STARGATE SG1
Episode 615
"PARADISE LOST"
By
Robert C. Cooper
BRIEFING ROOM
Jack, Sam, Teal’c and Jonas are sat around the table.
JONAS
Did he say how he came across this key?
O’NEILL
No.
HAMMOND
You were correct when you said it’s
doubtful the Pentagon would authorise
Colonel Maybourne’s presence on an offworld
mission.
TEAL’C
Should we not at least explore the planet
to which he has provided the address?
O’NEILL
He did risk his butt just to make the
proposition.
CARTER
Maybe we can get through the door without
him? If Maybourne thinks it’s worth
a pardon, what’s on the other side;
it must be good.
HAMMOND
Do it.
PLANET
We see what looks like a monastery on a mountain and a large
moon in the sky.
SG1 enter the ruins and look around.
JONAS
Nobody home.
Jonas films a wall hanging.
TEAL’C
Are you able to translate any of this,
Jonas Quinn?
JONAS
It’s not Ancient but it’s definitely
a language belonging to one of the races
of the ancient alliance.
O’NEILL
Nox? Asgard?
JONAS
Furlings.
O’NEILL
Oh no, not those guys.
JONAS
What?
O’NEILL
Oh I don’t know, I just can’t imagine
cute little furry things making big
powerful weapons, that’s all.
JONAS
I don’t even know what they look like.
O’NEILL
Furling. Sounds cute and fuzzy to me.
JONAS
This section says something like ‘only
the righteous may pass’.
CARTER
This looks like where Maybourne’s key
would go. I’m getting energy readings.
There’s a power source in this arch.
Here.
Sam pulls a panel off the arch.
CARTER
Sir? This is definitely something.
O’NEILL
What?
CARTER
I don’t know. I don’t recognise the
technology.
O’NEILL
But can you make it work?
GATEROOM
Jack comes through the Gate.
O’NEILL
Well General, Maybourne’s story checks
out so far. There’s a doorway there
that Carter thinks may be a transporter
but she can’t get it to work without
Maybourne’s key.
HAMMOND
What do you recommend Colonel?
ELEVATOR, SGC
Maybourne comes out handcuffed.
MAYBOURNE
Jack.
O’NEILL
Harry.
MAYBOURNE
I’m trusting you.
O’NEILL
Turned yourself in. What happens from
hereon out is up to you.
They walk into the briefing room.
HAMMOND
You can remove the cuffs Airman.
MAYBOURNE
General, nice to see you again.
HAMMOND
Despite your prior transgressions you’ve
shown a willingness to help us out of
some serious situations recently. And
that is why the President is willing
to proceed in this matter.
MAYBOURNE
You’re welcome.
O’NEILL
Let’s see what you brought.
Maybourne unwraps the key. Jack picks it up.
MAYBOURNE
When do we leave?
O’NEILL
I leave right now. We’ll let you know
how it turns out.
MAYBOURNE
Jack. I thought I was pretty clear.
I go with you or no deal.
O’NEILL
Harry, you’re under arrest, I’ve got
the stone and I’m walking out that door.
You’re not in a strong bargaining position.
MAYBOURNE
The only way this mission will be successful
is if I’m on it. That stone is useless
without the combination.
O’NEILL
How’s that?
MAYBOURNE
It was originally found over 80 years
ago in a Pharaohs tomb in Egypt. The
stone was wrapped in a scroll with writing
on it that no Earth linguist could decipher.
I was recently able to get it translated
though.
O’NEILL
By whom?
MAYBOURNE
The scroll contained instructions for
how to use the stone to access the power
of the Gods. That information exists
in one place. Right here. A deal’s a
deal. You want t o go through that door?
I’m gonna be the one who opens it.
GATEROOM
HAMMOND
There’s got to be something more going
on here than he’ll admit to.
O’NEILL
Of that I have no doubt, Sir. But if
he’s not willing to tell us, we can’t
force him. Much as I like to try.
Maybourne walks in.
MAYBOURNE
Now this is more like it.
O’NEILL
Shall we?
They walk up the ramp and Harry stops.
O’NEILL
Yes?
MAYBOURNE
You know the real reason I wanna do
this? I’ve never actually been through
this thing before.
O’NEILL
Really?
MAYBOURNE
I ran the off world operation from Earth
using a Goa’uld communicator.
O’NEILL
Nervous?
MAYBOURNE
Me? Nah. I’m just taking a moment.
O’NEILL
Done?
MAYBOURNE
Yeah.
They walk through the Gate.
PLANET
We see the ruins again but the moon has disappeared.
Jack and Harry walk into the ruins.
O’NEILL
Carter.
CARTER
Colonels.
MAYBOURNE
Major.
O’NEILL
Jonas?
CARTER
He finished cataloguing the writing
and went to do a wider sweep of the
surrounding area with Teal’c.
MAYBOURNE
He translated everything?
CARTER
No. He still needs to get some reference
from the SGC. Says it’ll take a while.
O’NEILL
Harry?
Jack points to the arch.
Harry goes over and puts the key in and turns it. Lights light
up but nothing happens.
O’NEILL
What?
MAYBOURNE
I’m sure I’ve done it right.
O’NEILL
Harry?
MAYBOURNE
It should’ve worked.
Sam goes over.
CARTER
Let me take a look.
Maybourne grabs her zat and shoots her in the back. She collapses
and he shoots at Jack. Maybourne pulls the key off the wall and
the doorway opens. Jack gets up.
O’NEILL
Harry!
Jack jumps on Harry as he goes through the doorway and they both
disappear and the doorway closes.
FIELD
Jack lands on Harry and starts to rough him up.
O’NEILL
You rotten, no good for nothing...
MAYBOURNE
Jack?
O’NEILL
You son of a...
MAYBOURNE
JACK!
Jack looks up and they are in a field nowhere near their last
location.
RUINS
Jonas and Teal’c arrive and see Sam collapsed.
JONAS
Major Carter? What happened?
PARADISE
O’NEILL
Where the hell are we?
MAYBOURNE
Dammit Jack, why’d you have to do that?
O’NEILL
Where’s the zat?
MAYBOURNE
I don’t know, I don’t have it.
Jack raises his P90.
O’NEILL
Where is it?
MAYBOURNE
It’s not here. I guess it didn’t come
through with us.
O’NEILL
Why not?
MAYBOURNE
Well, how should I know? Maybe the doorway
filters out weapons?
Jack just lifts his P90.
MAYBOURNE
Goa’uld weapons?
O’NEILL
Now you listen to me. I want a straight
answer from you.
MAYBOURNE
Well since you’re here, I might as well
just show you.
O’NEILL
Hey!
MAYBOURNE
Come on!
They walk off.
RUINS
CARTER
I’m getting nowhere here. Jonas, head
back to the SGC, ask General Hammond
to set up a UAV. If Colonel O’Neill
has activated his tracking device, we
should be able to pinpoint his location.
PARADISE
MAYBOURNE
You couldn’t just let me go.
O’NEILL
You shot me!
MAYBOURNE
Zatted. I’m not going back, you know.
O’NEILL
Where?
MAYBOURNE
Anywhere. To the Stargate or Earth.
O’NEILL
What are you talking about?
MAYBOURNE
I don’t know, maybe they’ve got a way
to send you back. I don’t think anyone’s
supposed to leave, that’s part of the
deal.
O’NEILL
Who are you talking about? What deal?
MAYBOURNE
The people at the place we’re going.
O’NEILL
Maybourne, have you completely lost
your mind because if you’re suffering
I’ll gladly put you out of your misery.
MAYBOURNE
It’s an alien utopia. According to the
scroll it’s supposed to be paradise.
O’NEILL
What?
MAYBOURNE
A long time ago, some people from an
advanced alien society, well they chucked
it all and formed this small, isolated
utopian community. They sent out representatives
to meet and evaluate people from all
over the galaxy and offer them a chance
to join them. The scroll and the stone
were the invitation.
O’NEILL
And this has nothing to do with the
weapons Simmons was after?
MAYBOURNE
I just figured it was my only way of
getting through the Gate.
O’NEILL
You know Harry, it’s not that I can’t
believe you lied to me again, it’s that
you lied to me again!
MAYBOURNE
Oh come on Jack, no one would have let
me through the Gate for this. Would
you have even believed me?
O’NEILL
And you’re sure this is all worth it?
MAYBOURNE
Couldn’t be much worse than where I’ve
been forced to hide out... lately. They’re
closing in on me, it’s only a matter
of time. Besides, I’ve got nothing left
on Earth anymore. The money I was supposed
to get from selling the Russian symbiote
to Adrian Conrad was my last shot at
making a life on Earth. Do something
good and it turned into a disaster.
O’NEILL
Of massive proportion.
MAYBOURNE
I’m tired of running Jack, why should
I, when I could have a chance of retiring
in paradise?
O’NEILL
I see trees, Harry. You get that in
Colorado.
GATEROOM
Siler is prepping the UAV.
SILER
Ready for launch, Sir.
HAMMOND
Thank you, sergeant.
Sam and Teal’c come through the wormhole.
CARTER
Still nothing from Colonel O’Neill and
Colonel Maybourne, sir. They’ve been
gone over two hours now.
HAMMOND
We’re ready to go.
CARTER
Sir, I’d like to apologise.
HAMMOND
What for?
CARTER
This is my fault, I allowed Colonel
Maybourne to take my weapon.
HAMMOND
Major, let’s just focus on finding them
right now.
CARTER
Yes sir.
PARADISE
O’NEILL
You are so lost.
MAYBOURNE
No, I’m sure this is the right way.
O’NEILL
How’s that?
MAYBOURNE
It’s in this valley. It’s strange, there’s
supposed to be a greeting party.
O’NEILL
And you know, that’s all that’s strange
about this.
MAYBOURNE
They’re supposed to know when someone
uses the doorway. I was expecting some
sort of welcome.
O’NEILL
(Something) Leis?
MAYBOURNE
Well something.
O’NEILL
Cabana boys? I tell you Maybourne, I
don’t hear any steel drummmms. How old
was that invitation?
They enter what looks like a camp that’s deserted.
MAYBOURNE
There’s no one here.
O’NEILL
I noticed that.
Jack picks up a circular book. He puts it down and walks to the
edge of the camp.
O’NEILL
Harry?
Harry runs over. There are skeletons.
O’NEILL
This in the brochure?
RUINS
LEE
Major, this technology’s unlike anything
we’ve come across before.
CARTER
I know.
LEE
We have no frame of reference, no way
to interface.
CARTER
I’m working on it, Doctor. As you should
be!
LEE
Right.
Teal’c is kel’no’reeming in the background and opens one eye.
PARADISE
Jack and Harry are sitting on a dock.
O’NEILL
I guess I can see why you’d want to
retire here. Given your choices.
MAYBOURNE
Find anything that might be a doorway
back?
O’NEILL
No.
MAYBOURNE
You gonna kill me?
O’NEILL
I’ll sleep on it.
PARADISE
Jack is filling up his canteen in the river.
He then walks through a field, through a forest, across a waterfall.
CAMP
Maybourne is breaking wood. Jack walks up.
O’NEILL
Well I don’t think we’re walking out
of here.
MAYBOURNE
No way of knowing how far we were transported.
We could be on the other side of the
planet.
O’NEILL
Which is why we survive here until we’re
rescued.
MAYBOURNE
Until we’re rescued. Jack, this place
is supposed to be a secret. The doorway
was designed to keep it that way.
O’NEILL
Of course, we have the only key known
to man.
MAYBOURNE
The least you could have done was eat
that before you got here.
Jack is eating some kind of cookie or granola bar. He then throws
some to Harry.
O’NEILL
We’re gonna need food and drinkable
water.
MAYBOURNE
I’ve been drinking the lake straight
up.
O’NEILL
Well that’s smart.
MAYBOURNE
I’m not dead yet.
O’NEILL
It’s early.
MAYBOURNE
Jack, they’re never gonna find us.
RUINS
The scientists are packing up. Sam walks in.
CARTER
I covered as much territory as the range
of the UAV will allow.
TEAL’C
Have you received word from the Tok’ra?
CARTER
Yeah, they responded and said they didn’t
know when one of their operatives with
access to a ship would be able to help
us.. what are they doing?
TEAL’C
I believe they have completed their
analyses.
CARTER
Excuse me? Where’s Colonel O’Neill?
I don’t see him, do you? Did you guys
find him while I was gone?
LEE
We’ve been here for a week and I’m not
sure, but I’m pretty certain we could
all spend the rest of our natural lives
trying to figure out exactly how this
thing works. Do you know what? Even
if I could snap my fingers and turn
it on right now, I’m beginning to doubt
whether it would determine where it
sent Colonel O’Neill. I’d bet almost
anything that the targeting data is
in the artefact that Colonel Maybourne
used to open that doorway.
CARTER
I say when we’re done here.
LEE
With all due respect Major, I will submit
my report to General Hammond. If he’s
prepared to commit to a long term analysis
project, I’m happy to come back, with
my big suitcase. But until then, if
you’ll excuse me?
PARADISE
Jack is fishing.
MAYBOURNE
Anything?
O’NEILL
Couple of nibbles. They’re down there,
though.
MAYBOURNE
Sleep okay?
O’NEILL
No. You?
MAYBOURNE
When we first came here, I thought it
was quiet. Now it’s like I can’t keep
the noise out. Insects, animals, I don’t
know, I keep hearing things.
O’NEILL
They’re called birds.
MAYBOURNE
No, no these are weird sounds.
O’NEILL
We’re on an alien planet.
MAYBOURNE
Yeah, Jack I can’t live on this stuff,
it tastes like arrugala. I hate arrugala.
O’NEILL
Don’t eat it.
MAYBOURNE
We have to eat.
O’NEILL
You know, if you keep standing there
yakking away, I’m not gonna catch anything.
Maybourne throws something into the lake.
O’NEILL
What was that?
Harry detonates it.
He shrugs and wades in.
O’NEILL
That is just wrong on so many levels.
Harry throws a fish at the shore and nearly hits Jack.
CAMP
O’NEILL
Don’t ever do that again.
MAYBOURNE
You’re saying you don’t hear things?
O’NEILL
No.
MAYBOURNE
Last night, I swear I heard someone
running around out here. Spent an hour
wandering around trying to spot him.
O’NEILL
Animals.
MAYBOURNE
No tracks.
O’NEILL
You’re losing your mind.
MAYBOURNE
You don’t find things a little spooky
around here?
O’NEILL
Made so only by your presence.
MAYBOURNE
yeah well, I’m beginning to wonder if
some of the Utopians might still be
alive.
O’NEILL
There’s no evidence of that.
MAYBOURNE
Well maybe they’re here in another way.
O’NEILL
Al right, now you are getting spooky.
MAYBOURNE
Oh come on Jack, you’ve seen stranger
things. Other dimensions, planes of
existence. You said it your self, this
is an alien planet.
O’NEILL
So what do you want me to do?
MAYBOURNE
Give me your 9ml.
O’NEILL
No.
MAYBOURNE
Oh come on, you’ve got the P90. You
sleep with it beside you for God’s sake;
I just want to be able to protect myself.
O’NEILL
Forget it.
MAYBOURNE
Jack! I want that gun.
O’NEILL
Forget it! You don’t like it here, deal
with it. It’s your own damn fault.
MAYBOURNE
You wouldn’t care if I died would you?
O’NEILL
What are you talking about?
MAYBOURNE
Some alien creature comes in and attacks
me in the middle of the night, hauls
me out while you’re sleeping.
O’NEILL
You and I are the only ones here. Trust
me, the only thing you have to be afraid
of around here is me.
MAYBOURNE
Yeah.
Harry goes into his sleeping area with his fish.
PARADISE
Jack comes out of his sleeping area and buries his ammunition.
We see that someone is watching him though.
BRIEFING ROOM
Sam, Teal’c, Jonas and Hammond are there.
CARTER
Sir, a satellite capable of pinpointing
Colonel O’Neill’s tracking device would
be able to cover a much greater range.
The Tok’ra could retrieve it later by
ship when one became available so the
actual cost would be minimal.
HAMMOND
Compared to what?
CARTER
To not getting the satellite back.
HAMMOND
What about the cost of the delivery
system, never mind the manpower required
to get it through the Gate and then
reassemble it on the other side?
CARTER
Sir, I don’t think you can place a value
on Colonel O’Neill’s life.
HAMMOND
Of course not, but...
DAVIS
Unscheduled offworld activation.
HAMMOND
We’ll continue this later.
They all go downstairs.
DAVIS
We’re receiving a transmission, audio
only.
JOLEN
This is Jolen of the Tok’ra. To whom
am I speaking?
HAMMOND
General Hammond. Major Carter, Teal’c
and Jonas Quinn are also here.
JOLEN
Major I just received your message regarding
the disappearance of Colonel O’Neill.
CARTER
Do you have a ship capable of scanning
the planet?
JOLEN
Yes. In fact I’ve already taken the
opportunity to fly over the planet in
question. There were no detectable human
life signs.
CARTER
Are you sure?
JOLEN
Quite sure. I am very sorry.
HAMMOND
Thank you. Hammond out.
JOLEN
Jolen out.
The Gate shuts down.
PARADISE
Jack wakes up to find his P90 gone. He picks up his 9mm and moves
outside, barefoot. He goes into Maybourne’s sleeping area and
finds him gone. He then finds his ammunition gone. He looks around
more and sees the circular book on the table. He sits down with
it and looks through it eating some plant. He picks up some bark
and starts to mark down the positions of the skeletons around
the camp. Jack then leans on the table and looks at the plant
and hears a noise. We also go into Paranoid Jack vision. Jack
runs around the camp with his gun in a paranoid way.
O’NEILL
Maybourne!
Jack wades through the stream and comes across another campsite
with a couple more skeletons. One has a knife in its neck and
Jack pulls out a Goa’uld skeleton.
LOCKER ROOM
Sam is sitting on the bench, Teal’c opens the door.
TEAL’C
Major Carter.
CARTER
Teal’c, this is the women’s locker room.
TEAL’C
It appears there is no one else here
but you and you are fully clothed.
CARTER
True.
Teal’c sits down.
TEAL’C
Are you alright Major Carter?
CARTER
I’m fine, yeah.
TEAL’C
Have you given up hope of finding O’Neill?
CARTER
Hope? No. I’m starting to think Dr Lee
is right. I don’t think the doorway
is the answer. It’s been almost a month
Teal’c, if there were a way back. Just,
it feels like we just lost Daniel, and
I don’t know if I can...
She cries and Teal’c hugs her.
PARADISE
Jack is walking through the forest and trips a grenade. He hears
it and dives for cover.
O’NEILL
Arrghhh! Argghh!
He then hears and sees a pig with spikes running at him and fires
two shots.
MAYBOURNE
Arrgghhh!
Jack gets up and sees Maybourne under cover bleeding.
MAYBOURNE
You shot me!
O’NEILL
I didn’t know you were there.
MAYBOURNE
Stay back!
He waves the P90 at Jack.
O’NEILL
Put that down.
MAYBOURNE
You wanted to kill me from the start.
O’NEILL
Oh screw you Maybourne! I was joking.
Look what you did to my leg!
MAYBOURNE
I set the trap for the pig.
O’NEILL
With a grenade?
Maybourne moves away.
O’NEILL
Where are you going? Harry? I found
something. Stop eating that plant. It’s
messing with your head Harry. Ah, screw
you.
CAMP
Jack is pulling wood out of his leg.
CARTER’S LAB
Sam and Teal’c are there. Jonas walks in.
JONAS
General Hammond says he’s considering
new SG1 leaders. You included Major.
CARTER
We know. Do you have anything?
JONAS
Yeah, yeah, I was finally able to come
up with some photos of that artefact
Maybourne got his hands on. It’s quite
old making the scroll a bit difficult
to read and I’m pretty sure the markings
on the stone are just decoration but...
CARTER
Teal’c, wind back that tape.
He does so.
CARTER
Stop, there.
JONAS
That was the first day we were there.
CARTER
I don’t believe it. It wasn’t visible
after that; I forgot it was even there.
JONAS
What?
CARTER
The moon. The doorway device doesn’t
use wormhole technology, it wasn’t designed
to send you across the galaxy. We thought
they’d been sent somewhere else on the
planet but they haven’t, they’ve been
sent to that moon.
JONAS
How do you know that?
CARTER
The big circle is the planet, the little
circle is the moon, the line between
them is the path of transportation.
PARADISE
Jack is resting when he hears a noise. He gets up and we see
Maybourne has painted his face and is hiding on the other side
of the camp.
O’NEILL
Harry? Harry? It was a Goa’uld. It couldn’t
bring a weapon through that door so
it brought a plant. It’s some kind of
drug or something. Maybe it was an experiment,
maybe it was supposed to get the people
to serve him, I don’t know but it backfired.
These people, they all killed each other
because of that plant. You’re paranoid,
it’s messing with your head. I’m not
trying to kill you.
Maybourne fires on the camp where Jack is. He then throws a grenade
over and runs a bit nearer. He stops when he hears Jack cock
his gun behind him.
O’NEILL
Drop it. Drop it now or I will shoot
you.
Maybourne raises the P90 and Jack shoots him.
We then get trippy Maybourne view.
O’NEILL
I’m not trying to kill you Harry. You’re
losing a lot of blood. If I don’t do
something right now, you’re gonna die.
CAMP
Jack is sat by the fire and Maybourne stirs.
MAYBOURNE
Some retirement this turned out to be.
O’NEILL
How are you doing?
MAYBOURNE
My head’s a bit clearer. How long have
I been out?
O’NEILL
I don’t know, day or so.
MAYBOURNE
I really screwed up didn’t I?
O’NEILL
It’s not your fault. None of the people
here could stop themselves.
MAYBOURNE
Right from the beginning. Sorry Jack,
I never should have dragged you into
this.
O’NEILL
Yes Harry, you’ve been a very bad boy.
Harry takes a strained breath.
O’NEILL
Hey, don’t you die on me now.
MAYBOURNE
What difference would it make?
A Tok’ra ship flies into view.
O’NEILL
Because we’re about to be rescued.
MAYBOURNE
Oh that’s nice.
O’NEILL
Isn’t it?
MAYBOURNE
I can’t go back. I’d rather die here
than spend the rest of my life in jail.
O’NEILL
Yeah, um, I’ve been giving that some
thought. I think you suffered enough.
Hell I even got to shoot you.
MAYBOURNE
Twice.
O’NEILL
I think the Tok’ra should be able to
find a nice planet for you.
MAYBOURNE
Thanks Jack.
O’NEILL
Sure, Harry, sure.
THE END
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