STARGATE SG1
Episode 320
"MATERNAL INSTINCT"
By
Robert C. Cooper
Off world activation.
Gate activates and the iris closes. Hammond comes down the stairs
from the briefing room.
TECHNICION
Receiving GDO transmission. It's special
code 2 sir.
HAMMOND
Open the Iris.
Bra'tac appears supporting an injured Jaffa.
BRA'TAC
Please. (nods to injured Jaffa). Help.
Shot of Teal'c running of the elevator.
Dr. Fraiser is examining the injured Jaffa.
FRAISER
He's bleeding internally. We're gonna
have to open him up. Operating room
1 now. Lets move it. Go go go!
Several nurses push the gurney out of the room.
TEAL'C
Tak'Ma'Ta Bra'tac. Are you in need of
medical assistance?
BRA'TAC
The blood is not mine.
TEAL'C
What has transpired?
BRA'TAC
Chu'lak was attacked, by Apophis.
OPENING CREDITS
The briefing room. Teal'c, Bra'tac, Hammond, Daniel, Sam and
Jack are all there.
JACK
Son of a bitch!
TEAL'C
Apophis must have transported off of
Sokar's ship before it exploded.
JACK
Well somebody’s gotta teach that guy
how to die.
BRA'TAC
He controls the army of Sokar, a most
powerful force.
TEAL'C
I will return with you at once.
BRA'TAC
The fight is over Teal'c. The attack
was swift. There was nothing left to
do but try to save the life of young
Moac, my newest apprentice.
SAM
Attacking Chu'lak doesn’t make sense.
I mean all the Jaffa weren’t willing
to oppose the Goa'uld, were they?
BRA'TAC
No.
DANIEL
Of course its quicker and easier to
wipe them all out rahter than try to
weed out the traitors.
Phone rings.
HAMMOND
Hammond. I understand. Bra'tac, you
better get down to the OR right away.
Camera switches to the injured Jaffa, Moac. Teal'c and Bra'tac
enter.
JANET
We've done everything we can.
She gives Bra'tac a look that says Moac isn't going to make it.
MOAC
I have failed you.
BRA'TAC
No. It is I who have failed you. You
are the bravest Jaffa I have ever trained.
MOAC
I am scared.
BRA'TAC
Kla'mel'korak.
Moac dies.
BRA'TAC
His body is to be burned.
TEAL'C
I will see to it personally.
BRA'TAC
One day I wish to spread Moac ashes
on the grave of Apophis. But I do not
know if I have the strength to fight
anymore.
TEAL'C
Many have died old friend, but their
deaths must not go in vain. Word of
this must spread to all Jaffa.
BRA'TAC
Yes. But maybe it is for someone younger
and stronger than I to spread that word.
TEAL'C
You are the strongest Jaffa I have ever
known.
BRA'TAC
In my 135 years, I have never seen a
Goa'uld turn on those who carry its
kind on this way. He massacred so many
who worshipped him for so long.
TEAL'C
Perhaps he has done this to show the
system lords how truly powerful he has
become.
BRA'TAC
You know well Apophis has weapons that
could have be used from space. There
had to be some other purpose. His army’s
spread through Chu'lak as if...
TEAL'C
As if they were looking for something.
The camera is the on Daniel in his office with Teal'c and Bra'tac.
DANIEL
The Harsesis.
TEAL'C
Apophis fathered the child with Sha're,
the host of his mate Ammonet. He hoped
to create a new host for himself.
BRA'TAC
It is forbidden.
DANIEL
Yes, because the child would contain
all the knowledge of the Goa’uld. Ammonet
hid the boy to keep him safe.
BRA'TAC
Of course. The boy would be hunted.
He could be the un-doing of all the
Goa'uld.
DANIEL
But Apophis also doesn’t know where
Ammonet hid him, which is why they were
searching Chu'lak.
BRA'TAC (TO DANIEL)
Do you know where this child is?
DANIEL
Ah...all I know is that it’s a place
called Kehb.
Bra'tac turns to Teal'c.
TEAL'C
You have heard of such a place?
BRA'TAC
It is an ancient legend. I did not believe
it really existed.
DANIEL
It has to.
BRA'TAC
The Goa'uld fear and despise Kehb. They
forbade anyone of speaking of it long
ago. It is something my father once
spoke of to me. An old tale, about a
place discovered long ago by a few Jaffa,
and kept secret from the Goa’uld. When
they could no longer carry a Primta,
they would make their journey to Kehb.
There the Ko'lak would learn the path
through the darkness, into the next
life.
DANIEL
Ko'lak, that means soul, right?
TEAL'C
Yes.
BRA'TAC
When some of the Goa'uld finally found
out about Kehb, they made their way
there, they did not return, it was forbidden
to speak of ever again. My father enjoyed
telling me this. If the Goa'uld are
truly all-powerful gods, he would say,
how is it that they fear anything?
DANIEL
Well, it sounds like the perfect place
to hide someone you don’t want the Goa'uld
to find...I don’t suppose you happen
to know the Stargate address?
BRA'TAC- No.
DANIEL
Well all I have is some obscure earth
mythology, which indicates that Osiris
once hid there from Seth.
BRA'TAC
That story is told among Jaffa. Is that
Osiris hid on one of the planets of
the Lac’na’ko?
DANIEL
What’s that?
TEAL'C
A group of planets that’s resources
have been depleted by mining.
DANIEL
Well, I don’t suppose you know any of
the addresses of any of those planets?
We see a computer screen full of Stargate addresses.
BRA'TAC
There. (Points at screen). Those are
the planets of the Lac'na'ko.
DANIEL
What’s the red one?
SAM
We basically have two reference maps
for Stargate addresses. Yellow represents
the cartouche that the Goa'uld left
on Abydos, and the addresses from the
Ancients original map of the Stargate’s
is in red. (To Bra'tac) You don’t recognise
this address right here?
BRA'TAC
No.
DANIEL
If the legend is true the Goa'uld never
would have included Kehb on their cartouche.
SAM
Well this address is the only planet
in the system that the Goa'uld didn’t
included on their map.
DANIEL
We've found it.
In the briefing room, we have a shot of MALP telemetry on another
planet, presumably Kehb.
HAMMOND
How do we know for sure this is Kehb?
BRA'TAC
The story I have heard says Kehb is
an untouched wilderness with great mountains,
with a single temple in a valley distant
from the Stargate.
DANIEL
If the Goa'uld are scared of Kehb that
would explain why they have never mined
this planet.
TEAL'C
If Ammonet thought to hide the Harsesis
on Kehb, then Apophis would presume
so.
JACK
Well scary stories or not Apophis is
just nuts enough to go, Id like some
back up on this one Sir.
HAMMOND
SG-2 will accompany you.
BRA'TAC
As will I.
DANIEL
Lets just hope we're first.
On Kehb.
JACK- Check in every 30 minutes.
MAJOR COBURN
Yes sir.
JACK
Hold down the fort Major.
MAHOR COBURN
Yes sir.
SG-1 and Bra'tac leave, SG-2 guard the gate.
LATER
Teal'c and Bra'tac are studying some
footprints on the ground.
JACK
What ya got?
TEAL'C
A group of Jaffa passed through here
recently. Six.
BRA'TAC
Eight.
JACK
So, not the first.
Even later...
TEAL'C
You have been unusually silent Master
Bra'tac.
BRA'TAC
There is not much time left before I
can no longer carry a Primta.
TEAL'C
When that time comes, I will have to
decide what to do.
BRA'TAC
If this truly is Kehb, that time may
be upon is both.
They stop, having seen more markings on the ground.
JACK
What is it?
TEAL'C
Six of the Jaffa stopped here.
BRA'TAC
Two went on ahead. They returned with
another. A woman.
JACK
How do ya know that?
TEAL’C- Here. The third of the prints are small and light. The
shoe are an open toed sandal worn by Jaffa women.
BRA'TAC
When they all met up again there was
a struggle. Then they headed into the
forest. Each print is spread wide, they
were running.
JACK
He’s good.
TEAL'C
Extremely.
BRA'TAC
The woman may be the priestess entrusted
with the child.
They walk on.
Next shot is in the forest.
DANIEL
Smell that?
SAM
Yeah.
He goes to look behind a bush and a bird flies out, startling
them both.
JACK
Carter?
SAM
Its ok sir, its just a bird.
DANIEL
No, look.
There are the burned bodies of Jaffa behind the bush.
JACK
Or maybe some kind of...
TEAL'C
I have never before seen a weapon that
could do such a thing.
JACK
Weapon.
BRA'TAC
Over here.
He has found the body of the priestess.
BRA’TAC
She was shot in the back as she fled.
DANIEL
I counted eight bodies...total.
JACK
So, what happened here?
BRA’TAC
The priestess was being escorted back
to the Stargate by two of the Jaffa.
When they met the others she realised
she was in danger. She attempted to
flee. They chased her and shot her,
then someone or something attacked them.
SAM
You can’t know that for sure.
BRA’TAC
I am quite certain.
DANIEL
What about the child?
BRA’TAC
She carried the child.
JACK
Come on. How can you know that?
TEAL’C
Her hands are not bound.
BRA’TAC
Yes, and they shot low.
DANIEL
And what happened to the boy?
BRA’TAC
That I cannot guess.
Later...
BRA’TAC
The priestess died more than two days
ago. When his Jaffa did not return the
Harsesis, Apophis should have sent more.
TEAL’C
Perhaps many more.
JACK
Kehb?
BRA’TAC
Kehb.
Shot of temple.
At the temple...
SAM
No welcoming party.
JACK
Well, someone’s been reading Martha
Stewart.
DANIEL
Probably inside (taking off his pack)
JACK
Daniel?
DANIEL
Jack?
JACK
What ya doin?
DANIEL
Well, something about this place tells
me we shouldn’t ruch in there guns a
blazin.
BRA’TAC
He’s right. This is sacred ground.
JACK
I-sh. (to Teal’c, Sam and Bra’tac) Wait
here.
BRA’TAC
I have dreamed of finding this place
twice as long as you have been alive.
I will accompany you.
Daniel, Jack and Bra’tac go inside the temple. They look around
a little but there appears to be no one there.
JACK
Hey! Woah!
A monk guy appears.
JACK
Where’d you come from?
MONK
I have been here for some time.
JACK
No, you weren’t here when we just came
in.
MONK
Here is everywhere you are.
JACK
Excuse me?
DANIEL
Um, hello. I’m Daniel Jackson and this
is Jack O’Neill. And this is Bra’tac,
we’re peaceful explorers from a place
called earth.
MONK
Do you seek oneness with the Sala?
DANIEL
The Sala, I know that word. It sounds
tribal, African maybe.
MONK
The Sala is everything, everywhere.
DANIEL
Nature. It means, nature.
JACK
Ah.
MONK
Put no barriers between you and where
you are.
JACK
Don’t look at me.
BRA’TAC
I believe he wishes us to take off our
boots.
JACK
Yeah...look ah...we’ve been walking
a ways today...
MONK
Your journey has begun.
JACK
Yeah. I’m just saying I think I’m doin
us all a big favour by keeping these
babies on.
MONK
When the mind is opened, the spirit
is freed and the body matters not.
Monk goes and sits in circle
JACK
Here’s an idea. Why don’t we just ask
the man if the boys here?
Daniel gives him a look and sits in circle.
DANIEL (TO MONK)
We’ve come looking for a boy. A baby.
MONK
Lightening flashed, sparks shower, in
one blink of your eyes you have mis-seen.
JACK
Lightening, you say?
MONK
I only know a snowflake cannot exist
in a storm of fire.
JACK
What?!
DANIEL
Jack...
JACK –No, you know me, I’m a huge fan of subtlety, but that’s
down right in cryptic.
DANIEL
Sorry...ah, don’t worry about him.
MONK
The sun is warm, wind is wild, grass
is green along the shores, here no bull
can hide.
JACK
Oh, I dunno about that.
DANIEL
Jack, he’s speaking in his in cones.
Whatever theology he follows maybe an
original basis for Buddhism on earth.
JACK
Well that’s very nice. I’ll be sure
to call the Deli Lama when I get home.
But for now, how about why we came here?
DANIEL
Um, he’s right, this is very important.
Is there a child here?
MONK
There is a child in all of us.
JACK
Oh come on.
BRA’TAC
He seeks a real human boy, of flesh
and bones.
MONK
Those who seek oneness are all that
they seek.
DANIEL
I think this is gonna take a while.
JACK
Really? What gives ya that idea?
Meanwhile outside...
Teal’c is looking a little spooked by some blue energy stuff
in some water.
SAM
Everything OK?
TEAL’C
It is nothing. I do not have a good
feeling about this place.
Jack comes back outside.
TEAL’C
What about the Harsesis child O’Neill?
JACK
I dunno. There’s a monk guy in there.
Daniel thinks he might know something
so he’s gonna play along.
SAM
Play along?
JACK
Somethin about...enlightenment.
SAM
Sir...
JACK
I know...I know.
Back inside.
MONK (TO BRA’TAC)
Within you is a being whose heart knows
only darkness.
BRA’TAC
Yes.
MONK
You must renounce such evil to achieve
oneness with Oma Desala.
DANIEL
Oma...what does that mean?
MONK
Words cannot express things...speech
cannot convey the spirit, swayed by
words one is lost. One cannot carry
darkness on the great path.
BRA’TAC
If I remove the symbiote within me,
I would die.
MONK
You cannot start the journey with it
inside you.
BRA’TAC
So a Jaffa cannot seek oneness before
he is willing to die.
MONK
When the mind is freed, the body is
no longer required. I sense you are
not ready to meet Oma Desala.
BRA’TAC
I am not ready to die. But I take solace
in the fact that journey is ahead of
me.
He leaves.
DANIEL
So, ah, I don’t have to die right?
MONK
You do not have the same evil within
you.
DANIEL
Good.
MONK
But you have your own burdens of which
to rid yourself.
DANIEL
OK.
Outside.........
BRA’TAC
I am not yet ready to give up. I feel
alive Teal’c, like a young man of 80.
We still have false gods to slay.
Back inside...
MONK
She goes into the lake without making
a ripple, she goes into the forest without
disturbing a blade of grass.
DANIEL
Who is she?
MONK
The mother.
DANIEL
De Sala. Nature. Mother nature. We’re
talking about Mother Nature.
MONK
Why do you seek this child of flesh
and bones?
DANIEL
He’s the son of my wife.
MONK
But not your son.
DANIEL
No. But my wife is dead now, and I promised
her I would make sure the boy is safe.
MONK
And you are sure he will be safe with
you?
DANIEL
Yes. Absolutely.
MONK
Because it is so clear, it takes a longer
time to realise it. If you immediately
know the candlelight is fire, then the
meal was cooked a long time ago.
DANIEL
Right, well, I err...I have no idea
what your talking about.
Sitting again...
DANIEL
I can’t do it.
MONK
You say you seek this child to fulfil
a promise.
DANIEL
Yes.
MONK
Is there another reason?
DANIEL
The child has knowledge. He can help
my people defend themselves against
an evil enemy, the Goa’uld.
MONK
You hate the Goa’uld?
DANIEL
The Goa’uld are responsible for the
death of my wife. Among millions and
millions of other people. How can I
not hate them?
MONK
Your hate will lead to the child’s death.
DANIEL
How do you know that?
MONK
You must trust. You must believe.
DANIEL
Well maybe what I don’t believe is that
I can light a candle with my mind. You
see I find it much easier to use a lighter
or a match, its much more practical...
Monk lights the candle with his mind.
DANIEL
Wow.
MONK
Now you blow it out.
He does.
DANIEL
Oh...sorry. Could you, could you light
that again?
He does.
DANEIL
This isn’t like a trick candle or anything
is it?
MONK
Put your hand in the flame.
DANIEL
What?
MONK
Place your hand in the flame.
He does.
DANIEL
Ah! Why did you tell me to do that?
MONK
Why did you do it?
DANIEL
Because you told me to.
MONK
Because you trusted?
DANIEL
Yes.
MONK
Within you is the capacity for trust.
Trust Oma Desala. Do not believe you
can light the candle, believe she can.
Outside...
JACK
Times up.
He walks inside.
DANIEL
Jack, the markings on the wall are a
language. It’s a bible. Ah...no. Actually
it’s more like an instruction book on
how to reach this ethereal plane of
existence, some kind of other world.
It’s only natural that the Jaffa who
found this place would have interpreted
it as a passage to the after life...
JACK
Woah...slow down there grasshopper.
DANIEL
Ok, I’m pretty sure that this place
was built by an alien race, millennia
ago. They may have even visited earth
and inspired the mythology’s, the concept
of Mother Nature, in various cultures.
JACK
SO this guys an alien?
DANIEL
No. Um, I pretty sure the aliens discovered
a means by which they could ascend to
some higher plane of existence, and
went there, wherever there is. But they
left the writings and the shrine as
a kind of map for others who wanted
to follow them. The monk has taken up
some sort of curator-ship.
JACK
Kind of a janitor?
DANIEL
More of a guide.
JACK
An usher?
DANIEL
It doesn’t matter, just watch.
He goes over a sits opposite the monk again and lights the candle.
JACK
Am I supposed to believe you did that?
DANIEL
Yes.
JACK
Daniel...a word?
They walk a little away from the monk.
JACK
We didn’t come here to learn parlour
tricks.
DANIEL
Jack...
JACK
Is the boy here or not?
DANIEL
I think so.
JACK
Cause every minute we stay here, we’re
risking our necks.
DANIEL
I know that...
JACK
So please understand I’m on the verge
of ordering a complete search of this
place, with or without his co-operation...
DANIEL
You cant do that.
JACK
Your confused Daniel, I can. So far
I haven’t.
DANIEL
I am gaining his trust.
JACK
And how long is something like that
gonna take?
DANIEL
Jack you don’t understand.
JACK
I think I do.
Daniel steps back and Jack’s gun lifts up in the air to point
at him on its own.
JACK (TO MONK)
Hey, hey hey hey. All right, that’s
dangerous. Put it down.
Gun lowers to the floor.
JACK
OK, that was a little more impressive.
How’d you do that?
DANIEL
Actually, I did that.
JACK
What?
DANIEL
That’s what I’ve been trying to tell
you. This, its, its incredible.
JACK
He taught you how to...
DANIEL
Do things with my mind. You could do
it too.
JACK
He could teach me how to light candles
and move stuff around by...thinking.
MONK
I cannot teach you what you already
know.
JACK
Oh, I don’t think I know as much as
you think I know.
MONK
You must come to know Oma Desala. Become
her friend.
We hear a Goa’uld death glider fly over the temple.
JACK
That your friend?
He picks up his gun and goes outside. Two gliders fly overhead.
JACK
Teal’c, Bra’tac, you wanna check that
out? Major Coburn, this is O’Neill.
COBURN
Read you sir.
JACK
We’ve got some Jaffa activity here.
How’s your position?
COBURN
Clear sir.
JACK
Good. Stand by. (To Sam) I want claymores
from the entrance to here.
SAM
I thought we were leaving?
Inside...
JACK
So, is the kid here or not?
DANIEL
Jack...
JACK
Daniel, that was a glider. We’re out
of time.
MONK
Time means nothing to the...
JACK
Ah ah! Don’t say it.
Teal’c and Bra’tac see the Jaffa troups have landed in a clearing.
SAM
Claymores are set sir.
JACK
Good. Daniel thinks we should stay.
SAM
Why?
JACK
Well, watch.
SAM
What?
Daniel turns the flame into a big fire.
SAM
You did that?
DANIEL
Yes.
SAM
That’s impossible.
JACK
You’d think.
DANIEL
Why?
SAM
You learned the power to control fire?
DANIEL
Its not just fire. All the instructions
are here, on the walls. All you have
to do is be willing to learn and believe.
SAM
I’m sorry, but something else has to
be going on here.
DANIEL
Why?
SAM
I don’t know, but under different circumstances
I would bring in the right equipment
and check for some kind of concealed
technology before I assumed that...
DANIEL
Isn’t there the smallest part of you
that wants to believe a person can reach
a higher level?
SAM
Yes, of course, but...
DANIEL
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
I have that power.
SAM
To do what?
DANIEL
To protect the child. I think she doesn’t
want me to leave until she knows I understand
how to protect him.
Teal’c and Bra’tac enter.
TEAL’C
A Goa’uld mother ship has landed. As
many as 2000 troups approach.
JACK
Love to stay and chat...
DANIEL
Wait, wait a minute, what about...
They leave. When Daniel turns round the monk is gone. He looks
up to see a glowing light.
Outside troups approach.
JACK
D’oh.
Inside, Oma Desala appears to Daniel in a glowing light. She
goes straight through a solid wall, and somehow he follows. He’s
now in a room, with the Harsesis child who is in a cot.
Outside...
BRA’TAC- We must leave immediately, and elude them through the
forest.
JACK
Where’s Daniel?
Going inside...
JACK
Daniel?! Daniel, we gotta go! (No reply)
Oh for crying out loud.
He goes back outside.
JACK
I dunno where he is, he’s not in there.
SAM
What do we do?
JACK
Coburn? O’Neill.
COBURN
Read you sir.
JACK
High tail it back through the gate.
Tell Hammond we’re pinned down. Request
back up.
COBURN=
Yes sir.
Jaffa approach the temple.
JACK
Lots of back up. All right, here they
come. Defensive positions. (To Sam)
Hold off on the claymores as long as
we can. I don’t wanna get into this
unless we absolutely have to. And if
we happen to make it out of this in
one piece, remind me to harm Daniel,
severely.
They take positions behind some walls and bushes. In the sky
the clouds are turning.
Inside Daniel is still with the baby and Oma Desala. He picks
the baby up.
DANIEL
Thank you. He’ll be safe with me.
He turns to leave, but stops.
DANIEL
I didn’t do any of it did I? It was
you. I was wrong. I don’t, I don’t have
any powers at all. You do. You were
showing them to me. That’s how you communicate
with us. You were trying to tell me
the boys better off here with you, and
I wasn’t listening. I made a promise.
He puts the baby back in the cot.
DANIEL
I promised he would be safe.
Outside...
Jaffa enter the temple grounds.
JAFFA
Lo co’mal. As’ep.
MONK
You are not welcome here.
JAFFA
In the name of the god Apophis, we have
come for a young boy.
MONK
You will leave now.
JAFFA
We will not. Stand aside.
There is a lot of lightening going on. The Jaffa shoots the monk.
Daniel comes running out.
DANIEL
No!
JACK (STANDS)
Drop your weapons! Do it!
JAFFA
Crie Lo’shak.
DANIEL
Drop your weapons.
JACK
You heard him!
DANIEL
I was talking to you Jack.
JACK
What?
DANIEL
Do it now, all of you.
JACK
Daniel?!
DANIEL
Jack I was wrong, very wrong. One of
those aliens I thought was long gone
is still here.
SAM
Sir, we put our guns down and we’re
dead.
JAFFA
You are outnumbered and surrounded.
You will die if you do not.
DANIEL
Jack if your ever gonna trust me on
anything now is the time. The alien
is the one with all the powers and she
is not someone you wanna fool with,
if you get my drift.
BRA’TAC
You must do it.
Jack nods and they lower their weapons.
JAFFA
Kill them.
They shoot but a beam of blue energy stops the staff weapon blasts.
DANIEL
Bye.
Lightening strikes all of the Jaffa and the death gliders.
JACK
Well that was cool. (Looking at the
burnt Jaffa) Wow.
Oma Desala appears again, this time out of the body of the monk.
She has the baby with her.
DANIEL
You’re leaving? You know that more of
them will come as long as they know
the boy is here? (She nods slowly).
I’ll see both of you again someday right?
Touching his cheek, she flies away with the child.
SAM
I take it that was the Harsesis child
she was holding?
DANIEL
Yeah.
JACK
I thought we needed that kid? Just gonna
let her...no choice huh?
JACK
Yeah, go ahead Major.
COBURN
Reinforcements are on the way sir.
JACK
Take your time. We’re secure.
COBURN
Good to hear sir.
The Stargate activates behind him.
COBURN
Ah sir, the Stargate just came on. There’s
a strange bright light headed this way.
JACK
Do not engage, repeat get out of the
way and do not engage, in fact I’m ordering
you all to put down your weapons until
that light is gone, do you read?
COBURN
Yes sir.
Oma Desala flies past them and through the gate.
COBURN
Its gone sir.
JACK
You all right?
DANIEL
Yeah.
JACK
Lets go home.
They turn to leave.
JACK
Daniel.
DANIEL
Yeah?
JACK
Shoes.
He walks back.
THE END
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