You're about to meet the creator.
[As Gwen, Jack and Danes come down in the lift, the Mother goes to meet them. Her guards have their guns ready]
Captain Jack Harkness. At last.
No, no, no, no, this isn't about Jack. No, ma'am. Excuse me, but it's not at all. My name is Oswald Danes. Well. Hmm. Good evening, Miss Kitzinger. You've been promoted. And this is the new empire you're servicing? My, my, my, my, my, my, my.
With all due respect, Mr Danes, you're a by-product of the Miracle. Not really relevant at all.
That's what the Captain said. He tried to tell me that my life has become a very small thing. Tiny. And yet right here, right now, at the very end, I would describe myself differently. I would call myself vital. [Danes opens his coat to reveal a suicide jacket of explosives. He arms the trigger] Madam, you're a fine woman. You should be careful now, very careful indeed. It seems like you've been planning some kind of an explosion, but I'd love to make sure you're still inside.
The CousinWell, I'm afraid we have a major disagreement here in Buenos Aires. I'd say advantage Families. Say hello to your friends.
What's that supposed to mean?
Rex? Oh my God. And Esther?
I'm here. They caught us.
Just glad to hear you're alive.
The Cousin
I'll swap your standoff for my standoff. [aims his gun at Esther's head]
The Cousin
But nobody dies. She'll keep on living, just perforated.
Threaten me, you coward, not her.
Jack If you hurt her, we've got explosives here ready to go.
And don't imagine I won't. Whatever happens here tonight, there's no place on Earth that I can go, and I wasn't planning on coming out of here alive.
The Cousin
[lowers his gun] So, who's gonna lose their nerve first?
The thing is, we don't need explosives or guns or threats, because I've got the most powerful thing of all. [walks to the cleft in the world and cuts his finger. His blood flies into it] It wants me. Mortal blood. The only one in the whole world. So I suggest you're very careful with me, okay?
And if you fail to take the Captain's advice, you can certainly come to oblivion with me. Jack, you're the future man. You've seen wonders beyond this world, so tell us of these Blessings and Miracles.
So, you found The Blessing and you worked out this morphic field.
The Cousin
The Blessing exists in a symbiotic relationship with the human race. It transmits a morphic field around the planet, binding us together like magnetism, like sunlight.
But finding it wasn't enough. You had to experiment on it.
The Cousin
No, we fed it.
We fed it the blood of an immortal. We had one remarkable artifact. We found a second remarkable artifact. The combination was inevitable.
So the Blessing absorbed the blood, copied it like a new template. So, the system changed its setting.
You know why it did that? I think you hurt it. It was being attacked, so it took the blood pattern and made it a gift. It's exerting itself to sustain every person on the planet. This whole Miracle, it's trying to be kind.
You've seen immortality. I'm living it. Why would you want this?
The Cousin
This is only stage one.
But you ruined the world out there!
The Miracle shocked the economy. The economy collapsed. We tear down in order to rebuild. And now it's almost within sight. The new world.
Yeah, with no room for the poor, the weak or the ones that don't fit in.
That's the way the world works. Now, we're just making it official. The families have just been waiting. Now we can step in to control the banks. The banks control government. The government controls people. Soon we'll be able to decide who lives, how long, where and why.
Oh, great. So it's the world according to Kitzinger, is it?
Listen, you can bleed your liberal heart all over the place, but are you really gonna tell me the world was working before? Because I have worked for the rich and the powerful and the obese. I have stared into the high end of Western society and let me tell you, it is like shovelling an open sewer. These families, they want to make the world fitter, more compact, more disciplined. And I like the sound of that. That sounds like salvation.
But before you launched this brave new world, you had to deal with one more thing. Yeah. Me.
So as soon as the Miracle happened, you sent the Torchwood email.
The Cousin
His blood endangers the plan. We had to draw him out into the open.
Well, you failed. I got to Shanghai. I've got the only mortal blood on the planet. If it gets into The Blessing, life switches back. I can make the whole world mortal.
[As Jack is about to slit his wrist, the Mother laughs]
The Cousin
Oh, no.
The Cousin
He's not listening.
He doesn't seem to get it.
The Cousin
No, no, no.
The Cousin
Everything on this axis operates in a polar dynamic field.
You could reset the Blessing, your blood could make the whole world mortal again, but only by introducing it to both cities at once.
The Cousin
Blood in Buenos Aires.
The Cousin
Entering The Blessing simultaneously.
The Cousin
That's how we made the world immortal.
And for you, I'm sorry, it's impossible.
The Cousin
You did very well, almost worked it out, but all that spare blood of yours went up in flames.
So I'm just gonna have to kill you. [gives an order to her Chinese henchmen]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa.
Jack, I know how your mind works. Even now you're ferociously calculating how you can get your blood to the other side of the world. But I can't allow that. Absolutely not.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I'm warning you, I'll do it.
Then I'll die. And that's a shame, because you can blast his blood into that wall and it won't make any difference at all.
[The henchmen cock their weapons]
Wait a minute. If you need the blood of Jack Harkness on the other side of the world, then just-
Just listen to me! Jack! All right. I'm all right. As I was saying, if you need Jack's blood, how about this?
[Rex cuts his finger, and the blood flows to the cleft. The ground shudders]
What was that? What happened?
The Cousin
That's impossible. No way. There's nothing special about you.
Oh, but there is, when I've got Jack's blood flowing through my veins. It's inside me.
See, we knew this blood was important, so as soon as we arrived-
We transfused it into Rex. We exchanged his blood for Jack's.
On most days it might've killed me. But we're all living on Miracle Day.
And everyone thought the blood was gone, so no one even suspected. All we did was keep one final bag, filled the rest with Rex's blood, and Jack's mortal blood...
...Just walked right in. Hey, Oswald, you want to be a walking bomb?
Well, try this. Shoot me! Shoot me! Come on! Shoot me!
The Cousin
Don't! Don't! Don't!
Pull that trigger! Splatter my blood! Shoot me!
Get him out! Get him out!
[Jack produces a gun]
Nobody move! Huh? Wow, Rex, you're a genius!
You just shut the hell up. All right? This shit hurts.
Yeah, we've got blood on both sides of the world, Jack, but-
But they will die. Is that what you want? The Blessing will take every last drop. You'll both die, gentlemen. You'll both kill yourselves. You will die in a pit in Shanghai. Is that what you want?
I think I've lived long enough. Are you ready, Rex?
Oh, you know I wish I'd never met you, you World War Two idiot. Good times, huh?
Just one last thing, Jack.
You're never gonna be a suicide. [aims her gun at him]
[Jack faces the Blessing]
The Cousin
I think this might. [shoots Esther]
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