What did you find?
ZZheng
A dead end.
What do you mean? What are they building?
ZZheng
There's nothing there. I looked. I found nothing. Nothing at all. Goodbye, Mr. Owens. [jumps from the forty-fifth floor of a building to his death]
“The Middle Men” · Season 4, Episode 6
In this episode: Jack Harkness (5), Gwen Cooper (4), Rex Matheson (4), Stewart (4), Colin Maloney (2), Esther Drummond (1)
My name is Rex Matheson. I'm with the CIA. I'm on an operation inside the San Pedro Overflow. No, strike that. I'm not with the CIA. Or a US government authority. I'm with Torchwood. And we're gonna expose everything that's going on here. Everything that I've just witnessed. [...] They're calling them category one's, and from what I've seen, don't ever let them call you that. The minute you hear "category one," you better get the hell out of Dodge. Because they are going to burn you. That's what this place is for. Incineration. And we all know the drill. They'll start with the category ones. The ones who can't protest. Then they'll go on to convicted felons or illegal immigrants--hell, anyone we just don't like. Because everybody gets sick. Which means one day everybody ends up here. Those ovens are waiting for all of us.
They move the category ones at 6am. They take them to the module--
PDr. Patel
Sorry. Not my department.
Really? Is that so? Well do you even know what your department is, Dr. Patel? Do you even know what really happens here? Do you know what happens in the module?
PDr. Patel
Like I said, I'm rather busy.
They burn people. They burn living people.
PDr. Patel
Category Ones are dead. That's the law. Under the emergency rulings for the sake of public health, category ones can be incinerated en masse.
Well I'm glad you've got the law on your side.
MDMaitre'd
Love the vintage coat.
Thanks. Maybe the three of us should have dinner sometime.
It's not me you're after. In fact I've been trying to find out the truth just as much as you. I'm not a bad man, Mr. Harkness.
Captain.
I'm not a bad man, Captain. I'm not a good one either. I'm a middle man in every sense of the word.
So that means everyone's to blame. Everyone and no one.
Whoever's behind this, they don't show themselves. Not to me, not to you. But to play the system like this--the markets, the politics, industry--they had to be planning this for a very long time. I wish I knew who they were.
There was a document from Italy, from a source inside the Council of Ministers. A contact then-deceased. It simply referred to the Blessing. It said, "They have found The Blessing."
RRalph
Someone's breached the compound, someone with a camera.
[panicked, in denial] No, no, no. Nothing's going wrong. Nothing, nothing, nothing.
RRalph
He wants to talk to whoever's in charge.
No, he doesn't. No, no, no, he doesn't.
They built ovens. And you're the director. So you know that.
I'm not in charge of policy. We had instructions that got sent out nationwide--worldwide--and we had orders from above not to say anything. I just did as I was told.
Okay. All right. Okay, you're the middle man. I get it.
You watching?
I'm here. And I've opened up the radio link. Make your message.
This is the truth for the whole world to see. We let our government build concentration camps. They built ovens for people in our names. Now I don't care if the whole of society bends over and takes this like a dog. I'm saying, No. [she blows the complex]
That's my girl.
Well all the guards are going. Regular army's coming in. They'll shut it down.
It was sanctioned. By the government. And they've got my name. They've got my name, I was on staff as Esther Drummond.
Esther, listen. Stop it, okay? Just stop it. You saved me.
I spent all that time wanting a job like yours. Look at me now.
It's okay. You're allowed to feel like this. Come here. {he kisses her forehead} But listen to me. This is not over. Not for Torchwood. And I need you in this fight. So get it together. And do it fast.
Done. I'm fine now. I'm ready.
Yeah. Me too.
We did it. We're whistle blowers. Every major news organization. The world knows the truth now. Let the outrage begin.
You really think it's that easy, hmm?
LLenses
We have your mother. We have your husband. We have your child.
Who are you? What do you want? What do you want?!
LLenses
Bring us Jack.
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