The TARDIS landed on a desert gray planet. The Doctor had gone to investigate where they were and why they were there when he was surprised by a strong earthquake.
"Doctor! What happened?!" Sarah asked, leaning out the door.
"Do not go!" he answered. "Come back!"
A strong jolt knocked the TARDIS over bringing down Sarah. The Doctor tried to get to the ship to help his companion, but he fell. Strong arms lifted him off the ground. The Doctor saw before him a green-skinned creature, with white eyes, black tangled hair and a slug mouth that coming towards him. Then he saw nothing more.
"Sarah!" Tom Murray shouted sitting up his bed, just before being slapped on his left cheek. Heather was before him, clearly angry with her fiancé.
"I came early to surprise you and I find you shouting in dreams the name of another woman the day before our wedding."
"It's not what you think, Heather," Tom said putting his hand on his sore cheek. "It was a nightmare: I was the Doctor and I wanted to help Sarah, but I was captured by a horrible creature ..."
"I had heard that this girl was sick in her head and had become obsessed with you. And now you are being affected by her paranoia too," said Heather. She took Thomas's chin gently. "I have to go, honey, but first give me a kiss."
Tom moved his face away from Heather, who before the rejection of her boyfriend gave him another slap on the right cheek.
"You'd better for our wedding don't shout the name of another woman," Heather said angrily before she left, slamming the door.
Tom did not even look at her, he kept thinking about his dream and Sarah Jane Smith. His feelings for Heather were not the same since he met the young journalist. It was not the blonde woman with whom he wanted to be right now. He looked his engagement ring and wanted to remove it, but something stopped him and he did not know what it was. He got up and went to wash in the bathroom. When he looked in the mirror he saw his own reflection talking.
"Free me, we have not much time."
Tom stared surprised the mirror. He also realized that he had no scar pacemaker and was noticing the double beat of his heart. He blinked a moment and when he looked in the mirror again he saw the scar and his reflection was only a reflection in a mirror. Heather was right; the paranoia of Sarah Jane Smith was affecting him.
Thomas left home. He was getting married the next day and he had many things to prepare. Walking down the street he saw Sarah, who smiled and approached him.
"Hello Tom," the girl said.
Tom neither answered nor looked at her.
"Is something wrong? You can tell me anything."
"It happens that I was a happy man with a quiet life until I met you."
"What?" Sarah asked, not understanding what was happening.
"I'm saying you're ruining my life and I want nothing more from you. Go with your friend the Doctor and do not ever speak to me anymore!"
Sarah could not believe what she was hearing: the Doctor was expelling her from his life! That was unthinkable. This man could not be the real Doctor. Hurt and with tears in her eyes, she ran towards UNIT to meet her friend.
Tom did not move from where he was. He had been too rude with that poor girl that all she had done was to think he was her beloved Doctor because of a nasty blow to her head. It was not her fault that he dreamed about he was the Time Lord. He really liked the girl. In very little time he had come to appreciate her enough to really want to be her best friend, and maybe something else. And now he had expelled her from his life. He felt like a horrible monster. Not prepared to lose the friendship of Sarah, Tom ran after her.