Immortal Sins (TV story)

  was the seventh episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. For the most part, it consisted of a flashback which introduced the character of Angelo Colasanto. Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond were resigned to cameo roles.

Synopsis
Gwen must fight to protect her family. She takes a terrifying journey with Jack, covering miles and decades, as the long history of the Miracle is partially revealed.

Plot
Gwen drives Jack through California to bring him to the people holding her family.

Flashbacks are seen of Jack's past. In 1920s New York, he awaits his visa at Ellis Island. Angelo Colasanto steals it. Jack confronts him, retrieves his visa and visits Angelo in his cell. They talk, and Jack uses technology to create a visa for Angelo.

Angelo is freed. Jack and he enter a relationship. At one point, they are retrieving an alien from a base when Jack is shot dead. Angelo is captured and imprisoned. Jack returns to America after Angelo's release. Angelo is terrified by Jack's immortality.

Angelo takes Jack to the butcher shop beneath their room,. There are people terrified of Jack. They sadistically attack him with knives, guns and meat hooks to kill him and collect his blood. Three men visit Jack. They seem to know something about his immortality. Angelo, overwhelmed with horror and guilt, eventually lets Jack go. Jack quickly recovers and flees with Angelo to a rooftop, where he explains his immortality before jumping off to his "death". When Angelo reaches the ground, Jack is gone.

As Gwen and Jack arrive, Rex and Esther have contacted Andy Davidson in Wales. He has freed Gwen's family. They train snipers on the three people who want Jack. Jack says he has won, but they say that Jack will come with them anyway. They have the information about the Miracle he wants. Angelo is still alive. He has something to do with the Miracle.

Cast

 * Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
 * Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
 * Rex Matheson - Mekhi Phifer
 * Esther Drummond - Alexa Havins
 * Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
 * Mary Cooper - Sharon Morgan
 * Olivia Colasanto - Nana Visitor
 * Andy Davidson - Tom Price
 * Angelo Colasanto - Daniele Favilli
 * Inspector - Pat Asanti
 * SWAT Member - Michael Chomiak
 * Salvatore Maranzano - Cris D'Annunzio
 * Young Priest - Will Green
 * Costerdane - Paul Hayes
 * Ablemarch - Everton Lawrence
 * Young Man - Griffin Matthews
 * Mr. Giardano - Frank Medrano
 * Girl in Crowd - Angelica Montesano
 * Frines - Shawn Parsons
 * Elderly Woman - Vanna Salviati
 * Mrs. Giardano - Jayne Taini
 * SWAT leader - Darren Dupree Washington

Story notes

 * Jack explains that the brain parasite would rewrite history by enabling the Third Reich to win the Second World War. One week and a day after this episode was broadcast in the US and only two days after it was broadcast in the UK, the Doctor Who episode Let's Kill Hitler featured Adolf Hitler in a cameo role and was set in Nazi Germany in 1938.
 * This is the first time that Jack is killed onscreen during Series 4. He is killed at least seven times in this episode, including from being shot, stabbed, disembowelled, having his thoat slashed and from a high fall.

Ratings

 * UK: 4.48 million

Myths
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Filming locations
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Production errors
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Continuity

 * Jack refers to the Doctor directly and to his travels typically being with a companion.
 * The Seventh Doctor, the Fourth Doctor, and the Captain also mentioned Clarke's Law. (DW: Battlefield, DW: The Pirate Planet)
 * Jack has very similar dialogue with Angelo that the Ninth Doctor had with Rose Tyler. (DW: Rose)
 * Jack tells Angelo that he is a "fixed point in time," words echoed from his time with the Tenth Doctor. This is a continuity issue as he wouldn't be told this until the events of DW: Utopia, eighty-one years later in his personal timeline.
 * Jack stating to Angelo that "Men like you kill me" may have been a reference to his former lover Captain John Hart. (TW: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, TW: Fragments, TW: Exit Wounds)
 * Jack refers to time making him a fixed point. (DW: Utopia)
 * The creature Jack and Angelo find was intended to infect Franklin D. Roosevelt and disrupt history for the Trickster's Brigade. (DW: Turn Left, SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith, SJA: The Wedding Of Sarah Jane Smith)
 * A brief video clip is shown of the "death" of Vera Juarez. (TW: The Categories of Life)
 * Jack was subjected to similar torture aboard the Valiant, where the Master killed him repeatedly for fun. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)

Timeline
In the present day In flashbacks to 1927 and 1928
 * This story occurs after TW: The Middle Men.
 * This story occurs before TW: End of the Road.
 * This story occurs after Jack's flashbacks in TW: Small Worlds.
 * This story occurs before Jack's flashbacks in TW: Children of Earth: Day Four.

Home video releases
This episode will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on 14 November 2011, alongside the other nine episodes.