The doors of the cellar are thrown open with a clash, and the moon floods in and over the Wolf. He presses his face to the bars, delighting in the light. The householders stare as the Wolf sheds his cloak and grips the bars. Sometimes when you're stuck in jail with the Devil, it's still the Devil that sucks. "All of you, stop looking at it!" Rose screams, not interested in having to look at what's clearly coming next. "Flora, don't look. Listen to me. Grab hold of the chain and pull! Pull!" They pull at the chain as the growling begins, and Rose screams at her Ladyship, the lazy shit: "All of you! That means you! Pull!" And they pull, together, and the Wolf continues to groan, and to growl. The sun and the moon, the day and night: but why do they hurt? Because one follows the other and that's not a dance that ever stops; "the very source and fount of Day is dash'd with wandering isles of night." Because changing shape means shedding skin, and not the easy snaky kind, either, the kind that comes off in bloody strips: that's the truth about Wolves, Bad or otherwise, and that's Arizona. And the wolf goes on, in pain.
Fr. Angelo stands by the window, chanting, as everybody else freaks out about the revelation that they've been taken over by a ninja werewolf cult. Come on, like you could keep your cool. Reynolds pulls a gun on Sir Robert. Well, I think you could probably stay cooler than Captain Reynolds, but we already knew that. Sir Robert immediately begs the Queen's forgiveness, explaining that the Brethren have his wife Isobel. The Doctor shouts -- and not in his Scottish accent either -- at Fr. Angelo, demanding to know where Rose is. (Which is funny, because he's slipping out of his natural accent as an actor and into the fake accent of the girl he's talking about, which is all backwards in every way, because if their relationship were working right, as in the way the show has always worked, they'd both be Scottish by now.) Fr. Angelo ignores the Doctor, carries on chanting, and the Doctor drags Sir Robert out of the room to save their ladies. Captain Reynolds keeps his gun on Fr. Angelo. Who is a kung-fu ninja, but Reynolds is a dick, so we won't tell him.













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