Penelope and The Doctor sat in a small rowboat, floating aimlessly in a swampy little pond. The sky was gray, the water was completely still, and the pond was surrounded on all sides by thick brush and weeping willows that hung over, making the atmosphere dim and eerie. The Doctor shot a small, missile-like object into the water, and suddenly the entire pond was visible all the way to the bottom. Beneath them were hundreds of boat-like objects, going down hundreds of feet. Penelope couldn't believe how deep this tiny pond was.
The Doctor looked down in horror and said "They're breeding! But why here?" Penelope, as usual, didn't know who "they" were or even where "here" was, but sometimes she didn't care. Sometimes she was too distracted by The Doctor's adorable accent and frantic, quirky personality. And she knew she could trust him. She thought to herself that she probably should care, because they could be absolutely anywhere and anytime in the universe right now. But she just didn't.
Suddenly, The Doctor stood up, pulling Penelope up with him. "Come on!" he said, with that adventurous, excited, righteously angry look on his face. Penelope knew that look. They were about to do something dangerous. Just as she thought this, The Doctor pulled her out of the boat and toward the water. In the split second before she hit the water, Penelope's trust in The Doctor wavered a little and she wanted to scream at him "I can't breathe under water! I know you're an alien and maybe you can, but I can't!" But before she had a chance, they were swimming beneath the boat--and to Penelope's surprise, she could breathe. Somehow, things usually worked out well when she was with The Doctor. But that didn't stop her from having moments of gripping fear, because while The Doctor sometimes knew what he was doing he never let Penelope in on his plans--and sometimes Penelope wondered if The Doctor ever really knew what he was doing, or if it was just a combination of his quick thinking and a lot of luck that got them out of sticky situations.
The water was surprisingly clear underneath all the pond scum. They were swimming along and Penelope was just starting to enjoy it when suddenly they found themselves in a small room where a large stainless steel freezer stood. There was a huge door on the front side of the freezer, which The Doctor was reaching for. When he opened it, Penelope was horrified to see a dead body begin to slump out the door. The Doctor quickly pushed it back in and closed the door and asked, more to himself than to Penelope, "But why would they do this?"
Penelope wondered why she kept subjecting herself to this kind of thing. But The Doctor was mysterious, and Penelope was determined to solve this unsolvable mystery.
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