Torchwood: Exit Wounds (series 2 finale)
Big, big, big, spoilers to follow, so if you haven’t seen this episode yet, you should probably stay away from this roundup until you have.
Last episode saw our favourite alien catching, pterodactyl riding team blown up by four seperate bombs. Turns out, Captain John (Spike) was to blame. Or was he? Find out after the break, and of course what I thought of it all…
Before watching this final episode of the series, I was a bit concerned that I’d be disappointed with the conclusion as it seemed (from the trailers anyway) that we were heading to a couple of homoerotic fights between Captains Jack and Johin, some displays of brotherly love between Jack and his long lost brother Grey.
There was a little bit of that, but so much happens in this episode that it seems futile to try and describe it all. Basically, turns out Captain John ain’t the bad guy….nope, its Grey and his grudge against Jack. Grey forces John (via some pretty gross bomb-bonded-to-flesh joy) to set off some bombs all around Cardiff, then transport Jack to 27A.D where they bury him alive to suffocate over and over. Nice. Jack is later found in Victorian Torchwood days (again!) where he is frozen in the vaults to reawaken just in time to foil Grey.
BUT…the real point of interest, and I have to say it was a shock, is the deaths of Owen and….Tosh. I kind of expected Owen to die, but for Tosh to die of a bullet in the stomach as Owen perishes in the nuclear power station was devastating. Heartbreaking in fact. As Owen rages against dying in the power station, Tosh implores him (over the comms of course) to calm down…
“Why should I? Give me one bloody good reason why?”
“Because you’re breaking my heart.”
Needless to say, a simultaneous “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!” came quite involuntarily out of the four of us watching intently (I should point out there was a fifth person watching, but I think he was waiting for an appearance from the space whale)
In fact, the review will end here, as I’m actually choking up thinking of it again. God damn BBC, I love you, but how dare you kill Tosh. On a side note, if anyone from the BBC happens to stumble across this, please please please do not add Mickey to Torchwood series 3 as has been rumoured by someone apparently ‘in the know’. Martha, lovely. Mickey, no. It’s just silly.
