The Dead Line (audio story)

The Dead Line was an original BBC Radio 4 audio play. It was broadcast the week prior to series three of Torchwood. It was adapted by Phil Ford from his own unproduced TV story, Deadline.

Publisher summary
When a hospital is inundated with patients that have fallen into coma-like trances, Torchwood move in to investigate. They find that the trances were triggered by phone calls, all of which were made from a number that hadn't been active for over 30 years. Determined to find out who's been calling the unfortunate victims, Jack rings the mysterious number — two, zero, five, nine — nothing. It's a dead line. Until it calls Jack back, he answers — and falls into a deep trance. The team race against time to find the source of the "infection" and save the patients.

Plot
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Cast

 * Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
 * Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
 * Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
 * Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
 * Stella Courtney - Dona Croll
 * Jan - Eiry Thomas
 * Bob - Matthew Gravelle
 * Tyler - Brendan Charleson

Download and CD release

 * The story is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.
 * Lost Souls, Asylum, Golden Age and The Dead Line were released, both individually and together as a four-disc collected box set entitled The Radio Adventures.

Continuity

 * Rhys mentions going undercover for Gwen TV: Meat and fighting off a creature at their wedding Something Borrowed.
 * Ianto's comments to the comatose Jack about not expecting to live very long foreshadows his fate in TV: Children of Earth.
 * Rhys and Gwen discuss buying a new home; this leads into TV: Children of Earth: Day One which shows Rhys in the process of house-hunting.
 * Ianto comes to term with the fact that Jack has had and will have other lovers in his long life. (TV: The Empty Child, Small Worlds, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, The End of Time, Dead of Night, Immortal Sins; AUDIO: Golden Age, One Enchanted Evening, R&J)