- Kaagh obtains the scroll after threatening Luke and it becomes apparent that he and Mrs. Wormwood are an alliance working to use the scroll to obtain galactic domination. The pair take Luke to a stone circle at Whitehaven, which contains a portal. If the scroll is inserted it will reactivate Horath. Mrs. Wormwood tries to persuade Luke to do this, promising him the galaxy, with him as her son, but he refuses, claiming that he only has one mother. Kaagh attempts to double-cross and kill Mrs.Wormwood and both are sucked into the portal. Sarah Jane uses her sonic lipstick to destroy the scroll.—don @ minifie-1
- The Bane have trapped Clyde and Luke in the driveway of 13 Bannerman Road. In the back garden, Mrs. Wormwood recharges her energy ring weapon using Kaagh's gauntlet. The Sontaran goes back into hiding while Mrs. Wormwood goes to the front and kills the Bane enforcers with her ring, saving the boys just as Sarah Jane, Rani, and the Brigadier return. They decide they need a place to hide out as UNIT will likely be right behind them after their break in at the Black Archive. Rani suggests her mother's flower shop as the last place UNIT will look.
At the shop, Rani and Clyde go to the back room to make tea while they wait out UNIT's search, and Wormwood asks to see the Tunguska Scroll. Sarah Jane thanks her for saving Luke and Clyde, but points out that her containment field should have drained her ring's power. The only way she could have recharged it so quickly is with outside help. Realizing the ruse is up, Wormwood calls in Kaagh, who emerges from the back room with Clyde and Rani at gunpoint. He reveals that after his encounter with Sarah Jane, Clyde, Luke, and Maria before she moved to America, he could not return to his home planet out of shame for his defeat at their hands. He turned to mercenary work, where he was hired by the Bane to acquire the Consciousness of Horath. Since both he and Mrs. Wormwood desire revenge against Sarah Jane, they secretly teamed up to double cross the Bane and resurrect Horath and rule the galaxy themselves. Wormwood demands the scroll, threatening the teenagers and the Brigadier, and Sarah Jane hands it over. After admiring their victory, Kaagh prepares to kill the group anyway, but Luke stands up to him and Wormwood, demanding they take what they came for and leave. Admiring his courage, Wormwood presents a counter offer: Luke will come with her and Kaagh as their hostage, and they will spare his mother and friends. Sarah Jane and the others protest, but after Kaagh nearly shoots them Luke agrees to her terms. Wormwood promises that Luke will be safe as long as Sarah does not interfere with their plans, and Kaagh takes him away. Sarah Jane vows to find a way to stop them, and Mrs. Wormwood knocks them all unconscious with her ring weapon.
Gita comes knocking on Sarah Jane's door to check up on Rani, and having no answer goes to the side door to finds Major Kilburne skulking. She good-naturedly invites him over for tea, and he claims that he is Sarah Jane's nephew. He asks them to not tell her about him so that he can pay her a surprise visit.
Mrs. Wormwood, Kaagh, and Luke arrive at an abandoned factory to retrieve Kaagh's ship. The Sontaran goes to check the area is secure while Wormwood points out the desolate landscape as typical of Earth. Luke defends it as his home, and Wormwood claims his development has been held back by being isolated on a single planet. She derides Sarah Jane for not letting him reach his true potential, saying she made him for more. He confronts this, saying while she may have created him, he, like Kaagh, has been made into what he is by experiencing life, regardless of whatever he was originally bred for. He refuses to help them, but Kaagh points out that as their leverage, he is already serving his purpose of keeping Sarah Jane at bay. They make their way inside to Kaagh's spaceship and he retrieves the Consciousness of Horath. Wormwood declares that with the universe at her fingertips and Luke by her side, she will have completed her revenge against Sarah Jane. Luke tells her that Sarah Jane will find a way to best both of them once again. Wormwood and Kaagh insert the Consciousness of Horath into the scroll, which glows with writing along its sides, the guide to Horath's body on Earth. Sarah Jane, Clyde, Rani, and the Brig all come to consciousness in Bloomin' Lovely. They resolve to rescue Luke and get back the scroll before it's too late.
As the scroll searches for Horath, Luke hypothesizes that rather than being a map, the scroll is a signal receiver. Wormwood applauds his deductive skills, and explains that Horath was not a creature, but rather a cybernetic organism. A living computer that was capable of spontaneous destruction and creation on a universal scale. She expresses her regret at not finding Luke sooner, calling him her only true kin, the perfect human. He reminds her that she is not his true mother, but she disagrees, saying that he is the only one worthy to inherit the power of the galaxy as her son, as she plans to leave Kaagh behind. As a gesture of goodwill, she hands Luke the scroll. He immediately bolts with it and attempts to escape. Wormwood sends Kaagh after him, and chase ensues through the facility. Luke narrowly avoids being shot and caught in an explosion as the sontaran goes after him with murderous rage. Kaagh finally manages to corner the boy and reclaim the scroll, but Wormwood intervenes before he can execute Luke. After this, the scroll finishes finding Horath's location.
At Bannerman Road, Sarah Jane and the others try to see if UNIT are waiting for them. Clyde volunteers to scout ahead since UNIT won't recognize him, and gives the all-clear. However, upon entering the house, they find Major Kilburne. He pulls his gun and orders them to hand over the scroll. Rani tells him its been stolen from them, and the distraction is enough for Clyde to knock the gun out of his hands and subdue him. The Brig and Rani watch him while Sarah Jane goes to the attic and has Mr. Smith use her watch scans of the scroll to track it down. Meanwhile downstairs, Kilburne reveals himself to be another Bane agent after Horath. He attacks, but the Brig stops him with a dart hidden in his cane. Mr. Smith locates the scroll headed toward a neolithic burial site known as Whitebarrow, a Stonehenge-like place where Horath must be entombed. They borrow Gita's van to race there while the Brig stays behind to help UNIT take the major into custody.
Wormwood, Kaagh, and Luke get to Whitebarrow, and upon finding out off-worlders cannot pass through the invisible barrier guarding the keyhole in the center, the aliens force Luke to take the scroll and insert it into the center stone. As the extra-dimensional portal begins to open, Sarah Jane and company redouble their efforts to make it in time.
While Wormwood basks, Kaagh realizes that she plans to make Luke her heir and challenges the deal they made to rule together as equals. Wormwood incapacitates him with her ring, and invites Luke to seize his destiny as her son. Just then, Sarah Jane, Clyde, and Rani make it to the monument. Luke returns to Sarah Jane, and Clyde tries help the injured Kaagh. Wormwood once again offers Luke the chance to join her. He firmly states that Sarah Jane is his real mother, and Sarah explains to Wormwood that she will never understand motherhood because she does not have love inside her heart. Wormwood agrees, but before she can kill them, Kaagh, in an effort to redeem his warrior blood, charges her and knocks them both into the yawning portal. The discharge from Mrs. Wormwood's ring causes the portal to explode and collapse, leaving only the scroll behind. Sarah Jane destroys the scroll so that no one will ever find Horath, and praises Kaagh for being the first sontaran she's ever met to have saved the universe rather than trying to destroy it.
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