The Doctor pops up in Lindy’s Bubble to warn her concerning the creatures, however Lindy doesn’t wish to know, and blocks him. Ruby has higher luck getting by means of, showering Lindy with compliments till she agrees to look past the Bubble, the place she sees a co-worker’s wiggling legs disappearing inside one of many creatures as he’s consumed entire.
Yet when Lindy lastly switches off her Bubble and comes head to head with the monsters, they ignore her, and the Doctor needs to know why. Lindy calls up her “mummy” again on Homeworld and Ruby immediately acknowledges her — as will the present’s common viewers: She is performed by the actor Susan Twist, who has been making mysterious cameo appearances all through the episodes. But the Doctor extinguishes any hope that her significance might be defined simply but. “We’ll save that for later,” he says.
Back in her Bubble, and terrified, Lindy gathers her dwindling circle of buddies. A monster gobbles up one of many group whereas the others watch in horror, and Lindy begrudgingly offers the Doctor the ground. He explains that there’s a river operating beneath Finetime that they will use to flee, however Lindy’s Dot glitches when he tells her the place the entry level is. “You nonetheless have battery issues?” Ruby screams, in comedian disbelief.
Lindy wobbles out into the world as soon as extra, and is rescued from strolling proper right into a monsters’ entice by Ricky September (Tom Rhys Harries), a high influencer and heartthrob. She is of course thrilled to be in Ricky’s orbit, however when she gushes, “I assumed this was the worst day of my life, however possibly it’s the most effective,” Ricky factors out that the creatures are nonetheless consuming individuals alive. The trade is performed for laughs, however foreshadows darkness to return.
After charging their Dots, the pair escapes underground, the place Lindy reconnects with the Doctor and Ruby. Soon, the Doctor realizes that the monsters are working their means by means of Finetime’s residents in alphabetical order, by final title — and Lindy Pepper-Bean is subsequent on their record. The Dot has change into sentient, the Doctor has labored out (although how is rarely fairly defined), and after years of listening to Lindy and her buddies vapidly yapping, it has turned on them. First, it created the monsters. Now, it simply needs destruction.