The TAO Connection
Story: The TAO Connection – Sarah Jane Smith Audio Adventures, Episode 2Synopsis: Sarah and Josh visit Yorkshire to investigate the death of a young homeless man
Sarah Moments:
• Sarah invites Josh over as an excuse to have him do her grocery shopping
• She persuades Nat to find out what the police are hiding about Toby Davenport
• Sarah corrects Nat’s grammar
• She has an Administrator of Intelligence of C19 at her beck and call
• She meets Claudia in secret, and is put on to the trail of Will Butley
• Sarah and Josh go to visit Butley at his country home in the Yorkshire Dales, but they can’t get into the exclusive clinic because their names aren’t on the list
• Sarah talks on her mobile while driving!
• Sarah and Josh meet a very well-preserved Taoist monk
• Sarah sneaks into the clinic as a cleaner, called Daisy Grigson – with an accent!!
• Sarah persuades Josh to investigate the locked wing
• Sarah kisses Josh!
• Sarah sneaks into the locked wing, but has to hide under a bed when Nurse Jephson shows up
• Sarah works out that The Essence is made of people’s blood
• Sarah and Josh spy on the clinic at night and see a stretcher being smuggled out – they follow the ambulance
• Sarah uses her knowledge of pressure points to knock out Nurse Jephson so that she can steal her clothes
• They sneak into Butley’s room and search it
• They talk to Butley, and Sarah has figured out his secret
• Sarah refuses to give Butley his draught
CLUE:
Capture, Rescue and Mortal Peril:
• Sarah goes to rescue Josh from the creepy ward, dresses him and hides him in the potting shed to recover
• She manages to get the still-spaced-out Josh over the wall and into the car in the nick of time
• Sarah uses Venusian Aikido to get Josh out of a fight with the security guard
Quotes:
• ‘Yeah, I’m sure Nat would help. Might be a snadge illegal, of course…’ - Sarah shows a deplorable lack of respect for the law. And also, what the heck is a snadge?
• ‘Hack into the Met? For God’s sake, why?’ ‘A – because you’re the loveliest Natalie in the wide, wide world, and B – I’d be forever in your debt. And C – because Josh said you’d never be able to do it.’ - Nat and Sarah
• ‘Less sugar lumps, thanks, Josh.’ ‘Fewer.’ ‘Eh?’ ‘Fewer sugar lumps. Less sugar is correct, but it should be fewer sugar lumps… Education – wasted on today’s youth.’ ‘Thank you, Mother Pedant. Fewer sugar lumps, Joshua, if you please!’ - Nat, and Sarah, who, like all the coolest people, is a stickler for correct English
• ‘Oh, damn! Kiss me!’ ‘You what?’ ‘Kiss me!’ - Sarah and Josh, pretending to be up to a different kind of no good than the no good they're actually up to...
• ‘How am I going to tell Ellie he’s dead?’ ‘You’ll get used to it – I did.’ ‘You know, you’re weird.’ ‘Well, there’s a compliment.’ ‘No… I mean… you obviously care, and yet you seem somehow… detached.’ ‘Mmm… I probably picked it up from somebody I once knew… And if you’d seen some of the things I’ve seen…’ - Josh and Sarah
• ‘Right, come down, get back in! Come on, chop chop!’ ‘All right, all right – what do you think I am, a flipping monkey? Are you an older sister?’ ‘Only child, why?’ ‘Bloody boss-cat…’ - Sarah and Josh
• ‘And they just let you walk, no charge? I mean, how guilty can you get? Assault, battery, GBH too, I shouldn’t wonder…’ ‘Yeah, but just as they were about to haul us in, bingo, we were told we were free! Probably due to a nice lady I know in intelligence…’ - Nat and Sarah
The Panel Said...
Sarah Watch:
Sarah_JaneSmith: I'm a bit annoyed that Elisabeth Sladen cant do a better yorkshire accent, being the northern lass that she is! She's good in this one, proper little investigator! 5/10
Llin: She sneaks around, kisses Josh and kicks ass! 8/10
paranoidangel: She's the one with the plan. And the backup plan for when it all goes wrong. 8/10
Story Watch:
Sarah_JaneSmith: Very creepy, but i'm sure i've seen this plot on tv before. 5/10
Llin: I love this one! It's fun, and Josh and Nat are great! 8/10
paranoidangel: I'm not at all convinced by any of the actual plot. And I was quite happy for the old man to die, he annoyed me something chronic. 4/10
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