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Owen walks on a footpath, looks up and spots a woman called Maggie Hopley, who is ready to jump off a roof on the anniversary of her husband's death. Asking Maggie if she is ready to jump and revealing his undead state, Owen tells the story of his day to her as a frame story throughout the episode.
Feb 27, 2008 · A Day in the Death: Directed by Andy Goddard. With John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori. Owen's been dead for three days and finds it unbearable. He meets a woman contemplating jumping off a roof and reveals that there is nothing after death.
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was the eighth episode of Series 2 of Torchwood. It was written by Joseph Lidster and directed by Andy Goddard. It was the conclusion to a loose trilogy that featured Martha Jones as a guest character and was linked by Owen dealing with his death and resurrection from the previous two episodes.
Owen chats with a suicidal woman on a rooftop, reflecting on his adjustment (or lack thereof) to his new life (or lack thereof). Will a mission with Torchwood assist in his salvation or bring about the end of the world?
Owen Harper sits on a rooftop ledge, talking to a woman who is on the verge of committing suicide, whose name is later revealed as Maggie Hopley. He tells her about his recent ordeal with being dead and resurrected.
As his memories begin, we see Jack let him off, but he has to stay at the Hub so that Martha can run some tests on him. Martha has been assigned the position of Torchwood Three medical doctor. As he talks to her, he cuts his hand on a scalpel. Martha has to stitch it back together, saying that it will have to be stitched every week because of his inability to heal. The team has a meeting about a man they've been keeping an eye on named Henry Parker, who hasn't left his house since the 1980s.
Later that day Owen is in his flat, where he decides to get rid of some things (food, shaving foam, etc.) since he no longer needs them. After he has finished clearing up, Tosh comes round and begins talking to him. He does not really listen. After a few minutes Owen demands to know why Tosh has come and why she is still in love with him when he has nothing to give her. He yells at Toshiko that he is broken and breaks one of his fingers to prove it. Leaving Toshiko distraught and alone in his flat he runs outside and then to the Cardiff canal, where he jumps in and spends thirty-six minutes under water before giving up trying to drown himself. After realising he has no breath and returning to the surface, he finds Jack watching.
The Torchwood team has another briefing and decide they want to obtain the alien device that Henry Parker has. Owen agrees to go get it, using his dead state to pass heat sensors and multiple guards. Owen comes to a room where there is a bed hidden by veils, in which Henry is lying. He tells Owen that he needs the device to live; Owen tells him that the device has no life-sustaining properties. Henry and Owen have a conversation about the nature of life and death, which convinces Henry to give up the machine. Almost immediately, he goes into cardiac arrest; Owen attempts to perform CPR on him, but has no breath since he's dead, and Henry Parker dies. Later, the Torchwood team bid farewell to Martha as she leaves to return to UNIT.
•Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
•Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
•Owen Harper - Burn Gorman
•Toshiko Sato - Naoko Mori
•Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
•Martha Jones - Freema Agyeman
Culture
•Owen mentions how NASA sent Chuck Berry's music to the stars. •Owen briefly watches an episode of To Buy or Not to Buy. •Owen makes a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when he asks if the millionaire Henry John Parker was filed under the "Mostly Harmless" category.
Objects
•TARDIS coral can be seen growing next to Jack's desk lamp while he is speaking to Owen about letting him go from the Torchwood Institute.
Technology
•Owen listens to an iPod while cleaning his flat.
•This episode aired immediately after the BBC Two repeat of Dead Man Walking at 9:50pm on BBC Three; and was repeated on BBC Two in its usual 9:00pm timeslot the next week, on Wednesday 5 March 2008.
•A family friendly pre-watershed edit of this episode aired at 7:00pm, the following day, Thursday 6 March 2008 on BBC Two.
•In the sequence of Owen's life, clips from TV: Everything Changes, Ghost Machine, Out of Time, Meat and Reset are seen.
•Kai Owen is credited despite Rhys Williams not appearing in this episode.
•In the scene in which Owen asks Jack what he can do when he goes home, the computer behind Jack shows the Dalek weapon from TV: Evolution of the Daleks.
•From this episode on, Owen always has a bandage over his left hand because he cut his palm and broke a finger, and his body can no longer generate new cells to heal wounds, making any damage sustained permanent.
•Owen recalls his romance with Diane Holmes shown in TV: Out of Time [+]Catherine Tregenna, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006)..
•Owen mentions how he was shot three days earlier in the episode TV: Reset [+]J. C. Wilsher, Torchwood series 2 (BBC Three, 2008). and how he came back to life only two days ago during the events of TV: Dead Man Walking [+]Matt Jones, Torchwood series 2 (BBC Three, 2008)..
•Owen mentions the date he and Tosh were supposed to have. They kept mentioning dating in (TV: Meat [+]Catherine Tregenna, Torchwood series 2 (BBC Two, 2008). and Reset [+]J. C. Wilsher, Torchwood series 2 (BBC Three, 2008)..
•One of Henry Parker's items is a Dogon eye, first seen in TV: Random Shoes [+]Jacquetta May, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006)..
•A Day in the Death, along with the rest of series 2, was released in a complete series box set in 2008.
•It was also released in the Series 1-4 boxset (Region 2 release: 14 November 2011.)
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Mar 17, 2008 · Nothing has really changed by the end of “A Day in the Death,” but at least Owen (Burn Gorman)—still dead—has found a reason to hope. “A Day in the Death” is the circuitous story of Owen’s journey from despair, and the two strangers he meets along the way.
" A Day in the Life " is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as the final track of their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, the opening and closing sections of the song were mainly written by John Lennon, with Paul McCartney primarily contributing the song's middle section.
A Day in the Death Original Airdate: 27 Feb, 2008. OWEN [OC]: My name is Doctor Owen Harper and this is my life. A life that is full of action and violence and work, wonder. Secrets, sex and love and heartbreak and death. My death. The death I survived, the death I am now living through. Except, this isn't living.
