The Last Sontaran (TV story)

The Last Sontaran is the first story of The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 2.

Synopsis
Reports of strange lights around the Tycho Radio Telescope lead Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Maria into a terrifying forest encounter, where Sarah Jane comes face-to-face with her oldest enemy.

Meanwhile Maria wrestles with a huge decision when her dad is offered a new job in America.

Part One
Lucy Skinner and her Dad Nicholas Skinner are in his lab he has spotted lights floating in the sky. Unaware that they are drones working for a Sontaran. Skinner investiagtes but goes missing so Lucy investigates and is captured by the Sontaran known as Commander Kaagh. The next day Maria walks down the stairs and her dad tells her that he has been offered a job in America. Meanwhile Luke and Clyde are playing a game on Mr Smith when Sarah Jane walks in and tells them that she needs to use Mr Smith as lights have been spotted around the area where Lucy and her dad went missing. They all go there and SJ picks up Maria from her home. When they arrive they find Lucy and she tells them that her dad is missing. Back on Bannerman Road Alan tells Chrissie that he has got a knew job and that he is moving, she accepts. Luke and Clyde go into the woods and encounter a force field they then discover that it is a Ship. He phones SJ and Maria and tells them to get there. When Sj and Maria get there SJ finds out that it is a Sontaran Ship but they encounter Kaagh and he chases them. Luke and Maria crawl into a bent and see that SJ and Clyde are in the lab with Nicholas only he is being controled by the sontaran and he is going to make all of Earth's satalites crash and make it burn. He then reveals that he survived the attack by the Doctor. And wants to kill him. Only he aims a gun at SJ and shoots her.

Part Two
Failing to overpower Kaagh as he implements his plan, Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Maria are saved by the arrival of Alan and Chrissie, the latter discovering the truth about Sarah Jane's alien investigations. Chrissie knocks Kaagh unconscious by jamming the high-heel of her shoe into the probic vent on the back of his neck, but an electrical charge also knocks her out and Alan and Maria think they can pass the day's events off to her as a dream. Luke is able to deactivate the computer Kaagh has rigged to ground the satelittes and with his ship's weapons deactivated, Kaagh is sent back to his home planet, Sontar.

Six weeks later, Alan and Maria leave for America. Chrissie reveals to Sarah Jane that she remembers everything about the Sontaran incident.

Cast

 * Sarah Jane Smith - Elizabeth Sladen
 * Maria Jackson - Yasmin Paige
 * Luke Smith - Tommy Knight
 * Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony
 * Commander Kaagh - Anthony O'Donnell
 * Mr Smith - Alexander Armstrong
 * Alan Jackson - Joseph Millson
 * Chrissie Jackson - Juliet Cowan
 * Professor Nicholas Skinner - Ronan Vibert
 * Lucy Skinner - Clare Thomas

Production crew
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Story notes

 * Episode 1 was shown on BBC 1, followed by the second episode on the CBBC channel later on the same day. Episode two will be shown on 6th October on BBC1.
 * This is Maria Jackson's last story. Actress Yasmin Paige is in her GCSE year, so chose to concentrate on her studies.

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Filming Locations
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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

 * There is no indication of where this story fits in with The Stolen Earth / Journey's End - no references to the Daleks or Davros are made, and Mr Smith's reset is treated as having happened recently. Maria was briefly mentioned in The Stolen Earth by Luke as being on holiday in Cornwall.
 * To add further confusion to where this story lies in relation to DW:The Stolen Earth / Journeys End, Chrissie Jackson is incredulous about the existence of aliens. Which she wouldn't be after experiencing the Daleks pulling Earth across the universe.As in Doomsday the Government probably made a cover story for this event.

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