POINT OF VIEW

Written by Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper, Tor Alexander Valenza

Transcribed By: Dee

TEASER

FADE IN

INT - AREA 51, STORAGE ROOM

Various alien artefacts are stored around the room.

Suddenly, one of them, the mirror DANIEL found on P3X 233, switches on. Through it, a long-haired SAMANTHA CARTER ducks, as Major KAWALSKY shoots at an unseen enemy.

SAMANTHA : Major, come on!

They are being shot at with staff weapons and KAWALSKY returns fire.

KAWALSKY : We gotta go back for the General!

SAMANTHA : I can't shut it down. I won't find this window again. We have to go now.

KAWALSKY tosses a grenade down the corridor and runs towards her. Together, they touch the mirror and vanish, re-materialising in the storage room at Area 51.

On the other side, KAWALSKY'S grenade explodes and the mirror goes dark.

KAWALSKY : You sure this is the right one to go to?

SAMANTHA : Anywhere's better than the alternative.

She passes through a red laser, breaking the beam, and alarms suddenly sound.

KAWALSKY : Guess we'll see about that.

They are quickly surrounded by armed soldiers.

SOLDIER : Drop your weapons! Do it now!

SAMANTHA places the mirror's remote on the floor along with her gun, and raises her hands. KAWALSKY follows suit.

SAMANTHA : I'm Dr SAMANTHA CARTER from the SGA. This is Major KAWALSKY. We need to speak to your commander.

END OF TEASER

INT - SGC, INFIRMARY

O'NEILL enters the infirmary, dressed in civilian clothes.

O'NEILL : So, what's the big emer...?

He pauses as he sees the alternate SAMANTHA CARTER lying in a bed, with General HAMMOND standing at her side.

O'NEILL (To SAMANTHA) : Whoa. What happened to you?

SAMANTHA : JACK.

O'NEILL : JACK?

SAMANTHA : It's me, it's SAM.

O'NEILL : Uh, yeah?

SAMANTHA : I never expected this variation. You're alive.

KAWALSKY enters the infirmary with Dr FRASIER.

KAWALSKY : Don't feel so bad, Colonel. Everybody around here is telling me the same thing.

O'NEILL : KAWALSKY?

HAMMOND : In a manner of speaking.

FRASIER : Actually, in a manner of fact, Sir. This is Major CHARLES KAWALSKY. In almost every physical respect. His blood work, his dental records...

KAWALSKY (To O'NEILL) : Except I'm not supposed to be alive in this reality any more than you are in mine. (To SAMANTHA) Sorry SAM.

SAMANTHA : It's not the same with us here, is it?

O'NEILL : Does...anyone want to let me know what the hell is going on here? Anyone?

HAMMOND : They appeared a few hours ago in a Nellis High Security lock-up.

KAWALSKY : That quantum mirror you got locked up in Area 51? You guys never figured out how to use it?

O'NEILL (To HAMMOND) : Is he talking about that alternate reality thing DANIEL fussed with on 233?

KAWALSKY : Who's DANIEL?

SAMANTHA : We can't be followed if that's what you're worried about. We brought the remote through with us.

HAMMOND (To O'NEILL) : I have ordered the device sent here under heavy guard.

KAWALSKY : Where we come from, the Goa'ulds just took over the world, Colonel.

INT - SGC, DEBRIEFING ROOM

SG1, along with HAMMOND, are watching a recorded interview with the alternate SAMANTHA CARTER.

SAMANTHA (on the television) : Look, I've told you this. Now let me talk to someone from the SGA.

INTERVIEWER (off-screen) : SGA? There is no such organisation.

SAMANTHA : Well then you call it something else. The...STARGATE project, STARGATE Command...

INTERVIEWER : STARGATE? What do you know about the STARGATE?

SAMANTHA (frustrated) : What do I know? Everything! We've been through this.

INTERVIEWER : Well let's go through it again.

SAMANTHA : For crying out loud. It's a big round thing. It takes you other planets. I made it work four years ago and we have been exploring the galaxy ever since. That is, up until yesterday when the Goa'uld came and started taking over every major city from orbit and making slaves of the population.

HAMMOND clicks the television's remote and the tape ends.

CARTER : Oh my god. This is too weird.

O'NEILL : Yeah. How about that hair?

HAMMOND : She claims to have travelled from an alternate universe in the same manner Dr JACKSON experienced a year ago.

DANIEL : Well this can't be the Dr CARTER I met in the alternate reality. She's...dead?

O'NEILL : Alright, just to clarify. This CARTER is from an alternate, alternate reality?

DANIEL : Apparently.

O'NEILL : Does anybody else have a problem with that?

TEAL'C : Which reality is actually real?

O'NEILL : Thank you TEAL'C.

HAMMOND : She explains it.

He switches the tape back on.

SAMANTHA (on the television) : Look, I know this is hard for you to understand. But according to quantum theory, for every possible universe there are an infinite number of variations, diverging in every choice we make, like forks in the road.

INTERVIEWER : Uh-huh.

HAMMOND turns the tape off once more.

CARTER : She's right.

O'NEILL : You just agreed with yourself.

DANIEL : No actually, Major CARTER just agreed with Doctor CARTER. She never joined the military in her reality.

O'NEILL : Fork in the road stuff?

DANIEL : Apparently.

O'NEILL : Alright, so it's possible there's an alternate version of myself out there that actually understands what the hell you're talking about?

HAMMOND : They've asked to be debriefed. I'd like you all to participate. (To an AIRMAN) Show them in.

The AIRMAN opens the door and KAWALSKY, followed by the alternate SAMANTHA CARTER, enters.

KAWALSKY is furious when he sees TEAL'C sitting at the table.

KAWALSKY : What the hell is he doing here...?

He starts to go for TEAL'C, but halts when the AIRMEN in the room draw their guns.

O'NEILL : KAWALSKY!

DANIEL (To KAWALSKY) : He's a member of SG1.

KAWALSKY : Who the hell are you?

DANIEL : Oh, um, I'm DANIEL JACKSON, also a member of SG1.

HAMMOND (To KAWALSKY) : Have a seat, Major.

KAWALSKY reluctantly sits down.

Both CARTERS come face to face in an awkward moment.

SAMANTHA : Nice...hair.

CARTER : Uh, Airforce.

SAMANTHA : I can't imagine I'd go in the military.

CARTER : Wow. I can't imagine not.

SAMANTHA takes a seat next to O'NEILL.

HAMMOND : First of all, I would like to say we know what you've been through. Dr JACKSON experienced a similar alternate reality some time ago on a mission to P3X 233.

SAMANTHA : Well that's where we found our quantum mirror as well.

HAMMOND : Fortunately for us, Dr JACKSON was able to return with intelligence that enabled SG1 to stop the Goa'uld attack here on EARTH.

SAMANTHA : Nice. That goes a long way to explain why yours was one of only a handful of alternate realities that looked like it hadn't been overrun by the Goa'uld.

CARTER : Actually, it's probably the very differences that set our universe apart from yours that have contributed to our survival. DANIEL'S participation in the STARGATE program, TEAL'C'S change of heart, the fact that I joined the military...

SAMANTHA : What? You think your being in the Airforce could have made that big a difference?

CARTER : No, I just said it made a contribution.

SAMANTHA (angrily) : And therefore I didn't.

O'NEILL : Ladies...SAMS. We're all in this reality together.

HAMMOND (To SAMANTHA) : What we need to know is where to intend to go from here.

SAMANTHA : Our Beta site was instructed to bury their STARGATE the moment the last man stepped through. And our own world is under Goa'uld control, so we can't go back.

KAWALSKY : We want to stay.

SAMANTHA : That is, if we're wanted.

There's a long silence around the table.

SAMANTHA : Look, we just left everyone we know, everyone we ever cared about. If you're not going to give us a second chance, I don't know any of you.

O'NEILL : Well exactly, you don't know any of us. And we don't know you. For all we know you could be her evil twin. But then...we'd be dealing with clichés and you know how I feel about those. (To CARTER) No actually you know how I feel about those.

HAMMOND : Ok. I'll speak with my superiors and make a determination. For now, you'll be assigned temporary accommodation. (To the AIRMEN) Take them to A3 quarters.

SAMANTHA and KAWALSKY leave the room.

INT - SGC, CORRIDOR

The alternate SAMANTHA CARTER is following an AIRMAN down the corridor. CARTER catches up to her counterpart.

CARTER : Listen, I didn't mean to offend you back there.

SAMANTHA : Look, Major, I know I'm dealing with the inadequacy issues here. Just forget about it.

CARTER : What?

SAMANTHA : We knew the Goa'uld were coming for six months, but I couldn't think of a way to stop them. You did.

She leaves CARTER standing in the corridor as she continues on her way.

INT - SGC, A3 QUARTERS

The AIRMAN opens the door and the alternate SAMANTHA CARTER enters the room.

AIRMAN : I'll be just outside if you need anything, ma'am.

SAMANTHA : Of course you will.

She goes to the bed and sits down. She takes out a picture from her pocket and sets it on the nightstand. It is a wedding photo of her and O'NEILL.

EXT - CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN (NIGHT)

A military vehicle enters the Mountain's tunnel, while an armed Airman patrols the area.

INT - SGC, HAMMOND'S OFFICE

HAMMOND is speaking on the phone, while O'NEILL waits.

HAMMOND (into the phone) : Yes sir. I understand sir. Thank you sir.

He hangs up the phone.

HAMMOND (To O'NEILL) : They can stay.

O'NEILL : That was quick.

HAMMOND : Too quick. God knows what we're getting into.

O'NEILL : Well, the combined IQ of EARTH might go up a few points having two CARTERS around.

HAMMOND doesn't appear convinced.

O'NEILL : I take it you figure there's a downside.

HAMMOND : It just doesn't sit right. Some lines aren't meant to be crossed. Nonetheless, I've been encouraged to find a way to incorporate them into this Command.

O'NEILL : Ok. Um, in the meantime, do you want me to tell them?

HAMMOND : Very well.

O'NEILL leaves HAMMOND'S office.

INT - SGC, SAMANTHA'S QUARTERS

There is a knock at the door and O'NEILL enters.

The alternate SAMANTHA CARTER, lying on a bed, has obviously been crying. She doesn't look round.

SAMANTHA : Just put it on the table and close the door on your way out.

O'NEILL (confused) : I'm sorry, put what on the table...?

SAMANTHA looks round in surprise.

SAMANTHA : JACK. I'm sorry, come in.

O'NEILL closes the door.

SAMANTHA : Your, uh, Dr FRASIER keeps insisting that I eat something.

O'NEILL : Ah. Well, she's your Doc FRASIER now too. (He smiles) You're in. They said yes.

SAMANTHA : That's good.

She appears relieved, but nothing more.

O'NEILL : Yeah, I can see you're overjoyed.

She turns away from him and starts to cry.

SAMANTHA : I just never expected this. It's so...so hard.

O'NEILL : Look. I can't ever begin to know what you've been through. I know, uh,...I know you've lost a lot.

SAMANTHA : I lost you. I watched you die JACK. Three days ago, trying to defend the mountain. And here you are, alive and safe in this perfect world, and you don't even know me.

O'NEILL : Well I...I sort of know you.

He sits down beside her.

SAMANTHA : You know her. You don't even see her that way, do you?

He follows her gaze to the wedding photo.

O'NEILL : I take it where you're from we were...

SAMANTHA : Married.

O'NEILL : Ah.

SAMANTHA : This makes you uncomfortable.

O'NEILL : No, no, not at all. I just...I get confused.

There's a knock at the door and an AIRMAN enters with a tray of food.

AIRMAN : Ma'am? Sorry, Colonel, I didn't realise...

O'NEILL : Just...put it on the table, AIRMAN.

AIRMAN : Yes Sir.

O'NEILL : Close the door on your way out.

The AIRMAN leaves.

SAMANTHA gets up and goes over to the table where the tray is set.

SAMANTHA : I haven't had a hot meal in forever. Just a couple of weeks ago, we were celebrating our first anniversary. Then we got the call that the Goa'uld ships had been spotted entering our solar system. We just left everything. You blew out the candles and I turned off the oven. We just left. They didn't hit Colorado Springs from orbit like most of the big cities, so the table must still be set.

O'NEILL : Cold by now.

SAMANTHA : Yeah.

O'NEILL (rising) : Listen, um, I should probably be...

SAMANTHA : Stay.

O'NEILL : SAM...

SAMANTHA : Please.

O'NEILL : Look, you're dealing with a loss right now that I can't even begin to...What I mean is, maybe I'm not the right person to help you.

SAMANTHA : Yes, you are. You're the only one who can. Look, I know you well enough to know that you don't have clue what to say. You don't have to say anything.

O'NEILL : Come here.

He hugs her.

SAMANTHA (her voice breaking) : Oh, I miss you.

INT - SGC, CORRIDOR

O'NEILL comes out of the alternate SAMANTHA CARTER'S room.

He meets CARTER in the corridor.

CARTER : Sir. General HAMMOND told me the news. I took the liberty of informing Major KAWALSKY.

O'NEILL : Thank you. I was just on my way to do that.

CARTER : I thought I'd drop in on, uh...SAMANTHA, see how she's doing.

O'NEILL : She's fine. I think she'd rather be left alone at the moment. Just stop in tomorrow.

CARTER : Oh. Alright. Goodnight Sir.

She turns to leave.

O'NEILL : CARTER.

CARTER (turning back) : Yes Sir?

O'NEILL : How are you doing with this...twin thing?

CARTER : Do you have a couple of hours?

He thinks about it.

O'NEILL : Ok.

CARTER : It...that was the answer.

O'NEILL : Oh.

CARTER : Goodnight, Sir.

She disappears down the corridor.

O'NEILL (To himself) : Goodnight, Major.

INT - SGC, SAMANTHA'S QUARTERS

The alternate SAMANTHA CARTER is brushing her hair. She pauses and drops the hairbrush, clutching at the table as her face starts to distort.

INT - SGC, INFIRMARY

The alternate SAMANTHA CARTER is lying in a bed as Dr FRASIER checks her out.

CARTER rushes in to join KAWALSKY and the other members of SG1.

CARTER : What is it? What's happening?

FRASIER : Dr CARTER'S gone into some sort of convulsive shock. I don't know the cause and I don't know how to stop it. (To SAMANTHA) Easy.

The alternate SAMANTHA CARTER starts to suffer the warping effect once more. When it ends, CARTER hurries to her side.

SAMANTHA (To CARTER) : Not medical. Temporal. Entropic cascade failure.

CARTER : On the cellular level?

SAMANTHA : Yes. I thought it would take years, not days.

CARTER : So it's a side effect of travel through the quantum mirror.

KAWALSKY : Then why don't I have it?

CARTER : I'm guessing Dr CARTER has it because I'm here. The increased entropy generated by both of us existing in the same reality might...theoretically be causing a temporal distortion.

SAMANTHA : It's not theoretical anymore.

FRASIER : Ok, so then how do I treat this?

SAMANTHA : You can't.

CARTER : The more time passes, the worse it should get.

SAMANTHA : So I'm going to die here.

O'NEILL : You're not gonna die.

CARTER : Actually, Sir...

O'NEILL (cutting her off) : CARTER.

CARTER : Well, the only way she won't is if we send her back.

KAWALSKY : If she goes back, the Goa'uld will kill her.

The two CARTERS exchange a look.

INT - SGC, DEBRIEFING ROOM

O'NEILL is tapping his pen on his paper, lost in thought.

DANIEL : Think about it. Billions of people enslaved. I just can't help but feel, in the grand scheme of things, we owe them. Besides, the only way to really help Dr CARTER is to stop the Goa'uld in her reality and...save whatever's left.

HAMMOND : How do you suggest we do that Dr JACKSON? The resources of their entire world couldn't defend against the Goa'uld.

DANIEL : What about the resources of our world?

CARTER : What do we have that they don't?

DANIEL : Our fate. We made contact with the Asguard.

O'NEILL : So?

DANIEL : So, if Dr CARTER can make contact with the Asguard in her reality, maybe their Asguard will be willing to help them.

HAMMOND : Defend their world against the Goa'uld?

DANIEL : Yes.

O'NEILL : And just how do you propose we raise the Asguard...in their reality?

DANIEL : Ok, we still have the dialling program that took you to the Asguard home planet, right?

CARTER : Which we could download to a re-moveable hard drive. But that still won't do it. Remember, in order to dial the Asguard home world, they had to provide us with a generator that transferred extra energy to the Gate's capacitors. I can't get it to work again. Apparently, it was designed to work only once.

TEAL'C : Assuming Major CARTER can figure it out, once in her reality it will be difficult to get Dr CARTER to the STARGATE without the Goa'uld detecting and stopping her.

KAWALSKY appears at the debriefing room door.

KAWALSKY : That's where I come in. (To HAMMOND) Permission to join the briefing, Sir?

HAMMOND wordlessly gestures to the chair next to DANIEL.

KAWALSKY (looking around the table) : I'll get her to the STARGATE. What, you think I'm going to let her go alone? She's my best friend's wife.

O'NEILL : You'll need someone to hook up the generator.

CARTER : And download the dialling program.

TEAL'C : You will also require my assistance.

KAWALSKY (To TEAL'C) : We can handle this.

DANIEL (To KAWALSKY) : No, TEAL'C has a point. You said yourself that TEAL'C led the assault on the mountain in your reality. Now, couldn't we use something like that to our advantage?

O'NEILL : Quite the military mind, DANIEL JACKSON.

CARTER (To O'NEILL) : No, Sir, I'm sorry. TEAL'C can't go any more than I can...entropic cascade failure. If I go, there will still be two of me in one reality and the same will be true with TEAL'C.

TEAL'C : Dr CARTER did not become ill during her first forty-eight hours. If our mission is not complete within that time, it is most likely that we will be dead.

O'NEILL : Good point. (To HAMMOND) Are you ok with all this, Sir?

HAMMOND : If you feel confident you can pull this off, I have no objection. However, upon your return I want that quantum mirror destroyed.

DANIEL : Ok, well this is all well and good, but none of us are going anywhere unless we get that Asguard generator working again.

O'NEILL : Ok. CARTER, download the program to the re-moveable whatever it is, and meet me and yourself, in the lab.

CARTER : Yes, Sir.

INT - SGC, LABORATORY

The Asguard generator is lying on a table. CARTER lifts out a green component.

SAMANTHA : Well, this is incredible. If the Asguard could design this to give the Gate extra juice, then they're just the little green men we're looking for.

O'NEILL : They're grey actually. Roswell grey, to be exact.

CARTER : You know, I had a hard time trying to figure out how to make this work the first time, let alone make it work again.

SAMANTHA : If it's powered by the energy module of a staff weapon, why doesn't it...?

SAMANTHA and CARTER (in unison) : Blow up.

CARTER : My best guess is that the device creates a modulated dampening field around the liquefied naquada.

SAMANTHA : Which controls the energy transfer to the capacitors. So maybe the modulation is thrown out of whack each time it's activated.

CARTER : That's exactly what I thought. But how to you even begin to recalibrate a field that you can't generate in the first place...?

O'NEILL (cutting them off) : Hey, hey, hey! Are you CARTERS going to be able to figure this out?

SAMANTHA AND CARTER (in unison) : We'll figure it out.

The alternate SAMANTHA CARTER begins to experience the entropic cascade failure once more.

CARTER (To O'NEILL) : We have to figure it out.

INT - SGC, STORAGE CLOSET

KAWALSKY and DANIEL are standing before the mirror. KAWALSKY is explaining to DANIEL how the remote works.

KAWALSKY : Ok, the way Dr C explained it, the controller is kinda not what you'd call an exacting science. You can't just dial up an address like you would on a STARGATE. You have to kinda figure out where you are.

DANIEL : Well, it doesn't sound like a very expedient way to get home.

KAWALSKY : As long as you don't turn it off, it's always connected to the same reality.

DANIEL : So when you turn it on again, it won't be connected to the reality you came from.

KAWALSKY : Right. We'd have to find it again. Now this thing switches to the various realities. If I turn it on now, it should come up somewhere near the reality it was last on.

He activates the remote and the mirror comes on, reflecting an alternate SGC corridor.

KAWALSKY : There, see? That's not it. No grenade damage. I...tossed a grenade down the hall to slow them down so they wouldn't see us go through the mirror.

DANIEL : So we need to find a reality that's just right. You mind if I...?

KAWALSKY hands him the remote.

DANIEL activates the remote. The mirror reflects an AREA 51 Storage Room.

KAWALSKY : There. See, you probably turned it the wrong way. Now, since this device should be in a storage closet in my reality, dial it the other way.

DANIEL switches the mirror to another image of an SGC corridor. This time, there are two Jaffa present. They see the mirror and level their staff weapons.

KAWALSKY : Change it, change it! Change it!

DANIEL switches the remote and the mirror changes to another SGC corridor and this time it is empty.

KAWALSKY : Ok, closer. What you want to do is dial it in smaller increments.

O'NEILL enters the closet behind them.

O'NEILL : DANIEL? You understand this thing?

DANIEL : I think so.

O'NEILL : Good.

CARTER : Colonel!

The alternate SAMANTHA CARTER enters the room, followed by CARTER who is holding the Asguard generator.

SAMANTHA We did it!

O'NEILL : Already?

SAMANTHA : Yes, all we needed was the ratio of the decay rate of naquada relative to the energy output.

CARTER : Which I learned to calculate when I learned about our new naquada generator. It's just the ratio...

O'NEILL (cutting them off) : Ah! Ah! It works, right?

SAMANTHA reaches over and flips a switch. The generator starts to glow.

CARTER : It works.

O'NEILL : Good.

KAWALSKY : Guess we better go do this.

INT - SGC, STORAGE CLOSET

TEAL'C enters the room, dressed to look like his alternate counter-part, complete with a small beard.

SAMANTHA : Yep, that's right, looks like him.

TEAL'C : I am not fond of wearing this uniform again.

KAWALSKY : Yeah, well I'm not too fond of seeing you wear it.

DANIEL and O'NEILL are waiting by the mirror. It is showing an alternate reality.

DANIEL : I've searched through all the descriptions of realities close to ours and this has to be it. It's the only one that's matching your description.

KAWALSKY : Yeah.

CARTER enters the room and goes over to her alternate self.

CARTER : Wish I could go.

SAMANTHA : Same here. But you don't want to go through a cascade trauma, believe me. We made a good team, Major.

CARTER : Yeah we did Doctor.

SAMANTHA : Plus your...hair's kinda grown on me. Pardon the pun.

CARTER : You'd better go. (To O'NEILL) I'll be here in case you need anything from this side, Sir.

O'NEILL : Yep. Alright, on three. One, two, three...

They all touch the mirror and re-materialise on the other side.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, STORAGE CLOSET

O'NEILL, KAWALSKY and TEAL'C rush to the open door, taking cover behind the walls. DANIEL and SAMANTHA duck down behind some crates, as a troop of Jaffa can be heard coming down the corridor.

O'NEILL glances over his shoulder and sees CARTER in their reality standing by the mirror. He signals DANIEL to turn the mirror off, but DANIEL shakes his head. O'NEILL is insistent and DANIEL reluctantly switches the mirror off.

The mirror goes dark just as the Jaffa head towards them. A moment later, the Jaffa head down another corridor, away from the storage closet.

One of the Jaffa comes back and glances into the room, but doesn't see anything amiss.

After he has gone, O'NEILL signals for him and KAWALSKY to follow the group of Jaffa, while DANIEL, TEAL'C and SAMANTHA remain behind.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, CORRIDOR

O'NEILL and KAWALSKY are trailing the Jaffa patrol through the alternate SGC's corridors. There are a couple of dead SGC personnel lying in the corridor, while sparks fly from dangling wires.

The Jaffa patrol heads into the Gateroom, where a larger group of Jaffa have assembled. They are led by the alternate TEAL'C.

AU TEAL'C : Jaffa!

The group of Jaffa kneel as a bearded, alternate APOPHIS walks down the gate ramp, flanked by two more Jaffa.

APOPHIS surveys his Jaffa and his eyes briefly glow.

The AU TEAL'C bows his head and APOPHIS leaves the Gateroom.

AU TEAL'C : Jaffa!

The group of Jaffa get to their feet.

AU TEAL'C Kree!

The Jaffa begin to file out of the Gateroom, leaving the AU TEAL'C and a single Jaffa to bring up the rear.

O'NEILL tosses an object and attracts the attention of the AU TEAL'C.

AU TEAL'C : Kel'nok.

O'NEILL signals to KAWALSKY to head back down the corridor.

The AU TEAL'C takes a staff weapon from the one remaining Jaffa.

AU TEAL'C : Kel'noc Jaffa!

The Jaffa runs off to warn the other Jaffa, while the AU TEAL'C runs down the corridor after O'NEILL and KAWALSKY.

AU TEAL'C : Jaffa Kree! Jaffa!

The AU TEAL'C enters the storage closet and comes face to face with TEAL'C.

TEAL'C : Kel'noc TEAL'C.

AU TEAL'C (shocked) : Kel'shak!

TEAL'C : Renounce APOPHIS as a false god and join in our deliverance of this world and I will spare you.

AU TEAL'C : Sholva!

The AU TEAL'C prepares to fire his staff weapon. TEAL'C fires first and kills his alternate self.

O'NEILL and DANIEL head over to TEAL'C and see the body of the AU TEAL'C.

O'NEILL : The idea was to zat him.

TEAL'C : As I said, O'NEILL, ours is the only reality of consequence.

O'NEILL and DANIEL exchange a look and O'NEILL shrugs.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, CORRIDOR

As two Jaffa approach the storage closet, TEAL'C emerges with SAMANTHA as his prisoner.

TEAL'C : Jaffa, kree.

He closes the door to the storage closet.

TEAL'C : Kel'tak nor.

He roughly pushes SAMANTHA down the corridor ahead of him, followed by the two Jaffa.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, STORAGE CLOSET

O'NEILL (To DANIEL) : Alright, I gotta know.

DANIEL (about the mirror) : Yes, I'm about to activate it.

O'NEILL : No, no, no, not that. What the hell does 'kree' mean?

DANIEL : Well, actually it means a lot of things. Loosely translated it means attention, listen up, concentrate...

O'NEILL : Yoo-hoo?

DANIEL : Yes, in a manner of speaking.

O'NEILL : Oh.

DANIEL : Ok, here goes.

He uses the remote to activate the mirror. The other side shows an empty laboratory and there is no sign of CARTER.

DANIEL : That's what I was afraid of. When I turned off the device, it lost its place. I have to find our reality all over again.

O'NEILL : Alright, it's ok. We knew that might happen. Stay with it.

DANIEL tries again, as O'NEILL and KAWALSKY leave the room.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, CORRIDOR

O'NEILL and KAWALSKY head down the corridor once more.

KAWALSKY pauses by a panel and places a charge against it, before moving out of the way. O'NEILL blows the charge and they enter a shaft.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, CONTROL ROOM

APOPHIS : I will ask you this one more time, human. What is the address of the planet to which your leaders have fled? The place you call beta-site.

A Jaffa strikes a bloodied and beaten alternate General HAMMOND with a device. HAMMOND cries out in pain as a bolt of energy passes through his body.

APOPHIS (To HAMMOND) : Where have your leaders gone?

TEAL'C appears, with SAMANTHA as his prisoner.

TEAL'C : Kel APOPHIS.

APOPHIS : TEAL'C, who is this?

TEAL'C : She was captured attempting to escape, my Lord.

APOPHIS : This one will not tell us the glyphs for the planet that they have sent their leaders. Get it out of him. Or get it out of her.

TEAL'C : Yes, my Lord.

As APOPHIS leaves, TEAL'C drags SAMANTHA forward.

TEAL'C (To the Jaffa) : Attend to our lord. I will take care of these.

He takes the torture device from one of the Jaffa.

TEAL'C (when the Jaffa hesitate) : Kree, Jaffa!

The two Jaffa bow and leave.

HAMMOND : You might as well kill me.

TEAL'C : I would never do such a thing, General HAMMOND.

SAMANTHA (To HAMMOND) : It's ok, you're not hallucinating. He's from an alternate reality.

TEAL'C and SAMANTHA begin to untie the General.

HAMMOND : So that mirror thing worked?

SAMANTHA : Yeah. Don't worry, I won't say I told you so.

HAMMOND : We should have tried it a long time ago, Doctor.

TEAL'C rises and watches one of the monitors. He sees a Pyramid Ship coming down over the mountain.

TEAL'C : They have landed on the mountain.

SAMANTHA (To HAMMOND) : There's still a chance that we can stop them, Sir. We're going to attempt contact with a race of aliens that they have in their reality, enemies of the Goa'uld.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, CORRIDOR

O'NEILL pushes off a wire mesh covering and drops down into another corridor, followed by KAWALSKY. They both draw zat guns, before heading down the corridor.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, STORAGE CLOSET

DANIEL uses the remote and the mirror changes. In it, he sees two Jaffa standing guard in a SGC corridor.

DANIEL : Whoops, too far.

He tries again and this time sees two Jaffa standing guard in Area 51. He quickly switches realities once more as they level their staff weapons at him.

The next reality shows a captured SGC Airman being shoved down a corridor by a Jaffa.

Daniel uses the remote again and this time the reality is that of a beach with a pink and blue sky.

DANIEL : Come on, please.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, GENERATOR ROOM

O'NEILL breaks open a panel, then takes the Asguard generator out of KAWALSKY'S backpack and begins to hook it up to the wires inside the panel.

KAWALSKY : CARTERS are pretty smart figuring that thing out, huh? So you and SAM, you never had a thing in your world, huh?

O'NEILL : SAM is a Major in my world.

KAWALSKY : Yeah, I know, it's against regulations, right? You two looked pretty good together, let me tell you.

O'NEILL : KAWALSKY, during your Special Ops training in your world, did they cover silence?

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, STORAGE CLOSET

DANIEL is still attempting to find the correct reality in the mirror. On the opposite side of the mirror, an armed CARTER is waiting for them behind a wall of sandbags.

DANIEL : Yes.

CARTER comes round to the mirror, then slowly lowers her weapon. Daniel waves to her.

He then notices the label on her shirt says Captain CARTER.

DANIEL : You're a captain.

He waves goodbye and switches to another reality.

DANIEL : Close.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, CONTROL ROOM

SAMANTHA types something into the computer and the screen shows a layout of circuitry.

SAMANTHA : Ok, now.

TEAL'C inserts a handful of chips into the computer panel.

A red line appears on the computer screen.

SAMANTHA : I hope your JACK is good enough to get the transformer online.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, GENERATOR ROOM

O'NEILL flips the switch on the Asguard generator and is starts to hum. He taps KAWALSKY on the shoulder and they leave.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, CONTROL ROOM

The lights go out briefly, then come back on again as the STARGATE begins to dial out.

TEAL'C (answering SAMANTHA) : It appears that he is.

HAMMOND joins them at the console and checks his weapon.

TEAL'C : You must prepare to go through the Gate, Dr CARTER.

She rises, then pauses and reaches up to kiss TEAL'C on his cheek.

SAMANTHA : Thank you TEAL'C.

She heads down to the Gateroom as the STARGATE opens.

TEAL'C nods to General HAMMOND, who puts down his weapon and places his hands on his head, continuing the pretence that he is a prisoner.

A Jaffa suddenly appears in the Gateroom and fires his zat gun at SAMANTHA, who ducks to avoid the shot.

TEAL'C (To the Jaffa) : Jaffa! Kree ho'nel! Ho'nel, Jaffa!

The Jaffa pauses and SAMANTHA runs up the ramp and dives head first into the STARGATE. It closes behind her.

APOPHIS : TEAL'C.

TEAL'C and HAMMOND slowly turn around to face APOPHIS and his Jaffa.

APOPHIS (To TEAL'C) : Why do you betray me?

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, CORRIDOR

O'NEILL and KAWALSKY head down the corridor to the storage closet. They break open the door to find the room filled with Jaffa, their staff weapons pointed at a kneeling DANIEL.

JAFFA : Lower your weapons or we will kill him.

KAWALSKY : Colonel?

O'NEILL : Yeah, we should do that.

They put their guns on the floor, while a Jaffa kneels over the dead body of the AU TEAL'C.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, CONTROL ROOM

TEAL'C, HAMMOND, O'NEILL, DANIEL and KAWALSKY are kneeling before APOPHIS.

DANIEL : Deja-vu.

APOPHIS : Who are you? (To O'NEILL) My First Prime killed you before my very eyes.

O'NEILL : I'm feeling much better, thank you.

APOPHIS (To TEAL'C) : Then who are you? What magic is this?

DANIEL : Well you should know better than anyone there's no such thing as magic.

APOPHIS : Kel'an tonnik.

One of the Jaffa prepares to zat HAMMOND.

APOPHIS : I will ask you one more time, how could you have risen from the dead without a sarcophagus?

No one answers and the Jaffa shoots HAMMOND, who collapses unconscious to the floor.

O'NEILL : Alright, I'm guessing the second shot kills in this world too, huh?

APOPHIS : Tell me what I want to know!

O'NEILL (To APOPHIS) : Hey, I'd love to. But I don't understand it myself. (He gestures at DANIEL) He does.

DANIEL : Ok, I'll, uh, I'll give it a try. Um, you see, at every point in time, there are infinite possibilities and uh, a parallel reality exists for each possibility, so there are literally infinite branches...

APOPHIS nods to the Jaffa, who shoots HAMMOND a second time.

KAWALSKY : No, you...!

A Jaffa holds KAWALSKY back as he lunges for APOPHIS.

O'NEILL : KAWALSKY!

KAWALSKY relents.

APOPHIS : Tell me where you come from.

DANIEL : From an alternate reality!

O'NEILL : One in which, by the way, you're dead.

APOPHIS nods and a Jaffa shoots DANIEL, who falls to the floor.

O'NEILL : Oh, come on...!

KAWALSKY : He's told you everything he knows...!

The Jaffa prepares to shoot DANIEL for the second time, when a Jaffa runs into the room.

JAFFA (To APOPHIS) : My Lord!

The Jaffa rushes over to APOPHIS and bows.

JAFFA : Tel'call APOPHIS.

He points to a monitor showing radar.

JAFFA : Kree no'tan re'no'kea.

On the monitor, a blip on the radar is moving in fast to their location.

O'NEILL and KAWALSKY help a recovering DANIEL back up to his knees.

APOPHIS : No'ra tee!

The Jaffa bows and runs out.

APOPHIS lifts his hand, preparing to use his ribbon device on the prisoners, when a light suddenly surrounds him and he disappears, along with the two Jaffa with him.

O'NEILL : Ok, I'm guessing...

DANIEL : Asguard!

O'NEILL : Alright.

The STARGATE opens and the remaining Jaffa run towards it to escape the Asguard. As the last Jaffa runs through, the STARGATE closes, slicing off the end of the Jaffa's staff weapon.

On the monitor, the Goa'uld Pyramid Ship has gone. The sky darkens and the mountain begins to shake. As the rumbling dies down, HAMMOND'S body disappears in a flash of light.

TEAL'C : It appears Dr CARTER was successful.

O'NEILL gets to his feet.

O'NEILL (about the Asguard) : Come on, you gotta love those guys!

SAMANTHA appears in a burst of light before them.

SAMANTHA : I met the Asguard.

O'NEILL : We guessed that.

HAMMOND appears behind SAMANTHA, alive and unharmed. SAMANTHA puts her arms around him and kisses him on the cheek.

O'NEILL watches a monitor showing an Asguard Mothership appearing over the mountain.

O'NEILL (quietly) : Love those guys.

INT - ALTERNATE SGC, STORAGE CLOSET

KAWALSKY(To O'NEILL) : Colonel. It's been a pleasure to serve with you. Again.

O'NEILL : Likewise.

KAWALSKY salutes O'NEILL, who returns the gesture.

KAWALSKY then turns to TEAL'C and salutes him. TEAL'C bows his head in return.

In the mirror, CARTER is watching the scene from their reality.

SAMANTHA (To O'NEILL) : This is hard. Goodbye for a second time.

O'NEILL : It's the first time.

SAMANTHA : It doesn't feel that way to me. You have to understand, my JACK had the same face, same voice...same hands.

O'NEILL : Which brings to mind an obvious question. How could you marry such a loser?

SAMANTHA laughs and turns to TEAL'C and DANIEL.

SAMANTHA : Thank you.

DANIEL : You're welcome.

O'NEILL silently gestures for DANIEL and TEAL'C to go through the mirror. Taking the hint, they stand side by side as they touch the mirror and disappear, reappearing on the opposite side.

SAMANTHA and O'NEILL stare at each other for a long moment, before SAMANTHA reaches up and kisses O'NEILL.

CARTER, watching from the other side of the mirror, appears uncomfortable and looks away.

SAMANTHA finally pulls away from O'NEILL.

SAMANTHA : You're really not him, are you.

O'NEILL : No.

SAMANTHA : I just wish...

O'NEILL : Yep.

He steps away from her and touches the mirror, appearing briefly on the other side before it goes dark.

SAMANTHA is left standing alone in the storage room with tears running down her face.

FADE OUT

THE END