The Tardis team went to Tommy's house again. They rang the doorbell. Tommy's father, Eddie, answered the door. When the door opened, the four of them smiled at Eddie and chimed, "Hi!"

"Who are you, then?" Eddie questioned.

"Let's see, then" The Doctor began. His eyes scanned over Eddie. "Judging by the look of you, family man, nice house, decent wage, fought in the war, therefore we represent Queen and country" Both he and Nova held up their psychic paper.

Nova continued on from The Doctor. "Just doing a little check of Her forthcoming Majesty's subjects before the great day. Don't mind if we come in? Nah, I didn't think you did. Thank you" The four of them made their way inside the house. They all stepped foot into the living room. "Oh, isn't this a cozy looking room"

The Doctor nodded. "Yes, very well kept" He and Nova made their way over to the woman in the room. "We'd like to congratulate you, Mrs?"

"Connolly" she answered.

"Now then, Rita. I can handle this" Eddie spoke. He stood on the other side of the room, with his hands behind his back. "This gentleman's a proper representative. Don't mind the wife, she rattles on a bit"

"Well, maybe she should rattle on a bit more" The Doctor suggested. Rose and Tate both took a seat on the chair. "I'm not convinced you're doing your patriotic duty. Nice flags. Why are they not flying?"

"There we are Rita, I told you, Get them up. Queen and country"

"I'm sorry" Rita apologized.

"Get it done. Do it now"

"Hold on a minute" Nova requested, holding up a finger.

Eddie completely ignored her as he continued to order his wife. "Like the gentlemen says"

"Hold on a minute!" Nova spoke more harshly but she didn't yell. She took a few steps closer to Eddie, crossing her arms over her chest. "You've got hands, Mister Connolly. Two big hands. So why is that your wife's job?"

Eddie scoffed at Nova. "I will not be answering to you, Miss. I will only be answering to the gentleman"

The Doctor stepped in. "You will be answering to her when she asks you a question" He defended. "My wife is my equal" Nova smiled when she heard him refer to her as his wife. "The both of us have the same job. One could even say she does her job a little better than mine. You will show her the same respect you show me. Understood?"

Eddie nodded, even though he didn't look to pleased about the situation. "Very well" He looked to Nova. "You were saying, Miss?"

"Thank you" Nova thanked with a smile, though it was more directed at The Doctor than it was to Eddie. "As I was saying, why is it your wife's job putting up the flags?"

"Well, it's housework innit?"

"And that's a woman's job?"

"Of course it is!"

Nova rolled her eyes. "Mr. Connolly, what gender is the Queen?" 

"She's a female"

"And are you suggesting the Queen does the housework?"

Everybody looked at Eddie. There was a pause before he answered. "No!"

The Doctor walked over with a line of flags in his hands. "Then get busy" He said, handing the flags over to Eddie.

"Right. Yes, sir. You'll be proud of us, sir. And you too, ma'am" Eddie nodded at Nova. "We'll have Union Jacks left, right and centre" He began putting the flags up on the wall.

"Excuse me, Mr. Connolly" Rose spoke up, standing up from the chair. She turned in Eddie's direction. "Hang on a minute. Union Jacks?"

"Yes," Eddie said, turning to look at Rose. "That's right, isn't it?"

"That's the Union Flag. It's the Union Jack only when it's flown at sea"

"Oh. Oh, I'm sorry, I do apologise"

"Well, don't get it wrong again, there's a good man. Now get to it!" Rose shouted that last bit. Eddie continued with the flags. Rose smiled, biting at her lip and turning around. She and Nova had the same smile on their face, both of them feeling prideful and empowered.

"Right then!" The Doctor said. He and Nova settled on the couch, leaving a space in between them for Rose. She sat in the empty spot. "Nice and comfy, at Her Majesty's leisure" The Doctor leaned in closer to Rose. "Union flag?"

"Mum went out with a sailor"

"Oh ho ho ho. I bet she did" The Doctor snickered. "Anyway, I'm the Doctor and this is Rose. Over on the chair there is Tate, and then finally we have the Nightingale"

"But please, feel free to call me Nova" She looked to Tommy who was staring at them all. "And you are?"

"Tommy" he introduced himself.

"Well, sit yourself down, Tommy" They managed to make some room for Tommy to sit on the couch. He sat in between Nova and Rose. "Have a look at this. I love telly, don't you?"

"Yeah, I think it's brilliant"

"Good man!" The Doctor applauded. The man on the TV was showing the vertebra of an ichthyosaurus. "Keep working, Mister C! Now, why don't you tell me what's wrong?" He asked Rita.

"Did you say you were a Doctor?" Rita asked.

"Yes I am"

"Can you help her? Oh please, can you help her, Doctor?"

"Now then, Rita" Eddie warned. "I don't think the gentleman needs to know"

"No, the gentleman does" The Doctor countered.

Tate leaned forward in his chair. "Tell us what's wrong, and we can help" He urged, offering Rita a warm and kind smile.

Rita burst into tears. Rose went over to comfort her. "It's all right. Come here. It's okay" Rose cooed.

"Hold on a minute" Eddie said. "Queen and country's one thing, but this is my house! What the?" He threw the flags to the ground. "What the hell am I doing? Now you listen here, Doctor and Nightingale. You may have fancy qualifications, but what goes on under my roof is my business"

"A lot of people are being bundled into---" Nova attempted to speak but Eddie screamed over her.

"I am talking!"

"Don't scream at her like that!" The Doctor raised his voice, bolting up from the couch. He got into Eddie's face. "We're not listening! Now you, Mister Connolly, you are staring into a deep, dark pit of trouble if you don't let us help. So I'm ordering you, sir! Tell us what's going on!" A thumping noise came from upstairs. 

"She won't stop"Thump. Thump. Thump. "She never stops"

"We started hearing stories," Tommy began to explain. "All round the place. People who've changed. Families keeping it secret because they were scared. Then the police started finding out. We don't know how, no one does. They just turn up, come to the door and take them, any time of the day or night"

"Show us" The Doctor asked.

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Tommy led them to a room upstairs. It was dark in the room. Tommy started calling out. "Gran? It's Tommy. It's all right, Gran. I've brought help" He turned on the lights. The old woman was standing there with no eyes, nose or mouth. Her face was completely blank.

"Okay, that's creepy" Tate muttered.

"Her face is completely gone" The Doctor said. He scanned her with his sonic screwdriver. "Scarcely an electrical impulse left. Almost complete neural shutdown. She's ticking over. It's like her brain has been wiped clean"

"What're we going to do, Doctor? We can't even feed her" Tommy said. They heard someone breaking in through the front door.

"We've got company" Rose said.

"It's them!" Rita cried. "They've come for her!"

"Quickly. What was she doing before this happened?" The Doctor questioned. "Where was she? Tell me. Quickly, think!"

Rita put her hand to her head, trying to remember. Tommy quickly added. "I can't think! She doesn't leave the house! She was just---" Two burly men dressed in black burst in.

"Hold on a minute" One of the men stood in front of The Doctor. "There are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me. One--" The Doctor didn't get to finish as he was punched in the face. 

"Doctor!" Rose yelped. She and Tate crouched on either side of him. They began attempting to wake him up.

"Ow!" Nova groaned, putting her hand to her cheek. She was able to feel the punch. She narrowed her eyes at the two men. "Oi! No one, and I mean no one, punches my boyfriend and gets away with it!" she growled. The men ignored her as they put a blanket over gran's head. Nova let out a feral scream as she jumped on the man that punched The Doctor.

Tate looked up at the chaos ensuing in front of him. "Nightingale! No!" He shot up to his feet. "Get off of him! This completely goes against your code of ethics!"

The two men bundled gran out. "Leave her alone! No!" Rita pleaded with the two men. Nova still on the punchy-man's back, hitting and kicking at him. Tate was now trying to pry her off of the man, while Rose was trying to wake The Doctor up. 

"Doctor! Wake up! Your girlfriends gone mad!" Rose tried.

The Doctor suddenly sat up, nearly giving Rose a Glasgow kiss. "Ah, hell of a right hook. Have to watch out for that" He looked around. "Where's Nova and Tate?"

"Your girlfriend jumped the man that punched you, and Tate's trying to pry her off of him" 

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Tate had managed to separate Nova from Mr. Punchy before they made it out the front door. "Nightingale!" He cupped her face and looked her right in the eye. He noticed the amber glow in her eyes, and the golden cracks appearing in her skin. Nova however didn't seem to notice. "You need to calm down, Nightingale!"

"You saw what he did!" she growled. "He punched my Doctor in the face!"

"Yes, he did" Tate nodded. "But that does not give you the right to go feral!"

Nova opened her mouth to say something, but was distracted when she saw The Doctor and Rose running down the stairs. "Doctor!" She called out, her tone much more calm than before. She glow in her eyes and the cracks in her skin disappeared.

The Doctor grabbed her hand and then they ran out the door. "Rose! Tate! Come on!" He called out for the two companions. They hopped onto one of the scooters and put on their helmets. "Come on, you two. We're going to lose them again!" They sped off after the car.

"Rose, we'd better follow" Tate said. Tate ran out the door but only made it about three steps when he saw Rose had stopped. "Rose?"

"Tate, look at the telly" Rose said, pointing at it. There was a stream of red energy leaving it. Tate came back in just in time to see the energy disappearing.

"I don't understand. What's going on with the telly?" 

"There was this red energy" Rose explained. She moved closer to the television while Tate stayed put. She turned it around to see the energy disappearing into the aerial connection. She also saw the supplier's label. It had Magpie's name on it.

"You two!" Eddie called out to Rose and Tate when he saw them crowding around the television. "Get the hell out of my house!"

Rose huffed with a sigh. She stepped away from the television. "We're going. We're done. Nice to meet you, Tommy, Mrs Connolly. And as for you, Mister Connolly, only an idiot hangs the Union Flag upside down. Shame on you!"

"Have a good evening" Tate quickly chimed in before he and Rose dashed out of the house. They stopped in the middle of the street, and looked around to find that The Doctor and Nova left without them. "Damn it. They left without us"

"Actually, that's perfect" Rose said, gripping onto Tate's hand. She looked at him and gave him a grin. "That means you and I can do some investigating of our own. And I know exactly where we should start"

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The Doctor and Nova were fast enough to catch up to the car and watch it disappear behind the Operation Market Stall. "Oh, very good. Very good" The Doctor chirped. "Shall we go exploring, my Supernova?"

Nova reached into her pocket, pulling out her sonic screwdriver. "That we shall, my dear Doctor" They got off the scooter and started exploring. They found a small door in the big gates. "Oh, what do we have here?"

The Doctor looked at her and then motioned towards the door. "Would you like to do the honors?"

Nova curtsied at him. "Don't mind if I do" The scanned the door with her sonic and once it was opened, the both of them went through it. They were now in some kind of holding area. The two Time Lords witnessed two burly men padlock a wire door and then walk off. Once the coast was clear, The Doctor and Nova walked over to it. "What do you think is in here?"

"There's only one way to find out" The Doctor said. Nova unlocked it. They found themselves in an area with large cages. They decided to open one of them. It was full of blank faced people. The Doctor turned on a flashlight and shined it on them. The blank faced people were clenching their fists, and following the light from the flashlight. Suddenly, a pair of switch lights flashed on. The Doctor and Nova quickly took each other's hands, and then looked in the direction of the lights. There was a man standing next to the lights.

"Stay where you are!"