Luke Smith quotes from The Sarah Jane Adventures

Sarah Jane

Do you still miss not having a birthday?

Luke

No thanks. Why should I want to be like everyone else? Today, me being different was a good thing!

Sarah Jane

Today you being different saved the world!

Luke

Why don't we celebrate this day then?

Sarah Jane

That's a great idea!

Luke

Every year this could be my special day!

Sarah Jane

Deal.

Luke

Can I have presents?

Sarah Jane

Oh whatever you want! Plus cards, cakes, lots and lots of attention, a party - oh, how about a party!

Clyde

It's not a sleepover.

Luke

I don't understand.

Clyde

We're not girls! It's not a sleepover, you're just staying the weekend!

Luke

And I'll be sleeping over at yours! Therefore it's a sleepover!

Clyde

I never know if you're being serious or not.

You're Dad's not around either, is he?

Luke

No... it's complicated.

It usually is. Just... promise me something? If he ever turns up, y'know, out of the blue, whatever... just don't... don't forget your Mum.

Luke

I won't.

Clyde

Hey hey, Maria! This friend of Sarah Jane has given her this holographic postcard whatsit thing so...

Luke

[pops into video] Hi Maria! We miss you!

Clyde

Soft boy. We don't miss you! We've moved on! You're gone and forgotten! "Maria who?", I say!

Sarah Jane

We lived in a village called Foxgrove – that's where I was born. One afternoon, in August 1951, they got in their car, drove off, and they never came back.

Luke

There was an accident?

Sarah Jane

A tractor had broken down in the lane. They went straight into it.

Luke

You got out ok.

Sarah Jane

I wasn't with them. They left me behind – in my pram, at the side of the road, alone.

Luke

They must have had a reason.

Sarah Jane

To leave a three-month-old baby on its own?

Luke

So, your Aunt Lavinia brought you up.

Sarah Jane

Dad's sister, the family genius. She did the best she could, but she was always so busy, never in one place long enough to lick a stamp. She always said my mum and dad were the best parents in the world. But I couldn't help thinking – was she covering up for them? Because that day they just upped and left their baby alone. Left me behind.

Luke

Where'd you get the clothes?

Sarah Jane

Back of my wardrobe. Simple, classic, they'll do the job.

Luke

You used to wear that?! Seriously?!

Sarah Jane

Listen kid, the fifties came back in the seventies, I remember when this was quite the thing!

Sarah Jane

Luke, I have saved the lives of so many people, people I didn't even know, I don't know – miners on Peladon, all the people drinking BubbleShock, without a second thought, but this is my mum and dad!

Luke

You know you're not meant to!

Sarah Jane

Why? Why can't I? Why shouldn't I save them too?

Luke

What about the way you were brought up? If you changed it, then what if you never meet the Doctor? What if you never meet me?

Sarah Jane

I only want to look through the fissure, see what my life becomes if they survive. If there's anything wrong, we come back and set it right again!

Luke

Unless this is the trap.

Sarah Jane

Why do we have to think this is something terrible? What if this is a good thing? All these years I've been putting other people first – there has to be something at the end of it, doesn't there? Something for me? What if this is it? My reward!

Sarah Jane

It's all my fault!

Luke

All we have to do to change things back is repair the car.

Sarah Jane

And then what? I order my mother and father inside, I send them off to their deaths?

Luke

It's the only way.

Sarah Jane

I can't do it! If it was me, Luke, could you? I won't kill them! There must be another way, there's always another way!

If we get in the car and drive away now, then that's the end of that thing under the arch. I know I'm right.

Sarah Jane

No, you musn't! Don't go!

We've got to. But not Sarah Jane, not our baby. Take her. Look after her.

Luke

This is why they left that day. They didn't abandon you Mum, they saved you!

One thing though, it's important. Sarah Jane, our baby. Is she safe? Does she have a good life?

Sarah Jane

Yes! So many incredible things, things you wouldn't believe... don't go!

We've got to though, havn't we?

Like he worked any of it out! I said, didn't I? I don't understand it, but sometimes the heart knows things the mind can't explain.

Sarah Jane

[sobbing] Oh Mum... Dad...

Come here, come here. [he pulls Sarah Jane and Barbara into his arms]

Look at you, older than us!

And you came all that way to see us!

Sarah Jane

I thought you'd left me behind... I never knew you, I never had the chance, it was so unfair!

Who said life was fair, eh?

Sarah Jane

That's all I ever had of them. But life goes on... it has to... Oh Luke, they were my Mum and Dad... [pulls Luke into a hug and sobs, smiling] ...and they were wonderful!

Luke

It's made me realise - I'm so lucky, because I've got my Mum. I've got you!

Luke

It's just a dream. Everybody has them, don't they?

Rani

Yeah, I suppose it must be because you're leaving home. You know, everything's been a bit intense and that just activated the dream switch. You're growing up, gettin' old.

Luke

I'm growing up so I start having nightmares. [sarcastically] Great!

Rani

Yep, and the rest of us get spots. I wouldn't worry about it.

Oh, your nightmares haven't even begun!

Luke

Just listen to me.

Why?

Luke

Because you keep telling me about you and what you want. You've never asked about me.

[laughs] What are you talking about?!

Luke

But you're just an alien. Well, I'm called Luke Smith, and I was made by aliens to destroy the world! But this brilliant woman, Sarah Jane Smith - she found me, and she made me good. And she found others. A boy called Clyde, and a girl called Rani. This world has faced so many nightmares and there's always been someone there to stop them. Us. You know, I was so scared because I thought my mates wouldn't be there from me. [breathing hard] Never mind Oxford, they followed me into my nightmares! Three kids breaking down the walls of dreams to be together. Something no one's ever done before. Because together, we are unbeatable!

[claps] Ooh, very good! But do you really think words can stop a creature like me?

Luke

I wasn't talking to you!

Rani

He's right! [she and Clyde walk over to Luke and stand beside him, facing the Nightmare Man]

Clyde

Because together, we stop the monsters!

Rani

We stop the nightmares! [she takes Luke's hand]

Luke

Because when we're together, [Clyde takes Luke's other hand] we're not scared. You've got no hold of us now.

Clyde

[Luke, Rani, and Clyde slowly walk towards the Nightmare Man, who backs away] 'Cause we're brilliant when we're together.

[grunting in pain and clutching his head] Get away from me!

Luke

So there you go. The boy that was made by aliens to destroy the world saves the world yet again! [the Nightmare Man falls through a door into Clyde's old nightmare]

Oh! Hello, love! [door slams shut]

No...I can't be trapped here! This can't happen to me! Let me out! Children of Earth! I demand you sleep! And you dream! And you fear! You will fear me!

C'mon, now! Come and sit down! And I'll tell you all about my brilliant son!

No...!

His name's Luke Smith, and he's going to live happily ever after!

NOOOOOOO!!!

Luke

I had to leave K-9 back at uni, but look ... [pulls out a long, metal whistle] I made this. Dog whistle. 'Cause you never know.

Sarah Jane

What's he doing up there?

Luke

He's backing up the Bodleian Library. The whole lot. He wouldn't come back with me.

Mr Smith

Oh, good...ness me, what a terrible shame.

Rani

Oy, Mr Smith, don't be nasty! We could always swap you for another computer...like the SerfBoard.

Mr Smith

I hardly think that would be a good exchange.

Everybody's got [eyes glitch] to have one.

Sky

[whispers to Luke] Did you see that?

Luke

[quietly] Yeah, but that's impossible.

Sky

That's my phone!

Luke

Welcome to the club; I've had seven phones in the last two years!