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HART ISLAND- Over the years, Hart Islands has had prisons, a workhouse, hospitals, a Civil War internment camp, a boy's reformatory, a home for unwed mothers, a mental hospital, a Navy disciplinary barracks, a Nike missile base and other various facilities. Today it serves as a Potter's Field.
The Doctor found himself on Hart Island in 1972. He was mistaken for a specialist that had been requested. It seems patients and staff of Phoenix House have been suffering from a strange disorder, first withdrawal and delusions, then catatonia and finally coma. After hearing two victims talk of "knights", "Humpty Dumpty" and "...bullet-headed..." beings, the Doctor fears that the great war between the Sontaran and Rutan Empires has spilled over to this small island. Contemplating the situation, the Doctor is alone outside at sunset and unnoticed, a glowing green glob creeps up behind him.
The 11th Doctor - [Cody] tall, 6 foot man in his late 50's with gray curls, a wizened face, and sparkling blue eyes. He closely resembles his 4th
incarnation after being aged a bit by time and turmoil.
Dr Rodgers - A slight bald man with a neatly trimme beard. He is of indeterminate age and is the chief of staff for Phoenix House.
Ray Bradford - A tall burly man in his early 30's. A councilor at Phoenix House, and a former heroin addict.
Father Callahan - An almost overly eager young priest, Phoenix House is his first posting.
Vic Mahoney - Middle-aged but looks even older from a lifetime spent on ferries.
Rutan - An amorphous semi-transparent warlike race, they recharge on electricity and have the ability to adopt the form of other beings.
Reuben - A strange figure wearing nautical clothing and speaking in an unusual and almost monotone manner.
Lontaar - A Sontaran Commander, the Sontarans are the interminable enemies of the Rutans, this troll-like cloned race are as incredibly powerful as they are single minded and without pity.
The Doctor watches the setting sun, trying to figure out what such powerful alien conquerors would want on such a tiny island of poor souls striving just to reclaim control over themselves.
The hair on the back of his neck stands up as he turns to see a man in traditional nautical clothing (a pea coat and watch cap) but sporting an out of place set of mutton-chop whiskers. "You be the Doctor they sent fer, are you?" They talk about the recent trouble on Hart Island and the man is very forth coming and seems concerned for the victims. For his part the Doctor seems to not notice the man's inappropriate accent and idioms.
Dr. Rodgers calls out for the Doctor from the center, as the Doctor responds he stops in the doorway to speak to the sailor but he is nowhere to be seen. Somehow this seems to actually please the Doctor.
Dr. Rodgers and Bradford explain that the nurse has been sedated and restrained but Father Callahan was sitting with her and praying, as Dr Rodgers put it disdainfully "Soothing her soul." Bradford quietly but firmly insists that the spirit needs as much if not more care than the physical body. The Doctor leads them back to the lounge and expresses his gratitude that the nurse is receiving all the care she can. The Doctor puts on a new pot of coffee as they talk over any possible relationships between the victims. Bradford gets up to pour out the new coffee as Father Callahan enters. He is glad he was able to affect the Nurse, to calm her mind and soul by the time the medication had made her slip away.
They renew their attempts to find some common denominator to all the victims. Father Callahan talks of how they all spent a great deal of time alone. Dr Rodgers dismisses this, insisting that not only were the staff always working with others but even some of the patients were recovering and starting to socialize again. The young priest sips at his coffee and says there are many ways to be alone, even if one is surrounded by people. The Doctor does a slow take and then enthusiastically thanks the priest for showing him what he should have realized by himself. The Doctor asks where is the source of the center's electrical power. Bradford tells where the generator shed is out back and the Doctor quickly rushes out behind the center.
When the Doctor reaches the generator shed, he slows to almost a total stop and trails his flashlight along the ground then around the door, pausing as he sees a tiny bead resting atop the smashed door latch. The Doctor carefully eases the door open so as not to disturb the bead.
Inside he sweeps the light beam around the room, he moves around carefully searching. Behind the back-up generator he finds a ripped out insulated wire. Bradford examines it and concludes form the lack of corrosion on the exposed wires that it had been disconnected for no more than a day or two. Father Callahan in a shocked tone expresses the same thought that occurs to them all. That would also be the time when the trouble had started at the center.
The Doctor tentatively tries to suggest the possibility that there could be alien beings involved in the crisis at the center.
Dr Rodgers enters with a male nurse and says that all the patients are stable. He then sends the only remaining unaffected staff (the male nurse and the two attendants) to the infirmary to keep an eye on things. He suggests that the others including himself try their best to get some rest so that they can relieve the staff in the morning. Exhausted they agree except for the Doctor. He says he is much too involved in seeking a resolution to their problem to go to sleep yet. He leaves to take a long walk supposedly to relax himself so that he too can get some rest.
The Doctor walks in the bracing cold breeze from the sound, seemingly oblivious to his surroundings but deliberately heads towards the abandoned jail complex. After he enters the cover of the large gatehouse he finds Reuben walking towards him. Now when they talk they both admit they recognize each other.
Reuben explains that he uses the form of the lighthouse keeper the Doctor had once encountered but that he was not only a different Rutan but a very different one indeed.
He had crashed on the island while on a desperate peace mission not as part of an invading force. Since they had met the first time, many things had changed. Not only had the Rutans perfected their shape shifting capabilities not for spying but to attempt to preserve the very existence of the Rutan race and that they had tired of unending battle. When he had crashed on the island there were but three mother ships and two tenders left of the once mighty Rutan Imperial Battle fleet. He had taken various forms for the last six years as he tried first to repair his ship and then to at least get his transmitter to function. But a few days ago a Sontaran agent had arrived. It had destroyed the electrical feeding system he had prepared and started to use some strange device on the people at Phoenix House. Reuben speculates that it slowly robbed the victim of their will and if it could infect the Rutan then he would be exposed since he would no longer be able to maintain a human form. Reuben seems to be truly disturbed at the harm caused the humans but fears that if he is found out, it will not only mean his end but quite possibly the end of all of the Rutans.
Just as the Doctor ponders the problem a helmeted figure walks out of a cell block and raises a small box covered with strange tubes and coils, lights flash across the top and a beam flares out directly at the Doctor and Reuben. Theme music swells.
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