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
Luke Smith is kidnapped by Mrs Wormwood. Sarah Jane prepares for a showdown at a stone circle.

Plot
Part 1

When Mrs. Wormwood comes to Gita's flower shop, Sarah Jane is led into a case. Mrs. Wormwood says she will help as she was blamed for the destruction of the Bane Mother. She is contained, and after a conversation with Luke, she is set free. The Bane try to destroy Sarah's house, and later she teams up with Commander Kaagh from the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet. She hadn't been working for the Bane, but she had been working with Kaagh.

Cast

 * Sarah Jane Smith - Elizabeth 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 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.

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Myths
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Filming Locations
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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

 * 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.

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 TDA: 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.

DVD and Other releases
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