The Glittering Storm ( audio story ) The Glittering Storm was the first made - for - audio " Sarah Jane Adventures " story . It was written by Stephen Cole , produced for BBC Audio and read by Elisabeth Sladen . It accompanied the CBBC broadcast of series 1 . Publisher ' s summary . When Sarah disturbs a burglar in the night , she is surprised to find a middle - aged woman , her pockets stuffed with jewellery , demanding gold . The next day , she reads a newspaper story about a granny who broke into a jewellers , and then Maria reports that a woman has been stealing ring s and necklace s from the girls ' changing room at school . All the women had recently attended the Auriga Clinic , a private health centre specialising in treating muscular aches and pains . Is there a link between the clinic and the odd behaviour of its patients ? Sarah decides to find out , but she soon discovers that the clinic ' s secret agenda is more sinister than she could ever have imagined . . . Plot . In the middle of the night Sarah Jane Smith hears a loud noise . She goes downstairs and sees a woman with bits of jewellery dangling from her pockets . The woman asks Sarah for gold . When Luke comes to the room the woman says " Our . . . thoughts . . . shine " and leaves . The next morning Maria Jackson tells Sarah about an article in the newspaper in which was written that a granny broke into jewellers , stole the gold and left the more expensive jewellery behind . At school Maria hears that somebody stole gold necklaces and rings from the girl ' s changing rooms . She soon hears that Dana Price , the mother of Julie one of Maria ' s school mates , has stolen the things . Sarah and Maria soon find out that Dana Price and the granny , who is called Hilda Sheen went to the same clinic , the Auriga Clinic . They decide to go there as well . At the clinic Sarah introduces Maria as her niece . While Sarah is doing an interview with the owner of the clinic , Francis Augur , Maria is injected with gold , without Sarah Jane ' s agreement . Sarah is angry about this . She and Maria and leave the clinic . At 13 Bannerman Road Mr Smith says that Maria is injected with small particles of gold , which will be gone out of her body automatically within the next seven days . At night Luke and Clyde are watching the Auriga Clinic . Suddenly Maria who is coming out of the clinic . She doesn ' t react to them when they are calling her . Luke realises that Maria is in some kind of cataleptic state , not fully aware of her environment , and unable to respond to stimuli . Then Maria says " Our thoughts shine " . At Bannerman Road Luke and Clyde tell Sarah about their experiences . The following morning Maria isn ' t able to remember the Events of the night . Mr Smith scans her and sees that she is under the control of a Keratin , who controls her through the gold injection . The Keratin uses Maria to spy on Sarah . Sarah does not want to worry Maria and does not want to let the Keratin know , that she found out about their control of Maria ' s mind , which could endanger Maria ' s life . Sarah tells Clyde and Luke not to mention the Keratin or Maria ' s nightly visit of the Auriga Clinic towards Maria . The next night Sarah and Luke follow Maria to the Auriga Clinic . Maria , Dana and the other people who are controlled by the Keratin want to take away the oceans of the planet Earth to get the gold of the ocean . The Keratin wants to use the gold to be able to control the whole universe . Sarah later presses a patch with lithium citrate on Maria ' s neck and Maria gets free of the Keratin ' s mind control . The Keratin is killed by salt water and can ' t invade Earth any longer .