Dead of Night (TV story)

Dead of Night was the third episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Synopsis
Torchwood goes on the run and finds a new enemy, but as they launch a raid on PhiCorp headquarters, Jack must confront the mysterious Oswald Danes.

Plot
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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
 * Brian Friedkin - Wayne Knight
 * Congressman Morganthall - Richard Gilliland
 * Carla - Tasha Ames
 * Nurse - Michelle Wong
 * George Sayer - Richard Augustine
 * Local Reporter - Thea Andrews
 * Brad - Dillon Casey
 * Cop - Maurice Webster
 * Dr Rosenbloom - David Youse
 * Jilly Kitzinger - Lauren Ambrose
 * Dr Murphy - Brian Treitler
 * Sunroof Screamer - Jason Medwin
 * Senior TV Anchor - Mitchell Edmonds
 * Candice Perlmutter - Randa Walker
 * Young Man - Daryl Crittenden
 * Preacher - George Murdock
 * Atlanta Cop - Matt Eyde
 * Phi-Corp Rep. - Ted Mattison
 * Woman Tourist - Mary Garripoli

Drugs and medicines

 * PhiCorp has been stockpiling pain-killing drugs for over a year.

Individuals

 * Esther Drummond has an older sister for whom she cares.
 * Esther's job at the CIA was to read and search through blogs.
 * Jack Harkness has protected sex with a bartender called Brad.
 * Ianto Jones is referenced in dialogue, and the deaths of past Torchwood members are also referenced.
 * Rex describes Jack as being a man in his forties.

Technology

 * Gwen uses the Torchwood contact lenses (which she kept following Torchwood's destruction) to infiltrate PhiCorp. She claims they are isomorphic, but this is a lie (as spotted by Esther and also as indicated by their use by Lois Habiba in Children of Earth).
 * Jack states they are from a distant moon of a distant star.

Theories and concepts

 * Jack states the PhiCorp warehouse is bigger on the inside.
 * Jack mentions doing a search for morphic fields.

Weapons

 * Gwen uses a spike strip to stop a police car.

Story notes

 * The two sex scenes in the episode, one involving Jack and Brad, and another involving Vera and Rex, were seen in the US (Starz), Canadian (Space) and Australian (UKTV) broadcasts, but were edited in the UK (BBC) broadcast, with the scene between Rex and Vera excised completely.
 * This is the first time in any of the Doctor Who spin-offs or main show that a woman's posterior is seen fully. In other shows like Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures, only a brief plumber's crack is shown.


 * Unlike broadcasts of Doctor Who and previous series of Torchwood this series was broadcast in the United States, Australia and Canada before the United Kingdom.
 * United States - 22 July 2011
 * Australia and Canada - 23 July 2011
 * United Kingdom - 28 July 2011

Ratings

 * UK: 5.49 million

Filming locations
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Production errors

 * Note the car that Rex is driving when he pulls away from Gwen and Jack, leaving them behind. It's a four door car. In the next shot of Rex driving down the freeway the model of the car has changed and is now a two door car.
 * Noticeable continuity errors involving arm and prop placement are seen in the sequence where Vera smokes a cigarette as she speaks to Jilly.
 * The Eye-5's lip-reading software goofs when Gwen demonstrates them to Rex; when it plays back what Rex says to test it, the computer says Resenting instead of Representing.

Continuity

 * When Rex decides what the team should do, Jack rhetorically asks him who's giving the orders. Rex then asks Jack what they should do, and Jack repeats Rex's suggestion. Jack had a similar exchange (only with roles reversed) with the Ninth Doctor in TV: Boom Town.
 * When Jack, Gwen and Rex discover the massive stockpile of painkillers that PhiCorp has stored, Jack comments that the building is "bigger on the inside than on the outside", referring to the Doctor's TARDIS.
 * Rex made a joke in the previous episode to to Vera, asking if her ex-husband called her to ask for drugs and sex; he joked "right now, I'll settle for the drugs". This episode showed the him fullfilling the later half of his joke.

Home video releases
This episode was released worldwide in a box set containing all ten episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day. In the United Kingdom, it was released on Region 2 DVD and Region Free Blu-ray on 14 November 2011. In Australia, it was released in Region 4 DVD and Region B Blu-Ray on 1 December 2011. In New Zealand, the same sets were released on 7 December 2011. In North America, it was released on Region 1 DVD and Region Free Blu-Ray on 3 April 2012.