Alan Jackson quotes from The Sarah Jane Adventures

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Alan

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

[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.

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!

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Dad, you genius!

Alan

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

We can stop it, but we need Sarah Jane.

Alan

I don't remember Sarah Jane.

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?

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!

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AAndrea

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

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

AAndrea

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.]

Sarah Jane!

Alan

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

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

But what do we do?

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.

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

AAndrea

I can't.

Alan

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

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

AAndrea

"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!

So did I.

AAndrea

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

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

AAndrea

So I die? At thirteen?

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

AAndrea

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

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.

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Alan

This is too much to take in.

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.

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

NNathan

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.

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.