The Tomb

The Tomb
Production
Series	Stargate SG-1
Episode	5.08
Production #	508
Original air date	August 17, 2001
Written by	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
Directed by	Peter DeLuise
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Preceded by	Beast of Burden
Followed by	Between Two Fires

Template:SG1-5 The Tomb is the eighth episode of the fifth season of Stargate SG-1.

Plot

SG-1 must reluctantly join a fellow Russian team (headed by Col. Zukhov) in a daring mission to uncover the fate of a lost Russian team and a powerful Goa'uld device, the Eye of Tiamat. After entering the tomb SG-1 and the Russians split up to search. SG-1 discovers the remains of a previous Russian team that has been apparently gnawed upon, and the Russians find an ancient Goa'uld Sarcophagus. O'Neal orders Zukhov to hold his ground, but Zhukov moves to investigate the sarcophagus. In so doing, he sets off a trap that shuts the door to the temple, and Lt. Marchenko is crushed by the door trying to escape.

Trapped inside, the teams force open the sarcophagus and find a skeleton inside with simmilar gnawing. With a little research of the carvings of the room, Daniel determines Marduk was trapped inside the sarcophagus with another creature by his priests. The teams split up into pairs to find this creature, while Daniel stays behind to study the room. After a short amount of time in the search Sam and Lt. Tolinev are attacked and Tolinev is bitten, apparently poisoned. Whatever the creature is, it killed the Russians and worst of all, Sam senses a Goa'uld symbiote inside it. When Sam and Teal'c encounter the creature later it drops dead from wounds from it's previous encounter with Sam, and Teal'c concludes that the symbiote is no longer present in the creature (by cutting open the creature's neck). Teal'c and Sam inform the rest of the team that there is a Goa'uld in their midst.

Colonel O'Neill and Colonel Zukhov are stuck in a standoff, each suspecting each other of being hosts, and refusing to lower their weapons. The real Goa'uld(in Vallarin) confronts them and attacks Jack with a hand device. It demands the Eye of Tiamat, an allegedly powerful piece of Goa'uld technology of unknown function. Zukhov found it earlier with the journal, and pretends to give it to the Goa'uld. Instead, he arms a grenade and tosses it to him. The Goa'uld realises too late and the explosion buries the host, Zukhov and the Eye. Jack is unharmed.

Meanwhile, Daniel studies the writings on the walls of the tomb to realise that there is a ring transporter in the temple and Teal'c locates a secret panel that exposes Goa'uld control crystals, which allow SG-1 to activate the ring transporter. As they get ready to leave, the Goa'uld shows up to threaten his revenge. As the ring transporter dematerialises the 4 members of SG-1 and Tolinev, Major Carter activates a ten second timer on a large quantity of C4, killing the host Goa'uld and collapsing the already highly unstable tomb. If the Goa'uld survived the initial explosion, he would soon suffocate under the tons of stone and dust that would subsequently bury him. Back on Earth, in the SGC briefing room, the surviving Russian backs up O'Neill's account to her superior, but the debriefing Russian Colonel suspects that the SGC is hiding something, and they are clearly disappointed at the failure to recover the Eye of Tiamat. Jack tells the Russian not to expect another joint mission, since their priority should have been the rescue part of the rescue mission, not the Eye of Tiamat part.

References

Serbia

Notes

• Colonel Chekov appears for the first time in this episode, returning in later seasons to deal with the SGC on behalf of the Russian government.
• The line right before the introduction of Russian team said by Major Vallarin translates as "The strongest country in the world... and they can't make a decent coffee".
• Lieutenant Marchenkos surname and facial traits suggests his Ukrainian heritage. This marks the second time in the show that (first being Small Victories) an officer of Ukrainian ancestry is portrayed in Russian military.
• In Full Circle, Daniel says that the Eye of Tiamat is one of the Eyes that Anubis is using to power his new super weapon.
• Marduk was first mentioned in "Thor's Hammer", as the Goa'uld who took Kendra from her home world.
• Lieutenant Tolinev's surname is in the incorrect (masculine) form. Since she is female, it should have been Tolineva. This error was corrected in the Russian, Spanish and German dubs of Stargate SG-1.(Actually, she is referred to as Tolineva by both SGC and the Russian teams in the original/English version as well. It seems that the 'va' at the end of her name is being eaten up by the actors sometimes.)

Goofs

At one point, Colonel Zukhov makes a comment about preferring the Zastava M85 over SG-1's P90s. O'Neill responds by pointing out that the M85 is manufactured by Yugoslavia. However, the P90 itself was designed and is manufactured by Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal, a Belgian company.

Sources

• Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
• Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity (2001-07-10). Retrieved on October 15, 2006. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 13, 2006.
• Review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Debra Kraft. Visited May 13, 2006.

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