The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011): Season 3, Episode 8 - The Eternity Trap: Part 2 - full transcript
Joined by his children Lord Marchwood takes Sarah Jane to the lab to meet up with Rani, Clyde and Toby. They find a machine which Sarah Jane believes is a time machine, through which the beast that attacked her entered, and that it also gives Darkening and the people that he has caused to vanish in the past immortality.She believes that Darkening will use the machine to escape to another galaxy. The beast is killed by Lord Marchwood who then, on Sarah Jane's instructions, gets Darkening to stand on a certain spot, where Sarah Jane turns him into electricity. Celeste Rivers reappears but, for all the evidence of the Marchwoods, Sarah Jane claims to still remain dubious about the existence of the spirit world.
13 Bannerman Road is
where Sarah Jane Smith lives,
home to things
beyond your imagination.
There's an extra-terrestrial
super computer in the wall,
a genetically engineered
boy genius in the attic,
a schoolgirl investigator
across the road.
And a whole universe of adventure
right here on the doorstep.
Ready?
Always.
Ashen Hill Manor is reputedly
one of the most haunted
locations in the UK.
Ghosts do not exist.
My children!
Disappearances? Nobody said anything
about any disappearances.
EMF readings throughout
the house are spiking.
Something's happening. Aaaahhhh!
Where did she go?
You crossed my threshold
of your own free will
and now by my will you shall stay.
You will never leave this place.
You will be with me for eternity.
Mr...Darkening?
Good to meet you.
You're a legend. Really.
But this is
a 'one night only' appearance.
It's not like we're not tempted,
but we've got school on Monday...
Ha ha ha ha!
You crossed my threshold.
In a single step
you left choice behind.
Now you are in my world.
Your world?
You need to get out more, mate.
Er, sorry, you can't.
I forgot, you're a ghost.
A ghost?
Is that what you think I am?
Child, there's no such thing
as ghosts.
Oh, boy, this is worse
than The Sixth Sense.
Are you in for a shock!
You are mine.
You will not have them. That's...
Marchwood!
It's a super-spook smackdown! Have
you not yet faded into the ether?
Not while your shadow still stains
the walls of my family, wizard!
We exist at different frequencies.
You still cannot harm me, Marchwood.
And your magic cannot hurt me again.
Ha ha ha ha...
Run!
You shall not escape me!
No-one escapes me!
How do we get out of here?
Just keep running.
ECHOES: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Come this way. Quickly.
Oh, wow! Ghost boy.
Who's here?
Whoever you are,
whatever you are,
I'm neither frightened of you,
nor here to hurt you.
If you want to communicate,
I'm listening.
Who's there?
'Sarah Jane! Help me!
'Sarah Jane! Help me!
'Sarah Jane! Help me!'
Professor Rivers?
Celeste, is that you?
'Sarah Jane! Help me!
'Sarah Jane! Help me!'
I will. I will help you, I promise.
'Sarah Jane! Help me!
'Sarah Jane! Help me!'
He's coming for you!
Professor Rivers.
Oh! Sarah Jane!
What on earth are you doing
in the fire place?
We found Erasmus Darkening!
He seemed pretty lively for a ghost.
He's not a ghost,
I've seen him, too.
Whatever is going on
in this house,
it is far more dangerous
than a haunting.
There's this technology, ancient,
but it shouldn't have been here
340 years ago! Show me.
There's a secret passageway
in the control room.
You must leave this place.
Lord Marchwood!
Hey, your lordship.
Thanks for earlier.
He helped us escape from Darkening.
Yes, he saved me, too. Whatever
you do, don't go into the grounds.
There's something out there.
There is still time.
The creature needs time
to reassemble.
We can't leave.
Not without our friend.
Your friend is lost to Darkening.
As is everyone who comes here.
As am I.
As are my children.
Your children helped us escape
out of the tunnel.
You've seen Elizabeth and Joseph?
So have I.
They're here? In this house?
They're looking for you.
I have searched for over 300 years.
Darkening says you exist
at different frequencies.
So that's how he separated you
from your children.
He is a curse upon my house.
Upon my family.
He has taken the very land of my
ancestors and turned it against us.
And I am responsible.
You didn't die here, did you?
Neither did your children.
No-one died here, did they?
His curse is more than death itself.
Miss Smith!
CRACKLING
You should see this.
CRACKLING
I was coming to look for you
and they were just...there.
It's all the people
who've disappeared in the house.
You poor, poor souls.
Still say there's no such thing
as ghosts, Miss Smith?
You said you wanted to help us.
I do.
You're all trapped here?
He trapped us.
Erasmus Darkening?
He's as much a part of this house
as the bricks and mortar.
He took my whole family away.
PROFESSOR RIVERS: Is anybody there?
Can anybody help me?
What about Professor Rivers?
She hasn't been fully absorbed yet.
Absorbed? By the house.
There's still time to get her back.
Please. Help us all.
Joseph and I, we miss our father,
we want him back.
He's OK, we've seen him.
Release us from this purgatory.
SPARKING
What treachery is this?
I grant to all life eternal
and this is how you honour
my beneficence?
Darkening, no!
Be gone!
What are you, Erasmus Darkening?
I am lord of this place
and all who cross its threshold,
and step into my dominion.
I am Erasmus Darkening,
lord of magic!
You really shouldn't believe
your own press.
Maybe people believed in magic
when you were conning Lord Marchwood
that you could make gold from lead,
but not any more.
Mmm.
The passage of 340 years
has bequeathed humankind
with a little more wisdom, I see.
Are you saying you're not human?
You're an alien?
Alien? What are you talking about?
These are ghosts, not aliens.
This is an emissary of the afterlife.
Call me what you will.
Know only that this is my world,
that I rule all
who cross its threshold,
and that this night...
I will come for you all.
CRACKLING
Well, he knows how to leave you
wanting more, I'll give him that.
So if he's responsible
for the Professor vanishing,
why didn't he take us when
he had the chance?
Because he's playing with us,
trying to scare us.
We don't scare that easily.
Listen to me, Darkening!
I have fought the worst things from
the darkest corners of the universe.
You don't stand a ghost of a chance!
DARKENING: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I'm not sure that was entirely wise.
Come on. Show me how to get
to Darkening's chamber.
Well, can't say
I'm looking forward to this.
Hold on. If Darkening
catches us all in his lab,
we're gonna be in trouble.
She's got a point.
When he found us down there before,
it wasn't exactly what you'd call
a magical moment.
You need someone to keep him busy.
No. It's out of the question.
It's far too dangerous.
And all of us piling into
Darkening's lab isn't?
Even a ghost can't be in two places
at one time. Not even an alien ghost!
If me and Clyde
are keeping him busy,
there's no way he can stop you
looking at that thing down there.
The logic is undeniable.
All right. But stay together.
And, whatever you do,
don't go outside. OK.
You be careful.
Don't worry about me.
I've got Toby here.
Come on.
So how do you distract a ghost?
You...find him
a pretty...ghoulfriend?
Tell me, why are you so determined
to believe in the supernatural?
You're a scientist.
Your father was nominated
for the Nobel Prize for Physics.
You must know it's nonsense.
When I was six years old,
something used to come into my room.
Something?
Something grey, with no face.
It stood and watched me, all night.
And don't try to tell me
it was a dream, like my father did.
I pleaded with him
to let me sleep in another room.
I begged him
and I cried,
but he wouldn't let me.
I've never forgiven him for that.
It's OK.
Hey, Darkening! Ssh!
Where are you hiding?
We've come to...
bust you!
Yeah, well, I'd feel
a whole lot better,
if I was wearing a Ghostbusters
proton pack right now.
Yeah. I know what you mean.
They even made boiler suits look
cool.
Talking of which,
is it getting cold in here?
I thought that was just me.
Sarah Jane would say
it's psychological.
I suppose she is right, isn't she?
About ghosts.
If Darkening is an alien,
I mean, he looks just like us.
Some aliens are like us.
The Doctor looked human.
EXPLOSION
What was that?!
I don't know.
Noisy neighbours?
It's getting closer! Come on!
I think it's following us!
CRASHING
SQUEAKING
Something tells me
we're not alone in here.
I think Darkening's got us
right where he wanted us.
Yeah, we're snookered all right.
Get down!
We have to get out of here.
No, no, wait! Not that way!
Whatever chased us in here
is still out there!
Oh, it's stuck! Come on, come on!
Got it! Clyde!
Look out!
I'm never playing pool again!
What was it Sarah Jane
said we shouldn't do?
Whatever happened?
Don't go outside.
GROWLING
It's locked!
Hey! Let us in!
Sarah Jane's in the tunnels,
she can't hear you.
SCREECHING
What was that?
Could just be a...fox.
Or whatever Sarah Jane
said was out here.
GROWLING
Come on!
There's got to be another way in.
Nobody home.
That's a good start.
It's freezing.
We're underground.
What is that?
Exactly what I expected,
alien technology.
It's like a computer
built from brass and iron.
I don't think it's a computer.
I've seen something like it before.
I think it's a trans-dimensional
accelerator.
I don't understand.
This entire house has been turned
into a portal to another galaxy.
We're locked out!
With whatever attacked Sarah Jane.
This is not good, Clyde.
GROWLING
No. That's not good.
Come on!
The pavilion!
It all makes sense.
Erasmus Darkening is an alien.
And over 300 years ago,
he was trapped here on Earth.
So he pretended to be an alchemist,
finding the secret of turning
the lead into gold?
All the time he was building this -
a way to get home.
It works by bending
one dimension over another,
and opening a doorway through.
A portal.
Professor Rivers has what...?
Gone through it?
I think something went wrong
300 years ago,
it's been malfunctioning
ever since.
And Darkening's somehow manipulating
the accelerator's powers,
he's channelling it.
You're saying all these ghosts...
Are living people?
Trapped between dimensions.
What happens if we turn it off?
The disappearances will stop, but
those people will be lost for ever.
Including Celeste Rivers.
Quickly, Clyde.
GROWLING
It's not exactly the Alamo.
I hope not. They got into the Alamo.
Yeah. Well, it'll have to do.
There was something in those bushes,
I'm sure.
Tonight, it doesn't matter
what you shut out,
you never know what you're
locking yourself in with. Great(!)
Thanks for that thought. I'm sorry.
I just hope we gave Sarah Jane
a chance to fix
whatever's going on here.
Is there some way of reversing it?
Possibly.
I've seen trans-dimensional
accelerators before.
I travelled in something that used
the same principle for years.
You did what?
Oh, there are so many things
out there more exciting
than ghost hunting, Toby.
Who exactly are you?
Nobody special.
Wherever he is now,
Erasmus Darkening must once have
been a very, very clever scientist.
My mind is a colossus, Miss Smith.
Time is meaningless to me.
I have contemplated the mysteries,
the physics of the universe,
of time, of life itself.
Every being that has become part
of my dominion feeds my existence.
You mean the accelerator is powered
by the lives of the people it takes.
No-one dies here.
I thought you understood that.
The accelerator's malfunction
transformed this house
into a gateway to eternity.
It's not a gateway, it's a trap.
You're using the accelerator
to steal life energy
to give you immortality.
And so you, you two
shall be taken unto me.
No-one can escape the house.
And it is a better fate than that
faced by your young friends.
Clyde and Rani? Where are they?
The accelerator was not
entirely successful,
but it did open a gateway
for something.
The creature outside!
Oh, no, in the grounds.
If there was anything out there,
I think it's gone.
Maybe we should make a break for it?
Sarah Jane might need us. Yeah.
GROWLING
What was that?
There's something up there.
GROWLING
GROWLING
Oh, that's it,
we're getting out of here.
TAPPING
GROWLING
I reckon that's what Sarah Jane
was talking about.
TAPPING
Well, at least it's polite.
GROWLING
What is it?
DOOR RATTLES
I don't know. But I'm pretty sure
it's not from round here.
DOOR RATTLES
Clyde, it's gonna get in any minute.
We need a plan. No, not a plan.
What we need are a couple of oars.
Right. Whatever's out there,
it's not exactly bright, is it?
I mean, it could get through
that door, no problem.
You're right, we can take it.
RATTLING
Whatever it is.
Wherever it's from.
GROWLING
It's him 'oar' us.
GROWLING
Are you ready?
Bring it on.
What's going on?
Time runs short.
Oh, Sarah Jane. Oh, Rani!
Thank heavens you're all right.
Lord Marchwood saved us,
and brought us back into the house.
You are Lord Marchwood?
Nothing dies in Darkening's dominion
and nothing lives.
I have done what I could to save
people from this cursed house
and from Darkening's power.
You tried to save us
by scaring us away?
The poltergeist activity.
It was you?
Look at these EMF readings.
Wow, your lordship, you are smoking!
If this was a seismometer
and you were a volcano,
we'd all be running away
with our hair on fire.
Let me look at that.
That's extraordinary.
What is this sorcerer's box?
Oh, this isn't sorcery,
this is science.
That's right. It's given me an idea
how we can defeat Darkening.
But, Lord Marchwood,
we're going to need your help.
I have brought this curse
upon my house, and my family.
I would do anything to lift it.
Toby, how much electrical cabling
do you have?
Darkening!
Hear me, magician!
The curse you have cast
upon this house ends tonight.
For over 300 years
I have sought my children
and watched you take
soul after soul.
But no more!
And you will stop me?
Was it not you, Marchwood, that
brought all this upon your house?
It was your hand that took
innocent people from the village,
and cast them into whatever
infernal place they went,
your hand that took
Elizabeth and Joseph.
My children!
It was your hand
that sought to strike me
and take my life
and founded my dominion.
You attacked me,
you damaged my device.
You caused all
that has happened here.
You took my children.
I wanted only to return home.
But you stopped my experiments.
Lord Marchwood has to get Darkening
to step into
the electro-magnetic field.
You took innocent people
and despatched their living souls
to the netherworld.
But tonight I end this curse.
Energy can neither be created
or destroyed, only changed.
Every time Lord Marchwood attacked
that creature outside
he absorbed its energy.
That's why the EMF meter spiked.
The electricity creates
its own magnetic field.
It will trap Darkening and absorb
him. Turn him into electricity?
But he has to step into our trap.
What about Marchwood?
If he's in it, he'll be destroyed.
Meet me, Darkening.
You cannot harm me, Marchwood.
Then meet me.
I know that you are not a man.
But perhaps just this once,
act like one.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Did you think I would be
so easily vanquished, Miss Smith?
I told you,
my intellect is a colossus.
How could you think I would not see
through so transparent a stratagem?
You disappoint me, Sarah Jane Smith.
I never like to disappoint.
Get back!
Eternity!
I have lost eternity-y-y-y-y-y-y!
Are you all right?
I'm fine, thank you.
Darkening, has he gone?
I think so.
The magnetic field blew his fuse.
That's the trouble with having
a colossal intellect,
you think you're cleverer
than everyone else,
never consider what other people
might be hiding up their sleeves.
Lord Marchwood and his children,
have they gone? Professor Rivers?
What have you done
with my equipment?
Do you have any idea how much
this equipment is worth?
I know, Professor. I'm sorry.
We have just witnessed the most
amazing phenomena in this house
and do we have any record of it?
No.
But, Professor,
it wasn't paranormal, it was alien.
I give up. I give up.
The accelerator was synchronised
with Darkening's energies.
When the magnetic field
destroyed him, it overloaded,
sending Professor Rivers back.
But what about all the others?
They wanted to be released.
At least their nightmare is over.
Well, I can't leave Darkening's
device as it is.
I have to take care of it.
Permanently.
What about Lord Marchwood
and his children?
Do you think they found each other?
I don't know.
Come on.
Well, I'm not sure that exercise
proved or disproved anything
as regards the paranormal.
But it certainly was interesting.
I'll look forward to the next time.
Me, too.
I just wanted to thank you,
Miss Smith.
What for?
Let's say you've broadened
my horizons.
Maybe I shouldn't
be looking for ghosts,
I should be looking
to the stars instead.
It's a wonderful universe, Toby
and no matter how much
you think you know,
it will always have
one more surprise for us.
Don't ever forget that.
I won't.
ENGINE STARTS
So that's it, then?
No more haunted house.
Weren't you paying attention?
There never was a haunted house.
It was just an alien
with a trans-dimensional accelerator
on the blink.
So, no such thing as ghosts then,
Sarah Jane?
That's right.
No such thing as ghosts.
Tomorrow morning this entire class
will be the first to see...
The Mona Lisa.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
The Mona Lisa has been stolen!
When I act like a teenager
you want me to be perfect,
the way the Bane made me!
Whatever we're dealing with
it's more than just an art thing.
Sarah Jane! Mum! Ahhh!
Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd
where Sarah Jane Smith lives,
home to things
beyond your imagination.
There's an extra-terrestrial
super computer in the wall,
a genetically engineered
boy genius in the attic,
a schoolgirl investigator
across the road.
And a whole universe of adventure
right here on the doorstep.
Ready?
Always.
Ashen Hill Manor is reputedly
one of the most haunted
locations in the UK.
Ghosts do not exist.
My children!
Disappearances? Nobody said anything
about any disappearances.
EMF readings throughout
the house are spiking.
Something's happening. Aaaahhhh!
Where did she go?
You crossed my threshold
of your own free will
and now by my will you shall stay.
You will never leave this place.
You will be with me for eternity.
Mr...Darkening?
Good to meet you.
You're a legend. Really.
But this is
a 'one night only' appearance.
It's not like we're not tempted,
but we've got school on Monday...
Ha ha ha ha!
You crossed my threshold.
In a single step
you left choice behind.
Now you are in my world.
Your world?
You need to get out more, mate.
Er, sorry, you can't.
I forgot, you're a ghost.
A ghost?
Is that what you think I am?
Child, there's no such thing
as ghosts.
Oh, boy, this is worse
than The Sixth Sense.
Are you in for a shock!
You are mine.
You will not have them. That's...
Marchwood!
It's a super-spook smackdown! Have
you not yet faded into the ether?
Not while your shadow still stains
the walls of my family, wizard!
We exist at different frequencies.
You still cannot harm me, Marchwood.
And your magic cannot hurt me again.
Ha ha ha ha...
Run!
You shall not escape me!
No-one escapes me!
How do we get out of here?
Just keep running.
ECHOES: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Come this way. Quickly.
Oh, wow! Ghost boy.
Who's here?
Whoever you are,
whatever you are,
I'm neither frightened of you,
nor here to hurt you.
If you want to communicate,
I'm listening.
Who's there?
'Sarah Jane! Help me!
'Sarah Jane! Help me!
'Sarah Jane! Help me!'
Professor Rivers?
Celeste, is that you?
'Sarah Jane! Help me!
'Sarah Jane! Help me!'
I will. I will help you, I promise.
'Sarah Jane! Help me!
'Sarah Jane! Help me!'
He's coming for you!
Professor Rivers.
Oh! Sarah Jane!
What on earth are you doing
in the fire place?
We found Erasmus Darkening!
He seemed pretty lively for a ghost.
He's not a ghost,
I've seen him, too.
Whatever is going on
in this house,
it is far more dangerous
than a haunting.
There's this technology, ancient,
but it shouldn't have been here
340 years ago! Show me.
There's a secret passageway
in the control room.
You must leave this place.
Lord Marchwood!
Hey, your lordship.
Thanks for earlier.
He helped us escape from Darkening.
Yes, he saved me, too. Whatever
you do, don't go into the grounds.
There's something out there.
There is still time.
The creature needs time
to reassemble.
We can't leave.
Not without our friend.
Your friend is lost to Darkening.
As is everyone who comes here.
As am I.
As are my children.
Your children helped us escape
out of the tunnel.
You've seen Elizabeth and Joseph?
So have I.
They're here? In this house?
They're looking for you.
I have searched for over 300 years.
Darkening says you exist
at different frequencies.
So that's how he separated you
from your children.
He is a curse upon my house.
Upon my family.
He has taken the very land of my
ancestors and turned it against us.
And I am responsible.
You didn't die here, did you?
Neither did your children.
No-one died here, did they?
His curse is more than death itself.
Miss Smith!
CRACKLING
You should see this.
CRACKLING
I was coming to look for you
and they were just...there.
It's all the people
who've disappeared in the house.
You poor, poor souls.
Still say there's no such thing
as ghosts, Miss Smith?
You said you wanted to help us.
I do.
You're all trapped here?
He trapped us.
Erasmus Darkening?
He's as much a part of this house
as the bricks and mortar.
He took my whole family away.
PROFESSOR RIVERS: Is anybody there?
Can anybody help me?
What about Professor Rivers?
She hasn't been fully absorbed yet.
Absorbed? By the house.
There's still time to get her back.
Please. Help us all.
Joseph and I, we miss our father,
we want him back.
He's OK, we've seen him.
Release us from this purgatory.
SPARKING
What treachery is this?
I grant to all life eternal
and this is how you honour
my beneficence?
Darkening, no!
Be gone!
What are you, Erasmus Darkening?
I am lord of this place
and all who cross its threshold,
and step into my dominion.
I am Erasmus Darkening,
lord of magic!
You really shouldn't believe
your own press.
Maybe people believed in magic
when you were conning Lord Marchwood
that you could make gold from lead,
but not any more.
Mmm.
The passage of 340 years
has bequeathed humankind
with a little more wisdom, I see.
Are you saying you're not human?
You're an alien?
Alien? What are you talking about?
These are ghosts, not aliens.
This is an emissary of the afterlife.
Call me what you will.
Know only that this is my world,
that I rule all
who cross its threshold,
and that this night...
I will come for you all.
CRACKLING
Well, he knows how to leave you
wanting more, I'll give him that.
So if he's responsible
for the Professor vanishing,
why didn't he take us when
he had the chance?
Because he's playing with us,
trying to scare us.
We don't scare that easily.
Listen to me, Darkening!
I have fought the worst things from
the darkest corners of the universe.
You don't stand a ghost of a chance!
DARKENING: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I'm not sure that was entirely wise.
Come on. Show me how to get
to Darkening's chamber.
Well, can't say
I'm looking forward to this.
Hold on. If Darkening
catches us all in his lab,
we're gonna be in trouble.
She's got a point.
When he found us down there before,
it wasn't exactly what you'd call
a magical moment.
You need someone to keep him busy.
No. It's out of the question.
It's far too dangerous.
And all of us piling into
Darkening's lab isn't?
Even a ghost can't be in two places
at one time. Not even an alien ghost!
If me and Clyde
are keeping him busy,
there's no way he can stop you
looking at that thing down there.
The logic is undeniable.
All right. But stay together.
And, whatever you do,
don't go outside. OK.
You be careful.
Don't worry about me.
I've got Toby here.
Come on.
So how do you distract a ghost?
You...find him
a pretty...ghoulfriend?
Tell me, why are you so determined
to believe in the supernatural?
You're a scientist.
Your father was nominated
for the Nobel Prize for Physics.
You must know it's nonsense.
When I was six years old,
something used to come into my room.
Something?
Something grey, with no face.
It stood and watched me, all night.
And don't try to tell me
it was a dream, like my father did.
I pleaded with him
to let me sleep in another room.
I begged him
and I cried,
but he wouldn't let me.
I've never forgiven him for that.
It's OK.
Hey, Darkening! Ssh!
Where are you hiding?
We've come to...
bust you!
Yeah, well, I'd feel
a whole lot better,
if I was wearing a Ghostbusters
proton pack right now.
Yeah. I know what you mean.
They even made boiler suits look
cool.
Talking of which,
is it getting cold in here?
I thought that was just me.
Sarah Jane would say
it's psychological.
I suppose she is right, isn't she?
About ghosts.
If Darkening is an alien,
I mean, he looks just like us.
Some aliens are like us.
The Doctor looked human.
EXPLOSION
What was that?!
I don't know.
Noisy neighbours?
It's getting closer! Come on!
I think it's following us!
CRASHING
SQUEAKING
Something tells me
we're not alone in here.
I think Darkening's got us
right where he wanted us.
Yeah, we're snookered all right.
Get down!
We have to get out of here.
No, no, wait! Not that way!
Whatever chased us in here
is still out there!
Oh, it's stuck! Come on, come on!
Got it! Clyde!
Look out!
I'm never playing pool again!
What was it Sarah Jane
said we shouldn't do?
Whatever happened?
Don't go outside.
GROWLING
It's locked!
Hey! Let us in!
Sarah Jane's in the tunnels,
she can't hear you.
SCREECHING
What was that?
Could just be a...fox.
Or whatever Sarah Jane
said was out here.
GROWLING
Come on!
There's got to be another way in.
Nobody home.
That's a good start.
It's freezing.
We're underground.
What is that?
Exactly what I expected,
alien technology.
It's like a computer
built from brass and iron.
I don't think it's a computer.
I've seen something like it before.
I think it's a trans-dimensional
accelerator.
I don't understand.
This entire house has been turned
into a portal to another galaxy.
We're locked out!
With whatever attacked Sarah Jane.
This is not good, Clyde.
GROWLING
No. That's not good.
Come on!
The pavilion!
It all makes sense.
Erasmus Darkening is an alien.
And over 300 years ago,
he was trapped here on Earth.
So he pretended to be an alchemist,
finding the secret of turning
the lead into gold?
All the time he was building this -
a way to get home.
It works by bending
one dimension over another,
and opening a doorway through.
A portal.
Professor Rivers has what...?
Gone through it?
I think something went wrong
300 years ago,
it's been malfunctioning
ever since.
And Darkening's somehow manipulating
the accelerator's powers,
he's channelling it.
You're saying all these ghosts...
Are living people?
Trapped between dimensions.
What happens if we turn it off?
The disappearances will stop, but
those people will be lost for ever.
Including Celeste Rivers.
Quickly, Clyde.
GROWLING
It's not exactly the Alamo.
I hope not. They got into the Alamo.
Yeah. Well, it'll have to do.
There was something in those bushes,
I'm sure.
Tonight, it doesn't matter
what you shut out,
you never know what you're
locking yourself in with. Great(!)
Thanks for that thought. I'm sorry.
I just hope we gave Sarah Jane
a chance to fix
whatever's going on here.
Is there some way of reversing it?
Possibly.
I've seen trans-dimensional
accelerators before.
I travelled in something that used
the same principle for years.
You did what?
Oh, there are so many things
out there more exciting
than ghost hunting, Toby.
Who exactly are you?
Nobody special.
Wherever he is now,
Erasmus Darkening must once have
been a very, very clever scientist.
My mind is a colossus, Miss Smith.
Time is meaningless to me.
I have contemplated the mysteries,
the physics of the universe,
of time, of life itself.
Every being that has become part
of my dominion feeds my existence.
You mean the accelerator is powered
by the lives of the people it takes.
No-one dies here.
I thought you understood that.
The accelerator's malfunction
transformed this house
into a gateway to eternity.
It's not a gateway, it's a trap.
You're using the accelerator
to steal life energy
to give you immortality.
And so you, you two
shall be taken unto me.
No-one can escape the house.
And it is a better fate than that
faced by your young friends.
Clyde and Rani? Where are they?
The accelerator was not
entirely successful,
but it did open a gateway
for something.
The creature outside!
Oh, no, in the grounds.
If there was anything out there,
I think it's gone.
Maybe we should make a break for it?
Sarah Jane might need us. Yeah.
GROWLING
What was that?
There's something up there.
GROWLING
GROWLING
Oh, that's it,
we're getting out of here.
TAPPING
GROWLING
I reckon that's what Sarah Jane
was talking about.
TAPPING
Well, at least it's polite.
GROWLING
What is it?
DOOR RATTLES
I don't know. But I'm pretty sure
it's not from round here.
DOOR RATTLES
Clyde, it's gonna get in any minute.
We need a plan. No, not a plan.
What we need are a couple of oars.
Right. Whatever's out there,
it's not exactly bright, is it?
I mean, it could get through
that door, no problem.
You're right, we can take it.
RATTLING
Whatever it is.
Wherever it's from.
GROWLING
It's him 'oar' us.
GROWLING
Are you ready?
Bring it on.
What's going on?
Time runs short.
Oh, Sarah Jane. Oh, Rani!
Thank heavens you're all right.
Lord Marchwood saved us,
and brought us back into the house.
You are Lord Marchwood?
Nothing dies in Darkening's dominion
and nothing lives.
I have done what I could to save
people from this cursed house
and from Darkening's power.
You tried to save us
by scaring us away?
The poltergeist activity.
It was you?
Look at these EMF readings.
Wow, your lordship, you are smoking!
If this was a seismometer
and you were a volcano,
we'd all be running away
with our hair on fire.
Let me look at that.
That's extraordinary.
What is this sorcerer's box?
Oh, this isn't sorcery,
this is science.
That's right. It's given me an idea
how we can defeat Darkening.
But, Lord Marchwood,
we're going to need your help.
I have brought this curse
upon my house, and my family.
I would do anything to lift it.
Toby, how much electrical cabling
do you have?
Darkening!
Hear me, magician!
The curse you have cast
upon this house ends tonight.
For over 300 years
I have sought my children
and watched you take
soul after soul.
But no more!
And you will stop me?
Was it not you, Marchwood, that
brought all this upon your house?
It was your hand that took
innocent people from the village,
and cast them into whatever
infernal place they went,
your hand that took
Elizabeth and Joseph.
My children!
It was your hand
that sought to strike me
and take my life
and founded my dominion.
You attacked me,
you damaged my device.
You caused all
that has happened here.
You took my children.
I wanted only to return home.
But you stopped my experiments.
Lord Marchwood has to get Darkening
to step into
the electro-magnetic field.
You took innocent people
and despatched their living souls
to the netherworld.
But tonight I end this curse.
Energy can neither be created
or destroyed, only changed.
Every time Lord Marchwood attacked
that creature outside
he absorbed its energy.
That's why the EMF meter spiked.
The electricity creates
its own magnetic field.
It will trap Darkening and absorb
him. Turn him into electricity?
But he has to step into our trap.
What about Marchwood?
If he's in it, he'll be destroyed.
Meet me, Darkening.
You cannot harm me, Marchwood.
Then meet me.
I know that you are not a man.
But perhaps just this once,
act like one.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Did you think I would be
so easily vanquished, Miss Smith?
I told you,
my intellect is a colossus.
How could you think I would not see
through so transparent a stratagem?
You disappoint me, Sarah Jane Smith.
I never like to disappoint.
Get back!
Eternity!
I have lost eternity-y-y-y-y-y-y!
Are you all right?
I'm fine, thank you.
Darkening, has he gone?
I think so.
The magnetic field blew his fuse.
That's the trouble with having
a colossal intellect,
you think you're cleverer
than everyone else,
never consider what other people
might be hiding up their sleeves.
Lord Marchwood and his children,
have they gone? Professor Rivers?
What have you done
with my equipment?
Do you have any idea how much
this equipment is worth?
I know, Professor. I'm sorry.
We have just witnessed the most
amazing phenomena in this house
and do we have any record of it?
No.
But, Professor,
it wasn't paranormal, it was alien.
I give up. I give up.
The accelerator was synchronised
with Darkening's energies.
When the magnetic field
destroyed him, it overloaded,
sending Professor Rivers back.
But what about all the others?
They wanted to be released.
At least their nightmare is over.
Well, I can't leave Darkening's
device as it is.
I have to take care of it.
Permanently.
What about Lord Marchwood
and his children?
Do you think they found each other?
I don't know.
Come on.
Well, I'm not sure that exercise
proved or disproved anything
as regards the paranormal.
But it certainly was interesting.
I'll look forward to the next time.
Me, too.
I just wanted to thank you,
Miss Smith.
What for?
Let's say you've broadened
my horizons.
Maybe I shouldn't
be looking for ghosts,
I should be looking
to the stars instead.
It's a wonderful universe, Toby
and no matter how much
you think you know,
it will always have
one more surprise for us.
Don't ever forget that.
I won't.
ENGINE STARTS
So that's it, then?
No more haunted house.
Weren't you paying attention?
There never was a haunted house.
It was just an alien
with a trans-dimensional accelerator
on the blink.
So, no such thing as ghosts then,
Sarah Jane?
That's right.
No such thing as ghosts.
Tomorrow morning this entire class
will be the first to see...
The Mona Lisa.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
The Mona Lisa has been stolen!
When I act like a teenager
you want me to be perfect,
the way the Bane made me!
Whatever we're dealing with
it's more than just an art thing.
Sarah Jane! Mum! Ahhh!
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