The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

The Lady & the Giant Pt. 2

Of all adventures they could've ended up in, ending up in one where they dealt with a real possibility of them ending up buried next to Jimmy Hoffa wasn't something Lila pictured when she stepped out with Theodore.

Yet, here they are, looking like two yokels walking through the empty and heavily foggy streets of 1920s London, tracking down the infamous James Crane, and hoping to learn more about his issues with a woman known only as the Giant.

Why this mattered at all, well, considering it's his warehouse the TARDIS' in and the fact that they barely snuck out of the area in the first place, pretty good reasons why it matters.

Sneaking back's not an option, even with the psychic paper, and the fact that the TARDIS brought them here for a reason, well, didn't take Einstein to realize they don't have an option.

Al wouldn't send them somewhere if he didn't think they're needed, so that's that.

As for what they're supposed to do, well, that's the crux of the problem, as they quickly learnt the reason for their visit.

After searching high and low, they found a pub, filled with patrons, and the moment someone with a black eye came out of it, they smelt something that stripped paint jobs.

It's close to the warehouse district, it's Irish, good chance for them finding James Crane, maybe hopefully find someone who knows where he's located if he wasn't inside the pub, and the two went over their story.

"Okay, we're bums looking for jobs and we heard there's a beef between you and some woman we don't even know. How about we make a deal?" Lila summed what Theodore told her as they stood adjacent to the pub as they heard clamors coming from inside.

Nodding as his wild hair bobbed, Theodore replied that it's the plan, and that if he must, he'll pull a fast card.

"Fast card?" Lila balked as she heard him come up with a questionable term until he pointed out that it's a card up his sleeve and he's playing it fast.

Lila asks him what he had in mind and he sheepishly told her that if things aren't looking great, he'll broach the idea of tracking down the Giant, bringing her back to James Crane, go from there.

"Theo, my friend, that's how you get diagnosed with death," Lila pointed out the fatal flaw to his 'fast card,' if they promise James Crane, they'll find the Giant, he's holding them to their words.

If they don't find the Giant, figure out the problems that led her leaving, get her back to him, then they're looking at James Crane holding them by their feet as he dangles them from a tall building, which's the clock tower.

"Another thing, Theo, I don't know if you realized this, but you're English and I'm American, I don't think he's going to find that amusing," Lila pointed out the way it looks, James Crane probably wouldn't want anything to do with them because of their origins. Doubly for Theodore.

Chewing on his inner lip as he's thinking on the fly, Theodore pointed out that while that's true, James Crane's likely to follow the same rules as anybody in his position.

Lila asks what he means and he replied with, "A couple of nobodies that's unaffiliated, needing money, he's able to send us to do the dirty work without dirtying his hands."

Basically, while their accents prove difficult, it's an advantage for James Crane, because he'll easily wave it away if they're caught or killed, since he'll just play a card from his own deck, saying he never employs anyone who isn't Irish.

It'd be foolish if he didn't think about that angle, it's a good angle, he'll keep his homogeneous gang and Theodore and Lila won't sleep with the fishes.