STARGATE SG1
Episode 304
"LEGACY"
By
Tor Alexander Valenza
A DARKENED CORRIDOR
O'NEILL
Daniel? Any ideas about this place?
DANIEL
Well it looks like it was built by a
pretty advanced culture, then stripped
and deserted.
CARTER
The MALP showed no life signs.
O'NEILL
Teal'c? What do you think?
TEAL'C
It is an ancient Goa'uld design.
Teal'c goes to touch a panel and a door opens.
O'NEILL
Now that is not a good smell.
Daniel walks in and brushes by something.
DANIEL
Jesus!
It's a corpse.
O'NEILL
All right. Level A.
TEAL'C
There is another one here.
O'NEILL
More over there.
Sam sees a scar on the neck of one of the corpses.
CARTER
These aren't quite human. They're Goa'uld.
OPENING CREDITS
TEAL'C
This mechanism appears to have been
damaged by a ribbon device.
CARTER
Maybe they were trying to contain whatever
did this.
DANIEL
Teal'c, do you recognise this symbol?
TEAL'C
It is the crest of the Linvris.
O'NEILL
Which is what? Or who/
TEAL'C
A rival league of lesser Goa'uld who
challenge the System Lords.
O'NEILL
A minor league?
TEAL'C
Yes. There are nine.
CARTER
Five, six, seven, eight, nine. Found
'em.
Meanwhile, Daniel has picked up a tablet.
DANIEL
It's one of those Goa'uld tablet devices,
the kind we found on Argos.
CARTER
Can you translate it?
DANIEL
Part of it. It's some sort of battle
plan. I need the hand device that makes
the screen go to the next page.
O'NEILL
That thing?
Daniel bends down and picks up the Page Turning Device (PTD).
He waves it over the tablet and it doesn't change.
DANIEL
Nothing's happening.
He suddenly looks round.
O'NEILL
What?
DANIEL
I felt something brush by me.
O'NEILL
All right, let's pack it outta here.
Leave this to the medical containment
unit. It's getting creepy.
They leave.
SG-1's locker room
Daniel walks out of the shower towelling his hair.
WOMAN
Dr. Jackson? (Whispers)
DANIEL
Out in minute!
WOMAN
Dr. Jackson! (Whispers)
Daniel looks up and around at the sink which is dripping. He
puts his hand under and catches the drips.
SGC Corridor
Sam is walking along.
CARTER
Daniel.
Daniel is walking out of the locker room.
DANIEL
Were you calling me just now?
CARTER
No.
DANIEL
You weren't calling my name in the locker
room a minute ago?
CARTER
No, it wasn't me. General Hammond's
waiting for us in the briefing room.
Briefing Room
FRAISER
The Goa'uld died before their hosts.
We know this due to a unique protein
marker left in Goa'uld bodies or host
bodies after a Goa'uld dies.
CARTER
The same protein marker that was left
in my body after Jolinar was killed?
FRAISER
Yes.
HAMMOND
How did they die, Doctor?
FRAISER
Well at this point Sir, I can't really
give you an accurate answer and I may
never be able to.
HAMMOND
Why not?
FRAISER
As with Major Carter, as these Goa'uld
symbiotes died they rapidly decayed
and were absorbed by the host. There's
no Goa'uld corpse for me to study.
O'NEILL
What about bio warfare? Poison, disease,
that kind of thing?
TEAL'C
The Goa'uld are immune to such things.
DANIEL
What about the hosts?
FRAISER
The humans were normal. No wounds, no
infections.
DANIEL
Okay then, why are they dead?
FRAISER
According to Teal'c, the door was disabled
from the inside. Locked in with no food,
no water, the probably died of starvation.
HAMMOND
Right now, I'm more concerned with who
killed the Goa'uld and why.
TEAL'C
The System Lords would be the most likely
suspect.
O'NEILL
But if the door was disabled from the
inside, how did the perp, or perps,
get out?
CARTER
Maybe the assassins weren't visible
and we're the ones who let them out.
O'NEILL
Reetou. You think Reetou were in there?
TEAL'C
Reetou would not spare the host. Reetou
weaponry does much damage to the human
body.
O'NEILL
Well there you go.
HAMMOND
Dr. Jackson, what about that Goa'uld
tablet device?
The Stargate is beginning to rotate in the background.
PA
Incoming traveller.
DANIEL
Um.. It's a Goa'uld dialect akin to
Latin. From what Teal'c and I have made
out so far, it's some sort of attack
plan. Um.. I'm still trying to figure
out how to scroll to the next page,
if there is a next page.
HAMMOND
Dr. Jackson, I want you to make translating
that tablet your top priority.
DANIEL
Yes Sir.
HAMMOND
Dismissed.
Teal'c, Sam and Janet leave. Daniel gets up as the Gate engages
and walks to the window overlooking the Gate. Jack follows him.
PA
SG7 returning.
Daniel looks down and SG7 appear to be the dead members of the
Linvris. One of them looks up at him and Daniel immediately turns
to Jack to see if he sees anything out of the ordinary. He doesn't.
Daniel looks back and the members of SG7 look normal again.
Daniel's Lab
Daniel picks up some pills and swallows them with a glass of
water. He is writing something down and mumbles in Goa'uld dialect.
DANIEL
To enter by infiltration. Infiltration.
MAN
Daniel. (whispers)
Daniel looks up.
MAN
Daniel! Daniel!
The sounds of chevrons locking can be heard. Daniel looks towards
his cupboard. He gets up and opens his closet. There appears
to be a wormhole event horizon there.
MAN
Join with us, Daniel. Step through the
Gate, Daniel.
DANIEL
This isn't real.
He lifts his hand to touch the event horizon and a hand suddenly
comes back out of the event horizon and grabs him by the shirt.
DANIEL
Help! Somebody help!
A face then appears. It's one of the dead Linvris. Daniel is
then pulled through the event horizon.
Infirmary
Daniel opens his eyes to see Jack playing with a bag of solution.
O'NEILL
Hello.
DANIEL
Hello.
O'NEILL
What happened?
DANIEL
Do you believe in ghosts?
O'NEILL
Uhh.. No. Uh huh.
DANIEL
Neither do I. Which means there has
to be a logical explanation.
O'NEILL
For what?
DANIEL
When we were in the Linvris chamber,
I felt something brush by me. And I've
heard voices. And I keep seeing the
dead Goa'uld from the massacre.
O'NEILL
Where?
DANIEL
Well, last night they were in my closet.
In like a.. Stargate event horizon without
the Gate.
O'NEILL
In your closet?
DANIEL
Yes. I don't think they're really dead.
O'NEILL
Who? The stiffs in the morgue?
DANIEL
No, the nine Goa'uld that were using
them as hosts. I translated a phrase
in the tablet that I thought meant 'attack'
but when I refined the translation,
I realised it means 'to enter by infiltration'.
O'NEILL
And you think that's what they're doing?
DANIEL
Yes.
O'NEILL
Through your closet?
DANIEL
Teal'c said the Linvris were being hunted
by the System Lords, right? No what
if they used some sort of technology
that transformed their bodies into.
I don't know, energy or something.
O'NEILL
Energy?
DANIEL
Or something. I don't know exactly how-
Sam can figure that part out. The point
is, they're here. They've entered by
infiltration and now they want me as
a host.
O'NEILL
All nine of 'em?
DANIEL
That sounds crazy, huh?
O'NEILL
Mmm.. Yeah. I. You gotta admit, there
are some holes in you theory here.
DANIEL
Well it's a theory, not a proof.
O'NEILL
Why are you the only one who can see
them? Why didn't they come through my
closet? Aside from the fact that yours
is cleaner.
DANIEL
I don't know. The only other theory
I can come up with is I'm having some
sort of nervous breakdown.
O'NEILL
Or something. Yeah.
DANIEL
Or something.
Briefing room
Jack walks in and stops.
O'NEILL
Doctor MacKenzie.
MACKENZIE
Colonel.
O'NEILL
I'm not going to enjoy this am I?
HAMMOND
Part of Dr. MacKenzie's work involves
analysing psychological data from SG
units specifically looking for side
effects to Gate travel. Dr. Jackson's
episode yesterday may have uncovered
a serious one.
MACKENZIE
Dr. Fraiser's been treating you for
headaches lately, hasn't she?
O'NEILL
Yes. What's that got to do with Daniel?
MACKENZIE
Well you're not the only one.53% of
SG field personnel also have a history
of them.
O'NEILL
A lot of people get headaches. What's
your point?
MACKENZIE
Dr. Jackson has experienced what I'd
characterise as a first break psychotic
episode, which may be manifesting full
blown hebephrenic schizophrenia.
FRAISER
Migraines are often one of the first
signs.
O'NEILL
Wait a minute. Daniel's a schizophrenic
and it's caused by the Stargate?
FRAISER
It's the only logical explanation we
have right now, Colonel.
O'NEILL
Well it sounds fairly theoretical to
me. Does anybody think it could be stress?
FRAISER
As much as I'd like to think that's
all it is, the evidence just doesn't
point that way. Daniel has paranoid
delusions, auditory and visual hallucinations.
MACKENZIE
Dr. Jackson's dopamine levels have increased
in the left hemisphere of his brain.
All these symptoms are textbook schizophrenia.
CARTER
I don't understand how this could happen
without us noticing signs.
FRAISER
Nobody knows the exact cause of schizophrenia.
Some cases are genetic, but there's
no history of it in Daniel's family.
When it's not genetic, it's environmental
and the Stargate is a plausible environmental
cause.
CARTER
I've been through the Gate as many times
as Daniel. I don't have headaches.
FRAISER
Your body may have some kind of immunity,
possibly due to Jolinar.
O'NEILL
All right. Let's say for the sake of
argument that it is the Stargate, a
theory to which I do not ascribe. Then
why don't we put a little sign at the
base of the ramp that says "Gate travel
may be hazardous to your health"? I
can live with that.
CARTER
So can I Sir.
HAMMOND
The Air Force can't. I can't risk any
SG officer having delusions in the middle
of a crisis. Therefore, as we speak,
all outstanding SG teams are being recalled
for evaluation.
CARTER
You're shutting down the whole programme?
HAMMOND
Only until Dr. MacKenzie and his team
submit their report. If his theory is
proven correct limits will be placed
on the number of missions. Till then
the Stargate is closed.
O'NEILL
General.
HAMMOND
There is no debate, Colonel.
O'NEILL
Of course not. (To Carter)
CARTER
What about Daniel, Sir?
MACKENZIE
For now, we're going to medicate him
and let him rest in one of the VIP rooms.
FRAISER
But if his symptoms persist, or if he
becomes a threat to himself or anyone
else we'll have to commit him to Mental
Health.
Sam and Jack look at each other.
VIP Room
Daniel and Jack are playing chess.
DANIEL
Check.
Jack moves his piece.
DANIEL
Oh.
O'NEILL
What? Didn't see that?
DANIEL
Actually, I was oh-ing about something
else.
He moves a piece.
DANIEL
Checkmate. I should have done that two
moves ago. I don't know what I was thinking.
O'NEILL
Yeah, well. You're a little off.
DANIEL
I don't feel off. I feel. I feel fine.
No headaches, no tension, I mean, I
feel normal.
O'NEILL
That's because it was just stress. And
I have a very calming effect on stressed
out people. How about a game of gin?
DANIEL
I'm not very good at gin.
O'NEILL
Good! Get the cards.
Daniel gets up to go to the cupboard and hears the sound of chevrons
locking. He looks back at Jack to see if he hears it too but
Jack is putting the chess pieces away. Just as the noise sounds
as if the Stargate would engage, Daniel opens the cupboard and
it's normal. He gets the cards and sits down again. Suddenly
he hears screeching and looks up. As Jack is shuffling the cards,
a fully grown Goa'uld symbiote is crawling up his arm.
DANIEL
Jack?
O'NEILL
Yeah? What?
DANIEL
It's nothing.
O'NEILL
You all right?
DANIEL
I'm fine. How are you feeling?
The Goa'uld suddenly crawls up to Jack's neck and enters the
back of it. Jack's eyes glow and he is seemingly unaware of this.
O'NEILL
Good. Real good.
Daniel jumps up and runs to the back of Jack.
DANIEL
There's a Goa'uld in you! I've got to
get it out!
O'NEILL
Get. There's no Goa'uld in me!
DANIEL
I'm sorry. I saw it. I saw it.
Daniel starts to sway.
O'NEILL
You all right? Come on.
Daniel sinks to the floor.
O'NEILL
All right, easy, easy, easy. Put your
head down.
Jack rings for some help while we focus on Daniel. As he lies
on the floor, something moves under his skin.
Air Force Hospital
Jack, Sam and Teal'c follow MacKenzie down a corridor. They get
to a room and MacKenzie opens the door.
MACKENZIE
Don't expect too much. If he becomes
agitated, call the aides.
We see SG-1 from Daniel's point of view and it's blurred.
DANIEL
Jack?
CARTER
It's us, Daniel. Can't you see us?
DANIEL
I was just making sure you weren't figments
of my mind. They took away my glasses
in case I broke the lenses and, uh,
tried to, uh, hurt myself.
O'NEILL
Are they treating you okay?
DANIEL
Yeah.
Daniel starts to cry.
DANIEL
I'm sorry.
O'NEILL
For what?
DANIEL
For being such a headcase.
CARTER
It's not your fault Daniel.
TEAL'C
Colonel O'Neill believes it has something
to do with the Linvris.
O'NEILL
You remember in that chamber you said
you felt something brush by you?
DANIEL
Yes. It was them. I know you don't believe
me but I felt them. They heard me.
Daniel hears footsteps and darts off to a corner of the padded
room.
DANIEL
They're coming. They're coming.
TEAL'C
Only your friends are here, Daniel Jackson.
DANIEL
They're coming. I hear footsteps. Footsteps.
O'NEILL
Daniel, there are no footsteps. Stay
with us.
DANIEL
Footsteps!
From DanielCam, a dead member of the Linvris pops up behind Teal'c.
Daniel starts laughing and points.
DANIEL
I told you. That's one of them. He's
right there.
TEAL'C
There is no one at my side, Daniel Jackson.
DANIEL
Yes, there is.
O'NEILL
Wanna get the aides?
Sam nods and she knocks on the door. Daniel suddenly jumps up
and runs at what he thinks is a member of the Linvris. Teal'c
grabs him and restrains him. Daniel suddenly sees a little blue
jelly thing go from him into Teal'c hand. He pulls away as the
aides come in.
DANIEL
Something just went inside Teal'c.
O'NEILL
You're hallucinating Daniel.
The aides come in and hold Daniel down.
DANIEL
Well don't just stand there! Get it
out of him!
MACHELLO
You have delivered me to the vile Goa'uld
so that I may destroy him.
DANIEL
Machello!
MACKENZIE
Okay, let's raise the dose. 5mls at
four hour intervals.
DANIEL
Machello.
SGC
Jack, Sam and Teal'c walk out of an elevator. Jack and Sam are
ahead of Teal 'c.
CARTER
God, I hate seeing him like that.
O'NEILL
Nothing worse than losing your mind
and knowing it's happening.
Teal'c suddenly collapses behind them. Sam grabs his arm and
Jack grabs the other one and looks at the Airman on security
detail.
O'NEILL
Infirmary.
The Airman goes to his phone and Sam and Jack take Teal'c to
the infirmary.
Daniel's padded room.
Daniel is lying on the floor dreaming.
Flashback to Holiday when SG1 met Machello.
MACHELLO
Yes, inventions to fight the Goa'uld!
Flashback to the aides injecting Daniel.
DANIEL
Machello.
MACHELLO
Yes!
Flashback to Holiday.
MACHELLO
Yes. Inventions to fight the Goa'uld!
Flashback to one of the jelly things entering Teal'c.
Daniel wakes up and gets up to bang on the door.
DANIEL
Dr MacKenzie! Dr MacKenzie!
SGC Infirmary
Teal'c is in an isolation tent. Janet comes out.
FRAISER
Teal'c symbiote is dying. I can't explain
why.
O'NEILL
Teal'c, what about that kel'no'reem
thing?
Teal'c shakes his head weakly.
HAMMOND
Is he having hallucinations like Dr
Jackson?
FRAISER
No. His dopamine levels are normal.
Besides, Daniel didn't have the same
physical symptoms. They seem to be unrelated.
O'NEILL
What are we talking about, timewise?
FRAISER
Without another symbiote, a day, two.
Maybe less. Even if we found another
larval Goa'uld in time, there's no telling
if it would survive either.
Daniel's padded room.
Dr MacKenzie and some aides come in.
MACKENZIE
Dr Jackson?
DANIEL
Stop. One second.
MACKENZIE
Look, Daniel, it's time for your meds.
DANIEL
I don't, uh, I don't need any more drugs.
What I need is the ones you got in my
system, out of my system.
MACKENZIE
No, Daniel. You need rest.
DANIEL
I think I've rested enough. Just tell
me one thing. Is Teal'c sick?
MACKENZIE
Not that I'm aware of. I haven't been
to the SGC.
Daniel bangs his head against the wall.
MACKENZIE
Dr Jackson, I insist you calm yourself.
Otherwise I'll have to have you restrained
and further sedated.
DANIEL
Why are you so quick to jump to the
conclusion I'm crazy? That I'm dangerous,
I'm out of control? It's cos I'm kinda
acting that way, aren't I? I just need
to get these drugs out of my system.
Look, Doctor. I know you probably hear
this from patients all the time but
I think I'm cured.
MACKENZIE
You're right, I hear that all the time.
I'm afraid it doesn't work that way.
You don't get well from something like
this overnight.
DANIEL
You do if there was an alien organism
inside you that was making you think
that you were sick when you really weren't.
MACKENZIE
Mm-hm. And you, uh, found this out how?
DANIEL
Machello told me.
MACKENZIE
Machello?
DANIEL
He's an alien old man we met on P3C
599.
MACKENZIE
Dr Jackson, you haven't had any visitors.
DANIEL
No, of course I haven't. You see, Machello
is dead.
MACKENZIE
Dead? Yet he told you there was someone
inside you making you appear crazy?
DANIEL
That's a good point. I wouldn't, uh,
I wouldn't buy that if I were you either.
Just do me one favour okay? Contact
the SGC. Find out if Teal'c is sick.
If he is, promise me you'll let me talk
to Jack O'Neill.
Infirmary
Sam and Jack are sat on a chair and bed while Janet is with Teal'c.
HAMMOND
Dr MacKenzie seems to think there's
some sort of change with Dr Jackson.
FRAISER
A change, sir?
HAMMOND
He's requesting that you come out there,
Colonel.
Jack leaves.
Daniel's padded room.
The door opens and Jack walks in. Daniel gets up from the floor.
O'NEILL
Hey Daniel.
DANIEL
You don't, uh, you don't need to walk
on eggshells any more. I'm better.
O'NEILL
So I hear. Uh, it's not that I doubt
you, but, um, why do you think it happened
all of a sudden?
DANIEL
I don't completely understand it myself,
but I saw something come out of me and
go into Teal'c. And then I heard Machello's
voice.
O'NEILL
Uh, Machello?
DANIEL
Just hear me out. I'm guessing it wasn't
actually Machello. It was probably some
sort of technological or organic recording.
It said something about delivering Machello
to the vile Goa'uld, which made me start
thinking. Maybe I had some sort of Goa'uld
killing invention inside of me. One
of Machello's inventions.
O'NEILL
And that's what made you nuts?
DANIEL
Well since I don't have a Goa'uld, a
side effect off this invention must
make normal people act like they're..
O'NEILL
Nuts. (whispers)
DANIEL
Schizophrenic. Look. Teal'c is sick
right.
O'NEILL
Right.
DANIEL
Well he does have a Goa'uld.
Infirmary
Daniel looks at Teal'c. He's back in SGC fatigues and wearing
his glasses.
FRAISER
Your dopamine levels are back to normal.
DANIEL
I'm back to normal.
CARTER
Okay, let's say your concept about Machello's
Goa'uld killing invention is right.
Why did it take so long to go into Teal'c?
DANIEL
I don't know. Maybe it needed a close
proximity to sense his Goa'uld larva.
Look, I had a lot of time locked in
that little room to think about this.
It makes sense. Why am I back to normal?
And coincidentally, hours after touching
me, Teal'c is sick.
O'NEILL
Why didn't I get sick when we were playing
cards the other night and you were jumping
all over me?
DANIEL
Because last I heard you don't have
a Goa'uld larva.
FRAISER
All right, but Daniel look, we ran every
test we have. MRI, CAT scan, X-rays,
full blood work up. There is nothing
foreign in Teal'c or his symbiote.
DANIEL
It's there. I know it! I saw it.
CARTER
Daniel, those bodies had only been there
a month. Machello's been dead for six
months. How could he be responsible?
DANIEL
What if he planted those killing devices
there six months ago? Or a year ago?
Then the Linvris walk into their meeting.
O'NEILL
Like a land mine?
DANIEL
Yes!
Sam gets up and goes to the computer.
DANIEL
World War I mines are still going off
in France today, even though the soldiers
that planted them are long since dead.
CARTER
You think that Machello made this thing
right?
DANIEL
Right.
CARTER
We crated off everything in Machello's
laboratory to Area 51 and it's all in
our database. Let's see if we can find
something that looks familiar.
Sam flicks through the items on the screen and Jack points at
one of them.
O'NEILL
Right there. Right there. Back it up.
It's the tablets.
DANIEL
I picked that up in the Linvris chamber.
FRAISER
Why did he make so many page turning
devices?
CARTER
It could be our landmine.
Lab with Observation room overlooking.
Daniel is in the room overlooking and Sam, Janet and Jack are
in the lab.
FRAISER
On the right is the PTD from the Linvris
and the one on the left is from Area
51.
CARTER
They look exactly like the one we found
on Argos. The Linvris probably thought
it was one of their own.
O'NEILL
It's a good way to hide a mine.
CARTER
Yeah. Question is, how do we set it
off?
Sam taps one with some tongs.
FRAISER
No. Okay. Um, let's see what happens
when we use it on the tablet.
Sam picks it up and waves it over the tablet. 10 little jelly
things come out.
FRAISER
There they are. I'm counting five, ten
altogether. So if all PTD's are the
same, we're looking at ten per device.
DANIEL
That explains how I got infected. There
were nine Linvris.
CARTER
And when you activated the device, the
last one went into you.
FRAISER
Let's try and immobilise one and put
it under the scope.
She tries to grab one but they go through the protective gloves
they are both wearing.
FRAISER
The gloves are breached!
CARTER
Whoa!
One gets out of the container.
O'NEILL
Whoa! Who-whoa!
DANIEL
General Hammond, B Haz Mat Observation
right away!
Three of the devices go into Jack. Janet tries to stop them going
into her but can't. Sam is the same.
FRAISER
No!
O'NEILL
Great.
Hammond comes into the overlooking room where Daniel is sitting.
DANIEL
We have a breach.
HAMMOND
Is there any chance of further contamination
to the base?
FRAISER
Judging what happened to Daniel Sir,
as long as we stay in here and don't
go near anyone else, the base is probably
secure.
HAMMOND
Dr Warner to B Haz Mat Three Observation
stat. Containment team to B Haz Mat
Three for containment integrity scan.
DANIEL
There has to be an answer in this tablet.
O'NEILL
Is there anything we can do from in
here?
FRAISER
Nothing Colonel. All the specimens are
inside us. Since we're infected by multiple
organisms we can expect our symptoms
to be rapidly acute.
O'NEILL
I'd like to apologise in advance for
anything I may say or do that could
be construed as offensive as I slowly
go NUTS!
FRAISER
Likewise Colonel.
CARTER
Colonel? Janet?
O'NEILL
Carter?
From Jack's point of view Sam's eyes glow and her voice is distorted.
CARTER
Sir, there's nothing wrong with me.
DANIEL
Sam, you've got four of those things
in you.
CARTER
I know that, but I feel fine.
O'NEILL
You're not seeing or hearing any of
this stuff.
CARTER
No Sir, I feel completely normal. Somehow
I must be immune.
Dr Warner arrives.
WARNER
Dr Fraiser, what can I do to help?
FRAISER
Not much I'm afraid.
CARTER
Doctor, there's nothing wrong with me.
Sir, I'd like Dr Warner to take some
tests, try to figure out why.
HAMMOND
I'm afraid that's not possible. That
would risk another person being contaminated,
if not the entire base.
DANIEL
Sir, those organisms left my body, I
might be immune. I may be the only one
who can go in there and help them.
HAMMOND
We don't know that Dr Jackson. I can't
let you risk it. (Turns to the lab)
Dr Warner will stay here . We'll get
whoever else you think can help. But
you're going to have to figure it out
in there.
CARTER
I understand Sir.
She turns round and winces.
CARTER
Whoa! Oh, I think I spoke too soon.
DANIEL
What's wrong?
CARTER
Oh, God, something's happening.
The organisms come out of her ear and drop to the floor. She
bends down and pokes them to check they are dead.
CARTER
I think they're dead. Daniel, I could
have sworn I heard.
DANIEL
Machello?
CARTER
Yes. He said my Goa'uld captor is dead,
but I don't have a Goa'uld.
DANIEL
You did.
CARTER
That has to be it. Janet said that when
a Goa'uld dies, it dissolves into a
host and leaves a unique protein marker.
DANIEL
So these Goa'uld killing inventions
die because they detect the protein
marker? That doesn't make any sense.
Why isn't Jack immune? He should have
some sort of protein marker left over
from Hathor's Goa'uld.
CARTER
No. No. That Goa'uld left Colonel O'Neill's
body and died before it had a chance
to take over. Janet, can you hear me?
Can we extract my blood and inject it
into everyone that's infected.
WARNER
No, your blood types don't match. You
have to separate the protein from the
rest of the blood.
CARTER
Okay, how do I do that?
WARNER
You don't have the necessary equipment
there. Even if you did, it would take
weeks.
CARTER
Come on, there's gotta be a way! We've
got all this stuff.
WARNER
I'm sorry, but you need to use high
pressure liquid chromatography to separate
and isolate the protein factions from
the rest of the blood. That would yield
thirty to forty proteins. Then you'd
have to test each one of them to find...
CARTER
Okay! I get the point.
FRAISER
Centrifuge.
CARTER
What? What about the centrifuge?
FRAISER
Put as much blood as possible in centrifuge.
Sam rolls up her sleeve and prepares to take her own blood. Janet
starts stripping.
WARNER
You're wasting your time Major.
Sam gets the needle and injects it to take the blood.
CARTER
Okay. Now what?
FRAISER
It's too hot. It's too hot. They're
trying to suffocate us.
CARTER
Janet!
Janet sees Sam's eyes glow.
FRAISER
No! You're a Goa'uld! Stay away!
CARTER
I'm not a Goa'uld, Janet. It's me- Sam.
I'm your friend.
FRAISER
Put the test tube in the centrifuge.
Sam does so and turns it on. It stops spinning a time later and
she takes it out.
CARTER
Janet. Get back with me here! We're
trying to separate that protein from
my blood, remember? The centrifuge just
finished. Now what?
WARNER
Major, you're wasting your time. If
she thinks there's another way, she's
not in her right mind. There's only
one way to separate that protein.
FRAISER
You don't need to. Just need to separate
red blood cells.
DANIEL
What? What's she talking about?
WARNER
I see where you're going. I see where
you're going. Don't even try to separate
the proteins. Just separate the rejectable
parts and give them all the rest.
DANIEL
What?
WARNER
The part that makes blood types incompatible
is just the red blood cells and a few
things in the plasma. If we can get
those out, the rest should be safe.
FRAISER
Quick freeze.
CARTER
Quick freeze?
WARNER
Major, look in the freezer over there.
See if there's any dry ice.
CARTER
Yeah, there's a ton of it.
WARNER
Good. Follow my directions very carefully.
Some time later.
WARNER
Looks good. Pick your first patient.
CARTER
This was your idea. Wanna be first?
Sam injects into Janet and goes over to Jack.
O'NEILL
You look terrible.
CARTER
Thank you Sir. I need to give you a
shot. Will you let me do that?
She does so anyway.
CARTER
Janet?
FRAISER
Uh, I'm hearing.
CARTER
You're hearing Machello?
FRAISER
Yeah. Ahh!
The organisms drop out of Janet's, then Jack's ears.
O'NEILL
Ugh!
Jack picks one up and drops it. Everyone smiles.
Infirmary
Teal'c is still lying in the bed. Janet picks up a syringe and
goes to inject it into his IV line.
FRAISER
Okay. Well, I don't know if this is
going to work. He'll have the marker
but he'll still have a Goa'uld larva.
Depends on how smart Machello made the
little beggars.
A nurse gives Janet a suction device and they wait.
TEAL'C
Machello!
The remaining organism comes out of Teal'c ear. Everything is
fine again.
THE END
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