That earned the Doctor a sardonic look from Owen. "You're joking, right? Studies are about as useful as we can get here." It wasn't like they could storm up to the man in charge and demand answers, nor would learning by doing be a viable option — not with the guard force slinking around to make sure they stayed in their niches or whatever it was they did. As if realizing he should probably explain that thought, the bartender continued, "Knowledge is power and all that."

He didn't voice the creeping doubt on the validity of any knowledge they would find. Warping the perception of a person's own name and that of his loved ones was quite a knock to his usual confidence, twisting his insides until he wasn't sure what to do about it without making it worse.