4.01: Miracle Day - The New World

This is: Torchwood: Series 4 - Episode 1 

Title: Miracle Day - The New World 

Mon/Vil: Central Intelligence Agency & Rex Matheson 

Synopsis: One day, nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. And then the next day, and the next, and the next, people keep ageing - they get hurt and sick, but they never die. The result: a population boom, overnight. With all the extra people, resources are finite. It’s said that in four month’s time, the human race will cease to be viable. But this can’t be a natural event - someone’s got to be behind it. It’s a race against time as CIA agent Rex Matheson investigates a global conspiracy. The answers lie within an old, secret British institute. As Rex keeps asking: “What is Torchwood?”, he’s drawn into a world of adventure, and a threat to change what it means to be human … forever. In the launch episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day, Agent Rex Matheson is impaled in a car crash and miraculously survives, while his analyst, Esther Drummond, sets out to discover what Torchwood is. Far away, in Wales, Gwen Cooper lives in hiding with her husband Rhys and daughter Anwen – she’s the last surviving Torchwood member and is determined to stay hidden. In Kentucky, convicted murderer Oswald Danes survives his own execution. And when Esther meets the mysterious Captain Jack Harkness, assassins are activated to kill them all… 

Writer: Russell T Davies 
Director: Bharat Nalluri

Producers: Kelly A Manners & Brian Minchin

First Broadcast: 14th July 2011

Ratings: 6.59 Million

Duration: 54.08

Cast: Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman

Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles

Rex Matheson - Mekhi Phifer

Esther Drummond - Alexa Havins

Rhys Williams - Kai Owen

Oswald Danes - Bill Pullman

Dr. Vera Juarez - Arlene Tur

Noah Vickers - Paul James

Charlotte Willis - Marina Benedict

Alexander Peterssen - Brian Guest

Geraint Cooper - William Thomas

Mary Cooper - Sharon Morgan

Andy Davidson - Tom Price

Senior Professor Victor Louis Santini - Ron Butler

Rosita - Bunnie Rivera

Joan Cabina - Heather Ann Smith

Senior Guard Cole - Rocky McMurray

Female Hiker - Penny Bunton

Male Hiker - Phil Nice

Male Professor - Clint Jung

Female Expert - Laura Gardner

Female News Anchor 1 - Nischelle Turner

Female News Anchor 2 - Jackie Torres

Female News Anchor 3 - Jessica Matthews

Male News Anchor 1 - David Grant Wright

Male News Anchor 2 - Jim Castillo

TV Journalist - Ellen Fox

Senior Male News Anchor - Rick Chambers

Archivist - Van Epperson

British Professor - Robin Sachs

Angry Nurse - Lauri Hendler

Teenage Girl - Carla Jeffery

Nurse - Charlene Lovings

Male Nurse - Hymnson Chan

Flight Attendant - Laura Morgan