Hex: McShane!

Ace: Try to stay calm, Hex. You'll find the initial open-mouthed shock fades after an hour or so.

Hex: It will?

Ace: Oh, yeah. It's replaced by an uncomfortable nagging sense of the uncanny, which never quite goes away, but that's a lot easier to cope with in the long run than the slacked-mouth gibbering.

Hex: Is this some kind of joke?

Doctor: In the unfathomably cosmic sense, most certainly.