Frozen/Transcript

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 * Frozen

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EXT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE

[A large snow vehicle is being driven towards the domed base.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE

[Carter and Dr. Michaels are conversing over a video link.]

MICHAELS It's a blip. A shadow on the ultrasound. Too deep to tell. You know, maybe a&hellip;a dead seal. Anyway, we're, uh, we're gonna rule it out and pack up for the season. Another week or two, it'll be dark most of the time, much too cold to work outside. As far as coming back next year, well, you know it's not up to me. The Pentagon reevaluates our presence here every year. Take it up with them.

CARTER (Over the monitor) Well, maybe my new conclusions about the DHD will be enough to convince them that we should continue.

INT&mdash;SGC CARTER'S LABORATORY

MICHAELS (over the monitor) I'm sure coming from you, it'll hold more weight.

CARTER The one found with the Antarctic Gate died shortly after it was brought back to Area 51. It was used a few times and then just ran out of energy. That was the first indication we had that the power sources fueling the Gate technology have a limited life span. We've run a number of tests comparing the power source to other off world DHDs. We think we now have evidence that the Gate we found down there is one of the oldest in the entire system. It could be as much as 50 million years old.

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE

MICHAELS The Antarctic plate wasn't covered by a glacier back then. It wasn't even at the South Pole.

INT&mdash;SGC CARTER'S LABORATORY

CARTER Well, the Gate didn't necessarily originate there. It could have been moved from another planet at any point in time, but that's what we need to try and determine.

MICHAELS (over the monitor) How?

CARTER There has to be something else down there.

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE

[Michaels sighs, frustrated.]

MICHAELS I mean we've been here four years running. Since we dug out those two Jaffa we've found nothing. If this latest lead turns out to be&hellip;

[A door opens.]

FIRST MAN Hey Michaels, the thing in the ice.

SECOND MAN It's something.

[Michaels looks at the two men, surprised, as they smile.]

FADE OUT

OPENING CREDITS

EXT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE

[SG-1, with Fraiser, have just arrived at the Antarctic Base. Jonas pauses and looks back.]

JONAS Why's the plane leaving?

O'NEILL Cold's no good for the electronics. It'll be back.

JONAS When?

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE

[As they get under cover, Michaels and the two men approach them.]

O'NEILL Let's ask these folks.

[Carter and Michaels shake hands.]

CARTER Hi.

MICHAELS Hi. It's nice to finally meet you, Major.

CARTER You too. Dr, Michaels, this is Dr. Fraiser.

[Michaels shakes hands with Fraiser.]

MICHAELS Doctor.

FRAISER Doctor.

[Dr. Michaels introduces her colleagues.]

MICHAELS Uh&hellip;Doctors Woods and Osbourne.

FRAISER Doctor.

WOODS Doctor.

OSBOURNE Major.

CARTER Doctor.

WOODS Major.

FRAISER Doctor.

O'NEILL All right. That's enough.

OSBOURNE Well, welcome to Antarctic, Colonel.

O'NEILL Thanks. Great to be back.

OSBOURNE Let's go inside.

[They walk from the snow-covered entryway into the body of the building.]

JONAS How long is this gonna take?

WOODS A few days, maybe more. Why?

JONAS Long range forecast doesn't look good.

[Carter, walking slightly ahead of Jonas and Fraiser, whispers to Michaels.]

CARTER Bit of a weather freak.

MICHAELS (quietly) He'll love it here.

[They enter the building. Jonas begins to unzip his jacket.]

MICHAELS Uh&hellip;you might want to leave your coats on. We're keeping the quarantine lab below freezing to maintain the specimen.

WOODS We thought you'd want to see it right away.

CARTER Absolutely.

[Michaels begins a brief tour of the base.]

MICHAELS As you can see, we're quite well equipped. We have a research lab, observation room, and in here, the quarantine lab.

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[They enter the quarantine lab where a large block of ice is lying on a table. There is something within the ice.]

WOODS After digging up those Jaffa the first year, we expected to find a lot more a lot faster.

[They all stand around the table.]

MICHAELS I named her Ayiana. Means eternal bloom.

JONAS Native American Indian?

MICHAELS Mm hmm. My grandfather was one-quarter Cherokee.

FRAISER How do you know it's a she?

MICHAELS Ultrasound.

WOODS You're guessing.

MICHAELS The form appears to be female, although, I admit, it's hard to tell for sure.

FRAISER Have you, uh, have you made a guess about her age?

MICHAELS Mm&hellip;25 to 35?

OSBOURNE Give or take several million years.

[Carter looks up from studying the ice block, surprised.]

CARTER Several million?

WOODS That's what the preliminary analysis of the oxygen content in the ice indicates.

JONAS Yeah, but didn't humans evolve on this planet somewhere between 8 and 9 hundred thousand years ago?

MICHAELS That's what we thought.

[Fraiser looks pleasantly surprised.]

FRAISER Oh, this could be big.

MICHAELS (to Carter) As you said, evidence now points to the Stargate found here predating the glacier.

[Carter nods her head in agreement.]

TEAL'C The Jaffa found near the Stargate could not have been frozen there that long ago.

MICHAELS Not even close.

JONAS Dr. Jackson theorized that when the Gate from Giza was buried roughly 2000 years ago that the Goa'uld managed to open up the Antarctic Gate.

CARTER Well, that's because a crevasse was formed. It allowed the wormhole to connect and ultimately create a larger opening. The Jaffa were frozen after that.

FRAISER But she wasn't.

MICHAELS Much before that.

TEAL'C So she's neither Jaffa, nor Goa'uld.

MICHAELS Well, whoever this is, she was probably around when the Antarctic Gate was first being used.

OSBOURNE We need to take more core samples to determine if she was actually frozen in the same vein.

[Fraiser has walked around the ice block, studying it. Standing next to Michaels, she fingers a hole in the ice.]

FRAISER Did you do a tissue sample?

MICHAELS Mm hmm. I'd like you to have a look.

O'NEILL Listen. Could somebody bottom-line this for me?

FRAISER Well, Sir, we could be looking at evidence that human beings evolved long before we thought they did.

MICHAELS And maybe not even originally on this planet.

O'NEILL Darwin would be crushed.

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;OFFICE

[O'Neill and Teal'c walk into a room containing a screen showing the observation lab, and an area for clothing. O'Neill throws up his hands in frustration.]

O'NEILL Doh!

TEAL'C What is it O'Neill?

O'NEILL I forgot to tape The Simpsons.

[Teal'c does not react, but simply looks at O'Neill.]

O'NEILL It's important to me.

[Teal'c turns away, eyebrow raised.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

[Dr. Fraiser is looking into a high-powered microscope. Michaels is sitting next to her.]

FRAISER This is incredible.

MICHAELS I know. No adipocere.

JONAS What's that?

[Jonas is sitting behind them. Another screen shows the ice block in the observation lab.]

FRAISER It's a residue that forms on dead animal tissue when exposed to moisture.

[Fraiser rolls her chair away from the table to face Jonas and Michaels.]

FRAISER But that's not the most amazing part. These tissue cells are intact.

[Fraiser looks amazed.]

MICHAELS That's what I was hoping you'd say. I thought maybe I was losing my mind.

JONAS I'm sorry&hellip;uh, what?

FRAISER When you freeze live cells, crystals form and ultimately destroy the integrity of the cell. That's why we haven't been able to develop a viable method of human cryogenic preservation.

JONAS So&hellip;

FRAISER So&hellip;these cells are perfect. They could be from you or me.

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[Fraiser and Michaels are wearing surgical masks and latex gloves. They manoeuvre an overhanging heat lamp over the block of ice as the others watch in the adjoining observation room. The ice begins to slowly melt. Time goes by as water slowly drips from the block. A monitor in the observation room shows the temperature slowly increase to fifty degrees.]

MICHAELS (speaking into a headset microphone&mdash;documenting the procedure) Right hand, right arm and partial head exposed. The clothing appears tailored. Material unknown.

[Fraiser is also speaking into a head-mike.]

FRAISER Peeling back what appears to be the right sleeve covering the face.

[Fraiser slowly removes the cloth with large tweezers, revealing a perfectly preserved female face, still partially frozen into the ice.]

FRAISER (to Michaels) You got it?

[Michaels folds the cloth away from the face.]

MICHAELS Yeah.

FRAISER Okay.

[Fraiser looks at the woman, amazed.]

FRAISER She is remarkably preserved.

[Fraiser shines her penlight into one of Ayiana's eyes. The pupil reacts to the light. Fraiser, stunned, flicks off the light and looks at Michaels. Both look shocked. Fraiser again shines the penlight into the eye and again the pupil reacts. She turns to the observation room window.]

FRAISER I got a cortical response. Sam, I need your help!

[Michaels wheels a machine towards the table.]

FRAISER Let's go.

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;OBSERVATION ROOM

JONAS (to Carter) What's goin' on?

CARTER Electroencephalogram. It measures brain-wave activity.

[Carter puts on a mask and leaves the observation room.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[Ayiana is being prepared for the EEG, with leads being placed on her head.]

MICHAELS All right, go, Sam.

[Carter switches on the equipment, and immediately one of the lines on the monitor shows wave activity.]

CARTER Delta waves.

MICHAELS That's impossible!

CARTER We've seen stranger.

FRAISER We've gotta get her out.

CARTER (to O'Neill in the observation room) Sir, crank up the heat!

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;OBSERVATION ROOM

[O'Neill turns to a panel at his right and rotates the controls.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[The heat lamps switch on to a high setting. A monitor shows the temperature increasing to 79 degrees. The ice around Ayiana has mostly melted.]

FRAISER On three. When you're ready, Jonas.

[Hands move to Ayiana's shoulder and arm, ready to lift her.]

JONAS Okay.

FRAISER Okay. One, two, three.

[Jonas and Carter lift Ayiana's upper body, Michaels her legs. They move her onto a gurney.]

FRAISER Easy.

[Carter moves the heat lamp to over Ayiana's body.]

CARTER Okay.

[Michaels checks Ayiana's temperature with an ear thermometer.]

MICHAELS Temperature is 73 degrees.

FRAISER Good.

[Fraiser is cutting away Ayiana's clothing.]

FRAISER No sign of frostbite. I assume you don't have bypass?

MICHAELS No.

FRAISER Okay, let's try, uh, warm saline, one milligram epi, and do a blood gas.

[Michaels nods in agreement and moves away from the gurney, as do Fraiser, Carter and Jonas. O'Neill looks on from the observation room.]

MICHAELS You know the medics have a saying down here. You're not dead until you're warm and dead.

FRAISER It's because anything below 82 degrees and life signs are often undetectable.

[They are preparing to give Aiyana an EKG.]

MICHAELS Okay, we've got disorganized electrical activity.

FRAISER I'm intubating. Tilt her head, Sam.

[A monitor in the observation room shows Fraiser inserting the respiration tube guide into Ayiana's throat.]

FRAISER I'm in&hellip;give me the tube. That's it&hellip;okay.

[As the bag is massaged, the medical monitor bleeps and shows a heartbeat.]

MICHAELS There's a heartbeat.

JONAS Hey, uh, she's bleeding.

[The blanket around Ayiana's arm is drawn away to show a small, bleeding wound.]

FRAISER Sam, you take over bagging?

CARTER Got it.

[Fraiser bandages the wound.]

MICHAELS PH is 6.9. She's acidotic, but her PO2 is 98.

[Carter looks up at the heart monitor.]

CARTER Ten beats per minute.

[As Fraiser looks across to the heart monitor, the regular beeping turns continuous and Ayiana's heartbeat flatlines. Suddenly the monitor flat-lines.]

FRAISER She's in V-fib

[Fraiser sets up the defibrillator as Michaels walks over to the monitor.]

FRAISER Charging to 200.

[Fraiser grabs the paddles and prepares to "shock" Aiyana.]

FRAISER And clear&hellip;

MICHAELS Wait!

[The continuous beeping has been replaced by regular beeps. Fraiser turns to see a heartbeat on the monitor.]

FRAISER Sinus bradycardia.

MICHAELS 30 beats per minute. BP 60 over 40 and rising. I can't believe this is happening.

[Suddenly Aiyana blinks her eyes. Carter looks at her, amazed.]

CARTER She's conscious.

[Fraiser looks at Carter, shocked, while O'Neill looks on from the observation room.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[The scene is from Ayiana's perspective. Fraiser and Carter, looking down at her, are indistinct. Ayiana's breathing is loud.]

FRAISER She's breathing on her own.

[As an oxygen mask is removed, Michaels and Jonas appear over her.]

JONAS I think we're scaring her.

[Ayiana looks around, obviously frightened. There are EEG leads still attached to her head, and a tube down her throat.]

JONAS It's okay. Hey, it's okay. It's okay. Shhh. Can we take the tube out?

[Aiyana flinches away as Jonas lays his hands on the gurney.]

FRAISER Yeah. It's okay. Sam, give me a hand.

[Aiyana is gasping, obviously scared. Fraiser moves to the head of the gurney to remove the tube from Ayiana's throat.]

FRAISER Easy&hellip;easy&hellip;hang on.

[Michaels attempts to comfort Aiyana by rubbing her legs as Fraiser removes the tube. O'Neill, Teal'c,Osbourne and Woods look on from the observation room.]

FRAISER Take it easy. It's okay. It's okay.

[Fraiser removes the tube, causing Aiyana to cough several times, then take deep breaths.]

FRAISER It's okay. There you go.

[Suddenly, Ayiana begins convulsing.]

FRAISER Oh, ho, whoa! Michaels, 2.5 milligrams Valium.

[Michaels moves to inject the drug in the IV line, while Carter, Fraiser and Jonas hold down Aiyana.]

FRAISER Easy, nobody's gonna hurt you. It's okay. Okay. Here we go.

[Aiyana clams as the drug takes affect.]

FRAISER Here we go. Yeah.

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

FRAISER We didn't do anything, Sir. She revived herself. It was as if the thawing process just triggered an internal response telling her body to come back to life.

O'NEILL But not a snakehead, right?

FRAISER No, Sir.

O'NEILL All right. Then what are we dealin' with here?

FRAISER Something not humanly possible. Not as far as I know.

TEAL'C Then she may indeed be not of this world.

CARTER As far as we knew up until now, all human life in the galaxy was transplanted to other planets from Earth by the Goa'uld. Now, the odds of a totally alien life form evolving to look exactly like us are&hellip;are astronomical.

JONAS Actually, if she's as old as we think she is, wouldn't it be us evolving to look like her?

CARTER True.

WOODS We really need to check out the site again. At least get another core sample to prove the age of the ice.

O'NEILL You guys need some help?

OSBOURNE We can handle it.

[Michaels enters from the Quarantine Lab.]

MICHAELS Uh&hellip;she's awake again.

JONAS Think I'll try talking to her.

[O'Neill nods in agreement.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[Ayiana is lying on the gurney, looking drowsy and dressed in green medical scrubs. Her arms are restrained at her sides. Jonas and Michaels enter, both wearing surgical masks.]

JONAS Hey.

[Aiyana appears scared, moving away slightly on the gurney. Jonas lowers his mask a little, looks at Michaels and then removes the mask completely.]

JONAS It's&hellip;uh&hellip;Jonas.

[Jonas smiles at her. Michaels also removes her mask.]

MICHAELS Francine.

JONAS (to Michaels) We don't need these restraints anymore, do we?

[Jonas removes the restraint on her left wrist as Michaels moves around the other side of the gurney.]

JONAS It's all right, it's all right. It's better, huh?

[Michaels removes the restraint from her right wrist.]

JONAS (to Michaels) Want to sit her up?

[Jonas and Michaels support Ayiana's back as they help her into a sitting position.]

JONAS Can you speak? You speak?

[Jonas also gestures with his hands, indicating a movement from the throat.]

MICHAELS Uh, maybe she just doesn't understand us.

JONAS I'd be very surprised if she did, but that doesn't mean we can't communicate, right?

[Jonas points to himself.]

JONAS I'm Jonas.

[Ayiana looks puzzled.]

JONAS Jonas. It's my name.

AYIANA Jo&hellip;Jo&mdash;nas.

JONAS Yeah.

MICHAELS I guess she can speak.

JONAS Jonas, though, Jonas is my name. It's my name.

[Jonas points to Michaels.]

JONAS Francine is her name. Do you have a name? Hmm?

[Ayiana raises her right sleeve to look at the bandage on her bicep.]

JONAS That bothering you?

MICHAELS Oh, that's my fault. I'm sorry.

AYIANA S&hellip;Sor-ry?

JONAS Yeah, sorry. It's what you say to somebody when you, uh, cause them pain or sadness or you've done something you feel bad about.

MICHAELS We didn't know. Let me have a look? It's okay.

[Michaels raises the sleeve and removes the bandage. There is no longer a wound on the arm.]

MICHAELS That's amazing.

AYIANA Am-a-zing.

MICHAELS Yes, you are.

AYIANA (to Jonas) Am-a-zing.

[Jonas smiles and nods in agreement.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

[Carter is sitting at a monitor.]

CARTER The weather system Jonas was worried about is blowing in more quickly than first predicted.

O'NEILL (into radio) Woods, Osbourne, this is O'Neill. Come in.

WOODS (over radio) Yeah, Colonel, I read you.

O'NEILL (into radio) That storm is headed our way.

WOODS (over radio) Roger that. We're almost done here. It'll be dark soon anyway.

[Michaels and Jonas enter the lab.]

WOODS (over radio) Just&hellip;be back in a couple of hours. Woods out.

JONAS Well, we didn't really learn anything.

O'NEILL Nothing?

JONAS No, no, not even her name. There's obviously a communication barrier. She can speak, but, uh&hellip;

FRAISER There's really no telling what the effects of being frozen that long are. Even with her ability to&hellip;uh&hellip;preserve or heal herself physically, parts of her mind could have been damaged beyond repair.

MICHAELS The wound on her arm is completely gone.

FRAISER What?

MICHAELS I mean, if we can figure out how she's able to regenerate&hellip;

TEAL'C Could she not be deliberately hiding something?

JONAS What reason would she have to hide anything?

CARTER Fear.

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[Ayiana is sitting up on the gurney, with Michaels standing next to her. Jonas enters, carrying a tray.]

JONAS I thought you might be hungry. I brought you some&hellip;uh&hellip;food.

[Ayiana looks puzzled.]

JONAS You eat it.

[Jonas picks up some food from the tray and eats it.]

JONAS It's not very good, but, uh&hellip;try it.

[Aiyana takes the tray from Jonas and eats some of the food. She shakes her head and grimaces. She selects a small amount of different food from the tray.]

JONAS That's not much&hellip;

[Ayiana starts to greedily eat the food.]

JONAS &hellip;better. I guess if you've been frozen for that many years&hellip;

[Ayiana stares at him as she continues eating. Michaels removes her jacket, obviously warm.]

JONAS You all right?

MICHAELS Yeah, yeah. I just think we have the heat turned up a little high in here now.

JONAS (to Aiyana) Hey, I want to show you something&hellip;uh&hellip;here, look, look.

[Jonas shows Ayiana a notebook, opened to a page with a drawing of a Stargate. He points to the drawing.]

JONAS Have you ever seen this? Yes? No?

[Ayiana slows her eating and looks at the drawing.]

AYIANA Amazing.

[Jonas appears a little frustrated.]

JONAS We're going to try something else.

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;OBSERVATION ROOM

[Carter enters and joins Fraiser at a terminal.]

FRAISER Look at this.

[The monitor shows different brain wave patterns.]

CARTER What are they?

FRAISER EEGs I took of Cassandra when she was suffering the effects of Niirti's genetic experiment.

CARTER Cassie started developing telekinetic abilities.

FRAISER Mm hm. These are the ones I took of Colonel O'Neill when he had the knowledge of the Ancient repository downloaded into his brain. Now, I've been comparing them&hellip;to Ayiana's&hellip;

[Fraiser brings up another brain wave pattern on the screen.]

CARTER Connection?

[Fraiser nods.]

CARTER Okay, Niirti was trying to create genetically enhanced human beings. And the Ancient device was rewriting Colonel O'Neills memory until the Asgard put a stop to it.

FRAISER It was doing more than that. It was activating dormant areas of his brain. Sam, look, what if there's more than just a coincidental similarity in these patterns?

CARTER So you're saying this woman is&hellip;?

FRAISER I'm saying that she's another example of an advanced stage in the potential human evolutionary process.

CARTER Leading to what?

FRAISER Antarctic cod can live in water so cold, other fish would develop ice crystals in their blood. Now, they've had 40 million years or so to adapt to the change of temperature in the water and they've developed this protein that acts like anti-freeze.

CARTER They're fish.

FRAISER Given enough time, evolution can do some pretty amazing things. Look, we know that humans can become much more powerful beings. We've seen it happen with Daniel.

CARTER Uh huh, with the help of other powerful beings.

FRAISER Yes. We think this woman might predate human evolution on Earth by 50 million years.

CARTER Yeah, but that would put her behind us on the evolutionary timeline, not way ahead.

FRAISER Unless&hellip;

CARTER Unless&hellip;our evolution isn't the first time it's happened. That's not big, Janet, that's huge!

FRAISER Okay, look, it's just a theory and we certainly don't have any hard evidence, yet.

CARTER Yeah, yeah, but if you're right! This woman could be part of the race that first invented the Gate.

FRAISER One stage of their development, anyway.

CARTER A living Ancient.

FRAISER And we look just like her.

CARTER That could mean that&hellip;that our evolution wasn't just some biological accident.

[The monitor behind Fraiser is showing the quarantine lab. Michaels has just collapsed to the floor. Jonas yells up into the camera, drawing Carter and Fraiser's attention.]

JONAS Dr. Fraiser!

[Carter and Fraiser leave the lab and can be seen over the monitor entering the quarantine lab. Ayiana is standing to the side, obviously frightened.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;MAKESHIFT INFIRMARY

[Fraiser is tending to Michaels, who is lying on one of the beds. Fraiser is wearing a surgical mask which she removes as she walks away from the bed.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

[Fraiser enters from the infirmary which is immediately next door. O'Neill and Carter are sitting at a small table.]

FRAISER Michaels fainted. She's running a high fever. I need to do more tests.

CARTER Aiyana?

FRAISER She's fine.

[Teal'c is sitting at a monitor.]

FRAISER I know what you're thinking.

O'NEILL And?

FRAISER It's possible she may be carrying a contagion of some kind.

[O'Neill grimaces at Carter.]

TEAL'C Would she not also be ill?

FRAISER There are a number of examples of diseases that have no effect on the carrier, but can still infect others. It may be that her healing abilities are fighting off the infection in her own system without eradicating it completely.

O'NEILL Should&hellip;Jonas still be in there?

FRAISER He wants to be. Chances are, he's already been exposed, it's possible we all have. If this did come from her, we need to know as much as she can tell us.

CARTER The C-130 is scheduled to pick us up tomorrow.

FRAISER Better call it off.

O'NEILL Ah, they couldn't have flown in this weather anyway.

FRAISER Until I know a lot more about what's going on here, we're quarantined.

EXT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE

[A storm is raging outside the station.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

O'NEILL (into radio) Woods, Osbourne, this is O'Neill. Come in.

[Only static is heard over the radio.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;MAKESHIFT INFIRMARY

[Michaels is lying on the bed, perspiring and breathing laboriously. Fraiser is wiping her face. O'Neill can be heard on the radio in the next room.]

O'NEILL (into radio) Osbourne, Woods. This is O'Neill. Come in.

[Only more static is heard. Carter enters the infirmary.]

CARTER How is she?

FRAISER Not good. Fever won't come down, she's not responding to antibiotics. Whatever this is, it's fast.

CARTER Woods and Osbourne still aren't back and they're not responding on the radio.

FRAISER If they developed the same symptoms as Michaels, they could be weak, disoriented or even passed out.

CARTER You definitely think this came from Aiyana?

FRAISER Well, Michaels seems to have been affected first and she was the one working with the tissue sample.

[Carter sits on one of the beds in the room.]

EXT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;ENTRANCEWAY

[The doorway opens and Osbourne enters, carrying a case. He stumbles to the ground just inside the doorway.]

OSBOURNE Help!

[O'Neill and Teal'c come running from the complex, followed by Carter and Fraiser. O'Neill kneels down beside Osbourne. Osbourne waves at the case he was carrying.]

OSBOURNE The core samples.

O'NEILL Where's Woods?

[Osbourne is obviously freezing cold and has difficulty breathing. They start removing his headgear.]

OSBOURNE Got separated&hellip;hoping he made his way back here.

O'NEILL What about the snow cat?

OSBOURNE Got stuck in a drift.

CARTER It's minus thirty. He won't last for long out there.

FRAISER He's running a high temperature. Help me get him back to the barracks.

[O'Neill and Teal'c help Osbourne to his feet and take him through to the infirmary.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;MAKESHIFT INFIRMARY

[They lay him on a bed not far from Michaels.]

FRAISER Sam, I'm gonna need your help.

CARTER Hopefully, Woods activated his EPIRB.

[O'Neill and Teal'c leave as Carter and Fraiser begin removing Osbourne's outer clothing.]

EXT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;ENTRANCEWAY

[O'Neill and Teal'c are clothed in warm gear. They each mount a snow mobile. Carter and Jonas watch them leave.]

CARTER Stay in radio contact.

O'NEILL (into helmet radio) Roger that.

[O'Neill and Teal'c drive out. Carter walks over to where Osbourne collapsed and picks up his hat and the case he had been carrying. She and Jonas run back into the complex.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[Ayiana is looking out of the window as the outer door to the complex closes. Jonas enters the lab. Ayiana looks at him then looks back out of the window.]

JONAS Oh. Dr. Woods is lost. Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c went out there to find him. Hope they do. Dr. Michaels and Dr. Osbourne are both&hellip;sick. Dr. Fraiser thinks that we may have been, uh, infected by some disease that you're carrying.

[Ayiana moves her head slightly, as though understanding Jonas.]

JONAS Eventually, we're all gonna be very sick. But&hellip;you have no idea what I'm talking about, so&hellip;

[Aiyana moves towards Jonas, a questioning look on her face. She gestures to herself as though questioning her actions.]

JONAS Do you? You can understand me?

[Aiyana nods her head in the affirmative.]

JONAS You're a quicker study than I am. So, is there anything at all that you can tell me about this disease you're carrying? Why you're not sick? You don't know? Y-You don't remember anything?

[Ayiana shakes her head.]

JONAS Do you know how you're able to heal yourself?

[Ayiana shakes her head again. Jonas sighs in frustration.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

[Fraiser enters from the infirmary.]

FRAISER I'm going to boost the dose of antibiotic, but so far I haven't seen any sign of bacterial growth in the culture.

[Fraiser walks to Carter, who is sitting at a monitor.]

FRAISER If this is a virus, there is nothing else I can do here.

CARTER How much time do they have?

FRAISER Days, hours. I don't know. Michaels' kidneys have started to shut down and that's a bad sign.

CARTER The ice core sample that Osbourne brought back places Ayiana in the same vein as the Stargate. She's at least three million years old. But if she comes from a race that actually predates the glacier and your theory is correct, she could be a lot older.

O'NEILL (over radio) Carter, come in.

[Carter moves to the two-way radio.]

CARTER (into radio) Colonel, this is Carter.

EXT&mdash;SNOW-DRIVEN LANDSCAPE

O'NEILL (into helmet radio) We've found the abandoned 'cat. We'll continue the search on foot. Visibility is near zero and I keep losing a satellite lock on the tracker.

[Teal'c is nearby, pointing a bright flashlight into the snow.]

CARTER (over radio) The cold must be affecting the active antenna on your SatNav.

O'NEILL (into helmet radio) We'll keep looking. O'Neill out.

[The wind is howling and the snow is swirling all around them. Teal'c has to shout loudly.]

TEAL'C Dr. Woods! Dr. Woods! Dr. Woods!

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

[Fraiser taps on the window of the quarantine lab and gestures at Jonas to join her.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[Jonas is sitting on a gurney with Ayiana looking at a notebook. He moves from the gurney into the research lab.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

JONAS It's unbelievable.

FRAISER What?

JONAS She understands everything I'm saying. Everything. I told her exactly what's been happening and she seems to&hellip;to know that she&hellip;she's responsible for it somehow, you know? Like it's her fault.

FRAISER She told you that?

JONAS Not in so many words, no.

FRAISER Well, what about something that could help us?

JONAS Not yet, but, uh, it doesn't mean that her memory won't come back. It's logical that the&hellip;the mind would take longer than the body to heal.

FRAISER The problem is, Jonas, we don't know how much time we have.

JONAS Right.

[Jonas sighs.]

EXT&mdash;SNOW-DRIVEN LANDSCAPE

[Teal'c and O'Neill are searching.]

TEAL'C O'Neill!

[Teal'c gestures to the ground. He and O'Neill walk over to find Woods, collapsed in the snow.]

EXT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;ENTRANCEWAY

[O'Neill and Teal'c enter the complex on the snow cats with Woods being towed behind on a stretcher. Fraiser and Jonas are waiting for them at the entranceway and move towards Woods.]

FRAISER Let's get him into the lab. On three. One, two, three.

[O'Neill, Fraiser and Jonas lift Woods from the towing unit.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[They place Woods on a gurney in the lab.]

FRAISER He's in hypothermic shock. We need to get his clothes off.

[Aiyana stands watching as Fraiser and the others begin Woods' clothing.]

FRAISER We need to get him wrapped in warm blankets.

[Teal'c places a blanket over Woods as O'Neill removes his own head gear. Jonas removes Woods' boots.]

FRAISER Sam, I need you to hook him up onto the monitor.

[Fraiser cuts through Woods' clothing as Ayiana moves around to watch. Jonas pulls off a sock to reveal severe frostbite on Woods' foot. He shakes his head.]

JONAS This can't be good.

[Carter turns back to see what Jonas is talking about.]

CARTER Oh, my God.

[Carter places EKG leads on Woods' chest as Fraiser begins to bag him. Jonas removes the sock from the other foot, which is in the same frostbitten state. The heart monitor flatlines.]

FRAISER He's in V-fib. You get the paddles, I'll get the gel.

[Both Jonas and Ayiana are looking on, concerned.]

FRAISER Charge to 200.

[Carter sets the charge and prepares the paddles, then hands them to Fraiser.]

FRAISER Okay. Everybody clear!

[As Fraiser prepares to shock Woods, Ayiana steps up to the gurney.]

O'NEILL (to Ayiana) Whoa, whoa, Hey!

[Ayiana places her left hand on Woods' head.]

JONAS No, no, no. Wait. Wait.

FRAISER Jonas!

JONAS Let's see. Let's see what she does.

[Aiyana places her right hand on Woods' stomach. Jonas walks around towards Ayiana who is grimacing and breathing heavily. Suddenly, woods takes a deep, gulping breath. Jonas stands next to Ayiana as Fraiser and Carter look on, amazed. Carter looks to Woods' feet, which seem to glow as the signs of frostbite disappear. Fraiser returns the paddles to their stand as O'Neill and Teal'c look on, stunned. Woods takes another deep breath, then Ayiana gasps and collapses. Jonas catches her. Fraiser looks at the heart monitor which is now showing a normal heartbeat.]

FRAISER His vital signs are back to normal.

[Fraiser checks Woods' pulse as he opens his eyes. She looks across at Jonas who is supporting Ayiana. Jonas nods, shocked. Carter again checks Woods' feet, then looks across at O'Neill in disbelief.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[Jonas enters the lab. Ayiana sits up on the gurney where she has been resting.]

JONAS You okay?

[Aiyana nods her head in the affirmative.]

JONAS Do you know what you did?

[Ayiana briefly nods her head.]

JONAS Do you know how you did it?

[Ayiana shakes her head.]

JONAS Can you do it again?

[Ayiana frowns.]

JONAS Dr. Michaels and Dr. Osbourne are both&hellip;they're in very bad shape. And if you can't help them&hellip;

[Jonas shakes his head as Ayiana nods hers in the affirmative.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;MAKESHIFT INFIRMARY

[Fraiser is sitting on the edge of Michaels' bed, checking her pulse. Jonas and Ayiana enter the room and Ayiana kneels down next to the bed. She places her hands on Michaels in the same way as she did with Woods.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

[O'Neill, Teal'c, Carter and Woods are in the lab as Fraiser, Osbourne, Michaels and Jonas enter.]

CARTER Guess it worked.

O'NEILL So this is good, right? When she wakes up, she can zap us all?

FRAISER Not necessarily. Healing them really exhausted her.

[Fraiser walks away. Carter follows. Fraiser sits at a monitor and is joined by Carter.]

CARTER What is it, Janet?

FRAISER It's a blood sample from Ayiana. I'll know more in a little while.

[Carter sits in a chair behind Fraiser. Fraiser turns to look at her.]

FRAISER Hey, are you okay?

CARTER Yeah. What do you think the problem is?

FRAISER Whatever or however she is able to do what she does, it weakens her. More each time. I mean, she's still carrying that virus herself, Sam. I'm afraid there's going to be a point where she puts herself at risk.

[Carter rises and pats Fraiser on the arm.]

CARTER Good luck.

FRAISER Yeah.

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

[Fraiser enters the lab.]

FRAISER Okay. I can't say for sure, but her white cell count is down significantly.

[Teal'c is standing against a wall as Jonas lounges in a chair, reading. O'Neill is lying on a couch. Carter and Michaels are sitting at a monitor.]

FRAISER White blood cells are a major part of our immune system and&hellip;she's still basically human.

[O'Neill is massaging his forehead.]

O'NEILL What does that mean?

FRAISER It means that you, me, Sam and Jonas are all going to get a lot worse over the next day or so and&hellip;I don't know what will happen if we let her try to heal all of us.

CARTER She could die.

FRAISER She could save some of us or all of us, who knows.

MICHAELS You know, maybe she just needs some time to get her strength back.

FRAISER Well, for the moment, none of us are in dire need, so I suggest we get some rest.

TEAL'C I will stand watch.

FRAISER No. Teal'c, if you don't Kel-No-Reem your immune system will be vulnerable too.

WOODS We'll watch her.

OSBOURNE Yeah, it's the least we can do.

MICHAELS Yeah, I'll run some tests on the three of us, looking for antibody markers. I mean, hopefully, whatever she did to us means we're now immune to re-infection.

FRAISER Okay. And the rest of us will get some sleep. That's an order.

[Teal'c nods his head.]

EXT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE

[The storm is still raging.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;MAKESHIFT INFIRMARY

[Ayiana is lying on one of the beds. Woods is sitting next to her but appears to be dozing. Suddenly, she wakes and sits up.Woods also wakes.]

WOODS Hi. Thank you. You saved my life. I have to admit I feel a little guilty, being okay while Colonel O'Neill and the rest of them keep getting sicker.

[Ayiana raises her hands and looks at them. She gently touches one hand with the other, then rises to stand in front of Woods .]

WOODS If we could just figure out how&hellip;

[Ayiana caresses Woods' face and he loses consciousness. She leaves the infirmary.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;SLEEPING QUARTERS

[Carter and Fraiser are asleep, Carter on the top bunk, Fraiser on the bottom. Ayiana enters and kneels next to Fraiser. She places her hands on Fraiser in the same way as with woods and Michaels.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

OSBOURNE The storm is passing.

MICHAELS Good. Maybe now we'll be able to get a disease control team in here.

OSBOURNE I'm gonna relieve Woods.

MICHAELS Okay.

[Osbourne leaves. He passes Teal'c who is sitting in a chair, Kel-No-Reeming. He is surrounded by lit candles.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;MAKESHIFT INFIRMARY

[Osbourne enters, finding Woods unconscious and no sign of Ayiana.]

OSBOURNE Norm, wake up&hellip;Norm&hellip;

[Unable to rouse Woods, he leaves.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;SLEEPING QUARTERS

[Osbourne enters the room and switches on the lights. Carter and Fraiser are awake and getting dressed.]

OSBOURNE She's missing. Woods is unconscious.

[All three hurry out of the room.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;STORAGE AREA

[Osbourne, Fraiser and Carter enter. Osbourne points to a door.]

OSBOURNE Check there.

FRAISER Yeah.

[As Osbourne goes to another door, Fraiser and Carter enter a room, followed by Osbourne.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;ROOM

[Jonas is bending over an unconscious Ayiana who is lying on the floor. Carter checks Ayiana's pulse as Fraiser goes to O'Neill who is lying, unconscious, on a cot.]

FRAISER (to O'Neill) It's okay. It's okay.

[Fraiser checks O'Neill's pulse and places her hand on his forehead.]

FRAISER He's burning up.

EXT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;ENTRANCEWAY

[A number of people enter wearing biohazard suits and carrying equipment.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;QUARANTINE LABORATORY

[O'Neill is lying in an enclosed rescue stretcher. He has an oxygen mask over his mouth.]

FRAISER You're going to be fine, Sir. I'll see you soon.

[Fraiser is wearing a biohazard suit as she closes the lid on the containment stretcher. As O'Neill's stretcher is wheeled out, Ayiana appears, also lying in a containment stretcher. She too is wheeled out.]

INT&mdash;ANTARCTIC BASE&mdash;RESEARCH LABORATORY

[Everyone in the complex is wearing a biohazard suit except for Teal'c, who is holding his.]

CARTER Teal'c, even though you don't have the disease, you could still carry the virus. We'll all get properly cleared once we get back to the SGC.

[Teal'c nods at Carter.]

INT&mdash;SGC&mdash;INFIRMARY QUARANTINE OBSERVATION ROOM

[Carter is sitting in the room. Hammond enters.]

FRAISER (over speakers) Blood pressure's holding 80 over 40. I wanna do a manual and uh, get me the results of his latest bloodwork.

HAMMOND How's he doing?

CARTER They're doing everything they can, Sir.

HAMMOND We talked to the Tok'ra. They said this might be beyond their help, but they're sending someone anyway.

CARTER His best chance is Ayiana, Sir. She managed to halt the virus completely in the rest of us.

HAMMOND Why hasn't she been able to stop it in herself?

FRAISER (over speakers) From what I've been able to learn so far, Sir, the virus ultimately acts like cerebrospinal meningitis by attacking the brain. Despite the physical similarities, Ayiana's brain chemistry seems to be quite different from ours. I suppose it's possible she's able to trigger an immune response in us that she can't muster in herself once the disease reaches an end stage.

HAMMOND What are the odds she'll survive?

[Fraiser shakes her head slightly, negatively. Carter and Hammond look at each other. Carter sighs. All three turn to look at O'Neill who is lying on a bed.]

INT&mdash;SGC&mdash;INFIRMARY QUARANTINE

[Ayiana is lying on a bed. A heart monitor beeps in the background. Jonas, wearing a biohazard suit walks up to her bedside. She is wearing a nasal canula. As Jonas approaches, she slowly opens her eyes.]

JONAS Hey. Glad to see you're awake. I had a feeling that you were gonna make it. Thanks for what you did for me. You didn't have to do that. Not for any of us.

[Ayiana frowns and grimaces in pain.]

JONAS Hey, take it easy, huh? Gotta get your strength back. Colonel O'Neill still needs your help. More than that, we want you to live. I want you to live.

[Ayiana weakly shakes her head.]

AYIANA Sor-ry.

[As Ayiana loses consciousness, the regular beeping turns continuous and Ayiana's heartbeat flatlines.]

JONAS Ayiana!

[Personnel dressed in biohazard suits rush into the room. Jonas is pushed aside as they begin working on Ayiana. Fraiser enters.]

JONAS She just, uh&hellip;

FRAISER Bag her.

JONAS She just&hellip;

FRAISER Give me one milligram epi.

[Fraiser sets up the defibrillator as Jonas stands behind her.]

FRAISER Charging to 200.

[Fraiser grabs the paddles and prepares to "shock" Aiyana.]

FRAISER Clear! Nothing. Charging to 300. Clear! Come on, come on. Again. Clear!

[Ayiana's heartbeat continues to flatline as Jonas helplessly looks at Fraiser.]

INT&mdash;SGC BRIEFING ROOM

[Hammond, Thoran, Carter and Teal'c walk up the stairs into the room.]

THORAN His condition is beyond the healing of a hand device. However, there is a symbiote who is in dire need of a host.

CARTER What happened?

THORAN The former host was mortally wounded on assignment and the symbiote was unable to heal him. We believe that would not be the case with Colonel O'Neill. Physical trauma is much more difficult to deal with than disease.

TEAL'C I do not believe Colonel O'Neill would chose to become a Tok'ra.

[Teal'c looks at Carter who nods in agreement.]

THORAN I am aware of the Colonel's dislike for our kind. However, I am surprised that you think he would choose death over blending.

[Jonas enters the room from the stairs, out of breath.]

JONAS Ayiana's dead. Dr. Fraiser did everything she could, but&hellip;

CARTER She may have been on borrowed time from the start.

[Jonas nods in agreement.]

HAMMOND Jonas, this is Thoran of the Tok'ra. Thoran, this is Jonas Quinn. The Tok'ra are offering a symbiote in hopes that it can heal Colonel O'Neill.

JONAS What does Colonel O'Neill have to say?

HAMMOND Colonel O'Neill's in a coma. The fact is we may be in the position of having to decide for him.

CARTER How can we do that?

THORAN No Tok'ra symbiote would choose to blend with an unwilling host permanently. Perhaps a temporary arrangement can be reached.

HAMMOND What do you mean?

THORAN The symbiote, Kanan, is someone I know well. I have no doubt that he would be willing to blend with O'Neill, cure him, and then leave him again if another suitable host can be found.

TEAL'C If not?

THORAN I assure you he would ultimately sacrifice himself rather than remain with an unwilling host. Kanan's former host died before he was able to reveal the details of what we believe was vital intelligence about the undercover mission he was on. I cannot stress enough how important that information could be.

CARTER Sir, I think it's obvious we all want to do anything we can to help Colonel O'Neill, but I really think this is something we at least have to give him the opportunity to decide for himself.

INT&mdash;SGC&mdash;INFIRMARY QUARANTINE

[Carter enters, wearing a biohazard suit and joins Fraiser at O'Neill's bedside.]

FRAISER I'm administering 0.1 epi. I don't know if this is gonna work.

CARTER Will it hurt him?

FRAISER Can't get much worse.

[Fraiser moves away and Carter leans in closer to O'Neill.]

CARTER Sir, I don't know if you can hear me. The Tok'ra have offered you a deal. There's a symbiote that needs a host.

[Hammond and Jonas are standing in the observation room, looking down. Fraiser moves to stand at the foot of the bed.]

CARTER They think it could cure you. Now, it may be your only chance. It would only be temporary. It would come out of you as soon as they found another host.

[O'Neill is lying on the bed, sheened with perspiration. He seems to be unconscious and is wearing an oxygen mask.]

CARTER Sir, are you getting any of this?

[Carter moves away slightly and looks at Fraiser. Jonas and Hammond look down, concerned.]

O'NEILL (weakly) Carter?

[Carter leans down over the bed again.]

CARTER Yeah, I'm right here.

O'NEILL (whispers) Over my dead body.

[Carter closes her eyes and slightly shakes her head.]

CARTER Sir, the symbiote's host died while they were on a mission. The Tok'ra have strong reason to believe that the symbiote has vital information to reveal and this would give him that chance. Now, they promised that if no other host was found within a reasonable amount of time, the symbiote would sacrifice itself rather than stay in an unwilling host. Sir, please.

[O'Neill flicks a look at Carter, frowns and seems to nod his head infinitesimally, then closes his eyes. Carter smiles and nods at Fraiser. They both turn to look up at the observation room.]

INT&mdash;SGC GATEROOM

[O'Neill is back in the containment stretcher. Carter, Thoran, Teal'c, Jonas, and two medics are carrying the stretcher. They walk through the Stargate.]

FADE OUT&mdash;END CREDITS

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