(Machine gun fire)
Major, come on!
We got to go back for the general!
I can't shut it down. I won't find this window again.
We have to go now.
(Grenade rolls)
You sure this is the right one to go to?
Anywhere's better than the alternative.
(Alarm sounding)
Guess we'll see aboutthat.
(Rifles cock)
Drop your weapons.
Do it now!
I'm Dr. Samantha Carter from the sga.
This is major kawalsky.
We need to speak to your commander.
So what's the big emer—...
Whoa.
What happened to you?
Jack.
"Jack"?
It's me. It's Sam.
Uh... yeah.7
I never expected this variation.
You're alive.
(Footsteps approaching)
Kawalsky: Don't feel so bad, colonel.
Everybody around here
is telling me the same thing.
Kawa ls ky?
In a manner of speaking.
Actually, in a manner of fact, sir.
This is major Charles kawalsky
in almost every physical respect.
His blood work, his dental records—...
Except I'm not supposed to be alive
in this reality any more than you are in mine.
Sorry, Sam.
It's not the same with us here, is it?
Does anyone want to let me know
whatthe hell's going on here?
Anyone?
They appeared a few hours ago
in a nellis high—security lockup
that quantum mirror you've got locked up at area 51,
you guys never figured out how to use it?
Is he talking about
that alternate—reality thing
Daniel futzed with on 233?
Who's Daniel?
Carter: We can't be followed,
if that's what you're worried about.
I broughtthe remote through with us.
I have ordered the device sent here under heavy guard.
Where we come from, the goa'ulds
justtook over the world, colonel.
Look. I've told you this.
Now let me talk to someone from the sga.
Man: Sga? There is no such organization.
Well, then you call it something else—...
The Stargate project, Stargate command.
Stargate. What do you know about the Stargate?
What do I know?
Everything. We've been through this.
Well, let's go through it again.
Oh, for crying out loud.
It's a big round thing.
It takes you to other plan ets.
I made it work
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.
Oh, my god. This is too weird.
Yeah. How about that hair?
She claims to have traveled
from an alternate universe
in the same manner Dr. Jackson experienced ayear ago.
Well, this can't be the Dr. Carter
I met in the alternate reality.
Sh e's... dead.
All right. Uh...
Justto clarify, this Carter
is from an alternate alternate reality?
Apparently.
Anybody else have a problem with that?
Which reality is actually real?
Thank you, Teal'c.
She explains.
Carter: 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 the road.
Man: Uh—huh.
She's right.
You just agreed with yourself.
Jackson: No. Actually,
major Carter just agreed with Dr. Carter.
She never joined the military
in her reality.
Fork in the road stuff?
Apparently.
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?
They've asked to be debriefed.
I'd like you all to participate.
Showthem in.
What the hell is he doing here?
Kawa ls ky!
He's a member of sg—I.
Who the hell are you?
Oh, I'm Daniel Jackson,
also a member of sg—I.
Have a seat, major.
(Clears throat)
Nice... hair.
Um... air force.
I can't imagine tha —— Going military.
Wow.
Ican't imagine not.
Hammond: First of all, I'd like to say,
we know what you've been through.
Dr. Jackson experienced a similar alternate reality
some time ago on a mission to p3x233.
Carter: 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—I
to stop the Goa'uld attack here on earth.
Carter: Nice.
That goes a long way to explain
why yours was one of only a handful
of alternate realities
that looked like it hadn't been overrun by the Goa'uld.
Actually, it's probably the very differences
that set our universe apart from yours
that have contributed to our survival—...
Daniel's participation in the Stargate program,
Teal'c's change of heart,
the factthat | joined the military.
What, you thinkyour being in the air force
could've made that big a difference?
No. I just said it made a contribution.
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.
Carter: Our beta site
was instructed to Bury th eir Stargate
the moment the last man stepped through,
and our own world is under Goa'uld control,
so we can't go back.
We want to stay.
That is, if we're wanted.
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.
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...
Butthen we'd be dealing with cliches,
and you know how I feel aboutthose.
No. Actually, you know how I feel about those.
I'll speak with my superiors
and make a determination.
For now, you'll be assigned temporary accommodations.
Take them to a3 quarters.
Listen. I didn't mean to offend you backthere.
Look, major. I'm the one dealing
with the inadequacy issues here.
Just forget about it.
What?
We knew the Goa'uld were coming for 6 months,
but I couldn'tthink of a way to stop them.
You did.
I'll be just outside if you need me, ma'am.
Of course you will.
Yes, sir.
I understand, sir.
Thank you, sir.
They can stay.
That was quick.
Too quick.
God knows what we're getting into.
Well, the combined I.Q. Of earth
might go up a few points having two Carters around.
I take ityou figure there's a downside.
Just doesn't sit right.
Some lines aren't meantto be crossed.
Nonetheless, I've been encouraged
to find a way to incorporate them
into this command.
In the meantime, do you want me to tell them?
Very well. Ok.
(Knock on door)
(Door opens)
Just put it on the table
and close the door on your way out.
I'm sorry. Put what on the table?
Jack.
I'm sorry. Come in.
(Door closes)
You r—...
Your Dr. Fraiser keeps insisting
that I eat something.
Ah. Well, she's your doc fraiser now, too.
You're in. They said yes.
That's good.
Yeah. I can see you're overjoyed.
(Sobs)
I just never expected this.
It's so—— it's so hard.
Uh...
Look.
I can't even begin to know
what you've been through. I—...
I know you've lost a lot.
I lost you.
I watched you die, Jack,
3 days ago trying to defendthe mountain,
and here you are
alive and safe in this perfect world.
You don't even know me.
Well, I, uh—...
I sort of know you.
You know her.
You don't even see her that way, do you?
I take it, where you're from,
we were...
Married.
This makes you uncomfortable.
No. No, not at all.
I just—...
I get confused.
(Knock on door)
(Door opens)
Woman: Ma'am?
Sorry, colonel. I didn't realize.
Just put it on the table there.
Yes, sir.
Close the door on your way out.
Haven't had a hot meal in forever.
Just a couple of weeks ago,
we were celebrating our first anniversary.
Then we gotthe call
thatthe Goa'uld ships had been spotted
entering our solar system.
We just left everything.
You blew out the candles,
and iturned 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.
Cold by now.
(Chuckles) Yeah.
Listen. Um...
I should probably be—...
Stay.
Sam—— please.
Look.
You're dealing with a loss right now
that I can't even begin to—...
Whati mean is, maybe I'm not the right person to help you.
Yes, you are.
You're the only one who can.
Look.
I know you well enough to know
that you don't have a clue what to say.
You don't have to say anything.
Come here.
Oh, I miss him.
Sir,
general Hammond told me the news.
Itookthe Liberty of informing major kawalsky.
Thank you.
I was just on my way to do that.
I thought I'd drop in on...
Samantha, see how she's doing.
She's fine.
I think she'd rather be left alone at the moment.
Just stop in tomorrow.
Oh. All right.
Good night, sir. Carter.
Yes, sir.
How are you doing with this...
Twin thing?
(Ch uckles)
Do you have a couple of hours?
That was the answer.
Oh. Oh.
Good night, sir.
Good night, major.
Aah!
(Beeping)
What is it?
What's happening?
Dr. Carter's gone into
some sort of convulsive shock.
I don't know the cause,
and I don't know how to stop it.
Easy.
Aah!
Carter: Not medical. Temporal.
Entropic cascade failure.
On the cellular level?
Yes. I thought it would take years, not days.
So it's a side effect
of travel through the quantum mirror.
Then why don't I have it?
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 atemporal distortion.
Not theoretical anymore.
Ok. So then how do itreat this?
You can't.
The more time passes, the worse it should get.
So I'm gonna die here.
You're not gonna die.
Actually, sir—— Carter.
Well, the only way she won't
is if we send her back.
If she goes back,
the Goa'uld will kill her.
Jackson: Think about it—...
Billions of people enslaved.
I just can't help but feel
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
an d 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.
What about the resources of our world?
What do we have that th ey don't?
Our fate.
We made contact with the asguard.
So?
So if Dr. Carter can make contact
with the asguard in her reality,
maybe their asguard will be willing to help them.
Defendtheir world againstthe Goa'uld?
Jackson: Yes. And just how do you propose
we raise the asguard in their reality?
Ok. We still have the dialing program
thattook you to the asguard home planet, right?
Which we could down load to a removable hard drive...
But that still won't do it.
Remember, in order to dial the asguard home world,
they had to provide us with a generator
that transferred 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 th e Stargate
without the Goa'uld detecting and stopping her.
Kawals ky: That's where I come in.
Permission to join the briefing, sir?
(Clears throat)
I'll get her to the Stargate.
What, you think I'm gonna let her go alone?
She's my best friend's wife.
You'll need someone to hook up the power generator.
And download the dialing program.
You will also require my assistance.
We can handle this.
No. Teal'c has a point.
You said yourself that Teal'c led the assault
on the mountain in your reality.
Couldn't we use something like that
to our advantage?
Quite the military mind,
Daniel Jackson.
Carter: No. Sir, I'm sorry.
Teal'c can't go any more 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
if our mission is not complete
within that time,
it is most likely that we will be dead.
Good point.
Are you ok with all this, sir?
If you feel confident you can pull this off,
I have no objection.
However, upon your return,
I want that quantum mirror destroyed.
Ok. Well, this is all well and good,
but none of us are going anywhere
unless we get that asguard generator
working again.
Carter, down load the program
to th e removable whatever it is
and meet me and yourself in the lab.
Yes, sir.
Well, this is incredible.
If the asguard could design this
to give the gate extra juice,
then they're just the little green men we're looking for.
Th ey're gray, actually—...
Roswell gray, to be exact.
You know, I had a hard time trying to figure out
how to make this work the firsttime,
let alone make it work again.
Well, if it's powered
by the energy module of a staff weapon,
why doesn't it... Blow up? Blow up
my best guess is that the device
creates a modulated dampening field
around the liquefied naquadah...
Which control the energy transfer to the capacitors.
So maybe the modulation is thrown out of whack
each time it's activated.
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?
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Are you Carters going to be able to figure this out?
Both: We'll figure it out.
Ah!
Aaah!
We have to figure it out.
Ok, the way Dr. C explained it,
the controller is kind of 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 kind of figure out where you are.
Well, that doesn't sound like Avery expedient way to get home.
As long as you don'tturn it off,
it's always connected to the same reality.
So when you turn it on again,
it won't be connected to the reality you came from.
Right. We'd have to find it again.
Now, this thing switches to the various realities.
Now, if iturn it on now,
it should come up somewhere near the reality
it was last on.
There. See?
That's not it. No grenade damage.
Itossed a grenade down the hall
to slow them down so they wouldn't see us
go th rough the mirror.
So we need to find a reality that's just right.
Doyou mind if I—...
There. See?
You probablyturned it the wrong way.
Now, since this device should be
in a storage closet in my reality,
dial itthe other way.
Change it. Change it! Change it!
Ok. Closer.
What you want to do is
dial it in smaller increments.
Daniel, you understand this thing?
Ithinkso.
Good.
Colonel.
We did it.
Already?
Yeah. All we needed was the ratio
of the decay rate of naquadah
relative to the energy output.
Which I learned to calculate
when I learned about our new naquadah generator.
It's just the ratio—— ah ah!
It works, right?
It works.
Good.
I guess we better go do this.
Yep. That's right. Looks like him.
I am not fond of wearing this uniform again.
Yeah. Well, I'm not too fond
of seeing you wear it.
I've searched through all the descriptions
of realities close to ours. This has to be it.
It's the only one that's matching your description.
Yeah.
Wish I could go.
Same here,
but you don't want to go through a cascade tremor,
believe me.
We made a good team, major.
Yeah, we did, doctor.
Plus, your hair's kind of grown on me.
Pardon the pun.
You better go.
I'll be here in case you need anything from this side, sir.
Thank you.
All right.
On 3.
12
(alarm sounding)
(Marching footsteps approaching)
(No audio)
Jaffa!
Huh! Huh!
Jaffa!
Kree.
(Clink)
Kro'noc.
Kro'noc, jaf fa.
Jaffa.
Kree! Jaffa!
Kel'nok, Teal'c.
Kel'shak.
Renounce apophis as a false god
and join us in our deliverance of this world,
and I will spare you.
Shol'va!
The idea was to zat him.
As I said, O'Neill,
ours is the only reality of consequence.
Carter: Mmph! Jaffa, kree.
Kel toc no.
All right. I got to know.
Yes, I'm about to activate it.
No, no, no. Notthat.
What the hell does kreemean?
Well, actually, it means a lot of things.
Uh—huh.
Loosely translated, it means "attention,"
"listen up," "concentrate."
"Yoo—hoo"?
Yes, in a manner of speaking.
Ok. Here goes.
That's what I was afraid of.
When iturned off the device,
it lost its place.
I have to find our reality all over again.
All right. It's ok.
We knew that might happen.
Stay with it.
(Beep)
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?
Aaah!
Where have your leaders gone?
(Moans)
Teal'c: Ke, apohis.
Teal'c, who is this?
She was captured attempting an escape, my lord.
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.
Yes, my lord.
Attend to our lord.
I will take care of these.
Kree, Jaffa!
You might as well kill me.
I would never do such athing, general Hammond.
It's ok.
You're not hallucinating.
He's from an alternate reality.
So that mirror thing worked?
Yeah.
Don't worry. I won't say "I told you so."
Should have tried it a long time ago.
They have landed on the mountain.
There's still a chance that we could stop them, sir.
We're going to attempt contact with a race of aliens
that they have in their reality,
enemies of the Goa'uld.
Whoops. Too far.
Come on. Please.
Carters were pretty smart
figuring thatthing out, huh?
So you and Sam, you never had athing in your world, huh?
Sam is a major in my world.
Yeah. I know. It's against regulations, right?
You two look pretty good together, let me tell you.
Kawalsky, during your special ops training
in your world,
did they cover silence?
Yes.
You're a captain.
Close.
(Typing)
Ok. Now.
I hope your Jack is good enough
to getthe transformer on line.
(Beeps)
It appears that he is.
We must prepare to go to the gate, Dr. Carter.
(Kiss) Thank you, Teal'c.
Teal'c: Jaffa!
Kree! Ol'na!
Ol'Mel, Jaffa!
Apophis: Teal'c.
Why do you betray me?
Lower your weapons, or we will kill him.
Colonel?
Yeah. We should do that.
Deja vu.
Who are you?
My first prime killed you before my very eyes.
I'm feeling much better, thank you.
Then who are you?
What magic is this?
Well, you should know better than anyone
there's no such thing as magic.
Kree'nal'tonik.
(Cocks weapon)
I will ask you one more time.
How could you have risen from the dead
without a sarcophagus?
(Beep)
All right. I'm guessing the second shot
kills in this world, too, huh?
Tell me what I want to know.
Hey, I'd love to,
but I don't understand it myself.
He does.
Ok. I'll give it atry.
Um...
You see, at every point in time,
there are infinite possibilities,
and a parallel reality exists
for each possibility.
So there are literally infinite branches—...
No, you—...
Kawa ls ky!
Tell me where you come from.
From an alternate reality.
One in which, by the way,
you're dead.
(Beep)
Oh, come on!
Oh, he told you everything he knows!
My lord.
Tal'kol, apophis.
Kree'no'tel. Win'not'ya.
Mey'nok'ti.
Ok. I'm guessing...
Asguard.
All right.
(Goa'uld shouting)
(Rumbling)
It appears Dr. Carter was successful.
Oh, come on.
You got to love those guys.
I met the asguard.
We guessed that.
Hi.
Love those guys.
Colonel,
it's been a pleasure to serve with you again.
Likewise.
Right, right.
This is hard—...
Good—bye for a second time.
It's the first time.
It doesn't feel that way to me.
You have to understand—...
My Jack had the same face,
same voice, same hands.
Which brings to mind an obvious question.
How could you marry such a loser?
Thank you.
You're welcome.
You're really not him, are you?
No.
I just wish.
Yeah.