A Day in the Death (TV story)

Synopsis
"Three days ago I died and they think I’m fine. But they’re wrong!"

Owen takes some time to chat to a suicidal woman on a rooftop, reflecting on his new circumstances, that of a man living eternal death. Will a mission with Torchwood assist in his salvation or bring about the end of the world?

Plot
Owen Harper is talking to a woman who was about to kill herself. He tells her about his resent ordeal with being dead and getting resurected. As his memorys begin we see Jack let him off but he has to stay at the hub so that Martha can run some tests on him. Martha has been put in place of Torchwood 3 Medical Doctor. He is talking to her but he cuts his hand on a scapel, so Martha has to stitch it back together saying that it will have to be stitched every week. The team are having a meeting about a man called Henry Parker who has not been seen since the 1980's. But the torchwood team have been servaling him for years since. Later that day Owen is at his flat and Toshiko walks in he thinks to himself that he is losing the will to life since he cant die. He jumps in the Cardiff canal and spends half an hour in the water but jack rescues him from dieing. The sucidal woman who is revealed to be called Maggie says that she got married a year ago today but her hasband died in a car crash on the main road. The team have another briefing and they want to obtain the alien device that Henry Parker has got. So Owen agrees to go in and get it off him by getting past six secruity gaurds and heat sencers. Owen mangeges to get into the building and get past them all. Owen comes to a room where there is a bed hidden by vails. Owen goes in to see that Henry is in the bed. He tells Owen that he needs it to live but then he dies of natural causes. Later after Owen has gotten out of his mansion the team say good bye to Martha as she leaves to go back to UNIT. Later that bight we see Maggie and him talking about his story. She is talked out of dieing and walks shows her the divice that Henry had.

Cast

 * Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
 * Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
 * Owen Harper - Burn Gorman
 * Toshiko Sato - Naoko Mori
 * Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
 * Martha Jones - Freema Agyeman
 * Henry Parker - Richard Briers
 * Maggie Hopley - Christine Bottomley

Production crew
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Story notes

 * Martha (played by Freema Agyeman) departs at the end of this episode.

Ratings
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Myths
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Filming Locations
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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors
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Continuity

 * In the sequence of Owen's life clips from: Everything Changes, Ghost Machine, Out of Time and Meat are seen.
 * The Dogon Eye was first seen in Random Shoes.

DVD releases
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