Stargate Haven :: “Point of View” transcript

Transcript for Episode #306: “Point of View”

Transcriber’s Note: The alternate reality Dr. Carter, Major Kawalsky, General Hammond, and Teal’c are referred to as AU SAM(or Dr. Carter), KAWALSKY, AU HAMMOND, and AU TEAL’C, respectively. All other characters are referred to as they normally would be.

TEASER

“Area 51” flashes across the screen. What looks like a mirror suddenly flashes on in a storage room and we see Dr. Carter and Major KAWALSKY in it.

AU SAM:
Major! Come on!

KAWALSKY:
We gotta go back for the general!

AU SAM:
I can’t shut it down. I won’t find this window again. We have to go now!

KAWALSKY throws a grenade down the hall and they both reach out to touch the mirror. They are transported to the side of the mirror where the camera is. The grenade goes off on the other side and the mirror switches off.

KAWALSKY:
You sure this is the right one to go to?

AU SAM:
Anywhere’s better than the alternative.

AU SAM steps through a sensor and an alarm starts to go off.

KAWALSKY:
I guess we’ll see about that.

Armed SFs run into the room, pointing their weapons at AU SAM and KAWALSKY.

SF:
Drop your weapons! Do it now!

They do so reluctantly.

AU SAM:
I’m Dr. Samantha Carter from the SGA; this is Major KAWALSKY. We need to speak to your commander.

END TEASER – OPENING CREDITS

SGC INFIRMARY
O’NEILL enters.

O’NEILL:
So, what’s the big emer-?

O’NEILL stops when he sees AU SAM laying on a bed – with long hair.

O’NEILL:
Whoa! What happened to you?

AU SAM:
Jack.

O’NEILL:
Jack?

AU SAM:
It’s me; it’s SAM.

O’NEILL:
Uh…yeah?

AU SAM:
I never expected this variation. You’re alive.

KAWALSKY (approaching them) :
Don’t feel so bad, Colonel. Everybody around here is telling me the same thing.

O’NEILL (disbelieving) :
KAWALSKY?

HAMMOND:
In a manner of speaking.

FRAISER:
Actually, in a manner of fact, sir. This is Major Charles KAWALSKY in almost every physical respect: his bloodwork, his dental records…

KAWALSKY:
Except I’m not supposed to be alive in this reality any more than you are in mine. (to AU SAM) Sorry, SAM.

AU SAM:
It’s not the same with us here, is it?

O’NEILL:
Does anyone wanna let me know what the hell’s goin’ on here? Anyone?

HAMMOND:
They appeared a few hours ago in a Nellis high-security lockup.

KAWALSKY:
That quantum mirror you got locked up at Area 51? You guys never figured out how to use it?

O’NEILL:
Is he talking about that alternate reality thing DANIEL futzed with on 233?

KAWALSKY:
Who’s DANIEL?

AU SAM:
We can’t be followed, if that’s what you’re worried about. We brought the remote through with us.

HAMMOND:
I’ve ordered the device sent here under heavy guard.

KAWALSKY:
Where we come from, the Goa’ulds just took over the world, Colonel.

SGC BRIEFING ROOM
HAMMOND and SG-1 are watching a tape of AU SAM’s interview.

AU SAM:
Look, I’ve told you this. Now, let me talk to someone from the SGA.

INTERVIEWER:
SGA? There is no such organization.

AU SAM:
Well, then, you call it something else. The Stargate Project. Stargate Command.

INTERVIEWER:
The Stargate. What do you know about the Stargate?

AU SAM (clearly frustrated) :
What do I know? Everything! We’ve been through this!

INTERVIEWER:
Well, let’s go through it again.

AU SAM:
Oh, for crying out loud!

O’NEILL looks at SAM, surprised.

AU SAM:
It’s a big round thing. It takes you to other planets. I made it work four years ago, and we have been exploring the galaxy ever since. That is, up until yesterday, when the Goa’uld came and started taking over every major city from orbit and making slaves of the population.

HAMMOND pauses the tape.

SAM:
Oh, my God. This is too weird.

O’NEILL:
Yeah How about that hair?

HAMMOND:
She claims to have traveled from an alternate universe in the same manner Dr. Jackson experienced a year ago.

DANIEL:
Well, this can’t be the Dr. Carter I met in the alternate reality. She’s…dead.

O’NEILL:
All right. Uh, just to clarify. This Carter is from an alternate, alternate reality?

DANIEL:
Apparently.

O’NEILL:
Anybody else have a problem with that?

TEAL’C:
Which reality is actually real?

O’NEILL (sarcastically) :
Thank you, TEAL’C.

HAMMOND:
She explains it.

HAMMOND plays the tape.

AU SAM:
Look, I know this is hard for you to understand, but according to quantum theory, for every possible universe, there are an infinite number of variations, diverging at every choice we make like forks in a road.

INTERVIEWER:
Uh, huh.

HAMMOND pauses the tape again.

SAM:
She’s right.

O’NEILL:
You just agreed with yourself.

DANIEL:
No, actually, Major Carter agreed with Dr. Carter. She never joined the military in her reality.

O’NEILL:
Fork in the road stuff?

DANIEL:
Apparently.

O’NEILL:
All right. So, it’s possible there’s an alternate version of myself out there that actually understands what the hell you’re talking about?

HAMMOND:
They’ve asked to be debriefed. I’d like you all to participate.

HAMMOND turns to the SF at the door.

HAMMOND:
Show them in.

AU SAM and KAWALSKY enter. KAWALSKY sees TEAL’C.

KAWALSKY:
What the hell is he doing here?

O’NEILL:
KAWALSKY!

DANIEL:
He’s a member of SG-1.

KAWALSKY:
Who the hell are you?

DANIEL:
Oh, um, I’m DANIEL Jackson, also a member of SG-1.

HAMMOND (forcefully) :
Have a seat, Major.

KAWALSKY sits next to DANIEL. AU SAM sees SAM and SAM clears her throat.

AU SAM:
Nice – hair.

SAM:
Uh, Air Force.

AU SAM:
I can’t imagine that – going military.

SAM:
Wow! I can’t imagine not.

AU SAM sits down beside Jack.

HAMMOND:
First of all, I would like to say we know what you’ve been through. Dr. Jackson experienced a similar alternate reality some time ago on a mission to P3X-233.

AU SAM:
Well, that’s where we found our quantum mirror as well.

HAMMOND:
Fortunately, for us, Dr. Jackson was able to return with intelligence that enabled SG-1 to stop the Goa’uld attack here on Earth.

AU SAM:
Nice. That goes a long way to explaining why yours was only one of a handful of alternate realities that looked like it hadn’t been overrun by the Goa’uld.

SAM:
Actually, it’s probably the very differences that set our universes apart from yours that have contributed to our survival: DANIEL’s participation in the Stargate program, TEAL’C’s change of heart, the fact that I joined the military…

AU SAM:
You think that your being in the Air Force could have made that big a difference?

SAM:
No. I – I – I just said it made a contribution.

AU SAM:
And therefore I didn’t.

O’NEILL:
Ladies – SAMs. We’re all in this reality together.

HAMMOND:
What we need to know is where you intend to go from here.

AU SAM:
Our beta site was instructed to bury their Stargate the moment the last man stepped through. And our own world is under Goa’uld control, so we can’t go back.

KAWALSKY:
We wanna stay.

AU SAM:
That is…if we’re wanted. (Silence.) We just left behind everyone we know, everyone we ever cared about. If you’re not gonna give us a second chance, I don’t know any of you.

O’NEILL:
Well, exactly. You don’t know any of us. And we don’t know you. For all we know, you could be her evil twin…but then we’d be dealing with clichés, and you know how I feel about those. (He turns to SAM.) No, actually, you know how I feel about those…

HAMMOND:
Okay. I’ll speak with my superiors and make a determination. For now, you’ll be assigned temporary accommodations. (to the SFs) Take them to A3 quarters.

Everyone rises and AU SAM and KAWALSKY exit with the SFs.

SGC CORRIDOR
SAM runs to catch up with AU SAM.

SAM:
Listen, I didn’t mean to offend you back there.

AU SAM:
Look, Major, I’m the one dealing with the inadequacy issues here, so just forget about it.

SAM:
What?

AU SAM:
We knew the Goa’uld were coming for six months, but I couldn’t think of a way to stop them. You did.

AU SAM’S ROOM
AU SAM enters.

SF:
I’ll be just outside if you need me, ma’am.

AU SAM:
Of course you will.

The SF exits and shuts the door. AU SAM sits on the bed and takes a photograph from her pocket, propping it up beside the lamp on the nightstand beside the bed. It’s a photo of AU SAM and AU O’NEILL on their wedding day.

HAMMOND’S OFFICE
HAMMOND is on the phone while O’NEILL waits in the background.

HAMMOND (into the phone) :
Yes, sir. I understand. Thank you.

HAMMOND hangs up and turns to O’NEILL.

HAMMOND:
They can stay.

O’NEILL:
That was quick.

HAMMOND:
Too quick. God knows what we’re getting into.

O’NEILL:
Well, the combined I.Q. of Earth might go up a few points having two Carters around. (HAMMOND doesn’t smile.) I take it you figure there’s a down side.

HAMMOND:
It just doesn’t sit right. Some lines aren’t meant to be crossed. Nonetheless, I’ve been encouraged to find a way to incorporate them into this command.

O’NEILL:
Okay. Uh, in the meantime, do you want me to tell ’em?

HAMMOND:
Very well.

AU SAM’S ROOM
Someone knocks on the door and the door opens to reveal O’NEILL. AU SAM is turned the other way and so doesn’t see him.

AU SAM:
Just put it on the table and close the door on your way out.

O’NEILL:
I’m sorry; put what on the table?

AU SAM turns around.

AU SAM:
Jack! I’m sorry. Come in. Your, uh, your Dr. Fraiser keeps insisting that I eat something.

O’NEILL:
Ah. Well, she’s your Doc Fraiser now, too. You’re in. They said yes.

AU SAM:
That’s good.

O’NEILL:
Yeah. I can see you’re overjoyed.

AU SAM:
I just never expected this. It’s so – so hard.

O’NEILL:
Um, look. I can’t even begin to know what you’ve been through. I – I know you’ve lost a lot–

AU SAM:
I lost you. I watched you die, Jack. Three days ago, trying to defend the mountain. And here you are, alive and safe in this perfect world, and you don’t even know me.

O’NEILL:
Well, I – I sssssort of know you.

AU SAM:
You know her. You don’t even see her that way, do you?

O’NEILL sees the photograph on the nightstand.

O’NEILL:
I take it, where you’re from, we were…

AU SAM:
Married.

O’NEILL:
Ah.

AU SAM:
This makes you uncomfortable.

O’NEILL:
No, no, not at all. I just…I get confused.

There is another knock on the door and the SF from before enters.

SF:
Ma’am? (She sees O’NEILL.) Sorry, Colonel. I…I didn’t realize.

O’NEILL:
Just put it on the table, Airman.

SF:
Yes, sir.

O’NEILL (echoing AU SAM’s earlier words) :
Close the door on your way out.

The SF exits and shuts the door.

AU SAM:
I haven’t had a hot meal in forever.

AU SAM rises and approaches the food.

AU SAM:
It was a couple of weeks ago. We were celebrating our first anniversary. We got the call that the Goa’uld ships had been spotted entering our solar system. We just left everything. You blew out the candles and I turned off the oven, and we just left. They didn’t hit Colorado Springs from orbit like most of the big cities, so the table must still be set.

O’NEILL:
Cold by now.

AU SAM:
Yeah.

O’NEILL:
Listen, um, I should probably be…

AU SAM:
Stay!

O’NEILL:
SAM.

AU SAM:
Please.

O’NEILL:
Look…you’re dealing with a loss right now that I can’t even begin to…what I mean is, maybe I’m not the right person to help you.

AU SAM:
Yes, you are. You’re the only one who can. Look, I know you well enough to know you don’t have a clue what to say. But you don’t have to say anything.

O’NEILL:
Come here.

O’NEILL hugs AU SAM and she starts to cry.

AU SAM:
Oh, I miss him.

SGC CORRIDOR
O’NEILL meets SAM as he exits AU SAM’s room.

SAM:
Sir. General HAMMOND told me the news. I took the liberty of informing Major KAWALSKY.

O’NEILL:
Thank you. I was just on my way to do that.

SAM:
I thought I’d drop in on, uh, Samantha. See how she’s doing.

O’NEILL:
She’s fine. I think she’d rather be left alone at the moment. Just stop in tomorrow.

SAM:
Oh, all right. Well, good night, sir.

O’NEILL:
Carter?

SAM:
Yes, sir?

O’NEILL:
How are you doing with this…twin thing?

SAM:
Do you have a couple of hours?

O’NEILL (hesitantly) :
Okay.

SAM:
That – was the answer.

O’NEILL:
Oh, oh.

SAM:
Good night, sir.

SAM walks off down the corridor.

O’NEILL (to himself) :
Good night, Major.

AU SAM’S ROOM
AU SAM is brushing her hair when she suddenly stops and drops her hairbrush. She grabs the bed as her face seems to shake around.

SGC INFIRMARY
AU SAM is lying in a bed and SAM enters. Dr. FRAISER, Major KAWALSKY, and O’NEILL are already there.

SAM:
What is it? What’s happening?

FRAISER:
Dr. Carter has gone into some sort of convulsive shock. I don’t know the cause and I don’t know how to stop it.

AU SAM’s face starts to shake again.

FRAISER:
Easy.

AU SAM:
Not medical. Temporal. Entropic cascade failure.

SAM:
On the cellular level?

AU SAM:
Yes. I thought it would take years, not days.

SAM:
So, it’s a side effect of travel through the quantum mirror.

KAWALSKY:
Then why don’t I have it?

SAM:
I’m guessing Dr. Carter has it because I’m here. The increased entropy generated by both of us existing in the same reality might theoretically be causing the temporal distortion.

AU SAM:
Not theoretical anymore.

FRAISER:
Okay, so, then, how do I treat this?

AU SAM:
You can’t.

SAM:
The more time passes, the worse it should get.

AU SAM:
So I’m gonna die here.

O’NEILL:
You’re not gonna die.

SAM:
Actually, sir –

O’NEILL:
Carter.

SAM:
Well, the only way she won’t is if we send her back.

KAWALSKY:
If she goes back, the Goa’uld will kill her.

SGC BRIEFING ROOM

DANIEL:
Think about it: billions of people enslaved. I – I – I just can’t help but feel that in the grand scheme of things, we owe them. Besides, the only way to really help Dr. Carter is to stop the Goa’uld in her reality and save whatever’s left.

HAMMOND:
How do you suggest we do that, Dr. Jackson? The resources of their entire world couldn’t defend against the Goa’uld.

DANIEL:
What about the resources of our world?

SAM:
What do we have that they don’t?

DANIEL:
Our fate. We made contact with the Asgard.

O’NEILL:
So?

DANIEL:
So, if Dr. Carter can make contact with the Asgard in her reality, maybe their Asgard will be willing to help them.

HAMMOND:
Defend their world against the Goa’uld?

DANIEL:
Yes.

O’NEILL:
And just how do you propose we raise the Asgard, in their reality?

DANIEL:
Okay, we still have the dialing program that took you to the Asgard home planet, right?

SAM:
Which we could download to a removable harddrive. But that still won’t do it. Remember, in order to dial the Asgard homeworld, they had to provide us with a generator to transfer extra energy to the ’gate’s capacitors. I can’t get it to work again. Apparently, it was designed to work only once.

TEAL’C:
Assuming Major Carter can figure it out, once in her reality, it will be difficult to get Dr. Carter to the Stargate without the Goa’uld detecting and stopping her.

KAWALSKY (in the doorway) :
That’s where I come in. (to HAMMOND) Permission to join the briefing, sir?

HAMMOND points to a chair, indicating Major KAWALSKY should sit down.

KAWALSKY:
I’ll get her to the Stargate. What, you think I’m gonna let her go alone? She’s my best friend’s wife.

SAM and O’NEILL look at each other as SAM realizes who Major KAWALSKY is talking about.

O’NEILL (wincing) :
You’ll need someone to hook up the power generator.

SAM:
And download the dialing program.

TEAL’C:
You will also require my assistance.

KAWALSKY:
We can handle this.

DANIEL:
No, TEAL’C has a point. You said yourself that TEAL’C led the assault on the mountain in your reality. Now, couldn’t we use something like that to our advantage?

O’NEILL:
Quite the military mind, DANIEL Jackson.

SAM:
No, sir, I’m sorry. TEAL’C can’t go anymore than I can. Entropic cascade failure. If I go, there will still be two of me in one reality. And the same will be true with TEAL’C.

TEAL’C:
Dr. Carter did not become ill during her first 48 hours. If our mission is not completed during that time, it is most likely that we will be dead.

O’NEILL:
Good point. (to HAMMOND) Are you okay with all this, sir?

HAMMOND:
If you feel confident you can pull this off, I have no objections. However, upon your return, I want that quantum mirror destroyed.

DANIEL:
Okay, well, this is all well and good, but none of us are going anywhere unless we get that Asgard generator working again.

O’NEILL:
Okay. Carter, download the program to the removable whatever-it-is and meet me and yourself in the lab.

SAM:
Yes, sir.

SGC LAB

AU SAM:
Well, this is incredible. If the Asgard could design this to give the ’gate extra juice, then they’re just the little green men we’re looking for.

O’NEILL:
They’re grey, actually. Roswell grey, to be exact.

SAM:
You know, I had a hard time trying to figure out how this worked the first time, let alone make it work again.

AU SAM:
If it’s powered by the energy module of a staff weapon, why doesn’t it…?

SAM and AU SAM (in unison) :
…blow up?

SAM:
My best guess is the device creates a modulated dampening field around the liquified Naquada cell…

AU SAM:
…which controls the energy transfer to the capacitor. So, maybe the modulation is thrown out of whack each time it’s activated.

SAM:
That’s exactly what I thought! But how do you even begin to recalibrate a field that you can’t generate in the first place?

AU SAM nods. O’NEILL has been listening with growing confusion.

O’NEILL:
Hey, hey, hey, hey! Are you Carters gonna be able to figure this out?

SAM and AU SAM (in unison) :
We’ll figure it out.

AU SAM experiences another tremor and cries out in pain.

SAM:
We have to figure it out.

SGC – QUANTUM MIRROR ROOM
KAWALSKY is explaining to DANIEL how the quantum mirror remote control works.

KAWALSKY:
Okay, the way Dr C. explained it, the controller is kinda not what you’d call an exacting science. You can’t just dial up an address like you would on a Stargate. You have to kinda figure out where you are.

DANIEL:
I guess it’s not a very expedient way to get home.

KAWALSKY:
As long as you don’t turn it off, it’s always connected to the same reality.

DANIEL:
So, when you turn it on again, it won’t be connected to the reality you came from?

KAWALSKY:
Right. We’d have to find it again. Now, this thing switches to the various realities. If I turn it on now, it should come up somewhere near the reality it was last on.

KAWALSKY turns on the mirror and we see an SGC corridor.

KAWALSKY:
There. See? That’s not it. No grenade damage. I tossed a grenade down the hall to slow them down so they wouldn’t see us go through the mirror.

DANIEL:
So, we need to find a reality that’s just right. Do you mind if I…?

KAWALSKY:
No, go ahead.

KAWALSKY gives DANIEL the remote and DANIEL changes it. The mirror shows a room like the one at Area 51.

KAWALSKY:
There. See? You probably turned it the wrong way. Now, since this device should be in a storage closet in my reality, dial it the other way.

DANIEL changes it and comes to a corridor with Jaffa in it.

KAWALSKY:
Change it! Change it! Change it!

DANIEL changes it and an empty version of the previous reality appears.

KAWALSKY:
Okay. Closer. What you wanna do is dial it in smaller increments.

O’NEILL enters.

O’NEILL:
DANIEL? You understand this thing?

DANIEL:
I think so.

O’NEILL:
Good.

SAM and AU SAM enter the doorway.

AU SAM:
Colonel!

SAM:
We did it!

O’NEILL:
Already?

AU SAM:
Yeah, all we needed was the ratio decay rate of Naquada relative to the energy output.

SAM:
…which I learned to calculate when I learned about our new Naquada generator. It’s just the ratio –

O’NEILL:
Ah! It works, right?

AU SAM flicks a switch on the generator and it glows.

SAM:
It works.

O’NEILL:
Good.

KAWALSKY:
I guess we better go do this.

SGC STORAGE ROOM
Teal’c enters, wearing his old Jaffa uniform.

AU SAM:
Yep, that’s right. Looks like him.

TEAL’C:
I am not fond of wearing this uniform again.

KAWALSKY:
Well, I’m not too fond of seeing you wear it.

DANIEL:
I’ve searched through all the descriptions of realities close to ours, and this has to be it. It’s the only one matching your description.

KAWALSKY (looking at the mirror) :
Yeah.

SAM enters and approaches AU SAM.

SAM:
Wish I could go.

AU SAM:
Same here. But you don’t wanna go through a cascade tremor, believe me. We made a good team, Major.

SAM:
Yeah, we did, Doctor.

AU SAM:
Plus, your hair’s kinda grown on me. Pardon the pun.

SAM:
You’d better go.

AU SAM approaches the mirror and SAM turns to O’NEILL.

SAM:
I’ll be here in case you need anything from this side, sir.

O’NEILL:
Yep. All right. On three. One, two, three.

O’NEILL, KAWALSKY, AU SAM, DANIEL, and TEAL’C all touch the mirror and are transported to the other side. An alarm is going off, so they quickly hide. Jaffa are heard moving through the corridors. O’NEILL sees that the mirror is still turned on. He makes a slashing movement across his throat, indicating DANIEL should turn it off. DANIEL mouths that he shouldn’t do that, but O’NEILL mouths ‘switch it off.’ DANIEL reluctantly turns the mirror off. They wait for the Jaffa to pass. One returns and looks back into the storage room, but walks away after a second. O’NEILL gives the team some hand signals. He and KAWALSKY exit into the corridor, following the Jaffa. The corridors are all trashed. They reach the Gate Room door and O’NEILL looks around the wall using a parascope-like object. We see Jaffa lined up behind AU TEAL’C. The Stargate is active.

AU TEAL’C:
Jaffa!

The Jaffa get to their knees as APOPHIS walks down the ramp, two Serpent Guards at his side. AU TEAL’C bows his head and APOPHIS exits.

AU TEAL’C:
Jaffa!

The Jaffa rise. O’NEILL and KAWALSKY retreat.

AU TEAL’C:
Kree!

The Jaffa exit. O’NEILL and KAWALSKY go in the opposite direction and O’NEILL throws a metallic object. AU TEAL’C turns his head at the sound.

AU TEAL’C:
Lo nok.

O’NEILL and KAWALSKY move and AU TEAL’C follows.

AU TEAL’C:
Kro nok, Jaffa!

AU TEAL’C sees O’NEILL and runs after him.

AU TEAL’C:
Jaffa! Kree! Jaffa!

AU TEAL’C reaches the open door of the storage room and raises his staff weapon. He enters cautiously and sees TEAL’C face-to-face. TEAL’C also has a staff weapon.

TEAL’C:
Kel nok, TEAL’C.

AU TEAL’C:
Kel shak?

TEAL’C:
Renounce APOPHIS as a false god and join us in our deliverance of this world, and I will spare you.

AU TEAL’C:
Shol’va!

AU TEAL’C activates his staff weapon, but TEAL’C is quicker and shoots him with his own staff weapon.

O’NEILL:
The idea was to zat him.

TEAL’C:
As I said, O’NEILL: ours is the only reality of consequence.

SGA CORRIDOR
More Jaffa approach the storage room. TEAL’C, posing as AU TEAL’C, exits with AU SAM, making it look as if she is his prisoner.

TEAL’C:
Jaffa. Kree!

TEAL’C shuts the storage room door.

TEAL’C:
Kel toc no.

The Jaffa lead AU SAM away.

SGA STORAGE ROOM
O’NEILL signals for KAWALSKY to watch the door while he approaches DANIEL, who is trying to find their reality again in the quantum mirror.

O’NEILL:
All right. I gotta know.

DANIEL:
Yes, I’m about to activate it.

O’NEILL:
No, no, no. Not that. What the hell does ‘kree’ mean?

DANIEL:
Well, actually, it means a lot of things. Uh, loosely translated, it means “attention,” “listen up,” “concentrate.”

O’NEILL:
Yoo-hoo?

DANIEL:
Yes, in a manner of speaking.

O’NEILL:
Oh.

DANIEL:
Okay, here goes.

DANIEL turns on the quantum mirror.

DANIEL:
That’s what I was afraid of. When I turned off the device, it lost its place. I have to find our reality all over again.

O’NEILL:
All right. It’s okay. We knew that might happen. Stay with it.

DANIEL fiddles with the remote as O’NEILL and KAWALSKY exit again, shutting the door as they go. O’NEILL and KAWALSKY navigate through corridors until they reach a panel on a wall. O’NEILL keeps an eye out as KAWALSKY puts explosives between the wall and the edge of the panel. They move away and O’NEILL detonates the explosives. O’NEILL looks on the other side of the panel and they climb inside.

SGA CONTROL ROOM
APOPHIS and some Jaffa are torturing AU HAMMOND for information.

APOPHIS:
I will ask you this one more time, human. What is the address of the planet to which your leaders have fled? The place you call “beta site.”

When AU HAMMOND doesn’t answer, one of the Jaffa prods his back with a pain stick, and he cries out in pain.

APOPHIS:
Where have your leaders gone?

TEAL’C enters with AU Sam.

TEAL’C:
Kel, APOPHIS.

APOPHIS:
TEAL’C. Who is this?

TEAL’C:
She was captured attempting to escape, my lord.

APOPHIS:
This one will not tell us the glyphs for the planet where they have sent their leaders. Get it out of him. Or get it out of her.

TEAL’C:
Yes, my lord.

APOPHIS exits with two of the Jaffa. The other two Jaffa stay behind.

TEAL’C:
Attend to our lord. I will take care of these. (The Jaffa don’t leave.) Kree, Jaffa!

The Jaffa bow and exit.

AU HAMMOND:
You might as well kill me.

TEAL’C:
I would never do such a thing, General HAMMOND.

AU HAMMOND’s head shoots up when he hears his name.

AU SAM:
It’s okay. You’re not hallucinating. He’s from an alternate reality.

AU HAMMOND:
So, that mirror thing worked?

AU SAM:
Yeah. But don’t worry; I won’t say “I told you so.”

AU HAMMOND:
We should have tried it a long time ago, Doctor.

As they untie AU HAMMOND, TEAL’C notices a Goa’uld ship descending on the mountain on a monitor.

TEAL’C:
They have landed on the mountain.

AU SAM:
There’s still a chance we can stop them, sir. We’re gonna attempt to contact a race of aliens that they have in their reality, enemies of the Goa’uld.

SGA CORRIDOR
O’NEILL pushes out a net/grid in the wall. He and KAWALSKY go through it. Pulling out zats, they continue through the SGA.

SGA STORAGE ROOM
DANIEL is flipping through realities. He comes across one that has Jaffa in an SGC corridor.

DANIEL:
Whoops! Too far.

After DANIEL has come across two more realities with Jaffa in SGC, he comes across a beach.

DANIEL:
Come on, please.

DANIEL changes the reality.

SGA POWER CENTER
O’NEILL opens the small door to reveal a sort of power cabinet. He then opens Major Kawalsky’s backpack, inside of which is the Asgard device.

KAWALSKY:
The Carters are pretty smart figuring that thing out, huh? So, you and SAM, you never had a thing in your world, huh?

O’NEILL:
‘SAM’ is a major in my world.

KAWALSKY:
Yeah, I know. It’s against regulations, right? You two look pretty good together, let me tell you.

O’NEILL:
KAWALKSKY? During your Special Ops training, in your world, did they cover silence?

KAWALSKY nods and shuts up.

SGA STORAGE ROOM
DANIEL is still going through realities. He suddenly comes across one where SAM and some airmen are standing behind sandbags in another storage room. At first glance, it appears to be right.

DANIEL:
Yes.

In the mirror, SAM moves towards the mirror and lowers her weapon. She beckons to him to come through. DANIEL waves back at her, but then notices her fatigues say Capt. Carter.

DANIEL (to himself) :
You’re a captain.

DANIEL waves good-bye and changes the reality.

DANIEL:
Close.

SGA CONTROL ROOM
AU SAM is sitting at a computer console.

AU SAM:
Okay, now.

TEAL’C inserts the removable harddrive into a machine in the background.

AU SAM:
I hope your Jack is good enough to get the transformer online.

SGA POWER CENTER
O’NEILL finishes hooking up the generator and turns it on. He and KAWALSKY leave.

SGA CONTROL ROOM
The Stargate starts dialing out.

TEAL’C:
It appears that he is. You must prepare to go through the ’gate, Dr. Carter.

AU SAM rises from her seat at the computer and kisses TEAL’C on the cheek.

AU SAM:
Thank you, TEAL’C.

The eighth chevron locks on the Stargate and the wormhole engages. AU HAMMOND puts his gun down and places his hands on his head to keep up the pretense of being a prisoner of TEAL’C. AU SAM runs into the Gate Room and ducks out of the way of zatfire.

TEAL’C:
Jaffa! Kree hol mel! Hol mel, Jaffa!

The Jaffa stops and AU SAM runs up the ramp and dives headlong into the Stargate. The wormhole disengages.

APOPHIS:
TEAL’C.

TEAL’C turns around to see APOPHIS standing behind him in the control room.

APOPHIS:
Why do you betray me?

TEAL’C silently gives APOPHIS a stare that could freeze fire.

AU SGC Corridor
O’NEILL and KAWALSKY make their way to the storage room. They open the door and find a group of seven Jaffa, all pointing staff weapons at them. DANIEL is in the middle of them, kneeling on the floor, a prisoner.

JAFFA LEADER:
Lower your weapons or we will kill him.

KAWALSKY:
Colonel?

O’NEILL:
Yeah, we should do that.

They lower their weapons. One of the Jaffa discovers AU TEAL’C dead on the floor.

AU SGC CONTROL ROOM
TEAL’C, AU HAMMOND, O’NEILL, DANIEL, and KAWALSKY are on their knees before APOPHIS.

DANIEL:
Déjà vu.

APOPHIS:
Who are you? (to O’NEILL) My First Prime killed you before my very eyes.

O’NEILL:
I’m feeling much better, thank you.

APOPHIS (to TEAL’C, after he sees AU TEAL’C’s body) :
Then, who are you? What magic is this?

DANIEL:
You should know better than anyone: there’s no such thing as magic.

APOPHIS:
Trey lan tonik.

A Jaffa behind AU HAMMOND raises his zat, preparing to fire.

APOPHIS:
I will ask you one more time. How could you have risen from the dead without a sarcophagus?

When they don’t answer, APOPHIS nods at the Jaffa with the zat, who zats AU HAMMOND.

O’NEILL (to KAWALSKY) :
All right, I’m guessin’ the second shot kills in this world, too, huh?

APOPHIS:
Tell me what I want to know!

O’NEILL:
Hey, I’d love to, but I don’t understand it myself. He does.

O’NEILL points to DANIEL.

DANIEL:
Okay, I’ll, uh, I’ll give it a try. Um, you see, at every point in time, there are infinite possibilities. A parallel reality exists for each possibility, so there are literally infinite branches.

APOPHIS nods to the Jaffa with the zat, who zats AU HAMMOND a second time.

KAWALSKY:
No! You…

The Jaffa behind KAWALSKY restrains him.

O’NEILL:
KAWALSKY!

APOPHIS:
Tell me where you come from.

DANIEL:
From an alternate reality.

O’NEILL:
One in which, by the way, you’re dead.

The Jaffa zats DANIEL.

O’NEILL:
Aw, come on!

KAWALSKY:
He told you everything he knows!

The Jaffa goes to zat DANIEL again when another Jaffa runs up the steps and interrupts, bowing to APOPHIS as he speaks.

RUNNING JAFFA:
My lord. Tel kel, APOPHIS. Kree no tel, Ree lokia!

The Jaffa points to a monitor above their heads, showing the mountain and surrounding area. A ship, denoted by a blip, is seen heading towards the mountain on the screen. O’NEILL and KAWALSKY help DANIEL back up to a sitting position.

APOPHIS:
Mel tok nee!

Most of the Jaffa exit. APOPHIS raises his hand, which has a ribbon device on it. He is suddenly beamed out of the room.

O’NEILL:
Okay, I’m guessin’…

DANIEL:
Asgard.

O’NEILL:
All right.

The Stargate activates and Jaffa run through it. As the last Jaffa jumps through, the tail of his staff weapon is caught is cut off as the wormhole disengages. In the control room, O’NEILL, DANIEL, TEAL’C, and KAWALSKY see the Goa’uld ship leaving the mountain on the monitor. An Asgard ship is seen coming down in its place. The mountain shakes as it does so, and the body of AU HAMMOND is suddenly beamed out.

TEAL’C:
It appears Dr. Carter was successful.

O’NEILL:
Come on. Ya gotta love those guys!

AU SAM is beamed down in front of them.

AU SAM:
I met the Asgard.

O’NEILL:
We guessed that.

AU HAMMOND is beamed down as well, alive and healed. AU SAM approaches him, hugging him and kissing him on the cheek. The Asgard ship is seen taking off from the mountain on the monitor.

O’NEILL (to himself) :
Love those guys.

SGA STORAGE ROOM
HAMMOND and SAM are waiting on the other side of the quantum mirror. DANIEL, TEAL’C, and O’NEILL are saying goodbye to AU SAM and KAWALSKY.

KAWALSKY:
Colonel, it’s been a pleasure to serve with you. Again.

O’NEILL:
Likewise.

KAWALSKY:
Right, right.

After saluting each other, KAWALSKY turns and salutes TEAL’C and DANIEL. AU SAM approaches O’NEILL.

AU SAM:
This is hard. Good-bye for a second time.

O’NEILL:
It’s the first time.

AU SAM:
It doesn’t feel that way to me. You have to understand: my Jack had the same face, same voice, same hands…

O’NEILL:
Which brings to mind an obvious question: how could you marry such a loser?

AU SAM smiles at O’NEILL and turns to DANIEL and TEAL’C.

AU SAM:
Thank you.

DANIEL:
You’re welcome.

O’NEILL nods his head at TEAL’C and DANIEL, indicating they should go through the mirror. They do. AU SAM and O’NEILL stare at each other. AU SAM kisses him. SAM and HAMMOND watch through the mirror. SAM looks embarrassed and looks away, but is eventually drawn back to watch them kissing.

AU SAM:
You’re really not him, are you?

O’NEILL:
No.

AU SAM:
I just wish…

O’NEILL:
Yeah.

O’NEILL approaches the mirror and touches it. He appears on the other side and the mirror shuts off. AU SAM looks away from the mirror. There are tears running down her face.

END CREDITS


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