Torchwood: Drive

The twist in this story, if you can call it that, is that it's mostly told from the perspective of a taxi driver ferrying Tosh around Cardiff. Which has the potential to be one of those Torchwood stories that's about the effect that the organisation has on the regular residents of the area and somewhat is, although the chase she's being led on across the city is at least as important. However, unlike some other stories with that premise, this one feels rather slight.

It's not bad by any means. Nice touches include the driver trying to deal with her family over the phone between the sci-fi elements, and, in particular, how her detailed knowledge of the city and its inhabitants is key to saving the day. It may well be that those more familiar with Cardiff than I will get a lot out of this that I didn't. Numerous real-world locations are mentioned and the story makes good use of the geography, in a way that I'm sure I'd appreciate were I a local.

But I'm not and, while this story certainly works and has some good acting, there wasn't much else in it that stood out. For instance, there's no particular reason that Tosh is the Torchwood character here, beyond the fact that any of the others might have overshadowed the taxi driver's side of the narrative. It's a decent, middling story, not bad but not remarkable either.