Evolution, Part 1

"Evolution, Part 1" is the eleventh episode of the seventh season of Stargate SG-1.

Synopsis
Anubis has created an army of invulnerable killing machines called Kull warriors to do his work and wipe out the rival Goa'uld. They have armor that impervious to all known weapons. The only way to stop them is for Dr. Daniel Jackson to go to a hidden temple in Honduras that is the origin of the "fountain of youth" myth.

Plot
On an unnamed planet, Teal'c and Bra'tac visit a place where many dead Jaffa lie. They find a dead Goa'uld named Tilgath who wanted to forge an alliance with Ramius, whom they think betrayed Tilgath. They find Ramius' First Prime who tells them that they were attacked by a warrior, who then appears and kills the First Prime. Teal'c and Bra'tac fire on him with their staff weapons, but to no avail. The warrior then attacks with some sort of energy weapon on his arm but is finally killed by Teal'c with a Zat'nik'tel. The warrior is then brought to Stargate Command where the two Jaffa inform SG-1 and Major General George S. Hammond.

Together with Jacob Carter, Major Samantha Carter examines the warrior, and together they discover that he is a genetic creation, brought to life by a Goa'uld symbiote. They also find out that the warrior died because of a heart attack and not because of the Zat. Later it is discovered the warrior was apparently not alive when he was created and Selmak tells them how the Sarcophagus was created by a Goa'uld named Telchak (who used a device of the Ancients) since he thinks the warrior was created by the same technology used to create the sarcophagi. Dr. Daniel Jackson remembers some research his grandfather Dr. Nicholas Ballard did about the Fountain of Youth and they surmise Anubis created the warriors by recreating the device using knowledge he obtained while ascended. General Hammond then gives Daniel permission to search for Telchak's Ancient device. So Daniel travels with Dr. Bill Lee to Honduras, where, according to Ballard's researches, Telchak's temple should lie. They are accompanied by a guide named Rogelio Duran.

At the SGC, the others plan to capture one of the "super soldiers" alive by stunning him with a small dart that should penetrate his armor. SG-1, some SG teams, and several Rebel Jaffa go to Ramius' homeworld since they think that a warrior will appear there. When the warrior arrives, he withstands all their weapons, kills some Jaffa, and finally escapes, while the others are captured by Ramius' Jaffa and imprisoned. They are confronted by the Goa'uld, but he doesn't believe their story about the warrior. They then discuss what to do about the warrior when suddenly they hear the warrior attack and the guarding Jaffa run to their master. It turns out that he was killed and so the Jaffa let the prisoners go. SG-1 is then able to capture the warrior with a Tel'tak.

In Honduras the three go into the jungle in search of the temple and finally find a hidden entrance to it, which Daniel and Lee enter. At a dead end they find the Ancient healing device but when they remove it from its location they activate a trap and the temple is flooded. The two barely make it to the entrance, but when they leave the temple they are confronted by guerrillas, who capture them and shoot the guide when he tries to flee. At the guerrilla camp, Jackson and Lee are interrogated but refuse to talk. The guerrilla leader Raphael then threatens them with torture and death.

At SGC attempts are made to interrogate the prisoner, but he reveals only that he serves Anubis. However, thanks to a Tok'ra Memory recall device it is discovered that the warrior was created on a planet named Tartarus. Suddenly, Hammond enters the room and explains that Jackson and Lee were kidnapped and may have crossed the border into Nicaragua, much to the shock of the others.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Notable Quotes
Jackson: Let's spread out, look for a... temple. In lieu of that look for a totem or a marker of some kind. Anything that might tell us where to go from here. (They just stare at him) Go.

Lee: (Suddenly dropping out of sight) Found it.

O'Neill: Reynolds, I want flanking positions set up on either side of the clearing. Ring the perimeter with C4 and claymores.

Reynolds: Not much faith in Plan A?

O'Neill: Since when has Plan A ever worked?

Reynolds: Right.

Ramius: Jaffa!!

O'Neill: I'll handle this. (to Ramius) Greetings!! (attempts the Vulcan salute, but fails) Well, uh... I know how this looks, so I think it's important we clear up any misunderstanding right away. We did not come to kill you. (Ramius sneers) Honest. (to everyone else in the cell) Am I right? (they all nod in agreement, back to Ramius) The fact is, and this is the fun part, we actually came to save your ass... ses. All your asses. Do ya see the irony? (Ramius sneers) All right. There's this guy out there. Big guy. Big guy in a black suit. None too fond of you Goa'ulds. (Ramius sneers) Well anyway, he's the one we're after, not you. So if you wanna let us go, we'll be on our way, to save the world another day, you're not buying this are you?

Ramius: Jaffa... kree!! (walks away)

Carter: Well... that went well.

O'Neill: That went well.

Carter: You're worried that the super-soldier will kill Ramius and then slaughter the rest of us?

O'Neill: 'Super-soldier'?

Carter: No?

O'Neill: It has a ring.

Lee: At least it has writing on it.

Jackson: Yeah.

Lee: What's it say?

Jackson: I have no idea.

Lee: Oh.

Jackson: The sort of technology of the sarcophagus—which, by itself causes madness and addiction. This is supposedly something far more powerful. So accidentally activating it would be bad.

Lee: Okay.

Jackson: Let's just try picking it up without touching it too much.

Hammond: I'm afraid I have some bad news. I just received a communique from the State Department in Washington. It appears that Daniel Jackson and Dr. Lee have been kidnapped. Our best guess is that they've crossed the border into Nicaragua, however at this moment we have no idea where they are.

Goofs

 * When Teal'c and Major Samantha Carter transport the Kull onto the Tel'tak, the Kull looks up. When it does this you can see underneath the mask of the Kull and see a normal chin and mouth of the actor.
 * When the Kull is walking into the ambush, Teal'c is using an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (actually a mocked-up Daewoo K3). The ammunition in the belt feeding into the weapon is rather obviously rosette-crimped blank cartridges, although after the ambush begins, closeups show more realistic-looking rounds, probably inert.
 * Rafael and Chalo's Spanish accents are Mexican rather than Honduran.  Rogelio's is American.

Characters

 * Ramius
 * Tilgath
 * Raphael
 * Rogelio Duran
 * Chalo

Race

 * Kull

In other languages

 * French: La Fontaine de Jouvence (1ère partie) (The Fountain of Youth (part 1))
 * Italian: Evoluzione (Parte 1) (Evolution (part 1))
 * Spanish: Evolución (Parte 1) (Evolution (part 1))
 * Czech: Evoluce (1. část) (Evolution (part 1))
 * German: Evolution, Teil 1 (Evolution, Part 1)
 * Hungarian: Evolúció (1. rész) (Evolution (part 1))