ENEMIES

Written by Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper, Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie

Transcribed By: Dee

TEASER

FADE IN

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

SG1 and JACOB are looking out at APOPHIS’ mothership

JACOB: He’s arming weapons.

O’NEILL: Shields?

JACOB: Not responding.  Not that they’d do much good anyway.  That ship has weapons powerful enough to penetrate our shields at full power.

CARTER: Hyperdrive?

JACOB: It’s not responding.  The blast wave that propelled us here did some damage.

DANIEL: Can we communicate with them?

JACOB: And say what?

DANIEL: I don’t know, don’t shoot?

JACOB thinks for a moment, then opens a communication channel to APOPHIS’ ship.

SELMAC/ JACOB: Kree, Lord APOPHIS.  I am SELMAC of the Tok’ra, commander of this ship.

O’NEILL: Commander?

JACOB (to O’NEILL): You want to bicker about rank right now?

APOPHIS’ image appears on the viewscreen.

APOPHIS: Ona’ka, shel APOPHIS.

O’NEILL: He’s looking a little pissed.

CARTER: We did just destroy his fleet.

APOPHIS: Rok ona ja kuna.  Shel we how’akek.

JACOB (translating the Goa’uld): He’s says it’s time for us to die.

DANIEL: Uh, wait a sec, I don’t know if you’ve checked your dashboard here, but we’re both way off course.

APOPHIS: Oroc ra, kree mak.

JACOB: He’s saying he knows everything.

APOPHIS: Ona’kra ja’do.

JACOB: He’s also saying there’s nothing we can do to help him.  He’s going to destroy us.

DANIEL: We surrender.

O’NEILL: What?  DANIEL?

DANIEL: It’s either that or he blows us to pieces.  I’m just trying to buy us a little time here.

APOPHIS: Klavel ha.

APOPHIS’ image disappears.

CARTER: What’d he say?

DANIEL: Too late.

END OF TEASER

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

O’NEILL: Can’t stand it.  What’s he waiting for?

APOPHIS’ ship fires several blasts, all of them missing SG1’s ship.

A second, unidentified ship emerges from behind SG1’s ship, returning fire.

CARTER: What happened?

JACOB: I’m picking up another ship on sensors.  It’s coming in fast.  They’re firing on APOPHIS.

JACOB adjusts the controls, starting up the engines.

CARTER: What are you doing?

JACOB: Getting the hell out of here.

EXT – SPACE

SG1’s ship moves off as the two other ships continue to exchange fire.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB: That ship is unlike anything on computer records.

CARTER: Well we are in a completely uncharted part of the universe.

O’NEILL: I’m enjoying their style.  Shoot first, send flowers later.  It works.

DANIEL: But it only fired on APOPHIS, right, not us.

CARTER: Well, his ship’s a much bigger threat.

JACOB: You think they were trying to save us?

DANIEL: It’s possible.

JACOB: We may still find out.  We’re not going to get far on sublight engines.  Whoever wins the fight will probably come looking for us.

He calls up on the viewscreen an image of the system they are in.

CARTER: Now what are you doing?

JACOB: This system is centred around a blue giant.  If we can move close enough to the coronasphere, the radiation should keep us off their sensors.

O’NEILL: Excuse me?  Radiation?

JACOB: The ship’s hull will protect us.  For a while.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB flies the ship towards the giant.

JACOB: We’re entering the coronasphere.  The good news is that we won’t show up on anyone else’s sensors.  The bad news is that our sensors will be blocked as well.

CARTER: So when we’re ready to go, we won’t know if someone’s out there, waiting for us.

DANIEL: How long do we have?

JACOB: About an hour without full shields.  Ten hours with.  SAM, want to give me a hand?

O’NEILL: I’d fix the shields first.

JACOB: Right JACK.

He and CARTER leave the bridge.

O’NEILL: Just a suggestion.

INT – ENGINE ROOM, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB has a panel full of crystals open.

JACOB: Are you ok?

CARTER: Just thinking about TEAL’C.  (She checks her wristwatch) Five minutes.

The crystals inside the panel light up.

JACOB: And nine hours.  The shields are back online.

He closes the panel and goes to open another one.  Inside, some of the crystal are burnt.

JACOB: Oh boy.

CARTER: How bad is it?

JACOB: It’s bad.  The hyperdrive control crystals are all completely shot.

CARTER: We already used the back-ups.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

DANIEL is sitting on the steps of the command chair while O’NEILL lounges behind him.

DANIEL: I don’t suppose you wanna…talk about what happened on Vorash.

O’NEILL: Not really.

DANIEL: Didn’t think so.

There is a pause.

O’NEILL: We were ambushed, at the rings.  TEAL’C took one in the back.  I should have seen it coming.

DANIEL: I thought the key to a good ambush was to make sure that you don’t see it coming.  My point is that I’m sure that you did your best.

O’NEILL: Apparently wasn’t good enough.

INT – GATEROOM, SGC

The klaxon is sounding as the STARGATE dials up.

SERGEANT (to HAMMOND): Receiving Tok’ra IDC, Sir.

HAMMOND: Open the iris.

He heads into the Gateroom as the wormhole opens.  Three Tok’ra exit the Gate led by a woman.

HAMMOND (to the soldiers): Stand down.  (To the Tok’ra) Welcome to Earth.  I’m General HAMMOND.

TOK’RA: I’m councilwoman RENAU of the Tok’ra.

HAMMOND: Would you please come this way?  I assume you have news.

RENAU: Yes.

INT – BRIEFING ROOM, SGC

HAMMOND leads RENAU into the briefing room.

RENAU: We had two scout ships as close to the region as safety permitted.  Sensors confirmed the star did go supernova as planned.  As far as we can tell APOPHIS’ fleet was in close proximity as it happened.

They head into HAMMOND’S office.

HAMMOND: As far as you can tell?

RENAU: Our data only covers the time prior to the blast wave.  An energy burst of that magnitude blacks out sensor readings and will continue to do so for some time.  However, I can assure you, there is no way for another ship to have survived.

HAMMOND: And there has been no communication from SG1?

RENAU: No.  A single, one-man pod was launched from APOPHIS’ mothership several minutes prior to the explosion.

HAMMOND: APOPHIS?

RENAU: It is possible.  But that would mean he had anticipated the explosion and his fleet should have escaped.

HAMMOND: Then who was it?

RENAU: We tracked the pod into Goa’uld occupied territory, but did not follow further.  There was one, possibly two subspace distortions during the explosion that could be explained by ships attempting to go into hyperspace.  However, we are fairly confident they did not make it out prior to being hit by the blast wave.

HAMMOND: So you’re saying SG1 did not survive.

RENAU: The possibility is extremely remote.  If they had, they should have contacted us by now.  You can rest assured, whether or not SG1 survived, their action has thrown the Goa’uld into chaos.  The resultant void in dominant power will have the remaining System Lords fighting each other for years to come.

HAMMOND: Thank you.

RENAU: The Tok’ra are officially considering SELMAC a fallen war hero.

HAMMOND: You’ll forgive me for holding out hope a little longer.  SG1 has a surprisingly good habit of beating the odds.

INT – ENGINE ROOM, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB and CARTER are working on a panel.

JACOB: This is not going to work.

O’NEILL (over ship’s intercom): Hey, uh, it’s getting a little hot up here kids.

CARTER (to JACOB): We’re running out of time.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

O’NEILL and DANIEL are sitting on the floor before the command chair, flicking a ball back and forth between them.

JACOB and CARTER enter, JACOB heading for the ship’s controls.

JACOB: The hyperdrive is history.

CARTER: We tried retrofitting some of the other crystals, but it didn’t work.

DANIEL: I thought you said it would take over a hundred years to get back home even if we had the hyperdrive.

JACOB: Yup.

DANIEL: So, in the long term, what difference does it make?

JACOB: Well in the short term it will be hard to avoid enemy ships.

O’NEILL: Weapons and shields?

CARTER: Good for now.

O’NEILL: Good enough to cover our butts from whatever is out there?

JACOB: We’ll see.  Moving out of the coronaspshere. Sensors are coming back online.

The viewscreen picks up the readings of another ship.

JACOB (cont’d) Picking up one ship.  It’s APOPHIS.

O’NEILL: What about the other one?

JACOB: It’s not out there.

DANIEL: Can APOPHIS see us yet?

JACOB: He should be able to, but he’s not moving.

CARTER: Maybe his ship was damaged in the battle.

JACOB checks the readings.

JACOB: That’s impossible.

O’NEILL: Care to share?

DANIEL: It says that there’s no life signs on board.

EXT - SPACE

SG1’s ship is flying closer to APOPHIS’.

INT - CORRIDOR, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

CARTER, O’NEILL and JACOB are heading down the corridor.

CARTER: What if the other alien ship comes back while we’re over there?

JACOB: Without hyperdrive we’re sitting ducks no matter where we are.  If APOPHIS’ ship is damaged and we can repair it, we should.  It’s faster, has more advanced weaponry and superior shields.

O’NEILL: It still got its fanny whopped.

JACOB:  We won’t know what happened until we get there.  At the very least, we need hyperdrive control crystals.

The enter the ring room.

INT – RING ROOM, APOPHIS’ MOTHERSHIP

The rings appear, leaving O’NEILL, CARTER and JACOB on APOPHIS’ ship.  They instantly raise their weapons.

A voice is announcing a message in Goa’uld throughout the ship.

O’NEILL: What’s he saying?

JACOB: Self-destruct is set.  We have four minutes.  I’ll try and shut it off from the pel’tec.  SAM, you know where the crystals are?

CARTER: I’ll get them.

JACOB: Alright.

CARTER and O’NEILL head one way, while JACOB goes another.

INT – CORRIDOR, APOPHIS’ MOTHERSHIP

CARTER and O’NEILL are heading down the corridor, weapons at the ready.

CARTER: This way, Sir, it’s not far.

O’NEILL: CARTER, how do you know where to go in a place like this?

CARTER: I studied the Tok’ra specs of the ship while we were on Vorash.

O’NEILL: You know how to have a good time, don’t’cha?

CARTER: I’m having a good time now, Sir.

O’NEILL: You go girl.

They pause as they come across the bodies of many Jaffa.

O’NEILL reaches down to one body, while CARTER covers him.

CARTER: Clear.

O’NEILL rolls the body over, finding the Jaffa dead.

O’NEILL: Ew.

CARTER hears something and swings round, pointing her gun.

O’NEILL: What was it?

CARTER: I don’t know, but it sounds eerily familiar.

They both hear the noise and swing round to see a replicator climbing the wall.

O’NEILL (into his radio): JACOB, do you read?

JACOB (over the radio): Yeah.

O’NEILL: Uh, we should get outta here.

INT - BRIDGE, APOPHIS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB (into his radio): Yeah, I figured that.

He backs away as dozens of replicators swarm over the walls and the dead bodies of APOPHIS’ Jaffa.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

DANIEL: Guys, what’s going on?

CARTER (over radio): The ship’s crawling with replicators.

JACOB (over radio): SAM, I’m not gonna be able to shut down the auto-destruct.  I’ll meet you back at the ring room.

CARTER (over radio): Still gonna try and get the crystals.

JACOB (over radio): You have three minutes.  DANIEL, you’re gonna have to fly that ship out of here as soon as we ring back aboard.

DANIEL: And you’re gonna have to tell me how to do that.

INT – RING ROOM, APOPHIS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB runs into the ring room to find it empty.

JACOB (into his radio): SAM, JACK, one minute.

There’s no answer and he starts to run down the corridor.

JACOB (cont’d): SAM!  JACK!  You read?

He hears weapons fire and O’NEILL and CARTER come running down the corridor with dozens of replicators after them.

CARTER: Activate the rings!

JACOB runs back to the ring room.

CARTER follows, while O’NEILL continues to shoot at the replicators.  He enters the ring room and slides into position just as the rings appear.

INT – RING ROOM, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

They reappear back onto their ship.

CARTER: We got ‘em.

JACOB: Go DANIEL!

They quickly leave the room.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

DANIEL is at the controls, manoeuvring the ship away from APOPHIS’.

INT - CORRIDOR, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

CARTER, O’NEILL and JACOB are running down the corridor.

CARTER: There’s not enough time to fix the hyperdrive, is there?

JACOB: We’re gonna have to hope the sublight engines can get us far enough away.

CARTER: Of course, that’s only going to matter if the replicators can’t shut down the auto-destruct.

JACOB: They’d have to learn to reprogram a Goa’uld computer awfully quick.

They run onto the bridge.

CARTER: It’s possible, if they get control of that ship.

O’NEILL: Hey!  You guys are just being too negative!

JACOB: We’re not gonna make it!

DANIEL: Going as fast as we can.

EXT – SPACE

SG1’s ship is flying away from APOPHIS’ mothership as it explodes.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB: Right, shut down the engines, divert full power to the shields!

DANIEL (stepping out of his way): Be my guest.

JACOB takes the controls.

EXT – SPACE

The orange glow of the shields appear just as the blast wave from APOPHIS’ ship washes over them, leaving them undamaged.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB: That was close.

O’NEILL: I believe someone said…we’re not gonna make it.

JACOB: SAM, let’s get the hyperdrive running.

JACOB turns to leave but is stopped by O’NEILL.

O’NEILL: Excuse me.  I distinctly remember someone saying…we’re not gonna make it.  I think we made it.

JACOB: I’m sorry, I over reacted.  At the time, it looked very much like we weren’t going to make it.

O’NEILL: Yes, well, maybe next time you’ll just wait and see.

JACOB: And blow the last chance I might ever have to be right?

He walks passed O’NEILL.

O’NEILL (confused): What?

CARTER (grinning): Welcome to my life.

She follows JACOB out.

O’NEILL (still confused): What?

INT – ENGINE ROOM, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB replaces the crystals with the ones taken from APOPHIS’ ship and closes the panel.  The engines light up and start to hum.

JACOB: We’re good to go.

DANIEL (over ship’s intercom): Uh, engine room, this is pel’tec, engine room come in immediately.

JACOB: I think we’ve left him in charge once too often.

CARTER: What is it DANIEL?

DANIEL: I’m picking up a ship on the sensors.

JACOB: Now what?

They rush out of the engine room.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB checks the sensors.

JACOB: Looks like someone must have escaped APOPHIS’ mothership before the bugs took over.

CARTER: Who?

JACOB: It’s a Goa’uld cargo ship.  I’m sending a hailing signal.  (There’s no reply) Nothing.

SELMAC/JACOB: I am SELMAC of the Tok’ra, commander of this ship.

O’NEILL (to JACOB): You know, we really should talk about this commander thing.

SELMAC/JACOB (cont’d): Identify yourself.

An image appears on the viewscreen.  It’s TEAL’C.

O’NEILL: TEAL’C!

TEAL’C: O’NEILL.

O’NEILL: You made it!

TEAL’C: APOPHIS revived me in a sarcophagus.  We fled his ship when the replicators attacked.

O’NEILL: We?

JACOB: Sensors are picking up other life signs aboard the ship.

O’NEILL: Who you got with you, TEAL’C?

TEAL’C: A few Jaffa who supported our cause.  They helped me escape.

JACOB: Opening the cargo bay doors.

O’NEILL: Welcome back.

TEAL’C: Thank you O’NEILL.

INT – CARGO BAY, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

O’NEILL, CARTER and DANIEL go to greet TEAL’C.

O’NEILL shakes his hand and gives him a hug.

O’NEILL: Hey.  Buddy.

TEAL’C suddenly jerks back, taking O’NEILL’S sidearm and pointing it at him.  Half a dozen Jaffa emerge with zat guns at the ready.

O’NEILL: What’cha got going here, TEAL’C?

APOPHIS steps out from behind the Jaffa.

APOPHIS: Well done TEAL’C.  Finally you have resumed your rightful position as my First Prime.

INT - KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

O’NEILL, CARTER and DANIEL enter an empty room, with APOPHIS’ Jaffa waiting outside.

TEAL’C continues to point O’NEILL’S sidearm at him, then lowers it.

O’NEILL (quietly, to TEAL’C): Alright, this is feeling like a strange plan, but just let me know what to do and then…ah!

TEAL’C hits him in the face with the back of his hand, sending him to the floor.

O’NEILL: Whoa!

DANIEL: Come on TEAL’C, you don’t really think that you’re still First Prime of APOPHIS.

TEAL’C points O’NEILL’S sidearm at him.

TEAL’C: I have never ceased to be in the service of my god.

O’NEILL gets to his feet.

O’NEILL: Alright, that’s sounding a little brainwashy.  You don’t believe that guy’s a god anymore than I do.

TEAL’C lowers the gun but doesn’t answer.

O’NEILL: What the hell’s that suppose to mean?  Come on, we’re friends.  Are you trying to tell me you don’t remember what’s happened these past fours years.

TEAL’C: I remember everything.  It makes me ill to think I was forced to pretend to be your friend.  So many times I saved your life when I wished I could watch you die.

O’NEILL: It hurts me that you would say that, but that’s ok, because I know its not true.

TEAL’C: Your belief is not necessary.

O’NEILL: It doesn’t make any sense.  Come on, you and I together have taken down half a dozen Goa’ulds.

TEAL’C: Enemies of APOPHIS.

O’NEILL: And we kicked his ass twice.  Hell, you sat around and watched him die once.

TEAL’C: I knew he would be reborn more powerful than ever.

O’NEILL: I’m talking to a wall here.  Anybody?

DANIEL: TEAL’C, you remember when APOPHIS brainwashed your son RY’AC?

TEAL’C turns and walks away.

DANIEL (cont’d): Consider the possibility.

TEAL’C touches a panel and the door closed, shutting SG1 inside.

DANIEL: Or don’t.

INT - CORRIDOR, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

TEAL’C keys a code into the door panel then turns to the waiting Jaffa.

TEAL’C: Unload the sarcophagus and the crates from the cargo ship.

INT - KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

O’NEILL is pressing random buttons on the inside door panel.

O’NEILL: Gotta wonder why they didn’t put us in the brig.

CARTER: It’s on one of the lower levels, it was probably damaged in the fire fight.

O’NEILL: Think you can hotwire this thing?

CARTER: Well, I’d assume there’s some sort of safety mechanism to ensure against that.  I mean, otherwise it would be pretty stupid to lock us in here, wouldn’t it?

O’NEILL pauses.

CARTER (cont’d): Of course, I could give it a shot…Sir.

O’NEILL: Thank you.

CARTER starts to pry the panel off the wall.

INT – KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

Two Jaffa use the ring transporter to take a large crate from the cargo ship onto the mothership.  They stack it in a corridor with other equipment, then leave.

A hole appears on top of the crate as it is eaten away from the inside.

INT - CORRIDOR, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

Jaffa are escorting APOPHIS’ sarcophagus down the corridor.

JACOB emerges from his hiding place, armed with a zat, and watches them pass, before heading in the opposite direction.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

APOPHIS is examining KRONOS’ command chair.

APOPHIS: Disgusting decoration.

JAFFA PILOT: Course has been plotted for Delmak.  Diverting all power from shields and weapons and entering hyperspeed.

There is a subspace distortion as the ship goes into hyperspeed.

TEAL’C enters, dressed as one of APOPHIS’ Jaffa, and goes to one knee before APOPHIS.

APOPHIS: The Tok’ra SELMAC is the spy who eluded capture.

TEAL’C: I will see to it personally, my Lord.

APOPHIS: I am sure you will not fail me, TEAL’C.

TEAL’C rises and bows his head, before leaving.

INT - KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

CARTER has managed to pry the panel from the wall and is fiddling with the controls inside

CARTER: I really have no idea what I’m doing here.

O’NEILL: Keep trying, you may get lucky.

CARTER: Sir, I really hate to sound negative, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that without a little more insight into how these things actually work, I’ve got pretty much zero chance of…

The door slides open.

CARTER (cont’d): Ok, maybe not zero.

JACOB appears.

JACOB: Come on.

They turn to leave, but are halted as TEAL’C appears, pointing a staff weapon at JACOB.

A Jaffa relieves JACOB of his zat and radio.

TEAL’C: Inside.

JACOB enters the cell.

O’NEILL: Come on TEAL’C.  A part of you has to know the truth.

TEAL’C: The truth is you are a prisoner of APOPHIS.  When the symbiote that I carry matures, you will become its host.

O’NEILL: Ok, I meant the other truth.

TEAL’C points his staff at the panel CARTER was working on.

JACOB (to CARTER): Look out.

TEAL’C fires, destroying the panel.  CARTER ducks to one side and is held by JACOB.

TEAL’C closes the door, sealing them in once more.

INT – CORRDIOR, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

A Jaffa runs after TEAL’C.

JAFFA: We shall die long before Delmak without new symbiotes.

TEAL’C: APOPHIS will live on and we shall serve him well until we die with honour in his name.

He continues down the corridor, followed by the Jaffa.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JAFFA PILOT: My Lord, the internal sensors have shut down.

TEAL’C enters the bridge and shoves him aside.

TEAL’C: Power is being diverted from the hyper engines.

INT - KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

There is a subspace distortion.

CARTER: We just dropped out of hyperspeed.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

TEAL’C: My Lord, the ship’s systems are failing.  I am unable to bring the engines back online.

APOPHIS: Harok, kar’mel.

TEAL’C leaves and the Jaffa Pilot once more takes the controls.

INT – ENGINE ROOM, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

TEAL’C and two Jaffa enter the engine room.  It is swarming with replicators.

INT - KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

The door of SG1’s cell slides open, but there is nobody there.

O’NEILL: Odd.

A replicator crawls inside.

DANIEL: Uh-oh

O’NEILL: Uh, excuse me.

He crawls over to the door and sees more replicators scuttle passed.

O’NEILL (cont’d): This could be a problem.

CARTER: Sir, if they’ve already got control of the primary systems…

O’NEILL: This could be a problem.

The replicator that crawled inside is on the wall near DANIEL, watching him.  It suddenly lunges towards him and DANIEL jerks away.

CARTER: It won’t attack unless you threaten it.

DANIEL: Yeah!  Still, maybe we should ah…

They all crawl towards the door and duck under it.

INT - BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

TEAL’C (over ships’ intercom): My Lord.  The ship is infested with replicators.

APOPHIS: How?

TEAL’C: I am unsure.  They control the engine room.

APOPHIS: Destroy them.

TEAL’C: We cannot.  There are too many of them and too few of us.  We must…

He is cut off.

APOPHIS rises from his command chair and goes out into the corridor.

APOPHIS: Kree Jaffa.

A half dozen Jaffa go with him, armed with staff weapons.

APOPHIS heads in one direction, only to come across replicators.  They head the other way, only to find more, cutting off their escape route.

APOPHIS: Kree Jaffa!

His Jaffa open fire on the replicators, who them attack en mass.

APOPHIS turns away and there is the sound of his Jaffa screaming as he heads back onto the bridge.

INT - CORRIDOR, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

SG1 run down the corridor, coming across the room where their armaments are stored.  There is a hole in the wall where a replicator came through.

They start opening crates and pulling out their equipment, gearing up.

DANIEL sees a hole in the top of one of the crates.

DANIEL: Hello.

CARTER looks over as DANIEL makes a gesture suggesting a replicator crawled away from there.

CARTER: It’s been, what?  Ten, eleven hours since we picked up the cargo ship?  The replicators have had more than enough time to reach unmanageably large numbers.

JACOB: Let’s just hope they left the cargo ship alone.  It’s our only way out of here.

He hands CARTER a bullet-proof vest and pulls his own on.

CARTER: Chances are they have.  I mean, they focus on controlling the mothership first.

DANIEL: Well brainwashed or not, we can’t just leave TEAL’C here.

O’NEILL hands out their guns.

O’NEILL: I know.  You and JACOB secure the cargo ship.  CARTER, you’re with me.

She nods and hands him his bullet-proof vest.  O’NEILL gives DANIEL extra clips for the gun.

JACOB takes a large silver ball, a Goa’uld stun grenade, from one of the crates and offers it to O’NEILL.

JACOB: You know how to use one of these?

O’NEILL takes the device.

O’NEILL: Sure.

INT - CORRIDOR, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

TEAL’C and five Jaffa are heading down the corridor.

TEAL’C: We must ensure that APOPHIS reaches the cargo bay safely.

JAFFA: He is a god.  Is he powerless against these demons?

TEAL’C: What you say is blasphemy.  If I hear it again, I will kill you myself.

JAFFA: If our weapons have no effect, what can we do?

TEAL’C: Human weapons will work.  They are crated in the storage.

He holds up his hand, halting them and listens intently.

At the other end of the corridor, O’NEILL and CARTER are waiting in ambush.

TEAL’C slowly leads the Jaffa down the corridor.

O’NEILL takes the Goa’uld stun grenade and rolls it towards them.

TEAL’C sees it and runs for cover as there is a bright flash of light.

They exchange weapons fire, O’NEILL and CARTER managing to take out many of the Jaffa.

O’NEILL: TEAL’C!  Better get off this ship.  Now!

They continue to exchange fire.

INT – CARGO SHIP, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB and DANIEL enter the cargo ship.

JACOB: Atmospheric shield is online.  Cargo bay is pressurised.

He takes the pilot’s chair and powers up the ship.

DANIEL sees the cargo doors are closed.

DANIEL: I have what may seem like a dumb question.

JACOB: Yeah?

DANIEL: Don’t we need to open those big cargo bay doors in order to fly the ship out?

JACOB: Well this ship has remote access to the door controls.  Hopefully the bugs haven’t overridden it.

DANIEL: You, you don’t wanna check?

JACOB: I don’t wanna tip them off before we have to.

INT – CORRIDOR, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

The firefight is continuing, with TEAL’C the only Jaffa left.

CARTER: Sir, we gotta move!

TEAL’C goes to fire, but is distracted by a replicator.  He fires on it and it scuttles away, but O’NEILL now has him covered.

TEAL’C swings his staff around in preparation to fire and O’NEILL is forced to fire upon him.

O’NEILL and CARTER quickly run over to him and CARTER checks for a pulse.

CARTER: He’s alive.

O’NEILL: Hope Junior keeps him that way.

They begin to pick TEAL’C up.

INT – BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

APOPHIS is at the pel’tec, attempting to adjust the controls.

A replicator climbs over the back of the command chair and he turns around to see many more entering the bridge.

INT – CARGO SHIP, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

O’NEILL and CARTER haul an unconscious TEAL’C onto the cargo ship.  DANIEL takes TEAL’C’S arm as O’NEILL releases him.

O’NEILL: Yeah, here you go.

DANIEL: He’s been shot.

O’NEILL: He resisted a little.

DANIEL: I was starting to worry to guys weren’t going to make it.

JACOB: I didn’t say it though.

CARTER and DANIEL take TEAL’C into the storage area of the ship.

O’NEILL: Tie him up.

JACOB takes the pilot’s chair.

There is a subspace distortion.

O’NEILL: What was that?

JACOB: The mothership just jumped to hyperspeed.

O’NEILL: Now what?

JACOB: Now nothing. We can’t open the cargo bay doors and fly out while we’re in hyperspace.

INT – CORRIDOR, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

O’NEILL, CARTER, JACOB and DANIEL are heading down a corridor, all fully armed.

JACOB and CARTER find a control panel and call up the mothership’s details.

JACOB: According to this, the ship is headed towards the last set of co-ordinates that were entered.  SOKAR’S old planet.  APOPHIS’ new base.

CARTER: Uh, Dad.

JACOB: I see.  The ship is travelling at ten times its capable hyperspeed?

CARTER: And the speed’s still increasing.  Twenty times, thirty.  This is incredible, the bugs must have modified the engines.

JACOB: They can do that?

CARTER: They can do almost anything.  They’re very advanced.  The individual blocks can come together to form whatever pattern they need to achieve their goals.

DANIEL: But I though they didn’t care about travelling fast.

CARTER: Only while they’re multiplying.  Once they’ve reached a critical number they look for new sources of technology to consume.

JACOB: Then the information in the computer about APOPHIS’ base must make it look pretty appetising.  This is great news.  We’ll be back in our own galaxy in no time.  When they come out of hyperspeed, we can jump ship and fly home.

O’NEILL: I wouldn’t exactly call it great news.

CARTER: We can’t let the bugs get a foothold in our galaxy.  These things are relentless.  Even the Asguard haven’t been able to stop them.

O’NEILL: What about self-destruct?

CARTER: Right.  Once it was set on APOPHIS’ ship the bugs couldn’t seem to shut it off.

JACOB: Looks like the bugs have figured out Goa’uld computers.  I can’t get into the main system.

He turns away from the panel.

O’NEILL: Alright, come on, let’s figure this out. We got them on THOR’S ship.

JACOB: How?

CARTER: We destroyed the deceleration drive just before the ship entered Earth’s atmosphere.  It couldn’t withstand an uncontrolled re-entry.

JACOB: Goa’uld motherships use sublight engines to slow down after exiting hyperspace.  If we destroy the sublight engine controls…

CARTER: The ship won’t be able to stop.

JACOB: And it will crash right into APOPHIS’ planet.

CARTER: Now we would have wait until just after the ship came out of hyperspace, so the bugs won’t have time to change trajectory.

O’NEILL: Alright, how do we destroy these engines?

JACOB: All we have to do is eliminate the control crystals.

CARTER: In the engine room.

DANIEL: Which is bug central probably.

O’NEILL: So we plant c4.

CARTER: The bugs could disable the detonator by the time we leave and set it off.

O’NEILL: What are you saying?

CARTER: To be sure, we would have to physically destroy the crystals ourselves.  A P90 at close range should do the job.

O’NEILL: Oh, now see, that doesn’t sound like…

JACOB: You got a better idea, Mr Positive?

CARTER: This ship has now reached over eight hundred times its previous maximum speed.

JACOB: Alright, we’ll be there pretty soon.  One of us should get the cargo ship charged up and ready to go.

O’NEILL: That would be you.  CARTER, DANIEL, with me.

They head down the corridor.

JACOB: Alright, it’s gonna be tight guys.  You only have about 30 seconds to get from the engine room back to the cargo bay.

O’NEILL; Just keep it running.

JACOB: Alright.  Good luck.

He runs off.

INT – ENGINE ROOM, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

O’NEILL, CARTER and DANIEL enter the engine room.  They stop when they see something.

O’NEILL: Oh, crap.

DANIEL: What the hell is that?

A huge mass of pulsating replicators are attached to the engines, forming one giant replicator.

O’NEILL: That…is a big bug.

CARTER: Guess that explains the extra power.

O’NEILL (quietly): Uh, listen.  Let’s not wake it up.

INT – CARGO SHIP, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB runs onto the ship and quickly takes the pilot’s chair.

INT – ENGINE ROOM, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

CARTER edges forward, keeping one eye on the replicators.

CARTER: Okay, control panels.

She opens a panel to reveal a dozen crystals inside, then backs away.

O’NEILL: Ready?

CARTER: Wait for it, Sir.

EXT – SPACE

The mothership drops out of hyperspace and heads towards the planet Delmak.

INT – ENGINE ROOM, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

The engines die and O’NEILL opens fire on the control panel, destroying the crystals inside.

The giant replicator rears up then disassembles, scattering replicators everywhere.

O’NEILL, CARTER and DANIEL start to run.

O’NEILL: Go go go go go…

INT – CARGO SHIP, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

Using the remote controls, JACOB opens the cargo bay doors.

INT – CORRIDORS, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

O’NEILL, CARTER and DANIEL are retreating down the corridors, firing on the replicators chasing them and barely managing to hold them off.

EXT – SPACE

The mothership is on a collision course for Delmak.

INT – CORRIDORS, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

SG1 continues to cover their retreat with firepower, but as they turn a corridor, they are cut off by more replicators.

CARTER: That’s the way we have to go.

O’NEILL: Let’s go!

They rush the replicators, firing continuously to clear a path through.

INT – CARGO SHIP, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

JACOB pilots the cargo ship so that it is facing the doors.

JACOB (into his radio): Guys, we gotta go now.  JACK, SAM, DANIEL.

CARTER (over radio): Dad, we’re cut off from the cargo bay.  If we make it to the ring room on level two, can you ring us up remotely?

JACOB: I’ll try.

CARTER: Hurry!

He presses the controls and rushes over to the cargo ship’s ring room, hearing the transporter.

O’NEILL, CARTER and DANIEL exit.

CARTER: Thanks.

O’NEILL: Let’s get out of here!

JACOB takes the pilot’s controls.  Before them, the cargo bay doors begin to slide shut.

CARTER: The doors are closing.

JACOB: They’ve overridden our controls.

He manoeuvres the ship towards the exit.

CARTER: We gonna make it?

JACOB: I don’t want to say.

The cargo ship exits the bay, catching one wing slightly in the process, but leaving them otherwise undamaged.

INT – BRIDGE, KRONOS’ MOTHERSHIP

APOPHIS is observing the ship’s uncontrolled approach to Delmak on the viewscreen.  He has his shield up while replicators crawl over him, unable to touch him.

He starts to scream

INT – CARGO SHIP, SPACE

On the viewscreen, they watch as KRONOS’ mothership hits the planet and explodes in a huge flash of light.

They all appear relieved.

O’NEILL: I’m gonna check on TEAL’C.

He heads towards the storage room.

JACOB: JACK.  You got his body back.  Getting his mind back may not be as easy.

INT – CARGO SHIP

TEAL’C is tied up, sitting with his back to the wall, eyes closed, when O’NEILL approaches.

O’NEILL crouches down before him.

TEAL’C: You may torture me all you wish. I will tell you nothing.

O’NEILL: I’m sorry I had to shoot you, you didn’t give me much choice though.  (When TEAL’C doesn’t respond) APOPHIS is dead.

TEAL’C opens his eyes and stares as O’NEILL.

TEAL’C: I do not believe you.

O’NEILL: Trust me.

TEAL’C: Gods cannot be killed.

TEAL’C closes his eyes once more.

FADE OUT

THE END