Maria Jackson Maria Jackson was a teenage girl who lived in 36 Bannerman Road after moving , following the separation of her parents . She assisted Sarah Jane Smith and her friends in combating alien menaces and protecting the Earth from natural threats originating from space . After discovering what her neighbour ' s life was really like down the street on 13 Bannerman Road , she was the first child who became acquainted with Sarah Jane among what would be come a close - knit group . Maria eventually moved again when her father got a major job offer to work in America , but continually remained in touch with her old gang , even as some of them also left Bannerman Road to pursue their own goals . Biography . Before Sarah Jane Smith . One year before Maria met Sarah Jane Smith , she lived together with her parents , Alan and Chrissie Jackson , in a house . Maria loved the house and her school . Chrissie however thought that Maria ' s school wasn ' t a good school . She didn ' t approve of Maria ' s friends . According to Chrissie , they were holding Maria back . In 2007 , Maria , Alan and Chrissie went on holiday together . Maria enjoyed the holidays very much . Many photos were taken . Maria kept some of them in her room . ( PROSE : " Invasion of the Bane " ) Even though Maria loved her mother , she always got on better with her dad . He understood her ( PROSE : " Revenge of the Slitheen " ) and she could always depend on him in a crisis . ( PROSE : " Invasion of the Bane " ) When Maria was thirteen , her parents divorced . Meeting Sarah Jane Smith . In 2008 , Alan and Maria moved to Bannerman Road in Ealing . The first night in her new home , Maria made the life - changing discovery about her neighbour , Sarah Jane Smith , whom she saw talking with a glowing , winged alien . The next day , she and a new friend , Kelsey Hooper , went to the Bubble Shock ! factory where Maria learned she was one of the 2 % who didn ' t drink Bubble Shock ! When Kelsey used her phone , it triggered the Bane ' s alarms which awakened their artificially created human child , " the Archetype " . Maria escaped the factory with Sarah Jane and the Archetype . On their return to Bannerman Road , Sarah Jane told her to forget everything she had seen and go live her life like a normal person . They were joined by Kelsey , and then Davey , a disguised Bane who unmasked and tried to kill them . After Davey was defeated , Maria went upstairs to Sarah Jane ' s attic , where she was told the truth about the universe : aliens came to Earth all the time . She met Mr Smith , Sarah Jane ' s alien supercomputer and K9 Mark IV , her robot dog who was stuck beneath Switzerland trying to repair a black hole so the Earth wouldn ' t be sucked in . She , Sarah Jane and the Archetype banded together to defeat the Bane invasion and blow up the Bubble Shock ! factory . On naming the Archetype that Sarah Jane adopted , Maria replied , " I like Luke " . ( TV : " Invasion of the Bane " ) Adventures with Sarah Jane , Luke and Clyde . A week later , Maria and Luke went to their first day at Park Vale Comprehensive School , They met Clyde Langer , who had also just started . Sarah Jane , investigating the company who built the science block , told Maria and Luke to look around look for something suspicious . Clyde tagged along . They found two of the teachers and a student had disguised themselves as Slitheen , and the family were using transducers across the world to absorb power from the Sun so they could sell the Earth . Clyde then joined Luke and Maria in the fight against the Slitheen . After discovering the Slitheen ' s weakness , vinegar , Maria went back to Park Vale to kill Glune Fex Fize , who was disguised as their head teacher Mr Blakeman . The Slitheen captured Maria and she saw the capacitor start to overload . The Slitheen reset it , but Luke then damaged it with his mother ' s sonic lipstick . Most of them escaped , though Kist Magg Thek and Florm Rox Fey were killed . ( TV : " Revenge of the Slitheen " ) While the team were investigating claims of sightings of a ghostly nun at Lavender Lawns , the local nursing home , Chrissie temporarily moved in with Maria and Alan , causing further problems in the family . At Lavender Lawns , an old lady gave Luke an ancient talisman , the key to a portal in space and time . The nuns were hiding an age - old creature , a Gorgon . They kidnapped Luke and Clyde and took the Gorgon and Maria to Sarah Jane ' s house , where the Gorgon turned her father into stone . Having got what they came for , the nuns and the Gorgon left . Mr Smith told Maria and Sarah that Alan ' s original form was retrievable until 16 : 00 . The Gorgon — a parasite inside the Abbess — chose Sarah Jane as its next host . Just as the Gorgon began to transfer itself , Maria arrived and used a mirror to revert the transfer and turn the Gorgon — and Abbess — to stone , freeing the nuns of their mind - control . Maria disconnected the talisman and the portal shut down forever . The talisman brought her father back to flesh - and - blood and Chrissie left , reuniting with Ivan . ( TV : " Eye of the Gorgon " ) Maria helped defeat Uvlavad Kudlak and discovered why children went missing all over the country because they were taken by an HO scoop at Combat 3000 . She left Earth for the very first time and saw Earth on the Uvodni warship in space with Sarah Jane . ( TV : " Warriors of Kudlak " ) When several people in Ealing , including the mother of her school mate Julie started to steal gold Maria helped Sarah Jane to investigate . Together they went to the Auriga Clinic . There Maria was being injected with gold , while Sarah Jane talked to Francis Augur . Back at the attic of 13 Bannerman Road Mr Smith scanned Maria ' s body and told Sarah Jane that the gold would automatically be gone within a few days . That night , however Clyde and Luke saw Maria leaving the Auriga Clinc . She was in some kind of cataleptic state , not fully aware of her environment , and unable to respond to stimuli . She didn ' t react when Luke and Clyde were calling her . The following morning Maria seemed to be completely normal and couldn ' t remember that she had left her house . Sarah Jane later found out that Maria was under the control of the Keratin , who controlled her through the gold injection . The Kreatin used Maria to spy on Sarah Jane . Sarah Jane did not want to worry Maria and did not want to let the Kreatin know , that she found out about their control of Maria ' s mind , which could endanger Maria ' s life . Sarah Jane told Clyde and Luke not to mention the Kreatin or Maria ' s nightly visit of the Auriga Clinic towards Maria . The next night Sarah Jane and Luke followed Maria to the Auriga Clinic . Maria and the other people who were controlled by the Kreatin wanted to take away the oceans of the planet Earth to get the gold of the ocean . The Kreatin wanted to use the gold to be able to control the whole universe . Sarah Jane later pressed a patch with lithium citrate on Maria ' s neck and Maria got free of the Kreatin ' s mind control . The Kreatin was killed by salt water and couldn ' t invade Earth any longer . ( AUDIO : " The Glittering Storm " ) Maria , Clyde , Luke , Sam , Mr Bradbury and Sarah Jane went on a school trip to the Stone Whisperers . There the alien Ravage started to take control of Luke ' s mind . Maria supported Luke when he fought a mental battle against Ravage and helped Luke expelling Ravage from his mind . ( AUDIO : " The Thirteenth Stone " ) Mr Smith was monitoring a meteorite that passed a radar blindspot and prepared to send it back . Sarah Jane handed Maria a puzzlebox a Verron soothsayer had given her the previous week . The Trickster had been making a deal with Andrea Yates in 1964 to swap places with her friend . When the deal happened , Maria awoke in a world where she never befriended Clyde , Sarah Jane had died in 1964 and Mr Smith was never installed in 13 Bannerman Road ' s attic . The Trickster had guided away Maria ' s various encounters with aliens so that he could feed on the chaos of the meteorite strike . The Trickster ' s Graske servant , Krislok , captured Maria , and sent her to Limbo causing her to be erased from Earth ' s timeline . There she encountered Sarah Jane , who told her about the day Andrea died . Alan captured the Graske and got Maria back , and she assisted in helping Andrea go back to her rightful place , so that the timeline returned to normal and Mr Smith could prevent the meteorite from hitting Earth . ( TV : " Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane ? " ) However , in the process , Alan stumbled in on the existence of Sarah Jane ' s activities . Maria told him about her adventures and things she had seen . He decided that they were moving away , concerned for his daughter , but Alan recanted and decided to stay in their old home when Maria convinced him that not all aliens were evil . Maria and Alan then helped defeat the Slitheen and the rogue Mr Smith . ( TV : " The Lost Boy " ) During the Dalek s ' relocation of Earth to the Medusa Cascade in 2009 , Maria was staying in Cornwall with her father . Luke called her to check on her . ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) A Sontaran farewell . Alan later received a letter inviting him to work in America , at the head office of " CapitolSys Technologies " . Maria was distraught at the implications , despite Alan telling her that the decision was not just his to make . At Goblin ' s Copse , Maria found Kaagh , the last of the Sontarans that had attempted an invasion of Earth earlier that year . He planned to use the Tycho Project radio telescope to take control of Earth ' s satellites , and steer them to crash into nuclear stockpiles on Earth , triggering nuclear annihilation . He did so using mind control on the Tycho . Maria , not sure that Luke would be able to synthesise the gas in time , decided to ask Mr Smith for more information on defeating Sontarans . As Mr Smith was still in Ealing , she called her dad and asked him to contact the computer , unaware that he would be followed into Sarah Jane ' s attic by Chrissie . When the plan to deactivate the telescope had failed , all appeared lost until Chrissie burst into the observatory and attacked Kaagh ' s probic vent with her high - heeled shoe , allowing Luke to deactivate the telescope . Maria then used the gas to knock out her mother , having Alan take her home and pretend that she had dreamt everything about Kaagh . Six weeks later , Maria came up to the attic to say goodbye to Mr Smith and have one last look before she left . The next day , Maria and Alan said their goodbyes to Sarah Jane , Luke , and Clyde , as they left for their new life in America . ( TV : " The Last Sontaran " ) Life in America . After Maria moved to America , she stayed in touch with Luke by email . ( TV : " The Day of the Clown " ) They also called each other at least once a week . ( PROSE : " The Nightmare Man " ) Chrissie and Ivan planed to marry . Alan , Maria , Luke , Clyde and Sarah Jane were invited to their wedding . Maria and Alan wanted to come to the wedding and wished to see their friends from Ealing there again . ( TV : " The Day of the Clown " ) Maria and Alan were later contacted by Luke and his new friend , Rani , who asked for help identifying an alien pendant . ( TV : " The Mark of the Berserker " ) Later , Maria was involved in helping aliens hide from the American government . One of the races she encountered was the Zodin , whom Sarah Jane had also met . ( TV : " The Mad Woman in the Attic " ) Soon after , Maria was invited to Sarah Jane ' s wedding , but could not attend because she was taking exams . ( TV : " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith " ) In September 2010 , Maria congratulated Luke , through a social network , on being accepted to the University of Oxford . He attempted to tell her about the Nightmare Man , but was unable to . ( TV : " The Nightmare Man " ) Before Luke left he threw two farewell parties . Maria and Alan couldn ' t come to his farewell party however they send holographic postcards and for Luke it seemed like they were there as well . ( PROSE : " The Nightmare Man " ) Later life . Maria eventually got a statue in her honour , like other members of Sarah Jane ' s gang , for defending Earth . ( PROSE : " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith " ) At some point , Maria and Ceol had drinks on the south bank of the Thames . ( PROSE : " Now or Thereabouts " ) In 2059 , Luke and Rani visited Maria in America . ( TV : " The Mad Woman in the Attic " ) Alternate realities . Donna ' s world . In a parallel world , Maria investigated the Royal Hope Hospital with Sarah Jane , Clyde and Luke . As the oxygen gradually ran out it caused everyone in the hospital , including Sarah Jane , to suffocate . Maria , Luke and Clyde were feared dead as well . ( TV : " Turn Left " ) Andrea Yates ' world . Timeline 1 . In this timeline , Maria and her father still lived at 36 Bannerman Road ; however , as Sarah Jane died in 1964 , they had never known her , nor did they know Luke because he was never created . Clyde and Maria barely knew each other . ( TV : " Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane ? " ) Timeline 2 . This timeline was created after Maria was erased from reality and sent to Limbo by Krislok . She never existed in this reality since Alan and Chrissie never had a child . ( TV : " Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane ? " ) Personality . Maria had a tolerant and patient personality , but was also very inquisitive , which resulted in her stumbling across Sarah Jane meeting an alien . ( TV : " Invasion of the Bane " ) Her parents ' divorce made her somewhat moody , and she was much less worldly - wise and trendy than Clyde . ( TV : " Warriors of Kudlak " , " Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane ? " ) However , she was also a lot kinder and braver , telling Sarah Jane to let Kaagh kill her in order to save Earth . ( TV : " The Last Sontaran " ) Sarah Jane was a mentor and close friend to Maria . Sarah Jane considered Maria to be the one person she trusted more than anyone else in the world . ( TV : " Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane ? " ) She also mentioned that to her Maria was the daughter , that she had always wanted . ( TV : " The Last Sontaran " ) Even after moving to America , Maria retained a closeness with Sarah Jane , Luke and Clyde that sparked a degree of jealousy in Rani . ( TV : " The Mad Woman in the Attic " )