The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

A Royale Pain! Pt. 6

Theodore's plan involved something basic, something simple, something anyone could do if they're good at acting, and it's a plan that's getting looks between Catherine and Cole.

In his plan, they'll return to the castle, Cole, in his disguise, reveals that he killed the king, proving to the court that Catherine was right. Theodore and Lila masquerade themselves as guards for the fictional kingdom that Cole came from that had orders from that kingdom's king for Cole's retrieval pending trial and punishment for unrelated crimes.

In return for allowing Cole's departure from Scotland, the court's given lavish coins, everything that Cole found in his underwater trek, enough to appease the court for the death of the king.

With the baron becoming ineligible for marrying, Catherine won't have to worry about producing the world's disturbing hybrid children, and she'll have plenty of time to herself before the next set of suitors comes her way.

There, that's the plan, the simplest plan in all the world.

As Theodore pointed out, Cole may've accidentally killed Catherine's father, but he hadn't done anything to her, so the punishment must fit the crime. It's a grievous misuse of justice if Theodore simply sacks Cole for harassing Catherine, a different story had he tried to actively covert her into one of the hybrids for breeding.

As to what'll happen to Cole, since Theodore opted not to kill him because he'd only killed one person since his arrival and seemed willing to talk to them, Theodore's banishing him to a different world far from this version of Earth.

It won't be anything like his home world, Theodore wouldn't guarantee the world he sends Cole to is a bowl of cherries, but he can guarantee it'll be a world that Cole has a decent chance for himself that wouldn't cause issues in the future, provided Cole stays within that world.

Going over the plan in detail left Catherine with a look on her face, but Theodore said it was the only plan that he can think of that would've given everyone what they wanted, within reason.

Stressing on "within reason."

Cole's exasperated look on his scaly face's enough to get his point across, but Theodore insisted that it's the plan that they're going with, whether they like it or not.

"But, what will I do?" Cole asks Theodore what's expected of him when he enters the new world that Theodore found for him, far removed from his home world, far removed the earth he landed.

Shrugging his wide shoulders, Theodore tells him that it's the best he can do, because Cole's alive in that scenario, and if he didn't take the deal, he'd risk execution by Catherine and her family court.

"What kind of justice is this?" Catherine called into question what Theodore's plan meant in terms of avenging her father's death and Theodore answers that the justice comes in that it's not guaranteed what world Cole's ending up, whatever world he ends up, he's staying, so it's a matter of a wing and a prayer what he gets.

The adrenaline rush of ending up in a terrifying new environment alone's enough to repay the agony of losing her father, and with the amassed fortune turned over by Cole, it's more than enough to satiate the court.

"He admits his guilt, we take him in, you become queen, everyone's happy," Theodore summed the plan for her as she crossed her bare arms.

Lila asks what'll happen if the court doesn't approve of the arrangement or even double cross them, as it's known to happen in their time.

Thinking it over, Theodore tells Lila that they have their psychic papers, they can force the court into agreeing with their plan.

"Now, Cole, I do believe you have enough to cover the loss, do you not?" Theodore turned his head towards Cole as he tilted his odd-shaped head.