Sarah Jane Smith quotes from The Sarah Jane Adventures

Maria

Don’t you wish you’d found someone special to share it all with?

Sarah Jane

Oh, I think I have. For the second time.

Maria

What are we looking for?

Sarah Jane

You’ll know it when you find it. Just see what bubbles to the top.

Maria

Does that mean you don’t know?

Sarah Jane

Not as such.

Sarah Jane

Sarah Jane Smith, journalist.

[points to Maria] Who’s she?

Sarah Jane

My work experience girl.

Maria

It was either this or putting up scaffolding.

[having broken into Sarah Jane’s house] I know, I probably should have called you first, but…

Sarah Jane

Not at all, Mr Grantham. I’m always delighted to study new forms of human lowlife in the comfort of my own home.

You are a cool old bird, I'll give you that much.

Maria

You won’t be so cocky when you go down for abducting all those children.

[laughing] So-so you’re gonna tell the police that I helped some butt-ugly alien send kids to war in a galaxy far, far away? It won’t be me goin’ down, love! It’ll be you, down to the funny farm!

Sarah Jane

Who needs to mention aliens? There’s enough evidence to link you to the disappearances. I doubt that men like you fare too well in prison.

Mistress

I am not programmed for peace. This scenario does not compute. It cannot be real.

Sarah Jane

[to Kudlak] You never expected the war to end. Your computers were never programmed to recognise it when it happened.

Mistress

Peace is an anomaly. Without war, I cannot exist.

Kudlak

[angrily] The point of our war was to achieve peace for our home!

Mistress

We have no home, Kudlak, except on the battlefield. Peace is a stranger's land. We have no place there.

Kudlak

You may not, but I do! [snarls and draws out his firearm] All these years of peace, wasted! I thought the Malakh were my enemy, but all this time, it was you. And I will not suffer my enemies to live! [shoots the screen, destroying the Mistress]

Maria

So, Clyde fights Slitheens and Gorgons, and that's ok with you, but a bit of skateboarding, and, woah...

Sarah Jane

I know! Oh, shame on me. Well, I've changed since I met you lot, I've gone all mumsy!

Sarah Jane

I take it this is your domain? Who are you?

Nobody. I am nothing.

Sarah Jane

Any chance you could be a bit less cryptic?

It's hard for me to make you understand. Ephemeral minds are so limited. [pulls back its hood, revealing that it only has a mouth in its head] Behold. As you can see, I have no self. I exist only to bring disorder. That is my purpose.

Sarah Jane

But why?

Chaos is my blood and air and food. You are the key to that chaos. I have been waiting, searching through time, for just the right person at just the right moment. I took you to aid the coming of darkness.

Sarah Jane

Where's Luke? Where is my son?

The Bane never came to Earth in the timeline that I have created. Luke Smith never existed.

Sarah Jane

People who don't exist, they end up here, don't they? In this nowhere land? So where is he? I demand to see my son!

He is lost, in the forgotten places. Even further out than you.

Sarah Jane

But if I died all those years ago - never mind the Bane, what about the Slitheen, and the Gorgons, and the Patriarchs of the Tin Vagabond? I stopped them all from taking over the Earth. What happened to them?

I turned them all away. All I need is the meteor.

Sarah Jane

Why? What's so special about that?

Those other species, they invade for profit, power, revenge. The meteor is pure chaos. The destruction of the Earth for no reason at all. Just blind chance. This is food for me.

Sarah Jane

You'll destroy all life on Earth, and you don't even care...?!

I care about you. You are so wonderful, Sarah Jane Smith. Your life was so important and I found the right moment to snuff it out, with the help of Andrea Yates.

Sarah Jane

Andrea was my friend.

She wished to save her own life. I could only remove you with her consent.

Sarah Jane

She agreed to it?!

I must go now. Events are moving towards their end. [turns to leave]

Sarah Jane

No, don't go!

I will return when the Earth is no more, and I will explore your potential further. In particular, your memories of this "Doctor".

Sarah Jane

You leave him alone!

I can use you to find him. Imagine if the Doctor had never existed. What chaos there would be across the stars... [fades away]

Sarah Jane

Don't you dare! Don't you dare! DON'T YOU DARE!

[Looks into the mirror and sees Sarah Jane] No. Not you...

Sarah Jane

Andrea Yates. It's you. All grown up.

Well, Look at you. Scrubbed up well. Always did look younger than you were. But you can't be here - not while I'm here. You can't come back! [Maria and Alan come running into the attic.]

Maria

Sarah Jane!

Alan

But that's her, she's only in the mirror, this thing didn't work!

Sarah Jane

I can't get back while Andrea's still here. And I must get back, to save Luke. To save the world!

Maria

But what do we do?

Sarah Jane

There is a way. It's why the creature got rid of Maria. She confronted you. She might have persuaded you to go back on your deal. This whole thing depends upon your agreement to my death all those years ago.

Maria

If you break off the deal, Sarah Jane comes back. All you have to do is pull out of it! Say no!

I can't.

Alan

If you don't, that meteor is going to hit. Is that what you want?

Maria

I'm sorry, Andrea, but you were meant to die.

"Meant"?! Who says I'm meant to die?! I was so young, I had so much to do, and I did it! Look at me! I lived every single moment because I knew what it was worth!

Sarah Jane

So did I.

And you're the chosen one?! The golden girl?!

Sarah Jane

Oh, nobody was chosen. It was stupid and pointless, what happened that day. But this is worse. That thing twisted it. He used you.

So I die? At thirteen?

Sarah Jane

And my son gets a chance to live. He's lost out there, Andrea. Somewhere terrible. And I am begging you, please: save him.

If I do, what happens to my life? All the things I did as I grew up. They get scrubbed out? I get forgotten?

Sarah Jane

You were never forgotten, never! What I saw that day, it changed me forever. I saw how precious life is, and it made me fight to defend it across all these years, because of you, Andrea! It was all because of you! My best friend.

Sarah Jane

You're back!

Luke

Was I away?

Sarah Jane

And you are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, going away again!

Sarah Jane

What have you done with my son?

The misbehaving little brat? Back on Raxacoricofallapatorius, we'd spank his backside with a Bartleboigle tree!

Sarah Jane

Yes, well, we're not there, so where is he?!

Alan

This is too much to take in.

Sarah Jane

That's the universe, Alan. Once it's chosen to show you some of its secrets, you can't ever turn your back on it. None of us can.

Maria

What happened to never turning your back on the universe?

Sarah Jane

Sometimes you have to. Sometimes it's the only way to survive.

Intruder! Perimeter defences have been armed! Any attempt to escape may result in death! You have been warned!

Sarah Jane

Noted.

Sarah Jane

We'll be dead long before it hits us. The gravitational effect will tear the whole planet apart. It's already happening.

Well, at least I'll be able to tell my family that you're dead, Sarah Jane Smith. [Activates his teleport control] I'm teleporting back to the ship.

Alan

[Grabs the teleport control from Nathan] No, you're not. You're as much to blame for all this as Mister Smith. You're staying here.

Sarah Jane

And even if you did go, your ship would be torn apart by gravitational disturbance. You would die. On the other hand, if you help me, we might all just have one chance to survive.