Honest Living ( short story ) Honest Living was the tenth short story in the Short Trips anthology " More Short Trips " . It was written by Jason Loborik . It featured the Third Doctor , Jo Grant and the Brigadier . Summary . Kate Forbes is attending the funeral of her father , businessman Bernard Forbes , who was killed in a car accident . After the ceremony , she sees a strange - looking man talking to her mother . Her mother says that , according to the man , Bernard is going to live again . Tuala has broken into UNIT headquarters . She makes her way to the Doctor ' s laboratory , surprising the Doctor and Jo , who she thought wouldn ' t be there at this time of night . She grabs some equipment and takes Jo hostage . Unknown to Tuala , the Brigadier has attached a homing device to her getaway car , and the Doctor follows the girls in Bessie . Tuala blindfolds Jo and brings her into a house . When they get inside , they both experience a painful sensation . After it passes , they head upstairs , to find the landing barricaded with furniture . They remove the furniture and enter a bedroom . The Doctor has reached the house , which is in great condition compared to the surrounding dilapidated houses . In the house he finds a safe , guarded by a force field . He retrieves a newspaper from the safe , and reads a headline about Bernard Forbes ' death . He goes upstairs after hearing a scream . Upstairs , he tries to get Tuala to talk , realising that she is not from this time . However , she uses a black box to transport herself and Jo away . As the Doctor is holding the newspaper it disappears too . Jo and Tuala are in the same room at a different time . Jo recognises that Tuala comes from the future when the Daleks had invaded Earth . Suddenly they hear their own voices outside the door and experience the same painful sensation as before . Tuala explains that the energy release is from two versions of themselves in close proximity . Tuala has decided to convince her uncle , Krashen , to ask the Doctor for help fixing their time machines . The Doctor and the Brigadier visit Annie Forbes to talk about her husband ' s death . They are surprised to see he is alive , though he seems to have lost some of his mental abilities . The Doctor explains to the Brigadier that Krashen is changing history , probably for money . The problem is that not only is he creating paradoxes , he himself is a paradox because he comes from a timeline that the Doctor had already changed . Tuala and Jo meet Krashen at a church . He ' s angry at Tuala . She tries to convince him that their time machines are killing them . The Doctor meets Krashen at the house . He tries to convince him that he has to stop , that the timeline including the Dalek invasion has been changed . Krashen tries to justify his changing of history . The Doctor points out that time is destroying the house , Bernard Forbes , and Krashen himself . Krashen uses his machine to take himself and the Doctor to the bedroom at the time Jo and Tuala were in it . Tuala and Krashen fade away . The Doctor and Jo then barricade the landing to delay the entrance of the earlier Jo and Tuala . The Doctor fixes the time machine and the room explodes . The Doctor and Jo wake up in UNIT sickbay . The Doctor is dismayed to find no mention of Bernard Forbes ' death . He goes to the Forbes house , where Annie Forbes tells him that Bernard just vanished . Notes . " to be added "