The Blood Line ( TV story ) So far , this is the last episode to be produced of " Torchwood " until further notice from creator Russell T Davies . The series remains suspended in hiatus until he wishes to commence work on a fifth season . The audiobook " Army of One " would also be set shortly after the Miracle and continue the post - Miracle adventures of the Torchwood team in a string of four releases . " Torchwood " would then not see any new official material released after the release of the novel " Exodus Code " until 2015 , with the release of the audio story " The Conspiracy " . Synopsis . The Torchwood team travel around the world on a final , desperate mission ; the Three Families are unstoppable unless a terrible sacrifice is made . Can the Miracle that has cursed human ity be reversed ? Plot . Oswald Danes and Jack Harkness prepare for their confrontation with the Three Families . Gwen tells them about when she was a little girl and her father came home one day . He told them everyone thought he had taken money from his workplace and he wouldn ' t be getting as much money . Gwen says she ran upstairs and came back with about £2 . 50 . Her father replied , " It ' s not about the money , it ' s just that I can ' t stand anyone thinking I ' m dishonest . " As she played with him that night , she thought that he was the nicest man in the world . " And today ' s the day that I kill him . " As they are now aware that Jack ' s blood is drawn to the Blessing , the Torchwood team use small amounts of it to determine headings towards the two sites . Rex and Esther contact the CIA for help in infiltrating the Buenos Aires site of the Blessing , while keeping Jack , Gwen , and Oswald ' s presence in Shanghai a secret . Director Shapiro puts his team on the task . The team includes Charlotte , who is reporting surreptitiously to the Three Families . A detachment of the Argentinian army under the command of Captain Federico Santos soon arrives to assist Rex and Esther . While the group is loading up , a Three Families agent with the army opens the briefcase and , seeing it contains packets of blood , detonates a suicide bomb . This makes the other soldiers Category 1 and destroys the briefcase that contained Rex and Esther ' s supply of Jack ' s blood . Although Rex , Esther and Captain Santos survive unharmed , Rex tells Santos to report that Esther and he died in the blast to allow them to better infiltrate the Blessing site . Director Shapiro realises the Three Families ' mole must be inside his team . He has Noah run a newly developed program to track any recent phone calls made using the Three Families ' method of avoiding traces . Realising she is moments from being discovered , Charlotte calmly retrieves a hidden explosive device from a side office , puts it in her purse in the main meeting room and leaves . The trace finishes decoding her phone number and Noah freezes with fear , now aware that she likely prepared to kill them the instant her cover was blown . Shapiro turns his head to the left and sees Wills left behind her purse . . . and the final warning beeps of the hidden armed bomb are sounding . The doomed man knows what awaits him and responds , " Oh , fuck . " The explosion " category 1s " Shapiro and the rest of his team and lightly injures Charlotte , shielding her from suspicion . Meanwhile , Rhys Williams has gained access to the Cowbridge Overflow Camp through Andy Davidson . He sits by Gerraint ' s side as he is prepared to be sent for cremation along with dozens of other category ones . A nurse arrives informing them the group will be moved soon . Rhys protests he wants to spend more time with him but the woman insists they have to stay on schedule ; it took months for them to finally get the system running smoothly . While waiting , Andy witnesses an unidentified and very sickly little girl wake up . He goes to her side , the nurse informing him no one knows the girl ' s name . Jack , Gwen and Oswald infiltrate the Shanghai Blessing site and make their way to its exposed face , where they meet the Mother , Jilly Kitzinger and several armed guards . The guards stand down when Oswald reveals he is wearing an explosive vest . This advantage seems short - lived . A radio transmission from the Cousin at the Buenos Aires site reveals that Three Families ' operatives there have captured Esther and Rex , but when Oswald says he didn ' t expect to leave Shanghai alive , the operatives stand down . After examining the face of the Blessing , Jack and Gwen question the Mother about the Miracle . She admits the Miracle was produced by introducing Jack ' s immortal blood to the Blessing . This is the first part in a larger plan to take control of the world . By stopping death and destabilizing the economy , the Families are poised to take control of the banks and influence the world ' s governments . This will lead to a fascist oligarchy which can " decide who lives , how long , where and why . " When Jack moves to open his veins and release his blood into the Blessing , the Mother stops him . This will not undo the Miracle . The original effect required Jack ' s blood to be introduced at both Blessing sites simultaneously . Since Rex and Esther ' s supply of Jack ' s blood was destroyed , she confidentially informs them that there is no way to do this . The Mother orders all of Torchwood killed . Before this can happen , Rex interrupts and claims he still has some of Jack ' s blood with him — or rather in him . When he arrived in Buenos Aires , Esther helped Rex transfuse almost all of Jack ' s blood into his body . This did not kill him only because of the Miracle . The Mother counters that reversing the Miracle would require almost all of the blood in both Rex and Jack ' s bodies . They realise this would likely kill at least one of them once the Miracle reverted . Gwen remarks Jack was never one for suicide , drawing her pistol and aiming it at him : he thanks her for deciding to mercy kill him instead . Prepared , Rex and Jack do not back down , declaring nothing will stop . The Cousin declares what he will do might and shoots Esther in the chest , mortally wounding her , and tells Rex that by undoing the Miracle he will now be killing Esther forever . Rex falters , torn by his feelings for Esther . He asks Jack what to do but he is uncertain . However , Gwen declares they carry on , aiming at Jack , arguing they have to do it , citing Oswald Danes ' killing of Susie Cabina as proof for why they should : " He chose when that girl lived and when that girl died and no one should that much power " Star struck , Oswald comments on how " remarkable " Gwen is . Rex concurs , kissing Esther before rising and opening the wound over his heart , releasing Jack ' s blood into the Blessing . Gwen shoots Jack through the heart , releasing his blood as well . The Miracle ends almost immediately , accompanied by an effect Gwen calls " a breath " : all of the world ' s Category 1 patients regain consciousness for a few seconds , then die in the next breath . This includes Gwen ' s father , with Rhys Williams at his bedside , who found him back at the Cowbridge Overflow Camp with Andy Davidson . Rhys tearfully lays his phone next to the dying man ' s ear so he can hear his wife Mary wishing him goodbye over the phone . Geraint then passes on . The girl Andy is with dies too as he comforts her with his company . At the same time , both of the Blessing sites begin to shake , making the structure around them unstable . Oswald grabs the Mother and urges Gwen to leave . She does , but as the exit elevator rises , Jack returns to life . A brief struggle ensues between Jilly and Gwen . Gwen incapacitates Jilly and returns in the elevator to rescue Jack . The Mother begs Oswald to let her go , but Oswald proclaims he is happy to die and go to Hell , as that is where " all the bad little girls " go . Utterly unrepentant and gleeful , his final spoken words are directed toward his victim Susie Cabina , whom he believes was sent to damnation for being bad . Oswald beckons the girl to run away , because he ' s coming to get her in the depths of Hell . Jack and Gwen flee the facility seconds before Oswald detonates his explosives , destroying the Shanghai facility . Kitzinger follows close behind , but stumbles to the ground . Jack and Gwen cannot go back for her . The explosion engulfs the whole complex and Jilly disappears in the flames , and they can only assume the worst . The Buenos Aires team also move to leave , but before the Cousin can make it out , Rex regains consciousness long enough to grab him and throw him over the edge of the chasm around the Blessing . He vengefully tells Esther ' s killer , " Guess what ? Death came back ! " , sending the Cousin to his demise . Rex falls to the ground next to Esther . They watch each other die , but are rescued by Captain Santos and members of the Argentinian Army . Paramedics immediately start work to revive them . Rex survives , but Esther ' s eyes weakly peek open for one last fleeting moment , and she dies on her medical cot outside an ambulance . Several months later , Jilly Kitzinger has beaten the odds and survived the explosion at Shanghai . She is alive and well in America , but at the cost of selling her jewelry to buy her way out of China . She spends many weeks in search of one person , and after much persistence , he finally appears before her . Jilly meets the blue - eyed man at a familiar park bench . When she pleads that she has no place to go and no life to live , he offers her a chance to participate in the Three Families ' " Plan B " , then departs . After some delay , Jilly follows . Elsewhere , Gwen , Rhys , Jack , Charlotte and Rex attend Esther ' s funeral . Charlotte gives her condolences to Rex before walking away , the others following her not far behind . Gwen argues why the Blessing refused to save Esther , a last gift . Jack tells her to move on . Rhys presses his own question , wondering if Gwen and Jack will officially restart Torchwood . However , Rex receives the recovered data from Noah ' s computer . He finds the phone trace indicating that Charlotte is the mole . When Rex tries to stop her from leaving , Charlotte shoots him and is almost immediately gunned down by other agents . Jack and Gwen rush to Rex ' s side . He is without a pulse , dead , but then gasps and regains consciousness . Jack and Gwen ask , " What ? " in shock . Rex questions them on why they are surprised , and Gwen indicates to look at his wound . Rex opens his shirt to see his wound from the gunshot and the one he initially received from the pole the night he first died heal without leaving scars . As Gwen keeps gaping in shock , Rex looks angry and confused at Jack . " You , World War II , what the hell did you do to me ? " Story notes . Filming locations . " to be added " Home video releases . This episode was released worldwide in a box set containing all ten episodes of " Torchwood : Miracle Day " . In the United Kingdom , it was released on Region 2 DVD and Region Free Blu - ray on 14 November 2011 . In Australia , it was released in Region 4 DVD and Region B Blu - Ray on 1 December 2011 . In New Zealand , the same sets were released on 7 December 2011 . In North America , it was released on Region 1 DVD and Region Free Blu - Ray on 3 April 2012 .