The Physician pops up in Lindy’s Bubble to warn her in regards to the creatures, however Lindy doesn’t wish to know, and blocks him. Ruby has higher luck getting by way of, showering Lindy with compliments till she agrees to look past the Bubble, the place she sees a co-worker’s wiggling legs disappearing inside one of many creatures as he’s consumed entire.
But when Lindy lastly switches off her Bubble and comes nose to nose with the monsters, they ignore her, and the Physician needs to know why. Lindy calls up her “mummy” again on Homeworld and Ruby immediately acknowledges her — as will the present’s common viewers: She is performed by the actor Susan Twist, who has been making mysterious cameo appearances all through the episodes. However the Physician extinguishes any hope that her significance will probably be defined simply but. “We’ll save that for later,” he says.
Again in her Bubble, and terrified, Lindy gathers her dwindling circle of buddies. A monster gobbles up one of many group whereas the others watch in horror, and Lindy begrudgingly provides the Physician the ground. He explains that there’s a river operating beneath Finetime that they’ll use to flee, however Lindy’s Dot glitches when he tells her the place the entry level is. “You continue to have battery issues?” Ruby screams, in comedian disbelief.
Lindy wobbles out into the world as soon as extra, and is rescued from strolling proper right into a monsters’ entice by Ricky September (Tom Rhys Harries), a high influencer and heartthrob. She is of course thrilled to be in Ricky’s orbit, however when she gushes, “I assumed this was the worst day of my life, however perhaps it’s one of the best,” Ricky factors out that the creatures are nonetheless consuming folks alive. The alternate is performed for laughs, however foreshadows darkness to return.
After charging their Dots, the pair escapes underground, the place Lindy reconnects with the Physician and Ruby. Quickly, the Physician realizes that the monsters are working their approach by way of Finetime’s residents in alphabetical order, by final identify — and Lindy Pepper-Bean is subsequent on their listing. The Dot has turn out to be sentient, the Physician has labored out (although how is rarely fairly defined), and after years of listening to Lindy and her buddies vapidly yapping, it has turned on them. First, it created the monsters. Now, it simply needs destruction.
