Torchwood - Series 5

John Barrowman returns as Captain Jack Harkness, with Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper, Kai Owen as Rhys Williams and Cush Jumbo as Lewis Habiba, with Andrew Lee Potts as Dr Jake Turner in the brand new series of Torchwood, brought back to the small screens by Russell T. Davis and Chris Chibnall. The show will be released on March 21st 2016, and will consist of 13 episodes in the same style as Series 1 and 2 of Torchwood, but still remembering everything that comes before it. The show is expected to be a big hit, with show writers James Moran and Catherine Tregenna even returning. The only worry for the show creators is that Andrew Lee Potts's Dr Jake Turner may not be a massive success with returning fans.

Cast
EPISODE 1:

John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness

Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper/Williams

Kai Owen as Rhys Williams

Cush Jumbo as Lewis Habiba

Andrew Lee Potts as Dr Jake Turner

Tom Price as Sergeant Andy Davidson

Mekhi Phifer as Rex Matheson

Episode Guide
EPISODE 1: The Next Jump 

Written by Chris Chibnall and Russell T. Davis

The episode opens on a random street in Cardiff, where citizens stand on the roof edges ready to jump - citizens from every house, suggesting this could be a new epidemic. Families attempt to convince their loved ones not to jump, but this does little... They jump, and all die in the fall.

This jump alerts Gwen Cooper and her husband Rhys Williams; one of their own friends has jumped and died. Gwen asks Rhys whether he thinks it is the time to come out of retirement, and Rhys tells her that she has a six year old child, and she can't just leave them to go gallivanting around Cardiff. Gwen reluctantly agrees and so starts to ignore the case which is forming around her.

Meanwhile, Lois Habiba is struggling due to the fact that her father is one of the people who jumped, and she wants to find out why. She remembers Gwen Cooper from the  'Children of Earth' case and quickly travels to Wales to make contact with Sergeant Andy Davidson who seems to know the location of Gwen. However, when Lois tries to bribe him to find the location, Andy declares that Gwen is a close friend and she wants to be kept private, so he will keep her location private.

However, Doctor Jake Turner, who works for Andy, is willing to help Lois find Gwen due to the fact that his wife died in the jump. Lois agrees and so Jake sneaks into Andy's office and puts all of his computer documents into a memory card. Jake then takes the memory card and gives it to Lois, telling her that if she finds Gwen Cooper, he would like it if she told him.

Lois opens the memory card in the laptop in her hotel room in Cardiff and begins to scan through the contents, to find nothing helpful, until she comes across a file which is encrypted. She attempts to decrypt it with an anti-virus software, but the program simply can't do it; this has been encrypted with brilliant malware software, and it can't have been done by Andy.

The next day, at 5.00 pm, the citizens of another street in Cardiff take to the roofs of their homes and prepare to jump. Families beg the citizens not to jump but have little effect... The citizens jump, and end up dead on the ground. However, this time somebody else is at the scene of the crime. It is Captain Jack Harkness, and he has returned to Cardiff to discover the truth behind these suicides.

As this happens, Lois is able to download a good enough software to clear the encryption and read the real text. It is a file on Torchwood, and has information on Gwen Cooper's location, but it also reveals that she has a six year old child. As a result, Lois changes her plan and instead decides to try and find the other man who was working for Torchwood, Captain Jack Harkness.

The file informs Lois that the last time Jack was seen was in America with a man called Rex Matheson, who is setting up a Torchwood team in L.A. The file also contains the phone number for Rex. Lois calls Rex and asks him whether or not he knows the location of Jack, but Jack says that Jack would rather have his location kept secret. Lois then tells Rex of the events which are happening in Cardiff, which influences Rex to tell Lois that Jack has returned to Cardiff, and she will find him if she turns up to a crime scene. Lois wishes Rex good luck on setting up a Torchwood team before she hangs up.

Meanwhile, Gwen is called by Sergeant Andy, who informs her that her own Mother, Mary Cooper, was one of the people to jump in the latest incident. Gwen begins to grieve for the loss of her mother, and so Rhys tells her that it is probably the right time to restart Torchwood now. Gwen asks Rhys what he will do, and Rhys tells her that he'll relocate the family to Cardiff, and go out of hiding to crack this case.

Lois heads towards the latest crime scene and struggles to get past Policeman to see the actual victims. However, just as she is about to walk away, she sees Jack examining a body behind the Police-line. Lois slips under the police-line and goes to talk to Jack, who tells her to leave him in peace, until she tells him that she knows what Torchwood is. Jack then recognizes her from the last time they met and asks her why she is here, and she tells him that her father died in the first jump and she wants to know why. Jack asks her whether she has any skill sets, and she declares that she is brilliant with technology. Jack has a small moment of deciding before he tells Lois that she can tag along tomorrow, and that she needs to meet Jack by the Cardiff Water Tower.

Lois leaves the crime scene and heads towards the Police Station, where she is able to find Jake as he is performing an autonomy. She tells Jake that she has found Torchwood, and that they are on the case of solving the mysterious suicides. Jake asks her what she is doing about the suicides, and she says that she will be assisting Torchwood the very next day. Jake, who is desperate to solve the case, asks Lois whether he can tag along and Lois agrees to let him, although she knows Jack won't be very happy.

Meanwhile, Gwen, Rhys and Anwen prepare to relocate to Cardiff, where Rhys has hired a temporary flat. They are about to begin the long drive before Captain Jack steps in front of the car. Gwen jumps out of the car in fury that she nearly hit him, before giving him a happy hug because she hasn't seen him in a long time. Jack tells Gwen that he knows that her mother died in the latest incident and that he will solve the case, but Gwen tells Jack that he won't do it alone, because the world needs Torchwood, and Torchwood needs to be a team. As a result, Jack uses his Vortex Manipulator to teleport them both to Cardiff, leaving Rhys and Anwen behind to drive to the new flat.

The rest of the day goes by without incident, and the episode moves to early in the morning the next day, where Lois and Jake wait outside of the Water Tower in Cardiff. They are surprised when both Jack and Gwen appear to have come from nowhere. Jack is surprised to see that Lois has brought a guest. Jack asks Lois why she brought Jake along with her, and Lois tells Jack that Jake is an experienced Doctor who also wants to solve the case. Gwen is able to convince a reluctant Jack to tell Jake what Torchwood is and to show them all the new Hub.

Jack leads them towards a pavement block which no one else can see due to a perception filter, and the block becomes a lift which takes all four people down towards a newly built hub. Jack explains to Jake and Lois that the old Torchwood Hub was destroyed in an explosion, but when Torchwood solved the case of  'Children of Earth' the Government began to rebuild the Hub in case Torchwood came back again. Now the new Hub has more resources than the old one and is better prepared to fight alien threats, with even more weapons added to their armoury. Jack tells the group that this is the birth of a new team of Torchwood, and there are now placements to be filled. However, Jack needs Lois and Jake to prove themselves before they join the team. He then explains to them the concept of the Rift, and tells them that Torchwood needs to safe-guard it.

As this happens, the people of a small street take to the roofs to kill themselves, and end up jumping despite family requests to come down. They all die before they reach the ground, with their body beginning to decay into a mess. Sergeant Andy is sent to the scene of the crime, where one hostel has lost all of its residents due to jumping. He begins to piece together the information of the people who have jumped, and realises that they were all going through depression or stress at the time of death.

The Torchwood Team arrive at the scene of the crime where they are met face to face by Andy. Andy is surprised to see Jake with the team and asks whether he will be returning to work or not, but Jake informs him that he doesn't know. Andy then tells the team his theory that whatever is causing this is targeting the depressed, and Gwen confirms this by telling the team that her mother was struggling with depression after losing her husband, Geraint Cooper. The Torchwood team then takes control of a police tent at the scene of the crime to begin an autopsy of the brain on every single body.

Jake begins the autopsy of a brain and when he slices it open, he is surprised to see the body of a dead small green parasite. Jake informs Jack of the find and Jack scans it with a small alien device, which tells him that the parasite is an Averian, which is a creature which feasts off of depression before the depression is drained and the person is killed. However, these Averian are young and so cannot take the stress of draining depression, thus the reason for the bodies decomposing so quickly, as the Averian are dying and as a result are causing fast decomposition in the body.

Jack also realizes that the only way the Averian can be surviving is through a mother parasite which must be having more children, causing the different street suicides. If Torchwood can catch the mother parasite and kill it, then it will not he able to have any more children, and the suicides should stop. Jake is ordered to begin autopsying the dead bodies, and is told that when he finds a massive green parasite which appears to be moving, Jack needs to know. Lois is sent back to the Hub to try and discover where the aliens came from, and Gwen is sent back with her.