In the darkness, Theodore crept, no one turned up, he followed the smell of the gun powder, but it faded into the ether, thus he had nothing to go on, and he used the light from the Sonic Screwdriver to guide him.
Silently walking, Theodore kept the Sonic Screwdriver low to the ground, where the light wouldn't be noticeable, attempting to give him light, but not make his presence aware.
Coming to the point where the aisle opened up into a circular area with points, Theodore didn't see the Doctor or Lila.
"Lee?" Theodore called out to her via telepathy, but she didn't respond, and he then reached out to the Doctor, hoping that gleaming his mind's enough for him to talk briefly, but the Doctor didn't respond, either.
Tensed, Theodore attempted to find the Doctor, but the path the Doctor took was a dead end, thus Theodore concluded he went back, found the path Lila took.
Going through, Theodore didn't see them, but smelled the fresh tobacco burning from a wooden pipe lying on the ground, the smoldering pile burning a permanent mark through the lamented floor.
Near it, Theodore found Lila's knife, the blade's bent, she tried stabbing something, it didn't bleed, but it was dense enough that it caused the blade to bend considerably from when Lila tried to further plunge the knife down, hoping to cause enough harm to the aggressor, they'd stop.
Obviously, it didn't work, but there's no traces of blood, thus Lila and the Doctor were both captured without egregious injuries, and as Theodore looked, he did notice something else lying on the ground, further ahead from him.
Walking towards it, Theodore flashed his Sonic Screwdriver over it, discovering that it's a rectangular cut piece of wax, with a bit of blood on the underside where it was attached to something.
Seeing this, Theodore uses his Sonic Screwdriver to scan the blood, using it as an identifier, before following the blue light on the tip, guiding him through the museum, tracking the blood, while watchful of the wax figures.
Silence in the dark museum, only his footsteps made any noise, and he walked slow, until he suddenly stopped when he felt a presence ahead of him.
Evident, it's something, Theodore dropped the pretense quickly, demanding answers from whoever stood in front of him, but only silence.
"What did you do with them?" Theodore let out a low voice, but he didn't hear anyone talking, instead he sees someone leaning forward, towards the blue light of the Sonic Screwdriver.
His icy blue eyes widened when he saw the person standing in front of him…
Wasn't a person.
It was…
The wax figure of his father.
Still perpetually smiling, showing his individually cut teeth, his vacant icy blue eyes staring back at Theodore as he's taken aback by the sight.
Theodore felt something hit him in the back of his head, instantly he fell to the ground in a loud thud, his eyes closing on their own out preservation.
How long he's been out, he doesn't know, but when he opened his eyes again, he's somewhere else, not in the museum, everything's different, and there's light.
Groggily, Theodore blinks as he struggles to move, but found his arms and legs bound, hanging up, and when his icy blue eyes moved, he sees the Doctor and Lila in similar fates nearby.
He smelled a familiar smell and promptly moved his head, seeing vats of molten wax in front of them, glancing up, they're tied to a rotary, with a press of a button, they'll be sent to their deaths the moment they're forcibly dropped into the molten vat of wax.
Of course.
"Teddy!" Theodore heard Lila call out to him in his mind and he jolted turning his head, seeing Lila stir as did the Doctor.
They see their situation and collectively shared the same look as Theodore did when he realized it, too.
There's movement and they watched in silence as the walking wax replica of Theodore's father went towards one of the vats while another wax figure, Al Capone carrying the Tommy gun, behind it pushed a cart of the destroyed wax figures towards it, the bubbling wax plumed as steam raised from the vat as the two wax figures threw the destroyed pieces into the churning wax.
Instantly, the pieces melted into the bubbling wax, becoming indistinguishable, the colours becoming lost, and the Al Capone wax figure moved the cart away as the wax figure of Theodore's father watched.
His icy blue eyes focused, Theodore sees independent movement coming from the vat of wax, a hand rose from the melting goop, heated wax sloughed off the hand as it solidified, as it slowly moved around the vat before seemingly drawn towards the awaiting wax figures.
Reaching out, the wax figures took the hand, both stepping back, as the newly created wax figure started coming out of the vat, excess wax dripping back into the bubbling max behind, as they carefully stepped out from the side.
Standing there, the wax figure dripped with orange-coloured wax, before it solidified into a unified body, and from there, the trio see it taking shape of…
The Doctor.
"You said you were thorough!" Lila struggled as she leered at the Doctor, upset that he wasn't as thorough as he so claimed, seeing the sentient wax creatures taking form whatever they so desired.
Struggling in the restraints, the Doctor protested, "I was! You think I didn't spend hours of my time lounging, did you?"
Seeing the newly formed wax figure of the Doctor, Theodore noticed something unusual about it, though it got much of the details right, it didn't replicate the Doctor fully.
The colour's off, too, and the more Theodore studied, he realized something else's coming out of the vat, another hand, and when the wax figure of his father and Al Capone helped, another wax figure stepped over the side of the vat.
Lila's eyes widened the moment she recognized the sight instantly.
It's… her?
The wax figures made replicas of her and the Doctor, but haven't made one of Theodore, because he shared his likeness with his father.
Like the Doctor's wax figure, Lila sees the flaws in hers, the hair wasn't the right hair style, she wasn't wearing vanes.
She didn't want to ask the question, because she knew the answer instantly, when she used her knife on the wax figure of Theodore's father, she could've sworn smelling something akin to blood.
However, that couldn't be, considering, yet the wax replica looked no different than Theodore or his father.
From what they're looking, either they're going to have their flesh sloughed off by molten wax or used as molds for the wax figures.
"Ah, good, you're awake," they heard a cheerful voice and see a man coming towards the scene, his cane tapping against the laminated floors.
He's shorter than Lila and Hammond, looked gaunt in the face, eyes hidden behind round purple shades, and looked like someone from a B-movie.
His eyes narrowing at the sight, Theodore sees the man joining the four wax figures side, they towered over him easily, and he looked up to the restrained three.
"Excuse me, but who exactly are you?" The Doctor calls down to the man, curious who he was, and where they known him, since nothing came to mind.
Would've remembered someone like this, surely.
The man turned his head towards the Doctor replying, "You may call me Miser Todd. And you, I never thought the day would come to have you in here."
His tone suggested that he waited for the day that Theodore (or his father) appear in his museum and it's giving Theodore blanks in his mind, as he's unsure who this man was in relation with his father.
No one with that name came to mind and it bothered him, so he played along, hoping to learn more about this man, why he wanted his father, and while plotting their escape from their restraints.
His icy blues looked at the ropes closely, deducing their quality and type, no problem.
"Father!" Another character appeared from the corner of the room, tall and lanky, his hands in his pocket as his legs bowed slightly while walking towards the short man, a disinterest look on his face as he joined his father and the wax figures.
Shirking in his spot, Miser responded with, "Oh! How could I have forgotten, my boy, it's that time of the day for tea?"
Nodding, his son irritatedly said, "You promised me!"
From the tone of voice, it wasn't the first time that it happened, and Miser apologized profusely to his son about forgetting for the umpteenth time.
Looking up at them, his son asks, "Who're these three?"
Miser told him that one's the Doctor (Theodore) and the other two were an unknown quality.
Shaking his head irritatedly, his son responded with, "My own father, chasing stories!"
Sighing, Miser responds to his son's disinterest with, "My boy, haven't I taught you enough, the Doctor's as real as you and I."
Furrowing his brow as he turned his body to face the three, Miser's son stared at Theodore, pointing out that it isn't possible for him to be here, the last his father heard of the figure's when he was a boy.
"Over eighty years ago, father, if this man's the one and the same, surely he'd be decrepit like you!" Miser's son points out that Theodore couldn't be the same one his father heard when he was only a boy, he'd be two legs in the grave!
Exhaling sharply, Miser realized his son never held the same aspirations as he did, and further, his son saw interest in other things, not the wax figures he created over the years.
Miser and his son bicker before eventually Miser realized him breaking his promises to his son started mounting and he prompted the wax figures to guard the trio while he left to have tea with his son, Swenson.
"Odd family!" The Doctor commented that he never thought the adventure would turn out this way, but here they were, and Theodore's bemused as he was, curious to know what Miser wanted from his father, so much he put work into making a detailed wax figure of him.
Lila mustered, "I'm getting the feeling that us being 'unknown quality' means we're the leftovers."
Since Miser only wanted Theodore, he wants nothing to do with Lila and the Doctor, and the fact he didn't recognize this Doctor's questionable at best, but that aside, they only have a limited time before Miser and his son returned to finish the job.