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Meanwhile, Sunset Park descends into chaos. Ruschell and Cheryl on NY1 News announce the Sunset Park, [[Windsor Terrace]] and [[Borough Park]] a no-go zone due to a sudden communications blackout. [[Trinity Wells]] on [[AMNN]] reports of a rumoured riot of Halloween revellers. Carlos' mother feels thankful to the Doctor when she hears on TV a warning for [[New York City|New York]] residents to avoid the [[Brooklyn]] area, particularly [[Sunset Park]]. Subway and bus services to Sunset Park are down, celebrations are cancelled, and the cops cannot tell people in costumes from people possessed by Cerebravores. At the edge of the park, two policemen watch in horror as their compatriots, [[Orr]] and [[Misckiewicz]], change into monsters in front of their eyes. Surrounded by horrible shapes, the Doctor and Gabby continue their perilous journey, protected seemingly only by his headgear and her singing. | Meanwhile, Sunset Park descends into chaos. Ruschell and Cheryl on NY1 News announce the Sunset Park, [[Windsor Terrace]] and [[Borough Park]] a no-go zone due to a sudden communications blackout. [[Trinity Wells]] on [[AMNN]] reports of a rumoured riot of Halloween revellers. Carlos' mother feels thankful to the Doctor when she hears on TV a warning for [[New York City|New York]] residents to avoid the [[Brooklyn]] area, particularly [[Sunset Park]]. Subway and bus services to Sunset Park are down, celebrations are cancelled, and the cops cannot tell people in costumes from people possessed by Cerebravores. At the edge of the park, two policemen watch in horror as their compatriots, [[Orr]] and [[Misckiewicz]], change into monsters in front of their eyes. Surrounded by horrible shapes, the Doctor and Gabby continue their perilous journey, protected seemingly only by his headgear and her singing. | ||
They reach Green-Wood Cemetery and decide to scale the fence rather than walk several more blocks to the entrance. | They reach Green-Wood Cemetery and decide to scale the fence rather than walk several more blocks to the entrance. Gabby is surprised that, despite the resulting delay, the hosts, who clearly noticed them, do not approach and do not try following them into the cemetery grounds. The Doctor looks at them through the headgear and seems surprised too. Gabby and the Doctor run to the sounds of music and find the crowd of Day of the Dead revellers, Gabby's family among them. She introduces the Doctor to them, but her little brother soon notices the Cerebravore hosts finally breaking through the fence. He guesses that they themselves may be soon turned into such monsters. | ||
The Doctor tells the people to continue singing no matter what, to resist the fear. As they all sing a [[Cielito Lindo|Mexican song]], he prepares his device. Gabby connects the wires | The Doctor tells the people to continue singing no matter what, to resist the fear. As they all sing a [[Cielito Lindo|Mexican song]], he prepares his device and asks for help, to box all the hosts in, to keep them nearby. Gabby is unsure how to achieve that but connects the wires as agreed. The Doctor presses a button on his empathic field amplifier, and the whole city is submerged under an amplification wave of positive psychic energy. People standing around the Doctor, especially Gabby, are thrown off their feet by the enormous wave, but otherwise it achieves its purpose. Cerebravores are gone. People possessed by them become themselves again. | ||
Gabby is scared | The only casualty seems to be the laundromat. Gabby is scared her father would this on her, however, when the Doctor tells him that Gabby helped him save the world at the cost of the laundromat, Miguel is very proud of his daughter, tells her to follow her dreams and even suggests that she go to art school. Gabby is flabbergasted by the sudden change in her father's attitudes. But the Doctor thinks it must be the influence of the Pranavores who are swarming all around them. He explains that ever since they left the laundromat, they have been following them, attracted by Gabby's singing, that her refusal to submit to fear was a beacon for them. It was them who protected them on their way to Green-Wood Cemetery. It was them he asked to box the Cerebravores in to subject them to the full power of the blast. | ||
Gabby's family are very interested in her new friend, and Maria invites him for a family dinner, cooked by her and Fernanda, where Cindy is also present. On the way back to the TARDIS, the Doctor hints that luck will soon turn her face on Miguel to make up for the loss of the laundromat: perhaps, a lottery ticket? | |||
Gabby has worked out that the TARDIS can travel through space and wants to travel with him, seeing him as a better teacher than any college. However, the Doctor is wary as "friends of mine have been hurt" recently and they agree to part ways, telling her to have a "brilliant life" and to "keep singing". However, when she says a saying of her grandmother's, [[The End of Time (TV story)|"no song should end too soon"]], resembling [[Carmen (Planet of the Dead)|Carmen]]'s prophecy, he agrees to one trip. | |||
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