Like
Katarina, Sara doesn’t get enough time on the show to build up a full Big Damn
Hero moments repertoire. She’s also a
particularly tough one because, while she’s a formidable companion physically –
a la, say, Leela or River – most of her episodes are lost, so there’s not much
actual video footage of her fighting.
Just still telesnaps and someone on the audio recordings narrating,
“Sara takes out all the guards in a tremendous show of force,” while you hear
vague punching sounds in the background.
So, not a whole lot to work with (spoilers.)
Escaping the Egyptians (Series 3, Episode 18 –
“The Daleks’ Master Plan: Volcano”)
Smart
companion for the win! While she and
Steven are tied up by the Egyptians, Sara sees her moment and snags a piece of
broken pottery so they can cut their bonds when the Egyptians aren’t
looking. I realize that a big part of
any companion’s job is getting captured, so I enjoy it whenever they figure out
how to get themselves out of it.
Fighting the Egyptians (Series 3, Episode 18 –
“The Daleks’ Master Plan: Volcano”)
And after
she frees herself and Steven, what does she do?
She lays the smackdown! Sara
doesn’t play. I hope this episode is
found someday, or even clips of it; I’d like to see her in action.
Going Back to Help the Doctor (Series 3,
Episode 21 – “The Daleks’ Master Plan:
The Destruction of Time”)
And of
course, where Sara is concerned, her biggest moment is her last. First of all, given how anti-team-TARDIS she
is when she first joins the show, it’s significant how far she comes in just a
handful of episodes, getting to the point where she’ll put her life on the line
without a second thought to help the Doctor stop the Daleks. She pays for it, sadly, with her life, aging
to death from being in close proximity to the Time Destructor.
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