The Best Episodes of Torchwood Season 2

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.8/10(1537 votes)

   #1 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

   S2:E11/16/2008

   Captain Jack returns, as the Torchwood team reunite to fight a rogue Time Agent. The mysterious Captain John Hart is determined to wreak havoc, and needs to find something hidden on Earth. But with Gwen's life in danger, and cluster bombs scattered across the city, whose side is Jack on?

   Director:Ashley Way

   Writer:Chris Chibnall

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   Director:Ashley Way

   Writer:Chris Chibnall
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   7.2/10(1279 votes)

   #2 - Sleeper

   S2:E21/23/2008

   When a burglary turns into a slaughter, Torchwood suspect alien involvement. Who is Beth, and can she be as innocent as she seems? But when the investigation escalates into a city-wide assault, Jack realises that the whole planet is in danger.

   Director:Colin Teague

   Writer:James Moran

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   Director:Colin Teague

   Writer:James Moran
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   7.8/10(1284 votes)

   #3 - To the Last Man

   S2:E31/30/2008

   Toshiko falls for a handsome soldier, trapped out of his time, who unwittingly holds the key to saving the world. With an old hospital haunted by ghosts from 1918, a crisis foreseen by Torchwood 90 years ago is about to reach its climax. Time zones are colliding and with life and death decisions to be made, will Torchwood be able to stop an explosive end for Cardiff?

   Director:Andy Goddard

   Writer:Helen Raynor

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   Director:Andy Goddard

   Writer:Helen Raynor
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   7.5/10(1247 votes)

   #4 - Meat

   S2:E42/6/2008

   When Rhys discovers the truth about Torchwood, he helps the gang to find the source of an unusual alien meat supply.

   Director:Colin Teague

   Writer:Catherine Tregenna

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   Director:Colin Teague

   Writer:Catherine Tregenna
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   7.5/10(1310 votes)

   #5 - Adam

   S2:E52/13/2008

   A memory thief gets in to the minds of the Torchwood team, and uncovers long forgotten secrets.

   Director:Andy Goddard

   Writer:Catherine Tregenna

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   Director:Andy Goddard

   Writer:Catherine Tregenna
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   7.3/10(1247 votes)

   #6 - Reset

   S2:E62/13/2008

   Jack calls in an old friend for a favour, none other than Martha Jones, as they attempt to stop a pharmaceutical facility that uses aliens in the hope of discovering a cure for all diseases.

   Director:Ashley Way

   Writer:J. C. Wilsher

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   Director:Ashley Way

   Writer:J. C. Wilsher
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   7.4/10(1237 votes)

   #7 - Dead Man Walking

   S2:E72/20/2008

   Captain Jack resurrects Owen with a resurrection glove, only to find out that the new glove isn't quite what they'd bargained for. Owen, in an undead state, helps the team figure out why he's still around.

   Director:Andy Goddard

   Writer:Matt Jones

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   Director:Andy Goddard

   Writer:Matt Jones
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   7.1/10(1243 votes)

   #8 - A Day in the Death

   S2:E82/27/2008

   A victim of his newfound circumstances, Owen Harper believes he needs absolution. Will the lonely girl on the rooftop help him, or will it be a mission to the retrieve an alien device that is proving more lethal by the second? And how far will Toshiko go to help him?

   Director:Andy Goddard

   Writer:Joseph Lidster

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   Director:Andy Goddard

   Writer:Joseph Lidster
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   7.1/10(1200 votes)

   #9 - Something Borrowed

   S2:E93/5/2008

   Gwen awakes on her wedding day to find she has been impregnated by a shape-shifting alien male. With it's life-partner eager to retrieve it's mate at the cost of Gwen's life, the team race to intercept her as Gwen decides to go through with her marriage at a secluded location with all of her family present

   Director:Ashley Way

   Writer:Phil Ford

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   Director:Ashley Way

   Writer:Phil Ford
10. 

    7.1/10(1204 votes)

    #10 - From Out of the Rain

    S2:E103/12/2008

    An old cinema reopens and mysterious horrors of the past return to Cardiff. Why are people trapped between life and death, questions are asked about the Night Travellers, and what Torchwood can do to stop them.

    Director:Jonathan Fox Bassett

    Writer:Peter J. Hammond

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    Director:Jonathan Fox Bassett

    Writer:Peter J. Hammond
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    8.0/10(1254 votes)

    #11 - Adrift

    S2:E113/19/2008

    Gwen finds the darker side of Torchwood when a teenager disappears, investigating why hundreds of people have vanished without a trace. Jack is obstructing attempts to find them, and the answer appears to lie in the Rift.

    Director:Mark Everest

    Writer:Chris Chibnall

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    Director:Mark Everest

    Writer:Chris Chibnall
12. 

    7.7/10(1256 votes)

    #12 - Fragments

    S2:E123/21/2008

    As the team are knocked unconscious we find out how Jack, Toshiko, Ianto and Owen were initiated into Torchwood.

    Director:Jonathan Fox Bassett

    Writer:Chris Chibnall

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    Director:Jonathan Fox Bassett

    Writer:Chris Chibnall
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    8.3/10(1377 votes)

    #13 - Exit Wounds

    S2:E134/4/2008

    Captain John Hart returns to wreak havoc upon Jack's world, who ends up getting captured. It is up to the Torchwood team to rescue him and save the city.

    Director:Ashley Way

    Writer:Chris Chibnall

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    Director:Ashley Way

    Writer:Chris Chibnall