She'd just about given up. Amy had been trying to rouse one of the men, but it was no use. Looking over to the empty bottles, she sighed. It was just too great an attraction to some people.
A few feet away, Doctor Beckett was talking to Gushie, when suddenly he heard the sound of a door opening. "Al?"
"Sam?" said the hologram in panicked tones. "You've got to get out of here!"
"What about the bomb?"
Amy, Rory and Gushie spun around, knowing that the time traveller was talking to the hologram.
Ignoring the obvious attention on him, Al continued. "Look. There's a problem at Project Quantum Leap. The Doctor says that you and Amy need to get back to the TARDIS now. On the bike!"
"But I can't just leave everyone here!"
Al shrugged his shoulders. "I know, but the Doctor says he had a plan".
Getting impatient, Amy took point. "Doctor Beckett. What's he saying?"
"That you and me need to get back to the TARDIS on the bike, and to leave everyone else here".
Amy shot a glance toward her husband. "No! We can't do that! What about Rory and these other people?"
She waited as Sam reiterated the question to his invisible companion.
"Amy", he said, "do you trust the Doctor?"
A deathly silence followed. Only the feint desert wind could be heard. When Amy replied, it made Al jump. "With every fibre of my being".
"Then go", said Al to Sam, "get on the bike and get back to the ship. He says he knows what he's doing, and that's all I know".
With that, Sam walked over to the bike, lifted it up, and throttled its engine to life. A shower of sand flew up, and he nodded to Amy to join him.
After she'd sat on the seat behind Sam, Al remembered. "Oh, and I need to know exactly when Gushie appeared after he disappeared from the project".
Relaying the question to his friend, Gushie gave the exact time and place.
Al looked at his console. "Sam, you'd better hurry! You've only got twelve minutes left!"
And with that, Sam revved up the engine and he and Amy seemed to fly across the desert floor back to the Gallifreyan timeship.