First Aired: Jul. 21, 2011 on BBC One

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Season 4 » Episode #02 - Rendition

Torchwood (UK) - 04x02 Rendition
Summary: As the Torchwood team is reunited, Jack realizes he's the most vulnerable man on Earth. A flight to the United States turns into a desperate battle for survival.

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Guest Stars:

Lyn Peterfield played by Dichen Lachman
Charlotte Wills played by Marina Benedict
Noah Vickers played by Paul James (IV)
Sgt. Andy Davidson played by Tom Price (VI)
Brian Friedkin played by Wayne Knight
Geoff Reed played by Tug Coker
Lianna played by Halley Feiffer
Danny played by Finn Wittrock

Episode Quotes

Gwen Cooper: [getting in a Mini Cooper] What kind of a getaway car is this? I thought you Americans had these big SUVs. This is rubbish.
Gwen Cooper: You went to supervise him, that's what you said. Supervise. Who needs supervising pouring a drink? What did you supervise, exactly?
Lyn Peterfield: So now you're accusing anyone.
Gwen Cooper: It's either you or the big gay steward. So that means only you.
Danny: I'm not gay.
Gwen Cooper: [Gwen to Jack as they're fleeing CIA agents after landing Dulles Airport] Even if we can get past how do we get out? Y'know what U.S. immigration is like at the best of times.
Rex Matheson: [Re-joining Jack and Gwen after a fistfight with other agents during which Jack and Gwen ditched him] Hey what the hell are you waitin' around here for?
Gwen Cooper: We're stuck! Thanks to you!
Rex Matheson: [Aghast] Oh my god you two are idiots, you're already landside! Take a look around you're at the baggage claim for *domestic* flights! We can just walk out of here! Now come on and follow me.
Gwen Cooper: Hey! You get us arrested, okay, you break up my family, you nearly get Jack killed, why should we go anywhere with you?
Rex Matheson: Because I have a *car*,

Rex Matheson: Here, take y'thing

Captain Jack Harkness: [to uniformed security officer] Excuse me sir, those two men over there in the black suits?

Captain Jack Harkness: I think I overheard them talking about a bomb.
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Mistakes/Goofs

  • Goof (factual errors): Errors in security procedures: There are a number of instances of actions that would seriously violate security in the sequences at CIA HQ, the most glaring of which is Esther Drummond receiving a call on her personal cell phone from inside a secure area, which would never be allowed.
  • Goof (continuity error): SPOILER: When Esther Drummond is making her escape, the security guard monitoring access says that she swiped an ID card to exit the main secure area, and a second time to access the elevator. However, in a previous scene, she simply presses a button to call the elevator and simply step in.
  • Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Jilly Kitzinger meets Vera Juarez for the first time, Lauren Ambrose's microphone wire is clearly visible towards the lower right hand side of her jacket.
  • Goof (plot holes): Much is made of the lack of deaths causing an imminent and seemingly unavoidable population explosion but the global death rate is only about 40% of the birth rate anyway. The world is already experiencing a huge and unsustainable growth in population. If there were no deaths the problem would be worse in the long run but it wouldn't be an instant disaster. Birth rate: 19.86 births/1,000 population (2010 est.). Death rate: 8.37 deaths/1,000 population (2010 est.).
  • Goof (continuity error): After Jilly Kitzinger gets a cigarette from Vera Juarez, it changes its place almost every time the camera angle changes.

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