STARGATE SG1
Episode 306
"POINT OF VIEW"
By
Jonathan Glassner & Brad Wright
A darkened room at Area 51.
A mirror suddenly flashes on.
SAMANTHA
Major! Come on!
KAWALSKY
We gotta go back for the General!
SAMANTHA
I can't shut it down. I won't find this
window again. We have to go now!
Kawalsky throws a grenade down the hall and they both reach out
to touch the mirror. They are transported to this side of the
mirror. The grenade goes off and the mirror switches off.
KAWALSKY
You sure this is the right one to go
to?
SAMANTHA
Anywhere's better than the alternative.
She steps through a sensor and alarms go off.
KAWALSKY
I guess we'll see about that.
Armed SF's run in.
SF
Drop your weapons! Do it now!
They do so reluctantly.
SAMANTHA
I'm Dr Samantha Carter from the SGA.
This is Major Kawalsky. We need to speak
to your commander.
TITLES
Jack walks down the corridor to the Infirmary.
O'NEILL
So, what's the big emer.?
He sees Samantha sitting on the bed with long hair.
O'NEILL
Whoa! What happened to you?
SAMANTHA
Jack.
O'NEILL
Jack?
SAMANTHA
It's me. It's Sam.
O'NEILL
Uh.. Yeah.
SAMANTHA
I never expected this variation. You're
alive.
KAWALSKY
Don't feel so bad, Colonel. Everybody
around here is telling me the same thing.
O'NEILL
Kawalsky?
HAMMOND
In a manner of speaking.
FRAISER
Actually, in a manner of fact, sir.
This is Major Charles Kawalsky in almost
every physical respect: his bloodwork,
his dental records.
KAWALSKY
But I'm not supposed to be alive in
this reality any more than you are in
mine. Sorry, Sam.
SAMANTHA
It's not the same with us here, is it?
O'NEILL
Does. anyone wanna let me know what
the hell's goin' on here? Anyone?
HAMMOND
They appeared a few hours ago in a Nellis
high security lockup.
KAWALSKY
That quantum mirror you got locked up
at Area 51? You guys never figured out
how to use it?
O'NEILL
Is he talking about that alternate reality
thing Daniel futzed with on 233?
KAWALSKY
Who's Daniel?
SAMANTHA
We can't be followed if that's what
you're worried about. We brought the
remote through with us.
HAMMOND
I've ordered the device sent here under
heavy guard.
KAWALSKY
Where we come from, the Goa'ulds just
took over the world, Colonel.
Briefing room.
Jack, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c and Hammond are watching a tape of
Samantha's interview.
SAMANTHA
Look, I've told you this. Now let me
talk to someone from the SGA.
MAN
SGA? There is no such organisation.
SAMANTHA
Well then you call it something else.
The Stargate Project. Stargate Command.
MAN
The Stargate. What do you know about
the Stargate?
SAMANTHA
What do I know?! Everything! We've been
through this!
MAN
Well let's go through it again.
SAMANTHA
Oh, for crying out loud!
Jack looks astonished and turns to look at Sam.
SAMANTHA
It's a big round thing. It takes you
to other planets. I made it work four
years ago and we have been exploring
the galaxy ever since. That is, up until
yesterday, when the Goa'uld came and
started taking over every major city
from orbit and making slaves of the
population.
Hammond pauses the tape.
CARTER
Oh my God. This is too weird.
O'NEILL
Yeah. How about that hair?
HAMMOND
She claims to have travelled from an
alternate universe in the same manner
Dr Jackson experienced a year ago.
DANIEL
Well this can't be the Dr Carter I met
in the alternate reality. She 's.. dead.
O'NEILL
All right. Uh. just to clarify. This
Carter is from an alternate alternate
reality?
DANIEL
Apparently.
O'NEILL
Anybody else have a problem with that?
TEAL'C
Which reality is actually real.
O'NEILL
Thank you Teal'c.
HAMMOND
She explains it.
He starts the tape again.
SAMANTHA
Look, I know this is hard for you to
understand. But, according to quantum
theory, for every possible universe,
there are an infinite number of variations,
diverging at every choice we make like
forks in a road.
MAN
Uh-huh.
Hammond pauses the tape again.
CARTER
She's right.
O'NEILL
You just agreed with yourself.
DANIEL
No, actually, Major Carter agreed with
Dr Carter. She never joined the military
in her reality.
O'NEILL
Fork in the road stuff?
DANIEL
Apparently.
O'NEILL
All right. So it's possible there's
an alternate version of myself out there
that actually understands what the hell
you're talking about?
HAMMOND
They've asked to be debriefed. I'd like
you all to participate.
They nod. Hammond turns to the SF on the door.
HAMMOND
Show them in.
Samantha and Kawalsky walk in. Kawalsky sees Teal'c.
KAWALSKY
What the hell is he doing here?
O'NEILL
Kawalsky!
DANIEL
He's a member of SG-1.
KAWALSKY
Who the hell are you?
DANIEL
Oh, um, I'm Daniel Jackson. Also a member
of SG-1.
HAMMOND
Have a seat Major.
Kawalsky sits down next to Daniel. Samantha sees Sam.
SAMANTHA
Nice. hair.
CARTER
Uh, Air Force.
SAMANTHA
I can't imagine that- going military.
CARTER
Wow! I can't imagine not.
Samantha goes to sit next to Jack.
HAMMOND
First of all, I would like to say we
know what you've been through. Dr Jackson
experienced a similar alternate reality
some time ago on a mission to P3X 233.
SAMANTHA
Well that's where we found our quantum
mirror as well.
HAMMOND
Fortunately for us, Dr Jackson was able
to return with some intelligence that
enabled SG-1 to stop the Goa'uld attack
here on Earth.
SAMANTHA
Nice. That goes a long way to explaining
why yours was only one of a handful
of alternate realities that looked like
it hadn't been overrun by the Goa'uld.
CARTER
Actually, it's probably the very differences
that set our universes apart from yours
that have contributed to our survival.
Daniel's participation in the Stargate
programme, Teal'c's change of heart.
The fact that I joined the military.
SAMANTHA
You think that your being in the Air
Force could have made that big a difference?
CARTER
No. I just said it made a contribution.
SAMANTHA
And therefore I didn't.
O'NEILL
Ladies. Sams. We're all in this reality
together.
HAMMOND
What we need to know is where you intend
to go from here.
SAMANTHA
Our beta site was instructed to bury
their Stargate the moment the last man
stepped through. And our own world is
under Goa'uld control so we can't go
back.
KAWALSKY
We wanna stay.
SAMANTHA
That is.. if we're wanted. We just left
behind everyone we know, everyone we
ever cared about. If you're not gonna
give us a second chance, I don't know
any of you.
O'NEILL
Well exactly. You don't know any of
us. And we don't know you. For all we
know. You could be her evil twin. But
then we'd be dealing with cliches and
you know how I feel about those. No,
actually, you know how I feel about
those.
HAMMOND
Okay. I'll speak with my superiors and
make a determination. For now, you'll
be assigned temporary accommodations.
Take them to A3 quarters.
SGC Corridor
CARTER
Listen, I didn't mean to offend you
back there.
SAMANTHA
Look Major, I'm the one dealing with
the inadequacy issues here. Just forget
about it.
CARTER
What?
SAMANTHA
We knew the Goa'uld were coming for
6 months. I couldn't think of a way
to stop them. You did.
She walks into the room.
FEMALE SF
I'll be just outside if you need me
Ma'am .
SAMANTHA
Course you will.
The SF shuts the door.
Samantha sits on the bed and takes a photograph out of her pocket.
She puts it on the drawers next to the bed. It's a photo of AU
Sam and Jack on their wedding day. The camera zooms in.
Hammond's Office.
He's on the phone.
HAMMOND
Yes, Sir. I understand Sir. Thank you
Sir. They can stay.
O'NEILL
That was quick.
HAMMOND
Too quick. God knows what we're getting
into.
O'NEILL
Well the combined IQ points of Earth
might go up a few points having two
Carters around.
Hammond doesn't smile.
O'NEILL
I take it you figure there's a down
side.
HAMMOND
It just doesn't sit right. Some lines
aren't meant to be crossed. Nonetheless,
I've been encouraged to find a way to
incorporate them into this command.
O'NEILL
Okay. In the meantime, do you want me
to tell 'em?
HAMMOND
Very well.
Samantha's quarters.
There's a knock at the door and the door opens.
SAMANTHA
Just put it on the table and close the
door on your way out.
O'NEILL
I'm sorry. Put what on the table?
SAMANTHA
Jack! I'm sorry. Come in. Your. your
Dr Fraiser keeps insisting that I eat
something.
O'NEILL
Ah. Well, she's your Doc Fraiser now
too. You're in. They said yes.
SAMANTHA
That's good.
O'NEILL
Yeah. I can see you're overjoyed.
SAMANTHA
I just never expected this. It's so
hard.
O'NEILL
Uh, look. I can't even begin to know
what you've been through. I. I know
you've lost a lot.
SAMANTHA
I lost you. I watched you die Jack.
Three days ago, trying to defend the
mountain. And here you are, alive and
safe in this perfect world, and you
don't even know me.
O'NEILL
Well, I. I sort of know you.
SAMANTHA
You know her. You don't even see her
that way, do you?
Jack sees the photograph and clicks what she is talking about.
O'NEILL
I take it, where you're from, we were.
SAMANTHA
Married.
O'NEILL
Ah.
SAMANTHA
This makes you uncomfortable.
O'NEILL
No, no, not at all. I just.. I get confused.
Knock on the door.
FEMALE SF
Ma'am? Sorry Colonel. I.. I didn't realise.
O'NEILL
Just put it on the table Airman.
FEMALE SF
Yes, Sir.
O'NEILL
Close the door on your way out.
She leaves and shuts the door.
SAMANTHA
I haven't had a hot meal in forever.
She gets up and goes to the food.
SAMANTHA
It was a couple of weeks ago. We were
celebrating our first anniversary. We
got the call that the Goa'uld ships
had been spotted entering our solar
system. We just left everything. You
blew out the candles and I turned off
the oven and we just left. They didn't
hit Colorado Springs from orbit like
most of the big cities so the table
must still be set.
O'NEILL
Cold by now.
SAMANTHA
Yeah.
O'NEILL
Listen, um, I should probably be..
SAMANTHA
Stay!
O'NEILL
Sam.
SAMANTHA
Please.
O'NEILL
Look..You're dealing with a loss right
now that I can't even begin to.. what
I mean is, maybe I'm not the right person
to help you.
SAMANTHA
Yes, you are. You're the only one who
can. Look.I know you well enough to
know you don't have a clue what to say.
But you don't have to say anything.
O'NEILL
Come here.
Jack takes Samantha into his arms while she cries.
SAMANTHA
Oh, I miss him.
SGC Corridor.
Jack walks out of Samantha's quarters and walks along the corridor
where he meets Sam.
CARTER
Sir. General Hammond told me the news.
I took the liberty of informing Major
Kawalsky.
O'NEILL
Thank you. I was just on my way to do
that.
CARTER
I thought I'd drop in on, uh, Samantha.
See how she's doing.
O'NEILL
She's fine. I think she'd rather be
left alone at the moment. Just stop
in tomorrow.
CARTER
Oh, all right. Well, good night, Sir.
O'NEILL
Carter?
CARTER
Yes Sir?
O'NEILL
How are you doing with this. twin thing?
CARTER
Do you have a couple of hours?
O'NEILL
Okay.
CARTER
That was the answer.
O'NEILL
Oh, oh.
CARTER
Good night, Sir.
Sam walks off.
O'NEILL
Good night, Major.
Samantha's Room.
Samantha is brushing her hair when she hears something and drops
the brush. She grabs hold of the bed and suddenly her face morphs
out.
SGC Infirmary
Samantha is in a bed and Sam walks in.
CARTER
What is it? What's happening?
FRAISER
Dr Carter has gone into some sort of
convulsive shock. I don't know the cause
and I don't know how to stop it.
Samantha starts to fit again.
FRAISER
Easy.
SAMANTHA
Not medical. Temporal. Entropic cascade
failure.
CARTER
On the cellular level?
SAMANTHA
Yes. I thought it would take years not
days.
CARTER
So it's a side effect of travel through
the quantum mirror.
KAWALSKY
Then why don't I have it?
CARTER
I'm guessing Dr Carter has it because
I'm here. The increased entropy generated
by both of us existing in the same reality
might theoretically be causing the temporal
distortion.
SAMANTHA
Not theoretical any more.
FRAISER
Okay, so then how do I treat this?
SAMANTHA
You can't.
CARTER
The more time passes the worse it should
get.
SAMANTHA
So I'm gonna die here.
O'NEILL
You're not gonna die.
CARTER
Actually, sir.
O'NEILL
Carter.
CARTER
Well the only way she won't is if we
send her back.
KAWALSKY
If she goes back, the Goa'uld will kill
her.
SGC Briefing room.
DANIEL
Think about it: Billions of people enslaved.
I just can't help but feel that in the
grand scheme of things, we owe them.
Besides the only way to really help
Dr Carter is to stop the Goa'uld in
her reality and save whatever's left.
HAMMOND
How do you suggest we do that Dr Jackson?
The resources of their entire world
couldn't defend against the Goa'uld.
DANIEL
What about the resources of our world?
CARTER
What do we have that they don't?
DANIEL
Our fate. We made contact with the Asgard.
O'NEILL
So?
DANIEL
So if Dr Carter can make contact with
the Asgard in her reality, maybe their
Asgard will be willing to help them.
HAMMOND
Defend their world against the Goa'uld?
DANIEL
Yes.
O'NEILL
And just how do you propose we raise
the Asgard, in their reality?
DANIEL
Okay, we still have the dialling program
that took you to the Asgard home planet,
right?
CARTER
Which we could download to a removable
hard drive. But that still won't do
it. Remember, in order to dial the Asgard
homeworld they had to provide us with
a generator to transfer extra energy
to the Gate's capacitors. I can't get
it to work again. Apparently, it was
designed to work only once.
TEAL'C
Assuming, Major Carter can figure it
out, once in her reality it will be
difficult to get Dr Carter to the Stargate
without the Goa'uld detecting and stopping
her.
KAWALSKY
That's where I come in. Permission to
join the briefing Sir?
Hammond indicates for him to sit down.
KAWALSKY
I'll get her to the Stargate. What you
think I'm gonna let her go alone? She's
my best friend's wife.
Sam and Jack look at each other as Sam works out who Kawalsky's
best friend is/was.
O'NEILL
You'll need someone to hook up the power
generator.
CARTER
And download the dialling program.
TEAL'C
You will also require my assistance.
KAWALSKY
We can handle this.
DANIEL
No, Teal'c has a point. You said yourself
that Teal'c led the assault on the mountain
in your reality. Couldn't we use something
like that to our advantage?
O'NEILL
Quite the military mind, Daniel Jackson.
CARTER
No, Sir. I'm sorry. Teal'c can't go
anymore than I can. Entropic cascade
failure. If I go, there will still be
two of me in one reality. And the same
will be true with Teal'c.
TEAL'C
Dr Carter did not become ill during
her first 48 hours. If our mission is
not completed during that time, it is
most likely that we will be dead.
O'NEILL
Good point. Are you okay with all this
Sir?
HAMMOND
If you feel confident you can pull this
off, I have no objections. However,
on your return, I want that quantum
mirror destroyed.
DANIEL
Okay, well this is all well and good,
but none of us are going anywhere unless
we get that Asgard generator working
again.
O'NEILL
Okay. Carter, download the program to
the removable whatever-it-is and meet
me and yourself in the lab.
CARTER
Yes Sir.
Lab
SAMANTHA
Well this is incredible. If the Asgard
could design this to give the Gate extra
juice then they're just the little green
men we're looking for.
O'NEILL
They're grey actually. Roswell Grey
to be exact.
CARTER
I had a hard time trying to figure out
how this worked the first time let alone
make it work again.
SAMANTHA
If it's powered by the energy module
of a staff weapon why doesn't it.
CARTER
Blow up? My best guess is the device
creates a modulated dampening field
around the liquified naqahdah cell.
SAMANTHA
Which controls the energy transfer to
the capacitor. So maybe the modulation
is thrown out of whack each time it's
activated.
CARTER
That's exactly what I thought! But how
do you even begin to recalibrate a field
that you can't generate in the first
place?
O'NEILL
Hey, hey, hey, hey! Are you Carters
gonna be able to figure this out?
SAMANTHA/CARTER
We'll figure it out.
Samantha goes into convulsive shock again.
SAMANTHA
Aarrgh!
CARTER
We have to figure it out.
Room with Mirror
Kawalsky is explaining to Daniel how to work the controller for
the mirror.
KAWALSKY
Okay, the way Dr C explained it, the
controller is not what you'd call an
exacting science. You can't just dial
up an address like you would on a Stargate.
You have to kinda figure out where you
are.
DANIEL
I guess it's not a very expedient way
to get home.
KAWALSKY
As long as you don't turn it off, it's
always connected to the same reality.
DANIEL
So when you turn it on again, it won't
be connected to the reality you came
from?
KAWALSKY
Right. We'd have to find it again. Now
this thing switches to the various realities.
If I turn it on now, it should come
up somewhere the reality it was last
on.
He switches the mirror on and we see a corridor similar to one
in the SGC.
KAWALSKY
There. See? That's not it. No grenade
damage. I tossed a grenade down the
hall to slow them down so they didn't
see us go through the mirror.
DANIEL
So we need to find a reality that's
just right. Do you mind if I.?
KAWALSKY
Oh..
He hands the controller to Daniel and Daniel turns it. It comes
on to a room similar to Area 51
KAWALSKY
There. See? You probably turned it the
wrong way. Since this device should
be in a storage closet in my reality,
dial it the other way.
Daniel dials until he comes across a corridor with Jaffa in it.
KAWALSKY
Change it! Change it! Change it!
Daniel changes it to an empty hall.
KAWALSKY
Okay. Closer. What you wanna do is dial
it in smaller increments.
Jack walks in.
O'NEILL
Daniel? You understand this thing?
DANIEL
I think so.
O'NEILL
Good.
Samantha comes into view.
SAMANTHA
Colonel!
CARTER
We did it!
O'NEILL
Already?
SAMANTHA
Yeah, all we needed was the ratio decay
rate of naqahdah relative to the energy
output.
CARTER
Which I learned to calculate when I
learned about our new naqahdah generator.
It's just the ratio.
O'NEILL
Agh! It works, right?
Samantha flicks the switch and it glows green.
CARTER
It works.
O'NEILL
Good.
KAWALSKY
I guess we better go do this.
SGC Storage Room
Samantha has changed into her normal clothes, Kawalsky is back
in his black BDU's and Teal'c comes in wearing Jaffa uniform.
Jack and Daniel are standing by the mirror also wearing black
BDU's.
SAMANTHA
Yep, that's right. Looks like him.
TEAL'C
I am not fond of wearing this uniform
again.
KAWALSKY
Well I'm not too fond of seeing you
wear it.
DANIEL
I've searched through all the descriptions
of realities close to ours and this
has to be it. It's the only one matching
your description.
KAWALSKY
Yeah.
Sam comes in and stands in front of Samantha.
CARTER
Wish I could go.
SAMANTHA
Same here. But you don't wanna go through
a cascade tremor, believe me. We made
a good team Major.
CARTER
Yeah, we did Doctor.
SAMANTHA
Plus your hair's kinda grown on me.
Pardon the pun.
CARTER
You'd better go.
Samantha walks to the mirror and Sam turns to Jack.
CARTER
I'll be here in case you need anything
from this side, sir.
O'NEILL
All right. On three. One, two, three.
They touch the mirror and are transported to the other side.
An alarm is going off so they move to hide quickly. The sounds
of Jaffa troops are heard. Jack looks back and still sees Sam
on the other side of the mirror. He makes a slashing movement
indicating Daniel should switch the mirror off. Daniel mouths
he shouldn't do that but Jack mouths back that he should 'switch
it off'. Daniel switches off the mirror. The team waits for the
Jaffa to go past but one returns to look into the storage room.
He then walks off. Jack gives the team some hand signals and
he and Kawalsky move out following the Jaffa. As they go we see
the SGC has been trashed. They reach the Gateroom door and we
see Jaffa lined up behind EvilTeal'c.
EVIL TEAL'C
Jaffa!
They bow to their knees as the Stargate disengages. Apophis walks
down the ramp with two Serpent Guards. Evil Teal'c bows his head
and Apophis walks off.
EVIL TEAL'C
Jaffa!
They rise again. Meanwhile in the corridor, Jack signals Kawalsky
to retreat.
EVIL TEAL'C
Kree!
The Jaffa start to move out. Jack and Kawalsky wait a little
way in the opposite direction and Jack throws a metallic object.
Evil Teal'c turns his head at the sound.
EVIL TEAL'C
Lonok.
Jack and Kawalsky move and Evil Teal'c starts to follow.
EVIL TEAL'C
Kronok, Jaffa!
Evil Teal'c sees Jack and starts to run after him.
EVIL TEAL'C
Jaffa! Kree! Jaffa!
He reaches the open door of the storage room and raises his staff
weapon. He slowly enters and comes face to face with.. Himself.
TEAL'C
Kel nok Teal'c.
EVIL TEAL'C
Kel shak?
TEAL'C
Renounce Apophis as a false God and
join us in our deliverance of this world
and I will spare you.
EVIL TEAL'C
Shol'va!
The end of his staff weapon glows but Teal'c is quicker and shoots
him dead.
O'NEILL
The idea was to zat him.
TEAL'C
As I said O'Neill. Ours is the only
reality of consequence.
AU SGC Corridor.
Some more Jaffa approach the storage room. Samantha comes out
with Teal'c posing as Evil Teal'c.
TEAL'C
Jaffa. Kree!
He shuts the door behind him.
TEAL'C
Kel toc no.
Samantha is led away.
AU SGC storage room
Jack signals Kawalsky to watch the door and he goes over to Daniel
who is trying to find his/our reality.
O'NEILL
All right. I gotta know.
DANIEL
Yes, I'm about to activate it.
O'NEILL
No, no, no. Not that. What the hell
does Kree mean?
DANIEL
Well, actually, it means a lot of things.
Uh, loosely translated it means "attention,"
"listen up," "concentrate."
O'NEILL
Yoo-hoo?
DANIEL
Yes, in a manner of speaking.
O'NEILL
Oh.
DANIEL
Okay, here goes.
He switches the device on and doesn't get the reality he just
came from.
DANIEL
That's what I was afraid of. When I
turned off the device, it lost it's
place. I have to find our reality all
over again.
O'NEILL
All right. It's okay. We knew that might
happen. Stay with it.
Daniel keeps turning the remote while Jack and Kawalsky move
out again shutting the door behind them.
Jack and Kawalsky move down the hallways until they reach a panel
on the wall. Jack keeps watch while Kawalsky puts explosives
down between the wall and panel edge. They move away slightly
and Jack detonates it. Jack checks inside after it's blown and
they start to climb the steps inside.
AU Control Room.
Apophis and Jaffa are torturing AU Hammond for information.
APOPHIS
I will ask you this one more time, human.
What is the address of the planet to
which your leaders have fled? The place
you call "beta site".
One of the Jaffa strikes AU Hammond on the back with a pain stick
and he cries out.
AU HAMMOND
Aaarrghhh!!
APOPHIS
Where have your leaders gone?
Teal'c arrives with Samantha.
TEAL'C
Kel Apophis.
APOPHIS
Teal'c. Who is this?
TEAL'C
She was captured attempting a escape,
my lord.
APOPHIS
This one will not tell us the glyphs
for the planet where they've sent their
leaders. Get it out of him. Or get it
out of her.
TEAL'C
Yes, my lord.
Apophis leaves with two Serpent Guards.
Teal'c is left with two Jaffa.
TEAL'C
Attend to our lord. I will take care
of these. Kree Jaffa!
They bow and leave.
AU HAMMOND
You might as well kill me.
TEAL'C
I would never do such a thing General
Hammond.
SAMANTHA
It's okay. You're not hallucinating.
He's from an alternate reality.
AU HAMMOND
So that mirror thing worked?
SAMANTHA
Yeah. But don't worry. I won't say "I
told you so".
AU HAMMOND
We should have tried it a long time
ago Doctor.
As they untie him, Teal'c notices on the monitors that a Goa'uld
pyramid ship is descending over the mountain.
TEAL'C
They have landed on the mountain.
SAMANTHA
There's still a chance we can stop them
Sir. We're gonna attempt to contact
a race of aliens that they have in their
reality. Enemies of the Goa'uld.
AU SGC Corridor..
Jack pushes out a grid in the wall and he and Kawalsky come through.
They pull out zat guns and carry on.
AU SGC Storage room.
Daniel is still flicking between realities. He comes across one
that shows Jaffa in SGC corridors.
DANIEL
Whoops! Too far.
He flicks between two realities with Jaffa in the SGC and then
hits a beach scene.
DANIEL
Come on, please.
AU SGC Main power vault.
Jack opens the door to the grid and opens Kawalsky's pack with
the Asgard device in.
KAWALSKY
The Carters are pretty smart figuring
that thing out, huh? So you and Sam,
you never had a thing in your world,
huh?
O'NEILL
Sam is a Major in my world.
KAWALSKY
Yeah, I know. It's against regulations,
right? You two look pretty good together,
let me tell you.
O'NEILL
Kawalsky? During your Special Ops training,
in your world, did they cover silence?
AU SGC Storage room.
Daniel is still flicking. He suddenly comes across one that has
Sam and other Airmen behind sandbags in another Storage room.
DANIEL
Yes.
In the mirror, Sam moves forward and lowers her weapon. She then
beckons to him to come through. Daniel waves back but then notices
that on her fatigues it says Capt. Carter.
DANIEL
You're a Captain.
He waves back and goes to turn the remote again.
DANIEL
Close.
AU SGC Control Room.
Samantha is sat at the computer.
SAMANTHA
Okay, now.
Teal'c inserts something into a machine in the background.
SAMANTHA
I hope your Jack is good enough to get
the transformer on line.
AU SGC Main power vault.
Jack plugs the last wires in, switches the generator on and he
and Kawalsky leave.
AU SGC Control Room.
The Gate starts to dial.
TEAL'C
It appears that he is.
The Gate continues to rotate.
TEAL'C
You must prepare to go through the Gate,
Dr Carter.
Samantha gets up and kisses Teal'c on the cheek.
SAMANTHA
Thank you, Teal'c.
The Eighth Chevron locks and the Gate engages.
Hammond puts down his gun and places his hands on his head. Samantha
reaches the Gate room and ducks under a zat blast.
TEAL'C
Jaffa! Kree hol mel! Hol mel Jaffa!
The Jaffa stops and Samantha takes the opportunity to run up
the ramp and dive headlong into the event horizon. The Gate closes.
APOPHIS
Teal'c.
Teal'c turns to see Apophis standing behind him.
APOPHIS
Why do you betray me?
Teal'c stands silently.
AU SGC Corridor.
Jack and Kawalsky move back towards the storage room. They open
the door to be confronted with 7 Jaffa all pointing staff weapons
at them and Daniel, who is in the middle.
JAFFA
Lower your weapons or we will kill him.
KAWALSKY
Colonel?
O'NEILL
Yeah, we should do that.
One of the Jaffa then discovers Evil Teal'c dead on the floor.
AU SGC Control Room.
Teal'c, AU Hammond, Jack, Daniel and Kawalsky are lined up on
their knees in front of Apophis.
DANIEL
Déjà vu.
APOPHIS
Who are you? My First Prime killed
you before my very eyes.
O'NEILL
I'm feeling much better, thank you.
APOPHIS
Then who are you? What magic is this?
DANIEL
You should know better than anyone,
there's no such thing as magic.
APOPHIS
Trey lan tonik.
A Jaffa behind AU Hammond raises his zat gun.
APOPHIS
I will ask you one more time. How could
you have risen from the dead without
a sarcophagus?
Apophis nods at the Jaffa and he zats AU Hammond.
O'NEILL
All right, I'm guessin' the second
shot kills in this world too, huh?
APOPHIS
Tell me what I want to know!
O'NEILL
Hey. I'd love to. But I don't understand
it myself. He does.
DANIEL
Okay, I'll, uh, I'll give it a try.
Um, you see, at every point in time,
there are infinite possibilities. A
parallel reality exists for each possibility
so there are literally infinite branches.
The Jaffa zats AU Hammond a second time at Apophis' nod.
KAWALSKY
NO! You..
The Jaffa behind Kawalsky grabs him and restrains him.
O'NEILL
Kawalsky!
APOPHIS
Tell me where you come from.
DANIEL
From an alternate reality.
O'NEILL
One in which, by the way, you're dead.
The Jaffa then zats Daniel.
O'NEILL
Aw come on!
KAWALSKY
He told you everything he knows!
The Jaffa raises his zat again ready to give Daniel the second
shot when another Jaffa runs up the steps.
JAFFA2
My lord. Tel kol, Apophis. Kree no tel,
Reenlokia!
He points at the monitor above their heads. The Gate starts to
activate and a blip is seen heading towards the mountain on the
screen.
Daniel is helped up by Jack and Kawalsky.
APOPHIS
Mel tok nee!
Most of the Jaffa leave the room except for the Serpent Guards.
Apophis raises his hand with the Ribbon Device on when...
He is beamed out by the Asgard.
O'NEILL
Okay, I'm guessin'.
DANIEL
Asgard.
O'NEILL
All right.
The Gate activates and the Jaffa start to run through it. As
the last Jaffa jumps through, the end of his staff weapon is
caught and severed as the wormhole shuts down.
In the Control Room, Jack, Daniel, Teal'c and Kawalsky see the
Goa'uld ship taking off from the mountain. An Asgard ship is
descending. The mountain shakes and the body of AU Hammond is
beamed out.
TEAL'C
It appears Dr Carter was successful.
O'NEILL
Come on. Ya gotta love those guys!
Samantha is then beamed down.
SAMANTHA
I met the Asgard.
O'NEILL
We guessed that.
AU Hammond is suddenly beamed down alive and well. Samantha goes
over to give him a hug and kisses him on the cheek. The Asgard
ship then takes off.
O'NEILL
Love those guys.
AU SGC Storage Room.
Hammond and Sam are waiting on the other side of the mirror while
Daniel, Teal'c and Jack say goodbye to Samantha and Kawalsky.
KAWALSKY
Colonel, it's been a pleasure to serve
with you. again.
O'NEILL
Likewise.
KAWALSKY
Right, right.
They salute each other. Kawalsky then turns to salute Teal'c
and Daniel. Samantha moves to stand in front of Jack.
SAMANTHA
This is hard. Goodbye for a second time.
O'NEILL
It's the first time.
SAMANTHA
It doesn't feel that way to me. You
have to understand. My Jack had the
same face, same voice, same hands.
O'NEILL
Which brings to mind an obvious question.
How could you marry such a loser?
Samantha smiles and turns to Daniel and Teal'c.
SAMANTHA
Thank you.
DANIEL
You're welcome.
Jack tilts his head to indicate that Teal'c and Daniel should
go back through the mirror. They do so.
Samantha and Jack stare at one another and she moves in to kiss
him. The camera then shows Sam and Hammond through the mirror
watching. Sam looks everywhere else but Samantha and Jack kissing
but is then drawn to watch them.
SAMANTHA
You're really not him, are you?
O'NEILL
No.
SAMANTHA
I just wish...
O'NEILL
Yeah.
Jack walks over to the mirror and touches it. He appears back
on the other side and the mirror goes dark. Samantha looks away
from the mirror with tears running down her cheeks.
Fade out.
THE END
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