A Day in the Death Kroagnon in the 1987 Seventh Doctor serial "Paradise Towers". The song playing in Owen's apartment is "Atlas" by Battles. A Day in the Death "A Day in the Death" is the eighth episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series "Torchwood", which was broadcast on BBC Three on 27 February 2008. The episode follows the dismissal and later readmission of the recently undead medical officer Owen Harper (Burn Gorman) to the alien-hunting team Torchwood. Owen Harper narrates the opening of the episode, detailing his life and his death, which he is living through. On top of
The Doctor (Doctor Who) night and the storm in the heart of the sun, he's ancient and forever, he burns at the centre of time..." and "the man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name". Though the Doctor tends to present a jocular, even childlike, persona, when the stakes rise—e.g., in "Pyramids of Mars" (1975)—that mask tends to fall, revealing a Doctor who is cold, driven, at times callous. This dark side sits in contrast to the Doctor's deep compassion, which manifests to different strength and effect across their incarnations. The Doctor prefers a pacifist solution to most problems,