Rachel Allan

Rachel Allan worked at Torchwood One in 2005 as personal assistant to Tommy Pierce, Head of Alien Acquisitions and as director after framing Yvonne Hartman.

Biography
Rachel claimed to have achieved ten GCSEs (most of which were C and above), three A-levels (with one in Media studies) and a City and Guilds. She was close to her father, who told her about planets and outer space. She worked as a personal assistant at Hadwin and Bennett. After her father died, she "went off the rails a bit" and spent a night in jail.

Rachel caught Torchwood One's attention with her blog blaming terrorists for the recent alien incursions and they found her investigating aliens in the remains of a department store. She was hired as personal assistant to Tommy Pierce, Head of Alien Acquisitions, and befriended and later entered into a relationship with Ianto Jones. She sabotaged a meeting with an alien and sowed discord among Torchwood with rumours and claiming that she had been retconned, having Patrick fired.

She framed Tommy by spiking his coffee and planting retcon on him, resulting in him being fired. She was given his job as Head of Department and killed Dean by sabotaging the Royal Hope transmat and blaming it on Yvonne. She took charge of the situation and was made director of Torchwood One by Pippa whilst Yvonne disappeared. She called Yvonne and told her what she had done, telling her that she was coming for her. (AUDIO: New Girl)

Rachel set to rebuilding Torchwood and planned to wage war with the natives of Planet XXX, having Torchwood train in warfare on Away Days. Yvonne called her to taunt her with her knowledge of Planet XXX. She used Protocol 4 to have Kieran Frost assassinate Yvonne and had him kill Lord Jim Jacobin, blaming it on Yvonne. (AUDIO: Through the Ruins)

Yvonne eventually exposed Rachel and was reinstated as director whilst Rachel was retconned of her Torchwood career. (AUDIO: Uprising)