires?

- I don't know. Which city is it?
- RHYS: It's both.

You bunch of... nuts.
You can't see for looking, can you?

Eh? Look.

Right, Shanghai...

(WHISTLES) ...Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires... (WHISTLES)

Shanghai.

Opposite sides of the world.

Quite literally,
opposite sides of the Earth, yeah?

Yeah? So whatever's going on,
there's got to be

- something connecting them.
- Oh, my God,

are you kidding me? Is that right?

They're antipodes.
They're the antipodes of each other.

Two massive population centers
balanced on either side of the planet.

As the old saying goes,
"Count your blessings,"

cos it turns out there's two of them.

- But what does it mean?
- Look at the PhiCorp logo.

The letter Phi,
circle with a line through it.

It's been right there in front of us,
staring us in the face all this time.

A line through the world?

The Blessing. The miracle.

- Mm-hm.
- But what is it?

We need to find out.

We can get into Argentina, no problem.

Maybe we need to get into both, Jack.

- Maybe you should go one way...
- And you the other.

Buenos Aires. Shanghai.

So this is what we're doing?
A mission on both sides of the world?

- Biggest mission yet.
- Suppose it is, yeah.

And you're taking me with you.

- GWEN: No way.
- RHYS: No, no, no.

I've got better plans for you, bub.

And that's your problem, isn't it, Gwen?
You can't let me walk free,

not a man with my desires.

And you can't have me arrested.

Not now that I know
all about your little plans.

- They can leave you here with me.
- Well, that's just it, you joyous man,

you've just trapped your wife completely.

Leave me here with him
and I think he would,

I actually think he would.
Your husband would kill me.

He'd make me Category 1
with his own bare hands.

You would kill me, wouldn't you?

Yeah?

Is that what you want?

No. I'm coming with you.

There's no choice.

There's not a choice
in the whole of the world.

(SPEAKS MANDARIN)

(MAN CONTINUES
TO SPEAK MANDARIN)

JACK: Hup! Let's go!

- (SIGHS) It made it.
- Yeah.

The only way to get this stuff through
was in a diplomatic bag.

Oh, man. Don't start
with that hugging shit.

Shut up.

Come on. Look, the only problem is
I had to sign for the case.

Now, I'm running this thing undercover,

but if anyone checks the embassy
notifications... we're screwed.

(BEEPING)

You must feel terrible.

No, I'm fine.

No, I mean, you really must.

That's what the Blessing does to you,
the closer you get.

You're scared. Am I right?

Your skin's a little too tight.

There's something just out of the corner
of your eye you can't quite see. Hmm?

Yes.

You never get used to it.

Come this way, Miss Kitzinger.

It's Miss Meredith.

I don't really care.

The men enjoy those sorts of games.

But the feeling, it started
as soon as we dug deep enough.

I think it's the Blessing's attempt
to communicate.

Then it's a living thing?

Oh, we have no idea.

But certainly the Blessing sends
some sort of impact back at the onlooker.

We have a theory.

We say the Blessing shows you to yourself.

I've seen people look upon the Blessing
and end their lives.

There's a brilliant truth about that,
because each and every time,

that person was hiding something vile.

Isn't that wonderful?

It's exhilarating, the damage it does.

I wonder what you'll see.

What can you see?

What does the Blessing tell you
about yourself?

That I'm right.

How far down does it go?

All the way
to the other side of the world.

Uh!

(PHONE RINGS)

Hey. Guess what.

Same old glamor here.
We're in some kind of warehouse.

Yeah? Well, I'm stuck in a hovel
owned by gunrunners,

with Oswald Danes as a roommate.

Not the best day of my life,
I'll tell you.

Still, it's a good phone line.

Yeah, considering the distance, it is.

Just started looking for that Blessing.
God help us

we're in two of
the biggest cities on Earth.

Try starting with the family

of that arsonist
and I'm going to go to local libraries.

You look after that weapon, OK?

Jack's blood has got to be important.

- It's safe. Got it here.
- Find anything, call me.

You too.

Good luck.

Bye.

Oh!

Idiot.

You idiot. You told me that was healed.
You're not better at all, are you?

- Let me see.
- Sorry.

It's OK, I got it. OK, I got you.

- I got you...
- Oh!

JACK: I'm so sorry.

Don't be sorry.
Don't be sorry, I've got you.

OK?

Let me take a look.

Oh, honestly!

Oh, God.

Gwen...

If I had known it was this bad, Jack,

you'd never have come.

It got worse when we arrived.

- Ah!
- Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

OK, I got you.

Fine place to die, in old Shanghai.

You're not dying. Don't say that.

I'm tired, Gwen.

This mortal life...

it hurts so much.

OSWALD: Well, now.

Can't say I've been to China before,

so I'm not well versed
in their customs.

But... I've got to say...

I never knew about that.

OSWALD: Whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

It's your blood.
No wonder it's killing you. I think...

I think it's showing us the way!

It's the Blessing.
It's somewhere over there.

And I think, whatever it is,
it's calling you, Jack.

We've changed the whole of the world

and this is just Phase One.

MAN: These are the days of the miracle.

It's like they broke the world.

Why would you want this?

WOMAN: We tear down in order to rebuild.

Somebody betrayed us.

JACK: The world's been turning
for... Over four billion years...

I'll see you.

So much buried under its skin.

GWEN: What the hell is that thing?

WOMAN: You're about to meet the creator.

OSWALD: Who are you?

I come from the future.

Then you must know.

Do we make it through this day?