Dead man's hand in popular culture cards with a death row inmate, hoping to reveal the location of another victim. Hotch claims to have a pair of aces and a pair of eights, a dead man's hand, which the inmate believes is what he should have. The inmate shows a straight: 7 of spades, 8 of hearts, 9 of spades, 10 of hearts, jack of hearts. Hotch reveals he was hiding another ace, thus beating the inmate. In June 2012, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling introduced a faction known as the "Aces & Eights". The faction would use the Dead Man's Hand (black aces, black eights and
Dead Man Walking (Torchwood) on the other hand, praised the episode as "full of thrills and witty writing that is underpinned by a sublime, multi-layered performance from Burn Gorman." Dead Man Walking (Torchwood) "Dead Man Walking" is the seventh episode of the second series of British science fiction television series Torchwood. It was broadcast by BBC Three and BBC HD on 20 February 2008; it made its terrestrial debut on BBC Two on 27 February. In the episode, Death uses the recently undead alien hunter Owen Harper (Burn Gorman) as a bridgehead to come through to Earth. Death seeks to take thirteen lives to