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Tales from /lost+found 46: It’s Magic, I don’t have to explain it.

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OLD DOCTOR
–We could generate an independent causality track and–
THE DOCTOR
–We wouldn’t be bound by the War Lords’ time loop.
OLD DOCTOR
It’s clever.
THE DOCTOR
Quite. Still won’t work. In case you’ve forgotten, there are three of us and only one jewel.
SIX
Rub-a-dub-dub. Three men in a tub.
ALICE
(quietly)
Three docs in a box.
THE DOCTOR
Sorry, what?
ALICE looks sheepish. SIX grins. The Doctors look at each other then the OLD DOCTOR takes something out of his pocket. The magic box.
OLD DOCTOR
I’m really hoping you both have one of these too.
THE DOCTOR and the WAR DOCTOR take out identical boxes.
ALICE
What is it, Doctor –- Doctors?
THE DOCTOR
It’s a self-contained anti-causal closed-loop timelike emboitment.
ALICE
What?
OLD DOCTOR
Schroedinger cell. The inside is isolated from outside causality in a state of quantum indeterminacy.
ALICE
What?
WAR DOCTOR
It’s a magic box.

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