Escape to LA (TV story)

 was the fourth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Synopsis
Torchwood follows PhiCorp to California to continue the fight. However, they walk straight into a trap. Elsewhere, Oswald and Jilly face off against their own adversary.

Plot
Esther visits her sister, Sarah Drummond. She sees the house boarded up and tells Sarah why she's going to stop the miracle. She asks to see Alice and Melony Drummond before she goes. Sarah refuses because of her mental condition, thinking the miracle a poison, and shuts the door. In her car, Esther phones Social Services and reports the two girls are in danger, but refuses to give her name, She drives off. A man in a black car with the strange GPS triangle icon reports ESTHER DRUMMONDS LOCATED. A voice orders him to follow Esther to lead him to Torchwood.

The team arrive in California and rents a shack to plan the assault. A women gives Rex a Dead is Dead campaign flyer. Rex phones Dr. Vera Juavez. She tells him it's a campaign run by Ellis Hartley Monroe. Gwen gets a call from Rhys and asks about her father and daughter. Rhys says they are fine and jokes about why she is in LA. As Gwen talks, the man that stalks them takes photos of her.

Jilly Kitzenger is now Oswald Danes' personal manager as ordred by PHICORP. She says she will do anything for him except look at his hands without remembering what they did to suzie cabina. Jilly shows Oswald Ellis's campaign flyer and tells him he should think what to do before he is upstaged by her.

Rex visits his dad and they both share a horrible conversation that his dad had been dying for 15 years on his own and rex never helped him rex steals some phicorp drugs and leaves.

Esther tells the team about phicorp LA and how to get in there and sabotage some data for phicorp and that they can only get inside by getting a voice recording of a name, palm print and a retina print from a man called nickolos frumpkin to get inside.

The hitman that followed the team has found out the teams plan and confronts nickolos frumpkin in his car and gets a voice recording his palm and one of his eyes. Oswald gives a remarkable performance at a dead hospital being used for the living decesed and has jilly and the broadcast members a paparatzi jilly describes it as OSWALD DANES 24/7.

Gwen and Jack infiltrate phicorp and switch the oridginal database system with the decoy they made before gwen is knocked unconcious by the hitman and tied up and gagged with wires.


 * To be finished.

Cast

 * Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
 * Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
 * Rex Matheson - Mekhi Phifer
 * Esther Drummond - Alexa Havins
 * Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
 * Oswald Danes - Bill Pullman
 * Dr. Vera Juarez - Arlene Tur
 * Jilly Kitzinger - Lauren Ambrose
 * Mr Peterssen - Brian Guest
 * The Gentleman - C Thomas Howell
 * Ellis Hartley Monroe - Mare Winningham
 * Bisme Katusi - Juanita Jennings
 * Sarah - Candace Brown
 * Nicolas Frumkin - Kelvin Yu
 * Male Nurse - Desean Terry
 * Thin Old Man - Roger Vernon Burton
 * Voice of the Cousin - Chris Butler
 * Woman - Katsy Chappell
 * Young Mother - April Clark
 * Lobby Guard - Anthony Dilio
 * Burly Guard - David Fofi
 * Spanish Newscaster - Teresa Garza
 * Maurice - Roy Lee Jones
 * Veronica - JoKnell Kennedy
 * Japanese Newscaster - Masami Kosaka
 * Simran - Ronobir Lahiri
 * Sick Man - Michael D Nye
 * Scared Old Woman - Barbara Mallory
 * Landlord Brian - Keith Russell
 * Chauffeur - Christian Svensson
 * Candice - Randa Walker
 * Male Newscaster - David Grant Wright

Story notes

 * A supporting character in this episode has the last name Katusi. This was going to be Esther's last name before Alexa Havins was cast.

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Continuity

 * Jack introduces himself as John Smith, the alias often employed by the Doctor.
 * When Gwen attempts an "American Accent" Jack tells her she should never try it again, similar to what the Tenth Doctor tells his companions.

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