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Torchwood
– The Complete Second Season starring
John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, Eve Myles as
Gwen Cooper,
Burn Gorman as Owen Harper, Naoko
Mori as Toshiko Sato, Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto
Jones, and Kai Owen as Rhys Williams.
Torchwood is the spinoff series of the new series of Doctor Who starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness in charge of the
Cardiff branch of Torchwood, the secret British government agency
tasked with collecting and controlling alien activity.
The second season ran on BBC channels in the
The Imagination Station in
**Note that this is an adult series, with most episodes rated TV-14 or
TV-MA, for sexual and violent content and swearing.
This is a 5-disc set. It
contains:
On all discs, 5.1 Dolby sound, graphical
menus, episode and scene selection features, and optional subtitles for the
hearing impaired.
All but the last disc starts with an advertisement for another BBC or
Warner DVD set, but this is skippable with your
remote.
Each episode is approximately 50 minutes in duration.
On Disc 1:
-
Episode 1: Kiss Kiss,
Bang Bang
Guest stars James Marsters (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame)
as Captain John Hart.
A rogue Time Agent tracks down his old
flame Jack for help in tracking down a deadly threat to Cardiff, or at least
that’s
what he tells
them…
-
Episode 2: Sleeper
Torchwood investigates the slaughter of
two burglars at the hands of their would-be victim, who is clearly not all that
she
seems or even not
all that she herself knows.
- Episode 3: To the Last Man
Torchwood awakens
a cryogenically preserved soldier from 1917 for his annual check-up. This year,
Toshiko gets
close to him, but this is also the year that he’s finally needed for an
unknown mission.
On Disc 2:
- Episode 4: Meat
Rhys learns the secrets of Torchwood when his own trucking company is
involved in a plot to harvest meat from a
stranted alien
creature.
- Episode 5: Adam
Torchwood has a new team member, Adam… or has he been there all
the time? Everyone seems to think he has
been,
apart from Gwen, who doesn’t remember any
of them at all now.
- Episode 6: Reset Guest stars Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones
(from series three of the new Doctor Who)
and
Alan
Dale (from Lost) as Dr. Aaron Copley
Torchwood gets a call from Dr. Martha Jones when theirs and UNIT’s investigations into a medical conspiracy cross
paths,
and one of the team has a life-changing
event…
- Episode 7: Dead Man Walking Guest stars
Freema Agyeman as Martha
Jones.
The death of a team member has them all in shock, until they bring him
back to life, and then the shocks really begin…
On Disc 3:
- Episode 8: A Day in the Death Guest stars Freema
Agyeman as Martha Jones.
The
team still cope with the living death of one of their
own, at the same time they must confront a dying millionaire
clinging to his
own life with alien technology.
- Episode 9: Something Borrowed
It’s the
long-awaited Torchwood wedding of Gwen and Rhys, with all that that
implies.
- Episode 10: From Out of the Rain
When an old cinema reopens, old film
comes back to life… literally.
On Disc 4:
- Episode 11: Adrift
Gwen disobeys Jack’s order to stop
investigating the possibility that the rift doesn’t just drop people and
things in Torchwood,
but that it also
takes them…
- Episode 12: Fragments
Guest stars James Marsters as Captain John Hart
As they are held prisoner in the rubble
of a bombed building, each member of the team’s life flashes before their
eyes, and
we see how each
first came to join Torchwood.
- Episode 13: Exit Wounds Guest stars James Marsters
as Captain John Hart
Captain John returns with revenge on his
mind, and with dire, final consequences for the team.
- “The Life
and Deaths of Captain Jack” A new 22-minute featurette
narrated by Freema Agyeman
that details the entire tangled
timeline of Captain Jack Harkness
both from Doctor Who and Torchwood. Features interviews with John Barrowman,
executive producers Russell T. Davies, producer
Richard Stokes, writer/producer Chris Chibnall, stunt
double Curtis Rivers,
actor David Tennant, and music composer Ben
Foster.
- Outtakes. A 9-minute package of more
than fifty bloopers from throughout this season.
- Deleted
Scenes. A 17-minute
package of ten scenes that were trimmed or completely removed from the final
episodes.
On Disc 5:
- All 13 episodes
of Torchwood: Declassified. This is the behind-the-scenes documentary
series that accompanied each episode on
BBC broadcast. Each episode runs between 10 and 15 minutes
in length. These are presented as
complete as they were on original
broadcast
except for some changes in background music for copyright clearance reasons.
There are no commentaries on any of the episodes.
The special features package on this set is lighter than it was on the
first season set, but they are the same ones that are on the
edition.
Although this series is shot in high-definition and is available in
either high-definition (1080i) on Blu-Ray discs or in
standard definition (480i)
on DVD. 16:9 aspect ratio. DTS HD stereo sound.