Zach

Zach is a former college student and former member of the Lincoln City branch of the Torchwood Institute - whilst originally from Spain, he moved to London and then Lincoln City, he was killed in action sacrificing himself in order to attempt to stop a Cyberman invasion.

## Episodes

### 1.01: City Life

We first see Zach, alongside his Torchwood colleagues Shane and Lewis and the three are hunting a Hoix that has took refuge in an abandoned building, Zach and Lewis shoot the creature however this causes it little harm and after a brief struggle, the three capture the savage alien and put it in confinement however someone (later revealed to be Kasuti) breaks in and releases it causing chaos, the team were unable to do anything about this as the rift opened and the bright light from it knocked the three members out due to being overwhelmed and several flashbacks were initiated as Zach (along with Lewis) found out how he got involved with the institute in a somewhat chance encounter he and Zach had with Shane during college - the three then proceed to stop the rampaging Hoix with Zach and Lewis emptying two entire clips of ammunition into the alien, finally killing it.

### 1.02: Other Worlds

When investigating a brutal murder on a quiet suburban estate on the outskirts of Lincoln City, the police are surprised that Torchwood sent a group of teenagers however this gets shrugged off by the Torchwood trio and they get to work - Lewis speaks up asking "What have we got?" a detective explains that it seems like a robbery gone wrong, she shows them inside. The team are in shock as a bloodbath is found in front of them, they also find a knife on the scene and bring it back to the base to DNA scan which confirms that its of multiverse, more specifically Tamrielic, origin with Lewis pointing out that if that's the case then someone knows about them when they aren't supposed to, this leads to an encounter with Syelilan Bade who runs out of the base when Lewis and Zach try to apprehend her after she walks through the multiverse portal.

Syelilan soon encounters Kasuti however and a fight ensues, only for the fight to be interrupted by gunfire as Zach and Lewis open fire on Syelilan, as Torchwood sprint in, she is soon sent back to the multiverse where it would seem all memory of her time on Earth was wiped during the journey back.

### 1.03: Believe

Lewis can be seen logging recent events for the Torchwood archive but comments on how no other jobs have come through since the business with Syelilan Bade with Zach pointing out that might be a good thing, they eventually all decide to go and walk round the city as a team to see if they can find anything themselves - during this walk, Shane points out a guy called The Preacher because of his arrogant yet passionate ways of speaking "to thin air" about religion.

After hanging out with some old friends, Zach is confronted by The Preacher as Zach goes to break a microphone stand but is stopped by The Preacher who grabs him and holds him against a wall, he antagonizes him and says that the trio are dirty heathens and that they are bound to go to hell should they try and stop him, The Preacher cheap shots Zach and confronts Shane and Lewis in a church which in turn reveals his secret deal with an alien race called the Greys, who eventually turn on The Preacher - Shane says to Lewis and Zach that the Preacher will have alot to answer for should he ever return when he is taken by the aliens, Lewis then says that the Greys will have it sorted as the three leave to go back to the base.

### 1.04: What Dreams are Made Of

Zach is the one to find Shane, who wakes up in the medical bay unaware of how he got back to the base, the two converse over what Shane has just experienced with Zach claiming it may just be Shane being overworked, Shane shrugs in response as a nearby reflection shows a Dream entity looking at the pair as they leave.

### 1.05: Dark Times

A few weeks later, the team investigate a very graphic crime scene at a farm in rural Lincolnshire however what makes the scene strange is the presence of what appears to be surgical equipment - a strange man then emerges from the back of the barn that the team are in and he is vomiting silver liquid which spills onto his arm turning it into solid metal, Zach and Lewis open fire on the man however the bullets seem to ricochet off the person as if he isn't even real, he is soon stopped by a molotov cocktail thrown by an arriving Kasuti who wants to help the team with their investigation.

Back at the Torchwood base: Shane, Zach and Lewis can be seen debating what happened at the farm and Shane dispatches Zach to go back and check it out however he suggests he takes Kasuti with him but requests for her to not get hurt, to which Lewis replies: Ooh Shane, getting all defensive over her....she's from the multiverse...somewhere...I'm sure she's seen worse things than this."

As Shane and Lewis investigate a bar in the middle of the City, Zach tells Kasuti to back to Lincoln City and find his teammates declaring that he would like to investigate alone and come up with some theories.

### 1.06: City of Metal

With the Cybermen claiming responsibility for the strange goings on, Zach is soon caught out on the farm by a pair of converted Cyber-humans, a fight ensues and one is disabled quickly however one sneaks up behind Zach and he uses the resources around the barn he is in to sacrifice himself, the barn blows up killing him and the converted humans.

Later, upon learning about the self-sacrifice of Zach to stop two more converted humans, Lewis initially denies the fact that Zach is dead and claims that Torchwood members fake deaths all the time to go under the radar and even says: How do you know he's dead? he could be faking it...there's those Cybermen everywhere...he could be...pretending" as Lewis comes to realise what has happened to his friend, after a pause they both agree, somewhat out of revenge to go the weapons room and find the crashed Cyberman ship, the two arrive at the barn and see Zach lying motionless along with another Cyberman and Lewis snaps and rants to Shane about how many questions he has and how his brain cant seem to compute how mad everything seems.

### The Mad Woman in the Mansion

A being known as Pandora forces Shane to confront visions of Zach and Lewis whilst in a paralytic state (like sleep paralysis), who lambast Shane for being a bad leader as lead Zach to his death, among other bad decisions like leaving them for weeks on end sometimes "to play God in the multiverse" and say that Shane forgot about them once they left however a stream of lightning causes the vision to end quickly.