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* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: The teacher the Doctor replaced resigned after winning the lottery...without playing. ''Someone'' posted the winning ticket through her door at midnight...
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-->'''Sarah:'''
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* ContinuityNod: Sarah referring to the Doctor's companion as his "assistant". When Sarah knew the Doctor he was stuck as UNIT's scientific advisor, hence he had lab assistants instead of (traveling) companions.
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-->'''Rose:''' What, Doctor?
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-->'''Rose:''' What, Doctor?
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Mr Finch is always so polite, and charming. Even as he's planning to eat orphans, or have his brethren eat the Doctor's friends.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Mr Finch is always so polite, and charming. Even as he's planning to eat orphans, or have his brethren eat the Doctor's friends. However, he does seem genuine in his desire to have the Doctor join him, if only slightly annoyed when the Doctor turns him down.
* ManipulativeBastard: Mr Finch nearly talks the Doctor into joining him with just a few lines of temptation, almost succeeding in doing the same to [[TheHeart Sarah Jane]]. She, however, snaps out of it and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome snaps the Doctor out of it too.]]
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* RealityWarper: What Mr Finch seeks to become through the Skasis Paradigm because it will give him that power.
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* VillainRespect: Finch has a healthy respect for the Doctor's intellect, and he is the only character that Finch actually treats as an equal, even a superior - as part of his temptation of the Doctor, he says, "The paradigm would give us power, but you could give us wisdom." [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Of course,]] Finch is a top class ManipulativeBastard, so he might just be playing on the Doctor's ego - either way, it almost works.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Mr Finch gives the Doctor a sales pitch Mephistopheles would be proudof.of - and when Sarah Jane intervenes, shifts gears like lightning, pinpointing her own regrets and insecurities and offering her a similar sales pitch as part of the Doctor's.
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-->'''Cafeteria worker:''' She's always doin' that.
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* WhamShot: A strictly personal one for Sarah. She heads to a school at night to do some {{Intrepid Report|er}}ing about some eerily good grades and child disappearances. After [[NothingIsScarier skulking through empty hallways]] for a few minutes, she happens upon a janitor's closet. A closet with a big blue box she hasn't seen in ''thirty years''. The look on her face is priceless.
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* ArcWords: Torchwood block Mickey's investigation of the UNIT website.
* BlatantLies: One of the cafeteria workers gets oil all over herself, and is quickly rushed off into another room. Rose is calmly informed by the head dinner lady that she's fine. Even as the worker starts billowing smoke and screaming.
* {{Squee}}: All over the Doctor's face when he first sees Sarah-Jane again.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoilStuffBlowingUp: A Krillitane doused with their own oil will explode. K-9 utilises this to blow up all of them, himself, and a good chunk of the school. Needless to say, the kids go wild.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Sarah Jane's reappearance was spoiled by the trailer at the end of the Christmas special.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Sarah Jane's reappearance was spoiled by the trailer at the end of the Christmas special.
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He vanishes again, but leaves his beloved Sarah with two things: badly-needed closure, and a new K9 model. However, [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures this isn't the last we've seen of Sarah Jane, Jane]], and she'll return in series 4.
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* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first time Creator/AnthonyHead has played a [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer school faculty member with a secret agenda.]] Of course, his intentions aren't nearly as noble this time around.
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* ActorAllusion: We have Anthony Stewart Head [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer once again working at a creepy school]] and using BuffySpeak no less.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: To get Music/BilliePiper and Creator/ElisabethSladen to laugh uncontrollably, Creator/DavidTennant drew a ridiculous moustache on his face with a marker pen. That's why the shots of Rose and Sarah Jane laughing are distinctly different shots from those of the Doctor's befuddled reaction.
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* FandomNod: A reference to the Fandom debate over whether those who travel with the Doctor are "assistants" or "companions". The media largely used "assistant" during the classic series, although, since the reboot, this is hardly heard any more.
-->'''Sarah Jane:''' I can tell it's been a long time, your assistants are getting younger.\\
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->''"Oh mate, {{the missus and the ex}}! Welcome to every man's worst nightmare."''
-->-- '''Mickey Smith'''
The return of Sarah Jane Smith and K9 Mark III, who (on screen) last appeared in [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]] in 1983. This episode pretty much singlehandedly spawned ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', giving another generation of children the gift of Creator/ElisabethSladen.
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So there's a certain [[TheGoodOldBritishComp Perfectly Ordinary Comprehensive]] whose Perfectly Ordinary Students are absolutely ''whomping'' the competition in the school ratings, with enough time left over in the school day to calculate pi to infinity, invent time travel, etc. They're led by new headmaster Creator/AnthonyStewartHead, whose hobbies include looking ObviouslyEvil, [[EvilIsHammy cackling maniacally]], ChewingTheScenery and [[ChildEater chewing on the kids.]]
Sensing high weirdness afoot, the Doctor has gone undercover as a Perfectly Ordinary Substitute Science Teacher, dragging Rose along to serve as a [[RunningGag Perfectly Ordinary]] Dinner Lady. Rose is a bit miffed that she pulled kitchen duty, but consoles herself with the happy thought of all the chips she can eat. In fact -- childhood obesity epidemic be damned -- at this P.O.C., school lunches are not only ''free'', but also ''mandatory''.
Somebody ''else'''s weirdness detector has pinged, too: IntrepidReporter Sarah Jane Smith (Creator/ElisabethSladen), companion to the Third and Fourth Doctors, has turned up at the P.O.C. to see what's afoot. It's been thirty or so years since she left the Doctor, in her timeline, and several hundred years in his. He recognises her but doesn't give himself away, only to come clean when Sarah Jane sneaks into the school at night and finds where he's parked the TARDIS. Here the picture [[SandInMyEyes goes all swimmy and blurry for some reason]].
By the time it clears up again, the Doctor has provisionally identified the cafeteria's chips as the source of the kids' mysterious intelligence. K9 (pulled out of Sarah Jane's car boot, and fixed by the Doctor) identifies the frying oil as "Krillitane Oil", which identifies the baddies as Krillitanes, a bunch of nefarious shapeshifters.
So, OK, villain identified -- but what's up with making the kids smarter? Why, so they can solve the Skasis Paradigm, of course! The Skasis Paradigm is a grand unified theory of everything that can rebuild the universe and space and time. The Doctor is eye-rollingly annoyed at yet ''another'' group of beings who want to take over the universe and remake it in their image... but then the head Krillitane surprises the Doctor by offering ''him'' the top job.
Also, Sarah Jane tells the Doctor that she spent the last few decades waiting for him, unable to fall in love again, unable to forget him, unable to trust and unable to live happily as a normal human. The Doctor mumbles something almost resembling an excuse as Rose looks on in horror at what apparently awaits her. Noticing what the Doctor now means to Rose, Sarah Jane gives Rose some pointers on having "a relationship" with the Doctor, and the two bond after some initial awkwardness. Meanwhile, Mickey gets acquainted with K9 and realizes that he's not much more than TheTeam's "tin dog".
With the VillainOfTheWeek appropriately vanquished by K9, having blown up the Krillitane oil and a portion of the school as well as himself, the Doctor prepares to once again make his departure without so much as a proper goodbye. Sarah Jane isn't having any, and finally gets the goodbye for which she's been waiting three decades.
->'''Sarah Jane:''' No, say it. This time, please, say it.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Goodbye -- ''my Sarah Jane.''
Here he picks her up off her feet in a hug for the ages, and for a moment, we catch a glimpse of a much younger Sarah Jane Smith....
[[TearJerker No, whacking the screen is not going to make it less blurry.]]
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!!Tropes:
* ActorAllusion: We have Anthony Stewart Head [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer once again working at a creepy school]] and using BuffySpeak no less.
* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: This is "The One Where Sarah Jane Comes Back". Any other details are inconsequential.
* {{Badass}}: It's Sarah ''FREAKING'' Jane. No more words are needed. None. Nadda. Zilch. El zippo.
* BadassAdorable: K9
* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Tenth Doctor effectively sums up the direction he will be taking this regeneration in a single sentence.
-->'''The Doctor:''' I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy. You get ''one'' warning. [[BullyingADragon That was it.]]
* BerserkButton: Never take the piss out of K9. ''Ever''.
* BigDamnHeroes: K9, of all things, saves everyone by application of laser blasts.
* BrickJoke: A brick thrown thirty years ago finally lands; when we last saw Sarah Jane, she suspected the Doctor had left her in the wrong part of Britain. Turns out that, in fact, [[http://goo.gl/maps/nhHmv he had.]]
* BuffySpeak: "Forget the shooty dog thing." Said by [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Giles]].
* TheBusCameBack: Sarah Jane Smith has been gone for thirty years.
* ButtMonkey: Lampshaded, as Mickey compares Rose to Sarah Jane, and himself to K9 in their relationship with the Doctor...
-->'''Mickey:''' (''realization dawns'') I'm the tin dog.
* CaptainObvious:
-->'''Mickey:''' Okay, no time to explain, we need to get inside the school. Do you have, like, I don't know, a lock picking device?\\
'''K9''': We are in a car.\\
'''Mickey:''' Maybe a drill attachment?\\
'''K9:''' We are in a car.\\
'''Mickey:''' Fat lot of good you are!\\
'''K9:''' We are in a car.\\
'''Mickey Smith:''' [[TheLastHorseCrossesTheFinishLine Wait a second]]. [[CarFu We're in a car.]]\\
'''K9:''' Affirmative.
* CarFu: As K9 so aptly put it...
--> '''K9:''' We are in a car.
* CargoShip: Mentioned by Sarah Jane. [[invoked]]
-->'''Sarah Jane:''' Tell me, does he still...''stroke'' parts of the TARDIS?\\
'''Rose:''' Yes, yes! I'm like, "Do you two want to be left alone?"
* CatFight: Not the physical {{Fanservice}}-type, but Rose and Sarah Jane engage in a verbal pissing contest through much of the episode. In the end, the girls come to a (very giggly) compromise when they start comparing the things about the Doctor that bug them which in turn makes the poor Doctor wonder if them getting along isn't even ''worse'' for him, since now they seem to be in conspiracy against him. As Mickey so aptly puts it:
-->'''Mickey:''' Oh mate, {{the missus and the ex}}! Welcome to every man's worst nightmare.
* ContinuityCavalcade: Sarah Jane and Rose trying to one-up one another. Sarah Jane wins.
-->'''Sarah Jane:''' I saw things you wouldn’t believe!\\
'''Rose:''' Try me.\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Mummies.]]\\
'''Rose:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E3TheUnquietDead I’ve met ghosts.]]\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robots.]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion Lots of robots.]]\\
'''Rose:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon Slitheen.]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree In Downing Street.]]\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E3DeathToTheDaleks Dal]][[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks eks!]]\\
'''Rose:''' (''smugly'') [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays Met the Emperor.]]\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E2PlanetOfEvil Anti-matter monsters!]]\\
'''Rose:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild Gas-mask]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances zombies!]]\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Real living dinosaurs!]]\\
'''Rose:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw Real living werewolf!]]\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons THE. LOCH NESS. MONSTER!]]\\
'''Rose:''' (''stunned'') Seriously?
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* CreativeSterility: The Krillitanes require the human children to crack the paradigm because it requires ''imagination''.
* CutTheJuice: After getting inside the school, Mickey finds all the kids typing away. After being unable to get their attention, he finds the plug, looks around as though expecting a more dramatic solution, and then just pulls it out. He gets a few sparks thrown at him, but that's it.
* DeadlyEuphemism: "Taking an early lunch" indeed.
* DeadpanSnarker: K9 regularly snarks. It's made ''more'' awesome by the fact he's a ''robot dog'' and ''not meant to show emotion at all''.
-->'''Mr Finch:''' You ''bad dog''.\\
'''K9:''' Affirmative.
* EnforcedMethodActing: To get Music/BilliePiper and Creator/ElisabethSladen to laugh uncontrollably, Creator/DavidTennant drew a ridiculous moustache on his face with a marker pen. That's why the shots of Rose and Sarah Jane laughing are distinctly different shots from those of the Doctor's befuddled reaction.
* EvilTeacher: Mr Finch and the new staff are exploiting and eating the children.
* EvilPlan: One more villain with a god complex. After incorporating so many species, the Krillitane want to become gods.
* FailedASpotCheck: Mickey asks K9 for lock picks to get past locked glass doors.
-->'''K9:''' [[CarFu We are in a car.]]
* FandomNod: A reference to the Fandom debate over whether those who travel with the Doctor are "assistants" or "companions". The media largely used "assistant" during the classic series, although, since the reboot, this is hardly heard any more.
-->'''Sarah Jane:''' I can tell it's been a long time, your assistants are getting younger.\\
'''Rose:''' I'm not his assistant!
%%* TheGoodOldBritishComp: Deffrey Vale.
* HeroicBSOD: Mickey upon realising that he's their "tin dog".
* HeroicSacrifice: Poor K9 is lost to the explosion. Since he's a machine, The Doctor repairs him.
* HilariousInHindsight / HarsherInHindsight: When Sarah Jane mentions that the Doctor has regenerated, he says he's done it "half a dozen times" since he last saw her. At the time the episode was broadcast, it was taken to mean that the last time he saw her was when she left the the Fourth Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear "The Hand of Fear"]], which people considered odd, given that she met his fifth incarnation in [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]]. Following the reveal during the show's 50th anniversary, that line takes a whole new meaning.
* InfantImmortality: Averted. Within the first two minutes of the episode, Finch kills and eats an orphaned girl no older than thirteen.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Sarah and the Doctor's reaction to seeing the other once again. Creator/DavidTennant admitted the reason he's grinning like a madman throughout the episode is because he got to act along side Creator/ElisabethSladen, who he grew up watching on the show.
* MeaningfulEcho: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]], the Ninth Doctor said of Cassandra "Everything has its time, and everything dies." The line is repeated almost word-for-word by Sarah Jane to the Doctor in this episode.
* TheMissusAndTheEx: TropeNamer. Sarah Jane's is the Doctor's former companion, Rose is the current one. Both of them are in love with the Doctor.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: AvertedTrope. It's important to remember in the wake of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' that this wasn't a PDP for that show. In fact, Sarah Jane's appearance wasn't supposed to lead to a spin-off, but was more to link New ''Who'' with the old show (to show that it was an extension of the old show, not a new version of it). The fact that the episode was successful and RTD decided to create a Sarah Jane spin-off was just a very happy accident.
* RealityWarper: What Mr Finch seeks to become through the Skasis Paradigm because it will give him that power.
* ScaryBlackMan: One of the Krillitane poses as one of these. Notably, [[MorphicResonance its true form is darker than the others]].
* ScrewLearningIHavePhlebotinum: The Krillitane oil doesn't ''just'' make the kids smarter, it also dumps a load of knowledge into their heads, such as how to travel through time. It's also possible that those computers they are mesmerized by are teaching them.
* StockNessMonster: During the argument between Sarah Jane and Rose over who endured the most "space stuff", Sarah Jane mentions she went up against [[PunctuatedForEmphasis THE. LOCH NESS. MONSTER!!!!]] Rose couldn't top it.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Mr Finch exploits this in his attempt to recruit The Doctor: how many more people he could save if he were a RealityWarper.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Mr Finch gives the Doctor a sales pitch Mephistopheles would be proud of.
* WhatTheHellHero: Rose, to the Doctor, re. leaving Sarah Jane.
* WhamLine: When Mr Finch catches the Doctor off guard, instead of planning to keep all the power for himself, he offers to share it with the Doctor:
-->'''Mr Finch:''' Think of the changes that could be made if this power was used for good.\\
'''The Doctor:''' What, by someone like you?\\
'''Mr Finch:''' No. By someone like you.
* WhamShot: A strictly personal one for Sarah. She heads to a school at night to do some {{Intrepid Report|er}}ing about some eerily good grades and child disappearances. After [[NothingIsScarier skulking through empty hallways]] for a few minutes, she happens upon a janitor's closet. A closet with a big blue box she hasn't seen in ''thirty years''. The look on her face is priceless.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: This episode was the first time the series openly questioned why the Doctor leaves his companions (or lets them go):
-->'''The Doctor:''' I don't age. I regenerate. But humans decay. You wither and you die. Imagine watching that happen to someone [[CannotSpitItOut you...]]\\
'''Rose:''' What, Doctor?\\
'''The Doctor:''' You can spend the rest of your life with me. But I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on, alone. That's the curse of the Time Lords.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Any student who doesn't measure up goes [[ImAHumanitarian missing]].
* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/AnthonyHead played warlord Grayvorn in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' "Excelis" StoryArc, meeting the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors (as well as Franchise/IrisWildthyme and ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'').
* {{Zeerust}}: K9's dated look is lampshaded by Rose as "disco". The Doctor finds this ''very'' offensive.
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->''"Oh mate, {{the missus and the ex}}! Welcome to every man's worst nightmare."''
-->-- '''Mickey Smith'''
The return of Sarah Jane Smith and K9 Mark III, who (on screen) last appeared in [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]] in 1983. This episode pretty much singlehandedly spawned ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', giving another generation of children the gift of Creator/ElisabethSladen.
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So there's a certain [[TheGoodOldBritishComp Perfectly Ordinary Comprehensive]] whose Perfectly Ordinary Students are absolutely ''whomping'' the competition in the school ratings, with enough time left over in the school day to calculate pi to infinity, invent time travel, etc. They're led by new headmaster Creator/AnthonyStewartHead, whose hobbies include looking ObviouslyEvil, [[EvilIsHammy cackling maniacally]], ChewingTheScenery and [[ChildEater chewing on the kids.]]
Sensing high weirdness afoot, the Doctor has gone undercover as a Perfectly Ordinary Substitute Science Teacher, dragging Rose along to serve as a [[RunningGag Perfectly Ordinary]] Dinner Lady. Rose is a bit miffed that she pulled kitchen duty, but consoles herself with the happy thought of all the chips she can eat. In fact -- childhood obesity epidemic be damned -- at this P.O.C., school lunches are not only ''free'', but also ''mandatory''.
Somebody ''else'''s weirdness detector has pinged, too: IntrepidReporter Sarah Jane Smith (Creator/ElisabethSladen), companion to the Third and Fourth Doctors, has turned up at the P.O.C. to see what's afoot. It's been thirty or so years since she left the Doctor, in her timeline, and several hundred years in his. He recognises her but doesn't give himself away, only to come clean when Sarah Jane sneaks into the school at night and finds where he's parked the TARDIS. Here the picture [[SandInMyEyes goes all swimmy and blurry for some reason]].
By the time it clears up again, the Doctor has provisionally identified the cafeteria's chips as the source of the kids' mysterious intelligence. K9 (pulled out of Sarah Jane's car boot, and fixed by the Doctor) identifies the frying oil as "Krillitane Oil", which identifies the baddies as Krillitanes, a bunch of nefarious shapeshifters.
So, OK, villain identified -- but what's up with making the kids smarter? Why, so they can solve the Skasis Paradigm, of course! The Skasis Paradigm is a grand unified theory of everything that can rebuild the universe and space and time. The Doctor is eye-rollingly annoyed at yet ''another'' group of beings who want to take over the universe and remake it in their image... but then the head Krillitane surprises the Doctor by offering ''him'' the top job.
Also, Sarah Jane tells the Doctor that she spent the last few decades waiting for him, unable to fall in love again, unable to forget him, unable to trust and unable to live happily as a normal human. The Doctor mumbles something almost resembling an excuse as Rose looks on in horror at what apparently awaits her. Noticing what the Doctor now means to Rose, Sarah Jane gives Rose some pointers on having "a relationship" with the Doctor, and the two bond after some initial awkwardness. Meanwhile, Mickey gets acquainted with K9 and realizes that he's not much more than TheTeam's "tin dog".
With the VillainOfTheWeek appropriately vanquished by K9, having blown up the Krillitane oil and a portion of the school as well as himself, the Doctor prepares to once again make his departure without so much as a proper goodbye. Sarah Jane isn't having any, and finally gets the goodbye for which she's been waiting three decades.
->'''Sarah Jane:''' No, say it. This time, please, say it.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Goodbye -- ''my Sarah Jane.''
Here he picks her up off her feet in a hug for the ages, and for a moment, we catch a glimpse of a much younger Sarah Jane Smith....
[[TearJerker No, whacking the screen is not going to make it less blurry.]]
He vanishes again, but leaves his beloved Sarah with two things: badly-needed closure, and a new K9 model. However, this isn't the last we've seen of Sarah Jane, and she'll return in series 4.
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!!Tropes:
* ActorAllusion: We have Anthony Stewart Head [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer once again working at a creepy school]] and using BuffySpeak no less.
* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: This is "The One Where Sarah Jane Comes Back". Any other details are inconsequential.
* {{Badass}}: It's Sarah ''FREAKING'' Jane. No more words are needed. None. Nadda. Zilch. El zippo.
* BadassAdorable: K9
* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Tenth Doctor effectively sums up the direction he will be taking this regeneration in a single sentence.
-->'''The Doctor:''' I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy. You get ''one'' warning. [[BullyingADragon That was it.]]
* BerserkButton: Never take the piss out of K9. ''Ever''.
* BigDamnHeroes: K9, of all things, saves everyone by application of laser blasts.
* BrickJoke: A brick thrown thirty years ago finally lands; when we last saw Sarah Jane, she suspected the Doctor had left her in the wrong part of Britain. Turns out that, in fact, [[http://goo.gl/maps/nhHmv he had.]]
* BuffySpeak: "Forget the shooty dog thing." Said by [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Giles]].
* TheBusCameBack: Sarah Jane Smith has been gone for thirty years.
* ButtMonkey: Lampshaded, as Mickey compares Rose to Sarah Jane, and himself to K9 in their relationship with the Doctor...
-->'''Mickey:''' (''realization dawns'') I'm the tin dog.
* CaptainObvious:
-->'''Mickey:''' Okay, no time to explain, we need to get inside the school. Do you have, like, I don't know, a lock picking device?\\
'''K9''': We are in a car.\\
'''Mickey:''' Maybe a drill attachment?\\
'''K9:''' We are in a car.\\
'''Mickey:''' Fat lot of good you are!\\
'''K9:''' We are in a car.\\
'''Mickey Smith:''' [[TheLastHorseCrossesTheFinishLine Wait a second]]. [[CarFu We're in a car.]]\\
'''K9:''' Affirmative.
* CarFu: As K9 so aptly put it...
--> '''K9:''' We are in a car.
* CargoShip: Mentioned by Sarah Jane. [[invoked]]
-->'''Sarah Jane:''' Tell me, does he still...''stroke'' parts of the TARDIS?\\
'''Rose:''' Yes, yes! I'm like, "Do you two want to be left alone?"
* CatFight: Not the physical {{Fanservice}}-type, but Rose and Sarah Jane engage in a verbal pissing contest through much of the episode. In the end, the girls come to a (very giggly) compromise when they start comparing the things about the Doctor that bug them which in turn makes the poor Doctor wonder if them getting along isn't even ''worse'' for him, since now they seem to be in conspiracy against him. As Mickey so aptly puts it:
-->'''Mickey:''' Oh mate, {{the missus and the ex}}! Welcome to every man's worst nightmare.
* ContinuityCavalcade: Sarah Jane and Rose trying to one-up one another. Sarah Jane wins.
-->'''Sarah Jane:''' I saw things you wouldn’t believe!\\
'''Rose:''' Try me.\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Mummies.]]\\
'''Rose:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E3TheUnquietDead I’ve met ghosts.]]\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robots.]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion Lots of robots.]]\\
'''Rose:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon Slitheen.]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree In Downing Street.]]\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E3DeathToTheDaleks Dal]][[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks eks!]]\\
'''Rose:''' (''smugly'') [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays Met the Emperor.]]\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E2PlanetOfEvil Anti-matter monsters!]]\\
'''Rose:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild Gas-mask]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances zombies!]]\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Real living dinosaurs!]]\\
'''Rose:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw Real living werewolf!]]\\
'''Sarah Jane:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons THE. LOCH NESS. MONSTER!]]\\
'''Rose:''' (''stunned'') Seriously?
%%* ComputerEqualsMonitor
* CreativeSterility: The Krillitanes require the human children to crack the paradigm because it requires ''imagination''.
* CutTheJuice: After getting inside the school, Mickey finds all the kids typing away. After being unable to get their attention, he finds the plug, looks around as though expecting a more dramatic solution, and then just pulls it out. He gets a few sparks thrown at him, but that's it.
* DeadlyEuphemism: "Taking an early lunch" indeed.
* DeadpanSnarker: K9 regularly snarks. It's made ''more'' awesome by the fact he's a ''robot dog'' and ''not meant to show emotion at all''.
-->'''Mr Finch:''' You ''bad dog''.\\
'''K9:''' Affirmative.
* EnforcedMethodActing: To get Music/BilliePiper and Creator/ElisabethSladen to laugh uncontrollably, Creator/DavidTennant drew a ridiculous moustache on his face with a marker pen. That's why the shots of Rose and Sarah Jane laughing are distinctly different shots from those of the Doctor's befuddled reaction.
* EvilTeacher: Mr Finch and the new staff are exploiting and eating the children.
* EvilPlan: One more villain with a god complex. After incorporating so many species, the Krillitane want to become gods.
* FailedASpotCheck: Mickey asks K9 for lock picks to get past locked glass doors.
-->'''K9:''' [[CarFu We are in a car.]]
* FandomNod: A reference to the Fandom debate over whether those who travel with the Doctor are "assistants" or "companions". The media largely used "assistant" during the classic series, although, since the reboot, this is hardly heard any more.
-->'''Sarah Jane:''' I can tell it's been a long time, your assistants are getting younger.\\
'''Rose:''' I'm not his assistant!
%%* TheGoodOldBritishComp: Deffrey Vale.
* HeroicBSOD: Mickey upon realising that he's their "tin dog".
* HeroicSacrifice: Poor K9 is lost to the explosion. Since he's a machine, The Doctor repairs him.
* HilariousInHindsight / HarsherInHindsight: When Sarah Jane mentions that the Doctor has regenerated, he says he's done it "half a dozen times" since he last saw her. At the time the episode was broadcast, it was taken to mean that the last time he saw her was when she left the the Fourth Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear "The Hand of Fear"]], which people considered odd, given that she met his fifth incarnation in [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]]. Following the reveal during the show's 50th anniversary, that line takes a whole new meaning.
* InfantImmortality: Averted. Within the first two minutes of the episode, Finch kills and eats an orphaned girl no older than thirteen.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Sarah and the Doctor's reaction to seeing the other once again. Creator/DavidTennant admitted the reason he's grinning like a madman throughout the episode is because he got to act along side Creator/ElisabethSladen, who he grew up watching on the show.
* MeaningfulEcho: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]], the Ninth Doctor said of Cassandra "Everything has its time, and everything dies." The line is repeated almost word-for-word by Sarah Jane to the Doctor in this episode.
* TheMissusAndTheEx: TropeNamer. Sarah Jane's is the Doctor's former companion, Rose is the current one. Both of them are in love with the Doctor.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: AvertedTrope. It's important to remember in the wake of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' that this wasn't a PDP for that show. In fact, Sarah Jane's appearance wasn't supposed to lead to a spin-off, but was more to link New ''Who'' with the old show (to show that it was an extension of the old show, not a new version of it). The fact that the episode was successful and RTD decided to create a Sarah Jane spin-off was just a very happy accident.
* RealityWarper: What Mr Finch seeks to become through the Skasis Paradigm because it will give him that power.
* ScaryBlackMan: One of the Krillitane poses as one of these. Notably, [[MorphicResonance its true form is darker than the others]].
* ScrewLearningIHavePhlebotinum: The Krillitane oil doesn't ''just'' make the kids smarter, it also dumps a load of knowledge into their heads, such as how to travel through time. It's also possible that those computers they are mesmerized by are teaching them.
* StockNessMonster: During the argument between Sarah Jane and Rose over who endured the most "space stuff", Sarah Jane mentions she went up against [[PunctuatedForEmphasis THE. LOCH NESS. MONSTER!!!!]] Rose couldn't top it.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Mr Finch exploits this in his attempt to recruit The Doctor: how many more people he could save if he were a RealityWarper.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Mr Finch gives the Doctor a sales pitch Mephistopheles would be proud of.
* WhatTheHellHero: Rose, to the Doctor, re. leaving Sarah Jane.
* WhamLine: When Mr Finch catches the Doctor off guard, instead of planning to keep all the power for himself, he offers to share it with the Doctor:
-->'''Mr Finch:''' Think of the changes that could be made if this power was used for good.\\
'''The Doctor:''' What, by someone like you?\\
'''Mr Finch:''' No. By someone like you.
* WhamShot: A strictly personal one for Sarah. She heads to a school at night to do some {{Intrepid Report|er}}ing about some eerily good grades and child disappearances. After [[NothingIsScarier skulking through empty hallways]] for a few minutes, she happens upon a janitor's closet. A closet with a big blue box she hasn't seen in ''thirty years''. The look on her face is priceless.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: This episode was the first time the series openly questioned why the Doctor leaves his companions (or lets them go):
-->'''The Doctor:''' I don't age. I regenerate. But humans decay. You wither and you die. Imagine watching that happen to someone [[CannotSpitItOut you...]]\\
'''Rose:''' What, Doctor?\\
'''The Doctor:''' You can spend the rest of your life with me. But I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on, alone. That's the curse of the Time Lords.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Any student who doesn't measure up goes [[ImAHumanitarian missing]].
* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/AnthonyHead played warlord Grayvorn in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' "Excelis" StoryArc, meeting the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors (as well as Franchise/IrisWildthyme and ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'').
* {{Zeerust}}: K9's dated look is lampshaded by Rose as "disco". The Doctor finds this ''very'' offensive.
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