RESPONDING TO A DISTRESS CALL, THE TARDIS materialises in the hold of the Fancy, a pirate ship under the command of Captain Avery. The Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams are taken for stowaways and the Doctor is forced to walk the plank, but when Amy brandishes a cutlass the travellers are surprised to find the pirates are terrified of acquiring even the slightest injury.
Rory and a pirate named Dancer both receive minor cuts, but a black spot inexplicably appears in each man’s palm and they are targeted by the