STARGATE SG1
Episode 820
"MOEBIUS II"
By
Robert C. Cooper
Transcribed by
Callie Sullivan
SGC. LEVEL 22. Alt-Daniel and Alt-Sam are following General Hammond
along a corridor.
DANIEL
Look, the only reason you have the Stargate
is cos of us!
HAMMOND
I’m aware of that.
DANIEL
I’m a linguist! By all accounts, your
team may need one.
CARTER
And what if something goes wrong with
the Gate on the other end?
HAMMOND
Neither of you have had any military
training whatsoever. Have either one
of you ever even fired a weapon of any
kind?
CARTER
Well ... unless you count launching
a rocket.
HAMMOND
Look, I’m sorry. (He reaches an elevator
and swipes his card through the reader.)
Your expertise may be needed some time
in the future, but for now ...
DANIEL
Well, can I ask who is going?
(The elevator doors open and reveal Jack O’Neill standing inside.)
BRIEFING ROOM. Hammond leads Jack, Sam and Daniel into the room.
CARTER
I don’t understand. What made you change
your mind?
(Four airmen are sitting at the table with their backs to the
new arrivals. One of them swings around in his chair and we see
that it is Major Charlie Kawalsky. He smiles, and he and his
colleagues stand.)
KAWALSKY
Hi, Jack.
O’NEILL
That’s “Colonel”, Major.
KAWALSKY
You’re retired.
O’NEILL
I was.
DANIEL
I take it you two know each other.
O’NEILL
Yeah, we served together a long time
ago.
KAWALSKY
Ah, it wasn’t that long ago.
HAMMOND
Major Kawalsky has been assigned to
assemble the team that will go through
the Stargate.
O’NEILL
And you knew I couldn’t say no if he
was involved.
KAWALSKY
Oh, come on, Colonel. You don’t owe
me anything. Admit it - you’ve gotta
be a little curious: travelling to a
different planet - through a wormhole!
CARTER
I know I am!
KAWALSKY
Sir, with all due respect - what are
they still doing here?
HAMMOND
I’m not sure. (He turns to a couple
of airmen who had accompanied him and
the others into the room.) Airmen, please
escort ...
DANIEL
Wait-wait-wait-wait-wait-wait-wait.
We were all on that tape.
KAWALSKY
That tape had nothing to do with it.
Jack O’Neill’s one of the best I’ve
ever served with.
CARTER
You may not care that this timeline
is a direct result of tampering with
the past, but you have to acknowledge
that the tape said the planet you’re
going to is enemy territory - an enemy
that is way more advanced than us technologically.
O’NEILL
What’s your point?
CARTER
You’re literally walking into a totally
alien situation outmanned and outgunned.
O’NEILL
Do we have a choice?
(Sam looks round at Daniel, but neither of them has an answer
for him.)
LAB. Jack is standing looking at the Ancient time ship. Sam and
Daniel join him.
CARTER
We’ve only been able to activate the
interior lights and the dialling computer,
but according to the tape, you have
the gene that can make this ship fly.
O’NEILL
And travel through time.
DANIEL
Well, presumably you don’t have to do
that if you don’t want to.
O’NEILL
Hmm!
(He walks around the ship to the rear and then walks inside,
Sam and Daniel following him. He walks to the front of the ship,
looking around as he goes, and reaches the pilot’s seat. He looks
round at Sam.)
O’NEILL
What do I do?
CARTER
Sit down.
(Jack sits. Daniel takes the co-pilot’s seat and Sam stands in
between them.)
O’NEILL
Now what?
DANIEL
You’re supposed to have the ability
to fly this thing.
CARTER
With your mind. (Jack takes the controls
and wiggles them but nothing happens.)
Try not to think about the past.
DANIEL
Or the future.
(Jack rocks his head in a “Yeah, right!” kind of gesture, then
closes his eyes and concentrates. The lights on the console come
on. Outside, technicians and SFs turn and stare as the engine
can be heard powering up.)
DANIEL
Oh, you so have to let us go with you!
CARTER
Please!
GATEROOM. The time ship has been moved into position facing the
Stargate. Jack, Kawalsky and his team, together with Sam and
Daniel, all dressed in green camouflage, walk alongside the ship
to face the Gate. Kawalsky and his team are already wearing hard
helmets. Sam and Daniel are carrying theirs.
KAWALSKY
Put those on.
(Sam and Daniel do as they’re told. Jack makes a big deal of
shaking out a green cap and putting that on. Daniel looks round
at him.)
DANIEL
How come we have to wear these and you
don’t?
(Hammond comes in.)
HAMMOND
OK, people. Let me remind you: this
mission’s recon only. Do not engage
the enemy. I’m allowing the use of this
ship because of the obvious tactical
advantage it provides you. Under no
circumstances is it to be used to travel
through time, understood?
O’NEILL
Yes, sir.
HAMMOND
Never in my life would I have imagined
giving that order! (He walks over to
Jack, nodding towards Sam and Daniel.)
Are you absolutely certain about them,
Colonel?
(Jack looks at the two of them, then turns back to Hammond.)
O’NEILL
No, sir!
(Hammond looks at Sam and Daniel, then turns to Jack again.)
HAMMOND
Good luck - and Godspeed. (He leaves
the room.)
KAWALSKY
All aboard.
(The team board the ship, Kawalsky taking the co-pilot’s seat
and Daniel sitting behind him. Sam sits behind Jack. The other
three airmen sit on a bench in the rear of the ship with the
time device.)
O’NEILL
Hey - watch this! (He dramatically puts
his hands onto the console and it lights
up. He takes his hands off again in
a triumphant gesture. Kawalsky raises
a hand in a “not bad!” gesture. Jack
turns to Daniel.) Oh, by the way - you
do have the address to get us back home,
correct?
DANIEL
Yeah.
O’NEILL
Good. Dial it up.
(Daniel stands up and steps forward to the dialling device. He
pushes the first symbol, and the Stargate immediately starts
to spin. The chevron clunks, and the Gate spins on. In the area
which we know as the Control Room, Hammond and McKay are watching.)
MCKAY
I give this no more than a fifty:fifty
chance of working.
HAMMOND
Well, according to the tape, it worked
for eight years.
MCKAY
Hmm.
(In the ship, Daniel presses the Point of Origin symbol, then
pushes a button at the bottom of the dialling device which must
be the equivalent of the big orange button on a DHD. The Stargate
kawhooshes. Everybody stares out of the windscreen in amazement.)
DANIEL
Wow!
(In the Control Room, Hammond and McKay are also staring.)
MCKAY
Well, I’m certainly glad it’s not me
going through that, uh ... thing.
(Inside the ship)
O’NEILL
Any idea what to expect?
CARTER
Not really. According to the tape, we’re
going to be demolecularised, transmitted
over two thousand light years through
subspace, and then, uh, rematerialised
on the other side.
KAWALSKY
I did not need to know that!
O’NEILL
OK.
(In the Control Room, McKay bends down to a radio.)
MCKAY
Gateship One, you’re go for launch.
(Jack turns round to the others with a look of disgust on his
face.)
O’NEILL
“Gateship”?!
DANIEL
Well, it’s a ship, it goes through the
Gate, so ...
(Sam nods in agreement.)
O’NEILL
Alright.
(In the Control Room, Hammond has a similar expression to Jack’s.
McKay notices.)
MCKAY
What? It’s a ship that goes through
the Gate - it’s a Gateship! Well, I
thought it was clever.
(In the ship, Jack takes hold of the controls. Daniel screws
up his face nervously. Sam does likewise. The ship lifts off
the ground and flies into the wormhole.)
WORMHOLE TRAVEL.
CHULAK. The ship shoots out of the wormhole. As soon as it clears
the Stargate, engine pods deploy from either side of the ship.
The ship flies away from the Gate and over the forest.
O’NEILL
Well, that was cool!
DANIEL
I didn’t feel anything.
KAWALSKY
Doesn’t even feel like we’re pulling
any g’s.
CARTER
This thing must have inertial dampeners.
KAWALSKY
See any enemy troops when we came through?
O’NEILL
No, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t
detected.
CARTER
Is that a city?
(We see that the ship is approaching the city of Chulak.)
O’NEILL
I’m gonna set her down in those trees.
SHORTLY AFTERWARDS. The ship has landed and the ramp lowers.
Kawalsky’s men run out with their rifles raised, checking out
the area. Daniel and Sam follow.
DANIEL
Wait a minute - I thought the reason
why we brought the ship was so we didn’t
have to walk.
CARTER
We can’t just fly into an alien city.
The mission is stealth recon, meaning
undetected.
(Jack pushes his way between them.)
O’NEILL
Meaning shut up!
CARTER
Sorry.
KAWALSKY
Connor, Mansfield, guard the ship. Cosworth
- you’re with us. C’mon, move out! (He
and Jack head off.)
DANIEL
Why’d we have to park so far away?!
(Sam chuckles as they follow. Cosworth walks behind them.)
FOREST. Jack and Kawalsky are leading the others.
KAWALSKY
Seriously, why did we bring them?
O’NEILL
Oh, I dunno. I guess I had a gut feeling.
KAWALSKY
Like Peru?
O’NEILL
Alright, that didn’t work out so well.
KAWALSKY
Sierra Leone? Uganda?
O’NEILL
Alright, look - maybe the better question
here is why’d you invite me on this
dog and pony?
KAWALSKY
Well, let’s just say I prefer my good
instinct over yours.
O’NEILL
Yeah.
(As they continue to walk along, Daniel points out something
to Sam in the trees, perhaps a bird. Jack suddenly stops dead.
He raises his clenched fist, then gestures downwards. He, Kawalsky
and Cosworth squat down. Sam and Daniel stop and stare, then
slowly do the same.)
DANIEL
What’s with the ...? (He mimics Jack’s
gestures, adding a few of his own for
good measure.)
(The airmen look around cautiously. Suddenly a round device flies
out of the trees and lands in front of them. They have no idea
what it is but we recognise it as a Goa’uld stun grenade. It
is ticking. Jack stares at it for a moment, then realises what
it might be.)
O’NEILL
Ah, sh...
(The grenade emits a bright light, and everyone is knocked unconscious.
Jaffa run out of the trees and bushes, aiming staff weapons at
them.)
PRISON CELL (the same one that SG-1 were held in in “Children
of the Gods”). Jack, Sam and Kawalsky are sitting on the floor
leaning against the steps just inside the doors. Cosworth is
sitting and leaning against the wall near the doors. Daniel is
lying on the floor deeper inside the cell. His glasses are gone.
He wakes and sits up.
DANIEL
Hello? Anybody there? (We see his point
of view as he looks around. His vision
is very blurred and he can only see
vague shapes.)
CARTER
We’re all here.
DANIEL
Where are we?
KAWALSKY
It looks like a prison cell.
DANIEL
Anyone seen my glasses?
CARTER
I think they must have taken them. (We
see that she doesn’t have her glasses
either.)
DANIEL
Why would they do that?
(Sam shrugs. At that moment they hear approaching footsteps.
They all get to their feet and face the cell doors. We see the
legs of two Jaffa approach and take position either side of the
doors. The doors opens and a third pair of legs walks into the
cell. This Jaffa is wearing a cloak. He stops at the top of the
steps and we see who it is.)
CARTER
Teal’c!
(This version of Teal’c is wearing a Jaffa cap on his head, so
he may well be bald underneath.)
DANIEL
From the tape?
TEAL’C
If you know my name, then you know enough
to fear me.
O’NEILL
Look, I know that this might sound a
little crazy, but ...
TEAL’C
Who are you?
(Jack starts to speak but Daniel interrupts.)
DANIEL
Hi, uh ... (He walks forward, bumping
into Jack and working his way around
him to approach Teal’c.) Uh, uh, we’re
from the Tau’ri. Uh, we call it Earth.
You see, we found this tape, um, from
the past. You see, apparently, we’re
(he gestures at the others) a part of
a team - um, the four of us (indicating
Jack, Sam, himself and Teal’c), not
the two of them (indicating Kawalsky
and Cosworth). We’re called SG-1. Now,
we used this time device to go back
in the past, and we screwed up the past
and changed the future. See, you’re
not supposed to be still Apophis’ First
Prime. Um, the Jaffa are supposed to
be free and, um, (he lowers his voice
so that the other Jaffa can’t hear)
we know that you think the Goa’uld are
false gods.
(Teal’c backhands him to the floor. Sam, Kawalsky and Cosworth
run to help him.)
O’NEILL
That wasn’t necessary!
TEAL’C
Speak of such blasphemy again and I
will kill you where you stand.
O’NEILL
Look, I know this is a lot to throw
at you all at one time and you’ve gotta
put up a little show for the boys here,
but the fact is, (he whispers) we know
the truth.
DANIEL
You see, it’s all on the tape. Uh, you
have to see it - it’s, er, um, (Jack
pushes Daniel’s hand off his shoulder)
it’s, it’s in a - it’s in a camera that,
um, um, you took from the bag that you
took from me. (Teal’c walks towards
him.) If you bring it to me, I can,
I can show you how it works and we can
... (Teal’c grabs him by the neck of
his jacket and starts to march him out
of the cell.) Sure, we could, we could
go and see it over at, uh, wherever
you wanna go.
(Teal’c marches him out of sight. The other two Jaffa, who have
been aiming their staff weapons at the team, back out of the
cell and the doors close.)
SHORTLY AFTERWARDS. Teal’c, still holding Daniel by the neck
of his jacket, marches him into a throneroom and stops. Daniel
squints at the hazy sight of someone sitting on a throne in front
of him. Teal’c shoves Daniel to the floor at the bottom of the
steps which lead up to the throne.
TEAL’C
Kneel before your god.
DANIEL
Kneeling! (He straightens up and we
see that it is Apophis sitting on the
throne. This alt-version has a beard.)
APOPHIS
Who are you?
DANIEL
Name’s Daniel Jackson. Uh, if you give
me back my eyeglasses, I could actually
see you.
TEAL’C
He claims he is of the Tau’ri.
DANIEL
You weren’t supposed to tell him that.
APOPHIS
The Tau’ri have no chappa’ai.
DANIEL
Oh! Sorry, guess I was wrong. I’m sure
your information is correct and ...
In fact, I’m usually quite wrong, quite
unreliable actually. To be honest with
you, I’m insane. (He grins at Apophis.)
APOPHIS
Speak! (Daniel says nothing.) Bring
him. (Teal’c hauls Daniel to his feet
and marches him up the steps, pushing
him to his knees again in front of the
throne. Apophis stands and walks forward
to face Daniel.) I think there is much
you can tell me.
DANIEL
Well, if you wanna know about the early
settlements of Mesopotamia, I am somewhat
of an expert ...
(Apophis raises his hand and actives his ribbon device. Daniel
grunts in pain.)
PRISON CELL. Cosworth is trying to get a smaller door in the
rear of the cell open but fails. He turns to Kawalsky, who is
standing at the main doors, and shrugs.
CARTER
It’s been over an hour.
(Kawalsky looks across to Jack, who is leaning against the main
doors with his chin propped up on one of the links that makes
up the doors.)
KAWALSKY
Maybe you shouldn’t have said anything.
O’NEILL
All I said was, “This is gonna sound
a little crazy”.
CARTER
While there are obvious similarities,
our timeline is different from the one
in which Teal’c came to believe that
the Goa’uld were false gods.
O’NEILL
Are you saying this guy might not turn?
CARTER
It’s possible.
O’NEILL
And you’re telling me this now?!
(Sam cringes.)
THRONEROOM. Apophis is still holding Daniel in the grip of his
ribbon device. Teal’c watches impassively as Daniel grunts in
agony. Finally Apophis releases his grip and Daniel slumps to
the floor.
TEAL’C
This one is strong.
APOPHIS
Leave us.
(Teal’c bows and starts to walk away. Daniel pushes himself up
onto his hands and looks up at Apophis.)
APOPHIS
You will tell me all that you know.
(He activates the ribbon device again.
Daniel groans. Teal’c looks back, his
face a little more concerned now. He
looks thoughtful, then leaves the throneroom.)
PRISON CELL. Jack and Kawalsky are still leaning against the
main doors. Sam is sitting on the steps but she gets up and walks
to the doors as they hear approaching footsteps. Teal’c comes
to the doors and looks at them.
O’NEILL
What’s goin’ on?
(Teal’c holds up the video camera.)
TEAL’C
Show me.
(Sam steps forward and takes the camera. She opens the screen
and activates the camera. Daniel’s voice can be heard as she
turns the screen so that Teal’c can see it.)
DANIEL
Um, Teal’c, you should say something.
(Teal’c stares at the screen as his alternate self, with hair
and wearing a pale robe, steps into view.)
TEAL’C
The Jaffa are free. False god that he
is, Apophis is long dead. A new medicine,
tretonin, has liberated us from our
dependence upon symbionts. The Jaffa
have risen up as brothers and sisters
and defeated the Goa’uld.
ALT-TEAL’C
What trickery is this?
CARTER
It’s not a trick.
TEAL’C
You have a son, Rya’c, who is now married
and a strong leader among the newly-formed
Jaffa nation. If all these things have
not come to pass, you must believe that
the present in which you now live exists
only because the past has been mistakenly
altered. It must be restored.
(Sam shuts off the tape and closes the screen down.)
CARTER
Please. You have to help us. The reason
we came here was to get you so we could
go back in time and fix things.
O’NEILL
That’s not true. (Sam turns and stares
at him. Jack looks at Teal’c.) We just
wanna get out of here. Now, if you can
help us, we’ll do our best to help you.
TEAL’C
I cannot free you.
O’NEILL
What about our weapons, our vests? Can
you get us those?
(Teal’c looks at him, considering his request.)
LATER. The doors to the cell open and a couple of Jaffa drag
Daniel in by his arms and drop him down at the top of the steps.
O’NEILL
Easy, easy! (The Jaffa turn and leave.)
Get outta here! (The doors close.) Pissants!
(He squats down to Daniel and puts his
hand on his chest.) Hey.
DANIEL
I didn’t tell them anything.
O’NEILL
Good for you! How’re you feelin’?
DANIEL
Not so good really.
O’NEILL
Sorry. (He gestures to the others, who
run to a corner of the cell. Jack hauls
Daniel to his feet.) Maybe this’ll make
you feel better.
DANIEL
Argh! (He shakes it off and he and Jack
head down to the others, who have collected
their vests from where they had hidden
them and are putting them on. Cosworth
hands Daniel’s vest to him.) How’d you
...?
CARTER
Teal’c. He brought us the camera. I
showed him the tape.
DANIEL
I don’t think he can be trusted.
O’NEILL
He gave us our weapons back, that’s
a good start.
CARTER
He’s gonna meet us on the way back to
the ship.
(Kawalsky is attaching a piece of C4 to the smaller door. Jack
hands a pistol to Daniel.)
O’NEILL
Safety off, point and shoot. (Daniel
takes it and lifts it. It’s now pointing
at Jack, who pushes it down again.)
Not at me.
(Cosworth hands a pistol to Sam.)
CARTER
I don’t really like guns.
O’NEILL
Neither do I. How do you feel about
explosives?
CARTER
Those I like a little better.
(Kawalsky returns from the door.)
KAWALSKY
Cover.
O’NEILL
Let’s go. (They move away from the door
and take cover. Jack takes out the detonator
and nods to the others. Sam puts her
fingers in her ears. Jack presses the
button and the C4 explodes.)
FOREST. The team are running through the forest, returning to
the time ship. Jack speaks into his radio.
O’NEILL
Airman? This is O’Neill.
(Either Connor or Mansfield replies.)
AIRMAN
We were starting to get worried.
O’NEILL
We’re on our way. ETA ten minutes.
(Ahead of them, Teal’c steps into view. He points his staff weapon
at the team and activates it. Everybody stops and the airmen
raise their weapons. Sam briefly raises her pistol but then lowers
it again.)
O’NEILL
We’ve gotta get goin’ here. We’ve got
a whole battalion on our asses.
(Teal’c fires, shooting Daniel in the chest. The others stare
in disbelief. Kawalsky raises his rifle but Teal’c deactivates
his staff weapon and lowers it.)
O’NEILL
What the hell was that?
KAWALSKY
Shoot him, Jack. Let’s shoot him and
get the hell out of here.
O’NEILL
Why’d you do that?
TEAL’C
He was a Goa’uld. Apophis implanted
him with a symbiont in order to gain
access to the knowledge in his mind.
O’NEILL
How do you know?
TEAL’C
I can sense it. Your friend did not
give in to torture.
KAWALSKY
He’s lying.
O’NEILL
Why would he lie, Kawalsky?
CARTER
If he wanted us all dead, why aren’t
we surrounded by Jaffa right now?
KAWALSKY
We will be in a few seconds if we don’t
get the hell out of here now - and I’m
not taking him with us.
TEAL’C
Apophis has ordered a fleet of ha’tak
vessels to the Tau’ri.
CARTER
He’s sending ships to Earth?
TEAL’C
The symbiont implanted within Daniel
Jackson was a spy intended to accompany
you. Apophis now knows what Daniel Jackson
knew. He knows that you came in a ship.
He knows that the Tau’ri is a threat.
KAWALSKY
How the hell do we know you’re not a
spy?
(Lying on the ground, Daniel suddenly raises the hand with the
pistol in it and shoots Cosworth twice in the chest. He then
sits up and fires twice more at the others. One of the bullets
hits Teal’c in the arm. Jack and Kawalsky turn and open fire
on him. Daniel sinks back to the ground, his eyes open and staring.
After a moment, they flash.)
CARTER
His eyes glowed!
(Kawalsky runs back and checks that Daniel is really dead this
time, then goes over to Cosworth to check his pulse. He looks
round at Jack and shakes his head.)
KAWALSKY
He’s dead.
(Staff blasts start to come out of the trees behind them. Jack
turns and fires in their direction.)
O’NEILL
Go! Go!
(The others run off as Jack continues to cover them. The team
races through the forest towards the time ship, staff blasts
going off all around them. Just as they reach the ship, one of
the airmen who had been guarding it gets hit by a staff blast.
It’s clear that Jaffa are firing from all directions, not just
from the direction that the team came. Teal’c and Sam run inside
the ship. Kawalsky turns and covers the path they just came down.
Jack runs to the entrance of the ship and fires in the opposite
direction. From inside the ship, Teal’c fires his staff weapon
out to the rear and Sam fires her pistol. The other airman is
taken down by a staff blast.)
O’NEILL
Kawalsky!
KAWALSKY
Go! Start it up!
(Jack runs into the ship as Kawalsky and Teal’c - and Sam to
a lesser extent - continue to provide cover fire. Jack jumps
into the pilot’s seat. A staff blast impacts the wall near to
where he’s sitting. Kawalsky turns to run to the ship but is
shot in the back by a staff blast.)
CARTER
Kawalsky’s been hit!
TEAL’C
Go!
(Jack activates the control that raises the ramp. Teal’c continues
firing at the approaching Jaffa until the ramp protects him.
The ship lifts into the air, then the engine pods extend and
the ship flies off. Inside, Sam sinks down onto a bench, shocked
by what she’s just been through. Teal’c turns to look at her.)
TEAL’C
Are you injured?
CARTER
No. I-I’ve just never seen anyone killed
before. Daniel, and Kawalsky ... (She
notices the wound in Teal’c’s arm.)
Oh my God! You’ve been shot!
TEAL’C
It will heal.
O’NEILL
Alright, we’ve got some problems here.
(A blast impacts the ship. From outside, we see that the ship
is being pursued by two death gliders. Jack flies the ship erratically
in an attempt to avoid the blasts coming from the gliders. Sam
comes forward to the co-pilot’s seat and stares as the blasts
that don’t hit the ship explode in the forest in front of them.
Teal’c sits down behind Sam.)
TEAL’C
Gliders.
O’NEILL
I can’t shake ‘em, either.
(More blasts impact the ship, causing explosions inside.)
TEAL’C
The Gate will be well-guarded.
O’NEILL
You know somethin’? I don’t think we’re
gonna make it to the Gate.
(Sam looks round at the time device in the rear of the ship,
then looks at Jack.)
CARTER
There is a way out. (To Teal’c) Was
there a Stargate on this planet five
thousand years ago?
TEAL’C
I believe so.
(Sam looks at Jack. As he returns her gaze, she nods encouragingly
to him. He closes his eyes and concentrates. After some moments,
the time device lights up. From an outside perspective, the ship
is flying away from the gliders in daylight. A moment later,
it is suddenly sunset and the gliders have gone.)
CARTER
I think you did it!
TEAL’C
What has he done?
CARTER
I think we just travelled back in time.
O’NEILL
Check it out - dial Earth.
(Sam dials the co-ordinates on the dialling device.)
WORMHOLE TRAVEL.
EARTH. The time ship shoots out of the wormhole and into a desert
area. Two pyramids are nearby. Both have a mothership parked
over them.
CARTER
Well, this is definitely ancient Egypt!
TEAL’C
Those ha’tak vessels bore the mark of
Ra.
CARTER
He ruled on Earth during this period.
TEAL’C
It is likely we were detected on exiting
the chappa’ai.
O’NEILL
Well, no ships on our tail, but I think
we’ll skedaddle anyway.
CARTER
You’re saying you’re onboard with trying
to fix the past?
O’NEILL
Well, we did kinda screw up our timeline,
didn’t we?
CARTER
Well, the only way to stop the invasion
on Earth is to make sure that it never
happens.
O’NEILL
Yeah - remind me how we do that, again?
(Sam has no answer.)
LATER. The time ship has parked out in the desert. Jack, Sam
and Teal’c come outside.
O’NEILL
Alright - here’s the plan. We make contact
with the locals.
TEAL’C
And then?
O’NEILL
That’s all I got so far.
(The team starts to walk.)
CARTER
Uh, any idea what time it is exactly?
(Jack looks at his watch.)
O’NEILL
Three o’clock.
CARTER
Uh, sorry, I-I kinda meant what year.
O’NEILL
Well, you and Daniel said there was
some kind of a failed rebellion.
CARTER
In 2995 BC.
(Jack turns to her with a mock look of shock on his face.)
O’NEILL
BC?!
CARTER
Colonel.
O’NEILL
Kidding. And call me Jack, willya?
EGYPTIAN TENT VILLAGE (the same one we saw in Part 1). As the
team walks into the village, a young boy runs to his father in
alarm.
BOY
Mari’be! Mari’be! Mari’be!
(The man scoops the boy up into his arms.)
O’NEILL
Hey! It’s alright, folks, we come in
peace, nothin’ to be afraid of.
CARTER
I doubt they speak English.
(A young man approaches them and we realise that this is Katep,
the man whose brother was killed by Ra in the temple in Part
1.)
KATEP
Hello.
O’NEILL
He does.
KATEP
Yes. I am Katep.
O’NEILL
I am Jack.
KATEP
O’Neill. (He looks at the other two.)
Colonel Carter, and Teal’c.
O’NEILL
How’d you know ...?
KATEP
Please come with me. Ra’s patrols come
through here often. They must not see
you, (he looks at Teal’c) especially
you. Please, come. (He leads them away.)
TENT. Katep leads the team to a tent.
KATEP
Please. (He stands in the doorway as
the others walk in.)
O’NEILL
How do you know who we are?
KATEP
This is not the first time we have met.
CARTER
You knew the other SG-1 team.
KATEP
Five years ago you came. You were witness
to the death of my brother at the hands
of Ra. After you were trapped here,
we planned an uprising together.
CARTER
So much for causality!
TEAL’C
Ra is still here. We have seen his ship.
KATEP
Our first attempt at gathering forces
for the rebellion did not go well. We
had to expose ourselves to those who
proved still loyal to Ra. You were captured
and executed long before the plan could
be finished.
O’NEILL
Really? All of us?
KATEP
All but one.
(A man walks into the tent, his head covered with a hood. He
throws the hood back and we see that it’s Daniel. Sam smiles.)
DANIEL
Well, this can’t be a good sign.
O’NEILL
Why’s that?
DANIEL
Where am I?
O’NEILL
Ancient Egypt?
DANIEL
No, I mean the me from your timeline.
TEAL’C
I killed you.
DANIEL
Why?
TEAL’C
You were a Goa’uld spy.
DANIEL
Good reason.
CARTER
It was horrible.
DANIEL
Yeah, I’m sure. Why are you here?
O’NEILL
Yes - excellent question.
DANIEL
You don’t know?
O’NEILL
Well, I thought I did, there, for a
while, and then I realised I ... didn’t.
DANIEL
Well, I know why I’m here.
O’NEILL
Good! Let’s start there.
DANIEL
We came back in time to get a ZPM.
CARTER
Right! It was buried with the tape.
Why is it so important? I think you
were about to explain it but the, uh,
the-the batteries on the camera ran
out.
DANIEL
Long story. Why don’t you take a seat?
(Jack and Sam sit down but Teal’c remains
standing.) Basically we got trapped
here because you (he points to Sam)
didn’t want to affect the timeline,
but ultimately you (he looks at Jack)
and you (he looks at Teal’c) couldn’t
stand the idea of living out the rest
of your lives under Ra’s rule without
doing anything. We remembered there
was a rebellion here on Earth - that’s
how the Gate got buried in the first
place, so we figured what difference
does it make if we’re involved or not?
Unfortunately we never got a chance
to execute the plan.
O’NEILL
We heard.
DANIEL
Yes. We tried to do too much too fast.
Since then, Katep and I have been slowly
building up an underground movement.
I can only assume things don’t go well
because if you’re here, you saw the
tape and the future still needs fixing.
O’NEILL
Somethin’ like that.
CARTER
Oh, we didn’t just see the tape. We
saw the tablet.
DANIEL
What tablet?
CARTER
Oh. The one you haven’t written yet,
and put where the Stargate was supposed
to be buried.
DANIEL
“Supposed to be”?
CARTER
In our timeline, the rebellion that
you planned actually works. Ra ends
up leaving, and Earth is freed, but,
uh, Ra takes the Stargate with him.
DANIEL
OK, that’s a problem.
CARTER
Yes! The Gate is never found at Giza,
and none of us join the Stargate programme
- but you left a tablet in an obscure
Egyptian dialect telling us the date
of the rebellion and where to find the
second Stargate in Antarctica.
DANIEL
Good for me! So you’re here to make
sure Ra doesn’t take the Stargate.
O’NEILL
It’s a plan.
(A young boy runs in.)
BOY
Daneel! Daneel! Jaffa!
KATEP
We must hide.
O’NEILL
Where?
KATEP
In here. (He and the boy pull back a
rug on the floor and start brushing
the sand away with their hands. Daniel
beckons to Jack, Sam and Teal’c as Katep
and the boy lift up a stone slab. Underneath
is a ladder leading down into a chamber.)
(Outside, a Jaffa patrol walks into the village. They shove the
villagers around and start to search the tents. A Horus guard
stands and watches.)
(In the chamber, Daniel climbs down the ladder and joins the
other three. He takes a burning torch from Jack and shows them
what’s in the chamber. There are many staff weapons lining the
walls, and many zat guns lying on boxes.)
O’NEILL
Sweet!
(Up above them, a Jaffa walks into the tent and turns to call
to his colleagues.)
JAFFA
Kree! Lok’nel!
(As other Jaffa walk in, Katep and the boy surreptitiously step
forward so that they are standing on top of the stone slab, now
covered with a rug again.)
(In the chamber)
DANIEL
We’ve got secret stores of weapons like
this in several positions throughout
the region.
O’NEILL
How many troops?
DANIEL
Uh, a couple of thousand, but that’s
not really the issue. According to you,
my own account of history says we win
the revolt.
CARTER
We just need to make sure that the Gate
stays here and gets buried.
DANIEL
Which means we have to steal it and
hide it from Ra.
O’NEILL
But it’s out in the open, close to a
ship.
TEAL’C
Holding such a position against a ha’tak
would be virtually impossible, even
for a short period of time.
CARTER
Also, the Gate is kinda heavy.
DANIEL
We also have a ship.
O’NEILL
Yes, but you see, the ship fits in the
Gate, not the other way around.
CARTER
There has to be a way that we can cable
the Gate to the ship - fly it out.
O’NEILL
Yeah, but we’ve still gotta get close
to it without being detected.
DANIEL
Well, that’s easy. The ship has a cloaking
device ... (the others stare at him)
makes it invisible.
O’NEILL
You’re telling me this now?!
DANIEL
I was sure I mentioned it on the tape.
(Jack looks round at Sam, who shakes her head.)
TEAL’C
If we were able to time our approach
to co-ordinate with the uprising, we
may yet have a chance.
CARTER
We’ll need to test the cloak. We took
an awful lot of damage coming out of
Chulak.
O’NEILL
Because we didn’t know about the damned
cloak!
DANIEL
I was sure I mentioned it on the tape!
(Above their heads, the stone cover to the chamber is lifted.
Katep looks down at the team.)
KATEP
They are gone!
DESERT. Jack and Sam are walking to the time ship.
CARTER
Do you ever wonder what your life’s
gonna be like in the future?
O’NEILL
Won’t really be my life, will it?
CARTER
No, but still. I mean, I’ve led such
a small and unimportant existence, I
can’t ever imagine being a hero who
saves the planet.
O’NEILL
Well, we do have a time machine. We
could go check it out.
CARTER
No way. We’ve already screwed up enough.
Once we’re done with the Gate, we need
to destroy the ship.
O’NEILL
Seriously?
CARTER
Absolutely.
O’NEILL
You mean we have to stay here?
(Sam nods and they continue walking.)
CARTER
I wonder if the future me has a boyfriend?
TIME SHIP. Jack and Sam walk in and Jack sits in the pilot’s
seat. He slaps the edge of the console a few times to activate
it.
O’NEILL
So what do I do?
CARTER
Um, try thinking “invisible”.
(Jack shrugs, then puts his hands on the console.)
O’NEILL
OK. (He closes his eyes and concentrates.
Sam looks around hopefully. After a
few seconds Jack opens his eyes.) How
do we know if it’s working?
(Sam raises a finger, then trots outside and looks at the ship.)
CARTER
Nope!
KATEP’S TENT. Daniel and Katep stand with Teal’c as he unrolls
a map and looks at it.
TEAL’C
Your strategy is good, but it does not
work well as a distraction in our plan
to steal the chappa’ai.
DANIEL
Wait - we know this plan works. If we
alter it ...
KATEP
... we may fail.
DANIEL
With this plan, the uprising succeeds
and Ra leaves.
TEAL’C
And Ra takes the chappa’ai. If we are
to be successful in keeping Ra from
taking the chappa’ai, we must focus
the efforts of the rebellion on distracting
him from it. (Katep looks at Daniel,
who sighs uncertainly. Teal’c looks
at him.) Trust me.
TIME SHIP. Sam has opened a panel near the rear of the ship and
takes out a glass panel. A cable is hanging from the ceiling
and she takes the end and starts tinkering with the panel. Jack
comes from the front of the ship and looks at her.
O’NEILL
How’s it goin’?
CARTER
I’ve never seen this kind of technology
before.
O’NEILL
Hey, you’re supposed to be a genius.
That’s why I brought you along.
CARTER
I’m working on it. I think the power
relay was overloaded. I may be able
to reroute the circuit to the control
interface ... (She looks up and sees
Jack staring at her.) What?
O’NEILL
It’s just a little weird hearin’ that
kind of stuff come out of someone so
...
(Sam turns and stares at him defensively.)
CARTER
So what?
O’NEILL
... hot.
(Sam coughs.)
CARTER
Really?
O’NEILL
Yeah.
CARTER
Wow. Um, it’s just you ... you’re not
the kind of guy that I usually attract.
O’NEILL
No?
CARTER
No. Huh. God. Wow! This is kinda awkward.
O’NEILL
Yeah, it’s gettin’ there.
CARTER
I’m kind of attracted to ... Daniel.
(Jack stares at her for a moment in disbelief.)
O’NEILL
What?! (Sam shrugs. Jack walks closer
to her.) Really?!
CARTER
Sorry.
O’NEILL
No, that’s OK, n-no problem there, I,
it’s just, you know ... first impressions,
I kinda thought he was ... (He gestures
vaguely as Sam raises her eyebrows at
him.) Never mind.
(Sam nods. Jack blows out a breath and turns away from her. Sam
turns back to her work, wincing.)
LATER. From behind a sand dune near the ship, Jack watches through
binoculars as a Jaffa patrol approaches. He activates his radio.
O’NEILL
Carter. How’s it goin’ in there?
(Sam, still working inside the ship, scrabbles for her radio.)
CARTER
Uh, I think I’m almost there.
O’NEILL
That’s good. We’re about to have some
company. (He runs back to the ship and
closes the rear door.) We have a patrol
on its way here. (He gets into the pilot’s
seat.)
CARTER
Try it.
(Jack puts his hands on the controls and they light up. He concentrates,
then looks round.)
O’NEILL
Nothing’s happening.
(Sam turns her attention back to the panel above her head.)
KATEP’S TENT. As Daniel, Teal’c and Katep continue to study the
map, Jack’s voice comes over the radio.
O’NEILL
Hey, guys, we’ve got a little problem
here.
TIME SHIP. Sam is still tinkering with the panel.
O’NEILL
Carter, forget it. I’m just gonna take
off.
(Nearby, we see the Jaffa patrol walking between two sand dunes.
In moments they will be able to see the ship. Inside, Jack tries
to get the ship to take off but nothing happens. He slaps the
side of the control console.)
O’NEILL
C’mon! Now that’s not workin’.
CARTER
Oh boy! (She reaches for the panel again
and makes an adjustment.) Try the cloak
now.
(Jack closes his eyes and concentrates. Just as the patrol rounds
the sand dune, the ship cloaks.)
CARTER
Did it work? (She comes to the front
of the ship and she and Jack look out
of the windscreen as the patrol comes
into view. They show no reaction.)
O’NEILL
Apparently.
(Just then, something in the console groans as it shuts off.
Outside, the ship decloaks. The Jaffa run towards the ship and
surround it. Three Jaffa come to the front of the ship, look
in at Jack and Sam and aim their staff weapons.)
JAFFA
Shak’na kree!
O’NEILL
What?
(The Jaffa open fire. Although the staff blasts do not penetrate
the windscreen, other Jaffa around the ship are also firing and
panels start to short out. Jack jumps out of the pilot’s seat
and shoves Sam towards the rear of the ship.)
O’NEILL
Go, go, go, go! (He closes the door
between the front and rear of the ship
and pushes Sam down onto her knees behind
the time device before ducking down
himself.) Get down! (Panels continue
to short out as the Jaffa keep firing.)
Woah!
CARTER
This could be a problem.
O’NEILL
You think?!
CARTER
If they penetrate the hull and hit the
engines, the energy blasts could feed
back into the power ...
O’NEILL
Carter!
CARTER
We could explode!
(Jack activates his radio.)
O’NEILL
Daniel, Teal’c.
DANIEL
We’re almost there!
NEARBY. Daniel and Teal’c can hear the shooting. They duck down
behind a sand dune and watch as the Jaffa continue to fire at
the ship.
DANIEL
Well, this doesn’t look good.
TEAL’C
Indeed.
DANIEL
Though it is quite ironic. This whole
thing started because Sam didn’t want
to take the Jumper back from a Jaffa
patrol.
TIME SHIP. Still hiding behind the time device, Sam stares at
Jack as the panels continue sparking and exploding.
CARTER
Look, if we don’t make it ... (She takes
his head in her hands and kisses him.
Once she has ended the kiss, Jack stares
at her.)
O’NEILL
Wait a minute! You said you liked Daniel!
CARTER
I lied. I just wanted to get to know
you better. You see, usually I’m a very
cautious person and I tend to think
things ...
(Jack grabs her head and kisses her. Explosions go off all around
them.)
(Outside the ship, the Jaffa stop firing as Teal’c calls out
to them.)
TEAL’C
Jaffa! (He and Daniel walk into the
open. Teal’c holds his arms wide to
show that he is not going to shoot.)
Hear me! Ra is not a god! You can live
free!
(The Jaffa patrol leader raises his staff weapon and points it
at Teal’c.)
JAFFA
Na’kek, shol’va!
DANIEL
I don’t think he bought it.
(Inside the ship, Jack and Sam are still kissing but Jack opens
his eyes and then breaks the kiss when he realises that the firing
has stopped. Outside, Teal’c tries again.)
TEAL’C
Relinquish your weapons and surrender!
JAFFA
Kel’tek trey! Lo t’nak!
DANIEL
Yeah, I thought you’d say that.
TEAL’C
Shal’tek!
(From behind a high sand dune nearby, Katep appears. He cries
out and other Egyptians appear behind him. The Jaffa turn and
stare as, all around them, hundreds of Egyptians appear, brandishing
staff weapons and zat guns. All of them cry out fiercely. Daniel
takes a P90 from his robe and aims it at the Jaffa. The Jaffa
drop their staff weapons. Daniel activates his radio.)
DANIEL
Sam, Jack - it’s all clear. You can
come out now.
(Inside the ship, Jack and Sam are gazing at each other.)
O’NEILL
In a minute.
(Daniel and Teal’c look at each other, puzzled. Inside, Jack
takes hold of Sam’s head and starts to kiss her again. They tumble
to the floor, out of view of the camera. Above them, the time
device shorts out.)
CARTER
I can fix that.
SGC. In Sam’s lab, General Jack O’Neill, Lieutenant Colonel Samantha
Carter, Doctor Daniel Jackson and Teal’c (with hair) are watching
a screen showing the video recording from five thousand years
ago. Jack is sitting at the desk while the others stand behind
him. Next to Jack, nestled inside a wooden box on top of a lot
of padding, is a glowing ZPM. On the desk next to the box is
a half-eaten donut on a paper napkin.
DANIEL
Uh, Jack, you should say something here.
O’NEILL
Um, college football is played on Saturdays;
pro on Sundays; and there are no fish
in my pond ... at all ... where I fish.
(He turns to the other two.) Uh, I think
that covers it for me.
(In the lab, Daniel turns the video off. Sam looks at Jack.)
CARTER
Is that correct?
O’NEILL
If it is, we don’t do anything?
CARTER
Apparently nothing we did affected the
timeline.
O’NEILL
But we didn’t do anything.
CARTER
Not yet. Apparently we were going to,
two weeks from now, but now we don’t
have to.
O’NEILL
Excellent! (Daniel and Teal’c nod to
each other and walk away.) That’s it!
I like it!
(Sam reaches for the ZPM box.)
CARTER
OK, I’m gonna get this up to the lab
for analysis.
O’NEILL
No! I’ll take it. (He picks up the box.)
There’s a whole room full of geeks up
there just dyin’ to get their hands
on this. You’ve got packin’ to do! (He
walks away as Sam smiles.)
MINNESOTA. Jack’s cabin. A fishing line arcs out into the water.
The camera lifts up from the water and we see that Jack and Sam
are sitting side by side on the pier, fishing.
CARTER
This is great.
O’NEILL
I told ya!
CARTER
I can’t believe we didn’t do it years
ago.
O’NEILL
Yes, well, let’s not dwell.
(Sam giggles as she looks at him. Behind them, Daniel and Teal’c
arrive, carrying a cooler box between them and each holding a
folding chair in their free hand. Out in the pond, a fish jumps
out of the water. Sam looks round at Jack.)
CARTER
Didn’t that tape say there were no fish
in your pond?
(Jack looks at her.)
O’NEILL
Close enough.
(Sam nods. The camera pulls back as Daniel and Teal’c unfold
their chairs. Teal’c sits down, and Daniel walks onto the pier
to join the other two.)
THE END
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