OUT OF MIND

Written by Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright

Transcribed By: Dee

TEASER

FADE IN

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

A cryogenic tank is slowly being lifted out of an icy pit.

TROFSKY : Begin cryo reversal.

RALEIGH : Beginning reversal.

She manipulates the controls on her console, reviving the person contained in the cryogenic tank.

COMPUTER : Chamber opening.

The lid on the cryogenic tank slides open to reveal Colonel Jack O’NEILL. He opens his eyes and takes a deep breath.

RALEIGH quickly moves over to the tank and looks down at him.

RALEIGH : It’s ok, Colonel O’NEILL. You’re in the SGC, you’re going to be fine. No don’t try to speak, Colonel. Give it some time.

TROFSKY : Welcome back to the land of the living, Colonel. I’m Major General TROFSKY, this is Doctor RALEIGH.

RALEIGH : Maybe we can try to answer some of the questions that are probably weighing heavily on your mind.

TROFSKY : First of all, I regret to inform you that everyone on your team…Dr DANIEL Jackson, Captain Samantha CARTER, and a Jaffa named TEAL’C, are all deceased.

RALEIGH : As a matter of fact, I imagine everyone you ever knew is probably gone now.

TROFSKY : You see Colonel the year is now…2077.

FADE OUT

END OF TEASER

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

RALEIGH and TROFSKY are at the computer console talking, while O’NEILL lies on a bed before them. A tube is attached to a device on his chest, feeding him a green substance.

RALEIGH sees that he is awake and walks over to him.

RALEIGH : How are you feeling Colonel?

O’NEILL (weakly) : A bit confused.

TROFSKY : Understandable. You’ve been in cryogenic hibernation for almost 79 years.

O’NEILL : How?

RALEIGH : That’s a good question, we were hoping you could tell us.

TROFSKY : You were sent back through the STARGATE already frozen, we’re guessing by some advanced culture. Your CO at the time, General HAMMOND, and a Dr FRASIER, felt that to thaw you without the proper technology would probably kill you. They put you in a deep freeze until such time as the technology was developed that could safely revive you.

RALEIGH : Colonel, do you have any idea what happened to you on that planet?

O’NEILL : No Ma’am. General…I’d prefer not to answer any more questions. Walk around a little, get my bearings.

TROFSKY : Of course. Good idea actually. I’d be happy to show you the rest of the facility. (To RALEIGH) You can disconnect him from these machines for a limited time, can’t you Doctor?

RALEIGH : For an hour or so. But he needs thermatic infusion for his tissues to recover properly.

TROFSKY : I’ll have him back in less than an hour.

RALEIGH starts to unhook the tube.

INT - SGC, CORRIDOR

TROFSKY is escorting O’NEILL through the base. They pass a handful of SGC personnel.

VOICE (over speakers) : SG14, debriefing in five minutes, level six.

TROFSKY sees O’NEILL looking around.

TROFSKY : Changed much?

O’NEILL : There’s no place like home, Sir. How many SG teams are there now, Sir?

TROFSKY : 28 here on Earth, another ten occupying off-world colonies.

O’NEILL : So we finally did that, huh? Populated other planets…?

TROFSKY : Affirmative.

O’NEILL : General, what happened to my team?

TROFSKY : They didn’t make it.

O’NEILL : I got that. They didn’t make it back through the Gate? They didn’t survive the thawing process, what?

TROFSKY : Their bodies were sent back, but they were already dead. I’m sorry, Colonel, it was a long time ago.

O’NEILL : Maybe for you.

INT - SGC GATEROOM

O’NEILL, accompanied by TROFSKY, enters the Gateroom and wanders up the ramp.

TROFSKY : So Colonel, do you have any recollection of what happened on your last mission?

O’NEILL : I wish I did, Sir. I remember INTEL suggested the planet we were going to was ruled by a Goa’uld…but I don’t remember anything after we stepped through that ‘GATE.

TROFSKY : Can you think of any reason why the Goa’uld might have saved your life and sent you back?

O’NEILL : It’s certainly not their MO.

TROFSKY : We feel whoever did help you, was able to beat back the Goa’uld in order to do so. We’d love to know who could do that.

O’NEILL : So would I, Sir.

TROFSKY : We have a new technology, that might help you remember. We’d like to give it a try, if you feel up to it.

VOICE (over speakers) : SG 22, prepare for embarkation.

An SG unit enters the Gateroom, prepared for a mission.

O’NEILL (answering TROFSKY) : Sure.

TROFSKY : We’d like to get started right away. Our outpost planets are at war with the Goa’uld, and…frankly, we’re losing. I’m hoping whoever helped you 79 years ago can help us now.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

RALEIGH is handed a pad containing a selection of coin-shaped devices.

RALEIGH : The technology was a gift from the Tok’ra.

O’NEILL : We’re still friends with them, huh?

TROFSKY : Oh yes, it’s been quite a beneficial alliance.

O’NEILL : Just not much help in the outpost colonies, I take it?

TROFSKY : No.

RALEIGH presses one of the devices onto O’NEILL’S temple. It buzzes as it’s implanted.

O’NEILL (in obvious pain) : Ow! God, what is that?

RALEIGH : It’s ok, Colonel, it’s in. That’s all the pain you’ll feel.

O’NEILL (sarcastically) : What a shame.

RALEIGH adjusts the device on O’NEILL’S temple, then attaches a wire to it.

RALEIGH : As the Tok’ra explain it, this device stimulates the memory centers of your mind and then amplifies it. Sort of like a capacitor for thoughts. And when it’s hooked up to this device here, projects what the mind’s eye is seeing holographically.

She moves over to her computer console.

O’NEILL : Beautiful.

RALEIGH : Now all you have to do is focus your thoughts and…guide the right memories to the surface.

O’NEILL : How do I do that?

RALEIGH : We’ll lead you through it. It’s kind of like a high tech version of hypnosis. We’ve introduced a very light sedative through those tubes and you should be feeling the effects by now.

O’NEILL : Oh yeah.

RALEIGH : Great, let’s get going. Start by concentrating on what race or culture you can think of from your travels, that might have the technology to defeat the Goa’uld and cryogenically suspend you.

O’NEILL : The Nox did.

RALEIGH : Ok, the Nox. We’re they…medically advanced?

A holographic projector appears next to TROFSKY.

O’NEILL : They could revive their dead.

His memories of the Nox home-world appear on the projector.

EXT - NOX HOMEWORLD (DAY)

Three of the Nox are holding their hands over the prone form of the Nox woman, Lya. As SG1 watch, the Nox fade in and out of vision in their attempt to resurrect her.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

TROFSKY (watching the hologram) : They could make themselves invisible?

O’NEILL : Not just themselves.

EXT - NOX HOMEWORLD (DAY)

The NOX leader is standing with his son in the STARGATE clearing.

NOX : Before you go O’NEILL, there is something we would have you see.

He waves his arm and SG1 turns to see a city in the clouds suddenly appear.

NOX (cont’d) : Fear not.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

RALEIGH : Colonel O’NEILL, was it the Nox who sent you here?

O’NEILL : I don’t remember.

RALEIGH : But they have the technology to make themselves invisible. Could be a very powerful weapon against the Goa’uld, could it not?

O’NEILL : Probably. But they’d never use it in that manner. The Nox wouldn’t even fight in self-defense.

TROFSKY : Can you think of anyone else who could have defeated the Goa’uld?

O’NEILL : The Asgard.

An image of SG1 on the planet Cimmeria appears on the projector.

EXT - CIMMERIA (DAY)

Dark clouds are gathering over the pyramids HERU’UR had constructed after his invasion of the planet.

O’NEILL : Oh my.

The hull of a space ship begins to appear through the clouds.

DANIEL : Ladies and gentlemen, I think this is THOR’S Chariot.

TEAL’C (in awe) : An Asgard Mother ship. I have heard them described in Jaffa legend.

SG1 turns as they hear a high pitched noise. Their Jaffa guards are suddenly beamed away. The beam passes over HERU’UR’S pyramids, making them vanish.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

RALEIGH and TROFSKY share glance. Their attention is captured as another image appears on the holographic projector.

INT - ASGARD WORLD, GATEROOM

O’NEILL is thrown out of the STARGATE and rolls painfully down the steps. He looks up to see two Asgard watching him. Behind them, he can see more Asgard, standing in a long corridor.

O’NEILL (to the two aliens) : You’re the Asgard, THOR’S race, right?

Asgard1# : You have heard of us?

O’NEILL : Nothing but good things.

Asgard1# : We have studied your race closely.

O’NEILL : What did you learn?

Asgard2# : That your species has great potential.

O’NEILL : Great potential. That’s good.

Asgard1# : Understand this. There was once an alliance of four great races in the galaxy…the Asgard, the Nox…

O’NEILL : Met them.

Asgard1# (cont’d) : The Furlings…

O’NEILL : Don’t know them.

Asgard1# (cont’d) : And the Ancients, the builders of the STARGATES.

O’NEILL : That’s a pretty heady group.

Asgard1# : Your race has much to prove before we may interact on that level.

O’NEILL gets to his feet.

O’NEILL : Look, you all seem to be quite wonderful…

He takes a moment to study the second Asgard before him.

O’NEILL (cont’d) : …people.

He kneels before the second Asgard.

O’NEILL : But you folks should understand that we’re out there now. We might not be ready for a lot of this stuff, but we’re doing the best we can.

The second Asgard reaches out a hand, and, after a moment, O’NEILL takes it.

Asgard2# : You have already taken the first steps towards becoming…the Fifth Race.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

O’NEILL : They’re part of a…an alliance.

INT - ERNEST’S PLANET, HELIOPOLIS

SG1, along with CATHERINE, watch as ERNEST removes a cloth covering a pedestal set in the center of the room. Around them, the walls are covered in various alien writings.

O’NEILL : What is this place?

ERNEST offers DANIEL his diary.

DANIEL (reading from the diary) : I believe this room is some sort of meeting place, where four alien races, denoted by the symbols and distinctive writing on the walls, would gather. Possibly to share knowledge or discuss relations like a United Nations of the stars. CATHERINE agrees.

CATHERINE (to ERNEST) : You’re right, I would have.

O’NEILL looks more closely at the pedestal.

O’NEILL : This looks familiar.

ERNEST : Touch it.

O’NEILL hesitantly places his hand on the center stone. A bolt of energy suddenly shoots upwards.

O’NEILL : Whoa!

Above them, there appear hundreds of glowing holographic images.

CATHERINE : It’s beautiful!

O’NEILL : DANIEL, does this mean anything?

DANIEL : Well, if this was a Mecca of sorts, an alien United Nations this has to mean something.

O’NEILL (pointing to one floating symbol) : I know this.

CATHERINE : Of course, high school chemistry.

DANIEL : One proton, one electron…hydrogen.

CATHERINE : Beryllium, sodium…

ERNEST : Silver, iron, barium, neon…

O’NEILL waves his gun through one of the holograms. DANIEL suddenly realizes the purpose of the holograms.

DANIEL (excitedly) : Of course! How do you ensure universal communication? You reduce the method of communication to the most basic elements common to everyone and everything that exists in the universe. Jack, this is a true…universal…language.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

O’NEILL’S memory device lets out a high pitched beep and he jumps as if shocked. The holographic projector flickers, malfunctioning, then disappears.

RALEIGH (to TROFSKY) : He’s had enough for now. Let’s let him rest.

TROFSKY (to O’NEILL) : Thank you, Colonel. (To RALEIGH) Good work.

RALEIGH presses a button on the bed and a purple liquid runs through the tube attached to O’NEILL.

TROFSKY (to RALEIGH) : We’ll resume later.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

TROFSKY and RALEIGH enter a second cryogenics room as a tank is being lifted out of the pit. The lid slides back to reveal DANIEL.

TROFSKY : It’s ok, Dr Jackson, you’re in the SGC. You’re going to be fine.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

In a third cryogenics room, another tank is being lifted out of a pit.

TROFSKY : This one has naquadah in her system, so keep her a little more dosed.

RALEIGH makes some adjustments on her computer. The lid on the tank slides back to reveal CARTER. She opens her eyes and starts to cough.

TROFSKY : It’s ok, Dr CARTER, you’re in the SGC. You’re going to be fine.

CARTER (whispering) : SG1?

RALEIGH : I’m afraid they didn’t make it, Captain. I’m sorry.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

CARTER is sitting on a bed, touching the device implanted in her temple. RALEIGH is at her computer console, adjusting the controls to CARTER’S memory device.

RALEIGH : There, how does that feel Captain?

CARTER : Ok. Ah, it hurts a little. Listen, is this really necessary?

RALEIGH : Well it’s important that we know who would have the technology to do this.

CARTER : Why?

RALEIGH : Because, Captain CARTER, anyone with that technology would be a very powerfully ally against APOPHIS.

CARTER (surprised) : APOPHIS? Isn’t he dead?

RALEIGH (after a moment) : Well of course he is. We’re merely trying to stimulate the region of your memory that involves doing battle with the Goa’uld. It might help us in our current battles.

CARTER : Ok, well, we did fight the Goa’uld a lot.

RALEIGH : Tell me how you defeated APOPHIS.

A holographic projector appears, connected to CARTER’S memory device.

CARTER : Well, we gated to what we thought was their home base, but…we ended up on a Goa’uld Mothership.

INT - PYRAMID SHIP

SG1 are quietly exploring the room. There is a sarcophagus in the center of the room.

DANIEL : Sarcophagus.

O’NEILL : Oh great, more snakeheads. TEAL’C, any idea which one’s in here?

TEAL’C, staring intently out of the window, doesn’t reply.

O’NEILL : TEAL’C?

CARTER stands alongside TEAL’C.

CARTER : We’re not on a planet, are we?

As they look outside, they can see they are moving through space.

TEAL’C : That is correct. It appears we are aboard a Goa’uld transport vessel.

CARTER : And that jolt was…?

TEAL’C : Hyper-launch.

INT - PYRAMID SHIP, CORRIDOR

A group of Jaffa pass by CARTER and DANIEL, who are hidden in an alcove. When the Jaffa are gone, CARTER and DANIEL slip out behind them and move quickly down the corridor. They come to a hanger bay full of death gliders.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

RALEIGH is watching the images on the projector.

INT - PYRAMID SHIP

O’NEILL, CARTER, TEAL’C and BRA’TAC are standing above the ship’s glowing generators.

BRA’TAC : The shield-generators are far below. There, in the very bowels of the ship. We must climb down several decks, through the length of the ship. Then, taking our weapons we must…

He pauses as O’NEILL pulls the pins on a couple of grenades, then simply drops them over the edge. They watch as the generators explode.

INT - PYRAMID SHIP, HANGER BAY

BRA’TAC and O’NEILL enter their death glider. Alongside them, CARTER and TEAL’C are doing the same.

INT - PYRAMID SHIP

A pack of C4 is counting down, with only a minute to spare.

INT - PYRAMID SHIP, CONTROL ROOM

APOPHIS turns away from his screen and stands beside his son KLOREL. Transport rings come down from above and takes them away.

INT - PYRAMID SHIP

The C4 is still counting down, with only seconds left on the timer. The death gliders containing O’NEILL, TEAL’C, CARTER and BRA’TAC begin to exit the pyramid ship.

O’NEILL : Our time is up, we have got to go.

CARTER (sitting behind TEAL’C) : Punch it.

The death gliders shoot out of the ship, just as the C4 blows. Behind them, the two pyramid ships erupt in flames.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

RALEIGH : Very impressive, Captain. The end of APOPHIS.

CARTER : Well, the beginning of the end, yes. His forces were so weakened that another Goa’uld eventually got him.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

DANIEL, a device implanted in his temple, is sitting on a bed as TROFSKY enters the room.

TROFSKY : So if it wasn’t APOPHIS, what other Goa’uld could it be?

A holographic projector appears behind DANIEL.

DANIEL : Well, there seems to be a lot of them. SOKAR…

INT - SGC, CONTROL ROOM

SOKAR’S burning image is being projected onto the STARGATE’S iris.

SOKAR : People of the Tau'ri. You have taken what is mine. For this you will be destroyed.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

DANIEL (cont’d) : HERU’UR

INT - ABYDOS GATEROOM

O’NEILL runs down the STARGATE’S steps, firing his weapon at HERU’UR. But the bullets bounce off HERU’UR’S energy shield.

HERU’UR : You dare challenge me?

He raises a ribbon device, which starts to glow. O’NEILL unhooks his knife.

O’NEILL : I was thinking about it.

He throws his knife at HERU’UR. It strikes the Goa’uld’s ribbon device, embedding itself in the center stone. HERU’UR struggles to fire his malfunctioning weapon.

HERU’UR : You’ll pay for this insolence!

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

DANIEL (cont’d) : And then of there was HATHOR. She almost succeeded in doing some pretty big damage.

INT - SGC, VIP ROOM

O’NEILL is standing before HATHOR.

HATHOR : We must praise you and gift you a great honor.

O’NEILL : Yeah, I’m sure that would be just great, but not right….

He is cut off as HATHOR breathes out a pink vapor, drugging him. He doesn’t resist as she begins to unbutton his shirt.

HATHOR pulls away her own clothing to reveal a glowing device strapped to her abdomen. She presses herself against O’NEILL.

HATHOR : Do not worry yourself. You will enjoy the rich rewards that come with what we are giving you. You will cherish the good health and long life that goes with being…

In agony, O’NEILL breaks way from her and slumps against the wall.

HATHOR (cont’d) : …HATHOR’S first, new Jaffa.

O’NEILL looks down at his stomach and sees he has been given a Goa’uld incubation pouch.

INT - SGC

HATHOR is sitting fully clothed in a hot, steaming bath. DANIEL is kneeling at her side. They are surrounded by armed SGC soldiers who are under HATHOR’S control.

HATHOR : We demand that the woman you call CARTER be brought before us so that we may gain retribution.

DANIEL : Captain CARTER does deserve to be punished, my Queen, but she does not know what she is doing. I beg of you to show mercy.

As they talk, O’NEILL and CARTER covertly enter the room, armed with tranquilizer guns.

HATHOR : She deserves no mercy from us. She will make amends with her death.

CARTER and O’NEILL shoot the SGC soldiers with tranquilizer darts.

CARTER (to HATHOR) : I don’t think so.

HATHOR lifts a concealed ribbon device and fires it at CARTER, who is thrown against the wall.

HATHOR (to O’NEILL) : You have failed us, our love. You will not fail us again.

Her eyes glow and she raises the ribbon device once more.

CARTER, recovered, shoots at HATHOR with her side-arm.

The bath, containing HATHOR’S Goa’uld larvae, catches fire and burning baby Goa’uld fall out onto the floor.

DANIEL : No!

CARTER and O’NEILL quickly move in and help the tranquilized soldiers out of the room.

O’NEILL : Get these airmen out of here. DANIEL, let’s go, move it!

DANIEL doesn’t move as he looks on in utter shock. Meanwhile, HATHOR climbs out of the burning waters and vanishes out of the room.

INT - CRYOGENICS ROOM

The image on the holographic projector abruptly vanishes.

TROFSKY (to DANIEL) : What’s wrong?

DANIEL : Nothing, I just…I really need to know what exactly happened to my friends.

TROFSKY : As I said, they were sent back through the Gate. They were already dead. That’s all I know.

DANIEL : What about General HAMMOND?

TROFSKY : Well, I’m happy to report he lived to a ripe old age of 93.

DANIEL : So everyone I ever knew is basically gone.

TROFSKY : I’m afraid so.

INT - SGC, INFIRMARY

TEAL’C, lying in a bed, opens his eyes to see Dr FRASIER standing over him.

FRASIER : It’s ok, it’s ok. You’re in the SGC TEAL’C. General HAMMOND is waiting at her side.

HAMMOND : Good to have you back, TEAL’C.

TEAL’C : General HAMMOND.

He suddenly sits upright.

FRASIER : Easy, easy.

TEAL’C : Where are the rest of SG1?

HAMMOND : Good question. We were hoping you could tell us.

INT - SGC INFIRMARY

Dressed in his SGC uniform, TEAL’C begins to put on his jacket.

HAMMOND : When you didn’t return, we sent SG teams three and seven after you. They found you lying next to the STARGATE. There was no trace of Colonel O’NEILL, Captain CARTER or Dr Jackson. We assume they were captured.

FRASIER : You have no memory of this, TEAL’C?

TEAL’C : I do. It was mixture of Horus and Serpent Guards, a very unusual combination.

HAMMOND and FRASIER exchange a worried glance.

HAMMOND : Serving what Goa’uld?

TEAL’C : That I do not know. General HAMMOND, I will return to the planet immediately to search for the answers.

He starts to head for the corridor.

HAMMOND : I can’t let you do that TEAL’C.

TEAL’C pauses for a moment, then turns back to the General.

TEAL’C : General HAMMOND, I will not remain idle while my friends may be in danger on this planet.

FRASIER : TEAL’C, you’ve been unconscious for three weeks.

TEAL’C : That is not possible. My symbiote would have awakened me long before the period of three weeks.

FRASIER : You were barely alive TEAL’C, with substantial internal injury.

HAMMOND : Dr FRASIER spent most of the three weeks at your side. I’m convinced it was her refusal to give up that kept you alive.

TEAL’C inclines his head to FRASIER.

TEAL’C : I am in your debt Dr FRASIER. General HAMMOND, permit me to return to this planet to search out my friends. If their bodies were not found by my side then they are prisoners.

HAMMOND : If they’re prisoners, they’re long gone from that planet. We sent out UAVs, balloons, our best rescue teams…found nothing but scorched earth. There was no trace of them. They could be moved to any Goa’uld strong hold. You’d be searching for a needle in a very large haystack.

TEAL’C : Perhaps. But I must try.

TEAL’C turns away once more, but HAMMOND moves to stand before him, preventing him from leaving.

HAMMOND : TEAL’C, I understand your desire to do something, anything, for SG1. I feel the same way. But I cannot expend any more resources on this. I’m sorry, request denied.

TEAL’C : If the people of the Tau'ri have given up hope on SG1, then it is with great regret that I must leave this world and return to my people.

HAMMOND : You mean you want to leave the SGC?

TEAL’C : That is correct.

HAMMOND : I can’t let you do that TEAL’C. I won’t let you do it.

TEAL’C : General HAMMOND. I hereby respectfully inform you…that I must take my leave of the SGC.

He slowly removes his jacket.

TEAL’C : Therefore I am no longer under your command.

He lets the jacket drop to the floor.

HAMMOND : I can’t allow you to do that. You represent too great a security risk.

TEAL’C : General HAMMOND, I would die before divulging any information concerning this world. I believe you know that.

HAMMOND (relenting) : Yes I do.

TEAL’C : I will depart in an hour.

This time, HAMMOND allows TEAL’C to pass.

INT - CYROGENICS ROOM

O’NEILL, seemingly asleep, has his hand clenched around the tube feeding him the drugs. He opens his eyes and hears TROFSKY and RALEIGH arguing in Goa’uld.

TROFSKY : Kelmac kree, mak’tel’a!

RALEIGH : Roc’kree’no. Ma’tal!

They both abruptly leave. An orderly is checking the readings on the computer and making adjustments.

O’NEILL surreptitiously pulls out the tubes, then coughs, capturing the orderly’s attention. As the man bends over him, O’NEILL grabs him and knocks him out.

O’NEILL begins to exchange clothes with the unconscious man.

INT - SGC GATEROOM

The STARGATE is spinning as TEAL’C’S home-world is dialed.

VOICE (over speakers) : Chevron four engaged.

TEAL’C, dressed in a long, pale robe, enters the Gateroom, carrying only his staff weapon.

HAMMOND, along with a handful of SGC personnel, are waiting for him.

SOLDIER : Ten-hut!

The soldiers present come to attention.

VOICE (over speakers) : Chevron five engaged.

TEAL’C comes to stand before HAMMOND.

HAMMOND : TEAL’C, you will be missed.

TEAL’C (with much emotion) : I have learned much from you General HAMMOND. And I thank you.

He bows his head.

VOICE (over speakers) : Chevron six engaged.

HAMMOND : I’ve learned a lot from you too, TEAL’C. So we’re even on that account.

VOICE (over speakers) : Chevron seven is locked.

HAMMOND : Take care of yourself.

Behind TEAL’C, the STARGATE opens.

TEAL’C places his hand over his heart. HAMMOND and the soldiers respectfully salute him, and, slowly, TEAL’C returns the gesture.

He turns away and walks up the ramp. At the top, he pauses, then enters the STARGATE.

The wormhole closes behind him.

HAMMOND (to the soldiers) : At ease.

INT - FALSE SGC, CORRIDOR

O’NEILL, dressed in the orderly’s clothes, moves through the silent corridors. He uses a stolen key-card to operate the elevator and steps inside.

When the doors open on the next level, he sees a Goa’uld corridor stretching out before him. Behind him, the elevator’s doors close.

A pair of Jaffa suddenly appear and O’NEILL quickly hides in an alcove until they pass.

He wanders through the corridors, hiding when two more Jaffa appear.

As he nears another elevator, the memory device implanted in his temple suddenly activates. He stumbles against the wall as he unwittingly recalls the mission aboard APOPHIS’ pyramid ship.

INT - PYRAMID SHIP

As O’NEILL glances round a corner, a pair of Jaffa open fire. He quickly dives and rolls out, shooting the both with his zat gun.

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CORRIDOR

Recovering from the sudden memory, O’NEILL gets up off the floor and heads into the elevator.

INT - FALSE SGC, CORRIDOR

O’NEILL hurries through the familiar corridors, pausing as he comes to the cryogenics room where CARTER is being held.

He sneaks into the room and picks up a heavy canister. As the orderly bends over the unconscious Captain, O’NEILL hits him over the head with the canister.

O’NEILL (whispering) : CARTER. CARTER!

He detaches the tubes that are feeding CARTER the drugs.

O’NEILL (whispering) : CARTER!

CARTER sluggishly opens her eyes, then blinks in surprise when she sees him.

O’NEILL quickly puts a finger to his lips signaling for silence.

CARTER (whispering) : I thought you were dead.

Her memory device activates and the holographic projector starts up.

INT - SGC GATEROOM

O’NEILL and TEAL’C are in the Gateroom, attempting to send a device back to the planet SG1 took it from. The device suddenly activates and spikes start to shoot out.

CARTER (in the Control Room) : Get out of there!

A spike barely misses TEAL’C, but one catches O’NEILL through the shoulder and pins him to the wall.

CARTER runs into the Gateroom and rushes over to O’NEILL.

CARTER : Colonel!

She takes a look at the spike holding him against the wall.

CARTER : It’s right through his shoulder into the concrete…

INT - FALSE SGC, CRYOGENICS ROOM

O’NEILL detaches the wire leading to CARTER’S memory device and the holographic projector vanishes.

CARTER : Whoa.

O’NEILL (whispering) : Yeah. These things have a nasty habit of going off when you least expect it. Try not to think too much.

CARTER (quietly) : They said…

O’NEILL : They’re Goa’uld, CARTER.

CARTER : DANIEL? TEAL’C?

O’NEILL : Don’t know yet. Think you can walk?

CARTER sits upright.

CARTER : The drugs must have prevented me from sensing the naquadah.

O’NEILL nods towards the unconscious orderly.

O’NEILL : Trade clothes with that guy.

INT - FALSE SGC, CORRIDOR

CARTER and O’NEILL cautiously make their way through the fake SGC facility.

CARTER : Sure looks like the SGC.

They enter the elevator and exit at the pyramid level.

CARTER : Wow, this looks just like…

O’NEILL (quickly) : Don’t think about it, you’ll set that thing off…

But he’s too late and CARTER’S memory device activates.

CARTER (clutching her temple) : Ow!

A group of Jaffa, led by RALEIGH approaches.

O’NEILL grabs CARTER, covering her mouth to prevent her making any noise, and drags her behind a wall.

RALEIGH and the Jaffa enter the elevator without seeing them.

CARTER (whispering) : Can we take these things off?

O’NEILL (quietly) : I don’t know, you tell me. Mine’s in pretty deep.

CARTER : Yeah, you’re right, pulling them out might cause some pretty nasty collateral damage.

O’NEILL : No, we don’t want that.

They head down the corridor and enter the third elevator.

INT - FALSE SGC, CORRIDOR

They enter another set of corridors, exactly like the SGC.

O’NEILL : What the hell?

INT - FALSE SGC, CRYOGENICS ROOM

O’NEILL : DANIEL. DANIEL!

DANIEL opens his eyes to see O’NEILL and CARTER standing by his bed.

DANIEL : I don’t understand, they said…

CARTER : They’re Goa’uld DANIEL.

DANIEL : What year is it?

CARTER : 1999, more than likely.

DANIEL : So this is all a hoax?

O’NEILL : Big hoax. I’d say so.

DANIEL : I have more questions, but that can wait.

O’NEILL : Ya, come on.

INT - FALSE SGC, CORRIDOR

SG1 move quietly down the corridors, looking for a way out.

O’NEILL yanks open a door, but finds only blank wall behind.

O’NEILL : Damned cost cutting.

CARTER : This facade is obviously part of a bigger Goa’uld facility, complete with Horus and Serpent Guards.

DANIEL : What? Horus and Serpent? That’s kind of an odd alliance, isn’t it?

INT- FALSE GATEROOM

CARTER, O’NEILL and DANIEL enter the fake Gateroom.

DANIEL : I’ve never seen this place so deserted.

CARTER : Guess they figure they don’t need to keep up the act if we’re unconscious.

O’NEILL experimentally kicks the STARGATE.

O’NEILL : It’s fake.

DANIEL yanks open a locker, but finds it empty.

DANIEL : I don’t understand. Who would have spent enough time in the base to be able to reproduce it in this kind of detail? You don’t think APOPHIS….

VOICE : Silence!

At the top of the STARGATE ramp, the air suddenly shimmers and HATHOR appears. She heads down the ramp towards DANIEL.

O’NEILL (as HATHOR passes him) : Oh, I was so hoping never to see you again.

RALEIGH and TROFSKY, armed with zats, appear from each of the Gateroom’s exits, along with a dozen, armed Jaffa.

HATHOR makes her way down to DANIEL and strokes his face.

HATHOR : We have indeed missed you our beloved.

CARTER : DANIEL, don’t let her breathe on you.

HATHOR : You think that we would go to these lengths if you were not already immune to that organism?

CARTER shoots O’NEILL a look, but he simply shrugs.

HATHOR leaves DANIEL and walks lazily around her Jaffa guards. DANIEL joins O’NEILL and CARTER on the STARGATE ramp.

HATHOR : Do you like our guards? We managed to lure them from the remote outposts of our enemies. We are quietly building our forces before the System Lords even know that we are alive. But doing so is difficult when we have to operate with limited knowledge of the state of the empire.

O’NEILL holds up his hand.

O’NEILL : Let me take a guess, it’s just a wild guess, but that’s where we come in, right?

CARTER : We know more than you do.

HATHOR : Perhaps. We are prepared to offer you a life of luxury as servants in our royal court, for sharing information. Deny us…and you will not enjoy the alternative.

She comes to stand before O’NEILL, waiting for an answer.

O’NEILL : You know…you really should do something about the breath.

HATHOR : How do we contact the Asgard so that we might align with their forces?

O’NEILL : Try Roswell, little place in New Mexico.

HATHOR (moving onto CARTER) : What is the sequence of numbers necessary to open the barricade protecting your STARGATE?

When CARTER doesn’t answer, HATHOR turns away.

HATHOR : If you will not give us the information that we desire, we do have another means of retrieving it.

She snaps her finger and a Jaffa enters the Gateroom, moving to stand before her.

HATHOR : An opportunity has presented itself, at a most…fortuitous time.

She reaches into the Jaffa’s pouch and pulls out a writhing, adult Goa’uld. She holds it out for SG1 to see.

HATHOR : Our friend here is ready for a host. Tell us, which one of you shall it be?

TO BE CONTINUED…

FADE OUT