The Last Sontaran (TV story)

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

The Last Sontaran
Featuring:	Sarah Jane Smith Luke Smith Clyde Langer Maria Jackson
Main enemy:	Sontaran
Key crew
Writer:	Phil Ford
Director:	Joss Agnew
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	29th September 2008
Format:	2 - 30 minute episodes

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.

Plot

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 investigates 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. Sarah Jane picks up Maria from her home, and they head to the area . 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 Sarah Jane and Maria, and tells them to get there. When They arrive, Sarah Jane finds out that it is a Sontaran Ship. While they are there, they encounter Kaagh. Maria tricks him, and they manage to escape, with Kaagh chasing them. Luke and Maria crawl into a bent and see that Sarah Jane and Clyde are in the lab with Nicholas, only he is being controlled by the Sontaran and he is going to make all of Earth's satellites crash and make it burn. He then reveals that he survived the attack by the Doctor, and wants to kill him. He says he will take Clyde to help him, and when Sarah refuses, he aims a gun at SJ and shoots her.

Part Two

Sarah Jane is knocked out on the floor and Kaagh tells Clyde that she will be taken to Sontar and Kaagh will be given a new Sontaran name such as "Kaagh the Avenger". Luke and Maria are watching through a vent and call for Clyde to crawl in there. Sarah Jane is put in a store room with Lucy and finds out that she has lost her Sonic Lipstick. Instead she and Lucy start to build a device that will attract Kaagh attention. Meanwhile Kaagh starts to chase Luke, Maria and Clyde through tunnels and they escape through into the forest and block Kaagh from getting out. They run to Kaagh's shuttle and Luke begins to make a knock out gas that will knock him out. Sarah Jane activates her new invention and Kaagh walks in. Sarah Jane and Lucy sneak out and try to figure out a way to disarm the satellites so they wont crash into the Earth. Maria tells Luke that she is moving away and then calls her dad to access Mr Smith. He does so but Chrissie pursues him and follows him. She wonders what is going and, He then tells her about Sarah Jane and that she fights aliens and Maria is helping her. Chrissie realizes he is telling the truth as his lip twitches when he is lying. Luke try's to disarm the super computer and does so. Only Kaagh reactivates it, by revealing that he put a chip on Lucy. Lucy starts to activate the computer but Luke stops it again. Chrissie creeps up behind Kaagh and sticks the heal of her shoe into his Probic Vent, stunning him. kaagh is escorted to his ship and is embarrassed that he was defeated by Halflings and a woman. He is then flys into space, Sarah Jane thinks that he might come back.

Six weeks later Maria and Alan move away leaving there house empty and Chrissie whispers to Sarah Jane that she knew about the Sontaran.

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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References

• Sarah Jane refers to her two encounters with Sontarans in Doctor Who, one a long time ago (DW:The Time Warrior) and one in the future (DW:The Sontaran Experiment)
• The Sontaran is a survivor of DW:The Sontaran Stratagem/ The Poison Sky. He was on his way to Earth when the spaceship was destroyed by The Doctor, and his ship crashed on Earth.
• The events of stories in Series 1 are referred to. Maria mentions the Bane, the Slitheen, Kudlak, the Graske and The Trickster, while Alan refers to the moon coming towards Earth (SJA:The Lost Boy).
• Sarah Jane says she will phone UNIT to deal with the Sontaran.
• Sarah Jane mentions the war between the Sontarans and the Rutan Host.
• Upon entering the empty observatory Sarah Jane likens it to the Marie Celeste, the ship made famous for being found deserted. The reason in this universe, is due to Daleks (DW:The Chase).
• As Chrissie breaks into Sarah Jane's house she notes "Some people never learn." This is in reference to how she broke into Sarah Jane's house through the same window in "Eye of the Gorgon."
• Sarah Jane's initial reaction to Maria's departure is uncanny to the Fourth Doctor's when Sarah herself threatened to leave in The Hand of Fear. As in the said episode however, Sarah became far more sensitive later on.

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.

Ratings

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Myths

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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. It is possible that the phone transmission Mr Smith carried out in the episode damaged him which required him to reboot again.
• 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. But a BBC News report in Journey's End broadcasted worldwide, the fact that Earth had returned to its original position after being moved. (Yet this didn't mention aliens)

Continuity

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DVD and Other releases

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See also

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