Bounty

Bounty is the fifteenth episode of the tenth season of Stargate SG-1.

Plot
Cameron Mitchell rings into a darkened room. Moving to the cargo he slices open a bag with his knife, finding kassa kernels inside. Sam, Teal'c, and Daniel ring into similar cargo rooms and begin setting explosives with a countdown of one minute. Sam notices a green light scanning the room. She radios the team telling them to get out. Daniel and Teal'c finish, and all but Mitchell ring out. He has been caught by a number of guards. A firefight ensues, pinning Mitchell.

Aboard a Goa'uld transport piloted by Vala, Sam informs Mitchell that everyone else is done. Teal'c offers to help, but there is no time—the explosives will detonate in less than 30 seconds. Mitchell manages to get onto the ring platform, and Sam activates it remotely from the transport. The transport flies away as the kassa transport train explodes.

On board a Lucian Alliance Ha'tak, Netan, the leader of the Lucian Alliance, receives the news that a third raid by SG-1 has destroyed another transport. This has severely depleted the kassa bean supply. Enraged, Natan places a bounty on SG-1.

Back on Earth, Vala convinces Mitchell to let her accompany him to his high school reunion in Kansas. Sam and Dr. Lee are at a scientific conference, presenting the "new" technologies of the chimera holographic projector (revealed in "Covenant") and a "busted" plasma cannon. Daniel, meanwhile, is in a library conducting research when he encounters an attractive young woman who offers to help him with his searches, but he declines.

Two alien bounty hunters are shown on board a Tel'tak scout ship, when suddenly the whole ship rocks, and it is revealed that the ship was shot by staff cannons mounted on another Tel'tak commanded by the bounty hunter Ventrell. The Tel'tak controlled by two aliens has it's shields drained, and one of the Aliens appear to operate the hyperdrive.Ventrell's Tel'tak manages to destroy the other Tel'tak before it jumps into hyperspace. He then replies to himself: "Sorry boys, but I don't like competition."

A few bounty hunters near Earth and detect only three members of SG-1 on the planet. Off-world, the Jaffa Cha'ra urges Teal'c to take a position on the Jaffa high council. They are suddenly attacked by unseen bounty hunters and Teal'c is grazed by an energy blast. Teal'c urges Cha'ra to put out word that he was gravely injured in order to lure the attackers into a trap.

Vala and Mitchell sit with his parents, and Vala misleads them into thinking she and Cameron are dating. Cam's father was previously seen in "Collateral Damage", when we learned that he lost his legs in a crash. While setting up for the reunion, Mitchell reunites with Amy Vandenberg, "the one who got away". Amy was previously mentioned in "Ripple Effect". Vala is introduced to Mitchell's old friend Darrell Grimes. Elsewhere, Daniel again encounters the strange young woman, who now asks him if he would like to go somewhere to be alone with her. Daniel declines and the woman pulls out a Goa'uld Za'tarc weapon. Daniel runs while she shoots repeatedly. Daniel exits the museum, but the woman teleports in behind him and and tells him to stop or she'll kill a woman walking down the sidewalk with her baby and points her weapon at them. Daniel surrenders, but just then his pursuer is hit by a bus.

Sam, at the conference, receives a call from General Landry about the incident. General Landry, believing this to be an isolated incident, tells her not to worry and to stay at the conference. Mitchell's cell phone has no service and he is unable to hear General Landry's message.

Sam walks onto the stage to deliver her presentation and is shot by a sniper. The shot, however, passes directly through her—it was a holographic projection, and the real Sam is backstage. Sam shuts off the device, and with Dr Lee's help fixes the plasma cannon. Sam walks onto the stage with the gun and shoots the sniper. The audience, believing this to be part of the presentation, applauds.

Back in the Jaffa village, a cloaked stranger enters the tent where Teal'c is being treated. He pulls out a knife, but is Zatted by Teal'c. Cha'ra and his men come back, astounded that the would-be assassin was Jaffa. Teal'c is not convinced. With one finger, he wipes the assassin's "tattoo" off his forehead.

Mitchell receives another call from General Landry, but still cannot hear him. Two bounty hunters follow him in his search for a hard-line. One is using a mimic device similar to those first seen in "Foothold". The other, a human, leads the first bounty hunter into a closet and kills him, then continues to follow Mitchell.

Meanwhile, Darrell offers Vala some liquor and takes her into an auditorium where they sit as Darrell attempts to woo her. Vala stops him, telling him that she is married.

Mitchell calls General Landry, but finds himself held at gunpoint. The bounty hunter takes the phone and, using a device to mimic Cam's voice, tells General Landry to send backup. He then tells Mitchell that he intends to get all of SG-1 at once.

Vala, coming back from the auditorium with Darrell, recognizes the bounty hunter and assumes he is after her, when in truth he doesn't even know she is there. Mitchell, dancing with Amy, asks her to slap him and leave the auditorium, but Darrell distracts the bounty hunter so Vala can throw a fire extinguisher at him.

The bounty hunter pulls out a gun and fires once into the air. The crowd panics and tries to get out, but the bounty hunter has magnetically sealed the door. He threatens to shoot Amy or Darrell, but calms down upon hearing Sam saying that SG-1 will surrender as soon as the hostages are released. The bounty hunter tells Sam that the hostages will be released, but SG-1 has to come in first. Sam, Teal'c, and Daniel beam in unarmed. The bounty hunter herds SG-1 into the center of the dance floor. Rings break through the ceiling of the gym and they are all ringed aboard a transport ship sitting on top of the gym.

The bounty hunter is surprised to find himself held at gunpoint in his own ship. Sam explains that they found the ship, and then used the holographic projection technology to create the illusion that they had beamed into the gym.

The bounty hunter, Ventrell, tells SG-1 that stopping him will not stop the bounty hunters. Mitchell replies that Netan's followers will see this incident as yet another failure on Netan's part.

Later, on Netan's flagship, an intruder dispatches Netan's guards and enters his quarters, but is shot by Ventrell. Netan tells Ventrell he will be richly rewarded. Ventrell points his gun at Netan and says that he will be, but not for saving him.

Back in Kansas at the Mitchell family farm, Amy and Mitchell set things straight and share a kiss, before being interrupted by Vala. Amy agrees to visit Colorado Springs, sometime soon.