Between Two Fires

Between Two Fires
Production
Series	Stargate SG-1
Episode	5.09
Production #	509
Original air date	August 24, 2001
Written by	Ron Wilkerson
Directed by	William Gereghty
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Preceded by	The Tomb
Followed by	2001

Template:SG1-5 "Between Two Fires" is the ninth episode of the fifth season of Stargate SG-1.

Synopsis

The Tollans are somehow willing to give away their Ion cannons to the Tau'ri to protect Earth. Omoc died, and Narim believes he was murdered, which had not happened to the Tollans for several years. SG-1 comes to the conclusion that those two events are connected somehow, and a conspiracy is brewing.

Plot

The death of the Tollan, Omoc, and the sudden reversal of the Tollan isolationist ways sparks an investigation by SG-1 into a deeply rooted conspiracy. After years of refusing to give Earth any of their technologies, Tollana's ruling body, the Curia, offers to give Earth as many Ion cannons as it wants. At the same time, Narim alerts SG-1 to the strange circumstances surrounding Omoc's death, suggesting that he may have been murdered.

As it turns out, Tanith, in the service of another Goa'uld, has learned to break through the Tollan defenses - Goa'uld ships now possessing shields capable of preventing even the ion cannons from working against them - and is now manipulating them with threats. Tanith has been sent to oversee a project of building Phase-shifting weapon. The Goa'ulds plan to use one of the devices to penetrate the iris on the Earth Stargate, but since they cannot attack without risking the wrath of the Asgard, they try to force the Tollan to launch the weapon for them.

With considerable help from Narim, SG-1 manages to foil the plan and destroy the research facility using an "ineffective" ion cannon, which results in Tanith attacking Tollana. They offer to allow Narim to return to Earth with them, but he refuses, stating that he has led his people into a battle they may be unable to win and he must stay to fight with them. Later on, the SGC receive a garbled transmission from Narim suggesting that the Tollan have fallen.

References

Apophis; Asgard; Escape pod; Funeral; Health monitor; Heart attack; Holographic recording device; Ion cannon; Iris; Kara kesh; Long-range communications satellite; Omoc; Phase-shifting weapon; Protected Planets Treaty; Russia; Sarita; Shield; Tanith's Ha'tak; Tollan force field; Tollan government; Tollan sidearm; Tollan Stargate; Tollan technology; Tollana; Trinium; Washington D.C.

Notes

• This episode gives insight into the Tollan homeworld and political system.
• This episode includes the first mention of Anubis, who Tanith (who is manipulating the Tollan) alludes to as his mysterious new "master".
• The urban outdoor scenes of Tollana were shot on the main campus of Simon Fraser University (S.F.U.) in Burnaby, a city adjacent to Vancouver. The same location was previously used for the third season episode "Pretense" when the SG-1 team visited Tollana for the first time. Other SF tv shows shot in the Vancouver area that have used the S.F.U. Academic Quadrangle include the X-Files and Battlestar Galactica.
• The footage shown of the testing of one of the Tollan weapons of mass destruction is the same footage that was used in the Season 4 episode "Chain Reaction" during the testing of the Naquadah-enhanced Nuclear warhead.
• The Tollan are apparently wiped out by Tanith at the end of this episode. The last that is heard from them is a garbled mayday from Narim, sent via a Tollan long range communications device. In it, Narim states that the survivors are attempting to leave the planet, but that the Stargate has already been hit and fleeing ships are being destroyed. Just before the message cuts off, Narim's apparent last words are, "I just want you to know that..."

Deaths

• Narim
• Travell

In other languages

• French: Traquenard (Trap)
• Italian: Tra Due Fuochi (Between Two Fires)
• Spanish: Entre Dos Fuegos (Between Two Fires)
• Czech: Mezi dvěma ohni (Between Two Fires)

External links

• Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
• Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity (2001-08-20). Retrieved on October 15, 2006. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 4, 2006.

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