Meanwhile, back on the planet's surface, the Doctor, the Professor, Amy, Belle and Mr Gold were walking with Harvey to an escape pod, half-buried in the snow. "We came down two days ago. There are twelve of our escape pods. I don't know what happened to them," Harvey said.
The Professor looked at the escape hatch that Harvey had opened. "Alaska? Hmm...Now Sexy came from that ship too, right?"
"Sexy?" the Doctor asked, then remembered the Professor's pet name for Oswin. "Oh...Souffle Girl... She's been here a year, though."
"We should have some climbing rope long enough for that hole," Harvey said, going into the pod first, followed by the Doctor, the Professor, Amy, Belle and Mr Gold.
"Won't you introduce us to your crew?" the Doctor asked, looking around a bit.
"Ah, yes, sorry. Guys, this is the Doctor, Amy, the Professor, Belle and Rumplestiltskin," Harvey said, but there was no response. "Guys?" he asked again.
"Perhaps this will help," Mr Gold said, turning the lights on with a flick of his hand, only to show that the crew were desiccated corpses.
"Oh, my god," Harvey said, looking stunned.
The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and did a quick scan. He read the readings from it. "They're dead. All of them."
"That's not possible. I just spoke to them. Two hours ago. We were doing engine repairs."
"You're sure about that, are you? Because I'd say, they've all been dead for a very long time."
"But they can't have been."
"Well, they didn't get in this state in two hours," Amy said.
"No, of course. Stupid me," Harvey said, suddenly realising.
"Of course what?" Belle asked.
"I died outside, and the cold preserved my body. I forgot about dying," Harvey said before a Dalek eyestalk popped out of his forehead. The Doctor grabbed a fire extinguisher and let it off in Harvey's face.
"Professor, the door!" the Doctor ordered.
The Professor opened the door with magic, and Mr Gold shoved Harvey through it before closing it again, putting a protection spell in front of it.
"Explain. That's what you're good at. How'd he get all Daleked?" Amy asked.
"Because he wasn't wearing one of these," the Doctor answered, pointing at his bracelet. "Oh, ho, ho. That's clever. The nano cloud. Microorganisms that automatically process any organic matter, living or dead, into a Dalek puppet. Anything attacks this place; it automatically becomes part of the on-site security."
"Living or dead?"
"These wristbands protect us. The only thing stopping us going exactly the way he did –"
"Doctor, shut up! Living or dead?" Amy interrupted.
"Yes, exactly. Living or, or..." the Doctor said, before noticing that all the corpses had glowing Dalek eyestalks and were starting to move, "... Dead. Oh, dear."
Mr Gold went to meet them and raised his cane before whacking them with it, giving The Doctor, the Professor, Amy, and Belle time to get to the safety of the cockpit. Mr Gold backed in last, shutting the bulkhead door and, with a flick of his hand, made a magical barrier in front of it too. "That should hold them," he said.
"Is it bad that I've really missed this?" Amy asked.
"Yes," the Doctor said.
"Good."
"I know."
"Wow..." Belle said. "All my life, I dreamt of excitement and adventure. I never thought it was in another land."
"That is why I left Gallifrey..." the Doctor said with a smile. "I had dreamt of adventure and excitement too."
"Unauthorised personnel may not enter the cockpit," said Oswin, over the speaker, cutting off the conversation.
"And hello to you too, Sexy," the Professor said.
"Is that to your father over there? The one with that chin...?"
"Is that her again, soufflé girl?" Amy asked.
"Yeah, she ... Oi, what is wrong with my chin?" the Doctor asked, irritated and going over to the control panel, where his son was.
"Careful, dear. You'll put someone's eye out. Scanning you. You're in another of the escape pods from the Alaska, right?" Oswin asked. "Same ship I was on..."
"If you're in a crashed ship, how are you hacking into everything?" the Professor asked.
"Long story. Is there a word for a total screaming genius that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?"
"Professor. You can call me the Professor. "
"See what you did there," Oswin said, which made the Professor chuckle. She then continued, "Check the floor. I'm picking up a breach at floor level. There could be a way out. See you later." She then cut off the connection.
"Ah-ha! Hatch. Looks like it's been used already, and they've tried to block it off behind them," the Doctor said, opening a small escape hatch in the floor. "Now, the lower part of the pod is buried. This must go straight down to the Asylum," the Doctor said.
"Where Rory is," Amy said.
"Speaking of Rory, is there anything you want to tell me?"
"Are we going to do this now?"
"What happened?"
"What can I do?"
"Nothing. It's not one of those things you can fix like you fix your bowtie. Don't give me those big wet eyes, Raggedy Man. It's life. Just life. That thing that goes on when you're not there."
The Doctor looked down the hatch, which showed a shaft headed down into the planet, with a flexible metal ladder hanging down it.
"So someone else got out this way, then," Belle said.
"Yeah, let's go and find them. Oh, hello, hello, hello. What are they up to?" the Doctor asked. The zombies were on a small monitor that was mounted on the wall and waved a small, black object at the camera.
"What's that?" Mr Gold asked, pointing at the screen. "It's like they're taunting us..."
"These," the Doctor said, indicating to his wristband. "But where did they get it?"
"Doctor, they got it from me," Amy said.
"Oh, Amy," the Doctor said, shaking his head.
"Doctor, what's going to happen to me? Seriously. Tell me ..." Amy demanded.
While the Doctor and the Professor were dealing with Amy's bracelet problem, Rory was in a chamber deep below them. He took out a multi-functional pen and used the light at the end to explore his new surroundings - and trying to get out alive. He was halfway to the door when he accidentally kicked a piece of metal on the ground, making a Dalek eyestalk start to glow blue.
"Shush," Rory said, but it was no good. The other Daleks in the room started to boot up, too, making all sort of strange sounds. "What? Sorry, what?" Rory asked, confused.
"Egg. . .Egg," one Dalek said stiffly.
"Eggs? You mean those things?" Rory asked, picking up a Dalek sensor orb on the ground.
"Egg..."
"I don't ... I don't know what you want. Those things. Are those things eggs? This? You want this."
"Egg... Stir... Min... Ate..."
Rory dropped the ball in fear as he knew what the Dalek was trying to say.
"Exterminate!" the Dalek managed to say.
"Exterminate!" the others said. One Dalek fired a blast, but it just missed Rory.
"Emergency. Emergency. Exterminate. Exterminate," one Dalek said.
"Run! The door at the end, run for it. They're waking up, but they're slow—the door at the end. Just run. Now! Now! Now!" Oswin ordered through a speaker in the room.
"Exterminate. Exterminate," the Daleks said as the door rose up. Rory slid under into a corridor, and then the door shut behind him.
"So, anyway, I'm Oswin. What do I call you?" Oswin said through the speaker.
"Er, I can't remember. Er, Rory," Rory said.
"Lovely name, Rory. The first boy I ever fancied was called Rory."
"Okay, then."
"Actually, she was called Nina. I was going through a phase. Just flirting to keep you cheerful," Oswin said. "Well, others would call it flirting."
"Exterminate. Exterminate," the Daleks said back in the room.
"Er, okay, any time you want to start flirting again is fine by me."
