TEXT: [ GADGETS CLICK ] The Doctor: (quietly) Listen! [SCENE_BREAK] [TARDIS] The Doctor: Question. Why do we talk out loud when we know we're alone? Conjecture. Because we know we're not. Evolution perfects survival skills. There are perfect hunters. [ ROARING ] The Doctor: There is perfect defence. Question. Why is there no such thing as perfect hiding? Answer. How would you know? Logically, if evolution were to perfect a creature whose primary skill were to hide from view, how could you know it existed? It could be with us every second and we would never know. How would you detect it, even sense it, except in those moments when, for no clear reason you choose to speak aloud? What would such a creature want? What would it do? Well? What would you do? [ HE LAUGHS CHALK ROLLS SHE SIGHS CHATTER AND LAUGHTER SHE SIGHS ] [Restaurant] Danny: Hey. Clara: Hey. Sorry. So the famous drink at last. Danny: Yeah. Took a bit of time, family stuff, but here we are. Clara: Dinner, in fact. Danny: Yeah, straight to dinner. Clara: I like a man who moves fast. Danny: Yeah? I might go straight for extras. Afters. Dessert. Clara: Yes, I know, I know, dessert. Danny: Straight to dessert. Clara: Gotcha. Danny: So, er, how was your day? Clara: Good. You know. Teaching. Danny: Yep, teaching. Clara: Teaching, teaching. Danny: Totally teaching. Clara: We probably shouldn't talk about work. Danny: God, yeah. [ THEY LAUGH ] Clara: Though, do you take Courtney for anything? [ HE LAUGHS ] Danny: Are you serious? Clara: She said she couldn't concentrate on her work, because my face was too wide. Danny: Wide? Clara: I could kill that girl some days. Danny: Me too. Clara: And from you, that means something. Danny: Sorry? I dug twenty three wells.
SUMMARY:
After a failed date with Danny, Clara returns to her home to find the Doctor awaiting her. He seeks a creature he believes has perfected its ability to hide and is related to a childhood fear everyone has of a hand grabbing someone's leg from under the bed. Clara tries to home in on her childhood using the TARDIS' telepathic circuits, but lands at the children's home where Danny, as a boy called Rupert, grew up. The Doctor comforts Rupert from his fear when an something under his bed spread scares him. After failing to apologise to Danny on the date, Clara is beckoned back to the TARDIS by time traveller Orson Pink. Clara is taken to the end of the universe where Orson's ship was stranded and the Doctor attempts to observe the hiding creature. When something on the ship knocks the Doctor out, Clara triggers the TARDIS' departure to a barn, where she finds a crying child. Hiding beneath the bed, she realises that the child is the Doctor. When the boy gets up, Clara accidentally grabs his leg. She comforts him with the Doctor's previous advice to Rupert. Orson is returned home, and Clara and Danny reconcile.