Joe was tied to a chair in the hotel's function room. The room was itself was a startling sight. Every chair at every table was occupied by a ventriloquists dummy. They were all laughing. They stopped laughing and their heads turned as Aderyn, River and the Doctor entered the room. Joe had been sat with his chin resting on his chest. As the laughing stopped, he looked up.
"We didn't know what else to do with him." Aderyn explained.
"Hello, I'm the Doctor." The Doctor said, approaching Joe and sitting in the only available chair.
"We're going to die here," Joe said quietly "I've seen the light. I lived a blasphemous life, but he has forgiven my inconstancy, and soon he shall feast."
The Doctor looked at him, observing the horseshoe tie pin and dice cufflinks "What's he waiting for?"
"We're still raw. He was waiting for us to be ready. Now I am," Joe said. "Soon you will be, too. Be patient. First, find your room. Everyone has a room Doctor. Even you. Find your room, then praise him."
The Doctor stood quickly and walked back to Aderyn "Praise him? Praise who?"
Aderyn shrugged.
"He said everyone has a room, which we knew because Aderyn has already told us that. But praise who?" The Doctor walked through the tables and chairs at the bar "And what are you doing here?"
"We don't know how we got here or why we're here. But we can't leave." Rita said. She watched the Doctor carefully. Aderyn had mentioned someone called the Doctor. But she said he had been a genius. This man did not look like a genius and his constant pacing was making her dizzy.
"Can't you just walk out?" Rory said.
"Ah yes, why did it take me two weeks to realise that?" Aderyn walked over to a window and parted the curtains. There was nothing behind the curtain "It's the same with the door. Nothing but a wall behind it."
"You've been here two weeks?" The Doctor stopped pacing and stood in front of Aderyn. She nodded. The Doctor hugged her quickly.
"That will be all," He whispered in her ear. When he let her go she smiled at him, but deep down she didn't believe even he could get them out of this. "You said you were running from an Angel?" The Doctor said, suddenly realising what had been niggling at him.
"Yes. I've been running from them for a while. It started a couple of years ago. I kept getting the feeling that I was being followed and then I kept seeing statues where there shouldn't' be one."
"How is that possible?" Amy asked "The Weeping Angels fell into the crack?" The Doctor shrugged. Right now he just wanted to get them all out of their.
Aderyn sighed and turned to address the room at large "If you see an exit then take it. Sometimes someone ends up here who isn't meant to. They get an exit. If you're going to go into a room make sure someone else is with you. Even if it's your own room. In fact, especially if it's your own room. This place gets in your head, so for God sake take someone with you."
"You keep saying that." The Doctor said. He span Aderyn around to face him and pointed his screwdriver at her eyes.
"Saying what?" Aderyn said, pushing away the screwdriver as green spots invaded her vision.
"That this place gets inside your head. You keep saying it. Why?"
"Because it does. Just wait until you see what's in the rooms. You have to remember that none of it is real. Sometimes that's difficult. You've seen Joe. Poor Howie is convinced this is some kind of CIA conspiracy and Rita thinks this is Jahannam. I don't keep repeating it for your benefit, it's for mine." When Aderyn turned away from the Doctor he looked at the readings on the screwdriver. This was not good.
"What is Jahannam?" Amy asked.
"It's Hell. I'm Muslim, we don't have the same idea of Hell as most people. Something in here is making people praise them. When they give in, it kills them." Rita said, trying to relieve some of the obvious tension.
"But what is it?" River asked.
"We don't know," Howie shrugged "It's not a good idea to let it see you. As soon as it comes, we run."
The laughing from the dummies in the function room became louder. It rang in their ears. They looked around at the door. Joe stood in the doorway, his arms raised "Praise him."
"How did he get out?" Gibbis stammered.
Aderyn picked up her mask from the bar, putting it on again.
"You know the drill," she said. Howie, Rita and Gibbis ran from the room, knocking Joe from the doorway as they went. "You lot, with me." She ran. The run up the stairs and along the corridor was all too familiar. She found her room quickly. As she threw open the door she looked round, Rory had stopped, he was staring at a door. "Rory," she shouted, lifting her mask "If that's an exit then take it." She ran into the room without waiting to see whether he followed.