The Curse of Clyde Langer ( TV story ) The Curse of Clyde Langer was the second story of the fifth series of " The Sarah Jane Adventures " , as well as the 2012 winner of the Writer ' s Guild of Great Britain ' s Best Children ' s TV Script Award . It was notable for its frank depiction of a modern - day social ill — homeless ness — and its atypical ambiguous conclusion , in contrast to the usual " SJA " " happy ending " . True to the title of the story , events that transpired focused heavily on Clyde Langer . This would also mark the unintended final appearance of Haresh Chandra and Carla Langer , due to the sudden death of Elisabeth Sladen . Synopsis . Part one . It ' s raining fish from the skies ! Sarah ' s investigations lead the gang to the Museum of Culture , where the ancient god Hetocumtek may offer answers . Yet when Clyde touches the totem pole , his family and friends savagely turn against him and he is thrown out of their lives ! Part two . Clyde is alone and abandoned on the streets of London , living rough , cold and hungry . One person reaches out to him , but as they become friends , he ' s warned about the legendary Night Dragon . In Bannerman Road , Sky knows something ' s wrong – why do Sarah Jane and Rani suddenly hate Clyde ? Plot . Part one . Clyde shows Rani " The Silver Bullet " , a superhero comic strip he has written and illustrated . Rani is impressed with her friend ' s latest project , but isn ' t quite as taken with his idea for another tale , starring an adventurer named “ Susie June Jones ” . Meanwhile , Rani ' s father , headmaster Haresh Chandra , meets with Sarah and her newly - adopted daughter to discuss Sky ' s enrolment at the school . When their conversation is interrupted by the sudden appearance of a fish on the office ' s window - ledge , Haresh suspects a student prank . However , when he , Sarah and Sky go outside , they find that it is raining fish . Leaving Haresh and his pupils gaping at the bizarre , fish - covered school and playground , Sarah , Sky , Clyde and Rani race back to the attic of No . 13 Bannerman Road , where Mr Smith is busy monitoring reports of the unusual storm . Sarah explains that accounts of such phenomenon have been attributed to tornadoes sucking up fish and depositing them elsewhere . Just to make sure , she asks Mr Smith to carry out a scan for any alien energies that could be to blame . The Xylok computer does not detect anything suspicious . He informs Sarah of a possible link to a new exhibit at the Museum of Culture , where a Mojave Native American totem pole is on display . Legend has it that when this artefact was removed from the cave where it was hidden , a storm of fish fell from the skies . The gang arrive at the museum ; as they race inside , Clyde gives some change to a homeless girl begging on the street . Making their way to the Native American display , the gang easily find the totem pole : a tall , wooden post carved with creepy - looking faces . Clyde plays the joker and tickles one of the faces , only to get a nasty splinter in his finger ; while he tries to remove it , Sarah , Sky and Rani meet Doctor Samantha Madigan from the anthropology department . She knows of the totem ' s legendary powers , but doesn ' t attribute the recent storm to Hetocumtek , the vicious warrior supposedly imprisoned inside the artefact by Native American medicine men . As Sarah conducts a fruitless scan of the totem pole , Clyde removes the splinter . With no alien threat apparent , the friends leave . Clyde returns home . After dinner with his mum , he goes to his room to work on his comic book . After completing the final panel of " The Silver Bullet " , Clyde signs his name and goes to bed . He notices his finger is still hurting . As Clyde falls asleep , he fails to see his name mysteriously glow on his pictures and school certificate . The following morning , Clyde visits Sarah to show her his completed comic book . She is full of praise — until Clyde says his name . Her attitude changes in a second . She is furious at Clyde for his teasing of Luke and promptly throws him out of her house . Astonished , Clyde crosses the road to tell Rani what happened — but then Haresh says Clyde ' s name . His daughter and he become enraged . Rani spitefully tells Clyde she hates him and Haresh expels the bewildered boy from school . Upset and confused to hear such venom from people he considers his friends , Clyde quickly walks away . Back at No . 13 , Sarah tears up all the pictures drawn by Clyde that she can find . Mr Smith voices his concern at her inexplicable anger . She calms down as Sky enters the attic . With Sky about to attend her first day at school , Sarah decides to return to the museum to write an article on the totem and the fish storm . Sky mentions Clyde — and Sarah ' s attitude changes once more . She furiously bans her daughter from ever mentioning Clyde again . Sky is unaffected . She and Mr Smith are confused at Sarah ' s sudden hatred of Clyde . They ask her what he did that has upset her so much , but she will not discuss the subject and orders Mr Smith to alert her if he sets foot on Bannerman Road again . Meanwhile , in the park , Clyde phones Luke , only to find his best friend won ' t talk to him either . Clyde meets his mate Steve , who asks him to join in a game of football ; Clyde tactfully refuses — then Steve says his friend ' s name and he too is overwhelmed with hatred . Clyde realises that people saying his name is what turns them against him . After stomping Clyde ' s phone into bits , Steve and his mates prepare to do the same to their former friend , but Clyde runs for it instead . Racing out of the park with an angry mob close behind , Clyde evades his pursuers by hiding behind some bins . Once his ex - mates have run past , he notices his finger is still bleeding and makes the connection to the totem . Returning to the museum to look at the artefact , Clyde bumps into Doctor Madigan . He asks her about Native American curses . Before he can learn anything useful , Sarah turns up and causes a scene . Doctor Madigan tries to calm her , but she says Clyde ' s name and instantly turns against him . She refuses to give him any information , making Clyde realise that his name affects anyone , not just people he knows . She has him frog - marched out of the exhibition hall by security guards , while Sarah phones the police to make a harassment charge . Clyde picks himself up from the pavement and sees the homeless girl watching . He returns home , only to discover his mum affected by the curse after reading his name on mail . Accusing Clyde of lying to her , Carla demands he leave the house never to return . Clyde tries to reason with her , but when she opens the door to let in the police , he is forced to make a hasty exit out the back door . On the run , Clyde tries to get some money from a cash machine , only to watch as the screen fills up with his name , over and over again . Night soon falls and a thunderstorm begins . Soaked , with no home , no family and no friends , Clyde tries to find shelter in a doorway . He begins to cry in despair at his situation . All seems lost , but then Clyde finally gets a break . The homeless girl appears before him and offers to help . Part two . Clyde awakes to find himself lying on a makeshift bed beneath a bridge , in a " cardboard city " occupied by the homeless girl , who introduces herself as Ellie Faber , and other homeless people . When Ellie asks her new friend his name , Clyde knows that he will lose her if she were to speak his real name . Taking inspiration from a discarded pizza box , he calls himself “ Enrico Box ” . Ellie says she has been living rough for two years , after her father died and her mother remarried . She tells Clyde there are perils threatening the homeless ; something called “ the Night Dragon ” causes people to disappear for no reason . Sky is puzzled to find Sarah in the attic busily throwing away all of Clyde ' s things . She asks what Clyde has done wrong . Her mother refuses to answer . Later , eating lunch at school , Sky tries asking Rani about Clyde , but her friend just gets angry and storms off . At the museum , lightning crackles around the Hetocumtek totem pole . Called in by Doctor Madigan to help , Sarah scans the artefact and finds it alive with alien energy — and the totem ' s eyes start to glow . Bustling Doctor Madigan from the room , Sarah urges her to close the exhibition . Ellie and Clyde go out on the street to beg for money . They aren ' t very successful , so Ellie decides to get something to eat . Back in the attic , Mr Smith notices Sarah crying , even though she doesn ' t know why . Ignoring the subject , she reports that the ancient totem is no longer dormant — something has caused it to come alive . Ellie takes Clyde to a " soup kitchen " . She introduces him to an old lady nicknamed Mystic Mags . Staring at the tea - leaves in her mug , the elderly lady warns that something bad is coming , something worse than the Night Dragon — and it has put a curse on Clyde . Worried he will get Ellie into trouble , Clyde runs off . Ellie goes after him , not wanting to lose her “ lucky charm ” . Back at Bannerman Road , Haresh is worried about his daughter . Rani is upset that she has lost something special , but she doesn ' t know what . Sky pays a visit to Clyde ' s mother , who is crying for no discernible reason . When Sky tries asking about Clyde , the woman becomes extremely angry . Seeing Clyde ' s name glowing on an envelope addressed to him , Sky realises something has cursed her friend ' s name . Back at the museum , one of the totem pole ' s carved faces starts to move . Sheltering from the rain in an old building , Clyde burns his " Silver Bullet " artwork to make a fire for himself and Ellie . He asks the girl about the recent " fish storm " — perhaps it was a sign of something bad coming ? Ellie tells Clyde that she had lost hope of ever reclaiming her life , but since meeting him her faith has returned . Back at the museum , more of the carved wooden faces are now coming to life . Hearing Sarah and Rani discussing the totem ' s increase in power , Sky recalls how Clyde got a splinter in his finger . Sarah and Rani angrily tell Sky not to mention Clyde , but she persists and calls on Mr Smith to explain her theory . Sarah and Rani get angrier whenever Clyde ' s name is mentioned . Mr Smith tells them this is proof of Sky ' s theory . The Xylok determines that the totem is using psychophonic programming to isolate Clyde so that Hetocumtek can use the boy ' s energy to come back to life . To break the curse , Sky encourages Sarah and Rani to say Clyde ' s name . Acting against their instincts , the duo repeat Clyde ' s name — and it works . Now free of the curse , Sarah and Rani recall how much Clyde means to them . They resolve to get him back . Elsewhere , Clyde shows Ellie a sketch he has made of her . He hopes to make money as a street artist . Flattered , Ellie kisses him and goes to get them both a drink . Just then a familiar car pulls up , and Sarah , Rani and Sky rush out and envelope Clyde in a group hug . Clyde is overjoyed his friends are free of the curse , but when Sarah urges him to come and help beat Hetocumtek , he tells them he needs to wait for Ellie . Sarah is insistent , so Clyde reluctantly leaves , vowing to return for his friend as soon as he can . Together they speed back to No . 13 , where Mr Smith hacks into the transmat system of a passing alien spaceship and uses it to teleport the totem pole into the attic . The artefact is now bristling with energy , its faces contorting in anger at the gang ' s interference . It fights back by sending a ferocious gale around the room . Refusing to give in , Clyde steps forward and repeats his name again and again — and the totem vanishes . With his nightmare finally over , Clyde goes home and receives a heart - felt welcome from his mum . Some time later , Clyde , Sarah and Rani go looking for Ellie . They can find no trace of the girl , not in the " cardboard city " under the bridge , nor at the mission ; she has vanished . Clyde is understandably worried , concerned Ellie thinks he abandoned her . However , after noticing a poster about a singer called " Ellie Faber " , he realises that he doesn ' t even know his friend ' s real name — and then a truck drives past , with the name " Night Dragon Haulage " emblazoned on its side . Hearing Clyde ' s surprise , a nearby homeless person explains that the company ' s drivers often give lifts to people living rough on the streets . Clyde is upset to realise he ' s never going to see Ellie , again , and is comforted by his friends . That night , Clyde lies in bed thinking of Ellie , hoping she has found a better life for herself . All he has left is the picture he drew of her . . . Story notes . Ratings . " to be added " Filming locations . " to be added " Production errors . " to be added " Home video releases . DVD releases . 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