[voice]

[timecapture]

[And here's Max, sounding tired and scared, but determined nonetheless.]

Can everyone hear me? This is Max Caulfield. I'm not sure this is working, but I'm gonna try it.

[A pause that's punctuated by a deep, shaky breath, and Max continues.]

We've been kidnapped. I'm sure you've already noticed by now, but I figured I'd start with that anyway. [As it turns out, Max is every bit as awkward as she usually is, if not more so.] We're not hurt... at least, not as far as I can tell. We can't use our powers. They've told us we're "property of the USSR." [Her tone more than denotes how much she thinks of that little detail, but she moves on.] But we're okay... I think. We're not injured, as far as I can tell.

They've told us we're in space, but... I don't know. A lot of us don't think that's right, but hell if I know where we are. They could be telling the truth, but they could also just be trying to scare us.

Look... I know this is a lot to deal with, but please don't do anything crazy. We're fine.

[At least for now.]

Thanks, everyone. I'm gonna try and figure more stuff out, and I know a lot of us being held over here are trying, too.

Comments

[helpline]

You know, I really don't know!

[timecapture]

[He can, in fact!]

If you can, do you see anything that might be useful?

[helpline]

Well I'm seeing a bunker, lots of oxygen tanks, metal plating...this obviously wasn't a room designed for you lot, I think you're basically in the equivalent of a closet.

[timecapture]

Really? Maybe asshole Russian prisons are like this.

[helpline]

Or maybe wherever you are didn't get the jail cells finished in time.

[timecapture]

I wouldn't really know. I've never been in a jail cell before.

[She has been imprisoned, but not like this.]

[helpline]

I have. It tends to happen when you're trying to stop aliens hell-bent on destroying the world. So I can say with great experience, that's a terrible jail cell.

[timecapture]

Is us being in a terrible jail cell good, or bad?

[helpline]

I'd say good, because it means that they didn't think this through entirely.

[timecapture]

Either that, or they just don't care how they treat us.

[helpline]

You're prisoners! Of course they care how they treat you. What use is a dead prisoner?

[timecapture]

They only seem to care enough to keep us alive.

[But for what? Surely not just as hostages.]

[helpline]

Which again, is good. That means they want you for something. The question now is, for what?

[timecapture]

Our powers? The fact that we come from different universes?

[At the very least, they're hostages.]

[helpline]

It can't be the powers. No offense, but some of you have absolutely rubbish powers.

[private]

[timecapture]

Excuse you, I can rewind time. And stop it.

[private]

[helpline]

Now see, I didn't know that! When you get out of here, we'll have to talk about that sometime.

[ and he's just so excited about that!!! ]

[private]

[timecapture]

["When", he says. "If" is more like it.]

I'd like that.

[private]

[helpline]

[ he is the Doctor, he believes in when. ]

I'm sure you've got a handle on time travel, but I could offer you tips if needed.

[private]

[timecapture]

[She's not sure she does, but she's trying to.]

I'd like that. My powers get scary, sometimes.

[And then, because she knows she can trust the Doctor with this...]

And I've had them since before I came here.