The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

On Midsomer's Nightmare Pt. 1

Going up the ladder, the men reached the topside.

Standing near the opened hole holding her torch, none other than Lila, having made her way to where they are, and Cyrus wasn't happy about it, wanting answers how she received authorization from Josef, nobody leaves the camp without Josef's approval, he'd never let anyone go alone, especially a woman.

"Look, I have a damn good explanation for why I'm out here: I convinced Josef to let me come out here and find ya'll. One of the people in the camp I was treating, who almost shot me multiple times, by the way, said something isn't right with the power plant," Lila explained why she's out on her own in the ruins.

It started with someone from outside the camp, the only survivor of a scavenger team from Camp Sigma.

After his misfortune encounter with a pack of mutant dogs that completely mauled his team and almost killed him, he managed to survive because he fell into a hole opening under him, leading into the subway tunnel below. The mutant dogs wouldn't follow him and he managed to make it far enough before he collapsed. Another team from a different camp found him and brought him back, in his state, they couldn't risk bringing him back to their camp since they wanted to reserve their medicine for emergencies.

Couldn't bring him back to Camp Sigma, it's not in the same area, and would've taken more time.

So, with some talk, they sent him to Camp Prime for stabilization.

Camp Sigma's notified shortly after the arrival and willing to pay for the medical costs and Lila wanted to charge them extra because of the man nearly shooting her.

It started off normal, she's checking over the patient with Dimitri's help. He asks Lila to ready a syringe and she did, she's about to inject the man when he sprung up suddenly, shouting with fear in his eyes.

Pulled a hidden gun from his back pocket. Thankfully, he missed her by an inch, only hitting the wall beside her.

Only one gunshot caused every guard to rush in, armed to the teeth. He didn't go easily when they tried apprehending him, but they managed to haul him to the holding cell while Dimitri tried to give him something to calm him down.

Finally got him to quiet down for a few before he woke up and the moment he did, he kept talking nonsense, enough that the guards almost clocked him to shut him up, before mentioning that the power plant isn't what it seems.

Lila heard this secondhand and snuck in the holding cell to talk to him, barring her distrust in him, and he told her that the Shadow Man he mentioned, it came from the power plant, and he thinks it's trying to draw people there, for whatever reason.

He only fired at her because he swore seeing the Shadow Man near her, thinking it's trying to get him, but now he's not sure, thinking that it moved on somewhere else.

How Lila managed to convince Josef came when the man relayed his frantic tale of seeing the Shadow Man following him after he'd attempted to scavenge with his team near the route to the power plant.

At first, the man, who eventually identified himself as Barkov, saw a humanoid shape near some of turned over roads they passed by on their scavenging. It always disappeared whenever he tried to turn his head to look at it better, but in the corner of his eye, he sees a dark humanoid shape following him.

Without fail, he never saw the humanoid shape properly and his team didn't believe him, despite numerous attempts by Barkov to prove to them.

They wouldn't believe him and no amount changed their minds, forcing Barkov to watch in the corner of his eye as the silent humanoid shape kept following him.