How does owen harper die

Owen woke Tommy Brockless up for his annual awakening and warned Tosh not to get too close to him as he did not want her heart to get broken when he returned to He helped the others send Tommy back and injected Tosh with a sleeping agent that allowed her to connect to him across time. He consoled her over her loss.

TV : To the Last Man He tried to make a sedative for the Cash Cow but found that it was impossibly, instead euthanising it to put it out of its misery. He also helped Rhys recover from a gunshot wound in the shoulder TV : Meat and later became meek and pining for Tosh due to Adam Smith 's manipulation, being restored after taking retcon.

Owen dies protecting Martha. TV : Reset. Joined by Martha Jones , Owen helped look into and infiltrate the Pharm , having a flirtatious relationship with her.

The two identified and examined Reset , which was being made and administered by Owen's old hero Aaron Copley. After beginning the shutdown of the Pharm, Owen was shot by Copley and died gasping in pain with Martha unable to save him.

TV : Reset He was 27 years old. TV : Dead Man Walking. Before Martha could perform Owen's autopsy , Jack located the second resurrection gauntlet and used it to resurrect Owen temporarily, giving Jack enough time to get the passcode to the morgue and Tosh time to confess her love.

However, it ended up bringing him back permanently and with Death manifesting through him. Although they managed to stop Owen from being taken over, Death stalked a hospital in the hopes of claiming thirteen lives before Owen stopped it.

Jack revives Owen. Although once again conscious and sentient, Owen Harper, post-death, found he had limited bodily functions. His wounds would not heal, he could not breathe or blow air and he could not sleep. He could swallow liquids and food, but he had no sense of taste and he did not digest food; it had to be removed or somehow expelled from his body. After an unsuccessful attempt to get drunk, Owen stood on his head to allow gravity to drain fluids from his system.

His lack of blood flow made erections impossible and he was encouraged to maintain regular physical exercise to prevent rigor mortis from setting in. Due to Owen's inability to heal, Jack was initially hesitant to allow Owen to take part in regular operations again and demoted him to "tea boy", but soon Owen was back out in the field.

His lack of breathing and other bodily functions proved useful to the team when he was able to circumvent a heat-based alarm system to recover the Pulse from Henry Parker. He later stopped Maggie Hopley from killing herself. TV : A Day in the Death. Owen examined Gwen when she had been impregnated by a Nostovite, however she refused to let him treat her until after her wedding,and examined the dead body of the Nostrovite.

TV : Something Borrowed. Owen brought the Church of the Outsiders to Torchwood's attention after they stole data from a UNIT storage facility and a member immolated himself. As Jack had no interest in the mission and sympathised with the Church, Owen was in charge of the operation. He had Ianto infiltrate the Church and Gwen go after Andromeda Ross whilst Tosh was tasked with seducing Frank Layton , with him advising her through an ear piece.

Tosh forced Owen to listen to her have sex with him as revenge for putting her in that position. She abandoned him at the crime scene but eventually came back for him.

Afterwards he apologised to Tosh for what had happened and she told him that he was a bad leader. Owen and Gwen accompanied Ianto to the opening of the Electro where they noticed Jack among the old footage. TV : From Out of the Rain He did not help Gwen with her mission to bring peace to the parents of those taken by the Rift, agreeing with Jack that there was nothing Torchwood could do.

TV : Adrift. They found that they had been kidnapped by Glynn Lewis as mates for his Weevil son, Sonny. Owen was forced by Glynn to help Jan deliver Sonny's child, after which the girls convinced Sonny to kill Glynn.

Owen and Andy left the girls with Sonny, unsure of what could be done to help them. Attempting to find the truth about Megwyn Jones 's killings, Owen and Andy infiltrated her prison as employees and went with her to the Hope when she agreed to show where the bodies were, as she was dying. Owen became separated from the group in the mist, whilst his device picked up Rift energies, and found Megwyn with Sally. Sally dug up the body of her brother Terry and Owen was shocked when Terry revived, realising energies from the Rift created a flux between life and death in the Hope.

He laid in a grave and the Hope briefly gave Owen a fix of life. He used his time in the dirt to convince it to kill Megwyn when she attempted to use it for herself. Afterwards he was left alive, though knew it would be temporary, and enjoyed some crisps that Andy gave him. He visited Andy when he was a stake out to give him food. Andy then took him to his uncle's old shop and talk him about the fraud he was accused because of the till the post office gave him.

Andy realised that Owen was there as Torchwood was interested in the owner of the business as well as Andy. He was left in Andy's police car when Dennis saw him and questioned him.

He analysed the toy monkey they found. He realised that the monkey was an alien who controlled luck. He realised that the monkey was keeping the businessman's empire afloat. When Andy got a girlfriend named Caite , Owen discovered her to be an alien capable of transferring life from others.

After she demonstrated her powers by using them on him, Owen became addicted to having life again and accidentally killed an old woman at a bus stop after pushing Caite's powers too far. After various attempts to cover his tracks to keep Andy from discovering the truth, Owen brought Caite to the Hub when she convinced him she could travel back in time and fix everything, only to discover that she was actually bringing her own people, the Threshold to invade through the Rift.

Andy arrived, having followed them, and was reluctantly convinced by Owen that Caite had tricked them both, sending her away with her travel device. Owen tried to excuse himself that everything that happened was down to Caite using them both but Andy, livid both at being deceived for so long and for having to banish Caite like he did, accused him of being a "selfish coward" and left, effectively ending their friendship.

Owen, at peace as he dies. TV : Exit Wounds. The team was lured to an abandoned warehouse by Captain John who detonated explosives. Owen narrowly avoided being sliced in half by a piece of broken glass with the help of Gwen. And that was it. We all cried. But what would have happened if Tosh and Owen had survived? Would they have finally got together, as fans were hoping throughout their two series on screen?

In short: probably not. So, there you have it: Tosh and Owen died horribly and unexpectedly, but they would have never been happy together if they lived and would probably face a worse fate in the future.

But of course, it does. It's television. It comes to an end and you move on. And his co-star Mori was just as upset at the decision to kill Tosh, although she added that she felt it was effective when it came to shocking fans. One question that remained on some fans' lips after Owen and Tosh died was whether they would ever have got together as a couple — after all, Tosh had been harbouring romantic feelings for her colleague pretty much since the day they met. But the actors who played them reckon they wouldn't have had a happy ever after together even if they had survived working for Torchwood.

They're both a little bit damaged. Barrowman recently revealed his idea for a Torchwood reunion episode , saying that he'd like to combine a brand new team with the original Cardiff crew. Torchwood is available to watch on BBC iPlayer. Digital Spy now has a newsletter — sign up to get it sent straight to your inbox.