"Al, what's going on?" Theodore hears the TARDIS panicking as he watched the conversation between Jimmy and Kira unfold.
In between breathing heavily, Al quickly says that Annika's nowhere in the house, and he found out what she done to the children she kidnapped. He didn't know what it was until he poked around the house undetected.
Going by what Theodore told him about Kira, he found that Annika hidden large number of needles.
Annika cleaned them, but he found enough in the pinhole of the needle to garner a sample for analysis and he found it's anesthesia mixed with blood, which he concluded as Kira's since it's recent.
Snooping led Al into finding a medical journal, some of which he couldn't read off the top of his head because it's in an old language he doesn't have anything in his databases referencing.
It took time, but he managed to make out one of the newer entries as Annika loathing that a child she taken from the village wasn't reacting to the injections like she hoped.
The more Al investigated it, he found that Annika purposely let those children die of their ailments when she found that they didn't show reactions. She gone after older children, but went nowhere, so she's on Kira, and it sounds like Kira showed the reactions she's been hoping for.
"What does that mean?" Theodore wanted answers on what Annika's planning and Al replied that he doesn't know, he couldn't figure that out because Annika never wrote anything down about what those injections were, if she did, Al can't translate them.
He can't find the substances she's using, either, and he's looked every corner of the house that he's able, but came up with nothing.
No idea if she's making whatever she's injecting into those children and Kira only when she has them or what, Al can't find an answer, and he even far as going into her master bedroom.
Nothing.
Doesn't mean he came up empty completely, he went back to the medical journal out of desperation, and found out what Annika did to the banker and his family.
She tried the injections with them, after kidnapping and trapping them in the basement, one night after they gone to bed.
The father suffered from an acute allergic reaction hours after the injection, dying from it. The mother didn't show any reactions, so Annika killed her, deeming her a failure. Their children ended up dying from the injection within moments, their little bodies incapable of handling whatever Annika injected them with, they died after their parents.
What happened to those bodies, Al looked for the obvious place, the boiler, found a piece of bone in the soot. Annika cut them up and burnt the bodies.
"What's she doing, Al?" Theodore pointedly asks him what Annika's attempting with these odd experiments.
The bedeviled TARDIS replied that he's not sure, but he doubted Annika would've told them anything, even if they managed tying her up.
"If she's trying to kill humans with experiments, then she's doing it badly, other than that, I can't understand why. Uh, changing the topic, the other thing. You gotta get Jimmy out of there, she left the house!" Al changed subject instantly as he tells Theodore that he needed everyone out of there immediately.
Annika left the house.
Al suspected she left sometime after he played Kira's part to the hilt, going into her bedroom as Annika commanded, then when that was done, he snooped around the house.
Only when he quickly snuck back to Kira's room did he realize that Annika's nowhere in the house, despite him snooping every corner.
"Did she say anything?" Theodore hurriedly asked the TARDIS if Annika mentioned anything before, she left the house and Al replied that she didn't say anything to him in particular.
All he knew's that he went upstairs like she commanded. He didn't argue or try to talk to her, just did it. Couldn't break his cover.
He thinks she's going after Jimmy and that's not good, especially considering he pretended he was Kira.
The moment Annika sees them, she's going to know something's wrong, and for that, he doesn't want them there.
"Can you pick us up?" Theodore asked if Al's able to come and pick them up quickly before Annika arrived, but the TARDIS says he doesn't think he can, he spent much of his energy pretending he's Kira.
If he comes and gets them, he doesn't think he'll have any energy getting them out.
Theodore pointedly asked what they're supposed to do and Al recommends silver.
"Silver?" Theodore's bemused as Al suggested they use silver against Annika.
Al replied that in his research for discovering tryannus, he found they're prone to severe allergies towards silver. He guessed either overexposure to the metal or the opposite contributed to the allergy.
"That house's probably draped with it, how didn't she suffer an allergic reaction to it?" Theodore questions how Annika hadn't shown any allergic reactions while living in the banker's house.
Al pointed out that it's possible that whatever Annika couldn't touch, she had Kira rid of it, knowing that Kira wouldn't ask too many questions.
Probably why there's missing pictures in the dining room, not only did they contain the family, but the frames made of silver or mixed with the metal.
"The needles?" Theodore inquired, since there's a chance those contained the metal, but Al said he tested them, no silver. Mix of bronze and iron.
Urging Theodore, Al said he'll try to come up with a plan getting to them and getting out alive.
It's on Theodore dealing with Annika.
Al urged him to hurry before leaving his mind, allowing him to readjust, and he immediately quieted the squabbling between Jimmy and Kira.
"We have to leave, now!" Theodore stated as he locked eyes with Jimmy who stared back with contempt.
Crossing his muscled arms, Jimmy asks what's going on, and Theodore tells him that Annika's coming, and if they don't hurry, she'll kill them all.
"I have men," Jimmy balked.
Theodore replied, "And I have brains, your point?"
Kira gruffly tells Jimmy that he needed to listen to Theodore, he's here to help, as much as it surprises anyone that someone's helping Jimmy without strings attached.
"Lee, what's the composition on your father's knife?" Theodore quickly turned his head towards Lila as she stood beside him.
Turning her head, Lila replied that it's carbon steel, the best money can buy. Dad never cheapened out on things like knives, he's always particular about quality. Guaranteed lifetime warranty, to boot!
Mulling it over, Theodore then quickly asks Jimmy if he's got anything silver.
He's baffled at the question, but Theodore pointedly asked him again, and he replied that he's got a few swords he'd taken off rivals.
Urgently, Theodore asked him to get them. Kira went with him while Lila asks Theodore what happened.
"Bad news," Theodore grimaces as he explained what Al told him, to the tune of Lila recoiling.
Exasperatedly, Lila responds with, "Are you… kidding me?"
Shaking his head, Theodore tells her no, he's not, now they needed to hurry. Oh, ready her knife, just in case.
"What're the chances we don't even make it out the door before she shows up?" Lila asked about their chances of getting out of the house in time before Annika finds them and Theodore meekly replied that he doesn't think they have the chance sticking their feet through the doorway.
She already knows where Jimmy lived, knew about his men through Kira, even if she didn't tell her a thing, Annika would've found out somehow.
"Please tell me you have a plan," Lila looked at Theodore as he pondered thoughtfully before saying that if they can't escape her, they'll have to take her on, and hope Jimmy doesn't mind things ending up in pieces or strange stains he'll have to explain to any visitors who comes through the doors.
"How're we going to do that, exactly?" Lila gestures as she uneasily looked around, expecting a giant woman breaking through the wall at any point.
Theodore shrugged before telling her that they can't let Annika see Kira, since Al masqueraded as her.
Lila instantly said, "A little late for that, don't you think?"
Can't exactly hide a giantess in a house about to become an abstract art piece. Annika's finding out one way or another.
"A little help wold be lovely, Lee," Theodore exasperatedly responded with as Lila shrugs back at him.
She replied with, "I am. Constructive criticism. If she's stronger than you, we don't stand a chance going face-to-face, and we can't easily throw her down the basement steps."
Going by the adage of horror movies, if the antagonist's stronger and faster than the protagonists, then they must use that in factoring how to defeat them.
Her height makes her harder to knock down, but once she goes down, she's not getting back up that easily, and if she's stronger than Theodore, then there must be something even she can't lift without risking harm.
If silver's her poison, then they can't get near her, she'll do everything in her path keeping it away from her, even using everything around Jimmy's house as projectiles.
So, to defeat a foe that can't easily go down nor easily combated head-on, then they have to find a way to do it from afar.
"Ever strung a sword through a bow?" Lila asks Theodore if he ever done something foolish as carelessly use a sword as an arrow and Theodore replied that he hadn't thought of that until now.
Not that he'd do it, it's impossible, but a good idea nonetheless, and he thanked Lila for the perspective.
Thinking on his feet, Theodore looked around the billiard room, his mind racing with thoughts and ideas, before he concluded that he needed to construct traps, knowing Annika, she'll tear through the house looking for Jimmy.
They can't let her leave if she so much as thinks he's nowhere in the house, but Theodore doubted she'll give up easily.
"Bold move, Cotton, let's see how this plays out," Lila murmurs as she's thrusted into helping Theodore constructs traps with everything they found in the billiard room.
Tearing up a billiard room belonging to a gang boss, always seen in movies, television, multimedia formats, but never imitated until now. Not fun at all, very dire indeed, and if not for the fear of Annika, well, they'd have two sets of problems to worry about.
Didn't take long before Theodore nearly stripped the billiard room into nothing more than the fireplace, if that.
Jimmy wouldn't like it, but considering the alternative, he'll have to make do with one cue ball, and nothing more.
Lila commented on the traps with, "If we were only dealing with the Wet Bandits, we'd be done within thirty minutes!"
There's noises and when they turned their heads, Jimmy and Kira returned with the swords, a sour look on Jimmy's face as he sees the state of the billiard room, but Theodore insisted that it's for a good cause.
Not to mention, knowing their luck, it's only gonna get worse from then on, and a stripped billiard room's going to be the least of his problems.
… Well… not exactly only the billiard room that's stripped of everything, Theodore didn't find enough steel in it, and the furniture gave him a head start, but he needed more, so he went through the kitchen, got supplies from that, and went from there.
However, a stripped kitchen and billiard room's the least of Jimmy's problems and he should learn to eat better, his assortment of food, if you even muster the courage calling it food, is dreadful!
Not that Theodore would've told him this, especially considering the aloof giant raided the kitchen pantries while looking for every scrap of steel that's possibly available in this time.
The answer's not enough for Jimmy, but given his situation, he couldn't say much, though the ire in his blue eyes said enough.
Kira asked Theodore what he thought about the swords and he went through them, tossing the ones that he deduced weren't fully steel or sufficiently enough.
Left them with only two, but that should be enough. He hoped, anyway.
"Care to tell me what's the plan?" Jimmy, irritated, asked what Theodore's plotting and he explained that with his traps and the swords, he's hoping that they catch Annika off-guard, and kill her by impaling her with the swords.
Don't know how well that'll work, but he hoped with the stripped steel he obtained, it's enough to weaken her, and with his traps, finish her off for good.
"What if it doesn't work?" Kira asks him as he prepared the traps.
Preparing the traps, Theodore says they can't afford not to try, and that he needed her help.
Annika's not expecting her here, don't ask questions why, but she doesn't know Kira's here, and that's an advantage for them.
He needed her to play her part and lure Annika into the right place at the right time.
Once she does that, the pieces fall together, and that's that, hopefully.
Theodore adjusted the traps, hoping that before Annika's dealt with, he'd have time to compel her into telling him what she'd done to Kira.
As they stood near one of the traps, there's noises outside, the guards clamoring, and then as they clamored, silence.