Stargate Sg1 : Transcript 201 - La Morsure du Serpent ( The Serpent's Lair )

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Starring:

Richard Dean Anderson as Colonel Jack O'Neill
Michael Shanks as Dr Daniel Jackson
Amanda Tapping as Captain Samantha Carter
Christopher Judge as Teal'c
Don S Davis as General George Hammond

Also Starring:

Tony Amendola as Bra'tac
Robert Wisden as Lieutenant Colonel Samuels
Peter Williams as Apophis
Gary Jones as Technician Walter Davis
Laara Sadiq as Technician Turner
Douglas H Arthurs as Kah'l
Michael Brynjolfson as Jaffa
Phillip Mitchell as Jaffa #2
Bernie Neufeld as General's Aide

And:

Alexis Cruz as Skaara/Klorel

Previously on Stargate SG-1

Clips from Within the Serpents Grasp

And now, the conclusion.

Scene: Klorel's Mothership

SG-1 are on the Pel'tak.

O'NEILL: Captain Carter?

CARTER: Sir?

O''NEILL: Were you able to put enough C4 around this ship to make a dent?

CARTER: We placed charges where they should generate secondary explosions. So.. yes, sir. Should make a helluva dent.

O'NEILL: Thank you Captain.

CARTER: Given enough time, I might be able to figure out..

O'NEILL: Negative. We should expect some of their reinforcements through that door any second. Stand by to detonate your charges on my order.

CARTER: Yes, sir.

DANIEL: Wait..

O'NEILL: Daniel, if we don't stop them now, we may never stop them.

DANIEL: Yeah, I know that.

He pulls out another block of C4 and places around the front of the pel'tak.

DANIEL: Let's just make as big a dent as possible. Okay?

CARTER: Ready and awaiting your order, sir.

O'NEILL: Okay. Well, I suppose now is the time for me to say something profound. [pause] Nothing comes to mind. Let's do it.

Teal'c looks out of the viewscreen.

TEAL'C: O'Neill. Apophis' ship approaches.

DANIEL: We overheard in the Gateroom he said he would rejoin Klorel once they came out of the shadows.

O'NEILL: Teal'c, if we can knock out this ship, will it stop them?

TEAL'C: It will not. Apophis' vessel is equipped with defence shields. He will still be able to destroy your cities from high above.

Jaffa start to bang on the door.

O'NEILL: Tell me those C4 charges are on automatic timer.

CARTER: They're on automatic timer.

O'NEILL: Good, how long do we have?

CARTER: 24 hours.

O'NEILL: 24 hours?!

CARTER: At the time, sir, I thought we were still light years away.

The Jaffa continue to bang.

O'NEILL: Just a minute!

Jack turns to Teal'c.

O'NEILL: Teal'c, work with me buddy. Is there any other way outta here?

TEAL'C: None.

The doors start to open.

O'NEILL: Cover up. This is turning out to be a bad day.

They start to fire.

One of the jaffa throws a metal ball inside and a bright light comes >from it. SG-1 collapse in pain.

TITLES

Scene: A holding cell.

Teal'c sits up.

TEAL'C: O'Neill?

A hand reaches up to his shoulder and feels his face.

O'NEILL: Teal'c... Ahh. Teal'c, I can't see.

TEAL'C: I am blinded as well. It will pass.

O'NEILL: What the hell was that?

TEAL'C: A Goa'uld shock grenade. Though extremely painful, its effects are temporary.

O'NEILL: That's good to hear.

Jack puts his hand down behind him which happens to be on Sam's face. She bites him, hard.

O'NEILL: Ow! God! Ow!

CARTER: Colonel? Sorry, sir. It's just so dark.

O'NEILL: Oh, Carter! It's all right. I like your attitude.

DANIEL: It isn't dark. We're blind. And we failed.

O'NEILL: All right, take it easy Daniel. We've been in worse situations than this.

TEAL'C: Not to my knowledge.

O'NEILL: Thanks Teal'c.

DANIEL: Right now, they're getting ready to wipe out the major cities of Earth. They'll do it from orbit, out of reach.

O'NEILL: Daniel..

DANIEL: Jack, I've already been through this once before. I've seen this before.

O'NEILL: Daniel, will you relax? You've been through it before and you survived. We're just having a bad day.

CARTER: Colonel, I think I'm starting to see something.

TEAL'C: My sight returns as well.

O'NEILL: Now that's what I wanna hear. Carter, if someone comes in here, you bite 'em in the hand.

CARTER: Yes, sir. [smiles]

Jack gets up.

Scene: Sarcophagus room

A jaffa places the dead body of Skaara in the sarcophagus. The lid closes. A young jaffa turns to another jaffa. [It is Bra'tac, but his head is covered.]

BRA'TAC: Tal kree, shak!

YOUNG JAFFA: Forgive me, master. I will not fail Klorel again.

BRA'TAC: No. You will not.

Bra'tac lifts his zat and zats him twice, killing him.

Scene: SGC Control room

Hammond comes down the stairs and spots Samuels.

HAMMOND: What the hell are you doing here?

SAMUELS: Reporting for duty, sir. I'm to co-ordinate with the Pentagon.

HAMMOND: By whose order?

SAMUELS: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. At the request of Senator Kinsey. He did try to contact you.

HAMMOND: Maybe you can tell me why our forces haven't gone on full alert? If we don't get our assets moving now, they'll be caught on the ground.

SAMUELS: The current thinking at the Pentagon is to do nothing that would alert the Goa'uld we know they're there.

HAMMOND: Let me guess whose bright idea that was.

SAMUELS: General Hammond, may I speak freely? I know I seem to have lost your respect, sir, for whatever reason, but we wouldn't be in this situation, that is, at the brink of war with the Goa'uld, if you had heeded my advice and buried the Stargate in the first place.

HAMMOND: Was that "I told you so" Colonel Samuels?

SAMUELS: I'm not here to point fingers. Sir. I'm here to co-ordinate out pre-emptive strike against the Goa'uld ships. That's if the President approves. The Joint Chiefs are briefing him now.

HAMMOND: And with what do you intend to strike?

SAMUELS: A new weapon, sir. I've helped to oversee its development at Area 51 with Colonel Maybourne. Two prototypes are being prepared for launch at Vandenberg Air Force base as we speak. If all goes well, history should mark this day by two brilliant and unexplained flashes in the night sky. The world should never know how close we came to Armageddon.

Scene: Apophis' Mothership

Bra'tac rings into the ship.

APOPHIS: Kel Klorel?

BRA'TAC: Your son was struck down by the humans on Klorel's vessel.

APOPHIS: He has been placed in his sarcophagus?

BRA'TAC: Yes my Lord, but his wounds were great. It will take time to revive him.

APOPHIS: What of the humans?

BRA'TAC: I thought to wait until Klorel..

APOPHIS: No! Execute them now!

BRA'TAC: I will see to it myself.

Bra'tac rings off again.

Apophis stands on the pel'tac. A jaffa is standing next to him.

JAFFA: We hold our position. The humans of this world still send no challenge.

APOPHIS: Yet they find their way to my son. We will attack their world when Klorel has risen again. They will pay a hundredfold for their insolence.

JAFFA: Kel sha, Apophis.

The Jaffa leaves.

Scene: Briefing Room

Samuels is leading the briefing.

SAMUELS: The Goa'uld's unexplained delay is buying us the necessary time to prepare. We'll launch a strike as soon as they enter orbit.

HAMMOND: What makes this weapon of yours so special?

SAMUELS: An otherwise ordinary Mark 12-A warhead has been enriched by the alien material, naqahdah.

HAMMOND: The Stargate element?

SAMUELS: Yes sir. As you know, a small amount of the raw ore was found by SG5 and brought back some months ago. The warheads should now yield in excess of 1000 megatons.. each. We call them our Goa'uld busters. Our plan is to launch two rockets simultaneously into retrograde orbit. Now, the naqahdah-enriched warheads themselves are made of the same material as our stealth aircraft and should go undetected by their radar.

HAMMOND: Assuming the Goa'uld have anything remotely like radar.

SAMUELS: It's our best shot, sir. And I'm sure the President agrees or he wouldn't have initiated countdown. Currently we stand at T minus 3 hours. We'll hold at two minutes while the Goa'uld come within range. It's going to work Sir. The Goa'uld should be taken completely off guard.

HAMMOND: If you're wrong, every country on Earth will be caught off guard. If it were up to me, I'd strongly recommend ..

SAMUELS: With respect, sir, it's not up to you.

Scene: Holding room on Klorel's ship.

Teal'c is looking for ways to escape.

DANIEL: Well on the bright side, my hand isn't blurry any more.

Footsteps are heard.

O'NEILL: Teal'c?

We see a shadow outside and it is a Serpent Guard. Jack and Teal'c move to either side of the door. The door starts to open and Jack signals to Sam and Daniel to stay where they are. The Guard walks in with his helmet open and we see it is Bra'tac.

O'NEILL: Bra'tac?

Bra'tac lifts his arm and strikes Jack on the nose.

O'NEILL: Oh, God!

BRA'TAC: Fools! Hashak! You doom yourselves. It is all I can do to keep you alive. Do you know all I have done to regain the trust of Apophis and join this campaign? Hmm? Hmm?

TEAL'C: Tek matte, Bra'tac.

BRA'TAC: Hello again, old friend. Your son grows strong. One day, he will be a great warrior. But you should not have come.

TEAL'C: I stand by my friends. I believe this world may be our only hope in one day overcoming the false gods.

BRA'TAC: Yes. As pathetic as that might seem at the moment, I agree.

DANIEL: You do?

BRA'TAC: I may have even been able to save this world had you not interfered.

Jack gets up.

O'NEILL: Hey! What do you think we've been trying to do? It is our world you're talking about.

BRA'TAC: Enough, human! This is not the place to talk of these things. I have been ordered by Apophis himself to execute you. An order I intend to disregard. Come!

Scene: Cheyenne Mountain.

A vehicle enters the main gate outside the mountain.

AIRMAN: Kill the gate, Corporal.

CORPORAL: Yes, sir!

Scene: Control Room.

Hammond is looking at a computer screen of the two motherships.

HAMMOND: They still haven't moved from this position?

DAVIS: No, sir. Not for the last 18 hours.

HAMMOND: What in God's name are they waiting for?

SAMUELS: My mission analysis team at the Pentagon believes they're waiting to see what moves we make. Amazingly, neither the Russians nor the Chinese have detected the Goa'uld presence yet. Of course, they're not looking. So, from space, we should appear to be a vulnerable and unsuspecting world.

HAMMOND: Got `em just where you want `em, do you Samuels?

DAVIS: Sir, there may be another reason why they haven't attacked. WE just completed the computer enhancement. There was an energy burst; coming from what we think may be the bridge of one of the ships, recorded at 1750 hours. Just before they stopped.

Davis shows Hammond and Samuels the flash, probably from the shock grenade.

SAMUELS: That's it?

HAMMOND: For all we know that flash, whatever it was, could be part of the ships normal function.

DAVIS: Except that the burst came from within the ship itself, sir, and it was fairly powerful.

SAMUELS: Maybe an explosion? An accident?

HAMMOND: Or sabotage?

DAVIS: SG-1.

SAMUELS: I hardly think so. For one thing, it's impossible to gate to a ship. Forgive me, sir, I know how important SG-1 is to you but this is wishful thinking.

HAMMOND: So's your plan, Colonel. That hasn't stopped us from going ahead with it.

TURNER: General Hammond, sir, the first group on the Alpha list has just arrived.

HAMMOND: Thank you.

Scene: Gate room on Klorel's ship.

A jaffa gets SG-1's weapons out of a crate and hands them to Bra'tac.

BRA'TAC: Here are you weapons. You will need them.

O'NEILL: Um, Bra'tac, you mentioned something about saving the world. Care to elaborate on that?

BRA'TAC: By assaulting Klorel, you have made that impossible.

DANIEL: Why?

BRA'TAC: Among the Goa'uld, a pharaoh's power is more often challenged by their son's than by their enemies. Once we had joined battle with your world, I was prepared to lead my wing against Apophis, in Klorel's name.

TEAL'C: Apophis would assume your attack was ordered by Klorel and reciprocate. A daring plan.

BRA'TAC: I had hoped to drive a stake of mistrust between them. Now I fear they will bond against their common enemy.

O'NEILL: What bond? Klorel's dead.

BRA'TAC: He will rise again.

DANIEL: The sarcophagus.

O'NEILL: Wait a minute. You put him in that thing to bring him back?

BRA'TAC: I knew it would delay the attack until he arose. Perhaps when the warships of your world attack...

CARTER: Uh, excuse me, did you say the warships of our world?

BRA'TAC: Surely you have such vessels?

DANIEL: Well, we have a number of.. of...

O'NEILL/DANIEL: Shuttles.

BRA'TAC: These shuttles.. they are a formidable craft?

O'NEILL: Oh yeah. Yeah. Bad day.

Scene: SGC Gateroom.

Hammond is standing in front of the Gate talking to a group of people.

HAMMOND: Ladies and Gentlemen, as you have all been made aware...

DAVIS: Chevron 4 encoded.

HAMMOND: ... this nation, the entire world, faces a deadly threat.

DAVIS: Chevron 5 encoded.

HAMMOND: With this knowledge, you have all volunteered for a mission intended to preserve human kind. You've been chosen because you represent the best we have in all fields of expertise.

DAVIS: Chevron 6 encoded.

HAMMOND: What you have not yet been told, for reasons of security, is where you're going or how you're going to get there.

DAVIS: Chevron 7 locked.

The Gate engages.

HAMMOND: You're going to step through that. Once through the Stargate, you will find yourself on the opposite side of the galaxy. A place we call Alpha site. If we do not prevail, you, and those that follow, will call it... home. A new colony. Godspeed.

Hammond salutes.

Scene: Klorel's ship.

The sarcophagus opens and Klorel rises.

KLOREL: Kel mak tak, Tau'ri! Let us burn their world to ashes!

Scene: SGC Control room.

DAVIS: They're moving.

Samuels is on the phone.

SAMUELS: Restart the countdown. Hold at T minus 20 seconds. We'll launch the weapons the moment they settle into orbit.

Scene: Gateroom on Klorel's ship

TEAL'C: We accelerate. Klorel has risen.

BRA'TAC: Then the campaign has begun. Once we launch, we will do what damage we can.

O'NEILL: How many in your wing?

BRA'TAC: Three.

O'NEILL: Three?

BRA'TAC: Teal'c makes four.

O'NEILL: Oh well, four.

BRA'TAC: I have trained these warriors since they were Chal'tii. They have sworn their lives to me. It is no simple thing to ask.

O'NEILL: And we appreciate it, believe me. But what are the odds of taking out a ship like this... with four gliders and... maybe a shuttle?

TEAL'C: A Goa'uld attack vessel is heavily armed, shielded, and capable of launching a legion of gliders against us. I would say slim.

O'NEILL: Okay, call me a pessimist, but I think it's time for a new plan.

BRA'TAC: We offer to lay down our lives for your world, human. You cannot ask more.

O'NEILL: No, I can't. But I think a better idea is to get the other guys to lay down their lives for their world first, hm?

Jack turns to Sam.

O'NEILL: How long before the C4 goes?

CARTER: 41 minutes, sir.

O'NEILL: Okay, with any luck at all, this ship is gonna blow within the hour. It might be a good idea for us to get to the other one. Can you do that?

Scene: Pel'tak on Klorel's ship.

Klorel is at the controls.

HE looks out of the viewscreen and sees Earth.

Scene: SGC Control room

Samuels is on the phone.

SAMUELS: That's it. They're in a geo-synchronous orbit over the United States. Lock in that attack profile and advise the President we are go for launch.

We see on a computer screen the two missiles launch.

Hammond, Samuels and Davis move to another screen where it shows the progress of the two missiles.

DAVIS: Vandenberg reports a good launch.

SAMUELS: Yes! I'm sorry sir. For what it's worth, I seriously doubt SG-1 is aboard those alien ships.

DAVIS: Weapons should reach their targets in..four minutes.
HAMMOND: In the meantime, let's keep moving these people through to the Alpha site.

DAVIS: Group nine, prepare to disembark.

SAMUELS: Sir, we might as well wait and see the result of our strike before moving more people through.

HAMMOND: I don't think so.

SAMUELS: Evacuation may be unnecessary.

HAMMOND: From your mouth to God's ears, Colonel.

Scene: Corridor on Klorel's ship.

BRA'TAC: Have you more of this 4-C?

O'NEILL: It's called C4.

CARTER: And the answer is no. We used it all to take out this ship.

DANIEL: Well you guys must have something left.

BRA'TAC: We shall have to cross that bridge when we come to it.

Bra'tac moves into another room.

O'NEILL: You know, that particular cliché.. doesn't... always work.

Scene: SGC Control room

DAVIS: The warheads have separated. One minute to go.

HAMMOND: Any indication of countermeasures?

SAMUELS: I don't think they're gonna know what hit 'em.

Scene: Apophis' mothership.

JAFFA: My lord, they launch weapons against us.

APOPHIS: Let them come.

Scene: SGC Control room

DAVIS: 30 seconds to impact. Still no countermeasures.

SAMUELS: Go, go.

Scene: Klorel's ship.

Klorel is on the pel'tak watching the warheads approach. He places his hand on the console to activate the shields but pauses.

JAFFA: Their weapons approach, my lord. You must activate the shield.

Scene: Apophis' ship

APOPHIS: Klorel, tal shak! Tal shak!

Scene: Klorel's ship

Klorel is still struggling to activate the shields.

Scene: SGC Control room

DAVIS: Impact in seven, six, five..

Scene: Klorel's ship

Suddenly Klorel's eyes glow and he activates the shield.

The missiles impact the shields. SG1 are walking along a corridor and feel the impact.

DANIEL: Whoa, what was that?

TEAL'C: Something may have impacted the shields.

Scene: SGC Control room

DAVIS: Space Command say the warheads struck some kind of energy field just prior to impact. No damage.

SAMUELS: That's impossible!

DAVIS: NASA confirms sir, the Goa'uld ships are still up there.

Scene: Corridor on Klorel's ship.

SG1, Bra'tac and a couple of Jaffa creep along the corridor. Suddenly a zat blast is fired at them. Jack drops low and fires at the first Jaffa, rolls over and shoots the second.

BRA'TAC: Not bad. The pel'tak is two decks above. This way!

Scene: Hammond's Office

Hammond is talking to the President.

HAMMOND: Yes sir, the EMP caused by the explosion has already affected our satellite communications. It will be difficult to warn the general public in time to do anything but cause mass panic. Mr President, I strongly recommend that we maintain the highest defence condition at this time and you should board Air Force One. Yes, sir.

Scene: Apophis' ship.

Klorel rings in.

APOPHIS: Klorel, it is time. You will burn their first city to the ground.

KLOREL: Father, the host you chose for me is strong. I fear I may need more time in the sarcophagus to gain strength.

APOPHIS: You are strong enough! You are my son!

KLOREL: Yes, Father.

APOPHIS: Do not disappoint me.

Klorel rings back to his ship.

Scene: Corridor on Klorel's ship.

SG-1 move along the corridor and stop.

O'NEILL: Looks clear.

BRA'TAC: No. There are sentries in every corridor.

O'NEILL: Carter, how many grenades?

CARTER: Two left.

BRA'TAC: [to Teal'c] Grenades?

TEAL'C: A crude explosive device.

BRA'TAC: No! Observe... and learn.

Bra'tac walks along the corridor normally and passes two guards. They reach for their zats until they realise it is Bra'tac and Bra'tac carries on walking. He then turns and strikes the guards with his staff weapon until they are unconscious.

BRA'TAC: Hmm.

O'NEILL: Not bad.

Scene: SGC Control room

Hammond walks into the control room to be met by the female technician.

TURNER: General Hammond, sir. Major Castleman reports Alpha teams 12 and 13 are briefed and ready to disembark.

HAMMOND: Send them through.

Samuels has been sitting with a cup of coffee and gets up when he sees the General.

SAMUELS: General. Maybe we should consider using the Stargate as a strategic weapons platform.

HAMMOND: How?

SAMUELS: By sending a bomb to the co- ordinates that Dr Jackson was talking about. Or to Chulak.

HAMMOND: We already tried to send a team through to Dr Jackson's co-
ordinates, it won't work. And I can't think of any military reason to wipe out the people of Chulak.

SAMUELS: Well sir, since I am no longer wanted or needed here, I respectfully request permission to join one of the teams headed for the Alpha site, at least there...

HAMMOND: Permission denied. The idea is to send the best and brightest, Colonel. When the time comes, you will stand alongside the men and women of this command, in defence of this facility.

SAMUELS: But sir!

HAMMOND: I ask no more or less of myself. Dismissed!

Scene: Corridor on Klorel's ship

SG-1 come to a halt outside a room.

O'NEILL: All right, here's what we do...

BRA'TAC: I will lead. You will follow.

O'NEILL: Right.

Bra'tac signals to the jaffa in his wing and they walk on ahead.

BRA'TAC: You will know when it is time.

DANIEL: Whoa. You're just gonna walk in there alone?

BRA'TAC: I am Klorel's loyal servant.

Scene: Klorel's pel'tak

Bra'tac enters.

KLOREL: Bra'tac.

BRA'TAC: My lord, Klorel.

Scene: Corridor

SG-1 wait.

Scene: Klorel's pel'tak

KLOREL: Come. Witness the power of your god.

BRA'TAC: I cannot.

KLOREL: Why do you defy me?

BRA'TAC: Because you are not a god. You are a parasite within a child and I despise you.

KLOREL: Jaffa, kree tai! I am your god!

Klorel raises his hand device.

KLOREL: And you will feel my wrath!

BRA'TAC: I... die... .free!

Scene: Corridor

O'NEILL: Let's go! Daniel, watch our backs!

Sam hands Daniel her MP5 and Jack, Sam and Teal'c go in firing.

They take down some of the jaffa guards and the two guards in Bra'tac's wing shoot some jaffa with their staff weapons until they are shot themselves. Jack and Sam take out the remaining jaffa while Teal'c moves to Klorel and Bra'tac. Teal'c grabs his arm and restrains him.

KLOREL: Jaffa, tal shak!

Scene: Corridor

Two more jaffa come round the corner and Daniel shoots them.

DANIEL: Jack!

Another jaffa comes around the corner and gets a shot on Daniel on his left shoulder.

DANIEL: Arrghh!

He manages to sit up and fire on the jaffa though.

Jack comes back from the pel'tak and finds Daniel.

O'NEILL: Daniel.. Dammit!

DANIEL: I'm dead anyway. Just get outta here!

O'NEILL: I am not leaving you here, Daniel.

DANIEL: Get outta here! You're just gonna blow up with the other ship anyway! What difference does it make? Go! Just go! I'll stay and watch your back.

After a long pause, Jack leaves.

Scene: Klorel's pel'tak

Jack comes back in.

O'NEILL: He's... .staying behind.

BRA'TAC: Come.

Bra'tac, Jack, Sam, Teal'c and Klorel move to the rings and ring over to Apophis' ship.

Scene: Corridor

Daniel is crawling along the floor.

Scene: Apophis' pel'tak.

SG-1 ring in and Apophis holds back his jaffa.

APOPHIS: Kree, jaffa!

BRA'TAC: Come. Come. Come!

TEAL'C: If you fire upon us, I will kill Klorel!

APOPHIS: Bra'tac, how dare you betray me?

BRA'TAC: I have spent 133 years worshipping false gods. No more!

Bra'tac fires his staff weapon on the steering console and then moves off with SG-1. Teal'c pushes Klorel back into the room as they leave the room.

Teal'c fires on the door mechanism from the outside.

CARTER: Colonel, the C4 on the other ship goes in six minutes.

O'NEILL: [to Bra'tac] How do we blow this ship?

BRA'TAC: When we were on Klorel's vessel, I directed it closer to this one.

TEAL'C: If we destroy the shield generator of this vessel, both will be destroyed in the explosion. Two birds with but one stone.

BRA'TAC: This way.

Scene: Apophis' pel'tak

The jaffa try to open the doors.

APOPHIS: You disappoint me, my son.

KLOREL: Father, please... forgive me.

Scene: Apophis' ship

SG-1 and Bra'tac are on a balcony overlooking the shield generators.

BRA'TAC: The shield generators are far below. There, in the very bowels of the ship. We must climb down several decks, through the length of the ship. The taking our weapons, we must..

Meanwhile Jack is getting out the two remaining grenades and pulling the pins. He then drops them into the shield generator. They explode.

O'NEILL: Grenades. [to Bra'tac]

TEAL'C: This vessel is no longer protected by an energy field.

CARTER: So that's it?

TEAL'C: That is it.

O'NEILL: I think what the Captain is asking is "what now?"

BRA'TAC: Now we die.

O'NEILL: Well that's a bad plan. Where are the glider bays from here?

They leave to go to the glider bays.

Scene: SGC Control room

DAVIS: Sir, Space Command reports the two ships seem to be moving closer together.

HAMMOND: What's the status of the shuttle Endeavor?

DAVIS: On the pad and standing by.

HAMMOND: We've got to find out what's going on up there.

Scene: Corridor

SG1 and Teal'c move along to the glider bay.

O'NEILL: [whispers] Carter.. you and I will go in first. We'll take up positions.. to..
Never mind.

BRA'TAC: Observe.

He pulls out a metal ball and rolls it into the room.

BRA'TAC: Cover!

The ball emits a high pitched frequency and the jaffa inside the glider bay all pass out.

BRA'TAC: Now that was a grenade! Come!

They move into the glider bay. Bra'tac and Jack get into one glider and Sam and Teal'c get into another one.

BRA'TAC: Human, put this on.

He tosses something to Jack.

O'NEILL: Will you please stop calling me human?

Scene: Klorel's ship.

The sarcophagus opens and Daniel is inside. He opens his eyes and sits up. Getting out he goes to check the timer on the C4. It reads 1 minute 15 seconds. Daniel runs out of the room.

Scene: Apophis' ship

Apophis sees Klorel's ship moving towards his and tries to move his ship out of the way. The steering console is damaged from where Bra'tac fired on it.

APOPHIS: No!

Apophis moves over to the rings where Klorel is waiting. The rings come down and beam them away.

Scene: Klorel's ship

Daniel comes running in and stands in front of the DHD.

DANIEL: Beta site, beta site.

The timer on the C4 shows 16 seconds. Daniel starts to dial.

Scene: Apophis' glider bays

O'NEILL: Our time is up. We have got to go.

CARTER: Punch it.

Both gliders exit the ship.

Scene: Klorel's ships Gateroom

Daniel hits the centre button on the DHD. He dives through the Gate just as the timer hits 1 second.

The two ships collide and explode.

The gliders move away from the ship throwing the occupants forward.

Scene: SGC Control room

DAVIS: Sir, sir, we've got reports from all over the country. A huge fireball in the night sky!

Everyone in the Control starts cheering.

Scene: Space

The two gliders appear to be damaged in the explosion.

O'NEILL: Bra'tac? Bra'tac! You okay?

BRA'TAC: Not bad, for an old man.

CARTER: Colonel? Come in.

O'NEILL: We're okay, Captain.

CARTER: Same here sir. But I don't think we bought ourselves much time. Our glider's had it.

TEAL'C: I concur.

CARTER: We got cooked pretty bad in the explosion.

O'NEILL: Captain?

CARTER: We're low on power and in a fairly low orbit, so I don't imagine it will be too much longer before we burn up in Earth's atmosphere.

O'NEILL: Captain, take a look up.

She looks up and sees Earth.

CARTER: It's beautiful.

O'NEILL: Yes, it is.

CARTER: We saved it sir.

O'NEILL: Yes, we did.

Scene: SGC control room

Davis hits the alarms.

DAVIS: Incoming traveller! Incoming traveller! It's SG-1's signal sir.

HAMMOND: Open the iris.

The iris opens. Daniel steps through.

HAMMOND: Dr Jackson! Was SG-1 aboard one of those ships?

DANIEL: Ah, yes.

HAMMOND: Well, well how did you get...

DANIEL: There was a Stargate aboard the ship we were on. So once I realised we were close enough to use Earth as a point of origin, I dialled P3X 984.

HAMMOND: The Alpha site?

DANIEL: Yeah, well they called it the Beta site in the alternate reality.

HAMMOND: Where's the rest of SG-1?

Scene: Space

The two gliders are hanging in space.

CARTER: It's gonna be a beautiful sunset, sir.

O'NEILL: You know, Captain... this wasn't such a bad day after all.

CARTER: Not bad at all.

BRA'TAC: We die well, Teal'c.

TEAL'C: More than that, old friend. We die free.

O'NEILL: Or not.

The shuttle Endeavor rises in front of the gliders.