"His team already had it hard for me, and not in the best possible way," Thane says. His eyes narrow. There are people – probably more people than otherwise would have been – who are going to be after him, but taking that up with the Doctor is hardly going to solve that.

But there's more than that bothering him.

"Who the fuck were you, to him?" He asks. Thane mentioned Harkness trying to curry favor with the Doctor. The note makes it sound like the Doctor was Harkness's master. The Doctor said something – something when Thane had just come into that little office – about wearing his friend's face. Friend. Like they weren't staring over a great gulf of Time Lord imperialism and cultural supremacy. Dog, Thane thinks, is likely to be the more correct term there.