The Twilight Streets

Torchwoodbook
title=The Twilight Streets
number=6
featuring=Jack Harkness Gwen Cooper Owen Harper Toshiko Sato Ianto Jones


writer=Gary Russell
publisher=BBC Books
isbn=
set_between="Meat" and "Reset"; After A Day in the Death (parallel reality)
pages=
date=6 March 2008
preceding="Trace Memory"
following="Pack Animals"|

"The Twilight Streets" is a BBC Books original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the British science fiction television, "Doctor Who" spin-off series "Torchwood". It features all the regular cast of the show. It was published on 6 March 2008. [cite web
url=http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=1846074398
title=Torchwood: The Twilight Streets
publisher=Random House
date=2007-12-04
accessdate=2007-12-14 ]

Plot introduction

A newly renovated district of Cardiff has opened with street parties and entertainers out in force to advertise the new area. All seems well until Toshiko recognises the sponsor of the event: Bilis Manger...

Continuity

*Bilis Manger last featured in the episodes "Captain Jack Harkness" and "End of Days".
*Idris Hopper, a character from the "Doctor Who" episode, "Boom Town", appears in this novel. The events of the episode are referenced heavily in a flashback sequence, explaining how Jack stopped the team from getting involved.
*The cream sofa Rhys and Gwen were considering buying in "Something in the Water" is referenced.
*Rhys saving Gwen's life with the Singularity Scalpel in "Something Borrowed" is referenced in Gwen's vision of a possible future.
*The way in which Torchwood staff applaud Rhys and Gwen is reminiscent of their applause for The Doctor in the "Doctor Who" episode "Army of Ghosts".
*Owen and Tosh have both "moved recently to new apartments" explaining their differing appearance between series.
*Jack remembers a time he was stalked by a Hoix, a monster seen in the "Doctor Who" episode "Love & Monsters" and later in the "Torchwood" episode "Exit Wounds".
*Gwen references the Torchwood procedure of storing the bodies of ex-employees and storing all of their personal belongings in a garage, a practice last shown with Suzie Costello's death in "They Keep Killing Suzie".
*In a possible future Owen makes reference to his condition and how it will not allow him to have a child with Toshiko, whom he plans to marry. Later on, he references his permanently broken hand.
*When Owen holds Jack at gunpoint, Jack references the coup Owen last held against Jack in "End of Days".
*As Toshiko and Owen are both dead as of "Exit Wounds", it is unlikely this future will come to pass.
*Jack attempts to contact "Archie", the "strange man" he mentions in "Everything Changes" as the only member of Torchwood Two in Glasgow.
*The character of Ianto Jones was originally going to be called Idris Hopper but was changed when Gareth David-Lloyd got the part.

Outside references

*When the forces of Light and Dark are advancing on 6 Coburg Street, Idris Hopper is forcibly reminded of the video to Michael Jackson's "Thriller".
*When Ianto is telling Jack that he "had a dream," Idris is reminded of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King's famous speech.
*When Idris is infected by The Dark, Ianto hopes "his head doesn't swivel and start talking about [Gwen's] mother", a reference to "The Exorcist".
*Idris is hoping to have a choice between "The Simpsons" and "Frasier" as the in-flight entertainment whilst flying to Berlin.

References