Enemy of the Bane (TV story)

Enemy of the Bane was 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 them, giving out sound which penetrates their ears and stops them in their tracks. But as they run out one of the bane grab Sarah Jane leg and yanks her off her feet, dragging her backwards down the corridor. Miss Wormwood pics up long peice of metal and hits the bane's tentacal and uses her sonic disruptor again. She stops the alien, and gives her hand out to Sarah Jane who is sprawled out on her back on the floor, but Sarah simply replies "I am 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 Peru. The Brig says that being retired, he doesn't do missions and doesn't do de-briefings. The Major had to do this the fact he is still connected to UNIT. The brig expresses irritation about UNIT having changed so much, saying that it was different in his day. 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
With Luke and Clyde surrounded by Bane Clyde picks up a hose and soaks the Bane trying to force them back. Mrs Wormwood arrives and uses her sonic disrupter and blows up the Bane leaving creamy goo on Luke and Clyde. Sarah Jane arrives with Rani and The Brigadier. 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 grabs Sarah Jane Sonic Lipstick and destroys it then he forces Sarah Jane to give up Scroll by threatening Luke, Clyde and Rani. After the threat Sarah Jane gives the scroll to Mrs Wormwood, With the scroll in the hands of Mrs Wormwood she 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 then Luke grabs the scroll and runs. Kaagh starts chasing him. Mrs Wormwood finds out that she will need to stop Kaagh because she doesn't want Luke dead. Just as Kaagh is about to shoot Luke Mrs Wormwood in her Bane mode jumps in front of Kaagh and transforms back to human. She uses her sonic distrupter again. Showing that there is a rift between them that there not working together its just Kaagh is being controlled.

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 as soon as he does. The Brigadier uses his cane which has a secret gun in it and stunned the Major. Once they find out, they borrow Gita's van and go after them. Mrs Wormwood, Luke and Kaagh arrive at a stone circle and they find out it has a force field around it and that only humans can enter. Mrs Wormwood forces Luke to insert the scroll as he does the stone circle opens and they find out that its a portal which leads to Horath. When Kaagh finds out that he is not in the bargain Mrs Wormwood uses her sonic device again and he drops to the floor. Soon after Sarah Jane arrives and Mrs Wormwood tries to convince Luke to go with her saying that she is his mother but for him his real mum is Sarah Jane. Kaagh decides to kill Mrs Wormwood with his gun but Clyde won't give it to him. Kaagh pushes Mrs Wormwood with him into the portal. Sarah Jane reveals that she has another sonic lipstick and destroys the scroll.

Soon after she says goodbye to The Brigadier and warns the aliens out there who live here.

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.
 * As with Series One, the villains in the final story also featured in the opening story. In Series One the Slitheen were in the first story, Revenge of the Slitheen, and returned in the last story of the series, The Lost Boy. This time the Sontaran Commander Kaagh is in The Last Sontaran and this story. Another coincidence was that both the Slitheen and Sontarans have previously featured in the new series of Doctor Who.

Ratings
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Myths

 * The appearance of an elderly Brigadier contradicts the continuity of the Virgin New Adventures novels, which establishes that his youth is restored in the early 21st century. The event in question, depicted in NA: Happy Endings, takes place in 2010. As this episode takes place in 2009, this still leaves the door open for such an event, to occur to the Brig in his future.

Filming Locations
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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

 * Mrs Wormwood's sonic 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? Mrs Wormwood could have easily accquired it after she escaped from the attic.
 * When Kaagh stops Mrs Wormwood he falls in the portal too-why didn't he just push her into the portal? Kaagh wanted to redeem himself; in his eyes, the only way to do this was to sacrifice himself when he defeated Wormwood.
 * 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. Possible stress related skin change?
 * In Episode 1, The Brigadier notes that people with Level 1 clearance are allowed near the Black Archive yet Major Kilburn who earlier stated having Level 2 clearance is seen at the Black Archive. He could have simply lied to the Brigidier.

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 RP: Downtime.


 * The events of SJA: Invasion of the Bane, The Last Sontaran, and DW: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky are mentioned.

Novelisation
As of September 2009, no novelisation of this story has been announced for publication, although other episodes have been adapted.

DVD and Other releases
This story, along with the rest of Series 2, is scheduled for release on DVD on 9th November 2009 (UK) and 10th November 2009 (North America).