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 the 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 5.00pm, 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.