User:DoctorQuoi/sandboxVNADamagedGoods

prologue:

Christmas night, in a London council estate called "The Quadrant" by the locals, four year-old Bev Tyler hears her mother Winnie Tyler and a man talking in the living room. Her mother leaves the apartment with the man, something she never does because she never leaves the children alone. Bev follows her out into the cold, rainy night. She hides and watches. She spots a short man wearing a linen suit, also hiding opposite from her. They look directly at each other but he disappears into the night. Bev notices the man her mother was with drive off so she runs back to the apartment before she's caught. The next day, Bev and her siblings have a festive Christmas with their mother despite thinking they couldn't afford all the nice things she got them but deep down Bev can't shake the feeling something is wrong. She ignores it, but its consequences run deeper than she realizes.

Ten years later a man called the "Capper" lights himself on fire in the quandrant, frightening Mrs. Hearn. He is rushed to hospital and dies there.

Harvey, a closeted homosexual man whose wife passed away two years ago, lurks around parks looking to hook up with someone as it is a usual spot at night for people looking to have same-sex intercourse. He shares a flat in the Quadrant with a man named David, also homosexual, although he is unaware of Harvey's orientation despite being homosexual himself. Tonight he is looking for a quick encounter and spotting a young man, follows him to a graveyard thinking he has gotten lucky when the young man turns out to be a burglar and holds Harvey at knife-point. However, a body emerges from the grave beside them, sprouting tendrils having many tiny legs like a millipede and kills his would-be mugger and strips the corpse while Harvey flees the scene. He returns to his flat in the Quadrant and stitches the large slash he unknowingly received in the struggle, passing out in a pool of his own blood, afraid to call the police for fear of having his homosexuality publicly exposed.

The Doctor, Roz and Chris are vacationing in New York. Roz is happy to see the Doctor finally relaxed and care-free, unlike his usual, more cunning and manipulative self. When the waitress brings them their bill, the Doctor smells cocaine on her lip and suddenly drags Chris and Roz back to the TARDIS, realizing he has forgotten something terribly wrong. They arrive at the Quadrant. Bev, having nothing better to do during summer vacation, is on her way to meet friends when she sees the Doctor and the two in a cafe across the road and immediately recognizes him. Despite her akward attempts to spy on him, the Doctor invites her over for a chat. She obliges, despite suspecting his perverted intentions since she is a teenage girl. The Doctor, pretending to not know her, tries to have her remember the night they met but she cannot, or is suppressing the memories. Just then her mother calls them and reveals that she has been expecting the Doctor, Roz and Chris and that their flat in the Quadrant is ready, to the surprise of the three, completely unaware that they had even signed up for the rental list.

The Doctor tries to make a plan of attack, saying they need to get to know all the residents as any one of them could be linked to their investigation of the cocaine, the full extent why though of which the Doctor hasn't yet revealed and even he himself seems not fully sure. The morning after their arrival, however, the number 11 flat previously owned by the Capper, who was a drug dealer and supplier, is fire-bombed by some unknown assailants in a car. The Doctor uses the situation to his advantage and has Chris and Roz try and find out as much as possible as well as get friendly with the residents and he does the same. He talks to Mrs. Hearn about Bev's mother Winnie Tyler to try and reveal or confirm some information but to no avail. David, meanwhile, notices and takes an attraction to Chris and tries to chat him up during the evacuation of the building from the fire. Harvey also had noticed Chris earlier but thought he had no chance.