Series 2 (Torchwood)

Returning Characters
John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness comes back to the team after travelling with The Doctor as one of the main characters

Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper returns as one of the main cast and leads the team while the series has stopped

Burn Gorman as Dr. Owen Harper returns as one of the main cast

Naoko Mori as Toshiko Sato returns as one of the main cast

Gareth David Lloyd as Ianto Jones who returns as one of the main cast

Kai Owen as Rhys Williams who appears in a cameo in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Dead Man Walking and continues his guest starring in Meat, Adam, Something Borrowed, Adrift, Fragments and Exit Wounds

Tom Price as PC Andy who returns but only appears in a cameo in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and appears in 2 more stories, Adrift and Exit Wounds

New Characters
James Marsters as Captain John Hart, a villian from the 51st Century who appears in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. He returns in a video cameo at the end of Fragments and returns fully in Exit Wounds

Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones, a former companion of the Doctor who is called in by Jack and appears in Reset Dead Man Walking and A Day in the Death

Nikki Amuka-Bird as Beth Halloran, a woman who lives in a flat with her boyfriend not realising she was an alien

Anthony Lewis as Tommy Brockless, a frozen soldier from 1918 and was shot for cowardice but Torchwood froze him. Him and Toshiko were in love

Bryan Dick as Adam Smith who was recruited to Torchwood by Jack but messed up with peoples' memories

Jack Montogomery as Young Jack who appears in flashbacks in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Adam and Exit Wounds

Alan Dale as Aaron Copley who works for a company called the Pharm.

Richard Briers as Henry Parker, a reculsive millionaire who has been missing since the 1980s

Sharon Morgan as Mary Cooper, Gwen's mother and is invited to the wedding of her daughter and Rhys Williams

William Thomas as Geraint Cooper, Gwen's Father and is invited to Gwen's wedding

Robin Griffith as Barry Williams, Rhys's father and was invited to his son's wedding

Nerys Hughes as Brenda Williams, Rhys's mother who always complained and was invited and there was also another version of her but she was a shape shifter

Collette Brown as Carrie, the shape shifter looking for Gwen and is later spotted by Jack and Toshiko

Ruth Jones as Nikki Bevan, Jonah Bevan's mother who found her son aged and went off liking Gwen

Robert Pugh as Jonah Bevan, one of the victims of the rift spike. He was played by Oliver Ferriman as a younger version

Amy Manson as Alice Guppy who worked for Torchwood Three back in the late 1880s and appeared in flashbacks in Fragments and Exit Wounds

Heather Craney as Emily Holroyd who also worked for Torchwood in the late 1880s and appeared in flashbacks in Fragments

Cornelius Macarthy as Charles Gaskell, a Torchwood Three employee in 1901 and found Jack Harkness buried in Cardiff. He was flashbacked in Exit Wounds

Lachlan Niebour as Gray, Jack's brother who vanished and was played by Ethan Brooke as a child

Departing Characters
Burn Gorman as Owen Harper, shot by Aaron Copley but brought back to life in Dead Man Walking but is killed again in Exit Wounds

Naoko Mori as Toshiko Sato, shot by Gray in Exit Wounds

Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones, leaves Torchwood

James Marsters as Captain John Hart, leaves

Overview
The second series of Torchwood ran between 16th January and 4th April 2008. The first episode saw James Marsters as Captain John. It included glimpses of the 51st century and the First World War. Freema Agyeman guest starred as Martha Jones in Episode 6 to Episode 8.

The opening monologue spoken by John Barrowman is revised for this season; instead of saying how "you" have to be ready because in the 21st century "everything changes", it is now a more proactive statement saying Torchwood is ready.

Television Stories

 * 1. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
 * 2. Sleeper
 * 3. To the Last Man
 * 4. Meat
 * 5. Adam
 * 6. Reset
 * 7. Dead Man Walking
 * 8. A Day in the Death
 * 9. Something Borrowed
 * 10. From Out of the Rain
 * 11. Adrift
 * 12. Fragments
 * 13. Exit Wounds

Novels

 * Something in the Water
 * Trace Memory
 * The Twilight Streets
 * Pack Animals
 * SkyPoint

Aliens and Enemies

 * John Hart
 * Blowfish
 * Cell 114
 * Adam Smith
 * Weevil
 * Aaron Copley
 * Mayflies
 * Durac
 * Nostrovite
 * Night Travellers
 * Ghostmaker
 * Pearl
 * Milton
 * Gray
 * Hoix
 * Ghost

Radio

 * Lost Souls