The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

The Doll Maker Pt. 7

With the knowledge that they won't be able to help the victims of the shopkeeper, that their bodies became akin to the silk that typical spiders wove around their prey and their innards liquified before thickening, it led to Theodore and Lila questioning how they'll tell the MacDonalds.

"I didn't promise them," Theodore reminded Lila that he didn't get the MacDonalds' hope up, he never guaranteed that he'll find Daphne, much less bring her back alive, but he can guarantee that he'll bring justice for her death and give closure.

Blinking, Lila says that while he's right, she reminded him about how emotions run rampant in parents during dire situations such as this, and how they'll take any sliver of hope as a chance, even when they know it won't come to pass, sooner than accepting the truth.

"My father always told me it was never easy. Al, is there anything you can find that'll help us?" Theodore asks him if there's anything in his limited search that'll help them against the arapulo and as he's pondering to himself, Al finally responded, saying that whatever killed Basil's effective.

Though, that's still debatable, the brain mushed, liquified, spilled out of his tiny ear holes, no way for them to be sure as to what happened, but the point is, whatever happened to Basil, got him before he got whoever did it.

"If he follows the usual tenets, he'll fall down hard, he'll bleed, his skin isn't made of diamonds," Al summarized that with the limited knowledge he has, if someone killed Basil, they can kill this one, but it has an advantage in the sewers, as it acted like an underground tunnel.

The intelligence on the arapulo, Al's not sure, but he's well-aware when the police activity increased after he took Constable Matthews, but not bright enough to hide out until the heat died down, but it's possible that with the apathetic police enabling him to hunt with impunity, he became bolder when choosing his quarry, like a tiger accustomed to hunting humans after killing enough without consequences.

He's not afraid, because he's used getting his dolls, as he called them, that he won't turn away from his hunting ground just because of the officers.

He'll likely do whatever it took keeping his tracks covered, go as far as hunting the officers if he's forced, just to keep his hunting ground.

"I don't even know how we're even going to tell them," Lila noted that when everything's said and done, they'll have one problem, breaking the news to the MacDonalds that their daughter and nanny's dead, long after they've been taken, and that it was the work of an alien that made its way through a tear.

Not even a political spinner could make that palatable for them.

While thinking to himself, Theodore sighs as he says that they'll do what they can to bring closure to the MacDonalds, even if it means having to tell them that it was the work of an alien, how well that'll go, Theodore won't doubt it'll be emotional.

However, he never promised them that he'll find their daughter alive. He only said that he'll work to find her, if that.

His father always told him never to make elaborate or greater promises he can't possibly keep, it's both bad form on his part and causes problems.

Don't make promises he can't deliver, as his mother summed.

"You know, something hit me, like a space rock. Hear me out. He wouldn't want to eat his dolls, would he, no, he wouldn't even want to poke holes in them to drain the fluid just to keep their integrity and keep them from reverting back," Al suddenly had an idea why he found the rat population in the sewers dwindled in a way that's impossible at this era.

Some migrated the moment the arapulo moved into the sewers, some became his meals so he wouldn't have to prey on his beloved dolls.

Snorting, Lila mentioned that for someone who loved his dolls, he certainly didn't drop a tear when the bratty girl unknowingly killed her best friends in her tantrum.