Story By: Michael Greenburg and Jarrad Paul
Teleplay By: Brad Wright
Directed By: Brad Turner
Starring:
Richard Dean Anderson as Colonel Jack O’Neill
Michael Shanks as Doctor Daniel Jackson
Amanda Tapping as Major Samantha Carter
Christopher Judge as Teal’c
Don S Davis as General George Hammond
Teryl Rothery as Doctor Janet Fraiser
Jan Rubes as Nick Ballard
We
see an enormous pyramid and the MALP travels along a walkway towards it.
Meanwhile, Jack, Sam, Daniel and Teal'c are in the control room watching
the video playback.
CARTER: This is well over a thousand metres high.
O'NEILL: And as pyramids go, that's.... big?
TEAL'C: I know of no goa'uld structure of that magnitude.
DANIEL: Definitely Mayan. This is a major find; I have to see this.
O'NEILL: Any signs of life there?
CARTER: There is a breathable atmosphere Sir but no complex life signs.
The
MALP goes into the pyramid and we see an enormous cavern with a walkway
leading to something in the middle.
CARTER: This *is* a major find. *I* have to see this.
O'NEILL: You too?
CARTER: Well look at these readings. Sir, these are leptons.
O'NEILL: Get out.
CARTER: Well that means something inside this pyramid is slowing down neutrinos.
Normally neutrinos pass right through ordinary matter no matter how dense.
I mean something like 500 million billion just passed through you
O’NEILL: No matter how dense?
CARTER: A material that slows neutrinos could change everything we know
about physics, the formation of the universe…
DANIEL: Wait a minute Sam. Get, ah get closer.
CARTER: I can’t, the MALP’s too big to cross the span.
DANIEL: Then zoom in. On that.
TEAL’C: It appears to be a human skull.
DANIEL: No that’s a crystal skull.
CARTER: How do you know?
DANIEL: Because it’s exactly like the one found in 1971 in Belize. By my
grandfather.
Opening
Titles
Briefing
room
Daniel is standing by a projection screen showing pictures of various
crystal skulls. Jack, Sam, Janet and Hammond are sat around the table.
DANIEL: I could name at least a dozen different crystal skulls from various
parts of the world but the skull that Nick discovered in Belize was unique.
O’NEILL: Nick?
DANIEL: Ah yeah. The, ah, great explorer. The not so great grandfather
Nicholas Ballard. He preferred being called Nick, even when I was a kid.
It was… anyway ah the point is that no one can explain how the skull Nick
discovered was carved, from a single piece of crystal, against the grain,
given the technology of the day. He claimed that it possessed a certain
power.
HAMMOND: What kind of power?
DANIEL: That if one were to look into the eyes of the skull, one would
be teleported to see aliens.
TEAL’C: Your grandfather saw these aliens.
DANIEL: So he insisted to the entire academic community.
FRAISER: I take it his claim didn’t go over very well?
DANIEL: As you might imagine, no. He tried for years under controlled
conditions to make the skull teleport him again but he never could.
O’NEILL: Doesn’t mean he wasn’t right.
CARTER: The academic community didn’t believe your theory that the pyramids
were landing sites for alien space ships either
O’NEILL: We have to see this.
HAMMOND: I’ll authorise a standard recon mission.
FRAISER: Colonel, I can only guess at the effect this type of radiation
may have on the human body. I recommend limited exposure, ten, fifteen
minutes at most.
DANIEL: Wait a minute, that’s not enough time. I mean there has to be
some sort of radiation suit or…
O’NEILL: Hey! If you’d been listening you know that nintendos pass through
everything.
DANIEL: I heard.
O’NEILL: Everything.
P7X
377
SG1 walks into the pyramid.
O’NEILL: Whoa!
CARTER: Muon radiation is increasing.
O’NEILL: Unhealthy?
CARTER: I don’t think so Sir, not if it stays at these levels.
TEAL’C: Whoever the builders are, they would appear to be a formidable
race.
DANIEL: You could fit every pyramid on earth inside this thing and still
have room to spare.
O’NEILL: Could you imagine heating this place?
They
walk across a walkway towards the crystal skull.
O’NEILL: Major. Start the clock.
Daniel
looks at the skull on a pedestal.
DANIEL: It’s identical to the one Nick discovered in Belize.
TEAL’C: Can you determine if it is a means of transport, as your grandfather
believed?
DANIEL: Ahh, I can’t be sure, there’s no writings of any kind on the pedestal.
CARTER: This cavern must act like some sort of containment bottle.
DANIEL: It’s no wonder Nick was so fascinated by…
CARTER: If I can get a sample of the substance that’s slowing down these
neutrinos, we can change the face of physics.
DANIEL: It’s like a living thing, it’s…
O’NEILL: Wonder how far down that is?
The
skull starts to glow.
TEAL’C: Daniel Jackson!
CARTER: Sir, radiation is spiking. It’s at 300%.
O’NEILL: What?
CARTER: 400.
O’NEILL: All right, that’s it. We’re out of here. Daniel?
The
skull emits a light that seems to envelop Daniel. Teal’c zats it and Daniel
is thrown backwards while the light disappears.
O’NEILL: Where’d he go?
Teal’c
walks to the pedestal and appears to walk through Daniel’s body lying
on the ground.
TEAL’C: He seemed to disappear.
CARTER: Sir these readings are off the scale now. If we don’t leave here
soon, we’re…
Carter
collapses and O’Neill catches her and turns to run back to the Stargate.
O’NEILL: Teal’c, get outta there!
The
SGC
TECH: Incoming traveller Sir. It’s SG1.
HAMMOND: Open the iris.
The
Gateroom
Sam, Jack and Teal’c collapse on the ramp.
HAMMOND: Get a medical team in here. Where’s Doctor Jackson?
They
don’t answer.
The Infirmary
FRAISER: He’s coming to Sir. (about Jack.)
O’NEILL: Carter? Daniel?
FRAISER: She’s still unconscious. Teal’c is better off than both of you,
his symbiote is helping him. It was close Colonel, if you hadn’t left
when you did..
O’NEILL: Hot.
FRAISER: Yes, I know. We’re trying to keep your temperature down. The
muon radiation affected your hypothalamus. Essentially your internal thermostat
went haywire. Your respiration, heartbeat and your temperature have been
fluctuating wildly.
O’NEILL: No kidding.
HAMMOND: As for Doctor Jackson, Colonel, he never returned with you.
TEAL’C: He is no longer there General Hammond. The skull enveloped him
in an energy field. I fired my zatnikatel but it was too late. He seemed
to disappear.
HAMMOND: What?
P7X
377
Daniel is lying on the pedestal seemingly unconscious.
The SGC
Control Room
HAMMOND: Pan the camera left again. Do the infra red sensors detect any
sign of Doctor Jackson?
TECH: No Sir.
Teal’c
walks in.
HAMMOND: You should be in the infirmary. (To Teal’c)
TEAL’C: I am well again General Hammond.
HAMMOND: Not according to Doctor Fraiser.
TEAL’C: Nicholas Ballard believed the crystal skull to be a teleportation
device. Recovering the skull may help us to determine the location to
which he was teleported.
HAMMOND: The MALP telemetry suggests the radiation levels are still too
high.
TEAL’C: My symbiote provides me with a greater tolerance against the effects
of radiation.
HAMMOND: And if that thing zaps you to wherever it sent Doctor Jackson?
TEAL’C: Then I will have succeeded in locating him.
P7X
377
Teal’c runs across the bridge to collect the crystal skull.
DANIEL: Teal’c! What happened? Where is everybody? (Teal’c ignores him
and runs back across the bridge through Daniel.) You just ran right through
me. TEAL’C! (Teal’c stops and looks back) What the hell is going on?
The
SGC
Teal’c steps back through the Gate and Daniel just makes it through.
DANIEL: Hey!
HAMMOND: Well done Teal’c.
TEAL’C: Regrettably there was no sign of Daniel Jackson.
DANIEL: So I take it nobody else can see me either?
HAMMOND: Doctor Rothman is awaiting the artefact in Lab 3c. (To Siler)
SILER: Yes Sir.
TEAL’C: Major Carter will also want to study it.
HAMMOND: As soon as she’s fully recovered.
DANIEL: Recovered from what? What happened?
Infirmary
Teal’c and Daniel walk in. They go to Sam’s bed.
FRAISER: She’s gonna be fine Teal’c. They’re exposure wasn’t long enough
to cause any permanent damage.
O’NEILL: DOC!
FRAISER: You can protest all you want Colonel but it will be a while till
you get your strength back. So relax. Ah. Doctors orders.
Teal’c
has also walked over from Sam’s bed.
O’NEILL: Napoleonic power monger. News?
TEAL’C: Daniel Jackson was nowhere in the vicinity of the pyramid.
O’NEILL: What the hell happened to him?
TEAL’C: I do not believe the skull is a weapon O’Neill.
DANIEL: Well you’re right about that, it’s not a weapon.
TEAL’C: It is indeed a teleportation device. I believe the artefact itself
…
DANIEL: No something else happened.
TEAL’C: Doctor Rothman is now studying it.
O’NEILL: Rothman couldn’t figure out an ashtray. The guy we need working
on that skull is Daniel.
TEAL’C: It is he whom we endeaver to locate, O’Neill.
O’NEILL: Look I’m sick of laying around. Help me up.
TEAL’C: Doctor Fraiser believes you are not strong enough to undertake
such a mission. (Jack tries to get up and hits the floor like a sack of
potatoes.) Doctor Fraiser is usually correct in such matters. (He picks
up Jack and drops him on the bed.)
O’NEILL: Thank you. (muffled)
TEAL’C: You are welcome O’Neill.
Lab
3c
DANIEL: Okay, you can do this Robert, I know you can. Focus on the Mayan
legends. The lost pyramids of Belize. The Ballard skull. That’s where
the answer is.
ROTHMAN: Well, it’s a crystal skull.
HAMMOND: We knew that Doctor.
ROTHMAN: It’s almost identical to the Nicholas Ballard skull in the Smithsonian.
DANIEL: He doesn’t know it was found on P7X 377.
ROTHMAN: Actually the craftmanship is very impressive. It’s probably made
in Germany, early 1900’s. What I don’t understand is what it has to do
with Daniel being missing.
TEAL’C: We believe it to be a teleportation device.
ROTHMAN: Are you serious?
DANIEL: That’s good Robert. Be sceptical.
HAMMOND: We were hoping your archaeological expertise could help provide
insight into where he may have been sent.
ROTHMAN: It’s a skull.
DANIEL: Not that sceptical.
TEAL’C: I myself witnessed the artefact create a tremendous field of energy
that engulfed Daniel Jackson.
ROTHMAN: It’s made of crystal not plutonium. I don’t see how this could..
HAMMOND: Humour me Doctor. I want a full report within 12 hours.
ROTHMAN: Yes Sir, I was just…
TEAL’C: Do not look directly into its eyes.
ROTHMAN: Okay.
DANIEL: Don’t let me down Robert.
ROTHMAN: Teleportation device? I… What do you think? (To Siler)
SILER: I think you’re gonna get fired.
Teal’c’s
quarters.
Teal’c is meditating.
DANIEL: Teal’c. In case I don’t ever get the chance to say this. If you
hadn’t have come back for me, I might have been stuck in that place forever.
Thank you.
Teal’c
opens his eyes.
TEAL’C: Is there someone present?
DANIEL: Yes. It’s me. It’s Daniel. I’m right here. I’m right here. Just
don’t walk…..through me. It’s very disconcerting. You sensed I was in
the room, you just can’t see or hear me which is a little frustrating
as you may imagine.
Lab
3c
Rothman is looking into the eyes of the skull.
CARTER: STOP! That’s exactly what Daniel was doing when he was absorbed
by the energy field.
DANIEL: That’s what I’ve been trying to tell him.
ROTHMAN: I know that. I was trying to prove something.
FRAISER: Prove what?
DANIEL: That the skull didn’t do this.
CARTER: You don’t think the skull is responsible for what happened to
Daniel, do you?
ROTHMAN: I’m still here.
CARTER: There was intense muon radiation at the time the energy..
ROTHMAN: There’s no residual radiation..
CARTER: Look I saw what that thing is capable of.
ROTHMAN: Hey. I wish it was a teleportation device. I could use it to
go find Daniel. He’s my friend too you know. I don’t think that’s what
we’ve got here. I think what we’ve got here is a paperwight. I’m sorry,
that’s my opinion.
CARTER: It’s all right, I’ll take over from here. There may be properties
in the crystalline structure that are invisible to the naked eye. We should
run some diagnostic tests.
Janet
goes to get Sam a drink of water.
DANIEL: Wait a minute, I’m not hungry or thirsty. Why not?
CARTER: Thank you. (To Janet)
DANIEL: Because I’m dead.
Sam
suddenly stops drinking and looks up.
ROTHMAN: What?
CARTER: Did anybody else feel that?
FRAISER: What?
DANIEL: What if I’m a ghost?
CARTER: I just got a shiver.
FRAISER: You’re still feeling the after effects of the radiation.
DANIEL: No I think that was me.
The
Gateroom
Daniel is sitting on some equipment in the background while Jack, Sam,
Janet, Teal’c and Hammond watch the Gate.
TECH: Chevron 4 encoded.
CARTER: Sir, we’ve subjected the skull to every piece of diagnostic equipment
we have.
TECH: Chevron 5 encoded.
HAMMOND: What have you found out?
CARTER: Nothing.
O’NEILL: We could take another look at that planet Sir.
FRAISER: I’d strongly recommend against it. We’re still getting periodic
readings from the MALP. The radiation levels have dropped slightly but
they’re still elevated.
TECH: Chevron 6 encoded.
HAMMOND: We’re preparing a UAV for a long-range search around the pyramid.
I don’t see any point in risking another SG team unless that search turns
up something.
TECH: Chevron 7 locked.
HAMMOND: Launch when ready Sergeant.
TECH: Launching UAV in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 mark.
CARTER: I can’t believe I’m gonna suggest this but what about Daniel’s
grandfather?
O’NEILL/DANIEL: Nick?
CARTER: He claimed that the skull teleported him somewhere. Maybe he’s
the only person who actually knows where Daniel is?
FRAISER: I’m not so sure Major. I’ve already taken the liberty of looking
him up.
DANIEL: Oh you didn’t.
FRAISER: His current address is a psychiatric institution in Oregon.
O’NEILL: Psychiatric?
FRAISER: Apparently his failure to prove the crystal skull was more than
just a curiosity caused a severe mental breakdown from which he’s never
recovered. Nick checked himself in.
CARTER: Why wouldn’t Daniel have told us that?
DANIEL: Oh yes, by the way, he’s insane.
FRAISER: Daniel was a regular visitor there up until 4 years ago, right
before he joined the Stargate program.
DANIEL: Oh please, he kicked me out, we had a huge fight.
FRAISER: Apparently Nick still talks about him all the time.
DANIEL: He doesn’t want anything to do with me.
FRAISER: The doctor I spoke to says any friends of Doctor Jackson’s are
welcome.
DANIEL: What?
CARTER: We don’t have much else to go on.
HAMMOND: Find out what you can but I needn’t remind you that the details
of this matter will have to remain classified. That means you won’t be
able to tell him what happened to Doctor Jackson or where the skull was
found.
Institution
NURSE: Sorry for the wait. Is there anything I can do for you?
TEAL’C: You may take us to Nicholas Ballard immediately.
O’NEILL: He’s just a little anxious to see ol’ Nick.
NURSE: Oh, are you close?
TEAL’C/DANIEL: No.
CARTER/O’NEILL: Yes.
TEAL’C: Yes, extremely.
NURSE: Well, I’ll just check and see if he’s ready for you.
DANIEL: What am I waiting for?
NURSE: Colonel O’Neill and his party are here. (To Doctor and Nick)
DOCTOR: Friends of Daniel I told you about are here just outside. Would
you like to see them now?
NICK: I miss him.
DANIEL: Hi Nick, long time no see.
DOCTOR: Would you show them in please? (To Nurse)
DANIEL: Nick, I need your help. Friends of mine want to ask you about
the skull you found in Belize. Tell them everything, trust them.
Jack
walks in.
DOCTOR: Nick, this is Colonel Jack O’Neill. He’s a friend of Daniel’s.
O’NEILL: Doctor would you mind if we…
NICK: Nick.
O’NEILL: Jack. (He holds out his hand as Nick just looks at it.) O’Neill.
Colonel.
NICK: Daniel followed my footsteps.
O’NEILL: You must be very proud.
NICK: He made a fool of himself.
DANIEL: Oh here we go.
NICK: He staked his entire academic career on this belief that that the
great pyramids of Egypt were made by aliens.
O’NEILL: Yes, well that’s…
NICK: He was more insane than I was. I told him to forget all that nonsense.
DANIEL: It wasn’t nonsense, I was right.
NICK: He lost his apartment, his research grant. He hasn’t published a
paper in two years. Now where is he? Where is he now?
CARTER: In a way that’s what this is all about. We wanted to hear exactly
what happened to you back in 71 when you first found the skull.
NICK: Nothing happened. There were no aliens.
DANIEL: Trust them Nick.
NICK: No one believed me.
O’NEILL: Daniel believed you.
DANIEL: Oh no. No no don’t.
NICK: He didn’t. He wanted to, he did listen. In the end he did not believe
in my theories of the skull just as I did not believe his theories of
the pyramids and the aliens.
DANIEL: I guess we were both right.
O’NEILL: Nick, can you tell us what happened when you found that skull?
NICK: Why?
O’NEILL: Because we found another skull. Identical to the one you found
in Belize.
NICK: Show me.
CARTER: It’s in a high security facility at the moment. But if you tell
us about your experiences..
NICK: Then take me there.
O’NEILL: We can’t do that. It’s classified.
DANIEL: You have to.
NICK: If you don’t then I won’t tell you anything. It is up to you.
The
SGC
Hammond’s Office
Daniel is standing by the star map.
HAMMOND: Colonel, there is no greater secret in this nation than the Stargate.
O’NEILL: So we keep him away from Level 28.
HAMMOND: A civilian who’s spent the last 20 years of his life in a psychiatric
institution?
O’NEILL: Exactly, who’s gonna believe him if he says anything?
HAMMOND: Colonel you walk a fine line.
O’NEILL: Thank you Sir.
Jack
leaves and the phone rings.
HAMMOND: Hammond.
DANIEL: General, I know you can’t hear me but thank you.
HAMMOND: Absolutely, put her through. Kayla, sweetheart, this is grandpa.
Isn’t this past your bedtime? You lost another tooth? Well you put it
under your pilla tonight. I bet your big sister Tessa wishes she lost
a tooth. I’d love to come and see you in your school play tomorrow night
sweetheart. Well a very close friend of mine is lost and he needs my help.
Yes he’s a very close friend. I hope so too.
Lab
3c
Nick walks in and reaches for the skull.
SILER: I don’t think you should touch that sir.
CARTER: It’s all right Sergeant thank you. Nick, this is Doctor Robert
Rothman.
ROTHMAN: It’s a pleasure to meet you..
NICK: It’s exactly the same as the one I found in Belize. Where did you
find it?
O’NEILL: We can’t tell you that
DANIEL: You’re gonna have to tell him eventually Jack.
NICK: The skull stood on a stone pedestal. You have been there haven’t
you?
CARTER: You mean Belize?
NICK: No, no, no, no. That was the ruins of the temple where I found the
skull, all gone, collapsed. I am talking about a cavern.
TEAL’C: You know the location of this cavern?
NICK: Nowhere on this earth. It was so enormous that the light of my torch
never reached the bottom.
DANIEL: Yes, but how did you get there?
NICK: I don’t know how I got there, a field of energy surrounded me and
suddenly I was simply there. And then they came.
CARTER: They?
NICK: The giants.
CARTER: Giants?
NICK: The giant aliens. They rose up as if they were made of mist; they
flew around me like spectres.
DANIEL: Now you know why no one believed him.
NICK: They spoke, “Oo ya wolin wolin we tayil.”
ROTHMAN: That’s Mayan.
ROTHMAN/DANIEL: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
DANIEL: But what does it mean?
NICK: I was afraid to answer, I just closed my eyes and suddenly I found
myself back again under the temple in Belize. The ground was shaking as
in an earthquake and I just grabbed the skull and climbed out and everything
collapsed.
O’NEILL: Wow, that’s erm… giants?
CARTER: So you were sent to this cavern and back again without ever knowing
where it was? And the ruins where you found the skull?
NICK: I spent years trying to find it again but it was as if the temple
never existed.
CARTER: So I guess you couldn’t take us there either?
NICK: Can you imagine what it feels like to go on the most incredible
journey of your life and have no one believe you.
O’NEILL: Ahh Teal’c, you wanna escort Nick down to the VIP room?
TEAL’C: Nicholas Ballard, would you come with me please.
O’NEILL: So tell you anything? (To Rothman)
ROTHMAN: Maybe, I mean, no.
O’NEILL: Work on it.
Corridor
Sam and Jack are walking down a corridor, Daniel is following.
CARTER: He described the cavern perfectly Sir, he had to have been there.
O’NEILL: Ahh giants?
DANIEL: Yes that’s weird, I admit.
CARTER: Somebody built that place.
O’NEILL: Doesn’t help us.
DANIEL: But if he really was transported to P7X 377 maybe the skull was
trying to send me somewhere and something interrupted the process.
Sam
enters the elevator and holds it open while she talks to Jack.
CARTER: You get the feeling Daniel’s still around?
DANIEL: We have to go back there.
O’NEILL: Kinda.
CARTER: I guess it’s cos we miss him.
DANIEL: And we have to talk to those giant aliens.
O’NEILL: Or radiation sickness?
CARTER: Goodnight Sir. (Smiling)
The
elevator shuts and Jack walks of in the other direction.
DANIEL: What? That’s it? Whatever happened to working through the night?
I’d do it for you.
VIP
Room
TEAL’C: There will be a guard posted outside your door should you require
assistance.
NICK: When you see Daniel would you tell him… Never mind. It’s something
I should tell him myself.
TEAL’C: Very well.
Teal’c
leaves and Nick sits down. Daniel is in the room.
NICK: I am sorry.
DANIEL: For what?
NICK: For not adopting you when your parents died.
DANIEL: You were travelling all over the world.
NICK: That wasn’t your fault.
DANIEL: I was 8 years old, how could it be my fault?
NICK: I am sorry for allowing my obsession to drive me into madness. Would
you forgive me?
DANIEL: You can see me?
NICK: Yes, Daniel. I can see you.
DANIEL: Why didn’t you say something?
NICK: You’re not real so it doesn’t mean anything.
DANIEL: No I’m real. I’m real. You’re not hallucinating.
NICK: Hallucinations always say that.
DANIEL: Not this time Nick. The skull, the skull did this to me. I’m trapped.
I’m in another dimension, I’m out of phase, something. Look all I know
is I need your help. If you don’t help me I don’t know how I’m gonna get
home.
NICK: So what do you want me to do?
Briefing
room
SF: Sirs, Mr Ballard insisted on seeing both of you immediately.
NICK: Forgive me, he insisted. Daniel is here.
HAMMOND: Here?
DANIEL: Repeat what I’m saying. I’m standing right beside you.
NICK: Standing right beside me.
O’NEILL: He’s lost a few pounds.
DANIEL: Jack, don’t be an ass.
NICK: Jack, don’t be an ass.
O’NEILL: Daniel?
DANIEL: Yes. We have to go back to the planet and we have to let the skull
finish what it started.
NICK: We must go back to the planet.
HAMMOND: Planet?
O’NEILL: Not a word Sir, I swear.
NICK: Daniel told me all about the Stargate. We must replace the skull
on the pedestal so that the giant aliens will come. Something must have
interrupted the process.
O’NEILL: Teal’s fired a zat. That’s all I could imagine it would be Sir.
DANIEL: That’s it. That’s what interrupted the process. We have to, we
have to let it happen. We have to, we have to trust it.
HAMMOND: Why didn’t you say something sooner?
NICK: I thought I was hearing voices. It wouldn’t have been for the first
time.
FRAISER: Forgive me, but why are you the only person who can see him?
NICK: Perhaps because I went through the same experience.
DANIEL: Tell General Hammond if we go back right now he might be able
to see his granddaughters school play after all.
NICK: General Hammond, if you let us go now you might be able to see your
granddaughters play.
HAMMOND: I was alone in my office when Kayla phoned. (looking around as
if expecting to see DANIEL) Doctor Jackson, are you absolutely certain
you and SG1 can safely return to the planet?
DANIEL: Say yes.
NICK: Yes.
O’NEILL: It’s good enough for me Sir.
Corridor Jack,
Daniel and Nick are walking to the Gateroom.
O’NEILL: So it wasn’t the skull alone that did this, it’s its connection
to the cavern?
DANIEL: Yes, I think the skull is just the icon..
NICK: Yes.
O’NEILL: Daniel said you should come along to make it work?
DANIEL: Wait, I never said that. You’re taking advantage of me.
NICK: Yes.
They
walk into the Gateroom where Sam and Teal’c are already waiting.
The Gate activates.
NICK: So this is what you have been doing these past few years?
DANIEL: Exploring planets.
HAMMOND: SG 1 you have a go. Maintain radio contact. (over tannoy)
Sam
and Jack walk up the ramp.
NICK: Then, behind that there’s another world. You must tell me everything.
DANIEL: As soon as we get back, I promise.
TEAL’C: After you Nicholas Ballard.
P7X
377
NICK: It’s just as I remembered it. This is where they live.
They
walk across the bridge.
Nick puts the skull on the pedestal.
NICK: Now we must wait for the giant aliens.
O’NEILL: That just has a nice ring to it.
O’NEILL: General Hammond, we’re in position. (over radio)
HAMMOND: Understood Colonel, proceed.
Daniel
looks into the eyes of the skull and the energy appears.
CARTER: Sir, radiation is climbing again.
NICK: This is incredible.
O’NEILL: Daniel said to let it happen.
The
energy envelops all of the team.
CARTER: Daniel!
DANIEL: Sam! It worked.
TEAL’C: O’Neill? Major Carter?
O’NEILL: Carter?
CARTER: It appears that we’re out of phase like Daniel but Teal’c isn’t.
DANIEL: Why?
O’NEILL: You’re asking me?
TEAL’C: General Hammond. I was not teleported with the others. (over radio)
HAMMOND: Return to base immediately.
The
pyramid starts to shake and a giant alien rises up out of the mist.
O’NEILL: Holy smoke bullwinkle! Hello! What’s your name?
QUETLZELCOATL: Oo ya wolin wolin we tayil.
O’NEILL: Daniel?
DANIEL: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
O’NEILL: I know what it’s saying. Why’s it saying that?
DANIEL: It didn’t affect Teal’c. Why?
CARTER: Because he’s jaffa.
DANIEL: He’s carrying a symbiote. The goa’uld. We are enemies of the goa’uld.
QUETLZELCOATL: Then you are welcome here.
O’NEILL: Keep talking.
DANIEL: We’re travellers, we come in search of friendship. We’d like to
exchange our knowledge and culture.
QUETLZELCOATL: We accept your proposition. (pointing at NICK) You may
remain.
NICK: Me?
O’NEILL: Him?
QUETLZELCOATL: This is not the first time you have journeyed here.
NICK: You remember.
DANIEL: There are others among our people who would gladly return.
NICK: No Daniel. Let me.
DANIEL: Nick,
NICK: This was my life’s work. I’ve been hoping for another chance at
this for 20 years. Please.
DANIEL: You just came back into my life,
NICK: I’ll be back again. Please.
QUETLZELCOATL: Look again into the eyes of the skull.
O’NEILL: Well, Nick, take notes.
NICK: I will.
DANIEL: You have to tell me everything.
NICK: I promise. Daniel, I am proud of you.
DANIEL: Goodbye, Grandpa.
THE
END
Also
starring:
Jason Schombing as Robert Rothman
Dan Shea as Sergeant Siler
Russell Roberts as Psychiatrist
Jacquie Janzen as Nurse
Daniel Bacon as Technician
Tracy Westerholm as Surveillance SF
Christopher Judge as Voice of Quetlzelcoatl
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