Meet Mr Smith (unproduced TV story)

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Meet Mr Smith was to have been the fourth story of Series 5 of The Sarah Jane Adventures. However, due to the death of Elisabeth Sladen in April 2011, only half of the series was filmed, resulting in The Man Who Never Was being the final story of the series.

It was planned to be written by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman, who together wrote Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (the sixth and final story of Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures).

Synopsis
While the gang are together in the attic, an alien called Ozmo secretly releases a mutagen bomb in Sarah Jane's attic which latches on to Mr Smith's keyboard and suddenly turns Mr Smith into a human who wears a bowler hat and a pin-stripped city gent suit, looking reminiscent to John Steed. Mr Smith embraces his newfound humanity by referring to himself as "Smithy" and is very eager to explore in his new form. This leads to him experiencing human life and eventually developing a romance with Carla Langer. However, he is forced to secretly do work for Ozmo which involves stealing valuables and tech pieces as Ozmo blackmails him with stabilising shots that maintain his human form while the gang realises how much of a struggle it is to protect the Earth without relying on Mr Smith as a supercomputer.

Ozmo's true intentions would later be revealed in the second part where the gang discover that he was building a teleporter relay with the intent to attract aliens who were interested in buying the Earth. The story would eventually end with Mr Smith reverting back to his Xylok form after sacrificing his last stabiliser shot to stop Ozmo which comes at the cost of breaking Carla's heart. Just before Ozmo is compromised and teleported away to an intergalactic prison, he attempts to warn Sarah Jane about Sky being the "child of chaos" which would be another additional hint to Sky being the daughter of the Trickster as it would have previously been hinted in a deleted scene with Sky and Plark in The Man Who Never Was (The Sarah Jane Companion Volume Three).

Characters

 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Clyde Langer
 * Rani Chandra
 * Sky Smith
 * Mr. Smith
 * Carla Langer
 * Gita Chandra
 * Ozmo