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So there's a certain [[The Good Old British Comp|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 [[Anthony Stewart Head]], whose hobbies include looking [[Obviously Evil]], [[Evil Is Hammy|cackling maniacally]], [[Chewing the Scenery]] and 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 Perfectly Ordinary Cafeteria Worker. 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
Somebody ''else'''s weirdness detector has pinged, too: [[Intrepid Reporter]] Sarah Jane Smith ([[Elisabeth Sladen]]), 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 recognizes her but pretends not to, only to come clean when Sarah Jane sneaks into the school at night and finds where he's parked the TARDIS. Here the picture [[Sand in My Eyes|goes all swimmy and blurry for some reason]].
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By the time it clears up again, the Doctor has provisionally identified the cafeteria's chips as the source of the kids' mysterious intelligence. K-9 (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
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 regular human anymore. 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 K-9 and realizes that he's not much more than the team's "tin dog".
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He vanishes again, but leaves his beloved Sarah with two things: badly-needed closure, and a new K-9 model. However, this isn't the last we've seen of Sarah Jane, and she'll return in series 4.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: We have Anthony Stewart Head [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|once again working at a creepy school]].
* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: This is "The One Where Sarah Jane Comes Back." Any other details are inconsequential.
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