Shellfish Sham
Subtitle: The Chapter With Too Many Hyphens
Words: 124
The back of the final oyster was finally to them, its 'hands' cuffed. The Doctor exchanged some final words with the lead Detective before triumphantly presenting his wallet to Donna, complete with currency and psychic paper.
The scam ring set up by one of the biggest sea-owners on the all-water planet hadn't been operating long, but many had been cheated out of home and hard-earned money.
The Doctor's interference, by cheer blind luck, had stopped the crabs and oysters that had been running the operation—and Donna was never eating shellfish again, thank you very much—right in their tracks.
And yet, Donna worried most about the fact that seeing fish in three-piece suits no longer surprised her. It was time to visit Earth.