Watching the Doctor

by RedRobyn2

The Doctor is stranded in prison, dealing with the revelations of the Timeless Child and the memories of her time travelling, all alone. Until the Tardis decides enough is enough and gathers her and some of her more recent companions to help her deal with her past and make some amends by watching her adventures. Characters watch the show, set after Timeless Child/Pre-Resolution.

25. Partners in Crime

Hello everyone!

Here is the next chapter (finally!) - Partners in Crime

Am I 100% happy with this chapter? No. Am I going to post it anyway because I am far later than I meant to be? Yes. So here you go.

Next up is Waters of Mars which I am not at all ready for the emotional drama of, so it may take me a bit of time - just a warning.

Anyway; please, as always, let me know what you think of the chapter, the story as a whole, and what other episodes you want me to cover. I do read all the comments (I love reading them) even if I don't reply to all of them, and keep track of all the episode suggestions.

Thank you for reading and hope you enjoy!

Robyn

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It took a few minutes for the room to clear, everyone slowly getting up and stretching stiff limbs before moving towards the corridor, chatting away in groups. The Doctor waited for everyone to disappear, taking a deep breath before moving herself in search of Clara. Clara had been one of the first people to leave the room, talking away quietly with Bill who had been radiating enough energy for the both of them.

The Doctor found them still chatting away in a corner of the kitchen, a bit separated from everyone else. Bill was the first one to notice her approach giving her an appraising look before quietly making her excuses and heading towards where Ryan and Yaz were arguing at a table, Graham having abandoned them in favour of talking to Mickey. Martha was nearby her husband talking with Rory, while Amy was holding an animated conversation with Donna. River, Jack and Rose seemed to be having their own conversation. Neither Nardole or the Master seemed to be around, which was probably for the best.

The Doctor silently slunk up to Clara who had turned around and spotted her after Bill had left, she looked as apprehensive as the Doctor felt. The pair stood in silence for several minutes, fidgeting and occasionally opening their mouths but not saying anything as they weren't sure where to start.

Deciding to break the silence, the Doctor took a deep breath but before she could Clara finally spoke. "Are we okay?" It was quiet and unsure, which sounded weird coming from the normally stubborn Clara.

Her words confused the Doctor, "What do you mean?"

"Are we-." She waved between the two of them, "Okay? The last time we saw each other we were self-destructing; you were left alone without your memories after going through hell and I ran off with Ashildr without a heartbeat. It's not exactly fond memories, or a good ending."

"It wasn't an ending though, just the beginning of a new chapter." The Doctor smiled sadly.

Clara gave her a pointed look, "That's very cheesy, and I worked as an English teacher in a High School." Despite her words she matched the Doctor's smile. "Good sentiment though."

"Are you happy with Ashildr?" The Doctor asked quietly, tone more serious now.

"I am, I love travelling with her." Clara answered with a fond smile.

"And you love her." The Doctor read between the lines.

Clara shrugged; a bit surprised by how perceptive the Doctor was being. It was usually hit or miss with her, and often a miss when love was involved. "We're taking it slow, we've both have a lot to work through before we settle on anything." Silence settled between them again, although this time it was a bit more comfortable.

"Seriously though, after everything, are we okay?" Clara asked again.

"I think we've got our own things to work through, but yeah, we are." The Doctor answered quite but serious, then hesitantly added, "I missed you."

Clara smiled at that, "You miss everyone who used to travel with you." She pointed out, which earned a casual shrug from the Doctor. It was true and they both knew it, but it didn't belittle the sentiment.

Neither was sure what else to say after that, unspoken words being shared between them. The Doctor was right about still having things to work through, but maybe spending the time in this room and watching these videos would give them all some time to heal. The quiet between them was comfortable and peaceful, reminding them both of quiet days in the Tardis between adventures. Neither of them wanted to interrupt it and bring up bad memories, despite the need to talk about some of their adventures they both silently decided that it could wait a bit longer.

They sat in comfortable silence (with the Doctor only occasionally fiddling) until the rest of the group slowly decided to trail back into the tv room, having decided it was time to get on with the videos and see what was awaiting them next. Sharing a final glance, Clara and the Doctor moved to join the rest of the group and strolled back to their seats in the main room. The Master was the last to appear, (from where, she didn't know which was slightly concerning) and the room all shuffled in their seats, apprehension starting to take hold. Every time they watched a new video it revealed new secrets about both the Doctor and each other, and they were all a bit nervous about what this video would feature.

With them all settled and ready, the screen turned back on, and the screen turned black signifying the next video was about to start. The group watched impatient for the new title to appear, all wondering what they could be possibly be shown this time and hoping for a clue of what to expect.

"Partners in Crime?" Amy blinked, "That could be talking about anything."

"Well, I guess it means there's two people and they're doing crime?" Rory tried to theorise with a shrug.

"Maybe it involves River or Jack?" Clara suggested, the group nodded at that, those two were the most likely to be involved in crime (but they all had definitely also been involved in crime at some point, it was inevitable when the Doctor was around). The Doctor, herself, was often a criminal (for varying reasons) but it usually wasn't her goal, maybe the title was referring to an adventure one of the two had dragged the Doctor into?

"Guess we'll have to watch and find out." Jack leaned back in his seat in an attempt to calm his excitement. He wanted to watch some of his time with the Doctor but he was also apprehensive about it, as the videos didn't often focus on nice, calm adventures. There were about as many adventures he didn't want to relive anytime soon.

With that, the group turned to the screen to see what they would be shown this time.

[Adipose Industries]

(Both the Doctor and the brilliant woman we met last season, Donna Noble, walk along different streets to the same glass fronted building. She goes into the main reception whilst he sonics his way in through a rear fire escape.)

Upon seeing Donna appear on screen and the Pinstripes Doctor, the group all turned to glance at said red-head. Donna in turn was sharing a glance with the Doctor, both immediately recognising what this video was going to be featuring, grins slowly took over both of their faces, this was going to be entertaining.

"Guess it's featuring Donna." Martha smiled, interested to see her friend on screen (and aware this couldn't be too long after she had stopped traveling with the Doctor herself).

"Those smiles are a bit unnerving though." Mickey added, a bit unnerved by Donna and the Doctor's matching grins. The pair were a strange one that worked surprising well, but very prone to causing chaos, which was saying something as the Doctor was capable of causing chaos with almost anyone.

RECEPTIONIST [OC]: Good morning, Adipose Industries.
(Donna shows an ID to the guard at the lifts.)
DONNA: Donna Noble, Health and Safety.

"Classic." Bill nodded approvingly of Donna's tactic.

[Basement]

(The Doctor flashes his psychic paper at a guard he passes.)
DOCTOR: John Smith, Health and Safety.

A few people grinned at the familiar fake name and also the same strategy being employed by both halves of the pair. Donna and the Doctor were sharing a look, both wondering exactly how close they'd been to running into each other throughout that mess.

"Wait, you're not travelling together?" Yaz asked a bit confused. If they had been together surely, they would have gone in together or come up with a different excuse, right?

"No, we weren't travelling together yet. I'd run into Donna before but she turned down my offer then before deciding she did want to travel so she started investigating things like Adipose to try and find me." The Doctor explained, failing to mention how stunned she still was that Donna had been able to find her again, it wasn't something that many people had achieved and really it only served to show how utterly brilliant Donna Noble was.

"All you have to do to find this idiot, is find weird alien things and they'll turn up eventually." Donna snorted, giving the Doctor a pointed look while the Doctor in turn just smiled, shaking her head in disbelief.

[Lecture hall]

(A woman is giving a presentation to an audience of several dozen.)
FOSTER: Adipose Industries, the twenty first century way to lose weight. No exercise, no diet, no pain. Just lifelong freedom from fat. The Holy Grail of the modern age. And here it is. You just take one capsule. One capsule, once a day for three weeks, and the fat, as they say.
(The film takes over.)
NARRATOR [OC]: The fat just walks away.

"Because that is not at all suspicious." Amy raised an eyebrow at the screen, even if the Doctor and Donna hadn't already decided the place was 'suspicious' that little presentation would have certainly done so.

(A woman in the audience speaks.)
PENNY: Excuse me, Miss Foster. If I could? I'm Penny Carter, science correspondent for The Observer. There are a thousand diet pills on the market, a thousand con men stealing people's money. How do we know the fat isn't going straight into your bank account?

"Cynical but good point." Rory nodded at Penny's question, he'd certainly seen a lot during his time as a nurse and knew enough to know most of the 'diet pills' people advertised didn't actually help.

FOSTER: Oh, Penny, if cynicism burnt up calories, we'd all be as thin as rakes. But if you want the science, I can oblige.
(Donna is also in the audience.)
NARRATOR [OC]: Adipose Industries. The Adipose capsule is composed of a synthesised mobilising lipase, bound to a large protein molecule.

[Projection room]

(This is where the Doctor is watching the presentation.)
COMPUTER: The mobilising lipase breaks up the triglycerides stored in the adipose cells, which then enter
DOCTOR: Health and Safety. Film department.

Donna and the Doctor shared another glance, this may start to get painful to see how close they got to each other without ever spotting the other. The rest of the group glanced at the pair, all starting to smile, it seemed this video might be more entertaining than painful for once. It was always fun to see the Doctor meet a new companion, even though this was technically the second meeting between the two.

[Lecture hall]

FOSTER: One hundred percent legal, one hundred percent effective.

"Doesn't mean it isn't suspicious." Ryan commented, it had to be after all for both the Doctor and Donna to be sneaking in, and for it to be featured in a video.

PENNY: But, can I just ask, how many people have taken the pills to date?
FOSTER: We've already got one million customers within the Greater London area alone, but from next week, we start rolling out nationwide. The future starts here. And Britain will be thin.

"You should maybe figure out what's wrong before that happens." Rose decided, giving a worried glance at the Doctor and Donna who just gave her matching grins, which did reassure her a little at least.

[Call centre]

(Mostly cold calling, by the sound of it.)
PEOPLE: Good morning. I represent Adipose Industries.
(Donna sits down next to a man in a cubicle.)
CRAIG: That's a three week course of pills for a special price of forty five pounds.
DONNA: (sotto) Donna Noble, Health and Safety. Don't mind me.
(The Doctor finds a young woman.)

"Oh, so you're both snooping and interrupting people trying to work." Jack commented with a smirk.

The Doctor rolled her eyes, "What else were we supposed to do? It's the easiest way to get answers."

CLARE: We deliver within three working days.
DOCTOR: (sotto) John Smith, Health and Safety. Don't mind me.
CRAIG: The box comes with 21 days worth of pills, a full information pack, and our special free gift, an Adipose Industries pendant.
(Donna looks at the pendant - a gold plated Adpiose pill. The Doctor does the same.)

The Doctor and Donna shared a knowing look, both remembering the importance of those pendants and suddenly very glad both of them had been sneaking around, allowing them to get two of them.

CLARE: It's made of eighteen carat gold, and it's yours for free. No, we don't give away pens, sorry. No, I can't make an exception, no.

"Why would you want a pen? They've just told you that you get an actual gold pendant, and they want a pen?" Mickey muttered, shaking his head in disbelief.

Martha shrugged next to him, "People are weird."

DONNA: I'll just need to keep this for testing. And I just need a list of your customers. Could you print it off?

"Good idea." River nodded approvingly at Donna; she could easily see why her wife thought so highly of Donna Noble. She'd only actually met the fiery red head once, during the mess at the Library and the Doctor rarely talked details about her old companions, so these videos were at least helping the Doctor open up more and introducing them together.

CRAIG: I suppose so.
DONNA: Where's the printer?
CRAIG: Just over there, by the plant.
(Donna looks of the cubicle wall.)
DONNA: Which plant, that plant?
CRAIG: Yeah, that's the one.
DONNA: Lovely.
(She sits down, and up pops the Doctor.)

"How …?" The Doctor muttered, bamboozled by how close they had been too each other and yet still missing each other. Donna looked equally bewildered and also a bit annoyed at how close she'd been to finding him. The rest of the group had started to snicker at the purely comedic timing of the two missing each other.

DOCTOR: That's the printer there?
CLARE: By the plant, yeah.
DOCTOR: Brilliant.
(Down he goes and up comes Donna.)
DONNA: Does it need a code? Last place I worked, the printer needed a code.
CRAIG: No, I can do it from here.
(They swap over.)

"Again! Seriously!" The Doctor complained, the rest of the group giving up and descending into laughter while both the Doctor and Donna groaned.

DOCTOR: Has it got paper?
CLARE: Yeah, Jimbo keeps it stocked.
(Miss Foster walks in with two guards.)

"Hide." Yaz announces, eying Miss Foster and the guards carefully. It seemed security was pretty high for a 100% legal industry that had nothing to hide.

FOSTER: Excuse me, everyone, if I could have your attention.
(The workers stand.)
FOSTER: On average, you're each selling forty Adipose packs per day. It's not enough. I want one hundred sales per person per day. And if not, you'll be replaced. Because if anyone's good in trimming the fat, it's me. Now. Back to it.

"So, she's now actually threatening her employees." Clara frowned, Miss Foster was looking less and less friendly.

(Miss Foster leaves and the workers sit down again.)
DOCTOR: Anyway, if you could print that off. Thanks.
DONNA: So if you could just print off that list, I'll get out of your way. Lovely. Thanks, then. See you.

"Yeah, get out before you get spotted." Bill agreed, the whole room a bit more on edge after that clear threat. They weren't sure what was up with Adipose Industries, but it clearly wasn't innocent diet pills.

(Donna heads for the printer. The Doctor stands then sits again as Clare gives him a piece of paper.)
DOCTOR: Thanks, then. Oh, what's that?
CLARE: My telephone number.

"Ohhoho, the Doctor's charm strikes again!" Jack smirked teasingly.

"Jack!" The Doctor protested, cheeks turning red as the rest of the group snickered. Rose and Martha sharing a glance before dissolving further into snickers.

DOCTOR: What for?
CLARE: Health and Safety. You be health, I'll be safety.
DOCTOR: Ah. Ah. But that contravenes er, paragraph five, subsection C. Sorry.

The group broke out into actual laughter upon watching the Doctor become so completely flustered. The Doctor groaned, as the rest of the group found entertainment out of her suffering.

"Doing okay Sweetie?" River teased her wife. The Doctor just groaned again, earning a loud laugh from her wife, the Doctor managed to hide her smile in her hands.

(Donna collects the printouts and leaves. The Doctor walks behind her to the printer and looks for his copies, then returns to Clare.)
DOCTOR: Me again.

The group broke out into even louder laughter.

"We missed each other … because someone was flirting with you!?" Donna exclaimed in a mix of frustration and humour.

"That says everything about Pinstripes." Rose grinned, Martha and Jack laughing the loudest near her.

[Stacy's home]

DONNA: Stacy Campbell?
STACY: Who wants to know?
DONNA: My name's Donna. I represent Adipose Industries, and you're on the list of our valued customers.

"Now you're pretending to be from Adipose Industries. You're far too good at this for it to be the first time you've done it." Yaz narrowed her eyes at Donna, mildly impressed but not willing to admit it.

"I'd looked into some other nonsense but Spaceman over there didn't turn up." Donna nodded over to the Doctor who immediately started to complain about that comment, but went ignored by the group.

[Roger's home]

DOCTOR: Mister Roger Davey? I'm calling on behalf of Adipose Industries. Just need to ask you a few questions.

"So, you're both doing the same thing." Rory remarked.

"Poor Donna, she hasn't even travelled with the Doctor and she's already thinking like them." Amy faked sorrow, as the group broke out into more snickers. They were enjoying the break from the high tension, high drama videos they'd been watching lately. This video was quite nice and calm (and entertaining), and neither Donna or the Doctor seemed overly worried about the contents which was putting them at ease.

[Stacy's home]

STACY: It's been fantastic. I've started the pills on Thursday. Five days later, I've lost eleven pounds.
DONNA: And no side effects or anything?
STACY: No, I feel fantastic. It's a new lease of life. Now, what do you think about these earrings. Do they work?
DONNA: Yeah, lovely.

"That's impressive." Mickey whistled.

"Worryingly so, something's up." Martha narrowed her eyes at the screen.

[Roger's home]

ROGER: I've been on the pills for two weeks now. I've lost fourteen kilos.
DOCTOR: That's the same amount every day?
ROGER: One kilo exactly. You wake up, and it's disappeared overnight. Well, technically speaking, it's gone by ten past one in the morning.

"Ten past one in the morning? That's very specific." Clara announced, something was definitely up here.

DOCTOR: What makes you say that?
ROGER: That's when I get woken up. Might as well weigh myself at the same time.

"Woken up by what?" Nardole asked. No one answered him, as none of them knew the answer. The Doctor and Donna shared a knowing look.

[Stacy's home]

DONNA: You going on a date?
STACY: I'm doing the opposite. I'm dumping him. I can do better than him now. Right, I won't be long. If the taxi beeps, give me a shout.

Donna frowned, remembering what was about to happen. She hadn't known exactly what had happened at the time but she knew now, and she didn't want to be reminded. Poor Stacy had never gotten to leave that house again.

[Roger's home]

ROGER: It is driving me mad. Ten minutes past one, every night, bang on the dot without fail, the burglar alarm goes off. I've had experts in, I've had it replaced, I've even phoned Watchdog. But no, ten past one in the morning, off it goes.
DOCTOR: But with no burglars?
ROGER: Nothing. I've given up looking.
DOCTOR: Tell me, Roger. Have you got a cat flap?
(That's a yes.)

"You think a cat is sneaky in?" Graham asked, utterly bewildered by the Doctor's train of thought.

"No." The Doctor answered cryptically. Several people shot annoyed looks at her purposefully avoiding answering the actual question but no one argued with her.

ROGER: It was here when I bought the house. I've never bothered with it, really. I'm not a cat person.
DOCTOR: No, I've met cat people. You're nothing like them.

"Literal cat people." The Doctor grinned at her own little joke.

ROGER: It's that what it is, though? Cats getting inside the house?
DOCTOR: Well, thing about cat flaps is, they don't just let things in, they let things out as well.

"Ominous." Ryan muttered, eyeing the screen nervously. Things were certainly taking a turn.

ROGER: Like what?
DOCTOR: The fat just walks away.

"Literally?" Bill blinked confused. "No, seriously Doctor. Literally? Doctor?" Neither Donna or the Doctor answered her.

[Stacy's home]

(Stacy is in the bathroom.)
STACY: Won't be long!
DONNA: Oh, that's all right.
(Donna takes the Adipose pendant out and examines it, then she twists it absentmindedly and Stacy's stomach growls. As Donna twiddles with the gold capsule, Stacey's abdomen moves around.)

Donna looked away from the screen, unusually quiet. She hadn't realised how much of a part she had played in Stacy's fate and the guilt was starting to eat her. After everything she'd been through since, and after how long it had been she hadn't realised how much it would hit her (she hadn't had the opportunity to think about it – due to the missing memories and all).

[Miss Foster's office]

(An alarm goes off, and her computer screen shows the location. Miss Foster uses her wrist-watch communicator.)
FOSTER: We have unscheduled parthenogenesis.

The tension in the room rose as the group became unsettled. The whole feel of the video had suddenly taken a turn for the worst. The Doctor shot Donna a sympathetic look, having a feeling she knew what was about to happen – they'd never discussed it in depth.

[Roger's home]

DOCTOR: Well, thanks for your help. Tell you what, maybe you could lay off the pills for a week or so.

"Probably a good idea until you know what is actually going on." Rory nodded with a grimace.

(The Doctor's three lobed gizmo beeps.)
DOCTOR: Oh. Got to go. Sorry.

[Miss Foster's office]

FOSTER: Send out the collection squad. Bring them home.
(A black van with sirens and lights speeds out of the Adipose Industries car park.)

"Them? What does she mean 'them'?" Rose asked, sitting up straighter in her seat. Foster clearly wasn't talking about Stacy anymore which was the worrying thing.

To her frustration, the Doctor and Donna only shared a knowing glance before the Doctor answered with a, "You'll see." Which didn't actually answer anything.

[Stacy's home]

(A jelly-baby shaped creature breaks off from Stacy's abdomen and jumps into the bathroom sink.)

"That … is not … normal. What?" Bill blinked. Her bewilderment and horror at the scene was echoed in the faces of the rest of the group. They'd seen a lot of things during their travel with the Doctor but this was something else.

DONNA: You all right up there?
STACY: Yeah.
(The little creature looks up at her.)

"I don't think she's alright." Nardole muttered, watching the screen as confused as the rest of the group.

[Miss Foster's office]

FOSTER: The Adipose has been witnessed. Activating full parthenogenesis.
(Miss Foster twiddles her own pendant.)

"That does not sound good." Clara declared, voice laced with obvious concern.

[Stacy's bathroom]

(Another creature pops out of Stacy's body, then gurgles and waves at her.)
STACY: What are you? What are you?

"That's what we want to know too." Amy muttered; this didn't seem like it was going to end well.

[Stacy's home]

(Donna is at the foot of the stairs.)
DONNA: I like what you've done with the hall. Stacy? Are you all right? I wouldn't mind a little visit myself. Everything all right in there?

The group all grimaced, feeling a bit sorry for poor Donna who was unaware of what was going on to poor Stacy.

(She knocks on the bathroom door.)
DONNA: It's only me. Do you mind if I pop to the loo? Stacy?
(Lots of lumps are moving around below Stacy's clothes.)
STACY: Oh, help me. Oh my God, help me!

The group watched in silence as things continued to go from bad to worse. It seemed, like many of these videos, things started off okay but quickly went downhill. This video didn't look like it was going to go as bad as some of the ones they'd watched recently but it didn't mean things were going to go well.

DONNA: What is it, what's wrong?
(Stacy has bolted the door on the inside.)
DONNA: Stacy!
(Stacy screams then her clothes fall to the floor, and lots of little creatures run out. When Donna burst in, she sees the last one on the window sill. It waves at her and jumps.)

"Poor Stacy." Yaz muttered, no one would ever be able to explain what had happened to her. The room fell silent for a moment, out of respect for Stacy. Donna couldn't deny the feeling of guilt that lingered, if she hadn't fiddled with the pendant than Foster wouldn't have decided to accelerate Stacy's progress. She knew logically that she wasn't actually to blame but it was hard to remind herself that sometimes.

[Street]

(The Doctor is following the signal on his gizmo. He has to hit it a few times.

"You and your gizmos." River shook her head fondly at her wife.

The van arrives outside Stacy's home as Donna leaves by the back door and goes down the alleyway. The trail of knocked over dustbins tells her which way the creatures have gone. The men from the van have used butterfly nets to collect the creatures, put them into containers and then the back of the van. They drive away past Donna, and nearly knock down the Doctor. He starts chasing it. A taxi pulls up by Donna.)

"What are those things and why does Foster want them?" Martha demanded answers, already feeling frustrated by the lack of understanding over what was going on.

Donna and the Doctor shared a silent conversation in a single look. "It's best to just watch Martha." The Doctor sighed. She ignored the annoyed looks from the rest of the group, she was telling the truth, plus there was no point in telling them if they were about to watch it.

DRIVER: Stacy Campbell?
DONNA: No, she's gone.
DRIVER: Gone where?
DONNA: She's just gone.
DRIVER: Oh, great. Thanks for nothing.
(He puts his For Hire sign back on and drives off. In the alleyway, mere yards from Donna, the Doctor loses the signal on his gizmo.

"He wouldn't believe you even if you had told him." Rose muttered. That was one disadvantage to travelling with the Doctor, you could never explain what you'd gone through to most people as they'd never believe you.

[Miss Foster's office]

(Miss Foster is examining security footage on her computer screen.)
FOSTER: It seems we have a case of industrial espionage. One touch and the capsule bio-tunes itself to it's owner, but someone must have introduced a second raw capsule. Therefore, one of these people is a thief. There, oh yes, there she is. Now, what shall we do with her?

"They've found you." Rory declared, glancing at Donna concerned. Based on the use of 'she', he was presuming Foster was referring to Donna over Pinstripes.

"Maybe not." Donna muttered quietly, not loud enough for anyone outside of Martha and Mickey (who shared a sofa with her) to hear. She'd thought she'd been caught for a long time too, but apparently, she'd been sneakier than the reporter.

[Nobles' home]

(Donna goes inside, and her mother calls out.)
SYLVIA [OC]: And what time's this?
DONNA: How old am I?
SYLVIA: Not old enough to use a phone.

Donna rolled her eyes at her mother on screen, it seemed even in this room she couldn't escape her mother's nagging.

(A little later, Donna is sitting at the kitchen table with a mug of drink.)
SYLVIA: I thought you were only moving back for a couple of weeks. Look at you. I mean, you're never gonna find a flat, not while you're on the dole. And its no good sitting there, dressed up, looking like you're job hunting. You've got to do something. It's not like the 1980s. No one's unemployed these days except you. How long did that job with Health and Safety last? Two days, and then you walk out. I have other plans. Well, I've not seen them. And it's no good sitting there dreaming. No one's going to come along with a magic wand and make your life all better.

Everyone purposely avoided Donna's eyes not wanting to make it anymore awkward than it was. They understood where Donna had gotten her Health and Safety pass that she used to sneak into Adipose Industries now, but the whole rant from her mother was not something they should have normally seen so it felt awkward to comment on it.

DONNA: Where is Granddad?
SYLVIA: Where do you think he is! Up the hill. He's always up the hill.

The Doctor visibly perked up at that smiling widely, "Good Old Wilfred." It had been a long time since she'd seen the old man and she'd certainly missed him a lot even if he wasn't exactly one of her traditional companions. She couldn't help but wonder what he'd think of her now, after all Pinstripes had been rather dramatic (truthful, but dramatic) about regeneration. Her sudden upturn in mood was noticed by the rest of the group but no one, outside of Donna really understood it, though their curiosity had been piqued.

[Allotment]

(Granddad is the newspaper seller from Voyage of the Damned, and he has got a nice set-up in his allotment shed. There is also a small telescope and a camp stool nearby. Donna walks up with a thermos.)
WILF: Aye, aye. Here comes trouble.

Both Donna and the Doctor were grinning widely as Wilf appeared on screen. Jack, Martha, Mickey and Rose had all narrowed their eyes at the screen, recognising the old man from the Planet in the Sky mess (and ATMOS in Martha's case), although they hadn't really ever had a proper introduction to the man. It seemed they were going to get to meet Donna's famous grandfather through this video as well.

DONNA: Permission to board ship, sir?
WILF: Permission granted. Was she nagging you?
DONNA: Big time. Brought you a thermos.
WILF: Oh, ta.

The Doctor hummed quietly at the screen, glancing at Graham considering. "I think you'd get along with Wilf, Graham. Remind me to try and introduce you too at some point."

Graham smiled softly at the Doctor, recognising the excitement in her eyes, "I'm sure we'd get on well. He seems like a nice bloke and we could probably share some good stories."

"Oh, the stories you could share ..." The Doctor trailed off almost wistful, a few people glanced concerned at her but for once it seemed a pleasant kind of lost in thought rather than her normal depressive spiral, so they let her be.

DONNA: You seen anything?
WILF: Yeah, I've got Venus, there with an apparent magnitude of minus three point five. At least, that's what it says in my little book.
(Donna puts a tarpaulin on the ground next to him.)
WILF: Here, come and see. Come on. Here you go. Right?
(Donna looks at the bright evening star.)
WILF: That's the only planet in the Solar System named after a woman.
DONNA: Good for her. How far away is that?
WILF: Oh, its about twenty six million miles. But we'll get there, one day. In a hundred years time we'll be striding out amongst the stars. Jiggling about with all them aliens. Just you wait.

"He really believes that." Clara realised, "Has he met you before?" She turned to the Doctor.

The Doctor considered her answer for a moment, "Yes, briefly, but not enough to know anything. That's just Wilf." She finished with a shrug, a fond smile still gracing her face.

DONNA: You really believe in all that stuff, don't you?
WILF: It's all over the place these days. If I wait here long enough.
DONNA: I don't suppose you've seen a little blue box?
WILF: Is that slang for something?
DONNA: No, I mean it. If you ever see a little blue box flying up there in the sky, you shout for me, Gramps. Oh, you just shout.

"And he did." Donna smiled, although this time it was tinged with a bit of sadness, the Doctor sharing the same train of thought as the normally loud red head.

WILF: Do you know, I don't understand half the things you say these days.
DONNA: Nor me.
WILF: No, fair dos. You've had a funny old time of it lately. There was poor old what's his name, Lance, bless him, and that barmy old Christmas. I wish you'd tell us what really happened.
DONNA: I know. It's just, the things I've seen, sometimes I think I'm going mad. I mean, even tonight I was in a. Doesn't matter.

"Do we want to know?" Amy asked, giving Donna a curious look. Whatever had happened with Lance at Christmas didn't sound great.

Donna grimaced, "It was how I met the Doctor." She glanced at the Doctor in the room. "I don't really want to talk about it, unless it comes up later." She was seriously hoping it would not come up in the videos, it had been bad enough the first time around.

WILF: Well, you're not yourself, I'll give you that. You just, you seem to be drifting, sweetheart.
DONNA: I'm not drifting. I'm waiting.
WILF: What for?
DONNA: The right man.

The Doctor grinned at Donna, teasingly, both of the thinking of the same thing.

"Not like that, Martian! Honestly!" Donna immediately dealt with that line of teasing before anyone could get any ideas.

WILF: Same old story. A man!
DONNA: No, I don't mean like that. But, he's real. I've seen him. I've met him, just once, and then I let him fly away.
WILF: Well, there you are. Go and find him.
DONNA: I've tried. He's nowhere.

"You're a lot closer than you think. Finding the Doctor is no easy task and you've accomplished it far quicker than most." River offered; she knew from her own personal experience how hard it was to find the Doctor.

WILF: Oi, not like you to give up. Do you know, I remember when you were about six years old, your mother said no holiday this year. So off you toddled, all on your own and you got on a bus to Strathclyde. Ha! We had the police after you and everything. Ha, where's she gone, then. Where's that girl, hey?
DONNA: You're right. Because he's still out there, somewhere. And I'll find him, Gramps. Even if I have to wait a hundred years, I'll find him.

"You only had to wait another day or so, but glad to know you were so determined." The Doctor grinned. She was definitely going to remember that story about Strathclyde, it seemed so very Donna, she loved it.

"Oh, shut up, Spaceman."

[Tardis]

(The Doctor is examining his version of the pendant through a magnifying glass.)
DOCTOR: Oh, fascinating. Seems to be a bio-flip digital stitch, specifically for
(Then he realises he only talking to himself.)

A few people glanced concerned at the Doctor, recognising that he was alone and clearly unused to it. That was worrying.

"And in English?" Rose asked, purposely trying to distract everyone from the lone Doctor.

"Just watch." The Doctor answered, face blank as she remembered her time as Pinstripes alone. She didn't make good decisions when she was on her own, but Pinstripes had made some extremely poor decisions even be her standards and she had the funny feeling they were going to come back to haunt her at some point (at least more than they normally did).

[Outside Donna's home]

(Sylvia comes out of the house wearing a dressing gown and hair curlers.)
SYLVIA: It's my turn for the car. What you need it for?
DONNA: A quick getaway.

Donna and the Doctor shared another look, in the end she hadn't needed that getaway, she'd left that day in the Tardis instead.

[Call centre]

(Donna parks in an alleyway near Adipose Industries, and leaves. Then the Tardis materialises nearby. They both enter the building as they did before.)

Both the Doctor and Donna let out an exasperated, albeit a bit resigned, sigh at seeing another example of how they kept missing each other by such narrow margins. The rest of the group were grinning, enjoying the comedy that this video was providing so far, although they were a bit more on edge after hearing that Foster seemingly knew about Donna sneaking in.

DONNA: Morning.

"Very nice, acting casual." Bill nodded approvingly at Donna.

(The Doctor goes into a storage room and sonics the door locked. Donna settles herself in a cubicle in the ladies.)

"Seems you both have the same idea again but what are you waiting for?" Ryan asked the pair.

The pair shared a glance before the Doctor answered with a grin, "Closing time, it's the best time to snoop around after all."

FOSTER: Keep an eye out. She'll come back and then she's mine.

The group got more unnerved by Foster's increasingly threatening demeanour, things weren't looking great and they didn't even know what Foster's plan was. Several people glanced concerned at Donna who seemed completely unperturbed.

(The clock moves on from 9:30 to 6:10. The call staff are leaving and the lights are being turned out.)
CLARE: See you tomorrow.
(The Doctor comes out of his hiding place. Donna does the same, then goes back in to answer her phone.)
DONNA: (sotto) Not now.

"Worst possible time for a phone call." Mickey grimaced sympathetically.

[Nobles' home]

SYLVIA: I need the car. Where are you?

[Ladies toilets]

DONNA: I can't. I'm busy.

[Nobles' home]

SYLVIA: Why are you whispering?

[Ladies toilets]

DONNA: I'm in church.
SYLVIA: What are you doing in church?
DONNA: Praying.

The group all laughed at that, Donna's attitude and the situation just creating the peak of comedy for the group that had been living on the edge of hysteria for several videos. They also couldn't picture Donna sitting quietly, praying in church, it seemed the least likely environment for the normally very loud red head.

[Nobles' home]

SYLVIA: Huh, bit late for that, madam.
WILF: What's she in church for?
SYLVIA: Hush, you. Go up the hill. But I need the car. I'm going out with Suzette. She's asked all the Wednesday girls. Apparently she's been on those Adipose pills. She says she looks marvellous.

"That's not good." Yaz muttered. They still didn't know much about the Adipose pills but from the little they'd seen; it wasn't anything normal or good.

[Ladies toilets]

(Miss Foster enters with armed guards.)

"They've found you." Martha declared worried. The Doctor and Donna shared a glance, the group weren't quite right about who had been caught, still the Doctor hadn't known how close it had been.

FOSTER: We know you're in here, so why don't you make this nice and easy and show yourself? I'm waiting. I warn you, I'm not a patient woman. Now, out you come. Right. We'll do it the hard way. Get her.

"Can she be anymore cliché villain? 'The easy way or the hard way', really?" Amy snorted, "They need to get some new material." Rory just sighed, exasperated with his wife while the Doctor grinned, nodding in agreement with Amy's point.

(The guards kick open the cubicle doors. The fifth one contains Penny the reporter.)
FOSTER: There you are.

The group let out a collective breath that they'd been holding since the guards started knocking in the bathroom stall doors. They were relived to see Donna hadn't been found and more than a bit surprised that the reporter had also been investigating (which seemed like it should have been obvious in retrospect).

PENNY: I've been through the records, Foster, and all of your results have been faked. There's something about those pills you're not telling us.

"There's a lot about those pills that they're not telling us about." Jack announced, turning to the Doctor, "Want to share with the class?" The Doctor smiled cryptically and didn't answer.

FOSTER: Oh, I think I'll be conducting this interview, Penny.
(They leave. Meanwhile, the Doctor comes out of the plant room onto the roof and gets into the window cleaner's cradle.)

A few people raised an eyebrow at the Doctor's choice, it was smart but could very quickly go so wrong. The Doctor grimaced in reminder of how close both she and Donna had been to falling to their deaths from that cradle.

[Call centre]

PENNY: You've got no right to do this. Let me go!

[Miss Foster's office]

(The Doctor lowers the cradle to Miss Foster's window. He ducks out of sight when they enter.)
PENNY: This is ridiculous.
FOSTER: Sit there.
PENNY: I'm phoning my editor.
FOSTER: I said sit.

"I don't think phoning your editor is going to help." Clara shook her head; there was no way Penny's editor would be equipped to deal with any of this (whatever this was), her best choice would have been thee police and even then they likely wouldn't help much (due to no obvious wrong doings and Penny technically having trespassed).

[Outside the window]

(The Doctor uses a stethoscope to listen to the conversation.)

"Really leaning into the doctor thing." Rose sighed but her smile revealed her amusement, "Where did you even get a stethoscope from?"

"Pockets!" The Doctor grinned proudly before frowning, "That's one thing I miss about men's clothing. Woman's clothing has no pockets! Or their tiny or even fake! How am I supposed to carry stuff!?"

Martha, Donna, Rose, Amy, Clara, Bill and Yaz nodded in solemn agreement and misery. River smiled softly at her wife, "It's so they can sell you expensive bags and handbags sweetie. It's capitalism."

"It's always capitalism." Bill declared in agreement.

"I'm … pretty sure that's not true." Graham frowned at Bill who just stared him down.

PENNY [OC]: You can't tie me up.

[Miss Foster's office]

PENNY: What sort of a country do you think this is?
FOSTER: Oh, it's a beautifully fat country. And believe me, I've travelled a long way to find obesity on this scale.

"Okay so she's likes fat, but what does she want those little fat … creatures for?" Rory asked bewildered, they didn't exactly look dangerous, although looks could be deceiving.

"Just watch." The Doctor answered, with a knowing look.

PENNY: So, come on then, Miss Foster, those pills. What are they?
(Donna has arrived at the secretary's station outside the office.)

"Good you're both in position to eavesdrop. Now Foster just needs to answer." Mickey said.

"Knowing how much those kinds of people like to brag about their plans, she should." Martha added.

FOSTER: Well, you might just as well have a scoop, since you'll never see it printed. This (a capsule) is the spark of life.

"What does that even mean?" Ryan asked confused. No one had any answers for him. The group was all listening carefully, waiting expectantly to receive answers for the mysteries of the video.

PENNY: And what's that supposed to mean?
FOSTER: Officially, the capsule attracts all the fat cells and flushes them away. Well, it certainly attracts them. That part's true. But it binds the fat together and galvanises it to form a body.

"The fat creature." Yaz nodded, still confused on the motive but happy to finally get some form of answers.

PENNY: What do you mean, a body?
FOSTER: I am surprised you never asked about my name. I chose it well. Foster. As in foster mother. And these are my children.
(She takes a little creature out of a drawer and puts it on the desk.)

"So, she's making children out of fat, because she wants to be a mother?" Clara raised an eyebrow, turning to the Doctor, "That makes no sense."

"Close but not quite, just watch." The Doctor smiled.

PENNY: You're kidding me. What the hell is that?
(Donna and the Doctor both look through the windows.)

"How have you both not been spotted?" River asked incredulous, it wasn't like the pair were even trying very hard to hide.

"Just that good." The Doctor grinned proudly.

"Keep telling yourself that Sweetie."

"Oi!"

FOSTER: Adipose. It's called an Adipose. Made out of living fat.
PENNY: But I don't understand.
FOSTER: From ordinary human people.
(The Doctor and Donna see each other. Their conversation is totally silent – being mimed out.)

The group cheered as they noticed that the Doctor and Donna had finally spotted each other, enjoying the bewildered reaction from the Doctor and the excited one from Donna.

DOCTOR: Donna?
DONNA: Doctor? Doctor!
DOCTOR: But what? What? What?
DONNA: Oh my god!
DOCTOR: But how?
DONNA: It's me!
DOCTOR: Yes, I can see that.
DONNA: Oh, this is brilliant.
DOCTOR: What the hell are you doing there?
DONNA: I was looking for you.
DOCTOR: What for?
DONNA: I read it on the internet. Weird. Crept along. Heard them talking. Hid. You.

The group had started laughing as they watched the mimed conversation between the two, they didn't mind, for once, that they were missing that actual explanation for Adipose, enjoying the comedic conversation between the pair far too much. It was made even better by the fact they could tell exactly what the pair were sating to each other based on their mimes and reactions, arguably the two loudest people in the group and here they were having a silent conversation that still somehow radiated their normal energy.

(Then she realises that Miss Foster is staring at her and the Doctor.)
FOSTER: Are we interrupting you?

The laughter abruptly stopped as they realised the pair on screen had been spotted.

"Uh oh, they caught you." Jack grinned, not that worried as the pair were unworried so it wasn't like they had got into too much trouble, and he was still riding off the hilarity of their mimed conversation.

DOCTOR: Run!
FOSTER: Get her.
(The Doctor zaps the office door with his sonic screwdriver.)

Donna nodded her thanks at the Doctor, glad that he'd given her the few extra seconds to start her getaway. The Doctor grinned back, honestly this was one video she was enjoying for once. There wasn't much serious danger and she knew how it ended, so it was almost enjoyable to watch.

FOSTER: And him.
(The Doctor sends the cradle back up to the roof. Donna runs upstairs as the guards shoot the office door open. They run out, and Miss Foster follows.)

"Don't head to the roof!" Rose declared, "You're just going to get trapped."

"They could use the window cleaning thing." Mickey suggested with a shrug.

Rose shook her head immediately, "There are so many ways that could go wrong." Non one noticed the exchange that the Doctor and Donna shared, things had certainly gone wrong.

PENNY: What about me?

"I kinda feel a bit sorry for her. She's just been left there." Rory declared upon seeing Penny abandoned in the room in favour of Donna and the Doctor.

"It just means she has a chance to escape now, they're not watching her." Amy countered with a shrug.

Rory blinked, "That's true. Maybe she'll be able to get out." The Doctor and Donna exchanged a look, from what they'd seen of Penny later on, she hadn't taken this time to escape.

[Stairwell]

(The Doctor and Donna meet on the stairs and embrace.)
DONNA: Oh, my God. I don't believe it. You've even got the same suit! Don't you ever change?

"That's a very good question. You seem to wear roughly the same thing for the entire length of a regeneration but you have a huge wardrobe in the Tardis!" Bill pointed at the Doctor with a raised eyebrow.

"Hey! I like my clothes." The Doctor protested, looking down at the clothes she was wearing with a small frown.

"Do you ever change though?" Donna asked again with a grin.

The Doctor spluttered, "Of course I do! I just have lots of versions of it." She trailed off quietly as the group laughed at her.

DOCTOR: Yeah, thanks, Donna. Not right now.
(The guards are a few floors below.)
DOCTOR: Just like old times!

"Ah, the running." Jack grinned, glad for the familiar scene. Running was almost comforting at this point, especially during situations like this where the danger didn't seem too bad.

[Roof]

DONNA: Because I thought, how do you find the Doctor? And then I just thought, look for trouble and then he'll turn up.

"Very true." River smiled at Donna, before smiling fondly at her wife.

(The Doctor sonics the door.)
DONNA: So I looked everywhere. You name it. UFOs, sightings, crop circles, sea monsters. I looked, I found them all. Like that stuff about the bees disappearing, I thought, I bet he's connected. Because the thing is, Doctor, I believe it all now. You opened my eyes. All those amazing things out there, I believe them all. Well, apart from that replica of the Titanic flying over Buckingham Palace on Christmas Day. I mean, that's got to be a hoax.

The Doctor frowned in memory of the Titanic and all the good people that had dies because of Max Capricorn – Morvin and Foon Van Hoff, Bannakaffalatta, and Astrid, all good people who hadn't deserved their horrible fate. Her hands were clenched in fists but thankfully everyone was too distracted with the screen and Donna's words to ask many questions.

DOCTOR: What do you mean, the bees are disappearing?

"Bees? That's not really on the same scale as the other stuff." Mickey blinked, the Titanic and UFO sightings he could understand but the Bees?

"I thought that was just human impact killing bees and destroying their habitats? Why are they a sign of aliens?" Yaz asked curious.

Donna and the Doctor shared a glance knowing just how significant the bees were, without them they never would have found the Earth in time before the Daleks used the 27 planets as the death weapon that they tried to use it as.

The Doctor nodded at Yaz with a smile, "It is, but some bees are alien as well."

"I have so many more questions." Ryan muttered but the Doctor had already turned back to the screen.

DONNA: I don't know. That's what it says on the internet. Well, on the same site, there was all these conspiracy theories about Adipose Industries and I thought, let's take a look.

"And I found you." Donna grinned proud of herself.

"And you found me." The Doctor grinned back at Donna.

(The Doctor sonics the cradle controls.)
DOCTOR: In you get!
DONNA: What, in that thing?
DOCTOR: Yes, in that thing.
DONNA: But if we go down in that, they'll just call us back up again.

"She raises a very good point Doctor." Rose pointed out, not mentioning that she was also thinking about how the cradle situation could be made worse – someone could just cut the line.

DOCTOR: No, no, no, because I've locked the controls with a sonic cage. I'm the only one that can control it. Not unless she's got a sonic device of her own, which is very unlikely.

[Plant room]

FOSTER: Out of my way.
(Miss Foster sonics open the door to the roof.)

"How does she …. Why does … Someone else has a sonic?" Martha asked confused, it was rare for them to run into someone else with a sonic device, not impossible but rare. It seemed very odd for Foster to have a sonic so casually.

"Unfortunately." The Doctor grimaced, she really hadn't expected it from Foster and they'd almost paid for that.

[Roof]

(She looks down on the cradle.)
FOSTER: Oh. Oh, I don't think so.
(She sonics the controls. There are sparks and the cradle drops suddenly.)

The room immediately tensed as Donna and the Doctor's situation went from kind of manageable to actually dangerous. They'd all been lulled into a false sense of security due to the humour of the video and the lack of worry from the pair involved and it had suddenly hit them that they were still in actual danger (although they had clearly survived).

[Window cleaning cradle]

(The Doctor manages to make the cradle stop.)
DOCTOR: Hold on. Hold on. We can get in through the window.
(He tries to sonically cut through the glass.)

"You might want to do that quickly Doctor." Amy grimaced, concern rising. Foster was unpredictable and they still didn't know her motive which made her all the more dangerous. No one missed the grimace that Donna and the Doctor shared, it didn't reassure any of them.

[Roof]

FOSTER: Deadlock the building.

"There it is." Rory sighed, there was always something with the Doctor.

[Window cleaning cradle]

DOCTOR: Can't get it open!
DONNA: Well, smash it then!
(She finds a spanner and starts hitting the glass, which is designed nowadays to withstand a nearby bomb. Miss Foster aims her sonic pen at one of the steel cables. It starts to burn.)

"Not good. Glass like that can withstand a lot more than a spanner but that wire isn't going to last much longer." Clara grimaced; things were rapidly going from bad to worse. Only the Doctor and Donna's presence n the room and lack of panic was keeping the group from worrying more.

DONNA: She's cutting the cable.
(The cable snaps, tipping Donna out. The Doctor manages to hang on.)

"Donna!" Martha exclaimed, eyes widening in worry for her friend. When Donna had mentioned how she'd met the Doctor she'd missed out a lot of details apparently.

DOCTOR: Donna!
(Donna is dangling from the end of the cable.)
DONNA: Doctor!
DOCTOR: Hold on!
DONNA: I am! Doctor!

Despite their worry the group grinned at Donna's familiar attitude even in the face of death. She didn't take nonsense from anyone, let alone from the Doctor.

[Roof]

FOSTER: And now, for the other one.
(Miss Foster goes to the other side of the cradle mechanism and starts to sonic the remaining cable. The Doctor takes aim and blasts her pen out of her hand. It hurts.) FOSTER: Ow!

"About time!" Donna grumbled at the Doctor.

"What?!" The Doctor protested.

"Should have done that before she broke the first wire, Spaceman!"

"Sorry! I was a bit busy with trying to get into the building!" The Doctor argued back, she knew she wasn't going to win though and Donna wasn't really annoyed, it was just how they worked.

[Window cleaning cradle]

(The Doctor catches the falling pen, puts it between his teeth and climbs to another window.)
DONNA: I'm going to fall!

[Miss Foster's office]

(Donna's legs are visible through the window.)
PENNY: What the hell is going on?

"I don't think any of us know." Rory sighed resigned to it.

"You wouldn't like it any other way." Amy grinned.

Rory immediately went to protest, "I mean, I kind of woul-."

"You wouldn't like it any other way." Amy repeated, loudly, cutting off Rory who just shook his head fondly at his wife.

[Window cleaning cradle]

DONNA: This is all your fault. I should've stayed at home.
(The Doctor slides up the window.)
DOCTOR: I won't be a minute!
(He climbs inside.)

"I don't know if you have a minute." Mickey muttered worriedly with a glance at Donna who was still dangling precariously.

"It was fine." The Doctor answered with a shrug, expression not wavering despite the dubious looks sent her way.

"For you maybe, Martian!"

[Roof]

FOSTER: Yes, he's slippery, that one. Time we found out who he is.

"Good luck with that." Nardole declared. He was ignored.

[Miss Foster's office]

(The Doctor runs downstairs to the office and goes to the window.)
PENNY: Is anyone going to tell me what's going on?
DOCTOR: What are you, a journalist?
PENNY: Yes.
DOCTOR: Well, make it up.

"Good to know your opinion of reporters." Graham shook his head fondly at the Doctor who just smiled with a shrug.

(He unlocks the window and grabs Donna's legs.)
DONNA: Get off!
DOCTOR: I've got you. I've got you. Stop kicking!

The group all grinned at that, reassured by Donna's typical behaviour. She was the only person who'd still try to kick the Doctor when he's trying to save her from falling to her death.

(Miss Foster and the guards head downstairs. The Doctor pulls Donna inside.)
DONNA: I was right. It's always like this with you, innit?

"Yes."

"Always."

"Yep."

"Can't escape it."

"Constantly."

"Absolutely."

"Unfortunately."

"Oh, yes."

DOCTOR: Oh, yes! And off we go.
PENNY: Oi!
DOCTOR: Sorry!
(The Doctor zaps Penny free from the door.)
DOCTOR: Now do yourself a favour. Get out.

"What's the bet on whether she actually listens to the Doctor?" Bill asked with a grin.

"She's far too nosey to just leave with nothing." Yaz answered.

"I don't know." Ryan argued, "She might just leave after getting trapped and seeing people climb in a window several stories up."

Both Yaz and Bill turned to him. "You think that she'd going to leave because people climbed in a window rather than the fat creature thing?"

Ryan just shrugged.

[Call centre]

(The Doctor and Donna meet Miss Foster and her guards.)
FOSTER: Well, then. At last.
DONNA: Hello.
DOCTOR: Nice to meet you, I'm the Doctor.
DONNA: And I'm Donna.
FOSTER: Partners in crime. And evidently off-worlders, judging by your sonic technology.

"Roll credits." Clara smiled; the title definitely made more sense now. They hadn't been right about any of their suspicions but the episode (so far) had been more enjoyable than most. That was slightly worrying to be honest, how bad could the next few videos be if the Tardis was giving them a calmer one now?

DOCTOR: Oh, yes, I've still got your sonic pen. Nice. I like it. Sleek. It's kind of sleek.
DONNA: Oh, it's definitely sleek.

"Are you two being obnoxiously polite?" Jack asked the pair who grinned in sync (which was just unnerving).

"Best way to get answers." The Doctor answered.

DOCTOR: Yeah, and if you were to sign your real name, that would be?
FOSTER: Matron Cofelia of the Five Straighten Classabindi Nursery Fleet. Intergalactic Class.
DOCTOR: A wet nurse, using humans as surrogates.

The group nodded, thankful for the clarification as only Jack, River and Nardole (plus the Master who had been very quiet this video) understood any of those titles or names.

FOSTER: I've been employed by the Adiposian First Family to foster a new generation after their breeding planet was lost.
DOCTOR: What do you mean lost? How do you lose a planet?

Donna and the Doctor shared another glance. They hadn't realised how far back the lost planets had gone; it seemed their whole time together had been leading up to the Daleks.

FOSTER: Oh, politics are none of my concern. I'm just here to take care of the children on behalf of the parents.
DONNA: What, like an outer space super nanny?
FOSTER: Yes, if you like.
DONNA: So. So those little things, they're, they're made out of fat, yeah, but that woman, Stacy Campbell, there was nothing left of her.
FOSTER: Oh, in a crisis the Adipose can convert bone and hair and internal organs. Makes them a little bit sick, poor things.

"Poor things? What about poor Stacy!" Martha protested. The group all grimaced at Foster's words and the reminder of what had happened to poor Stacy.

DONNA: What about poor Stacy?
DOCTOR: Seeding a level five planet is against galactic law.
FOSTER: Are you threatening me?
DOCTOR: I'm trying to help you, Matron. This is your one chance, because if you don't call this off, then I'll have to stop you.
FOSTER: I hardly think you can stop bullets.
(The guards take aim.)

The group all tensed again, the conversation had clearly reached its end and Donna and the Doctor were still defenceless (especially compared to the guards). The Doctor was clever and in that protective mood of theirs but guns were still very dangerous.

DOCTOR: No, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. One more thing, before dying. Do you know what happens if you hold two identical sonic devices against each other?
FOSTER: No.
DOCTOR: Nor me. Let's find out.
(They create an awful noise, that's what. Everyone except the Doctor grabs their heads in pain, and glass shatters nearby. Donna pushes his arm to stop him.)
DONNA: Come on!

The group let out a breath as the pair escaped even as they grimaced at the sound the two sonics produced. It was a very Doctor move all in all.

"You are so lucky." Rose shook her head; they were very lucky that was all the sonics had done.

FOSTER: I'm advancing the birth plan. We're going into premature labour.

"That's not good." Mickey grimaced.

[Miss Foster's office]

(Penny is collecting files for evidence.)
PENNY: Cellular ossification.
FOSTER: Tie her up.
PENNY: Oh, you're kidding me.

"It seems she didn't learn her lesson." Yaz smiled smugly, turning to Ryan. "Pay up."

"We didn't even bet anything!" Ryan spluttered.

[Storage cupboard]

(The Doctor and Donna run to his hiding place. He throws out the ladder and mops.)
DONNA: Well, that's one solution. Hide in a cupboard. I like it.

"Not very long term but there are worse hiding places." Jack nodding approvingly.

The Doctor gave him a pointed look, "You'd know."

Jack smirked with a wink, "Oh I can tell you plenty of stories about fun I've had in cupboards."

"Jack!"

(There is a big green machine behind the sliding back wall.)
DOCTOR: I've been hacking into this thing all day, because the matron's got a computer core running through the centre of the building. Triple deadlocked. But now I've got this, (her sonic pen) I can get into it.

"Good. You might want to work fast though." Clara nodded, Foster didn't sound like she was prepared to wait any longer and they didn't want what had happened to Stacy to happen to everyone else that had taken the pills.

[Miss Foster's office]

(Miss Foster opens her equivalent wall panel.)
PENNY: What does that thing do?
FOSTER: It's the inducer. We had planned to seed millions, but if that man's an alien, then he's alerted the Shadow Proclamation, and the first one million humans will have to do. Find him. And the woman. Don't waste time, just kill them.

"The last thing the Doctor's going to do is alert the Shadow Proclamation, he's just going to try and deal with it all himself." River snorted. The Doctor usually did their best to avoid the Shadow Proclamation, not go running to them any time anything happened.

[Storage cupboard]

DOCTOR: She's wired up the whole building. We need a bit of privacy.
(He holds to wires together and a forcefield stops the guards in their tracks.)
DOCTOR: Just enough to stop them. Why's she wired up the tower block? What's it all for?

"That's the guards dealt with at least. Now you just need to stop Foster." Amy declared with a decisive nod. Things were starting to look a bit more manageable, the Doctor just needed to hack the computer quickly and figure out how to shut it all down.

[Miss Foster's office]

COMPUTER: Inducer online.

[Storage cupboard]

DONNA: You look older.

Donna looked at the Doctor with assessing eyes, he had looked older than when she'd first met him, maybe not actually older but the eyes always gave the Doctor away. The Doctor in the room was so much older and she knew this Doctor was ancient, unbelievable so, but it still made something in her ache.

DOCTOR: Thanks.
DONNA: Still on your own?
DOCTOR: Yup. Well, no. I had this friend. Martha she was called. Martha Jones. She was brilliant. And I destroyed half her life. But she's fine, she's good. She's gone.

Martha raised an eyebrow at the mention of her name, very curious about what exactly the Doctor would say about her to Donna. She smiled a bit at the compliment, turning to the Doctor who avoided eye contact, which stole the frown off her face. It seemed they needed to have another conversation, as the Doctor still blamed themselves for everything apparently. She met Jack's gaze and gave him a small nod; they'd make sure to actually talk about the Year at some point. They'd always avoided it (for obvious reasons) but maybe it would be healthier to actually deal with the trauma instead of ignoring it.

DONNA: What about Rose?
DOCTOR: Still lost. I thought you were going to travel the world?

Rose perked up briefly at the mention of her name. She knew the Doctor had mentioned her to Donna as Donna had known her, but clearly, she'd been discussed a few times for Donna to just bring her up like that.

DONNA: Easier said then done. It's like I had that one day with you, and I was going to change. I was going to do so much. Then I woke up the next morning, same old life. It's like you were never there. And I tried. I did try. I went to Egypt. I was going to go barefoot and everything. And then it's all bus trips and guidebooks and don't drink the water, and two weeks later you're back home. It's nothing like being with you. I must have been mad turning down that offer.
DOCTOR: What offer?
DONNA: To come with you.
DOCTOR: Come with me?
DONNA: Oh yes, please.
DOCTOR: Right.

The group laughed at the very typical Donna behaviour, and bewilderment from the Doctor. They also understood Donna's point with the holiday, once you'd seen the universe and time it was hard to just go back to Earth and act like it didn't happen. The pair shared a small grin, neither regretting Donna's decision to travel with the Doctor at all.

COMPUTER: Inducer activated.
DONNA: What's it doing now?
DOCTOR: She's started the programme.

"Not good."

[Miss Foster's office]

COMPUTER: Inducer transmitting.
FOSTER: Mark the date, Miss Carter. Happy birthday. One million birthdays.

[De Rossi's wine bar]

(Sylvia and her friends are sitting round a table, drinking. Could It Be Magic is playing in the background.)
SUZETTE: I swear, that Adipose treatment is fabulous. Just look at my chin. And it's very good for fat. I'm down two sizes.

"Oh god." Martha muttered, concern skyrocketing. She'd forgotten that Donna's mum was going out with a friend who'd been taking the pills. This wasn't going to end well if the Doctor wasn't quick.

SYLVIA: It's like a miracle. All that from just one little pill.

"Too good to be true." Rory grimaced shaking his head, so many people desperately wanted a quick way to lose weight but many of the advertised tactics didn't work, though companies would never advertise that.

SUZETTE: And I've been eating like normal.
(Suzette starts twitching and growling.)
SYLVIA: You all right, love?
SUZETTE: Yeah, I'm just. Just. Funny sort of feeling, like
(Another woman's companion is also uncomfortable.)

"Oh no, it's starting." Clara muttered. She glanced at the Doctor and Donna who were watching the screen curious but not overly concerned. The pair themselves shared a look, they'd obviously not been aware of what was going on out in London (as they were in a cupboard trying to stop it) and were a bit curious to see what had actually happened but concerned about how close they'd been (as there had been a lot of Adipose when they'd seen them later).

WOMAN: What's happened?
MAN: I'm not sure. It just seems to be
SUZETTE: Better pop to the loo.
(As Suzette stands, Sylvia sees the lump moving on her back.)

"Oh god." Someone muttered, all of them grimacing as the adipose started to get more active, all starting to worry about a repeat of poor Stacy.

SYLVIA: Oh, my God. Suzette!
SUZETTE: What?
(Roger has lumps forming on him as well.)
SUZETTE: What is it? Get it off me!
(Sylvia pulls down the back of Suzette's blouse to reveal an Adipose. They are popping out of people all over the restaurant. One comes out of Roger, waves and jumps through the cat flap. Sylvia chased Suzette's baby out into the street, where a taxi runs over some of them with a squelch. There are thousands, all heading in the same direction.)

"There's so many of them." Bill whispered in a bit of shock. She knew she should have expected that when Foster said millions of customers but it was different to see all the adipose blobs walking down the street like that, also wondering because that was a lot of poor people going through that.

[Miss Foster's office]

FOSTER: Come to me, children. Come to me.

"A bit creepy." Ryan muttered.

[Street]

POLICEWOMAN: All right, everyone get back. Don't touch them. Keep away from the road.

"At least they're doing something. I mean that must be bewildering but at least they're trying to keep people safe from the things." Rose said. The police couldn't really do much about the situation, let alone understand what was going on but it was good they were trying to do something.

[Storage cupboard]

DOCTOR: So far they're just losing weight, but the Matron's gone up to emergency pathogenesis.
DONNA: And that's when they convert
DOCTOR: Skeletons, organs, everything. A million people are going to die. Got to cancel the signal.

"And quickly." Yaz declared with worried glances between the screen and the Doctor in the room.

(He dismantles the pendant.)
DOCTOR: This contains a primary signal. If I can switch it off, the fat goes back to being just fat.
(He attaches part of the pendant to the inducer.)

"Convenient." River raised an eyebrow at the pendant.

"Why are they just handing those out, if they're part of the control panel?" Mickey asked, "That just seems … weird."

[Miss Foster's office]

FOSTER: A nice try. Double strength.

[Storage cupboard]

COMPUTER: Inducer increasing.
DOCTOR: No, no, no, no, no. She's doubled it. I need. Haven't got time. It's too far. I can't override it. They're all gonna die!

"Stop panicking and focus." Jack muttered quietly to the Doctor next to him.

The Doctor elbowed him in the side, "This was a while ago Jack."

"Ow! I know, I know." Jack rubbed his side where the Doctor had elbowed him, it hadn't hurt but it did put the Doctor more at ease. The Doctor just rolled her eyes at him but he just grinned widely at her.

DONNA: Is there anything I can do?
DOCTOR: Sorry, Donna, this is way beyond you. Got to double the base pulse, I can't.
DONNA: Doctor, tell me. What do you need?
DOCTOR: I need a second capsule to boost the override, but I've only got the one. I can't save them
(Donna holds up her pendant. He pulls it apart and plugs it in. The inducer shuts down.)

"Brilliant Donna!" Martha grinned, happy for her friend. The group was all grinning very happy that Donna had been investigating alongside the Doctor and managed to get one of those pendants.

[De Rossi's wine bar]

SUZETTE: It's stopped. They've gone.
MAN: Oh, thank god for that.

The group all let out a breath as the adipose stopped being 'born' and Foster's plan was finally halted, all very glad that was done with without too much causalities (outside of poor Stacy).

[Miss Foster's office]

(Miss Foster fiddles with the crankshaft of the inducer.)
PENNY: What's happened?
FOSTER: I think the Doctor happened. But we've still given birth to ten thousand Adipose. And the nursery is coming.

"Nursery is coming? Does that mean aliens are coming with a ship?" Clara raised an eyebrow at the Doctor who just nodded in answer, staying quiet.

[Storage cupboard]

(There is a loud noise in the sky.)
DONNA: What the hell was that?

"The nursery I'm presuming." Graham announced.

[Miss Foster's office]

FOSTER: It's my lift home.
PENNY: You can't just leave me here!

"I'm pretty sure they can and will." Amy declared with a snort; Penny apparently wasn't taking any hints here.

[De Rossi's wine bar]

SUZETTE: It just stopped.
(They hear the noise.)
SYLVIA: What on Earth is it now? Oh, my god.
(She goes outside again to see a big round CE3-style spaceship flying over the city. On his allotment, Wilf has his headphones on, listening to Dusty Springfield singing 24 Hours From Tulsa, and misses the whole thing as it passes behind him.)

"Of course, he missed everything!" Donna bemoaned, shaking her head at her grandad. No wonder he'd been confused by her mother's nattering about the event. The Doctor grinned widely, laughing a bit at both Donna's annoyance and Wilf's obliviousness.

[Storage cupboard]

(The spaceship stops over Adipose Industries, and the babies wave at it.)

"You know, they're kinda cute. Odd, and a bit weird … but cute." Bill tilted her head to the side in consideration.

A few people tilted their heads at the screen in an attempt to see Bill's point. Several shook their heads and some nodded, both Donna and the Doctor nodded with small smiles – they could see Bill's point.

DONNA: Fine. When you say nursery you don't mean a crèche in Notting Hill.
DOCTOR: Nursery ship.

"A very impressive ship actually." Mickey mused.

Rose grinned knowing exactly what Mickey was thinking, "The kind of UFO you expect before knowing aliens are actually real."

(The computer lights up again.)
COMPUTER: Incoming signal.
VOICE [OC]: (alien)
DONNA: Hadn't we better go and stop them?
DOCTOR: Hang on. Instructions from the Adiposian First Family.

"Instructions?" River raised an eyebrow at her wife who just nodded at the screen.

[Outside Adipose Industries]

FOSTER: Children. Oh, my children, behold. I am taking you home.
(The Adipose cheer.)

"They're so excited." Yaz muttered with a small smile, she could definitely see Bill's point.

FOSTER: Far across the galaxy, your new mummies and daddies are waiting. And you will fly.
(Blue beams come down from the spaceship.)
FOSTER: Up you go, babies. Up you go!
(The Adipose walk into the beams and float upwards.)
FOSTER: That's it. Fly away home.

"Are you just … letting them go?" Ryan asked.

The Doctor shrugged, "I mean what am I mean to do? They're just babies, they've not done anything wrong here and they can't exactly stay on Earth. It's better for them to go with their parents. I can however, stop it happening again."

[Storage cupboard]

DOCTOR: She's wired up the tower block to convert it into a levitation post. Ooo. Oh. We're not the ones in trouble now. She is!

[Outside Adipose Industries]

FOSTER: Take me. The children need me.

"If they have their parents now, why would they need the nanny?" Clara asked.

The Doctor and Donna shared a knowing glance and grimace, "Exactly." The Doctor answered giving the group a sudden bad feeling, they didn't exactly like Foster but that statement was ominous.

[Roof]

DONNA: What you going to do then? Blow them up?
DOCTOR: They're just children. They can't help where they come from.
DONNA: Oh, that makes a change from last time. That Martha must've done you good.

"The last time? I guess you mean the first time you met? I'm taking it that it didn't go well then?" Rose raised an eyebrow at the pair. The pair exchanged another look before Donna answered.

"You could say that." The group all gave the pair a look but they both refused to elaborate.

DOCTOR: She did, yeah. Yeah. She did. She fancied me.
DONNA: Mad Martha, that one. Blind Martha. Charity Martha. I'm waving at fat.

"Oi!" Martha exclaimed shooting the pair a glare even as she blushed a bit out of humiliation. It seemed the Doctor had worked out her crush at some point and was apparently telling people about it.

Both Donna and the Doctor winced a bit, (Donna more because she'd actually met and was friendly with Martha now). "Sorry Martha." They both offered apologies which were readily accepted as Martha hadn't actually been that bothered, with these videos it was likely that worse would be shown at some point.

DOCTOR: Actually, as a diet plan, it sort of works. There she is!
(Miss Foster is floating upwards, too, below the little Adipose. She stops at roof level.)
DOCTOR: Matron Cofelia, listen to me.
FOSTER: Oh, I don't think so, Doctor. And if I never see you again, it'll be too soon.
DOCTOR: Oh, why does no one ever listen. I'm trying to help. Just get across to the roof. Can you shift the levitation beam?

"Why?" Bill asked in a low tone sounding as if she already knew what was going to happen but was still hoping for a denial. The Doctor's grimace dashed any hope she had.

FOSTER: What, so that you can arrest me?
DOCTOR: Just listen. I saw the Adiposian instructions. They know it's a crime, breeding on Earth. So what's the one thing they want to get rid of? Their accomplice.
FOSTER: I'm far more than that. I'm nanny to all these children.
DOCTOR: Exactly! Mum and Dad have got the kids now. They don't need the nanny anymore.
(The levitation beam switches off. Miss Foster does a Wile E Coyote double take in mid-air, then falls with a scream and a splat. The spaceship flies away.)

The group all grimaced at Foster's fate, they'd already suspected it hadn't been well after the Doctor and Donna's words but it was still horrible to see. Foster hadn't exactly been a great person – between killing Stacy, tying up Penny, trying to kill the Doctor and Donna, and the willingness to kill millions for her job but she hadn't deserved that fate.

[Brook Street]

(The Doctor throws the sonic pen into a waste bin. Penny comes along, still tied to the chair.)
PENNY: Oi, you two. You're just mad. Do you hear me? Mad! And I'm going to report you for madness.

"I think the police are going to find her mad." Rory grimaced; Penny really hadn't made the best choices.

"Yeah, her career is going down the drain if she tries to explain what happened." Amy agreed. "I doubt anyone is going to ever believe her."

DONNA: You see, some people just can't take it.
DOCTOR: No.
DONNA: And some people can. So, then. Tardis! Come on.

The Doctor just smiled fondly at Donna's eagerness to start the travels. She was unbelievably thankful that Donna had managed to track her down, after Martha and Jack leaving, the Master's 'death', and Astrid's death she hadn't been in a great place mentally. Donna had been a great breath of fresh air, keeping her sane and stoping her from spiralling as she tended to do when she was left alone. She didn't want to ponder what would have happened if she hadn't run into Donna again; there was far too many knock-on affects that could have ended terribly.

[Alleyway]

DONNA: That's my car! That is like destiny. And I've been ready for this.
(The boot is full of suitcases.)
DONNA: I packed ages ago, just in case. Because I thought, hot weather, cold weather, no weather. He goes anywhere. I've gotta be prepared.

"No weather?" The Doctor asked Donna with an obvious crinkle in her forehead.

"You've not been everywhere Spaceman! You never know." Donna defended her point.

(She unloads the boot into the Doctor's arms.)
DOCTOR: You've got a, a hatbox.

"A hatbox." The Doctor shook her head, still amused by the idea. Donna was definitely unique in terms of her companions. All her companions were unique but Donna was something else entirely.

DONNA: Planet of the Hats, I'm ready. I don't need injections, do I? You know, like when you go to Cambodia. Is there any of that? Because my friend Veena went to Bahrain, and she. You're not saying much.
DOCTOR: No, it's just. It's a funny old life, in the Tardis.
DONNA: You don't want me.
DOCTOR: I'm not saying that.
DONNA: But you asked me. Would you rather be on your own?

"No." The Doctor muttered to herself, hands fiddling on her lap as she didn't look at anyone. It hadn't been loud enough for many to hear but they all glanced at her anyway, all knowing that she didn't like to travel alone – otherwise why would she keep picking up people?

DOCTOR: No. Actually, no. But the last time, with Martha, like I said, it, it got complicated. And that was all my fault. I just want a mate.
DONNA: You just want to mate?
DOCTOR: I just want a mate!
DONNA: You're not mating with me, sunshine!
DOCTOR: A mate. I want a mate.
DONNA: Well, just as well, because I'm not having any of that nonsense. I mean, you're just a long streak of nothing. You know, alien nothing.
DOCTOR: There we are, then. Okay.

The group all broke out into loud laughter at the interaction between Donna and the Doctor, it was so very them and very entertaining to watch. It did its job of distracting them all from the more worrying tones and mention of the complicated end with Martha, although Martha, Jack and the Doctor did share a glance when he'd mentioned it on screen.

DONNA: I can come?
DOCTOR: Yeah. Course you can, yeah. I'd love it.

"And I did." The Doctor said quietly smiling fondly at Donna who rolled her eyes but didn't try to hide her own fond smile.

"What? You want me to say something Skinny?" Donna exclaimed boisterously, then she hesitated slightly and rolled her eyes again, "I enjoyed it too, idiot." The Doctor lit up and smiled even brighter, looking very like a happy puppy that had just seen a friend.

DONNA: Oh, that's just
(They almost hug.)
DONNA: Car keys.
DOCTOR: What?
DONNA: I've still got my mum's car keys. I won't be a minute.
(Donna runs off. The Doctor starts lugging her bags into the Tardis.)

The Doctor shook her head fondly at the reminder of all of Donna's bags, it was so very her and she was almost grateful for the reminder. She had sincerely missed travelling with Donna, one of her closest and best friends from all her years travelling.

[Brook Street]

(Donna phones her mother.)
DONNA: I know, Mum. I saw it. Little fat people. Listen, I've got to go. I'm going to stay with Veena for a bit.
SYLVIA [OC]: It was in the sky!
DONNA: Yeah. I know. Spaceship. But, I've still got the car keys. Look. There is a bin on Brook Street, about thirty feet from the corner. I'm going to leave them in there.
SYLVIA [OC]: What, a bin?
DONNA: Yes, that's it. Bin.
(The same bin the Doctor threw the pen into?)
SYLVIA [OC]: But you can't do that.
DONNA: Oh, stop complaining. The car's just down the road a bit. Got to go. Really. Got to go. Bye.
SYLVIA [OC]: But Donna, you can't

The group all grinned at the interaction between Donna and her mother, Sylvia just wanted answers about the alien stuff while Donna was just ignoring that completely to try and tell her mother where she was leaving the keys.

(Donna goes over to some people by the police barriers and speaks to a blonde.)
DONNA: Listen, there is this woman that's going to come along. A tall blond woman called Sylvia. Tell her that bin there, all right? It'll all make sense. That bin there.
(Donna leaves. The blonde turns around to face us. It is Rose Tyler. She walks away and disappears.)

Everyone gave audible gasps at seeing Rose, even those that didn't know why it was almost impossible for Rose to have been there at that point; they just hadn't been expecting it. Donna blinked at the screen having never realised she'd been running into Rose that far back, it seemed everything linked back to the Dalek Crucible in some way. The Doctor just frowned not realising how close she'd come to seeing Rose again back then, she wasn't sure what she would have done if she'd met Rose, even briefly, back then before her travels with Donna (which had done wonders for helping her deal with everything that had happened with Rose and Martha).

Mickey turned to Rose, "Is this when-?"

Rose nodded, "Yeah, our first successful jump. Took me a while to realise it had been Donna I'd run into, but it makes sense." She nodded at Donna.

"Anyone going to explain for the rest of us?" Clara asked, raising a eyebrow at the group who seemed to know what was going on.

Rose, Mickey, Martha (who'd been told details by Mickey and seen Rose during the mess with the Dalek Crucibles) Donna and the Doctor shared a glance before Rose ultimately answers for them, "It's a long story … it's just complicated. I'm sure it will be shown at some point."

[Tardis]

DONNA: Off we go, then.
DOCTOR: Here it is. The Tardis. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
DONNA: Oh, I know that bit. Although frankly, you could turn the heating up.

"Only you, Donna." The Doctor shook her head with a fond smile on her face. To be fair, Donna had gone through all that before with the mess with Lance and the Racnoss, it wasn't anything new for the redhead.

DOCTOR: So, whole wide universe, where do you want to go?
DONNA: Oh, I know exactly the place.
DOCTOR: Which is?
DONNA: Two and a half miles that way.

"Wilf." Martha grinned, knowing exactly what Donna was thinking.

Donna and the Doctor grinned, nodding and answering in syn; "Wilf."

They immediately turned to each other and looked a bit disturbed by the fact they'd done it in sync, to the room's entertainment.

[Allotment]

(Wilf is packing up for the night when he sees the Tardis flying nearby.)
WILF: There! Donna, it's, it's the flying blue box!
(He looks through his telescope and sees Donna waving from the Tardis door.)
WILF: What? That's Donna. Yeah, that's Donna.
(The Doctor waves, too.)
WILF: And that's him. That's him. Hey, that's him! Ha, ha, ha! Go on, gal! Go on, get up there! Hey!

The group were all grinning at Wilf's excitement upon seeing the box and both Donna and the Doctor onboard. His enthusiasm was just so catchy leaving them all feeling more joyful. It also helped that the video had been a lot nicer and more enjoyable/relaxing than most of the videos they'd watched during their time in the room. Both Donna and the Doctor were grinning fondly. The Doctor thought about Wilf's own brief trips to space which left her feeling a mix of fondness, wistful and a touch sad as Wilf had never got to experience space at the same time as Donna. Wilf had only gone to space after Donna had lost all her memories of her time with the Doctor.

"Good on Wilf." Jack smiled, happy for a nice ending for once and enjoying the old man's enthusiasm.

"Well, that was a nice video for once." Rory smiled as the screen finally tuned blank.

Amy grinned too before shrugging, "I'm sure it won't last."

"Please don't say that." The Doctor sighed, she had a feeling the Tardis was trying to give them a nice break before hitting them with a hard video, and she was terrified about what would be so bad for the Tardis to do so.

"Too late." River grinned at her wife, although her eyes portrayed her own worry over where they were going next.

The Doctor just sighed again, shaking her head at the parent-daughter trio before turning to the room at large; "Let's carry on then."