The Doctor nodded at the manipulator. "Almost rather be ripped apart anyway," he said, giving Jack a small, teasing smile. He had to smile now, they had to make it through this. Fixed point in time or not.

"Why would they evacuate?" the Doctor asked. He slipped on his glasses and peered over Jack's shoulder at the screen.

"Everyone's left, no reason stated. Considering the damage that comes out of this outpost..." He pulled off his glasses and looked back at the empty pods. "They wouldn't have made it away from the blast radius, no one heard of any survivors from ground zero. No one."