This short story was adapted from the ''AudioPlay/DoctorWhoAudioVisuals'' story "Vilgreth".

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The Seventh Doctor, travelling alone, ends up on a giant spaceship and promptly manages to park the TARDIS inside the engine. Once he and the captain, Vilgreth, have recovered her, they decide to have some tea.

They're interrupted by a police officer from the nearby planet that the ship is approaching. The officer has planted a bomb on the ship, and warns the Doctor to leave before it's too late.

The Doctor, carrying the IdiotBall of the day, refuses to listen until he realises that Vilgreth's story makes no sense. He eventually finds out that Vilgreth is a cloned early (pre-Neanderthal) humanoid, who went mental one day, killed his creators and stole the ship. And the ship was originally an interstellar garbage truck, which turns excess planets and other celestial bodies into fuel. Vilgreth is incapable of seeing anything wrong with using inhabited planets to fuel his home.

The Doctor briefly tries to save Vilgreth, but finds himself forced to blow up the ship.

!Tropes:
* AntiVillain: Both Vilgreth and the Lizard official. Vilgreth doesn't understand what he's doing, and the other wants to blow him up in order to prevent deaths.
** AlasPoorVillain
* BackFromTheDead: Vilgreth.
* BerserkButton: DON'T hurt the ship.
* BigNo
* CommonalityConnection: The Doctor and Vilgreth bond over their love for tea.
* CompanionCube: The boilers for the Captain.
* {{Cyborg}}: Vilgreth.
* CrewOfOne: Captain Vilgreth.
* DownerEnding
* EtTuBrute: "You were my ''friend''!"
* ExactWords: The TARDIS is ''technically'' indestructable. The Doctor muses over the ''technically'' for a bit.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke
* IsItSomethingYouEat: Chalk.
* LizardFolk
* {{Narrator}}: The Doctor is by himself for parts, so he narrates.
* The Missing Link: Vilgreth is a Titanthrope-clone, an evolutionary dead end that existed before Homosapien.
* MysteriousPast: Vilgreth is not particulary good at remembering what he's been through.
* NewsBroadcast
* NotNowKiddo
* PlanetEater: The ship the Doctor crashlanded on.
* PoorCommunicationKills
* SpannerInTheWorks: Invoked by the Captain.
* TimeBomb
* TrailOfBreadcrumbs: Chalk arrows.