| abstract | - The sixth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. With Dr. Juarez now burned alive, Torchwood is wondering where the hell she is. Jack tries to blackmail the CEO of Phicorp by manipulating the secretary that the guy's sleeping with. However, Phicorp has no idea what's going on. They're just middle-men. They knew the Miracle was coming, but they had nothing to do with its implementation. Nobody knows anything, nobody's in charge, nobody's at fault. The medicine surplus had been set in motion years before. The paper trail is endless. In Wales, Gwen confronts the Overflow Camp's doctors about the Modules. The resident doctor explains that they have no other choice -- she's just following orders. She didn't make the rules. Nobody knows anything, nobody's in charge, nobody's at fault. Gwen uses her contact lenses to make contact with Jack, who video tapes everything that's going on through Gwen's eyes. Rex and Esther are still at the USA module, where Colin Maloney is having a complete nervous breakdown over having burned Dr. Juarez alive. His unwilling accomplice, Ralph, is trying to find a way to morally cope with what happened. Maloney eventually manages to capture Rex, and half-heartedly prods his open chest wound with a pen before realising that torture won't accomplice anything. When he subsequently starts to strange Esther (who puts up one hell of a fight), Ralph decides that enough is enough, and shoots Maloney. Esther goes into a Heroic BSOD over having "killed" Maloney, and Rex has to calm her down while he's bleeding profusely from his heart. Torchwood manages to make the video footage of Dr. Juarez' death and Gwen's adventures in Wales go into Memetic Mutation worldwide. The Modules are closed... for now. But they realise that this is a temporary solution at best. Gwen travels back to the USA, again using her false passport. Rhys realises that he has to let her go. At the airport, she recieves a message to go put in her lenses... and the text in front of her eyes tells her that Rhys, Mary and Anwen have been kidnapped. Whoever's behind it wants Jack, the only mortal man, as ransom.
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