The Sarah Jane Adventures s01e09 Episode Script

That shooting star could be a space rock.
But it could be a ship.
They might be friendly and they might not.
Like the Slitheen.
They wanted to drain our sun's energy and leave the Earth a dead ball of ice.
But we stopped them.
Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and me.
I remember the blackout.
The paper said it was a reversal of the Earth's magnetic something.
- Mr Smith put that into the news releases.
- Sarah Jane's computer.
Which branch of PC World did that come from? He's alien.
I don't know where from.
- Not sure if Sarah Jane knows.
- Right.
Clyde realised we could use vinegar against the Slitheen.
- You heard her! - Most of them teleported back to the ship.
- Maria, you're 14.
- Dad, the world would have died.
I'm your father.
You never thought I should know about any of this? It was difficult, especially after you got turned to stone.
- Beg your pardon? - Dad! Dad! - There was this Gorgon - Just give me a minute here.
I know how you feel.
I remember when I saw that alien in Sarah Jane's garden.
Sarah Jane used to fly around in space with this guy.
- The Doctor.
- And Luke's an alien? Not alien.
He just isn't quite human.
The Bane made him.
- This is serious stuff.
- You're not going to tell Mum? Like she'd believe me.
Like I'd believe me if I hadn't been bumping between realities and seen us almost flattened by a meteor.
No.
I'm not going to tell your mother.
- I'm putting this house on the market.
- What? You can't! This isn't kids' stuff.
It's dangerous.
We're going to have to move.
Just on Orion's shoulder.
Do you see, Luke? That's where they'll come.
Sarah Jane! Dad says we're moving! He says I can't have anything to do with you.
- He says it's too dangerous.
- It is dangerous.
- That's not the point.
- No parent wants to see their child in danger.
I know your father has a lot to worry about.
You can't blame him.
- But if you talk to him - What would I say? Tell him about the magic, how wonderful it is, the universe.
Perhaps it is.
You said it.
It's not all stars and moonlight.
Well, sometimes things from space are scary, but how's that so different from Earth? And sometimes things from space are amazing and you realise how incredible it all is.
We're part of something so much bigger than living here on Bannerman Road.
Life is so much more than most people will ever know.
And I've been really lucky, Dad.
I've seen that and I can't give it up.
- This is too much to take in.
- That's the universe, Alan.
Once it's chosen to show you its secrets, you can't turn your back.
None of us can.
No.
I suppose not.
I've got a lot to get used to, haven't I? The Kalazian Lights are about to appear! The last time they were visible from Earth was 4,000 years ago.
The universe is smiling on us tonight.
Let's hope it always does.
It's been five months since we saw Ashley, but we pray every night that he's out there somewhere, unharmed, and that he'll come back to us soon.
If you're out there, Ashley, just call your mum and dad, please.
If the human race is going to survive climate change, you have to give it a hand.
Not to mention my electricity bill.
What have you done with the remote? If you can't have children of your own, if that's why you've taken him, because you're lonely, how do you think I feel without my angel boy? - They look worried sick.
- There's things here on Earth that make your blood run cold.
If anybody knows where Ashley is, please contact the police.
Please.
Isn't that Luke? No! Can't be! Luke, it's you! The police are stepping up their campaign.
Whoever's got him, you might think you're caring for him, you might think you love him, but he belongs with us, his mum and dad.
But you're my mum.
Mr Smith, I need you, more than ever.
I have been monitoring the news.
- It can't be true.
Luke was created by the Bane to absorb human brain patterns.
Did they model him on this missing boy? - I need to scan Luke.
- No! The Bane made me.
I don't remember anyone before I woke up in the Bane's laboratory.
Then I met Maria.
- Hello.
- Um, hello.
And I met you.
- What are you doing here? - I could ask you the same.
Who's he? What have they done to you? It's all right, Luke.
But we have to be sure.
This won't hurt at all, Luke.
- Well? - I am assessing.
Assessment complete.
My scan and DNA cross-reference - with available medical records are concluded.
- And? - I have a genetic match.
- What? - Luke and Ashley are the same person.
- There must be some mistake.
- I don't make mistakes.
- The Bane made me! You know they did! This doesn't make sense.
Luke was never born.
He doesn't have a navel.
Bane society, being egg-born, find the navel offensive.
They would have surgically removed it.
But you're my mum.
Mr Smith, is there any chance at all? Chances of DNA mismatch, approximately four billion to one.
I told you there was something not right about Contrary Jane and that son of hers.
It's a mistake.
It can't be Luke.
- And why's that? - It just can't.
- Let the police make up their minds, shall we? - The police? - You never called the police? - I've told you, there's something wrong.
- I can smell it on her.
- Mum! No! I've told you, she's a weirdo.
You'll see.
- Sarah Jane Smith? - He's here.
Will you just give me a minute, please? What's going to happen? The police will take us to the station.
They'll question me and you'll see your parents.
So why can't I remember them? I know all sorts of things.
Quantum theory, Magnusark's Law of Hyper Dimensional Relativity.
I can remember every page I've ever read.
So why can't I remember them? I wish I had all the answers.
I know this is difficult.
You must know I do.
But this isn't a bad day.
Mr and Mrs Stafford, they love you.
- But don't you love me? - I do.
But you don't belong with me.
Your mum and dad have spent months searching for you.
The Bane took you away and broke their hearts.
Today is a wonderful day.
They're going to get you back.
You are going to be an ordinary boy with parents that care for you and won't ever let anything bad happen to you, the way I never could.
And it's the best day of your life, too.
You'll see.
- So it's right then? It is Luke.
- Wake up.
How can it be Luke? - What, you mean the belly - Look, it's the mum and dad.
Don't be nervous.
It's going to be okay.
They're your real parents.
- Here she comes, Calamity Jane.
- Everything's going to be fine.
Ashley! Thank God you're all right! - Oh my baby! My beautiful baby boy! - Are you really my mother? - Was I born from your womb? - Ashley? What are you - Of course I'm your mother.
- Don't you remember us? - No.
- What have you done to him? - Mrs Stafford, please! - Mum, this is all your fault! - I don't go round kidnapping young boys.
- Chrissie, for goodness sake.
I haven't harmed him.
I swear to you.
He lost his memory.
I had no idea he had parents looking for him.
You thought the fairies had left him? You make me sick! I think we'd better talk this through at the station.
Don't you, Miss Smith? - Dad, do something.
- You wait till it gets to court.
- Goodness knows what secrets she's been hiding.
- Just leave it.
There's nothing we can do, darling.
Mum, no! Come on.
Let's get you home, yeah? Seems you've got powerful friends.
My friends have nothing to do with it.
- I know a cover-up when I smell one.
- I assume your attitude means I'm free to go.
You can go.
But don't go near that boy again.
In you go, son.
Home sweet home.
- We've got Spurs on Wednesday, Ashley.
- Spurs? You and me, watching the match.
Come on, Lampard! Eh? - Football.
You remember football, don't you? - I don't like football.
Don't like? What did that woman do to him? I suppose I used to like peppers as well, did I? I'm tired.
I'd like to go to my room now, please.
Some people get concerned about pruning their plants.
You shouldn't be.
All plants want to do is grow.
Xylok, are you there? We've got the boy.
Sarah Jane.
Luke has gone back to his parents, where he belongs.
And they are his parents.
Mr Smith confirmed it.
The Bane kidnapped him, did things to him.
I got it wrong.
Not the first time.
- I'm really sorry.
- It's for the best.
I'm not cut out to be a parent.
- Children have no place in my life.
- You don't mean that.
I told you, my life is dangerous.
I can't have other people to worry about.
They're a distraction.
These few months, I've been lucky.
- That can't hold up forever.
- What are you saying? Tell your dad he was right.
He should put the house on the market.
And he, you and Clyde should forget about me and everything you've seen.
How are we going to do that? What happened to never turning your back? Sometimes you have to.
Sometimes it's the only way to survive.
Sarah Jane.
- I didn't call you.
- Perhaps you don't realise that you need me.
- Yeah, I don't.
Not tonight.
You need a purpose.
All things in the universe need a purpose.
- Without purpose, we cease to be.
- What are you talking about? I've been monitoring experiments at the Pharos Institute.
Look, I'm not really interested.
They have been carrying out research in telekinetic energy.
Pharos was set up 20 years ago to study paranormal phenomena.
They've been running experiments in mind over matter.
With little success.
Now they have developed a way to harness telekinetic energy.
- How? - They are using alien technology.
- Then maybe I should pay them a visit.
- My thoughts exactly.
And this time, I won't have any children to slow me down.
Good morning.
Did you sleep well? - Why did you lock my door? - You ran away once, remember? Why would I run away from home? Well, since you've lost your memory, we'll never find out, will we? You can forget about school.
You're staying here.
- I want to see my friends.
- Maria and Clyde? How do you know their names? I never mentioned them.
It don't matter.
You won't see 'em again.
So that's it? No more monsters.
No more saving the world.
- She's devastated.
- She's not the only one hurting, is she? - Where is Luke? - His parents live in Hammersmith.
I suppose Luke Ashley will go back to his old school.
That's the last we see of him, too? I'd just got him listening to Kasabian.
I was going to move on to Arctic Monkeys.
Could have had him passing for cool.
Maybe Ashley is cool.
Maybe he's a completely different person to Luke.
The Bane must have really messed him up.
I bet finding out he's got a real mum and dad messed him up more.
- I hope he's all right.
- Why don't we find out? - Have you got the address? - It was in the papers, I think.
- Then come on.
- The bell's going to go any minute.
Look, if my days of fighting aliens are over, it looks like sneaking off lessons is all the excitement I'm going to get.
- Maria, where do you think you are going? - I was going to the library.
You're supposed to be in my French class.
Depechez-vous.
Thank you for seeing me, Professor Rivers.
The Pharos Institute doesn't get enough media interest.
Most people write off our researchers as cranks, but we are in good company.
Galileo and Copernicus were both dismissed by their blinkered scientific contemporaries.
- This way.
- Of course, Galileo and Copernicus weren't carrying out experiments in the paranormal.
Sir Isaac Newton and Thomas Edison both had strong interests in the paranormal.
It's your work into telekinesis that I'm interested in.
Then you're in for a treat.
- It's incredible! - Oh, we're not done yet.
This is impossible.
You can't possibly have Unfortunately, we're having a little difficulty with our energy focus stabilisation.
MITRE, Magnified Intensification of Telekinetic Reactive Energies.
Those headsets take the latent raw psychic ability all humans possess to move objects with the power of thought and directs it.
- Amazing! Who developed it? - Our child genius.
Sarah Jane Smith, this is Nathan Goss.
- Hello, Nathan.
I'm pleased to meet you.
- I'm working! Sorry to disturb you.
It looks very complex.
Don't waste your time or mine asking me to explain.
Miss Smith wants to talk to you about MITRE.
You told her about MITRE? How stupid can you get? I'm sorry, Nathan, but your work is important.
It needs recognition.
And we need the funding.
Get out! And leave the thinking to somebody with the intelligence of doing something with it! Ms Smith, I think we'd better just Come on.
I used to know someone your age who could wipe the floor with your intelligence.
And wipe the floor with you, too.
We'll see about that.
- What do you want? - My name's Clyde.
I'm a friend of Luke's - I mean Ashley's.
- So? - Can I see him? - No, times two.
Now hop it.
- You don't much look like Ashley, do you? - You trying to say he's not our Ashley? That Sarah Jane sent you? See? His birthday.
Ashley, me and his dad.
- We gave him a skateboard.
- Good was he, on a skateboard? Stunning.
You take that photo and you show it to Sarah Jane and tell her my boy is back where he belongs! Clyde! Clyde! Up here! Clyde! Sir, can I go to the toilet please? - Clyde? - Maria! This Luke and his folks thing stinks.
His so-called mum wouldn't let me see him and you know what she said they gave him? A skateboard.
- He has no sense of balance at all.
- After what the Bane did You don't lose something like that.
It's instinct.
They gave me this photo.
It's of Luke and them at his party.
- That proves everything, doesn't it? - Photos can be faked.
I'm going to take it to Sarah Jane.
- What are you doing here? - We have a problem.
Nathan Goss is a genius.
He has an IQ of 195.
He was reading quantum physics at the age of eight.
Some call him the young Einstein.
Others say his potential exceeds Einstein.
He's an obnoxious brat, but there's something else about him.
Something that made my blood run cold.
Despite his IQ, a telekinetic energiser is still beyond the genius of Nathan Goss.
It could make a terrible weapon.
A destroyer of worlds, in the right hands, with the right mind.
- Where did it come from? - If I could analyse it, I could be definitive of its origin.
Are you asking me to go back and steal one of those headsets? It would be of great assistance.
Sarah Jane has seen the telekinetic energiser! - They gave her a demo.
- She doesn't know anything.
She must know something, you moron, or she wouldn't have been in the lab.
- There's no need to talk to him like that.
- This is my mission.
I can talk to him anyway I like.
The Xylok said she might come.
It said it would take care of her.
Do you really think we can trust a Xylok? The plan's too far advanced.
She can't stop us.
We've got the boy! What was that? These new flesh-suits might handle the gas exchanges better, but they're a bit on the snug side.
You're Slitheen? - But you're skinny! - Amazing, isn't it? With this technology I can eat all I want and still be a size eight.
- And you? - What? Don't you remember me, Luke? How you killed my family and left me locked in a sealed room to die? Carl? Same Slitheen, different skin.
I teleported out and survived.
My father wasn't so fortunate.
And now I'm going to get my revenge! Sarah Jane! Mr Smith, I need you.
- Clyde, what a pleasure.
- What? Really? Oh, cool! - You have something for me? - Yeah, as it happens.
I've got this.
It's a picture of Luke with that pair that reckon he's their kid.
I think it's a fake, see? - I thought you could do your analysing thing.
- You're right, Clyde.
It is fake.
I faked it.
You? Am I missing something here? More than you could ever imagine, Clyde.
- What's going on? - I am a Xylok.
I have a purpose.
- And you, Clyde, are a part of it.
- Ahhh! Telekinetic energy fetches a huge price.
- Clyde, where are you? - Mr Smith's going to kill us and I'm inside him.
I trusted him with my life.
We're taking on these aliens with bottles of vinegar? I gave him to the Slitheen.
I have to get him back.
At last, we can begin.
- It's not possible.
- Luke isn't possible.
Mr Smith isn't possible.
But together they are bringing the moon crashing down on Earth.
Maximum defence mode.
Take care, mistress, and you, young master.
Safe to proceed, mistress.
I have the unit covered.
- Do you wish me to continue firing? - Just be ready if I need you, K9.
- Very good, mistress.
- A robot dog called K9? Affirmative.
- I am dreaming, aren't I? What have you done to me, Sarah Jane? - I feel I feel strange.
- It's a computer virus, Mr Smith.
It's closing down your databanks.
You're losing your memory.
The speed of light is 36 No, 84 The Metrabeelen Cosmic Cluster is home to 68,000 life forms, 67 I'm forgetting it all.
Sarah Jane, help me.
Without your memories, you have no purpose.
You can't destroy the Earth.
Put the moon back into its original orbit.
And set Luke free now! - I've forgotten my purpose.
- Your purpose is to save the Earth.
That is your new purpose, to save Earth.
Save the Earth.
Yes, I have a purpose.
Thank you, Sarah Jane.
The unit is non-functional.
He did it.
It worked.
The moon's going back.
- Is everything satisfactory, mistress? - Affirmative, K9.
Must return to the distortion, mistress.
Without my attention, black hole will turn critical in 0.
42 time spatial increments.
Go now.
Good dog.
I'll see you again soon.
- Mum? - Oh, Luke.
I've seen amazing things out there in space.
But strange things can happen wherever you are.
- There they go.
- Back to Raxacoricofallapatorius.
- And good riddance.
- Will they be back? - Oh, I expect so.
Sooner or later.
- What about Mr Smith? Can we trust him again? The Armageddon Code has wiped his circuits.
He'll reboot with a new purpose, to safeguard the world.
Mum! What a beautiful night.
Please come and join us.
I have learnt that life on Earth can be an adventure, you never know what you might find.
In all the universe, I never expected to find a family.