A disaster perpetrated by a renegade Time Lord finds the Doctor being forced to work with his past selves to resolve it. This Time Lord has not only placed his very existence in jeopardy, but also Time itself. The Doctors may be a bit in over their...
Hearing the sound of footsteps just behind him, Jamie turned to find Jo bringing a tray of drinks into the lab. Gladly accepting a cup of tea he nodded, giving her a little smile. Truth be told, he was thankful for the distraction. Only moments earlier, he'd been chatting with the Doctor about how he and Kathryn had spent the past weekend. Suddenly the Brigadier had barged in with this Doctor Tyler chap who was reporting some strange happenings at this particular place ... some sort of park, it sounded like. He couldn't be totally sure as he hadn't been following the conversation too closely.
From what the man had said, some laddie had found a balloon with a parcel attached to it and had suddenly disappeared in a flash of light. Strange enough, but Jamie wished the man would just get to the point. He'd rambled on about it for longer than he probably should have. He was obviously shaken and frustrated, but he'd offhandedly mentioned something about evidence, and Jamie was curious to see it.
"So there you are," Tyler stated, seemingly arriving at the end of his story. "Mrs. Ollis says her husband's down there. I see him wave, get there and there he is, gone. So I get in touch with you lot."
Jamie couldn't help thinking it would have been easier if he'd just kept his story to that.
The Brigadier nodded thoughtfully. "Well, quite right, too. That's what we're here for, eh, Doctor?"
"Yes, of course," the Doctor replied, almost absently. He seemed deep in thought and Jamie wondered what he was thinking.
His gaze then settled upon the box Tyler had brought in. "What's this machine for?" he asked him.
"Cosmic Ray Research, young man."
"Oh," Jamie said quietly, nodding.
"And you still use balloons?" Jo asked.
"That's right. We may not be NASA, but we get the results. Inside that is the most sophisticated Cosmic Ray Monitoring device between here and Cape Kennedy. You see, I was going to get in touch with you people anyway, even before this business."
"Oh?" The Brigadier suddenly piped up, his eyebrows raised. "And why was that?"
Tyler turned to address the Doctor. "Can you hand me that briefcase, please?"
Nodding, the Doctor handed the man's briefcase to him. Tyler removed some papers before setting the briefcase back down.
"We've been getting some pretty funny results on these latest tests." He held up an x-ray film and appeared to be scrutinizing it closely. "Now, this is the first one... Hm ... Ah, this is normal." He handed it to the Doctor before picking up another film and studying it. "Ah! Now then. This is why I'm here. Last week's test. Now, look at this." Once again, he handed it to the Doctor.
The Doctor accepted it with a nod. "Thank you." Jamie watched his expression change to a startled frown as he scanned the film. "Good grief."
"Yeah. Nobody knows what to make of it. Well, they've all seen it. Yanks and the other lot."
Furrowing his brow in curiosity, Jamie wondered what was so interesting about this picture. From what he could see over the Doctor's shoulder, it didn't look much like anything. It was different from what he saw in the first picture but nothing remarkable, at least in his opinion. That obviously wasn't worth very much to these scientists, though, so he'd best keep out of it and let them figure it out. Still, he hoped there was something interesting among all this 'evidence' he'd brought.
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