Torchwood: Miracle Day season finale

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  • I’M SURE THE ANSWERS TO ALL OUR QUESTIONS WILL BE BEHIND THIS FENCE: Eve Myles and John Barrowman

Is the title of the “Torchwood: Miracle Day” finale a pun? It’s called “The Bloodline,” and those drops of Jack Harkness blood point in straight line towards the location of the Blessing in Shanghai and Buenos Aires, respectively. Before our heroes can make things right, though, the episode begins on the most serious note imaginable, as Gwen, her face surrounded by darkness, tells a lovely story about her father and the first time an adult spoke to her in an honest way. Which is a built-up to her kicker: “Today’s the day I’m going to kill him.”

The Families plan to blow up the, uh, mouth of blessing to make the Miracle permanent. The Mother Colasanto, apparently the Three Families Shanghai rep, tells Jilly that the power of the Miracle was revealed thanks to the information age: someone with a lot of time on his hands crunched numbers to reveal that Buenos Aires and Shanghai both had exactly the average life expectancy of the world. So what? Beats me, but they the families deduced that this big, pink crack going through the Earth can calibrates the age of humanity. When the gave it Jack Harkness blood, it took Jack as its baseline and thus prevented the human race from dying by some kind of morphic field voodoo. (Why it made people deathless but not indestructible remains a mystery.)