GC9GWMZ The Ruddy Doctor 21: Time & Ruddy Dimensions (Unknown Cache) in East Midlands, United Kingdom created by RuddRobins

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Welcome to the Ruddy Doctor Caches, a series of puzzles linked together loosely with a whimsical story following the various regenerations of my favourite Time Lord.

The puzzles are nestled away in passages linking the various Doctor’s regeneration scenes, so you’ll need to skim at least through to find the goods and the occasional clue. You can assume coordinates are N 52° 51.XXX' W 001° XX.XXX' and will need you own pen and tweezers. All were conceived and placed by Doctor RuddRobins + checked and difficulty assessed by Mrs RuddRobins.

The notes at the end are random Docfacts not needed to complete the puzzle. I hope you find it all mildly amusing and it keeps you out of trouble for at least a little while J

The Ruddy Doctor 21: Time and Ruddy Dimensions in Space

(The lights go out in the Tardis.)

DOCTOR: The power, it's draining. Everything's draining. But it can't. That's, that's impossible. It's as if the Matrix, the soul of the Tardis, has just vanished. Where would it go?

(Idris gasps and sits up again. A little golden energy comes out of her mouth, to the accompaniment of the Tardis sound.)

. . .

IDRIS: Thief! Thief! You're my thief!

(Idris runs up to the Doctor.)

IDRIS: Look at you. Goodbye. No, not goodbye, what's the other one?

(Idris kisses the Doctor.)

DOCTOR: Why am I a thief? What have I stolen?

IDRIS: Me. You're going to steal me. No, you have stolen me. You are stealing me. Oh tenses are difficult, aren't they?

(Idris bites the Doctor's ear.)

DOCTOR: Ow! Ow!

IDRIS: Biting's excellent. It's like kissing, only there's a winner.

DOCTOR: Who are you?

IDRIS: It's about time.

DOCTOR: I don't understand. Who are you?

IDRIS: Do you not know me? Just because they put me in here? I'm the. Oh, what do you call me? We travel. I go (Tardis sound)

DOCTOR: The Tardis?

IDRIS: Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Yes, that's it. Names are funny. It's me. I'm the Tardis.

DOCTOR: No, you're not. You're a bitey, mad lady. The Tardis is up and downy stuff in a big blue box.

IDRIS: Yes, that's me. A Type Forty Tardis. I was already a museum piece when you were young, and the first time you touched my console you said . . .

DOCTOR: I said you were the most beautiful thing I had ever known.

IDRIS: And then you stole me. And I stole you.

DOCTOR: I borrowed you.

IDRIS: Borrowing implies the intention to return the thing that was taken. What makes you think I would ever give you back?

DOCTOR: You're the Tardis?

IDRIS: Yes.

DOCTOR: My Tardis?

IDRIS: My Doctor. Oh. Are all people like this?

DOCTOR: Like what?

IDRIS: So much bigger on the inside. I'm, oh, what is that word? It's so big, so complicated. It's so sad.

IDRIS: Do you ever wonder why I chose you all those years ago?

DOCTOR: I chose you. You were unlocked.

IDRIS: Of course I was. I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and I ran away. And you were the only one mad enough.

DOCTOR: You know, since we're talking with mouths, not really an opportunity that comes along very often, I just want to say, you know, you have never been very reliable.

IDRIS: And you have?

DOCTOR: You didn't always take me where I wanted to go.

IDRIS: No, but I always took you where you needed to go.

DOCTOR: You did. Look at us talking. Wouldn't it be amazing if we could always talk, even when you're stuck inside the box?

IDRIS: You know I'm not constructed that way. I exist across all space and time, and you talk and run around and bring home strays.

(Idris buckles at the knees. The Doctor catches her.)

DOCTOR: You okay?

IDRIS: One of the kidneys has already failed. It doesn't matter.

(later, back in the TARDIS control room)

DOCTOR: Amy, this is, well, she's my Tardis. Except she's a woman. She's a woman, and she's my Tardis.

AMY: She's the Tardis?

DOCTOR: And she's a woman. She's a woman and she's the Tardis.

AMY: Did you wish really hard?

DOCTOR: Shut up. Not like that.

IDRIS: Hello. I'm Sexy.

DOCTOR: Oh. Still shut up.

DOCTOR: Hey. Hang in there, old girl. Not long now. It'll be over soon.

IDRIS: I always liked it when you call me old girl. Before I can return to myself Doctor, there is a puzzle to be solved. Will solve. Are solving. Memory. That is a strange idea. Can you remember yourself Doctor?

I can almost see which self you were whenI looked like this:

then this:

then this again:

And then by degrees, not so long ago this was me:

Can you remember for me Doctor? Can you recall those minutes when I looked like this:

and this:

and finally this:

Yes – that’s the answer my Thief. You will solve have solved are solving it and I can return to myself . . .

(The golden energy streams from Idris into the console then out again and through the Tardis. A golden image of Idris is standing on the stairs.)

IDRIS: Doctor, are you there? It's so very dark in here.

DOCTOR: I'm here.

IDRIS: I've been looking for a word. A big, complicated word, but so sad. I've found it now.

DOCTOR: What word?

IDRIS: Alive. I'm alive.

DOCTOR: Alive isn't sad.

IDRIS: It's sad when it's over. I'll always be here, but this is when we talked, and now even that has come to an end. There's something I didn't get to say to you.

DOCTOR: Goodbye?

IDRIS: No. I just wanted to say hello. Hello, Doctor. It's so very, very nice to meet you.

DOCTOR: Please. I don't want you to. Please.

(Idris dematerialises.)

(Later, the Doctor is doing some work below the console.)

RORY: How's it going under there?

DOCTOR: Just putting a firewall around the Matrix. Almost done.

AMY: Are you going to make her talk again?

DOCTOR: I can't.

RORY: Why not?

AMY: Spacey wacey, isn't it?

DOCTOR: Well, actually, it's because the Time Lords discovered that if you take an eleventh dimensional matrix and fold it into a mechanical then . . . Yes, it's spacey wacey.

(Later still, the Doctor's work is finished.)

DOCTOR: Are you there? Can you hear me? Oh, I'm a silly old. Okay. The Eye of Orion, or wherever we need to go.

(Levers move on their own.)

DOCTOR: Ha ha! Whoo hoo.

Notes

The Doctor's Wife was the fourth episode of series 6 of Doctor Who.

It was notable for being the first episode of the show to be written by Neil Gaiman, a famed fantasy and comic book writer. Narratively, Wife was important because it depicted the Doctor's TARDIS in human form, and offered revelations about the relationship of the two time travellers. It was also the first episode of BBC Wales Doctor Who to extensively feature the corridors of the TARDIS — a setting common to several stories of the 1963 version of the show

Wife would win the show's first Hugo award not won by a showrunner when it received the 2012 Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Award.

In this story, the Doctor finally vents all his frustration at the TARDIS for its inability to get him where he wishes to go, which usually ends up causing one of his adventures. However, the TARDIS is also finally able to tell its side of the story; it wished to leave Gallifrey as much as the Doctor, so it allowed him to steal her. As for its seemingly faulty navigation, the TARDIS takes the Doctor where he is needed most.

Caches in this series

The Ruddy Doctor 0: Gallifrey Falls (GC9GNNW)