The Sarah Jane Adventures s05e02 Episode Script

It's home to things way beyond your imagination.
There's an extraterrestrial supercomputer in the wall.
Her son - a genetically engineered boy genius.
A schoolgirl investigator across the road.
And a whole universe of adventure - right here on the doorstep.
SHE SCREAMS Aah! Ready? Always.
My name is Miss Myers.
You're going to help me find my child.
She wasn't left on my doorstep by accident.
Someone needs me to protect her.
Before they come for her.
This was a bloke.
Fell out of the sky.
His skin was all metal! Bannerman Road.
Get in if you want the child to live! She's no child.
She's a weapon.
Sky's energy - it's flooding out of her! The doom of the Metalkind has come.
What just happened? I think Sky just grew up.
With no birthdays? That's just rubbish! I am too late.
Face your destruction, Metalkind! The child is your doom! What's happening to me?! Destroy him! Argh! Again, my child! No! What am I? Oh, Sky, don't be frightened.
You are the hammer to crush Metalkind! You are the weapon and salvation of our species.
Destroy your enemy! No, Sky.
You don't have to destroy anything.
You don't have any enemies! Just be calm.
Trust me.
It's all right.
Sarah Jane? Everything's going to be all right.
I promise.
Stop your meddling! Come with me.
Return home and fulfil your purpose.
I don't think she wants to go with you.
I am the child's mother! Introducing Miss Myers.
She spells it the alien way.
My name is Sarah Jane Smith, and I don't think you're a fit parent.
She is a weapon! Grown in a laboratory to destroy the enemies of my species.
I grew her! What does she mean? Don't listen to her, Sky.
We can't help how we come into this universe.
But we have a say in what we become.
This is an innocent child, not a weapon.
I will protect her from the Metalkind and from you! Run! Shall I stop them? I have a better idea.
I have to get you as far away from that woman as I can.
Is she really my mother? All I know is somebody brought you to me to protect you.
That's what I'll do.
Have you come to finish the job, Fleshkind? Perhaps your weapon isn't as powerful as you thought.
The weapon will do its job.
And you're going to help me.
Wire him up! This is where you live, I remember.
You remember when you were a baby? It was only about half an hour ago.
Why do you call a man who wears paper trousers Russell? I beg your pardon, hmm? It was a joke.
It was meant to be funny, to make her laugh.
Boy, does this feel familiar.
You were telling her jokes? It was to stop her crying.
You know what she does when she laughs.
I like Sid the Sleeve.
You had to be there.
It's like Everything's so green.
Well, this is England.
It rains most of the time.
Do you remember being brought here and by who? You are the first thing I remember.
Oh, I see.
Well, now you're grown up, can you control your powers? I think so.
You've got to promise that you will, cos I need you to meet a friend.
Welcome to the Bat Cave.
There's a cave on top of the house? It's not a cave.
It's an attic.
Clyde was joking again.
He does that.
Sort of.
Mr Smith, I need you.
What's going on? It's all right.
Sky won't hurt you.
Wow! Is the child under control? It's all right.
I promise.
What are you? I am a Xylok.
A crystalline life form with highly sensitive cybernetic interfaces.
Please remain distant.
Can we still be friends? If my circuits remain intact.
Sky has undergone a metamorphosis.
I need you to ensure she's unharmed.
Don't worry.
It won't hurt.
Scanning.
It tickles! Please, try not to laugh.
Don't fuss.
Analyse the scan.
Biologically, Sky appears to be a healthy twelve-year-old child.
Twelve? Is that a good age? Well, until the spots start.
Rani, take Sky.
Look through Luke's things.
See if you can find her something to wear.
Sure.
Come on, Sky.
Mr Smith, how did she transform into a teenager? Sky's DNA was programmed for this level of maturity to maximize her effectiveness.
As a weapon? As a bomb.
Full activation would not only destroy Miss Myers' enemies across the universe, but also kill Sky.
Is Sarah Jane Luke's mother? Yeah.
She adopted him.
Luke was made by aliens that wanted to take over Earth.
I like Earth.
It's beautiful, noisy, smelly.
RANI LAUGHS Yeah! It's all that.
This must be so weird for you.
Like seeing the world for the first time.
Everyone else, they just sort of grow up with it.
It's exciting! Try these.
They're not exactly fashion but you'll be all right.
What's fashion? Clothes.
Like wearing nice clothes, made for a girl.
What's a girl? RANI SIGHS And Clyde thought he had it tough with Luke.
OK.
Let's log on to Ranipedia! Why create a child that's a bomb? What sort of sick species is Myers?! A binary planetary system exists at the eye of the Tornado Nebula.
One has carbon-based life forms like those on Earth.
The other evolved as boron-based life.
And for those of us watching the netball team during chemistry? Boron is a metalloid element.
On one planet, people evolved like us - blood, bones, flesh.
On the other - metal.
Amazing! This Fleshkind planet.
That's where Sky's from? Yes.
Metalkind and Fleshkind have been at war for centuries.
I believe Sky was created as a doomsday weapon.
To destroy Metalkind.
I've never known anything as hideous as using a child as a bomb! What's a bomb? Oh, Sky.
Miss Myers said I was a weapon.
That's bad, isn't it? Am I bad? No.
No way.
Miss Myers, she's the bad one.
Not you.
What am I, then? The thing inside you.
Miss Myers created you like that to kill her enemies, Metalkind.
Kill? What's kill? You take away life.
It dies.
It no longer exists.
And that's wrong.
It's always wrong! But if that's what I was made to do, that makes me bad.
No, because it's not your fault.
Mr Smith, there must be a way to reverse what's been done to Sky.
No.
At a molecular level, Sky is a weapon programmed to destruct on contact with energies of massed Metalkind.
I'm sorry, this cannot be undone.
OK, if she's a bomb, can't we just defuse her? Oh, Clyde! That's brilliant! Turn off the genetic trigger.
Stop her detonating.
Is that possible? Genetically she'd be a weapon but disarmed.
Only Sky's creator can do that.
Then let's go ask her! Sky, it's not going to be as easy as that.
Going back to the power station's dangerous.
What's dangerous? You could die.
Mr Smith said I could die, anyway.
I don't want to be a bomb.
Sarah Jane, will you help me? I can't help thinking this is a bad idea.
I know.
I don't want that woman anywhere near Sky, but she's the only one that can deprogram her DNA.
She has to come with us! Before that, a small point - Myers may have put the techies into a trance but the guard looks lively.
I'm not risking the gates again.
Old reporter's superstition - never break in the same way twice.
I can do this.
ELECTRICITY CRACKLES ALARM ZAP! Now, I need you to stay here with Clyde and Rani.
What for? Yeah, ditto! I need to make sure that Sky is safe until I'm ready.
Oh, great, so we get baby-sitting duty? Who are you calling a baby? We're doing this by my rules.
Until I convince Miss Myers of another way to end this war - a peaceful way - you're in danger.
I need you to stay with Clyde and Rani.
Do you promise me? I suppose.
Right.
Oh! Good! Nowtake me to your leader.
She might need our help.
She told us to stay here.
Do you always do what Sarah Jane tells you to? This is a nuclear power station, which makes going in with you Like doing a Houses of Parliament tour with Guy Fawkes.
What are you talking about? He means it's not safe.
Anyway, you promised.
I don't really understand promises.
Hey, wait! That kid'll get us into trouble! SINISTER MUSIC Miss Smith.
Welcome back.
Complete your work.
I trust you're taking good care of my child? Yes.
You won't be getting your hands on her again! Don't judge me.
Do you think I like what this war has forced me to do? To become? I'm asking you, deactivate what you've done to Sky.
Deactivate? She is our saviour.
Her touch carries the power and the fury of an exploding sun.
Once fully unleashed it will destroy every Metalkind in existence.
Sky'll be destroyed with them! A sacrifice for the preservation of Fleshkind.
That's not a sacrifice.
That's slaughter! Listen to me, please.
There are other ways to end a war.
You just have to want peace more than death.
You know nothing.
For centuries the Metalkind have savaged my people.
They swore to destroy all flesh.
What chance does flesh have against jaws and blades of iron and steel? But perhaps you will learn! What is this? The child damaged the Metalkind just enough for me to make use of it.
As a homing device.
A homing device? For what? It's being wired into the nuclear core.
At the flick of a switch it will summon Metalkind and they will swarm here in hordes.
You're bringing your war to Earth?! Once your Fleshkin experience Metalkind savagery, you will realise that the child will save us all! Caleb, make the final connection.
Metalkind, stop this! Earth has done nothing to hurt your people! Fleshkind tore the ore from our planet's womb to make dumb slaves.
They stole our children.
We have sworn vengeance on all Fleshkind - on any world! I've scrambled its brain.
He thinks he's calling all Metalkind to a glorious battle against Flesh.
Not to its destruction.
You're wasting your time.
I will never give you Sky! It doesn't matter.
The child is primed to activate on exposure to the massed energy of the Metalkind.
When they come, they will be destroyed.
She cannot stop it.
And neither can you! ELECTRONIC PULSING Come to me, Metalkindred! Join me and rend flesh! What is it? The Metalkind.
I can feel them.
They're coming! PULSING CONTINUES Bringing the Metalkind to Earth - you're worse than them! You're bringing war to an innocent planet! This is survival.
But there's still time before I open the portal.
Bring me the child and I will take her home to face our enemy.
Your planet will never know the butchery of the Metalkind! What would you put first, Miss Smith? One child or your entire world? Wait and see! Whatever you choose, Sarah Jane Smith, Sky will fulfil her destiny! Sky! I thought I told you to keep her away! She says the Metalkind are coming.
I've got to stop them! No! Wars are ended by talking, not killing.
But Earth won't stand a chance! You've been kind to me and tried to keep me safe.
But I was created for this.
Sky, listen to me.
This is wrong.
Killing is always wrong.
If you confront the Metalkind you will die.
If I don't, you will.
Maybe this is why I was brought here.
To save Earth.
No, Sky! Sky! This way! No.
I'll go after Sky.
Shut down the reactor to stop the Metalkind coming through! Shut down a nuclear reactor, how are we suppose to do that? We find a way! Any way! ELECTRONIC PULSING CLYDE PANTS OK, OK, control room, control room? Control room, come on! Sky! Stop it! You mustn't! Stay back, Sarah Jane! You are too late, Sarah Jane Smith.
ELECTRIC CRACKLING The portal has opened.
The Metalkind come, to their death! I have to save you, Sarah Jane.
I have to save Earth.
LOUD BLEEPING Clyde.
What's all this about? It's like a big arcade game.
This is what controls the nuclear fuel rods.
It's James Bond - pull out the rods, close the reactor, save the world.
More like James Bond meets Mario.
Ace, cos I'm brill at Mario.
If we don't do this right, Clyde, we don't just go back to the last level.
BLEEPING CONTINUES But it's not coming out! It's not working! Sky, don't let them use you! It's what I am, Sarah Jane.
You're not a weapon.
Not if you don't want to be! You are a child.
A beautiful, innocent child.
Remember what I told you, it's wrong to kill! What are we doing wrong? What? We must remove them in order.
Two at a time.
What order? It's a spectrum - Richard of York gave battle in vain.
What? Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet! Well, come on! We haven't got much time! PULSING AND CRACKLING It's too late.
They're comingthey're here! The end is nigh! Almost! No, Sky! Last one! PULSING AND CRACKLING BUILDS SKY SCREAMS What did you do to the TV?! That does it.
Tomorrow we get this house rewired! 'Emergency lighting activated.
' What have you done?! We did it! We shut down the core! What happened?! All that energy had to go somewhere.
Sky was like a lightning rod! She absorbed it all.
Is she going to be all right? Wow! Are you all right? I feel.
I feel different.
You are different.
I can feel it, too.
That energy backlash, it's destroyed your genetic programming.
You mean, I'm not a weapon? Not even a peashooter.
I have lost my daughter.
You saved me! And I'm not a bomb any more! Thank you! I saved some energy just for you, Fleshkind! MISS MYERS SCREAMS Uh-oh! I'm too tired to think of clever answers for awkward questions.
Come on.
Let's go home.
So, all that light-bulb popping and stuff, that's all finished? I think so.
Mr Smith will be relieved! And, thank you.
I can always rely on you two to throw the switch when it matters.
Sarah! Mum! I was telling Haresh all about you fostering beautiful baby Sky.
Hello! That's me.
Hello! I thought you said she was a baby? She was.
I grew up.
Well, that's what babies do.
But not just in one day.
Obviously! Obviously! That would be, well you know, alien.
Yes, there was a mix-up.
Social services brought me the wrong child.
Would you believe it? They brought me a baby called Sky when it should've been a teenager! With the same name.
Sky.
Sky Smith.
Sky Smith? Amazing.
Yes, she is.
Really amazing.
Now, if you'll excuse us.
SKY GIGGLES Did you just see that? Yeah, I reckon Sparky hasn't totally lost her spark.
I just want Mr Smith to make sure there are no ill-effects from that energy blast.
PARROT SQUAWKS What? Really, Miss Smith, how can you possibly see through this? How did you get in here? I'm afraid the Captain considers that privileged information.
Oh, yes, I forgot.
You're the one in charge, aren't you? The bird? Things are seldom quite what they seem, young lady.
And my, haven't you grown? What, it wasyou? You brought Sky here! And might I say, what a perfect name for such a perfect child, young Sky.
I'd still like to know who you are.
Both of you.
Consider us servants of the universe.
Which means what, exactly? Sometimes, things can't be left to chance.
Sometimes, a breeze must blow from east to west, not north to south.
Sometimes, a sky should be blue, not laden with cloud.
And sometimes, a child must find her way home.
Which is my task, Miss Smith.
To put things in the right place.
And of all the homes in all the universe, I could find none safer for this child than yours.
But who are you? All in good time.
Have you come for me? Well, that depends on you.
Can I stay here with you? That's what I want.
Oh, Sky, it's only been a day and I feel like I've known you since you were a baby! Yes, this is your home for as long as you want it to be.
Well, that's that then.
Jolly good.
Until the next time.
Oh, no, wait! Who was he, then? I haven't the faintest idea.
but I dare say we'll find out all in good time.
Oh, you must be starving! How does pizza sound? What's pizza? SHE LAUGHS Come on.
'But the most wonderful thing about the universe 'is that there's always something more amazing to come.
' Isn't it pretty? Creepy, more like.
Ow! Do you know anything about curses? Get out, now! What's going on? I don't get it.
Get out! You get away from me! Leave my daughter! We're mates.
I hate you! This is not happening.
That's what I'm going to do to you! Keep your distance from him! Police, I want to make a complaint.
I don't ever want to hear his name again.
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