Davis wasn't really sure why the wobbley glowing line in the ground was such a scary thing. Now, he wasn't disagreeing that a big crack in the earth emitting white light was weird, but he didn't understand why The Doctor and his friends (and enemies) were so alarmed by it.
"What is that?" Carter asked.
"It's a crack in Time," The Doctor replied. "Don't let the light touch you! It would erase you from history. You'll have never been born."
"I've seen it happen," Amy said. She shuddered. "It was awful. The Crack just ate them, and then no one remembered them anymore, except for me."
"Like what happened just now," The Doctor said. "Except for Jack, all of the Torchwood people just vanished. But none of you remember them, because now Torchwood never existed."
"Wait," Davis interjected. "You mean that happened just now?"
"'Bout five minutes ago," Maroxe replied.
"There were at least ten of them," Rory said.
"And now they're all gone?" Sam asked, looking stunned.
"They were never born," The Doctor said.
Things were spinning out of Davis' control faster and faster. He closed his eyes a moment, feeling sick.
People here a moment ago were never born, never remembered. That's horrible. Davis opened his eyes. Get ahold of yourself, Paul. There's still a way.
"How do we stop this?" Davis asked.
Everyone turned to look at him, and Davis focused on The Doctor. "There is a way to stop it, isn't there?"
"Yes," The Doctor said slowly. He smiled and continued, "Yes, of course there's a way. There's always a way. And I'm good at finding ways, I'm the king of finding ways."
"You're lying, aren't you," Davis said.
"Yeah," The Doctor admitted.
"But that doesn't mean it can't done," Maroxe said.
"It only means it nearly can't be done!" The Doctor exclaimed cheerfully.
"So, what's your plan, then, Doctor?" General Price asked.
"Well, first I've got to find the TARDIS." The Doctor clambered on top of one of the pieces of ex-Stonehenge and looked around. He paused and suddenly demanded of General Price, "Why is it brighter?"
Price's brow furrowed in puzzlement. "Beg pardon?"
"It's brighter," The Doctor said with a slightly exasperated tone. "It's cloudy, but it's brighter. That's not normal."
He started to stamp his feet against the rock, and a few times jumped up to slam both soles upon the fallen pillar.
"The planet's turning differently," The Doctor stated. "That's not right, not normal. The only reason the earth's rotation would change was if…"
His eyes became quite large then, and he concluded, "…there was something else to rotate around."
Rory started exclaiming excitedly and pointed at The Doctor. "The second sun!"
"Second sun?" The Doctor's thin eyebrows rose. "Since when did Earth have two suns?"
"Since never!" Amy exclaimed. "The second sun, it has to be the TARDIS!"
"Yes, but where?" Maroxe wondered. "We know she's there, but we can't see her, and I don't know if we have anything capable of telling a sun from a blowing up TARDIS with us."
"You mean our second sun isn't a sun at all?" Sam was looking up with the surprised expression that seemed to have tacked itself to her face.
"Not at all," Maroxe said cheerily. "It makes sense she would be here, really. This planet is where the explosion originates, from what I've heard."
The Doctor nodded in confirmation.
"The Crack's gone," Colonel O'Neill said.
Everyone looked, and a small amount of the tension eased.
"That doesn't mean the danger's over," Maroxe warned.
The Doctor, pacing up and down his horizontal pillar, stopped and pointed at Higgie. "You, do you have a radio?"
"Yes, Sir," Higgie replied, as he handed it over.
"That's 'Doctor', not 'Sir'," The Doctor corrected the younger man before continuing on with his business. He held the radio with one hand as the other whipped a strange rod out of his pocket. He pointed it at the radio, and with a strange, vibrating sort of noise, the tip of the rod glowed green.
Maroxe glanced up, then exclaimed, "Oh!" He started fishing through his pockets. "That reminds me," he said, "while I was fetching Amy, I got a little something for Kel'tar here."
"I have no interest in what you have to offer," Kel'tar snapped.
"Too bad for you, snaky one, because you're going to get it anyway," Maroxe replied. He pulled something with several straps on it out of his pocket and walked over to Kel'tar.
"This device will enable the parasite and the host to speak independently," Maroxe told everybody. "The light will show red when Kel'tar's talking, blue when it's Hodges. I based it off of the Tollan device."
Tollan? Davis' eyebrows rose. iThat's a surprise.
Maroxe paused before adding, "I should warn you, Hodges will likely be very panicky. He can't have been a host for more than a day."
He turned to Price. "General, with your permission?"
General Price nodded. "Do it," he said.
Maroxe turned back to Kel'tar, but he dropped the device in shock and fumbled to catch the Goa'uld when it suddenly crumpled to the ground. The host wasn't breathing.