Torchwood/Recap/S4/E09 The Gathering: Difference between revisions

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Economic disaster has affected the world. Governments have become more isolationist, and closer to dictatorships, and have started enforcing rationing. Also, the Overflow Camps have remained open despite the full public knowledge of what occurs there. Rhys is considering appyling for them as a lorry driver. Gwen's desparate enough to consider it, with scares her intensely. Her father -- still Category 1 -- is hidden in the basement, she's breaking into pharmacies at night to steal pain killers for him, and they're in panic mode every time there's a knock on the door. Nazi Germany is evoked in every possible way.

* [[Middle Management Mook]]: Two of them. There's the Family member who meets Jilly in Shanghai, and explains her purpose. Then, there's the government inspector who searches for (and eventually takes) Gwen's father -- he seems sinister, but is really just doing his job.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Rhys spends the whole episode threatening to kill Danes for coming into their house and touching their daughter; Danes himself seems quite certain he means it.

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Whether they like it or not, Torchwood's newest member is Oswald Danes. However, to be fair, he's mostly helping them because of an [[Enemy Mine]] situation.

** It becomes a bit of a [[Running Gag]] when you note that all three incarnations of Torchwood had one member more then capable of killing innocent people. However while {{spoiler|Suzie}} [[For Science!|did it for the knowledge.]] And Johnson killed out of Duty. Danes pretty much killed the girl [[Complete Monster|for fun.]]