Exit Wounds (Torchwood)

Doctorwhobox
number = 26
serial_name = Exit Wounds
caption = Jack and Gwen mourn for Tosh, who bled to death.


show = TW
type = episode
cast =
* John Barrowman – Captain Jack Harkness
* Eve Myles – Gwen Cooper
* Burn Gorman – Owen Harper
* Naoko Mori – Toshiko Sato
* Gareth David-Lloyd – Ianto Jones
guests =
* James Marsters – Captain John Hart
* Lachlan Nieboer – Gray
* Kai Owen – Rhys Williams
* Paul Kasey – Weevil / Hoix
* Tom Price – PC Andy Davidson
* Paul Marc Davis – Cowled Leader
* Golda Rosheuvel – Dr Angela Connolly
* Syreeta Kumar – Nira Docherty
* Cornelius Macarthy – Charles Gaskell
* Amy Manson – Alice Guppy
writer = Chris Chibnall
director = Ashley Way
production_code = 2.13
producer = Richard Stokes Chris Chibnall (co-producer)
executive_producer = Russell T Davies Julie Gardner
script_editor = Brian Minchin
series = Series 2
length = 50 mins
date = 4 April 2008
preceding = "Fragments"
following = "Lost Souls" (radio play) "Children of Earth" (serial)
imdb_id = 1190501"Exit Wounds" is the thirteenth and final episode of the second series of British science fiction television series "Torchwood", and was broadcast on BBC Two on 4 April 2008.cite web
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publisher = BBC Press Office
accessdate = 2008-03-22]

Plot

Synopsis

Continuing from the events of the previous episode; the Torchwood team split up; heading for different sites around the city. Gwen and Rhys go to the police station after PC Andy informs Gwen that senior officers have been murdered by Weevils. Tosh and Ianto go to the Central Server Building to deal with "Ghosts" that have appeared, killing them easily. Owen heads to St. Helen's Hospital, where a Hoix has been found chewing on cables and using a packet of cigarettes, he lures it, sedating it with a syringe.

Jack returns to the Hub, finding John Hart playing "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper", referring to it as 'their song'. After a brief conversation; John confesses his love and shoots Jack to death. When Jack revives; he is chained up and stripped of his weapons as he watches John carry on with his task. John instructs the team to head to their roofs as he blows up parts of Cardiff city. This not only separates them further; but leaves each team member to deal with more mayhem. As Jack watches the city crumble; John transports them both back to Cardiff 27 AD.

John explains that his actions were involuntary and that his wristband is equipped with surveillance and detonation circuits, molecularly bonded to his skin. Before he can explain any further; Jack's brother Gray arrives and drives a blade through his brother's ribs. Gray explains his hate and resentment for Jack for leaving him behind, which led to his torture as a child. He forces John to bury Jack. John throws a ring into the grave, claiming its sentimental value, then buries Jack alive.

John returns to present day Cardiff to help the team. After confrontation with Gwen, he orders Tosh trace the ring as it is in fact, a detector. Whilst John and Gwen try to trace the ring; Gray releases the Weevils, sending them into the street; preventing Tosh and Ianto from reaching the nuclear plant to stop the meltdown. Owen goes to stop the meltdown instead as he still controls the Weevils and he is closer to the plant.

Tosh and Ianto arrive and shoot the Weevils surrounding John and Gwen, but Tosh remarks that a bullet won't kill them so the others return them to the cells. Gray traps them in the cells while Tosh helps Owen to stop the meltdown. As she is doing so; Gray shoots Tosh in the stomach before leaving her for dead after hearing a loud noise. As Gray follows the noise to the morgue; he opens one of the chambers to find Jack awake. It is revealed that Jack was discovered in 1901 by Torchwood personnel as they detected John's ring. They placed him in the cyrochamber with a timer set to wake him up in present day.

Jack asks for Gray's absolution after forgiving him for his burial, but Gray refuses saying his hate is too deep. Jack chloroforms Gray while John recalls the Weevils from his cell. Jack frees Ianto, Gwen and John, thanking him for his help. While this has been happening; Toshiko who is bleeding to death, continues to help Owen at the nuclear plant. Owen guesses that something is wrong but Tosh reassures him it's just her broken arm.

Tosh and Owen avert immediate meltdown by venting the flow channels into the control room Owen is in, with a time delay set so that Owen can escape. However, emergency lockdown is triggered after a power strike hits the plant; trapping Owen. Both bound for death, they talk, and Owen apologises for not realising his feelings for Tosh and never being able to go on a date. The radioactive material flows into the control room and Owen remarks that 'it's alright', before the scene fades to white.

As Tosh sits helpless to save Owen; Jack notices blood on the floor and finds her weakly propped up against the chair. While Gwen injects her with a pain-killer; Tosh explains Owen's situation to everyone's dismay. Tosh weakly smiles up at Jack, who smiles back; and dies in his arms, a tear running down her cheek. Both he and Gwen cry and as he hugs Tosh's body; the scene fades to Gwen's flat where she and Rhys are watching news coverage, devastated.

Jack freezes Gray and John suggests killing him as his disturbed state is less likely to change. Jack refuses stating that 'there has been enough death'. He also mentions that his burial was penance. John, deciding to explore Earth further, kisses Jack before offering his sympathies and leaving.

As Ianto performs the final log-out procedures for Tosh and Owen; Gwen and Jack pack up their stations, heartbroken. As Toshiko's death is registered; a pre-programmed video made by Tosh appears in which she says her goodbyes and confesses her love for Owen. She thanks Jack for saving her from UNIT and showing her the wonders of the universe before the video ends. Gwen remarks that she cannot go on without them but Jack reassures her that they can because 'the end is where they start from'. The episode ends with Jack, his arms around Ianto and Gwen in tears inside the Hub, and an overhead shot of Cardiff Bay.

Continuity

*For the dating of this episode, see the Chronology.
*A Hoix creature, from the parent series "Doctor Who" in its 2006 episode "Love and Monsters" appears in this episode. This is the first time it is named onscreen.
*Owen refers to his status as "King of the Weevils", first mentioned in "Dead Man Walking" and seeded in "Combat".
*When Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato are discussing their early days together, Tosh describes pretending to be a medic in Owen's second week, to cover for him having a hangover. Owen asks if this was "the space pig", referring to Naoko Mori's appearance as Doctor Sato, a presumed pathologist in the "Doctor Who" story "Aliens of London".
*Jack tells Gray "I forgive you", infuriating Gray. The Doctor said this to the Master in similar circumstance in "Last of the Time Lords", and Jack himself spoke the phrase to Owen Harper following his resurrection in "End of Days".
*In the video played after her death, Toshiko tells Captain Jack "I wouldn't have missed it for the world." Rose Tyler said this to the Doctor facing her death in the "Doctor Who" episode "Dalek".
*Paul Marc Davis, who plays the Cowled Leader, has previously played the Futurekind Chieftain in the "Doctor Who" episode "Utopia" and the Trickster in "The Sarah Jane Adventures" story "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?". He is the second actor to appear in all three series, the first being Paul Kasey.

Production

Cast notes

This episode marks the last episode starring Naoko Mori as Toshiko Sato and Burn Gorman as Owen Harper. In the "Torchwood: De-Classified" that covers this episode, Burn Gorman who plays Owen Harper jokingly remarks that Owen either is truly dead or will transform into the "king of the Weevils".

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