STARGATE SG1
Episode 106
"COLD LAZARUS"
By
Jeff F. King
The team are offworld. The planet has a bright blue sky and the
ground consists of what appears to be bright yellow sand, with
blue crystalline type objects scattered throughout.
TEAL'C
"Colonel O'Neill."
JACK
"What've we got here, Teal'c?"
TEAL'C
"I do not know."
SAM
"Wow!"
DANIEL
"It may indicate a civilization of some
kind.
JACK
"Well, let's spread out and take a look."
SAM
"I think there's a way down over here.
SAM
"Crystals, granite not volcanic. I don't
see any that aren't broken."
Daniel is holding two pieces of crystal
DANIEL
"These pieces might fit together. He
puts the two down and moves toward another
crystal."
DANIEL
"Here's a whole one."
SAM
"Looks like they've been blasted apart
by something."
DANIEL
"It's damaged."
SAM
.I don't see any other whole ones, do
you?"
JACK
"Teal'c
Jack walks towards another group of crystals, until he is out
of sight of the rest of the team. He walks up to a large one
and reaches out to touch it. He is thrown backwards by some type
of energy and is knocked unconscious. Another man looks down
at him and as the camera pans, we see that it is a replica of
him.
Back with the rest of the team
DANIEL
"Where's the Colonel?"
Daniel radio's Jack
DANIEL
"Jack, we've finished our recon, loaded
up the FRED and we're ready to head
back to the gate.Is this? Am I using
this right?"
SAM
"We're ready to head out, sir!"
DANIEL
"Colonel!"
Clone Jack joins the rest of the team, and they don't seem to
notice anything unusual. They go back through the gate and are
checked for radiation levels
"Radiation level check,all clear."
HAMMOND
"Welcome back SG-1. Debriefing will
commence at 0900."
Jack leaves
Titles
Briefing Room
The team are sat around the table. All except Jack, who is looking
at the gate
SAM
"The samples we brought back are being
analyzed and we explored a ten kilometer
radius around the gate without finding
any sign of recent Goa'uld mining activity.
In fact there is no indication that
Goa'ulds or anyone else have been through
that gate in a thousand years."
HAMMOND
"Tell me about these crystals."
DANIEL
"We found thousands in a pit near the
Stargate. Since we didn't find them
anywhere else on the planet, it's likely
that they were gathered and put there."
HAMMOND
"Why?"
DANIEL
"Early Greek cultures valued crystals
and gemstones, perhaps the pit has some
religious or ceremonial significance."
HAMMOND
"Your report doesn't mention any local
population."
DANIEL
"There's no evidence of a developed
culture, no roads, villages, settlements,
nothing.
SAM
"I'm with Daniel. We didn't find any
unbroken crystals but we have this one
and pieces of a few larger ones back
in decon right now."
HAMMOND
"Flag this one, Colonel. SG1 is on stand
down until your next mission comes up.
Dismissed."
Locker Room
Clone Jack opens his locker door and put's a jacket on. He takes
a box from the bottom of the locker and sit's down. Inside are
some photo's and a ring. The photo's are of Sarah and Charlie.
Sam enters the room
SAM
"Hey, Colonel."
SAM
"Listen, no offense, Colonel, but this
becomes the women's locker room in ,
well, now. You know how I hate those
sandy planets.You don't have to hurry
on my account."
She see's the pictures
SAM
"Nice, you have a family."
CLONE JACK
"Yes."
SAM
"I'm an auntie myself. My brother moved
to San Diego, so I don't get to see
him much...he has two kids now, boy
and a girl. God, I miss them like hell.
Don't get there near enough."I can see
you feel the same way."
CLONE JACK
"Good-Bye Sam."
SAM
"Bye."
Jack leaves the room and bumps into Daniel. He walks off without
saying anything
DANIEL
"Jack seems very focused."
SAM
"Yeah, he was looking at pictures of
his family. He must be in a hurry to
get home. I didn't even know he was
married."
DANIEL
"Oh, he isn't, he was but they separated
after his son died."
Daniel leaves the locker room
Jack is leaving the base, when he bumps into Teal'c
TEAL'C
"Colonel O'Neill, you are departing?"
CLONE JACK
"Yes."
TEAL'C
"You said one day you would show me
your world. I would like to see it now."
CLONE JACK
"Another time."
Daniel and Sam are walking down a corridor
SAM
"I've known the man for months and he
doesn't say word one about a life outside
this place and I'm thinking he just
doesn't have one. What else don't I
know about him?"
DANIEL
"Well, he doesn't really tell you much
until he gets to know you."
SAM
"Yeah, that's an understatement."
They enter the lab and walk over to the crystal
SAM
"All right, what do we have here?"
SCIENTIST
"Passed all the decontamination protocols,
but I noticed it's got a low level EM
field you should check out. Either that
or my fridge magnets fell of the wall
by themselves."
DANIEL
"I'm sorry. EM?"
SAM
"Electromagnetic Energy."...thanks."
SAM
"So um...tell me more about the Colonel.What
happened to his son."
DANIEL
"Charlie accidentally killed himself
with Jack's personal gun."
SAM
"Oh, God.That's horrible.
DANIEL
"Jack never forgave himself. He holed
up and turned his back on the rest of
the world for a long time."
SAM
"Yeah, I can imagine. I don't know what
I'd do. What about his wife?"
DANIEL
"Sara? I don't think they've seen each
other since he joined SG1. He hasn't
said anything about a visit but like
I said.
SAM
"He doesn't tell you much."
DANIEL
"Right."
SAM
"Right."
SAM
"Look at this.See the edge of this crystal
here how its glassy likes its been melted?"
DANIEL
"Can you tell what did it? For me it
might shed a little light on what the
significance of the pit was and who
put them there."
SAM
"It would take extreme temperatures
to melt quartz crystal."
DANIEL
"Lightning?"
SAM
"Maybe, but it's too precise, too clean.
I think I've seen a cut like this before
here in this facility."
Jack goes to Sara's house. Sara walks out of the door and begins
to work on a car that's in the driveway
SARA
"Dad, I left some ice tea in there for
you."
Clone Jack is practising what he's going to say
"Hello, Sara. Hello, Sara."
SARA
"It may be time to face facts, Dad,
this old thing has seen better days."
DAD
"A girl shouldn't be so quick to give
up on the aged, makes a father worry."
SARA
"Come on, Dad, I'm serious. If I keep.
She spots clone Jack
CLONE JACK
"Hello, Sara."
SARA
"Been there long?"
CLONE JACK
"Yes."
SARA
"Could've said something."
CLONE JACK
"I did."
SARA
"Right, you did."
CLONE JACK
"Something wrong?"
SARA
"I think it's the ignition, but you
didn't come about the car."
CLONE JACK
"No."
SARA
"So, what, you decided you'd just show
up, waltz back into my life? Is that
it?"
CLONE JACK
: "Yes.""I need to find Charlie. Is
he here?"
SARA
"Charlie?"
CLONE JACK
"I need Charlie. That's his bicycle,
isn't it?"
SARA
"I kept some of his things."
CLONE JACK
"Yes, I know."
SARA
"Jack, what are you doing? You're scaring
me."
CLONE JACK
"It's important, Sara. (He starts to
shout)Charlie?"
SARA
"Don't! Let go of me.What the hell is
wrong with you.Is this your idea of
a joke? Just get away from me."
She goes into the house
CLONE JACK
"Sara." I don't understand."
Her father appears
DAD
"Son, if upsetting her is your way of
trying to win a woman's heart, it's
a stupid one. Anyone ever tell you that?"
CLONE JACK
"I think you just did."
DAD
Come on in.
SGC
Teal'c is watching the news on TV
REPORTER
After last night's rally turned ugly
and protestors clashed with police,
police have announced that a dusk to
dawn curfew is now in effect. No word
yet on any casualties.And in financial
news, the bull was annihilated today
with bears leaving a sea of red behind
them.For the third straight day and
no one on either side could say how
it started in the first place."
Daniel and Sam run into the room
DANIEL
"Teal'c, we need your help."
TEAL'C
"Your world is a strange place."
DANIEL
"So's yours."
SAM
"Listen, we need to stop by the armory
and sign out your staff weapon."
TEAL'C
"Are we being deployed?"
SAM
"No, No,it's okay.Come on."
Clone Jack and Sara's father are in Charlie's room
SARA'S DAD
"Parent's shouldn't outlive their children,
it isn't natural."
DUPLICATE JACK
"He loved to laugh."
SARA'S DAD
"Yeah.Sometimes I can still hear him
laughing at one of my bad jokes. Sara
kept all his things, like that bike
outside. I guess it's her way of keeping
him around a while."
DUPLICATE JACK
"I thought I would find Charlie here."
SARA'S DAD
"Look around, you still might."
DUPLICATE JACK
"He's gone. What do I do?"
SARA'S DAD
"Sara comes up here and talks to him
sometimes and it helps her. If it helps
you.I'm glad you're here.You know, Jack,
for an Irishman you never were much
of a talker but that never mattered.
I'll give you that much, you married
my daughter. Say what you need to Charlie
if that's all you've come her for, but
Sara is not over you yet, so you break
her heart again and, God help you, I'll
make you wish you never did."
He leaves Jack alone in the room. He picks up a baseball and
has a flashback of Charlie practising with it.
*Flashback*
JACK
"How was your day?"
SARA
"Fine,oh, look what came home from school
today."
JACK
"Is Charlie about ready?"
SARA
"Yeah, he was running around her a few
minutes ago..."
A gunshot can be heard
SARA
"Charlie!"
*End Flashback*
Sara looks in the room and can see Jack hugging a pillow. She
leaves
Teal'c fires the staff weapon at the crystal
SAM
"There's a good one."
"What's going on in there?"
TEAL'C
"You received permission for me to fire
my staff weapon in the gate room?"
SAM
"Oh yeah."
DANIEL
"Absolutely."
They go to the lab and put the crystal in a scanner
SAM
"Now, I noticed that the glassy edge
where the crystal was melted looked
a lot like the walls of the gate room
after Apophis and his serpent guards
came and shot up the place. Now, take
a look at this. We did a complete study
trying to figure out what they used.
We kept a few pieces and that gave me
the idea."
DANIEL
"Since your energy weapons are the same
as the ones Apophis used, we can compare
the blast marks on the two crystals."
SAM
"Now, I'm telling the computer to build
a simulation model. We should see if
the energy signatures are the same or
not."
SAM
It matches up."
TEAL'C
"It was Goa'uld technology that destroyed
the crystals."
SAM
"Yeah, I'd say a whole mess of the staff
weapons did it."
Clone Jack walks downstairs. He is about to leave, when Sara
appears
SARA
"We haven't talked about Charlie since
he died, why now? What were you doing
up there?"
CLONE JACK
"Do you remember how much fun Charlie
used to have playing that game?"
SARA
"Baseball?"
CLONE JACK
"Baseball.He loved that game."
SARA
"He loved playing with you."Jack."
CLONE JACK
"I have to get back to the Stargate."
SARA
"Back to what?"
CLONE JACK
"Stargate, it's a big round metal object.A
ring of energy.
SARA
"You always could spin a line of bull
to avoid talking to me."
CLONE JACK
"What's wrong?"
SARA
"I've been crying, that's what's wrong.
What's with you? Upstairs.I've never
seen you like that before. For a second,
I thought you were gonna cry. Where's
all that O'Neill military bravado?"
CLONE JACK
"I don't think I have it."
SARA
"What?"
CLONE JACK
"Smoke?"
SARA
"Oh, my God! Mike left a casserole in
for me.
Back in the lab
SAM
"The energy signature looks like some
kind of gas plasma laser. Wow, I'd love
to get this into the spectrometer at
Stanford."
TEAL'C
"What is a Stanford?"
DANIEL
"Hey, did you see this thing inside
of it? I didn't think that was there
before.
A face forms within the crystal
DANIEL
"Whoa!" Captain! Doctor! Teal'c!"
SAM
"Yeah?"
DANIEL
"That was me. It was me.
SAM
"Are you OK?"
DANIEL
"Just look."
SAM
"My reflection, so?"
DANIEL
"Closer..
Carters face appears in the crystal
SAM
"Holy Hannah!"
CRYSTAL
"Help us."
SAM
"Oh my God."
The gate is activated from offworld
HARRIMAN
"Why's it spinning up? No one's due
back."
Back in the lab
DANIEL
"It was trying to communicate with us."
SAM
"I don't know the magic password. Do
you?"
The alarms go off
SAM
"That's the gate,incoming."
HARRIMAN
"Off world activation, this is not a
drill!"
DANIEL
"I didn't think anyone was due back
TEAL'C
"No one is..."
HARRIMAN
"Off world activation, this is not a
drill! All units report to stations.
This is not a drill!"
Control room
SAM
"Where's the iris?"
HAMMOND
"Someone used a remote."
DANIEL
"Who? We're all here."
HAMMOND
"Well, whoever it is has our codes."
Heads up people!"
Jack comes through the gate
JACK
"Hey, what're you guys doing leaving
without me?"What's with all the ordinance?"
HAMMOND
"Who are you?"
JACK
"What do you mean, who am I? What the
heck's goin' on here?"
HAMMOND
"Good question. Take him into custody."
Jack is taken away
Later, Hammond and the team are watching him on a monitor
JACK
"Come on, get me outta here!" Tell you
what, let me put it nicely.Get me the
hell out of here!"
HAMMOND
"If that isn't O'Neill, I want to know
who the hell we're looking at."
OFFICER
"We're searching the facility now, sir."
Jack throws something at the camera
Clone Jack and Sara are sitting at a table outside
SARA
"I'm waiting for you to say,I'm sorry,or
I want to get back together or just,
whatever's on your mind, anything, just
talk to me."
CLONE JACK
"The first time we were together, is
this where we came? You're angry.
SARA
"Angry at you? No I'm not angry."
CLONE JACK
"Good, you were."
SARA
"When?"
CLONE JACK
"When Charlie died, that's why I left."
CLONE JACK
"No."
SARA
"Why didn't you talk to me, why didn't
you ask?"
CLONE JACK
"I should have, but I didn't. So, you
were angry?"
SARA
"No.Yes.What did you expect? It happened
in our house. It was you're gun. I know
you blamed yourself. But if you just
opened up for once and let me through
that armour of yours, we could have
helped each other. I needed you."
CLONE JACK
"I know."
SARA
"You know? And you can say it. Just
like that? After all this time?"
CLONE JACK
"I'm sorry it took so long. It should've
been said sooner."
SARA
"Is that what you came to tell me?"
CLONE JACK
"There's no way to make you understand
what I came here to do. You couldn't
understand."
SARA
"Try me."
CLONE JACK
"I thought if I could bring Charlie
back through the Stargate.
SARA
"Just shut up about that, would you?
Charlie is gone, Jack. We should be
talking about us and what happened and
not...
Clone Jack get's up to leave, and suddenly appears to be consumed
by an electrical charge
SARA
Jack.My God.Jack? Jack? What is that?
What's happened to you? We've got to
get you to the hospital."
Back at the SGC
JANET
"The MRI was negative. The DNA screen
matches what we have on file. Physical
examination of the body shows some trauma,
otherwise he seems perfectly healthy."
HAMMOND
"Healthy doesn't cut it."
JANET
"Well, the evidence says he's Colonel
Jack O'Neill."
JACK
"Thank you Doctor."
HAMMOND
"Then how do you explain the other one?"
JACK
"What other one? What?"
Sam shows him the footage of the team coming back with the other
Jack
JACK
"Ok, so that's not possible. I didn't
come back with you guys."
JACK
"What the hell is that thing?"
SAM
"The EM energy in the one intact crystal
we brought back from P3X-562 may hold
the key."
HAMMOND
"Explain."
SAM
"The electromagnetic energy in the crystal
has the ability to mimic things. It
recreated Daniel and I. It cloned us
electronically, at least part of us.
It seemed to read our thoughts and speech
and mimic them too. Now, what if the
other O'Neill is energy just like the
thing Daniel and I found in the crystal
only a more powerful, more evolved form
of it? One powerful enough to copy a
whole person and not just faces?"
HAMMOND
"Is that what we're looking at?"
SAM
"Could be."
HAMMOND
"And it tried to communicate with you?"
DANIEL
"It asked for our help."
SAM
"This may not work..Hello?"
Sam's face appears
CRYSTAL
"Hello."
SAM
"What are you?"
CRYSTAL
"Energy. Unity. You would describe me
thus."
SAM
"You asked for help."
CRYSTAL
"If I remain here, my energy will disintegrate.
I must return."
DANIEL
"Why, did you not speak before?"
CRYSTAL
"Fear."
JACK
"Fear of what?"
CRYSTAL
"The Goa'uld came to our planet long
ago. We were not afraid then and we
tried to greet them. One of them touched
us as you did and was destroyed by our
energy."
JACK
"Well, that's some kind of welcome wagon
you got there.It almost killed me."
DANIEL
"The Goa'ulds must have come through
the gate exploring..."
SAM
"That's why it was afraid, we look just
like them."
DANIEL
"One of the Goa'ulds was killed?"
CRYSTAL
"They gathered all the Unity in one
place and ended it."
SAM
"We confirmed Goa'uld energy weapons
did it."
DANIEL
"Then that pit wasn't a ceremonial place
at all. It was some kind of mass grave."
CRYSTAL
"I can no longer sustain this form.
JACK
"What was that? Any ideas? Any theories?
Explanations? Anything?"
DANIEL
"If you thought that your entire race
was destroyed by the Goa'ulds as punishment
for harming one of them, what would
you do if you thought it was going to
happen again?"
Briefing Room
OFFICER
"Sir. O'Neill, the other guy, is nowhere
in the mountain.
SAM
"Ok, we've got a problem. I ran some
tests on the crystals in the lab. Whatever
the energy inside the crystal is, it's
starting to decay. It's ionizing particle
radiation."
DANIEL
"Nuclear radiation?"
SAM
"It's not constant and the amounts are
not dangerous,but if O'Neill,it,starts
breaking down like the energy in the
crystals and it's more powerful than
what we have here then anyone nearby
could get a lethal dose of radiation."
HAMMOND
"If that's true, we have a very serious
problem on our hands. Let's hope it's
not."
SAM
Something else. I've been thinking about
where it went. Sir, it was in your locker
looking through your personal stuff.Pictures
of your family.
Jack rushes to the phone
JACK
"Come on, Sara, Come on."
ANSWERING MACHINE
"Hi. I can't take your call right now
so please leave a message."
JACK
"I gotta get there."
The team get changed and head through the hallway
SAM
"The lab's running tests but I'm pretty
sure it'd breaking down because Earth's
electromagnetic field is stronger than
the one on P3X-562. The difference is
tearing it apart."
DANIEL
"Can we stop it?"
SAM
"I don't know."
HAMMOND
"We checked with the local police. No
one's at your wife's house. One of the
local hospitals admitted a J. O'Neill
less than an hour ago. Teal'c you'll
have to leave that here
TEAL'C
"I have seen your world.I will need
it."
HAMMOND
"Can't let you take your weapon, Teal'c.You,
all of you will be operating in public
so you can't do or say anything that
reveals the existence of the SGC or
the Stargate."
He gives Jack a Chicago baseball cap
TEAL'C
"Chicago,the windy city.Home of the
Black Hawks, the Bulls and the White
Sox."
JACK
"Don't forget the Cubs."
HAMMOND
"Heads up Colonel Good luck."
Hospital
Sara is sitting at Clone Jack's bedside
CLONE JACK
"Charlie, this is the place we brought
him."
SARA
"Yes, it is.
CLONE JACK
"He died here."
SARA
"Yes, he did.Jack, what's happening
to you?"
CLONE JACK
"I have to get to the Stargate. Can
we do that?"
SARA
"Jack, I know you want to get to the
Stargate,but..."
Another electrical charge surges through the clone. Outside there
is a news crew and some police officers.
POLICE OFFICER
"All right, people! I need buses up
here! I want these people out of here
now! Come on! Move! Move!"
POLICE OFFICER
"As soon as Colonel O'Neill's team gives
the signal, I want you to start shutting
the power down inside. All right?"
DOCTOR
"All right."
Sara has her hand bandaged by a nurse
SARA
"Thanks. Go, I'm alright,go."
NURSE
"I'm almost finished."
Jack approaches
JACK
"Alright keep moving people.Everybody
out! I need everybody out of here now!
Let's go!"
SARA
"Jack?"
JACK
"Sara, are you alright? It's ok baby.
You alright?"
SARA
"Yeah."
JACK
"OK.I wanna hear all about it, but not
now.Are you OK?"
SARA
"Yeah."
JACK
"What room?"
NURSE
"Room three."
JACK
"OK."
DANIEL
"Colonel!"
Jack puts on a hazmat helmet. Sam and Daniel take Sara in the
opposite direction
SAM
"It's OK."
They leave Sara and rejoin Jack in clone Jack's room
SAM
"Colonel, it's buried in the red." "How
we doing' with the power?"
VOICE
"I turned off as much of the grid as
possible."
SAM
"They've shut down all they can."
JACK
"It's all right.I'm not gonna hurt you."
CLONE JACK
"Please stay back. I do not want to
harm you again. My energy is about to..
SAM
"The radiation's dropped off."
TEAL'C
"O'Neill, are you all right?"
JACK
"I'm OK.
SAM
"What's happening?"
VOICE
"We've got 20% emergency power."
SAM
"Radiation's low enough.We should be
all right.
They take their hazmat helmets off
CLONE JACK
"You have come to destroy me."
JACK
"No. That's not true. I know you weren't
trying to kill me back on the planet.
The Goa'ulds.The people who destroyed
your race.They're our enemies too."
CLONE JACK
"I understand.Thank you."
JACK
"Why did you come here?"
CLONE JACK
When my energy hurt you, I tried to
heal you, but I did not understand your
injury. So I looked into your mind.
I saw the mind of a warrior. I feared
it, as I feared those who destroyed
my race. I tried to make you well before
my mistake was discovered, before the
others returned to destroy me. I understand
now. Your deepest pain was not the physical
injury I had caused. Your pain was from
an empty place in your heart where Charlie
once was. I thought if I could bring
Charlie to you, it would make you well.
I did not understand his death meant
he could no longer exist as flesh and
blood. Physical death does not have
the same meaning to us."
JACK
"Are you dying now?"
CLONE JACK
"Yes.I could not bring Charlie to you."
JACK
"Charlie's gone."
CLONE JACK
"No.He's in here."
He puts his hand over Jacks heart and suddenly transforms into
Charlie
JACK
"Charlie?"
CHARLIE
"You cannot change what happened that
day, just as I cannot change the day
that the Goa'uld destroyed my world.
I'm showing you what of Charlie is still
there, inside you."
DANIEL
"Jack.Jack.
SAM
"The radiation's still low, but I don't
know for how long."
JACK
"We have to go."
CHARLIE
"Is Sara O'Neill still here?"
JACK
"Yes."
They leave the room, with Jack holding Charlie's hand
"Delta Five Point Bravo our ETA is five minutes."
SAM
"Chopper's inbound."
JACK
"You guys go ahead."
Jack and Charlie walk up to Sara
JACK
"Sara."
SARA
"Oh my God..."
JACK
"It's not Charlie, Sara.
SARA
"Shh.
JACK
"Sara, I have to get him back."
SARA
To the Stargate."
JACK
"Yeah.
Sara is crying and Jack hugs her
SARA
"Whatever that is. The other guy, you
know what he said?"
JACK
"I have a pretty fair idea."
SARA
"We were pretty great together, weren't
we?"
JACK
"We were the greatest."
He touches her face and leaves
SARA
"Take care of yourself, Jack."
Jack and Charlie are stood in front of the gate. The rest of
the team are at the bottom of the ramp
JACK
"Keep the lights on. I'll be back."
Charlie and Jack walk through the gate, hand in hand
THE END
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