LEGACY

Written by Tor Alexander Valenza

Transcribed By: Dee

TEASER

FADE IN

INT - ALIEN WORLD, CORRIDOR

SG1 are walking along a darkened corridor.

O’NEILL : DANIEL, any ideas about this place?

DANIEL : Well it looks like it was built by a pretty advanced culture then…stripped and deserted.

CARTER : The MALP showed no life signs.

A single, red stone is set in the wall to one side of a sealed door.

O’NEILL : TEAL’C? What do you think?

TEAL’C : It is an ancient Goa’uld design.

TEAL’C touches the stone and the door slides open.

O’NEILL : Now that is not a good smell.

As SG1 enters the chamber, DANIEL trips over a dead body.

O’NEILL : All right, Level A.

O’NEILL, CARTER and DANIEL put on protective gear, as TEAL’C discovers another body.

TEAL’C : There is another one here.

O’NEILL : More over there.

As CARTER examines one of the corpses, she notices a scar along the back of its neck.

CARTER : These aren’t quite human. They’re Goa’uld.

END OF TEASER

INT - ALIEN WORLD, CHAMBER

TEAL’C is examining the red stone on the inside door of the chamber.

TEAL’C : This mechanism appears to have been damaged by a ribbon device.

CARTER : Maybe they were trying to contain whatever did this.

DANIEL notices a symbol engraved on a nearby table.

DANIEL : TEAL’C, do you recognize this symbol?

TEAL’C : It is the crest of the Limvris.

O’NEILL : Which is what or…who?

TEAL’C : A rival league of lesser Goa’uld who challenged the System Lords.

O’NEILL : A minor league.

TEAL’C : Yes. There are nine.

CARTER shines her flashlight around the room, counting each of the dead bodies.

CARTER : …Five, six, seven, eight, nine. Found ‘em.

DANIEL reaches under the table and picks something up.

DANIEL : It’s one of those Goa’uld tablet devices, the kind we found on Argos.

CARTER : Can you translate it?

DANIEL : Part of it. It’s some sort of battle plan. I need the hand device that makes the screen go to the next page.

O’NEILL notices a half-hidden object under the table.

O’NEILL : That thing?

DANIEL picks up the hand device and runs it over the tablet, but it doesn’t work.

DANIEL : Nothing’s happened.

He suddenly jumps and turns around.

O’NEILL : What?

DANIEL : I felt something brush by me.

O’NEILL shines his light around the chamber, but doesn’t see anything amiss.

O’NEILL : Yeah alright, let’s pack it out of here, leave this to the medical containment unit. It’s getting creepy.

They exit the chamber.

INT - SGC LOCKER ROOM

DANIEL walks out of the shower, towel drying his hair.

Woman’s Voice (whispering) : Doctor Jackson.

DANIEL : Out in a minute!

Woman’s Voice (cont’d) : Doctor Jackson.

DANIEL looks round and notices a tap dripping. He walks over to it and hold his hand beneath the water, then stares at his reflection in the mirror.

INT - SGC CORRIDOR

CARTER finds DANIEL as he is leaving the locker-room.

CARTER : DANIEL.

DANIEL : Were you calling me just now?

CARTER : No.

DANIEL : You weren’t calling my name in the locker-room a minute ago?

CARTER : No it wasn’t me. General HAMMOND’S waiting for us in the briefing room.

As CARTER walks away, DANIEL gives her strange stare.

INT - SGC DEBRIEFING ROOM

FRASIER : The Goa’uld died before their hosts. We know this due to a unique protein marker left in Goa’uld bodies, or host bodies, after a Goa’uld dies.

CARTER (to FRASIER) : The same protein marker that was left in my body after JOLINAR was killed.

FRASIER : Yes.

HAMMOND : How did they die, Doctor?

FRASIER : Well at this point, Sir, I can’t really give you an accurate answer and I may never be able to.

HAMMOND : Why not?

FRASIER : As with Major CARTER, when these Goa’uld symbiotes die they rapidly decay and were absorbed by the host. There’s no Goa’uld corpse for me to study.

O’NEILL : What about bio-warfare? Poison, disease, that kind of thing?

TEAL’C : The Goa’uld are immune to such things.

DANIEL : What about the hosts?

FRASIER : The humans were normal, no wounds, no infections.

DANIEL : Ok, then why are they dead?

FRASIER : According to TEAL’C, the door was disabled from the inside. Locked in with no food, no water, they probably died of starvation.

HAMMOND : Right now, I’m more concerned with who killed the Goa’uld and why.

TEAL’C : The System Lords would be the mostly likely suspects.

O’NEILL : But if the door was disabled from the inside how’d the perp, or the perps get out?

CARTER : Maybe the assassins weren’t visible and we’re the ones who let them out.

O’NEILL : Reetou. You think Reetou were in there?

TEAL’C : Reetou would not spare the host. Reetou weaponry does much damage to the human body.

O’NEILL : Well there you go.

HAMMOND : Doctor Jackson, what about that Goa’uld tablet device?

As DANIEL is about to reply, the STARGATE begins to dial up and he appears to lose his train of thought.

Voice (over speakers) : Incoming traveler.

DANIEL (to HAMMOND) : Um, it’s a Goa’uld dialect akin to Latin. From what TEAL’C and I have made out so far, it’s some sort of attack plan. I’m…still trying to figure out how to scroll to the next page, if there is a next page.

HAMMOND : Doctor Jackson, I want you to make translating that tablet your top priority.

DANIEL : Yes, Sir.

HAMMOND : Dismissed.

As everyone begins to file out of the room, DANIEL goes over to the window and looks down at the Gateroom. O’NEILL stands at his side.

Voice (over speakers) : SG7 returning.

As DANIEL looks on, he sees the Limvris’ corpses walking down the ramp in the place of SG7. He glances at O’NEILL, but when the Colonel doesn’t react, DANIEL looks back at the Gateroom and this time sees only SGC soldiers.

INT - SGC DANIEL’S OFFICE

DANIEL is sitting at his desk, attempting to translate the tablet they retrieved from the Limvris’ chamber.

DANIEL : To enter by infiltration. Infiltration.

Voice (whispering) : DANIEL. DANIEL.

DANIEL hears the sound of a STARGATE dialing up coming from his closet. He pulls the doors of his closet open and sees the STARGATE’S event horizon.

Voice : Join with us DANIEL. Step through the Gate DANIEL.

DANIEL : This isn’t real.

As he puts his hand into the event horizon, he is suddenly grabbed by one of the dead Limvris.

DANIEL : Help!

The face of one of the corpses appears and DANIEL is pulled into the event horizon.

INT - SGC INFIRMARY

DANIEL wakes up in one of the infirmary beds. He sees O’Neill playing with a bag full of IV solution.

O’NEILL, seeing him awake, wanders over.

O’NEILL : Hello.

DANIEL : Hello.

O’NEILL : What happened?

DANIEL : Do you believe ghosts?

O’NEILL : Uh…no.

DANIEL : Neither do I. Which means there has to be a logical explanation.

O’NEILL : For what?

DANIEL : When we were in the Limvris chamber, I felt something brush by me. And I’ve heard voices. And I keep seeing the dead Goa’uld from the massacre.

O’NEILL : Where?

DANIEL : Well last night they were in my closet, in like a…STARGATE event horizon without the Gate.

O’NEILL : In your closet?

DANIEL : Yes. I don’t think they’re really dead.

O’NEILL : Who? The stiffs in the morgue?

DANIEL : No, the nine Goa’uld that were using them as hosts. I translated a phrase on that tablet that I thought meant attack, but when I refined the translation I realized it means to enter by infiltration.

O’NEILL : And you think that’s what they’re doing?

DANIEL : Yes.

O’NEILL : Through your closet?

DANIEL : TEAL’C said the Limvris were being hunted by the System Lords, right? Now what if they used some sort of technology to transform their bodies into…I don’t know, energy…or something.

O’NEILL : Energy?

DANIEL : Or something. I don’t know exactly how, Sam can figure that part out. The point is, they’re here. They’ve entered by infiltration and now they want me as a host.

O’NEILL (skeptically) : All nine of them?

DANIEL : That sounds crazy, huh?

O’NEILL : Um, yeah, you’ve got to admit there’s some holes in your theory here.

DANIEL : Well it’s a theory, not proof.

O’NEILL : Why are you the only one who can see them? Why didn’t they come through my closet…aside from the fact that yours is cleaner?

DANIEL : I don’t know. The only other theory I can come up with is that I’m having some sort of nervous breakdown.

O’NEILL : Or something.

DANIEL (echoing him) : Or something.

INT - SGC DEBRIEFING ROOM

O’NEILL enters the debriefing room, but pauses when he sees Doctor MACKENZIE.

O’NEILL : Doctor MACKENZIE.

MACKENZIE : Colonel.

O’NEILL : I’m not going to enjoy this, am I?

HAMMOND : Part of Doctor MACKENZIE’S work involves analyzing psychological data from SG units, specifically looking for common side affects to Gate travel. Doctor Jackson’s episode yesterday may have uncovered a serious one.

MACKENZIE (to O’NEILL) : Doctor FRASIER’S been treating you for headaches lately, hasn’t she?

O’NEILL : Yes. What’s that got to do with DANIEL?

MACKENZIE : Well you’re not the only one. Fifty three percent of SG field personnel also have a history of them.

O’NEILL : A lot of people get headaches. What’s your point?

MACKENZIE : Doctor Jackson has experienced what I characterize as a first break psychotic episode, which may be manifesting full-blown hebephrenic-schizophrenia.

FRASIER : Migraines are often one of the first signs.

O’NEILL : Wait a minute. DANIEL’S a schizophrenic and it’s caused by…the STARGATE?

FRASIER : It’s the only logical explanation we have right now, Colonel.

O’NEILL : Well it sounds fairly theoretical to me. Does anybody think it could be stress?

FRASIER : As much as I’d like to think that’s all it is, the evidence just doesn’t point that way. DANIEL has paranoid delusions, auditory and visual hallucinations.

MACKENZIE : Doctor Jackson’s dopamine levels have increased in the left hemisphere of his brain. All these symptoms are textbook schizophrenia.

CARTER : I don’t understand how this could happen without us noticing signs.

FRASIER : Nobody knows the exact cause of schizophrenia. Some cases are genetic, but there’s no history of it in DANIEL’S family. When it’s not genetic, it’s environmental and…the STARGATE is a plausible environmental cause.

CARTER : I’ve been through the Gate as many times as DANIEL and I don’t have headaches.

FRASIER : Well your body may have some kind of immunity, possibly due to JOLINAR.

O’NEILL : Alright, let’s say for the sake of argument that it is the STARGATE, a theory to which I do not ascribe, then why don’t we just put a little sign at the base of the ramp that says ‘Gate travel may be hazardous to your health.’ I can live with that.

CARTER : So can I, Sir.

HAMMOND : The Air Force can’t. I can’t risk any SG officer having delusions in the middle of crisis. Therefore, as we speak, all outstanding SG teams are being recalled for evaluation.

CARTER (to HAMMOND) : You’re shutting down the whole program.

HAMMOND : Only until Doctor MACKENZIE and their teams submit their report. If his theory is proven correct, limits will be placed on the number of missions. Until then, the STARGATE is closed.

O’NEILL : General…

HAMMOND (firmly) : There is no debate Colonel.

O’NEILL (silently) : Of course not.

CARTER (to HAMMOND) : What about DANIEL, Sir?

MACKENZIE : For now we’re going to medicate him and let him rest in one of the VIP rooms.

FRASIER : But if his symptoms persist or he becomes a threat to himself or anyone else…we’ll have to commit him to Mental Health.

INT - SGC VIP ROOM

DANIEL and O’NEILL are in the middle of a game of chess.

DANIEL : Check.

O’NEILL moves his king out of check.

DANIEL : Oh.

O’NEILL : What? Didn’t see that?

DANIEL : Actually I was thinking about something else. (He makes another move) Checkmate. I should have done that two moves ago, I don’t know what I was thinking.

O’NEILL : Yeah, well, you’re a little off.

DANIEL : I don’t feel off. I feel…I feel fine! No headaches, no tension, I mean I feel…normal.

O’NEILL : That’s because it was just stress. And I have a very calming effect on stressed out people. How about a game of gin?

DANIEL : I’m not very good at gin.

O’NEILL : Good! Get the cards.

As DANIEL rises, he starts to hear the sound of a STARGATE dialing up coming from the cupboard. He glances back at O’NEILL, but the Colonel doesn’t hear anything.

DANIEL yanks the cupboard doors open, but is relieved when he sees no event horizon inside. He takes out the cards and returns to the table.

He suddenly hears a Goa’uld squealing and looks across the table to see one crawling up O’NEILL’S arm.

DANIEL : Jack?

O’NEILL : Yeah?

Since it’s obvious the Colonel is not seeing the Goa’uld, DANIEL hastily looks away.

DANIEL : It’s nothing.

O’NEILL : You alright?

DANIEL : I’m fine. How are you feeling?

The Goa’uld continues up O’NEILL’S arm and starts to enter the back of O’NEILL’S neck, causing the Colonel’s eyes to glow.

O’NEILL : Good. Real good.

DANIEL suddenly jumps up and makes a grab for the Goa’uld.

DANIEL : There’s a Goa’uld in you! I’ve got to get it out!

O’NEILL dodges him and backs away.

O’NEILL : DANIEL! DANIEL, there’s no Goa’uld in me!

DANIEL stops as he realizes what he’s doing.

DANIEL : I’m sorry. I saw it.

He starts to act faint.

O’NEILL : You alright?

DANIEL collapses, O’NEILL helps him to the floor. As the Colonel heads for the phone, something shifts beneath DANIEL’S skin, moving across his face.

INT - MENTAL HEALTH

An aide unlocks the door to a white, padded room and MACKENZIE, closely followed by O’NEILL, CARTER and TEAL’C, enters.

MACKENZIE : Don’t expect much. If he becomes agitated, call the aides.

As MACKENZIE leaves, the remaining members of SG1 see DANIEL sitting on the floor.

DANIEL : Jack?

CARTER : It’s us, DANIEL. Can’t you see us?

DANIEL : I was just making sure you weren’t figments of my…mind. They took away my glasses in case I broke the lenses and uh…tried to…hurt myself.

O’NEILL : They treating you ok?

DANIEL : Yes.

He starts to cry.

DANIEL (cont’d) : I’m sorry.

O’NEILL : For what?

DANIEL : For being such a head case.

CARTER : It’s not your fault DANIEL.

TEAL’C : Colonel O’NEILL believes it has something to do with the Limvris.

O’NEILL : You remember in that chamber you said you felt something brush by you?

DANIEL : Yes. It was them. I know you don’t believe me, but I felt them.

He starts hearing noises.

DANIEL : They heard me.

He scurries to the corner of the room and huddles there.

DANIEL : They’re coming! They’re coming.

TEAL’C : Only your friends are here, DANIEL Jackson.

DANIEL : They’re coming. I hear footsteps! Footsteps.

O’NEILL (impatiently) : DANIEL! There are no footsteps. Stay with us!

DANIEL : Footsteps!

He sees one of the dead Limvris standing at TEAL’C’S shoulder and starts laughing.

DANIEL : I told you, it’s one of them. He’s right there.

He points to the dead Limvris.

TEAL’C : There is no one at my side, DANIEL Jackson.

DANIEL : Yes there is.

O’NEILL (to CARTER) : Want to get the aides?

As CARTER knocks on the door, DANIEL lunges at the dead Limvris, but TEAL’C catches hold of him.

Something crawls out of DANIEL and goes into TEAL’C’S hand.

DANIEL pulls himself out of TEAL’C’S grip and backs away as the aides arrive.

DANIEL : Something just went inside TEAL’C!

O’NEILL : You’re hallucinating DANIEL.

DANIEL : Don’t just stand there, get it out of him!

As the aides pin DANIEL to the floor and give him an injection, he hears MACHELLO’S voice.

MACHELLO : You have delivered me to the vile Goa’uld so that I may destroy it.

DANIEL : MACHELLO.

MACKENZIE : Ok, let’s raise the dose. Five mils at four hour intervals.

DANIEL : MACHELLO.

He loses consciousness.

INT - SGC

The remaining members of SG1 exit an elevator.

CARTER : God, I hate seeing him like that.

O’NEILL : Nothing worse than losing your mind and knowing it’s happening.

TEAL’C suddenly doubles up in pain and collapses over a desk.

O’NEILL : Infirmary!

O’NEILL and CARTER support TEAL’C as they take him to the infirmary.

INT - MENTAL HEALTH

In his room, DANIEL is dreaming of SG1’s mission to MACHELLO’S world.

MACHELLO : Yes! Inventions to fight the Goa’uld.

DANIEL : MACHELLO.

MACHELLO : Yes! Yes, inventions to fight the Goa’uld!

DANIEL wakes up in his room. He goes over to the door and starts banging on it for attention.

DANIEL : Doctor MACKENZIE! Doctor MACKENZIE!

INT - SGC INFIRMARY

TEAL’C is lying in an infirmary bed as Doctor FRASIER presents her findings to O’NEILL and General HAMMOND.

FRASIER : TEAL’C’S symbiote is dying. I can’t explain why.

O’NEILL (to TEAL’C) : TEAL’C, what about that…Kel’no’reem thing?

TEAL’C weakly shakes his head.

HAMMOND (to FRASIER) : Is he having hallucinations like Doctor Jackson?

FRASIER : No. His dopamine levels are normal. Besides, DANIEL didn’t have the same physical symptoms. They seem to be unrelated.

O’NEILL : What are we talking about, time wise?

FRASIER : Without another symbiote…a day…two, maybe less. Even if we found another larval Goa’uld in time, there’s no telling if it would survive either.

INT - MENTAL HEALTH

Doctor MACKENZIE, two aides and a nurse enter DANIEL’S room.

MACKENZIE : Doctor Jackson.

DANIEL : Just uh…give me a second.

MACKENZIE : Look DANIEL, it’s time for your meds.

DANIEL : Uh, I don’t uh…I don’t need anymore drugs. What I need is to get the ones you’ve got in my system out of my system.

MACKENZIE : No DANIEL, you need rest.

DANIEL : I think I’ve rested enough. Just tell me one thing, is TEAL’C sick?

MACKENZIE : Not that I’m aware of. I haven’t been to the SGC.

DANIEL hits the wall in frustration.

MACKENZIE : Doctor Jackson, I insist you calm yourself, otherwise I’ll have to have you restrained and further sedated.

DANIEL : Why are you so quick to jump to the conclusion I’m crazy? That I’m dangerous, I’m out of control? It’s ‘cause I’m kinda acting that way, aren’t I? I just…I just need to get these drugs out of my system. Look, Doctor, I know you probably hear this from patients all the time, but I think I’m cured.

MACKENZIE : You’re right, I hear it all the time. I’m afraid it doesn’t work that way. You don’t get well from something like this overnight.

DANIEL : You do if there was an alien organism inside you making you think that you were sick when you really weren’t.

MACKENZIE : And you…found this out…how?

DANIEL : MACHELLO told me.

MACKENZIE : MACHELLO?

DANIEL : He’s an alien old man we met on P3C 599.

MACKENZIE : Doctor Jackson, you haven’t had any visitors.

DANIEL : No, of course I haven’t. You see, MACHELLO is dead.

MACKENZIE : Dead? Yet he told you there was someone inside you making you appear crazy?

DANIEL : That’s a good point. I wouldn’t, uh, I wouldn’t buy that if I were you either. Just do me one favor, ok? Contact the SGC, find out if TEAL’C is sick. If he is…promise me you’ll let me talk to Jack O’NEILL.

MACKENZIE appears to consider this.

INT - SGC INFIRMARY

Doctor FRASIER is examining TEAL’C when General HAMMOND enters the room.

HAMMOND (to O’NEILL) : Doctor MACKENZIE seems to think there’s some sort of change with Doctor Jackson.

FRASIER : A change, Sir?

HAMMOND (to O’NEILL) : He’s requesting you come out there, Colonel.

O’NEILL immediately leaves the room.

INT - MENTAL HEALTH

An aide lets O’NEILL into DANIEL’S room and DANIEL gets to his feet.

O’NEILL : Hey DANIEL.

DANIEL : You don’t uh…you don’t need to walk on eggshells any more. I’m better.

O’NEILL : So I hear. Ah, it’s not that I doubt you but, um, why do you think it’s happened all of sudden?

DANIEL : I don’t completely understand it myself, but…I saw something come out of me and go into TEAL’C. And then I heard MACHELLO’S voice.

O’NEILL : Uh, MACHELLO?

DANIEL : Just…just hear me out. I’m guessing it wasn’t actually MACHELLO. It was probably some sort of technological or organic recording. And it said something about delivering MACHELLO to the vile Goa’uld, which made me start thinking. Maybe I had some sort of…Goa’uld killing invention inside of me. One of MACHELLO’S inventions.

O’NEILL : And that’s what made you…nuts?

DANIEL : Well since I don’t have a Goa’uld, a side effect of this invention must make normal people act like they’re…

O’NEILL (silently) : Nuts?

DANIEL : Schizophrenic. Look, TEAL’C is sick, right?

O’NEILL : Right.

DANIEL : Well, he does have a Goa’uld.

INT - SGC INFIRMARY

DANIEL is standing over TEAL’C, who is still very ill.

FRASIER (to DANIEL) : Your dopamine levels are back to normal.

DANIEL : I’m…back to normal.

CARTER : Ok, let’s say your concept about MACHELLO’S Goa’uld killing invention is right, why did it take so long to go into TEAL’C?

DANIEL : I don’t know. Maybe it needed a close proximity to sense his Goa’uld larva.

O’NEILL doesn’t appear entirely convinced.

DANIEL (cont’d) : Look, I had a lot of time locked in that little room to think about this. It makes sense. Why am I back to normal? And, coincidentally, hours after touching me, TEAL’C is sick.

O’NEILL : Alright, why didn’t I get sick when we were playing cards the other night and you were jumping all over me?

DANIEL : Because last I heard you don’t have Goa’uld larva.

FRASIER : Alright, but DANIEL look, we ran every test we have. MRI, CAT scan, x-rays, full blood work up. There is nothing foreign in TEAL’C or his symbiote.

DANIEL : It’s there. I know it! I saw it.

CARTER : DANIEL, those bodies had only been there a month. MACHELLO’S been dead for six months. How could he be responsible?

DANIEL : What if he planted those killing devices there six months ago? Or a year ago? And the Limvris walk into their meeting and…

O’NEILL : Like…a land mine.

CARTER goes over to the computer.

DANIEL (to O’NEILL) : Yes. World War One mines are still going off in France today even though the soldiers that planted them are long since dead.

CARTER (to DANIEL) : You think that MACHELLO created this thing, right?

DANIEL : Right.

CARTER : We crated off everything in MACHELLO’S laboratory to Area 51 and it’s all in our database. Let’s see if we can find something that looks familiar.

She calls up the pictures taken of MACHELLO’S inventions.

O’NEILL : Right there! Right there, back it up.

She returns to a picture of a tablet and a page turning device.

DANIEL : I picked that up in the Limvris chamber.

CARTER calls up another picture with a dozen page turning devices.

FRASIER : Why did he make so many page turning devices?

CARTER : Could be our land mine.

INT - SGC LABORATORY

The tablet and a page turning device are sealed in a glass, quarantine chamber. CARTER and Doctor FRASIER are using gloves to examine the items as O’NEILL looks on.

DANIEL is observing them from a room above.

FRASIER : On the right is the PTD from the Limvris and the one on the left is from Area 51.

CARTER : They look exactly like the one we found on Argos. The Limvris probably thought it was one of their own.

O’NEILL : It’s a good way to hide a mine.

CARTER : Yeah. The question is, how do we set it off?

CARTER experimentally taps one of the page turning devices with an instrument but nothing happens.

FRASIER : No. Ok, let’s see what happens when we use it on the tablet.

CARTER runs the page turning device over the tablet and 10 organisms suddenly slither out.

FRASIER : There they are. I am counting five…ten altogether. So if all PTDs are the same we’re looking at about ten per device.

DANIEL (over the intercom) : That explains how I got infected. There were nine Limvris.

CARTER (to DANIEL) : And when you activated the device, the last one went into you.

FRASIER : Ok, let’s try and immobilize one and put it under the scope.

Two of the creatures suddenly penetrate CARTER’S gloves, while the others escape the glass chamber.

FRASIER : The gloves are breached!

A warning siren starts up.

CARTER : Whoa!

CARTER and Doctor FRASIER back away, rubbing at their arms, but it’s too late.

DANIEL : General HAMMOND to B-Hazmat Observation right away!

O’NEILL reaches for a hose, but three of the creatures swarm up it and go into him.

Doctor FRASIER watches as one of the creatures moves beneath her skin and burrows up her arm.

FRASIER : No!

CARTER can only watch as hers follow suit.

O’NEILL (to DANIEL) : Great.

INT - SGC

The alarm is still going off as the base is sealed.

INT - SGC LABORATORY

General HAMMOND arrives in the Observation Deck.

DANIEL (to HAMMOND) : We have a breach.

HAMMOND (to FRASIER) : Is there any chance of further contamination to the base?

FRASIER : Judging by what happened with DANIEL, Sir, as long as we stay in here and we don’t go near anybody else, the base is probably secure.

HAMMOND (over the intercom) : Doctor WARNER to B-Hazmat 3 Observation Stand. Containment team to B-Hazmat 3 for containment and integrity scan.

DANIEL : There has to be answer in this tablet.

He uses the computer to call up a picture of the tablet brought back from MACHELLO’S laboratory.

O’NEILL : Is there anything we can do from in here?

FRASIER : Nothing Colonel. All the specimens are inside us. And since we’re infected by multiple organisms we can expect our symptoms to be rapidly acute.

O’NEILL : I’d like to apologize in advance for anything I may say, or do, that could be construed as offensive, as I slowly go nuts!

FRASIER : Likewise Colonel.

O’NEILL and Doctor FRASIER sink to the floor as they start to feel the effects of MACHELLO’S inventions.

CARTER : Colonel? Janet?

O’NEILL : CARTER?

He starts to hallucinate, seeing CARTER’S eyes glow.

CARTER : Sir, there’s nothing wrong with me.

DANIEL (to CARTER) : Sam, you’ve got four of those things in you.

CARTER : I know that, but I feel fine.

O’NEILL (to CARTER) : Are you seeing or hearing any of this stuff?

CARTER : No, Sir I feel completely normal. Somehow I must be immune.

Doctor WARNER arrives.

WARNER : Doctor FRASIER, what can I do to help?

FRASIER : Uh, not much, I’m afraid.

CARTER (to WARNER) : Doctor, there’s nothing wrong with me. (To HAMMOND) Sir, I’d like Doctor WARNER to take some tests, try to figure out why.

HAMMOND : I’m afraid that’s not possible. That would risk another person being contaminated, if not the entire base.

DANIEL : Sir, those organisms left my body. I might be immune. I may be the only one who can go in there and help them.

HAMMOND : We don’t know that, Doctor Jackson. I can’t let you risk it. (To CARTER) Doctor WARNER will stay here. We’ll get whoever else you think can help, but you’re going to have to figure it out in there.

CARTER : I understand, Sir.

She collapses against the table in sudden pain.

CARTER : Whoa. I think I spoke too soon.

DANIEL : What’s wrong?

CARTER : Oh god, something’s happening.

Four of the organisms drip out of her ear and fall to the floor.

CARTER bends down and pokes at them with her finger.

CARTER : I think they’re dead. DANIEL, I could have sworn I heard…

DANIEL : MACHELLO?

CARTER : Yes. He said my Goa’uld captor is dead. But I don’t have a Goa’uld.

DANIEL : You did.

CARTER : That has to be it. Janet said that when a Goa’uld dies, it dissolves into a host and leaves a unique protein marker.

DANIEL : So these Goa’uld killing inventions died because they detected a protein marker? That doesn’t make any sense. Why isn’t Jack immune? He should have some sort of protein marker left over from HATHOR'S Goa’uld.

CARTER : No. No, that Goa’uld left Colonel O’NEILL’S body and died before it had a chance to take over.

She crouches down next to Doctor FRASIER.

CARTER : Janet, can you hear me? Can we extract my blood and inject it into everyone that’s infected?

WARNER : No, your blood types don’t match. You’d have to separate the protein from the rest of the blood.

CARTER (to WARNER) : Ok, how do I do that?

WARNER : You don’t have the necessary equipment in there. Even if you did, it would take weeks.

CARTER : Come on, there’s got to be a way! We’ve got all this stuff!

WARNER : I’m sorry, but you need to use high-pressure liquid chromatography to separate and isolate the protein factor from the rest of the blood. That would yield thirty to forty proteins. Then you’d have to test each one of them to find…

CARTER : Ok! I get the point.

FRASIER (weakly) : Centrifuge.

CARTER (to FRASIER) : What? What about the centrifuge?

FRASIER : Put as much blood as possible in centrifuge.

CARTER quickly starts to draw some of her own blood.

WARNER : You’re wasting your time, Major.

CARTER (to FRASIER) : Ok. Now what?

Doctor FRASIER starts to tear off her clothes.

FRASIER : It’s too hot! It’s too hot! They’re trying to suffocate us!

CARTER : Janet!

Doctor FRASIER begins to hallucinate and she sees CARTER’S eyes glow.

FRASIER : No! You’re a Goa’uld! Stay away!

CARTER : I’m not a Goa’uld, Janet. It’s me, Sam. I’m your friend.

Doctor FRASIER forces herself to be calm in order to tell CARTER what to do next.

FRASIER : Put…the test tube…in the centrifuge.

CARTER does as Doctor FRASIER instructs and sets the centrifuge going.

When its finished, she takes the test tube of her blood back to Doctor FRASIER, who is now lying on the floor.

CARTER : Janet. Get back with me here. We’re trying to separate that protein from my blood, remember? The centrifuge just finished. Now what?

WARNER (to CARTER) : Major, you’re wasting your time. If she thinks there’s another way, she’s not in her right mind. There’s only one way to separate that protein.

FRASIER (weakly) : You don’t need to…Just need to separate red blood cells.

DANIEL : What’s she talking about?

WARNER : I see where you’re going. I see where you’re going! Don’t even try to separate the proteins. Just separate the rejectable parts and give them all the rest.

Doctor FRASIER manages to nod her agreement.

DANIEL : What?

WARNER (to DANIEL) : The part that makes blood types incompatible is just the red blood cells and a few things in the plasma. If we can get those out, the rest should be safe.

FRASIER : Quick-freeze.

CARTER (to WARNER) : Quick-freeze?

WARNER : Major, look in the freezer over there. See if there’s any dry ice.

CARTER opens the freezer door.

CARTER : Yeah, there’s a ton of it.

WARNER : Good, now follow my directions very carefully.

INT - SGC LABORATORY

CARTER puts the treated blood into two syringes.

WARNER : Looks good. Pick your first patient.

CARTER (to FRASIER) : This was your idea. You gonna be first?

She injects Doctor FRASIER then goes over to O’NEILL.

O’NEILL (to CARTER) : You look terrible.

CARTER : Thank you, Sir. I need to give you a shot, will you let me do that?

She gives him the shot, then returns to Doctor FRASIER.

CARTER : Janet?

FRASIER : Uh, I’m hearing…

CARTER : Hearing MACHELLO?

FRASIER : Yeah.

The creatures drip out of her ear, as do O’NEILL’S. He picks one up, then flicks it away in disgust.

INT - SGC INFIRMARY

SG1 and HAMMOND gather around TEAL’C’S bed as Doctor FRASIER injects the protein into his IV.

FRASIER : Ok. Well, I don’t know if this is going to work. He’ll have the marker, but he’ll still have a Goa’uld larva. Depends on how smart MACHELLO made the little beggars.

TEAL’C groans, then opens his eyes.

TEAL’C (whispering) : MACHELLO.

The dead organism drips out of his ear and is taken away by Doctor FRASIER.

FADE OUT

THE END