Reset brought the Torchwood
team to the Pharm, and Professor Aaron Copley, after UNIT discovered a high
population of deaths in and around South Wales, namely the Cardiff area, with
unexplained needle marks in victims’ eyeballs.
When Martha Jones goes
undercover as Sam, on a clinical trials program, she suddenly realises just
what is going on at the Pharm site and doesn’t relish the mayfly larvae
currently growing inside of her. It seems her travels with the Doctor, gave her
the perfect breeding ground for Copley’s new wonder drug – the Reset.
Freema Agyeman
‘Dr Martha Jones’
‘The
parasite needs a healthy body until it's incubated. So the parasite egg
incorporates this magic bullet, which puts everything in the system back to its
factory settings.’
Before her role in
Torchwood, Freema was known to us as Dr Martha Jones, companion to the Doctor
and she travelled with him for 20 episodes. After Who, Freema played Alesha
Phillips in Law & Order: UK between 2009 and 2011. In 2014 she played
Larissa Loughlin for The Carrie Diaries. If you're a CBeebies fan, or if you're
a parent of a child who enjoys watching the show, you'll remember Freema from
Old Jack's Boat where she played Shelly Periwinkle, a mermaid. Incidentally,
you might like to know that we're covering Old Jack's Boat in our Connections
this month, where you might find a further few interesting facts. Between 2015
- 2018 Freema played Amanita Caplan in Sense8 and is currently playing Dr Helen
Sharpe in the TV series New Amsterdam.
Alan Dale
‘Professor Aaron Copley’
‘She's
survived the larval stage. The only subject ever to do so. It's fascinating.
Turns out these bugs practice sibling cannibalism. Only the strongest
individual is left now. God knows what happens next.’
Since Torchwood in 2008,
Alan Dale has never stopped. He's been a character in more shows, films and
short videos than I've had hot dinners. After Torchwood, in the same year, he
played General Ross in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (not
a film I ever really engaged with, if I'm honest, and Dillon Casey and I will
agree, that it most definitely wasn't an Indiana Jones film).
In 2009 Alan also played a
character in the Law & Order franchise, this however was the Special
Victims Unit as Judge Joshua Koehler in the episode Liberties. For 17 episodes
of Lost from 2006 - 2010, a series I got into then well and truly got lost in
the whole set up of the show, Dale played Charles Widmore. He played Ken
Bocklage in Burn Notice in 2010. Jumping to 2008 and he played John Ellis in
Entourage for 5 episodes till 2011. He plays Detective Isaksson in the film The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I remember jumping about like I had ants in my
pants when I saw him, much to my Mother's annoyance. She was deeply engrossed
in the film at the time.
.
Dale played Councilman
Rockwell in Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 2014. Was the voice of Frank in Top Coppers in
2015. For 9 episodes of Once Upon A Time he played King George and Albert
Spencer until 2017.
I was a little surprised
to find Dale had returned to Neighbours to appear as Paul Robinson's Dad, a man
who had seemingly died of a heart attack. As I hadn’t seen the episode where he
returns, I was pleased it wasn’t in a shower sequence like Bobby Ewing from
Dallas. Instead he was immortalised in a Christmas bauble hanging from the back
window – as you do!
For 44 episodes of
Dynasty, Dale plays Joseph Anders from 2017 - 2019.
Jacqueline Boatswain
‘Plummer’
‘Break
out in Zone A. All patrols to Zone A immediately. 'Breakout in Zone A. Break
out in Zone A. All patrols proceed with extreme caution. The escaped creature
is extremely dangerous.’
Having just seen
Boatswain's character in Hollyoaks walk away into the sunset with her son Zack
after playing Simone Loveday for 246 episodes, it's nice looking back on where
it all began, or at best, where I remember her from. After Torchwood, Boatswain
played Turley's solicitor in Silk, Kathy in The Importance of Being Whatever,
played Patreesha St Rose in Shameless for 9 episodes in 2013. Was the voice of
many in the Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag video game a year later, as well as
Valeria in National Theatre Live: Coriolanus.
Creeping ever closer to
her role in Hollyoaks, Boatswain played a collection of characters in the long
running afternoon medical drama Doctors from 2001 - 2014. I remember spotting
her in Bad Education as a school Governor, and more recently as Victoria in
Wolfblood - who doesn't like that series? Last year Boatswain played Monique in
the tv series Collateral, and Jane in Cuckoo, as well as voicing another video
game, this time, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. But it was a sad
farewell from Hollyoaks where she'd played Simone Loveday from 2015 - 2019 that
many will remember her for, but the question remains, will she ever return to
the village?
Jan Anderson
‘Marie’
'Too
good to be true. I had HIV. That's the
Reset. I got it from the Pharm. It's a medical research place, all right? They
gave it to me. They paid me a lot of money. They said I should to keep quiet
about it because it was part of the contract.'
Since playing Marie in
Reset, Jan has played small roles in many familiar television series' and film
such as Curb Your Enthusiasm as Stella, a Customer in Trollied, Sharon in the
movie Porridge, two different characters in Doctors and returning to play
Sharon again for the tv series of Porridge two years later. She played Jemima
Kidd for two episodes of Emmerdale in 2018 and is currently filming Next Door
as India and rumoured to be playing Emma in The Middle Man currently in
pre-production. Take the Lead, as Rachel, in a movie for television has just
been completed.
Rhodri Miles
‘Billy’
‘I
work for the Pharm. They'd been giving people this Reset drug, but there were
these side effects. Parasites or something. They were gonna die anyway, so I
had to get rid of them before any weird symptoms showed up in public.’
Since Torchwood, Rhodri
has played a number of characters mainly for Welsh television programmes, such
as High Hopes in 2008, Alys in 2011 and Hinterland in 2013 in part two of
Devil's Bridge as Neil Amos. His last credit was in 2014 as First Mate in Game
of Thrones episode The Laws of Gods and Men.
Michael Sewell
‘Mike’
‘Well,
he used to be really clean. He reckoned he had to be careful about what went
into his body because of his diabetes.’
There's not much written
for Michael Sewell after Torchwood, apart from playing Eric Benton his The Bill
character in TV Burp from 2008 - 2009. No idea which he is in photo, but only one I could find.
John Samuel Worsey
‘Policeman’
‘Body
was found early this morning. Caucasian male, early twenties.’
I've found nothing for
actor John Samuel Worsey after Torchwood in 2008 when he played the policeman
in Reset.
Natalie Danks-Smith
‘Elin Morgan’
Natalie Danks-Smith is no
stranger to the Whoniverse as her credits show that she played not only the 3rd
Sibyline Sister in The Fires of Pompeii but also played an Auton in the Doctor
Who episode Love & Monsters - which means I'm going to have to rewatch that
episode to work out where in that episode an auton appeared. Unless it was a
flashback.
Since Torchwood, and since
her Doctor Who appearances where she was uncredited in all three roles, I
hasten to add, Natalie has played Lydia Hoggart in Doctors a year after Doctor
Who, Duchess of Kent in Upstairs Downstairs in 2012 and played Jack's Mum in We
Are the Freaks in 2013
Martin Fox
‘Security Guard’
(no photo available)
As an actor, Martin Fox
played his first character role in Doctor Who as a UNIT soldier in The Sound of
Drums in 2007, uncredited. After playing a plain clothed officer in Mistresses,
again uncredited, he returned to the Whoniverse to play three roles in
Torchwood from 2006 - 2009. A Fight Club Doorman in Combat, a Security Guard in
Reset and a Custody Officer in Children of Earth: Day Five. I'm seeing a
pattern regarding roles, as Fox played a Police Officer in the Thor film The
Dark World in 2013 as well as DS Fraser in Line of Duty (brilliant series) a
year before.
More recently he ditched
the police uniform in favour of a white coat and stethoscope as a psychiatric
Doctor in Father Brown episode The Three Tools of Death in 2014. His last
credit was as a Henenlotter Police in My Bloody Banjo in 2015.
Michael Llewellyn
Williams
‘Barry Leonard’
In 2007 before his role as
Barry Leonard in Torchwood, Williams played a Slab in the Doctor Who episode
Smith and Jones - couldn't tell you which one though!
He was an assistant
director for Doctor Who episode Flatline in 2014. Worked as a floor runner for
12 episodes of Atlantis from 2014 - 2015, was assistant director for Da Vinci's
Demons in 2015, has worked from floor runner to assistant director for many
popular television series, including The Crown, Downton Abbey, Taboo and The
Halcyon, as well as Set PA for Queen film Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018. He's also
crowd third assistant director for 3 episodes of The Little Drummer Girl mini
series in 2018 and currently in post production, was Crowd 3rd Assistant
Director for The King in 2019.
