With the explanation why Mr. Watson had that look in his eyes whenever he spoke with him, Theodore's now faced with a peculiar problem, stuck in an electrified cage that's become his cell, armed men guarding him like he's Hannibal Lecter, and that's not including the TARDIS being abducted by Torchwood because of its alien nature.
Faced with the very real chance of being locked away with the key thrown out without his due, Theodore sat on the uncomfortable bed in his cell, trapped, monitored, and alone in his thoughts, though that's softened with him silently interacting with Lila, who wasn't successful talking to her father.
He tried comforting her, but the fact that this was her father's "new" job wasn't easing Lila's concerns as she stewed in her troubled thoughts.
As expected, their day went from troubling to worse, but not in the way Theodore thought, as he's alerted by the sudden appearance of more soldiers, bringing someone else into the containment room, and instantly he recognized him.
Unable to utter his name in the vicinity of the soldiers, Theodore's forced to watch as soldiers brought David into a cell adjacent to his, while he shouted at them, to no avail as they forced him into the electrified cage with a shove.
Only when the soldiers left the containment room, the two soldiers kept posted at the doors, did David stop to take in his surroundings, and noticed Theodore looking at him.
Instantly, he reached out to him with a telepathic question, "What the hell did I do?"
Although David's done a lot of things, he would remember causing a series of events resulting in his arrest at the hand of Torchwood.
Torchwood.
Torchwood.
Why are they torching the poor wood?
"It would seem your show's too on the nose, old chap," Theodore informed David that his brain child of a show got him on Torchwood's radar, causing David to let out an audible snort, before insisting that he didn't expect anyone but a handful recognizing the aliens on the show.
He's dismayed when Theodore had to inform him otherwise.
"Bugger! I knew something was off when we got your SOS," David frowned as he tells Theodore how he and Catherine received a SOS from them, that's why they came, but now they're both imprisoned for an undetermined time.
Raising his brow, Theodore echoed, "SOS?"
Nodding, David said that Catherine got a call from Al, begging their help, though they didn't know the extent of the situation until they arrived to the tune of guns drawn on them and their respected TARDIS being disabled.
"It would seem Al got desperate, they must have him leashed to hell, sorry about that," Theodore apologized for Al getting David and Catherine into the same situation as him and Lila, but David hand waved it, saying it was expected.
He knew something fishy was going on when Jenny and her father mentioned some people hanging around places David frequented whenever he visited the area, her father easily scoped them out without missing a beat, and David admired that about him.
"Thankfully, I don't think they recognized him, else he'd probably be scooped up, too!" David winced as he mentioned how being human and older, Pete avoided being arrested by Torchwood for conspiracy or whatever trumped up charges they can throw at him.
Which.
"This isn't legal, is it?" David inquired if their imprisonments's the definition of illegal, Theodore confirming his thoughts that they're being illegally detained, their rights infringed, and it goes on from there.
David's blasé nature made him groan as if he's being told he needed to wait an extra ten minutes for a table, saying, "Of course!"
Reaching out to Lila, Theodore asked if Catherine's with her, and Lila confirmed that it almost took a platoon getting Catherine through the door.
"Davey with you?" Lila asked Theodore, with Theodore confirming that David's been imprisoned with him, too.
Same thing like Catherine told Lila, they responded to a SOS from Al, the Torchwood computers caught wind of the materializing TARDIS, and that's all she wrote.
With that confirmation, Theodore sighed as they're left in their peculiar situation.
"We have to do something," David pointed out that he and Theodore needed to come up with something, they're not the only ones at risk.
The Samito and Ko'gan, for starters, they're already familiar with Dom's temper, if Torchwood tried apprehending them, there's a high chance of bloodshed.
Jasper might act like Mr. Magoo, but he loved Reese and Lambert like his own, that his aloof nature would easily wane the moment Torchwood tried capturing them.
David already knows about the spoon story from Jasper, the last thing he needed's the old Samito taking bites out every soldier present in the building.
"Not just them, old chap, have they told you, yet?" Theodore asked if David was briefed and he responded that he wasn't, only to wince once more when Theodore told him that Torchwood captured a Dalek.
David found it egregious that they weren't careful about it, as he pointed out that even if they disabled everything aboard the chassis, the Dalek isn't easily deterred.
Sighing, Theodore informed David that it's what was already said, but the director wouldn't listen.
Gritting his teeth, David worryingly said, "They're playing with the sun doing this!"
He shared Theodore's concerns with the captured Dalek, safely stowed elsewhere, and not in their vicinity, bringing up that while Daleks willingly overlook the disappearances and deaths of their own, when it comes to a scout, someone's asking questions.
It's worse that they're intentionally keeping the bugger alive, while true Daleks have a bomb ready to go off the moment, they're dead to keep enemies from using their chassis technology against them (ironic, David knows) and Torchwood probably already disabled it, a still-living Dalek's still dangerous, and trust David and Theodore, even if someone managed to disable every known thing in a Dalek's chassis, they still have ways around everything doled out against them.
It's a consequence of destroying hundreds and thousands, they're getting brighter by the bulb on their chassis.
"And I wish that it was all we had to deal with, today," Theodore admitted that there's more to their situation.
Fine, not the time to discuss this considering the Dalek, but Theodore didn't have any other commitment to hurry off and deal with, so he might as well get this off his chest, it might be the only time he can.
It caused David to ask him what happened, only for Theodore to admit to David that Lila's father works for Torchwood, and now knows everything.
Don't know the full-extent since Mr. Watson hadn't showed up to give Theodore an earful, but it's enough to get them on Torchwood's radar.
Flinching, David gave Theodore his condolences, as he wouldn't know where to start trying to convince the man that they weren't dangerous madmen with blue boxes, but the moment he said that sentence, it made David recoil as he uttered, "Oh, yeah, I see his point."
Just like Pete was with David and Jenny, Mr. Watson isn't fond of his daughter dating Theodore after discovering his unusual qualities, and with what he experienced and encountered since he came into the new job, he's understandably worried that the unusual lifestyle risked his daughter's life.
"I'm sure once you properly explain yourself, it'll change his mind, maybe," David tried comforting Theodore, considering he helped him with Pete, but Theodore doubted him talking to Mr. Watson's going to amount to anything other than a yelling contest between the men.
Pete understood the lifestyle, he experienced and lived it, Mr. Watson didn't, all he knows's what he learnt through his time in the navy.
"Oomph, yeah, that's difficult," David frowns as he realized that it wouldn't be easy for Theodore explaining himself to Mr. Watson on account that he was never a companion or a Doctor, thus he had no experiences like they must fully understand Theodore's points.
Only getting information from Torchwood wasn't giving him the full story and Theodore wouldn't know a way of getting him to experience the real deal without bias.
Sensing the tensity in Theodore, David assured him that no matter what, he'll be with Lila in the end.
"I don't want to have to keep my head on a swivel," Theodore pointed out that it's impossible not tensing up, not with the fear that even if he stays with Lila, his relationship with her father's buggered to the point he'll have to watch his back.
Frowning, David tried to come up with ideas as he had nothing better to do.
Still, there's the issue with the Dalek, which neither men would be able to convince the director to see it their way.
"Whoever she is, she isn't getting my vote!" David made a jab against the director, seeing how she wouldn't understand the gravity of the situation of keeping a living Dalek in its disabled chassis.
For what purpose, he guessed that they want to experiment on it, use technology from its chassis to bolster their technology, as David's said that whatever alien belonged to UNIT and in extension, Torchwood.
"If you have any ideas, old chap, you have my vote," Theodore dryly tells David as he sat on the bed in his electrified cell, unable to open a tear, everything's controlled to the nines at this location, he couldn't even try if he wanted without being electrocuted for his troubles.
Clever gits, them, boobytrapping the electrified cages to keep them from trying any tricks of theirs.
Pondering their options as he sat on his spot, hands under his chin, David's chocolate eyes looked at the ground, he stared at his red and white pair of vanes.
"I know that there's nothing good to come from that Dalek," David gave the obvious answer, "it's only a matter of time before things get worse."
Daleks wouldn't send one scout, not on planets like Earth, they'd want to send more to cover their bases, get ideas where to build their mining barracks, something's wrong, and the fact David can't think of an answer's bothering him.
He doubted that Torchwood managed to successfully interrogate the Dalek, they didn't have much of a leg to stand on, even if the Dalek couldn't explode itself, it would rather die of torture than reveal anything.
No chance the men could convince Torchwood to let them have a go interrogating the Dalek, they're as much as a risk as it, and they're the good guys in this!
"You think they're trying to invade Earth?" Theodore asked David's opinions on the suggestion the Daleks were planning on invading their Earth, causing David to respond with a sarcastic, "Oh, of course, why didn't I think of that!"
Of course, that'd explain the scout, but the issues remained the same, the lack of other scouts to carefully log key points.
Daleks don't roll out of storage suddenly deciding to invade a planet, though they once did that constantly until the Doctor gave them quite a wallop forcing them into changing their strategies or the lack of thereof.
"If that's true, then, where the bloody hell are they?" David questioned if there's a planned invasion, where'd the mothership hide amid their satellites and telescopes, why Torchwood hadn't discovered it on its radars, causing Theodore to ponder the question.
It wouldn't been a rift that they slipped through, not without Torchwood or other agencies catching the disturbances caused by a forming rift on their scanners, and the media attention that stemmed from the news breaking that there's a rift opening in the Milky Way.
Not possible for a Dalek ship to create its own rift to use, again, Torchwood would recognize the disturbances on their radars.
The only explanation that made sense's that the Daleks did go through a rift, but the rift opened in the deepest part of space that even NASA scientists couldn't catch sight with their telescopes.
After an exorbitant number of humiliating defeats, they've wisened up to cloak themselves, using debris in space to hide behind, as they made their trek to the only planet teaming with life.
"But why now?" Theodore questioned why the Daleks decided to come into their neck of the universe to cause problems, now, causing David to point out that with the Daleks, there's no logic with them, only extermination.
Standing up, David walked towards the electrified bars as he worryingly said, "All I know, they won't be happy when they catch us on their scanners."
Three Doctors on one planet?
Two active, one retired?
The moment the Daleks pick up (if they hadn't already) on them, things are going to get worse, and there's no doubt they have every known image of the three men in perfect quality.
Hell, or high water, the Daleks will do anything to tie toe tags to them, even if it means subjugating the entire world to their reign of terror.
The thought alone made David panic, worrying about Jenny and her father.
"Oh! Oh! I am stupid!" David broke down panicking as it dawned on him that his show made it impossible for the world to realize the severity of the situation, the average person won't realize that these weren't Daleks on the show, that they're real!
Managing to calm him down, Theodore comforted David, telling him that this could prove useful for their situation.
Tilting his head as his chocolate hair stiffly moved, David asked what Theodore meant and he elaborated.
"If we play our cards right, we can work this into your show, a promotion if you will," Theodore summed as he shared looks with David as he processed the idea.
Oohing, David mused that it could work, while there's people like them that were aware of the severity of the situation, the average viewer would think nothing of it as more than a promotion for the upcoming series coming out next year.
"But, do you think it'll work?" David asked in earnestly while Theodore calculated their odds, before replying that while there's potential for complications, but since when have their adventures ever been without complications.
Grunting, David uttered, "Fair point!"
Their telepathic conversation came to an end when an unexpected turn of events happened, one that neither men realized possible, but it did, and the soldiers guarding the heavy door moved out of the way as they let someone through, pushing a cart worth of food as the wheels clanked, towards the electrified cages.
It took a moment for the men to process what they're seeing, but to David's shock, it's…
… Pete?
He's wearing sunglasses and looked a little like Tom Petty, but he motioned with his hands for the guards to take their breaks, assuring them that he has it covered.
The bravado's enough to sway the guards into stepping out of the room while Pete's able to converse with the men in the little privacy they have.
"Mr. Pratchett?" Theodore's shocked at the sight of the man, wearing a cream-coloured suit, looking at them with his mischievous grin.
Pulling down his sunglasses, his caramel eyes reflecting the flummoxed men, Pete triumphantly tells them as he pulled on his cream-coloured jacket, "I still have it!"