Given
how often techies’ main function in a genre show is to type dramatically and
occasionally wave a gadget around, their contributions tend to be important but
not showy. So, it’s kind of impressive
how much variety I found in Tosh’s big moments (spoilers.)
Saving a Family (Series 1, Episode 7 –
“Greeks Bearing Gifts”)
At
Mary’s urging, Tosh takes the pendant out for a spin, allowing her to hear
other people’s thoughts, and she overhears a man planning to kill his ex-wife
and children. In swoops Tosh with a golf
club for the save! While I know it’s all
part of Mary’s plan to win her over, I like that Tosh’s positive experience
with the pendant involves saving multiple lives.
Leaving the Formula (Series 1, Episode 12 –
“Captain Jack Harkness”)
Tosh
and Jack are stuck in 1941, and their only hope of getting back is the formula
to control the Rift Manipulator.
However, it’s not with Ianto and Owen, but with Tosh on her laptop (with
a dying battery.) Tosh races to copy it
onto paper but, knowing it won’t last 50+ years, takes a photograph of it. When she sees that the bottom of the photo
got cut off and she can’t make another, she rewrites the rest of the formula in
her own blood (since pencil would fade) before sealing it against the elements
and hiding it where Gwen can find it in the present. Go Tosh!
Encouraging Tommy (Series 2, Episode 3 – “To
the Last Man”)
With
Tosh’s relationships, “unlucky in love” doesn’t begin to cover it. In this case, the WWI soldier Torchwood has
been keeping on ice is finally being sent back to his own time, where Tosh
already knows he’s going to be killed.
It then falls to her to
convince this young man she really cares about that he has to go back, in order
to heal a wound in time. Never mind her
heartbreak at losing him – she’s forced to cause him the emotional pain of
returning to the war, all the while knowing he won’t make it. It wrecks her, but she does it anyway –
that’s grace.
Infiltrating the Pharm (Series 2, Episode 6 –
“Reset”)
Techy, creative,
slightly-morbid Tosh for the win! The
Pharm lackey they’re counting on to get them inside meets an untimely end, but
Tosh has an idea. They hide in the back
of the car and put his dead body in the driver’s seat, rigging him up so he
won’t slump over, with Tosh driving the car remotely via gadget. Love it, and I love how pleased she is at
having figured it out.
Trying to Stop the Meltdown (Series 2, Series
13 – “Exit Wounds”)
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