Folie à deux (‘madness for two’), also known as shared psychosis or shared delusional disorder (SDD), is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief, and sometimes hallucinations, are transmitted from one individual to another.
[Cage]
(Time’s Champion is practising his juggling with Mags.)
CAPTAIN:
Mags.
MAGS:
What?
CAPTAIN:
It's not going to work.
I remember when I was on the baleful plains of Grolon, I —
MAGS:
I don't care.
TIME’S CHAMPION :
Ready?
(Mags and the Doctor go to the cage door, where a pair robot clowns stand guard.)
TIME’S CHAMPION :
I believe I'm on first.
MAGS:
No, I'm ahead of you.
TIME’S CHAMPION :
No, you're not.
MAGS:
No, I am.
TIME’S CHAMPION :
I insist on going out first.
MAGS:
Oh no, you don't.
TIME’S CHAMPION :
Oh yes, I do — Look, I insist I’m going on first.
MAGS:
I told you, I am.
TIME’S CHAMPION :
I am!
(The clowns come over and the door slides up.
The Doctor and Mags knock them out with the clubs —
Now, you might start to think to yourself something along the lines of :
“Hang on, wait a minute — The Escape Plan was to stage a fake argument in the waiting area to lure the guards into unlocking the gate, in order to enter with them to investigate all the commotion, whereupon they club the two clowns over their heads with the juggling clubs to render both unconscious, while they made their escape....
How does that work, just simply hitting them on the head with a heavy object, seeing as how the guards are both android drones...?
Simple — Comic Timing.
They are Robot Clowns [Not Clown Robots]
So, in which case,
TIME’S CHAMPION :
Join the club. Captain?
CAPTAIN:
No thanks, old boy.
I'll sit this one out.
Goodbye, Mags.
MAGS:
Bye, Captain.
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