Series one (2006–07) Suzie Costello Suzie Costello, portrayed by
Indira Varma, is a principal character in the first episode "
Everything Changes". The second-in-command of Torchwood Three, the
Cardiff-based wing of the
Torchwood Institute, she has been researching a piece of alien technology, a glove which has the ability to resurrect creatures that have recently died, but only for a short period of time. It is revealed later in the episode that she has been murdering people in order to create test subjects for the Glove, having become obsessed with trying to make it work permanently. While confessing her crimes to Gwen Cooper, she prepares to shoot Gwen in order to cover up her crimes, when Jack arrives. Suzie shoots Jack in the head, but he rises again due to his inability to die, and she commits suicide by placing the muzzle beneath her chin and shooting herself instead. In "
They Keep Killing Suzie", the Torchwood team brings her back to life using the Resurrection Gauntlet (wielded by Gwen) and the "Life Knife". Unknown to the team, this was part of a plan that Suzie set up months before her death. She appears to be resurrected permanently and unable to be killed. However, this is because the gauntlet is continuing to transfer life energy between her and Gwen. Suzie feels inferior to and resents Gwen for "replacing" her in all areas, including having a relationship with
Owen Harper. When asked what she experienced while dead, she initially claims that she remembers nothing but darkness, but later tells Jack that she sensed something in the darkness that is coming for him. Suzie manipulates Gwen into freeing her from the base and subsequently murders her own father. Expressing regret over Gwen's impending death but still willing to sacrifice her to remain alive, Suzie continues draining Gwen's life energy and remains alive even after Jack shoots her multiple times, until
Toshiko Sato destroys the gauntlet, breaking the energy transfer and finally killing Suzie once more. Jack tells
Ianto Jones to record the multiple causes of death as "Death by Torchwood". Suzie has a leading role in the novel
Long Time Dead, a prequel to
Torchwood: Miracle Day.
Andy Davidson Andy Davidson, played by
Tom Price, is
Gwen Cooper's former police partner, an officer for the
South Wales Police in
Cardiff. Price is credited as a guest star in all four series. PC Andy first appears in
Torchwoods première episode, "
Everything Changes" and reappears on a semi-regular basis. Once freed from the unit, her Cyberman persona asserts itself and she attempts to take over the Hub in order to use it as a base for a new Cyber army. Seeing how far Ianto has gone to protect her, she transplants her brain into the body of a pizza delivery girl so they can be together. Still claiming they could both be upgraded, her new body is shot and killed by the rest of the Torchwood team.
Cannibal villagers Evan,
Helen and nephew
Huw Sherman, portrayed by
Owen Teale,
Maxine Evans, and Rhys ap Trefor respectively, are residents from a village with a very strange tradition in the episode "
Countrycide". Once every ten years the villagers
cannibalise any travelers passing by, through, or to their village. The Torchwood team travelled to the vicinity of the village in order to investigate disappearances in the area, thinking they could be connected to the
Rift; when they were drawn into a trap orchestrated by the villagers, they discovered their unsettling secret. When the apparent ringleader of the group, Evan, was eventually captured and questioned, the only reason he gave for following this tradition was that "it made me happy."
Mary Mary portrayed by
Daniela Denby-Ashe is featured in "
Greeks Bearing Gifts" as a 19th-century prostitute. After fleeing from one of her potential johns, a soldier, Mary encountered an alien (later to be discovered as an Arcateenian) in the woods. The alien took over Mary's body and used it to live through the remainder of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Arcateenian later used Mary's preserved body to seduce
Toshiko Sato.
Diane Holmes Diane Holmes, played by
Louise Delamere, first appears in "
Out of Time". She is a pilot and early feminist from 1953 who becomes stranded in 2007 due to the
Cardiff Rift. She enters a relationship with
Owen, and he falls in love with her. After staying with Owen for a short time, and admitting her own love for him, she says farewell to a distraught Owen. Diane flies off in her plane, feeling the Rift will open again for her and take her somewhere new. Diane is seen in flashback clips in "
Combat", "
Captain Jack Harkness", She reappears briefly to Owen as a vision created by Bilis in "
End of Days" insisting he do whatever he can to save her; the encounter leaves him in tears.
Captain Jack Harkness Group Captain Jack Harkness, RAF, played by
Matt Rippy, appears in the episode "
Captain Jack Harkness". When Torchwood's
Jack Harkness and
Toshiko Sato fall back in time to 1941, they meet him and discover him to be the real Captain Jack Harkness, whose name the con-man known as Jack appropriated. Captain Harkness is a young American serving as a
Group Captain in a
RAF Eagle Squadron, stationed in
Cardiff. He is in a
heterosexual relationship, but is revealed to be attracted to Torchwood's Jack. During his time with Jack and Tosh, he is shown to be a compassionate man, backing up Jack's story of Tosh working as a decoder for the government to protect her from the current anti-Japanese prejudice and bonding with Jack over their mutual grief over the responsibility of having to witness those they care for die while they survive. He is distressed at the idea that the woman he is dating while stationed in Cardiff is in love with him, unhappy to lead her on. After some indecision, and after Torchwood's Jack hints that he would soon die, he eventually strikes up the courage to dance with Torchwood's Jack in front of a party of servicemen and their guests. Before Torchwood's Jack leaves to return to the present, the two kiss passionately. The next day, Captain Jack Harkness dies fighting German fighters. In the present day,
Toshiko Sato comforts Torchwood's Jack by telling him that 1941's Captain Jack would be proud that he had taken his name, carrying it on as he saves the world.
Bilis Manger Bilis Manger, played by
Murray Melvin, is a main
antagonist of the first series. Melvin reprised the role of Billis in several audio dramas for
Big Finish.
Series two (2008) Captain John Hart Captain John Hart, played by
James Marsters, first appears in the episode "
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" as a rogue Time Agent and former partner of
Jack Harkness, both professionally and sexually. He has been in
rehab for drink, drugs, sex and murder. Captain John Hart appears through
the Rift using a Vortex Manipulator in order to seek help from Jack. In "
Exit Wounds", Captain John is revealed to have rescued Jack's brother Gray from his old captors, only to learn too late that Gray had been driven insane over the years.
Beth Halloran Beth Halloran, played by
Nikki Amuka-Bird, appears in "
Sleeper". She is one of four alien sleeper agents in Cardiff belonging to
Cell 114, but is totally unaware of this. She and three others were created and given human lives and memories to learn all they could about humans before her alien programming was activated, to commence their attack of Earth. After helping the team to track down the final agent, she pretends to intend on killing Gwen to provoke Torchwood into
suicide by cop so that she does not one day experience the dehumanization of having her alien consciousness awoken. Like all sleepers of her species, Beth's arm can transform into a blade-like weapon and can deploy explosive devices, in addition to this she possesses a tight-knit protective force field (which also projects false humanoid vitals) and superhuman strength. According to the
Torchwood website, her body is stored in the cryogenics area.
Gerald & Harriet Gerald Carter (Roderic Culver) and
Harriet Derbyshire (
Siobhan Hewlett) appear in flashback sequences of "
To the Last Man" investigating the case of Brockless in 1918. Trained in military intelligence, Carter would later become leader of Torchwood Three in Cardiff. Derbyshire was recruited directly from the
University of Oxford (where she observed
physics lectures) into
Torchwood Three. It is noted in the episode that Harriet died at the age of 26. According to the website Harriet is one of the notable employees whose bodies are stored in the cryogenics area.
Adam Smith "Adam Smith", an alien who feeds and survives off
memories, appears in "
Adam", played by
Bryan Dick. Previously trapped in an extradimensional Void, Adam is drawn to the Torchwood team due to their unique memories and escapes the Void through the
Rift. In less than 48 hours he is able to plant false memories in the team, posing as a member of Torchwood. It is this belief in him that allows him to survive. Accompanying the survival instinct, Adam shows a tendency to use his powers recreationally and maliciously. He provides a drastic role-reversal for both Toshiko, now a promiscuous extrovert who shares a passionate relationship with Adam, and Owen, now a shy geek with unrequited feelings for Toshiko. Adam also provides Jack with a resurgence of the
repressed memories of the last pleasant memories of his family before his father's death and his
brother's disappearance. As a side-effect of such new memory creation, other memories must be forced from the mind, leading Gwen to totally forget Rhys. When Ianto looks over his diary and discovers no reference to Adam, Adam attempts to escape by torturing Ianto with false memories of being a serial killer, only for Jack to see through the lie thanks to his knowledge of Ianto's personality. Although Adam tries to threaten Jack by altering his few happy memories of his childhood, Jack nevertheless deals with Adam's existence by giving everyone in the team 48-hour amnesia pills. Forgetting Adam causes his death and leaves the team puzzling the loss of the last 48 hours. In "
Adam", Jack's memories of his brother are brought to the surface by an alien who meddles with his memories. Jack recalls letting go of his brother's hand and losing him during an alien invasion in their homeland of the Boeshane Peninsula, an action he regards as the worst thing he ever did. Young Jack (
Jack Montgomery) searches for Gray but is unable to find him. When the alien is defeated, he taunts Jack that he will lose these memories of his brother. In "
Fragments", Captain John shows Jack a hologram of Gray. Appearing in "
Exit Wounds", Gray is a damaged character who has endured a lifetime of torture; having learnt cruelty from his captors, Gray is a vengeful sadist. Gray returns to Jack only to reveal that he blames him for the torture he has endured over the course of his life. Seeking to punish his brother, Gray buries Jack alive in Cardiff in the year AD 27, placing him in a permanent cycle of death and resurrection. In present day, Gray wreaks havoc across Cardiff, and murders Torchwood member
Toshiko Sato, who had been attempting to prevent a nuclear explosion which Gray had triggered. Jack, having been exhumed by Torchwood in the 19th century and subsequently placed into stasis, re-emerges and forgives Gray, and asks that his brother do the same. Gray refuses to absolve Jack, who sorrowfully chloroforms his younger brother. Jack places Gray inside a cryogenic chamber, knowing he may never awaken.
Martha Jones Dr Martha Jones, played by
Freema Agyeman, is a returning
Doctor Who character who first appears on-screen in
Torchwood in the episode "
Reset". A former time-travelling
companion of the
Tenth Doctor, Martha helped him and Jack avert an apocalyptic future in the
Doctor Who episodes "
Utopia", "
The Sound of Drums", and "
Last of the Time Lords". In "Reset", it is revealed that Martha has become a
Doctor of Medicine and a medical officer for the extraterrestrial response agency
UNIT. After helping Torchwood solve a series of mysterious deaths around Cardiff, she becomes involved in assisting the team following the death and resurrection of Torchwood's medic Owen Harper in the episodes "
Dead Man Walking" and "
A Day in the Death". She collaborates with Jack, Gwen and Ianto again in the
Doctor Who serial "
The Stolen Earth"/"
Journey's End" and the
Torchwood radio play "
Lost Souls". The creative team had originally intended for Martha to appear in series three,
Torchwood: Children of Earth but Agyeman was unavailable.
Aaron Copley Aaron Copley, portrayed by
Alan Dale, is the leader of experimental medical facility "The Pharm" and features in "
Reset". When his facility claims to have developed a miracle substance able to cure medically incurable diseases such as diabetes and cancer, the Torchwood team investigate. Martha Jones is sent in by Captain Jack, allowing Torchwood to gain access to Copley's files. It is discovered that he has captured alien specimens (including a giant mayfly and a
weevil) and used their bodily fluids to develop the "Reset" cure. When Copley discovers that Martha knows this, and has herself actually travelled in time and space, he begins to carry out intrusive tests on her, believing that time travel may have altered her cells making her more likely to survive the treatment. After Martha is eventually saved by the team, and the Pharm's computer records are wiped and the aliens euthanized, Copley follows them outside and pulls a gun on her. Whilst trying to calm Copley down,
Owen Harper is shot dead. In an act of revenge, Jack shoots Copley in the head, instantly killing him.
Little Girl Skye Bennett plays a mysterious
fortune teller who is a psychic, ageless
tarot card reader, credited only as
Little Girl. Outwardly a little girl, she is seen in both the 19th and 21st centuries as appearing roughly the same age. In her first appearance, "
Dead Man Walking", she sends Jack to the disused St. Mary's parish church, the location of the second Resurrection Gauntlet, but promises it will bring further complications. Appearing for a second time in a 19th-century flashback, in the episode "
Fragments", she approaches Jack to read his cards and tells him he will have to wait a century before meeting
The Doctor once again.
Airlock Alpha's Alan Stanley Blair remarked that Parker's death "wonderfully pulled all the threads for the arc into one conclusive ending" whilst
SFXs Richard Edwards felt that the character was "worthy of more screen time".
Geraint Cooper Geraint Wyn Cooper, played by
William Thomas, is Gwen's father, who first appears in "
Something Borrowed". He is married to Gwen's mother Mary and lives in
Swansea. Present at Gwen's wedding to Rhys he is alarmed to see her pregnant and more so when she tells him the true nature of her job. He attempts to phone the police when the shape shifting alien Nostrovite first attacks; but is prevented from doing so as Torchwood have jammed the phone lines. Despite Gwen and Rhys proclaiming that they will not keep secrets from each other in their marriage, Geraint's memories of the day are erased by Jack Harkness. Geraint subsequently forgets about the alien pregnancy, the wedding fiasco and the nature of Gwen's job; which his daughter feels to be "for the best". Between
Children of Earth and
Miracle Day Geraint becomes a grandfather to baby
Anwen, and is properly told about Gwen's work for
Torchwood. In "
The New World", the first episode of
Miracle Day, he is the victim of several heart attacks, yet does not die because of the "miracle" affecting the human population. Gwen returns from hiding to visit him in hospital and experiences conflicting emotions about his predicament. In "Something Borrowed" Mary acts fastidious and difficult; she is persistent in nagging her husband Geraint and in scoring points against Rhys' Mum, Brenda. Like Geraint she is happy at the prospect of a
grandchild from Gwen, because she believes the pregnancy will shock Brenda. Although Mary does not know the nature of Gwen's job she is caught up in the adventure when she is threatened by the
Nostrovite; who has assumed Brenda's appearance. Despite Gwen and Rhys proclaiming they will not keep secrets from each other; Mary's memories—like those of the other wedding guests—are erased by Jack Harkness. Mary forgets about the events of the wedding day, including her daughter's alien pregnancy, which Gwen feels to be "for the best". In "
The New World", the first episode of
Torchwood: Miracle Day Mary accompanies her husband to hospital after he has a heart attack, and meets her granddaughter Anwen for the first time. With Gwen in hiding, Mary now knows the full workings of her daughter's former occupation and asks her for information about the miracle. Although the eventual goodbye scene between Mary and Geraint did not feature heard dialogue, the content of her conversation was part of the initial script for the episode. Writing for the entertainment section of AOL's website Brad Trechak notes that he was highly amused by "the extremely British snark" exhibited by Mary in the episode "Something Borrowed".
AfterElton's Steven Frank compares the character to "a tightly wound
Helen Mirren" and also praises the "cattish behavior" displayed in her interactions with Brenda.
The Radio Times' Patrick Mulkern praised the storyline of the Cooper family in "
The Gathering" describing the scenes with Mary and Gwen hiding Geraint in the cellar as "tense" and "touching".
Nikki Bevan Nikki Bevan, played by
Ruth Jones, appears in
Adrift as the single mother of a missing teenager, Jonah Bevan. During the police investigation she is befriended by
Andy, who takes a personal interest in the case and refers Jonah's disappearance to
Gwen Cooper. Unable to let her son go, Nikki spends her time obsessively looking through VHS tapes of crowd footage at major events trying to see her son. She sets up a self-help group called Searchlight for families of lost people in Cardiff, which alerts Gwen to the fact that the disappearances are widespread. Gwen eventually locates Jonah, aged and deformed in a secret hospital for those who had been taken by the rift and then returned. Nikki at first denies the fact that this man is Jonah but after he mentions childhood experiences the two have a heart-felt reunion. However, due to off-world torture Jonah is insane and spends twenty hours a day howling incessantly. Nikki is devastated that she cannot take her son home for a conventional relationship and blames Gwen, before giving up and throwing out Jonah's belongings.
TV Squad's Jason Hughes praised the emotional scenes of Nikki being brought to see Jonah by Gwen and the "tragic emotional impact" of her telling Gwen to not do the same to any other families. He felt her role in the narrative worked as "an ambiguous moral about knowing versus not knowing" and praised the writer for not providing an easy answer.
Alex Hopkins Alex Hopkins, portrayed by
Julian Lewis Jones, is a former Torchwood Three leader, whose term ended on New Year's Eve, 1999 when he murdered his entire team and committed suicide. Before killing himself, he made freelance agent Jack Harkness the head of Torchwood Three, rewarding him for a century of loyal service. Having been shown an image of the future, Alex felt his team was grossly unprepared to deal with what was to come. His last words prophesied that the world was not ready for the changes the 21st century was to undergo.
Alice Guppy Alice Guppy, played by
Amy Manson, was an employee of Torchwood Three during the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She appears in flashback sequences in “
Fragments” and “
Exit Wounds”, in 1899 and 1901 respectively, both from Jack's point of view. She holds the aggressive attitudes of Torchwood at the time, killing a Blowfish in cold blood in “
Fragments”, her moral justification being that it was "a threat to the
Empire”.
Children of Earth (2009) Alice Carter Alice Carter (née
Melissa Moretti; previously
Sangster), played by
Lucy Cohu, is the daughter of
Jack Harkness, born in 1975. Alice's birth name was Melissa Moretti, but she was placed under deep cover in 1977. Her precise history is unclear, but her mother died in 2006 and she is aware of her father's immortality, which she has not inherited. Her 10-year-old son,
Steven Carter (Bear McCausland) is unaware that Jack is his grandfather, instead believing Jack to be his uncle. Although their relationship appears affectionate to a degree, Jack and Alice rarely have contact as Alice dislikes his work and the reminder that he will outlive her. When Jack attempts to use Steven for his Torchwood investigation, Alice refuses. After she and Steven are used as hostages to prevent Jack interfering, she convinces the black ops team holding her prisoner to break Jack out of prison to enlist his aid in defeating the 456. Jack uses Steven to kill the 456 by using him to transmit a resonance frequency that disrupts the wavelength-based 456. Jack knew that Steven would die but had no other option; Alice's relationship with her father completely disintegrates.
Rhiannon Davies Rhiannon Davies, portrayed by
Katy Wix, is the sister of Ianto Jones, who lives with her husband Johnny (Rhodri Lewis) and children Mica and David. Rhiannon and Ianto became distant after the death of their father, although Ianto visits her in an attempt to gain access to Mica so he can analyze the cause of the synchronized chanting affecting the world's children. Rhiannon refuses to let Mica go out of parental concern and sidetracks Ianto by taking an interest in his romantic relationship with
Jack Harkness. Once the schools are closed on the third day of the crisis she starts looking after neighborhood children, with husband Johnny charging "ten quid a kid". Ianto contacts her before facing the 456 and tells her that the government cannot be trusted.
Bridget Spears Bridget Spears, played by
Susan Brown, appears in
Children of Earth and is the personal assistant to Home Office Permanent Secretary
John Frobisher and immensely devoted to him – having worked together for thirty years. She gives
Lois Habiba her username and password, so Lois can assist with the overwhelming number of people calling in, but Lois uses it to find out about the
Torchwood Institute and Jack Harkness. After Frobisher tells Bridget about the 456, he hands her a file of a blank piece of paper. Bridget understands what this means and types up the names of four people to be killed, one of whom is the immortal Jack Harkness. Unbeknownst to Bridget, Lois sees this email and questions her own loyalties. Director Euros Lyn characterizes Lois as an "
everygirl" and a "
reluctant hero" who is conflicted between helping Torchwood and obeying the government. Lyn also compared her role in the narrative to being similar to that of
Rose Tyler and Gwen Cooper, used respectively as audience surrogates on
Doctor Who and
Torchwood.
Johnson Johnson, portrayed by
Liz May Brice, is the leader of a team of enforcers for the Government, assigned by John Frobisher to the job of dealing with Torchwood at the start of the 456 crisis. Ruthless and efficient, she has little time for social niceties and is determined to see her job done efficiently and successfully. After killing Jack by shooting him in the back, knowing he would resurrect, she uses a laser cutter to plant a bomb inside his stomach. She has no qualms about killing Dr Rupesh Patanjali, after refusing him a change of identity. Johnson detonates the bomb inside Jack, initiating the destruction of the Torchwood Hub. Esther misdirects him when she is attempting to escape the CIA headquarters where they both work. Noah later appears in "
End of the Road" where he makes contact with Esther and
Rex Matheson who have now been pardoned by the CIA following the ousting of several traitors. The pair of Noah and Charlotte has attracted comparisons to Rex and Esther. Writing for TV.com, Tim Surette describes Noah as "
bizarro Rex" and Charlotte as "bizarro Esther".
Charlotte Wills Charlotte Wills, portrayed by
Marina Benedict, is a colleague of Esther Drummond. In "
The New World" Wills acts uninterested in Torchwood and tells Esther that all enquiries have to go through
Brian Friedkin. Later, she tracks Rex to
Buenos Aires – a location connected to the Blessing behind Miracle Day – when he is on a secret mission for Torchwood, and contacts the Families. She detonates a bomb in CIA headquarters just as they discover that she is a mole; the explosion kills Shapiro and Noah. Despite her efforts to sabotage the mission, Torchwood end the Miracle. While attending Esther's funeral, Rex receives information that reveals Charlotte is the mole. Charlotte turns and shoots Rex, and is in turn gunned down by Jack Harkness.
Anwen Williams Anwen Williams is the daughter of
Gwen Cooper and
Rhys Williams who makes her first television appearance in
Torchwood: Miracle Day. Anwen is conceived three weeks prior to the events of
Children of Earth. She becomes part of a chase when assassins call on her parents' house, and Gwen is forced to fight with Anwen in her arms. whilst the novel
First Born, also set prior to Miracle Day, features a storyline where Anwen draws unwanted attention. The production team originally planned to call Gwen's daughter Emily, but changed to Anwen, as the name is more Welsh. Writer
Jane Espenson feels that the infant's apparent "enthusiasm for action" works in that it "actually seems to speak to Gwen's own character".
Jilly Kitzinger Jilly Kitzinger, played by
Lauren Ambrose, is a high flying PR executive with few moral scruples introduced in "Rendition". Initially, she functions as a minor distraction and adversary to the Torchwood protagonists in her role as representative for the paedophile-murderer
Oswald Danes and the mysterious drug company Phicorp. Towards the end of the series she affiliates herself with 'The Families', the main villains behind the supernatural event of 'Miracle Day' and her own position becomes clear. Whilst the character appears ruthless; promoted as having a 'heart of stone' portrayer Ambrose sees her character's ambition as showing strong personal qualities too. Though those she works for are defeated in the series finale, it is revealed that Jilly has survived, leaving the character's future uncertain.
Lyn Peterfield Lyn Peterfield, portrayed by
Dichen Lachman, is a CIA agent who serves as an antagonist to the Torchwood team in the episode "
Rendition". It is revealed through exposition that she once had a sexual affair with
Rex Matheson prior to the events of Miracle Day. Lyn is sent to help collect Jack and Gwen from Heathrow after they have been arrested by Matheson. Under the orders of Brian Friedkin, Peterfield attempts to assassinate the now mortal
Jack Harkness by slipping
arsenic into his cola. However, her plan is foiled when Jack identifies the poison and Gwen and Rex source an antidote. She is knocked unconscious by Gwen after insulting her capabilities and mistaking her for an Englishwoman. Once in the United States she attempts to defeat Rex in hand-to-hand combat once he realizes the treachery of the CIA. However, he gains the upper hand and breaks her neck. Due to the effect of Miracle Day she is left still alive but with her head now on back to front. Lachman had previously been suggested as a candidate to play Esther by End of Show writer Kevin Beaumont.
Den of Geek's Simon Brew praised Lyn's villainous role, stating in his review of episode two that she was "the most menacing character we’ve met in the show so far, [Oswald] Danes included", in addition to the special effects shot of her twisted neck. Friedkin captures the Torchwood crew at the Colasanto estate but Rex secretly puts on Gwen's transmitter lenses and tricks Friedkin into confessing his work for the Families. Friedkin is arrested by his boss, Allen Shapiro. He blows himself up upon his capture, as The Families had ordered him to do, destroying himself, one of his agents and Olivia Colasanto. Jane Espenson, who wrote the episode, commented that the sexual encounter between the two men was Jack's method of "affirming life".
Sarah Drummond Sarah Drummond, portrayed by
Candace Brown, is the sister of
Esther Drummond. In the episode "Dead of Night", Esther states that whilst Sarah is older she has always had the task of looking after her because she can't cope. In "
End of the Road" Esther speaks to Sarah who is still located in the psychiatric ward under strict supervision from Doctors. She expresses the opinion that people in the new world no longer have souls, and appears eager to volunteer herself and her children to become category one—effectively committing suicide. Her reaction to the state of affairs motivates Esther to do her utmost to put an end to the Miracle. In "
The Middle Men", Maloney, acting out of guilt and panic, continues to disguise his involvement in Vera's death, attributing his change of shirt to a strenuous badminton match. Esther is alerted to some sort of wrongdoing by his suspicious behavior, but her attempts at gaining insight are thwarted by the dismissal of her approaches by him and other bureaucrats. When Rex is captured by the military contingent of the camp, Maloney visits him to ascertain what he knows. After Rex explains what he saw to Maloney, Maloney reveals his part in the incident. When Rex, like Vera, attempts to threaten him with prosecution on grounds of crimes against humanity, Maloney begins to torture Rex by probing his chest wound with a biro pen. When Esther finds them and discovers the Maloney's treachery he aims to kill her in unarmed combat. Esther fights back by gouging his eyes and using physical blows to wind him before choking him. Later, when Esther goes to retrieve his keys, Maloney recovers and attempts to kill her once more. Ralph, appalled at Maloney's actions, arrives in time to shoot Maloney, disabling him again and allowing Rex and Esther to escape the San Pedro camp.
Blue-eyed Man American actor
Teddy Sears played a representative of Torchwood's enemies, the Three Families, credited only as
Blue-eyed man. He first appears in "
The Categories of Life" where he informs Jilly Kitzinger that her work with Phicorp and Oswald Danes has got her noticed by the right people. actor Daniele Favilli, is introduced in "
Immortal Sins". Angelo was raised as Catholic and was raised in a coastal Italian Village. He attempts to enter America via
Ellis Island by stealing the visa of Jack Harkness, but is locked up and prepared to be deported back to Italy. Empathizing with Angelo, Jack uses his
Vortex Manipulator to forge a new identity slip so he can enter America. They then rent a room together in New York's Italian district where Jack seduces Angelo. Angelo is conflicted between his faith and sexuality; though Jack is not the first man he has slept with, he is the first to show tenderness to him. With Jack, Angelo becomes part of a plan to make money by selling
sacramental wine. Almost immediately after obtaining the alcohol they are kidnapped. Instead of being killed, however, Jack convinces their captors to allow them to work for them, and were asked to transport a box between two warehouses. After convincing Jack he could cope with seeing new things, Jack decided to make Angelo his companion in the same way that
the Doctor had
enlisted Jack as companion. At the warehouse, Jack opened the box to reveal a
brain parasite that
the Trickster's Brigade were planning to use on future President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which he destroys. The two men flee, but Jack is shot and Angelo arrested. A year later Angelo is released from prison and is shocked to find that Jack is alive when he should be dead. Jack informs him that he has obtained the same room from the previous year and invites Angelo back with him. Angelo conjectures that because he cannot die Jack is an embodiment of the devil, and stabs him. When Jack revives again, Angelo allows him to be taken to a butcher's shop where a crowd of people repeatedly kill him. Later, Angelo frees Jack and expresses remorse. However, Jack no longer trusts Angelo, and abandons him. In 2011 it is revealed that Angelo is still alive and possess knowledge of how the Miracle started. Thanks to Jack's warnings of the economic hard times of the future – including the
Wall Street crash of 1929 – Angelo managed to become wealthy, and lived in a mansion in
Nevada. He is revealed to have allied with "the Families", a group formed by a pact between three mobsters in 1928 while Jack was being repeatedly murdered and resurrected, but his connection to the Families soured because they frowned on Angelo's relationship with Jack – a relationship he remembered fondly even after marrying and having children. Shortly after the Torchwood team arrived at the Colasanto estate, as Jack was saying goodbye to his former lover, Angelo suddenly dies—the first true death since Miracle Day. It is discovered that Angelo had salvaged an alien null-field generator from the ruins of the Torchwood Hub in Cardiff, and had it installed beneath his bed. The null field disrupted the morphic field that Jack theorized was responsible for the Miracle in that one location, allowing Angelo to die naturally.
Olivia Colasanto Olivia Colasanto, portrayed by
Nana Visitor, is the granddaughter of Angelo Colasanto, who first appears in the episode "
Immortal Sins". Olivia is involved in the plot to kidnap Gwen Cooper's family to force her to hand over Captain Jack Harkness. Upon
Rex Matheson and
Esther Drummond foiling her appropriation of Jack, and Sergeant Davidson rescuing Gwen's family, Olivia reveals her trump card – that Jack will still come with her as she can bring him to Angelo and thus enlighten him to how the Miracle started. The character is seen to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese; an aide was available on set to guide Fisher's pronunciation. ==See also==