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The Doctor and Charley discuss the murders, including how everyone seems to know they will die, and yet they have neither fear nor excitement. Charley feels she is failing Edith. The Doctor thinks the intelligence in charge is trying to make Charley a part of the scenario; he cautions her to resist any new memories. She returns to the scullery, but finds Edith’s name gone from the dust. Edith speaks, and asks her why she died for Charley when Charley has forgotten her? Letters appear, carved into the table, stating “Edward Grove is alive; Edith states that Edith and Charley are responsible. | The Doctor and Charley discuss the murders, including how everyone seems to know they will die, and yet they have neither fear nor excitement. Charley feels she is failing Edith. The Doctor thinks the intelligence in charge is trying to make Charley a part of the scenario; he cautions her to resist any new memories. She returns to the scullery, but finds Edith’s name gone from the dust. Edith speaks, and asks her why she died for Charley when Charley has forgotten her? Letters appear, carved into the table, stating “Edward Grove is alive; Edith states that Edith and Charley are responsible. | ||
The Doctor starts up the stairs; Shaughnessy holds him at gunpoint again. The Doctor didn’t actually intend to go up, but wanted to push his adversary to act. Even Shaughnessy doesn’t understand his own | The Doctor starts up the stairs; Shaughnessy holds him at gunpoint again. The Doctor didn’t actually intend to go up, but wanted to push his adversary to act. Even Shaughnessy doesn’t understand his own behaviour. The Doctor explains that all the staff have been dulled by repeated time loops, making them able to be manipulated—but who is doing the manipulating? The butler explains that the house is at 22 Edward Grove—the Doctor realises the house itself is alive. Mary and Mrs. Baddeley come to kill the Doctor, but he urges them to resist; however, they can’t kill him yet, as the hour has not yet struck. Time speeds toward midnight again, but the Doctor urges the staff to describe their masters; if they cannot, their masters are not human. Charley arrives, and is now fully under the house’s spell; she believes she is the daughter of the house’s family, and she does not know the Doctor. The Doctor tries to get through to her as midnight strikes. | ||
When midnight arrives, time resets again; the Doctor and Charley find themselves in the scullery with Edith’s body. She has been beaten to death with a broom. Charley is herself again, but the staff hurry through the steps of the loop. The Doctor thinks Edith’s death is the key; he thinks the ghosts are traumatic emotions trapped in the house’s structure. After so many time loops, the house and its “ghosts” have developed sentience. It seems to feed on death, and every time the loop repeats, the deaths make it stronger. | When midnight arrives, time resets again; the Doctor and Charley find themselves in the scullery with Edith’s body. She has been beaten to death with a broom. Charley is herself again, but the staff hurry through the steps of the loop. The Doctor thinks Edith’s death is the key; he thinks the ghosts are traumatic emotions trapped in the house’s structure. After so many time loops, the house and its “ghosts” have developed sentience. It seems to feed on death, and every time the loop repeats, the deaths make it stronger. | ||
