In the 43rd Century, the height of the Earth Empire. A ship from 1000 years in the future has crashed on a lava world and is calling for help. How dangerous is the knowledge it offers?
The Torchwood Archive sends Danny Bartock. Because only an ethicist can save humanity from the future.
Recorded on: 18 November 2022
Recorded at: The Soundhouse
Producer James Goss said: “When the Empire receives a distress signal sent by a spaceship from a thousand years it the future, humanity needs to tread carefully. Ethicist Danny Bartok (Ronny Jhutti) is sent to stop the expedition making a terrible mistake.
“We never got to explore this side of Danny’s character in The Impossible Planet (he did spend much of it crawling for his life) but here he’s trying to devise a whole new field of ethics on a ship that’s sinking into lava.”
Ronny Jhutti said: “It was lovely to be asked [to return to Torchwood] and exciting to do because Danny takes a central role. He's exactly the same – panicking and worrying as the ethics adviser on a team that ostensibly goes through what Danny's team went through on TV. It echoes the dramatic construction of that story wonderfully.”
Georgina Beedle, Farshid Rokey, Silas Carson, Ronny Jhutti, Teresa Banham, James Barriscale