"Wait. There's A Voice, In Your Head. Telling You What To Do."
Welcome to Deliverables. Thanks to us, Cardiff is enjoying an economic miracle. We have created thousands of jobs. We have wiped out homelessness.More importantly, there are so many benefits to you. Deliverables will deliver your post, your packages, your meals. We are Deliverables, and we never stop.
Deliverables – we always know where to find you. Deliverables – put your life in our hands.
This episode contains examples of:
- Bury Your Gays: Hasan, Tyler's new crush and possible boyfriend is incinerated by Deliverables.
- Continuity Nod: Deliverables was first mentioned in "A Kill to a View".
- Crapsack World: A given for Torchwood, but this episode is darker than the majority of the episodes surrounding it, dealing with a company's use of human workers as commodities.
- Assimilation Plot: Ng's side plot involves her gradual replacement of Gwen in Rhys and Anwen's affections.
- Bland-Name Product: Deliverables is ostensibly an allegory for Amazon.
- Evil Plan: Ro-Jedda is behind Deliverables, sending the packages across the city in a rhythm, over and over each day until it overwrites Reality.
- Break the Haughty: Tyler goes through hell, although it won't be the last time.
- Un-person: Tyler, Hasan, and every single Deliverables employee have no importance to the Sorvix controlled company.
