From Out of the Rain (TV story)

From Out of the Rain was the tenth episode in the second series of Torchwood.

Synopsis
When an old cinema re-opens, past horrors emerge to stalk the streets of Cardiff. As bodies are found with heartbeats but no breath, Torchwood must act fast. Who are the Night Travellers? How can Torchwood capture these mysterious breath takers?

Plot
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Cast

 * Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
 * Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
 * Toshiko Sato - Naoko Mori
 * Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
 * Owen Harper - Burn Gorman
 * Ghostmaker - Julian Bleach
 * Pearl - Camilla Power
 * Jonathan - Craig Gallivan
 * Greg - Gerard Carey
 * Dave Penn - Stephen Marzella
 * Faith Penn - Hazel Wyn Williams
 * Nettie - Lowri Sian Jones
 * Christina - Eileen Essell
 * Restaurant Owner - Anwen Carlisle
 * Senior Nurse - Yasmin Wilde
 * Nurse - Caroline Sheen
 * Mother - Lisa Winton
 * Daughter - Gaia Davies
 * Couple in Car - Alastair Sill, Catherine Olding
 * Young boy - Tom Langford

Story notes

 * Julian Bleach (the Ghostmaker) would later play Davros in TV: The Stolen Earth / Journey's End and the Nightmare Man in TV: The Nightmare Man.
 * Camilla Power (Pearl) would later play Councillor Kostal in AUDIO: The Foe from the Future.

Ratings

 * 951,000 viewers

Myths

 * Gwen Cooper is now known as Gwen Williams. In fact, the closing credits of this and succeeding episodes establish that her name is not changed, and this has been confirmed by off-screen sources including Eve Myles. In addition, she is referred to on screen as Gwen Cooper in TV: Journey's End.

Filming locations
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Production errors

 * Ianto said he used to go to the Electro with his father. According to the Torchwood Website, the Electro closed in 1977 and didn't open for thirty years. Ianto was born in 1983, six years after it closed.

Continuity

 * The Ghostmaker realises Owen has no breath as he is dead. He was killed in Reset but was revived in Dead Man Walking
 * Jack Harkness was working on behalf of an (as-yet) unidentified organisation in the 1920s when he was assigned to infiltrate a travelling circus in order to investigate the Night Travellers. Although he never encountered them, by coincidence film footage of him got mixed in with footage of the Night Travellers. As he did not become immortal until after he left the Time Agency, it is more likely he was working for Torchwood at the time. Also, in TV: Fragments an account of events from his mission searching for the Night Travellers can be read in the first of the handwritten reports prepared for his Torchwood file. Though if it was Torchwood, it seems odd that he did not properly answer Ianto's question.
 * Although this is never addressed on screen, the closing credits for this episode established that Gwen continues to be known as Gwen Cooper, and not Gwen Williams.

DVD releases

 * From Out of the Rain, along with the rest of Torchwood Series 2, was released in a complete series box set in 2008.