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 * 5.19 "Menace" Episode Guide

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TEASER

EXT&mdash;OFFWORLD

[SG-1 approach a large, ruined building.]

CARTER Looks like it was once an advanced civilisation, Sir.

DANIEL No survivors.

O'NEILL No bodies either.

DANIEL Based on the overgrowth, I'm guessing this place was destroyed a long time ago.

INT OF BUILDING

[From the interior of the building, Teal'c is seen opening the door. SG-1 enter the building.]

CARTER Faint energy readings definitely coming from here. Nothing dangerous as far as I can tell.

INT OF BUILDING

[A female body is lying on a plinth, a thin cloth over her face. O'Neill removes the cloth.]

DANIEL She's perfectly preserved. This must be some sort of tomb or crypt of some kind.

CARTER Or a science lab.

DANIEL Why would you say that?

CARTER Because these energy readings I'm getting, seem to be coming from her.

TITLES

INT&mdash;SGC CONTROL ROOM

[The Stargate is shown in the background, active but with the iris closed. Hammond comes down the stairs to the control room.]

DAVIS It's Colonel O'Neill, Sir.

[Hammond looks at the video transmission from the planet.]

O'NEILL (on video link) General?

HAMMOND Colonel. What do you have to report?

O'NEILL Yeah. Confirming initial MALP recon. Place is pretty much toast. However, Carter did find something.

HAMMOND Care to expand on that?

O'NEILL She thinks it's a robot, Sir.

CARTER Sir? I'm positive this is some sort of artificial life form but I can't be sure of anything more than that under these conditions. Request permission to bring it back to the SGC for further evaluation, Sir.

HAMMOND Can you assure me that will be safe?

CARTER Well it appears to be inactive at the moment Sir, I'm getting only very faint energy readings. I believe we could isolate it safely and I definitely think this is worth examining.

DANIEL It also may be the last remnants of a civilisation and the key to finding out exactly what happened here Sir.

HAMMOND Very well. Bring it through.

DANIEL Thank you.

CARTER Thank you.

O'NEILL Out, Sir.

INT&mdash;A LAB IN THE SGC

[Carter is looking intently at the body. Janet enters.]

CARTER Hey, Janet.

FRAISER Hey. How's the new toy?

CARTER Amazing. This is more advanced than any android we've encountered before. Check this out.

[Carter and Janet move to a microscope. Janet looks into it, seeing a green display.]

FRAISER That some sort of nanotechnology?

CARTER They seem to be some sort of self-repair mechanism.

FRAISER But they're inactive.

CARTER They seem to deactivate when disconnected from it. Her.

[Carter goes back over to the woman.]

CARTER According to the ultrasonic scan, the power system is centred here. (Carter indicates the side of the woman's head.) There seems to be some sort of mechanism to access it from the outside. I was just about to try to&hellip;

[Carter touches the robot's neck. A CD tray slides out.]

FRAISER Wow.

'''INT. STAIRS TO BRIEFING ROOM'''

[O'Neill follows Daniel up the stairs to the briefing room.]

DANIEL The Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, Chinese, they all envisioned synthetic beings that took on their shape and behaviour long before the words robot or android were ever uttered.

O'NEILL Yeah, so?

DANIEL So, even in Earth's earliest civilisations, it's been our nature to seek immortality through the creation of vessels for our consciousness.

O'NEILL Vessels?

[They arrive in the briefing room. Carter is already there, with Hammond.]

HAMMOND Colonel O'Neill, Dr Jackson. Major Carter and I were just discussing whether or not to activate the robot.

DANIEL You can?

CARTER I think I found a way to recharge the unit's main power cell. Now prior to this, it's been operating on less than one percent capacity. I'm hoping that that was enough to maintain the memory systems. Assuming it had any to begin with, of course.

O'NEILL Of course. Why do you want to do this again?

CARTER Well Sir, this is an incredibly advanced piece of technology. Given enough time, eventually I might be able to figure out how some of its functions work. The neurological systems seems to be as complex as a human brain.

O'NEILL So?

CARTER So, I'm hoping that the robot will be able to help me understand itself. Sir.

'''INT. SGC LAB'''

[Carter inserts a disc into the robot's CD tray. The tray closes but nothing happens.]

O'NEILL Now what?

CARTER I don't know. The power cell should be fully charged. As far as I can tell there isn't an on switch. It's possible the power was depleted for too long.

O'NEILL (To Daniel) Why don't you kiss her?

[The robot takes a deep breath.]

CARTER There's a pulse.

DANIEL It has a heartbeat?

O'NEILL It has a heart?

CARTER It's designed to create a very realistic illusion of humanity.

[The robot takes another breath and sits up.]

REECE Where am I?

DANIEL You're in a special facility on the planet Earth. My name is Daniel Jackson. This is Major Samantha Carter, this is Jack O'Neill.

O'NEILL Hi.

REECE My name is Reece. Where's my father?

DANIEL We're not sure. Uh, please let me explain.

REECE Don't hurt me.

DANIEL No one wants to hurt you.

REECE How did I get here?

DANIEL Um, we found you on your planet. We brought you through the Stargate.

REECE What is that?

CARTER Well there was one on your planet. It's a device that can be used to travel great distances through space.

DANIEL We can tell you more about it later.

REECE Why did you bring me here?

DANIEL Well I suppose there's no easy way to tell you this but the civilisation on your planet was destroyed.

REECE How?

DANIEL We don't know.

O'NEILL We were sort of hoping you could tell us.

REECE I er&hellip;I was asleep.

DANIEL Yes, we found you that way.

REECE What about my father?

DANIEL Well as far as we could tell, you were the only survivor. You don't know anything about what happened?

REECE My father knew there was danger. He told me to go to sleep. He said he would wake me when the danger went away.

DANIEL We're very sorry.

REECE What do you want?

DANIEL Well, we want to understand.

REECE What?

DANIEL Your planet and its history, and&hellip;

CARTER You.

REECE What about me?

CARTER Well I'd really like to know more about how you work. Your systems, how they function.

REECE I'm like you.

CARTER Ah, not exactly. At least as far as I can tell.

REECE How are we different?

DANIEL Sam, can I have a word?

CARTER Yeah.

DANIEL We're just going to step outside for a minute. Will you be okay? We'll be right back.

[Carter and Daniel walk into the corridor outside the room. Reece looks at O'Neill.]

O'NEILL Excuse me.

[O'Neill leaves the room and joins Carter and Daniel in the corridor.]

DANIEL I don't think she knows she's a robot.

O'NEILL Okay, how is that possible?

DANIEL Well the last time your consciousness was copied into a robot, you didn't figure it out right away.

CARTER Okay what are you suggesting?

DANIEL I'm just saying that maybe we should avoid slapping her in the face with the reality of her existence just moments after telling her, her planet was destroyed.

O'NEILL Why? It's a machine.

DANIEL She just found out her father's dead.

O'NEILL It's a machine.

CARTER He's right. It's not like it ever had a real father.

DANIEL Well maybe not. Maybe it's her creator. Or maybe we're talking to the stored consciousness of a real human being who once did have a real father. I think our past experience should be telling us to be careful about deciding what is and what isn't a life form.

CARTER Okay, I agree. All I'm saying is if she really doesn't know what she is, she has a right to.

DANIEL Okay, maybe we should wait a while. I mean, she did seem pretty upset.

O'NEILL For a machine.

DANIEL We don't know what kind of psychological effect it will have.

CARTER Psychological?

DANIEL Whether her behaviour is a result of sophisticated programming or not, I think the best way to find out about her and what she knows, is by dealing with her on her own terms, at least for now.

O'NEILL Couldn't hurt.

[Daniel returns to the room.]

CARTER It doesn't make any sense.

O'NEILL Which part?

CARTER Why would somebody attack and destroy an entire civilisation and leave one piece of incredibly advanced technology intact?

O'NEILL Isn't that what he's trying to figure out?

CARTER What I'm saying is, maybe there's something on the planet that we missed.

O'NEILL I'll go back.

INT&mdash;REECE'S ROOM

[Daniel is sitting in Reece's room, while she paces around, picking things up. Carter watches from an observation window.]

REECE Is the rest of your planet like this place?

DANIEL No it's very different.

REECE What's it like?

DANIEL Well, there's lots of varying climates, different kind of landscapes, big oceans, wide range of civilisations and each is home to a lot if different kinds of people.

REECE It sounds beautiful.

DANIEL Much of it is.

REECE Can I see it?

DANIEL Soon.

REECE Why not now?

DANIEL Well, because we still have more to talk about, Reece.

REECE I know, but we've been talking for so long now.

DANIEL I know, but you must know a lot more than what we've already talked about.

REECE I do know a lot.

DANIEL What can you tell me about the danger that came to your planet?

[She shakes her head, refusing to talk about that.]

INT&mdash;RUINED BUILDING ON PLANET

[On the planet, O'Neill and Teal'c enter the ruined building.]

O'NEILL Well this might have turned out to be one colossal waste of time. You boys find anything?

SG3 LEADER Just lots of debris.

O'NEILL I think our work is done here.

SG3 LEADER Colonel, you said to look for anything uncharacteristic of the indigenous technology, right?

O'NEILL I would never say anything like that, Major.

SG3 LEADER Right. Well, Major Carter said not to ignore anything however insignificant it may seem.

O'NEILL What have you got?

SG3 LEADER Well I'm sure it's nothing, Sir, but we found a bunch of these scattered around. I've never seen anything like them before.

[He hands O'Neill a container, from which O'Neill takes out a piece of a replicator.]

SG3 LEADER You know what they are?

O'NEILL Oh yeah.

INT&mdash;CARTER'S LAB

[Carter is studying the piece of replicator.]

CARTER No energy readings. I'd say these blocks are dead. Probably been on the planet since it was destroyed.

HAMMOND Replicators were the cause of the destruction?

TEAL'C The first evidence of the replicators in this galaxy.

DANIEL It must have been a long time ago.

CARTER Something still doesn't fit. The replicators we know go after advanced technology, why would they eat everything on the planet and leave Reece alone?

TEAL'C Perhaps she has some means of defending herself against the replicators.

DANIEL She was asleep.

CARTER It's possible that she's giving off some kind of signal or frequency that repels them, maybe not even by design but by coincidence.

O'NEILL Bug spray?

TEAL'C If that is the case, then Reece herself may be the key to helping us and the Asgard in our fight against the replicators.

CARTER Yeah, maybe, but we're still a long way from determining that.

HAMMOND Dr Jackson, what have you learned?

DANIEL Well actually not much, Sir. She's kind of hard to pin down in a conversation, her attention wanders. It's like she has the mind of a child.

[Behind Daniel, O'Neill is seen playing with a magnifying glass and pulling faces. The others look at him.]

O'NEILL What?

DANIEL I'm not sure, but she may not be telling me everything she knows about what happened.

HAMMOND You think she's deliberately hiding something?

DANIEL I get that feeling.

HAMMOND Why would someone create a robot with the mind of a child?

CARTER Well, like Daniel suggested, it could be a transferred consciousness, or it could be that the creator intended for her to be emotionally mature but just couldn't get the programming right.

HAMMOND If Dr Jackson is right, and she is hiding something, we should proceed very carefully with any further interactions.

CARTER Sir, I think it's time that we told Reece the truth. Daniel, maybe if she's forced to confront the fact that she's an artificial life form, it could change any pre-programmed priorities that she's adhering to.

INT&mdash;REECE'S OBSERVATION ROOM

[Daniel enters.]

REECE I'm so happy you're here.

DANIEL What's that?

[Reece holds a small sculpture of two people intertwined.]

REECE Oh, I made it. Do you like it?

DANIEL It's very nice. How did you make this?

REECE I'm so tired of this room, Daniel. Can I please go outside?

DANIEL Um, sit down for a minute, Reece. We need to talk.

[Carter and O'Neill enter the observation room and sit down. Reece looks up and sees them.]

REECE No.

DANIEL Look this is just going to take a minute, so just please sit down.

REECE No, I don't want to talk any more Daniel, I want to have fun. Don't you ever have fun?

DANIEL Not as much as I would like to. Would you please sit down, this is very important. Sit.

REECE Then can we have some fun?

DANIEL Yes.

REECE Promise?

DANIEL Yes. Okay, Reece, you know that there are different kinds of people, right?

REECE Yes.

DANIEL In fact there are many different kinds of life forms.

REECE This is boring.

O'NEILL (To Carter, in the Observation Lab) I'm starting to identify with this girl more and more.

DANIEL Reece, I know you think we're the same but we're not.

REECE My father always said I was special.

DANIEL You are. You are very special. But despite the fact that you and I look very much the same, we're very different.

REECE That's obvious.

DANIEL I mean on the inside.

REECE How?

DANIEL Well, I'm flesh and blood. You are a machine. A very, very sophisticated machine, more of a computer really.

REECE I'm alive.

DANIEL Yes you are. Just not like me. Even though you were created to be very human like, you are not human.

REECE Yes, I am.

DANIEL (standing up) No you're not, Reece. Okay, I can prove that to you.

[Reece turns and pushes Daniel violently into a bookcase on the far side of the room. She then bangs on the glass of the observation window.]

REECE I wanna leave here! Let me out! Let me out! Now!

INT&mdash;A CORRIDOR IN THE SGC

[O'Neill comes round the corner as Janet is tending to Daniel's head injury.]

O'NEILL Hey. That went well.

CARTER Maybe she has some sort of programming that prevents her from acknowledging she's anything but human.

O'NEILL Robot denial?

DANIEL Looks that way.

O'NEILL Has it occurred to anyone that this thing may have been lying around that planet for, oh, quite some time and that maybe it's broken? Or perhaps it never worked right in the first place?

CARTER So you think we should just shut her down?

O'NEILL Oh, I don't know, let's ask the man who just had his head cracked open.

DANIEL I don't think she meant to hurt me. I just don't think she liked what I was saying.

O'NEILL I don't like most of what you say. I try to resist the urge to shove you through a wall.

CARTER Somehow Reece managed to survive a massive attack from replicators. There has to be more that we can learn from her, Sir.

INT&mdash;REECE'S OBSERVATION ROOM

[Daniel enters.]

REECE Finally!

[She hugs Daniel.]

REECE Do you forgive me? You know I didn't mean to hurt you, right?

DANIEL I know.

REECE Good. I forgive you too.

DANIEL Wh&mdash;wh&mdash;wh- what?

REECE For attacking me.

DANIEL I didn't attack you Reece.

REECE It doesn't matter. Let's forget it.

DANIEL No. No, I think we should talk about this.

REECE No, please Daniel, I'm so bored. I just wanna get out of here. I wanna see your world. Why are you all so afraid of me?

DANIEL No one's afraid of you.

REECE I won't do anything bad, I promise.

DANIEL I know.

REECE I made you something.

DANIEL Yeah?

REECE Remember when you said you wished that you could have more fun?

DANIEL Yeah.

[A replicator crawls over the toys on a shelf and perches on Reece's forearm.]

REECE Don't be afraid. It's just a toy.

INT&mdash;CARTER'S LAB

[The replicator is in a glass case. O'Neill is tapping on the glass.]

CARTER Sir, that glass is supposed to be acid resistant but it hasn't been tested against replicator spray.

[O'Neill stops tapping the glass.]

O'NEILL Why are we keeping this thing anyway? We know what they can do.

CARTER She made it. She can control it.

DANIEL Yes, but how did she make it?

CARTER Well I think I have a pretty good idea.

[Carter brings up CCTV of Reece in the observation room. She holds a pair of scissors, closes her hand over them, and they morph into a piece of replicator.]

CARTER Nanotechnology. The nanobots that she uses for self-repair are apparently able to reorder matter on a microscopic level. She understands their construction completely. She should know how to defeat them.

HAMMOND Will she tell us?

DANIEL Well that's the problem.

O'NEILL What?

DANIEL She's not talking.

O'NEILL We make her talk.

DANIEL I think she was offended because I didn't appreciate her present very much.

CARTER But this is so far beyond my understanding. I recommend that we contact the Asgard. Maybe they can help.

HAMMOND Agreed. I'll send SG-2 to try and make contact. In the meantime see what else you can learn.

INT&mdash;REECE'S OBSERVATION ROOM

[Daniel and O'Neill enter. Carter and Teal'c are watching on monitors.]

DANIEL Reece, we need to talk.

O'NEILL Tell us what you know about the replicators.

REECE Replicators?

O'NEILL It's what we call them because that's what they do.

REECE It's just a toy. It won't hurt you.

O'NEILL A toy? There are millions of those things floating around in space destroying everything they touch.

REECE I don't know what you mean.

O'NEILL They destroyed your planet and please, don't tell me you don't remember because I think you do.

REECE No! You want to destroy me!

INT&mdash;CARTER'S LAB

[The replicator moves. Teal'c points his P-90 at it.]

CARTER Easy.

INT&mdash;REECE'S OBSERVATION ROOM

DANIEL No one wants to hurt you.

O'NEILL Just tell us what happened.

REECE It wasn't my fault.

INT&mdash;CARTER'S LAB

[The replicator quietens down and stops moving.]

Reece's voice comes over the video feed.

REECE (heard over monitor) The people on my planet were afraid. They wanted to destroy my toys. They wanted to destroy me.

INT&mdash;REECE'S ROOM

REECE They said my father made me wrong, they thought that I was bad.

DANIEL What did you do?

REECE I taught my toys to make more of themselves. And I taught them to defend themselves and me. In case anyone ever tried to destroy us.

O'NEILL Well you taught them well.

DANIEL When your toys started to attack your world, why didn't you stop them?

REECE I tried but I couldn't. They wouldn't listen to me any more.

DANIEL Why did you go to sleep?

REECE They killed everyone, they killed my father. Then they went away. I was alone, I was sad. You don't like me any more. You think I'm bad.

O'NEILL Actually, we want you to help us.

DANIEL Reece, the replicators have become a problem for a lot of different worlds. We need to know how to stop them.

REECE You want to destroy them!

O'NEILL Yes.

DANIEL They're bad. They have to be stopped.

REECE You want to destroy me!

DANIEL No.

REECE Yes, you do. You think that my father made me wrong, you hate me.

INT&mdash;CARTER'S LAB

[The replicator lunges suddenly towards the glass and it cracks. The replicator sprays the glass and then jumps through. Teal'c shoots it.]

INT&mdash;REECE'S ROOM

[Reece looks distressed.]

INT&mdash;SGC BRIEFING ROOM

[O'Neill and Daniel enter as Hammond enters from his office.]

HAMMOND SG-2 has been unable to contact the Asgard through the Katal hall of wisdom.

O'NEILL Nothing?

CARTER I hope they're okay.

HAMMOND It would be unfortunate if the Asgard lost their battle with the replicators at the time when we may have the key to stopping them in our midst.

O'NEILL Oh, I wouldn't count the little fellas out just yet, Sir.

CARTER Sir, this robot is far beyond our understanding. We may be able to use our weapons to fight the replicators, but without the Asgards' help, I don't think we're going to be able to figure out how to use Reece to defeat them on a grand scale.

HAMMOND The robot's unwilling to co-operate?

O'NEILL Completely clammed up, Sir.

DANIEL She thinks we don't like her. Apparently her impression is that the people of her world thought she was poorly constructed and wanted her and her toys eliminated.

O'NEILL Which would make them far smarter than we are.

CARTER It seems whoever made Reece made a critical error. Made her smart enough to build the replicators and yet emotionally immature.

DANIEL She's just trying to defend herself. She really is just a kid who unwittingly taught her toys to become a weapon of destruction.

O'NEILL Maybe. She's been lying to us from the start.

HAMMOND Major, it sounds to me like we're over our heads here. Until we successfully contact the Asgard, I'm ordering you to shut the robot down.

O'NEILL Well, that's not going to be pretty.

HAMMOND Do whatever's necessary.

INT&mdash;REECE'S ROOM

[Reece looks up at the security cameras.]

INT&mdash;SECURITY ROOM

[The security monitors go on the fritz. The SF picks up the phone.]

SF#1 The cameras in Isolation Room 1 are offline and I can't seem to get them back.

INT&mdash;THE CORRIDOR OUTSIDE REECE'S ROOM

SF#2 We got it. (To the other SF) Cameras are down.

[He swipes a security card into the door mechanism, but it doesn't open. The second SF goes up the stairs.]

SF#3 They're in here.

[Replicators are crawling down the walls.]

INT&mdash;REECE'S ROOM

[She is sitting on the bed. In the background the shouts of the SFs can be heard.]

SF#2 Behind you!

[The sound of gunfire is heard.]

SF#2 Get somebody down here now! Hurry! Now!

INT&mdash;REECE'S ROOM

[Reece is sitting quietly on the bed.]

INT&mdash;SGC CORRIDOR

[SG-1 come out of an elevator. As an alarm sounds, they start to run.]

INT&mdash;CORRIDOR OUTSIDE REECE'S ROOM

[One of the SFs is on the floor having been attacked by a replicator.]

SF#2 He's still alive. The medical team's on the way.

DANIEL Where is she?

SF#2 The door was open and the prisoner was gone when I arrived, Sir.

CARTER Replicators.

O'NEILL (Into wall-phone) O'Neill for Hammond. Yes Sir, we may have a replicator situation down here. I suggest sealing the base and doing a clean sweep. Yes Sir. And we also have a robot on the loose.

CARTER Sir, we have to preserve her in one piece.

O'NEILL And we'd like it in one piece, if possible. Yes Sir.

[O'Neill hangs up the phone.]

O'NEILL Right, how'd this happen?

TEAL'C The room has been cleared of any substance that may have been used to create another replicator.

CARTER She must have made enough blocks for two of them the first time that would create more. There could be hundreds by now.

INT&mdash;IN THE SGC CORRIDORS

[SFs are being mobilised to tackle the replicators. O'Neill and a number of SFs walk steathily along a corridor.]

INT&mdash;IN ANOTHER AREA

[Teal'c and other SFs move down a corridor. The lights suddenly go out.]

INT&mdash;CONTROL ROOM

[Carter and Hammond enter the control room. Carter sits down at a computer terminal.]

CARTER They've already breached the power systems Sir. Initiating computer lockdown.

HAMMOND Is this really going to stop any replicators from accessing the dialling computer?

CARTER I doubt it, Sir, but it might buy us a little time.

[The computer screen goes off.]

SF#1 (On radio) Major Carter, security has been breached on level 28. Replicators have been spotted heading towards the control room.

CARTER Roger that.

[A replicator drops onto the computer.]

CARTER Suggest retreating until backup arrives, Sir.

[From the Control Room window, the Gate room door is seen sliding open. Reece enters, surrounded by replicators. She looks up as the Control Room blast doors start to come down.]

CARTER Sir!

INT&mdash;SGC CORRIDOR

[O'Neill moves along the corridor, followed by a number of SFs. They meet up with Carter, Hammond and Daniel.]

CARTER She's sealed herself in the Gate room. She's got a lot of replicators with her.

DANIEL She's probably trying to go home.

O'NEILL Let's let her.

CARTER Sir, we can't just let her leave.

O'NEILL We'll tell the Asgard where she is.

DANIEL Well I'm only guessing she's trying to go home. I mean, if she thinks we're trying to destroy her, she could be going anywhere.

CARTER We can't just let her leave with the replicators. She lost control of them once, it could happen again.

O'NEILL So we'll toss a nuke in behind her.

DANIEL I'd like to try and stop her first.

O'NEILL How?

DANIEL Maybe, get her trust back.

O'NEILL Then what?

DANIEL Then, then, then I don't know. I'm just making this up as I go.

CARTER If you could somehow manage to get close enough to her, you might be able to remove her power chip.

TEAL'C What of the replicators?

CARTER These aren't the same replicators that we're used to dealing with. Right now, she's controlling them. If Daniel can shut her down, the replicators might just cease to operate. Look, they exist to protect Reece. If she's eliminated, they have no protocol upon which to act.

TEAL'C They may attack Daniel Jackson in order to exact revenge and to restore their leader to power.

DANIEL Yeah, well that's where you guys will come in.

HAMMOND I'm willing to give you a chance, Dr Jackson.

O'NEILL General, with all due respect, I think it's a bad idea.

HAMMOND I hope not, Colonel.

INT&mdash;GATE ROOM

[Reece is standing on the ramp. The replicators are running around. The lights come on again. Daniel moves towards the Gate room door.]

DANIEL (Seen through the security camera) Reece, please let me in, I just want to talk to you.

[The door opens and Daniel enters. The door closes behind him.]

REECE Activate the Stargate.

DANIEL No. No, I don't want you to go.

REECE You hate me.

DANIEL No I don't. No one does.

REECE They're afraid of me.

DANIEL They don't understand you, Reece.

REECE I never meant to hurt anyone.

DANIEL I know. Please stay.

REECE It's too late now. I've accessed your computer system. I'll figure it out for myself.

DANIEL Reece. I don't want you to go.

REECE Why not?

DANIEL I want to be your friend.

REECE I never had a friend.

DANIEL I'll be your friend. Your toys may be a lot of fun but they're not human like us.

REECE They protect me.

DANIEL I'll protect you.

REECE Do you promise?

DANIEL I promise. No one will hurt you. Come on. (Daniel holds his hand out to Reece.) Show you my world?

REECE Really?

DANIEL Yeah.

[As she approaches, Daniel tries to reach the power pack at the side of her neck. Reece grabs Daniel's wrist and twists it, causing him to cry out in pain, before collapsing on the floor.]

REECE You are trying to disable me.

DANIEL No.

REECE Yes. You are lying. Lying is bad.

[She runs back up the ramp.]

REECE None of you will ever hurt me!

INT&mdash;SGC SECURITY CONTROL ROOM

[Carter is monitoring what is happening in the Gate room. All the cameras suddenly go off.]

CARTER Sir, Daniel's in trouble. Replicators have evacuated the Gate room. We're not sure where they went. All the cameras are down.

O'NEILL Yeah, roger that. We're going in.

[An SF starts cutting through the Gate room door with an oxyacetelene torch.]

INT&mdash;SGC SECURITY CONTROL ROOM

HAMMOND Major, I won't let the replicators escape this base. We have to set the self destruct.

CARTER Replicators have taken over the main computer Sir. We'll have to cut the system access and set the device locally.

[Carter and Hammond leave the security control room.]

INT&mdash;THE CORRIDOR OUTSIDE GATE ROOM

[An SF is still working on cutting open the Gate room door.]

INT&mdash;GATE ROOM

DANIEL (kneeling on the floor, holding his left wrist) Reece, please listen to me.

INT&mdash;SGC CORRIDOR

[Teal'c, O'Neill and a number of SFs are seen shooting replicators as they swarm into the corridor.]

INT&mdash;GATE ROOM

[Reece grabs her head.]

REECE No! Make them stop!

INT&mdash;CORRIDOR B5

HAMMOND On three count. Three, two, one.

[Carter and Hammond swipe their cards through the mechanism. The door opens.]

HAMMOND Clear.

[They go through the door, which closes behind them.]

INT&mdash;CORRIDOR OUTSIDE GATE ROOM

[Teal'c and a number of SFs are shooting replicators.]

INT&mdash;MAIN COMPUTER ROOM

CARTER (On radio to O'Neill) Sir, we're getting ready to set the self destruct.

INT&mdash;SGC CORRIDOR

O'NEILL (Over radio) I can't hear you!

INT&mdash;MAIN COMPUTER ROOM

[Carter inserts a key and types something into the computer.]

HAMMOND On my mark. Three, two, one, turn.

[Carter and Hammond turn their keys. The self-destruct countdown is seen as being set for five minutes.]

CARTER (Into radio) Sir, we've set the self destruct. You have less than five minutes to tell us to override. Do you copy?

INT&mdash;SGC CORRIDOR

O'NEILL (Into radio) Roger that.

INT&mdash;MAIN COMPUTER ROOM

[A replicator appears and Hammond shoots it as Carter ducks.]

CARTER Thank you.

[Another replicator appears.]

CARTER Sir!

[Carter shoots the replicator.]

INT&mdash;GATE ROOM

REECE Make them stop!

DANIEL I can't. You can.

REECE No! You'll kill me.

DANIEL No, no-one wants that. We just don't want you to destroy our world the way you destroyed yours.

REECE I didn't do it!

DANIEL Yes, you did. You created the replicators, you told them to replicate at all costs. They destroyed your world and you let them.

REECE It wasn't my fault!

DANIEL You could have stopped them before there were too many. You could stop them now before you lose control.

REECE No!

INT&mdash;MAIN COMPUTER ROOM

HAMMOND Cease fire!

[A replicator is seen on a hole at the top of a door. It is moving backwards and forwards.]

HAMMOND What's it doing?

CARTER I'm not sure, it's like it doesn't know what to do.

INT&mdash;SGC CORRIDOR

[O'Neill, Teal'c and numerous SFs are still tackling the replicators.]

INT&mdash;GATE ROOM

DANIEL Reece. Your father made you wrong!

REECE No!

DANIEL Yes! You destroyed your world.

REECE (Sobbing) I didn't mean to.

DANIEL I know. But now you're going to destroy mine too.

REECE I don't want to.

DANIEL I know. That's why you have to stop now. No one will hurt you. We may be able to fix you.

REECE How?

DANIEL Shut off your toys, go to sleep. We'll find a way.

REECE I don't believe you.

INT&mdash;SGC CORRIDOR

[O'Neill, Teal'c and the SFs continue shooting the replicators.]

INT&mdash;MAIN COMPUTER ROOM

[The countdown is at two minutes. The replicator at the top of the door moves forward. Carter and Hammond shoot it.]

CARTER (Into radio) Colonel, I think Reece is losing control. At least one of the replicators down here started to act on its own.

INT&mdash;GATE ROOM

DANIEL I will wake you up myself, I promise. I'm your friend. I don't want you to die.

REECE I don't want you to die either.

INT&mdash;SGC CORRIDOR

[Teal'c is surrounded by replicators.]

TEAL'C O'Neill!

[The airman cuts a hole in the Gate room door. O'Neill runs in, takes aim at Reece and shoots her. He turns and continues firing on the replicators in the corridor. Daniel kneels by Reece as her eyes close. Outside in the corridor, the replicators disintegrate.]

CARTER (Over radio) What's happening in there?

TEAL'C (Over radio) The replicators appear to have been disabled.

[O'Neill bends over Reece. He opens her power pack and takes out the disc.]

O'NEILL (Into radio) The robot has been neutralised.

INT&mdash;MAIN COMPUTER ROOM

HAMMOND Abort the self-destruct.

[Carter and Hammond take the keys out of the self-destruct system.]

INT&mdash;GATE ROOM

DANIEL You stupid sonovabitch.

O'NEILL Hey. You're welcome.

DANIEL You didn't have to shoot her.

O'NEILL Yes I did.

DANIEL She was shutting them down.

O'NEILL I had no way of knowing that and neither did you.

DANIEL They didn't stop because you shot her. They stopped because she told them to.

O'NEILL Carter said she was losing control. Now if just one of those damn things got out of this base, developed its own personality, we would be royally screwed.

DANIEL You just killed the only chance we'll ever have of stopping them.

O'NEILL Look, I'm sorry. But this is the way it had to go down and you know it.

O'NEILL (Into radio) All units, this is SG One Niner, commence sweep. I want every one of those damn things out of here.

[He leaves the Gate room, leaving Daniel sitting on the floor beside Reece.]

FADE OUT

ROLL CREDITS

Transcribed by Carole for Solutions, 19 Oct 03

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