10 Doctor Who Characters Who Can Never Die
3. Rex Matheson
The final moments of Torchwood: Miracle Day were clearly meant to set up another series of the smash-hit Doctor Who spinoff, with that last episode drawing to a close on a monumental cliffhanger involving CIA agent Rex Matheson.
Miracle Day is one great big immortality story, with every human on Earth becoming incapable of dying after the sinister Three Families organisation messes around with Captain Jack's super-blood. This meddling is undone at the end of the story and humanity reunites with the sweet embrace of death, but Rex gets one hell of a surprise when he discovers that he isn't quite as mortal as he thought he was.
After taking a bullet to the chest courtesy of CIA mole Charlotte Wills, Rex succumbs to his injury and dies... momentarily. Bursting back to life, the poor bloke looks equal parts shocked and confused, with Jack and Gwen lost for words as his bullet wound heals before their very eyes. We then cut to black - and that's where Torchwood ends.
Given the fact that he survived a fatal gunshot, we can only assume that Rex has achieved a level of immortality similar to Captain Jack's. And if that's the case, is there another giant head-in-a-jar somewhere in the universe?