INTO THE FIRE

Written by Brad Wright

Transcribed By: Dee

TEASER

FADE IN

VFX: SHOOTING THROUGH THE WORMHOLE

INT - SGC GATEROOM Colonel MAKEPEACE exits the STARGATE and rushes out of the Gateroom.

SERGEANT (over intercom) : Welcome back Colonel MAKEPEACE. Your briefing is scheduled for 14.30 hours…

MAKEPEACE : Make a hole!

He dodges past SG personnel as he enters the Control Room.

MAKEPEACE : I need to find General HAMMOND!

SERGEANT : He’s in his office…

MAKEPEACE heads up the stairs.

INT - SGC, HAMMOND’S OFFICE

General HAMMOND is speaking with Major DAVIS.

HAMMOND : What we need is support for three new teams. It’s a big galaxy out there, Major.

He is cut off as MAKEPEACE rushes in.

MAKEPEACE : Sir!

HAMMOND : Colonel MAKEPEACE, I’m sure you remember Major DAVIS.

MAKEPEACE : Yes Sir, I apologize. When scouting 254, Sir, we came across several members of the Tok’ra. They told us the location of SG1.

HAMMOND : Where are they, Colonel?

MAKEPEACE : They’ve been taken prisoner Sir…by HATHOR.

FADE OUT

END OF TEASER

INT - SGC, HAMMOND’S OFFICE

MAKEPEACE spreads a blueprint across HAMMOND’S desk.

HAMMOND : Colonel, why do I get the feeling I’m looking at blueprints to my own base?

MAKEPEACE : Well in a way you are, Sir. The entire section of the facility is a mock-up of the SGC.

HAMMOND : It’s damned peculiar.

MAKEPEACE : Well unlike Cheyenne Mountain, the Tok’ra say the exterior of the base is unguarded. We shouldn’t face any resistance until we’re already in the facility, and even then it will be light.

DAVIS : Can we trust them? The…Tok’ra?

MAKEPEACE : Their operative on the inside took a big risk just to get us this information, Sir. I think so.

DAVIS : If they have someone on the inside, why can’t they do something?

HAMMOND : They did do something, Major. (To MAKEPEACE) You have the coordinates?

MAKEPEACE : Yes Sir. My team is ready to go.

HAMMOND : And you will, but not alone. SERGEANT, I’d like you to get me the President on the phone.

SERGEANT : Yes Sir.

HAMMOND : I want every available SG team ready to deploy in the Gateroom within 2 hours.

MAKEPEACE : Yes Sir.

DAVIS : Sir, do you intend to commit the resources of this entire command?

HAMMOND : I only wish we could. Nearly half of our teams are off world right now on other missions.

DAVIS : General, that’s not my point. SG1 is a valuable asset, but they’re still just one team.

HAMMOND : Major, you’ve got a lot to learn about how we do things round here.

SERGEANT : I have the President for you, Sir.

HAMMOND (to MAKEPEACE) : Let’s get the job done.

INT - SGC GATEROOM The STARGATE opens.

TECHNICIAN : …telemetry, tactical is go. Environmental is go.

The Gateroom is full of SG soldiers, armed and ready to go. HAMMOND, standing on the STARGATE’S ramp, turns to address the gathered units.

HAMMOND : You’ve all been briefed on the mission by Colonel MAKEPEACE. You know the enemy, you know the risks. What I’m trying to say is, I would rather not order you to do this. So, I would like all of those willing to attempt a rescue of SG1 to take one step…

He is cut off as every soldier present takes one step forward.

HAMMOND : Very well. SG units three, five, six and eleven…bring them home.

Colonel MAKEPEACE walks up the ramp and HAMMOND salutes him.

HAMMOND : Good luck Colonel.

MAKEPEACE : Yes Sir.

He turns to the soldiers and signals for them to head through the STARGATE.

MAKEPEACE (cont’d) : Alright let’s go, move out!

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, FALSE GATEROOM

The sound of the squealing Goa’uld can be heard. HATHOR is still holding the writhing creature.

HATHOR : We ask you once more. Which one of you shall be host to our new friend?

O’NEILL (to CARTER) : He has her eyes.

HATHOR : Silence!

She comes before DANIEL, stroking his face.

HATHOR (cont’d) : Shall it be…our Beloved? We could spend an eternity together. Do you not remember the joys that we once shared in one another’s arms?

DANIEL : I really try not to.

HATHOR moves to stand before CARTER.

HATHOR : Shall it be the female then? She who would challenge us? (She pauses) You have since been possessed by a Goa’uld, we sense. Perhaps once more?

CARTER : I’m not afraid.

HATHOR : You should be, my dear, for the pain a symbiote can inflict in its host is unimaginable.

The Goa’uld in her hand lunges at O’NEILL, hissing.

HATHOR : It seems that our friend has chosen.

O’NEILL (to the Goa’uld) : What, the grey doesn’t bother you? Alright, fine, let’s do it. Just, please, I beg of you, not in the back of the neck, I’ve got some problems…

He makes a grab for the Goa’uld, but RALEIGH shoots him with her Zat.

HATHOR (to RALEIGH) : Fool!

RALEIGH : He would have harmed the symbiote.

HATHOR : Which you have done in his place! Return it to the safety of the Jaffa.

She looks down at O’NEILL, who is still stunned.

HATHOR : Take him somewhere where he can be properly restrained.

EXT - HATHOR’S PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (DAY)

MAKEPEACE orders his own team to remain with the STARGATE.

MAKEPEACE : Alright, hold the fort.

MARINE : Yes Sir.

The SG units begin to cross the open ground, heading for the tree line.

MAKEPEACE : What have you got?

LIEUTENANT : Picking up EM approximately one click away, Sir. Probably power generation. No sign of SG1’s IFM or radio chatter.

MAKEPEACE : Roger that, LIEUTENANT.

EXT - CHULAK (NIGHT)

TEAL’C enters BRA’TAC’S darkened house to find it ravaged. He is attacked by an injured BRA’TAC before the older Jaffa recognizes him.

TEAL’C : BRA’TAC.

BRA’TAC : TEAL’C. You grant a dying, old man’s wish.

TEAL’C : Do not speak of such things. He gives BRA’TAC some water.

TEAL’C : Who has done this?

BRA’TAC : The last of APOPHIS’ personal guard. They left me for dead.

TEAL’C : For what reason?

BRA’TAC : When I heard the new of APOPHIS, my heart soared TEAL’C. I hoped there would be celebration among our people. Instead, they fear that with the death of APOPHIS, KLOREL will return to claim his inheritance.

TEAL’C : They are cowards.

BRA’TAC : In too great a number for an old man of 135. What of your human friends?

TEAL’C : Prisoners of a Goa’uld. I have come to raise an army with which to free them.

BRA’TAC : That will not be so easy, TEAL’C.

TEAL’C : Perhaps. But I must try. Until then, you are in need of food and rest. And I am in need of armor.

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CRYOGENICS ROOM

O’NEILL is strapped down in one of the cryogenic tanks.

HATHOR : We are not pleased.

O’NEILL : Neither are we.

HATHOR viciously yanks out O’NEILL’S memory device.

HATHOR : Once host to a Goa’uld, you will take the lives of your friends.

She spares a glance at DANIEL and CARTER.

O’NEILL : We don’t think so.

HATHOR : You will have no say in the matter. You will witness their deaths through your own eyes…helplessly.

She reaches down and tears open his shirt.

HATHOR (cont’d) : It may take some time for the Goa’uld to take control. But we will greatly enjoy experiencing your eventual defeat.

She takes the Goa’uld out of the Jaffa and places it on O’NEILL’S chest.

O’NEILL : Oh god, no.

HATHOR : And when you awaken from the joining, you will kneel and pledge your loyalty to us.

The Goa’uld enters the back of O’NEILL’S neck, while DANIEL and CARTER can only look on helplessly.

O’NEILL : God!

The discharge of a Staff Weapon, followed by gunfire, is heard throughout the pyramid.

HATHOR (to TROFSKY) : Jaffa, kree’mel!

DANIEL and CARTER are led away.

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CORRIDOR

The SG units shoot an enemy Jaffa, before advancing.

MAKEPEACE : Over there, over there! Secure the forward area.

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CRYOGENICS ROOM

HATHOR (to RALEIGH) : Jaffa, lok shak kelmak a kree!

After HATHOR has left with her Jaffa guards, RALEIGH hurries over to the control panel and makes some adjustments, before returning to O’NEILL, still trapped in the cryogenic tank.

RALEIGH : O’NEILL, you must fight it!

She turns his face to hers.

RALEIGH (cont’d) : I am Tok’ra. The cryogenic process will prevent the melding, the Goa’uld within will die, but until then you must fight.

She closes the lid on the cryogenic tank.

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CORRIDOR The SG units open fire on a group of enemy Jaffa. A SG soldier is a hit. MAKEPEACE sees TROFSKY arrive with reinforcements, and opens fire on the Goa’uld.

MAKEPEACE : Three o’clock, three o’clock!

The SG units kill the Jaffa and TROFSKY retreats. MAKEPEACE’S rescue team enters the fake Gateroom.

MAKEPEACE : Yeah, there’s no place like home. Alright, area secured. Let’s move out!

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CORRIDOR

A lone Jaffa is escorting DANIEL and CARTER. MAKEPEACE and the rescue team move out from their alcoves and aim their weapons at the Jaffa.

MAKEPEACE Surrender you prisoners and drop your weapon. Now!

CARTER hits the Jaffa in the stomach, while DANIEL knocks their captor’s weapon away. They dive out of the way as the SG units open fire, killing the Jaffa guard. CARTER quickly gets to her feet and approaches the rescue team.

CARTER : Colonel MAKEPEACE.

MAKEPEACE : Where’s Colonel O’NEILL?

CARTER : He’s been taken as a host.

MAKEPEACE looks at her in shock.

MAKEPEACE : What?

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CRYOGENICS ROOM

The tank containing O’NEILL is lowered into the icy pit, as RALEIGH looks on. HATHOR suddenly appears and confronts RALEIGH.

HATHOR : Jaffa kree!

RALEIGH : Kel’noc shree Jaffa! I am of the Tok’ra. If the Tau'ri do not destroy you, know this…we will!

HATHOR uses a ribbon device on RALEIGH, throwing her against the wall.

EXT - HATHOR’S PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (DAY)

MAKEPEACE’S team are patrolling the STARGATE clearing.

MARINE (into his radio) : All secure here, Sir. Whenever you’re ready.

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CORRIDOR

MAKEPEACE : Stand by. We’re pulling out. ETA is 5 minutes.

EXT - HATHOR’S PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (DAY)

The MARINE guarding the STARGATE watches as the ground starts to glow and a set of transport rings appear.

MARINE : Sir, there’s something happening back here!

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CORRIDOR

MAKEPEACE : Razor, come in Razor. SG3 we have lost radio contact, please respond.

CARTER : What’s the situation?

MAKEPEACE : My team was covering the STARGATE. LIEUTENANT, pass the word, we’re moving out.

DANIEL : Wait! What about Jack?

MAKEPEACE : He’s a casualty.

CARTER : Sir, if we can get him back to Earth…

MAKEPEACE : Captain, if my team has lost control of the STARGATE, we’re not going anywhere. Now let’s go people. We’re pulling out, let’s go!

EXT - CHULAK (NIGHT)

A PRIESTESS, with two Jaffa guards, looks on as TEAL’C approaches.

PRIESTESS : I know you. Shova, you dare return to Chulak?

TEAL’C : The people of this world are my brothers and sisters. I have betrayed no one.

PRIESTESS : Except your god.

TEAL’C : False god. Dead, false god.

PRIESTESS : So you say. But his son lives.

TEAL’C : With you or without, he will be defeated, as was his father. Our people will taste freedom.

PRIESTESS : BRA'TAC paid a heavy price for those words.

The PRIESTESS’ guards move threateningly towards TEAL’C. Angry, TEAL’C quickly defeats them, then turns to the PRIESTESS.

TEAL’C : You may tell your kinsmen that TEAL’C has returned to Chulak! You will go to every home, of every warrior in this city. You will tell them that I will speak at the house of BRA’TAC at dawn. Summon them!

The PRIESTESS runs off.

EXT - HATHOR’S PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (NIGHT)

MAKEPEACE scans the STARGATE clearing through his binoculars.

MAKEPEACE : No sign of my men.

CARTER : Or the enemy.

MAKEPEACE signals for the rescue team to move out. They cautiously cross the open ground, heading towards the STARGATE.

An SG soldier is suddenly thrown back as he hits an invisible barrier. The barrier, which briefly flares blue, prevents any of the units from approaching the STARGATE.

MAKEPEACE : Cover your flank!

On the STARGATE platform, transport rings shoot up out of the ground, revealing TROFSKY and a handful of Jaffa.

MAKEPEACE : Open fire!

CARTER and DANIEL duck and cover their ears as the SG units open fire, but fail to penetrate the barrier.

MAKEPEACE : What the hell is it?

CARTER : It’s an energy barrier. We won’t penetrate it.

TROFSKY : Jaffa, ha’tak.

MAKEPEACE : Fall back! Fall back!

A giant turret shoots up out of the ground, manned by a single Jaffa, cutting off the rescue team’s escape. It is quickly followed by a second turret, which targets MAKEPEACE.

MAKEPEACE : into the tree line!

The turrets open fire on the retreating SG units.

An energy blast from one of the turrets kills an SG soldier and knocks DANIEL off his feet. CARTER goes back for her fallen teammate, who is looking at the dead soldier in stunned shock.

CARTER : DANIEL! DANIEL, let’s go!

MAKEPEACE, under fire, discovers a tunnel.

MAKEPEACE : This way, this way! To me!

INT - HATHOR’S PLANET, TUNNELS

The SG rescue team, along with DANIEL and CARTER take shelter in the tunnel.

MAKEPEACE : Secure that flank, secure that flank!

An SG soldier falls into the tunnel.

MAKEPEACE(cont’d) : Is anybody behind you?

SOLDIER : No!

CARTER : These are Tok’ra tunnels.

MAKEPEACE : They have an operative on the inside.

CARTER : Who is it?

MAKEPEACE : Don’t know, don’t expect to find out anytime soon either.

He glances at DANIEL, who has been injured.

MAKEPEACE (cont’d) : How’s the leg…can you walk?

DANIEL : It’s just a deep, bleeding gash, but it’ll be fine.

MAKEPEACE (into his radio) : Sierra Gulf Six, Sierra Gulf Six, this is Three Niner, come in…

CARTER : They could have made the tree line.

MAKEPEACE : Yeah, maybe.

CARTER : If we can’t penetrate this barrier of theirs, maybe we can go under it.

MAKEPEACE : It’s worth a try.

EXT - HATHOR’S PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (NIGHT)

TROFSKY is reporting to HATHOR through a communication device. HATHOR’S image is held in the device.

TROFSKY : They have fled into tunnels of Tok’ra construction. There must be a spy amongst us.

HATHOR : The Tok’ra spy has been taken care of. Take as many of the humans as you can alive. They will make an excellent addition to our new army of Jaffa.

INT - HATHOR’S PLANET, TUNNELS

The SG rescue team discovers the tunnel ahead is blocked by the energy barrier.

DANIEL : Well I guess we can’t go under it either.

CARTER : This isn’t like any Goa’uld shield we’ve ever come across. It’s more like a solid wall. The power output for something like this must be enormous.

MAKEPEACE : That’s fascinating Captain, but now what’ll we do?

INT - SGC, CONTROL ROOM

HAMMOND : How long are they overdue?

SERGEANT : Five hours, Sir.

HAMMOND : The plan called for SG3 to check in by now, if they lost contact. We’ll open the gate and send a message through. The MALP’s relay antenna might be able to get a signal to our teams.

SERGEANT : Stand by to engage.

EXT - HATHOR’S PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (DAY)

The STARGATE’S chevrons begin to activate, signaling an incoming wormhole.

TROFSKY (to his Jaffa) : Kree! Chapp’ai!

INT - SGC CONTROL ROOM

SERGEANT : Wormhole established, Sir.

EXT - HATHOR’S PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (DAY)

TROFSKY and his Jaffa stand ready before the open STARGATE.

INT - HATHOR’S PLANET, TUNNELS

HAMMOND (over the radio) : SG3, this is General HAMMOND.

MAKEPEACE signals the others to stop.

MAKEPEACE : Hold up, hold up.

HAMMOND (over the radio) : This is HAMMOND. Over.

CARTER : The energy barrier must be amplifying the signal.

MAKEPEACE : General, this is Three Niner. We hear you Sir.

HAMMOND : What’s your status?

MAKEPEACE : We have two surviving Sierra Gulf Team One members, Sir, but we have been cut off from the STARGATE. We found cover in tunnels we presume were made by the Tok’ra, but we cannot reach the STARGATE without reinforcements.

INT - SGC CONTROL ROOM

HAMMOND (to the SERGEANT) : See if you can direct the MALP’s camera to get a picture of the STARGATE itself.

He opens communications with MAKEPEACE once more.

HAMMOND : That’ll take some time, Colonel. We’ll try to send reinforcements through the STARGATE in exactly six hours from now. Coordinate your offensive accordingly.

MAKEPEACE : Roger that, Sir.

EXT - HATHOR’S PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (DAY)

TROFSKY sees the MALP’s camera movement and shoots it with a Zat gun.

INT - SGC CONTROL ROOM

They lose contact with the rescue team on HATHOR’S planet.

HAMMOND : Colonel MAKEPEACE, come in. Colonel MAKEPEACE.

The STARGATE disengages.

INT - SGC, HAMMOND’S OFFICE

HAMMOND : One armored platoon should be able to take the STARGATE.

DAVIS : General, Sir, I’m sorry, it’s not up to me. And even if it was, I don’t agree with it.

HAMMOND : I don’t really give a damn if you agree with me Major.

DAVIS : With all due respect, Sir, you took a shot based on intelligence you believed to be trustworthy, but obviously…

HAMMOND : I promised reinforcements.

DAVIS : The President and Joint Chiefs are simply unwilling to risk further loss of life, Sir. Those are their orders. I’m sorry. I’m afraid, if your people are going to make it back, they’re gonna have to do it on their own.

HAMMOND : I see. Thank you, Major.

DAVIS : Thank you, Sir.

INT - HATHOR’S PLANET, TUNNELS

CARTER (to MAKEPEACE) : Sir, I’ve been thinking. The energy barrier extends for miles around the facility. So it must be powered from the inside, some sort of field generator. Now the Tok’ra used these tunnels to access the facility…

MAKEPEACE : They must lead to it somehow.

CARTER : Right. Request permission to go back and try to shut it down.

DANIEL : I’ll go with you.

CARTER : No Daniel, you’re hurt.

MAKEPEACE : I’ll send an SG team along to back you up.

CARTER : Even if I can knock out the generator, you’re gonna need everyone you’ve got to take on those towers.

MAKEPEACE : Alright. If you can, blow the generator just before our reinforcements come through. We’ll try to take on the towers at the same time. That might give us the tactical advantage we need.

CARTER : Good luck.

MAKEPEACE : We’ll try to hold the door open.

They hear the approach of enemy Jaffa.

MAKEPEACE : Alright people, let’s go. Move it!

INT - HATHOR’S PLANET, TUNNELS

CARTER hides in an alcove as a pair of enemy Jaffa pass close by. When they have gone, she slips out and heads down the tunnel towards HATHOR’S facility.

INT - CHULAK, BRA’TAC’S HOUSE (DAY)

The room is full of people, as they wait for TEAL’C to give his speech.

BRA’TAC : TEAL’C has returned from the Tau'ri. If you care for this world, and our people, you will listen to what he has to say. TEAL’C appears on the balcony above the gathered people.

TEAL’C : The Goa’uld are not gods.

PRIESTESS : Shova!

TEAL’C : It is a lie we live each day. Only when he takes a host does a Goa’uld become strong. Even then, only as strong as the Jaffa who serve him. Without us, the Goa’uld are nothing.

PRIESTESS : Lies!

TEAL’C : We are their strength, we are their power…until we choose to serve them no more. I was witness to the final breath of APOPHIS. I watched him tremble with fear for what lay beyond. I believed that day would be honored for all time on Chulak. But instead, I see Jaffa taking up arms against one another. I see cowardice and I am ashamed. This is our time, it will not come again. But first we must grow stronger, as the people of the Tau'ri have done. I call for warriors to join me through the Chapp’ai, to gather weapons, to forge alliances with other Jaffa who seek freedom. To show the Goa’uld we will do battle with them wherever they may be. Who will join me?

At his words, most of the people who had gathered leave BRA’TAC’S house. One of those who remained removes his hood.

TEAL’C : General.

HAMMOND : Not what I’d call an army, but it’s a start.

BRA’TAC : HAMMOND of Texas.

HAMMOND : Master BRA’TAC. Gentlemen, I need your help.

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CRYOGENICS ROOM

CARTER discovers the injured RALEIGH.

RALEIGH : Forgive me, there was no other way.

CARTER : You’re the Tok’ra.

RALEIGH points to the control panel.

RALEIGH : Those controls are set. Activate them.

When CARTER does so, the cryogenic tank containing O’NEILL is lifted out of the pit.

RALEIGH (cont’d) : The Goa’uld within is gone. The cryogenic process destroyed it, before it had a chance to meld with the host. He will revive automatically.

CARTER opens the cryogenic tank, revealing O’NEILL. She begins to release the straps holding him.

CARTER : Colonel? I don’t feel its presence. You’re gonna be alright.

As she turns round, HATHOR is waiting, armed with a glowing ribbon device.

INT - HATHOR’S PLANET, TUNNELS

The surviving members of the rescue team, along with DANIEL, are coming under heavy fire from enemy Jaffa.

An SG soldier is hit. DANIEL goes back for him, but MAKEPEACE drags him away.

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CRYOGENICS ROOM

HATHOR is using her ribbon device on CARTER, who is forced to her knees.

HATHOR : We had hopes for you.

She is suddenly grabbed from behind by O’NEILL.

HATHOR : We will destroy you for this!

O’NEILL : We would just like you to go away!

He throws her into the cryogenic pit and, with a scream, she disappears.

O’NEILL : CARTER!

He pulls her upright and hugs her.

CARTER (recovering) : What happened?

O’NEILL : HATHOR’S…gone.

CARTER : What about you?

O’NEILL : Cold, a little chilly, but…I’m me. I’m me.

CARTER : Colonel MAKEPEACE came through with half a dozen SG teams to rescue us. But TROFSKY’S got us cut off from the STARGATE. He’s using an energy barrier. It originates from somewhere in this facility. The plan is to blow it before General HAMMOND sends reinforcements.

O’NEILL : And how do we plan to do that?

Behind them, RALEIGH raises her head.

RALEIGH : What you seek is hidden within the mock-up of your STARGATE facility.

CARTER : What about you?

RALEIGH : My symbiote may yet heal me. You must hurry. Go.

EXT - CHULAK, WOODS (DAY)

TEAL’C, BRA’TAC and HAMMOND are walking through the woods.

HAMMOND : What exactly are we looking for? We don’t have much time.

TEAL’C : As you said, the gate is carefully guarded.

BRA’TAC : The STARGATE is most defensible. To be assured of victory, we will require an advantage, one hidden away, forgotten when I was still First Prime of APOPHIS.

HAMMOND : Why?

BRA’TAC : Few pilots could master it.

HAMMOND : And how long ago was it?

BRA’TAC : Some…hundred years. The forest has changed much in that time.

TEAL’C : There is an old Jaffa saying, General HAMMOND - they do not build them as they once did.

BRA’TAC uncovers what appears to be an ancient Death Glider.

BRA’TAC : Here!

HAMMOND : You intend to fly this thing?

BRA’TAC : Not I. Threading the needle is a skill for the young.

INT - HATHOR’S PYRAMID, CORRIDOR

CARTER and O’NEILL are hurrying through HATHOR’S facility, looking for the generator.

CARTER : The energy barrier extends around the facility for miles. The generators must be massive.

They enter HATHOR’S fake Gateroom.

CARTER : We’re getting close. I’m getting energy readings off the scale. She was right, Sir, the generator’s somewhere in here.

O’NEILL points to a lever.

O’NEILL : What do you think?

CARTER : Try it.

O’NEILL pulls the lever and a section of wall behind the fake STARGATE slides back, revealing a huge turbine generator.

INT - HATHOR’S PLANET, TUNNELS

DANIEL, MAKEPEACE and the surviving SG soldiers are captured by HATHOR’S Jaffa.

EXT - HATHOR’S PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (DAY)

O’NEILL and CARTER take cover against an embankment. The surviving SG units are kneeling in front of the STARGATE, guarded by TROFSKY and a handful of Jaffa. The two turrets are in position, standing guard out over the STARGATE clearing.

O’NEILL : This part of your plan, Captain?

CARTER : No, Sir.

TROFSKY : I know that you are still out there, Captain CARTER! I grow tired of this. Surrender now, or your friends will be killed one by one.

DANIEL : Don’t listen to him, Sam!

TROFSKY : Silence! I will give you one minute.

CARTER : The reinforcements should come through in a couple of minutes. We could detonate the C4.

O’NEILL : TROFSKY’S gonna start shooting any minute, we gotta buy some time.

A thought occurs to him.

O’NEILL : He thinks I’m a Goa’uld, right?

CARTER : Right.

O’NEILL : Blow that C4 the minute the cavalry comes through that GATE.

CARTER : What if they don’t?

O’NEILL : What if they don’t?

CARTER (quickly) : They will, they will.

O’NEILL scrambles over the embankment and heads across the clearing, towards the waiting Jaffa.

O’NEILL : Jaffa, kree!

TROFSKY : Kel’mac, Goa’uld? Kree’tak?

O’NEILL obviously doesn’t understand what TROFSKY has just said.

O’NEILL : You heard me, I said Kree!

DANIEL : Jack?

O’NEILL : Hey guys. MAKEPEACE, nice rescue. Good job.

TROFSKY : Silence!

O’NEILL : Alright, listen up. There’s something you should know before you start shooting and killing and ruining what could be the start of a beautiful friendship - our beloved HATHOR…is dead.

TROFSKY : What you say is impossible. HATHOR is a queen. More than that, she is a goddess.

O’NEILL : Yeah ok, ex goddess, maybe. I killed her myself. You should trust me on this, she’s gone. She is no more. She’s…well, let’s face it, she’s a former queen. So why don’t we just put an end to this right now?

TROFSKY : We will end this with your surrender!

The chevrons on the STARGATE begin to activate.

TROFSKY : Jaffa kree, Chapp’ai!

INT - CHULAK, DEATH GLIDER (DAY)

TEAL’C, along with General HAMMOND, is sitting in the ancient Death Glider.

TEAL’C : Firing the weapon will be your responsibility, General HAMMOND.

HAMMOND : Understood.

EXT - HATHOR’S PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (DAY)

O’NEILL : Now.

CARTER blows the C4, destroying the generator.

INT - CHULAK, DEATH GLIDER (DAY)

HAMMOND : What exactly did he mean by threading the needle?

TEAL’C : Observe.

He hits the control panel and the glider races through the wormhole. It shoots out the other end and fires at the first turret, destroying it.

O’NEILL pulls out his sidearm, aiming at the Jaffa.

O’NEILL : Get down!

The captured SG soldiers duck, as O’NEILL fires at TROFSKY.

CARTER sees the second turret target O’NEILL and runs across the clearing, shooting at the Jaffa manning the gun.

CARTER : Colonel!

O’NEILL turns at her voice, then dives out of the way just in time.

BRA’TAC, along with half a dozen of his Jaffa, emerges from the STARGATE. As TROFSKY climbs to his feet and raises his weapon, BRA’TAC shoots him, this time killing him.

INT - HATHOR’S PLANET, DEATH GLIDER

TEAL’C : Fire.

HAMMOND fires the Death Glider’s weapons, destroying the final turret.

HAMMOND : Yeeeehaaaw!

EXT - HATHOR’S PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (DAY)

BRA’TAC and his people capture TROFSKY’S Jaffa.

BRA’TAC : Jaffa, kelmek! Kelmek!

TROFSKY’S remaining Jaffa surrender and BRA’TAC heads over to O’NEILL.

BRA’TAC : Human.

TEAL’C and General HAMMOND, having landed the Death Glider, approach the gathering. They all share a moment of triumph, before heading towards the STARGATE.

FADE OUT

THE END