The children are locked in a room playing with a candle. This time, they see the future babysitter talking on an early mobile telephone. Sarah Jane resets the clock to eight o’clock and the ‘haunting’ continues. We later learn that George went to the beach and posed armed for a photograph with the German troops whose capture he and Clyde had facilitated. George asserts his duty and desire to join the military as soon as he is of age, dismissing Clyde’s request that he wait until 1945, Clyde implores him to be careful before disappearing into the time window.

The Germans dash back to the beach, but are captured by the Home Guard. The pair lock themselves in a chamber below the bell tower, and repeatedly chime the bell to alert the townsfolk and Home Guard of the emergency. Clyde gives an impasseditioned speech against the Nazi philosophy and distracts the Wehrmacht with his mobile phone, claiming it to be a sophisticated bomb, George is able to use that moment to snatch Thor’s Hammer. Jane believes that Rani to be an angel and, reasoning that angels speak only the truth, goes to her death confident that she will not die in vain and will be remembered. Taking the dagger, Rani disappears through the time window. She promises Lady Jane that she will not be forgotten by history – or by her. Rani stays with Jane until the latter is taken to the keep.

Matilda wanted to make Lady Jane a martyr to inspire the Protestants to rise up against Mary. Rani stops Lady Matilda from killing her with a dagger that is made of chronosteen. Back in the present day, though, the Shopkkeeper notes that the sands of time in his hourglass are fast running out and the others will be trapped in the past forever. Sarah Jane and Emily must find a way to prevent this from happening. Sarah soon determines that the ‘ghosts’ are not from the past, however, but the future – where a fire will start and kill the children. They hear a woman talk and children playing with fire. She meets a girl, Emily Morris, who is looking for the ghosts having recently lost her motherat eight o’clock the ‘haunting’ begins. Sarah Jane ends up in a house supposedly haunted by ghosts in 1889. The invaders have a strange metal hammer – the Führer believes it to be Thor’s Hammer itself – and with the power from this, they can block radar systems and start the invasion of Britain. They hide in the church, but are found and held captive, Clyde is enraged by the Nazis’ racist slur. They are now the only people who can save Britain from an invasion. They are led by an SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer from the 1st SS Panzer Division ‘Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’. He meets George, an adolescent London evacuee, who has spotted three Waffen-SS soldiers on the beach. Clyde ends up in an English coastal village in Norfolk in 1941 during World War II. Rani discovers a plot by Lady Matilda to kill Lady Jane that very night. Rani and Lady Jane easily become friends, but meanwhile Mary’s army have reached London. It is, Rani realises, the final day of her reign. Rani ends up in the Tower of London on 19 July 1553, to be a lady-in-waiting from the East to Lady Jane Grey, who is about to be usurped by Mary I. They are transported in time to three different eras, and each must face danger alone. The Shopkeeper is able to open a time window, into which Sarah Jane, Rani and Clyde are forced. They can be found at key points of the Earth’s history. They must find three objects made of chronosteen, a metal forged in the Time Vortex that can reshape destiny, before it is too late. The Shopkeeper says he needs their help to save the Earth.

When they arrive, they are met by the mysterious Shopkeeper and his parrot. Sarah Jane, Rani and Clyde are lured by a newspaper article to a shop where an alien has been sighted. Lost in Time is a two-part story of the Sarah Jane Adventures, It is the fifth story of the fourth series.

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