Bad Guys

"Bad Guys" is the sixteenth episode of the tenth season of Stargate SG-1.

Plot
The SG-1 team, minus Samantha Carter - who has gone to the Pentagon to brief them on the consequences the alternate Earth had in revealing the Stargate program - set out to a planet in search of Clava Thessara Infinitas treasure (from the episode "Memento Mori"). Upon arriving at the planet they discover they are in fact inside a museum, which is hosting a party. Choosing to follow protocol and return home - then make contact with the local inhabitants who are unaware of the Stargate through use of the M.A.L.P. - the team attempt to return home but are unaware that the DHD is a replica constructed from drawings the natives discovered.

After their initial plan to wait until the team misses their scheduled check in fails, they are mistaken for a band of zealous rebels. After a shootout in the lobby, the museum is set into a lockdown mode. Along with a wounded security guard, many of the patrons of the party are taken as hostages. After insisting their intentions were peaceful the team is forced to pose as kidnappers until the scheduled check-in passes.

After "negotiations" begin, Daniel suggests the local task force send in medical personnel to tend to the injured security guard, two medics are sent into the museum. The medics attack Daniel with stun weapons, but are quickly subdued. After the situation Quartus takes command of the negotiations.

Cicero, one of the hostages and a researcher at the museum realizes that this is the incident that will prove his theories about Stargate being a portal allowing travel to other worlds, begins to assist SG-1 and provide them with the steps needed to buy the team enough time to get home. Cicero instructs SG-1 on what demands to make so as to pass off as real rebels.

Jayem Seran, a night-time security guard inside the museum, hopes to be a hero and contacts the authorities outside with an offer to help take down SG-1.

While searching for possible fragments of the destroyed DHD, Mitchell and Vala discover one of the many Goa'uld artifacts in the exhibits in the museum: a Naquadah bomb. After Jayem attempts to 'save' Cicero from his 'captors' Mitchell and Vala, he attempts to find the other 'rebels'. When he leaves Cicero continues to assist Mitchell and Vala. When Mitchell and Vala capture Jayem, they return to Cicero but discover he has disappeared. After Vala initiates another lockdown on the Naquadah bomb, she demands that Jayem use his security access in order to de-activate it. Upon discovering that the bomb cannot be de-activated Mitchell and Vala begin to connect the bomb to the Stargate in order to dial out.

After Cicero, who had escaped the museum, informs Quartus of the 'rebels' true identity, he instructs his Special Forces team to storm the museum. As SG-1 retreats back, they are ambushed and captured by Quartus's military forces. Cameron Mitchell then makes a plea to Quartus to let them return home. Mitchell informs him that 'there are worlds and races out there that do intend to do you and your people harm, but we are not one of them' and continues to say that 'we are a peaceful people, but we do not take acts of aggression lying down.' After Mitchell's short speech Quartus agrees to allow SG-1 to travel through the gate. After which, the military commander begins a cover-up and buries the Stargate; creating a cover story that a night guard killed four rebels and saved several hostages. In protest of the cover up Cicero attempts to contact the ruling Viceroy to change the decision, but is assumed to have failed. It is implied that the fact the Stargate is a means of intergalactic travel are one of the rebel movement's beliefs, which would legitimize its position if the information were ever made public.

The SGC attempts to make two connections to the world but the Stargate does not establish a wormhole and General Hank Landry believes that the world has no interest in establishing relations with other worlds. Effectively, the planet has 'stuck their heads in the sand'.