The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

The Lady & the Giant Pt. 5

Standing in the console room, Theodore and Lila wracked their brains trying to find answers why Annika wanted Kira.

She's older than the typical victim of the mythical Baba Yaga, but with that said, none of them think it's for altruistic reasons why Annika wanted her.

Nobody spotted Annika for years until now and that's confusing Theodore and Lila, since she's abnormally tall, someone would've said something if they spotted her a mile away.

There's no way someone would've overlooked seeing her, but here they are, and it led them thinking that Annika hid away from human society due to height, but something changed.

For whatever reason, Annika chose to enter human society, and she did it without hiding her abnormalities from humans.

Bold, more she didn't show fear of the chances that a mob would've tried hunting her down out of fear.

"Why would she even want to come to London, the epicenter where everyone would've known she exists, and any unscrupulous individuals surely would've picked an opportunity to kill her for their own benefit if not worse," Lila found it difficult for her to believe Annika willingly emigrated to London without knowing that her appearance would've attracted unwanted attention.

"Unless she keeps her appearances to a minimal," Theodore shrugs as he theorized that Annika's well-aware of the dangers, so she keeps her appearances bare, only showing up when it suits her needs.

She boldly approached Kira in the open, but other than that, he doesn't think she shopped around the Main Street.

"Not to mention, plausible deniability, would you believe Jimmy?" Lila mentions that Annika choosing where she shows up would've worked to her advantage, with Jimmy, people who're already bedeviled by him wouldn't take his word if he tried telling them a tall woman took Kira.

At most, they'd think he'd finally cracked or made a residence in an opium den somewhere.

"But the man I talked to knew her enough to point me to where she lived," Theodore remembered as he pondered their situation.

Lila shrugs as she says that he probably never saw her in person, probably only knew her because of delivery people asking for directions.

"As for why he didn't realize the banker and his family disappeared without a trace, maybe it's because he doesn't care or it's below his pay. Think about it, he's only there keeping the undesirables out, whatever goes on among the uppercuts of society, isn't his business unless they short him," she gave her thoughts why the hired guard didn't think twice when he pointed Theodore to Annika's residence.

He probably didn't think twice when the banker and his family suddenly left without taking their belongings, for all he cares, he's getting paid until someone shorts him in his paycheck.

"Another thing, if the banker was in Jimmy's pockets, wouldn't he have noticed him gone, why wouldn't he have told us this before?" Theodore remembered what Al told them about the missing banker and his family.

Jimmy isn't the type allowing one of his pocketed bankers going MIA, he'd want his trusted men investigating the disappearance.

Rubbing her eyes, Lila reminded him that Jimmy pieced it together when Kira went with Annika, figuring out the correlation between one his bankers missing and Annika's appearance.

Wouldn't take long for a mob boss finding out that the banker's dead and his killer took over his home.

Not that it mattered.

There's one thing a mob boss expects, people on his payroll dying at any point in time, that's par course, they're expendable to his eyes.

Losing his asset, that's an ugly slight he can't overlook.