Department X (audio story)

Department X was the fifth release of the BBC Torchwood audio stories.

Publisher's summary
G.R. Owen is the last of Cardiff's old department stores. Times are hard and the ancient firm has gone into administration. But who are the Administrators? What goes on behind the shutters at night? And why are customers disappearing? Torchwood are already investigating.

G.R. Owen is the site of their oldest unsolved cases, and Jack is determined to solve it before the store closes forever — which is why Ianto is working undercover in gentlemen's fashions and Gwen is in handbags.

Are the new managers really aliens? What connection do they have to the mysterious G.R. Owen himself? And is Jack the only one looking for the Department of Curiosities, last seen in 1905?

Plot
Jack has Gwen and Ianto go undercover at G.R. Owen's, a department store which has been bought out by Firestone Finance, for reasons that he does not elucidate beyond saying that he has a history with the building and that it holds the key to an unsolved mystery. A week later, Mr Absalom and Miss Valentine of Firestone Finance begin interviewing the employees and Jack looks around the building, confirming Ianto's report of human blood that somebody had attempted to clean up with bleach and falling to his death down a lift shaft.

to be completed

Characters

 * Jack Harkness
 * Gwen Cooper
 * Ianto Jones
 * Rhys Williams
 * Gloria
 * Richard Pryce
 * Mavis Williams
 * Martin Absalom
 * Miss Valentine
 * Mary Drinkwater
 * Lily
 * Gareth Robert Owen

Continuity

 * Sinister goings on in a department store also occurred in TV: Rose and TV: Closing Time.
 * Jack survives a barrage of bullets. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
 * Jack pretends to be dead on the floor and then opens an eye. (TV: Journey's End)
 * Gareth was once, like Jack, a freelance investigator for Torchwood. (TV: Fragments)
 * Gareth stole something from Torchwood before he left. Other members of Torchwood have also procured other objects. (TV: Everything Changes)