Torchwood/Greeks Bearing Gifts

Greeks Bearing Gifts
Season 1, Episode 7
Airdate	November 26, 2006
Written by	Toby Whithouse
Directed by	Colin Teague
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Torchwood — Season One

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Greeks Bearing Gifts is the seventh episode of the first season of Torchwood. A stranger gives Toshiko a pendant that enables her to read people's minds.

Cast: John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness), Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper), Burn Gorman (Owen Harper), Naoko Mori (Toshiko Sato), Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones)

Co-Stars: Daniela Denby-Ashe (Mary), Tom Robertson (Soldier), Ravin J. Ganatra (Neil), Eiry Thomas (Carol), Shaheen Jafargholi (Danny), Paul Kasey (Weevil)

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Jack: Toshiko can't read Jack's thoughts and Mary remarks that he "smells different" from normal humans.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Silent Witness: Amanda Burton starred in Silent Witness as coroner Sam Ryan who helps the police solve homocide cases.

Gwen: Well, Amanda Burton here has just completed the postmortem.

• Kubla Khan: On entering Torchwood, Mary quotes the beginning of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan:

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

Quotes

• Owen: You know, Tosh, sometimes I think even that stick up your arse has got a stick up its arse.

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