The Mark of the Berserker

10 – The Mark of the Berserker
The Sarah Jane Adventures story
Cast
Starring Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith Tommy Knight – Luke Smith Daniel Anthony – Clyde Langer Anjli Mohindra – Rani Chandra Yasmin Paige – Maria Jackson Alexander Armstrong – Mr Smith
Others Joseph Millson – Alan Jackson Gary Beadle – Paul Langer Jocelyn Jee Esien – Carla Langer Ace Bhatti – Haresh Chandra Perry Millward – Jacob Huw Higginson – Mr Cunningham Elijah Baker – Steve Wallace Jessica Lewis – Detention Girl Andrew Phillips – Detention Boy
Production
Directed by	Joss Agnew
Written by	Joseph Lidster
Script editor	Gary Russell
Produced by	Matthew Bouch
Executive producer(s)	Russell T Davies Julie Gardner
Production code	2.7 and 2.8
Series	Series 2
Length	2 episodes, 25 minutes each
Originally broadcast	3 & 10 November 2008
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → Secrets of the Stars The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
List of The Sarah Jane Adventures serials

The Mark of the Berserker is a story of The Sarah Jane Adventures which was broadcast on CBBC on 3 and 10 November 2008. It is the fourth serial of the second series. Due to Elisabeth Sladen's commitments elsewhere, main character Sarah Jane has a minor role in this serial, making the episodes similar to the 'Doctor-lite' episodes of Doctor Who ("Love & Monsters", "Blink", "Turn Left" and "The Girl Who Waited") which do not feature The Doctor heavily, as well as the Torchwood episode "Random Shoes", which had minor roles for most of the main cast.

Luke Smith is going for a sleepover at Clyde Langer's house whilst Sarah Jane goes away for the weekend. Clyde's estranged father Paul turns up hoping to get to know his son. Jacob, the unpopular kid in school, is in possession of an alien pendant. Jacob discovers that he can use it to control other people, while leaving a strange blue handmark on his palm. When he takes a teacher's and other student's voice in a detention, Jacob rushes to the bathroom to wash the handmark off. When he successfully does so, Rani knocks on the door and distracts him. Jacob leaves the room but hides outside. Rani enters the bathroom cautiously, and finds the pendant. When she discovers, through instructing her dad, that it can control people, she takes it to Sarah Jane's house for Mr Smith to investigate it. Sarah Jane, however, has disabled Mr Smith while she is away. Rani leaves the pendant hanging on a roof beam. Clyde tells his father about the adventures he has with Luke, "saving the world". When his father does not believe him, Clyde takes him to visit Sarah Jane's attic. While Clyde shows him some of the objects in the attic and tells him about Mr Smith, Paul notices the pendant and pockets it. When they leave the house, Rani's father spots them and comes over to investigate. In possession of the alien pendant, Paul discovers that he can control people, after making Rani's father a victim of the pendant for the second time that day. After Luke and Rani turn up, Paul instructs his son Clyde, over whom he now has control, to forget who they are and that he has ever seen them before. Clyde, as he must, accepts his father's command.

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