Enemy of the Bane (TV story)

Enemy of the Bane is the sixth and final serial in Series Two of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Synopsis
Gita Chandra is kidnapped by Mrs Wormwood, in a ruse that turns out to be a snare for Sarah Jane. Mrs Wormwood has joined forces with another of Sarah Jane's enemies; as they prepare to settle old scores with her, she turns to an old friend for help.

Part 1
Gita Chandra is working late on a special floral commission, but when the client arrives for it, it is Mrs Wormwood. She paralyses Gita, certain that the disappearance of Rani's mum will lure Sarah Jane Smith onto the case.

Soon after Rani left banging on Sarah Jane's door in anger with the dissapernce of her mum. Sarah Jane and luke go over to rani and talk to her and harash about what happened and said that there was flowers on the floor showinf there was need for struggle. rani belevies that it could be aliens at work but Sarah Jane feels that its not always aliens that people go missing all the time and come home safe.

Sarah Jane, Luke and now clyde who met up with go to rani's mum shop Blooming lovely and starts to investigate while Sarah Jane uses her Scanner watch to find alien which there is but she can't detect which specie, as luke and clyde look around luke finds a check which was signed by Mrs Wormwood. Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde go to see Mr Smith to get the check scanned and he finds that there is a code which was hidden and it gives details to were Mrs Wormwood is. Soon they were interumpted by rani who wants to go and get her mum back so sarah jane accepts. With just Sarah Jane and Rani going as they drive up Sarah Jane explains that it was the Bane that created Bubble Shock leaving rani saying it was vile and sarah jane saying you were the 2%.

As they both entered they both find gita standing stile and not moveing which Mrs Wormwood did by putting her in trans. Mrs Wormwood simple says to [[Sarah Jane that she needs her help soon after they were interupted by The former Bane operative explains that she took the blame for her species' failed attempt at invading the Earth (SJA:Invasion of the Bane), and has been exiled from her people and world.

When the Bane attack Mrs Wormwood uses her Sonic disruptor to stop the bane which gives out sound which penatrate there ears and stops them as they run out one of the bane grab Sarah Jane leg and pulls her back leaving Mrs Wormwood to help her and pics up long peice of metal and hits the bane's tentacal and uses her sonic disruptor again and gives her hand out to Sarah Jane as she does put her to her she stops and repliys iam not past my sell by date yet. When they go to the attic gita was still in a trance so mrs wormwood slapped her face and got out of it. When luke opened the door he was shocked to find Mrs Wormwood at the door sarah jane says that she needs her help from what she said.

They all go to the attic and as soon as they enter Mr Smith did a bio-analysis on her show that she is bane and saying to sarah jane is it wise haveing her in the attic and sarah jane replices that keep a eye on her and if theres trouble put a containmont feild around her. Mrs Wormwood says that the bane blames her for the failer of there invasion and for the death of the bane mother and that the bane are going to eat her alive for this. Soon after she goes on why she really is here and talks about horath the dark empire leaving sarah jane knowing nothing about him and ask Mr Smith about him and says the dark empire was a period of trical galactic rule by a mysteuos and roprtally imortal alien named horath who crucshed civilasion of all but the most primative planets after that Mrs Wormwood is imprest by sarah janes hole in the wall and that Horath could be defeated but never killed so his body and his consision was divided and they hidden in opsite sides of the galaxy and that the bane have found the conssion and a agent is bring it to earth. The reason why Mrs Wormwood needed help is to find the body then Mr Smith saying that there is a relic the tunguska scroll which tells the story of horath and his final resting place and that its at the Black Archive which is the UNIT vaults stuff that shoulded exsits but does. Mr Smith puts Mrs Wormwood in containment feild and Sarah Jand, luke, rani and clyde go downstairs the four decuss that luke should go with them to UNIT cause they could ask questions about him so clyde stays with him and Sarah Jane and rani go to a old friend.

Major Kilburne goes to the Brigadier to de-brief him on his mission in peri. the brig at the age he is at and the fact he is retired he says the he doesn't do missions and doesn't do de-briefings. The Mayor had to do this the fact he is still conenected to UNIT. The brig gets raged about UNIT that they have changed so much and that it was deffernt in his days. Talking about daleks, cyberman, zygons and autons that it doesn't get more hostily than them. soon after sarah jane arrives and sayd to the brig that she needs to brake into the Black Archive. The brig, Sarah Jane and rani go to the Black Archive and get in, the brig gives sarah jane a card to get in, they both look around and find the door to the tunguska scroll and a camera watching them and run ro get them and they start to run.

Back at banneraman road the bane attack so luke sets Mrs Wormwood free cause they were gona eat her, they go to the garden with them attacing the front and when they are at the garen another one attacks luke and clyde go back and mrs wormwood trys to attack them with her sonice devices which has lost power then as luke and clyde go to the front they are surrounded by Bane. As sarah jane and rani about to leave they are stopedd by kilbourne and the unit soilders and told to surrender but sarah jane uses her sonic liptick on ear peice producing sound in ther ears making them fall to the ground and they escaped. Just as a bane was about to eat Mrs Wormwood Kaagh shots and kills the bane finding out that there both working together.

Part 2
Mrs Wormwood saves Luke and Clyde, and then Sarah Jane arrived. So that UNIT cannot find them, Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde, Rani, the Brigadier and Mrs Wormwood all hide in Gita's Flower shop. Mrs Wormwood asks Sarah Jane for the Scroll but she refuses. Commander Kaagh arrives and forces Sarah Jane to give it by threatening Luke, Clyde and Rani. With the scroll in hand, Mrs Wormwood forces Luke to go with her and Commander Kaagh. Mrs Wormwood, Kaagh and Luke arrive at a factory where Kaagh has hidden his space pod. He places the Consciousness of Horath in a scroll. Mrs Wormwood says that Luke could be a ruler of a galaxy as her son. Meanwhile the others go to Sarah Jane's House to speak to Mr Smith, to try to find the whereabouts of Luke, Mrs Wormwood and Kaagh. Major Kilburn attempts to stop them, revealing himself as a Bane agent. Once they find out, they borrow Gita's van and go after them. Mrs Wormwood, Luke and Kaagh arrive at a stone circle where they force Luke to insert the scroll. Sarah Jane arrives. Mrs Wormwood betrays Kaagh and he stops her by jumping into the portal and dragging her in with him.

Cast

 * Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen
 * Luke Smith - Tommy Knight
 * Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony
 * Rani Chandra - Anjli Mohindra
 * Mrs Wormwood - Samantha Bond
 * Kaagh - Anthony O'Donnell
 * Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
 * Gita Chandra - Mina Anwar
 * Haresh Chandra - Ace Bhatti
 * Major Cal Kilburne - Simon Chadwick

Production crew
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Story notes

 * Mrs Wormwood returns along with the Bane. They last appeared in Invasion of the Bane.
 * Commander Kaagh from The Last Sontaran returns.
 * "Brigadier" Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart returns for the first time in 19 years, having last appeared on television in the 1989 Doctor Who adventure Battlefield. His appearance in this story marks 40 years in the role, having first appeared as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart back in the 1968 serial, The Web of Fear, and makes him the longest serving single character in Doctor Who thus far second only to the Doctor himself.
 * The last on-screen appearance of the Brigadier other than the appearance of a photograph in Invasion of the Bane and a few name-drops (Revenge of the Slitheen, DW: The Poison Sky) was in the independent spin-off production, Downtime in 1995.
 * The Brigadier shoots a Bane operative dead with a gun hidden in his cane. Before this episode aired it was said that he would kill Kaagh with it.

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Myths
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Filming Locations
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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

 * Mrs Wormwood's phonic disruptor can make Bane explode, then why at the factory only stun them. It may not have had the power at the time and the exploding happened directly after an energy recharge.
 * In Part 2 when the two members of the Bane Kindred explode Clyde and Luke are covered in left over Bane Slime. As the episode goes on it is no longer seen. (They could have been washed - and do in fact have wet shirts afterward.)
 * In The Last Sontaran, Sarah Jane took Kaagh's gun off him and left it in her attic, so in this story how come he had it back? (He could have created another one.)
 * When Kaagh stops Mrs Wormwood he falls in the portal too-why didn't he just push her into the portal? (he was ashamed of been defeated in the last sontaran so he committed suicide)
 * Just before the opening titles in episode 1, Wormwood lets a brief laugh. Clearly, she was going to do an "evil Laugh" into the credits and they decided to cut it out, but didn't cut away in time.
 * In her Bane form Mrs Wormwood's skin seems to have changed colour.

Continuity
Sir Alistair is a Special Envoy for UNIT, and often serves on diplomatic missions, such as his recent trip to Peru (DW: The Poison Sky). He doesn't trust UNIT as it stands today ("Homeworld security", poor human rights seen in TW: Fragments etc.), but still maintains a Level One (highest) security clearance.

When arguing against UNIT dealing with a more dangerous Earth these days, Sir Alistair refers to several enemies UNIT battled against in his day, concluding "it doesn't get more hostile than that". The events he alludes to are;
 * DW: The Invasion
 * DW: Spearhead from Space
 * DW: Terror of the Autons
 * DW: Day of the Daleks
 * DW: Terror of the Zygons

Of all the above mentioned enemies, only the Zygons have yet to appear in the new series of Doctor Who, although they were featured in NSA: Sting of the Zygons.

Major Kilburn mentions that the Sir Alistair's wife let him in. Her name is not specifically mentioned, however, so it is uncertain whether it is Doris, or that he may have re-married.

The concept of Horath's body and consciousness being separated is similar to what was done to Nephthys in MA: The Sands of Time.

On screen, the Brigadier last met Sarah Jane in the independent video production, Downtime. Like most spin-off productions, it canonicity is uncertain. If it's discounted, then he last met her on screen in The Five Doctors.

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