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 and takes a terrifying journey with Jack, covering both miles and decades, as the long history of the Miracle is beginning to be revealed.

Plot
Gwen drives Jack across America to bring him to the people holding her family.

Flashbacks are seen to Jack's past, in 1920s New York, he is awaiting his visa at Ellis Island, when Angelo Colasanto steals Jack's visa. Jack confronts him, retrieving his visa, and then visits Angelo in his cell. They talk, and Jack uses technology to create a visa for Angelo.

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

Angelo takes Jack to meet some of his friends, who sadistically continually attack him with knives, trying to kill him. Three men visit Jack at this point, appearing to have some knowledge of his immortality. Angelo eventually lets Jack go.

As Gwen and Jack arrive, Rex and Esther have contacted Andy Davidson in Wales, who has freed Gwen's family. They then train snipers on the three people who want Jack. Jack then states that he has won, but the three people state that Jack will come with them anyway, as they have the information about the miracle he wants. They then reveal that Angelo is still alive, and 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
 * Unnamed woman - 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 Slug would rewrite history by enabling the Third Reich to win the Second World War. One week after this episode was broadcast, the Doctor Who episode Let's Kill Hitler featured Adolf Hitler in a cameo role and was set in Nazi Germany in 1938.

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Continuity

 * Jack refers directly to the Doctor, and to his travels typically being with a companion.
 * The Seventh Doctor and the Captain also mentioned Clarke's Law. (DW: Battlefield, 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 Utopia (100 years later in his time line).
 * Jack stating to Angelo that "Men like you kill me" may have been a reference to his former lover Captain John Hart.
 * 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?, The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith, The Wedding Of Sarah Jane Smith)
 * A brief video clip is shown of the "death" of Vera Juarez. (TW:The Categories of Life)
 * 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, disemboweled, and from a high fall

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