List of Torchwood characters
The following is a list of minor characters in the BBC science fiction television series Torchwood, including supporting characters, and important human villains.
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PC Andy
PC Andy, played by Tom Price, is Gwen Cooper's former partner in the police force, first appearing in Everything Changes. He finds glamourous police programmes like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ridiculous and also seemed to be somewhat put out by Gwen's more inquisitive nature. After Gwen joins Torchwood, she meets him again outside a nightclub where a man was killed by a "sex monster"-possessed host (Day One). Like Gwen's boyfriend Rhys, he believes that she has been promoted to "Special Ops".
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Suzie Costello
Suzie Costello, portrayed by Indira Varma, was a principal character in the first episode, Everything Changes. The second-in-command of Torchwood Three, the Cardiff-based wing of the Torchwood Institute, she has been researching a piece of alien technology, a glove which has the ability to resurrect creatures that have recently died, but only for a short period of time. It is revealed later in the episode that she has been murdering people in order to create test subjects for the Glove, having become obsessed with trying to make it work permanently.
While confessing her crimes to Gwen Cooper, Suzie expresses how much she loves her job, how nothing could ever measure up to what she has been doing, and her regret at having to run. She is about to shoot Gwen in order to cover up her crimes when Jack Harkness, the team leader, arrives. Suzie shoots Jack in the head, but he rises again due of his inability to die, and she commits suicide by placing the muzzle beneath her chin and shooting herself instead. Jack places Suzie's body in the cold storage facility in the Torchwood Hub, in a drawer labelled "006".
The character of Suzie featured prominently in pre-broadcast publicity material for the series alongside other members of the cast, as well as on the BBC website and on the cover of the Radio Times, making it appear as if she was to be a regular character.
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Lisa Hallett
Lisa Hallett, played by Caroline Chikezie, was a 26-year-old employee of Torchwood One in London and girlfriend of Ianto Jones. During the "Battle of Canary Wharf" (Army of Ghosts/Doomsday) the Cybermen needed more troops fast and began directly converting people rather than transplanting their brains into Cyberman shells. Lisa was in the midst of this conversion when Ianto rescued her, taking her and part of a conversion unit as a support system to Torchwood Three where he kept her in a basement until he could restore her humanity (Cyberwoman).
However, once freed from the unit, her Cyberman personality asserted itself and she attempted to take over the Hub in order to use it as a base for a new Cyberman army. Seeing how far Ianto had gone to protect her, she transplanted her brain into the body of a pizza delivery girl so they could be together. Clearly insane, and still claiming they both could be upgraded, her new body was shot and killed by the rest of the Torchwood team.
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Rhys Williams
Rhys Williams, played by Kai Owen, is Gwen Cooper's live-in boyfriend. He is a transport manager and unaware of the true nature of Gwen's job at the Torchwood Institute, believing she is working in "Special Ops" and that any alleged alien interference with Earth over the past two years were actually mass hallucinations induced by terrorists putting psychotropic drugs in the water supply. When Gwen puts this theory to Jack he derides Rhys as stupid. Before she dated Rhys, Gwen was going out with someone named Bruce, and Owen speculates that she simply settled for Rhys.
See also
- List of Doctor Who monsters and aliens
- List of Torchwood monsters and aliens
- List of Torchwood items
- List of Doctor Who robots