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Oct 22, 2006 · Day One: Directed by Brian Kelly. With John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori. Torchwood must stop a sex addicted alien as it leaves a trail of gruesome deaths in its wake.
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was the second episode in the first series of Torchwood. It was written by Chris Chibnall and directed by Brian Kelly.
Taking advantage of its post-watershed allowances, it was the first Doctor Who-related onscreen production to explicitly centre its conflict around sex. The episode explored sexuality in the 21st century and took a look at an alien interested in something more than just enslavement. It saw Gwen Cooper take on her first mission for Torchwood, following her induction in Everything Changes [+]Russell T Davies, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006)..
Gwen's first day on her new job at Torchwood sees Cardiff's night-life at the mercy of a gaseous alien who consumes its victims during orgasm, leaving behind only dust. And it's all her fault — she let it escape a fallen meteorite. The gas is devouring its teenage host. She's fighting for control as the alien inside takes down victim after victim. ...
Gwen is having dinner with Rhys, after bowling and a movie. He asks her about her new job at Torchwood. Gwen lies, saying she will mostly be handling filing. A meteor falls through the sky and Gwen notices it crash on the town's outskirts. They run to get a better view, then Gwen gets a message and tells Rhys that she has to go to work.
Gwen is picked up by the team in the Torchwood SUV, commenting on the dual computer stations and a seemingly illegal link to the police CRIMINT computer system. They arrive at the crash site and find, to their disappointment, that the "amateurs" — the British Army — have beaten them there. Jack tells the team to employ the "usual formation"; Owen informs Gwen that the usual formation varies. While the rest of the team head to the meteor to examine it, Gwen remembers her equipment and returns to the car to get it.
Army security stops Gwen until Jack comes back to collect her and tells them to back off. The others move into action, taking samples and readings, and Gwen feels inexperienced and out of place. When Owen starts trying out nicknames, the least of which is "New Girl", and asks for a bigger chisel to help get a part of the meteor, Gwen cracks a joke about Owen needing a bigger tool for the job and tosses the chisel at him.
She misses. It punctures the skin of the meteor, and, as Jack tosses around gas masks, it begins to release a purplish gas that coalesces and rises into the air. Gwen looks around at her team guiltily.
At an alley near an underground night club in Cardiff, a young woman, Carys Fletcher, is leaving a distraught voice mail for Eddie, who she says has stood her up again for another woman, when she is confronted by the gaseous creature. It backs her against a wall, then flows into her body. Carys, confused and shocked, inhales the Sex Gas through her mouth and nose. After all of the gas was inside of her body, she exhales. She suddenly goes from upset to sexually aggressive, and gains re-entry into the club by kissing the bouncer. She picks out a man, Matt, and nearly drags him into the women's toilet. They have sex, and, at the moment of climax, Matt dissolves into a glowing cloud of dust, while the energy portion of Matt is absorbed by Carys.
Gwen keeps apologising, Owen keeps taunting her, Tosh wants him to lay off, and Jack just wants her to get past it and back to work. Ianto thinks he can help, as he's heard an unusual 999 call for the nightclub. The team investigates, and PC Andy is surprised to see Gwen. They find the dust and the CCTV tapes that show Carys and Matt having their deadly sex and the alien taking her over in the alley. Jack arranges for a body to be taken out of storage to fake a suicide for Matt, which shocks and dismays Gwen. Jack confiscates the tapes.
•Captain Jack Harkness —John Barrowman
•Gwen Cooper — Eve Myles
•Owen Harper — Burn Gorman
•Toshiko Sato — Naoko Mori
•Ianto Jones — Gareth David-Lloyd
•Rhys Williams — Kai Owen
•A picture of Torchwood House is visible in the background of the Hub.
•Jack is surprised that Gwen, a police officer, was never trained with a handgun.
•Carys is a fan of Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom.
•Owen Harper suggests "sweetheart", "sweetcheeks" and "freckles" as nicknames for Gwen.
•This story had a working title of New Girl. This would later be used as the name of the first Torchwood One audio story, referring to Rachel Allan.
•The episode was repeated on BBC Two, three days later at 9:50pm on Wednesday 25 October 2006.
•The alien is never given a name in the episode, although in Torchwood Declassified, Russell T Davies refers to it as the "sex monster" or the "sex gas orgasm-eating monster".
•This episode has the distinction of featuring the first same-sex kiss between two women in the Doctor Who franchise.
•After Carys smashes the glass container of the Doctor's hand, as Jack picks it up, "The Doctor's Theme" begins to play.
•Russell T Davies states in Torchwood Declassified that this episode "reflects how sexualised our community is" and considered the scene when Carys is in the city surrounded in sexual images to be his favourite scene because it best defines it.
•Owen jokingly states he would have sex with Gwen. They later go on to form a sexual relationship as depicted in TV: Countrycide [+]Chris Chibnall, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006). and Greeks Bearing Gifts [+]Toby Whithouse, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006)..
•Andy Davidson states that Gwen is now part of special operations, referring to Torchwood. Special operations is how Torchwood maintains its secrecy, with it being a cover story within the British police force as first mentioned in TV: Everything Changes [+]Russell T Davies, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006)..
DVD releases
•This episode, with four others, was first released on a DVD entitled Torchwood: Series 1, part 1 on 26 December 2006. •It was later released in Torchwood: The Complete First Series on 19 November 2007. •It was also released in the Series 1-4 boxset (Region 2 release: 14 November 2011.)
Blu-ray releases
•Released in the US with the rest of Series 1 as a Complete First Season set on 16 September 2008. •It was released in the Series 1-3 Blu-ray boxset on 26 October 2009 in the UK. The US release was on 19 July 2011. •It was also released in the Series 1-4 Blu-ray boxset. (Region 2 release: 14 November 2011)
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