Miracle Day: Dead of Night
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sawylInterview with Oswald Danes: de facto spokesman; shilling for the drug companies. Rex threatens Friedkin with a fate worse than death and wins the Red Phone. The cops can't afford run-on-flat tyres, it seems. Creepy mask people are creepy. I'm not sure the US-UK English thing really adds anything. Follow the money. Jack hangs a lantern on the dismemberment thing: something is willing people to stay alive. Esther cracks the case: Friedkin was protecting a dodgy warehouse. Gwen shows off her troublemaking skills: the tie grab is a classic. The warehouse is jammed full of drugs and also, apparently, a TARDIS. Phicorp: Kitzinger's company.
Vera doing Doctor things before heading of the NIH. Catholic doctor is very Catholic [question: do contraceptives still work on Miracle Day earth? If they do, then doesn't that do for Dr RC's objection?] . Kitzinger uses klutziness to horn in on the conversation. Juarez doesn't have time for the waffle. "FEMA's a pot of glue that still thinks it's a racehorse" Nice line. And nice recruitment drive. Oh Rex, you just know you're going to be disappointed. What, no mention of ECHELON? Esther quotes Frost and a has Doubts. Sulking and casual sex: how to save the world, Torchwood style.
Rex recruits Vera after revealing the Awful Troof about Phicorp. Jack drunk-dials Gwen but Gwenie's all not-Skyping with her family. Meanwhile Kitzinger recruits Danes, after he gets dumped by the cops. She certainly gets around. The camera contacts make their appearance: "They're the only bit of Torchwood tech I kept." as we discovered back in Children of Earth. "Anyone going on this mission has got to be me" Because sharing contacts? Gross.
Ultra modern corporate headquarters packed full of over-achieving nerds? Check! Faux bathroom break to admit accomplice through a side door? Check! Tantalising distraction from main mission? Check! Sinister side-meeting with Sinister executives? Check? The plan is to legalise the distribution of all pharmaceuticals without prescriptions? Even the poisonous ones? WTF? Universal, access all computers USB? Check? Near miss while snooping out the enemy's office? Check! And suddenly the Red phone is Ringing.
"Let's find out where the hell Jack went." To banter with Danes, apparently. Who has learnt something about roughing people up, thanks to his not-friends in the police. "I'm not calling for free drugs. I'm calling for free access to drugs... government has abandoned us. And I'm thinking of companies like Phicorp. They'd never abandon us, because they need us." What a wonderfully cynical sales pitch to close on.
Vera doing Doctor things before heading of the NIH. Catholic doctor is very Catholic [question: do contraceptives still work on Miracle Day earth? If they do, then doesn't that do for Dr RC's objection?] . Kitzinger uses klutziness to horn in on the conversation. Juarez doesn't have time for the waffle. "FEMA's a pot of glue that still thinks it's a racehorse" Nice line. And nice recruitment drive. Oh Rex, you just know you're going to be disappointed. What, no mention of ECHELON? Esther quotes Frost and a has Doubts. Sulking and casual sex: how to save the world, Torchwood style.
Rex recruits Vera after revealing the Awful Troof about Phicorp. Jack drunk-dials Gwen but Gwenie's all not-Skyping with her family. Meanwhile Kitzinger recruits Danes, after he gets dumped by the cops. She certainly gets around. The camera contacts make their appearance: "They're the only bit of Torchwood tech I kept." as we discovered back in Children of Earth. "Anyone going on this mission has got to be me" Because sharing contacts? Gross.
Ultra modern corporate headquarters packed full of over-achieving nerds? Check! Faux bathroom break to admit accomplice through a side door? Check! Tantalising distraction from main mission? Check! Sinister side-meeting with Sinister executives? Check? The plan is to legalise the distribution of all pharmaceuticals without prescriptions? Even the poisonous ones? WTF? Universal, access all computers USB? Check? Near miss while snooping out the enemy's office? Check! And suddenly the Red phone is Ringing.
"Let's find out where the hell Jack went." To banter with Danes, apparently. Who has learnt something about roughing people up, thanks to his not-friends in the police. "I'm not calling for free drugs. I'm calling for free access to drugs... government has abandoned us. And I'm thinking of companies like Phicorp. They'd never abandon us, because they need us." What a wonderfully cynical sales pitch to close on.
