Should've known nothing goes according to plan, even if there isn't any reason for it not to, but here they were, scouring the train carts looking for whoever pinged on the radar that the Cybermen looked for, which Al says he still can't figure out, because none of the people on the list raised flags for him, while avoiding the three Cybermen lingering.
"Who could they possibly be after?" Lizzy wondered who the Cybermen went after, if not the Doctor, and Lila responds that the Cybermen generally would've told them upfront.
Daleks, they're not too fond of explaining themselves, they much prefer the old-fashioned way, involving exploding things, asking questions later, if they bother.
This threw her and Al off, because the presence of the Doctor should've resulted in the Cybermen acting like they normally done, them doing this for someone who isn't him's just out of character.
"They don't do this?" Bumble looked at the two with confusion, before Al informed her that, no, Cybermen weren't the types.
Daleks, ditto, but they'll just explode the train and everyone aboard, even if there's still Daleks aboard, just because.
In rare instances, maybe when they both want the Doctor dead that day and they're feeling diplomatic, would they work together in their latest attempt at killing the Doctor, which includes scanning and detailing all options.
His search came up with nothing, no one on the list stuck out as an enemy of the Cybermen, and it left Al bedeviled as it left with him with no answers.
His radar hadn't picked up on anything noteworthy and the fact he couldn't pick up on the Cybermen meant they used some form of blocker to keep him from detecting their presence.
Which shouldn't happen, but it did, and it's bothering him.
"If not a person, maybe an object?" Bumble suggested as they're sneaking around the corners, avoiding the Cybermen, as they're going by the numbered cabins, while Al went through the occupants on the list.
If it was a person like they thought, Cybermen would've already broken through the cabin doors, forcing out the occupants, lining them up, going down the list, that in this instance, the patrons were almost an afterthought.
Al gestured as he mentioned that it makes sense, because nobody on the list looked like a prime target for Cybermen.
Businessmen, oil barons, the usuals, nothing the Cybermen bothered with.
"Then, what could they be looking for?" Lizzy inquired what object could vex the Cybermen so, which Al answered that it could be any number of things.
Bombs, nuclear reactors, anything the Cybermen think should belong to them, really, no different than Daleks, but more rigid in the collection process, that they wait until after they get what they want before they explode an area, covering up their presence from the Daleks or the Doctor.
Gesturing, Al says he'll know what they're looking for, for now, let's find a way into the cargo hold, maybe whatever they're looking for's in there.
Which, going by the layout Al found, they're not far, just have to watch out for the straggling Cybermen.
There's three, the other two must've been with Theodore, and since he hadn't gone back to them, it's safe to assume he didn't find anything else about why the Cybermen came here.
Carefully, with the aid of Al and Bumble, they got inside the cargo hold, where there's enough luggage to make a handler weep with bitter tears.
Sealed boxes, luggage, everything that's going to the different stations along the route, as the train made its way through the designated lines.
Some labeled with what they are, some just labels of where they're shipping, crates of wine, crates of whisky, someone's package, name it, it's aboard the train.
All in a dimly lit cramped area that wasn't meant for stragglers to sort through the contents.
Seeing the sight, Lizzy remarked that it could take them hours to remotely have a chance of finding whatever it is the Cybermen looked for, coupled with Al unable to detect anything unusual, well, it's simply an impossible task.
"Nothing is impossible, my dear Lizzy," Bumble reminded Lizzy that even if it seems like it's hopeless, they always have a chance.
It brought a smile to Lizzy's face and she worked with Bumble in their quest for answers, while Al tried narrowing down their search, which didn't work the way he hoped.
They had no other choice but to split up, Bumble never far from Lizzy, as they looked through the piles of luggage, crates, while Al attempted to track the three Cybermen that haven't encountered Theodore, yet.
Theodore still not having luck and Al can't even hack them if he wanted, they're keeping everything close to their steel chassis, enough that Al worried if he kept trying, they might activate protocols that risk the lives of the patrons aboard the train.
Usually, they never have problems with dealing with Cybermen, but for this adventure, it's like trying to squeeze a rock like an orange.
Split from the group, Lila worked in her quadrant, scouring for anything that might've been what the Cybermen wanted, which normally involved technical advancements and the like, something this universal didn't have, not anything the Cybermen didn't already have, more, the fact they're even here at all, it's boggling the mind, and the fact Al doesn't know's the kicker.
Scouring for clues, finding nothing, Lila almost gave up until she kept hearing this annoying ticking noise, hollow, sounded like it came from a clock.
Her chestnut eyes moving, Lila followed the sound, until she came across something in the deeper part of the cargo hold in the corner, next to the stacks of crates set for one of the stations further up the route.
It's tightly wrapped in a brown burlap with ropes neatly wrapped around the middle, but the ticking's loud enough that it's audible through the burlap.
At that moment, Al reached out, warning Lila that a Cyberman entered the cargo hold, he tracked it enough that it's going towards where Lila went, and it made Lila quickly unravel the ropes, yanked off the burlap, finding that it's an old grandfather clock that towered her, hard to say what type of wood was used for the base since the dimly lit cargo hold didn't help much, but it looked pristine, from what she managed to glimpse.
Behind the hand-blown glass, Lila sees that clock face's stuck at 12 AM and she sees the key for the grandfather clock still in the keyhole.
In the distance behind her, she heard the familiar thudding noises, and Lila opened the glass, reached out to touch the key, felt an immense chill run down her neck from the stress, before she turned the key, and the ticking noises stopped.
Panicked as she realized the Cyberman picked up speed, Lila recovered the grandfather clock with the burlap, before she hid underneath the burlap as it draped over the ground, and prayed to all and any who listened.
In the darkness of the burlap, Lila heard the thudding noise coming closer, she felt the floorboard shaking from the weight of the Cyberman walking.
Don't know what happened, Lila heard the Cyberman coming closer to where she hid, but it suddenly stopped, and horror movies taught Lila enough that she wasn't leaving the safety of the burlap until the opportunity strikes.
Must've been no more than a few minutes, but it was silent, before the Cyberman suddenly started moving again, this time, it was retreating.
Lila felt the movement as the Cyberman abruptly left, going back the way it came, and before she moved, someone yanked the burlap off her and the grandfather clock.
Immediately, Lila took the defensive position, but was stopped when she noticed it was a person standing in front of her, a man in his fifties, wearing a black suit, smelled of clover, and a black gelled hair combed carefully to match his black eyes as he sharply stared at Lila.
"I don't recognize you," Lila heard the man say as he looked down at her as she forced herself up from the ground.
Weakly shrugging, Lila says that she doesn't recognize him, either, an attempt at humor, but the man didn't approve.
Lila then hesitantly warned him that there's loose Cybermen aboard the train, but the man didn't seem shocked, aggravated, mostly, either at her or the whole situation, hard for her to say.
His black eyes staring into her chestnut eyes, the man ordered Lila to leave, and even though Lila warned him that there's Cybermen, he wouldn't hear anything of it, just wanted her gone.
Lila couldn't change his mind and she's forced away from the grandfather clock as the man prodded her to go back the way she came.
Going forward, Lila didn't see the Cyberman ahead of her, don't know where it could've gone, Al hadn't warned her, so it didn't go their way, and nothing from Theodore.
"Halt," the man abruptly stopped her from moving and she turned around to stare at him as he stared back with his black eyes piercing her chestnut eyes with coldness.
"Identify," the man stared at her with those piercing black eyes as he demanded.
Lila weakly shrugged at him, before saying that she's just a patron aboard the train, trying to avoid death from a Cyberman.
It didn't appease the man, he wanted her name, and she sheepishly told him it, trying to get out of the situation with her head still attached, but before the unusual man responded, she ducked to the floor when she heard rapid shooting coming from somewhere in the cargo hold.
Briefly, Lila looked up, but the man she was speaking with disappeared, probably ducked away the moment the shooting happened, too.
"Al, what the hell?" Lila called out to him in her head and she heard Al say they have a problem.
Shifting to a crouching position, Lila continued calling out to Al, wanting to know what happened, and she's told the Cyberman that initially came close to her, went after them, and Bumble's fighting it off, something's wrong with it.
"Wrong, how?" Lila asks what Al meant by that, ducking down when she heard the firing continue, before Al elaborated what happened.
Cyberman found them, Al thought it wouldn't do anything to them because of what Theodore experienced, and for the most part it looked like it'd be the same for them, but the Cyberman abruptly grew unhinged, started spouting nonsense, and was about to shoot them hadn't Bumble shot it first.
She's an excellent shooter, Al says.
"What's wrong with it?" Lila brought Al back to the situation at hand as she's moving through the crates and luggage, trying to find them.
Al says that he noticed the Cyberman's suddenly showing up on the radar the moment the Cyberman started acting erratic, like something turned off its blocker.
"I thought only the Prime can do that," Lila pointed out that it shouldn't be possible for that to happen, the only way anything changes in a Cyberman that wasn't direct intervention from Theodore's the Prime giving override commands.
The only times Al's been lucky's when they find a batch of Cybermen that weren't upgraded, yet, and that's becoming increasingly rare, since they're easily dealt with, and Al agreed with Lila's points, before saying that he doesn't know how, but something overrode the Cyberman's commands, now it's incapable of recognizing them and itself.
Like it was infected with a virus, but Al couldn't tell for sure, not that he can with the Cyberman still standing, and attempting to fire at them.
Following the gunshots as Bumble took aim at the Cyberman, due to the override preventing the use of its arm canon, it's attempting to strike whatever's in front of them, Lila ducked multiple times, before she stumbled into Lizzy, hiding among the racks of loose fur coats.
"What's going on, I thought the Doctor said these were passive because of the variables?" Lizzy clutched the fur coats as she heard the shooting mere distance away, Bumble ordered her to hide among the fur coats, and she did.
Sheepishly as she ducked beside Lizzy, Lila tells her what happened, and it understandably shocked Lizzy.
"Why?" Lizzy wondered who or what caused the Cyberman to act out as she clutched Lila, Bumble continuing firing at the Cyberman while Al's trying to override it since it became vulnerable to his hacking.
Having no response, Lila merely held onto her as they hear Bumble continue firing at the Cyberman, not felling from her bullets as easily as she hoped.