Tangled Web ( audio story ) Publisher ' s summary . Something happened when Molly O ' Sullivan was just two years old , and the Doctor thinks it ' s high time they found out exactly what it was . Meanwhile , the Dalek s are fully activating their Temporal Chamber . And while the Doctor and Molly get closer and closer to the terrible truth , the nature of reality itself seems to be in question . Plot . In 1893 , Molly O ' Sullivan has gone missing on her second birthday . She is returned , deeply asleep , to her parents by Kotris , who talks to himself about her destiny to free the Universe from tyranny . In the TARDIS , the Doctor marvels at Molly ' s textbook operation of the dematerialisation controls . He cancels her coordinates , suspicious that since Molly arrived the Daleks seem to know where they will be . Through hypnosis , he helps Molly remember being taken on her second birthday into a TARDIS - but it wasn ' t the Doctor ' s . On Srangor , Kotris reports to the Dalek Time Controller . He has constructed a " relativity map " , technology which belongs to the Time Lord s - who used to be Kotris ' own people . He uses the map to track Straxus ' movements , and confirm that his temporal drone is following the Time Lord to prevent interference . An alarm sounds , alerting them that the Doctor ' s course in the vortex has changed . The Doctor has let Molly pilot the TARDIS under hypnosis , taking them to her second birthday during a storm . They witness Kotris arriving in his own TARDIS , confusing the Doctor , who can tell Kotris isn ' t a Time Lord . They watch Kotris take Molly into his TARDIS , which disappears and returns almost immediately , and Molly suddenly recovers her memories of being returned to her parents by a stranger . Kotris reviews footage of the same event and realises he was observed by the Doctor , which threatens their plans . He contacts a " third party " for assistance . The TARDIS shuts down mid - flight ; it ' s been " time - clamped " and is trapped in the vortex . As they discuss pain , hope and Molly ' s conviction that she must return to World War I , the Doctor hears a strange noise , calls out Lucie ' s name and collapses . When he comes to , Molly has brought him out of the TARDIS into an alien world - something that should be impossible while it is clamped . More worryingly , the doors have closed and locked themselves . They hear Daleks approaching , but the Doctor can ' t open the TARDIS doors even with the key , and they run . Straxus reports to the President that Kotris is acting as predicted , and Kotris ' s temporal drone is following him - but the Doctor has disappeared . The President orders Straxus to find the Doctor by any means and make sure he " arrives on cue " . The Daleks corner Molly and the Doctor in a cave , but ask them politely to come out . They claim that they have seen the error of their ways and wish to welcome them . The Doctor hears the noise and collapses again ; when he wakes he and Molly are being taken to a Dalek city being rebuilt . Within , Daleks play with children among beautiful ceramic towers decorated with flowers , and the Daleks offer to care for the Doctor in their hospital . Molly tries to convince the Doctor to accept the Daleks new reality , reasoning that they could become sick of war , just as he has . A small squid - like creature , Thelus , arrives to treat the Doctor , but he hears the noise and collapses again . After a week of convalescing , Molly and Thelus explain to the Doctor that they are on Skaro , which has been transformed after a thousand years of peace . The Daleks are changing too , genetically retro - engineering themselves : Thelus is an intermediate phase , able to exist outside a " shell " , and the children are basically Kaled s . This society is all that ' s left after a great war nearly wiped out the Daleks - and destroyed the Time Lords . The Doctor admits he has always hoped the Daleks would change , but despite Molly ' s attempts to persuade him he can ' t believe what ' s happened . He suddenly remembers the TARDIS and runs to it , but still can ' t open the doors . As he hears the noise again , he realises he has electrodes in his head and manages to remove them . The Skaro reality melts away - it was a fantasy engineered by the Mezcoranis , robots who believe the Doctor is a dangerous patient with a persecution complex and delusions of saving the Universe . Their therapy having failed , they threaten to use mind - altering surgery on the Doctor , who is trapped in a glass cell with Molly . He removes her electrodes and asks her to tell him who she is and what she can remember about being in Kotris ' s TARDIS . All this is part of Kotris ' s plan ; he is watching and activates a psionic link . Molly realises he has always been with them , watching , and under Kotris ' influence tells the Doctor " I will be the death of all Time Lords . " Kotris assures the Dalek Time Controller that this revelation will drive the Doctor to act exactly as they wish . Straxus locates the Doctor and Molly by predicting what Kotris would do - something he tells his assistant Sandun he is uniquely qualified to do - and rescues them by materialising his TARDIS around them . Shortly after the Daleks arrive and destroy the Mezcoranis to prevent there being any witnesses to their plan . Kotris is disturbed , but the Dalek Time Controller chastises him , reminding him he ' s no longer a Time Lord . Straxus reveals that the President prevented the Doctor returning to Gallifrey , but they don ' t know who Kotris is . They refer to him as X , and believe he was once a Time Lord , but has now been genetically altered by the Daleks into something else . They do know where he is and program his coordinates into the Doctor ' s TARDIS , but another craft time ram s Straxus ' s TARDIS . Straxus urges the Doctor to go , leaving the others to die and thus foil the Daleks ' plan - just as Straxus ' TARDIS disintegrates around them .