- 01/06/2025
The Sarah Jane Adventures- S01E03- Eye Of The Gorgon-Pt-1
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00:00Hello? Who's there?
00:21The nun! Help me! She's here!
00:30The nun! The nun!
00:51My nun and Mrs. Randall go way back. She used to live next door till her old fella died.
00:56The nun says there's no way Mrs. Randall sees things or makes things up.
01:00And it's not just her that's been scared by this ghostly nun. Other residents have seen it too.
01:05Yeah. Always at night. In their rooms.
01:08Nora Connolly saw her first. She'd been to the loo. Oh, dreadful trouble she has with her waterworks.
01:18Three or four times every night. She comes out of the bathroom and there she is. The nun. By her chest of drawers.
01:26And what happened?
01:28Well, she fainted clean and white like a schoolgirl. No constitution at all. Surprised the amount of times she's been married.
01:37Since then, most of us have seen her. Them that's not too gaga not to notice anyways.
01:44Well, thank you for your help, Mrs. Randall.
01:46So, um, will there be a photographer? You wouldn't think it, but, um, I was in all the papers once. Miss Ealing of 1951.
01:57Well, it depends. I'll have to talk to the manager first.
02:01Why do you do that? I've got a few little jobs for Clyde to do.
02:07Your grandma said you wouldn't mind.
02:09It's his own stupid fault. If he hadn't been spending so much time at the flaming office, then I wouldn't have even thought of going to salsa classes, would I?
02:25Salsa?
02:25Then Ivan gets the hump, gets all possessive, and the next thing I know, Carlos is on the ballroom floor with a bloody nose.
02:32Carlos?
02:32Mm. A salsa teacher.
02:34So Ivan's got the push, has he?
02:36Don't get your hopes up. It's just a little nudge. Just to let him know what he stands to lose if he doesn't sharpen up.
02:41And you're planning on staying here, are you?
02:43Well, where else am I going to go? Be like old times.
02:47Mum!
02:48Mum!
02:55Arnold won't believe us, darling, but who would? Better to keep...
03:00Mum!
03:02Better that way.
03:03Are you all right?
03:05Oh, yes, yes, yes. Quite all right, thank you.
03:09Are you, um, one of the colonel's chaps?
03:13The colonel? No, I...
03:15No, I'm Bea Nelson Stanley. I'm looking for my husband, the professor. He said to meet him between the paws of the...
03:23What do you call it, the blessed thing? Um, the Sphinx.
03:27The Sphinx, yes.
03:29The Sphinx? Yes.
03:29That's in Egypt.
03:32You're the boy in the window.
03:34My name's Luke. We were visiting Mrs. Randall. She says this place is haunted by a nun. Have you seen her?
03:40Yes, I have. And she's no ghost. There's something different about you. Oh, don't be afraid. It's all right. I've seen, um, unusual people before. Perhaps you can help me.
03:55Help me. I understand you're looking for a good story, Miss Smith. Might I suggest you try Westminster for something rather more newsworthy?
04:04Oh, you don't believe Lavender Lawns is haunted there? One of the old dears has a nightmare. She tells her friend she's seen a ghost. Then next thing, what do you know? They've all seen one. It's hysteria, Miss Smith. It's as simple as that.
04:19Perhaps. Or maybe it's a cry for attention.
04:26We have to be quick, Luke. In case anyone's watching.
04:30Who's watching?
04:30Oh, for goodness sake. I have these gaps. Um, hold this.
04:46I knew they might find me one day, but I couldn't be parted from it, foolish old woman.
04:54What is he?
05:00Never, you might. Just promise me you will not tell anyone you have the talisman. And whatever you do, do not let her get it. Do not let her get it.
05:18Who?
05:19Put it away. And promise me.
05:25I promise. But who's after it?
05:29Oh.
05:34Do I know you?
05:36What?
05:36What?
05:36Anything I can help with?
05:55Human maths. I don't think so.
05:58At school, the only figures I was interested in was full of phone numbers.
06:01Maybe we could do something together after you've finished. Go into town, do some more maths on my credit card.
06:07I'd like to, Mum, but I said I'd go with Sarah James later.
06:11Sarah James? Maria, come on, I'm your mum.
06:14What are you doing, always off gallivanting with those weirdos over the road for?
06:18Uh, Sarah Jane and Luke aren't weirdos.
06:20Well, it's weird how much time you spend with her.
06:22And there's something about that boy. I really hope you don't fancy him.
06:26I don't know what it is, but he's just not right.
06:28Well, you don't know anything about them.
06:30I'm your mum, Maria. I'm just trying to protect you.
06:33I don't need you to protect me.
06:35Come on, darling. Every girl needs her mum.
06:38Yeah? How come you walked out on me, then?
06:40Maria?
06:41Get out! Get out!
06:51Why is it old people wanting to do everything for them?
06:54Turn the mattress over, move things around on the top shelf?
06:57Take that spider out the bar.
06:59I came in looking for spooks, not jobs.
07:01Everyone gets old, Clyde, even you.
07:03Ah, no, not me.
07:04The way technology's moving, by the time I'm 40,
07:07I can get my brain put in a robot and live forever.
07:10Oh.
07:12Where have you been?
07:14Just looking around.
07:16Come on, let's get going.
07:18So what's the story, then?
07:19Is this place haunted or what?
07:20I don't know.
07:21There's something about it here I don't like.
07:24What's the problem?
07:40She doesn't like me seeing Sarah Jane and Luke,
07:42like she knows anything about them.
07:45Oh, don't worry.
07:45We'll be back to normal in a few days.
07:47You mean she'll be back with Ivan?
07:49If he doesn't see sense and do a runner while she's gone.
07:53Doesn't it bother you?
07:56Maria, your mum and me, you know that's all over.
08:00Well, that's great for you, isn't it?
08:02Some solicitor gives you a bit of paper and it's all over.
08:05But what good is that to me, Dad?
08:06She's always going to be my mum.
08:08I know that.
08:08Of course she is, sweetheart.
08:09Well, maybe I want her to get to know my friend
08:12so she doesn't think they're weird anymore.
08:14And maybe I don't want her to go back with Ivan.
08:16But that's never going to happen, is it?
08:17Because you've got a bit of paper.
08:18I've come to see Sister Helena.
08:43Mr. Smith, I need you.
08:48Yes, Sarah Jane, what can I do for you?
08:57The Lavender Lawns Rest Home is apparently being haunted by a nun.
09:01I need you to access Central Land Registry Database for me.
09:04See if there's anything to historically support the possibility.
09:07Of a haunting?
09:09Just run the check, Mr. Smith.
09:10Very well.
09:11Doesn't Mr. Smith believe in ghosts?
09:13Not as such, and neither do I.
09:14There is no record of any past ecclesiastical building
09:17on the site of Lavender Lawns.
09:19So no obvious reason for the home to be haunted by a nun, then?
09:22I assume that by haunting,
09:24you mean the projection of energies imprinted on psychic assimilating matter.
09:28Obviously.
09:29Come again?
09:29Events get recorded on their surroundings.
09:31Then under certain circumstances, they get played back.
09:34Sarah Jane, are you aware that Luke has brought
09:37an unidentified element of alien technology into the attic?
09:40What?
09:40Whoa, Luke!
09:43No way did that come off the shopping channel.
09:45Give it to me, Luke.
09:46One of the residents, Mrs. Nelson Stanley, gave it to me.
09:48I'd like to keep it a secret.
09:50I'm sorry.
09:51Was that wrong?
09:53I don't know.
09:54Mr. Smith, is it safe?
10:00Insufficient data.
10:01I'd like to carry out a detailed analysis.
10:05Do you mind?
10:06There's a lot of sensitive equipment in here.
10:07Sorry.
10:08So, what's going on?
10:11Some old biddy's giving Luke an alien gizmo.
10:14She said the nun wasn't a ghost,
10:15and now it's looking for the talisman.
10:16Well, I'd better go back and talk to Mrs. Nelson Stanley.
10:21Do you want to come with me?
10:22You two stay here.
10:24But she gave it to me.
10:25And I brought you in on this.
10:26It's like my case.
10:28No arguments.
10:29You all right?
10:31Mum's back.
10:32It doesn't like my Maria to go running off like this.
10:38She never used to be such a drama queen.
10:40No, thank goodness.
10:41That's another gene she managed to give the slip.
10:43She'll be over there, won't she, with that Sally Jane?
10:45We all need a friend, Chrissie.
10:47You've got your salsa teacher.
10:48I told you there's nothing going on with Carlos.
10:51That's stupid.
10:51I've got too good a thing going on with Ivan.
10:53And you hadn't with me and Maria?
10:55Oh, look, Alan, if you want to pick a fight over dirty old laundry,
10:58do it some other wash day.
10:59I'm too worried about our daughter.
11:01Are you worried now?
11:02What's that supposed to mean?
11:03It means why didn't you stop and think
11:05before you dumped yourself on us today
11:07like nothing had ever happened?
11:08It isn't your home, Chrissie.
11:11You took our home apart six months ago,
11:13and showing up like that with your bags,
11:16it has consequences.
11:22And you're sure it was the talisman?
11:24Absolutely.
11:25I saw her give it to the boy.
11:27Why would she give it to the boy
11:29unless she knew we were looking for it?
11:31You told us she barely knows her own name.
11:34I know where you can find him.
11:36All the same,
11:38we have paid you well for your assistance,
11:40Mrs. Griffins,
11:41but this just complicates everything.
11:44The abbess will want to see you.
11:46The abbess?
11:54Poor Bea, she can't really tell you anything, Miss Smith.
12:16It's the Alzheimer's, you know.
12:18Such a tragedy after the life she led.
12:22She's been everywhere.
12:24Was this her husband?
12:26Archaeologists, so the nurses reckon.
12:28They went all over the world together.
12:31What happened to him?
12:33Died about five years ago.
12:35Bea started to lose it after that.
12:37That's when she washed up here.
12:40The talisman.
12:41Talisman, I thought you wanted to talk to her about the ghost.
12:48Bea, you've got visitors.
12:51Oh, do I know you?
12:53I'm sorry these days.
12:54I'm not very good with faces.
12:56This is Miss Sarah Jane Smith.
12:59She's a reporter.
13:00Oh, well, it's my husband you want to talk to, then.
13:03No, it's you I need to talk to, Bea.
13:04Can you tell me where you got this talisman?
13:07Oh, that's my Edgar.
13:08Your husband?
13:09Yes.
13:10He used to say the Sontarans were the silliest looking race in the galaxy.
13:16No.
13:17What did you say?
13:18She's always going on about monsters and spacemen.
13:21She's seen Sontarans.
13:23What's a Sontaran?
13:24The silliest race in the galaxy.
13:26That's what I used to say.
13:28Like a huge potato.
13:32With her, oh, her ring.
13:35Quite nasty blighters they were all the same.
13:38Oh, yes, Biffey.
13:39Oh, you're right.
13:41You're absolutely right.
13:42You shouldn't encourage her, Miss Smith.
13:44She'll go on and on about monsters, and especially the Gorgon.
13:48I saw that years ago at the Flicks with Christopher Lee and Barbara Shelley.
13:54Hello.
13:59Hello.
14:06Hello.
14:07Hello.
14:08I'm Sister Helena from St Agnes Abbey.
14:10And who might you be?
14:12He's Luke.
14:12I'm Clyde.
14:13And which one of you fine young men were at Lavender Lawns today and left with a gift from one of the old ladies?
14:19We don't know what you're talking about.
14:20How do you know she gave me anything anyway?
14:22She wouldn't have told you.
14:23Can it, Luke?
14:24Why are you hunting through the old people's homes looking for the talisman?
14:27Luke!
14:27Boys, you don't understand what you've got your hands on.
14:30Well, you're not getting your hands on it either.
14:32Give me the talisman!
14:34Hello, Sister.
14:35Collection, is it?
14:36Abbey roofs don't fix themselves.
14:39That's one miracle we're still working on.
14:41Well, I always give to needy causes.
14:43You could say it's a good habit of mine.
14:45I was after Maria.
14:53She was a bit upset earlier.
14:54You haven't seen her, have you?
14:55She's gone out with Sarah Jane.
14:57Look, do me a big favour, will you?
14:59When they get back, just tell her I was looking.
15:02Please.
15:03Of course.
15:04Cheers.
15:06Listen, Luke.
15:07When we the nuns turn up on the doorstep asking about freaky, glowing alien gizmos,
15:12one thing you never do is tell them you've got one.
15:15I didn't.
15:16But we should call Mum and tell her what's happened.
15:18Better still, we should go round there and tell her.
15:20Isn't phoning quicker?
15:21Sure, we could phone.
15:22Or we could go round there and get back in on the action, yeah?
15:37So, if Bea's wearing a talisman, and is alien, and she's seen this sometimes,
15:41then she isn't just talking about a bunch of old horror movies like Mrs Randall thinks,
15:45is she?
15:46Aliens have been coming to Earth for centuries, Maria.
15:48Now, maybe Bea's adventures with her archaeologist husband involved a lot more than just old
15:53pots and bones.
15:57This was our song.
16:00Edgar had such a lovely voice, did he?
16:04I'm sure he was quite a man.
16:06It's so sad.
16:07The things she must have seen, and now everyone just thinks she's crazy.
16:11Yeah, well, who knows where any of us will end up?
16:15But someone doesn't think you're crazy, do they, Bea?
16:17Someone knows what that talisman is, and they want it.
16:21The talisman?
16:23Yes, Bea, the talisman.
16:25Tell me what you know.
16:25I promise I'll believe you.
16:27Sometimes people have thought I've been mad, but I've seen things too, just like you.
16:32Edgar unearthed it in a dig in Syria, and he gave it to me.
16:39And he had no idea what it was.
16:42He had no idea.
16:45So what is it?
16:46They mustn't find it.
16:48They mustn't find it.
16:50Who, Bea?
16:51Who do you mean?
16:51The sisters.
16:53The nuns?
16:53They protect her.
16:55Protect who?
16:56The gorgon.
17:10It's all in here.
17:12I know it is.
17:13A gorgon.
17:14All snakes for hair and turning people to stones.
17:16Just by looking at them.
17:17It's a fairy story, isn't it?
17:19A myth.
17:19A Greek myth.
17:21There's a big difference.
17:22And incidentally, for future reference, Maria, even some fairy tales have a foundation in fact.
17:29Here it is.
17:31There were three gorgons, the hideous daughters of Forkis, the sea god, and Cita.
17:36Sena, Uriuli, and Medusa, that's right.
17:39In some versions of the story, there was just one.
17:41Medusa.
17:43And she wasn't always ugly.
17:44She was a beautiful nymph with golden hair, but Poseidon fell in love with her, and jealous Athena turned her into a gorgon.
17:55Medusa was killed by Perseus as a challenge?
17:58The Greeks were always dishing out challenges to each other.
18:00I think it must be a man thing.
18:03But this one really had to be a tough call.
18:05Warrior after warrior had tried to slay the gorgons, but all of them had been turned to stone.
18:10Because they had to look at them to kill them?
18:12Perfect defence mechanism.
18:13Once you laid eyes on a gorgon, there was no escape.
18:15You couldn't run, you couldn't attack, your body was already turned into stone.
18:19And there was nothing you could do to stop it.
18:20One glance was all it took.
18:23Terrifying.
18:25Does Bea believe gorgons actually existed?
18:28I think she believes one still does.
18:36Oh, no, it's just the sinister again.
18:41Don't run away, Luke.
18:42I won't hurt you.
18:44I just want to have a little chat.
18:45What about?
18:46Don't listen to her, Luke.
18:47No way is she really a nun.
18:49Whatever else would it be?
18:50I don't know.
18:51But I bet you ain't got legs under them ropes.
18:53Just a bunch of slimy tentacles or something.
18:55Your friend watches too much TV.
18:58I think perhaps we could talk a little more sensibly without him.
19:02Jump in the car.
19:03We'll go to the Abbey.
19:04I don't think so.
19:05You're safe with me.
19:06We're not going anywhere with you.
19:08It's not an open invitation.
19:10Listen to your friend here and you will be in far more danger, I guarantee.
19:14But I can help you.
19:16I want to help you.
19:17The telescope is dangerous.
19:19More than you can imagine.
19:20No way!
19:27Fly!
19:29Fly!
19:33Fly!
19:36So it's an alien?
19:37Remember what I said?
19:38Aliens have been coming here for hundreds of years.
19:40Thousands.
19:41And one survived all this time?
19:43Yeah, perhaps.
19:44But how can it turn people to stone just by looking horrible?
19:47Well, I doubt that's quite how it works.
19:49Hello?
19:50Luke!
19:50He's been nabbed by a nun!
19:52What?
19:53I want him not to talk to that freaky nun.
19:55I tried to stop it, but it just happened so far as they pulled up and bam!
19:58Clyde, just calm down!
20:00She was off the hotelism.
20:01Where's she taking a look?
20:02Any idea?
20:02I don't know.
20:03She's from some Abbey.
20:04Well, obviously she's a nun.
20:05Clyde Pinkwid won!
20:05I'll try to.
20:07I don't know.
20:07Some old woman's name.
20:09Like the lady writer.
20:10The old lady detective.
20:11Miss Marple?
20:12No.
20:12Agatha Christie?
20:13St. Agatha!
20:13Agnes.
20:14St. Agnes Abbey.
20:15Get in the car!
20:16Get in the car!
20:46Oh, hello.
20:47My name's Felicity Parnes.
20:49I'm doing a story for the Times on religion in the 21st century.
20:52Is there anyone I can talk to?
20:54Or perhaps Sister Helena?
20:56I'm doing a story for the Times on religion in the 21st century.
21:02I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:03I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:04I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:05I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:06I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:07I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:08I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:09I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:10I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:11I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:12I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:13I'm doing a story for the Times on the 21st century.
21:14So much for fake ID.
21:44Now what? Where do we go?
22:01I don't know. What do nuns do with kids? They're kidnap.
22:06Let's start here.
22:07Hold on. What if it's in there, this gorgon thing?
22:10Just keep your eyes closed and hold my hand.
22:31Luke! Are you all right?
22:34Yeah, I'm fine.
22:36So what do you think you're doing getting into a stranger's car?
22:38For an intelligent boy sometimes. Oh, I can't leave a stupid job.
22:42I didn't just get in.
22:43Luke was never in any danger, Miss Smith.
22:46But it seemed that bringing him to the abbey was the fastest way of attracting your attention.
22:51Although your other two young friends were a surprise.
22:55We've found Mrs. Gribbins.
22:57She's been turned to stone.
22:59Unfortunately, Mrs. Gribbins always was something of a useless old fossil.
23:03Are you really protecting a gorgon here?
23:05A creature with writhing serpents for hair.
23:10Those men are dramatic Greeks.
23:12They never could resist embellishing a story.
23:15But yes, as you've seen, the myth isn't entirely without foundation.
23:21I think it's an alien, right?
23:25The gorgons travelled to our world 3,000 years ago.
23:30Once there was three, now only one.
23:33A real live gorgon?
23:35Generations of our sisterhood have served and protected the gorgons down the centuries.
23:39If she survived 3,000 years, what happened to the other two?
23:43One was killed during ancient days when our sisterhood served Demeter, when the key was stolen.
23:48The key to whatever brought the gorgons to earth.
23:51And the sisters have been searching for it ever since.
23:54Oh, did you get close once, Sister Helena?
23:56Maybe 50 years ago?
23:58Was that when the second gorgon died?
24:00Professor Nelson Stanley and his meddlesome wife.
24:04But you have the key now, Miss Smith.
24:07I'm sure you will be more reasonable.
24:10I wouldn't bet on it.
24:12Kidnapping, turning people to stone.
24:14No, no, no, not the kind of things that make me feel reasonable.
24:16Sarah Jane, 3,000 years is a long time, even for a being with a gorgon's lifespan.
24:23She is old.
24:25The talisman opens a portal to the gorgon's world.
24:28She only wants to go home to die.
24:31You can understand that, can't you?
24:33Why should I believe you?
24:35Miss Smith, you have no choice.
24:38All right, you'll get it.
24:44The boys stay here.
24:46No!
24:47They'll be perfectly safe.
24:49As long as you don't try to deceive us.
24:55We can't give them the talisman.
24:57I know that, but at least we're on my territory now, not theirs.
25:00We are, but they've still got the boys.
25:02The girl stays with me.
25:07Move.
25:10Sorry.
25:11Analysis incomplete.
25:12Shh, keep your voice down.
25:14Is this because I'm picking up a hostile alien intelligence within the house?
25:17Yes.
25:18And it's about to meet another one.
25:22Doesn't she speak English?
25:24Gorgon doesn't need to speak.
25:27You mean she's, like, telepathic?
25:29Is that how she controls you?
25:31I mean, looking after a gorgon isn't exactly normal for a bunch of nuns, is it?
25:35I'd shut up if I were you.
25:37Or the abbess might show you her idea of solving a problem like Maria.
25:41Is this what you've spent 3,000 years looking for?
25:44The key to the portal.
25:47What do you think you're doing?
25:48Either let my son and his friend go,
25:50or I will destroy the talisman with sonic disruption.
25:54I warned you, Miss Smith.
25:56Now look on the face of the gorgon and feel your flesh turn to stone.
26:06No, don't look, Maria!
26:09No!
26:11Door's open.
26:12Dad!
26:22Dad!
26:26We have the key.
26:32Rejoice, sisters, the gorgons shall be free!
26:36Oh, Mother Abbess!
26:37She's weakening.
26:38We must open the portal as soon as possible.
26:40It's killed all these people and then put them on show, like trophies.
26:46The gorgons!
26:47The gorgons turned my father into stone.
26:49Is there a way to save him?
26:50The talisman.
26:51It is the key to the door between this world and theirs.
26:54It's returned me to flesh and blood.
26:59You got it?
27:00There's loads of them.
27:01They're everywhere.
27:02The gorgons have chosen a new host to lead its domination of Earth.
27:09You, Miss Smith.
27:11You, Miss Smith.
27:11You, Miss Smith.
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