AN: Now we're gonna find out what was so terrible that Gary couldn't see!
Clara whimpered, and pressed her face into the Doctor's tweed jacket. The Doctor pulled her against him. "How could someone do that to a person?" Clara asked, her voice muffled.
Kat gaped in horror at the sight before her on the wall. There was a body that has been nailed to a wall using 10-inch long spikes. At first glance, you couldn't even tell it was human, the skin had been stripped off and stapled to the wall next to the body, using heavy-duty carpenter staples. Red muscle was easily visible, as were the victim's eyeballs. In some places, the even the bone could be seen. A couple from the hand had fallen to the floor.
The floor beneath the body was soaked with blood, the carpet that had once been a baby blue was now a deep maroon, and was turning dark brown. Above the body and its skin were the words 'Doctor, we know what you have'.
The Doctor was confused. "What do I have?"
"I'm fairly sure," Dr. Rosen began. "That they were addressing me,"
"Oh, that makes more sense. Sometimes this I'm-the-Doctor-and-you're-a-doctor thing gets a bit confusing." The Doctor joked weakly.
Clara might have laughed, under different circumstances. "Dr. Rosen, what is it that you have?"
Dr. Rosen was silent for a moment. "I'm not sure...could it be that necklace that was in Nina's office?"
"Well, that would make sense. Did you ever find out what was on it?" Bill spoke for the first time since entering the apartment.
"Not yet, Gary was concentrating more on..." Dr. Rosen gestured to the body on the wall. "This..."
Rachel made a small noise from the corner, where she was now curled up. "Oh no..."
"What is it, Rach?" Nina asked her friend.
"This isn't Hector Dearborne. It's whoever has been living in this apartment," said Rachel, horrified.
"How can you tell?" Hicks asked, aghast.
"Ah..." The Doctor said, understanding. "Well, you said that this Hector fellow was able to produce electricity, correct?" Without waiting for an answer, he continued. "This man doesn't have any part of him that looks as if its been singed or burned from electricity. Also, if you look at his fingertips, you'll see that this man had very distinguishable fingerprints. If Hector Dearborne had been able to produce electricity like you say, his fingerprints would be disfigured, and some wouldn't even be there."
Rachel stared at the Doctor, confused about how he knew what she was going to say. "Y-you're exactly right, this man has very obvious fingerprints, and he hasn't been burned by electricity. This man is not Hector Dearborne."
"But...then where IS Dearborne? We followed him here!" Bill asked.
Everyone thought for a moment, and Kat finally piped up, "Is it possible that Dearborne has two Alpha abilities? Being able to fly, as well as making electricity?"
"I suppose..." Dr. Rosen said. He wasn't sure if this were possible, he'd never come across an Alpha with more than one ability.
"Looks like the alien genes have been mutating!" The Doctor whispered loudly to Clara. Hicks glared at the Doctor, still not believing that he was part alien.
"Dr. Rosen! Dr. Rosen, I cracked the code! I figured out what was on that flash drive!" Gary said, walking in to the apartment. He noticed the dead body hanging on the wall. "Ew, Dr. Rosen who is that?"
"We're not sure yet, Gary. What did you find out?" Dr. Rosen answered.
Shrugging off the mutilated body hanging from the wall, Gary told Dr. Rosen what he had found on the flash drive. "Dr. Rosen, these are shipping orders from China. Thousands of something was shipped here."
"What was being shipped, Gary?" Asked Clara.
Gary was about to speak when Bill interrupted. "Before we continue this fascinating conversation, can we move somewhere else? This dead guy is freaking me out,"
All nodded their assent, and they walked back out to the van, while Bill made some calls in order to get the dead body picked up and identified.
Not so comfortably sitting in the van, the Doctor, Clara, and the Alphas continued talking about the contents on the flash drive. They hadn't been able to determine what exactly had been shipped, as most of it was in Chinese, only that it was some sort of electronic device, and thousands of them were at the Southside Docks, which is where they were headed. Apparently, no one had unpacked the shipping containers yet, and the Alphas were hoping to intercept the devices before Stanton Parish got to them.
Having reached Southside Docks, Nina pushed an employee, and made him show them which container was registered to Stanton Parish. "Has anyone come to claim this container?" Nina asked the man. The man shook his head. "Go back to what you were doing before we arrived, and don't tell anyone that you brought us here," ordered Nina. Silently, the man walked away.
Rachel tugged on the large padlock that held the doors of the shipping container together.
"I'll handle this," said the Doctor, reaching into his jacket pocket for his sonic.
Bill held up a hand and said, "I got this," The Doctor watched Bill as he got all sweaty, and then ripped the padlock cleanly off of the doors. Satisfied, Bill tossed the lock aside, and opened the doors, only to find that the container was completely empty.
AN: How about that dead body?! I tried to make it sound realistic. And what could possibly have been in that shipping container! Find out next Saturday!