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More Than This was the sixth story in the Torchwood - Monthly Range by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Guy Adams and featured Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper.

Publisher's summary[]

Gwen Cooper has triumphed against impossible odds before, but now she's finally met her match: Roger Pugh, Planning Officer for Cardiff City Council.

Mr Pugh doesn't believe the world needs Torchwood. Gwen sets out to prove him wrong. For Mr Pugh, it's a day that'll change his life. If he can survive it.

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Confronted with the need to fill out various forms and a wait of more than four months, Gwen takes Roger Pugh of the Cardiff Council Planning Department with her to show him the importance of Torchwood and convince him to capitulate to the agencies supporting the reconstruction of the Hub. She slams a window down on the head of a Baratavish in heat and gets Roger to help use a temporal anchor to send a displaced horse-drawn carriage back to its own time and stop an alien spore from releasing its pheromones. Further missions involve tranquillising an alien beneath Cardiff and capturing emotional vampire goo in the form of a painting.

Gwen is about to take Roger to investigate a ghost sighting at Grangetown Library when Rhys alerts her to a hole in spacetime at the university, one of several which have been appearing despite the Rift having supposedly been closed. As Andy evacuates the building, Gwen and Roger fix the hole in one spot using technology adapted from the Hub's Rift Manipulator and are pulled towards it as they try to close it. Roger lets go because of the pain of living without his wife, but he realises that he has made a mistake and gets back to safety with Gwen's help just before the hole closes, saving the world from being destroyed by a nightmarish creature which was coming through.

Embarrassed by almost getting himself and Gwen killed, Roger recounts the day's events at his wife's grave and explains that he realised he had to live as there is nothing beyond death. Gwen joins him and takes him home, with Roger agreeing to see what he can do about the reconstruction of the Hub, and then gives Andy a call to ask him to pick up green peppers for Rhys's cooking.

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  • This is the only story of the first series of Big Finish's Torchwood not to mention the Committee.
  • An unnamed "Torchwood legend" had a cameo in this story.[1] Russell T Davies was later added the cast list on the Big Finish website.

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  1. Torchwood: More Than This - Coming Soon. bigfinish.com/news. Big Finish Productions (3 December 2015). Retrieved on 6 January, 2018.
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