The Doctor was leading the way back along the road to where Mike had first gone berserk. Mike was following behind him and Rose and Anna were bringing up the rear. Rose was supporting Anna as they went as she was still a bit weak after the second attack. When they got to the point where they'd first met Mike saw a blue box sitting there, it hadn't been there before, or at least before the Doctor and Rose turned up. He recognised it as an old Police Box, he had no idea why it was here or why the Doctor was unlocking the door and entering it.
"Well come on then," he said to them as he disappeared inside.
Mike looked at the box as Rose and Anna entered it, then he shrugged then followed them inside. Then he walked out again. Then he walked back in and stared at what he saw.
"Holy Zarquon singing fish!" he gasped, looking round the enormous room they were now in.
"Like it?" the Doctor asked.
"How did you do that?" Mike asked.
"They come like this," the Doctor said, "Well not exactly like this; I've made a few modifications since I picked her up."
Mike noticed that Anna was looking around the room in the same way that he was.
"Where are we?" she asked.
"It's called the TARDIS," the Doctor replied, "It's my ship."
"What do you mean by ship?" Mike asked.
"Well I travel about in it a bit," the Doctor said, "You know wandering here and then."
"Ok forget I ever said anything," Mike said, "Just try and explain why I seem to be having mad swings and wanting to kill my sister."
"Well I'll give it a try," the Doctor said as he pulled his sonic screwdriver out of his pocket.
The creature listened to what was being said outside, listening so it could understand what was happening. What it heard could be to its advantage.
The Doctor was pointing the sonic screwdriver at Mike's forehead, Mike didn't ask what he was doing, and he just listened to the whirring hum that the screwdriver made. Then the Doctor stopped and moved over to the large circular console in the middle of the room. Mike watched as the Doctor plugged the screwdriver into the console and activated a screen on it. A long stream of gallifrean text appeared on it, Mike found it completely incomprehensible but the Doctor seemed to understand it.
"Well, what does it say?" Mike asked.
"It's detected to consciousness in your mind," the Doctor replied, "Yours and another one, the other one seems to be causing these swings of violence."
"How on Earth did it get in there then?" Anna asked.
"I don't know," the Doctor said, "Mike did you feel anything before you went back to normal after the last violent outburst."
"Well I felt as though my life was flashing before my eyes," Mike replied, "Does that help?"
"I'm not sure," the Doctor says, then an idea struck him, "Wait a minute, if your life was flashing before your eyes that must mean you were experiencing some of your own personal memories," he said.
"How does that help?" Rose asked.
"What ever is in there is trying to manipulate his mind for to do its bidding or something, but his past is cancelling it out somehow," the Doctor replied, "What sort of memories did you experience?" the Doctor asked Mike.
"Well I suppose you could say memories I enjoyed," Mike replied, "There was stuff like hanging out with friends, bits of TV shows I enjoyed."
"Which bits?" the Doctor asked.
"Well there was the whale from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you know the one that used to be a guided missile with a fully armed nuclear warhead as a courtesy detail," Mike said.
"How does that help though?" Rose asked.
"Well if he has another wild swing we can just bring something out of his memory," the Doctor explained, "And a bit from a TV show would be a bit easier then a personal memory, we could quote or act it out or even show it to him."
"That sounds like a good idea to me," Mike said.
"I suppose it does," the Doctor said, "Now what sort of TV shows do you like?"
"You can come home and I can show you," Mike said.
The creature considered what it had heard, that man, the Doctor had discovered its presence in this new body. But like the Doctor it didn't know how it had got there, and it did want to find out.
Mike and Anna's parents had gone out for a while so they had the house to themselves. Mike led the Doctor and Rose to his bedroom; in there he had a television, a DVD player and a large collection of DVDs.
"Hey this is a good set," the Doctor commented, "You've got quite a bit here."
"Yeah I like a lot of cult TV shows," Mike replied as the Doctor started poring over all the DVDs.
The Doctor was really intrigued by this set, Mike had DVDs from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Goodies, Star Wars, Fireball XL5, Children of the Stones, Sapphire and Steel, Fawlty Towers and the Tomorrow People. The Doctor seemed to be taking an interest in the Tomorrow People DVDs.
"Blimey I haven't seen this for a long time," the Doctor said as he scanned through the complete set.
"Yeah it doesn't really get repeated much," Mike said, "If at all."
"And its not the only show here that doesn't seem to get many repeats," the Doctor said taking a glance at the Goodies DVDs.
"Yeah I suppose not but Doctor you've got a time machine, you can go back to when they were first broadcast," Rose said.
"True but I haven't really been able to find time to watch telly since my exile was lifted," the Doctor said.
"What exile?" Rose asked.
"I'll explain at another time," the Doctor said.