"You were right. it was my fault." He stepped a little ways back form Mari, patted her shoulder, then looked Ian in the eye. "There's no time for this. We have to get the parts to fix the TARRDIS, then we can take care of this."
"Too many. But--well you have a time traveling device, clearly. Could you step out, then jump ahead and get a blue acrete diode, size oh-five? I'll check the paradox manipulatiors--Meli may ahve destroyed them completely.
((just stop it, you two. Assume she's still on Season 3 until she clarifies. But the TARDIS's connection to Mari is its only method of real communication, yes.
Rings of...? What is this miasmic confoundaton?))
"Thank you. Mari, do you know where this goes?" He took it form Ian's hand and gave it to her to let her look at it.
"...You know what? I'm not even going to ask." Meli said exasperatedly.
While she does, he goes underneath the console again and examines a certain mechanism. He mutters to himself constantly,"Just a nanosecond... almost off... rewire the consistency..."