Once they collected themselves, assured that their assailants haven't found them, suddenly, Theodore opened another rift, returning them to the building they originally left. Theodore wanted to know if his deduction's correct and the chance of them learning the identities of the assailants.
Later at night, there's a nightshift crew working at the building and none of them knew where the assistant that helped Theodore and Lila went, he was overseeing the disposal of the statue per Theodore's recommendation, but other than that, they didn't know where he went afterwards, since he didn't work the nightshift with them.
With the work of the psychic paper, Theodore convinced security to let him play around with the security tapes with Lila helping, hoping to catch sight of the assailants, believing that they came to the building after he and Lila left.
Maybe he's wrong in his theory, that they wasted a trip, but Theodore's hoping for a miracle that whoever they're dealing with wasn't concerned about getting caught on the camera.
It isn't much, but Theodore hoped that them being in the building would've dissuaded their assailants from coming back, not wanting to draw too much attention having been there before, while he and Lila searched for them.
Again, he could be wrong, but without Al and limited options, Theodore had to work with what he had, as his father before him, and yet he couldn't help but wonder.
He saw him hope they weren't dealing with two Terminators that wouldn't care about causing chaos trying to go after them, but he's trying not to panic himself.
"They know about the TARDIS enough to steal it and disable Al, someone from the rogue gallery?" Lila wondered what sort of enemy they're dealing with during this adventure.
Daleks and Cybermen were already counted out, they wouldn't be this subtle, and if they weren't the types to use cabs and guns to make a point, either.
Judoon, no, they're overt, same with Sontaran.
Silurian would scoff at the thought of something like this.
Zygon, would've made their appearances known.
Going through the list, there's no one on it that could've been inclined to go this far to lure them out.
It's less when Theodore added the fact few knew how to disable the TARDIS despite Al's attempts rectifying that flaw from previous adventures.
He's in deep thought while continuing their attempt going through the security tapes, looking for the assailants.
Almost gave up when Lila found the footage of the assistant walking with two security guards pushing a wheel cart with the statue safely in a lead case.
There's two people approaching the assistant, couldn't see it from the camera angle, only their backs, camera quality's shoddy, and from the assistant's body language he wasn't alarmed by their presence, expecting them, probably thought they're the one's dealing with the disposal of the statue.
He tried shaking their hands, but they weren't inclined, before the assistant moved on, likely telling them what Theodore said.
For whatever reason, he walked with them out of the building with the wheel cart while the security guards stood idly by, despite normal procedures having them continue walking the wheel cart out.
Switching angles, still couldn't see the two people, their backs against the camera, Lila kept following them until she got a good view from the well-lit parking garage, a man and a woman.
The man's wearing a dapper brown suit with a brown bowler hat with a black trim, beside him, the woman's wearing a long brown drab coat that went just below the knees.
With the camera angles, Lila still couldn't see their faces, almost like they're purposely avoiding them, from the way they're careful about crossing sight of a camera.
There's a vehicle ahead, obviously not a vehicle equipped to dealing with a radioactive statue, and the assistant obviously saw this, raising his hand questionably as he pointed at the vehicle.
The man and woman forced him forward, however, away from the cameras that would've saw their faces, and whatever happened afterwards resulted in the boot of the vehicle opening, closing, before leaving the parking lot.
No one saw anything as there wasn't a witness, though gauging what they saw, the man and woman presumably dealt with anyone that stayed in the parking garage for too long.
After that, there's nothing of the vehicle or the assistant, presumed dead by Theodore and Lila, and they're left in their chairs while the security footage ran out, before switching into the next day.
"If the assistant didn't come back, why didn't anyone realize it?" Lila found it peculiar that nobody at the building realized something amiss when the assistant didn't return from seeing the statue off by the two people.
Even if the assistant's known going off to places while working, someone would've known where.
Something.
A good question, indeed, and Theodore sought his answers by seeking out anyone with more insight, hoping for their answers, which proved difficult as the nightshift workers weren't told much except the important details by the day shift.
Took time, but of all people he gotten answers from, Theodore found the answer by a janitor who worked both shifts, and he informed Theodore to the tune of mopping the floor, that the assistant, Sneed (the janitor's nickname) had taken a call before the two people arrived.
He didn't know about the statue being radioactive, just knew that Sneed wanted it gone, agitated, and someone on the other end assured him of the statue's removal.
How the janitor knew all this, because no one in the building saw him, he's invisible to everyone with a bank account on Mars.
Sneed didn't bat an eye when he came to clean the floors in his office, that the janitor was able to overhear their conversation.
Hard not to, the person on the other end of the phone call wasn't the nicest person that called the office. Loud enough that the janitor heard him from his spot.
"Some Irish prick," the janitor commented on the person, he didn't sound like any phone caller he overheard, and wasn't the classiest person that he overheard, either.
Didn't know his name, but the assistant talked to him with some since of familiarity.
Maybe the assistant talked to him before, who knows, but the janitor knows that the Irish man had a sharp tongue and knew a lot of things that would make a Sunday parishioner faint.
Whether he came to the building at all, the janitor didn't know, and he did't know if Charles talked to him, either.
Needing to get back to work, the janitor ended their conversation and Theodore left to return to Lila's side as she waited for him in the lobby, near the security camera pointed at her face.
"Anything?" Lila asked him as she rejoined his side as he walked with his large hands in his pockets, Theodore told her what he learnt from the janitor, before suggesting that they're looking at a conspiracy, one where it appears that the same one who made the fake statue, made sure that Charles's the one who obtained the statue, and made sure that the two people they encountered tonight collected the statue, not the proper authorities.
The assistant wasn't conspiring against Charles, not that Theodore's able to gleam, so that said, one person's behind the conspiracy and the only distinction's that it's an Irish man.
"No one's cropping up on my end," Lila commented that she can't think of anyone with an Irish accent, that's capable of stealing the TARDIS, that also wasn't an alien.
Frowning, Theodore replied he couldn't either, no one who wasn't alien, and it bothered him.
No Al and with many people and aliens who want his head on a spike, Theodore couldn't help remember them all, unless they're notorious enough to have a spot on the rogue gallery.
For this person, this Irish man, nothing about him resonated in his memory of someone from the rogue gallery.
Always the small ones.
"The night's still young, dear Watson, I believe whoever it is, wants to keep me here, until he captures me," Theodore concluded as he walked out into the sidewalk with Lila close to him, her arm wrapped around his.
All this, wouldn't make sense if the person responsible didn't intend on Theodore dying horribly, and smart enough knowing that trying to kill him out in the open would draw untoward attention.
Someone wanted him, alive.
Wearily, Lila clung to him as she looked at every person walking through the district, going to bars, meetings, a time with the ladies of the night, name it, they're out, and in this district, near the businesses, if someone knew where to look.
"What, now?" Lila asked Theodore's thoughts as she kept watch for anyone who looked familiar to the man and woman from the cameras.
Pondering this, Theodore says that the night's young, and they're at a disadvantage.
Whoever wanted him won't stop until he's hand delivered.
"They tried coming after us once, they'll come again," Theodore tells Lila as they began walking with the crowd of nightshift workers looking for their late-night dinners.