Toshiko Sato
Toshiko Sato is a female television character who features in Torchwood.
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Biography
Toshiko Sato (Japanese: 佐藤 とし子, Hepburn: Satō Toshiko, /təˈʃiːkoʊ ˈsɑːtoʊ/)
When she moved into her own flat, she chose not to have a flat-warming party as there was nobody that she wanted to invite. (Episode: Adam) She was later 'snapped up' by a government think tank when she was 20 years old. (Episode: Greeks Bearing Gifts) This saw her being hired at the Ministry of Defence's Lodmoor Research Facility. Whilst working at Lodmoor, Milton took Tosh's mother hostage and blackmailed her into stealing the Ministry of Defence's plans for a sonic modulator and building one. The plans were flawed, however, and she corrected the design without thinking about it. After handing the sonic modulator over to Milton, UNIT arrested Tosh and withdrew her rights as a citizen, holding her in a prison indefinitely to make an example of her. Toshi was held without right of appeal, communication with anybody outside of the prison or news of her mother's fate until she was visited by Jack Harkness. (Episode: Fragments)
She was offered her freedom but had to have limited contact with her mother but gained a clean slate in return for five years of work at Torchwood Three. Ultimately, Toshi decided to accept the offer and joined the Torchwood Institute. During that time, she came to work alongside Harkness and Suzie Costello. (Episode: Fragments) Her role on the team was to serve as a computer expert where part of her job was to cover up the deaths of those murdered by extraterrestrial beings. (Episode: Everything Changes) The nature of her job meant that she never had time to have a relationship with anyone. (Episode: Day One) However, she did develop feelings for Tommy Brockless who the team had to freeze and unfreeze one day every year. (Episode: To the Last Man)
Tosh was happy when Gwen went ahead with her wedding despite being impregnated by a Nostrovite and told her that she did not expect that she and Owen would ever get married. When the child's mother arrived to claim her child, Tosh hid with Banana Boat and joined Jack in tracking her down, with Jack eventually managing to kill her and Owen and Rhys destroying the child with the singularity scalpel. Owen later invited Tosh to dance with him. (Episode: Something Borrowed) Tosh remained at the Hub when Owen, Ianto and Gwen went to the Electro and noticed her systems behaving oddly following Rift activity there. She ran a film found at the Electro frame by frame with Ianto, who noticed that the Ghostmaker and Pearl disappeared, and kept an eye on sightings of the Night Travellers. (Episode: From Out of the Rain) Tosh helped Gwen collect information on people who had been taken by the Rift, theorising that the negative Rift spikes she detected indicated abductions, and agreed to keep her project a secret from the rest of the team until she was ready to tell Jack. When Jack told Gwen to shut her project down, Tosh told her that they had tried their best. (Episode: Adrift)
Tosh went with Jack, Owen and Ianto to an old building to investigate unusual energy patterns that she detected and which she assumed belonged to an alien species that they had not encountered before. The patterns actually belonged to explosive devices which injured the team, with Tosh suffering a broken arm, bruised ribs and needing to be saved by Jack, Ianto and Rhys from a pillar which almost crushed her. (Episode: Fragments) Owen gave her painkillers so that she could help the team when John Hart and Gray started attacking Cardiff. Investigating reports of ghosts, Tosh visited the central server building with Ianto and the two were later tasked with stabilising the Turnmill Nuclear Power Station and preventing meltdown. She was shot by Gray in the Hub as she directed Owen on restoring the coolant system and, with meltdown inevitable, she had Owen seal the power station. Owen was locked inside and Tosh spoke with him as he died, discussing the date that they had never gone on, reminiscing about their early days together and keeping from him the fact that she too was dying. She died in Jack's arms after he returned with Gwen, Ianto and John. (Episode: Exit Wounds)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Tosh was in love with Owen Harper but because of her insecurity, she found it hard to tell him how she felt. (Episode: Greeks Bearing Gifts)
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Toshiko Sato was portrayed by actress Naoko Mori where she featured in the shared universe of the Doctor Who universe.
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