Tyler Steele

Tyler Steele was an associate of Torchwood.

A disgraced journalist, Tyler went to Cardiff to cover the rise in hate crimes in the city and learnt of Torchwood, although Jack refused to let him join after allowing people to die. He did PR for Ro-Jedda for a time and was left broke and homeless after her death, eventually being invited by Yvonne to live in the Hub and became an effective member of the team.

Early life
Tyler lived in London. (AUDIO: Changes Everything) When Bethan Foster brought up the topic of his mother, he quickly changed the subject. (AUDIO: A Mother's Son) As a child, he liked to eat sugar cubes, especially brown ones.

He worked as a journalist and did hot yoga and CrossFit to keep in shape. (AUDIO: Changes Everything) He was promiscuous, often using an app for hookups with other men, (AUDIO: Changes Everything, etc.) and used drugs recreationally. (AUDIO: Night Watch)

Tyler entered into an open relationship with Damian. The two had rules about what they could and could not do, but Tyler, scared by how much he loved Damian, broke them to sabotage the relationship. They broke up as a result. (AUDIO: Orr)

After hacking various celebrities, including Katie Price, and posting their photos online, Tyler was sent to prison, causing him to be disgraced as a journalist. (AUDIO: Changes Everything)

Investigating Red Doors
Looking to reboot his career, Tyler decided to focus on serious journalism and went to Cardiff to write a piece on the Red Doors Programme for an online magazine. His investigations brought himself to the attention of both Torchwood, who considered him a potential asset, and 3Sol, who found him to be a problem.

Tyler went to the Refugee Crisis Centre to meet with "Deep Throat", who claimed to have proof that the red doors was not done deliberately. He was saved from the bombing of the centre by Ng, who took him to the Hub where he met St John Colchester and learnt of aliens and the Rift. He went to the candlelight vigil with Jack Harkness, whom he hooked up with, and confronted Vorsun at 3Sol after tracking her IP address. After telling her to "fire away" when she took hostages, Jack told him that he did not have a place in Torchwood.

On a rooftop, Tyler and Jack discussed Cardiff and Jack told him that aliens ad taken over the city, encouraging him to continue his investigations. To that end, he met with the Mayor (AUDIO: Changes Everything) and got a job doing PR. (AUDIO: Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy)

Working in the Mayor's office
On the Mayor's orders, Tyler met with Ng at the bar where Madrigal was having her hen night and asked her to keep it from getting out of hand. He then met up with Jack, whom he was having sex with when Mr Colchester called and asked him to send a police helicopter. (AUDIO: Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy)

Tyler helped deflect attention away from the Mayor's decision to close branch libraries with coverage of a new initiative in The Echo. Per the Mayor's instructions, he asked Jack to have Torchwood protect Vincent Parry and went with him to the Parry Estate where Vincent died, telling Tyler to "protect Orr". He was disturbed by Orr when they took Damian's form and he later went to Hatch's shop to ask for something that would keep them out of his mind. (AUDIO: Orr)

Per the Mayor's orders, Tyler went to the Hub and asked Torchwood to solve the murders at the Cardiff Bay Intelligent Hotel and Spa. Afterwards, the Mayor asked him to announce a press conference but, presumably due to Ro-Jedda, he did not and the Mayor was eaten. Ro-Jedda kept him on due to his connection to Torchwood and had him announce the Mayor's death and that she would serve in the interim. (AUDIO: Superiority Complex)

Tyler tried to make himself indispensable to Ro-Jedda. He went to the mortuary and told Jack that he had been murdered before having sex with him, unknowingly becoming infected with a parasite. In his flat, Ro-Jedda told him to make sure that Torchwood took down Red Doors and, after getting curative worms from Ro-Jedda for himself, Jack and Ng, cut ties with them and ended his sexual relationship with Jack. (AUDIO: Love Rat) Despite this, he later caught Mr Colchester on his way to the Hub and told him about how the residents of Ritz Tower were being killed, knowing that Colin lived there. Mr Colchester had him look into Bilis Manger. (AUDIO: A Kill to a View)

After taking a fancy to Hasan and being intrigued by his rejection, Tyler investigated Deliverables and signed up for it, having Ng do further research. The work made him increasingly mindless until he realised that he was packaging the ashes of his colleagues, including Hasan, confronting Ro-Jedda about it after Ng managed to shut it down. She had him write a cover-up blaming the foreign labourers and somehow spin the rise of unemployment in a positive way. (AUDIO: Zero Hour)

Sent by Ro-Jedda to South Wales Police, Tyler manipulated Nicki Owen into leaking the footage of Andy Davidson killing a refugee and was present when Ng and Owen confronted Ro-Jedda in her office. (AUDIO: The Empty Hand) He met with Ng and told her about the murder of Michael Hughes. (AUDIO: Tagged) The following day, he tried to call Jack to tell him about Ro-Jedda's association with Yvonne Hartman, leading Ro-Jedda to send an assassin after him. He fled to the Hub, getting Mr Colchester shot, and went with him and Orr to the hospital. (AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn) On the way, Mr Colchester died. (AUDIO: Future Pain)

Tyler was the one to call Colin and tell him that his husband was dead, an experience that he found upsetting. (AUDIO: Future Pain)

Whilst homeless
Following Ro-Jedda's imprisonment in the Hub and the destruction of City Hall, Tyler was left unemployed and technically homeless, having lost his flat. He got a job at a PPI call centre which he did not enjoy. He attended Mr Colchester's funeral and told a fellow mourner that he would give anything to bring him back. The plasmic psychovore attempted to feed on his future pain but he and Colin were able to block it from feeding on them. Due to his financial situation, he took a large number of pork pies from the buffet. (AUDIO: Future Pain)

He used Brent Hayden to cover up the presence of the Sorvix in Cardiff before uploading incriminating images onto his laptop. (The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood)

Tyler ended up becoming homeless and eventually resorted to prostitution. He manipulated Colchester and Ng into helping him take down an app that forced homeless people into choosing between clinical drug trials and death. After this, he was allowed to live in the Hub. (AUDIO: Hostile Environment)

The Reset
He later switched bodies with Norton Folgate for a time as part of God's test for Ng. (AUDIO: Another Man's Shoes) Confronted with a tsunami approaching South Wales, Tyler managed to convince Yvonne - who had helped the Committee cause the crisis - to do something about it. (AUDIO: Eye of the Storm)

In the wake of the crisis, Tyler assisted the Disaster Recovery Committee. (AUDIO: A Mother's Son)

Later life
The plasmic psychovore told Tyler that he would find love once again but that it would end in betrayal. It also told him that he would never show mercy. (AUDIO: Future Pain)

Personality
Tyler was a genius for finding information and was highly skilled with computers. However, he never put these to good use before going to Cardiff. (AUDIO: Changes Everything) Due to his good looks, he was not often rejected, resulting in him not being able to handle it when people did so. (AUDIO: Zero Hour)

Appearance
Tyler kept in shape by doing hot yoga and CrossFit (AUDIO: Changes Everything) and usually wore a suit. (AUDIO: Hostile Environment) He was 6'3" and his arms, legs and penis were longer than Norton Folgate's. (AUDIO: Another Man's Shoes)

Jack Harkness described Tyler as being very attractive (AUDIO: Orr) and one of the "hottest humans" he had ever been with. (AUDIO: Love Rat) Mr Colchester said that he was beautiful (AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn) and called him "Pretty Boy". (AUDIO: Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy)