Prisoner of the Judoon

Part One

SARAH JANE [OC]: My name is Sarah Jane Smith and once, I travelled among the stars. I saw worlds beyond imagination. I went to places beyond my wildest dreams, and met creatures beyond my darkest nightmares. And all of it was amazing. Then one day when I wasn't expecting it, I came home. Life changed. More than I could ever have believed possible. Now I have a son. Even a family, of sorts. Life is good on Bannerman Road, even if you sometimes have to work at a weekend.

[Laboratory]

(At a big, modern, glass and steel building called Genetec Systems.)

SARAH JANE: Thank you for agreeing to see me on a Sunday, Mister Yorke.
YORKE: No problem, Miss Smith. Nanotechnology is the science of molecular engineering. This is where we grow the nanoforms. Our microscopic engineers. Please.

(Mister Yorke allows Sarah Jane to look through a microscope at the little machines with snapping jaws.)

YORKE: Robots. Too small to see with the naked eye, but with the potential of giants.
SARAH JANE: Incredible.
YORKE: One day they will build us anything we want, everything we need, from simple atoms. Fix a punctured tyre or repair a damaged human heart. Who knows, even construct a whole new planet.
SARAH JANE: Or destroy the one we already have, according to some environmental scientists.
YORKE: Nanoforms out of control, eating up all matter? It's hogwash, Miss Smith.
SARAH JANE: But is it true that despite your dramatic claims for your nanoforms, your results have been somewhat exaggerated to secure investment? That investors are unlikely to see a return on their money for maybe a hundred years?

[Outside Genetec Systems]

(Sarah Jane is hustled outside and her pass snatched from her.)

SARAH JANE: I'll take that as a no comment, shall I?
SARAH JANE [OC]: As I said, my life changed. But I love my job, and my life. Because despite all the amazing things I saw on other planets, I've learnt that living on Earth can be just as exciting. If you keep your eyes and your mind open, you'll find extraordinary things happen everywhere.

[Outside Sarah Jane's home]

(A fireball hurtles overhead.)

SARAH JANE [OC]: Even on your street. Because once you've seen the universe for real, nothing ever looks quite the same again.
CLYDE: So, what was that? A meteor? Or a comet? Or something really cool? Tell me it was something cool.
LUKE: A body entering the Earth's atmosphere generates temperatures in excess of sixteen hundred degrees centigrade. No way was it something cool, Clyde.
CLYDE: Yeah, yeah. You've still got a way to go with that humour thing, my young padawan.
SARAH JANE: Come on!

[Attic]

SARAH JANE: Mister Smith, I need you.
MR SMITH: Sarah Jane, might I assume that you witnessed the extra-terrestrial body that recently entered the Earth's atmosphere?
RANI: Good to see you're on the ball, Mister Smith.
MR SMITH: Indeed, Rani. I have in fact been tracking the object since it entered solar space forty five minutes ago.
SARAH JANE: It crossed the solar system in forty five minutes? Well, we're not talking about a meteor, are we?
MR SMITH: I detected the matter signature of ionic pulse fusion engines.
CLYDE: Now that sounds cool.
MR SMITH: I intercepted the following distress signal.
TYBO [on screen]: Gorbo yo momo. Jojo ko fo. Gorbo yo momo. Jojo ko fo.
RANI: Oh, boy. A talking rhino.
SARAH JANE: He's Judoon. They work for the Shadow Proclamation. They're sort of galactic policemen.
LUKE: So, they're the good guys.
SARAH JANE: Depends on your point of view. From what I've heard, their methods aren't softly softly.
MR SMITH: UNIT have isolated the spacecraft crash site.
CLYDE: It's not our problem, then. Leave it to the professionals. Terrific.
MR SMITH: But UNIT seem unaware of the lifepod that was ejected before impact.
SARAH JANE: Lifepod?
MR SMITH: My calculations suggest that it fell some ten miles outside the UNIT isolation zone, in the abandoned Brindley Chase Council Estate.
CLYDE: Yes!
SARAH JANE: It takes a lot to knock a Judoon off his feet, but someone might be injured. They might need our help.
LUKE: If they're already looking for this ship, isn't it best left to UNIT?
CLYDE: What? An alien ship with a rhinoceros for a pilot crash lands, and you want UNIT to have all the fun?

[Outside Sarah Jane's home]

RANI: Luke's got a point. Do we really want to go upsetting UNIT again?
SARAH JANE: And how do we explain that we know the ship ejected a lifepod? They don't know about Mister Smith and they're not going to. Plus, from what I've heard, the Judoon aren't all that bright.
CLYDE: Great. A pan-galactic PC Plod.
SARAH JANE: UNIT carry guns and so do the Judoon. If you ask me, that spells trouble.
GITA: Sarah!
SARAH JANE: Sarah Jane.
RANI: Sorry.
GITA: Wait up. Oh, are you off out somewhere?
RANI: Yes, Mum. According to the news that meteor came down near here, so we thought we'd take a look.
SARAH JANE: So we are in a bit of a hurry.
GITA: No problem, darling. It's just that I'm stepping up the corporate side of the flower shop.
SARAH JANE: Corporate side? Oh, sounds fascinating.
GITA: I was just wondering, with your contacts, whether you had suggestions? People I could approach?
SARAH JANE: My contacts? Oh really, Gita, my normal contacts don't usually have much interest in flowers.
CLYDE: (sotto) Unless they're Triffids.
GITA: Corporate buildings these days, they're all glass and steel.
LUKE: Mum, shouldn't we be going?
SARAH JANE: Yes. Oh, Gita, why don't you take a look at these people? A little flower power, just what they need. Come on, everybody.

(Sarah Jane gives Gita the Genetic Systems brochure and drives off with the three children.)

[Brindley Estate]

(A big hole in the building, and some fires inside.)

SARAH JANE: This estate has been on the council's urban renewal list for years.
LUKE: Looks like the Judoon's lifepod has helped with the demolition.
CLYDE: You take us to all the best places, Sarah Jane.
SARAH JANE: Just as well everyone's moved out.
RANI: Do you think whoever was in that lifepod survived?

(Weapons fire.)

SARAH JANE: Get down!
CLYDE: I guess that answers that question. Rhinoman!
SARAH JANE: Get down!

(The Judoon marches forward, still firing.)

RANI: Stop firing! We're on your side!
LUKE: He isn't firing at us. Look!
TYBO: Sho bo ko jo!
RANI: He nearly blew our heads off. Moron.

(The Judoon stomps after something that ran into the building.)

SARAH JANE: Oh, no.
LUKE: What is it?
SARAH JANE: Remember the Judoon are policemen? I think what crashed here was some sort of prison carrier.
CLYDE: What, and Rhino Rozzer's lost his prisoner?
SARAH JANE: The Judoon's only interest is in stopping that creature getting away. Humans don't matter. Under the Articles of the Shadow Proclamation we barely exist. Too primitive.
CLYDE: You know, a planet could start to get a complex.
SARAH JANE: Come on.
RANI: Where are you going?
SARAH JANE: Well, maybe we can help him catch his convict before anyone else gets in his way.

[Chandra kitchen]

HARESH: That's a map pocket in the driver's door, Gita, not a pick and mix box.
GITA: Oh, come on, Haresh. It's well-known that sucking on a sweetie improves the concentration. You wouldn't believe the dents and scrapes these choccie have saved your car from.
HARESH: Is that supposed to make me feel better? What have you've got there? Nanotechnology.
GITA: It's the future.
HARESH: I've read about that. Microscopic robots that can build anything, practically out of thin air. They say we'll all have them inside us and they'll turn every one of us into perfect human beings. I can think of a few pupils who could do with something like that.
GITA: I'm telling you, it's the future. Well, mine, anyway. Bloomin' Lovely is going nanotech.
HARESH: Sorry?
GITA: Come on, I'll explain it to you on the way to the shop.

[Brindley Estate]

(The Judoon is using a tracker.)

ALIEN: Judoon!

(He turns and gets slammed in the face with a girder. His reptilian ex-prisoner then rips off the remains of its straitjacket and stands over the rhino, but )

SARAH JANE [OC]: They went this way.

(So it runs off.)

RANI: Look. What's happened to him?
LUKE: He's been knocked cold.

(Sarah Jane gets the Judoon's gun and throws it away.)

TYBO: Wo sho bro fro cho!
CLYDE: Whoa, you need a mint, mate.
SARAH JANE: Careful. Stand back.
TYBO: Mo wo sho cho!
SARAH JANE: It's all right. We're friends. Take it easy. You're injured.

(The Judoon holds up his tracker. Sarah Jane speaks into it.)

SARAH JANE: My name is Sarah Jane Smith, I mean you no harm. That is, as long as you don't harm us.
TYBO: Language assimilated. Earth English. You will be catalogued. Species, human.
RANI: Well, duh, you are on Earth.
TYBO: You have taken Judoon officer's weapon. You assist prisoner's escape.
LUKE: We didn't help anyone escape. Aren't you listening? We're trying to help you.
CLYDE: Yeah. Your prisoner clobbered you and ran off.
RANI: We only took your gun because you nearly blew our heads off back there. Who do you think you are, Jack Bauer?
TYBO: You impede Judoon in duties. Sentence is execution.
SARAH JANE: I don't think you're in any shape to execute anyone, let alone your only friends on this planet.
LUKE: Your prisoner hit you pretty hard. Who is he?
SARAH JANE: More importantly, how dangerous is he?
TYBO: He is Destroyer of Worlds.

(The prisoner has spotted a little girl with a toy cat while her mother sweeps the church hall floor. Its long tongue flickers around its head.)

RANI: Here. For the blood.

(Tybo takes Rani's proffered handkerchief.)

TYBO: I, Tybo. Captain of one thousand and fifth Judoon Guard.
SARAH JANE: I'm very pleased to meet you, Captain. But what I really want to know is, who was your prisoner?
TYBO: Androvax the Annihilator. Wanted in five galaxies. Twelve counts of global destruction.
CLYDE: And you let him get away? Whoops. Is your butt rhinoburger when you get back to the station.
RANI: Didn't you have him in handcuffs or something?
TYBO: Prisoner was secured. I do not answer to humans.
SARAH JANE: You crashed and let some creature that has already destroyed twelve planets loose on our world. I think you answer to all of us, Captain Tybo.
TYBO: I will recapture.

[Church hall]

JULIE [OC]: Mummy!
MUM: Julie!

(The toy cat falls to the ground.)

[Brindley Estate]

(They hear the screams.)

CLYDE: What was that?
SARAH JANE: Luke, Rani. Stay with Captain Tybo. Clyde, come with me. And leave the gun!
CLYDE: Wait for me!

[Church hall]

SARAH JANE: Hello?
JULIE: The monster.
SARAH JANE: It's all right. It's gone. It's gone now. You're safe.
JULIE: It, it took my mummy.

[Brindley Estate / Church hall]

RANI: Don't worry, Sarah Jane will find your prisoner.

(Luke answers his phone.)

LUKE: Hello? Mum?
SARAH JANE: Luke, how is Captain Tybo?
LUKE: I think he's going to be all right.
SARAH JANE: I need you and Rani to keep him occupied. We're over in that church hall that we passed. Keep him out of the way for as long as you can. We think Androvax has taken a little girl's mum hostage. I have to find them first.
LUKE: Okay, Mum. We'll take care of it.
SARAH JANE: Stay alert.
LUKE: Yes, we'll be careful.
SARAH JANE: Bye.

[Brindley Estate]

LUKE: Mum thinks Androvax is heading back to the crash site.
TYBO: I hunt.

[Church hall]

CLYDE: I've had a look around. There's no sign of Androvax or Julie's mum. I don't understand. What would a Destroyer of Worlds want with a little girl's mum.
SARAH: I don't know. A hostage? Something to bargain with?
CLYDE: Then Androvax doesn't know Captain Tybo very well, does he? Tybo won't let something like a human get in the way of his trigger finger.
SARAH JANE: Which is exactly why we have to find Androvax before Tybo does.

[Brindley Estate]

RANI: This isn't going to work, Luke. Tybo's going to realise sooner or later that we're having him on. I don't know about you, but I don't think Judoon has much of a sense of humour.
LUKE: Mum just needs some time. If Tybo catches up with Androvax before she does, that girl's mum won't stand a chance.
RANI: If he catches on to us, neither will we.

[Church hall]

JULIE: It was a monster.
SARAH JANE: It was an alien, not a monster. Aliens, they're people, just like us. They just look a bit different, that's all.
JULIE: No, it was scary! It, it looked horrible!
SARAH JANE: We probably look pretty awful to him, too. This is a strange place to him. I'm sure he's just as scared as you are.
CLYDE: Sarah Jane's right. I reckon he just wants your mum to help him phone home, or something.
SARAH JANE: But the important thing is, you have to trust me, Julie. You have to trust me to find your mum and to look after you.
JULIE: I trust you, Sarah Jane.
SARAH JANE: Good. Then perhaps you can tell me why my scanner has been reading you as not really human?

(The alien leaps out of Julie's chest and touches Sarah Jane's forehead. Her head drops forward.)

CLYDE: Sarah Jane!
ANDROVAX: Stay where you are.
CLYDE: What do you want?
ANDROVAX: I'm at the top of the Judoon's Most Wanted List. I want to stay there.
CLYDE: Let Sarah Jane go!
ANDROVAX: I don't think so.
CLYDE: No! Leave her alone!

(Androvax steps inside Sarah Jane then touches Clyde before flicking his forked tongue around.)

[Brindley Estate]

TYBO: Androvax not here. Did not return. No trace. You lie.
LUKE: No. It wasn't a lie.
RANI: It was a mistake. There's a difference. A big difference.
LUKE: A mistake isn't a crime, even to the Judoon.
TYBO: Give to me.
LUKE: That's my phone.
TYBO: Communication device cost time. No good. Give.

(Rani hands over her phone as well.)

RANI: Better than being executed, I suppose. But I want that back. That was a birthday present.

(Tybo stomps on the phones.)

TYBO: No more mistake.

(Possessed Sarah Jane has returned home.)

[Church hall]

LUKE: This must be where Androvax took the girl's mum hostage.
RANI: Sarah Jane's gone now, so maybe we're okay.
TYBO: Androvax was here. Evidence of humans also.
RANI: Could've been anyone.
TYBO: Trace. Trans-body fusion energy.
LUKE: What's that?
RANI: What are you doing?

(Tybo goes up onto the stage and starts throwing chairs and props about.)

TYBO: Source located.
LUKE: Clyde!
RANI: He's in a trance state. I've seen my mum just like this when Mrs Wormwood kidnapped her.
LUKE: Clyde, wake up! Where's Mum?
TYBO: Method ineffective.

(Tybo sprays Clyde with liquid from a spray bottle.)

CLYDE: What? Get off!
RANI: What happened?
CLYDE: Androvax. He stepped inside her.
RANI: He did what?
LUKE: Where's Mum?
CLYDE: It was weird. It was like he just stepped inside her body.
TYBO: Androvax is Veil life form. Can hide inside bodies of other beings.
RANI: And you didn't think to tell us.
TYBO: Knowledge not relevant.
LUKE: Not relevant? Well, now your escaped prisoner is hiding inside my mum. I'd say that's pretty relevant, wouldn't you?

(Rani spots Julie and her mother behind a curtain.)

RANI: Is that the girl? I think we'd better get going. You might be difficult to explain.
CLYDE: Her mum's waking up, too.
RANI: Come on.
CLYDE: Yeah. And has anybody got a towel?

[Attic]

ANDROVAX-SARAH: Mister Smith, I need you.

[Brindley Estate]

RANI: This is crazy. If we're going to find Sarah Jane or Androvax, whatever, then we're going to need a lift.
CLYDE: Who's going to stop for him?
LUKE: We could say it's fancy dress.

(A police car comes around the corner.)

RANI: Quick! Get him out of sight.
TYBO: Transportation.
CLYDE: No, that's the police.
TYBO: Then they will co-operate.

(Tybo points his gun at the policemen.)

RANI: This cannot be good.
POLICEMAN 2: He's got a gun!
TYBO: Commandeering your vehicle. That's an order.
POLICEMAN: What's going on?
CLYDE: He's from out of town.
TYBO: Requisition slip.
CLYDE: I'd take it if I were you.

(The policemen run away.)

POLICEMAN 2: Come on, let's get out of here.
TYBO: Cooperation appreciated.
CLYDE: Let's go. Are you sure you can drive?
TYBO: I am trained to pilot all methods of apprehension. Handbrake unnecessary.

(His passengers scramble to fasten their seatbelts after Tybo rips out the handbrake then kangaroos off towards the main road.)

[Attic]

MR SMITH: Sarah Jane, you look different.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Thank you, Mister Smith. You could say I've had someone walk into my life.
MR SMITH: I'm detecting an alien presence.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Ignore it.
MR SMITH: But my analysis suggests that it's a Veil life form.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Mister Smith, is your central processor fully functioning?
MR SMITH: I believe so.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: If you want it to stay that way, you'll do what you're supposed to do and obey me. Got that?
MR SMITH: Yes, Sarah Jane. Understood.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Good. Then maybe we can get started. You are the most powerful computer on this odd little planet, aren't you?
MR SMITH: I'm a Xylok. I'm more than a computer.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: But you can infiltrate any computer system on Earth no matter how they're defended, isn't that right?
MR SMITH: If that were Sarah Jane I was talking to, she wouldn't need to ask.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: I am Sarah Jane. I've just been upgraded. And you will obey me, because, as I understand, that is what you're programmed to do. That is your purpose.
MR SMITH: What do you want, Miss Smith?
ANDROVAX-SARAH: That's better.

[Police car]

(A bicyclist over takes them.)

CLYDE: Can't you go any faster?
TYBO: Speed limit thirty miles an hour.
RANI: What is it with you? Don't they get Starsky and Hutch repeats in Judoonland?
TYBO: It is law.
CLYDE: It's a police car. You can turn on the blues and twos.
TYBO: Undercover operation.

(A young man in a cabriolet pulls alongside, music blaring.)

CLYDE: Tybo, what are you doing? No, no, no, no, no!

(Tybo points his gun at the music lover.)

TYBO: Attention! Noise exceeds permitted levels. Turn down. (The driver obeys.) Have nice day.

(Tybo drives off and the man makes a phone call.)

MAN: Mum?

[Outside Genetec Systems]

(Haresh and Gita arrive in the Bloomin Lovely florist van.)

GITA: According to this brochure, this building stretches back for miles. Well, a long way, anyway. It says here, the square footage is the biggest in West London.
HARESH: Is it really.
GITA: I hope I've got enough plants. Oh. Might have to get a second van load.
HARESH: This is ridiculous, Gita. You're going to get us arrested.
GITA: Don't be such a wet blanket, Haresh. You're not in school now, you know.
HARESH: No, but I'd still like to have a job there tomorrow.
GITA: No-one's going to arrest you. We're not breaking any laws. I've read about this sort of thing. People go about, dead of night, planting flowers and bushes around the city. Guerilla planting, they call it.
HARESH: Except we're not planting in the city. We're dumping dozens of plants in the reception of a major corporation. You've had some barmy ideas, Gita, but this beats them all.
GITA: Wait till they see how much nicer all this unfriendly glass and steel will look with some flowers and greenery.
HARESH: I still think sending them a letter, a brochure, would be a more conventional approach.
GITA: You see, conventional. That's your problem, my darling. If you want to grow in corporate floristry, you have to learn to think outside the seed box. It's a plant eat plant world, Haresh, believe me. Now, come on. Careful with that cheese plant.

[Outside Sarah Jane's home]

LUKE: There's no car. Mum isn't here.
RANI: Doesn't mean she hasn't been. Come on.
TYBO: No Androvax. Must keep looking.
RANI: No, you can't go stomping around the streets. You're an alien. Someone's going to notice.
LUKE: If Mum was here, there could be a clue as to where they've gone.
TYBO: Clue?
CLYDE: Oh, boy! Don't they teach you anything in Judoon Police Academy?
TYBO: All I need.
CLYDE: What's that?
TYBO: Judoon recovery mission entered solar space.
CLYDE: More Judoon? Why does that not sound like a good thing.
TYBO: Androvax not escape.
LUKE: And what about my mum?
TYBO: Androvax capture and trial. Priority. Humans irrelevant.
RANI: Tybo's ship crossed the solar system in forty five minutes, remember.
CLYDE: We've got to find Sarah Jane before they get here.
TYBO: Trace. Trans-body fusion energy. Androvax was here.

[Genetec Systems]

(In the reception area.)

HARESH: I've moved the van. At least they won't do us for obstruction as well.
GITA: Haresh, just chill out. There, perfect.
GUARD: Do you want to tell me what you think you're doing?
GITA: Oh. Hello. Here's my card. Gita Chandra. Florist. Bloomin Lovely.
GUARD: Bloomin marvellous. I think you'd better come with me.
HARESH: What did I tell you? You and your bright ideas.
GITA: Stop worrying. I told you, Sarah knows the chief executive. It's all going to be fine.

(As Haresh and Gita follow the guard, possessed Sarah Jane enters.)

[Laboratory]

(The guard contacts Mister Yorke by phone.)

YORKE: They were doing what? Plants? What sort of plants?
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Hello again, Mister Yorke.

(Zap, and bang goes a computer stack.)

ANDROVAX-SARAH: Sonic lipstick. Handy little toy. Especially for getting in places I shouldn't be.
YORKE: Security!
ANDROVAX-SARAH: You're wasting your time, Mister Yorke. I've disabled the entire Genetec communications system.
YORKE: Have to tell you, it seems a pretty extreme way of continuing our conversation, Miss Smith.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: I'm done talking, Mister Yorke. I want your nanoforms.
YORKE: What?
ANDROVAX-SARAH: They're going to build me something. Something very special.

[Attic]

LUKE: Mister Smith, we need you!

(Alarms sound as the fireplace opens.)

MR SMITH: Luke, Clyde, Rani, run. Get out of the house, now.
LUKE: I don't understand.
MR SMITH: Sarah Jane has instructed my self-detonation protocols to initiate on activation. I will explode in sixty seconds.
CLYDE: Oh, boy.
MR SMITH: The explosion will destroy all of Bannerman Road. You must run. Now!

Part Two

[Attic]

(Luke works frantically on Mister Smith's keyboard.)

MR SMITH: Detonation in fifty five seconds. You must run. Now.
RANI: Mister Smith, stop it!
MR SMITH: I cannot cancel Sarah Jane's order.
CLYDE: But it wasn't Sarah Jane that ordered you to explode. It was some freaky alien inside her.
MR SMITH: Detonation in forty seconds. Only she can command me to disarm.
TYBO: I stop.

(He draws his weapon.)

LUKE: No! We need Mister Smith to find Mum.
TYBO: Then do something now.
MR SMITH: You have thirty two seconds.
RANI: Come on, Luke. You can do this.
LUKE: I'm trying to think.
CLYDE: You haven't got time to think. You're a genius. What would Einstein do?
RANI: He never had an alien computer in his attic that turned into a bomb.
MR SMITH: Twenty two seconds. Please run.
LUKE: Mister Smith, you're a Xylok, and what is most important to a Xylok?
MR SMITH: Purpose.
CLYDE: I was expecting wire cutters here, not chit-chat.
LUKE: And what is your purpose? What did Mum tell you was your purpose?
MR SMITH: To defend and protect Earth.
LUKE: And that purpose over-rides all other protocols.
MR SMITH: Yes. Ten Earth seconds.
LUKE: Mum's orders endanger Earth. Your purpose over-rides her command. You have to stop the detonation.
MR SMITH: Your point seems logical. I must consider it.
RANI: No, just do it!
MR SMITH: Detonation suspended.
CLYDE: Who else could talk a bomb out of going off?
LUKE: Mister Smith, where is Mum?

[Laboratory]

ANDROVAX-SARAH: Now, Mister Yorke, input the nanoform activation codes. I don't have much time.
YORKE: You're mad. You said yourself the nanoforms can't do no more than push a few atoms together.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: I think you'll find they've just been upgraded. Enter the codes.
YORKE: You are crazy.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Don't worry. I've brought blueprints. Your nanoforms are going to build me a spaceship.

[Attic]

MR SMITH: In 1947, a spaceship crash-landed in New Mexico.
RANI: You're talking about Roswell.
CLYDE: You mean that really happened?
RANI: Come on. Try to keep up.
MR SMITH: The US military re-engineered a craft from the wreckage. Androvax had me acquire the schematics from their Dreamland base in Arizona.
LUKE: She's taken them to Genetec. Of course, nanoform technology could build it from raw atoms.
CLYDE: What are you talking about?
LUKE: Mum was doing an article on nanoforms. Tiny robots that can build anything. Androvax is going to get them to build him a spaceship.
CLYDE: Before the Judoon get here in thirty minutes?
LUKE: But nanoforms have to be stored dormant at sub-zero temperatures because of the massive energy they create when activated. They're fast, Clyde.
TYBO: Must hurry. Stop Androvax escaping.
MR SMITH: Sarah Jane or Androvax knew you would follow. So my self-destruct protocols were engaged.
CLYDE: Yeah. Well, Androvax isn't going to leg it with Sarah Jane, because we're going to stop him before Captain Tybo's space-plods get here. No offence.
MR SMITH: The matter is more pressing than that, Clyde.

[Laboratory]

(An alarm sounds.)

YORKE: What's happening? The nanoforms, they're multiplying!
ANDROVAX-SARAH: They're responding to my programming.
YORKE: The safety protocols can't cope with that rate of multiplication. They'll swarm.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: I'm releasing them, Mister Yorke. I'm releasing them to build my ship!
YORKE: If they get into the environment, they'll take the whole planet apart!
ANDROVAX-SARAH: They have been programmed to build my spacecraft. My escape from the Judoon. Then what better way to cover my tracks than to destroy Earth?

(Pipes burst, spilling the nanoforms onto the floor of the lab.)

ANDROVAX-SARAH: Do your work, my army of the infinitesimal!

[Security office]

HARESH: What is that? A fire alarm?
GUARD: Just stay there.
GITA: You can't just leave us here.
GUARD: You can't go anywhere. You're under arrest. It's a Level One Security Alert. The building's been locked down.

(The guard leaves, locking the door behind him.)

HARESH: I'm not standing for this!

(Haresh tries to pick the lock.)

GITA: I don't think he's listening. Haresh, don't get upset, my darling, but you are more of a Jamie Oliver than a James Bond.
HARESH: And what's that supposed to mean?
GITA: Piccalilli's more your style than picking locks.
HARESH: Gita, just let me concentrate.

(Gita rattles another set of keys.)

GITA: They were in the drawer.

[Outside Genetec Systems]

(They arrive in the borrowed police car. Luke spots the Nissan Figaro in the car park.)

LUKE: Look. Mum's definitely here.
CLYDE: That's great, but does someone want to tell me what's going on up there?

(A black object is forming on the roof.)

RANI: What is that?
LUKE: It's the nanoforms. They're building Androvax's spaceship.

[Laboratory]

(Androvax-Sarah Jane sees them on the CCTV.)

ANDROVAX-SARAH: So, the Judoon and his puerile posse have survived my trap. Perhaps that strange boy of yours really is as special as you seem to think, Sarah Jane.
SARAH JANE [OC]: Oh, he is. And, believe me, he and the others, they will stop you.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: I don't think so. I'm sure your security systems will keep them at bay, Mister Yorke.

[Outside Genetec Systems]

RANI: Come on, we've only got ten minutes until Judoon enter Earth orbit.
TYBO: Judoon will secure building. Androvax trapped.
RANI: Yeah? And what about Sarah Jane?
TYBO: Humans irrelevant.
LUKE: How can you say that? Sarah Jane's my mother.
TYBO: Halt!
RANI: What?
TYBO: Do not infringe directive.

(Tybo points to the 'have you paid and displayed' notice.)

CLYDE: What? You've got to be kidding.
TYBO: You pay. You display.

(Rani is the only one with any money.)

[Genetec Systems]

(Gita and Haresh come to an internal door.)

GITA: It's locked.

(Haresh hurts his shoulder trying to break it open.)

HARESH: Has to be some way out. Come on.

[Outside Genetec Systems]

CLYDE: It's locked.
TYBO: Key.

(His gun. But Mister Yorke manages to get to an override switch and releases all the doors, much to Tybo's annoyance.)

CLYDE: I must have a magic touch.

[Laboratory]

ANDROVAX-SARAH: What have you done?
YORKE: Over-ridden the security systems. Unlocked the lock-down.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: You know, I think you've outgrown your usefulness.

[Genetec Systems]

(There is a floorplan on the reception desk.)

LUKE: That's where she must be. The laboratories.
RANI: Which ones? This place goes on forever.
CLYDE: Er, right now we've got another problem.

(Tybo turns around to face the assembled Genetec Security.)

CLYDE: Er, it's all right. He's the police, honest. Evenin' all.
TYBO: You obstruct Judoon.

(And out comes the gun again.)

RANI: No!
GUARD: No-one said anything about flaming aliens in the contract.

(The security guards flee.)

CLYDE: Come on!

(Rani spots her parents consulting a floorplan on a wall, and pulls everyone back out of sight. Clyde has to drag Tybo back.)

CLYDE: What is it?
RANI: My mum and dad.
CLYDE: What?
LUKE: Mum. She gave Gita the Genetec brochure. Remember?
TYBO: Parents compromise mission.
RANI: No, you leave them alone.

(Tybo steps out into the corridor, but Gita and Haresh have moved on.)

LUKE: Come on, quickly.
RANI: But mum and dad, they don't know what they've walked into.
CLYDE: They'll find their way out. Don't worry. Come on, the Judoon will be in orbit any minute.
LUKE: This way.

[Bottom of stairs]

HARESH: There has to be a way out somewhere.

(A platoon of Judoon beams in around them.)

GITA: Haresh.
HARESH: I know.
JUDOON: Sho blo fo jo mo.
HARESH: Hello. And, er, welcome to Earth.
GITA: Yes. Very nice to meet you.

(Gita curtseys. The Judoon scans Haresh.)

HARESH: We hope you come in peace.
JUDOON: Language assimilated. Earth. English. You will be catalogued. Species, human. Unimportant.
HARESH: Just a minute. This is our planet and I demand to know what you're doing here.
GITA: Haresh, it may be our planet, but it isn't your school. Perhaps we should just let them get on.
JUDOON: Female of species more intelligent. Obstruction carries penalty. Disintegration.
HARESH: So much for coming in peace.
GITA: Shut up.
JUDOON: Troop!

[Laboratory]

ANDROVAX-SARAH: Soon my ship will be complete.
SARAH JANE [OC]: And then what, Androvax? You let the nanoforms destroy Earth?
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Why can't you be quiet? I needed a body to hide in, not a conscience.
SARAH JANE [OC]: Everyone has a conscience, Androvax. Even you. You've just buried it so deep down you can't hear it any more. But I'm here now. And remember, that wasn't my choice.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: I'd be quiet if I were you.
SARAH JANE [OC]: No! You leave them alone!

[Genetec Systems]

TYBO: Halt! Authorised personnel only.
RANI: Oh, come on now. You are having a laugh.
TYBO: Rules must be obeyed.
LUKE: Under Shadow Proclamation's rules, you shouldn't be on Earth.
TYBO: Accident.

(Clyde opens the forbidden door.)

CLYDE: Whoops. Accident.

[Empty laboratory]

(Tybo's comms chirps.)

TYBO: So yo vo cho?
JUDOON [OC]: Wo mo mo.
RANI: The Judoon. They're here.
CLYDE: I'm no maths genius but that means trouble just got squared to about a zillion.
RANI: If Androvax has still got Sarah Jane, the Judoon will take them both.
LUKE: We have to find a way of slowing them down. And I think I know how.

(He opens another door. This one has a wheel lock.)

CLYDE: Captain Tybo!
TYBO: What?
CLYDE: Look at this.

(Tybo walks through the door. Luke closes it behind him.)

CLYDE: You're nicked, mate.
LUKE: It's an electro-dampening chamber. Nothing electronic will work in there. Not Tybo's gun or his radio. Now the Judoon will have to find him as well as Mum.
RANI: But boy, are we in trouble when he gets out of there.

[Genetec Systems]

LUKE: Come on, we've got to find Mum.

[Laboratory]

(They find her.)

ANDROVAX-SARAH: Luke. I've missed you so much. What's wrong? Don't you want to give me a hug?

[Genetec Systems]

JUDOON: Ho ko bro bo
HARESH: They seem to be looking for something or someone.
GITA: Haresh, those are aliens. Aliens with guns. I think we should be calling the police, not playing I-spy.
HARESH: Considering the entire building's locked, Security took your mobile and none of the phones here actually work, I don't see what we can do.
GITA: My mobile. The security guard, he's got my phone. All my contacts. What if they disintegrate him? I'll be proper scuppered. Come on, we'd better go and find it.

[Laboratory]

LUKE: There are more Judoon here now. They'll find you. So take your spaceship and give me my mum back.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: I don't think so. I've come to know Sarah Jane quite well and I don't see her as the type to wave me off.
RANI: How could you do that? Take over someone else's body? It's horrible!
CLYDE: You body-snatching alien scumbag. We won't let you get away with it!
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Ha! You're not only little more than children, you're human children. You've barely dried off since your species crawled out of the sea. I am a Veil. My kind were conquering worlds when yours was little more than a ball of superheated gas.
RANI: And all you've evolved into is a killer, that destroys planets and takes over other people's bodies?
LUKE: My mum will beat you. I don't care what you are, she's strong and is going to kick you out.
RANI: You can fight him, Sarah Jane.
CLYDE: We know you're there. We know you can hear us.
RANI: You can fight this alien. You're stronger than he is.
LUKE: You can beat him!

(Androvax staggers.)

ANDROVAX-SARAH: Luke, I love you.
LUKE: Mum.

(They hug, then Androvax's forked tongue flickers out of Sarah Jane's mouth.)

CLYDE: It's not her!
RANI: Luke!

(Luke is stunned by Androvax.)

ANDROVAX-SARAH: Careful. Not so fast you two. Who would ever have thought a sonic cosmetic could be such a useful accessory?

(Something large is creaking.)

CLYDE: What's that?
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Some of my infinitesimal army. They're hungry, and it's time to feed on your entire planet. And you two? You'll make delicious hors d'oeurves.
CLYDE: Run!

(A stream of nanoforms flows across the floor.)

[Genetec Systems]

RANI: They're right behind us!
CLYDE: No way am I gonna be nano-food. I like my atoms just the way they are.

(They head down the stairs.)

CLYDE: Come on!

(But the Judoon are on the floor below.)

CLYDE: Back!

[Another laboratory]

RANI: I think we lost them.
CLYDE: For now.
RANI: Well, that door should hold them. For about ten seconds.
CLYDE: You see, that's the trouble with munchies on a molecular level. Nothing stops them. Those nanoforms are going to eat us, the building and then the whole world.
RANI: This is a laboratory. There must be something in here we can use.
CLYDE: Yeah. If Luke was here.

[Laboratory]

(Androvax revives Luke.)

ANDROVAX-SARAH: Hello again, Luke. Enjoy your nap?
LUKE: Where's Clyde and Rani? You'd better not have hurt them!
ANDROVAX-SARAH: You're the boy genius, what do you think? Grown from synthesised DNA. The perfect human being. You were part of an alien invasion, but Sarah Jane really does have a habit of meddling. It's a pity she didn't take up knitting instead.
LUKE: She's saved more planets than you've destroyed.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: In time, those worlds would all have died. It is the way of the universe. Now, come on. The nanoforms have completed my ship.

(And it is sitting on the roof.)

[Spaceship]

LUKE: The nanoforms built this? It's amazing.

[Another laboratory]

CLYDE: The doors won't last much longer.
RANI: Think! What would Luke do?
CLYDE: I don't know. I get by on good looks and one-liners. I'm not supposed to understand all this techie stuff.
RANI: Yeah, I know, you're the cool one. Well, cool isn't much help right now.
CLYDE: That's it. Cool. Luke said nanoforms have to be stored at sub-zero temperatures.
RANI: Dormant. He said they were kept dormant. If they get cold they go to sleep.
Rani grabs the CO2 fire extinguisher from the wall behind her. Clyde gets the second one.)

[Empty laboratory]

(The Judoon find Tybo.)

JUDOON: Sho jo wo mo mo!
TYBO: Vo bo no no. No no! Yo blo mo! Ow!

(No unauthorised access. Oops.)

TYBO: Mo ko blo blo sho mo fo fo bo wo ho cho bo ho ho uno vo vo vo vo vo!

(They let Tybo out.)

[Another laboratory]

(The door is starting to melt. Clyde and Rani pull the pins on the extinguishers.)

RANI: Here they come.
CLYDE: Atomise this.

(They fire the extinguishers.)

RANI: It's working! It's working!
CLYDE: You're not so buzzy now, are you?
RANI: The CO2 only switches them off for a while. We have to find someway of stopping them for good, before they take the whole world apart.
CLYDE: Come on.

[Spaceship]

LUKE: You've got your spaceship. The Judoon aren't going to catch you. Let my mum go.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: And give her a chance to save Earth? If you think I care, you're talking to the wrong species.
LUKE: Why don't you care? Why destroy all these worlds?
SARAH JANE: Because his own world was destroyed, Luke.
LUKE: Mum, is that you?
ANDROVAX-SARAH: That's enough!
LUKE: Of course. She knows everything about you, just like you do about her.
SARAH JANE: He's so angry, Luke.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: No more!
LUKE: That's what you meant when you said all worlds die. You saw it happen to your world. What happened?
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Our sun turned cold as I travelled the stars. I returned and found my world a ball of ice, my people frozen at its heart. I was alone, so alone, and I had seen so many worlds that teemed with life, happiness, hope. Fools! I would teach them what the universe would do to them.
LUKE: You destroyed them because you were jealous?
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Because the only truth of the universe is destruction. And now it's so very close again.

(The nanoforms pour over the edge of the roof.)

[Genetec Systems]

CLYDE: What's going on?
TYBO: You are convicted of multiple offences. Justice will be swift.

(Just as Tybo points his gun at Clyde and Rani, the building shakes.)

CLYDE: It's the nanoforms, they're attacking the building. Run!
TYBO: Go jo go!

(Haresh and Gita arrive.)

GITA: Back!

[Stairwell]

RANI: We've got to find Sarah Jane before Tybo finds us.

[Spaceship]

ANDROVAX-SARAH: It's time to leave.
SARAH JANE [OC]: Oh, I don't think so.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: You can't stop me.
CLYDE: Luke!
ANDROVAX-SARAH: How did you get in here?
LUKE: Mister Smith showed me the ship's schematics. I know everything about it. Where the door controls are, and that you can't take it anywhere without this, the ionic fusion bar.
ANDROVAX-SARAH: Give it to me!
LUKE: 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've disabled the nanoforms.
RANI: What do you say? Deal?
ANDROVAX-SARAH: No wonder Sarah Jane is so proud of you. It makes me want to be sick.

(Androvax steps out of Sarah Jane.)

ANDROVAX: Give it to me!
LUKE: The nanoforms!
TYBO: Androvax the Annihilator, prepare for judgment.
ANDROVAX: No!
TYBO: You will face Shadow Proclamation and execution.
LUKE: No! First you have to let him disable the nanoforms.
ANDROVAX: It's too late.

[Security office]

(The whole building is shaking.)

GITA: What's happening?

[Spaceship]

ANDROVAX: I told you, Luke. The truth of the universe is destruction. Nothing can stop it.
LUKE: There may be destruction in the universe. There has been for billions of years. But without it, the universe wouldn't evolve. And that's what the universe is really about. Survival. Just watch.

(Luke goes to the spaceship controls.)

CLYDE: I know this sounds like a stupid question, or at least I hope it is, but do you know what you're doing?
LUKE: The nanoforms built this computer, and I can use it to get into the Genetec systems and delete their programming.
CLYDE: Before the whole place collapses? Because that would be cool. Really cool. In fact, you'll be the coolest person I know.
SARAH JANE: Luke! Oh Luke, there isn't much time.
LUKE: Don't worry, Mum, I can do this.

[Security office]

GITA: Haresh!
HARESH: Hold on to me.

[Spaceship]

ANDROVAX: You cannot save yourselves, humans.
LUKE: And send.

(The deactivated nanoforms fall to the ground. The building stops shaking)

[Security office]

HARESH: Right, that's it, we're getting out of here. Come on.

[Spaceship]

SARAH JANE: You did it!
LUKE: Oh, I missed you.
SARAH JANE: Oh, I knew I could depend on you.
LUKE: The nanoforms have all been de-activated. They're harmless now.
SARAH JANE: It's a shame that you can't repair everything that you have done, Androvax. But at least we saved this world from you.
ANDROVAX: You will be destroyed in the end. If not by me, then someone will destroy you, Sarah Jane Smith.
TYBO: Silence!
CLYDE: Listen, Captain, about earlier.
TYBO: Under circumstances, sentence commuted. Revocation of interstellar travelling rights.

(Rani takes the proffered document.)

RANI: What?
TYBO: Sentence, confined to Earth.
CLYDE: Oh, what, we're grounded? On Earth.

(Tybo puts the ionic fusion bar back in its place.)

TYBO: Flight power restored. I take Androvax to teleport. Spacecraft confiscated by Judoon. Humans, go.
RANI: And that's not the only reason we have to get out of here, Sarah Jane.

[Genetec Systems]

(The Judoon march Androvax past Haresh and Gita.)

TYBO: Nothing to see. Move along.
GITA: You know, Rani's never going to believe a word of this.

(Outside the building, Sarah Jane drives away as Mister Yorke staggers outside. He watches the spaceship takes off from the roof and flies away.)

[Outside Sarah Jane's home]

SARAH JANE: I almost feel sorry for Androvax. All alone and so angry at the universe.
LUKE: The universe is about destruction, he said. Ultimately, everything's about death.
SARAH JANE: But that's only part of the truth. Parts of the universe are dying all the time. Planets, stars, people. But the amazing part is that it isn't the end. It's only the beginning of something new and exciting being born.

(The Bloomin' Lovely van screeched to a halt across the road.)

GITA: Rani! Rani!
RANI: Mum, what is it?
GITA: Aliens. We've seen aliens.
CLYDE: Aliens? Sir, you've seen aliens?
HARESH: Yes. Yes, I have.
SARAH JANE: Aliens, Gita? Are you sure?
GITA: Ten feet tall. Covered in metal. With these huge helmets, like rhinoceroses.
SARAH JANE: Rhinoceroses, from space?
RANI: Sounds like you need a cup of tea.
GITA: Cup of tea, yes, and I'll tell you all about it. Come on, Sarah, and don't forget your notebook. I'm telling you, this is a story you will not want to miss. This could be the making of you.
SARAH JANE: I'll just go and get my pen.

(Gita leaves.)

CLYDE: Rhinoceros men? Come on, sir.
HARESH: Gita said no one would believe us. And why would they? We live in Bannerman Road. What's going to happen to us?
SARAH JANE: Oh, that's the wonderful thing about the universe. You just never know.

Transcript originally provided by Chrissie. Adapted by TARDIS.guide. The transcripts are for educational and entertainment purposes only. All other copyrights property of their respective holders.

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