Suzie Costello Returns to Torchwood This Summer

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They might’ve kept killing her, but you can’t keep a good member of Torchwood down! Suzie Costello is returning to the franchise for Big Finish’s second series of tales from the Hub.

Introduced (and subsequently killed off – for a while) in the first TV episode, Everything Changes, and portrayed by Indira Varma, Suzie was the second-in-command until certain secrets of hers were revealed. Now the fourth story in Big Finish’s Torchwood Series 2 takes us back to a year before her encounter with Gwen Cooper, when, for her, everything really did change. Producer, James Goss says:

“We still can’t believe Indira said yes – but she did, and she’s been utterly delightful. We were dying to bring back Suzie as soon as we started – she’s such an interesting character, and giving her a solo adventure provides us with a chance to explore what makes her tick. Amazingly, this is a story where she’s the hero. Or the nearest thing to it.”

Since Torchwood, Indira has starred in various shows including Luther, Game of Thrones, and Moses Jones (with the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith).

Written by Guy Adams and directed by Scott Handcock, Moving Targets explores her bleak outlook on life – while pitting her against hunters from beyond the stars:

One morning, Cardiff just stops. The rain hangs in the sky, the traffic doesn’t move on its streets, the people are frozen like photographs.

Alien eyes have set their sights on our world and won’t leave until they’ve blood on their hands.

The Hub is in lockdown, only one member of the team free to move.

It’s time for Suzie Costello to save the world.

That comes out in June, and we can’t wait!

Suzie’s return will come a month after Tom Price takes on a starring role in Ghost Mission once again portraying Sergeant Andy. James Goss adds:

“We brought Tom back for a little cameo in Series 1, and just couldn’t resist the chance to bring him back properly. Tom Price is lovely, and threw himself into an adventure all of his own. He made an instant double act with Samuel Barnett, playing the enigmatic Norton Folgate, a Torchwood agent with his own agenda.”

Naoko Mori also returns to her role of Toshiko Sato in the next series of audio tales, which starts next month with The Victorian Age starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness.

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