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This lens contains spoilers for both seasons of Torchwood.

Season Two spoilers are separated from Season One spoilers so that viewers who have not seen season two can still read about season one.

Weapons specialist and engineer, Suzie catalogues and studies alien technology. She even builds replicas to help her understand the finer workings of devices discovered by the team, left behind by hasty alien visitors.

In the pilot episode, Suzie explores the possibilities of a unique alien device that can briefly resurrect the recently deceased. However, the device pushes her over the edge and she refuses to give up her access to the power it gives her. In a standoff between Suzie and Captain Jack Harkness, Suzie shoots Jack in the head, and then kills herself.

Jack, of course, is able to regenerate. But, it seems, this is the end of Suzie. Or is it?

In Episode 8, They Keep Killing Suzie, Jack realises Suzie has information they need, and decides that Suzie should be resuscitated using the same glove she became so attached to. Unfortunately this means they have to kill her a second time, especially when she turns nasty and uses Gwen's lifeforce to sustain her own.

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Spoilers for Torchwood Season Two follow...

Abused and neglected as a child, Owen Harper considered himself worthless. Owen studied to be a doctor, believing that saving lives would make his own life have some value. However the sheer number of lives to be saved, and the inevitable losses, took its toll on Owen's faith in his ability.

Owen's childhood also meant he had difficulties forming meaningful relationships with women. However, he met and fell in love with Katie, and was preparing to marry her when she developed what was believed to be early-onset Alzheimers. Unfortunately, what Katie really had in her brain was an alien, and Owen lost the first woman he'd ever loved.

Owen met Captain Jack Harkness as he attempted to work out what had happened to Katie, and track down the mysterious man who'd erased the evidence of the alien lifeform in her brain. As it happened, Torchwood was in need of a medic, and Jack was impressed with Owen's tenacity.

Owen became somewhat involved with fellow Torchwood colleagues Gwen Cooper and Toshiko Sato, but his relationship issues had solidified into an aloofness and coldness that allowed for nothing but a physical outlet. Owen's deeply buried feelings for Tosh went unexpressed, except in an unusual and erased moment.

Owen first died when fatally shot by a scientist experimenting on and with aliens. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, Jack was able to revive Owen using the mate of the glove that revived Suzie.

Although Owen's revival was successful, his body remained dead - in one way, unable to be killed, but in another, unable to fully live. No food, drink, or sex.

In the final episode of season two, Owen died a second time trying to vent a nuclear facility and inadvertently being locked in while the coolant was released.

Toshiko Sato worked for the Ministry of Defense, and was captured after being caught stealing Defense plans and creating a weapon in order to free her kidnapped mother.

Tosh was held without trial for an unspecified period until the weapon she'd put together came to the attention of Captain Jack Harkness. Jack realised that Tosh had the brilliance to create a weapon from plans, even though the plans had errors in them. She fixed the errors as she worked. Such a brilliant mind had to work for Torchwood.

Tosh's seemingly unrequited love for Owen Harper remained until both their deaths. Although she was eventually able to express her feelings to Owen, unfortunately the only memory of Owen admitting his love for Tosh was necessarily wiped out of both of their minds.

Tosh died at the end of the final episode of Season Two after Jack Harkness's brother Gray shot her in the back. She died trying in vain to help Owen escape from the nuclear facility that had locked down.

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