Combat written by Noel
Clarke, told of men fighting men and going head to head with a Weevil in a
cage, and mostly coming out of it in a body bag. Mark Lynch was addicted to the
fighting world. A way of releasing his aggression against another with no repercussions.
He had a captive Weevil in his basement and regularly beat it – of course, if
it weren’t tethered to the wall by its wrists, it would be no contest who would
be the victor.
Owen Harper, still
recovering from being ‘dumped’ by Diane, goes undercover, and discovers the
money behind the fight clubs, and feeling the way that he does, puts himself in
the ring with a snarling Weevil not caring if he lives or dies.
Cast
Alex Hassell
‘Mark Lynch’
‘Something's coming. Out there, in the darkness, something
is coming.’
Mark
Lynch had everything he ever wanted, and he probably had worked hard to achieve
it all, but there was a hard-edged primal streak that brought him back to his
roots and the street brawls, laying into someone long after they’d fallen to
the ground. His thirst for beating someone defenceless brought him to the
Weevils roaming the streets of Cardiff, convinced in some messed up imaginings
that these were really humans in a thousand years’ time. When Owen uncovers a
Weevil strung up by its wrists in a locked junk room, he’s horrified further to
discover that Lynch keeps it there purely for his own entertainment – as a
punch bag.
It seems
that Alex Hassell has been extremely busy since Torchwood. He’s played Felix
Nash in Bonkers, Jake Randall in Love Soup, Marcus Kendall in The Bill, Eryn in
Legend of the Seeker, Viscount Manley in Hustle, Colin Nash in Life of Crime,
Simon Turner in Silent Witness along with Prince Hal in Royal Shakespeare
Company: Henry IV Part 1 and 2 and played various characters in Shakespeare
Live! From the RSC. Has just finished The Isle, playing Oliver Gosling and Max
Rose in The Red Sea Diving Resort currently in post-production.
Paul Kasey
‘Weevil’
It’s difficult to isolate
which Weevils were played by Paul Kasey, given some of the people we’ve interviewed
who have also played Weevils in the series. Paul has also played a Blowfish
character too. If we look through his Doctor Who career, Paul has played a
multitude of Cybermen and other monster creatures including a Whisper Man,
Footman, Zygon, Ood Sigma, and a Time Zombie, plus many more throughout his
tenure with the series, along with appearing at the BBC Proms as some of the
monster creations, including playing Shansheeth and Red Robot in Sarah Jane
Adventures. He was the Werewolf in Being Human between 2009 – 2012, and he
regularly appeared as the Foxy Bingo Fox before the Jeremy Kyle programme on
ITV.
But its discovering that
he was also in the Star Wars saga that makes me tingle with excitement. This is
what Paul had to say about his time on set of The Force Awakens and Rogue One.
‘I
played Admiral Raddus plus Edrio Two Tubes on Rogue One. Also I played Ello
Asty on the Force Awakens and I'm also the CFX movement choreographer for both
films.
Not
only do I get to play characters in the films I get to work with the other
Creature Effects performers and puppeteers on the movement of characters and
get to choreograph how they move. This happens in a rehearsal period or on set.’
When asked what it felt
like to be on set of something as big as Star Wars, Paul replied. ‘Every day I have to pinch myself.’
Since then, Paul has also
played C’ai Threnalli in The Last Jedi.
Check out our interview
with Paul from a few years ago
Alexandra Dunn
‘Barmaid’
‘Are
you going to answer that? The ninth missed call. Work. Do you enjoy your job
then?’
Owen Harper is out
drowning his sorrows in a loud bar, when the barmaid notices that he’s ignored
his 9th phone call. She makes small talk until her jealous boyfriend
Tommy turns up. Owen soon sorts him out.
There are several gaps in
Alexandra’s acting credits which could mean anything from starting a family to
working in theatre. Since her role in Torchwood, Alexandra doesn’t appear in
anything else till 2015 when she plays a Beautician in Stella in Episode 9 of Series
4.
Matthew Raymond
‘Tommy’
‘You're
never happier than when you're flashing your tits at a passing dickhead, are
you.’
Tommy clearly has issues
regarding his girlfriend working in a busy bar where any man is a threat and so
stalks his girlfriend and bad mouths to customers. One of these days he’ll get
her the sack, or if she’s any sense, she’ll dump him!
Owen puts him out of his
misery at least twice during the episode, the second time with the help of Mark
Lynch.
Since Torchwood, Matthew’s
credits take a leap of six years to 2012, but again that could be due to his
performances in theatre, which are never normally listed on a popular website
of acting credits. Matthew has appeared in several television series – Dead or
Alive, Obsession: Dark Desires, War & Peace, Stella, Doctors, Henry IX.
Recently he played an Engaged Man in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
television series and played a prosecutor in Keeping Faith. He was the voice of
a character in Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia video game.
In 2016 produced and
played the title role in a short film called Stu (Stuart) & Ollie, which was
nominated for Best Comedy at the London
Short Film Festival 2016.
David Gyasi
‘Hospital Patient’
‘I
was mugged. There was three of them. They had knives.’
The Hospital patient was
an unfortunate victim of an attack by a Weevil – but then, if you go putting
yourself into a cage with a raging alien creature, what do you expect?
Since Torchwood, David
Gyasi has been extremely busy since 2007 with roles in New Street Law, Silent
Witness, Doctors, Waking the Dead, Apparitions, Demons, Law & Order,
Murderland, Red Tails, Chuggington: Badge Quest and White Heat.
In 2012 he played Harvey
in Doctor Who episode Asylum of the Daleks and played a Skinny Prisoner in The
Dark Knight Rises (loved that film).
More recently he’s played
Alex ‘Lex’ Carnahan in Containment, Steve in Man in an Orange Shirt, Achilles
in Troy: Fall of a City and Agreus in Carnival Row which is currently in
pre-production, due out in 2019.
Cara Bamford
‘Dancing Girl’
Cara’s role was uncredited
in the episode and so there’s no quote I can give. I’m also struggling to work
out where she was in the episode itself.
Since Torchwood much of
Cara’s roles were uncredited until she played DS Claire Moretti in
Feather-Light and Paper-Thin in 2014, a television mini series, and played a
Waitress in Kosmos another mini series for television.
There are two film productions currently in post and filming with no dates on release, called The Real Thing and Mermaid Down, where she plays Lauren and Susan. As well as an actress, Cara is also a producer.
Martin Fox
‘Fight Club Doorman’
Again another uncredited
role, but an interesting one nevertheless as Martin has appeared several times
in Torchwood including Security Guard in Reset and Custody Officer in Children
of Earth: Day 5. In Doctor Who he played a UNIT Soldier for The Sound of Drums.
As well as an actor, he is a stunt performer, action performer and assistant
stunt coordinator. He was also a Police Advisor and police technical advisor.
From Torchwood and Doctor
Who, Martin has played Prison Officer to Detectives to Martial Arts Instructors.
After 2015 Martin’s roles seemed to be mostly geared around stunt performing,
in My Bloody Banjo in 2015 to By Any Name and Knights of the Damned in 2017.
Carnival of Sorrows is in Post Production and Chosen is currently still being
filmed.
Alexander Hathaway
‘Fight Club Punter’
Again uncredited but you
might remember Alexander from Greeks Bearing Gifts as he strode past Toshiko
quoting a line from James Bond.
In about 97% of Hathaway’s
roles are uncredited but what amazing films to have been a part of since
Torchwood, especially given the quote in Torchwood GBG. Alexander played a
Passenger in 1st Class in Quantum of Solace, as well as playing a
character in Casino Royale, a Comic Book Store Manager in Kick-Ass, a CIA agent
in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Italian Police in The Man from
U.N.C.L.E. and a Colombian Gangster in The Infiltrator. His credited roles are
as James Robinson in Casualty, DC Ken Davis in Carmen’s Kiss, Peter in Darkness
Into Light, James in Nearly a Mystery, and currently in pre-production, Donny
in Sunny Side Up.
Not only an actor but also
a director, Alexander is also patron of the Kent Youth Theatre.
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