Maria Jackson quotes from The Sarah Jane Adventures

Maria

[to her petrified father] I didn't mean to shout at you, Dad. I'm sorry... I'm so sorry.

Maria

[about the Slitheen] They're a bunch of scavengers and chancers. It's Only Fools and Horses with green skin and claws.

Sarah Jane

I met this man, a very special man, called the Doctor. And years ago, we traveled together.

Maria

In space?

Sarah Jane

Space and time. Then it came to an end. Suddenly, I was back to a normal life. Electric bills, burst pipes, bus tickets... and rain.

She's gone completely loop-the-loop!

Sarah Jane

There, y'see? Who could I talk to about it? For years I tried to forget! And then I met him again, the Doctor... but we had both changed, but it was funny because we were still both, the same. I learned that I could carry on here on Earth, doing what we always did.

Sarah Jane

Maria, there are two types of people in the world. Those who panic, and then there's us. Got it?

Maria

Got it.

Alan

Maria, your mum and me, you know that’s all over.

Maria

[bitterly] Well that’s great for you, isn’t it? Some solicitor gives you a bit of paper, and it’s all over. But what good is that to me, Dad? She’s always gonna be my mum!

Alan

[hurt] But I know that. Of course she is, sweetheart.

Maria

Well, maybe I want her to get to know my friends, so she doesn’t think they’re weird anymore. And maybe I don’t want her to go back with Ivan. But that’s never gonna happen, is it? Because you’ve got a bit of paper!

Sarah Jane

[showing Bea an old photo with Bea and her husband] Can you tell me where you got this talisman?

Bea Nelson-Stanley

Oh, that’s my Edgar.

Maria

Your husband?

Bea Nelson-Stanley

Mm, yes! He used to say the Sontarans were the silliest-looking race in the galaxy. [chuckles]

Sarah Jane

[shocked] What did you say?

She’s always going on about monsters and space-men.

Sarah Jane

She’s seen Sontarans.

Maria

What’s a Sontaran?

Bea Nelson-Stanley

The silliest race in the galaxy, that’s what Edgar used to say. Like a huge… potato, with… [mimes a gun with her cane] rrrgh, a ray gun.

Bea Nelson-Stanley

Quite nasty blighters they were, all the same.

Sarah Jane

Oh yes, Bea, they are, you’re right! You’re absolutely right.

Maria

[in tears] Sarah Jane was right, wasn’t she? I thought meetin’ creatures from other planets was gonna be excitin’ and cool, but she told me, she said it wasn’t anythin’ like that. In the end it just messes you up. Your whole life, and the people you love…. That’s why Sarah Jane’s always been on her own. That’s why you’re here, isn’t it, Bea? With no one in the world who really knows you or cares. This is how we all end up, isn’t it?

Bea Nelson-Stanley

[puts a hand on Maria’s knee] I had my Edgar. You’re young! You’ll find yours.

Bea Nelson-Stanley

Not so fast, young lady! Would you, er, get, oh… fetch me – ah – my mirror!

Bea Nelson-Stanley

No, not for me! What do you think I’m going to do, powder my nose while you take on that monster? It’s for you!

Maria

[skeptically] For me?

Bea Nelson-Stanley

[sighs] Whatever do they teach you in school these days?

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.

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.

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!

Maria

Dad, you genius!

Alan

No, no, no, listen. The meteor. You were right. It's heading straight for us.

Maria

We can stop it, but we need Sarah Jane.

Alan

I don't remember Sarah Jane.

Maria

Dad, trust me. You remembered me when I disappeared eh? Well, I remember Sarah Jane and she's the only person who can save us.

Alan

How? She's just a normal woman, isn't she?

Maria

She's a lot more than that. You've gotta help me. We can get Sarah Jane back. Whatever you did with that thing, do it again!

[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.