Part 2 The Sarah Jane Adventures

Luke has brought some unidentified alien technology into the attic.

Mrs Nelson-Stanley gave it to me,

and I had to keep it a secret.

When weirdo nuns turn up on your doorstep asking about

freaky, glowing alien gizmos,

you never tell them you've got one.

The talisman is dangerous?

More than you can imagine.

No, wait! Luke!

Luke - he's been nabbed by a nun.

Really? Protecting a Gorgon here?

A creature with writhing serpents for hair?

The sisters, they protect her.

Look on the face of the Gorgon and feel your flesh turn to stone.

-Don't look, Maria!

-The door was open.

Dad, get out!

Dad!

After 3,000 years,

the doorway to your people can be opened again.

-And what then? Invasion?

-The Gorgons need us to survive, Miss Smith.

Opening the portal to their world

isn't opening the door to invasion but salvation.

What have you done to my dad?

Pay heed to the Gorgon's warning

and don't interfere.

Dad?

Mother Abbess?

He can't be.

He can't.

I didn't mean to shout at you, Dad. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

Listen to me, Maria. You are not going to lose it.

You are not going to fall apart. Understand me?

Whatever happened to your father, there's one thing

I've learned in all these years.

There is always a chance. Do you hear me?

Mum was right.

I should have had nothing to do with you. It's all your fault!

I wish I'd never seen that alien in your garden!

I wish I'd never seen you!

Everything was fine till we moved here! Everything was fine!

I know, Maria, I know. But we have to try.

We have to try to put things right.

What's happening, Luke? Is Sarah Jane really going to

give that Gorgon thing the talisman?

No! If the Gorgon only wanted to go home, why was Mrs Nelson-Stanley

so scared of the nuns finding it?

Mum'll find a way of tricking them.

Are you sure of that? I mean, what if she doesn't?

She's my mum. She wouldn't let us down.

-She'll get us out of this.

-All the same, we should be looking

for a way of escaping, not catching up on our reading.

It's the history of the abbey. Originally, it was a private house,

-built in the 16th century.

-Banging(!)

It was during the Reformation, when priests were being hunted.

Look, I can get a history lesson any time I want off Mrs Pittman.

Houses were built with escape rooms and secret passages.

Houses like this one.

My scan indicates Mr Jackson has undergone

massive molecular transmutation.

We know that. He's been turned to stone.

Not stone. Not strictly speaking.

It's an organic petrification process.

Like fossilisation?

It is comparable.

And, to correct you again, Sarah Jane,

Mr Jackson hasn't turned but is turning.

-The process isn't complete? Could it be reversed?

-Theoretically.

-What does that mean?

-It can be done.

The molecular transmutation isn't yet stable.

But I don't know how to do it.

Well, you've got to work it out!

-You've got to save my dad!

-I'm not sure there is sufficient time.

My scan suggests molecular

stabilisation will be complete in approximately 90 minutes.

-There must be something you can do.

-I can only be realistic.

And to be candid, things look worse for you all the time.

Please, Mr Smith! You've got to help us!

Perhaps if I were more familiar with the Gorgon...

Bea! She might know something!

She might. But Bea has Alzheimer's. Her mind is trapped in the past.

That's where she met the Gorgon! We've only got till four o'clock.

Like I said, there's always a chance. Let's get going.

This way.

I'm telling you, I'd rather take my chances

with the Gorgon than make like a mole through any more tunnels. Whoa!

Why couldn't they get garden gnomes like everyone else?

It's killed all these people then put them on show like trophies.

Or a warning, and I'm taking it. Let's go!

I'll have to leave you here on your own.

I really wish I could help, but I have to find Luke and Clyde.

Everything Bea knows about the Gorgon is still inside her head.

You just have to find a way to unlock it.

You were right. I never should have got any of you involved.

I'm sorry about what I said. It's not your fault.

I wanted to see aliens. Who wouldn't?

If there's a way of saving your dad, Maria, I know

you're going to do it.

We have the key. Rejoice, Sisters! The Gorgons shall be free!

-Mother Abbess!

-She is weakening.

We must open the portal as soon as possible.

-Now, while the coast is clear!

-I can't.

-What you talking about?

I promised Mrs Nelson-Stanley I wouldn't let them take the talisman.

-I've let her down.

-Did she tell you you'd be going up against a Gorgon

-and you might end up a garden ornament?

-No, but...

This goes way beyond the call of duty.

-Mum wouldn't give them the talisman unless something had happened.

-What?

-That thing? Sarah Jane and Maria?

-I'm not going to let the Gorgon win.

But I need your help.

-KNOCK ON DOOR

-Come in.

Bea?

-Hello, it's Maria. Do you remember me?

-Hello, darling.

You're a little young, aren't you?

-Young?

-To be the curator of the Museum of Egyptology.

Serve the Gorgon! Serve the Gorgon!

Behold the key to the portal.

After 3,000 years, our work here comes to an end

and our world is on the threshold of a new age.

The Gorgon world is 100 million light years away,

and the angle of ascension must be aligned perfectly.

Transdimensional occlusion is forming.

Alignment is at twenty per cent.

Only an hour before the portal opens and your people shall join you.

After all these centuries, Gorgons shall have their promised land.

The time grows short.

The host is dying.

We need to find a new carrier before the portal opens.

Bea? Bea, please help me. MUSIC ON RECORD PLAYER

You have to tell me about the Gorgon.

Edgar and I danced to this in the palace...

-in the palace of the Sultan of Ishkanbah. Do you know him?

-No.

I've never even heard of...

Bea, the Gorgon has turned my dad into stone, and if you don't help me,

-I'll never get him back. Understand?

-The Sultan was a fascinating man.

He had seen the Yeti, you know?

Tell me. Tell me about the things you've seen.

-I've seen all kinds of things with Sarah Jane.

-Do I know Sarah Jane?

It's silly, I know, but I keep forgetting.

Sarah Jane has seen

loads of aliens and monsters on earth, even other planets.

She's had hundreds of adventures, just like you and Edgar did.

Edgar...

If only I could hear his voice again, just once.

We had adventures once. Such adventures!

But no-one believes me now.

No-one listens to you when you're old.

I believe you, Bea!

Bea!

DOORBELL RINGS

Maria? Are you in there?

Alan?

The woman's obsessed!

She really is a bunny boiler, this one.

Couldn't have the real thing, so she's made herself a statue!

I bet you'd be flattered if you knew, wouldn't you?

You didn't know, did you?

So it's come to this, has it?

Talking to a flaming statue instead of the real thing.

Maybe her and me aren't so different.

Both have to make do with what we can.

Difference is, she doesn't know what she's missing, does she?

Still, you're all right. Anyone can see that.

You and Maria get along great.

Better off without me around messing things up.

Well, like I said,

I can make do till I mess things up again, which...

I will, cos I'm me, aren't I?

Anyway, erm, been nice talking to you.

-Alignment is at 45 per cent.

-Good.

But the Mother Abbess?

Her strength is failing. Soon we will select a new host.

Soon the Gorgons and humanity will be one.

All right, Quasimodo, time to do your thing.

BELL CLANGS LOUDLY

What on earth...?

Find out what's going on!

Stop him!

-Serve the Gorgon! Serve the Gorgon!

-Have you got it?

-There's loads of them!

-They're everywhere!

-Serve the Gorgon!

-Boys, quick! This way!

Serve the Gorgon! Serve the Gorgon! Serve the Gorgon! Serve the Gorgon!

Serve the Gorgon! Serve the Gorgon!

Serve the Gorgon! Serve the Gorgon!

Serve the Gorgon! Serve the Gorgon!

I bet your lipstick thing would have had this licked, no problem.

Shame the nuns made me check my bag in at the door.

I hope Maria's having better luck with Mrs Nelson-Stanley.

We don't need any Star Trek gadgets.

This place is full of secret passages.

Luke read all about it. He's got it all filed in that superbrain of his.

I don't remember any down here.

Yeah, well, all the same, it's worth trying.

-Mum.

-Hm?

I think the Gorgon's dying.

-Why?

-We saw her stumble earlier, like she was sick.

I heard Sister Helena saying they needed to find a new host.

She said when the portal's open, humanity and the Gorgon will be one.

That's what she meant!

At the house, when she took the talisman, Helena said

the Gorgons needed us to survive.

-I don't think the Abbess is the Gorgon.

-What?

Miss Smith, will you come with us?

I'll be fine.

Don't worry, boys, we won't harm a hair on her head.

We've got to find a way out of here.

Sarah Jane was right, wasn't she?

I thought meeting creatures from other planets was exciting and cool.

But she told me. She said it wasn't anything like that.

In the end, it just messes you up,

your whole life and the people you love.

That's why Sarah Jane's always been on her own.

That's why you're here, isn't it, Bea?

With no-one in the world who really knows you, or cares.

This is how we all end up, isn't it?

I had my Edgar.

You are young, you'll find yours.

Bea? Are you really there?

Where else would I be?

I haven't got much time.

-The Gorgon turned my father to stone. Can we save him?

-Your father?

Oh, dear. Oh, deary-dear. That's most unpleasant.

I should know - it happened to me.

-It turned you into stone?

-The nuns were after the talisman.

But Edgar saved you. He must have. How?

The talisman. It is the key to the door between this world and theirs.

But it's more. It returned me to flesh and blood.

The talisman. The Gorgon's got it.

Then you must get it back.

Not only for your father, but for every soul on earth!

Thank you, Bea.

Not so fast, young lady. Would you... er... fetch me my mirror?

No, not for me!

So I can powder my nose while you take on that monster? It's for you!

For me?

Whatever do they teach you in school these days?

What makes you think the Gorgons will still want to invade?

3,000 years is a long time.

-Not for the Gorgons.

-Without host bodies to carry them?

The Gorgons are parasites, aren't they?

"Parasite" - it's such an unattractive word.

It's what they are, a life-form that lives on another,

that depends on another to feed and survive.

The Gorgon gives its host life beyond human years.

The Abbess has carried the Gorgon for 200 years,

although there have been many hosts, and now she grows weak.

Her time is coming, and the Gorgons have chosen a new host

to lead its domination of Earth.

You, Miss Smith.

You're going to dig a tunnel?

No. I'm going to make a screwdriver.

The old-fashioned way.

Not long now, Miss Smith.

As the Abbess weakens more, the Gorgon will release its hold on her

and you will become leader of a new race ruling planet Earth.

You can do what you want to me,

but this planet will never bow down to that thing.

-We need a plan.

-Yeah, sure. When we get a chance, we'll figure one out.

Meantime, we need to find Sarah Jane.

The portal is opening. The Gorgons are coming.

The new Queen must be ready to meet them.

Bring the host forward.

Don't struggle, Miss Smith. Embrace your destiny!

The Gorgon is controlling all of you! You've got to fight it!

-If not, they'll destroy the human race.

-No! The Gorgons shall save us!

From war, from greed. We will exist only to serve them.

We will be at peace everlasting. And you shall be our Queen!

To receive the Gorgon, do not look into its eyes, Miss Smith.

To do so will turn you to stone.

I'd rather be a lump of granite than bow down to that thing!

You don't have a choice, Miss Smith. Prepare to serve the Gorgon!

NUNS: Serve the Gorgon!

Serve the Gorgon! Serve the Gorgon! Serve the Gorgon! Serve the Gorgon!

-Mum!

-Hold them.

They can witness the transfer and be the new Queen's first prey.

No! No!

Where am I? What's going on?

You're free. The Gorgon's lost its control over you.

They're coming through!

Come on, Maria!

What about your father?

Come on!

-What if it doesn't work?

-If it saved Bea, it'll save your father.

-Quick!

Dad!

He's alive.

He's just unconscious.

Quickly, we have to get him out of here before he comes round.

Where the heck have you been? I've been looking for you for ages!

I went looking for Maria,

then I must have sat down in Sarah Jane's garden and dozed off.

-Another of the disappearing Jacksons!

-I'm sorry about earlier.

No, Dad, I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have yelled

or run off like that. It was stupid. I could have lost you forever.

It was only a tiff.

You're never going to lose me.

-Do you know what that woman has in her lounge? It's shocking.

-What?

A statue of Dad.

-A statue of me? But why?

-Because she's a nutter.

Mum, there isn't a statue.

There is!

What, erm, what exactly was it you were looking for, Mrs Jackson?

What have you done with it?

It was right here, bold as you like, a statue of my Alan.

Mrs Jackson, I don't know what you're...

I know what I saw. Where is it?

Er, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Come on, Mum.

Maybe we should go home, hm?

Pity, really. I think I'd look good as one of those Greek statues.

I prefer you the way you are.

Oh, sorry I couldn't stay, love, but Ivan was in floods on the phone.

It's OK. I understand.

I know we're not under the same roof, darling, but...

-I'm

-always there for you if you need me.

I'll always be here for you. OK? Always.

I wasn't seeing things, y'know. I know what I saw over there.

Listen to your mum.

Stay away from that Mary Jane.

-There's something not quite right about her.

-Meter's running.

Mum's back with Ivan.

So it's just me and Dad again.

If the talisman was the key to the portal,

how could it turn my dad back?

All matter has an atomic default.

Some alien technology uses this default to turn things on and off.

Such technology can reverse cellular distortion.

It can make things the way they used to be?

Most fortunately for you.

So maybe it could help Bea.

Oh, Maria, I don't know. Bea has Alzheimer's.

Besides, she had the talisman all that time.

Luke said it was in a tin box. Maybe she hasn't touched it for years.

Oh, I don't know, Maria.

But she helped save my dad.

If it could change him back from stone...

Please, we have to try.

BEA HUMS TO HERSELF

Hello, Bea.

It's Maria.

I've got something that belongs to you.

Is it my compact? I'm always leaving it lying about.

Edgar says I'll lose my head one of these days.

No. It's something Edgar gave you.

Oh, no, you must put it back where I hid it.

-You must put it back in case they come...

-It's all right.

They'll never come looking for it again. The Gorgon is dead.

Everything is going to be all right.

Is it true?

-Edgar gave it to me, you know.

-I know.

But he's been gone for so long, I've always been scared to wear this.

Oh, it's so beautiful.

You know, he put this round my neck

and he kissed me for the first time

and told me that he loved me.

MAN'S VOICE: 'I will always love you, Bea.'

Oh, Edgar.

Thank you for bringing him back to me.

You shouldn't be upset. The talisman didn't cure Bea,

but it did something amazing all the same.

It gave her peace.

She was lucky to have Edgar, wasn't she?

I suppose she was.

Don't you wish you had found someone special to share it all with?

Oh, I think I have.

For the second time. Now let's get back.

The Viszeran Royal Fleet are passing through the solar system tonight,

all 600 ships.

Only takes a few seconds,

but it is the most magnificent stellar light show

this side of the galaxy.

Have all these kids really gone missing?

We run a special competition for the more skilled competitors.

This is wicked. It's like Premier League for laser tag.

Do you think you're man enough to have a go?

Soon we shall have the children you need.

24 children have disappeared in cities where there's a Combat 3000.

Don't worry about them. The ultimate warrior of the future

is always on guard for a surprise attack.

Perhaps I can help.

Goodbye, Miss Smith.

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