Blending in with the Vanguard was already difficult, but things became even more difficult for the traveling Doctor when something happened that resulted in a full-blown lockdown.
The Vanguard was in high alert that he thought he was finally caught, but through context he discovers that someone else was implicated in the murder and whoever it was enough to send Gallifrey into a lockdown.
He was given a weapon and told not to let anyone get into the forbidden parts, which sounded simple enough, but given that no one would tell him who the suspect was, well, he wasn't sure what to make of it, without giving himself away.
His hands tied, the Doctor proceeded to follow his orders before making his way to the forbidden areas where few ever traversed, that some consider a myth, and he reckoned he was the only human to have ever seen it.
Everything was quiet as a mouse and nothing stirred, felt like he was going through a tomb the more he delved deeper into the unknown while carrying on the charade.
Keeping his promise, he attempted to locate Taylor, but everything's a maze down here, it's amazing no one got lost.
Though, with everything creepy and dark, the Doctor admittedly waited for the punchline of finding a skull or a complete skeleton.
He stops when he hears pattering noises ahead of him.
He thought it was his imagination, the pattering continued until something slammed into him.
"Oomph!" The Doctor fell backwards.
In a daze he couldn't register what was happening until something forced him up from the ground and his eyes caught up to him.
In front of him, he saw a woman with a terrified look on her face.
"Oh, you must be Taylor, we've been looking for you!" The Doctor cheerfully said before Taylor eyed him with confusion before he explains that he wasn't a Vanguard and Paul asked for his help finding her.
When she hears what happened, Taylor shakes her head in disbelief as she questioned how anyone thought Paul killed Theta.
"I'm not sure, but that's beside the point, where onearthwere you?" The Doctor questioned where Taylor went.
Shrugging, Taylor answers that she didn't know, one moment she was looking for Othello with Theta, the next she found herself in an underground waterway, being chased by someone who looked like Paul, but wasn't, talking mad.
"That'd explain a few things. Come on, let's get out of here, have the Vanguard do something about it. Maybe that'll be enough to prove his innocence," the Doctor musters as he had Taylor run ahead of him as he trailed behind.
The problem with being unfamiliar with the intricate tunnels and corridors, always getting lost, the Doctor mustering that he wished there were maps of the place, he can't rightly tell which way is where and of course no one around to help.
Struggling, the two made their way around the corridor where it was a dead end.
Turning around, the two were met with a woman with pale skin and dark eyes with fine lines around her cheeks.
Taken aback, the Doctor couldn't register her fast enough as she quickly subdued him.
He fell to the ground in a slump, and she attempted to finish what she started, but Taylor shouted at her not to kill him.
"Is he not the Doctor?" the woman challenged her.
Recoiling, Taylor mustered that it doesn't matter whether he was or not, that he's unconscious, he's no threat to her.
"He truly isn't?" The woman mocked before hovering her hand over his chest.
Taylor tried fighting her, but the woman overwhelmed her and pressed her against the wall with her dark eyes staring into Taylor's emerald eyes.
Struggling, Taylor felt the arm pressing against her neck, and she heard the woman calmly ask her, "Do you want to know the truth?"
Pinned to the wall, Taylor was helpless as the woman leaned in and stared into her emerald eyes.
"I wasn't lying," the woman cryptically said before Taylor had enough and demanded answers from her.
Honestly, it was so the woman wouldn't turn her attention to the unconscious Doctor behind, while Taylor tried to think of something.
Eying her, Taylor challenged her about that.
"I know who you are, where you're from, and more," the woman stated.
Challenging her, Taylor's shocked when the woman accurately told her everything about her to an uncomfortable detail.
This woman who she never saw before, but clearly knew her better than even Paul, it was almost impossible.
Seeing her awe, the woman chuckled as she admits that she has "home field" advantage.
Taken aback by this, Taylor asked the woman who she was, but she told her the same answer as before, she didn't have a name.
She knew everything about Taylor because of what she called "shared history."
Of course, Taylor didn't know her, and that's par course, she was only a baby when she was stolen, so of course she wouldn't know a thing.
"My mother stole me?" Taylor eyes her.
Scoffing at this, the woman bitterly shook her head as she mocked Taylor.
"And I'm sure she told you wild stories about your disappeared father, too, hm?" the woman proceeded to mock Taylor.
Angry, Taylor defended her mother, only for the woman to chortle at this, amused by her display.
"She wasneverthat nice to me!" The woman commented before Taylor grew even more upset.
Greatly amused by this, the woman dropped the cryptic act and gave Taylor what she wanted.
Answers.
"She wasneveryour mother. It was alieshe told herself to make herself feel better about what she did to keep herself alive," the woman revealed something unsavory about Taylor's late mother.
Stunned by this, Taylor tried finding the thread, a lie, but seeing the serious look in the woman's dark eyes, it proved impossible for Taylor to find it.
Shaking her head, Taylor couldn't believe her mother would so something implied heinous, and the woman was in disbelief that Taylor would keep calling her that.
"If you think that woman wouldn't have thrownyouto the wolf when the cards were down, you reallyarethe perfect victim," the woman snorts.
Trust her, it wouldn't be the first time.
Her emotions welling inside her, Taylor internally panicked as the woman was telling wild things that she didn't want to believe were true, that this was some insane trick, she wasn't sure, but as her eyes were darting back and forth trying to find reason, she saw a glimpse of a man in the darkness behind, wearing a pressed suit.
Everything around them frozen and the woman blankly stares as Taylor as she was the only able to move.
"Taylor..." she heard her name as the man stepped through the darkness with his illuminating eyes.
Her heart in her throat, Taylor hugged the wall behind her as she watched the man approach her.
"I am...here... to ensure... thatevents... go according toplan... but know that... shenever... wanted you... toknow... the truth," the man stressed that there were things that needed prodding and that meant changing things and that Taylor's mother genuinely wanted her to live a lie, but unfortunately, the woman was speaking the truth.
Things got out of hand for him that intended version of the meeting didn't go according to plan for him, but he managed to salvage it to some degree.
"Who is this woman?!" Taylor demanded to know, and the man told her by reaching out and touching her hand.