History Recap / TorchwoodS4E9TheGathering

* CreatorCameo / HeyItsThatVoice: Guess who's the radio announcer at the start of the episode? None other than showrunner Creator/RussellTDavies!

* MeaningfulName: Jilly's new Families-given identity? [[{{Satan}} Lucy Staten]] Meredith.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Weaponized by the Three Families. People from foreign nations who speak truths about the Blessing have their words muddled and altered in the subsequent subtitles and translations to other languages.

* TranslationWithAnAgenda: Jilly is hired by the Family for this purpose, among others, altering the translation of foreign broadcasts to obscure knowledge of the Blessing.

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* MeaningfulName: Jilly's new Family-given identity? [[{{Satan}} Lucy]] Staten Meredith.

* FryingPanofDoom: Used by Gwen against Oswald.

[[caption-width-right:349:Public Enemy Number One gets his unsympathetic ass whupped by Torchwood.]]

[[caption-width-right:349:Public Enemy Number One gets his unsympathetic ass whooped by Torchwood.]]

* CreatorCameo / HeyItsThatVoice: Guess who's the radio announcer at the start of the episode? None other than showrunner Creator/RusselTDavies!

** It becomes a bit of a RunningGag when you note that all three incarnations of Torchwood had one member more than capable of killing innocent people. However while [[spoiler:Suzie]] [[{{ForScience}} did it for the knowledge,]] and Johnson killed out of duty, Danes pretty much killed the girl [[{{CompleteMonster}} for fun.]]

** It becomes a bit of a {{RunningGag}} when you note that all three incarnations of Torchwood had one member more than capable of killing innocent people. However while [[spoiler:Suzie]] [[{{ForScience}} did it for the knowledge,]] and Johnson killed out of duty, Danes pretty much killed the girl [[{{CompleteMonster}} for fun.]]

** It becomes a bit of a {{RunningGag}} when you note that all three incarnations of Torchwood had one member more then capable of killing innocent people. However while [[spoiler:Suzie]] [[{{ForScience}} did it for the knowledge,]] and Johnson killed out of duty, Danes pretty much killed the girl [[{{CompleteMonster}} for fun.]]

** It becomes a bit of a {{RunningGag}} when you note that all three incarnations of Torchwood had one member more then capable of killing innocent people. However while [[spoiler:Suzie]] [[{{ForScience}} did it for the knowledge.]] And Johnson killed out of Duty. Danes pretty much killed the girl [[{{CompleteMonster}} for fun.]]

* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: The Blessing appears to be some sort of... fissure that Freud would have a field day with. Many men have been driven to suicide by the sight of it.

* ShoutOut: The episode title is another one to {{Highlander}}.

Economic disaster has affected the world. Governments have become more isolationist, and closer to dictatorships, and have started enforcing rationing. Also, the Overflow Camps have remained open despite the full public knowledge of what occurs there. Rhys is considering appyling for them as a lorry driver. Gwen's desparate enough to consider it, with scares her intensely. Her father -- still Category 1 -- is hidden in the basement, she's breaking into pharmacies at night to steal pain killers for him, and they're scares every time there's a knock on the door. Nazi Germany is evoked in every possible way.

Esther notes that blood banks were burnt down, shortly before the Miracle, in two of the most populous cities in the world: Shanghai and Buenos Aires. Rhys, examining a globe, realizes that they are the exact opposite points on the Earth.

Lucie is taken to The Blessing, which is revealed to be a massive fissure running through the centre of the planet Earth, one that pulls the surrounding debris into itself.

At CIA headquarters, Charlotte notices that Rex has touched down in Argentina, she immediately informs The Families.

When an inspector returns with a new thermal imaging application on his smartphone, he discovers and finally removes Gwen's father (though he FailedASpotCheck on Jack Harkness and Oswald Danes, also in the room). Mary resigns herself to the new regime and signs the papers to have her husband taken away. She's too tired, there's been too much pain and suffering. Gwen won't have it, and very casually phones the guy who's been spying on her for a few months ("have you seen my car keys") to let him know that the game is ''on''. Jack contacts some arms smugglers, and they're on their way to Shanghai (Oswald blackmailing them into taking him along) while Esther and Rex go to Buenos Aires.