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

Sean Bean as General Reverend

Matilda Myles Freegard as Anwen Williams

Fiona Button as Girl Host

(Small-Part Cast Members are not included, except for the casting of the Girl Host, due to her being a crucial part of the episode plot)

EPISODE 2:

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

Matilda Myles Freegard as Anwen Williams

Tom Price as Sergeant Andy Davidson

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 armory. 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 realizes 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.

Back at the Hub, Lois and Gwen begin to research spaceship sightings near the street which became the first victim of the suicides. After a long time of searching, Lois and Gwen find reports of a small spaceship which crash landed in a field nearby. A local farmer watched the space ship crash and watched a large green slug-like creature crawl out into the distance, before a military team going by the name of UNIT arrived and took the ship from the farmer. Gwen and Lois assume that this creature which crashed must have come from the Rift and must by the mother Averian.

Meanwhile, Jake finishes autopsying all of the bodies and all he finds are dead baby Averians; the mother Averian and Host have disappeared - and Jack and Jake are desperate to find the creature. They contact Gwen and Lois for any clue on where the Averian may have gone, and Lois suggests that maybe the creature is heading to UNIT to find its space ship. Gwen asks why the Averian would return to the ship now, but Jack tells the team that each time an Averian feeds, they are absorbing up an enormous amount of power, and the mother Averian is using this to reproduce. However, if the Averian is not giving birth to children anymore, it may now have the power to return to the Space Ship.

Jack tells Gwen and Lois that he is further away from the UNIT Cardiff base than Lois and Gwen are, and so Lois and Gwen need to head to the base quickly to take on the Host, if it arrives there. The pair quickly agrees, and takes the new Torchwood SUV to the new UNIT base. However, when they arrive, they are surprised to find no signs of the host.

The pair quickly enters the base and talks to the base commander, General Reverend, who tells the pair that the space ship is under good supervision, inside a metal room which can only be entered by himself and that every person who is entering the base is being scanned by an Averian detector; UNIT knows that the space ship belongs to Averian and that a Host must be out there. Gwen asks why Reverend is allowing all of these suicides if he knows that they must be caused by Averian, and Reverend responds by telling her that the Averian have a short lifespan, and Reverend doesn't want to waste resources on a clear-up operation. Gwen tells Reverend that her own mother was one of the victims, before she punches him in the face. Gwen and Lois leave the base and inform Jack that the Host must still be having children.

Jake begins to realize that if the Host is feasting off of depression, it must be likely to upscale from feeding off of the depression of a Hostel. It seems convenient that a Funeral Home is nearby. Jake tells Jack that if there is one place where depressed are most likely to be found, it is going to be a Funeral Home. Jack agrees and they both head towards the funeral home.

They both storm in, guns raised, and they are right to do so... A girl from the Hostel is standing in the middle of the room, with her mouth wide open, and a storm of baby Averians leaking out. The people of the funeral are standing still as the creatures travel into their ears. The Averian has reproduced, and now its children are spreading. Jake doesn't hesitate to shoot the girl - killing her and the Averian mother, and Jack quickly opens fire on everyone in the room, killing them all and the Averian babies. Jake asks Jack why he killed them all and Jack tells her that although the Averian babies couldn't reproduce, now all of these people have been taken over by the Averian, they were certain to kill themselves after their depression was drained and take the Averian babies down with them. It was easier to kill the people before it got out of Torchwood control.

The Police quickly arrive to take the bodies, but Jake is wondering whether it is a good idea to leave alien evidence in the eye of the Police, but Jack says that the Averian babies will have disintegrated due to sudden and unexpected death. He does take the body of the Host, however, as her Averian will not have disintegrated. Jake takes the body back to the Hub.

The team all meets at the Hub, where Jack tells them that he has a job for all three of them if they want it. Lois tells Jack that she could be in the government, and could be an influence in the world, but Jack tells her that Torchwood is another way of causing change, and so Lois agrees to join. Jake tells Jack that now his wife is dead, he has nothing to live for, and so he might as well join Torchwood to make his life complete, and Gwen tells Jack that she doesn't think that Anwen is safe anymore, and that she won't leave Torchwood until this feeling has changed. Jack tells the team that he wants them all in the Hub by 6.00 am, and that he wants Jake to have autopsied the Host by the morning for an update.

As the rest of the team leaves to go to bed, Jake stays behind to autopsy the body. However, as he begins, he begins to breakdown and cry about the death of his wife. He declares that he misses her, and that he'll join her soon, even if it means the end of Torchwood to do so.

The end of the episode sees Rhys driving his car from the new flat to pick Gwen up from the Hub. Anwen is sitting in the front seat talking to her dad about her day at school. Rhys gets a phone call from Gwen and goes to answer it, but by doing so, he takes his eye off of the road. His car collides with another one, causing his car to flip over and for Anwen to be flung forwards. The episode ends with the shot of Rhys awaking to find himself lying next to what appears to be the body of Anwen.

EPISODE 2: Fatal Crash

Written by Chris Chibnall