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Torchwood Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2011 - 2011
Episode 1
Miracle Day: The New World
Fri, Jul 8, 201148 mins
In an American prison child killer Oswald Danes is given a lethal injection but fails to die. CIA agent Rex Matheson is one of several severely injured hospital patients who should be dead but survive. The phenomenon is worldwide and the press dub it Miracle Day,when no-one dies. Rex's colleague Esther Drummond attempts to contact the long disbanded Torchwood and is visited by Jack as a result. The pair survive an attack by a bomber - after Jack - whilst the bomber, though blown to bits, goes on breathing. Gwen and Rhys Williams are living in seclusion in Wales with their baby when Gwen's old colleague Andy tells her that her father Geraint is one of the sick people who cannot die and that the world will be over-populated in a matter of days. Rex and Jack arrive in Wales to bring Gwen back to the States with them.
Episode 2
Miracle Day: Rendition
Fri, Jul 15, 201160 mins
Rex brings back Jack and Gwen to Washington. At the CIA office Esther realizes that the rendition is being sabotaged from within the organization. On the flight home Rex unexpectedly needs help from Dr. Juarez to get the team safely on the ground. In the meantime the medical community tries to cope with the new reality of non-death.
Episode 3
Miracle Day: Dead of Night
Fri, Jul 22, 201149 mins
Rex forces his boss Friedkin to confess that, in setting him up, he was obeying orders from a mysterious source. By confiscating his phone Rex's investigations lead to an empty warehouse belonging to Phi-Corp, a global pharmaceutical firm, containing vast amounts of pain killers. Rex's wound reopens and he seeks medical help - and more - from Vera Juarez, who has been invited by Jilly Kitzinger to attend a Phi-Corp meeting. Vera takes Gwen and they hear the announcement that all pain-killers will legally be dispensed without prescriptions in future. This is endorsed by Danes to popular approval.
Episode 4
Miracle Day: Escape to LA
Fri, Jul 29, 201149 mins
The quartet escape to Los Angeles and attempt to enter the PhiCorp headquarters, but they have been followed by a man who claims to know Jack from long ago and believes he holds the key to Miracle Day before he is killed by Rex. A right-wing housewife, Ellis Hartley Monroe, achieves fame with her "Dead Is Dead" campaign, which involves herding the sick into ghetto hospitals. Oswald Danes, sensing that he will be eclipsed by her celebrity, publicly opposes it to general acclaim. However, Gwen learns that her father is to be put into one of these 'overflow camps' for the sick, back in Britain.
Episode 5
Miracle Day: The Categories of Life
Fri, Aug 5, 201147 mins
Dr. Juarez joins the new Torchwood after category guidelines are released for patient care. Esther and Rex go undercover to find out what is happening to Category 1 patients being sent to 'modules' at overflow centers. Meanwhile, Gwen flies back to Wales to remove her father from an overflow center. Dr. Juarez manages to use her credentials to enter an overflow center as an inspector while Jack attempts to convince Oswald Danes to expose PhiCorp.
Episode 6
Miracle Day: The Middle Men
Fri, Aug 12, 201154 mins
Jack confronts Stuart Owens, PhiCorp's chief executive, who admits that he is as ignorant as everybody else as to the reason for Miracle Day. All he can tell Jack is that the answer should be in a cryptic document, the Blessing, which originated in Italy. Rex learns that the California overflow camp incinerates the 'undesirable' sick - illegal immigrants, criminals - and Vera. Rex and Esther are caught by Maloney but are saved by Maloney's appalled aide, Ralph, who shoots his boss and helps them escape. Gwen springs her father from Cowbridge but on return to America gets a call to say that her whole family has been captured and will only be released if she helps trap Jack.
Episode 7
Miracle Day: Immortal Sins
Fri, Aug 19, 201150 mins
In Ellis Island, New York in 1927, Jack meets a young Italian immigrant Angelo Colasanto. They become lovers and bootleggers, working for a gangster. Together they uncover a plot to kill Franklin Roosevelt, though Angelo is puzzled by Jack's immortality following a shoot-out. As a result, he is coerced into an unsuccessful attempt on Jack's life. In the present, Gwen is taking Jack, her prisoner, back to Wales when they are attacked but saved by Esther and Rex. They are then summoned to meet Angelo.
Episode 8
Miracle Day: End of the Road
Fri, Aug 26, 201149 mins
The team is taken to see Olivia Colisanto, in whose house her grandfather, Angelo, ancient and comatose, lies on a life support machine. She explains that in 1928, three mobster families, named Ablemarch, Costerdane, and Frines, tapped Jack's blood to gain immortality - the Blessing. Those families have now disappeared but seem to hold the key to Miracle Day. Angelo dies, baffling new CIA boss Shapiro, who deports Gwen. Jack finds a link between Angelo's death and a plate containing a mysterious force field under his floor. He gets Esther to take it and him to safety whilst Jilly tells Oswald that he is expendable.
Episode 9
Miracle Day: The Gathering
Fri, Sep 2, 201149 mins
Whilst the CIA look in vain for traces of the three families, Esther somehow gets Jack to Scotland, from where they join Gwen and her family in Wales - as, rather surprisingly - does Oswald Danes, claiming he wants to be helpful. He has stolen Jilly Kitzinger's computer, which shows her to be going to Shanghai. After the police have raided Gwen's house and taken her father, she sets out with Oswald and Jack to Shanghai, where Jilly is meeting a woman called Mother. Esther and Rex pursue a lead in South America.
Episode 10
Miracle Day: The Blood Line
Fri, Sep 9, 201150 mins
An underground bloodline flows from Buenos Aires to Shanghai, where Mother shows Jilly that she is planning to blow up her hideout whilst the Blessing maintains its immortality. In Buenos Aires, an explosion kills Rex and Esther's army escort, as they become aware of a CIA mole whom they allow to believe they are dead. They are nonetheless caught and taken to the South American lair of the Mother's cousin, where the other half of the Blessing is kept. Gwen, Oswald, and Jack infiltrate the Shanghai hideaway where they learn how the families, using Jack's blood, attached it to a force field to give them immortality but how the aliens misunderstood and recently gave immortality to the Earth in the spirit of benevolence. Sacrifice and redemption on two continents lead to the destruction of Miracle Day with the capture of the mole and the restoration of order. For one of the survivors, there is an amazing discovery.