A mysterious woman who was known as the Mother, matriarch of the Three Families. This cabal were responsible for "Miracle Day", when people stopped dying. Their motive was purely financial, as they controlled global pharmaceutical companies which would exploit the now permanently sick.
The Three Families owed their origins to the Italian-American community where Captain Jack Harkness had turned up in the 1930's. They had discovered his immortality and were exploiting samples of his blood. The PR agent Jilly Kitzinger was invited by the Mother to Shanghai to observe the natural phenomenon which lay behind the event - the Blessing. She wanted Kitzinger to rewrite history once her cabal had taken over.
She planned to bury the two ends of the Blessing to prevent anyone interfering with it, and had rigged the area with explosives. The criminal Oswald Danes, who had been exploited by the Three Families, held the Mother hostage, armed with explosives of his own. After Jack had reversed the "Miracle", Danes sacrificed himself by detonating his bomb. The Mother perished, and the Blessing was sealed off.
Played by: Frances Fisher. Appearances: TW Miracle Day (2011).
- The Mother appears in the final two episodes of Torchwood's fourth series - The Gathering and The Blood Line.
- Genre appearances for Fisher include the Watchmen TV series and The Expanse. She also featured in James Cameron's Titanic.
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