Articles WATNOW: They Keep Killing Suzie by DJ Forrest

There is a spate of murders across the City of Cardiff, with Torchwood’s name written all over them, and traces of DNA with a compound B57 - RETCON discovered at the latest crime scene. It would take a lot to narrow down who it was, but a chance discovery that all those killed were from the same meet and greet group – Pilgrim, the net begins to tighten, and Jack decides it’s time to talk to the dead.

Resurrecting Suzie Costello with the aid of the Risen Mitten and the Life Knife, Jack bites off more than he can chew, when the connection between Suzie and Gwen is strong enough to keep Suzie fighting fit, and Gwen slowly dying from a bullet to the head.

Suzie has a mission, one that she had been planning, long before she turned the gun on herself and Torchwood fell for it.

Indira Varma

Suzie Costello

‘Captain, my captain. Do you want to know a secret? There's something moving in the dark and it's coming, Jack Harkness. It's coming for you.’

When Suzie shot herself in Everything Changes, we thought that was it, and it would have been, if it wasn’t for the deaths caused by Max Tresilian, but bringing Suzie back, came at a cost, and it was going to take a lot to put her back in a body bag.

With much of the main cast already taken care of by way of the WATNOW search, it only left Suzie – Indira Varma to finish up the team. Indira has been busy since Torchwood with her role in Game of Thrones and her latest ITV drama performances and no-one is more pleased than I am to see, or rather hear Suzie back in Torchwood in the Big Finish Torchwood audio – Moving Target. Only time will tell I suppose if Suzie returns in another story later on in the Torchwood series.

Indira has played roles in well known television dramas including Luther, Hustle, Silk and What Remains. Has voiced characters in video games such as Dragon Age: Inquisition series as well as Mass Effect: Andromeda as two characters.

Played Nina Suresh in Paranoid in 2016 and Ellaria Sand in Game of Thrones for 13 episodes, played Jo in Unspeakable, an ITV drama and is currently filming Carnival Row television series as Piety Breakspear, due for release in 2019.

As a producer, Indira was executive producer of Indian Summers, a drama set in the 1930s during the final years of British Colonial rule in India, starring Julie Walters and Jemima West.

Yasmin Bannerman

Detective Swanson

‘Torchwood walks all over this city like you own it. Now these people are paying the price. Ordinary people, ripped apart, with your name written in their own blood. From where I'm standing, you did this, Captain Jack Harkness. You did it.’

Detective Swanson doesn’t like Torchwood very much. The organisation dominates much of her work where murder is concerned, but when the team are trapped inside their own building, she does all she can to get them released from their apparent lock down and allow the SUV to break to speed limits in order to rescue one of their team.

If you remember, this isn’t the first time Yasmin has appeared in the Whoniverse. Back in 2005, she played one of the Forest of Cheem called Jabe, who helped the 9^th incarnation of the Time Lords, to prevent a disaster on Platform One after Lady Cassandra sabotaged it.

Since Who, Jasmin has appeared in Life on Mars, Who Do You Think You Are, and Casualty in 2009, after that, and with much searching, there is no mention of any other credits beyond that year.

Daniel Llewelyn-Williams

Alex Arwyn

There is no quote for Daniel, as he was one of the unfortunate victims of Max Tresilian.

Since Torchwood, Daniel’s credits range from Midsomer Murders, Doctors, The Machine and Eastenders, as Dr Rhys Thomas. In 2017 he played Mr Wilkinson in Born to Kill. Have been unable to find further information regarding Daniel’s theatre work. Have discovered his website, where I learnt he is also an accomplished singer and is currently working as a writer but no little more than that. http://www.danielllewelynwilliams.co.uk/

As well as an actor, Daniel is also a singer, dancer, fight director and writer. He has also appeared in theatre productions. Alex Arwyn was one of the unlucky victims of Max Tresilian.

Gary Pillai

Mark Brisco

‘Where am I? Is my wife alright? It was that man…he belonged to Pilgrim… Oh my God, he had a knife. Max…There was someone who knew him better. That woman…Suzie’

Mark was the unfortunate victim who fell foul of Max Tresilian. He was murdered alongside his wife in their home, their blood used on the wall of their bedroom leaving a calling card for Torchwood.

In a search for the killer, Jack used the Risen Mitten to get an exact make on the killer, when Mark told them it was Suzie, the team realised they were talking to the wrong corpse.

Since Torchwood, Gary has played a variety of different characters, from a doctor in Dirk Gently and Emmerdale and Franklyn, a Clerk in Coronation Street, a Headmaster in Love & Marriage, played Stephen Miskin in Silent Witness for 2 episodes, a Merchant in The Passion and Merchant Captain in one episode of Game of Thrones in 2015. He’s been a Pathologist for Remember Me, and Tamwar Johar for Casualty, and played DC Dev Bansal for 2 episodes of Eastenders in 2015. This year he plays a Sonographer in Hard Sun (2018).

Shend

Max Tresilian

‘Stopped for me. The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me.’

Max Tresilian, of 106 Endeavour Terrace had been overdosed on B57 compound – known to us as RETCON. He’d been given one a week, every week, for two years. Desperate for someone to talk to, about the job she did, Suzie had opened up to Max, then drugged him straight after talking to him. After Suzie stopped coming to the meetings, after she’d killed herself, something triggered inside Max and he went on a killing spree, killing all those in the Pilgrim group, bar Lucy Mackenzie.

Shend who is 6’ 4”, is also a stunt fighter. Since Torchwood, Shend has played Hogfather in the film of the same name, Mike O’Shea in Emmerdale, played a Barbarian Chief, Mr Slaughter in Fur TV, Ebor in Merlin, Nobby in Life’s Too Short, a thug in Spy, The Collector in Phometrica, Mikey in My Name is Lenny and is currently filming Schemers, playing a character called Burton.

Badi Uzzaman

Suzie’s Dad

No speaking part

Given the resentment Suzie felt for her Dad, it’s likely the man was bad news, and there was no love lost when the man awoke in time to see his daughter whip out his breathing tube.

Badi Uzzaman was born on March 8^th 1939, in Phulpur, Azangarh, India. He played mostly supporting roles alongside Michael Gambon in The Singing Detective in 1986 and in Coronation Street, The Bill, Inspector Morse. His role as a shopkeeper subjected to a racially motivated attack in both Casualty and later in Cracker were the programmes I remember seeing him in. It was only later when he appeared as Suzie’s dad that I remembered where I’d seen him before.

Badi Uzzaman died at the age of 72 of a lung infection on 14^th June, 2011.