The Blood Line (TV story)

 was the tenth and final episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Synopsis
The Torchwood team travels around the world on a final, desperate mission, but the Three Families are unstoppable unless a terrible sacrifice is made.

Plot
As Oswald and Jack prepare for their confrontation with the three families, Gwen tells them about when she was a little girl and her father Geraint came home one day, and told them everyone thought he had taken money from his workplace, and that he wouldn't be getting as much money. She says that Gwen ran upstairs and came back with about £2.50, when her father replied "It's not about the money, it's just that I can't stand anyone thinking I'm dishonest." and as she played with him that night, she thought that he was the nicest man in the world. And Gwen then says "And today's the day that I kill him."

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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
 * Jilly Kitzinger - Lauren Ambrose
 * Oswald Danes - Bill Pullman
 * Sarah Drummond - Candace Brown
 * Mary Cooper - Sharon Morgan
 * Geraint Cooper - William Thomas
 * Charlotte Willis - Marina Benedict
 * Noah Vickers - Paul James
 * Allen Shapiro - John de Lancie
 * Sgt Andy Davidson - Tom Price
 * Blue-Eyed Man - Teddy Sears
 * The Mother - Frances Fisher
 * Captain Santos - Benito Martinez
 * The Cousin - Chris Butler
 * Girl - McKenzie Applegate
 * Female Soldier - Veronica Diaz
 * Sandra Morales - Noemi Del Rio
 * Young Male Soldier - Fernando Fernandez
 * Chinese Woman - Cici Lau
 * Cat One Nurse - Laura Waddell

Story notes

 * This episode begins with a monologue by Gwen Cooper. Children of Earth: Day Five, also the final episode of a season arc, began in the same way. The key difference is that in the earlier episode Gwen is recording a message when she speaks; in this episode, although filmed as a monologue Jack is visible in the background meaning she is actually speaking to him.
 * Also as in Children of Earth: Day Five the Doctor's name is mentioned, and the epilogue takes place some time after the resolution of the story (though likely not as long as in Day Five).

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Production errors

 * On several occasions the reflection of the green screen can be seen on the knife Jack is holding.
 * The CIA software states that Charlotte's phone was last used on 9/9/11 at 12.49. This would have been 1.49pm in Buenos Aires, after the explosives sealed off the Blessing.
 * When looking at his phone after Esther's funeral, Rex is holding it vertically when facing the camera, but horizontally when the camera is looking at the screen.
 * The footage of Shanghai, China before the scene where Gwen searches for the alleyway is actually set in Hong Kong.

Continuity

 * Jack mentions the Silurians and the Racnoss as possible explanations for the Blessing. The Silurians had lived underground for millenia (DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians et al), and the Earth was initially formed around a Racnoss nest, which was at the centre of the planet. (DW: The Runaway Bride)
 * When Jack reveals to Oswald that he is from the future, Oswald guesses that he knows if they make it through this day, only to be told by Jack that "the future can change". The fact that "time can be rewritten" has been a theme in recent Doctor Who. (DW: Flesh and Stone, A Christmas Carol, Let's Kill Hitler)
 * Gwen says that the Blessing may be the most terrestrial thing Torchwood has encountered. In the first-season episode TW: Countrycide, Torchwood encountered humans responsible for what they believed to be 'aliens' when investigating several disappearances. That episode stands as the first and (as of 2011 only) episode in the history of the Doctor Who franchise to feature no science fictional elements of any kind.
 * The CIA trace to find the mole states the phone was last used on 9th September 2011, meaning part of this episode occurred on the same day the episode was first broadcast, just like DW: The Big Bang. This theory is strengthened by the fact that a lot of references were shown (mostly outside episodes) claiming "Death Ends 7.8.11", which was the U.S. broadcast date for the first episode.

Home video releases
This episode will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on the 14th November 2011, alongside the other nine episodes.