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We are everywhere. We are always. We are no-one. And soon, the Families will rise.
~ The Cousin

The Three Familes, also known as the Families, are the main antagonists of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

History[]

20th century[]

Representatives of the Frines, Costerdane and Ablemarch families, the so-called "three families", attacked and tortured the immortal Jack Harkness to get samples of his blood. These samples were part of the organization's ultimate plan; create a world where they had complete control over life and death.

Over the course of the 20th century, the Families manipulated global events, with the help of their many agents. One of the families went into politics, one went into economics and one went into the media.

In 1998, agents of the Families realized that people in a certain area of Shanghai all lived for the same amount of time. Investigating, they discovered the Blessing; a pole of the Earth going from Buenos Aires to Shanghai that may or may not have been alive. They gained control of it for use in their ultimate plan.

2007[]

To test just how immortal Jack Harkness was, as the blood samples taken in 1928 were crucial to their plan, the Families sent an agent to kidnap him and test his immortality. The tests included shooting him, throwing him out of a plane and draining his blood to collect even more samples. Gwen Cooper (who was, like Jack, an agent of the Torchwood Institute), killed the agent; however the tests showed that Jack was indeed immortal. The Families subsequently erased Jack and Gwen's memories and sent them back to where they first encountered the kidnapper.

Events of The Miracle[]

In 2011, the Families decided to enact the first stages of their plan. By feeding Jack's immortal blood into the Blessing, the Three Families prevented all deaths worldwide. The human race essentially became immortal, with no humans being able to die. The only exception was Jack, who had his immortality reversed as a result. This event was known as "Miracle Day".

Discovering that Jack is investigating the Miracle, and that Gwen is helping him, the Families send a helicopter to Wales to kill them. When this failed, they ordered a high-ranking CIA member named Brian Friedkin to "remove" all surviving members of Torchwood. Friedkin passes this message on to Lyn Peterfield, who subsequently tried to poison Jack with arsenic. Meanwhile, a CIA member who is a double agent for the Families discredits agents Esther Drummond and Rex Matheson, who are working with Jack, by deleting Rex from the database and framing Esther as a Chinese spy.

Jack is given an antidote to the poison. Rex, who happens to be the agent escorting Jack and Gwen, uses the 456 amendments as an excuse to uncuff them before injuring Peterfield and escaping. Arriving in Friedkin's office, Rex holds the corrupt agent at gunpoint and demands to know why the CIA has been poisoned against him. Friedkin admits that he has been taking orders from a mysterious group for decades, but he does not know who. Rex fires the gun next to his ear and takes his phone.

Esther realizes that Friedkin has, in the past, sealed off a seemingly normal warehouse in D.C.. Breaking in, the team discover that the warehouse contains millions of painkillers manufactured by a company called PhiCorp, who were clearly well prepared for the Miracle.

After discovering that PhiCorp is using "reformed" sex offender Oswald Danes to garner publicity, the Torchwood team arrive in L.A. Unbeknownst to Esther, she is being stalked by an assassin called the Gentleman who works for the Three Families and has been sent to kill Jack, the only remaining mortal in the world.

An American politician, Ellis Hartley Monroe, begins to steal publicity from Danes with her Dead is Dead campaign calling for the living and the "dead" to be segregated. However, Danes gains his popularity back by vowing to help those in hospitals and Monroe is poisoned by an agent of the Families. Waking up in a car, she is told that the forces behind Miracle Day regard her as a risk and she may force them to play their hand too soon; while they did consider using her, they now have Danes. The car is then crushed, leaving Monroe crippled and crushed, but still alive and fully conscious due to the Miracle.

The Gentleman attacks and mutilates PhiCorp security coordinator Nicolas Frumkin in order to use his retina and fingerprint to gain access to company headquarters. He then attacks Gwen and Jack, knocking them out. The assassin begins to monologue about how Jack is the cause of the Miracle and that the forces behind it found "specific geography" (the Blessing) but is shot in the throat by Rex just before revealing what he knows, rendering him unable to speak.

Phicorp, with the backing of the UN, decides to construct overflow camps for those who should be dead. Comparable to concentration camps, they are government approved in line with the newly-passed "categories of life". Category One is people who have suffered deadly injuries and cannot heal; they are incinerated in the camps (illegally). Category Two is people with non-fatal but lasting injuries or illnesses; they are imprisoned in the camps alongside Category Ones. Category Three is people with no injuries or illnesses; they continue to live their lives. Horrified, Dr. Vera Juarez calls Rex to join his investigation into PhiCorp. However, her involvement is short-lived as a camp supervisor named Colin Maloney murders her to stop her from having him prosecuted.

During a miracle rally, Jilly Kitzinger (PR rep for Oswald Danes) is approached by an agent of the Families and told she is being noticed "by the right people".

Stuart Owens, Chief Operating Officer of PhiCorp, notices a suspicious purchase of land (the Blessing) made by the corporation and sends somebody to investigate; the person soon sends himself into a coma by jumping off a roof. Stuart also finds an Italian document referencing the Blessing, but doesn't know what it means.

Soon after, an old friend of Jack's named Angelo Colasanto tells him that the men who took his blood samples in the 20th century were representing the Three Families and were responsible for the Miracle. The CIA suddenly arrive, having tracked Rex's phone, and Friedkin confesses that he is an agent of the Families. His superior tries to arrest him but he blows himself up with a concealed bomb, killing him as his body is completely incinerated.

Having grown tired of Danes and discovering that the government wants to send him to an overflow camp, Kitzinger plots with her new assistant to cut him loose. However, the Families agent from before arrives and shoots the assistant, revealing her to be a CIA mole. The assistant is sent to an overflow camp as she is now Category 1. The agent then tells Kitzinger that she has been promoted above PhiCorp and is now an agent of the Families. Meanwhile, Charlotte Wills is revealed to be the mole inside the CIA who works for the Families.

Two months later, Rex is still trying to track the Families. Wills tricks him into allowing her to take the lead, but Rex still takes a look at the evidence by himself. Meanwhile, a now wanted Danes forces Gwen to let him hide out at her house. Soon after, Jack realises that Kitzinger is now an agent and is editing news clips to remove references to the Blessing. The team works out where the blessing is and split up, sending Jack, Gwen and Danes to Shanghai while Esther and Rex go to Buenos Aires.

Trivia[]

  • Despite over a decade of real world time, no further storiess involving the family have been created. Suggesting whatever plans they had for world domination without the Miracle didnt work.

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