Believe (audio story)

 was a special full-cast release in the Big Finish Torchwood series. It featured Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato.

Publisher's summary
The Church of the Outsiders believe that mankind is about to evolve, to reach out into the stars. Owen Harper believes that Torchwood has to do whatever it takes to stop them.

Episode One
Davey Russell sets up his video camera and records a message for the world, saying that humanity must let go of the Earth and ascend into the stars. He says to praise the Outsiders and Captain Jack Harkness before dousing himself in petrol and setting himself alight.

In the Hub, Owen tells Jack, Gwen, Ianto and Tosh about Steve Ross and the Church of the Outsiders, identifying Val Ross and Frank Layton as the Church's current leaders and Andromeda Ross as a good way in. When Jack asks how this is relevant to Torchwood, Owen tells them that the Greys have stolen from a UNIT storage facility and shows him Davey Russell's video.

Although Jack refuses to be a part of it, Owen sends Gwen to find Andromeda, who is on the run from the Church, Ianto to sign up for the Church and Tosh to London to extract information from Layton, guided by Owen. Tosh joins Layton at a restaurant and flirts with him whilst Gwen forces her way into Andromeda's hotel room, running with her from the Greys. Ianto is accepted into the Church and is made Erin Lewis's co-pilot.

Tosh goes home with Layton, planning to sedate him. However, when he declines to drink, Owen encourages her to pretend that he is someone else and have sex with him, searching his house once he is asleep. She does so, taking control of the situation and forcing Owen to listen, taunting him about his inability to have an erection. Layton catches her searching through his things and points a gun at her.

Gwen and Andromeda are on their way to the Hub when the Greys ram Gwen's car. The Greys go to have a look and one says that they think that they might have killed them.

Episode Two
Erin Lewis has a consultation with Val Ross and tells her that she is hopeful that aliens will be better than humans and that she is sick of being lied to. She meets her co-pilot Ianto, going by the name John Davies, and introduces him to the commune, doing his first consultation. They bond at dinner, where she tells him about the Greys. He updates Owen. At night, Ianto is caught spying on the Greys in the East Wing and pretends that he wants to join. They taze him.

Tosh is saved from Layton by Owen, who breaks in and shoots him dead, not knowing that Layton had been bluffing and had told her to leave. Owen tells her to collect some of his papers and his laptop whilst he makes it look like a burglary, but she refuses and leaves.

A Grey ties Ianto down and threatens to replace his body parts if he does not tell him who sent him. The Grey sedates him. Meanwhile, Gwen regains consciousness in Andromeda's house, escaping with her to the Hub, and Tosh saves Owen as he is chased and shot at by Layton's security. She berates him for what he has put her through.

Ianto awakens in his own bed, unsure of how he got there, and tells Owen that the Church are going to be doing a live broadcast on Outsiders TV. Ianto and Erin go to the assembly, where Jack is welcomed onto the stage and gives a speech telling the Outsiders that, as a traveller in space and time, they are right. In the Hub, Andromeda pulls a gun on Gwen and makes her let the Greys in. Jack hangs himself as a display of his immortality and declares himself the new leader of the Church.

Episode Three
to be added

Cast

 * Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
 * Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
 * Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
 * Owen Harper - Burn Gorman
 * and Toshiko Sato - Naoko Mori
 * Steve Ross - Mac McDonald
 * Andromeda - Lois Meleri Jones
 * Val Ross - Mali Harries
 * Frank Layton - Arthur Darvill
 * Erin - Rhian Blundell
 * Val's Assistant - Chris Rankin
 * Davey Russell - Lloyd Meredith
 * The Greys - Jennifer Sims / Aled ap Steffan

Continuity

 * The team mention the last time that the Rift was opened. (TV: End of Days)
 * Owen mentions being undead, as well as 'King of the Weevils.' (TV: Dead Man Walking, A Day in the Death)
 * Jack says he has been out among the stars and agrees that humanity's future is out among them; he later tells Val that he's travelled in time and space. (TV: The Empty Child et al.)
 * Jack and Ianto discuss Jack's recent time with the Doctor. (TV: Utopia, The Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords)
 * Once again, citizens of both Cardiff and London display knowledge of the existence of Torchwood, something Gwen bemoans as they are meant to be a secret organisation. (TV: Everything Changes, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)
 * Toshiko has been hacking UNIT, which Jack says is "naughty." (TV: Fragments)
 * Owen notes that Jack has left Torchwood Three several times now. (TV: End of Days; AUDIO: The Conspiracy, Serenity)
 * Gwen mentions the last time that the Rift was open and the number of casualties there were. (TV: End of Days)
 * Gwen lists Cell 114, (TV: Sleeper; AUDIO: Serenity) the Nostrovites, (TV: Something Borrowed) and the Cybermen (TV: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday, Cyberwoman) to Andromeda as reasons why Torchwood does what they do.
 * Owen can't get an erection. (TV: Dead Man Walking)