Strange lights in the sky, a creepy sounding village
and a radio telescope. There's something in the woods.
My dad's been offered a new job... in America.
Oh, no! It is you who are in peril.
Trigger a nuclear chain reaction that will wipe out all life?
I won't let you!
No! Sarah Jane!
Ah!
She lives.
She is my prize to take back to Sontar once Earth is destroyed.
There, she will pay for the Doctor's crimes.
We'll stop you! You might be a Sontaran, but you're only one!
One Sontaran is all it takes!
Secure her with the other female!
Luke, we really have to do something!
Your species' biology is primitive.
Laboratory analysis at my ship
could provide valuable information for the High Command.
Clyde! Over here! Ah!
See you, Spud!
Argh! I will fry your blood, Half-Form!
Boy, that guy has a big case of little man complex!
SHE SCREAMS
Which way? This way!
I can't see! Just keep running.
Faster, he'll catch us!
How far does this bunker go? Miles.
In 45 minutes this place could come in really handy!
YARGH!
I think I took a wrong turn. Sorry. YARGH!
It's stuck! Clyde! We have to get it open!
First time in my life I wish I carried a lipstick!
Help me with this. BANGING FROM DOOR
YARGH!
I reckon that is a toad in the hole!
Come on.
Where's Clyde? I don't know, Dad locked you in.
What's happened to him? He's acting like some sort of robot.
He's being controlled by an alien, a Sontaran.
And if we don't get out of here, it's going to destroy the world.
My bag!
My sonic lipstick! Your what?
If only Luke were here.
We'll just have to manage on our own,
won't we?
You and Maria moving to America, I just can't get my head around it.
If I take the job.
Looks like someone's doing all right, anyway. Changed your car?
Oh, it's Ivan's. I just borrowed it.
Don't change the subject.
I mean it, Alan, it would be weird not having you here.
We get on much better as friends than we did as husband and wife.
I'll miss you. If I go.
Of course you'll go. You live for work you always did.
It's what you never understood, Chrissie. I live for Maria.
I lived for Maria and you.
That's all work was ever about.
Looking after the two of you.
That's why whatever I do, it has to be right for Maria.
MOBILE PHONE RINGS
Dad! You have to help us!
Maria, slow down. What's happened? We're at the Tycho Radio Telescope,
near a village called Goblin's Copse. Sarah Jane's been captured
by a Soltaran. We've got 40 minutes before it destroys Earth.
You have to help us talk to Mr Smith.
A jamming device?
Something that will interfere with the radio telescope.
And we're going to build it?
What's wrong, haven't you inherited
any scientific aptitude from your father? Yeah.
But if we jam the telescope won't they be able to trace the source?
Exactly.
Where are you going, Alan? Not Mary Jane's?
I have to do something for Maria. Get Ivan's car back
before he finds out you've "borrowed" it. What about Maria?
Maria's fine, she's just she left her library book
with Sarah Jane it has to go back today, that's all.
All right.
We've got to talk this American thing through properly.
Like a family. Of course.
Mr Smith?
I need you.
Oh, Mr Jackson, this is a surprise.
It's that sort of a day.
MOBILE PHONE RINGS
Dad?
Some people never learn.
Sontarans are a clone-species originating from the planet Sontar.
They are fearless, well trained,
strategically intellectual, and immensely strong.
But they can be beaten?
They must have a weakness.
Sontarans do not eat food.
They intake pure energy by means of a probic vent
at the base of their skull. This point is their sole weakness.
What on earth is going on?
Chrissie?! Mum! What are you doing there?
I think I get first dibs on the questions.
Alan, what's going on?
Maria, I'm going to have to call you back.
Sarah Jane's going to be SO happy.
That's not what's important. All that matters is saving Mum.
I've got an idea about that. Come on.
A role-playing game? It's an internet thing.
Only some of it's in the real world, you know,
looking for clues, solving puzzles. Like a treasure hunt?
Like when we were dating?
Running round back lanes and plodding across fields
looking for a golden rabbit? That's right. I don't believe you, Alan.
I know when you're lying. I've always known.
Maria's in danger, isn't she?
And it's got something to do with Calamity Jane.
Sarah Jane.
She fights aliens, Maria helps her.
Aliens?
They exist, Chrissie. I've seen them.
What do you think nearly brought the moon crashing down?
Aliens? From space?
Believe me. I do.
Your mouth didn't twitch. What?
The corner of your mouth -
it always twitched when you told a fib.
It didn't move at all.
Come on! We've got to help our daughter!
Whoah! This is your great idea? The Sontaran's space ship?
Kaagh said he had a laboratory.
If Luke can synthesize a knock-out gas, we can use it on him.
Brilliant!
The programme is enabled, Commander.
The dish will align on schedule and the up-link will begin.
Good. In 25 minutes, the 10th Fleet shall be avenged.
My name shall be purged of shame.
I shall return to Sontar as Kaagh the Avenger!
We don't know what any of these chemicals are. They're alien.
Dylixium chloride, Korazic acid, Lyzirium phosphate...
Chemistry lessons with Mr Smith are much more fun than at school.
SIREN WAILS
What's that? I think we tripped an alarm system.
Intruders on my ship?
The half-forms,
like bugs in a battle-trench bunk!
It is time to crush them!
Kaagh will be coming! Luke, you must get a move on!
I can't rush this.
Where are you going?
If I can spot Kaagh coming, I can buy you more time.
Be careful.
See you back at the telescope.
It's working!
And now we wait.
You know, Luke, I don't think I'll ever meet anyone like you again.
You won't need to. You've got me.
My dad's got a job in America.
Are you going with him?
I don't know.
You can't go, Maria! I don't want you to go!
Luke, it's my dad.
But you've always been here.
I know, and...
I'm going to miss you so much... and Sarah Jane, and Clyde.
But none of that matters if we don't stop Kaagh.
Please, Luke, you have to make this gas.
Hey, Bilbo!
Over here.
By Sontar, I will crush you with my bare hands, Bite-Size!
ELECTRONIC BEEPING
Someone! Anyone! Let me in!
Clyde! Quick!
ARGH!
Yes, I've got it!
Luke's working on a knock-out gas.
Reckons he can take Kaagh out with it.
I'm not sure we've got time.
I've watched my dad working. I can try and stop the program.
The system's encrypted, I can't get into it.
Can we sabotage the dish? The antenna has to be aligned.
If it can't operate, he might as well howl at the moon.
There's an operating system on the other side of the complex.
You stay here, see if you can break the code.
You miserable organism, you let them escape!
I thought you said they were at a telescope!
The telescope must be near! 'This is Maria. Try again later.'
Oh, she's still not answering. Maybe the battery's dead.
Well, where do we go now, Alan? Maria's in danger, and I hope
I don't have to remind you whose fault that is.
Are you sure this gas is going to work?
I don't have any Sontaran physiological data.
But the anaesthetic would disable a human for two hours. And a Sontaran?
We only need a few minutes.
It's the Sontaran's drone. Run!
Get down!
Mum!
Quickly! Maria, you have to go with Clyde.
He's going to try to disable the dish. Luke, go with me.
We have to try everything we can.
This is what drives the dish?
Lucy says there's a central control system transponder.
All we've got to do is take it out.
Doesn't that sound a bit too easy?
The hard part's finding it.
Any luck with the program? It's no good. I can't do this.
Let me. What? I mean, no disrespect or anything, but
you're just a kid and we're looking at the end of the world here.
No disrespect, Lucy, but you really aren't much more than a kid, either,
and can you see the flaw in Eistein's Theory of Relativity?
Luke can. And he can save the world.
He's had practice.
15 minutes to go. Why isn't Kaagh here to see his plan succeed?
It's got to be around here somewhere.
14 minutes, Clyde!
Let go! Go, Maria. Find the transponder!
Now! Get off me!
Is this what you are looking for - female half-form?
Remember the first law of battle.
Think like your enemy.
The second law of battle.
Anticipate them.
The operating system remains fully functional.
Alan, Alan. This is impossible.
Just leave them there. Are you mad?
These are designer shoes!
You want some squirrel moving into the most des res in the forest?
Luke, you've only got four minutes.
The code is a bi-axial algorithm. It's not Earth mathematics.
I'm having to try progressive cross-referencing number bases.
You have to hurry.
Six! That's it, six!
Sontarans have three fingers on each hand.
What? We use the decimal system.
We have ten fingers. That's it.
I've cracked the code.
I've disabled the program.
Move away from the controls!
I'm sorry. We didn't do it. The antenna's still operational.
These half-forms might be primitive, but I admire their spirit.
I shall remember them honourably on my return to Sontar.
Earth will be a worthy sacrifice to the Empire. No, Kaagh.
Luke broke the program code.
He disabled it. You can't take control of the satellites.
The third law of battle.
Always have a Plan B.
Activating my sleeper agent.
She was one of them all along.
And I fancied her! She was unaware of my control.
Another rule of war. Infiltrate deep within your enemy.
Then infiltrate deeper still.
Lucy, no! You might give your life,
but will you sacrifice this half form? Do it!
I can't.
It's me or it's Earth!
One life is as sacred as an entire planet.
When the program reloads, it will automatically transmit to satellites
and target your nuclear installations around the world.
Sontar - ha!
This isn't conquest. It's annihilation.
The Earth will be useless to your Empire.
I will have wiped the Sontaran defeat from history.
My name will live for all eternities to come.
My people will scream it as a battle-cry.
Now I have to admit, that is kind of cool.
You're killing innocent people.
Stop the program. This isn't battle, it's murder!
Your planet defied Sontar.
That can never be! We will have victory over all.
Nothing will stop us!
Try my size fives, Humpty!
Mum, Mum!
Consider yourselves de-activated!
She's all right.
I would like to know how Chrissie knew where to hit a Sontaran.
I suppose it can wait.
She's coming round. Quickly, the knock-out gas. Give it to me...
What for? If we can get Mum home before she comes round,
maybe we can convince her that none of this ever happened.
She banged her head. Had a bad dream. Anything.
Your mum will have saved the world, she won't have a clue.
Believe me, it's better this way. We'd never hear the end of it.
Maria!
Go back to sleep, Mum.
Dad, Dad, are you all right? What happened?
Those lights in the sky!
What on earth is that?! Don't worry, Professor.
Commander Kaagh has been de-commissioned.
Sontar - ha!
Don't try anything. Your craft's weapons have been disabled -
don't think about coming back. Defeated by a female and half forms.
I will go, Sarah Jane Smith.
But I will not forget YOU.
Sontarans will yet cry my name in battle!
Well, I think that went as well as could be expected, don't you?
Now perhaps we should all run!
Do you think that's the last we've seen of him? I hope so.
With some people, it really doesn't matter how far they travel,
they never really go away.
Mum!
Mum, are you OK?
What happened? I always said these heels will be the death of you.
You tripped, banged your head.
I was really worried, Mum.
Oh, it's all right, love.
I had such a weird dream, though.
I dreamed your dad got a job in America.
I did. That is,
if I take it.
I'd love to go to America.
You can still visit, can't you?
You try and stop me.
They've got shops the size of aircraft hangars there.
Are you sure? I mean, think about everything you'd be leaving behind.
Dad, you can't ever leave the universe behind.
I have completed a further scan, Sarah Jane.
I have detected no Sontaran energy signatures.
Maybe Kaagh isn't coming back after all. Thank you, Mr Smith.
Sarah Jane?
So, everything packed? I just wanted to come and take one last look.
And I wanted to say goodbye to Mr Smith.
In atomic terms, we all remain connected by the universe, Maria,
so I will say "au revoir".
I really don't know what your father did to him.
Will you come and see us? Please.
Of course I will.
And Maria, I really am sorry for how I reacted
when you told me about America.
It doesn't matter. We were sort of busy. No, I was wrong.
You see, well, for the first time, I felt I'd found a family.
And so soon, so suddenly, it felt like I was losing it.
Losing the daughter I always wanted.
Bye. Bye.
Safe landing!
Bye. Come on, come on!
I remember it all, you know. Sorry?
The Sontaran.
What really happened with my shoe. Don't worry, I won't say anything.
They deserve a new start.
We all do.
Thank you.
I'll miss her.
Yeah, me, too.
I learned a long time ago that if you're missing somebody, just...
look up at the night sky.
Whoever it is,
wherever they are,
chances are they're looking at the stars just like you.
Sometimes, for all its size,
the universe isn't such a big place after all.
Boy, they have no idea what they're moving in over the road from.
I'm Rani. My family just moved into Bannerman Road. These kids go missing
though, that is weird. And the police just don't have a clue.
Hey! Welcome to Spellman's magical museum of the circus.