Torchwood: Uncanny Valley

We're back with Captain Jack again for this instalment, that's a fairly direct sequel to the audio series opener The Conspiracy. This time, the play dispenses with the narration, save for a few brief sections at the beginning and end, making the story more immersive than its predecessor.

The story concerns Jack tracking down a reclusive billionaire, an unwitting pawn of the conspiracy who seems to have the ability to be in two places at once. You can probably guess how he's doing this from the picture on the cover, and it's revealed quite early on in the story, which primarily deals with how this came about and the repercussions on the billionaire's emotional life. This all dealt with well, and includes some distinctly Torchwood-esque scenes that confirm the adults-only nature of this series.

But, seriously, if gay robot sex is something that puts you off, Torchwood probably isn't for you anyway.

This almost entirely a two-hander, with just one other actor other than the two leads, and is a slow build where the journey is more important than the denouement. How it all fits together with the larger plot arc is rather incidental although clearly the writers still have some way to go before actually sorting it all out. In the meantime, this is an interesting and unusual story, if not the most powerful in the series so far.