Clara was starting to get discouraged. They had been wandering for hours trying to find John and Rose.
"We should go check the dry cleaners," the Doctor, masquerading as John Oswald on a shopping trip with his wife, Clara, suggested.
"Why?" Clara demanded. "We've already been to all the grocery outlets, shoe stores, malls and anywhere that sells hair care products. What makes you think they'll be at the dry cleaners?"
"One, because John Smith like to wear suits. Two," he said, pulling out a newspaper with a flourish. "Because of this."
He handed her the newspaper. The headline leaped out at her.
LONDON DISAPPEARANCES CONTINUE
"Disappearances?" she asked, looked up at the Doctor.
"If you keep reading, each victim was last seen in the same place."
"A dry cleaners," she stated in disbelief.
"Bingo. A dry cleaners. That dry cleaners to be specific," he said, pointing down the block toward a roped off dry cleaners. "And, bingo again. Just the man we are looking for."
He pointed to a man in a blue suit with a brown trench coat. He was wearing red chuck high tops and his hair was sticking up all over the place, resembling a cockatoo. The Doctor and Clara watched as the man pulled some glasses out of his coat pocket and squatted down to look at something. His hand darted out to touch something and then brought his finger up to his lips to taste whatever it was he had touched.
"He hasn't changed much, has he?" Clara asked. "He looks a little bit older, but other than that..." she trailed off as she watched Detective Inspector John Smith.
"It's been about ten years since I left them here. He made it up the ladder a lot faster than I thought he would," the Doctor said, looking down at his watch. "Already Detective Inspector. I thought it would take him another five years at least."
"How are we going to talk to him and Rose?" Clara asked.
The Doctor waved a little white paper in front of her face.
"Psychic paper?" Clara said, smiling.
"Our disguise just got much deeper, my Clara. We are now personal inspectors for the Queen and she has sent us, the great Mr. and Mrs. Oswald, to investigate the disappearances. Now, let's go meet John Smith."