Everyone who works for
Torchwood is young, all are under 35. Some say that's because what they're doing is a new science, others say it's because they die young...but why?
The team, led by the enigmatic, ever-watchful Captain Jack Harkness (
John Barrowman,
Doctor Who, De-Lovely), uses scavenged alien technology to solve present day crime - both alien and human. They're separate from the government, working outside the police and beyond the United Nations.
From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, Torchwood sets its own rules, delving into the unknown and fighting the impossible whether it is responding to an alien threat, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autopsy report, or the spread of a deadly alien virus.
Part
X-Files, part
Angel,
Torchwood is the team we'd all love to be part of, where excitement comes before morality and the rules are made as you go along.
Torchwood premieres Saturday, September 8th at 9pm ET/PT on BBC America. 
