Review by: Kevin Bachelder (Tuning In To SciFi TV)
The review contains information about the contents of Day Three of the miniseries. If you don’t want to know then stop here…… ***SPOILER WARNING***
Before the Torchwood team can try to ‘save the world’ they need a place to call home so Ianto shows the team their new base of operations. It’s an abandoned warehouse that used to an old Torchwood one facility back in the ‘90s. They quickly realize they’re going to need a lot more than just the clothes on their back to deal with the problem. This leads them to come up with a plan to become petty criminals stealing credit cards, laptops and other things to finance their efforts. Much like the Jack escape plan from day two you need to try and not think too hard about this plot line otherwise you might ask too many questions that can’t really be answered.
Since the Hub explosion, Jack’s daughter Alice has been trying to reach him on his private mobile phone. Her concern leads to a mistake when she stops a woman on the street and asks to use her mobile phone. She calls a different number to try and reach Jack and gets snared by Johnson’s military group listening in on the call. Doesn’t she know that CCTV is everywhere! That starts them researching her and that turns up a fabricated past, so they know she must be someone worth having. Alice senses the danger coming but can’t get away from the overwhelming forces that arrive. She and her son Steven are taken prisoner and brought to the same facility where Jack was previously held.
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So far, this “review” reads more like a high school book report. Torchwood: Children of Earth is much better than this “review” suggests.