001. VIDEO
[There's a few clicks on the network while the Doctor struggles with his communicator, and a whirring sound while he tries to use his sonic screwdriver to get it off.]
Deadlocked. You are kidding me.
[If it's one thing the Doctor dislikes, it's feeling trapped or caught. The disgust is evident in his voice. A second later, broadcast to video flips on. A man who looks like (if he were human) no older than 30 appears on the screen, dressed in a tweed blazer and bow-tie. Despite his annoyance a moment ago, his expression is cheerful.]
Ah. Hellooooo? Anybody out there? I imagine so, if I'm here with this thing, had to have gotten attached to me somehow, and I'm sorry, but I don't think it goes with the bowtie. Has anyone seen a blue phone box? That'd be mine. I'd appreciate some directions to it. I'm the Doctor, by the way.
[He pauses, looking around at the environment.]
While we're all it, is there a name for this place? Does anyone know what happened here?
[He's far from panicked, but he is a little uneasy. His time sense is off. He can't feel his TARDIS anywhere. The ash and desolation is also unnerving. The Doctor's relationship with fire is complicated, to say the least. He's destroyed some of his worst enemies with it, and some things he's best loved. Sometimes those are one and the same.
This place reminds him a little too much of home, as it was - is, in his worst nightmares.]
Deadlocked. You are kidding me.
[If it's one thing the Doctor dislikes, it's feeling trapped or caught. The disgust is evident in his voice. A second later, broadcast to video flips on. A man who looks like (if he were human) no older than 30 appears on the screen, dressed in a tweed blazer and bow-tie. Despite his annoyance a moment ago, his expression is cheerful.]
Ah. Hellooooo? Anybody out there? I imagine so, if I'm here with this thing, had to have gotten attached to me somehow, and I'm sorry, but I don't think it goes with the bowtie. Has anyone seen a blue phone box? That'd be mine. I'd appreciate some directions to it. I'm the Doctor, by the way.
[He pauses, looking around at the environment.]
While we're all it, is there a name for this place? Does anyone know what happened here?
[He's far from panicked, but he is a little uneasy. His time sense is off. He can't feel his TARDIS anywhere. The ash and desolation is also unnerving. The Doctor's relationship with fire is complicated, to say the least. He's destroyed some of his worst enemies with it, and some things he's best loved. Sometimes those are one and the same.
This place reminds him a little too much of home, as it was - is, in his worst nightmares.]