Below: Sean Longmore’s cover art for Oodunnit.
The last we heard of 43rd-century Torchwood troubleshooters Zachary Cross Flane (Sean Parkes) and his synth partner Chloe (Amanda Shodeko), they were escaping from acid rain on the planet of the Great Cobalt Pyramid in 2021’s Empire of Shadows. Now scriptwriter James Goss has brought them to Paraglas IV, the Human Empire’s recycling planet, for a sciencefiction mystery that actually plays fair with listeners and enables them to make their own deductions.
“All the rubbish of the Empire is sent to Paraglas,” explains James, “and it’s processed by rebellious humans resentful of the Ood labour brought in. There’s a secret hidden in the waste, something worth killing an Ood for, and Chloe and Zachary are determined to find out what that is.