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He doesn’t let her drop.
Sarah and Severin are forced to climb back down the scaffolding and when they reach the bottom, Sarah lets out a huge sigh of relief. She can’t remember a time in which she’s been happier to have both feet on the ground. The other survivors of the unsuccessful escape group are gathered and all of them are forced back in the cell for fifteen minutes as the Thals clean up the dead.
When they are finally put back to work, it’s to fill up the rocket nose with the remainder of the distronium. This time, something new happens. Sarah, Severin and the other slaves are being lined up to march back to their cell (presumably where they’ll be killed, she figures, frightened) and two guards walk in. Or maybe run in would be a better term, one who looks impossibly tall for his size. She knows these people, and Sarah Jane beams when Harry and the Doctor overpower the men in charge of the silo.
The reunion lasts all too quickly for her. There’s still a lot of work to be done, and the Doctor sends her, Harry, and Severin to warn the Kaleds of the incoming strike and Devros’ (the crippled old man) betrayal. Much to Sarah’s dislike, he stays behind alone to try and disarm the missile. She looks back for one fleeting moment as Harry ushers them out the door, hoping for the best.
But the best doesn’t happen. The trek through the wastelands goes slowly, wary of the opposing factions and hidden land mines. There’s only about a mile left to go when a loud explosion rips through the air and Sarah clutches her head in pain. Moments later, everything quiets and she watches as Harry pokes his head up and his lips curl into a frown. When she finally looks up herself, Sarah Jane can feel the tears spring to her eyes. The Kaled dome is burning (what’s left of it anyway). All those people are now dead and oh.
Oh, the Doctor. He didn’t succeed. But, oh, he couldn’t be. They couldn’t have caught him…they couldn’t have stopped him. It’s not that he’s their only way of getting home again, it’s much more than that. Sarah Jane simply cannot bear the thought that she may have just lost the man who had quickly become her best friend.
Grief stricken, she looks over to Harry, who nods. Nothing has to be said, they know what they have to do now. They have to find the Doctor. Severin follows, leading the way carefully back through the war zone.
It’s one of the best moments Sarah Jane’s life when they find the Doctor again, who had escaped from the Thals and had been frantically looking for them. The Doctor’s sudden hug (squeeze) catches her off guard and she barely has time to respond when the Doctor starts delegating out orders once more. She stands there, still reflecting over the previous seconds and gathering her thoughts (feelings). It’s the conclusion that startles her a little: she may have come close to dying today and she may have almost lost him, but it was worth it just for that hug.
The Doctor leads the way back to a cave he and Harry had used to sneak out of the Kaled bunker in order to find her. Apparently, while she had been captured, they had begun to aid in a revolt of the scientific elite against Davros. Figures. It truly and really figures she misses out on the fun like that. The cave, it turns out, is home to Davros’ mistakes: genetic experiments gone wrong. She gets a laugh out of Harry’s fear of a giant clam like creature until one almost tries to take a bite out of her shoe as well. And then there’s an air vent to crawl through, much to Sarah Jane’s distaste. She’s learned that there’s usually something horrible waiting on the other side.
This time, Sarah Jane is right. The minute the trio steps out of the vent, Davros and his assistant (Nyder) are standing there waiting for them. Oh, today is not her day. It’s so not her day because now, she and Harry are being used by Davros as incentive for the Doctor to cooperate with the interrogation. They’re both strapped tightly to strange metal planks, wired to alien machines. But one thing is clear: they’re torture devices. And if the Doctor doesn’t give Davros the information he wants on the future of the Daleks, she and Harry get to suffer.
He can’t do it. Davros can’t be allowed to know about the Daleks. The Dalek’s can’t become the supreme beings of the universe. Sarah struggles against her bonds, pleading with the Doctor not to say anything. She can take the pain. She can, she can, she can. But it hurts so much (like nothing has ever hurt before) when the machine is finally activated and she can’t talk anymore. Harry takes her lead and tells the Doctor not to say anything (she thinks; Sarah can’t be sure – it hurts) and is quickly subjected to the same torture.
It really comes to no surprise to either of them when, despite all their begging, the Doctor tells Davros everything he wants to know.
Everything else that happens afterwards happens in a kind of fast-paced blur that leaves Sarah relieved when they finally retrieve the Time Ring to get back to Nerva. With the aid of the rebel scientists, Sarah Jane, Harry, and the Doctor escape from their cell. While Gharman, the man in charge of leading the rebels, goes off to start his revolution, they go off to finally destroy the Daleks once and for all. After, that is, they stop to gather explosives and a change of wardrobe for Sarah (oh, and about time too!).
Harry and the Doctor had been to the Dalek embryo room before, so it’s easy enough to find. Sarah reluctantly stands guard with Harry outside of the room while the Doctor goes to set up the fuses. A brief entanglement with embryonic Daleks (Sarah never quite wants to know how they managed to attack the Doctor), everything is set. And the Doctor has a choice to make.
Sarah Jane knows, that even under the most dire circumstances, she will never ever fully be able to support genocide. After all, every creature has their right to live and she can’t imagine anyone saying otherwise. Yet, as the Doctor contemplates striking the two fuses together, Sarah realises the role she has to play. She has to be the companion he can count on, because God knows Harry doesn’t have enough experience yet to do so.
So she stands by the Doctor’s side, encouraging him to spark the fuses. She reminds him of all the horrors the Daleks have (will?) commit and tells him that this is his responsibility. It’s his chance. And then, ever the argumentative kind, the Doctor responds, reminding Sarah of all the good that comes from future worlds allying due to the Daleks. In the end, she’s never been prouder of him than when he decides to disconnect the wires.
The ironic thing is that in the end, a Dalek does the embryos in simply by rolling over the discarded wires and triggering the explosives. At the same time, Thal’s recruited by the Doctor and assisted by Severin succeed in trapping the Daleks in the bunker for a good thousand years. But before all this, they manage to destroy the tape (using the Dalek’s own weapon left lying discarded in Davros’ office – Sarah’s own fitting idea) and retrieve the Time Ring.
Outside the bunker, Sarah Jane stands alongside the Doctor and Harry as they watch the Daleks turn on their creator. All of the scientists have already been murdered so that Nyder and Davros remained the only Kaleds left. But it doesn’t last. Evil did beget evil in the end.
Finally, finally, they can return home. The Doctor’s mission isn’t a complete success – Dalek progress has only been delayed, not stopped – but he isn’t disappointed. Sarah Jane looks at him, mildly confused by that fact. He despises the Daleks, she knows that. As the Time Ring begins to spin, the Doctor looks back at Sarah and reminds her of the good that will come fro the existence of the Daleks.
In the end, it seems, everything did have a purpose after all.
Sarah and Severin are forced to climb back down the scaffolding and when they reach the bottom, Sarah lets out a huge sigh of relief. She can’t remember a time in which she’s been happier to have both feet on the ground. The other survivors of the unsuccessful escape group are gathered and all of them are forced back in the cell for fifteen minutes as the Thals clean up the dead.
When they are finally put back to work, it’s to fill up the rocket nose with the remainder of the distronium. This time, something new happens. Sarah, Severin and the other slaves are being lined up to march back to their cell (presumably where they’ll be killed, she figures, frightened) and two guards walk in. Or maybe run in would be a better term, one who looks impossibly tall for his size. She knows these people, and Sarah Jane beams when Harry and the Doctor overpower the men in charge of the silo.
The reunion lasts all too quickly for her. There’s still a lot of work to be done, and the Doctor sends her, Harry, and Severin to warn the Kaleds of the incoming strike and Devros’ (the crippled old man) betrayal. Much to Sarah’s dislike, he stays behind alone to try and disarm the missile. She looks back for one fleeting moment as Harry ushers them out the door, hoping for the best.
But the best doesn’t happen. The trek through the wastelands goes slowly, wary of the opposing factions and hidden land mines. There’s only about a mile left to go when a loud explosion rips through the air and Sarah clutches her head in pain. Moments later, everything quiets and she watches as Harry pokes his head up and his lips curl into a frown. When she finally looks up herself, Sarah Jane can feel the tears spring to her eyes. The Kaled dome is burning (what’s left of it anyway). All those people are now dead and oh.
Oh, the Doctor. He didn’t succeed. But, oh, he couldn’t be. They couldn’t have caught him…they couldn’t have stopped him. It’s not that he’s their only way of getting home again, it’s much more than that. Sarah Jane simply cannot bear the thought that she may have just lost the man who had quickly become her best friend.
Grief stricken, she looks over to Harry, who nods. Nothing has to be said, they know what they have to do now. They have to find the Doctor. Severin follows, leading the way carefully back through the war zone.
It’s one of the best moments Sarah Jane’s life when they find the Doctor again, who had escaped from the Thals and had been frantically looking for them. The Doctor’s sudden hug (squeeze) catches her off guard and she barely has time to respond when the Doctor starts delegating out orders once more. She stands there, still reflecting over the previous seconds and gathering her thoughts (feelings). It’s the conclusion that startles her a little: she may have come close to dying today and she may have almost lost him, but it was worth it just for that hug.
The Doctor leads the way back to a cave he and Harry had used to sneak out of the Kaled bunker in order to find her. Apparently, while she had been captured, they had begun to aid in a revolt of the scientific elite against Davros. Figures. It truly and really figures she misses out on the fun like that. The cave, it turns out, is home to Davros’ mistakes: genetic experiments gone wrong. She gets a laugh out of Harry’s fear of a giant clam like creature until one almost tries to take a bite out of her shoe as well. And then there’s an air vent to crawl through, much to Sarah Jane’s distaste. She’s learned that there’s usually something horrible waiting on the other side.
This time, Sarah Jane is right. The minute the trio steps out of the vent, Davros and his assistant (Nyder) are standing there waiting for them. Oh, today is not her day. It’s so not her day because now, she and Harry are being used by Davros as incentive for the Doctor to cooperate with the interrogation. They’re both strapped tightly to strange metal planks, wired to alien machines. But one thing is clear: they’re torture devices. And if the Doctor doesn’t give Davros the information he wants on the future of the Daleks, she and Harry get to suffer.
He can’t do it. Davros can’t be allowed to know about the Daleks. The Dalek’s can’t become the supreme beings of the universe. Sarah struggles against her bonds, pleading with the Doctor not to say anything. She can take the pain. She can, she can, she can. But it hurts so much (like nothing has ever hurt before) when the machine is finally activated and she can’t talk anymore. Harry takes her lead and tells the Doctor not to say anything (she thinks; Sarah can’t be sure – it hurts) and is quickly subjected to the same torture.
It really comes to no surprise to either of them when, despite all their begging, the Doctor tells Davros everything he wants to know.
Everything else that happens afterwards happens in a kind of fast-paced blur that leaves Sarah relieved when they finally retrieve the Time Ring to get back to Nerva. With the aid of the rebel scientists, Sarah Jane, Harry, and the Doctor escape from their cell. While Gharman, the man in charge of leading the rebels, goes off to start his revolution, they go off to finally destroy the Daleks once and for all. After, that is, they stop to gather explosives and a change of wardrobe for Sarah (oh, and about time too!).
Harry and the Doctor had been to the Dalek embryo room before, so it’s easy enough to find. Sarah reluctantly stands guard with Harry outside of the room while the Doctor goes to set up the fuses. A brief entanglement with embryonic Daleks (Sarah never quite wants to know how they managed to attack the Doctor), everything is set. And the Doctor has a choice to make.
Sarah Jane knows, that even under the most dire circumstances, she will never ever fully be able to support genocide. After all, every creature has their right to live and she can’t imagine anyone saying otherwise. Yet, as the Doctor contemplates striking the two fuses together, Sarah realises the role she has to play. She has to be the companion he can count on, because God knows Harry doesn’t have enough experience yet to do so.
So she stands by the Doctor’s side, encouraging him to spark the fuses. She reminds him of all the horrors the Daleks have (will?) commit and tells him that this is his responsibility. It’s his chance. And then, ever the argumentative kind, the Doctor responds, reminding Sarah of all the good that comes from future worlds allying due to the Daleks. In the end, she’s never been prouder of him than when he decides to disconnect the wires.
The ironic thing is that in the end, a Dalek does the embryos in simply by rolling over the discarded wires and triggering the explosives. At the same time, Thal’s recruited by the Doctor and assisted by Severin succeed in trapping the Daleks in the bunker for a good thousand years. But before all this, they manage to destroy the tape (using the Dalek’s own weapon left lying discarded in Davros’ office – Sarah’s own fitting idea) and retrieve the Time Ring.
Outside the bunker, Sarah Jane stands alongside the Doctor and Harry as they watch the Daleks turn on their creator. All of the scientists have already been murdered so that Nyder and Davros remained the only Kaleds left. But it doesn’t last. Evil did beget evil in the end.
Finally, finally, they can return home. The Doctor’s mission isn’t a complete success – Dalek progress has only been delayed, not stopped – but he isn’t disappointed. Sarah Jane looks at him, mildly confused by that fact. He despises the Daleks, she knows that. As the Time Ring begins to spin, the Doctor looks back at Sarah and reminds her of the good that will come fro the existence of the Daleks.
In the end, it seems, everything did have a purpose after all.
