List of Torchwood characters
The following is a list of minor characters in the BBC science fiction television series Torchwood, including supporting characters, and important human villains.
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PC Andy
PC Andy, played by Tom Price, is Gwen Cooper's former partner in the police force, first appearing in Everything Changes. He finds glamourous police programmes like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ridiculous and also seemed to be somewhat put out by Gwen's more inquisitive nature. After Gwen joins Torchwood, she meets him again outside a nightclub where a man was killed by a "sex monster"-possessed host (Day One), and in a police station after he arrests a Roman Legionary that fell through time. Like Gwen's boyfriend Rhys, he believes that she has been promoted to "Special Ops".
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Suzie Costello
Suzie Costello, portrayed by Indira Varma, was a principal character in the first episode, Everything Changes. The second-in-command of Torchwood Three, the Cardiff-based wing of the Torchwood Institute, she has been researching a piece of alien technology, a glove which has the ability to resurrect creatures that have recently died, but only for a short period of time. It is revealed later in the episode that she has been murdering people in order to create test subjects for the Glove, having become obsessed with trying to make it work permanently.
While confessing her crimes to Gwen Cooper, Suzie expresses how much she loves her job, how nothing could ever measure up to what she has been doing, and her regret at having to run. She is about to shoot Gwen in order to cover up her crimes when Jack Harkness, the team leader, arrives. Suzie shoots Jack in the head, but he rises again due to his inability to die, and she commits suicide by placing the muzzle beneath her chin and shooting herself instead. Jack places Suzie's body in the cold storage facility in the Torchwood Hub, in a drawer labelled "006".
In They Keep Killing Suzie, the Torchwood team brings her back to life using the Resurrection Gauntlet (wielded by Gwen) and the "Life Knife". Unknown to the team, this was part of a plan that Suzie set up months before her death. She appears to be resurrected permanently and unable to be killed. However, this is because the gauntlet is continuing to transfer life energy between her and Gwen. Suzie feels inferior to and resents Gwen for "replacing" her in all areas, including having a relationship with Owen Harper.
Suzie manipulates Gwen into freeing her from the base and subsequently murders her own father. Expressing regret over Gwen's impending death but still willing to sacrifice her to remain alive, Suzie continues draining Gwen's life energy until Toshiko Sato destroys the gauntlet, breaking the energy transfer and finally killing Suzie once more. Jack tells Ianto Jones to record the multiple causes of death as "Death by Torchwood".
While her death at the end of They Keep Killing Suzie seems fairly permanent, Ianto notes that gloves "come in pairs", suggesting that there may be another such gauntlet somewhere in the universe.
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Lisa Hallett
Lisa Hallett, played by Caroline Chikezie, was a 26-year-old employee of Torchwood One in London and girlfriend of Ianto Jones. During the "Battle of Canary Wharf" (Army of Ghosts/Doomsday) the Cybermen needed more troops fast and began directly converting people rather than transplanting their brains into Cyberman shells. Lisa was in the midst of this conversion when Ianto rescued her, taking her and part of a conversion unit as a support system to Torchwood Three where he kept her in a basement until he could restore her humanity (Cyberwoman).
However, once freed from the unit, her Cyberman personality asserted itself and she attempted to take over the Hub in order to use it as a base for a new Cyberman army. Seeing how far Ianto had gone to protect her, she transplanted her brain into the body of a pizza delivery girl so they could be together. Clearly insane, and still claiming they both could be upgraded, her new body was shot and killed by the rest of the Torchwood team.
Diane Holmes
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Rhys Williams
Rhys Williams, played by Kai Owen, is Gwen Cooper's live-in boyfriend. He is a transport manager and unaware of the true nature of Gwen's job at the Torchwood Institute, believing she is working in "Special Ops" and that any alleged alien interference with Earth over the past two years were actually mass hallucinations induced by terrorists putting psychotropic drugs in the water supply. When Gwen puts this theory to Jack he derides Rhys as stupid. Before she dated Rhys, Gwen was going out with someone named Bruce, and Owen speculates that she simply settled for Rhys[1].
Over the course of the first series Rhys shows increasing irritation with Gwen's evasiveness and long hours. In Ghost Machine he and Gwen have a slight argument when she misses dinner due to her work at Torchwood, and in Out of Time he becomes angry with Gwen when he discovers that Gwen has been lying to him about the nature of a girl Gwen took in who was actually related to her job at the Institute. He states displeasure at Gwen's ease and readiness to lie to him.
Unknown to Rhys, Gwen establishes a sexual relationship with Owen at the end of Countrycide to help herself deal with her two lives at home and at work. She confesses the affair after it ends in Combat but also slips Rhys an amnesia pill so he will not remember her confession.
References
See also
- List of Doctor Who monsters and aliens
- List of Torchwood monsters and aliens
- List of Torchwood items
- List of Doctor Who villains