As Theodore sat in silence with Lila sleeping away on his shoulder, he glimpsed out of the window, seeing the passing cars and the sparse lights as they're heading through the city, the dark blue tint still present.

The cab driver remained quiet since the fiasco with the blown tire, Theodore expected him to say he'll charge them for replacing the spare, but he didn't say anything to Theodore, just drove along the road.

Didn't want to risk waking up Lila, so Theodore stayed quiet himself, keeping her close to him, as he heard the cars as horns honked, tires screech, name it, he heard.

Despite the blindness of the lights from the cars and the bright lights from the neon signs, Theodore sees they're coming up on where he and Lila waited for their first cab.

Preparing to pay the cab fare as he sees they're close to the drop-off, Theodore watched as the cab slowly made its way towards the marked area, where another cab already pulled off with its respected customers, and Theodore gently woke Lila up from her nap.

Paid for the fare and the two were out of the cab and into the city once again, this time different with the darkened tint in the air.

"Woah, it's like a whole different city," Lila noted that how unusual the city looked with the darkened tint, no moon in the sky, or even a star, and despite the light pollution coming from every neon sign and lit office window, it didn't affect the blue tint.

A strange occurrence in this area, indeed, almost impressive if anyone with a form of colorblindness managed to work in the city without issue at this hour.

Shrugging, Theodore says that there's always a way, it's a matter of will, before walking with her away from the parked cab, retracing their steps back to the TARDIS.

Funny, it should be right here, but as Theodore's looking, well, he didn't see it, and Lila went towards where it should've been, not seeing the indents in the ground where it landed.

Baffled, the two surveyed the spot, thinking the cab driver might've accidentally took them to the wrong spot, but no, this was where the TARDIS landed, and it's nowhere.

Theodore tried reaching out to Al, but he couldn't get ahold, still absent, unusual, worrisome.

"Well, we're far from anyone seeing us, maybe you should just open one," Lila suggested that Theodore open a direct rift to the TARDIS, maybe give Al a warning, in case they interrupt something that'll remain in the corners of their minds for the rest of their lives.

Agreeing with her, Theodore stretched out his arms, a loud yawn, popping his joints, as he's prepared to open one with ease, when he and Lila see…

A…

A…

A cab…

And…

It's the same cab that they just took getting here.

Just pulled around the corner where they walked around, no headlights on, the driver shrouded by the darkness surrounding the area.

Behind, there's a dead end with a yellow service ladder leading up to the rooftops above.

"T-Teddy?" Lila tensed at the sight while Theodore grabbed her arm, pulling her behind him as he stared at the cab that remained in neutral.

Unable to open a rift in a short time without something going wrong due to Theodore unable to concentrate, it forced Theodore to make a call, ushering Lila towards the service ladder as he stayed behind her, running, behind them, the cab sprang to life, the wheels screeching against the grey ground.

Nearly slammed into the ladder when Lila reached it, before she rushed up the yellow painted ladder, with Theodore climbing behind.

Almost nicked his feet as the cab drove into the ladder, crunching the bottom half like paper, while Theodore and Lila reached the top of the ladder, their hearts beating.

Grabbing the top of the ladder and using his strength, Theodore pushed the uncrushed portion of the ladder onto the cab below, giving them time to glance around the rooftop, looking for a way down.

"Okay, I'm awake," Lila felt the jolt from the cab almost crashing into them, as she hobbled while Theodore's mind raced with thoughts as the unexpected turn of events nearly killed them.

A killer cab driver, who knew?

"You paid him, right?" Lila asked if Theodore made sure he paid the fare, which he insisted that he did, else the driver would beat him with the jack.

It wasn't like he spent the cab ride antagonizing the man, he was already prickly as is, Theodore didn't want a risk of him stranding them somewhere away from another cab pickup.

Exhaling sharply as Theodore checked her, Lila mustered, "Then what the hell's that for?!"

Shrugging his shoulders as he exhaled, Theodore responded that he doesn't know, all he know's that they're leaving, finding Al, and figure out what the hell's going on, something Lila agreed with as she followed him, trying to find a good spot to open a rift.

That didn't work out too well the moment they heard gunshots on the rooftop with them, causing them to drop to the ground with Theodore hiding Lila underneath him as he shielded her from the barrage of bullets.

As the bullets whizzed overhead, Theodore quickly deduced that they're dealing with a lone shooter, simple 9mm, either a bad shot or intentionally missing them, before he forced himself to concentrate among the barrage of bullets as the unknown shooter trapped them.

Closing his eyes, Theodore calmed himself, amid the bullets, and they fell through a rift that opened underneath Lila. When he opened his eyes, he found he and Lila were safely away from the lone shooter, somewhere else, somewhere safe.

Helping her up, Theodore's icy blue eyes scanned where they ended up as he felt the rift closing quickly around him, but as he looked, he realized they're not in the TARDIS.

Instead, they're in the same alleyway they originally came out of, but as he looked, while Lila brushed herself off, the TARDIS wasn't there.

"Wh-where'd he go?" Lila's baffled as she sees that the TARDIS's gone from its spot. There's a square spot from where it landed, but it's nowhere.

Attempting to reach out to Al, Theodore didn't get a respond, and the more Lila looked, she noticed fresh tire tracks coming from where the TARDIS landed, going in and out of the alleyway.

"Um, Teddy," Lila alerted him of this and he went to her side, looking down, seeing the tracks in the ground.

His mouth dropped as he uttered, "Stolen?"

It's impossible!

Stopping himself, Theodore exhaled as he ran his hand through his wild hair, before playing back what happened, when he finished, he finally said, "Someone disabled him, again!"

The only reason Al didn't respond to him and how anyone could've stolen the TARDIS without Al dealing with them, somehow, someone disabled him, preventing him from activating anything aboard, and stole him.

"I thought he managed to stop that!" Lila decried this, saying that Al managed to rework everything that it couldn't happen again, especially after the Cybermen fiasco.

Knowing she's right, Theodore's left without an answer as he cursed himself, trying to come up with ideas, and the more he did, the more cogs turned in his head.

"The statue!" Theodore suddenly said.

Lila looked at him as she asked what he's talking about, before he tells her that their answer's the statue.

On a hunch, Theodore pulled out his Sonic Screwdriver, redesigned once more, trying to fix it, as he went, and used it around the area.

There's some faint traces of radiation, from the markers, it's the same as the statue that he and Lila went to investigate.

Seeing this, Lila looked up at him as she says, "The statue disabled the TARDIS?"

Nodding, Theodore suggested it's the case, which led to Lila bringing up, "How, why?"

Never thought the unassuming statue was the root of their troubles, but here they were, and Theodore suspected something more's going on with their seemingly benign adventure.

Lila brought up, "But, even if they disabled Al, we should've fallen into the console room, right?"

Theodore suspected that the statue did more than disable Al. It's unusual and he needed answers as much as Lila.

"What now?" Lila asks him as he paced around with his large hands in his stitched pockets, before he stopped to tell her, "I believe if we go back to the building, the statue won't be there, and a good chance that the assistant who helped us's dead."

Crossing her arms, Lila processed what they learnt, before asking Theodore as he led her out of the alleyway back to where they came out of, "Why didn't Al pick up on it?"

If the statue's radiation disabled Al, he should've realized something amiss when he scanned it, and Theodore agreed, but suspected there's more too it, thus they needed to work quickly, watching their backs, and hope.