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[[Shirley Bingham]] and [[Kate Lethbridge-Stewart]] greet the Doctor and Donna at UNIT's new [[skyscraper]] headquarters, both inoculated to the chaos thanks to an armband called a [[Zeedex]]. The Doctor deduces that he and [[the Vlinx]], a robot work for UNIT, are immune due to being extra-terrestrials, as are Donna and [[Mel Bush]], who recently joined UNIT, benefitting from the effects of long-term TARDIS travel. Kate orders her Zeedex be briefly deactivated to demonstrate the consequences to the Doctor, and she quickly turns paranoid and vengeful due to a a distorted brainwave. Analysing the waveform and playing it as a sound, the group discovers it corresponds to the giggle accompanying the Stooky Bill recording. The recording has been hidden in every screen since 1925, only triggered when the launch of the [[KOSAT 5]] satellite finally connected all of humanity to the internet. | [[Shirley Bingham]] and [[Kate Lethbridge-Stewart]] greet the Doctor and Donna at UNIT's new [[skyscraper]] headquarters, both inoculated to the chaos thanks to an armband called a [[Zeedex]]. The Doctor deduces that he and [[the Vlinx]], a robot work for UNIT, are immune due to being extra-terrestrials, as are Donna and [[Mel Bush]], who recently joined UNIT, benefitting from the effects of long-term TARDIS travel. Kate orders her Zeedex be briefly deactivated to demonstrate the consequences to the Doctor, and she quickly turns paranoid and vengeful due to a a distorted brainwave. Analysing the waveform and playing it as a sound, the group discovers it corresponds to the giggle accompanying the Stooky Bill recording. The recording has been hidden in every screen since 1925, only triggered when the launch of the [[KOSAT 5]] satellite finally connected all of humanity to the internet. | ||
The Doctor and Donna trek back to 1925, searching for the cause of the giggle, and trace Stooky Bill to Mr Emporium. Entering, the Doctor and Donna are greeted by the owner, whom the Doctor recognises as [[the Toymaker]], who talks about the oldest game, catch, while juggling balls until he retreats | The Doctor and Donna trek back to 1925, searching for the cause of the giggle, and trace Stooky Bill to Mr Emporium. Entering, the Doctor and Donna are greeted by the owner, whom the Doctor recognises as [[the Toymaker]], who talks about the oldest game, [[Catch (game)|catch]], while [[The Toymaker's juggling balls|juggling balls]] until he retreats further into his shop in a game of [[hide and seek]]. The Doctor chases the Toymaker, followed by Donna despite telling her to return to the TARDIS. Donna insists on staying with him, and the two become trapped in the Toymaker's funhouse labyrinth, which the Doctor realises is the [[Celestial Toyroom]], stumbling around and eventually becoming separated. The Doctor encounters Banerjee, turned into a marionette who dances on the Toymaker's command after losing a game to remove the giggle in his head. Donna encounters Stooky Bill's doll family and breaks apart [[Stooky Sue]] as the Stooky children try to eat her. | ||
The Doctor and Donna reunite and find themselves the guests of honour at the Toymaker's puppet show: an attempt to recount to Donna the Doctor's adventures since leaving her. The Toymaker portrays the deaths of [[Amy Pond]], [[Clara Oswald]] and [[Bill Potts]] in puppet form, with the Doctor objecting that none of them died under his care; all three continued to live on in some form. The Toymaker is dismissive and treats the nit-picking with contempt, until mentioning how [[the Flux]] ravaged the universe under the Doctor's watch provokes the Doctor into challenging the Toymaker to a game. The Toymaker accepts, bragging as they prepare about his fun since arriving in [[the Doctor's universe]]. He has already turned [[God (mythology)|God]] into a [[Jack-in-the-Box]], made a jigsaw out of [[The Doctor's early life|the Doctor's history]], and sealed the [[Spy Master]] inside his gold tooth after [[Game between the Toymaker and the Master|he lost the game]] that was his last hope for life. However, there was one the Toymaker did not face, "[[the One Who Waits]]", but he considers that someone else's game when the Doctor asks who they are. | The Doctor and Donna reunite and find themselves the guests of honour at the Toymaker's puppet show: an attempt to recount to Donna the Doctor's adventures since leaving her. The Toymaker portrays the deaths of [[Amy Pond]], [[Clara Oswald]] and [[Bill Potts]] in puppet form, with the Doctor objecting that none of them died under his care; all three continued to live on in some form. The Toymaker is dismissive and treats the nit-picking with contempt, until mentioning how [[the Flux]] ravaged the universe under the Doctor's watch provokes the Doctor into challenging the Toymaker to a game. The Toymaker accepts, bragging as they prepare about his fun since arriving in [[the Doctor's universe]]. He has already turned [[God (mythology)|God]] into a [[Jack-in-the-Box]], made a jigsaw out of [[The Doctor's early life|the Doctor's history]], and sealed the [[Spy Master]] inside his gold tooth after [[Game between the Toymaker and the Master|he lost the game]] that was his last hope for life. However, there was one the Toymaker did not face, "[[the One Who Waits]]", but he considers that someone else's game when the Doctor asks who they are. | ||
