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Actually that's fair. Except Lindy doesn't notice he's the same person at first, so the very first reference to him shouldn't use the term.
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Lindy walks to work, [[influencer|influencing]] her friends by describing her clothes. During work she receives a call from someone who claims to work for [[Finetime Industries]], [[Ruby Sunday]]. The strange woman asks Lindy a variety of questions about the nature of her job and her co-workers. Ruby encourages Lindy to see if her co-workers are in the same room, since none of them are responding in the Bubble. Lindy refuses to lower her Bubble, but eventually relents and peers out between the squares that make it up, looking in front of her for her co-workers. She can't see them. Confused, she’s convinced by Ruby to look to her right as well, where she sees a giant [[Man-trap|man-trap]] ingesting one of her co-workers. | Lindy walks to work, [[influencer|influencing]] her friends by describing her clothes. During work she receives a call from someone who claims to work for [[Finetime Industries]], [[Ruby Sunday]]. The strange woman asks Lindy a variety of questions about the nature of her job and her co-workers. Ruby encourages Lindy to see if her co-workers are in the same room, since none of them are responding in the Bubble. Lindy refuses to lower her Bubble, but eventually relents and peers out between the squares that make it up, looking in front of her for her co-workers. She can't see them. Confused, she’s convinced by Ruby to look to her right as well, where she sees a giant [[Man-trap|man-trap]] ingesting one of her co-workers. | ||
Fearful, Lindy tells Ruby Sunday that she wishes to get back to work, but Ruby manages to convince her to lower her Bubble and take a serious look at the creature. Lindy re-activates her Dot and Bubble, dismissing Ruby as she tries to talk to Lindy, flicking through her friends and Ricky September, trying to take her mind off what she just saw. Ruby Sunday brings herself back to Lindy's attention and refuses to go away, as well as bringing | Fearful, Lindy tells Ruby Sunday that she wishes to get back to work, but Ruby manages to convince her to lower her Bubble and take a serious look at the creature. Lindy re-activates her Dot and Bubble, dismissing Ruby as she tries to talk to Lindy, flicking through her friends and Ricky September, trying to take her mind off what she just saw. Ruby Sunday brings herself back to Lindy's attention and refuses to go away, as well as bringing in a [[Fifteenth Doctor|new person]], saying that he's a friend who can help. The pair tell Lindy that she needs to leave without using the Bubble, as it doesn't seem able to see the man-traps. Lindy acquiesces, but as she tries to leave, she repeatedly stumbles into her desk; she can't walk without the Bubble guiding her. She re-activates it and walks to the elevator, where a man-trap awaits. The Bubble repeatedly tells Lindy to walk forward; as the pair scream at her not to she slowly inches backwards. She moves to the side and the man-trap passes by her, ignoring her. | ||
Out in the street, the pair have Lindy turn off her Bubble and look around. There are man-traps everywhere, ingesting some people, with others walking by completely unharmed. As Lindy recoups from this experience, the pair ask her what Finetime is, precisely. Lindy explains that it's where the [[Homeworld (Dot and Bubble)|Homeworld]] sends people ages 17 to 27, if they can afford it. They work two hours a day, partying the rest of the time. She shows them her mother who sent her there, [[Penny Pepper-Bean]]. Upon seeing her mother, Ruby and the Doctor comment that they've seen her before. The Doctor recognises her as the face of the [[Villengard Automated Ambulance Unit|ambulance]] on [[Kastarion 3]], while Ruby remembers her from somewhere else. | Out in the street, the pair have Lindy turn off her Bubble and look around. There are man-traps everywhere, ingesting some people, with others walking by completely unharmed. As Lindy recoups from this experience, the pair ask her what Finetime is, precisely. Lindy explains that it's where the [[Homeworld (Dot and Bubble)|Homeworld]] sends people ages 17 to 27, if they can afford it. They work two hours a day, partying the rest of the time. She shows them her mother who sent her there, [[Penny Pepper-Bean]]. Upon seeing her mother, Ruby and the Doctor comment that they've seen her before. The Doctor recognises her as the face of the [[Villengard Automated Ambulance Unit|ambulance]] on [[Kastarion 3]], while Ruby remembers her from somewhere else. | ||
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Further down the tunnels Lindy finds some other refugees of Finetime, as well as Ruby and the Doctor. The refugees say they've decided to head out into the wilderness, to try and survive, to tame it like their ancestors. The Doctor offers instead to take them in his ship, his [[The Doctor's TARDIS|blue box]] that's bigger on the inside. But Lindy and the others dismiss this idea in no uncertain terms - due to his skin colour, they can't travel with him. As a person of colour, he's not one of them. It was his duty to save them, of course, but continual face to face contact is inappropriate. A box that's bigger on the inside than the outside? [[Voodoo]]. Wherever they live, they must maintain their standards. | Further down the tunnels Lindy finds some other refugees of Finetime, as well as Ruby and the Doctor. The refugees say they've decided to head out into the wilderness, to try and survive, to tame it like their ancestors. The Doctor offers instead to take them in his ship, his [[The Doctor's TARDIS|blue box]] that's bigger on the inside. But Lindy and the others dismiss this idea in no uncertain terms - due to his skin colour, they can't travel with him. As a person of colour, he's not one of them. It was his duty to save them, of course, but continual face to face contact is inappropriate. A box that's bigger on the inside than the outside? [[Voodoo]]. Wherever they live, they must maintain their standards. | ||
The Doctor insists that none of this matters; he just wants to save their lives. He begs with them, pleads with them. | The Doctor insists that none of this matters; he just wants to save their lives. He begs with them, pleads with them. And as they walk away he screams, before retreating back into the TARDIS after Ruby. | ||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
