Episode 6 Sarah Jane's Alien Files

I defend the world from aliens. These are my Alien Files,

the collected information gathered by me and the rest of the Bannerman Road gang about extraterrestrials

that have threatened our planet, and might do so again.

The universe is amazing,

and don't be fooled by what some people might tell you.

It's full of strange and wonderful life.

I've met so much of it out there among the stars, and here on Earth.

But not all of it is friendly.

Pay attention, because one day, Earth might be depending on you.

THEY SCREAM

Entering the Alien Files this time are space police, the Judoon,

alien secret protector Mr Dread,

and Androvax, the galaxy-destroying Veil.

Mum? Oh. No-one home.

"Dear Luke. Sorry to miss you.

"Investigating fossilised Silurian egg at the Pharos Institute.

"Might be a while. Pizza in the fridge if you're hungry.

"Love Mum, Clyde and Rani."

Typical. You come home from uni, and everybody's off chasing aliens.

Oh, Mr Smith, I need you.

-Ah, Luke. Home again.

-Home alone, more like.

Do I detect a certain wistful desire for your alien-chasing days, Luke?

Well, astrophysics is pretty cool, but not as cool as hunting aliens.

Not even as cool as getting hunted by them, come to think of it.

Well, perhaps work on the latest updates to Sarah Jane's files

will help you feel a little less alienated.

Oh, Mr Smith. Was that a joke?

I'm really not sure.

Upload to the alien files commences in three, two, one.

Most urgently required is collation

of available information on Androvax,

long thought to be the last known survivor of the Veil race.

What do you recall of your encounter with him?

I remember it was a Sunday. Mum had been on a story,

and when she got home there was something in the sky.

Something burning up as it entered the atmosphere. But it was no comet.

'It was pretty spectacular.

'And the truth behind it was pretty amazing, too.'

It crossed the solar system in 45 minutes.

We're not talking about a meteor, are we?

'It was a prisoner transportation craft, carrying Androvax.

'Although we didn't know that then.

'And its pilot, Captain Tybo, was in big trouble.'

I intercepted the following distress signal.

Go! Go! Go!

'He was a Judoon. And his craft with Androvax on board

'had crashed to earth only a few miles away.'

I think a profile of the Judoon might be in order first, Mr Smith.

They're not the bad guys. But that doesn't mean they're not dangerous.

The Judoon are thick-skinned, yellow-blooded humanoids,

two metres in height.

Like the wasp-like Vespiform, the fish-like Hath,

and the Cheetah People, the Judoon resemble an Earth animal.

In this instance, a rhinoceros.

They serve the Shadow Proclamation,

and their strict obedience to the law,

and brutality in maintaining it,

has seen them employed as a mercenary

-interplanetary police force.

-Interplanetary thugs.

That's what the Doctor calls them.

Indeed. Their obsession with working within the rules

can hamper their operational effectiveness.

Halt. Do not infringe directive.

And they have the ability to analyse and translate any language

using scanner devices.

To sum up, the Judoon are trigger happy and brutal law enforcers.

Logical, but stupid.

They tend to execute first, ask questions later.

Get down!

'Too right. No sooner had we met Captain Tybo

'of the 1005th Judoon guard, than he was ready to shoot the lot of us.

'Not that we'd done anything wrong.'

The scary thing was that Tybo wasn't really the problem.

'The real worry was that Tybo had lost his prisoner.

'He knew he was deadly, and out there somewhere.

Judoon!

Aaargh!

'Androvax - the last of the Veils.

Would a data update on the Veil be in order?

-Is the sky blue?

-Yes.

A figure of speech.

The Veil are reptilian humanoids with scaly skin,

horns, and a long tongue.

Androvax was long thought to be the only known survivor

after their planet was destroyed when its sun was extinguished.

While the Cybermen have repeatedly tried to invade Earth,

and The Beast claims to have been spreading evil

since before the Universe existed,

it is Androvax the Veil who tops the Judoon's most wanted list

for his terrible crimes,

which include the destruction of 12 planets.

And number 13 on his hit list was Earth.

After his own planet was destroyed,

Androvax believed destruction to be the way of the universe.

He's capable of stunning adversaries,

but his most notable attribute

is the ability to possess the bodies of others.

To sum up, an embittered and vengeful adversary.

A merciless killer,

whose body-jumping powers are impossible to resist.

And that's a party trick that has to be seen to be believed.

-Sarah Jane!

-Stay where you are.

Let Sarah Jane go.

ANDROVAX LAUGHS

I don't think so.

No! Leave her alone.

Then Androvax came to you in Sarah Jane's body.

And you couldn't do anything but follow his instructions.

Unfortunately, I am programmed to respond to Sarah Jane.

I cannot choose when to conform to the rules or not.

"Just following orders." You sound like Captain Tybo.

I trust you are not comparing me, a Xylok,

with that galactic jobsworth policeman.

No. Course not.

'Androvax headed for the attic.

'He was in possession of Sarah Jane's thoughts, as well as her body.

'So he knew that your supercomputing powers, Mr Smith,

'could be just what he needed.'

I'm detecting an alien presence.

-Ignore it.

-But my analysis suggests that it's a Veil life form.

Mr Smith, is your central processor fully functioning?

-I believe so.

-If you want it to stay that way,

you'll do what you're supposed to do, and obey me. Got that?

Yes, Sarah Jane. Understood.

Good.

'Androvax took the information he needed from you,

'Mr Smith, and then programmed you to self-destruct.'

So when we found you, there wasn't any time to waste.

Only 60 seconds, to be accurate.

Luke, run. Get out of the house now.

I don't understand.

Sarah Jane has instructed my self-detonation protocols

to initiate on activation. I will explode in 60 seconds.

The explosion will destroy all of Bannerman Road.

You must run, now.

But it wasn't Sarah Jane that ordered you to explode.

It was some freaky alien inside her.

'This was not good, but what I didn't do was panic.

'That's the worst thing you could do.'

Come on, Luke. You can do this!

I'm trying to think.

You haven't got time. You're a genius. What would Einstein do?

He didn't have an alien computer that became a bomb.

'Trying to keep calm and logical is always best.

Mr Smith. You're a Xylok.

-And what is most important to a Xylok?

-Patterns.

I was expecting wire-cutters here, not chit-chat.

What did Mum tell you was your purpose?

To defend and protect Earth.

-And that purpose overrides all the other protocols.

-Yes.

-Ten Earth seconds.

-Mum's orders endanger Earth.

Your purpose overrides her commands. You have to stop the detonation.

-Your point seems logical. I must consider it.

-No! Just do it.

Detonation suspended.

Who else could talk a bomb out of going off?

Your exemplary powers of logic were most effective.

Well, we'd saved Bannerman Road,

but Androvax was still out there in my mum's body. And he had big plans.

'He needed a ship to get away, and fast.

'He knew that experiments were being carried out

'on a new technology called nanoforms.

'And drawing on information he had got from you, Mr Smith,

'he was going to use them to make him one.

Your nanoforms - they're going to build me a spaceship.

Data profile on nanoforms uploading.

Nanoforms are microscopic robots,

created to deconstruct objects at molecular level

and reconstruct them into new forms.

It is a technological advance capable of totally changing,

but also of destroying, worlds.

They're getting to the environment. They'll take the whole planet apart!

They have been programmed to build my space craft.

Escape from the Judoon.

What better way to cover my tracks than to destroy Earth?

Do your work, my army of the infinitesimal.

It was awful seeing my mum possessed like that. My mum.

Sarah Jane acting like a destroyer of worlds.

Ready to destroy her own world.

But I knew the real Mum was in there somewhere.

My mum will beat you. I don't care what you are.

She's strong, and is going to kick you out.

-You can fight him, Sarah Jane.

-We know you're in there.

You can beat him!

Luke?

-I love you.

-Mum?

It was one of those times when everything looked pretty dodgy.

I would concur, Luke, that the outlook appeared distinctly bleak.

Until Clyde came up trumps.

They're right behind us!

'He and Rani escaped into one of the labs,

'and were desperately trying to find something - anything -

'to stop the out of control nanoforms.'

The doors won't last much longer.

Think. What would Luke do?

I don't know! I get by on good looks and one-liners.

I'm not supposed to understand all this techie stuff.

Yeah, I know you're the cool one. But cool isn't much help right now.

That's it. Cool.

Luke said nanoforms have to be stored at sub-zero temperatures.

Dormant. He said if they get cold, they go to sleep.

-Here they come.

-Atomise this!

It's working! It's working!

Not so buzzy now, are you?

It just shows that Clyde does listen sometimes.

He'd listen more if he knew he'd get the chance

to zap stuff with fire extinguishers more often.

That certainly is Clyde's style.

Meanwhile, I went aboard the spaceship the nanoforms had created.

'And even though we were in terrible danger,

'what all those microscopic robots had built was awesome.'

It's amazing.

'But for Androvax, this amazing ship was just a way of escaping.'

It's time to leave.

'Or so he thought.'

Mr Smith showed me the ship's schematics.

I know all about it. Where the doors are,

and that you can't take it anywhere without this,

-the ionic fusion bar.

-Give it to me!

You can have it, Androvax, but YOU have to come and get it.

Not my mum.

Release my mum and you can take off, after you disable the nanoforms.

What do you say? Deal?

No wonder Sarah Jane is so proud of you. It makes me want to be sick.

Give it to me!

'We were about to do the deal and save Earth from the nanoforms.

'When guess who turned up.'

Androvax the Annihilator, prepare for judgment.

'Captain Tybo, and he'd brought some Judoon reinforcements.'

Great timing! I know they were supposed to be keeping law and order,

but sometimes the inter-galactic police

cause more problems than the real bad guys.

You will face the Shadow Proclamation, and execution.

No! First you have to let him disable the nanoforms.

It's too late.

'All Tybo was interested in was arresting Androvax.

'He didn't care a bit if Earth got destroyed in the process.

'So, disabling the nanoforms was going to be down to me.'

I know this sounds like a stupid question,

but do you know what you're doing?

The nanoforms built this computer, so I can use it

-to delete their programming.

-Before this collapses?

'If you are ever in a really tight spot,

'try to block out unnecessary distractions and concentrate.

'And if you remember one thing from these Alien Files, remember this.

'Panic will get you nowhere.'

And send.

COMPUTER BUZZES

-You did it!

-Oh, I missed you.

-I knew I could depend on you.

-The nanoforms have all been deactivated.

They're harmless now.

GROWLS

Silence!

The Judoon had their prisoner back, for now anyway.

And took him away in the craft the nanoforms had built,

and Earth was safe.

However, Androvax did not remain a prisoner of the Judoon long.

He has been back to Earth, Luke, while you have been away.

-Mum said.

-Wanting Sarah Jane's help.

And, of course, Mum might be wary, but she's always prepared

to give anyone the benefit of the doubt. Even Androvax.

It is an admirable quality.

Whether it's the Blathereen bearing gifts

or Mrs Wormwood asking for her assistance,

Sarah Jane always wants to believe the best of any visiting alien.

Yes. But this was Androvax.

You'd better take me through it.

The first indication of any irregularity

was when Rani's father Haresh was observed looking for

a lizard-like alien that his wife Gita insisted she had seen.

I'm armed.

Haresh?

Dad. What are you doing?

I'm sorry. Gita thought she'd seen someone suspicious.

You thought they needed a hand changing a tyre?

But Gita had been right. It was Androvax.

Back on Earth, and looking for a body to inhabit.

Mr Smith! I need you. Now!

Rani, I sense you are not quite yourself today.

You're just as annoying as you were the last time I was here.

I hoped we'd seen the last of you then.

I don't mean you harm.

What? And that's why you jumped into Rani, is it?

Get out of her, you freak.

-Are you OK?

-Yeah, I'm fine.

Androvax? Here in the attic, again?

Makes my skin crawl to think of it.

Mr Smith. Containment vortex.

Understandably, Sarah Jane opted for caution.

But my analysis revealed that Androvax was gravely ill,

after receiving a swamp viper bite.

And he claimed to be here not bent on destruction,

but seeking assistance.

I don't have much time. I need you to help me. Help save my people.

Your species is dead.

Your planet turned into ice when its star died.

Although my planet was destroyed my people launched a ship.

On board it were 100 of my kind in cryogenic sleep. But they crashed.

On Earth?

40 years ago.

The craft carrying the cryogenically frozen Veils

had been stored in a hyper-dimensional vault.

Along with many other confiscated spacecrafts.

They were deposited there by an android called Mr Dread.

Mr Dread? He sounds like a nice guy(!)

Oh, no Luke. Quite the reverse.

He's like Captain Tybo. Another one to shoot first, ask questions later.

I was being ironic, Mr Smith.

Oh, I see.

So, what does this Mr Dread do?

Is that a genuine question or an ironic comment?

-Genuine question.

-Good.

Mr Dread is a dark-suited android,

with two similarly-dressed associates.

His weaponry includes a built-in laser blaster in his left hand

and the ability to activate a force-field

to ward off incoming fire.

He was employed by the Alliance of Shades,

an alien initiative to prevent human awareness of extra-terrestrial life.

He has wiped the memories of thousands

who had encountered aliens.

He and his fellow men in black

remove all incriminating alien evidence

to the hyper-dimensional vault. For safekeeping.

And that incriminating alien evidence

included Androvax's people's ship.

Indeed. Access to the vault required two activator discs.

And Androvax only had one.

He thought that I, as the most powerful computer on Earth,

might be able to assist in his predicament.

I need Mr Smith to help me crack the vault's second code.

You've got to help me.

I have destroyed 12 planets. 12 civilisations.

Please help me save just one.

Mr Smith, deactivate the containment vortex.

What are you doing?

Sometimes I think my mum should be a bit more like Clyde.

I assume you are referring to his tendency to be wary

rather than his questionable sense of humour.

Clyde's almost naturally suspicious.

Sarah Jane's instincts to help Androvax's people

over-rode her misgivings about his lamentable track record.

Welcome to the British UFO Research and Paranormal Studies Society.

Ealing Branch.

Her first course of action was to visit a UFO-ologist,

called Ocean Waters, who Sarah Jane thought might be able to help.

To avoid attracting attention

Androvax travelled there in Clyde's body.

Clyde?

And a disc around Ocean's neck soon caught his attention.

It was a second activator disc.

Just what Androvax needed to access the vault.

This has always felt so special.

I've no idea where it came from, where I bought it or found it,

it's just always felt so precious.

I haven't taken it off in 40 years.

Androvax, no!

Prepare to be incinerated.

And guarding the vault is what Mr Dread exists to do.

-Mr Dread, no.

-Give me the activator disc.

-Never!

-You want to save Androvax's species. Why won't you help us?

-The equilibrium must be maintained.

-What does that mean?

The ship must not be moved.

And if it is?

The ship's star drive engines will disrupt the vault matrix.

The dimensional disturbance will tear your planet apart.

Sarah-Jane had taken Androvax at his word.

Now he had the two discs.

Whether Earth would be destroyed as a result was of no interest to him.

So there you go.

How long was it before Androvax reverted to his double-crossing ways?

One hour and eight minutes.

But by now, Androvax's illness meant he was getting ever weaker.

He needed to occupy new bodies to boost his depleted energy levels.

It's you!

Ah!

Rani's mother, Gita was next.

With all the aliens we get down here,

Rani's mum's been really lucky not to run into more of them.

Not that Gita's close encounter lasted long.

The energy boost from occupying each new body only gave

Androvax a temporary relief from his extremely weakened state.

-You going to be all right?

-Of course not!

The swamp viper venom is killing me.

-Give me my mum now.

-I need her to free my people.

We all want to save the people we love. But you don't need my mum.

You can take me.

-No!

-Look, I need to save my mum.

-Your body for hers?

-I'm younger than she is.

I'm fitter. Take me.

You have a deal.

What's happening? Clyde? Rani?

I'll have your blood.

Go Rani! One double crosser, double-crossed. Result!

So it appeared.

And without a new body to occupy so as to replenish his strength

the end appeared imminent for Androvax, the Destroyer of Worlds.

Swamp vipers.

They don't give you any second chances.

No, it doesn't seem like it.

MOANS

Hello again, old friend.

With renewed energy and two activator discs,

Androvax's dream of saving his people from extinction,

and destroying humanity in the process,

was almost within his grasp.

What happened to Androvax?

-The swamp viper venom took him.

-So why are we up here in the vault?

If he can save two of his people the Veil species still has a chance.

So there's no need to start the star drive?

Mr Smith can arrange for a passing ship to take them to a new planet.

Opening the vault revealed the full extent

of its hyper-dimensional properties.

Behind the doors, it was capacious to a degree

that humans find hard to grasp.

There isn't much time. Argh!

Sarah Jane?

-Androvax?

-No way!

Somebody tell me I didn't just see that!

If you start that ship's engines, the vault will be destabilised.

It will destroy Earth.

Destruction and rebirth, Sarah Jane Smith.

-It is the way all the universe!

-No!

He took the other disc, we can't get in there.

Is that it then? We're all going to die?

I realise all this is new to you Gita,

but there's one thing you never do in this situation, give up.

Yeah, but I really wish Luke was here now.

Well, Luke isn't here.

All we've got is Mr Dread.

That hurt.

I'm sorry but we need your help.

-Androvax has started his ship's star drive.

-I warned you.

Earth will be destroyed in approximately two minutes.

The laws of hyper-dimensional physics cannot be changed.

Listen, Mr Dread. The Transmat Equipment.

-That's how you put the ships in there.

-Yes.

-Then use it to beam that ship out of there and into space.

-Theoretically.

-There is no power source.

-Yes there is. You.

You have a power cell that keeps you running 500 years.

Come on, Mr Dread. If you've always been here

to protect the Earth from the alien stuff,

-now is the time to get stuck in.

-I want you to know.

This is not in my job description.

Hurry up, I don't think we've got much time.

Scanning the vault. Locking on.

Setting co-ordinates.

Power transmatter equaliser.

The system's draining.

Transmat energising.

Androvax's ship was beamed far enough away from Earth

so as to prevent any dimensional disturbance

when its star drive engines were started, and Earth was saved.

So Androvax's people may have the chance to live again,

although whether Androvax himself

has found a way to survive his illness, is unknown.

Thank you.

I need a holiday.

We did it! We did it! We saved Earth!

Wow! And Rani's mum saw all of this?

And she knows about what we do and everything?

That's a bit of a nightmare, isn't it?

Fortunately, Mr Dread's memory wiping powers came in handy.

She can't remember a thing.

I think that's probably for the best.

To conclude, Luke, uploading three new entries into the Alien Files

as a permanent record for all to learn about

these deadly threats to Earth's safety.

The Judoon.

These trigger-happy law enforcers

can be as brutal as the criminals they seek to apprehend.

Their logical approach is undermined by their stupidity.

Do not underestimate

the harm these supposed protectors of the law can do.

Androvax the Veil.

Embittered by the destruction of his home planet,

this vengeful killer cannot be trusted.

Merciless in his appetite for destruction,

watch out for his body-jumping powers.

Never turn your back on him.

Even for a second.

Mr Dread.

An android who will let nothing

get in the way of the mission with which he has been charged.

His laser blaster is lethal.

And his force-field provides high-level protection.

Approach with caution if you do not want to be incinerated.

Right, Mum, Rani, Clyde, I've updated the alien files,

and Mr Smith has been filling me

in on what you've been up to while I've been away.

I thought those molecular physics tutorials has been exciting.

See you soon.

For anyone else who might need to use this information, good luck.