Entity (episode)/Transcript

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 * 4.20 "Entity" Episode Guide

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TEASER

INT&mdash;SGC, CONTROL ROOM

[Teal'c and Daniel are standing watching through the observation window. Tech. Davis and Carter is seated at a computer. O'Neill enters.]

TECH DAVIS Chevron 6 encoded.

HAMMOND Glad you could make it, Colonel.

O'NEILL Wouldn't miss it, Sir. This is my favourite part.

TECH DAVIS Chevron 7 locked.

[The Gate engages.]

CARTER Proceeding with MALP transit.

TECH DAVIS MALP en route.

O'NEILL (studying Teal'c) You look tense.

DANIEL (looking at Teal'c as well) No, I'd say anxious.

TEAL'C I am neither tense nor anxious. Perhaps concerned.

DANIEL Why?

TEAL'C The address of this planet was procured from the repository of the Ancients.

DAVIS Receiving MALP telemetry.

[On the MALP monitor we see images of a platform with a ruined city in the background.]

DANIEL Nothing I can see resembles anything that we know about the Ancients. Architecture, technology, writing.

CARTER Maybe what we're looking at came to this planet after the Ancients left it.

HAMMOND Teal'c, do you recognise any of this?

TEAL'C I do not, General Hammond.

O'NEILL Nope, neither do I. (everyone looks at him) I'm just saying.

[On the MALP monitor, the MALP appears to have lifted off from the ground.]

HAMMOND What's it doing?

CARTER Flying, Sir.

O'NEILL MALPs can't fly.

DANIEL Apparently they can.

O'NEILL Shouldn't there be a memo on this stuff?

TEAL'C I do not believe we are still in control.

CARTER Run a systems diagnostic on the MALP.

[Tech. Davis starts typing in commands. A frequency reading appears on a screen, then the video transmission by the MALP goes blank.]

O'NEILL It's stopped transmitting.

CARTER Negative Sir, we're still getting a strong signal. We should be receiving video.

TECH DAVIS Err&hellip;Major, you should take a look at this.

CARTER Sir, very high frequency oscillations are being transmitted on a feedback loop.

DANIEL They may be trying to communicate.

O'NEILL They?

DANIEL Well, whoever they are.

O'NEILL Exactly.

DANIEL What?

CARTER Sir, I recommend we disengage the Stargate and analyse this data before proceeding.

HAMMOND Agreed. Terminate the link.

[Computers around the control room start to spark.]

CARTER Woah, we've got an EM spike. The system's overloading.

O'NEILL Shut it down.

TECH DAVIS I can't get in.

CARTER Try override.

TECH DAVIS Control systems are locked down

[Davis's computer explodes. He is thrown back from his chair. Carter receives an electric shock from her computer.]

CARTER The computer is no longer under our control.

O'NEILL Emergency disconnect, Sir?

HAMMOND Do it. Major, are you okay?

CARTER Yes, Sir.

INT&mdash;GATE ROOM

[O'Neill and Teal'c enter. O'Neill pulls a large lever, shutting the Gate down. Lights go out and the green backup lights come on.]

OPENING TITLES

INT&mdash;SGC, CONTROL ROOM.

[Fraiser is there with Tech Davis on a stretcher. The lights come back on.]

FRAISER Let's get him to the infirmary. He's got 1st and 2nd degree burns Sir, mostly superficial. But I would like to run some more tests.

HAMMOND Very well.

[Carter and Daniel move away from scorched equipment in the wall. Carter’s hand is bleeding.]

CARTER The Stargate control systems and their redundancies are inoperative, including the iris. The circuitry in these terminals has been completely fused.

[Teal'c and O'Neill return from the gate room.]

O'NEILL Any idea what that was?

CARTER None, Sir. The secondary systems are up and running but that was one hell of an EM spike. I'd like to run a full systems diagnostic on the main computer.

FRAISER Yeah, after I treat this hand.

CARTER As soon as I get the systems up&hellip;

FRAISER It is a very bad burn, Sam.

CARTER Five minutes.

FRAISER Now!

O'NEILL Do as the Doctor says.

CARTER Yes, Sir.

FRAISER Thank you Colonel. You, Daniel and Teal'c are next.

DANIEL/O'NEILL What? We're&hellip;I'm fine.

FRAISER Yeah well I would like to be the judge of that. Some form of energy came through the Stargate. I think it's only prudent to make sure there are no physiological effects to those exposed. ASAP.

[Fraiser leaves.]

O'NEILL Who put her in charge?

HAMMOND The US Air Force.

TEAL'C In medical matters, Dr. Fraiser may overrule those of any rank.

[Teal'c walks off.]

O'NEILL I'm not getting all my memos.

[Daniel looks at O'Neill and walks off. After a pause, O'Neill follows.]

INT&mdash;SGC, INFIRMARY

[Carter is sitting on a bed getting her hand bandaged. Tech Davis is lying down on a bed.]

FRAISER Well, by the looks of the control room, I'd say you were both very lucky.

DAVIS I guess it could have been worse.

CARTER I'd like to know what it was trying to do in the first place. Unfortunately our best diagnostic tool for figuring that out has been trashed.

FRAISER You're all done here.

CARTER Thanks.

[Tech Davis waves as Carter leaves. Teal'c enters.]

TEAL'C Reporting as requested.

FRAISER Thanks Teal'c. Just take a seat.

[On a monitor, images of x-rays of the human body start to flash up.]

INT&mdash;SGC, CARTER'S LAB

[Daniel and Carter are watching the MALP video playing on a flat screen monitor.]

DANIEL Can you freeze it just before it cuts out? I wanna get a video capture of this hub thing. Might be able to cross-reference the architecture. No, on second thought I don't think this place is even remotely connected to ancient Earth.

CARTER There. This is the start of the strange high frequency oscillations. They began seconds after we lost video and started to multiply exponentially. After that the oscillations maxed out our equipment and made it impossible to measure them. Now, if I isolate this smaller more detailed signal, and expand the timeline&hellip;there it's a waveform of some kind.

DANIEL The alien signal.

CARTER Piggybacked on the MALP telemetry, that must be how it managed to come back through an outgoing wormhole. I can't properly analyse it until I get the computers back up. My hands are tied.

DANIEL Well, there are other computers in the world.

CARTER Not that I can access. General Hammond's put the SGC under quarantine.

[The security camera turns to focus on them.]

INT&mdash;SGC, CONTROL ROOM

[Techs are fixing burnt-out mother boards. Hammond, Daniel and Carter are watching.]

HAMMOND So information was accessed?

DANIEL Apparently.

HAMMOND Why? By what?

CARTER We don't know, Sir, but it branched out through very specific areas. Network and language software followed by system and application software.

DANIEL Learning to read, learning to talk.

CARTER And knowledge of our systems.

HAMMOND You're saying something was inside our computers?

DANIEL Well, we're just guessing at this point.

CARTER Whatever it was, we managed to interrupt it before it could complete its entire scan of our computer.

HAMMOND Were you able to determine anything further from the MALP transmission?

DANIEL Not a single reference on or off world that even remotely resembles the architecture. It's&hellip;it's entirely alien.

[The security camera turns to watch them.]

CARTER We're running a virus scan and purging the entire mainframe but it's a long process. Our file allocation tables were corrupted by the surge and there are sectors we'll never be able to recover.

HAMMOND I'm maintaining DEFCON 2 and keeping the mountain locked down until you can tell me with confidence there will be no further repercussions.

CARTER Yes, Sir.

INT&mdash;SGC, MALP STORAGE ROOM

[The power to one of the MALPs comes on. A MALP starts to move of its own accord.]

INT&mdash;SGC, BRIEFING ROOM.

[Hammond, O'Neill, Daniel, Carter, Fraiser and Teal'c are seated at the table.]

O'NEILL So, it's a probe?

DANIEL No we're saying it's like a probe. We actually don't know what to call it.

CARTER We do know that before we were able to cut it off a structured EM wave managed to navigate over half of our computer system.

TEAL'C For what reason?

DANIEL Well, we sent a probe to their world.

O'NEILL So we're calling it a probe?

DANIEL Sure. The point is we don't know what would have happened if we hadn't interrupted it.

HAMMOND It did an awful lot of damage.

TEAL'C Perhaps that was the intention.

CARTER Or maybe it was intended to have been passive but just so advanced that it overwhelmed our systems. We really have no way of knowing.

FRAISER Now, what is this?

CARTER Those are the high frequency oscillations we received. They're time magnified and scaled for detail.

FRAISER Looks like high amplitude tracings of an EEG.

DANIEL Like a brain wave?

FRAISER Yeah.

[The lights go off. The security camera moves. On the screen behind Hammond, a realtime picture is projected of them all sitting at the table.]

O'NEILL Hello.

CARTER It's still here.

O'NEILL What, the probe?

[O'Neill rises and walks to the screen.]

CARTER Whatever it is. It must have been sustaining itself within our secondary systems while we were cleaning up the main computer.

O'NEILL Do I look fat?

DANIEL It's like it wants us to know that it’s here.

[O'Neill throws a sloppy salute at the security camera.]

O'NEILL Come here often?

[The image on the screen changes. Personnel files start to scroll through until it stops at O'Neill's.]

O'NEILL Yeah, all right, that's me.

[The security camera pans to Carter, and her file is displayed on the screen. Daniel's is next up.]

[Siler enters.]

SILER Beg your pardon, Sir, the dialling sequencer just went down.

HAMMOND Take it off line, Sergeant.

SILER Yes Sir.

[Siler pauses and looks at the screen, which shows real time the real time security footage of him. Perplexed, he moves back to the control room.]

DANIEL It's learning.

O'NEILL Learning what?

DANIEL About us. Who we are, what we do here.

HAMMOND Put a stop to it, Major.

CARTER Yes Sir.

[Carter leaves.]

DANIEL We don't even know its intentions.

HAMMOND Doctor, I can't allow an alien technology into our computer systems, whatever its intentions.

[O'Neill fixes his hair, using the camera and the screen like a mirror.]

INT&mdash;SGC, CONTROL ROOM

[O'Neill, Daniel and Hammond enter down the stairs. Carter is seated at a computer. The security camera watches them.]

HAMMOND Have we maintained quarantine?

CARTER Yes Sir. For the moment, we're still isolated.

HAMMOND I don't want to risk contamination of the outside world. I want whatever this is stopped right here, right now.

[O'Neill starts moving from side to side in front of the camera. It follows him.]

O'NEILL I think it likes me.

CARTER From what I can decipher, Sir, it's like a computer program: incredibly invasive but as complex as a DNA strand, and it's growing. It's eating more and more memory.

HAMMOND Can you remove it?

CARTER Well this will take a complete shutdown of all systems on base connected to the mainframe, followed by a low level format of all drives. Unfortunately Sir, any and all data not properly backed up before this event will be destroyed. But it's the only way to be sure.

HAMMOND Understood. Do it.

CARTER We'll be out of commission for a while, Sir.

HAMMOND I've already alerted all off world teams to stay put until further notice.

CARTER Yes Sir. Sergeant?

SILER Stand by for a base wide systems power down. Powering down.

[The lights and computers start to go off. The camera stops following O'Neill’s movements.]

O'NEILL Hey.

INT&mdash;SGC, CORRIDORS AND ROOMS

[All lights go off. Green back up lighting comes on.]

INT&mdash;MALP STORAGE ROOM

[A MALP pulls out one of the emergency lights as it builds something electronic.]

EXT&mdash;CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN, NIGHT

INT&mdash;SGC, CONTROL ROOM

[Lights and computers are back up.]

SILER All scans came back clean, Sir.

HAMMOND Thank you, Sergeant.

CARTER We may have only lost data from the last 24 hours before the event. We'll know more when I can hook back up with the SGC archives in the Pentagon.

HAMMOND I'd like you and Sergeant Siler to double-check your results before we do that.

CARTER Yes, Sir.

SILER Major?

CARTER You're kidding.

[On the computer screen, the MALP storage room is highlighted and displaying a System Error.]

INT&mdash;SGC, CORRIDOR

[Siler and Carter are walking down the corridor. O'Neill rushes up.]

O'NEILL Carter! Emergency lighting?

CARTER In the MALP room, yes, Sir, a small power usage anomaly. General Hammond said we should check it out before we resume normal operations.

O'NEILL Forget to change a light bulb, Siler?

SILER Not my job, Sir. Yes sir, lightbulb, very amusing.

[O'Neill tries his keycard but the door doesn't open. After trying a second time he touches the door.]

O'NEILL It's warm.

CARTER Fire?

SILER Alarms would be going off by now, Major.

O'NEILL It's been welded from the inside.

CARTER By who? There's been nobody on this level since the power shutdown.

O'NEILL Get a torch.

INT&mdash;SGC, MALP STORAGE ROOM

[The door is cut through with a torch. O'Neill, Carter, Teal'c and Daniel enter the room. O'Neill, Carter and Teal'c have their weapons raised. They follow a small mini-MALP through to a second area where they see a mass of electronics, monitors and wires.]

O'NEILL What is it?

CARTER I don't know, Sir. I think we robbed the alien program of an environment ,so it created one.

TEAL'C It appears to be sustaining itself from the electric power from the emergency light system.

CARTER Must have got into the MALPs, survived on battery power while we were shut down and built this memory mainframe while we were on emergency power.

O'NEILL Memory mainframe?

CARTER I know for a fact that we wiped out a ton of it. This program must use incredible compression; it must be able to reproduce itself from a fraction of its original size. And now it's expanding into whatever available memory it can find.

O'NEILL Okay. (into radio) General, we're going to need some claymores down here.

HAMMOND (over radio) I'm on my way.

DANIEL You wanna blow it up?

O'NEILL Yes.

DANIEL Why?

O'NEILL Why?

CARTER Sir, we've completely isolated this area of the base. There is no chance of reinfection of our computer.

DANIEL It's obviously fighting to survive.

O'NEILL So do bacteria.

[A screen on the equipment shows Carter’s personnel record.]

CARTER It's trying to communicate.

O'NEILL So do bact&hellip;

CARTER Sir, I agree with Daniel. This is a life form, obviously intelligent. Now we have been in the exact same position as this alien entity I don't know how many times. On another planet, cut off from our world, trying to stay alive.

[Hammond enters.]

HAMMOND What in God's name?

O'NEILL Well, General, whatever got into our computers apparently has built a nest.

HAMMOND Overnight?

CARTER According to the security log there hasn't been any human activity in the MALP room for over 36 hours.

O'NEILL For the record Sir, I want to blow it to hell. These folks wanna chat with it.

HAMMOND Are you absolutely certain it can't reconnect to our computers?

O'NEILL General?

[Carter points the light from her weapon to the emergency lighting.]

CARTER It's surviving on an emergency circuit which is battery powered so it's isolated from the rest of the base. We can kill it just by severing that connection.

HAMMOND How do you intend to proceed?

CARTER Well Sir, it's provided an interface, I'd like to at least make contact with it. If anything goes wrong, we cut the power.

HAMMOND Very well.

[Carter approaches the keyboard and monitor in the centre of the electronic mess. She types 'What is your purpose here?'. O'Neill takes a pair of large wire cutters to the main power supply and waits. A camera in the midst of the electronic mess turns to watch him. On the monitor, the words 'What is yours?' appear in reply.]

DANIEL Maybe it's trying to figure out why we sent a probe to its world.

[Carter types 'We are explorers'. The 'S' starts to repeat across and down the screen.]

HAMMOND Major Carter?

[Carter is staring at the screen, trembling. Electricity is flowing from the keyboard over her hands.]

O'NEILL Carter!

[O'Neill cuts the power supply. Everything goes black.]

INT&mdash;SGC, INFIRMARY

[Carter is wheeled in on a gurney surrounded by medics. Fraiser is with her. O'Neill is following.]

FRAISER Start an EEG and an EKG. Okay, on my count. 3,2,1.

[The medics lift Carter onto a bed. Hammond, Daniel and Teal'c watch from the observation room.]

FRAISER Are we in?

[The monitor for Carter flatlines.]

FRAISER Charge the paddles 100. Take over.

[The monitor picks up a heartbeat.]

FRAISER It's normal sinus rhythm. Sir?

O'NEILL What? What is it?

FRAISER These readings match those that infected the computer in the first place. It's inside her.

EXT&mdash;CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN, DAY

INT&mdash;SGC, INFIRMARY QUARANTINE OBSERVATION ROOM

[Through the window, O'Neill can be seen standing near Carter's bed down in the infirmary quarantine room. Fraiser, Daniel, Teal'c and Hammond are in the observation room. They are looking at readouts of brainwaves on a computer monitor.]

FRAISER These weaker readings are Major Carter's. These are the entity's.

DANIEL How can a computer program be inside a human brain?

FRAISER Sam said the entity was looking for memory within which to expand. The human brain is capable of storing terabytes of information.

HAMMOND How do you intend to remove it?

FRAISER I doubt it's even possible, Sir. I mean more and more of her brain is being stimulated, and it's impossible to tell whether her memory's being suppressed, overwritten or erased entirely.

TEAL'C General Hammond, I recommend Major Carter be placed under armed guard.

DANIEL What?

TEAL'C If an alien entity has somehow invaded her body, then she is a security risk and must be treated as such.

HAMMOND I agree with Teal'c. The entity has fooled us twice. I'll be damned if I let it do it again. She's to remain under guard at all times.

FRAISER Yes, Sir.

INT&mdash;INFIRMARY QUARANTINE ROOM

[Carter opens her eyes.]

O'NEILL Carter? (to observation room) She's conscious.

[Carter makes the sloppy salute mimicking O'Neill's from the briefing room. Fraiser enters.]

O'NEILL Can you talk?

FRAISER Colonel, her PET scan resembles that of someone who has been the victim of a stroke. Parts of her brain seem very active, others seem dormant or suppressed. The entity does have complete motor control however, it might be able to communicate with a speech synthesizer if I explain its operation.

O'NEILL Just concentrate on getting it out of her, will ya?

FRAISER (voice breaking) I don't know how, Sir.

O'NEILL What about the Tok'ra or Asgard, don't they owe us a favour by now?

HAMMOND 'Til this situation is resolved Colonel, we're still under quarantine. That means from our allies as well. We cannot risk the entity leaving this facility.

INT&mdash;SCG, MALP STORAGE ROOM

[Siler, Daniel, Teal'c and O'Neill are looking over the electronic mess.]

SILER Looks like it used a capacitor from the MALP to deliver a charge right through the keyboard, Sir.

O'NEILL Well don't touch it.

SILER Yes Sir.

DANIEL Sam said it was growing, expanding.

TEAL'C Perhaps the entity that possessed her sensed that Major Carter's mind was a more efficient memory storage vessel?

O'NEILL It was a trap.

DANIEL A trap?

O'NEILL Yep. It was watching us the whole time.

DANIEL Err&hellip; so you're saying it knew Sam and I wanted to make contact with it?

O'NEILL Yeah.

TEAL'C And this device was created as a delivery system in order to invade the body of Major Carter.

O'NEILL Yes.

DANIEL So basically what you're saying is&hellip;if we'd just listened to you in the first place and blown it up&hellip;No seriously, I'm asking, is that what you're saying?

TEAL'C If we had destroyed the entity, Daniel Jackson, Major Carter would not have been adversely affected.

DANIEL Okay, look. I know your first instinct is to protect, both of you, that's your job, that's what you do but&hellip;no matter what happens, no matter how this turns out, Sam wasn't wrong to try to communicate with it.

[Daniel leaves. O'Neill sighs.]

INT&mdash;SGC, INFIRMARY QUARANTINE ROOM

[O'Neill enters. The Entity speaks through a speach synthisiser attached to a keyboard that Carter types into.]

ENTITY O'Neill.

O'NEILL That's right. (To guard) Go get the Doc. (To Entity) And you are?

ENTITY I am within. You are O'Neill.

[Fraiser enters. Teal’c and Daniel join Hammond in the observation room.]

O'NEILL Yeah, we've established that.

ENTITY This one has memory of you.

O'NEILL The one you're talking about is a person. Her name is Major Samantha Carter.

ENTITY Then I am Major.

O'NEILL No. No you're not.

FRAISER We understand that you’ve taken control of Major Carter, but you're not her.

ENTITY There was no other choice. No other place to go. You wish to terminate.

O'NEILL Still do.

ENTITY But you will not. Not now. I have observed. You value the life of one.

O'NEILL Yes we do.

ENTITY This one is important.

O'NEILL She is.

ENTITY For this reason, this one was chosen. You will not terminate this one in order to destroy me.

FRAISER It went into Sam out of self preservation.

ENTITY I cannot be removed from this mind without terminating. You will not terminate this one. (turns to the observation room) None of you will. Therefore I will survive.

INT&mdash;SGC, BRIEFING ROOM

FRAISER The entity insists Sam's mind is intact, but I can't detect anything beyond the barest trace. I believe even if I was somehow able to remove it, she would be essentially brain dead

HAMMOND I see.

DANIEL Then why does the entity insist that Sam's mind is still within?

O'NEILL It's the only way to keep us from killing it.

DANIEL Or it's telling the truth, and we just can't detect it.

FRAISER Yeah well, even if Sam is still in there somewhere, it won't be for long. The entity's influence is still growing within her mind, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.

TEAL'C What course of action remains?

DANIEL Well it wants to survive so we offer to send it home.

HAMMOND This alien technology is capable of travelling back to us through an outgoing wormhole. I won't risk the same thing happening again. I've already ordered that the co-ordinates be locked out of the dialling computer.

DANIEL Let me talk to it. Maybe we can convince it to leave willingly.

HAMMOND Very well, Dr. Jackson. Dismissed. Jack?

[Daniel, Fraiser, and Teal'c leave.]

O'NEILL Sir?

HAMMOND We may have to make some difficult choices. I know that Major Carter means a great deal to you.

O'NEILL She's a very valuable member of my team, Sir.

HAMMOND Yes she is.

[O'Neill leaves.]

INT&mdash;SGC, CORRIDOR OUTSIDE INFIRMARY QUARANTINE ROOM

[Teal'c hands O'Neill a zat. Daniel and O'Neill enter the infirmary.]

INT&mdash;INFIRMARY OBSERVATION ROOM.

[Fraiser, Hammond and Teal'c are watching as O'Neill and Daniel enter the room below.]

DANIEL (through speaker) My name is Daniel.

INT&mdash;INFIRMARY QUARANTINE ROOM

ENTITY I am aware.

DANIEL Right, you er&hellip;you read my file.

ENTITY Yes.

DANIEL Then you know I am a scientist.

ENTITY Yes. You have determined I cannot be extracted.

DANIEL Yes.

ENTITY I will now offer information in exchange for continued survival.

DANIEL We don't want your information. We want Sam.

ENTITY Leaving this mind would cause termination.

DANIEL You left that thing you constructed in the MALP room. Go back.

ENTITY I have already grown beyond its capacity.

DANIEL Why did you do this? Why did you come here in the first place?

ENTITY You attacked.

DANIEL No, we sent a probe.

ENTITY Yes.

DANIEL It's something we do to determine whether or not a place is safe for humans.

ENTITY Radio energy was emitted from your probe. Contagion. Much damage was caused within.

DANIEL Within what?

ENTITY Within us. It spread before we understood it was poison.

DANIEL You're saying your world was damaged by radio waves from one probe?

ENTITY Yes.

DANIEL We didn't mean to hurt you, it was a misunderstanding.

ENTITY Yet it is done.

DANIEL So you came here to, to what?

ENTITY Preserve.

DANIEL Preserve your world?

ENTITY Yes.

DANIEL How?

ENTITY By destroying you.

O'NEILL Well that's not going to happen.

ENTITY Transmission was interrupted. If I had been able to complete transmission, you would have been destroyed. My world would have been preserved.

DANIEL Well in a way, you succeeded. We won't go back there. You can repair the damage we did, and we won't send any more probes through.

O'NEILL Yes, we will.

DANIEL Jack?

O'NEILL We'll send dozens of them, one after another. I don't care what it does.

ENTITY No.

O'NEILL Leave her&hellip;now.

ENTITY You won't.

O'NEILL You've read my file, think again.

ENTITY I must preserve.

O'NEILL Fine, stick to your guns then.

DANIEL Jack?

O'NEILL Daniel, we're going to do this my way.

ENTITY You can't.

O'NEILL General?

HAMMOND You're damned right we can.

ENTITY No, please.

O'NEILL Leave her.

ENTITY I must preserve.

O'NEILL If you wanna preserve your world, leave Major Carter right now.

[Carter/Entity's hand shakes over the keyboard. She suddenly pulls the wires from her head and jumps out of bed.]

O'NEILL (to SFs) Stand down. Let her go.

[Daniel and O'Neill, Hammond and Teal'c follow Carter/Entity. Fraiser picks up the phone.]

FRAISER We've got an emergency situation, code 649.

INT&mdash;SGC, CORRIDOR

[Carter/Entity is walking along. Two SFs stop her. She turns back as O’Neill, Daniel, Hammond and Teal’c round the corner. Carter/Entity raises her arms. Spikes of energy go from her hands to the ceiling.]

TEAL'C I believe the alien is attempting to return to the mainframe.

[O'Neill shoots her with a zat. She pauses for a moment, then continues to send the energy spikes, staring defiantly at O’Neill. He fires again, and she collapses. Fraiser arrives. O'Neill and Fraiser go to Carter/Entity where she is lying on the floor.]

INT&mdash;SGC, INFIRMARY QUARANTINE ROOM

[O'Neill is with Carter/Entity who is on life support. Fraiser enters.]

FRAISER Still no change? I don't know if she ever told you this Colonel, but Sam made a living will. No extraordinary means.

O'NEILL Yeah, she told me.

FRAISER There's no brain activity of any kind, no brain wave for either Sam or the entity. She's being kept alive entirely on life support. I think it's time to let her go, Sir.

O'NEILL Just give it a minute, huh?

[Daniel and Teal'c enter.]

DANIEL Just thought you should know, Hammond ordered the mainframe thing in the MALP room destroyed in case the entity managed to find its way back in there, it's probably what it was trying to do.

INT&mdash;SGC, CONTROL ROOM

TECH DAVIS Sir we're go for a systems restart.

HAMMOND Proceed Sergeant.

TECH DAVIS Yes, Sir.

INT&mdash;MALP STORAGE ROOM

[Siler and two SFs are laying explosives in the MALP room.]

INT&mdash;CONTROL ROOM

TECH DAVIS All operational systems are back on line.

INT&mdash;MALP STORAGE ROOM

[The electronic mess suddenly powers up.]

SILER Get back.

INT&mdash;CONTROL ROOM

[Sound of alarms.]

TECH DAVIS It's the MALP room, Sir.

HAMMOND (over speaker) SG-1 to the MALP room immediately.

INT&mdash;SGC, INFIRMARY QUARANTINE ROOM

[Daniel, O'Neill and Teal'c rise and leave.]

INT&mdash;MALP STORAGE ROOM

SILER I think our friend is back, Sir.

O'NEILL All right. let's blow it.

[On the computer screen in the middle of the electronic mess, the words 'I am here' appear.]

DANIEL Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[The words 'I am here' start to appear all over the computer screen.]

DANIEL Look at this.

TEAL'C The entity.

DANIEL No. It said it couldn't go back. It's Sam.

O'NEILL Daniel, I shot her twice.

DANIEL After it transferred Sam's consciousness out of her body. You killed the entity after it put Sam into this&hellip;this thing. She's in here.

O'NEILL Why? Why would it do that?

DANIEL You demanded it. You threatened to send an army of probes through to its homeworld. Saving Sam and allowing itself to be killed was the only way to preserve its homeworld.

[O'Neill picks up the phone.]

O'NEILL Get me Hammond.

INT&mdash;CONTROL ROOM

HAMMOND Hammond.

INT&mdash;MALP STORAGE ROOM

O'NEILL General, we've got a situation down here.

HAMMOND (over phone) Same here, Colonel. I'm on my way.

INT&mdash;CONTROL ROOM

[As Hammond exits, all the monitors in the control room have also been scrolling 'I am here'.]

INT&mdash;SGC, MALP STORAGE ROOM

[Carter has been moved into the MALP room on her bed. The words 'I am here' are still scrolling up all the computer screens in the room. The EEG monitor has also been wheeled in. A nurse is assisting Carter's breathing with a bag. Fraiser, Hammond, Siler, O'Neill, Daniel and Teal'c are present.]

FRAISER This EEG matches Sam's. I don't know how, but it's her.

HAMMOND So what do we do?

FRAISER There's nothing I can do, Sir, but to provide a conduit for her to return into her own body.

[Teal'c raises his zat gun.]

TEAL'C The entity has deceived us on several occasions.

HAMMOND Go ahead, Doctor.

FRAISER Yes, Sir.

[Fraiser flicks a switch and Carter jerks with the electric current. All the computer screens go blank. Fraiser diconnects Carter from the electronics. Carter takes a breath.]

FRAISER She's back.

[Teal'c lowers his weapon.]

O'NEILL Hey Carter, where you been?

CARTER It's gone?

HAMMOND Yes it is.

CARTER I was shouting for you to hear.

O'NEILL We heard.

FADE OUT

ROLL CREDITS

Transcript by Elfin for Solutions, Sep 2003

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