Torchwood help, please?

[shivver]

I'm trying to write a fic that includes Jack Harkness while he's at Torchwood, but the problem is that I've never seen Torchwood, so I can't be sure at all that I'm writing him or anything else associated with him in character. Would anyone like to comment on the questions I have about the show?


1. I know that part of the show deals with Jack's relationship with Ianto. Is Jack faithful to him, or does he sleep around like he normally does?

2. Martha appears in a few episodes, according to the IMDB listing. What is her function at Torchwood? Does she leave Torchwood, or does she simply fade into the background (meaning, she still works there, but off-screen)? Does she seem to stay there long?

3. It's implied in Doctor Who that Mickey goes off to work with Jack, at least for a while. Is that addressed at all in Torchwood? I know he never appears in an episode.

4. Do other Torchwood teams exist? Or is Jack's team the only survivor of the Battle of Canary Wharf?

5. I kind of assume that the team is based in Cardiff, and that they don't go off-world, for the most part. Is that true?


Thanks!

Comments

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

1) I don't believe Jack slept with anyone else when he was with Ianto. He still flirted with people, though.

2) Martha was basically a consultant. She was still working for UNIT during her Torchwood appearances and was in Cardiff to investigate some mysterious deaths. After three episodes she left Cardiff and went back to London.

3) I don't think Mickey ended up working for Torchwood. He doesn't even get a mention from what I can recall.

4) Torchwood Three, the Cardiff office, is the only surviving office. There may be some non-canon offices from the books and audio stories; I'd give the Doctor Who wikia a look through.

5) Yup the team is based in Cardiff and they never showed them going off world.

I hope this was helpful. This Doctor Who wikia is a font of information if you need to investigate further: tardis.wikia.com.

[shivver13.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much! This is exactly what I needed to know. I'm sad that Mickey didn't return for Torchwood, even for an episode or two. I just happened to read that Noel Clarke had been promised some Torchwood work.

Yeah, I use Tardis Wiki all the time, but sometimes it's hard to find exactly what you need. It would have been hard to answer question 1 or 5 within a reasonable amount of time by reading the wiki. (I will admit that 2, 3, and 4 were definitely wiki material.)

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it felt like they were setting up Mickey as a member of Torchwood, but I guess Noel Clarke was committed to something else at the time they were filming "Children of Earth". Though, I don't think there's anything on the show that would contradict the notion that Mickey worked for Torchwood for a time. I mean, how else would he get to know Martha?

Wikis are my friend when I'm writing fic. It's always the case that someone has remembered the detail that I can't remember.