Exit Wounds (Torchwood)

26 – "Exit Wounds"
26 – "Exit Wounds"
Torchwood episode
Cast
	Starring John Barrowman – Captain Jack Harkness; Eve Myles – Gwen Cooper; Burn Gorman – Owen Harper; Naoko Mori – Toshiko Sato; Gareth David-Lloyd – Ianto Jones;
	Others Kai Owen – Rhys Williams; James Marsters – Captain John Hart; Lachlan Nieboer – Gray; 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;
Production
Directed by	Ashley Way
Written by	Ben Foster
Production code	2.13
Series	Series 2
Running time	50 mins
First broadcast	4 April 2008
Chronology
← Preceded by; "Fragments"	Followed by →; Children of Earth (serial); "Lost Souls" (radio play)
	List of Torchwood episodes

"Exit Wounds" is the thirteenth and final episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series Torchwood, and was broadcast on BBC Two on 4 April 2008.^[1] It marked the final appearance of Burn Gorman as Owen Harper and Naoko Mori as Toshiko Sato, with both characters being killed off at the end of the episode. It is also the final Torchwood episode in its original format.

In the episode, Gray (Lachlan Nieboer), the brother of the alien hunter Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), punishes Jack for abandoning him long ago by having Jack buried underground in the past. Meanwhile, Gray has also ordered the detonation of bombs throughout Cardiff, leaving the remaining members of Jack's team of alien hunters in Torchwood preoccupied with saving Cardiff.

Plot

Synopsis

Torchwood split up to investigate three instances of Rift activity. At the Torchwood Hub, Captain John Hart shoots Jack and takes him to Cardiff Castle. There and at the three other locations, the team watch as John systematically detonates several bombs across Cardiff. John then transports himself and Jack to Cardiff in 27 AD, where John explains that he was forced to do what he did by Jack's brother, Gray, and has been forced to wear a bomb and surveillance equipment on a wristband molecularly bonded to his skin. Gray arrives and forces John to dig a grave for Jack to be buried alive in, in response to leaving Gray behind. John drops a ring into the grave.

In the present,

Weevils which block access to the plant. Owen, whom the creatures have worshipped since his return from death,^{[N 1]} enters the plant untouched while Toshiko helps him with the plant's control system via radio. Gwen, Ianto

, and John sedate three Weevils that attacked the police station, and drag them to the holding cells. Once in the cells, though, Gray locks the three inside, then shoots Toshiko.

Gray discovers Jack alive in the Hub's morgue; the signal from John's ring was discovered by Torchwood in 1901 and Jack urged the team from that era to keep him in cryogenic storage until the present. Jack apologises to Gray and asks for his forgiveness but Gray refuses, forcing Jack to sedate him. Jack frees his teammates from their cells. Meanwhile, a still-wounded Toshiko tells Owen over the radio how to vent the irradiated coolant into the control room. Owen successfully completes the procedure, but before he can make his escape, a power surge triggers the lockdown mechanism and Owen is trapped. The two say their goodbyes to each other as the control room is flooded with radiation and Toshiko dies of her wounds.

Jack places Gray's body in cryogenic storage, refusing to kill him, stating there has already been too much death.

Continuity

A Hoix creature from the parent series Doctor Who in its 2006 episode "Love & Monsters" appears in this episode. This is the first time it is named by a character onscreen.
Owen refers to his status as "King of the Weevils", first mentioned 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" incident, referring to Naoko Mori's appearance as Doctor Sato, a presumed pathologist in the Doctor Who story "Aliens of London".
Paul Marc Davis, who plays the Cowled Leader, 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 television special that covers this episode, Burn Gorman jokingly remarks that Owen will transform into the "King of the Weevils" if he is not truly dead.

Notes

^ As depicted in the 2008 episode "Dead Man Walking".

References

^ "Programme Information Network TV Week 14". BBC Press Office. Archived from the original on 19 March 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2008.

External links

Exit Wounds on Tardis Wiki, the Doctor Who Wiki

[2] As depicted in the 2008 episode "Dead Man Walking".

[bbcpress-1] "Programme Information Network TV Week 14". BBC Press Office. Archived from the original on 19 March 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2008.

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