Torchwood follows the adventures of a team of investigators?? led by the enigmatic Captain Jack. Set in the UK in the present day?? the team use scavenged alien technology in a very real world to solve crime; both alien and human. Separate from the government. Outside the poli" Beyond the United Nations. Everyone who works for Torchwood is young?? under 35. Some say that's because it's a new science. Others say it's because they die young...
]]>Amazon.comThe following are included in the second season of Torchwood: repeated bouts of unrequited love?? homicidal ex-lovers?? monsters from space and impending doom for major characters. Now?? that's how a series' second season should play out! But what makes Russell T. (Doctor Who) Davies' sophomore set of adventure for Torchwood so engaging is that he bundles them together in a tight and cohesive package that remains dramatically involving while maintaining the proper level of science fiction adventure. John Barrowman's Captain Jack Harkness is back?? having materialized in the final episode of Doctor Who's third series ("of the Time Lords")?? and with him comes one of the show's most inventive characters: fellow Time Agent and former lover Captain John Hart?? played by Buffy the Vampire Slayer's James Marsters. Hart wreaks considerable havoc in the series opener?? "s Kiss Bang Bang??"and returns several episodes later in "Fragments" to reveal Harkness' long lost brother Gray?? who brings the series to a close in "xit Wounds" with a horrific rash of violence that rends the Torchwood team permanently asunder. It's a finale that will leave fans agape by the final frame?? but it's not the only stunner in the second season. "eset" should also raise eyebrows with both the introduction of Doctor Who companion Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) in a three-episode arc?? but also the shocking death and resurrection of a Torchwood member. Other highlights include "rom Out of the Rain??"which introduces one of the seri