THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES 4
EPISODE 3
by Phil Ford
Shooting Script
22nd March, 2010
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1 EXT. ASYLUM -- DAY 1
FX SHOT: DMP - Establishing shot. A big old house with
large overgrown grounds surrounded by high fencing. The
place looks empty and semi-derelict. There's a an old
faded sign - ST JUDE'S HOSPITAL. It's faded - over it has
been nailed another sign - PRIVATE PROPERTY, KEEP OUT!
But even this has been hanging there for decades.
There are a lot of Keep Out signs.
But they don't deter GILL, a teenage girl. With a glance
around her, she is slipping through a gap in the fence,
She's about 17, dressed in jeans and a biker's jacket. No
girly-girl. She can clearly handle herself. But she keeps
low as she runs towards the derelict hospital, as if she's
expecting someone to take a shot at her.
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2 INT. ASYLUM CORRIDOR. -- DAY 2
GILL is coming through a window. Still wary, exploring.
On edge.
This place doesn't look like anyone has set foot in it in
decades.
She continues to explore.
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3 INT. ASYLUM. VAULT CORRIDOR -- DAY 3
GILL moves cautiously down another corridor. From her
jacket pocket she takes something - a small ACTIVATOR DISC,
its covered in alien runes.
FX SHOT: It starts to glow, dimly.
She's found what she's looking for. She holds the device
out in front of her.
FX SHOT: The disc glows brighter
Suddenly a whole section of wall slides aside - revealing
a massive VAULT DOOR.
Gill smiles.
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4 INT. DREAD'S BASE -- DAY 4
A subterranean chamber somewhere in the asylum. Dark,
filled with alien technology - but it's dusty, covered in
cobwebs. No-one has set foot here in a very long time.
(CONTINUED)
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At one side of the room - three man-sized metal caskets.
Cables and pipes running into them.
Suddenly a light begins to flash above each casket.
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5 INT. ASYLUM. VAULT CORRIDOR -- DAY 5
GILL closes on the vault door - it's massive, the kind of
thing they'd keep gold bullion in. She strokes the door -
almost reverential.
Gill then takes the disc and fits it into a recess clearly
made for it.
It begins to revolve. Lights begin to come on around the
door.
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6 INT. DREAD'S BASE -- DAY 6
With a burst of gas the locks on the three caskets release
and the lids open just a little.
CLOSE on one of them - as a man's hand extends from the
casket. A flash of white cuff and black jacket sleeve -
as the lid is pushed aside. Lots of gas.
Black shoes hit the floor. Three pairs - making their way
out of there.
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7 INT. ASYLUM. VAULT CORRIDOR -- DAY 7
On GILL's face - we can see that she's ready for a big
moment. Something she's been waiting for.
Anxious, she pulls on the door - won't open.
GILL
What?!
She tries again. Still nothing. She starts to lose it.
GILL (CONT'D)
Open! You've got to open!
And then she sees a second recess...
She looks at the alien disc in the door, realizing with
horror -
GILL (CONT'D)
Two access discs? *
And then a noise - she turns around -
(CONTINUED)
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Three men at the end of the corridor all dressed in black
suits, white shirts and black ties. All with dark glasses.
All tall, thin, with whitish skin. Two have dark hair,
their leader is ash blond.
MISTER DREAD and his MEN IN BLACK.
MISTER DREAD
Prepare to be incinerated.
And the three raise their left hands - and remove them.
Revealing laser blasters.
Gill grabs the disc and runs for it!
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TITLES
8 EXT. MARTIAN SURFACE -- DAY 8
It's a low-angle view of an alien landscape - the cameraview
of a robot probe moving across the Martian surface.
MISSION CONTROL (O.S.)
Oh boy, it's looking like a
beautiful morning on Mars today.
On-screen graphics roll down one side of the screen, showing
surface temperature and the probe's Martian latitude and
longitude, battery charge, and other info...
MISSION CONTROL (CONT'D)
Mars Probe systems operational.
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9 INT./EXT SARAH JANE'S ATTIC/MARTIAN SURFACE -- DAY 9
And we find SARAH JANE and CLYDE watching the Mars footage
on MISTER SMITH's screen. It's a split screen, one side
shows the footage from NASA's PoV with numbers and text
etc, the other side the clean footage direct from the probe
to Mister Smith.
MISSION CONTROL (O.S.)
Continuing on programmed route.
As RANI comes through the door, bursting with news -
RANI
Hi there! Guess what!
She sees Mars on Mister Smith's screen, but - *
LUKE *
Hey, Rani! How are you? *
And we find LUKE webcaming on Sarah Jane's computer screen - *
(CONTINUED)
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RANI *
Luke! Great thanks. *
And Mars is almost forgotten - *
RANI (CONT'D)
How's Oxford?
LUKE *
It's so brilliant! *
Meanwhile - Sarah Jane and Clyde watching the Mars footage. *
SARAH JANE *
Can you two keep it down? We need *
to time this to the second. *
RANI *
Sorry. Is that Mars? *
Clyde is loving it. *
CLYDE *
It's a feed from the latest Mars *
robot probe. Sarah Jane is about *
to upset NASA big time. *
MISTER SMITH *
Probe will be in sight of the target *
in twenty seconds. *
LUKE *
So how's everybody at school? *
RANI *
Oh, you know. Clyde's still winding *
my dad up. Those flatmates working *
out okay? *
CLYDE *
He says they just live off curry *
and baked beans. Must be like *
living with the Slitheen! *
Clyde, Rani and Luke laugh. Sarah Jane remains intent on *
Mister Smith's screen. *
(CONTINUED)
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SARAH JANE *
Get ready, Mister Smith.
MISTER SMITH
Approaching point of visibility.
FX SHOT: And on screen, on the horizon - the tip of what
looks like a pyramid -
MISTER SMITH (CONT'D)
Jamming signal now!
And suddenly the NASA half of the screen breaks up with
static.
MISSION CONTROL (O.S.)
Where did the signal go? We've
lost contact with the probe.
Sarah Jane smiles.
FX SHOT: They see the pyramid on their half of the screen.
SARAH JANE
Well done, Mister Smith.
And then the other half of the screen blanks out too.
LUKE
Looks like NASA just lost yet
another Mars probe.
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