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 * 4.16 "2010" Episode Guide

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TEASER

EXT&mdash;AN OPEN-AIR CAFE

[Joe Faxon is siting at a table reading the Washington Post. The headline reads "Aschen Promise Anti-Ageing Vaccine Worldwide." Carter walks up and sits down.]

CARTER Hon, I am so sorry.

JOE It's all right.

CARTER No, if you were this late I'd&hellip;

JOE Hon, I know how busy you are&mdash;don't worry about it. Besides, it's a beautiful day to wait. And wait.

CARTER Have you eaten?

JOE Yeah I'm sorry, Honey, I had to, I'm scheduled to be offworld at 13:30. What?

CARTER Just found out.

JOE I thought for sure this time.

[The waitress comes over with the bill. Joe pays for it with a card.]

JOE Thanks very much.

CARTER They said it isn't either one of us. We just have to keep trying.

JOE Not that I mind the trying&hellip;I just&hellip;thought we'd be working on our second child by now.

CARTER Me too.

JOE Walk me to the terminal?

EXT&mdash;OUTSIDE STARGATE TERMINAL

[Joe and Carter appear on a transporter pad.]

JOE Maybe we should get a second opinion.

CARTER The Aschen are hundreds of years more advanced in medicine than we are.

INT&mdash;STARGATE TERMINAL.

[Sound of the Gate dialling. People are walking around, going about the daily lives. Carter and Joe walk through with their arms around one another.]

CARTER So how long will you be gone?

JOE Ah, well, I have to visit that new embassy on the southern continent, tour the nine planets&hellip;

CARTER You're kidding?

JOE Of course I'm kidding. You don't think I'd miss your anniversary ceremony tomorrow, do you?

CARTER It's no big deal&hellip;

JOE Ah, it's no a big deal&hellip;If it wasn't for you, we'd have never even met the Aschen. I'll be back tonight, okay?

[Joe and Carter kiss.]

ANNOUNCEMENT (over speaker) Outbound travellers to the Confederation planets, please stand by in the departure area.

JOE Bye.

[Joe and Carter kiss again.]

CARTER Bye.

[Joe goes down an escalator to the open Stargate. It stand on a platform out in the open.]

OPENING TITLES

INT&mdash;STARGATE TERMINAL

[A ceremony is in progress around the Stargate. Five armed Air Force soldiers parade up the steps to the inactive Gate and turn. A screen is lowered from the ceiling.]

ANNOUNCEMENT (over speaker) Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.

[Kinsey appears on the screen.]

PRESIDENT KINSEY My fellow Americans. Ten years ago this very day, a team code-named SG-1, then working in secret, came upon an alien race: the Aschen. With that introduction, I was able to forge the greatest alliance this country&mdash;indeed, this world&mdash;has ever known.

[The assembled crowd claps. Daniel, Carter and Teal'c are standing at the front of the crowd. They smile at each other.]

PRESIDENT KINSEY I read from Colonel Jack O'Neill's mission report of that first contact. "These folks sound too good to be true. Willing to share their science and technology. Friendly, smarter than we are. One thing's for sure: the Goa'uld are coming&hellip;The Aschen could save our asses." Well, guess what, Jack? They did.

[The crowd claps.]

PRESIDENT KINSEY Jack O'Neill could not be here today, but those candid words hurriedly scratched down in a mission report ten years ago were prescient. Membership in the Aschen Confederation guarantees the security, the health, and the future of every human being on God's Earth. Dr. Samantha Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson, Teal'c. Would you please step forward?

[Carter, Daniel and Teal'c walk to the base of the Stargate steps. The crowd applauds as an Official of the President offers each of them a medal.]

PRESIDENT KINSEY Though the nations business has kept me from being with you in person, nonetheless I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you've done for me, and for our country. God bless you all.

VOICE (off screen) Aim. Fire.

[The seven airmen at the top of the Stargate steps raise their rifles and fire three times in unison. The Aschen representatives put their fingers in their ears.]

INT&mdash;A RECEPTION

[Carter, Joe, Daniel, Fraiser and Teal'c stand in a circle and raise glasses of champagne.]

CARTER To General Hammond.

[They clink glasses.]

FRAISER/CARTER/TEAL'C/DANIEL To General Hammond.

CARTER I miss him. Especially today.

DANIEL Yeah, how long has it been, anyway?

TEAL'C It has been six years.

DANIEL Which reminds me, what was Jack's excuse? I expected to see him here.

TEAL'C O'Neill has made his feelings very clear concerning the Aschen Alliance.

DANIEL Well, he could have come to see us.

FRAISER I almost didn't come myself.

DANIEL What?

FRAISER It's easier for you, Daniel. I mean your job wasn't made obsolete, and if I&hellip;Molum.

[The Aschen scientist Molum approaches the small group.]

MOLUM Forgive me for interrupting&hellip;Ambassador? The Aschen delegation is eager to hear about your visit to our south continent.

JOE Yep, it would be my pleasure.

[Molum leaves.]

JOE Well, I think we can safely assume I'll be late.

[Joe kisses Carter.]

JOE Doctors, Teal'c. Congratulations again.

[Joe leaves.]

CARTER So, where are we going?

TEAL'C I had planned to return to Chulak.

CARTER Oh, come on, Teal'c! We haven't seen each other in ages. Please.

TEAL'C Very well.

DANIEL Dinner?

CARTER Sounds great.

FRAISER Yes, dinner.

CARTER Great to see you again.

FRAISER I'll see you soon.

DANIEL Okay.

FRAISER Bye.

[Carter and Fraiser kiss Teal'c and Daniel on the cheek. Daniel and Teal'c walk off.]

CARTER So.

FRAISER What?

CARTER What was that?

FRAISER What was what?

CARTER Going on again about being obsolete.

FRAISER Think about it, Sam. We've all taken the antiageing vaccine and the anticancer vaccine&hellip;and now the Aschen have these medical machines that can reverse tissue damage and mend broken bones&hellip;I mean, where does that leave me?

CARTER I guess when you put it that way I know what you mean. I mean half the time the science they're talking about is so far over my head, I feel like a lab assistant&hellip;

FRAISER Ah, but you have something to do.

CARTER Yeah.

FRAISER Okay, enough of that. Tell me, by any chance are you and Joe&hellip;?

CARTER Not yet. They say it isn't either one of us; we just have to keep trying.

FRAISER You know, they still let me keep an office in Washington even though I have nothing to do. So I'd be more than happy to give you a check-up.

CARTER No, they said I was fine.

FRAISER Sam, the medicine I practiced may seem like the Dark Ages now, but I was your doctor for a long time. How long have you been trying?

CARTER Almost three years.

FRAISER Yes.

CARTER When can we do this?

EXT&mdash;OFFICE BUILDING, WASHINGTON

INT&mdash;FRAISER'S OFFICE

[Carter is seated, waiting. Fraiser enters and sits behind her desk.]

FRAISER Hey. Sorry to keep you waiting, but I just wanted to double-check my results&hellip;

CARTER And I'm fine. Right?

FRAISER Sam, I don't know how your Aschen doctor could have missed it, and frankly, I just don't think it's possible he could have.

CARTER What?

FRAISER You can't have children.

CARTER They said everything was normal.

FRAISER In every other way, it is.

CARTER Then this is a mistake.

FRAISER Here, let me show you the scan.

[Fraiser turns the computer screen on her desk to Carter. Carter is visibly and obviously upset.]

FRAISER There's no room for interpretation. Clearly your ovaries are damaged.

CARTER Why?

FRAISER I don't know. I don't know what may have caused it or when it may have happened, but obviously it was some time&hellip;

CARTER No. I want to know why the Aschen doctors looked me in the eye and told me that I was okay. Why did they lie to me?

FRAISER I don't know. But I'm willing to help you find out.

EXT&mdash;ASCHEN LAB

INT&mdash;CARTER'S LAB

[Carter enters. Molum is waiting for her next to a large centrol control console.]

MOLUM I've been waiting.

CARTER Sorry.

MOLUM Is something wrong?

CARTER No.

MOLUM All right.

[Molum activates a hologram projector in the centre of the console. It shows Mars and the surrounding planets.]

MOLUM We're still not finding the necessary material to initiate the conversion.

CARTER Well, we'll just have to find a way to collapse it faster; revise the calculations.

MOLUM Interesting.

CARTER Am I wrong?

MOLUM Oh, no, you're absolutely correct, it's just that a year or so ago you never thought this project was possible and now you seem so&hellip;determined.

CARTER You've convinced me.

[Molum touches a button and the hologram disappears.]

MOLUM Did your people ever imagine converting a planet into a star?

CARTER No. I doubt it.

MOLUM I should think you would have at least considered it, given the rapid growth of your population and the viability of the planet.

CARTER Humans just don't think quite as far ahead as the Aschen seem to.

MOLUM All right, since you are so determined, revise the calculations.

CARTER If I use our computers it'll take weeks&hellip;on the other hand, if I can interface with the Aschen computer core&hellip;?

MOLUM You know that's strictly for Aschen personnel.

CARTER It's not like you haven't given me access before.

MOLUM Samantha, why do I let you talk me into this?

[A computer screen is projected above the console. Molum enters a command.]

MOLUM There. You have core access.

CARTER Thank you, Molum.

[Molum leaves. Carter begins to type at the console. Fraiser enters.]

FRAISER Are you in?

CARTER Not yet.

FRAISER The medical subcore has its own code you're not going to be able to access.

CARTER I'm in, I'm in. Now what? Its calling for search parameters.

FRAISER Right. Try medical records.

CARTER I don't think I'm going to find anything specific to me in here.

FRAISER So maybe this has happened to some other people. Do a general search. Human reproductive statistics.

[Information starts to come up on the projected screen.]

CARTER That's it.

FRAISER You can read this?

CARTER Oh, that can't be right. If I'm reading this properly, the worldwide birth rate has dropped almost ninety-one percent in the last two years.

FRAISER What?

CARTER That's what it says right here. These are Aschen numbers.

FRAISER Yeah, but we would know.

CARTER It's happening everywhere the antiageing vaccine has gone.

FRAISER Turn it off.

CARTER They're doing it systematically!

FRAISER Just turn it off, please.

FRAISER Okay, we can't let them know we know.

CARTER Molum leaves me alone for hours at a time&hellip;

FRAISER Sam, you're on the inside, you don't see them the same way I do.

CARTER Janet, they have done this to us deliberately. We have to do something.

FRAISER I know, but we can't talk about it here. We'll talk tonight at the restaurant, okay? I have to go.

INT&mdash;RESTAURANT

[Daniel, Carter, Fraiser and Teal'c are sitting around a table.]

DANIEL Guys, I think it would be public knowledge if something this catastrophic was happening to the entire population.

CARTER Would it? The Ashen can convert planets into stars, you don't think they could control the media if they wanted to?

DANIEL Assuming the Aschen could keep something that big secret&hellip;it's been ten years. Why now?

CARTER We were completely taken in. This way they didn't have to fire a shot. It's slow, methodical, painless.

DANIEL Okay, then, why provide a vaccine that almost doubles the human lifespan? That doesn't make any sense.

FRAISER Unless that's the mechanism they've used to sterilize the population.

CARTER They're certainly patient enough. All they have to do is wait.

TEAL'C Then, within two hundred years, there will be very few, if any, humans remaining. The Aschen will have this world to themselves.

DANIEL Well, we have to do something. I don't know&mdash;I mean, tell somebody.

FRAISER The night before General Hammond died, he called me and said he needed to speak with me about something very important. Something that he couldn't discuss over the phone. The next day I told the Ashen doctors, I said this is impossible, he could not have died of a heart attack, he was in perfect health, but they said their diagnostic machines were infallible.

TEAL'C You believe he was murdered.

FRAISER At the time, no. I believed like everybody else; the Aschen were our saviours.

DANIEL So we can't tell anyone, we have to keep this to ourselves.

CARTER Well, I have to tell Joe.

DANIEL Maybe you shouldn't.

CARTER Daniel, if you're even suggesting he knows&hellip;

DANIEL I'm just saying that it's all of our lives are at stake here.

CARTER Yes! He can help us.

DANIEL How? Say he goes to the President. The President goes to the rest of the world. Even if what's left of every army on Earth mobilizes&hellip;what are they going to do?

FRAISER Fight back.

TEAL'C They would be defeated. As were the Goa'uld.

DANIEL We have to think of something else.

CARTER Like what?

DANIEL I don't know&hellip;contact the Tollan. Find the survivors of the Tok'ra, I mean there have to be some left out there. Err&hellip;Teal'c, what about the Jaffa?

TEAL'C Few remain loyal to the Tau'ri since the war's end. There are a few symbiotes available for implantation.

CARTER We don't even control the Stargate. God, what have we done? This morning we were celebrating&hellip;

DANIEL Now I wish we could take it all back.

[A waitress comes over with the bill.]

WAITRESS Will there be anything else?

DANIEL Apparently not.

CARTER Maybe we can. Take it back.

DANIEL How?

CARTER General Hammond showed us.

DANIEL He left us a note.

FRAISER What&mdash;what are you talking about

CARTER A number of years ago a freak accident sent us back to 1969. We know that by dialling coordinates that are precisely on the opposite sides of the sun at the exact moment of a solar flare, it causes the wormhole to turn back towards Earth on itself and it creates a time distortion. Now, theoretically, we could send ourselves a message.

DANIEL Wait a second. I thought you said it was impossible to predict the exact moment of a solar flare.

CARTER For us, yes, it was. But with access to Aschen computer&hellip;

FRAISER Okay, wait a second here. We are considering changing the lives of the entire human race on Earth. Do we have the right?

CARTER If we don't, then we will live to see the end of the entire human race on Earth.

EXT&mdash;O'NEILL'S CABIN

[Carter knocks on the door. She walks around the side of the cabin to see O'Neill.]

CARTER Hi.

O'NEILL Hi.

CARTER So this is the place you kept threatening to take me. It's good to see you, Sir.

O'NEILL I'm retired, Carter. Lose the "sir."

[O'Neill sits down on a wooden bench.]

CARTER Right.

[Carter sits on the bench with him.]

CARTER Jack.

O'NEILL What are you doing here?

CARTER It turns out we made a mistake. A big one.

O'NEILL Which one? We made a few.

CARTER Our alliance with the Aschen.

O'NEILL Oh, that. Not working out, is it? Gosh, I wish I'd seen that coming. Oh, wait&hellip;I did see that coming.

CARTER It isn't what you thought. A couple of days ago I found out that I can't ever have children.

O'NEILL I'm sorry to hear that.

CARTER So was I. According to the Aschen doctors, I was fine. But not according to Doctor Fraiser. We got into the Aschen computer network; they keep statistics on everything. In the past couple of years, without our even knowing it, they have managed to sterilize over ninety percent of the world's population. The other ten percent are probably just a matter of time. We don't know how they've done it, or even how they've even managed to keep it a secret this long&hellip;

O'NEILL So what d'you want me to do about it?

CARTER Help us.

O'NEILL Do what?

CARTER We can undo this.

O'NEILL Oh, here we go.

[O'Neill stands and starts to walk off. Carter follows him.]

CARTER We send a message back through the Stargate to ourselves ten years ago. We stop this from ever happening.

O'NEILL Stop this from happening?

CARTER We know it's possible.

O'NEILL Why am I having this conversation?

CARTER We know what we have to do. I am almost positive that with the Aschen computer and solar observatory I can predict a flare within a few hours of its happening, and we should be able to get our hands on a GDO. So it'll come down to accessing the Gate within that window, dialling the right address, and sending the message.

O'NEILL Well, if it just comes down to that, do it.

CARTER Look, if I thought it was easy, I wouldn't be standing here asking for your help.

O'NEILL Just out of curiosity, say we do this. What happens to everything that's happened the past ten years?

CARTER It won't happen.

O'NEILL So we don't go to P4C-970. We don't meet the Aschen, then&hellip;what?

CARTER I don't know.

O'NEILL Let me tell you something, Carter. You want to erase your mistakes? That's your business. My conscience is clear. I warned everybody, I threw up the red flag and everybody&mdash;including you&mdash;shut me down.

CARTER I'm asking you to put that behind us.

O'NEILL You're not happy with the way things turned out&hellip;I'm sorry to hear that. Personally, I like things the way they are. No more saving the world, just a nice pond with no pesky fish in it, and the single most pressing issue in my life is whether or not to get a dog&hellip;There're a lot of pros and cons to consider.

CARTER Jack. I'm talking about the future of the human race.

O'NEILL So was I.

CARTER We're doing this.

O'NEILL Let me know how it turns out.

CARTER Our chances are a lot better with you than without you.

O'NEILL Let me ask you something. What does your dearly beloved ambassador say about all this?

CARTER I haven't had a chance to tell him.

O'NEILL Maybe he can help you.

CARTER Yeah.

[Carter walks off.]

EXT&mdash;STARGATE TERMINAL

[Carter appears on a transporter pad. Teal'c and Daniel are waiting.]

CARTER We're on our own.

DANIEL You're kidding me&mdash;he said no?

TEAL'C That is unfortunate.

CARTER We can still do this. Did you track down the GDOs?

DANIEL Err&hellip;yes and no. From what I could gather in the museum records there's only one original remote left on display at the SGC.

CARTER Well, that's our next stop. Teal'c, you'd better return to Chulak. We don't want to arouse any more suspicion than we already have. It'll take at least two days, but we'll contact you when it's time.

TEAL'C I will be prepared.

EXT&mdash;STOCK SHOT, SGC, MOUNTAIN ENTRANCE

INT&mdash;SGC

[An elevator door opens and the guide and small visiting party, including Carter and Daniel, step out into the corridor.]

GUIDE All righty everyone, everyone please step all the way out. We've arrived at Level 28. Can anyone guess at what special room is on this floor?

KID The Gate room?

GUIDE That's very, very close&hellip;Anyone else?

DANIEL He's right. It's the Gate room.

GUIDE What I'm sure many of you don't know is that officially it was known as the embarkation room because that's where the SG teams embarked from. Okay, now we're walking&hellip;This way.

[The guide leads the party along a corridor. All around them is SGC memorabilia. They stop at a photo of SG-1 taken in season 2, R-L, back row Hammond, Carter, Teal'c, front row Daniel, O'Neill (seated).]

GUIDE And these people comprise the famous SG-1, arguably the most important&mdash;although not my personal favourite team of the entire command.

[Daniel and Carter glance at each other.]

GUIDE And we're walking&hellip;

INT&mdash;SGC, GATE ROOM

[People are walking around exhibits of the MALP, the Stargate, etc. The party enters.]

GUIDE While of course the real stargate is in Washington at the J. R. Reed Space Terminal, this one is a perfect replica of the original. Should you want photos, they are twenty-seven dollars each and please do not touch the Stargate itself as you'll leave fingerprints. See you on the other side.

DANIEL This is ridiculous.

CARTER We couldn't break away until there were more people around. Once we're in the control room.

DANIEL Not her personal favourite SG team?

CARTER Just don't ask for the photo.

[They look up to see O'Neill walk past. He looks at them and slides his sunglasses on.]

O'NEILL And we're walking&hellip;

INT&mdash;SGC, BRIEFING ROOM

[O'Neill is seated at the table drawing. Most of the chairs are covered by dust sheets. Daniel and Carter run up the stairs. In front of O'Neill are a couple of zats and a GDO.]

O'NEILL Hey. Thanks for showing.

CARTER We decided to take the last tour of the day. So, when did you decide against getting a dog?

O'NEILL I'm still thinking about it. In the meantime I did a little shopping on your behalf. The zats are completely operational.

[O'Neill slides the GDO across the table.]

O'NEILL This, however, presents a problem.

[Carter studies it for a moment.]

CARTER It's a replica.

CARTER Daniel, was this the only one?

[Tech Davis appears at the door.]

TECH DAVIS Excuse me, you people aren't supposed to be&hellip;

[O'Neill stands. Tech Davis steps over the rope into the room.]

TECH DAVIS Colonel O'Neill?

O'NEILL Sergeant&hellip;what are you doing here?

TECH DAVIS I&hellip;I work here now. Sort of the, er, operations tech advisor.

DANIEL Oh&hellip;Well, you're doing a great job.

TECH DAVIS Uh&hellip;This section is closed off. Are you here for old time's sake?

O'NEILL That's it exactly.

TECH DAVIS Where did you get those?

O'NEILL The zats? Armory. We're taking them.

TECH DAVIS Oh, no, no, no.

CARTER Sergeant, please this is really important. D'you know where our real GDOs went?

TECH DAVIS I'm not a sergeant anymore, and you're not colonels, and you're not supposed to have that remote either&hellip;

DANIEL Oh, that's good, because actually, we don't want that one, we want the real one.

TECH DAVIS It's in the White House. In the Oval Office, on the president's desk.

O'NEILL Kinsey grab a souvenir on the way down?

TECH Davis Look guys, I don't know what&hellip;

O'NEILL Ahh Wal&hellip;ter. Right now I need you to trust us. Just turn around, walk away, pretend we weren't even here. I'll bring everything back I promise. Thursday.

TECH DAVIS Then you'll tell me what's going on?

O'NEILL Absolutely everything.

TECH DAVIS Okay.

CARTER Thank you.

DANIEL Thank you.

TECH DAVIS Thursday.

[Davis leaves. O'Neill sits back down.]

O'NEILL Okay&hellip;last time I was in the Oval Office, I got kicked out. Can we do it without a GDO?

DANIEL Radio?

CARTER There's an EM dampening field around the terminal&mdash;part of the automated defenses.

O'NEILL So we're about as far back in time as we're going to go?

CARTER I think I can get it.

DANIEL Joe?

CARTER He's a good guy.

O'NEILL If you tell him, there'll be no going back.

DANIEL Of course if you don't tell him, there'll be&hellip;no going back.

CARTER He'll do it. I know he will.

EXT&mdash;CARTER'S HOUSE

[Carter is lying on her bed. sound of a door opening.]

JOE (off screen) Sam?

[Carter sits up. The bedroom door opens and Joe enters.]

JOE Sam. Hey, honey. How're you feeling? You were out this morning before I could say goodbye.

CARTER I'm fine.

JOE Molum said you left the lab early&mdash;you were feeling kind of ill. Honey, you're just depressed. We can just keep trying. All right?

CARTER No, we can't, Joe. Nobody can.

JOE What are you talking about?

INT&mdash;THE RESTAURANT

[Daniel, Fraiser and O'Neill sit at a table. Daniel slides a piece of paper across the table to Fraiser.]

DANIEL I think this is the note we should send.

[Fraiser reads it. O'Neill takes it and reads it.]

FRAISER That's it?

DANIEL I thought about including more information, but I think in this case, the simpler the better.

O'NEILL Why don't we just stick one on a rock and throw it through?

DANIEL It would never make it through the automated defences.

O'NEILL Can we at least mention who won the Super Bowl in 2004?

DANIEL No.

O'NEILL World Series?

DANIEL No.

O'NEILL Grey Cup.

DANIEL I put it in my own handwriting so I'll be able to recognize it when I read it.

O'NEILL I think we should all write a note of our own. Case I don't make it to the Gate, you can keep trying.

INT&mdash;CARTER'S HOUSE, BEDROOM

JOE You're wrong.

CARTER I saw the numbers, Joe.

JOE The Aschen doctors said you were fine.

CARTER This isn't just about me. I read this right from an Aschen terminal. Molum gave me access to work on something else. The birth rate has been cut over ninety percent.

JOE Oh my God. It was supposed to be a third of that.

CARTER You knew?

JOE The Aschen insisted on it.

CARTER Oh, my God&hellip;

JOE Honey, they see farther ahead than we do. They knew that if we didn't limit growth&hellip;

CARTER Is that what you call this?

JOE This obviously isn't what we agreed to!

CARTER I can't believe this&hellip;

JOE We didn't have a choice, Sam.

CARTER You sold us out!

JOE You think this was my decision?

CARTER You could have told me!

JOE Oh, come on, you know how it works! Before the Alliance you spent most of your adult life in secrecy.

CARTER Please, that was different!

JOE Sam, it's the same.

CARTER No!

JOE It's exactly the same. Our population was unsustainable. Without drastic measures, the Aschen didn't think we were worth investing in. Obviously they went too far, but I can't believe they did this deliberately. There must be some sort of reverse medical procedure they have&hellip;

CARTER You still don't get it.

JOE Sooner or later the Goa'uld would have wiped us out. Would you prefer that?

CARTER The Aschen way is slower. That's all.

JOE They're not limiting growth, they're&hellip;I have to talk to the President. I&hellip;

CARTER Yes, you do. But not about this.

[Carter hands Joe the replica GDO.]

CARTER I need you to take this iris remote and change it with the one on the president's desk without getting caught. And bring the other one back to my lab. I need you to do this first thing tomorrow.

JOE How am I going to do that?

CARTER Just come up with some excuse, I don't care, but you can't say one word about what we've talked about or they will kill you.

EXT&mdash;ASCHEN LAB

INT&mdash;CARTER'S OFFICE.

[A holographic projection of the sun is in the centre of the control console. Carter, Fraiser and Daniel are standing around the console. O'Neill enters.]

O'NEILL Hot in here?

CARTER This is a real time representation of the actual sun, recorded by Aschen satellites all over the solar system.

FRAISER How do you use it to predict a solar flare?

CARTER I've been studying Aschen knowledge of solar dynamics for the Jupiter ignition project. And there are significant changes just beneath the surface of the sun preceding a flare that are detectable by the satellite net. Look right here. If my calculations are right, there should be a flare in about five seconds.

[O'Neill is keeping a check on the door and corridor. The projection shows a solar flare shooting from the sun.]

DANIEL That's it.

CARTER Now all we need to do is for the computer to predict another flare.

CARTER Have you got your travel papers for Chulak?

FRAISER Yeah, all set.

[Carter hands Fraiser a piece of paper.]

CARTER Give this to Teal'c. It's the coordinates he'll need.

O'NEILL Joe's here.

[Joe enters.]

O'NEILL Ambassador.

JOE I knew you'd have something to do with this.

O'NEILL Did you get it?

JOE Yes.

CARTER Thank you.

JOE What do you going to to do with it?

O'NEILL Send a message.

JOE To who?

O'NEILL To whom. Let's have it.

JOE I'll hand it over if you give me your word that Samantha will play no part in this.

O'NEILL I can't do that.

JOE It's in a briefcase at the customs office at the Stargate Terminal. They've been instructed not to release it without my authorization. Your word.

O'NEILL We need her to pull this off.

JOE Whatever it is, you'll have to do it without Sam.

CARTER Joe, unless I help&hellip;

JOE This is not negotiable. You don't want to tell me what it is you're planning, that's fine. But if it involves GDOs, then it involves the Stargate. And the terminal is the last heavily defended place left on this planet. I will not let you risk Sam's life.

O'NEILL Okay.

CARTER You won't have back up&hellip;

O'NEILL We won't need it.

DANIEL Uh&hellip;The sun's beeping.

CARTER We have a flare prediction&hellip;fifty-seven minutes from now. Is that enough time?

O'NEILL It'll have to do.

EXT&mdash;STARGATE TERMINAL

INT&mdash;TERMINAL

[O'Neill walks through with two bags over his shoulders. Joe gives a box to O'Neill.]

O'NEILL Thank you.

JOE If you can manage, give us enough time to get away from here&hellip;

O'NEILL The message goes in six minutes.

JOE Sam wanted me to wish you good luck.

O'NEILL Give her my best.

[Joe walks off. O'Neill looks at Fraiser at the top of the escalator. O'Neill heads around a glassed area. Daniel walks passed him carrying a briefcase.]

ANNOUNCEMENT (voiceover) Outgoing travellers to Chulak, please stand by in the departure area.

[Fraiser takes the escalator down to the Stargate.]

INT&mdash;QUIET GLASSED ROOM

[O'Neill loads a piton gun and puts a zat in his bag.]

EXT&mdash;STARGATE ARENA

[Daniel watches Fraiser leave and waves.]

EXT&mdash;STARGATE TERMINAL

[Carter waits by the transporter. Joe emerges from the terminal and greets her.]

JOE All right, let's go.

CARTER I'm staying. You go if you want to.

JOE C'mon. Sam, we've got to go.

CARTER Joe, don't&hellip;

JOE Sam. Listen to me. We can work this out, all right? Right now, I think it's best for both of us if we're very far away from here.

CARTER If they manage to do this, it will not matter where we are.

INT&mdash;STARGATE TERMINAL

[O'Neill emerges from the glassed area. Molum walks up to him.]

MOLUM Colonel O'Neill?

O'NEILL Melon?

MOLUM Molum.

O'NEILL Molum. I'm sorry. It's the war, you know.

MOLUM You didn't come to the anniversary celebration.

O'NEILL What's to celebrate? I say.

MOLUM Surely the Aschen have proven your earlier misgivings erroneous. For all we've done.

O'NEILL Yes. You've certainly done your part.

MOLUM What brings you here?

O'NEILL Ah, well you know my friend, Teal'c. I missed him at the celebration. He's coming into town. I brought him a hat.

ANNOUNCEMENT (voiceover) Incoming travellers from Chulak. Please stand clear of the arrival area.

O'NEILL He's right on time.

[Daniel arrives at the base of the Stargate escalator. Teal'c steps through the Gate with another Jaffa. Both are dressed in Jaffa robes and carry staff weapons. The dialer walks up to them.]

DIALER I'm sorry, sir, but weapons are not allowed.

EXT&mdash;DANIEL WALKING THROUGH THE SECURITY SCANNERS

[The alarms sound.]

DANIEL It's archaeological equipment, this happens every time&hellip;

[Daniel goes to open the briefcase.]

EXT&mdash;TEAL'C ON THE STARGATE STEPS

TEAL'C We carry these for ceremonial purposes only.

DIALER I'm sorry, but you'll have to let me have it.

TEAL'C Very well.

[Teal'c fires his staff weapon at the Dialer. Daniel takes a zat from the briefcase and shoots the security guard. Teal'c heads to the DHD and begins dialling the coordinates. sound of alarms.]

INT&mdash;MOLUM WITH O'NEILL

MOLUM What's happening?

[O'Neill shoots Molum with the zat.]

ANNOUNCEMENT (voiceover) Terrorist attack in progress. Please evacuate the building immediately.

[People start running for the exit.]

[Automated defences start to fire at Teal'c from all the walls. One strikes Teal'c in the shoulder. The other Jaffa shoots out one of the automated weapons. O'Neill fires the piton gun straight over the Gate. The Jaffa is killed by the automated weapons. Teal'c is struck several times again. The Gate opens. Teal'c and Daniel keep firing at the automated weapons.]

EXT&mdash;STARGATE TERMINAL

[People start running out. Carter breaks away from Joe and runs back inside.]

JOE Sam! Sam!

INT&mdash;STARGATE TERMINAL.

[O'Neill sets the GDO on his wrist and attaches himself to the piton line. He slides down it as Teal'c is killed by the automated weapons. Daniel takes out another weapon as O'Neill falls from the line to the floor, being shot at by the defence system. O'Neill makes it half way up the Stargate steps before dying. Carter runs into the terminal to see O'Neill die. Daniel runs to the Stargate as Carter runs down the escalator to join him. Daniel is killed on the Stargate steps as Joe runs in to the terminal.]

JOE Shut down the system! Shut down the system!

[Carter runs to Daniel, takes the note and runs up the steps. Carter is hit by the weapons and falls towards the event horizon, throwing the note through the Gate as she collapses and dies.]

JOE No!

INT&mdash;SGC, CONTROL ROOM, PRESENT DAY

TECH DAVIS Incoming traveller!

HAMMOND Who is it?

TECH Davis It's&hellip;SG-1, sir.

O'NEILL Hello&hellip;

FRAISER How can that be?

[Hammond, O'Neill, Daniel, Carter, Fraiser and Teal'c approach the control computer.]

HAMMOND Let's find out. Defense teams stand by! Open the iris.

INT&mdash;GATE ROOM

[The iris opens. A note falls onto the ramp. O'Neill, Hammond, Carter, Fraiser, Daniel and Teal'c enter.]

HAMMOND Stand down. What is it?

[O'Neill walks up the ramp. He picks up the note and walks back down, reading it.]

DANIEL Well?

[O'Neill hands the note to Daniel.]

O'NEILL You tell me.

DANIEL "Under no circumstances go to P4C-970. Colonel Jack O'Neill." That looks like your handwriting.

O'NEILL It is my handwriting. And that's my signature.

TEAL'C Though you sent no such note.

O'NEILL No.

FRAISER Sir, may I?

[Daniel hands the note to Fraiser.]

FRAISER That looks like blood, sir.

HAMMOND Have it analyzed.

[Fraiser leaves.]

O'NEILL General, wasn't 970 on our mission list?

HAMMOND It was. Not anymore. I'm not taking any chances. I want P4C-970 removed from the dialling computer immediately. Dismissed.

[Hammond walks out. O'Neill sits down on the side of the ramp.]

CARTER I wonder why you sent it&hellip;I wonder when.

O'NEILL Yeah. You got to wonder&hellip;

ROLL CREDITS

Transcript by Kira Rothery, revised by Elfin for Solutions, 16 Mar 03

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