Locking the door behind him as he entered Jackie's bathroom Elton began taking off his jacket and shirt.
"So there I was, ultimate step five, the perfect infiltration, target Jackie Tyler" He said to the camera as he remembered freshening up and getting himself ready for her, leaving his shirt off as he left the bathroom.
"Right, it is a bit hot but it's about to get hotter" He said as he strode into the lounge but stopped when he saw Jackie was sat on the sofa's armchair talking on the telephone.
"I'll see you soon, all right be careful bye" She said before hanging up and sitting there for a moment, looking sad.
"Everything all right?" Elton asked tentatively.
"That was my daughter," She replied before looking up at him. "Oh look at you, I'm sorry, I was just being stupid," She told him. Elton nodded.
"Is she ok?" He asked.
"She's so far away, I get left here sometimes and er, I don't know where she is, anything could be happening to her, anything, and I just go a bit mad, oh put your shirt back on" She told him softly.
"Where is she?" Elton asked gently.
"Doesn't matter, I'm sorry, you better go" Jackie told him. Elton turned to leave but then stopped as he realised something.
"Actually," He started to tell her. "And that's when it struck me, funny the things you think of with your shirt off but that's when I realised what was really important," He told the camera as he remembered standing there smiling at her. "Never mind about Rose I'm not even going to ask and I will put my shirt back on because I'm gonna go out and get us both a pizza cause I reckon you need cheering up" He'd told Jackie who smiled. "She goes swanning off and who's left to care about you hey? So I say a nice bit of pizza we'll put the telly on nice and loud we'll annoy that woman next door! Just you and me as proper mates! Yeah? Mates?" He told her as she cheered up greatly. "Go on? Say yes?" He asked her.
"Yes" She gladly said.
Walking back to Jackie's flat with the two pizzas he'd bought Elton had never been happier.
"All of a sudden a lot of things made sense, I got so lost in conspiracies and aliens and targets I'd been missing the obvious cause I did like Jackie but I liked someone else even more" He told the camera as he danced to 'Mr Blue Sky' as he thought about Ursula.
But when he'd got near the entrance of Jackie's tower block Elton saw that Jackie was stood outside, holding his jacket. "Right, let's get inside then, the pizzas getting cold" He told her. She didn't immediately respond.
"I went in your coat, for once in my life I thought I'll pay I thought he's such a nice man he won't accept anything so I'll just slip a tenner in his pocket and look what I found" She told him as she produced Rose's photograph that he'd been carrying. " A photograph of my daughter," She said quietly.
"No no it's not like that I can explain" Elton tried to say.
"I bet you can" Jackie told him.
"I wasn't being purvey or anything I wasn't after her..." Elton began to say.
"Or Peter I guess?" Jackie guessed as she took out Peter's photograph too.
"I was looking for the Doctor" Elton told her, trying to make her see that everything was ok now.
"Oh I know that, I worked that out cause it's never me is it?" She asked him, beginning to sound angry.
"No but that's how it started but I changed my mind!" Elton tried to tell her.
"You wanna know things!? The let me tell you a few things!" Jackie spat at him. "My daughter is the only thing I have left in this whole world! Peter spent nearly his whole life separated from his family and home and has only just got them back!" She told him harshly. "And as for the people who get left behind! It's hard! And that's what you become, hard! But if there is one thing I've learned is that I will never let my daughter down and I'll protect all three of them until the end of my life! So whatever you want I'm warning you back off!" She told him.
"But Jackie I only wanted to meet him" Elton told her.
"I thought you liked me?" She asked him.
"I do" He insisted.
"Just get out of here!" She shouted at him as she threw his coat at him. "I said get out! And leave me alone!" She shouted before running back to her flat, leaving Elton full of guilt. But he knew this wasn't just his fault.
At the next meeting he gone up to Victor Kennedy.
"And she was right! It's shameful! We used that woman!" He told him angrily as Ursula and Mr Skinner watched from their desks.
"I knew I couldn't trust you!" Victor shouted back as he stood up from his desk. "You broke cover! You stupid little man! You failed step five!" He told him.
"I don't care about step five! Cause it's all gone wrong Mr Kennedy ever since you turned up!" Elton suddenly shouted as Victor sat back down. "We use to come here every week and we'd have a laugh, we were friends, no wonder they stopped coming! I mean there's no Bliss any more and even Bridget! She hasn't turned up!" Elton continued to say as he looked to Ursula and Mr Skinner before looking back at Victor.
"I've been phoning and phoning, there's no reply" Mr Skinner told Elton.
"And who can blame her!? I'm sorry Victor but your on your own! Cause I am leaving!" Elton told Victor determinedly before turning to face Ursula and Mr Skinner. "And so are you Mr Skinner! And as for you Ursula! Your coming with me! And we're going to the Golden Lotus and we're going to have a Chinese!" He said as he then walked over to Ursula.
"What's that got to do with it?" She asked.
"I mean you and me, together, having a meal, if you want?" He asked.
"Oh, I'd love it" She replied, looking taken aback, as Elton smiled.
"But you can't leave! You'll never know what he was doing! The Doctor! You'll never know what he was doing in you house all those years ago!" Victor tried to persuade him to stay.
"No, I'll never know, "Elton told him quietly. "Ursula get your stuff," He then said as Ursula began grabbing her things. "Mr Skinner are you coming? Not to the Chinese if you don't mind? Just sort of walking out?" He then asked, looking back at him.
"I certainly am" He replied as he began gathering his things. Elton then looked back to Victor.
"Victor, good luck good bye" He told him defiantly before turning to leave with the others.
"Mr Skinner?" Victor called, stopping him. "Would you stay for a minute? Please?" He asked.
"We're walking out" Mr Skinner reminded him.
"I've got numbers for Bridget! I've kept records! I've got old numbers! We can track her down! Together you and I?" He offered. Mr Skinner looked back at Elton and Ursula and gave a shrug.
"That's more like the old team spirit, you two have a nice time" He told them.
"I hope you find her" Ursula told him.
"I'll email you" Elton added before they got into the lift and were soon going up to the floor above.
"Just come a little closer" Victor then told Mr Skinner, inviting him towards him as Mr Skinner walked over to him.
Outside Ursula and Elton were walking away hand in hand from the building, talking about their plans for the Chinese meal. The failed to hear Mr Skimmer's scream but Ursula suddenly stopped.
"Oh I left my phone!" She realised as she rummaged through her pockets.
"Really?" Elton asked.
"Yeah it's not in my pockets" Ursula said with a sigh.
"So much for the big exit" Elton tutted before they walked back towards the building.
Coming down the lift and sliding back the guard rails they walked into the room.
"I'm not stopping I just left my phone," Ursula started to say to Victor but stopped when she looked towards him. He was sat at his desk reading his newspaper that blocked him from view. "Victor?" She asked, sensing something was wrong.
"Take your phone and go" He replied, though his voice sounded different somehow.
"Where's Mr Skinner?" Ursula asked as she and Elton slowly walked up the room towards him.
"He's gone to the toilet" Victor quickly lied.
"But we haven't got toilets, we have to use the pub on the corner" Elton told him, getting suspicious.
"Well, well that's where he is then" Victor said nervously. Only his hand could been seen as they held the edged of the paper which looked very odd in the dim light of the room.
"Help me!" A familiar voice suddenly called.
"What was that?" Ursula asked.
"Nothing! It was nothing!" Victor snapped at them.
"Help me!" Mr Skinner's voice suddenly cried out.
"Shut up!" Victor snapped.
"That's Mr Skinner" Elton realised as he ans Ursula drew closer and closer to the desk.
"Victor! Look at you hands!" Ursula gasped as she saw his fat green clawed hands.
"Look at the rest of me" He replied as he put the newspaper down, allowing then to see him. "You've dappled with aliens now meet the genuine article" He told them, proud to be seen. With green skin, a fat body that had face's one it and a long black Mohawk it was unlike anything Ursula or Elton could had imagined.
"Oh my god!" Ursula exclaimed.
"Your a, thing" Elton tried to say.
"A thing! This thing is my true form! Better that that crude pink shape you call a body!" Victor snapped at them.
"What happened? Where am I? Ursula is that you?" One of the face's on victor's stomach asked. It was Mr Skinner.
"That's Mr Skinner! What have you done to him!?" Ursula angrily asked Victor.
"I've absorbed him" He replied with a lick of his lips.
"Colin? Is that you? Colin?" Bridget's voice suddenly asked, her face being on the back of Victor's shoulder.
"Bridget my love?" Mr Skinner called.
"Oh my god! That's Bridget!" Ursula exclaimed again.
"Colin where are you!?" Bridget called out.
"I'm here Bridget! It's all right I'm close" Mr Skinner reassured her.
"You've absorbed them both!" Ursula gasped at Victor.
"What about Bliss? Where is she!?" Elton asked him angrily. A muffled response was then heard. "What?" Elton asked quietly. Victor lifted his backside off the chair slightly.
"I said you really don't want to know" Bliss was then heard to say clearly before Victor sat back down on her again.
"You've absorbed them! Your some sort of, Abzorbathon? An Abzorbaling? An Abzorbaloff!?" Elton then said, trying to come up with a name for Victor.
"Yes I like that" Victor told him.
"Let them go! I'm ordering you! Let those people go!" Ursula suddenly shouted at Victor.
"Oh but they taste so sweet! Just think about the Doctor? Oh how will he taste? All that experience! All that knowledge!" Victor exclaimed. "And if I've got to absorb Jackie Tyler to get to him then so be it" He then told Elton.
"Don't you dare!" He warned him. Ursula then marched over and grabbed his cane before holding it over Victor, ready to hit him with it.
"If I have to beat them out of you!" Sh threatened him as he seemed to cower and scream in mercy.
"No please don't hit me! Look me! I'm such a slow and clumsy beast oh please don't hit me!" He appeared to beg. Ursula dropped her guard slightly as she lowered the cane.
"Well then, give them back" She told him.
"What? You mean like this?" Victor asked. Suddenly he lunged forward and grabbed Ursula's arm as he snatched back his cane. "Just one touch! That's all it takes!" He growled victoriously as Ursula watched herself begin to get sucked into him.
"Leave her alone!" Elton shouted as he started to move towards her in an attempt to pull her away.
"Don't touch me!" Ursula warned him back. "Oh Elton I'm so sorry, you can't touch me" She told him, tearing up now.
"Ursula!" Elton gasped, unable to come to terms with the realisation that he was going to lose her.
"Most likely to fight back indeed!" Victor taunted.
"Leave her alone!" Elton begged him. But it was too late. With a final scream Ursula was absorbed into Victor.
