Torchwood (if it's alien, it's ours) operatives Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones are working undercover (cosmetics, and gentlemen's clothing) at GR Owen, Cardiff's ageing department store in the last throes of decline with a brand new shopping mall next door nailing the lid on the coffin.
As GR Owen is threatened with takeover and being turned into flats this is Captain Jack Harkness' last opportunity to solve one of Torchwood's oldest mysteries, the disappearance of the eponymous GR Owen, original owner of the store, and the location of the Department of Curiosities. It doesn't help that the building itself keeps trying to kill him, pitching him down a lift shaft, dropping a chandelier on him, but he keeps coming back.
Firestone bank has brought in the administrators and within the claustrophobic confines of dated bedding department, gentlemen's wear, home furnishings, and behind the scenes among a labyrinth of unsold stock the tension racks up bit by bit. A great version of the haunted house story, narrated by Kai Owen, the actor who plays Gwen's wonderful long-suffering husband Rhys.
Good story, and great narration, a quality bit of entertainment. Not suitable for young children, probably young adult upwards, given the black and adult nature of some of the jokes in the older sibling Doctor Who spinoff series.
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