Cara, the third regeneration of the Time Lord called "Neas," brings her young companions Gumball and Darwin Watterson to 1982 Antarctica where they discover a disturbing alien parasite capable of mimicking whatever form it takes hold of. Trapped in...
The situation with the mutated Malamute further fueled Cara's interests in those videotapes recovered from the Norwegian camp. Along with Gumball, Darwin, MacReady, and his crewmen, they watched footage of the Norwegian team. In it, she noticed a tall African American gentleman accompanying the Norwegians, wearing a black hoodie and the same necktie Cara found at the ruins.
Oddly, she felt as if she recognized the man, despite never having met him.
According to the recorded footage they watched, the man and the Norwegians found something big within a region northeast from their camp. Thermite charges were used to clear it from the ice that incased it.
Cara joined with MacReady and the station's geologist, Norris, to the site.
There, they discovered what was previously unearthed: a flying saucer.
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"I knew it," Cara jubilantly shouted.
"Knew what?" MacReady asked.
"I told Blair there had to be aliens involved, and this is proof," she said. "No way was that scorched body we found some sort of deformed human being. It was a mutation, just like the Malamute. Some type of alien parasite that mimics its hosts – only it doesn't seem like they can maintain it for too long, otherwise they revert back to extraterrestrial form. My god, what kind of juiciness have I come across in this dimension!"
She began to scan the alien structure with her sonic screwdriver, a device MacReady still believed to be nothing more than an experimental Norwegian instrument.
"Could be Dalek in origin," she supposed. "No...wait. It's 100,000 years old."
Norris's eyes enlarged with amazement. "That's right! You got that all from that little tool in your hand?"
MacReady cringed.
A lot of Cara's rambling was as off-putting as the massive saucer itself.
And what did she mean by "this dimension" or all this talk of something she referred as a "Dalek?"
Who exactly was this so-called "Norwegian investigator" whose accent apparently vanished whenever she spoke with such enthusiasm?
It only got worse once after the three of them returned to the station.
"An alien with a capability of mimicking any type of genome," she overexcitedly reflected on her earlier observation. "The only other time I've ever seen something like that is during a scrap with the Zygons. Of course, the assimilation part is much akin to the Cybermen, just on a more genetic level rather than a cybernetic one."
None of the others – not even Childs – heard her slipping accent; they just thought she was talking crazy.
Blair merely sat to the side, looking very reserved.
