There is a spate of
murders across the City of Cardiff, with Torchwood’s name written all over
them, and traces of DNA with a compound B57 - RETCON discovered at the latest
crime scene. It would take a lot to narrow down who it was, but a chance
discovery that all those killed were from the same meet and greet group –
Pilgrim, the net begins to tighten, and Jack decides it’s time to talk to the
dead.
Resurrecting Suzie
Costello with the aid of the Risen Mitten and the Life Knife, Jack bites off
more than he can chew, when the connection between Suzie and Gwen is strong
enough to keep Suzie fighting fit, and Gwen slowly dying from a bullet to the
head.
Suzie has a mission, one
that she had been planning, long before she turned the gun on herself and
Torchwood fell for it.
Indira Varma
Suzie Costello
‘Captain,
my captain. Do you want to know a secret? There's something moving in the dark
and it's coming, Jack Harkness. It's coming for you.’
When Suzie shot herself in
Everything Changes, we thought that was it, and it would have been, if it
wasn’t for the deaths caused by Max Tresilian, but bringing Suzie back, came at
a cost, and it was going to take a lot to put her back in a body bag.
With much of the main cast
already taken care of by way of the WATNOW search, it only left Suzie – Indira
Varma to finish up the team. Indira has been busy since Torchwood with her role
in Game of Thrones and her latest ITV drama performances and no-one is more
pleased than I am to see, or rather hear Suzie back in Torchwood in the Big
Finish Torchwood audio – Moving Target. Only time will tell I suppose if Suzie
returns in another story later on in the Torchwood series.
Indira has played roles in
well known television dramas including Luther, Hustle, Silk and What Remains.
Has voiced characters in video games such as Dragon Age: Inquisition series as
well as Mass Effect: Andromeda as two characters.
Played Nina Suresh in
Paranoid in 2016 and Ellaria Sand in Game of Thrones for 13 episodes, played Jo
in Unspeakable, an ITV drama and is currently filming Carnival Row television
series as Piety Breakspear, due for release in 2019.
As a producer, Indira was
executive producer of Indian Summers, a drama set in the 1930s during the final
years of British Colonial rule in India, starring Julie Walters and Jemima
West.
Yasmin Bannerman
Detective Swanson
‘Torchwood
walks all over this city like you own it. Now these people are paying the
price. Ordinary people, ripped apart, with your name written in their own
blood. From where I'm standing, you did this, Captain Jack Harkness. You did
it.’
Detective Swanson doesn’t
like Torchwood very much. The organisation dominates much of her work where
murder is concerned, but when the team are trapped inside their own building,
she does all she can to get them released from their apparent lock down and
allow the SUV to break to speed limits in order to rescue one of their team.
If you remember, this
isn’t the first time Yasmin has appeared in the Whoniverse. Back in 2005, she
played one of the Forest of Cheem called Jabe, who helped the 9th incarnation
of the Time Lords, to prevent a disaster on Platform One after Lady Cassandra
sabotaged it.
Since Who, Jasmin has
appeared in Life on Mars, Who Do You Think You Are, and Casualty in 2009, after
that, and with much searching, there is no mention of any other credits beyond
that year.
Daniel
Llewelyn-Williams
Alex Arwyn
There is no quote for
Daniel, as he was one of the unfortunate victims of Max Tresilian.
Since Torchwood, Daniel’s
credits range from Midsomer Murders, Doctors, The Machine and Eastenders, as Dr
Rhys Thomas. In 2017 he played Mr Wilkinson in Born to Kill. Have been unable
to find further information regarding Daniel’s theatre work. Have discovered
his website, where I learnt he is also an accomplished singer and is currently
working as a writer but no little more than that. http://www.danielllewelynwilliams.co.uk/
As well as an actor, Daniel
is also a singer, dancer, fight director and writer. He has also appeared in
theatre productions. Alex Arwyn was one of the unlucky victims of Max
Tresilian.
Gary Pillai
Mark Brisco
‘Where
am I? Is my wife alright? It was that man…he belonged to Pilgrim… Oh my God, he
had a knife. Max…There was someone who knew him better. That woman…Suzie’
Mark was the unfortunate
victim who fell foul of Max Tresilian. He was murdered alongside his wife in
their home, their blood used on the wall of their bedroom leaving a calling
card for Torchwood.
In a search for the
killer, Jack used the Risen Mitten to get an exact make on the killer, when
Mark told them it was Suzie, the team realised they were talking to the wrong
corpse.
Since Torchwood, Gary has
played a variety of different characters, from a doctor in Dirk Gently and
Emmerdale and Franklyn, a Clerk in Coronation Street, a Headmaster in Love
& Marriage, played Stephen Miskin in Silent Witness for 2 episodes, a
Merchant in The Passion and Merchant Captain in one episode of Game of Thrones
in 2015. He’s been a Pathologist for Remember Me, and Tamwar Johar for
Casualty, and played DC Dev Bansal for 2 episodes of Eastenders in 2015. This
year he plays a Sonographer in Hard Sun (2018).
Shend
Max Tresilian
‘Stopped
for me. The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. Because I could
not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me.’
Max Tresilian, of 106
Endeavour Terrace had been overdosed on B57 compound – known to us as RETCON. He’d
been given one a week, every week, for two years. Desperate for someone to talk
to, about the job she did, Suzie had opened up to Max, then drugged him
straight after talking to him. After Suzie stopped coming to the meetings,
after she’d killed herself, something triggered inside Max and he went on a
killing spree, killing all those in the Pilgrim group, bar Lucy Mackenzie.
Shend who is 6’ 4”, is
also a stunt fighter. Since Torchwood, Shend has played Hogfather in the film
of the same name, Mike O’Shea in Emmerdale, played a Barbarian Chief, Mr
Slaughter in Fur TV, Ebor in Merlin, Nobby in Life’s Too Short, a thug in Spy, The
Collector in Phometrica, Mikey in My Name is Lenny and is currently filming
Schemers, playing a character called Burton.
Badi Uzzaman
Suzie’s Dad
No speaking part
Given the resentment Suzie
felt for her Dad, it’s likely the man was bad news, and there was no love lost
when the man awoke in time to see his daughter whip out his breathing tube.
Badi Uzzaman was born on
March 8th 1939, in Phulpur, Azangarh, India. He played mostly
supporting roles alongside Michael Gambon in The Singing Detective in 1986 and
in Coronation Street, The Bill, Inspector Morse. His role as a shopkeeper
subjected to a racially motivated attack in both Casualty and later in Cracker
were the programmes I remember seeing him in. It was only later when he
appeared as Suzie’s dad that I remembered where I’d seen him before.
Badi Uzzaman died at the
age of 72 of a lung infection on 14th June, 2011.
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