Episode of a Television Series

"Small Worlds" Torchwood. Dir. Alice Troughton. British Broadcast Channel. 12 November 2006. Television.

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This episode of Torchwood portrays a young girl who is a changeling. She is the only child of a single mom who has been dating a man for 5 years. This man is a jerk and is abusive towards the girl but only while the two are in private. The child is very reclusive and does not have any friends nor does she interact with the family much. Most of her time is spent in the forest behind her house. The fairies protect the child from a potential abduction as well as from bullies at school. At the end of the show the fairies come and kill the potential step-father in front of everyone at the engagement party. The fairies have come to take the girl back with them and the mother becomes hysterical. This show was very interesting to me as it is the first thing I have seen to actually depict the fairies as sinister and quite frightening.

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http://www.tvids.net/watch451/Torchwood/season-01-episode-05-Small-Worlds