"Bilis Manger. At Your Service."
Ritz Towers is a luxury tower block so exclusive not even aliens can get a place there. Mr Colchester has somehow secured a flat at the Ritz. With the streets increasingly troubled, his husband feels safe there. The problem is that Ritz Towers is anything but safe.
For a start, the building has more tenants than it has flats. Then there are the endless dinner parties. The whole new definition of upwardly mobile. And finally, there is the very mysterious caretaker.
Tropes:
- The Bus Came Back: Bilis Manger, after a stupidly long 11 years.
- Bury Your Gays: Colchester and Colin survive, but Sandra and Andrea both kick the bucket.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: By the end of the episode, Colchester seems to have caused Bilis to win and two people to die, and is deservedly distraught.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Bilis gets what he wants. It may end up actually being good for Torchwood in the long run, but he still emerges unscathed.
- Sequel Hook: The Rift Opens.
- Put on a Bus: Funnily, after Bilis returns after 11 years, he never shows up in Alien Among Us or God Among Us again.
- Evil Plan: When Bilis is around, a given. This one involves repeated deaths in an apartment building to summon God.
- Written-In Absence: Thanks to the events of "Love Rat", Ng is purposefully avoiding Jack, and doesn't appear.
- Combat Pragmatist: Colchester has to get creative to save Colin in this story.
- Would Hit a Girl: Colchester vs two angry lesbians with knives.
- Ascended Extra: Initially given two lines (from Orr's mouth no less), Ramon Tikaram as Colin Colchester-Price gets a larger role than even main cast members like Jack or Orr.
- Properly Paranoid: Colin is so petrified of the racism that is going around Cardiff, he refuses to leave his apartment building. Unfortunately, he's far from safe there either.
- Affably Evil: Although Colin finds him creepy, Bilis is initially perceived as the perfect caretaker, wonderfully polite.
- The Dragon: Andrea and Sandra to Bilis and Bilis to God.
- Enemy Mine: Bilis's relationship with the Committee retroactively result in the events of this audio.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Bilis on the rest of the series.
