WATERGATE

Written by Robert C. Cooper

Transcribed By: Andrea-T

TEASER

FADE IN

INT- SGC CORRIDOR

We see a fully geared up SG1 walking down the corridor to the gate room discussing their upcoming mission.

CARTER : The MALP readings indicate a very low UV level. All other indications suggest a positive environment.

O’NEILL : Sounds good.

They enter the gate room to the sound of the gate activating.

DANIEL : It’s going to take us two weeks to get the Enkarans fully transplanted

TEAL’C : If the planet proves to be suitable.

DANIEL : It better be, they’re running out of time.

They wait at the foot of the ramp for the gate to open. The seventh chevron falls into place but the gate doesn’t open. O’NEILL turns to look at Sgt DAVIS in the control room.

DAVIS : Chevron seven won’t engage.

All of Sg1 turn around to look at the control room. O’NEILL looks at CARTER who nods and goes to help in the control room.

DAVIS (to CARTER) : I don’t understand it, the diagnostic shows no problems.

CARTER looks at the computer display which reads ‘total errors = 0’

CARTER (on speaker) : Sir, this is going to take a while.

She starts working on the computers.

INT- GATE ROOM We see a shot of the inactive gate.

INT- CONTROL ROOM CARTER is sat at the console with Sgt DAVIS. HAMMOND and the rest of Sg1 are stood nearby.

CARTER : It looks like there was an energy spike in our power log about eight minutes before we first tried dialing out.

DANIEL looks at TEAL’C in surprise.

DANIEL : Err, correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that something we’ve seen before when another gate is being used on Earth?

O’NEILL : Like when MAYBOURNE’S NID guys had the other gate.

TEAL’C : There is no longer a second Stargate on Earth.

HAMMOND : Ours was destroyed along with THOR’S ship.

CARTER : But if there was another gate and its use was responsible for the energy spike there might be a corresponding seismic tremor, like when the gate was found in Antarctica.

Sgt DAVIS : I’ve got something.

We see a computer screen with a map of Siberia and surrounding countries. A dot is flashing in the center of the map. O’NEILL moves to look at the screen.

CARTER : There was a minor seismic event that matches the time in our power log exactly.

O’NEILL : Is that Siberia?

CARTER : Yes sir and there’s only one explanation I can think of.

DANIEL : The Russians have a Stargate!

END OF TEASER

INT- BRIEFING ROOM O’NEILL is stood looking out on some airmen running diagnostics on the gate. He walks over to the table as HAMMOND enters and they sit down.

HAMMON : The Russians recovered the Stargate from the bottom of the ocean.

O’NEILL : I though we swept that whole area.

HAMMOND : We’re talking about hundreds of square miles Colonel. The Russian navy was on alert because they picked up THOR’S ship on satellite. They must have got lucky and beat us to it.

CARTER : And they’re admitting this?

HAMMOND : We didn’t give them much choice Major. The Pentagon said we had the evidence that could prove it.

DANIEL : Obviously they figured out how to use it.

CARTER : It took us years!

HAMMOND : Apparently the Russians know quite a bit about the SGC.

O’NEILL (suspiciously) : How?

HAMMOND : They didn’t say. How they got it open isn’t the issue tight now either. The problem is it won’t close.

DANIEL : Well that doesn’t make any sense I mean shouldn’t it eventually shut down on it’s own?

TEAL’C : Even the Goa’uld themselves have not been able to sustain a wormhole for longer than thirty-eight minutes.

O’NEILL : What about another black hole planet?

O’NEILL : We would detect a gravitational anomaly sir.

He looks at her annoyed that his good idea was wrong.

HAMMOND : The Russian government is divided on how to deal with the situation. It seems the Russian president didn’t support setting up a Stargate program in the first place. Until we called they were planning on bombing the facility and covering the whole thing up.

O’NEILL : And now?

HAMMOND : One of the Russian scientists involved in starting the program convinced them to send in a team to assess the situation and determine if it can be resolved in another way.

CARTER : Who’s the scientist?

HAMMOND : Dr. SVETLANA MARKOV.

CARTER looks surprised.

CARTER : Wow, I know her work she’s brilliant.

HAMMOND : She knows about you too Major. To that end she’s convinced Moscow to let SG1 be the team that goes to Siberia.

O’NEILL doesn’t look too convinced.

O’NEILL : You’re kidding?

HAMMOND : JACK I’m thankful they’re smart enough to realize this has global implications and that you are the foremost experts on the Stargate.

O’NEILL : General we’d be walking into an unknown situation to save their rosy butts!

DANIEL (to O’NEILL) : Err we can’t use our gate until they get theirs shut down.

CARTER : Not to mention the potential danger of having an open wormhole between Earth and who knows where.

HAMMOND : You’ll rendezvous with Dr. MARKOV in Russia and proceed to the base from there.

O’NEILL rolls his eyes obviously unhappy with the situation.

EXT- RUSSIAN AIRBASE- KYUBYSHEV We see an USAF airplane on the runway. It is being checked over by airman as the view pans over it. SG1 are stood beside it dressed in cold weather gear. A jeep drives up beside it and a woman gets out and walks over to CARTER and O’NEILL smiling.

O’NEILL : Dr. MARKOV I presume?

MARKOV : Sorry I’m late.

CARTER : Dr. it’s an honor. I’ve read your work.

They shake hands.

MARKOV : And I yours Major CARTER. I had hoped we would meet under different circumstances.

O’NEILL (offering his hand) : Jack O’NEILL

MARKOV looks at him for a moment.

MARKOV : Yes…

She looks at DANIEL and TEAL’C who are stood to the side.

MARKOV (cont’d) : Dr. DANIEL JACKSON and TEAL’C.

They all look surprised that she knows them. TEAL’C gives a slight bow to her in acknowledgment.

CARTER : How do you know about the SGC?

MARKOV : I have read extensive files on all of you.

O’NEILL : The question was…how?

MARKOV : I learned to read English at the age of six. It was not difficult.

CARTER looks at O’NEILL and smiles.

O’NEILL : Russian humor.

MARKOV : I will tell you what I can on the way.

They all follow her onto the plane.

EXT- RUSSIAN AIRBASE- KYUBYSHEV We see the USAF airplane take off from the runway.

INT- USAF AEROPLANE. The plane is airborne and we see CARTER join O’NEILL, DANIEL and MARKOV sat on benches along the sides. They are wearing headsets to communicate over the engine noise.

MARKOV : I was first contacted shortly after Russian satellites picked up what we believed was an alien spaceship entering the atmosphere.

DANIEL looks at O’NEILL.

O’NEILL : Alien spaceship huh?

MARKOV : About two months ago. It disintegrated during entry and crashed into the Pacific. The Stargate was recovered after an extensive sweep of the ocean floor. During that search one of our foxtrot submarines went missing. You may be familiar with the incident.

She looks at O’NEILL.

O’NEILL : Not a clue.

MARKOV looks at him probably knowing he was on the submarine.

MARKOV : I was assigned as chief science officer, second in command to Colonel SARKALOV. We’ve been in operation for 37 days albeit against the wishes of certain very powerful people in the government.

CARTER : What did they want to do?

MARKOV : They threatened to expose the existence of your program.

O’NEILL : To what end?

MARKOV : To get the US to share the technology you have obtained. O’NEILL raises his eyebrows at her.

CARTER : So what stopped them?

MARKOV : We activated our gate. I convinced the military that we could benefit from our own program more than we could trust you.

O’NEILL looks at her with a smirk on his face.

O’NEILL : Ah!

DANIEL : How did you activate it?

MARKOV : We have a dialing device.

DANIEL looks surprised.

DANIEL : The DHD, you found the one from Giza!

TEAL'C approaches and sits down next to DANIEL.

MARKOV : It was confiscated from the Germans after the Second World War.

CARTER : Well now I understand how you can send your people through and get them to return to your gate instead of ours.

O’NEILL : That makes one of us.

MARKOV looks at him.

MARKOV : Our gate superseded yours as long as the dialing device was connected. We only kept it connected when we were using it to prevent any crossover. It required precise timing but it worked.

O’NEILL (sarcastically) : Until now.

MARKOV : As for the current situation, I really don’t know what has happened. There has been no contact with the base since yesterday at twelve hundred hours.

The co-pilot walks up to O’NEILL.

CO-PILOT : Sir, we have a visual from the target runway. It appears to be iced over and there’s no response from the control tower.

MARKOV : We’re going to have to jump.

DANIEL looks at O’NEILL panicked.

DANIEL : Out of the plane?

TEAL’C looks unsure and CARTER closes her eyes at the thought.

MARKOV : I’m going with or without you Colonel.

O’NEILL : I suppose you expect my male bravado to kick in right about now?

MARKOV : I read your file.

O’NEILL : No mention of bravado eh?

MARKOV : There are forty-seven people down there who may need our help.

O’NEILL leans forward.

O’NEILL (seriously) : Look, you don’t have to tell me what’s at stake here. We’ve go seven teams off world who can’t get home until we fix what you screwed up.

O’NEILL leans forward and speaks down his headset at the co-pilot.

O’NEILL : Stu…gear em up…for a jump.

He stands up to get ready. We see DANIEL nervously sat on the bench looking at O’NEILL. The co-pilot gives everyone a parachute. TEAL’C looks at his in confusion.

TEAL'C : I do not understand O’NEILL.

O’NEILL : It’s called a parachute.

CARTER looks up from getting ready.

CARTER : It slows your descent after you jump out of the plane.

TEAL'C seems unconvinced.

TEAL’C : This device appears to be poorly designed to perform such a function.

O’NEILL : It opens after you jump…don’t worry about it, I’ve done it hundreds of times.

MARKOV : I assume you’ve brought haz-mat.

O’NEILL looks at her and speaks sarcastically.

O’NEILL : Yeah, we thought somebody should be prepared.

MARKOV looks at CARTER in frustration.

MARKOV : Is he always like this?

CARTER : Actually this is quite charming.

MARKOV rolls her eyes at this.

We see the plane doors opening. Two airmen drop a crate of supplies out of the plane on a parachute. Then SG1 and MARKOV approach the doorway. TEAL’C appears very apprehensive as he walks to the doorway with O’NEILL.

O’NEILL : It’s easy just jump, then pull this.

He indicates to the parachute release wire.

TEAL’C : This does not seem wise O’NEILL!

O’NEILL : I said it was easy, not wise.

MARKOV : If we get separated we’ll rendezvous at the base.

She jumps out of the plane followed by CARTER.

TEAL’C : This does not seem wise!

O’NEILL gives him a little push and he jumps. DANIEL approaches O’NEILL and just gives him an apprehensive look before jumping. O’NEILL then jumps himself.

EXT- SIBERIA We see a large building surrounded by mountains covered in snow. O’NEILL, CARTER and MARKOV are making their way to the building.

O’NEILL (on radio) : TEAL’C, DANIEL come in…. (To CARTER and MARKOV) There’s been no response on the radios.

MARKOV : Their signals may be blocked if they are already inside

They continue on towards the building.

INT- RUSSIAN STARGATE COMPLEX O’NEILL, CARTER and MARKOV open the large entrance doors and cautiously enter with their weapons drawn. They are all wearing gas masks.

MARKOV : Up there.

She indicates above them.

O’NEILL (on radio) : TEAL’C, DANIEL do you read?

TEAL’C (on radio) : I am here.

O’NEILL : Where?

They make their was up some stairs to find TEAL'C and DANIEL. The building is in darkness except for red alarm lights, which are flashing.

TEAL'C : In the facility.

DANIEL : Yeah, I’m here too.

O’NEILL : Where?

DANIEL : Well I don’t know exactly. Where are you?

O’NEILL : We just got inside, hang tight.

They reach the top of the stairs and walk along the platform.

CARTER : I’m picking up trace amounts of chlorine.

O’NEILL : Yeah?

CARTER : Nothing dangerous at these levels sir.

O’NEILL looks around the area.

O’NEILL : All right, what is this place?

CARTER : It obviously wasn’t built specifically for the Stargate program.

MARKOV : It was an experimental power station.

CARTER : Experimental?

MARKOV : All that I am allowed to say is that it was decommissioned two years ago.

O’NEILL (under his breath) : Oh please!

CARTER : Are there lights?

MARKOV : The power appears to have been diverted from all non-essential base functions. This way to the main control center.

They walk ahead and then hear footsteps approaching. O’NEILL crouches forward quietly. A figure walks towards them quietly with a torch.

O’NEILL (on radio) : DANIEL is that you?

DANIEL (on radio) : I don’t know. I’m walking down a long corridor.

O’NEILL (on radio) : Which one?

The figure gets close and O’NEILL shines his torch at the figure. It is DANIEL and he looks at them surprised.

DANIEL : This one!

MARKOV stands and walks past DANIEL.

MARKOV : This way.

DANIEL : Actually you might wanna see this first.

INT- RUSSIAN STARGATE FACILITY We see TEAL'C turn over a mans body. The man has been shot several times. There are other bodies in the corridor. Just then MARKOV and the rest of SG1 approach.

TEAL’C : These three were shot. I am unaware of how the others died.

MARKOV : There doors lead to the Stargate.

She goes to a set of heavy doors and types in a pass code on the lock. She then runs an ID card through the sensor and the lock releases. MARKOV pushes the door open to reveal the active Stargate. There are more dead bodies surrounding the gate. MARKOV slowly looks around and checks the bodies followed by SG1.

MARKOV (quietly) : They’re all dead.

INT- RUSSIAN CONTROL ROOM We see MARKOV and SG1 descend some stairs into the room. A mans body is slumped in a chair at the main console. MARKOV looks at him.

MARKOV : I need this station. TEAL'C and DANIEL move the body to one side. MARKOV starts the base computers up and reads the information. She takes her gas mask off and we see that she is crying.

MARKOV : It’s safe.

TEAL’C removes his mask and breaths in.

TEAL’C : The air is indeed clean.

The rest of SG1 remove their masks. CARTER places a hand on MARKOVS shoulder. She is clearly upset.

CARTER : Are you ok?

MARKOV : I knew these men and women Major, some of them quite well.

MARKOV continues working at the computer.

O’NEILL : So what happened here?

MARKOV : Colonel SARKALOV enacted the extreme measures protocol.

DANIEL : What’s that?

MARKOV : The Stargate room is sealed and substance thirty-five is released throughout the base.

O’NEILL looks around blankly.

CARTER : Nerve gas.

O’NEILL : Nerve gas!

MARKOV : It’s ok Colonel. It’s a non-persistent gas, it evaporates after three hours.

O’NEILL shakes his head unconvinced.

MARKOV (cont’d) : According to the computer the protocol was enacted yesterday.

TEAL’C : For what reason?

MARKOV : The computer log doesn’t say.

O’NEILL : All right, people were shooting each another around here before they got gassed. I wanna know why.

DANIEL : I’ll see what we can find out.

He looks at TEAL'C. MARKOV grabs some pieces of paper and hands them to DANIEL.

MARKOV : This is a list of all personnel assigned to the base. They should all be wearing ID tags.

DANIEL and TEAL’C leave the control room as MARKOV continues on the computer.

O’NEILL : So, what about the gate?

MARKOV : It’s an outgoing wormhole but…(she looks at the computer readout) that doesn’t make sense. The EM protocol cuts off the dialing device. If the protocol was enacted yesterday, where has the outgoing wormhole been drawing its power from since then?

CARTER : We’ve seen one drawing power from the source of the destination.

MARKOV : Of course! The black hole incident.

CARTER and O’NEILL exchange surprised looks.

O’NEILL : Is there anything you don’t know?

MARKOV ignores this and continues with the computer.

MARKOV : What were they doing?

She stands up and runs out of the room followed by O’NEILL and CARTER.

INT- RUSSIAN COMPLEX We see MARKOV rush towards a large storage device. She climbs the ladder at the side of it and opens the top looking for something.

MARKOV (annoyed) : It’s gone!

O’NEILL and CARTER approach.

O’NEILL : If I ask what and you say it’s classified…I’m gonna shoot ya!

MARKOV : The seventh address we successfully dialed led to a Stargate entirely submerged under water. We send a reconnaissance drone and found a dialing device so it was decided that a manned mini submarine would go next. A sample of the water was retrieved. It seemed to have unbelievable properties.

CARTER : Like what?

MARKOV : It was spontaneously emitting energy in the form of heat. If this liquid turned out to be an abundant clean energy source…

CARTER : Err, that doesn’t seem possible.

MARKOV : I was called away to Moscow before I could perform any significant analysis.

CARTER : So no you’re saying the water sample is gone?

MARKOV : Yes. There was a sealed container being kept in this containment vessel.

CARTER : And the Stargate is dialed into the water planet now?

MARKOV : Apparently but that doesn’t make sense. They were supposed to continue on to the next two planets on our planned sequence and not revisit the water planet until I got back.

CARTER : Let’s confirm it. Do you have another reconnaissance drone?

MARKOV : We left the first one there.

She climbs down from the container.

MARKOV (cont’d) : All we have to do is reactivate the receiver.

They all head back to the control room.

INT- GATEROOM OF RUSSIAN COMPLEX We see DANIEL and TEAL’C trying to identify the bodies of the Russian SGC personnel. DANIEL retrieves some ID tags off one of the bodies.

O’NEILL (via radio) : DANIEL, TEAL’C?

DANIEL activates his radio and talks into it.

DANIEL : Err, what’s up?

O’NEILL (via radio) : Head back to the control room. Dr. MARKOV thinks you might want to see this.

DANIEL looks at TEAL'C.

INT- RUSSIAN CONTROL ROOM We see DANIEL and TEAL'C walking down the stairs into the room. MARKOV walks over to them. CARTER is sat at a computer terminal and O’NEILL is checking over the bodies of two people slumped over computer consoles.

TEAL’C : Thus far we have accounted for twenty-eight of the forty-seven numbers on the list.

DANIEL hands her the paper with the names on.

DANIEL : Six of them were dressed as civilians not soldiers. They were all shot and there was no apparent reason why.

MARKOV : They were the scientists working in the lab.

O’NEILL : So the guys experimenting on that water gave the soldiers reason to shoot.

MARKOV : So it seems.

She walks to another computer terminal.

DANIEL (confused) : What water?

CARTER : It was a sample brought back from a planet where the Stargate was submerged.

MARKOV : I thought you might be interested Dr. JACKSON.

DANIEL and the others walk over.

MARKOV (cont’d) : We found some unusual ruins from an obviously extinct civilization on the oceans floor. Recording signal from the reconnaissance drone.

She works at the computer and we see the drones recording of the underwater ruins.

DANIEL : Can you get close?

MARKOV : The drone is malfunctioning. I can only pan and tilt.

The camera pans and we see bodies come into view. MARKOV stares at the screen in shock.

TEAL'C : Why would those men proceed through the Stargate knowing they would drown on the other side?

O’NEILL shakes his head.

CARTER (standing up) : Can you shut off the drone’s transmitter from here?

MARKOV : Why?

CARTER : Well even though the wormhole only allows matter to travel one way we are able to transmit radio signals back and forth.

MARKOV : You think the drones radio transmitter is what is keeping the gate open?

CARTER : That gate won’t close if the drone is aiming a strong enough signal directly into the event horizon.

MARKOV : And the energy being emitted by the water has allowed the gate to stay open this long.

CARTER : Exactly, it’s a combination of factors but all we have to do is shut off the drone.

MARKOV attempts to shut off the drone. The screen flashes red.

MARKOV : It’s not responding to my command, I can’t shut it down.

CARTER : How long before its batteries die?

MARKOV : The drone is nuclear powered.

O’NEILL looks up surprised.

O’NEILL : A nuclear powered drone?

MARKOV : We built several of them, we thought we might want to leave them on other planets for long term observation.

CARTER : How long term.

MARKOV looks at CARTER and O’NEILL anxiously.

MARKOV : Ten years.

O’NEILL looks at CARTER annoyed.

INT- RUSSIAN BASE We see MARKOV removing some covering sheets from a small submarine. SG1 are stood to one side observing.

MARKOV : It will be simple to deactivate the drone from the other side.

CARTER : Once it stops transmitting its signal the wormhole should close.

DANIEL : I’d like to get a closer look at those ruins.

O’NEILL : How many people does that thing hold?

MARKOV : Three.

O’NEILL (sarcastically) : Oh darn…I’ve never been in a submarine before.

He looks at MARKOV and she looks at CARTER clearly annoyed with his attitude.

INT-SUBMARINE We see CARTER, DANIEL and MARKOV descend the ladder into the submarine. It is very small inside. MARKOV switches all of the systems on as CARTER and DANIEL look around and take their seats.

DANIEL (sarcastically) : Spacious, roomy, very nice.

MARKOV takes the pilots seat and sets up the controls.

DANIEL (cont’d) : So exactly how much air do we have in this thing?

MARKOV : Over a days worth. We won’t need more than an hour.

DANIEL and CARTER exchange apprehensive looks.

INT- RUSSIAN CONTROL ROOM. O’NEILL and TEAL’C enter. They see what is happening inside the submarine via a video link.

MARKOV (via link) : Colonel can you hear us?

O’NEILL flips a switch so he can talk to them.

O’NEILL : Yeah I read you.

MARKOV : Pressurizing and proceeding through the gate.

INT- RUSSIAN GATE ROOM. We see the submarine being lifted into the air and moved to the active Stargate. Once part way through the event horizon the wormhole supports its weight and it goes through on it’s own. O’NEILL and TEAL’C watch this via the video link.

O’NEILL : Good luck.

CARTER (via link) : Thank you.

EXT- ALIEN PLANET SUBMERGED IN WATER. We see the submarine exit the Stargate and move forward.

INT- SUBMARINE We see CARTER and DANIEL looking around amazed.

CARTER : Wow!

MARKOV : It is quite beautiful.

DANIEL : What?

MARKOV : The rapid pressurization might cause your ears to block.

DANIEL clamps his hands over his nose and blows to pop his ears.

MARKOV : As you might notice there is no plant or animal life.

DANIEL succeeds in clearing his ears.

DANIEL : There doesn’t appear to be any plant or animal life.

CARTER (via radio) : Colonel do you read?

INT- CONTROL ROOM We see O’NEILL and TEAL'C at a computer console watching the video of the submarine.

O’NEILL : Yeah?

We see the video image of DANIEL.

DANIEL (via video) : We’re counting five bodies on this side.

TEAL’C : Which means there could still be several personnel unaccounted for.

O’NEILL : All right we’ll have another look around.

MARKOV (via link) : We’re capturing the drone. Once it is inside the containment tank we can deactivate it and if Major CARTER is right the gate will shut off. Ending transmission, over and out.

We see MARKOV lean over and cut the transmission. The screen goes blank. Then we see the Stargate shut down on the video link to that.

O’NEILL : So let’s have that look around.

They get up and leave the control room.

EXT- UNDERWATER We see the submarine proceed away from the Stargate.

INT- SUBMARINE DANIEL, CARTER and MARKOV are sat in the sub as it proceeds away from the Stargate exploring the surroundings.

MARKOV : I’m glad you were right Major.

CARTER : Well it still doesn’t explain why your soldiers started shooting the scientists who were experimenting on the water.

MARKOV : Or why those men were either forced through the gate or felt compelled to go through on their own knowing that they would die.

DANIEL : Well the existence of the ruins suggests the planet wasn’t always completely submerged. Maybe there’s some clues down there.

MARKOV : Let’s have a look.

She steers the controls towards the ruins. The engine sound increases and MARKOV looks at the readout puzzled.

CARTER : Something wrong?

MARKOV : The controls are getting heavy. I haven’t touched the power yet we’re slowing down.

CARTER : Strong current?

MARKOV : It’s possible. (She makes adjustments at the controls) I’m pushing it to full power.

The engine sound increases as it fights to move forward faster. MARKOV stares at a reading that is counting down from 6. DANIEL looks around worried and sniffs.

DANIEL : What’s that smell?

CARTER sniffs the air too and looks around worried.

MARKOV : We’ve completely stopped!

Suddenly there is a bang and the engine in the back blows. There is a small fire in the rear of the submarine. They all jump and look around alarmed.

DANIEL : Err…fire!

They all stand and go towards the rear.

MARKOV : Extinguisher.

She points at the small extinguishers and DANIEL grabs one. He sprays it at the fire, puts it out and turns to CARTER and MARKOV.

DANIEL : It’s out, we’re ok.

CARTER goes to look out of the front viewpoint at the surroundings whilst MARKOV inspects the damaged engine. DANIEL looks around worried.

DANIEL (to MARKOV) : Can you fix it?

MARKOV : Yes.

DANIEL walks over to where CARTER is looking out of the viewpoint and stands next to her.

DANIEL : What?

CARTER : If it was a strong current it should be pushing us back now.

DANIEL : But it’s not.

CARTER : No, we’re completely stationary. It’s like we’re stuck in the mud.

DANIEL : Without the mud.

They continue looking out of the viewpoint.

INT- RUSSIAN FACILITY O’NEILL and TEAL’C are cautiously looking around the base. O’NEILL stops suddenly and looks at TEAL'C.

O’NEILL (sniffing) : What’s that smell?

INT- FACILITY KITCHEN O’NEILL and TEAL’C enter the large room slowly with their weapons drawn. The kitchen is a mess and there is a body on the floor. O’NEILL looks at it and continues on. One of the ovens is still on and is smoking. O’NEILL turns it off and then notices a trail of footprints leads to the large refrigerator. He raises his gun and hand signals to TEAL’C to open the door. TEAL’C crouches down and opens the door. O’NEILL stands at the doorway with his gun aimed inside. We see a man stood frozen inside and O’NEILL and TEAL’C look at him shocked.

O’NEILL : Holy frozen bad guys!

We see that the frozen man is Colonel MAYBOURNE.

EXT- UNDERWATER We see the submarine not moving near to the ruins.

INT- SUBMARINE We see MARKOV in the back of the submarine trying to fix the engine. DANIEL comes up to the hatch behind her.

DANIEL : How’s it going?

MARKOV : I think I can fix it.

DANIEL : Wait, five minutes ago you said you could definitely fix it and now you just think you can?

MARKOV shakes her head annoyed and continues with the repairs.

MARKOV : What do you want to hear? I don’t understand why this happened.

DANIEL : Well given the obvious solid craftsmanship that went into this thing. I don’t see how this could have possibly happened.

MARKOV : If you’re implying that everything Russian made is poor quality, actually the sub is Swiss.

DANIEL : So they occasionally catch fire but they keep perfect time?

MARKOV sighs and ignores his comment.

DANIEL : Sorry, (murmuring) I’ve been hanging around Jack O’NEILL too much.

He turns around and goes over to CARTER.

MARKOV : There was nothing impeding us! It shouldn’t have happened.

CARTER : Well here’s something else that shouldn’t be happening. The outside pressure is increasing.

MARKOV looks shocked and puts her tools down.

MARKOV : What?

She runs to the controls in the front.

MARKOV : The gauge must be malfunctioning.

DANIEL (sarcastically) : But it’s Swiss.

MARKOV turns to look at him annoyed.

CARTER : Our depth is constant and pressure should be relative to depth.

DANIEL : And if it keeps increasing?

CARTER and MARKOV turn to look at him.

CARTER : The sub will implode.

They all look worried.

EXT- SIBERIAN MOUNTAINS We see the Russian power station in the background.

INT- KITCHEN We see O’NEILL and TEAL’C carrying the frozen form of MAYBOURNE out of the freezer and placing him on a table.

TEAL’C : Now we know how the Russians acquired their information.

O’NEILL stares at MAYBOURNE and taps his face to see how frozen he is.

O’NEILL : Solid!

Suddenly MAYBOURNE breathes out and O’NEILL steps back in surprise with his handgun drawn.

O’NEILL : Whoa!

TEAL’C : Do not humans usually die when they are frozen?

O’NEILL : Usually.

They stare at MAYBOURNE who is continuing to breathe.

O’NEILL (cont’d) : They usually don’t breathe when they’re dead either.

INT- SUBMARINE We see DANIEL looking out of one of the small side view ports. He looks at MARKOV who is still in the back working on the engine.

DANIEL : So Svetlana, could you go over exactly what happened last time you were here?

MARKOV : We came through the Stargate just as we did this time. We took the sub straight to the dialing device and redialed Earth. The gate opened and we headed through.

DANIEL : That’s it?

MARKOV : We collected the water sample just before heading back through the event horizon.

CARTER : No trouble?

MARKOV : We had to push the engines a little harder to get through the gate but I expected it was some kind of intuitive countermeasure intended to keep the water from flowing through the gate.

CARTER : It’s possible. My research indicates that the gate actually has the ability to use density molecular structure and the force being exerted on the event horizon, to determine whether something’s actually trying to pass through.

MARKOV : I know, that’s where I got the idea.

Suddenly the submarine starts creaking and they all look around alarmed.

INT- KITCHEN We see MAYBOURNES hand drop down from where it was frozen as he defrosts. O’NEILL and TEAL’C are observing this.

O’NEILL : MAYBOURNE?

There is no response.

TEAL’C : His heart is beating, albeit slowly. He is getting warmer O’NEILL.

O’NEILL : MAYBOURNE!

Suddenly MAYBOURNE looks from side to side.

O’NEILL (cont’d) : You hear me?

MAYBOURNE looks at O’NEILL.

INT- SUBMARINE We see MARKOV quickly trying to finish fixing the engine. She walks into the main compartment and sits down in front of the controls. CARTER and DANIEL take their seats. MARKOV powers up the sub and we hear the engine straining to get the sub moving.

CARTER : We’re not going anywhere are we?

MARKOV looks at her then gets up and turns the engines off.

DANIEL : What are you doing?

MARKOV : Pushing the engines harder will only burn them out again. Next time I may not be able to fix them.

DANIEL : And if we stay here we’ll run out of air.

MARKOV : If the pressure keeps increasing at the current rate the sub will implode long before we run out of air.

DANIEL : Or that!

CARTER : I figure we have maybe an hour.

MARKOV : I agree. The front bubble will be most susceptible. It will be the first to go.

DANIEL : Err…can we stop agreeing on how we’re gonna die and start doing something about it?

MARKOV and CARTER just stare around the sub unsure of what to do.

INT- KITCHEN We see MAYBOURNE suddenly sit up surprising O’NEILL and TEAL’C.

O’NEILL : Alright, that’s far enough.

MAYBOURNE just stares straight ahead and starts walking out of the kitchen.

O’NEILL : MAYBOURNE…(he raises his gun) MAYBOURNE stop!

TEAL’C stands in the way of MAYBOURNE to stop him from leaving the kitchen.

O’NEILL (cont’d) : Move again and I’ll shoot

MAYBOURNE turns around and starts to walk towards O’NEILL. He suddenly stops and clutches at his chest coughing. He drops to the floor and coughs up what appears to be water. O’NEILL looks at him in disgust.

O’NEILL : Damn!

MAYBOURNE suddenly seems to come to his senses. He stares at the water shocked.

MAYBOURNE : Jack, the freezer!

O’NEILL : What?

He grabs MAYBOURNE by the collar and aims his gun at him.

MAYBOURNE : Move if you wanna live. Shoot me if you want to, we’re dead if we don’t move now!

O’NEILL looks at TEAL’C who is stood over the water.

O’NEILL : TEAL’C?

Suddenly the water turns into a vapor and TEAL’C is forced to breathe it in. As this distracts O’NEILL, MAYBOURNE grabs the opportunity and shoves himself and O’NEILL back inside the freezer closing the door behind them. O’NEILL struggles to get out past MAYBOURNE.

O’NEILL : What are you doing!

MAYBOURNE : Don’t wait for him! Jack, you open that door and we’re both dead I swear! You can’t help him.

O’NEILL (angrily) : Get the hell out of my way!

He pushes past MAYBOURNE and looks through the window at TEAL’C. we see TEAL’C stood unmoving until he suddenly looks up and walks off towards the Stargate room.

O’NEILL : What the hell’s going on here?

EXT- UNDERWATER We see the submarine is still not moving in the ‘water’.

INT- SUBMARINE We see CARTER, MARKOV and DANIEL discussing the situation.

DANIEL : You said it’s like we’re being held here.

CARTER : Like someone is squeezing the sub.

MARKOV : But there’s only water out there.

We hear the submarine creaking from the increased pressure.

DANIEL (looking around) : What if it’s not water?

MARKOV looks as though she never considered that possibility.

MARKOV : Exactly what tests did you run on the sample when you brought it back?

MARKOV : As I said, we had begun preliminary analysis. It was being kept in a sealed container. It hadn’t even been opened yet when I went away.

CARTER : How did you know it was giving off energy?

MARKOV : The container maintained a temperature several degrees above room temperature.

CARTER : And you never performed a chemical analysis?

MARKOV : I insisted the proper controls were set up. They were supposed to wait until I got back.

CARTER : But they didn’t?

MARKOV : Colonel SARKALOV was under a lot of pressure to prove that the money being spent was going to be worth it.

DANIEL : So we don’t know that’s actually water out there!

The glass as the front view port creaks and they all turn and stare at it.

INT- KITCHEN FREEZER We see O’NEILL looking out of the window with his gun ready. He looks at MAYBOURNE who has his arms crossed at his chest.

MAYBOURNE : It’s alive.

O’NEILL walks towards him angrily.

O’NEILL : What?

MAYBOURNE : The water. When they exposed it to the air to start a chemical analysis it just evaporated, turned into vapor.

O’NEILL : You were there?

MAYBOURNE : We inhaled it, didn’t give us a choice.

O’NEILL : Who’s us?

MAYBOURNE : The scientists in the lab. I knew what was going on but I couldn’t control myself. They wanted to go back through the Stargate.

O’NEILL : Who’s they?

MAYBOURNE slowly approaches O’NEILL.

MAYBOURNE : Life forms, in the water. Countless numbers of microscopic organisms, intelligent life forms.

O’NEILL : Are you trying to tell me this water thinks?

MAYBOURNE : We were killing them. They forced us to try to take them back through the gate. The soldiers tried to stop us, they were shooting. If an infected man was killed the fluid came out of him and more were infected. It was chaos. One of the infected soldiers managed to get to the DHD and get the gate open. That’s when the base commander enacted the EM protocol to stop it. The infected men started running through the gate trying to escape the gas.

O’NEILL : Why didn’t you?

MAYBOURNE : I was cut off from the gate room. I think the liquid organisms inside me knew the only way to keep themselves alive was to escape the gas and freeze themselves. They forced me in here.

O’NEILL : You were frozen solid when I found you.

MAYBOURNE : They kept me alive.

O’NEILL (skeptically) : How do you know all of this?

MAYBOURNE : I don’t know how exactly, I just do. They must have communicated it to me.

O’NEILL : This is the stuff that’s in TEAL’C now?

MAYBOURNE nods at him.

O’NEILL : How do we get it out?

MAYBOURNE shrugs his shoulders.

O’NEILL : Come on MAYBOURNE it came out of you.

MAYBOURNE : They needed to go back. You wouldn’t let me go. I guess they thought TEAL’C could get them home.

O’NEILL just shakes his head at MAYBOURNE, opens the door and heads out after TEAL’C.

INT- SUBMARINE We see CARTER and MARKOV sat down working at the console. DANIEL is pacing back and forth considering the situation.

DANIEL : What if it’s a life form?

MARKOV : That is pure assumption.

DANIEL : Well it would sure explain everything.

CARTER : After you collected the sample you said you experienced resistance trying to go back through the gate?

DANIEL : It wasn’t the gate causing the resistance, it was the life form trying to prevent you from leaving.

CARTER : And now it’s perceiving us as some kind of threat.

Suddenly there is a crunching sound and a large crack appears in the front view port. They all stare at it alarmed.

EXT- SIBERIAN MOUNTAINS- DAY

INT- RUSSIAN COMPLEX CORRIDOR We see TEAL’C possessed by the ‘water’ walking down the corridor towards the Stargate. O’NEILL is running to catch up to him from behind.

O’NEILL : TEAL’C…TEAL'C!

He runs up to him grabs him from behind and they both fall to the floor wrestling. They manage to stand and both grab hold of each other by the collar.

O’NEILL : Fight it! Fight it!

TEAL’C manages to overpower O’NEILL and throws him to the floor out of the Stargate room knocking him unconscious. He closes the door on O’NEILL.

INT- SUBMARINE The crack in the view port is increasing and CARTER, DANIEL and MARKOV are just watching it grow not able to do anything about it. MARKOV stands and moves over to the oxygen canisters. She hands one each to DANIEL and CARTER and takes one herself.

MARKOV : It all we’ve got!

CARTER : The pressure alone will…

Suddenly the crack increases more and the whole view port glass shatters. Instead of the submarine imploding the ‘water’ just stays as it was as though the glass were still there. They all back against the back of the submarine.

INT- RUSSIAN GATEROOM We see TEAL'C slowly walking up to the gate. His face is all screwed up as though he is fighting the aliens possessing him. He reaches the DHD and begins imputing the symbols for the underwater Stargate.

INT- SUBMARINE We see that the ‘water’ is still not imploding the submarine. CARTER, DANIEL and MARKOV are just staring at it. DANIEL looks at it curiously and walks over to the front of the sub.

CARTER : DANIEL?

DANIEL puts his hand into the ‘water’.

MARKOV (to CARTER) : What is he doing? (To DANIEL) What are you doing?

CARTER : DANIEL!

DANIEL is putting his hand further into the ‘water’

DANIEL : I think it just wants to understand.

MARKOV : What?

DANIEL : Us.

Suddenly the water seems to hold on to DANIEL and pull him in. MARKOV and CARTER rush over to try to stop it but the ‘water’ envelops them completely pulling them in too.

INT- CORRIDOR OUTSIDE STARGATE ROOM We see O’NEILL awaken on the floor outside the Stargate room. The sound of the DHD being activated is heard. O’NEILL stands quickly and walks through the door into the gate room just as TEAL’C activates the gate. The gate opens and TEAL'C walks towards it. Suddenly TEAL’C falls to the floor and ‘vomits’ the ‘water’ up as MAYBOURNE did. O’NEILL looks on in horror. The ‘water’ turns to a vapor and goes through the Stargate, which then deactivates. O’NEILL rushes up to TEAL’C who appears dazed but unharmed.

O’NEILL : TEAL'C?

TEAL'C : They had no wish to kill me O’NEILL. They only wished to travel home.

O’NEILL : That’s good. You all right?

O’NEILL : I will be.

Suddenly all of the chevrons on the gate light up.

O’NEILL : Ok, I think we should…duck!

They both crouch down as the gate activates above them. The vortex narrowly misses them. When the gate has opened they both stand up and we see DANIEL, MARKOV and CARTER come flying through the gate landing hard on the ramp.

O’NEILL : Aghh! That had to hurt!

They walk over to the others who are slowly and painfully standing up dazed.

O’NEILL : Didn’t you guys leave here in a submarine?

They all stare at him shocked.

CARTER : We err…

DANIEL : Last thing I remember is being pulled into the…

He gestures towards the Stargate puzzled.

CARTER : Not really sure what happened sir.

TEAL’C looks towards O’NEILL.

O’NEILL : Here’s a thought. We just exchanged hostages…

CARTER, DANIEL and MARKOV stare at him puzzled, unaware of what has happened at the base.

O’NEILL (cont’d) : It’s just a thought.

FADE OUT

THE END