"Hello?" "Who's there?" "(GASPING) The nun!" "Help me!" "She's here!" "The nun!" "The nun!" "My Nan and Mrs Randall go way back." "She used to live next door." "Nan says there's no way Mrs Randall makes things up." "SARAH JANE:" "It's not just her that's been scared by this ghostly nun?" "CLYDE:" "Yeah, always at night, in their rooms." "Nora saw her first." "She'd been to the loo." "Dreadful trouble she has with her waterworks." "Three or four times every night." "She comes out of the bathroom and there she is." "The nun, by her chest of drawers." "What happened?" "She fainted clean away like a schoolgirl." "No constitution at all." "Surprised, the amount of times she's been married." "Since then most of us have seen her." "Them that's not too ga-ga not to notice." "SARAH JANE:" "Thank you for your help." "So, will there be a photographer?" "I was in all the papers once." "Miss Ealing of 1 951 ." "I have to talk to the manager first." "I've got a few little jobs for Clyde to do." "Your grandma said you wouldn't mind." "(WOMAN SPEAKING ON RADIO)" "Delicious." "If he hadn't been spending so much time in the office" "then I wouldn't have thought of salsa classes." "Salsa?" "Ivan gets all possessive and next thing I know Carlos is on the floor with a bloody nose." "Carlos?" "My salsa teacher." "Ivan's got the push?" "Don't get your hopes up." "Just a nudge." "To let him know what he stands to lose." "And you're planning on staying here, are you?" "Where else am I going to go?" "Mum!" "The Colonel won't believe us." "But who would?" "Better to keep mum." "Yes, better that way." "Are you all right?" "Yes." "Quite all right, thank you." "Are you one of the Colonel's chaps?" "The Colonel?" "No, I..." "I'm Bea Nelson-Stanley." "I'm looking for my husband, the Professor." "He said to meet him between the paws of the..." "What do you call it?" "The Sphinx." "The Sphinx?" "Yes." "That's in Egypt." "You're the boy in the window." "My name's Luke." "We were visiting Mrs Randall." "She says this place is haunted by a nun." "Have you seen her?" "Yes, I have." "And she's no ghost." "There's something different about you." "Oh, don't be afraid." "I've seen unusual people before." "Perhaps you can help me." "I understand that you're looking for a good story." "Might I suggest you try Westminster." "You don't believe Lavender Lawns is haunted?" "One of the old dears has a nightmare, tells her friend she's seen a ghost, then next thing, they've all seen one." "It's hysteria." "It's as simple as that." "Perhaps." "Or maybe it's a cry for attention." "We have to be quick in case anyone is watching." "Who's watching?" "The..." "Oh, for goodness' sake." "I have these gaps." "Hold this." "I knew they might find me one day but I couldn't be parted from it." "Foolish old woman." "What is it?" "Never you mind." "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." "Who?" "Put it away and promise me." "I promise." "But who's after it?" "Do I know you?" "What?" "Anything I can help with?" "You and maths?" "I don't think so." "At school the only figures I was interested in was boys' phone numbers." "We could do something together later." "Go into town, do some maths on my credit card?" "I'd like to but I said I'd go over to Sarah Jane's." "Sarah Jane's?" "Maria, come on, I'm your mum." "What are you doing gallivanting with those weirdos?" "Sarah Jane and Luke aren't weirdos." "It's weird how much time you spend with her." "And there's something about that boy." "He's just not right." "You don't know anything about them!" "I'm just trying to protect you." "I don't need you to protect me." "Come on, darling, every girl needs her mum." "How come you walked out on me?" "Maria!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "Why is it old people want you to do everything for them?" "Turn the mattress over." "Move things around." "Take that spider out the bath." "I came here looking for spooks." "Everyone gets old." "Even you." "Not me." "The way technology's moving, by the time I'm 40 I can get my brain put in a robot and live forever." "Where have you been?" "Just looking around." "Let's get going." "What's the story then?" "Is this place haunted?" "I don't know." "But there's something about it here I don't like." "What's the problem?" "She doesn't like me seeing Sarah Jane and Luke, like she knows anything about them!" "We'll be back to normal in a few days." "She'll be back with Ivan." "If he doesn't see sense and do a runner while she's gone." "Doesn't it bother you?" "Maria, your mum and me, that's all over." "Well, that's great for you, isn't it?" "Some solicitor gives you a paper and it's all over!" "She's always going to be my mum!" "I know that." "Of course she is." "I want her to get to know my friends and maybe I don't want her to go back to Ivan." "But that's never going to happen, is it?" "Because you've got a bit of paper!" "I've come to see Sister Helena." "Mr Smith, I need you." "MR SMITH:" "Sarah Jane, what can I do for you?" "The Lavender Lawns Rest Home is apparently haunted by a nun." "Access central land registry database." "See if anything supports the possibility." "Of a haunting?" "Just run the check." "Very well." "Doesn't Mr Smith believe in ghosts?" "Not as such." "Neither do I." "There is no record of any past ecclesiastical building on the site." "So no obvious reason for the home to be haunted by a nun?" "I assume you mean the projection of energies imprinted on psychic-assimilating matter." "Obviously." "Come again?" "Events get recorded on their surroundings then they get played back." "Are you aware that Luke has brought an unidentified element of alien technology?" "What?" "No way did that come off the shopping channel." "Give it to me." "Mrs Nelson-Stanley gave it me." "I had to keep it a secret." "I'm sorry." "Was that wrong?" "I don't know." "Mr Smith, is it safe?" "Insufficient data." "I'd like to carry out a detailed analysis." "There's a lot of sensitive equipment in here." "Sorry." "So what's going on?" "Some old biddy's given Luke an alien gizmo." "She said the nun wasn't a ghost." "I'd better go talk to Mrs Nelson-Stanley." "Do you want to come with me?" "You two stay here." "But she gave it to me." "And I brought you in on this." "No arguments." "You all right?" "(WHISPERS) Mum's back." "It isn't like Maria." "She never used to be such a drama queen." "That's another gene she managed to give the slip." "She'll be over there, with that Sally Jane." "We all need a friend." "You've got your teacher." "There's nothing going on." "I've got too good a thing with Ivan." "You hadn't with me and Maria?" "If you want to pick a fight, do it some other day." "I'm too worried." "You're worried now." "What's that supposed to mean?" "Why didn't you think before you dumped yourself on us today?" "It isn't your home." "You took our home apart six months ago." "Showing up like that, it has consequences." "And you're sure it was the Talisman?" "Absolutely." "I saw her give it to the boy." "Why would she give it to him unless she knew we were looking for it?" "You told us she barely knows her own name." "I know where you can find him." "All the same, we have paid you well for your assistance, Mrs Gribbins, but this just complicates everything." "The Abbess will want to see you." "The Abbess?" "(CLEARS THROAT)" "(SCREAMING)" "Poor Bea, she can't really tell you anything." "It's the Alzheimer's, you know." "Such a tragedy." "After the life she led." "She's been everywhere." "Is this her husband?" "Archaeologist, so the nurses reckon." "They went all over the world together." "What happened to him?" "Died five years ago." "Bea started to lose it after that." "That's when she washed up here." "The Talisman!" "Talisman?" "I thought you wanted to talk to her about the ghost." "Bea, you've got visitors." "Do I know you?" "I'm sorry, I'm not very good with faces." "This is Sarah Jane Smith." "She's a reporter." "Oh, it's my husband you want to talk to then." "It's you I need to talk to." "Where you got this talisman?" "That's my Edgar." "MARIA:" "Your husband?" "Yes." "He used to say the Sontarans were the silliest-looking race in the galaxy." "What did you say?" "She's always going on about spacemen." "She's seen Sontarans!" "What's a Sontaran?" "The silliest race in the galaxy!" "That's what Edgar used to say." "Like a huge potato with...a ray gun." "Quite nasty blighters, they were." "Yes, Bea, they are!" "You're absolutely right." "You shouldn't encourage her." "She'll go on about monsters, especially the Gorgon." "I saw that years ago at the flicks with Christopher Lee and Barbara Shelley." "Hello." "Hello, I'm Sister Helena from St Agnes Abbey." "Who might you be?" "He's Luke, I'm Clyde." "Which one of you were at Lavender Lawns today and left with a gift from one of the ladies?" "We don't know what you're talking about." "How do you know?" "Can it, Luke!" "Why are you looking for the Talisman?" "Luke!" "You don't understand what you've got." "You're not getting your hands on it." "Give me the Talisman!" "Hello, Sister." "Collection, is it?" "Roofs don't fix themselves." "That's one miracle we're still working on." "I always give to needy causes." "You could say it's a good habit of mine." "I was after Maria." "You haven't seen her, have you?" "She's gone out with Sarah Jane." "Look, do me a favour." "When they get back, just tell her I was looking." "Of course." "Cheers." "When weirdo nuns turn up on your doorstep asking about freaky glowing alien gizmos, one thing you never do is tell them you got one." "I didn't." "We should call Mum." "Better still, we should go and tell her." "Isn't phoning quicker?" "Sure." "Or we can get back in on the action." "So if Bea's wearing the Talisman, and it's alien, and she's seen Sontarans, then she isn't talking about horror movies, is she?" "Aliens have been coming to Earth for centuries." "Maybe Bea's adventures with her husband involved a lot more than just pots and bones." "This was our song." "Edgar had such a lovely voice." "Did he?" "I'm sure he was quite a man." "It's so sad." "The things she must have seen and now everyone thinks she's crazy." "Who knows where any of us will end up?" "But someone doesn't think you're crazy." "Someone knows what that Talisman is and they want it." "The Talisman?" "Yes, the Talisman." "I promise I'll believe you." "Sometimes people have thought I've been mad." "But I've seen things, too." "Edgar unearthed it in a dig in... in..." "Syria." "He gave it to me and he had no idea what it was." "He had no idea." "So what is it?" "They mustn't find it!" "They mustn't find it!" "Who, Bea?" "Who do you mean?" "The sisters!" "The nuns?" "They protect her." "Protect who?" "The Gorgon." "It's all in here, I know it is." "A Gorgon, snakes for hair and turning people to stone?" "It's a fairy story, isn't it?" "A Greek myth." "There's a big difference." "Incidentally, for future reference, even some fairytales have a foundation in fact." "Here it is." ""There were three Gorgons." "The hideous daughters of Phorcys the sea god and Ceto." ""Stheno, Euryale and Medusa." That's right." "But in some versions there was just one, Medusa." "And she wasn't always ugly." "She was a beautiful nymph with golden hair, but Poseidon fell in love with her and jealous Athena turned her into a Gorgon." "MARIA: "Medusa was killed by Perseus as a challenge."" "The Greeks were always dishing out challenges." "It must be a man thing." "But this one had to be a tough call." "Warrior after warrior tried to slay the Gorgons, but all had been turned to stone." "Because they had to look at them." "Perfect defence mechanism." "Once you laid eyes on a Gorgon there was no escape." "Your body was turning to stone." "There was nothing you could do." "One glance is all it took." "Terrifying." "Does Bea believe Gorgons actually existed?" "I think she believes one still does." "(TYRES SCREECHING)" "Oh, no, it's Sister Sinister again." "Don't run away, Luke." "I won't hurt you." "I just want to have a little chat." "What about?" "Don't listen to her." "No way is she a nun." "Whatever else would I be?" "I don't know." "But I bet you ain't got legs under them robes, just a bunch of tentacles." "Your friend watches too much TV." "I think we could talk sensibly without him." "We'll go to the abbey." "I don't think so." "You're safe." "We're not going anywhere." "It's not an open invitation." "Listen to your friend and you'll be in far more danger, I guarantee." "But I can help you." "I want to help you." "The Talisman is dangerous?" "More than you can imagine." "No way!" "Luke!" "Clyde!" "Clyde!" "Clyde!" "It's an alien?" "Remember what I said." "Aliens have been coming here for thousands of years." "And one's survived all this time?" "Perhaps." "How can it turn people to stone just by looking horrible?" "I doubt that's quite how it works." "Hello?" "CLYDE:" "Luke has been nabbed by a nun." "What?" "I warned him not to talk to that nun!" "I tried to stop it but it just happened so fast!" "Calm down." "She was after the Talisman." "Where has she taken Luke?" "She's from some abbey." "Obviously." "Think, which one?" "I've been trying to!" "Some woman's name." "The old lady detective..." "Miss Marple?" "Agatha Christie?" "St Agatha?" "Agnes!" "St Agnes Abbey!" "Get in the car!" "Hello, my name is Felicity Barnes." "I'm doing a story on religion in the 21 st century." "Is there anyone I can talk to?" "Oh, perhaps Sister Helena?" "So much for fake ID." "Now what?" "Where do we go?" "I don't know." "What do nuns do with kids they kidnap?" "Let's start here." "What if it's in there?" "This Gorgon thing." "Just keep your eyes closed and hold my hand." "(GORGON HISSING)" "Luke!" "Are you all right?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "What do you think you're doing getting into a stranger's car?" "For an intelligent boy, I can't believe how stupid you are!" "I didn't just get in..." "Luke was never in any danger." "It seemed that bringing him here was the fastest way of attracting your attention." "Although your other two young friends were a surprise." "We found Mrs Gribbins." "She's been turned to stone." "Mrs Gribbins always was a useless old fossil." "Are you really protecting a Gorgon here?" "A creature with writhing serpents for hair?" "Those melodramatic Greeks." "They never could resist embellishing a story." "But, yes, as you've seen, the myth isn't entirely without foundation." "(GORGON HISSING)" "But it's an alien, right?" "The Gorgons travelled here 3000 years ago." "Once there was three, now only one." "A real live Gorgon?" "Generations of our sisterhood have protected the Gorgons down the centuries." "What happened to the other two?" "One was killed when our sisterhood served Demeter, when the key was stolen." "The key to whatever brought the Gorgons to Earth." "And the sisters have been searching for it ever since." "Did you get close once, maybe 50 years ago?" "Was that when the second Gorgon died?" "Professor Nelson-Stanley and his wife." "But you have the key now, Miss Smith." "I'm sure you will be more reasonable." "I wouldn't bet on it." "Kidnapping, turning people to stone." "Not the kind of things that make me feel reasonable." "Sarah Jane, 3000 years is a long time, even for a being with the Gorgon's life span." "She is old." "The Talisman opens a portal to the Gorgon's world." "She only wants to go home to die." "You can understand that, can't you?" "Why should I believe you?" "Miss Smith, you have no choice." "All right." "We'll get it." "The boys stay here." "No!" "They'll be perfectly safe, as long as you don't try to deceive us." "(GORGON HISSING)" "We can't give them the Talisman." "But at least we're on my territory now." "We are, but they've still got the boys." "The girl stays with me." "Move." "Sorry." "Analysis incomplete." "Shh!" "Keep your voice down!" "Is this because I'm picking up a hostile alien intelligence?" "Yes, and it's about to meet another one." "Doesn't she speak English?" "The Gorgon doesn't need to speak." "She's telepathic?" "Is that how she controls you?" "Looking after a Gorgon isn't exactly normal for nuns, is it?" "I'd shut up if I were you or the Abbess might show you her idea of solving a problem like Maria." "Is this what you've spent 3000 years looking for?" "The key to the portal." "What do you think you're doing?" "Either let my son and his friend go, or I will destroy the Talisman." "I warned you, Miss Smith." "Now look on the face of the Gorgon and feel your flesh turn to stone." "Don't look, Maria..." "Hello?" "The door was open..." "Dad!" "Dad!" "We have the key." "Rejoice, sisters, the Gorgons shall be free." "Mother Abbess." "She is weakening." "SISTER HELENA:" "We must open the portal as soon as possible." "It's killed these people and put them on show." "MARIA:" "Is there a way to save him?" "The Talisman." "It is the key to the door between this world and theirs." "It returned me to flesh and blood." "Have you got it?" "There's loads of them." "They're everywhere." "(CHANTING)" "The Gorgons have chosen a new host to lead its domination of Earth." "You, Miss Smith." "DVD Rip by DrMatt 2008"