Standing in the console room, Theodore and Lila wracked their brains trying to find answers why Annika wanted Kira.
She's older than the typical victim of the mythical Baba Yaga, but with that said, none of them think it's for altruistic reasons why Annika wanted her.
Nobody spotted Annika for years until now and that's confusing Theodore and Lila, since she's abnormally tall, someone would've said something if they spotted her a mile away.
There's no way someone would've overlooked seeing her, but here they are, and it led them thinking that Annika hid away from human society due to aforementioned height, but something changed.
For whatever reason, Annika chose to enter human society, and she did it without hiding her abnormalities from humans.
Bold, more she didn't show fear of the chances that a mob would've tried hunting her down out of fear.
"Why would she even want to come to London, the epicenter where everyone would've known she exists, and any unscrupulous individuals surely would've picked an opportunity to kill her for their own benefit if not worse," Lila found it difficult for her to believe Annika willingly emigrated to London without knowing that her appearance would've attracted unwanted attention.
"Unless she keeps her appearances to a minimal," Theodore shrugs as he theorized that Annika's well-aware of the dangers, so she keeps her appearances bare, only showing up when it suits her needs.
She boldly approached Kira in the open, but other than that, he doesn't think she shopped around the Main Street.
"Not to mention, plausible deniability, would you believe Jimmy?" Lila mentions that Annika choosing where she shows up would've worked to her advantage, with Jimmy, people who're already bedeviled by him wouldn't take his word if he tried telling them a tall woman took Kira.
At most, they'd think he'd finally cracked or made a residence in an opium den somewhere.
"But the man I talked to knew her enough to point me to where she lived," Theodore remembered as he pondered their situation.
Lila shrugs as she says that he probably never saw her in person, probably only knew her because of delivery people asking for directions.
"As for why he didn't realize the banker and his family disappeared without a trace, maybe it's because he doesn't care or it's below his pay. Think about it, he's only there keeping the undesirables out, whatever goes on among the uppercuts of society, isn't his business unless they short him," she gave her thoughts why the hired guard didn't think twice when he pointed Theodore to Annika's residence.
He probably didn't think twice when the banker and his family suddenly left without taking their belongings, for all he cares, he's getting paid until someone shorts him in his paycheck.
"Another thing, if the banker was in Jimmy's pockets, wouldn't he have noticed him gone, why wouldn't he told us this before?" Theodore remembered what Al told them about the missing banker and his family.
Jimmy isn't the type allowing one of his pocketed bankers going MIA, he'd want his trusted men investigating the disappearance.
Rubbing her eyes, Lila reminded him that Jimmy pieced it together when Kira went with Annika, figuring out the correlation between one his bankers missing and Annika's appearance.
Wouldn't take long for a mob boss finding out that the banker's dead and his killer took over his home.
Not that it mattered.
There's one thing a mob boss expects, people on his payroll dying at any point in time, that's par course, they're expendable to his eyes.
Losing his asset, that's an ugly slight he can't overlook.
Especially one that he views with salacious lens.
"If he knew where Annika lived, why doesn't he just burn the house down with her trapped inside, I don't know," Lila shrugs as she leaned against the railing while they're attempting to figure out the motives in this adventure.
Thinking quietly, Al finally says that it's possible Annika's using Kira as leverage against Jimmy. She knows the woman's invaluable to Jimmy and knows that Jimmy wouldn't risk anything harming Kira out of fear of losing his asset.
Long as Kira remains with Annika, Jimmy can't touch her, and Annika plays it by the hilt.
"Would be why he hired us, he knows he can't do anything to her, but if he hires a third party, he thinks he'll get somewhere," Theodore sums that this strategy proved useful, since Jimmy hired him and Lila in hopes of getting around Annika's ploy.
Lila wondered if it's possible for Jimmy losing patience, deciding to kill both Annika and Kira, rather than forcing Kira back to him.
As he thinks, Theodore sighs as he admitted that given Jimmy's more afraid of Kira off his lead, it wouldn't surprise Theodore that if pushed, Jimmy might've considered cutting his losses.
"Especially, if Annika convinces Kira that Jimmy wants to kill her," Lila pointed out that it's possible Annika tricks Kira into killing Jimmy out of fear that her former boss wanted to kill her, even before Jimmy starts losing patience.
So many theories, they weren't getting anywhere on the endgame.
With little time Jimmy gave them, they're lucky they're still standing, much less after Annika became aware of their existence.
Jimmy played by the rules, as much as Lila didn't believe he could, he wouldn't kill them unless he knew it wouldn't direct attention to him.
He's already known by this point; he didn't want any more attention than needed.
If he tries to kill them, it'll be meticulously worked out, allowing plausible deniability.
They already told him they're transients looking for work, he'd easily say they've up and went.
Annika, however, she's different, she isn't part of the gang wars, and given the implicated murders, she's won't hesitate killing them, too. Rules or not.
"I don't think she's using Kira to muscle into Jimmy's business, that much apparent," Al gave his suggestion that it wasn't what anyone expected.
Theodore asks how he's sure and Al said that there've been instances of children disappearing in areas he thinks Annika lived, their disappearances happening at night.
No witnesses and the correlation Al found that led him believing the disappearances linked to Annika's because there's rumbling of Baba Yaga taking the children.
"What happened to the children?" Lila turns her head as she sees Al pacing around the console room with his cigarette on the edge of his lips.
As he's deep in thoughts, Al responded that the children ended up dying in various ways with their bodies found buried years later.
One died of pneumonia, one died of tuberculosis, treatable in their time, not so much in the early 1900s.
"She didn't kill them?" Theodore raised his brow as Al nodded, saying that it looked as though the children died of natural causes, not by the hands of the Baba Yaga, er, Annika.
In fact, if not for their illnesses, they would've survived to about their sixties, Al hedged. From the little he found, beside those illnesses, the children taken care of, and their burials respectful.
Raising her brow as she move away from the railings, Lila remarked, "You're not saying she's trying to be a mother, are you?"
Weakly, Al shrugged his shoulders, his loud-colored puffy shirt crumpling as he did this, before he said that it'd make sense.
She's kidnapped children before and they've all died from preventable illnesses, diseases.
Her inexperience's treating them would've explained the frequency of the kidnappings.
None ever abused, at least what Al found, all fed until they're plump, but the inability to treat them's what caused their death.
"If she can't have children, then she wants Kira," Lila summed what Al's getting at as he nodded.
Again, Kira's not a child, but Al accounted for that, saying Kira's abusive childhood would've given Annika everything she wanted.
The fact Kira lived into adulthood's a cherry on top for Annika.
"Kira wants love, Annika wants a child," Al summarized it all before Theodore reminded him that Annika killed to get what she wanted and that Kira showed fear around her.
Nodding, Al says he knows that, he never said it was black and white.
"Kira would've known Annika killed the banker and his family," Theodore paced around the console room as they're talking their heads off trying to come up with an answer, "maybe we're not looking at it from the right angle."
Confused, Lila asked what he means as he paced around the console room with his arms behind his back.
As he paced around, Theodore says, "Annika threatened to kill Jimmy if Kira doesn't stay with her."
He gone back to looking into her mind, what if it wasn't her silently telling them to flee, it's her wishing she warned Jimmy, but couldn't because Annika has her on a lead.
"I still don't understand why she'd care what happens to him," Lila remained skeptical why Kira wanted Jimmy safe.
Tapping his cigarette against the phantom ashtray, Al softly tells Lila that having a broken childhood causes warped perceptions of what's normal.
For Kira, Jimmy's abusiveness' as much normal to her as getting coffee from the break room to them.
Al reminded Lila that they're in a different time where people like Kira have to make do with what they have.
"So, what, we're here to stop Annika from killing Jimmy?" Lila wondered if that's why they're there, preventing Jimmy's death at the hands of Annika.
Theodore called to them and they turned their heads as he stood in front of them, he says that he has a plan.
Lila asks him what it is and Theodore tells her that they'll alert Jimmy that his life's in danger.
They'll tell him that he should hide somewhere while they confront the danger.
"What're you talking about, spaceman?" Lila inquires what Theodore's possibly thinking and he tells her that they'll show Kira both faces of Jimmy and Annika, let her choose her own path, but first, he wants to speak with Kira with Lila's help.
Not worth the trouble putting a plan together only for Kira wanting nothing more than seeing Jimmy killed. Waste of time if Theodore didn't get a confirmation beforehand.
Al tells him it's dangerous, that there's no chance Annika lets Kira go out alone, not with the short lead she's on, but Theodore tells Al that he'll get the giantess out in the open by simply telling her that Annika's planning on killing Jimmy, anyway.
"How're you going to do that without Annika catching on?" Lila points at Theodore as he made his way to the entrance of the TARDIS.
Opening the door, Theodore turns his head and says he peaked into Kira's mind twice, the third time, he thinks he can squeeze a quick message, convincing her to find him.
"Hold it, spaceman, I don't think Annika's letting Kira out of her sight, not with Jimmy among us," Lila spoke up as she joined Theodore's side.
As he thinks of it, Theodore asks Al if he's capable of helping, to which Al says he's got enough alcohol in his system to sink a ship.
"Good, I need you to distract her," Theodore tells Al his job in getting Kira alone.
Dismayed, Al grabbed his cigarette from his mouth as he exasperatedly said, "Distract her?"
His wild hair bobbing up and down, Theodore tells Al, that yes, distract Annika.
Al asks what he should do as Theodore and Lila went out the doorway. Theodore poked his head in, saying that he trusts the TARDIS before disappearing out of the doorway, again.
"Well, I am a lady killer," Al looked down to his avatar's brightly colored tie.