A gothic tale of storms, creaks and scares as a hapless film crew succumb to their fate and Gwen Cooper is possessed by the core of the Fendahl.
Kathryn Ellis arrives to take up a post as a housekeeper at Hodder Hall where she meets the aloof Isaac Hodder, who seems more interested in his experiments and his rather peculiar sister, Clarissa.
Travelling back to civilisation after a mission seems like the boring end to a job and, for a while, Gwen Cooper and her husband Rhys Williams think everything has wrapped up but there appears to be no sign of any village or technology available.
Captain John Hart (a rival time agent and former lover to Jack) visits the dying Captain Jack Harkness and retells the Torchwood story as if he had been in charge of events rather than Jack.
In the distant future, a member of The Committee enters the Torchwood Archive hidden on an asteroid with his own, deadly intentions in mind.