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Steven and Dodo discover a third character asleep in the kitchen, who looks uncannily like the Knave of Hearts. This character is wearing a kitchen boy's uniform. Dodo again appeals to Rugg, and he chivalrously helps her and Steven search for the key. Mrs. Wiggs is getting more and more irritated at the three of them tearing her kitchen apart. She eventually loses her temper, even at Rugg, at the shattering of some of her plates and cups. Rugg and Mrs. Wiggs quarrel violently, while the kitchen boy wakes and takes refuge under a table, but Steven tries to keep Dodo on task. Soon, food is thrown around and plates get broken, whereupon Dodo tries unsuccessfully to reconcile the two. Steven catches the kitchen boy trying to escape and tries to force him to tell him where the key is, but the kitchen boy escapes and locks himself in the pantry. As the food fight continues, Rugg threatens a pie that Mrs. Wiggs has made. She becomes very concerned and pleads with him to put it down. Dodo realises that's the one place they haven't looked, and all four go for the pie — which naturally doesn't stand a chance and is smashed on the floor. Sure enough, Dodo finds the key in the remains of the pie. She and Steven quickly apologise for the mess, open the door and go through. The Toymaker appears and angrily confronts Rugg and Mrs. Wiggs, exclaiming how they have wasted their "chance at life". He commands them to prevent Steven and Dodo reaching the next TARDIS at all costs, or "I'll break you like these plates". To demonstrate this threat, the Toymaker smashes the last remaining plate.

Steven and Dodo arrive on the Dancing Floor to witness three ballerina dolls performing a dance. They see the TARDIS at the opposite end of the floor, but realise it can't be so easy to get there. When they place their hands curiously over the floor, music plays and the dolls begin to dance. As Rugg and Mrs. Wiggs enter, having "made up", Steven makes a dash for it, but once the music starts, he is forced to dance, and the dolls surround him. Soon Dodo is pulled into the dancing, while Rugg and Mrs. Wiggs scheme to get to the "big cupboard" (the TARDIS) first. As Mrs. Wiggs begins to dance, the dolls change partners. Rugg finds he cannot resist and is soon dancing as well. Steven eventually becomes Dodo's partner, and they successfully jump off the floor and into the TARDIS as Rugg and Mrs. Wiggs dance on, left — as the rhyme says — to "forever tap their feet", or at least until the pair start shrinking to become dolls again. The TARDIS is another fake. Dodo is firmly convinced that these characters are alive, but Steven is doubtful.