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When everyone in the world stops dying, the CIA is alerted by a single word: Torchwood.

Rex brings back Jack and Gwen to Washington. At the CIA office Esther realizes that the rendition is being sabotaged from within the organization. On the flight home Rex unexpectedly needs help from Dr. Juarez to get the team safely on the ground. In the meantime the medical community tries to cope with the new reality of non-death.

Rex forces his boss Friedkin to confess that, in setting him up, he was obeying orders from a mysterious source. By confiscating his phone Rex's investigations lead to an empty warehouse belonging to Phi-Corp, a global pharmaceutical firm, containing vast amounts of pain killers. Rex's wound reopens and he seeks medical help - and more - from Vera Juarez, who has been invited by Jilly Kitzinger to attend a Phi-Corp meeting. Vera takes Gwen and they hear the announcement that all pain-killers will legally be dispensed without prescriptions in future. This is endorsed by Danes to popular approval.

The quartet escape to Los Angeles and attempt to enter the PhiCorp headquarters, but they have been followed by a man who claims to know Jack from long ago and believes he holds the key to Miracle Day before he is killed by Rex. A right-wing housewife, Ellis Hartley Monroe, achieves fame with her "Dead Is Dead" campaign, which involves herding the sick into ghetto hospitals. Oswald Danes, sensing that he will be eclipsed by her celebrity, publicly opposes it to general acclaim. However, Gwen learns that her father is to be put into one of these 'overflow camps' for the sick, back in Britain.

Dr. Juarez joins the new Torchwood after category guidelines are released for patient care. Esther and Rex go undercover to find out what is happening to Category 1 patients being sent to 'modules' at overflow centers. Meanwhile, Gwen flies back to Wales to remove her father from an overflow center. Dr. Juarez manages to use her credentials to enter an overflow center as an inspector while Jack attempts to convince Oswald Danes to expose PhiCorp.

Jack confronts Stuart Owens, PhiCorp's chief executive, who admits that he is as ignorant as everybody else as to the reason for Miracle Day. All he can tell Jack is that the answer should be in a cryptic document, the Blessing, which originated in Italy. Rex learns that the California overflow camp incinerates the 'undesirable' sick - illegal immigrants, criminals - and Vera. Rex and Esther are caught by Maloney but are saved by Maloney's appalled aide, Ralph, who shoots his boss and helps them escape. Gwen springs her father from Cowbridge but on return to America gets a call to say that her whole family has been captured and will only be released if she helps trap Jack.

In 1927 New York, Jack encounters a young man named Angelo. Meanwhile, in the present, Gwen kidnaps Jack in an attempt to save her family.

The team is taken to see Olivia Colisanto, in whose house her grandfather, Angelo, ancient and comatose, lies on a life support machine. She explains that in 1928, three mobster families, named Ablemarch, Costerdane, and Frines, tapped Jack's blood to gain immortality - the Blessing. Those families have now disappeared but seem to hold the key to Miracle Day. Angelo dies, baffling new CIA boss Shapiro, who deports Gwen. Jack finds a link between Angelo's death and a plate containing a mysterious force field under his floor. He gets Esther to take it and him to safety whilst Jilly tells Oswald that he is expendable.

Whilst the CIA look in vain for traces of the three families, Esther somehow gets Jack to Scotland, from where they join Gwen and her family in Wales - as, rather surprisingly - does Oswald Danes, claiming he wants to be helpful. He has stolen Jilly Kitzinger's computer, which shows her to be going to Shanghai. After the police have raided Gwen's house and taken her father, she sets out with Oswald and Jack to Shanghai, where Jilly is meeting a woman called Mother. Esther and Rex pursue a lead in South America.

An underground bloodline flows from Buenos Aires to Shanghai, where Mother shows Jilly that she is planning to blow up her hideout whilst the Blessing maintains its immortality. In Buenos Aires, an explosion kills Rex and Esther's army escort, as they become aware of a CIA mole whom they allow to believe they are dead. They are nonetheless caught and taken to the South American lair of the Mother's cousin, where the other half of the Blessing is kept. Gwen, Oswald, and Jack infiltrate the Shanghai hideaway where they learn how the families, using Jack's blood, attached it to a force field to give them immortality but how the aliens misunderstood and recently gave immortality to the Earth in the spirit of benevolence. Sacrifice and redemption on two continents lead to the destruction of Miracle Day with the capture of the mole and the restoration of order. For one of the survivors, there is an amazing discovery.