Ghost Machine (TV story)

Ghost Machine was the third episode of series one of Torchwood.

Synopsis
When Gwen retrieves an alien object from a fleeing man in a hoodie, she's haunted by a vision of a lonely young boy. As the team tracks down the object's owner, the elusive Bernie Harris, Owen experiences an even more terrifying vision and a long-buried crime resurfaces.

Plot
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Cast

 * Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
 * Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
 * Owen Harper - Burn Gorman
 * Toshiko Sato - Naoko Mori
 * Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
 * Rhys Williams — Kai Owen
 * Ed Morgan — Gareth Thomas
 * Bernie Harris — Ben McKay
 * Eleri — Llinos Daniel
 * Tom Flanagan — John Normington
 * Lizzie Lewis — Emily Evans
 * Young Ed Morgan — Christopher Elson
 * Young Tom Flanagan — Christopher Greene
 * Bernie's Mum — Julie Gibbs
 * Snooker Player — Ian Kay
 * Kid in arcade — Ryan Conway
 * Woman in shop — Kathryn Howard

Story notes

 * John Normington (Tom Flanagan) previously played Morgus in DW: The Caves of Androzani and Trevor Sigma in DW: The Happiness Patrol.
 * Gareth Thomas (Ed Morgan) previously played Lord Tamworth in BFA: Storm Warning and Kalendorf in the first two series of the Big Finish Dalek Empire audio series. He would later reprise his role as Kalendorf in BFA: Return of the Daleks.

Ratings

 * 1.8 million viewers

Myths
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Filming locations

 * The Friary, Cardiff (Gwen and Owen chase the signal.)
 * Queen Street, Cardiff (Gwen and Owen chase the signal.)
 * High Street, Cardiff (Bernie is pursued into the arcade.)
 * High Street Arcade, Cardiff (The chase through the arcade)
 * Hayes Island, Cardiff (Gwen and Owen chase the signal.)
 * Cardiff Central Station, Cardiff (Gwen first shifts time.)
 * Adamsdown Place, Cardiff (Bernie's Mum's House.)
 * Barry Shooting Rang, Cardiff (Gwen's shooting lesson.)
 * St. David's Hotel, Cardiff (Owen's Flat.)
 * Adamsdown Squre, Cardiff (Owen Chases Bernie.)
 * Kames Place, Cardiff (Owen Chases Bernie.)
 * Inchmarnock Street, Cardiff (Owen Chases Bernie.)
 * Lady Margret's Place, Cardiff (Owen Chases Bernie.)
 * Gwendoline Place, Cardiff (Owen Chases Bernie.)
 * Taff Meed Embankment, Cardiff(Owen witnesses an old murder.)
 * Royal Close, Cardiff (Bernie's estate.)
 * Cardiff Bay Barrage, Cardiff (Jack and Gwen on the waterfront.)
 * Upper Boat Studios, Cardiff

Production errors

 * Tosh tells Owen that Ed Morgan is claustrophobic, but when she checks his records on the computer, she says he is agoraphobic. Since one is a fear of enclosed spaces and the other a fear of open spaces, it seems Ed would not be comfortable anywhere!

Continuity

 * The circled "P" emblem of the Preachers from DW: Rise of the Cybermen can be seen as faded graffiti on rusty bins outside Bernie's flat.
 * The explanation Jack gives for the ghosts matches the one Sarah Jane Smith would later give in SJA: Eye of the Gorgon.

Timeline

 * Ghost Machine occurs after TW: Day One
 * Ghost Machine occurs before TWN: Another Life

Home video releases
This episode, with four others, was first released on a DVD entitled Torchwood: Series 1, part 1 on 26 December 2006. It was later released in Torchwood: The Complete First Series on 19th November 2007