The Sarah Jane Adventures quotes

What the hell are you doing here? Don't you care about Clyde at all?

Yeah, that's why I'm back!

Clyde

'Cause you care about me? Y'know, when you left, at first I pretended it hadn't happened. That you'd just gone on holiday. And then I realised, no, you'd gone. Do you know what I did? I blamed Mum. I figured she must have done something really bad to drive you away. I messed about at school, got into trouble. I got expelled.

Paul

[insincerely] Yeah alright I'm sorry mate.

Clyde

You're... sorry? Dad, one minute you were there, and the next, I had no Dad.

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

If it wasn't for me, all these people, they wouldn't be here! I've saved them loads of times and they don't know!

Paul

OK... is this some sort of trading card thing?

Clyde

Don't you believe me?

Paul

No, no, I'm not saying that. It's just you and this Luke, the two of you, saving the world.

Clyde

You don't know what we've seen! Slitheen, Sontarans, we've stopped them, all of them.

Paul

You and Luke?

Clyde

You don't believe me, do you? Fine, I'll prove it to you!

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!

Clyde

This is Mr Chandra, he's my Headteacher.

Paul

Oh! Alright mate? Clyde hasn't stopped raving about you and your school, he loves it there.

[looks at Clyde disbelievingly] Does he?!

Paul

Haha, I'm joking!

Can I ask what you're doing here?

Clyde

Er, we're watering the, er, plants. Yeah, Sarah Jane asked me to water the plants while she's away.

That's interesting because apparently she asked Rani to do that as well.

Clyde

Err, there's... lots of... plants?

Rani

We could go through there, into another time. Might never get the chance again.

Clyde

Can't we just have a look? Five minutes?

Sarah Jane

No! I'm sorry Clyde, but it's too dangerous. You've seen it in the movies - you go back, you change one tiny thing, and there's terrible consequences.

Rani

But you've travelled through time in the TARDIS.

Sarah Jane

With the Doctor, who knew what he was doing... most of the time.

Rani

Something happened when she went back in time.

Clyde

And it's up to you, my young Padawan, [taps Luke on the cheek] to find out the whole story.

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

If it is a trap, this is the only way to find out who's behind it. That sounds like a good, rational reason I can give myself, anyway.

Clyde

[trying to get the puzzle box to open] Err... Hocus Pocus! Open Sesame? I don't know... Oh! JUMANJI!

Sarah Jane

I'll never know why they left me that day, but I do know that they loved me.

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!

Sarah Jane

There's only one person in the universe who would know, straight away! One person who could help us! And where is he whenever you need him?