The Friendly Place ( comic story ) Publisher ' s summary . When the Doctor last visited Rokhandi , it was a planet of such stunning natural beauty that an entire solar system had sworn to preserve it . What better place to take new companion Alice Obiefune on her first off - world adventure ? And it would have been a magical vacation . . . if the TARDIS hadn ' t overshot by fifty years . Now the austerity - hit pleasure planet has become a " theme safari " corporate hell , overrun by eerie , giant - headed mascots and a trillion tramping tourist feet ! But there ' s something more sinister at play than rampant commercialism and ecological devastation . . . and the Doctor and Alice need to uncover all of Rokhandi ' s long - buried secrets if they ' re to escape with their lives ! Plot . The Doctor takes Alice to her first new planet , Rokhandi , which is renowned as the most untouched beauty in the universe , so much so that he could only obtain a permit to land there after twice saving the whole system from Amstron s . But they land a dozen or so years too late and find themselves in the Rokhandi World theme park created by SERVEYOUinc . Livid at what corruption did to Rokhandi , the Doctor lashes out at a theme park employee wearing a pig ' s costume . He offers the Doctor complimentary Rokhandi Floss , made from chromatic lizard , a rare local animal the Doctor wanted to show Alice , and she drags him away , trying to persuade him that already being on another planet is adventure enough . Nearby , a young man paints " I ' m bored " with a spray can . He is confronted by the boss and another member of security staff . To his surprise , instead of kicking him out of the park , they bring him into a big room , where they call him a friend and also offer him complimentary Rokhandi Floss . As he protests that they are not friends , a white tentacle reaches to the middle of his forehead . His face becomes vacant as the security sing the theme park ' s jingle . Meanwhile Alice wins a pig toy in a shooting gallery , but when she returns to give it to the Doctor , she finds him still sulking about the state of the planet . Alice calls out the Doctor ' s behaviour , drawing subtle parallels with her own mourning of her mother , which he is supposed to help her overcome . He apologises for his rudeness , but says that he has also noticed something strange about the park . Nobody behaves as one would expect . All employees are completely happy even performing unpleasant duties , and visitors do not throw tantrums . He decides to see what would happen if he caused a scene , goes to the same shooting gallery , Target Happy , and starts shooting prizes instead of targets . The Target Happy host is dismayed but does not go beyond futile pleas . Soon , a theme park employee approaches and again offers the Doctor a complimentary Rokhandi Floss . The employee is dressed in a security staff uniform but is in fact the spray - can vandal . The Doctor tries to fish for more information , but the employee says he does not know much claiming to be a recent hire of SERVEYOUinc . He asks the Doctor to follow him . Sensing trouble , Alice asks the shooting gallery host if this happens often that unruly customers are led away by the security . He assures her that this only happens with new arrivals , who do not yet understand how friendly everybody is . But this soon changes . Many , including him , even stay on to work in the park . Alice then takes a gun from the gallery and follows the Doctor , disregarding the protests of the gallery host . After being led into the same dark room as the spray - can vandal before , the Doctor recognises him . The young man does not deny it but acts as if he does not remember it well . The other two members of security descend on the Doctor and reveal a caged white mass of moving tentacles . They ' re about to feed the Doctor to the creature feeling no remorse whatsoever . They say it does not hurt and promise him a job " with a future " in toxic waste mines of Rokhandi . The Doctor deduces that this entity feeds on will , creativity and ambition , removing , as a side effect , the desire to cause trouble . As a result , visitors wishing to forget about their hard lives temporarily , lose all memory of themselves . At this moment , Alice runs in , shoots one man in the bum and threatens another shot to his crotch if they don ' t release the Doctor . At first the Doctor is thrilled , but warns her against shooting people in the future . However , before Alice and the Doctor can get away , August Hart arrives with armed security detail . Although he recognises the Doctor and Alice and blames them and the third one for his demotion , they have no idea who August Hart is . The Doctor asks why a person such as himself bothers with the " carrot " approach , which is clearly against his nature . Alice guesses that a voluntary submission to the Entity improves the results , but Hart assures her that it is far from being essential . As Hart ' s retinue begins manhandling the Doctor pushing him within the range of the Entity , he surprises everyone by willingly submitting himself to the creature . The Entity sends its tentacle to the Doctor ' s forehead and suddenly explodes . Its victims get back their memories and turn on each other and on Hart , who frantically demands extraction off - world , vowing vengeance as he runs from the room . The Doctor tells Alice that he was able to defeat the Entity by overloading it with a desire for 208 different 43 - dimensional superimposed supersolids , a concept it took him eight years to learn in the Time Lord University . He jokes that he made the Entity throw up , and Alice states that Rokhandi World wouldn ' t be a proper theme park without vomit . Walking out of the room and towards the TARDIS , the Doctor and Alice see much more recognisable theme park scenes , with customers fighting among themselves and abusing employees and with employees vomiting and clearly showing how they hate their jobs . The Doctor hopes that SERVERYOUinc is not likely to survive this scandal , and with that the TARDIS dematerialises . Epilogue . Sometime later a man sits in his top - floor office with a view over a city and talks on the phone with Professor Dutta , discussing the Rokhandi situation and lamenting that the park has become a dead loss , the mine workers are striking , and there is even talk of revolution against their friends in the system government . And all this is caused by the same Doctor who cost them the ARC experiment ten years prior . He asks Professor Dutta for good news , but she explains that the destruction of the portion of the Entity on Rokhandi affected also the remainder of the Entity . Notes . Original print details . " to be added "