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'You want more time Mr Brown, of course you do. We all want more time. Let me make you an offer...'
Andrew Brown never has enough time. No time to call his sister, or to prepare for that important presentation at the bank where he works. The train's late, the lift jams. If only he'd had just a little more time. And time is the business of Mr Symington and Mr Blenkinsop. They'll lend him some - at a very reasonable rate of interest.
Detecting a problem, the Doctor, Amy and Rory go undercover at the bank. But they have to move fast to stop Symington and Blenkinsop before they cash in their investments.
The Doctor and the Ponds head to approximately now-a-days to watch a bank collapse bit when they get there they discover a pair of nasties, sharks no-less, handing out 'time watches' and then charging compound interest on their use. Needless to say the doctor feels this sort of rampant capitalism is just a tad uncouth and soon puts a stop to it all.
From a dry premise and tedious setting Alderman has rung a more than half decent story but that cover art needed binning.
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