An
alien addicted to sex is let loose on Cardiff’s nightlife.
Torchwood must track down the creature’s new host
and in doing so, confront a new form of love in the 21st
century.
The
second episode sees Captain Jack and the team jump straight
into a case that you would never see on Doctor Who.
Here we have an alien entity that feeds off orgasmic energy.
Possessing
a young girl, it uses her sexuality mixed with a powerful
pheromone to draw in her victims, man or woman, and feed
off the climatic energy produced in moments of intense lust
and desire.
After
introducing the series with a darker show, this episode
is a little more light-hearted and shows that Torchwood
is also going to explore the sexual nature of aliens. This
again is something that they could never do in Doctor
Who and takes the series more into the territory that
Davis exploited so well in his previous endeavours.
The
dynamic of the team is explored as Gwen gets to know her
colleagues and struggles to leave her once normal life behind
her. While the alien threat might be a little lacklustre,
it just serves as a way of getting to know more about how
Cardiff’s Torchwood branch works (yes, there is more
than one) and more about Captain Jack Harkness’s state
of mind as he tries to deal with what happened in his past.
It might
not have the same impact as the first episode but this is
still a good continuation of the series and one that reveals
more about what kind of show this is going to be.
