He's out at night, again.
"I think so. She said it was her idea, the last time you did it, and... she called me sweet, for worrying." He can't help but smile, as he says that.
"Right - " and he's palpably more animated, now, as he speaks " - we've got a few more details to work out."
The plan develops:
The Doctor is going to leave his video camera and his recording of Bryce in the auto shop for Sarah Jane to find. If the recording continues after the Doctor shuts off the camera, Sarah Jane will tell Bryce as much as she knows about how far back she was sent, and walk him through how to perform a Catalax maneuver that will land him as close as possible to her, without making her wait. If the recording ends, Bryce is just going to go as far back as he possibly can - the Doctor walks him through how to do so, in advance - and wait for her to show up.
The TARDIS has a levitating stretcher in storage which the Doctor tells Bryce how to find, and a first aid kit which will help make sure it's safe for him to get her on it, even on his own, if she's too hurt to move. He also gives Bryce directions to one of the bedrooms and one of the kitchens, in case Sarah Jane can't do it herself.
K9 agrees to stay behind and wait for the TARDIS to return, on condition that if something happens that prevents them from coming back promptly, whoever can gets out of town and goes into hiding, then meets back up with him just after the moment the TARDIS disappears, so he's not in danger of being found by curious humans and taken apart.
"Well, apparently it's more than a match for any one of us," the Doctor says, "so yes."
- he breaks into a grin. "Yeah. I'm okay. I got into the TARDIS and K9 and me got the Angel paralyzed. - can I assume you dropped your purse intentionally for me to find?"
"Are you all right? We uh, kind of figured you might be hurt. The Doctor and me, I mean, we got in touch."
"We uh. There's probably not like a tactful way to say this but. We figured it was trying to injure you badly enough that you'd die in the past."
"Well I'm not the happiest I've ever been but I'm not that badly off, don't worry," she says. "Do you and he have a phase two?"
"I talked to him, and - to the TARDIS - and she and I are going to do something called a Catalax maneuver and hopefully get sent back the same amount of time you did. The Doctor said you could walk me through it."
"I can," she says. "It was the first thing I ever did with the TARDIS too, in fact. It was her idea then."
"That's what she told me. The second part, I mean, that it was her suggestion."
Nod. "Now, for a Catalax maneuver the thing to do is set the coordinates for a time jump about twice as far back as you want to go, to start with. I've had a look on my phone, and according to Google it's about seven months ago, so you'll set it for fourteen months back. The trouble is, they're not in Earth units..."
There's a few moments of setup, mostly twiddling dials on one of the six terminals.
"...if you stand at the six o'clock terminal, you should be able to see two levers on the terminal to your left, and a sort of pole or plunger to your right, that you can pull out and turn and push in. Don't do anything with it yet. The leftmost lever starts the journey; the lever to its right is the handbrake. The plunger is the boost control. Pull the leftmost lever, wait for the pillar in the center to light up and start moving. You'll hear a warbley sound and the floor will probably shake, that's normal. Pull out the plunger, turn it a quarter turn to the right, then push it in as hard as you can while you swipe the handbrake at the same moment. If you do it right there'll be an absolutely ghastly noise and all the lights will go off for a second, then there'll be an alarm. Hit the button on the ten o'clock terminal I showed you before to override that alarm."