STARGATE SG1
Episode 308
"DEMONS"
By
Carl Binder
EXT - PLANET, STARGATE CLEARING (DAY)
SG1 step out of the STARGATE onto a foreign world. The STARGATE
closes behind them
O'NEILL
Ah trees, trees and more trees. What
a wonderfully green universe we live
in eh? Where's that village?
CARTER
The UAV found it eleven klicks Southwest
of here.
O'NEILL
Eleven?
TEAL'C discovers a muddied track.
TEAL'C
Here. This path is well travelled.
DANIEL
Which means the STARGATE is still in
use by someone.
O'NEILL
Or.something.
They head out into the countryside, following the path.
EXT - WOODS (DAY)
CARTER sees a building in the next valley.
CARTER
The UAV photos were right, there it
is. Looks like a church.
O'NEILL
And that would mean what?
TEAL'C
That it is most likely Christians reside
here.
O'NEILL
Thank you TEAL'C. C
ARTER
Well, this is the first sign of Christianity
we've encountered, Sir, in hundreds
of missions.
DANIEL
Which means they probably had to have
been taken from somewhere in medieval
Europe through the Antarctic gate.
TEAL'C
By which Goa'uld?
DANIEL
That's a good question.
They head down into the valley towards the village.
DANIEL (CONT'D)
Most Goa'uld that we've encountered
that have enslaved ancient human populations
have taken on the roles of those cultures'
deities. RA, APOPHIS, HATHOR from the
Egyptian pantheon.
O'NEILL
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got it.
DANIEL
Well, if these people were already Christians
when they were taken from Earth, that
suggests this Goa'uld is.is playing.
O'NEILL
God? As in GOD God? It's a bit of a
stretch, don't you think?
TEAL'C
I know of no Goa'uld capable of showing
the necessary compassion or benevolence
that I have read of in your Bible.
O'NEILL
You read the Bible, TEAL'C?
TEAL'C
It is a significant part of your Western
culture. Have you not read the Bible
O'NEILL?
O'NEILL
Oh yeah, yeah, not all of it. Actually,
I'm listening to it on tape. Don't tell
me how it ends.
EXT - VILLAGE (DAY)
SG1 enters what appears to be a medieval village. When it's inhabitants
see SG1 they run into their houses. DANIEL approaches one house
whose door is still open. A woman and her children are looking
out.
DANIEL
Hello? We're not going to hurt you.
The woman slams the door in his face.
DANIEL
We're peaceful travellers.
O'NEILL
They're not buying it Danny.
He finds a stone pedestal with the symbol of a cross and writing
on it.
O'NEILL
Is this English?
DANIEL
Middle English, pre-Chaucer. 'Show mercy
to those who are about to be delivered
unto the devil.'. It's a.a derivative
of the Catholic prayer for Suffering
Souls.
O'NEILL then catches sight of a young woman chained to a post
in the middle of the Village Square.
END OF TEASER EXT - VILLAGE (DAY)
SG1 hurry over to the woman, who is frightened by their presence.
MAN
Spare her please!
DANIEL
Oh, we're not going to hurt her. Or
you. We're friends. I'm DANIEL.
MAN
I am SIMON. You have come through the
Circle of Darkness?
CARTER
The STARGATE? Yes.
SIMON
Then you must be of his brethren. I
beg of you, MARY is so young. She did
nothing to warrant Sacrifice.
O'NEILL
Whoa. What sacrifice?
SIMON
If you leave her body, the village CANON
may choose another possessed soul.
DANIEL
You think we're demons. (To O'NEILL)
He.thinks we're demons.
O'NEILL
Uh-huh. (To SIMON) Well, we're not demons.
We're human, like you. From Earth, like
you.
DANIEL (TO SIMON)
Do other demons come through the Circle?
SIMON
You know he does.
DANIEL
Uh, no, we don't know anything about
him, but we'd like to. What does he
look like?
SIMON
Mostly he comes in his true form. But
demons can take many shapes.
He looks over at TEAL'C, who is examining the chains holding
MARY.
TEAL'C
Major CARTER. Shield her eyes.
CARTER leans over to cover MARY'S face. TEAL'C shoots the chain
with his staff weapon.
SIMON (TO MARY)
Go into the house! Quickly!
MARY runs away into the house. SIMON falls to his knees before
O'NEILL.
SIMON
Leave her body, please.
O'NEILL
Come on, get up.
SIMON
Take me in her place!
O'NEILL
Look, stop that, will ya? Come on. Let's
go, come on.
He pulls SIMON to his feet.
O'NEILL
Listen to me. We're not demons. And
MARY is not possessed. From the looks
of it, she's a little sick. If you let
us, we might be able to help.
SIMON nods and leads them to his house.
INT - SIMON'S HOUSE, VILLAGE (DAY)
MARY is lying in a bed, SIMON sitting at her side, while CARTER
checks her temperature.
O'NEILL
Chickenpox. Trust me.
CARTER
Her fever's pretty high.
O'NEILL
It'll break. (To MARY) Those spots will
get itchy, but that's about as bad as
it'll get. You'll be fine in a couple
of days.
SIMON
That won't be soon enough. The time
of Sacrifice is at hand. The elders
will have to perform the trepanning
ritual tonight to cleanse her.
DANIEL
Oh jeez.
O'NEILL
What?
DANIEL
It was a procedure often done in the
Middle Ages. They.well they drill a
hole in the person's head. By drilling
a hole, the evil spirits are released,
thus saving the person from eternal
damnation.
O'NEILL
Thus.saving the person?
DANIEL
Well, they didn't call them the Dark
Ages because it was dark.
Outside, they hear the sound of a horn.
SIMON takes his cross and starts to pray over MARY, who is clearly
frightened.
SIMON (PRAYING)
My Jesus, let the sorrows you suffered.
VILLAGER (OUTSIDE)
(Peter DeLouise Alert! ;))The demon
comes!
EXT - VILLAGE SQUARE (DAY)
VILLAGER
The demon comes!
He runs away as an Unas enters the village.
INT - SIMON'S HOUSE, VILLAGE (DAY)
O'NEILL
The demon comes?
SG1 go over to the windows and look out.
O'NEILL sees the Unas enter the Village Square.
O'NEILL
Damn. Unas?
TEAL'C
You are correct O'NEILL. The first host
of the Goa'uld.
O'NEILL
No, no, no.we killed him, he's dead.
TEAL'C
We only killed one Unas.
O'NEILL
I thought there only was one. Unas,
uno.one.
TEAL'C
They are in fact a species.
The Unas examines the area when MARY was chained. He addresses
the village.
UNAS (OUTSIDE)
The time of Sacrifice is at hand. My
lord Satan calls for five wretched souls
to reclaim as his.
O'NEILL
Satan?
TEAL'C
SOKAR.
CARTER
Gathering host bodies.
UNAS (OUTSIDE)
At sunrise shall I return to claim the
five. If you have not chosen, I shall
take whom I please in far greater numbers.
DANIEL
I think we were wrong about this Goa'uld.
He isn't playing God. He's playing the
devil.
INT - SIMON'S HOUSE, VILLAGE (DAY)
SIMON rises from MARY'S bedside.
SIMON
The time is at hand.
MARY
No! No, no!
SIMON takes out a package and begins to unwrap it.
O'NEILL
SIMON.
SIMON
CANON will return from his hermitage
soon.
O'NEILL
The creature that just sauntered through
your village is called an Unas.
SIMON ignores him and continues to unwrap the package.
SIMON
The time of Sacrifice has been declared.
I feared it would be.
O'NEILL
SIMON! Listen to me.
SIMON pauses and climbs to his feet to face O'NEILL.
O'NEILL
Look, we've run into this kind of thing
before. Now, it's not a demon. It's
demonesque I'll grant you, but it's
just a big, ugly creature.
O'NEILL
Yes. It's a very smart, resilient creature.
DANIEL (QUIETLY)
In the service of SOKAR, who, for all
intents and purposes, is Satan to these
people.
O'NEILL
But it's not a demon.
DANIEL (TO SIMON)
No, it's not a demon.
TEAL'C
My friends speak the truth, SIMON. This
demon is nothing more than a parasite
that inhabits another creature. Your
fear is its greatest power over you.
SIMON
You do not fear it?
TEAL'C
We do not.
SIMON looks over the weapons they carry.
SIMON
You say you have killed an Unas once
before?
TEAL'C
Indeed.
SIMON
Then perhaps God has sent you. Perhaps
you are the answer to our prayers. All
my life I have asked God to deliver
us from this evil.
O'NEILL
So what did the lizard say? That he'd
be back at sunrise?
TEAL'C
Are you contemplating attack O'NEILL?
O'NEILL
Yeah, sure, why not.
TEAL'C
An Unas is difficult to destroy.
O'NEILL
Couple of shots with a staff, we own
him.
CARTER
We hope. It took Thor's Hammer to kill
the last one.
O'NEILL
Alright, a whole bunch of shots with
a staff. DANIEL, how long have these
people been living like this?
DANIEL
Well, I can't be sure without proper
reference.
DANIEL
At least.
O'NEILL
That's long enough. These people are
being terrorised. We have the power
to stop it.
TEAL'C
SOKAR will seek revenge.
O'NEILL
Alright, so we'll have them bury the
Gate after we've gone.
DANIEL
They could come in ships.
O'NEILL
Ships?
CARTER
I can't be sure, but the co-ordinates
of this planet are years away from any
known Goa'uld Homeworld, even with their
faster ships.
O'NEILL
SIMON? Do you want us to do this?
SIMON
Are we not in God's hands?
Outside, the church bell is rung.
SIMON
The CANON has returned.
EXT - VILLAGE (DAY)
The CANON enters the village, surrounded by guards armed with
pitchforks. He is greeted by the villagers as he enters the square.
SIMON (TO O'NEILL)
The CANON will choose those for Sacrifice
tonight.
O'NEILL
Why does he get to choose?
SIMON
He is our spiritual leader. It falls
to him to determine those of us whose
souls are already possessed with evil.
The villagers point out SG1 to the CANON, who approaches them
CANON (TO SG1)
You have come down the path, through
the Circle of Darkness?
O'NEILL
Something like that. My name's Jack
O'NEILL.
SIMON
Yes, but I do not believe they mean
us harm.
CANON
The tricks of Satan and his minions
are many. And only those weak of faith
are fooled by such deception. By granting
them entrance, you have spilled the
blood of your people!
The CANON approaches TEAL'C and examines his gold tattoo.
CANON
This one! There's the mark of the devil!
(To SG1) If you are human as you say,
then your souls are damned.
TEAL'C
It appears they do not desire our assistance
O'NEILL.
O'NEILL
Yeah, fine, whatever. (To the CANON)
Have a nice day.
He starts to walk away.
CANON
You shall be struck down!
The CANON touches his ring, activating it.
SIMON
No, no CANON.
Storms clouds gather in the sky and thunder can be heard. SIMON
cringes away from the CANON, who presses the centre stone on
his ring. A bolt of lightning comes out of the sky and strikes
the ground where SG1 are standing. They are all knocked unconscious
by the blast.
INT - CELL, VILLAGE (DAY)
CARTER, lying on straw, regains consciousness to see O'NEILL
chewing on a grass stalk.
CARTER
Sir, I've been disarmed.
O'NEILL
Yeah, I picked up on that too. TEAL'C'S
gone.
CARTER looks round as DANIEL wakes up.
DANIEL
Did we just get struck by a big bolt
of.lightning?
CARTER
That's what it looked like. Felt more
like a zat blast to me. He.touched his
ring just before the lightning started.
O'NEILL
CARTER, if I ever get the urge to help
anybody again, feel free to give me
a swift kick.
CARTER sees SIMON approach their cell.
SIMON
I do not believe you are demons. I've
said as much to the CANON, but he refuses
to hear me.
O'NEILL
Where's our friend?
SIMON
It has been decided he must endure the
tests.
O'NEILL
What tests?
They are interrupted by shouts from the villagers. They are calling
for TEAL'C to be burned at the stake. TEAL'C is brought into
the square by two guards and tied to a post. His face is bloodied
and beaten. The villagers gather to watch the trial.
CANON (TO TEAL'C)
What have you to say for yourself?
TEAL'C
That I do not serve those whom you would
call demon.
O'NEILL (QUIETLY)
TEAL'C.
SIMON (TO O'NEILL)
Say nothing more, or they will kill
him.
CANON (CONT'D)
For this reason, we are commanded by
God to seek out those spirits and punish
them!
He turns to the blacksmith who is stoking a glowing furnace.
DANIEL
The mark of the devil.
O'NEILL
What?
DANIEL
Uh, in the Middle Ages one of the proofs
of witchcraft was a mark on the body
supposedly made by the devil himself
that was insensitive to pain.
The blacksmith hands the CANON a glowing metal poker, who places
it against TEAL'C'S gold tattoo. TEAL'C doesn't react, feeling
no pain.
CANON
The first proof is given!
O'NEILL
DANIEL?
DANIEL
It's not good.
EXT - LAKE SHORE (DAY)
SG1 are led along the shore of a lake, the villagers following.
TEAL'C is led out onto a jetty, where a large rock is chained
to his leg.
CANON
And they went up on the breath of the
Earth. And fire came down from God out
of Heaven and devoured them.
DANIEL
The water test.
O'NEILL
What?
DANIEL
Common practice in the Middle Ages.
They weighed a person and threw them
in the water. If he sinks, he's innocent.
CARTER
If he floats, he's guilty of witchcraft
and burned at the stake. It's Catch22.
A black hood is placed over TEAL'C'S head.
CANON
Archangel, Saint Michael, defend us
in battle. Thrust into hell Satan and
all the evil spirits who prowl upon
the Earth. Amen.
The CANON nods and the guards prepare to push TEAL'C into the
lake.
DANIEL
We'll go back where we came from!
CARTER
(Verge of tears) He's innocent!
One of the guards strike him across the face, knocking him to
his knees. TEAL'C is pushed into the water. DANIEL, CARTER and
O'NEILL can only tearfully watch. Bubbles rise from the water,
but there's no sign of TEAL'C. The CANON prays quietly, then
holds out his hand over the water.
CANON
God's will.has been done.
SIMON, standing in the crowd, bows his head. The CANON and his
guards walk away.
INT - CELL, VILLAGE (NIGHT)
TEAL'C'S body is lying on an altar, while nuns pray silently
over him. From their prison cell, O'NEILL, CARTER and DANIEL
watch. The CANON approaches their cell.
CANON
Your friend's soul is clean. If you
wish he'll be given a Christian burial.
O'NEILL
What?
CANON
You're free to go. I insist only that
you remain in chains until your return
through the Circle of Darkness, to whatever
dark place you reside and that you never
return.
O'NEILL
Because you know if I did return I'd
break your damn neck. But of course
you could just touch that lovely ring
of yours and we'd all be struck down
again.
CANON
Ah the ring. It has been handed down
through generations of village canons
who came before me.
DANIEL
And with it you maintain power.
CANON
With it I abide by God's will, as best
I can. Sacrifices must be made.
DANIEL
Why?
CANON
Do you deny the demon is real? Do you
deny that it could destroy us if it
so wished?
DANIEL has no reply to that and looks away.
CANON (CONT'D)
The Sacrifices allowed the people of
this village to survive for generations.
Just as the wheat is separated from
the chaff, the unclean souls among us
must be taken away, through the Circle
of Darkness. Forever.
O'NEILL
And you decide.
CANON
Yes I do. Now go thy way. Trouble me
no more.
As he leaves, SIMON approaches their cell.
SIMON
I am sorry.
O'NEILL
You know SIMON, your village CANON has
an awfully interesting way of tending
the flock.
SIMON
Speak no more of this.
DANIEL
He maintains power by controlling who
gets Sacrificed and who doesn't.
SIMON
No more! I have asked for this dispensation
and he has granted it.
He unlocks their cell and they head over to the altar, still
in chains.
O'NEILL (TO SIMON)
Where's our gear?
SIMON
If I were to bring it to you, would
you help us?
O'NEILL
Help you?
CARTER
You can bury the STARGATE after we've
gone through. That should prevent the
Unas and anything else from.
SIMON
I cannot do that!
DANIEL
Well there must be other people who
are willing.
SIMON
I mean the Circle. We are not allowed
to go near it, or even look upon it.
A villager, holding a lantern, calls to SIMON.
VILLAGER
SIMON? We are ready.
SIMON
I shall be there.
DANIEL
Ready? Ready for what?
SIMON
The trepanning ritual. MARY'S parents
were taken in a Sacrifice a year ago.
They asked that I care for her. If you're
not willing to help, it falls to me
to try to cleanse her soul before the
CANON chooses.
DANIEL
You can't do that.
SIMON
I have no choice.
DANIEL
You'll kill her.
SIMON
Better that she die among us than at
the hands of the devil himself.
He leaves.
DANIEL
Jack.
O'NEILL
No.
DANIEL
We can't condemn a young girl just because
one man has made a pact with the devil.
TEAL'C will have died for nothing if
nothing good comes from this.
INT - SIMON'S HOUSE, VILLAGE (NIGHT)
SIMON enters the house where MARY is still sick, tended by another
villager. SIMON crosses (Catholic sign of the cross) himself,
then approaches her bedside.
SIMON (TO MARY)
There shall be a great reward waiting
for you in Heaven and the angels will
welcome you with joyful hearts. And
there will be no more pain.
MARY
I know.
EXT - VILLAGE SQUARE (NIGHT)
DANIEL
Ok, I'll tell you what. You guys start
back without me. I'm just going to go
see if I can stop these people from
a drilling a hole in the head of a young
girl.
He heads towards SIMON'S house. O'NEILL glances at CARTER, before
following after DANIEL.
INT - SIMON'S HOUSE, VILLAGE (NIGHT)
SIMON unwraps the package once more and takes out a hand drill.
The villager holds MARY'S head still as he prepares to use it.
DANIEL enters the house.
DANIEL
Wait!
SIMON lowers the drill.
DANIEL
We'll take you back with us. MARY too.
Where we come from, there are no demons.
SIMON nods gratefully.
O'NEILL and CARTER enter the house. O'NEILL holds out his hand
for the drill and SIMON hands it to him.
O'NEILL
Good choice.
EXT - VILLAGE SQUARE (NIGHT)
The nuns are anointing TEAL'C'S body (With oil) in preparation
for burial. A shroud is placed over his face and body and the
nuns kneel down to pray.
INT - SIMON'S HOUSE, VILLAGE (NIGHT)
CARTER is checking MARY'S temperature once more.
CARTER
Fever's down. Feeling any better?
MARY
Yes. Have you released that which possessed
me?
CARTER
You got better all by yourself MARY.
There was never a demon inside you.
O'NEILL lifts his chains.
O'NEILL
So SIMON. You wouldn't happen to have
the keys to these would you? (To the
villager) Keys?
EXT - VILLAGE SQUARE (NIGHT)
One of the nuns praying over TEAL'C glances up as he moves, but
resumes praying when none of the other nuns appear to notice.
Suddenly, TEAL'C sits up and the nuns scream and run away. TEAL'C
opens his eyes and removes the shroud covering his face.
INT - SIMON'S HOUSE, VILLAGE (NIGHT)
When they hear the screams, SG1 head outside, along with SIMON.
EXT - VILLAGE SQUARE (NIGHT)
O'NEILL
What's that?
SIMON
I don't know.
TEAL'C comes walking towards them, pulling on his jacket.
DANIEL
TEAL'C. You're alive.
TEAL'C
It is so.
O'NEILL realises what must have happened.
TEAL'C
My symbiote did sustain me.
CARTER
Oxygen in the water. It's the larval
Goa'uld's natural environment. It must
have filtered the oxygen and fed it
into TEAL'C. You were out for a long
time TEAL'C. I thought we'd lost you.
TEAL'C
When I realised they planned to immerse
me, I put myself in a deep state of
Kel'no'reem.
The villagers have gathered and are looking on.
O'NEILL
You think these folks never saw a guy
rise from the dead.
CANON
Yes there is!
The CANON enters the square with his guards.
CANON
There can be no doubt now. They are
evil. All of them.
CANON
These four shall be the first chosen
for Sacrifice.
O'NEILL
Major, next time DANIEL gets the urge
to help someone, shoot him.
They are surrounded by the CANON'S guards.
CANON
And with them shall be taken the woman
whose soul has been possessed.
Two more guards enter SIMON'S house.
CANON
You challenge my decision?
SIMON
No.
MARY is dragged from the house by the guards.
MARY
SIMON! SIMON, please help me! SIMON.
SG1 and MARY are chained to the posts in the Village Square.
SIMON
I am sorry MARY.
O'NEILL
Don't apologise to her. Help her!
SIMON
The CANON has spoken.
O'NEILL
What are you, the village idiot?
DANIEL (TO SIMON)
The demon will turn her into a host.
You know what that means. Course you
don't know what that means.
SIMON
I can hear no more of this.
He returns to his house.
EXT - VILLAGE SQUARE (DAY)
As the sun rises, SG1 are still chained up, waiting for the Unas'
return. DANIEL sees SIMON lurking in the doorway to his house,
watching them.
DANIEL
Jack.
O'NEILL
SIMON, get out here and do something!
SIMON doesn't move.
DANIEL (TO O'NEILL)
I don't think anything we say is going
to make a difference, especially not
after TEAL'C'S.resurrection.
A horn is sounded and the Unas enters the Village Square.
The Unas ignores him and starts to unhook their chains from the
posts.
He is cut off as the Unas grabs him by the throat and lifts him
into the air, before letting him drop.
VILLAGER (TO SIMON)
If they truly are servants of Satan,
why does he resist.
UNAS (TO O'NEILL)
You are not of this world.
The Unas pulls on the chain that links the prisoners together
and jerks him to his feet. He leads them out of the village.
EXT - RIDGE (DAY)
SG1, along with MARY, are led by the Unas along the top of a
ridge. O'NEILL glances down the slope and silently signals to
the others to be ready to move.
DANIEL (QUIETLY)
MARY, we're gonna take a little tumble,
so just scrunch up in a ball and roll
with the rest of us.
O'NEILL nods to the others and they dive down the slope, rolling
all the way to the bottom. The end of the chain is jerked out
of the Unas' grasp, who roars in anger and starts after them.
O'NEILL
Go! Go!
MARY, at the front of the chain, leads them through the woods.
EXT - VILLAGE SQUARE (DAY)
SIMON approaches the CANON.
CANON
SIMON! You've always been quick to ask
questions. This weakness shall be your
doom. If you persist, I shall be unable
to defend you when the next Sacrifice
is called.
As he wanders off, SIMON leaves.
EXT - WOODS (DAY)
SG1 and MARY are still running through the woods. They are brought
to a halt as the Unas steps on the trailing chain.
UNAS
You cannot escape me.
SIMON appears, with SG1's gear and TEAL'C'S staff weapon.
SIMON (TO THE UNAS)
Leave them!
UNAS
You dare to challenge me?
O'NEILL (TO SIMON)
Shoot it!
UNAS (TO SIMON)
You shall join them in hell.
The Unas drives the end of the chain into the tree, preventing
SG1 and MARY from escaping.
MARY
SIMON!
UNAS (TO SG1)
You will remain here until I finish
with this one.
He heads towards SIMON.
O'NEILL (TO SIMON)
Shoot it!
MARY
SIMON!
O'NEILL
Shoot!
SIMON fires TEAL'C'S staff weapon and strikes the Unas in the
chest. Green blood appears from the wound.
O'NEILL
Again!
SIMON fires again, but the Unas keeps coming until he is right
before SIMON.
O'NEILL (TO SIMON)
Shoot!
SIMON shoots the Unas at point blank range, but still fails to
kill it.
UNAS
For this you will pay with your life.
The Unas knocks away the staff and backhands SIMON, sending him
flying across the clearing.
MARY
SIMON!
SIMON gets to his feet and runs away, the Unas following. O'NEILL
sees TEAL'C'S discarded staff weapon.
O'NEILL
MARY, the staff.
They stretch out the length of chain allowing MARY to reach for
the staff. She finally manages to get hold of it and passes it
to TEAL'C.
TEAL'C
O'NEILL.
O'NEILL shields his eyes as TEAL'C shoots the chain holding them
to the tree.
EXT - WOODS (DAY)
The injured Unas is still tracking SIMON. It pauses and roars
in fury. SIMON hears it and continues to run for his life.
EXT - WOODS (DAY)
TEAL'C shoots the length of chain holding O'NEILL, releasing
him. The others have already been freed.
O'NEILL
CARTER, DANIEL, head toward the Gate.
Take MARY with you.
CARTER
Yes Sir.
They help MARY away.
O'NEILL (TO TEAL'C)
Shall we?
They head off after the Unas.
EXT - CLEARING (DAY)
SIMON pauses to lean against a large rock, attempting to catch
his breath. The CANON comes round the rock and grabs him.
CANON
SIMON! SIMON! What have you done?
SIMON
The demon comes. Release me.
They look up in fear as the Unas approaches them. SIMON puts
himself in front of the CANON.
EXT - WOODS (DAY)
O'NEILL and TEAL'C are hurrying through the woods, attempting
to catch up with SIMON and the Unas.
EXT - CLEARING (DAY)
UNAS (TO SIMON)
Your God has abandoned you.
SIMON faces the Unas.
SIMON
My GOD is with me always.
The Unas hits him and knocks him out, then goes after the CANON.
EXT - CLEARING (DAY)
O'NEILL and TEAL'C enter the clearing to find the Unas apparently
dead and the CANON crouched over SIMON'S unconscious body. TEAL'C
runs over to make sure that the Unas really is dead, while O'NEILL
checks SIMON.
O'NEILL
He's alright. (To the CANON) What happened?
CANON
SIMON.stood before it like.like David
before Goliath. The demon threw him
aside and then he fell. As you can see.
TEAL'C holds his hand over the Unas' mouth, but feels no breath.
CANON
It was a miracle.
TEAL'C
The Unas' wounds were too severe. Even
the Goa'uld within him could not save
him.
CANON
As you say. You've opened my eyes. Bless
you.
O'NEILL
Yeah, well. Let's have the ring.
CANON
Yes. Of course.
As he tosses the ring to O'NEILL, SIMON wakes up.
SIMON
I'm alive?
TEAL'C
SOKAR will be awaiting the return of
the Unas. He will send others.
O'NEILL (TO SIMON)
Which is why you've got to bury the
Circle of Darkness after we've gone
through. Can you walk?
They help SIMON to his feet and leave the clearing.
EXT - STARGATE CLEARING (DAY)
DANIEL, CARTER and MARY are waiting by the STARGATE as O'NEILL,
TEAL'C, SIMON and the CANON approach.
MARY
SIMON!
She runs over to him and they hug.
MARY
I knew you would come. Are you hurt?
SIMON
I will be fine.
DANIEL
What happened?
CANON
The beast.is dead. Had I not witnessed
it myself, I would not have believed
it. Thank you.all, for showing me the
way.
O'NEILL
You're welcome. Major, dial us home.
CARTER starts to dial Earth, but pauses after the first chevron
is lit.
O'NEILL
CARTER?
She looks at the CANON.
CARTER
It went into him.
SIMON
What went into him?
The CANON starts to move forward and TEAL'C aims his staff weapon.
TEAL'C
Go no further!
CANON
Why? I have done nothing. (To SIMON
and MARY) My children.
O'NEILL (TO CARTER)
Are you sure?
CARTER
Positive, Sir. I can sense it. The Unas
host was dying, it had no where else
to go. It went into him.
The CANON'S eyes light up and he lunges at them. O'NEILL shoots
him with his sidearm and the CANON falls backwards. SIMON kneels
at his side.
CANON
Forgive me.
After a moment, he dies.
SIMON (PRAYING)
By the sorrows he suffered, in your
agony in the garden, they scourged and
crowned him with thorns. (traces a cross
on the canon's forehead)
DANIEL
The prayer for Suffering Souls.
SIMON (CONT'D)
In your crucifixion and death, have
mercy on the souls. Deliver them from
the dire torments they endure and admit
them to your most sweet embrace in Paradise.
MARY crosses herself.
SIMON
Now the demon is truly gone.
O'NEILL
Major?
CARTER nods and heads back to the DHD to dial home.
MARY
Yes. We will do what you say.
SIMON
We will bury the Gate. Immediately.
And there will be no more Sacrifices.
O'NEILL
Thank God.
CARTER presses the centre stone and STARGATE opens. She sends
the GDO signal back to Earth and SG1 step through the STARGATE,
leaving SIMON and MARY in the clearing.
FADE OUT
THE END
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