It's hard explaining to someone how Lila wound up in this situation, waiting in a back alley for a giantess, hoping that Lila convinces her that she didn't need a drug addicted salacious mob boss or a giantess taller than her that also has underlying reasons for wanting her.
Outside conspiracy theorists, nobody would've believed her if she tried telling them anything.
Hell, even the conspiracy theorists would've thought she's crazy!
Here she is waiting with Theodore after he narrowly convinced Kira via telepathy that she needed to find them.
Al's dealing with Annika, happy that he's just an avatar, and not the physical being he took the form from, else, well, Theodore won't hear the end of it.
"Wonder why you couldn't even make a blimp in Annika's mind," Lila wondered why Theodore couldn't read Annika's mind, despite their constant run-ins with aliens and the like, he shouldn't have problems with a simple peak.
As he waited by the bricked wall, Theodore replied that the only thing he came up with's that she's cagey.
Since he never encountered the species, she's from before, he doesn't have a frame of reference how their minds worked, with Annika cagey about anyone finding out what she done, she's naturally keeping her thoughts hidden away.
Al couldn't find anything on what Annika is, what he found's only stories told about tall witches or whatever the like's the flavor for the century, stealing children, things, whatnot.
Nothing concrete, but he gave his opinion that Annika's the only one in existence, given he hadn't found anything else suggesting there's others like her.
With the way the stories originated, it's hard for him to find out for sure, maybe she isn't the only one, but maybe she is, can't make heads or tails with chicken scratches.
Maybe that's what drove her into taking children and Kira, she's the only one of her kind left, this her only way making a mark.
Don't know, Al can't search that far into it, due to the circumstances, and him focusing his machinery on keeping himself alive.
If he finds something, he'll pass it forward.
Until then, he's trying to womanize as his counterpart was known for, and hates every minute of it from the sound of things. He made it clear to Theodore during this, he wants compensation from this on top of the repairs.
A box of fine whisky, 1200 proof.
Theodore told him he'll try his best, but the TARDIS made it clear it wasn't enjoying this at all.
"You think she'll change her mind?" Lila asks Theodore as he looked towards the entrance of the alleyway, they're supposed to meet Kira in, away from prying eyes, unaffiliated with any gangs, and quiet.
As he looked through the entrance, seeing the cobbled road, a soft hue coming from the torches along the side of the road, Theodore replied he doesn't think so, Kira's much afraid of Annika as she is Jimmy.
"What'll we do if it goes south, what if she wants him dead?" Lila asks the possibility of Kira wanting him dead, not that Lila blamed her, but it's a question she wanted an answer for in case it comes to pass.
Thinking quietly to himself, Theodore replies it'll be difficult, but if he had to choose, if it comes to pass that Kira wanted blood for years of mistreatment, they'll have to contend with that and Annika.
Annika murdered those people, including the banker and his family.
Jimmy's no saint, but someone like Annika couldn't be left unchecked. The only reason's that Jimmy's human and with enough years, he'll sink into the sands of time. His name and his legacy ended by someone bigger than him.
"Still doesn't make sense how nobody knew she existed," Lila found it impossible that despite Al's best, nobody figured out Annika existed, and she's living under their noses in London.
Sure, she keeps her appearances minimal and if anyone saw her, it's easily hand waved that she's the Baba Yaga or they're too inhibited by whatever vice that they misspoke, but in London, it's a matter of when.
Jimmy, plausible deniability, the whole skid row, not so easily.
The fact she boldly opened the door for them without sending Kira, it just doesn't add up.
"She survived this long, somehow," Theodore wearily shrugged as he's wracking his mind.
Annika boldly opening the door to them, it didn't make sense for someone like her, especially when she's ten points high on Jimmy's list.
None of this made any sense and Theodore wanted answers.
His wishes granted when he spotted movement up ahead, someone peering in, tall, cloaked in black by the shadows.
They calmly walked through the alleyway towards Theodore and Lila, when they approached closer, it's Kira.
She's confused by what transpired in her mind, looking squarely at Theodore as she's trying to understand him, wanting answers of her own.
"Why… are you helping me?" Kira spoke to them, finally, her accent heavy, her uncertainty in her voice.
Coming towards her with his large hands in his pockets, Theodore tells her that he doesn't tolerate bullies and abusers.
His father, especially, detested them so much he found it interesting for him to leave them in peril until they learnt their lessons. Though there have been instances where it became permanent, but his father gave them their chances, not his fault they took them for granted.
Kira's grey eyes slowly moving around as she shifted in her spot, uncomfortable, before Theodore asked her if she's hurt in anyway.
Shaking her head, Kira replied in broken English that she's had her fair share of beatings by rival gangs, she still carries old bruises from the fights.
Otherwise, she's unhurt.
"Did Jimmy… you know…?" Lila asks Kira if he gave her some bruises.
Kira looked at her quizzically as she responded that Jimmy never laid a hand on her.
Loud, abrasive, but never violent towards her, and this gave Theodore pause enough that he needed to peak into her mind, wanting to know if she's lying, or her warped sense of normalcy the cause.
She wasn't lying, Jimmy never laid a hand on her, something peculiar, but not unexpected considering that Kira's stronger than Jimmy that he knows better than laying a hand on her.
"What about Annika?" Theodores asks Kira if Annika's any different, he sees the change in her instantly, the look of fear he'd seen before, when she wouldn't look at Annika during dinner.
Kira said that the moment they knocked on the door, Annika's mood changed from calm to irritable, she thought it might've been Jimmy's gang, come to claim Kira.
It surprised Annika that it was just two strangers needing help, but that soon disappeared shortly after they left.
After they left dinner, Annika grew suspicious, since nobody came to the house for any reason other than delivery.
Even then, Annika controlled when there's delivery. She knew every person that delivers the parcels, knew their names, and faces, wouldn't hesitate dropping companies if they displeased her.
"Did she hurt you?" Theodore prodded for answers, wanting to know if Annika's not so noble as she claims.
Turning her head away, Kira didn't look at him for the longest time, until Lila prods her into telling them that Annika said it'd only hurt for a moment.
Confused, Theodore inquired with interest what Kira meant, but she became dodgy answering the question, even Lila couldn't prod her into answering, and Kira only said that Annika chained her until she was sure that it'd work.
Kira didn't want the chains, but Annika said it was for her safety, and Kira stayed in those chains for hours. Only when Annika saw something she liked, did she release Kira from those chains.
Annika wasn't wrong, it didn't hurt, she felt nothing different, but the chains brought back memories that Kira didn't want resurfacing.
Annika apologized profusely as she said it's the only way for her to be sure, she promised it won't happen again, because she saw it work the first time.
"What?" Lila asks what Kira means, but the giantess didn't know what transpired, a minute she's in chains, the next, Annika unshackled her.
Raising his fine brow, Theodore inquired why Kira showed fear around Annika, and Kira admitted that she's afraid of her.
Afraid of what she is, afraid of what'll happen if Kira doesn't continue showing whatever progress Annika wanted from whatever she did to her, and afraid of what she'll do to Jimmy.
"Jimmy's a creep, Kira, he doesn't deserve you no more than Annika," Lila balked at the thought Kira genuinely worried about Jimmy, but explained there's a pragmatic reason for it.
Jimmy controls much of the warehouse area, has fingers in the banking world, his word is law, nobody messes with her because they know the consequences of doing so, she's his head enforcer, and as long as Jimmy remains in control, Kira's safe.
If Annika kills Jimmy, his rivals would've grabbed every acre he controlled for their own, and send their own after Kira and everyone on his payroll.
Better to kill everyone after someone prominent like Jimmy dies, can't risk someone wanting revenge. Spare only the ones they know wouldn't turn on them, vowing with their lives.
Doesn't mean she's blind to everything, however, Kira knows there's something crawling around Jimmy's head, a demon of his own creation, every time he looked at her during his sober days, which was far in between, that glint in his blue eye.
She knows all the women he visits at his controlled brothels, but he never had a glint in his eye when he looked at them.
Only her.
He never forced the subject on her, tried anything with her, but she sees that glint more than once.
Never asked about it, never a good idea asking Jimmy his business, personal especially, only Polly forcibly asked because she was his aunt.
He listened to her more than himself.
Hearing this, painted a disturbing picture for both Theodore and Lila.
"Would he, though?" Lila broached an uncomfortable subject with Kira.
It always starts with something like a glint, but always progresses in little ways until it's evident.
Lila sees the unsure look in Kira's gray eyes as she pondered silently to herself before replying that she's certain that Jimmy wouldn't do anything like that to her.
It's just lust, she reasoned with the internal politics in her mind, nobody saw anything like her before, but Jimmy wouldn't risk his reputation.
"Do you know what Annika is?" Theodore changed the subject, wanting answers about Annika, and Kira responded that Annika told her what she was the first night she brought Kira into the house.
Tryannus.
Don't know what it meant or what the significance was, but Annika saw it important and wanted Kira to see how.
Sharing looks between each other, Theodore and Lila silently talked to each other, coming up with nothing. Though, it's an important clue in their quest understanding what they're dealing with, Theodore thanking Kira for telling them.
"Please, you can't let her kill him," Kira begged them not to let Annika kill Jimmy.
If she does, London risks wars as factions vie for the power Jimmy held, a black hole that only filled once every blood shed and bodies stacked.
Nobody's safe then, anyone who isn't in the gangs risked getting caught up in the ensuring wars.
Glancing at Lila with uncertainty, Theodore turned back to Kira as he tells her they'll try, but they don't know if he'd even listen.
"He… can be difficult, but once you sober him up, he tends to be reasonable. Most of the time," Kira explained that there's a way for Jimmy to listen.
If she knew him well, he isn't sober right now, but with some help, he'll sober up easily.
Looking towards her, Lila asks her where they'll find Jimmy at this hour, which Kira deduced he's either home or with someone at one of his brothels.
With him on edge with Annika and her gone, Kira thinks he might've gone home for the evening. He never liked going out if he's in a sour mood, bad habit, gets him into trouble every time.
"Okay, where does he live?" Theodore asks Kira for directions.