"Why should you get away with it? You said you were sorry, said you didn't want to hurt her, but you didn't STOP! What if I didn't stop? Would I be sorry?"
Episode 3: Ghost Machine.
Companions: Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, Toshiko Sato, Owen Harper and Ianto Jones.
Air Date: 29th October 2006.
When Gwen retrieves an alien object from a fleeing man in a hoodie, she's haunted by a vision of a lonely young boy. As the team tracks down the object's owner, the elusive Bernie Harris, Owen experiences an even more terrifying vision and a long-buried crime resurfaces.
Ghost Machine is one of my favourite Torchwood episodes. Not because it's action packed but because of the awesome premise for the story. The Torchwood team get their hands on a piece of alien technology that allows the user to experience the emotional residue left behind at a location. What you and I would call ghosts. In this instance Owen experiences the rape and murder of a young woman in 1963. This has a strong impact on him and he takes it upon himself to bring the man to justice. We learn that Owen for all his bravado and dark nature has a sense of right and wrong. It brings so much to his character and it is that insight which makes this such an exceptional story for me.
Other than the recovery of the alien device there is nothing to make Ghost Machine a Torchwood investigation and that the writers could come up with stories away from the primary focus of the show is great. I recommend this story lots.
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