Guests
As they eat dinner at the table,...
Banjo: So how long have you been familiar with Earth, Doctor?
Doctor: (thinking) I believe since the 1960's.
Kazooie: (shocked) 1960's?
Doctor: Yes.
Kazooie: It's the 2010's right now and you're saying you've been around since the 1960's?
Doctor: It's very complicated.
Rory: He has two hearts.
Doctor: More complicated.
Banjo: No, fill me in. I wanna hear this.
Rory: What he does is...
Doctor: Rory. I can speak for myself. I'm not Charlie Brown. (to Banjo) You see, every few years, I change faces. So on my next regeneration you won't see me anymore... I mean you'll see me. But you won't see me as this. Same character but with a different face. My last incarnation was more of punk.
Kazooie: Apparently, you just called yourself a punk.
Doctor: No, you don't understand. If you would've met me like 5 years ago, that would've been the punk.
Rory: Does he wear glasses?
Doctor: Again. (in the face) I was the punk. The punk wore glasses. This form of myself is not a punk.
Tooty: Banjo. What's a punk?
Banjo: Tooty! Watch your language!
Doctor: What?! It's not a curse word!
Banjo: It is if you're in my house. We don't use profanity in this house.
Doctor: (spreading his palms out) How could "punk" be part of profanity?
Banjo: Please stop using profanity in the house.
Rory: Can we say "poop"?
Banjo: Not at the table, please.
Doctor: What words can we use on this planet? It doesn't hurt anyone.
Banjo: And Kazooie if I hear you say that "P" word again, you and I are having a big talk.
Kazooie: Whatever.
Banjo: So, Doctor. What do you like to do in your life?
Doctor: I'm a time traveler.
Rory: Which you said you weren't gonna spoil for them?
Doctor: Oh, that's right. Oh, well. They already know.
Banjo: (laugh) That's really good, guys. But seriously, what do you like to do in your life?
Doctor: Draw.
Banjo: Draw what?
Doctor: (thinking) Let's see. Birds, buildings, the kangaroos in Australia, my Tardis...
Rory: You never told me you like to draw.
Doctor: I do. I just hadn't done it in a while.
Rory: Where are all the drawings?
Doctor: I gave them to my companions.
Rory: But I'm your campanion.
Doctor: (rolling his eyes) Rory, you weren't born yet.
Rory: Oh.
Banjo: So you're actually a time traveler is what you're saying.
Doctor: Yes. That is correct.
Banjo: So, this Tardis of yours is a time machine?
Doctor: I guess you could say that. You could say the best line that I get from all my companions. But you can only say it when you see it for your first time. That's how it works.
Banjo: So I'm not allowed to know this early.
Doctor: Nobody is.
Rory: Doctor, you're spoiling the surprise.
Doctor: It'll be alright.
After their dinner, Rory sits on the couch watching TV with Tooty sitting right next to hi.
Tooty: So. What's your story?
Rory: (looking at Tooty and realized) Oh, you talking to me?
Tooty: Well, yeah. It's only me and you.
Rory: Well, I've just bad relationship with someone. It's... I.. I can't get over her. She's been all I had in my life and I just screwed up.
Tooty: Who?
Rory: Her name is Amy. She used to be my fiance. But now she broke up with me and that's how I screwed up. Doctor's gonna talk to her and hopefully she and I work things out.
Tooty: I hope so, too. Even though I don't know her.
Rory: So, where are your parents?
Tooty: They're no longer around. The only family in the house his my brother, me, and Kazooie.
Rory: Kazoo... You mean the bird?
Tooty: Yeah. She's a little annoying sometimes.
Rory: I did notice some sarcasm in her.
Tooty: You'll get used to her.
Rory: I can't help being curious. But what do you mean no longer around?
Tooty: My parents passed away.
Rory: Oh. I'm sorry. Do you miss them?
Tooty: Very badly. But Banjo's been taking more care of me.
Rory: I can tell.
Tooty: What about the Doctor?
Rory: He... never mentions his family.
Tooty: Have you asked him about his family?
Rory: No, but if I did, he probably wouldn't answer.
Outside the house, Doctor and Banjo take a quick visit.
Doctor: So what's with that mountain with the ugly face?
Banjo: That was the home of a witch that kidnapped my sister a long time ago.
Doctor: Really?
Banjo: Her name was Gruntilda. Apparently, she wanted to make herself look beautiful by stealing Tooty's beautyness. So I got the news from my friend Bottles and he told me to collect all these puzzle pieces so I can unlock the main door to rescue my sister.
Doctor: Wow. I've been there.
Banjo: I wish you would've met Mumbo. He used to transform me into all these little animals. Even a bug. (realizing) You do have a time machine, correct?
Doctor: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Banjo, if you're asking to stop the death of your friend with my Tardis, I have to inform you that I cannot do that.
Banjo: Why not? You have a time machine.
Doctor: Only to travel through time. If I change the history of your planet, it could alter the space time continuum.
Banjo: But stopping Mumbo's death is different, right?
Doctor: Nothing is different. If I stop your friend from getting killed, it could still alter the space time continuum. I'm sorry, but the answer is no.
Banjo bows his head as he gets upset.
Doctor: I know you miss your friend badly but you have to let it go. You're still more than welcome to come into the Tardis. But I cannot change history in your planet.
Banjo: I understand.
Doctor: Good. Tomorrow, I'll take you wherever you want to go. But promise me that you won't interact with anybody as travel through the past.
Banjo: I promise. But what about my family?
Doctor: They can go, too. But you have to tell them what I told you.
Banjo: I'll do it, Doctor.