Already thrilled that another season of
Torchwood is underway? Well here's some info on the new characters being introduced too:
First up is series regular Rex
Matheson, a wickedly funny (operative word: wicked) CIA agent born to make waves. Almost as key to the new season are recurring characters Esther
Katusi, a CIA grunt in her early 20s who learns what she's really made of only when she's forced to, and Oswald Jones, a convicted murderer and pedophile who will be as shocked as anyone to learn how easily infamy and fame can be exchanged for one another.
And here's the synopsis:
When C.I.A. agent Rex
Matheson investigates a global conspiracy, he finds himself unearthing a threat which challenges the entire human race.
The answers seem to lie within an old, secret British institute, known only as
Torchwood. But
Torchwood was destroyed, years ago, and the keys to the institute are held by its only two survivors—former Police Officer Gwen Cooper, who has long since disappeared along with her husband and child, and the mysterious Captain Jack
Harkness, a man whose history seems to stretch back centuries.
With Rex under attack from all sides, in both the US and the UK, he soon discovers there are forces at work within every level of society, determined to stop
Torchwood's return. As a chain of events across the world links together the most disparate and unlikely individuals—including a surgeon, a killer, senators and
CEOs—a new
Torchwood team takes shape. But this time, the threat is much closer to home, as they realize that their greatest enemy is mankind itself ...
I can't say that the last character on the description list is anything to get excited about, but then when did
Torchwood pull any punches? Exactly. I'm sure it'll all work out in the end and give us at least one more season of one of sci-
fi's greatest shows.
