The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

First Time Pt. 3

Clark showed Theodore and Lila the operations within the hidden bunker underneath the ruins of London. People wearing tattered clothing as they're trying to survive, huddled around barrels of fire, looks of despair on their faces as they're maligned by the Daleks.

"It's not much, but when we first found the bunker, it wasn't all that great of a shape," Clark explained to them how they came to find what would've become their bunker, their place of operations.

It used to be part of the subway system, but somehow survived the bombings while other parts crumbled.

Supported with whatever the survivors found that fit, the bunker's reinforced, and it made Lila ask questions about how they managed to survive this long, the Daleks must've suspected something afoul.

"Well, we thought about that too, O'Malley's the one who found it, can't believe he was willing to even touch the damn thing, I'll be honest, miss," Clark explained how.

The Daleks wouldn't go near their bunker because they think it's radioactive. Rather, it is radioactive, but not in the way Lila thinks it is.

Clark showed them a blocked off area, heavily marked with warnings, and said that O'Malley obtained plutonium rods, a lot of them, and with them, the Resistance fooled the Daleks.

Theodore remarked, "Well, what if a Dalek fancies some plutonium in the morning?"

Daleks aren't known for thinking ahead, but they're always for obtaining whatever they think they needed to continue their reign over their captured territories.

It surprised Theodore when Clark gave him an answer, O'Malley said the Daleks wouldn't seek the plutonium out.

He asserted that the Daleks instead would've avoided the area because they're simply uninterested in harvesting potential plutonium.

"You wouldn't happen to know where he obtained the plutonium, would you?" Lila inquired where O'Malley found the rods.

Incursion or not, nobody's going to look for plutonium rods on top of getting milk from the store.

Thinking back, Clark told her that O'Malley said something like they're "gifts."

He didn't tell the Resistance much and for a short while, they thought he'd flipped to the Daleks' side, but no, O'Malley stayed true until his death.

"Plutonium rods as Valentine's Day presents, they're not," Lila balked at the thought that O'Malley called them gifts, but Clark shrugged his tattered arms as he said that it was O'Malley's words, not his.

All they knew from the old man's that he found them and since securing them, the Daleks haven't found them, and they've been underground for weeks.

"And he never said where he found them, correct?" Theodore wondered if O'Malley said anything, but Clark affirmed that the old man didn't tell them anything about the plutonium rods.

Cryptic until the end, it'd seem.

When Clark became distracted with someone asking for his help, Theodore and Lila talked to each other privately.

"I'm guessing whoever wanted him to pass along the message gave him the rods," Lila looked up to Theodore as he pondered before nodding.

He agreed with her as he added, "Maybe it was an exchange?"

For whatever reason, desperation perhaps, O'Malley forged a deal with whoever. For the plutonium rods, he passed along the message to the Doctor.

Lila inquired if anything came out mind, but Theodore said that he doesn't know anyone fitting the MO. Maybe it wasn't someone his father encountered, but someone else, it happens.