The Doctor was quiet, sitting in the back of the room while Jack handed out the tasks at the morning meeting. Nothing new had come through the rift during the night so all the tasks were to finish up work around the hub and close any investigations that they had going before something new appeared. Jack dismissed his team leaving the office with Ianto as they discussed the paperwork that Jack was behind on signing. The Doctor continued to sit sipping his tea as he watched the others leave until it was just him and Martha sitting in the conference room. Martha opened her mouth to talk to him but the Doctor spoke before she could.

"How is August?" The Doctor asked.

"He is doing well and if you are still here next weekend, you can join Jack, Gwen, and I at the park so that you can see him," Martha told him.

"I don't plan on going anywhere," The Doctor stated surprising her. She never expected him to agree to join the playdate they had planned with her two-year-old son and Gwen's two-year-old daughter. Emily was slightly older then them being three but they were still close enough in age the three of them were able to interact and play happily together.

"While I would love to see you there next Saturday, we both know that you don't ever stay. You make plans to see your daughter or help someone at the hub and then just disappear during the night," Martha informed him. She had stopped believing his promises to stay years ago as he was never good with following through. He would show up when he wanted to, or when they called him. Stay for a few hours then disappear just as quickly without an explanation regardless of how much he promised to stay and help them with. Over time she learned to have him help her the same day or figure out how to complete the task herself.

"I know but I promise this time things will be different. I found him, Martha. After years of looking, I finally have the opportunity to stop him. Once that is done, I will no longer have to run in the middle of the night to chase rumors of his whereabouts before he moves on again. I can stay and rest while helping Jack to raise our daughter," the Doctor explained.

"Do you need help stopping him?" Martha questioned.

"I can't put anyone else into danger, Martha. I know I can't stop him alone and Jack has already offered to kill him for me. I think it would be better if just the two of us go after him but I would like you to care for Emily while we are gone. We shouldn't be gone for more than the afternoon but I need to know that she is going to be safe and taken care of if something happens to us," the Doctor told her.

"Of course I will take care of Emily for you but you better make sure that you and Jack come back. I don't want to have to sit up at night with her wondering what happened to her daddy and her uncle," Martha answered.

"I'll try," The Doctor promised. It was the most he could promise because when dealing with the Master nothing was guaranteed to go smoothly. One of the last times he faced the Master he had planned to take him down silently, instead, he had to spend a year being tortured for a year.

He finished off his tea standing with the empty cup. He made his way out of the conference room dropping his teacup off at the kitchen to be washed. He then made his way down to the vault. Ianto let him in so that he could identify the artifact from yesterday. Once it was in his hand, though, he quickly realized that it was an explosive device and it was a miracle that it hadn't gone off yet. He used his sonic to disable it but still didn't feel safe leaving it in Jack's vault. He signed it out of the vault, planning on storing it in his TARDIS where she could contain it if necessary. He took it with him to Jack's office where his TARDIS was parked in her usual corner.

Jack was on the phone and he watched as the Doctor went into the TARDIS, leaving the door open behind him. It was his way of telling Jack that he wasn't going to be leaving and that Jack was welcome to come aboard whenever he wanted. He went down to his own vault storing the bomb in a special status compartment that would keep it from going off. With it secured, he went back up to the control room finding Jack sitting on the captain's seat waiting for him. He had his feet up on the console and his hands behind his head as he stared up at the tall vaulted ceiling.

"Tell me about where the Master is," Jack told him as a way of greeting as he reappeared. The Doctor sat leaned against the edge of the console as he began to tell Jack about the strange island that the Master was living on. While he hadn't been lying when he said that the Master was living peacefully with the people there was definitely something wrong on the island. For one thing, there were no adults over the age of thirty unless they were disabled in some way either mentally or physically. He asked a few people what happened to the other adults but all he was told is that they followed a golden road to paradise. He looked around the island but he didn't see any golden roads so he assumed they meant it was a metaphoric road.

The other problem with the island that everyone was terrified of the water. They wouldn't venture out into the sea that surrounded the island stating it was dangerous but unable to give him a sufficient reason why. Some people believed that there was a large sea creature that lived in the water ready to pull them under if they dared to venture out too far. Others seemed to think that the water was deadly while others stated it was too deep and cold to swim far in. One thing that was agreed upon, however, is that shortly after someone's thirtieth birthday they will get the urge to venture out into the water, sailing or swimming away from the island never to return.

"I thought you said nothing sinister was going on," Jack stated.

"As far as I can tell nothing sinister is happening. I can't tell why there are only young people and what is happening to the adults when they leave the island. That is something we are going to have to find out," the Doctor answered.

"I don't think we can do this on our own, Doc," Jack told him.

"I know but I don't want to put anyone else in danger. I already told Martha that she can help me by watching Emily for us and I am not going to take Mickey or Ianto. So unless you had anyone else in mind, then we are on our own," the Doctor responded.

"I think I might."