‘They’re just like TV signals, beamed out into space, going nowhere but picked up. By someone. And deciphered.’ ‘Or not,’ Bernice added. ‘Half the time the guys that find this stuff are watching an episode of Top Gear and assume it’s a comedy show about three bumbling mechanics building stupid methods of transport.’ ‘It isn’t?’ asked Jack. ‘It isn’t,’ Bernice confirmed. ‘But that one with the bathtub…’ ‘That’s Last of the Summer Wine.’ ‘Oh.’ Jack frowned. ‘What’s the difference again?’ ‘Aaanyway,’ the Doctor continued, smiling at Jaanson, ‘the last time this happened, these Ancients of yours sent out their signal. When no one replied, they rather gave up.’ ‘Went out on a binge,’ Bernice added helpfully. Jaanson looked like someone had just defiled his personal Holy Grail. ‘The Ancients are sublime! You cannot malign them in this way.’ ‘I think she can,’ the Doctor said. ‘I think she did,’ Peter added. ‘Absolutely,’ Bernice said, tapping the Glamour, or lodestone or whatever it really was.
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