Torchwood Series 2 Episode 6 - Reset

The time has finally arrived, Martha Jones makes her first appearance in Torchwood – and its okay, not brilliant but okay!

‘Jim Robinson’ pops up speaking in a yank accent, (not sure what that’s all about, what’s wrong with his normal (Kiwi) accent?) playing a Doctor who is experimenting with alien lava, which is able to cure a number of diseases. The catch is that all the patients die a horrible death, although somehow I don’t think they know this!

Enter Martha, who now works for UNIT. Ah, those where the days! Jon Pertwee in his velvet jackets, drinking wine and constantly clashing with the Brigadier. While we are on this subject may I just remind RTD and his team of writers that THE UNIT SOILDERS DID NOT WEAR A RED CAP/BERET. It seems with the trailers for series 4 and Jack’s pining for ‘a bloke in a rap cap’, suggests that UNIT have changed.

Anyway back to the episode, where Martha somehow becomes qualified in most areas of healthcare, in just a matter of months. The team eventually find the place where all this stuff has been ‘going down’. Without going into any lewd sex jokes (as if I would!), Martha, goes down ‘undercover’ to investigate.

Eventually the team break in and they find out that a number of aliens have been kept prisoner at the lab and Jim Robinson as been ‘doing things’ to them (I’m no good at not doing a sex gag!). Oh and Martha gets infected with the lava thing, it doesn’t really matter because she’s fine! Owen isn’t, as Jim Robinson shoots him. Did I say don’t read this, if you’ve not seen it? Whoops, never mind!

This episode is slightly better than previous weeks, any more ‘To The Last Man’ and ‘Meat’ would have me writing a very stern letter to ‘Points of View’ to ask why the BBC are wasting money on this rather than let certain BBC executives have that extra car. It’s a mad, mad world! It was a decent story but it stank of ‘political correctness’, I mean that Weevil could have murdered innocent people!

8/10

Next Week: Jack bumps into a gay weevil and invites him to his caravan in Newport.