Transcript for Episode #308:  “Demons”

Teaser

UNNAMED PLANET - STARGATE
SG-1 steps out of the Stargate, which closes behind them.  Trees abound.

O’NEILL:
Ah - trees, trees, and more trees.  What a wonderfully green universe we live in, eh?  Where’s that village?

SAM:
The UAV found it 11 klicks southwest of here.

O’NEILL:
Eleven?  Oy.

TEAL’C finds a path.

TEAL’C:
Here.  This path is well-traveled.

DANIEL:
Which means the Stargate is still in use by someone.

O’NEILL:
Or…something.

O’NEILL makes that finger gesture from “Austin Powers.”  SG-1 follows the path toward the village.

SAME PLANET - FOREST
SAM sees a building in the valley.

SAM:
UAV photos were right; there it is.  Looks like a church.

O’NEILL:
And that would mean what?

TEAL’C:
That it is most likely Christians reside here.

O’NEILL:
Thank you, Teal’c.

SAM:
Well, this is the first sign of Christianity we’ve encountered, sir, in hundreds of missions.

DANIEL:
Which means they probably had to have been taken from somewhere in medieval Europe through the Antarctic gate.

TEAL’C:
By which Goa’uld?

DANIEL:
That’s a good question.

SG-1 walks down into the valley and towards the village.

DANIEL:
Most Goa’uld that we’ve encountered that have enslaved ancient human populations have taken on the roles of those cultures’ deities - RA, APOPHIS, HATHOR from the Egyptian pantheon.

O’NEILL:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we got it.

DANIEL:
Well, if these people were already Christians when they were taken from Earth, that suggests this Goa’uld is - is playing -

O’NEILL:
God?  As in God God?  It’s a bit of a stretch, don’t you think?

TEAL’C:
I know of no Goa’uld capable of showing the necessary compassion or benevolence that I have read of in your Bible.

O’NEILL:
You read the Bible, TEAL’C?

TEAL’C:
It is a significant part of your Western culture.  Have you not read the Bible, O’NEILL?

O’NEILL:
Oh, yeah, yeah, not all of it.  Actually, I’m listening to it on tape.  Don’t tell me how it ends.

SAME PLANET - VILLAGE
SG-1 enters what looks like a medieval European village.  Villagers are present, but they run away and into their houses when they see SG-1.  DANIEL approaches an open door.  A woman and children (presumedly hers) are looking at SG-1.

DANIEL:
Hello.  We’re not going to hurt you.

The woman slams the door.

DANIEL:
We’re peaceful travelers.

O’NEILL:
They’re not buying it, Danny.

O’NEILL finds a stone pedestal with a cross symbol and writing on it and approaches it.

O’NEILL:
Is this English?

DANIEL:
Middle English, pre-Chaucer. (translating) “Show mercy to those who are about to be delivered unto the devil.”  It’s a - a derivative of the Catholic prayer for Suffering Souls.

O’NEILL then sees a young woman chained to a metal post in the middle of the village.

END TEASER - OPENING CREDITS

SAME PLANET - FOREST
SG-1 hurries over to the woman.  She is obviously terrified of them.

O’NEILL (to the woman) :
It’s all right.  It’s all right.  We’ll get you out of this in a minute.

A man comes out from one of the houses, holding out a cross and walking towards them.

MAN:
Spare her, please!

DANIEL:
Oh, we’re not going to hurt her.  Or you.  We’re friends.  I’m - I’m DANIEL.

MAN:
I am Simon.  You have come through the Circle of Darkness?

SAM:
The Stargate?  Yes.

SIMON:
Then you must be of His brethren.  I beg of you, MARY is so young.  She did nothing to warrant sacrifice.

O’NEILL:
Whoa.  What sacrifice?

SIMON:
If you leave her body, the village CANON may choose another possessed soul.

DANIEL:
You think we’re demons. (to O’NEILL) He thinks we’re demons.

O’NEILL:
Uh, huh. (to SIMON) Well, we’re not demons.  We’re human, like you.  From Earth, like you.

DANIEL (to SIMON) :
Do other demons come through the Circle?

SIMON:
You know He does.

DANIEL:
Uh, no, we don’t know anything about Him, but we’d like to.  What does He look like?

SIMON:
Mostly, he comes in his true form.  But demons can take many shapes.

SIMON looks at TEAL’C, who is looking at the chains holding MARY captive.

TEAL’C:
Major Carter.  Shield her eyes.

SAM coverd MARY’s face and TEAL’C shoots the chain with his staff weapon, thus freeing MARY.

SIMON (to MARY) :
Go into the house!  Quickly!

MARY runs into the house as SIMON falls to his knees in front of O’NEILL.

SIMON:
Leave her body, please.

O’NEILL:
Come on, get up.

SIMON:
Take me in her place!

O’NEILL:
Look, stop that, will ya?  Come on.  Let’s go, come on.

O’NEILL pulls SIMON up.

O’NEILL:
Listen to me.  We’re not demons.  And MARY is not possessed.  From the looks of it, she’s a little sick.  If you let us, we might be able to help.

SIMON nods and leads them into the house into which MARY had run.

SIMON’S HOUSE
MARY is lying in a bed.  SIMON is sitting by her side.  SAM is taking MARY’s temperature.

O’NEILL:
Chickenpox.  Trust me.

SAM:
Her fever’s pretty high.

O’NEILL:
It’ll break. (to MARY) Those spots will get itchy, but that’s about as bad as it’ll get.  You’ll be fine in a couple of days.

SIMON:
That will not be soon enough.  The time of sacrifice is at hand.&bsp; The elders will have to perform the trepanning ritual tonight to cleanse her.

DANIEL:
Oh, no.

O’NEILL:
What?

DANIEL:
It was a procedure often done in the Middle Ages.  They, well, they - they drill a hole in the person’s head.  By drilling a hole, the evil spirits are released, thus saving the person from eternal damnation.

O’NEILL:
Thus saving the person?

DANIEL:
Well, they didn’t call them the Dark Ages because it was dark.

A horn blows outside.  SIMON takes his cross and starts to pray over MARY.  MARY is very frightened.

SIMON (praying) :
My Jesus, let the sorrows you suffered -

The shot cuts to the village outside the house.

PETER DELUISE (cleverly disguised as a villager) :
The demon comes!

The villager runs away as an UNAS is seen walking down the street.

SIMON’S HOUSE

O’NEILL:
The demon comes?

SG-1 approaches a windows and looks out.

O’NEILL sees the UNAS walk down the street towards where MARY had been tied up.

O’NEILL:
Damn. (to TEAL’C) Unas?

TEAL’C:
You are correct, O’NEILL.  The first host of the Goa’uld.

O’NEILL:
No, no, no.  We killed him; he’s dead.

TEAL’C:
We only killed one Unas.

O’NEILL:
I thought there only was one.  Unas, uno, one.

TEAL’C:
They are, in fact, a species.

The UNAS stops where MARY had been chained and looks around.

UNAS:
The time of sacrifice is at hand.  My lord Satan calls for five wretched souls to reclaim as his.

O’NEILL (inside the house) :
Satan?

TEAL’C:
SOKAR.

SAM:
Gathering host bodies.

UNAS (outside) :
At sunrise shall I return to claim the five.  If you have not chosen, I shall take whom I please in far greater numbers.

DANIEL:
I think we were wrong about this Goa’uld.&bsp; He isn’t playing God.  He’s playing the devil.

SIMON gets up from where he was sitting beside MARY.

SIMON:
The time is at hand.

MARY:
No!  No, no!

SIMON produces a package, which he then begins to open.

O’NEILL:
SIMON.

SIMON:
CANON will return from his hermitage soon.

O’NEILL:
The creature that just sauntered through your village is called an UNAS.

SIMON ignores him and continues to open the package.

SIMON:
The time of sacrifice has been declared.  I feared it would be.

O’NEILL:
SIMON!  Listen to me.

SIMON stops and rises to look at O’NEILL.

O’NEILL:
Look, we’ve run into this kind of thing before.  Now, it’s not a demon.  It’s demonesque, I’ll grant you, but it’s just a big, ugly creature.

DANIEL (to O’NEILL) :
Who’s inhabited by a Goa’uld that gives it great strength, intelligence and the ability to regenerate.

O’NEILL:
Yes.  It’s a very smart, resilient creature.

DANIEL (to O’NEILL) :
In the service of SOKAR, who, for all intents and purposes, is Satan to these people.

O’NEILL:
But it’s not a demon.

DANIEL (to SIMON) :
No, it’s not a demon.

TEAL’C:
My friends speak the truth, SIMON.  This demon is nothing more than a parasite that inhabits another creature.  Your fear is its greatest power over you.

SIMON:
You do not fear it?

TEAL’C:
We do not.

SIMON looks at SG-1’s weapons.

SIMON:
You say you have killed an UNAS once before?

TEAL’C:
Indeed.

SIMON:
Then perhaps God has sent you.  Perhaps you are the answer to our prayers.  All my life I have asked God to deliver us from this evil.

O’NEILL:
So, what did the lizard say?  That he’d be back at sunrise?

TEAL’C:
Are you contemplating attack, O’NEILL?

O’NEILL:
Yeah, sure, why not?

TEAL’C:
An UNAS is difficult to destroy.

O’NEILL:
Couple of shots with a staff, we own him.

SAM:
We hope.  It took THOR’s Hammer to kill the last one.

O’NEILL:
All right, a whole bunch of shots with a staff.  DANIEL, how long have these people been living like this?

DANIEL:
Well, I can’t be sure without proper reference.

O’NEILL (impatiently) :
A thousand years?

DANIEL:
At least.

O’NEILL:
That’s long enough.  These people are being terrorized.  We have the power to stop it.

TEAL’C:
SOKAR will seek revenge.

O’NEILL:
All right, so we’ll have them bury the ’gate after we’ve gone.

DANIEL:
They could come in ships.

O’NEILL:
Ships?

SAM:
I can’t be sure, but the coordinates of this planet are years away from any known Goa’uld home world, even with their faster ships.

O’NEILL:
SIMON?  Do you want us to do this?

SIMON:
Are we not in God’s hands?

A church bell rings outside.

SIMON:
The CANON has returned.

VILLAGE
The CANON enters, along with pitchfork-carrying villagers.  The other villagers are there to greet him.

SIMON (to O’NEILL) :
The CANON will choose those for sacrifice tonight.

O’NEILL:
Why does he get to choose?

SIMON:
He is our spiritual leader.  It falls to him to determine those of us whose souls are already possessed with evil.

The villagers point out SG-1 to the CANON, who then accosts SG-1.

CANON:
You have come down the path, through the Circle of Darkness?

O’NEILL:
Something like that.  My name’s Jack O’NEILL.

CANON (angrily, to SIMON) :
And you gave them entrance to your home?

SIMON:
Yes, but I do not believe they mean us harm.

CANON:
The tricks of Satan and his minions are many.  And only those weak of faith are fooled by such deception.  By granting them entrance, you have spilled the blood of your people!

DANIEL (to the CANON) :
We come as friends, sir.

The CANON approaches TEAL’C and looks at the gold symbol of APOPHIS on his forehead.

CANON (to the villagers) :
This one!  There’s the mark of the devil! (to SG-1) If you are human as you say, then your souls are damned.

O’NEILL:
All right, that’s enough.  He is not a demon - he is a Jaffa.  Satan is not involved here. (to the villagers) That creature that strolled through your village a little while ago?  It’s called an UNAS.  We have the power to stop it.  That means no more sacrifices.  All you have to do is give us a chance to help.  What do you say?

CANON (to the villagers) :
If they came through the Circle of Darkness, then their souls are unclean!

TEAL’C:
It appears they do not desire our assistance, O’NEILL.

O’NEILL:
Yeah, fine, whatever. (sarcastically, to the CANON) Have a nice day.

O’NEILL starts to walk away from the CANON and the villagers.

CANON:
You shall be struck down!

The CANON touches a ring on his hand.

SIMON:
No, no, Canon.

Suddenly, storms clouds appear and thunder can be heard.  The CANON presses on his ring and a bolt of what looks like lightning comes out of the sky and hits the ground right in the middle of SG-1, moving out to engulf the team.  They are all knocked unconscious.

VILLAGE - HOLDING CELL
SAM, lying on straw, regains consciousness.  The first thing she sees is O’NEILL chewing on a stalk of grass.

SAM:
Sir, I’ve been disarmed.

O’NEILL:
Yeah, I picked up on that, too.  TEAL’C’s gone.

SAM looks around the holding cell and DANIEL wakes up as well.

DANIEL:
Did we just get struck by a big bolt of lightning?

SAM:
That’s what it looked like.  Felt more like a zat blast to me.  He touched his ring just before the lightning started.

O’NEILL:
Carter, if I ever get the urge to help anybody again, feel free to give me a swift kick.

SAM sees SIMON approaching the cell.

SIMON:
I do not believe you are demons.  I’ve said as much to the CANON, but he refuses to hear me.

O’NEILL:
Where’s our friend?

SIMON:
It has been decided he must endure the tests.

O’NEILL:
What tests?

They are interrupted with shouts from villagers.  They look out to see TEAL’C being brought into the village square by two guards and being tied to a post there.  We can see that his face is bloody, and he has obviously not been treated well.  There are villagers there to watch.

CANON (to TEAL’C) :
What have you to say for yourself?

TEAL’C:
That I do not serve those whom you would call demon.

CANON (to the villagers) :
There are living among us - demons.

O’NEILL (whispering) :
TEAL’C.

SIMON (O’NEILL) :
Say nothing more, or they will kill him.

CANON:
For this reason, we are commanded by God to seek out those spirits and punish them!

The CANON turns to a blacksmith, who is preparing a hot iron.

DANIEL (realizing) :
The mark of the devil.

O’NEILL:
What?

DANIEL:
Uh, in the Middle Ages, one of the proofs of witchcraft was a mark on the body supposedly made by the devil himself that was insensitive to pain.

The blacksmith hands the hot iron to the CANON, who then puts it on TEAL’C’s forehead.  TEAL’C looks at it, but doesn’t otherwise react.  After a few seconds, the CANON takes it away, satisfied.

CANON:
The first proof is given!

O’NEILL:
DANIEL?

DANIEL:
It’s not good.

LAKE
O’NEILL, SAM, and DANIEL are led to the shore of a lake, accompanied by villagers.  TEAL’C is led onto a pier and a large stone is chained to his leg.

CANON:
And they went up on the breath of the earth.  And fire came down from God out of Heaven and devoured them.

DANIEL (again realizing) :
The water test.

O’NEILL:
What?

DANIEL:
Common practice in the Middle Ages.  They weighed a person and threw them in the water.  If he sinks, he’s innocent.

SAM:
If he floats, he’s guilty of witchcraft and burned at the stake.  It’s Catch22.

One of the CANON’s guards puts a black hood over TEAL’C’s head.

CANON:
Archangel, Saint Michael, defend us in battle.  Thrust into Hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl upon the Earth.  Amen.

The CANON nods at the guards and they prepare to push TEAL’C into the lake.

DANIEL (to the CANON and his guards) :
We’ll go back where we came from!

SAM (on the verge of tears) :
He’s innocent!

O’NEILL (angrily) :
You sons of bitches!

One of the guards hits O’NEILL across the face and he falls to his knees.  TEAL’C is pushed into the lake anyway.  The rest of SG-1 is helpless to do anything but watch as TEAL’C drowns.  Bubbles rise from the water, signifying TEAL’C’s drowning.  The CANON bows his head to pray, and then holds out his hand over the water of the lake and raises his voice.

CANON:
God’s will has been done.

SIMON has been standing among the villagers and now bows his own head.  The CANON and his guards leave.

VILLAGE - HOLDING CELL
TEAL’C’s body is lying on an altar of some sorts while nuns pray silently.  The rest of SG-1 watches from the cell, which the CANON approaches.

CANON (reluctantly) :
Your friend’s soul is clean.  If you wish, he’ll be given a Christian burial.

O’NEILL:
What?

CANON:
You’re free to go.  I insist only that you remain in chains until your return through the Circle of Darkness to whatever dark place you reside and that you never return.

O’NEILL:
Because you know if I did return, I’d break your damn neck.  But of course, you could just touch that lovely ring of yours and we’d all be struck down again.

CANON (fingering the ring) :
Ah, the ring.  It has been handed down through generations of village canons who came before me.

DANIEL:
And with it, you maintain power.

CANON:
With it, I abide by God’s will, as best I can.  Sacrifices must be made.

DANIEL:
Why?

CANON:
Do you deny the demon is real?  Do you deny that it could destroy us if it so wished?

DANIEL doesn’t answer and looks away.

CANON:
The sacrifices allowed the people of this village to survive for generations.  Just as the wheat is separated from the chaff, the unclean souls among us must be taken away through the Circle of Darkness.  Forever.

O’NEILL:
And you decide.

CANON:
Yes, I do.  Now, go thy way.  Trouble me no more.

The CANON leaves.

VILLAGE - HOLDING CELL
SIMON approaches SG-1’s cell.

SIMON:
I am sorry.

O’NEILL:
You know, SIMON, your village CANON has an awfully interesting way of tending the flock.

SIMON:
Speak no more of this.

DANIEL:
He maintains power by controlling who gets sacrificed and who doesn’t.

SIMON:
No more!  I have asked for this dispensation, and he has granted it.

SIMON unlocks the door to their cell and they walk to the altar where TEAL’C is, still in chains.

O’NEILL (to SIMON) :
Where’s our gear?

SIMON:
If I were to bring it to you, would you help us?

O’NEILL:
Help you?

SAM:
You can bury the Stargate after we’ve gone through.  That should prevent the UNAS and anything else from -

SIMON:
I cannot do that!

DANIEL:
Well, there must be other people who are willing.

SIMON:
I mean the Circle.  We are not allowed to go near it, or even look upon it.

A VILLAGER with a lantern calls SIMON.

VILLAGER:
SIMON?  We are ready.

SIMON:
I shall be there.

DANIEL:
Ready?  Ready for what?

SIMON:
The trepanning ritual.  MARY’s parents were taken in a sacrifice a year ago.  They asked that I care for her.  If you’re not willing to help, it falls to me to try to cleanse her soul before the CANON chooses.

DANIEL:
You can’t do that.

SIMON:
I have no choice.

DANIEL:
You’ll kill her.

SIMON:
Better that she die among us than at the hands of the devil himself.

SIMON leaves.

DANIEL:
Jack…

O’NEILL:
No.

DANIEL:
We can’t condemn a young girl just because one man has made a pact with the devil.  TEAL’C will have died for nothing if nothing good comes from this.

SIMON’S HOUSE
SIMON enters.  MARY is still sick, and is being tended to by another villager.  SIMON crosses himself and approaches the bed where MARY is laying.

SIMON:
There shall be a great reward waiting for you in Heaven, and the angels will welcome you with joyful hearts.  And there will be no more pain.

MARY:
I know.

VILLAGE

DANIEL:
Okay, I’ll tell you what.  You guys start back without me.  I’m just going to go see if I can stop these people from drilling a hole in the head of a young girl.

DANIEL starts to walk towards SIMON’s house.  O’NEILL looks at SAM and follows DANIEL.

SIMON’S HOUSE
SIMON opens the same package as before and takes out what looks like a hand drill.  The other villager present holds MARY’s head as SIMON gets ready to drill the hole.  DANIEL suddenly enters.

DANIEL:
Wait!

SIMON immediately lowers the drill, and DANIEL continues.

DANIEL:
We’ll take you back with us.  MARY, too.  Where we come from, there are no demons.

SIMON nods.  O’NEILL and SAM enter.  O’NEILL holds out his hand and SIMON gives O’NEILL the hand drill.

O’NEILL:
Good choice.

VILLAGE
The nuns are preparing TEAL’C’s body for burial.  A shroud is put on top of him, and the nuns kneel beside him to pray.

SIMON’S HOUSE
SAM is checking MARY’s temperature.

SAM:
Fever’s down.  Feeling any better?

MARY:
Yes.  Have you released that which possessed me?

SAM:
You got better all by yourself, MARY.  There was never a demon inside you.

O’NEILL lifts his chains, showing them to everyone.

O’NEILL:
So, SIMON.  You wouldn’t happen to have the keys to these, would you? (to the villager) Keys?

The villager just stares at him.

VILLAGE - TEAL’C’S ALTAR
One of the nuns praying over Teal’c’s body glances up and sees him move, but ignores it when none of the other nuns notice.  Suddenly, TEAL’C sits up on the altar and the nuns scream and run away.  TEAL’C takes off the shroud.

SIMON’S HOUSE
When SG-1 and SIMON hear the nuns screaming, they all walk outside.

VILLAGE - TEAL’C’S ALTAR

O’NEILL:
What’s that?

SIMON:
I don’t know.

TEAL’C walks towards SG-1 and SIMON, pulling on his jacket as he walks.

DANIEL (surprised) :
TEAL’C.  You’re alive.

TEAL’C:
It is so.

O’NEILL realizes what must have happened and proceeds to thank the, um, person that kept TEAL’C alive.

O’NEILL (steadily moving downward towards TEAL’C’s symbiote pouch) :
Way to go, Junior!

TEAL’C:
My symbiote did sustain me.

SAM:
Oxygen in the water.  It’s the larval Goa’uld’s natural environment.  It must have filtered the oxygen and fed it into TEAL’C.  You were out for a long time, TEAL’C.  I thought we’d lost you.

TEAL’C:
When I realized they planned to immerse me, I put myself in a deep state of Kelno’reem.

A groups of villagers has by now gathered and are looking on in shock.

O’NEILL:
You’d think these folks never saw a guy rise from the dead.

SAM (to SIMON) :
SIMON.  I know this must look unusual.  But there is actually a very logical explanation for this.

CANON (entering the scene) :
Yes, there is!

The CANON has entered with the guards.

CANON:
There can be no doubt now.  They are evil.  All of them.

O’NEILL (to the CANON) :
What do you want from us?  He passed your test.

CANON (ignoring O’NEILL) :
These four shall be the first chosen for sacrifice.

O’NEILL:
Major, next time DANIEL gets the urge to help someone, shoot him.

SG-1 is suddenly surrounded by the guards.

CANON:
And with them shall be taken the woman whose soul has been possessed.

Two of the guards go into SIMON’s house to fetch MARY.

SIMON (to the CANON) :
Please!  Spare her.  At least allow me to try the trepanning.

CANON:
You challenge my decision?

SIMON:
No.

MARY is dragged out of the house by the guards.

MARY:
SIMON!  SIMON, please help me!  SIMON.

CANON (to the villagers) :
To your homes!  Do not let the demon lay his eyes upon you.

SG-1 and MARY are chained to the posts where MARY was chained up the first time.

SIMON:
I am sorry, MARY.

O’NEILL:
Don’t apologize to her.  Help her!

SIMON:
The CANON has spoken.

O’NEILL:
What are you, the village idiot?

DANIEL (to SIMON) :
The demon will turn her into a host.  You know what that means. (realizing) Course you don’t know what that means.

SIMON:
I can hear no more of this.

SIMON leaves.

VILLAGE SQUARE
It is now sunrise.  SG-1 and MARY are still chained up.  DANIEL sees SIMON in the doorway of his house, watching them, and points him out to O’NEILL.

DANIEL:
Jack.

O’NEILL:
SIMON, get out here and do something!

SIMON doesn’t move.

DANIEL (to O’NEILL) :
I don’t think anything we say is going to make a difference, especially not after TEAL’C’s…resurrection.

A horn is blown, and then the UNAS enters the scene.

O’NEILL (to the UNAS) :
Mornin’.

The UNAS ignores him and starts to undo the chains.

O’NEILL:
So, how long you gonna keep this up?  The demon bit?  Don’t get me wrong - looks like a great gig.  You got the padre in your back pocket, the hours are good, probably get all the chicks - ahh!

The UNAS cuts O’NEILL off by grabbing him around the throat and lifting him into the air.  The UNAS quickly drops O’NEILL, obviously not wanting to injure him.  O’NEILL is now lying on the ground.

Villager (to SIMON) :
If they truly are servants of Satan, why does he resist?

UNAS (to O’NEILL) :
You are not of this world.

O’NEILL:
No, no we’re not.  UNAS?  What does SOKAR have on you that makes you so dang cranky?

There is one chain linking all five of them together.  The UNAS pulls on it and jerks them up.  They leave the village.

CLIFF OVERLOOKING FOREST
SG-1 and MARY are being led by the UNAS along the edge of a cliff.  O’NEILL looks down the slope and, seeing it wouldn’t be life-threatening, silently tells the rest of SG-1 to get ready to roll.

DANIEL (whispering) :
MARY, we’re gonna take a little tumble, so just scrunch up in a ball and roll with the rest of us.

O’NEILL signals with a nod and they all dive down the slope, rolling to the bottom.  The chain jerks out of the UNAS’ grip with the force of their collective tumble.  The UNAS roars in anger and climbs down after them.

O’NEILL:
Go!  Go!

MARY is at the front of the chain, and so leads them through the woods.

VILLAGE
SIMON approaches the CANON.

CANON:
SIMON!  You’ve always been quick to ask questions.  This weakness shall be your doom.  If you persist, I shall be unable to defend you when the next sacrifice is called.

The CANON leaves, so SIMON does the same.

FOREST
SG-1 and MARY are running through the forest away from the UNAS.  They stop when the UNAS steps on a part of the chain that had been trailing on the ground behind the parade.

UNAS:
You cannot escape me.

SIMON suddenly appears.  He has SG-1’s gear and TEAL’C’s staff weapon.

SIMON (to the UNAS) :
Leave them!

UNAS:
You dare to challenge me?

O’NEILL (to SIMON) :
Shoot it!

UNAS (to SIMON) :
You shall join them in Hell.

The UNAS sticks one end of the chain in the tree, thus keeping SG-1 and MARY there.

MARY:
SIMON!

UNAS (to SG-1) :
You will remain here until I finish with this one.

The UNAS begins to walk towards SIMON.

O’NEILL (to SIMON) :
Shoot it!

MARY:
SIMON!

O’NEILL:
Shoot!

SIMON fires the staff weapon and hits the UNAS’ chest.  Green blood appears from the wound, but the UNAS appears unaffected.

O’NEILL:
Again!

SIMON fires the staff weapon again, but the UNAS just keeps walking towards him until he is right in front of SIMON.

O’NEILL (to SIMON) :
Shoot!

SIMON shoots the UNAS one last time at point blank range, but the UNAS just gets angrier.

UNAS:
For this, you will pay with your life.

The UNAS knocks the staff weapon out of SIMON’s hands and backhands SIMON, who flys clear across the clearing.

MARY:
SIMON!

SIMON gets up and runs away, leading the UNAS away as well.  O’NEILL sees the staff weapon on the ground - and opportunity.

O’NEILL:
MARY, the staff.

The five of them stretch out the chain, trying to reach MARY to the staff.  She finally grabs hold of it after a few unsuccessful attempts, and they pass it to TEAL’C.

TEAL’C:
O’NEILL.

O’NEILL, being the closest to the end of the chain, covers his eyes as TEAL’C shoots the chain holding them to the tree.

FOREST
The UNAS is still chasing SIMON.  It pauses and roars loudly, frustrated.  SIMON hears its roar and continues to run away.

FOREST
TEAL’C shoots the chain holding O’NEILL.  The others are already free.

O’NEILL:
Carter, DANIEL, head toward the ’gate.  Take MARY with you.

SAM:
Yes, sir.

SAM and DANIEL lead MARY away.

O’NEILL (to TEAL’C) :
Shall we?

O’NEILL and TEAL’C leave to find the UNAS.

FOREST - CLEARING
SIMON stops and leans against a large rock to catch his breath.  The CANON appears from the other side of the rock and grabs him.

CANON:
SIMON!  Simon!  What have you done?

SIMON:
The demon comes.  Release me.

The CANON and SIMON look up as they hear the UNAS approaching.  SIMON puts himself in front of the CANON, protecting him.

FOREST
O’NEILL and TEAL’C are running through the woods, trying to find SIMON and the UNAS.

FOREST - CLEARING

UNAS (to SIMON) :
Your God has abandoned you.

SIMON:
My God is with me always.

The UNAS hits SIMON, knocking him out, and then approaches the CANON.

FOREST - CLEARING
O’NEILL and TEAL’C enter the clearing to find the UNAS lying on the ground and the CANON crouching beside SIMON.  TEAL’C approaches the UNAS to make sure it’s really dead as O’NEILL checks on SIMON.

O’NEILL:
He’s all right. (to the CANON) What happened?

CANON:
SIMON stood before it like - like David before Goliath.  The demon threw him aside and then he fell.  As you can see.

TEAL’C holds his hand over the UNAS’ mouth to check if it’s breathing, but doesn’t feel anything.

CANON:
It was a miracle.

TEAL’C:
The UNAS’ wounds were too severe.  Even the Goa’uld within him could not save him.

O’NEILL (to the CANON) :
So, not a demon.

CANON:
As you say.  You’ve opened my eyes.  Bless you.

O’NEILL:
Yeah, well.  Let’s have the ring.

CANON:
Yes.  Of course.

The CANON gives O’NEILL the ring.  SIMON then wakes up.

SIMON:
I’m alive?

TEAL’C:
SOKAR will be awaiting the return of the UNAS.  He will send others.

O’NEILL (to SIMON) :
Which is why you’ve got to bury the Circle of Darkness after we’ve gone through.  Can you walk?

They help SIMON get up and then they leave.

STARGATE CLEARING
DANIEL, SAM, and MARY are waiting by the Stargate.  O’NEILL, TEAL’C, SIMON, and the CANON approach them.

MARY:
SIMON!

MARY runs over to SIMON and they hug.

MARY:
I knew you would come.  Are you hurt?

SIMON:
I will be fine.

DANIEL:
What happened?

CANON:
The beast is dead.  Had I not witnessed it myself, I would not have believed it.  Thank you all, for showing me the way.

O’NEILL:
You’re welcome.  Major, dial us home.

SAM starts to dial Earth on the DHD, but stops after the first chevron.

O’NEILL:
Carter?

SAM suddenly looks at the CANON.

SAM:
It went into him.

SIMON:
What went into him?

The CANON moves, but TEAL’C aims his staff weapon at the CANON.

TEAL’C:
Go no further!

CANON:
Why?  I have done nothing. (to SIMON and MARY) My children.

O’NEILL (to SAM) :
Are you sure?

SAM:
Positive, sir.  I can sense it.  The UNAS host was dying; it had no where else to go.  It went into him.

Suddenly, the CANON’s eyes glow and he leaps at them.  O’NEILL shoots the CANON, who falls backwards.&bsp; SIMON kneels beside the CANON.

CANON:
Forgive me.

The CANON dies.

SIMON (praying) :
By the sorrows He suffered, in Your agony in the garden, they scourged and crowned Him with thorns.

SIMON traces the figure of a cross on the CANON’s forehead.

DANIEL:
The prayer for Suffering Souls.

SIMON:
In Your crucifixion and death, have mercy on the souls.  Deliver them from the dire torments they endure and admit them to Your most sweet embrace in paradise.

MARY crosses herself.

SIMON:
Now, the demon is truly gone.

O’NEILL:
Major?

SAM nods to him and returns to the DHD to finish dialing.

O’NEILL (to SIMON and MARY) :
You know what to do?

MARY:
Yes.  We will do what you say.

SIMON:
We will bury the ’gate.  Immediately.  And there will be no more sacrifices.

O’NEILL:
Thank God.

SAM presses the center stone on the DHD and Stargate kawhooshes.  She transmits the GDO signal and SG-1 goes through the Stargate.  SIMON and MARY are left in the clearing.

END CREDITS

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