Dead of Night (Torchwood)

34 – "Dead of Night"
Torchwood episode
Cast
Starring John Barrowman – Captain Jack Harkness Eve Myles – Gwen Cooper Mekhi Phifer – Rex Matheson Alexa Havins – Esther Drummond Kai Owen – Rhys Williams Bill Pullman – Oswald Danes
Others Lauren Ambrose – Jilly Kitzinger Arlene Tur – Vera Juarez Wayne Knight – Brian Friedkin Dillon Casey – Brad Richard Gilliland – Congressman Morganthall Tasha Ames – Carla Thea Andrews – Local Reporter Richard Augustine – George Sayer Daryl Crittenden – Young Man Mitchell Edmonds – Senior TV Anchor Matt Eyde – Atlanta Cop Mary Garripoli – Woman Tourist Ted Mattison – Phi-Corp Rep Jason Medwin – Sunroof Screamer George Murdock – Preacher Brian Treitler – Dr. Murphy Randa Walker – Candice Perlmutter Maurice Webster – Cop Michelle Wong – Nurse David Youse – Dr. Rosenbloom
Production
Directed by	Billy Gierhart
Written by	Jane Espenson
Produced by	Kelly A. Manners
Executive producer(s)	Russell T Davies Julie Gardner Jane Tranter Jane Espenson (co-executive) Vlad Wolynetz (co-executive)
Production code	103
Series	Miracle Day
Length	56 mins
Originally broadcast	22 July 2011 (2011-07-22) (US) 28 July 2011 (UK)
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → "Rendition" "Escape to L.A."
List of Torchwood episodes

"Dead of Night" is the third episode of the fourth season of British science fiction television series Torchwood, and was broadcast in the United States on Starz on 22 July 2011, in Canada on Space on 23 July 2011, and in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 28 July 2011.

Rex (Phifer) and Esther (Havins) have joined Torchwood out of necessity. The team successfully acquire the phone from CIA director Friedkin (Wayne Knight), through which Friedkin received mysterious orders to exterminate Torchwood. The team follow leads and uncover a stockpile of painkillers at the pharmaceutical corporation PhiCorp, indicating they knew the Miracle was going to happen. At a loose end, Jack (Barrowman) takes the night off and picks up a man in a bar, and Rex seeks solace in his surgeon, Vera Juarez (Arlene Tur). Juarez tells Rex that PhiCorp representative Jilly Kitzinger (Lauren Ambrose) has invited her along to an important meeting tomorrow; Rex recruits Juarez to listen in for Torchwood, while Gwen goes on a mission with the special Torchwood contact lenses and steals information from Kitzinger's computer. The meeting turns out to be a seminar, where Congressman Morganthall announces plans to make painkillers legal to purchase without prescription. At Torchwood HQ, Rex and Esther receive a mysterious phone call from Friedkin's anonymous superiors and figuring their base has been compromised, realise that Torchwood must now leave D.C.

Released murderer Oswald Danes (Bill Pullman) struggles to fit into the real world, and after being assaulted by police officers accepts Kitzinger's earlier offer of representation. He attends a select board meeting at PhiCorp. PhiCorp award him personal security on the condition he promotes their new painkiller legislation on national television to his growing following. Suspicious of Danes, Jack confronts him at the TV station. Jack gets Danes to admit that he does not feel forgiveness, but also that he enjoyed the rape and murder of his 12-year-old victim; Jack realises from this speech that Danes has a death wish that is being denied him. Danes' security assaults Jack and releases him onto the streets just as Danes tells the world about the need for PhiCorp's painkiller legislation.

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