In the home of Angelo Colasanto, the Torchwood team forges an uneasy alliance with Allen Shapiro, Rex and Esther's CIA superior. They learn that the true force behind the Miracle is a coalition of three families -- Ablemarch, Costerdane and Frines -- who have erased themselves from the history books after witnessing Jack's torture in 1928. But even as the Three Families close in on Torchwood, Jack realises that Angelo has found a way to counteract the Miracle, using technology recovered from the ruins of the Hub. And, as the world economy teeters on the brink of disaster, Oswald and Jilly's paths suddenly and violently diverge.