After hurtling around the
streets after a drugged-up Blowfish in a sports car, the creature is dealt with
in a suburban house, while holding a teenager against her will. Captain Jack
makes a surprise visit, shooting the blowfish in the head, startling Ianto.
Back at the Hub the team are dismayed that their leader had left them in the
lurch for months, but deep down they’re pleased that he's returned after
finding his Doctor.
Alerted to a multi storey
car park where the body of a mugger lies smashed on the ground, the team detect
Rift energy around the corpse. Jack receives a hologram message from an old
friend and promptly leaves the team again. Finding his old partner, Captain John
Hart in a nightclub he's just emptied, passionate kiss and fisticuffs soon
settles the pair into a conversation about the past, and the Time Agency.
When the rest of the team
arrive, John requests help finding cluster bombs which are radioactive and
could cause major problems in the city if they're not retrieved. With the team
out locating them all, John takes them all out systematically, injuring them
and poisoning Gwen to the point of paralysis.
Returning to the Hub with
all parts of the 'cluster bomb' which turns out to be a locator for where the
prize of a diamond lies, Hart is disappointed to learn that it is in fact a bomb,
set to locate the person who killed the woman in the hologram. It attaches to
John and is set to detonate within 10 minutes. Grabbing Gwen, he handcuffs
himself to her, swallowing the key. Gwen issues instructions to use the Rift to
contain the explosion, risking her own life to save millions. Knowing that time
is ticking, Gwen leaves with John.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was
broadcast on 16th January 2008. It was written by Chris Chibnall, currently the
showrunner for Doctor Who, and directed by Ashley Way.
James Marsters
'Captain John Hart'
‘I
can't believe I got the answer machine. What can you be doing that's more
important than me? Anyway, you've probably traced the energy shift, found the
body. All me. Sorry about the mess. Bill me for the clean up. Now. Drinks.
Retrolock the transmission coordinates, that's where I am. And hurry up. Work
to do. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.’
When Hart arrived on the
planet, he had plans of reaping his rewards, but instead got his just desserts
and was sent packing by the end of the episode, however, he left Jack Harkness
with something to think about, when Hart revealed information about his long-lost
brother, Gray.
Since Torchwood, Marsters
has been busy, from voice overs in video games to sci fi series television
shows and now his Vidiots series returns with Man Against Wind. As well as
acting, Marsters has also been a Second Unit Director or Assistant Director for
a 2016 Short called Kessi Blue which also stars his wife, (since 2011), Jasmin
(Rahman) Marsters, who also appears in his Vidiots series. Marsters is globally
remembered as Spike from the Buffy series, and although Hart is a popular
character for all Torchwood fans, it's the sexy ass vampire that people always
remember first.
But it's not just acting
and directing that Marsters is a dab hand at. He's also the lead singer of
Ghost of the Robot, playing guitar in the Californian rock band, formed in 2002
- 2004, then returned in 2010 till present. The music is classed as Rock,
Alternative Rock and Country. His son Sullivan Marsters also plays with the
band on vocals and guitar. The band recorded two albums - Mad Brilliant in 2003
and B-Sider (2004) before taking a break a year later. They reunited in 2010 at
the Santa Monica club where they had played their first show and released their
studio album Murphy's Law in 2012, followed by their European Tour. The band
are still putting out songs and working on their 5th album Pair of Bulls Part
1.
Menna Trussler
'Old Woman'
'Bloody
Torchwood!'
Walking along the street
towards the traffic lights, the old woman is startled by a strange creature
driving a sports car. It screams to a halt as the lights change and waves her
across the road before zooming off into the distance when the lights signify
GO. After Torchwood in hot pursuit enquire if she's seen a Blowfish driving a Sportscar,
she points in the direction it left, muttering 'Bloody Torchwood' after the SUV
heads off in pursuit.
Since Torchwood, Menna has
appeared in many popular television series such as Jam & Jerusalem, Come
Fly with Me, Stella and quite recently Keeping Faith as the nosey neighbour
Eira Jones. In 2014, Menna played Gwen in the film Pride, which told the story
of the Miners Strike in 1983 and how a bunch of LGBT raised money for a small
Welsh mining village and how people reacted to their fund raising. It was a
really great film, full of familiar faces from the world of Sherlock and
Torchwood. Menna plays Enid Wist in Chariot, currently in post-production.
Crispin Layfield
'Mugger'
'Come
any closer and I'll open up his neck.'
Threatening to slit the
throat of man in the NCP rooftop parking bay, the mugger was unaware how
quickly the tables would turn and put him over the precipice of the building,
plummeting to his death.
Stuntman Crispin Layfield
who has also worked as an actor since 1998, has worked as a stunt performer,
stunt coordinator and stunt double for many television shows and films over the
years, including Dangerfield, Spice World, Doomwatch, Grafters, Murder in Mind,
London's Burning, Emmerdale, Hotel Babylon, Benidorm, Being Human, Poirot,
Inspector George Gently, Mr Selfridge, Eastenders, Corrie, Doctor Who (for 62
episodes). Quite recently for Luther and a series currently in post production
- Informer.
Nathan Ryan
'Victim'
'Get
off! I didn't do it. Please, leave me alone.'
Just before John Hart
arrives on the scene, the young man has fallen foul of a mugger intent on
harming him and begs for mercy. When John Hart saves the day, as much as the
death of the mugger shocks him, he's unsure of Hart's intentions now he's
witnessed the murder.
There are a fair few
Nathan Ryan's on the internet, most of which are from Colorado or Canada, and
finding more about our Nathan has drawn several blanks.
Nathan's first series was
as Thorn for 21 episodes of The Mysti Show in 2004, and in 2009 played Mark
Ward in the Casualty episode Great Expectations.
Inika Leigh Wright
'Hologram Woman'
'You've
travelled several galaxies for this. Well done. Except, there's no diamond.
Only this. It's an explosive device which will latch on to the DNA of whoever
killed me. It'll detonate in ten minutes. It can't be removed without exploding
so, don't bother trying. Goodbye, lover. See you in hell.'
When Captain John Hart
pieced all the bits together to form the locator, he was surprised to discover
that instead of the location of the diamond he had been searching for, a bomb
lay in store for him, latching onto the DNA of the murderer of the woman in the
hologram.
Inika grew up in the Port
of Spain, Trinidad and trained at the Central School of Speech in Drama,
graduating in 2000. (BBA Shakespeare). Her first television drama was as
Tanarive in Urban Gothic episode Deptford Voodoo in 2000. Since then, she's
been in Casualty as Lisa for 3 episodes, Pompeii: The Last Day as Hedone in
2003, Dead Eyes as Kat Blake in 2007, and in 2008, the last entry (anywhere),
as Charlotte Nye in The Last Enemy for three episodes in 2008.
Since then, there is no
mention of further roles in television or theatre.
Seren Whyte
‘Teenage girl’
The teenage girl is a
frightened victim of a drug crazed Blowfish on the run from the Torchwood team,
now cornered in a suburban home, where Dad is lying bleeding on the living room
carpet and Mum is protected by Gwen, all guns on the Blowfish, who holds a gun
to the head of the young girl hostage. Until Captain Jack enters through the
French Windows and saves the day!
Seren's first role was as
the teenage girl in Torchwood, since then she's played the Magician's Assistant
in The Magician's series in 2011, moving on to playing Catherine's Daughter in
New Tricks episode The Girl Who Lived in 2012 and lending her voice to a
character in film short Absent Mind in the same year.
Seren is currently onboard
a ship playing a character in a summer pantomime of Aladdin.
Seren also has a YouTube
channel with her sister Elise, https://gaming.youtube.com/channel/UCadGmvxPkx5djbstD0w3v6w
plus you can also follow her here: http://www.whytesistersrally.com/
on their website. The Whyte Sisters are the youngest all female, historic
endurance rallying crew.
Robert Stone
‘Bouncer in Night Club’
'All
right, mate, let's take it outside.'
When John Hart entered Bar
Reunion and picked who should stay and who should go, the uniformed Bouncer and
his two associates decided that John should be the one to leave, until of
course, he produced two large hand guns - then everyone left!!!
Robert doesn't let the
grass grow under his feet for long. Long before Torchwood he was playing men in
uniform and Bouncers and Henchmen, and a Skinhead villain. He does very much
suit that role. Robert has played two characters in Torchwood, although the Goth
Man in Everything Changes is difficult to locate and may require several freeze
frame checks of bar fights and background crowds to detect him - or it could be
that his role found its way onto the cutting room floor.
Since Torchwood though,
Stone has played characters in Emmerdale, Pobyl -y - Cwm, Waking the Dead, CBBC
The Slammer, RocknRolla, High Hopes, Shameless, Sherlock Holmes, A Touch of
Frost, Burke and Hare, The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan, Molly
Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism, Casualty, Snatch series, and is
playing Cavendish Security for Nativity
Rocks! currently in post-production.
You can read our interview
with Robert from a few years back on our Interviews Page!
Seren Whyte photo courtesy
Seren Whyte
Credit Alishia love for
Seren Whyte headshot
Strongman photo courtesy
Robert Stone
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