TV Review: Torchwood:The Children of Earth, part II

After last's night's splosiony climax, we have bits an pieces of Jack all over the place, Gwen struggles to her feet and violently denies treatment. She then goes on to prove that Welsh police training does not include a great degree of marksmanship.

Ianto pulls himself from the wreckage and similarly finds himself under fire.

The Home Secretary takes a phone call at home from the assassin in charge of the death squad; and someone shows up with a translation of the alien demands.

Gwen takes one of the assassins and conducts some coercive fact finding. She finds out that the government wants to destroy Torchwood. She goes home, grabs poor Rhys and tries to get to the door when Ianto calls. They briefly exchange information, try to set up a rendezvous, but the assassins come calling. Gwen shoots a bit better this time, and shoots out the tires of the pursuit vehicle.

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Gwen and Rhys go on the run and shake their tail fairly easily. Rhys is not very good at the hiding bit.

Ianto's family is rousted while they try to hunt him. He walks the street and makes himself scarce by being obvious.

The Home Secretary tries to keep his own home front from falling apart.

Clem (from last night) is walking the streets, looking forebodingly at newspapers.

Lois is apparently trying to make sense of all the happenings at the Hub. As she snoops, all the Torchwood files are deleted; the Home Secretary believes that Captain Jack's immortality is related to the Hub, therefore blasting the whole place to smithereens was justified (or that's what he tells the PM).

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Meanwhile, back at the Bay, we find Captain Jack's hand. His daughter tries to get in contact with him, but he's not quite pulled himself together yet.

Lois puts a few things together and nearly has the government conspiracy angle worked out.

Ianto spots the van that has the bits of Captain Jack that have been recovered, and he very wisely doesn't go home, as his brother in law is having way too much fun taunting the police through the listening devices. His family is torn, but it looks like they'll be there for him.

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(This Being Human looks good (even if it is Urban Fantasy...))

Captain Jack's bits and pieces are put in a room... Alice is still trying to call.

Rhys is being tracked by his ATM card; Gwen makes the decision to head to London.

Back to Jack- his body bag is filling out a bit. They open the body bag, and there's now a skeleton in it. The assassin reports to the Secretary, and they are less than thrilled that Jack is coming back. She orders his newly spawned bones chained to the wall.

Gwen and Rhys escape in the back of a 'tater truck.

Ianto's sister gives the death squads the slip.

Jack wakes up, probably a bit before he should... he's still a bit crispy.

Gwen tells Rhys she's preggers, he's elated and then alarmed in his own, really sweet Rhys way... and the Spud Lorry rolls on.

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Ianto meets his sister and explains his situation. Suddenly, the children stop again.

Gwen and Rhys in the spudtruck stop... apparently for the kids, who quoth
"We Are Coming Tomorrow"

Clem is having... issues... with the imminent return of the aliens.

Ianto takes his sister's laptop and car and heads off after Jack (tracking the van that held the pieces of Harkness).

Okay, I goofed. The public servant we've been following is NOT the Home Secretary, but someone named Frobisher. (odd. He doesn't look like a penguin. Much.)(bonus points if you get that joke)

Gwen calls Frobisher's office, and Lois answers. Lois agrees to arrange a meeting between Frobisher and Gwen, knowing that Frobisher ordered Gwen's death. That's going to be an awkward meeting, isn't it?

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Gwen and Rhys wait for Frobisher, and get Lois. Lois tells Gwen that others are being killed as well. Rhys bums dinner off of Lois, and Lois throws a lot of puzzle pieces together, including the building of a mysterious structure at MI 5.

Jack is back to nekkid normal, and so instead of death, they opt for containment... in cement.

Lois proves to be a very able planner, and gives Rhys and Gwen entre to a complex; as the mysterious construction proceeds apace. An old man working in the construction area gives us a creepy smile.

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Gwen and Rhys zip into the place where Jack just got a cement bath. Gwen and Rhys infiltrate the complex and get into a firefight. They discover the cement block containing Jack just as Johnson the Assassin catches up to them.... Ianto to the Rescue, using a bit of heavy machinery to break all of them out. They escape, and Ianto comes up with a clever way to break Jack out... dropping him off of a cliff. Amazing how easy it is to rescue someone when you don't have to worry about killing the rescue-ee.

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Frobisher looks in on a chamber prepared for the 456 aliens, to be filled with poison (to us) gas. And still, it appears that the aliens are Anglophiles- only dealing with the aliens.

Observations-
Really not that much to say this ep... they are jumping from incident to incident trying to pull themselves together as a unit (and as a person, given Captain Jack's sitch).

The government doesn't want help from Torchwood.... everybody else is asking 'why?' , so I'll join in. Why?

Did anybody else want Jack to pull himself together as the Face of Boe?

Tomorrow night- Torchwood gets proactive!