Jack: So, laira, when's the big show start?
Soon. Be patient.
Oh, I'm patient.
I'm nothing, if not patient. When's it start?
Is he always like this?
Quite frequently.
Thank you, Teal'c.
Daniel: Laira, we haven't seen anything
you could call fire rain these past few nights.
How are you sure it's going to fall tonight?
It begins this night each year.
Well, the same night every year?
That doesn't make sense.
I mean, unless the planet's orbit
travels th rough a debris field,
like an asteroid belt, in which case—...
Please, don't suck the fun out of this.
Sorry, sir.
Laira: When I was a child,
my father told me thatthe fire rain
was the tears of our ancestors,
longing to be reunited.
Daniel: A falling star.
That's, uh,
that's what we call fire rain
where we come from. In our culture,
you're supposed to make awish.
On chulak, we call it
tal'pak'rye.
Which means, uh,
falling star?
What do you think, Jack?
Was it worth the effort?
Jack: Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I'm a huge fan of fireworks.
Whoa.
Carter.
How close was that?
Close, sir.
How big? Big.
Thought so.
I was rather concerned for a minute there, sir.
I don't understand.
Laira, that's what we call a near miss.
If that meteor had struck the ground
instead of bouncing off of the atmosphere—...
This is an annual event?
Yes.
Though, it grows more spectacular every year.
By tomorrow evening, the entire sky—...
What's wrong?
I'll make some more observations tonight.
I want to check the geological record
in the morning.
I'll make a wish.
See this bright dot?
It represents your world edora.
Now, it orbits your sun in a big circle like this
and crosses through an asteroid belt
up here at its widest point.
Now, as you pass th rough the millions of
tiny rocks and particles,
some of them burn up in edora's atmosphere.
As fire rain.
Exactly.
The problem is,
the asteroid belt isn't uniform.
So, certain orbits in certain years
must pass through a denser debris field.
Can you ever remember
the fire rain striking the ground?
Not in my lifetime.
Nor in my father's.
Butthere is atale of the ancestors
that on the second day of the fire rain
there was a distant thunder
and the horizon burned as though the sun never set.
How long ago was that?
Many, many years ago.
Morning, campers.
Who's going on Daniel's little geology field trip?
Garran?
Garran can show you the way to the caves.
He and ayoung girl go there from time to time,
though I don't know why.
Garran: Mother!
Fair day and be well.
Sir, I'd like to go back to earth
and input the data I collected
from last night's observations
into the base's mainfram e.
Go ahead.
Fair day, laira.
Fair day.
I'm sure you want to discuss the treaty.
Between our two worlds?
Sure. We could do that.
Daniel: I figure the decay rate differential
between the layers of naquada is about 150 years,
give or take, so.
What's naquada?
A mineral substance.
You see, the further down these striations we go,
the further back into edora's past we travel.
You see, these layers are different.
They represent naquada dust th rown out by impact events.
Cool.
Uh, j—jack says that.
Yes. He does.
I'm not really sure that, uh, cool applies to this.
You see, something like this happened
on my world millions of years ago
and nearly wiped out all life.
That's what's going to happen here?
Well, we only know that it has happened,
in varying degrees of destruction,
every 150 years or so.
Teal'c: And it appears that is precisely
the amount of time since the last impact.
I see no reason to withhold the truth
from these people, Daniel Jackson.
Is there anything we can do to stop it?
No.
According to the observations I made last night,
the near miss we experienced
was justthe first of hundreds
of car—sized asteroids
directly in the path of edora.
Psc 768.
The night sky is full of them.
We can't evacuate an entire planet, major.
As far as we know, these are the only descendants
of a people brought to edora by the Goa'uld
thousands of years ago.
There may only be a small number of strikes locally.
If that's the case, we can send them home in a few days.
If not, we'd be saving the last of a people, sir.
Paynan. This is Jack.
They say you've come through the stone ring.
Hard thing to ask a man to believe.
I know what you mean.
Any luck?
There's nothing more than meets the eye here.
Our fields, those few buildings.
Our children.
What we have, we need.
We're only interested in fair trade, sir.
Many of my people are most curious to know
what it is we have that you could possibly want.
Well, you remember how excited Carter got
the day we got here?
Something in our soil.
That's a mineral called naquada.
We don't have it on earth. It's—...
Well, it's very important to us.
Why?
It's powerful.
And in return for taking this naquada from our soil?
Well, there are a lot of things we could help you out with.
Medicine, technology, education.
We'd become friends.
We're already friends.
Closer friends?
My mother taught me to be wary
of men wishing to be closer friends.
Well, if you'd like, I'll negotiate this treaty with your mother.
That way there'd be no conflict of interest—...
I've never seen the fire rain in the light of day.
Anybody else see that?
This is Carter, sir. I did.
I think it's just the beginning, sir.
Daniel: Look atthis.
It's a cooking utensil.
Which probably means, at some point,
a number of people spenttime here.
Perhaps this cave provided a means
for a small number of edorans to survive
the last meteor bombardment.
The ancestors.
Jack, on radio: Teal'c, Daniel,
back to the village asap
understood, O'Neill.
Folks, we think the fire rain
is going to start hitting the ground pretty soon.
As a precaution, we'd like to take you all
back to our planet until the threat is over—...
There is no threat.
Samantha: If just one big meteor lands
within a few miles of here,
the resulting explosion
could wipe out the entire village.
Year after year, the fire rain comes,
goes, and harms no one.
Do you not see whatthey are doing?
They want us gone so they can claim our lands for themselves.
That's not true.
If you go with them,
you will never see your land again.
Oh, for crying out loud.
There's always one like you in a crowd.
You want to stay, stay.
I have come to know these travelers.
And though their world seems far,
it is only a step away.
I will take that step in good faith.
If you wish to follow, join us at the stone ring.
And if you do not,
may the ancestors protect you.
You need onlytake what you can carry.
There will be plenty of food and water
where we're going.
People: Ahh!
All right, folks.
Train's leaving! Let's move!
Garran?
Don't forgetthe prayer chain that your father gave you.
Garran?
Oh, no.
Have you seen garran?
Daniel, Teal'c.
Garran come back with you?
He should be here, O'Neill.
The caves.
We were talking about how previous generations survived in those.
They must have gone back there.
All right. You three, go.
Get these people out of here.
We'll find the kids and catch up
Samantha: Sir?
Go!
Sg—1's code, sir.
Here they come, people.
Doctor, stand by to receive refugees.
Yes, sir.
Don't be afraid. There'll be others waiting for you on the other side.
Sir, this is Carter. We've begun the evacuation.
What's your e.T.A.?
Colonel, we're getting multiple strikes now.
Please respond.
Nothing.
That is the last of them.
The restwish to remain behind.
How many?
Approximately 1/3 of the village.
What?
Why don't you go through and letthe edorans know
that everything is all right. We'll be on your 6.
Colonel, please respond.
Garran! Naitha! Mother!
This is where the ancestors survived.
We brought food and some water—...
Garran, try this my way.
It's getting too dangerous, Teal'c.
I will remain until O'Neill returns.
He can dial home when he gets here.
We're losing wormhole stability.
Colonel O'Neill went to help some villagers.
We waited until the last possible moment, sir.
I know you did. We almost lost you.
General Hammond, I wish to return immediately with a search party.
You can't, Teal'c.
That last hit was right on top of the gate.
You'd be walking into a firestorm.
I am willing to take that risk.
I'm not willing to let you.
We could wait 24 hours and send a malp through, sir.
Major Carter's right.
If it's safe by tomorrow, you'll all go.
Carter? Teal'c?
It's still pretty hot out there.
We should stay put.
There's good news.
It's raining.
Should put out some of the fires.
Could you see the village?
No.
Garran, we had a plan.
Daniel said there was nothing you could do.
We were afraid.
Me, too.
Chevron six encoded.
Chevron seven.
Locked.
Wormhole established.
Thank god.
Standing by for malp deployment, sir.
Send itthrough.
The malp should reach edora in 4...
One.
We should be receiving telemetry now, sir.
No signal.
Man: Environmental reports no telemetry.
Woman: Communications, no telemetry.
Then the malp must have been destroyed
as soon as it reached the other side.
There's no other explanation.
Shut it down.
Until you can provide me with answers to this problem,
the rescue mission is scrubbed.
Inform our visitors they'll be staying with us
until we can make a proper assessment of our situation.
Yes, sir.
Paynan?
Water.
Laira.
It is all right.
One struck telmar's home.
Three families were inside.
We are all that are left.
Why did you stay?
On the third day, we could take no more.
We fled to the stone ring.
Where it used to be.
Used to be?
It's gone.
I'll never see my people again.
They can never come home.
Nope.
And you—...
Thanks be to the ancestors that we live
and have a roof to shield our heads.
Thanks be to the ancestors that we have food
to sustain and nourish us.
This is all that remains of our people.
Because of you.
My mother and father.
You took th em away through thatthing.
And now it is gone.
That thing probably saved their lives.
And if you'd have shut up and listened to me in the first place,
this wouldn't be the situation.
This is my home.
And you are welcome here.
You need to eat.
Thank you.
Sergeant: No signal from the radio transmitter, sir.
If the edoran Stargate were truly buried,
how then was a wormhole established?
The meteor hit while the wormhole was active.
So——so...
So, it's possible that the molten naquada
hardened just above the event horizon.
Like an Iris.
Yeah.
Sergeant, shut it down.
Yes, sir.
That was our last shot, people.
I'm calling this one.
As of right now, I'm officially
declaring him missing in action.
General Hammond, perhaps edora
could be reached by another means.
That's right. The tok'ra could send a ship
or the tollan.
Let me at least contact those of our allies
that are capable of interstellar travel
and see if they're willing to help.
Very well, doctor.
I thought you might like a clean work shirt.
My husband never wore it.
I made it for him just before he died.
There's a chance the Stargate is just buried—...
We have to rebuild before the harvest.
And there are very few of us now.
Wormhole physics,
a field, major, that you pioneered, states that,
under these conditions,
ordinary matter won't even reintegrate
on the other side.
There's no way to overcome that.
Ithinkthere is, sir.
And I'm notthe one who thought of it. Sokar did.
Sokar? Yes, sir.
When he tried to breach the Iris
by bombarding it with a particle beam.
Sub—atomic particles,
barely small enough to reintegrate,
produced energy as they decayed.
Which caused the Iris to heat up?
Exactly.
Now, if we could do the same thing,
we could meltthe hardened naquada barrier
just above the event horizon
and create a pocket of super—heated gas.
Then what?
Then all we have to do is open the gate again, sir.
The unstable vortex it normally gen erates
would then be allowed to expand into that pocket
and create an even larger cavern.
One person might be able to go through, sir,
and dig it out.
Ithinkwe can safely assume
Teal'c would volunteer, but...
We don't have a particle beam generator, sir.
We'd have to build one.
Then you better get started.
You, uh, missed evening meal.
I brought you some.
Iwasn't hungry.
You gotta be.
You worked all day in the fields.
I got a couple of hours of good light left.
I'm sorry.
For what?
You can't go home.
It's my fault.
No, it's not.
You working through the night again?
Yeah. A lot of workto do.
Thank you.
Look, Sam, there's no doubt
you're going to solve this.
But you have to accept the fact
it's going to take time.
Yeah, well if I think that way,
it could take months.
Daniel says the tollan could have a ship
in the vicinity of edora sometime early next year.
He shouldn't have to waitthat long.
You miss him.
Yeah.
Is this a problem?
No.
No, of course not.
Night. Night.
Many of us fear the fire rain will come again.
Do you?
No.
If Daniel was right, and he always is,
it'd be another
before that happens again.
That's a long time.
I was kind of wondering which direction home was.
It's this way.
No. I meant—— I know what you meant.
Come.
I'd like your company.
I don't even like my company right now.
You will again.
Loss is that way.
I mourned my husband for 100 days.
I never left my house.
I never spoke to anyone.
After that?
I left my house.
And I spoke to people.
Walk with me.
You left this at home.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Paynan has invited you to evening supper.
Why? He doesn't even like me.
He's very grateful for all the help
you've given him in rebuilding his home.
I just hammered a few nails.
Well, actually I made the nails first,
and then I hammered them, but...
Still, you've worked very hard. Thank you.
Anything I can do.
There is something.
Yeah? What?
No. It's too soon.
No, come on. Don't—...
Do that. What?
You'll know when the time comes.
I need a little help here. A hint.
Does that help?
A little.
Initiating beam firing sequence... now.
Particle beam is operating at 112%
of predicted efficiency.
How long will the beam have to be maintained?
The longer the better, sir.
The importantthing will be to dial again
as quickly as possible as soon as it shuts down.
Well, what do you think?
Absolute rotgut.
More, please.
What just happened?
The ancestors guided him to the one they wish him betrothed.
He was peeking.
What?
Paynan: The children.
Children: Over there.
Malp should be arriving at the edora gate
in 3... 2...I
receiving telemetry.
No, wait. Wait. We've lost it.
There's no signal.
What's happened?
Transmission interrupted at the source.
Play back th e visual.
Whoa, there. See?
The gate is horizontal as you thought, major Carter.
And the malp just slipped back
through the event horizon.
It means the vortex will have dug partway to the surface.
Teal'c, you'll need to secure yourself
above the event horizon
as soon as you're on the other side.
And you'll have to carry everything you need.
I understand.
I hope you do, son.
Because if you fail to dig your way to the surface,
this will be a one—way trip
Garran?
Just us.
Well, apparently I should expect
a massive headache tomorrow.
So I should...
Get a head start.
Do you remember when I told you
there was something you could do for me?
Iwantyou to give me a child.
A child?
I wanted to be patient.
I wanted to wait
until you had let go
of the life you left behind.
Until you knewthat you belonged with us.
Tonight,
I see it in your eyes.
Lai ra.
You should know
a part of me is never gonna let go
of what I left behind.
Oh... well...
That's not the part I want.
Crap.
Unh.
She is a fine woman.
Yes, she is.
Tookyou long enough to see that.
I was afraid you were going blind.
No. If I've gone blind,
it's from whatever we were
drinking last night.
Tolka...
Has a bite to it.
Uh.yeah.
General Hammond.
I've secured myself on the other side.
Understood, Teal'c.
I will begin immediately.
Going somewhere with that stuff?
I just thought you might not need these things anymore.
Oh, hang on. Some of that's pretty good.
The jacket is...
Does it remind you of home?
Toss it.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
What's your progress, Teal'c?
It is most difficult, Daniel Jackson.
The gate will shut down automatically in 60 seconds.
At that point, we won't be able
to open it again from this side.
The vortex would vaporize everything within the cavern.
You'll have a maximum of 4 hours of oxygen
once we're cut off.
If you haven't reached the surface
by that time—...
Then you may want to wish me rel'Tor'key.
Good luck, Teal'c.
Samantha: 15 seconds till shut—down.
10 seconds till shut—down.
5 seconds.
Cu rling.
Big where my gran dfather's from in northern Minnesota.
You throw big, round kind of slab of rock
down this slab of ice, and you sweep...
What?
When I was taking your things away today,
ithoughti heard a sound come from this.
Perhaps avoice.
This is colonel Jack O'Neill. Come in.
O'Neill.
Teal'c, where the hell are you?
Attempting to reach the surface.
Little oxygen remains, O'Neill.
I got you on r.D.F. Signal.
I'm right on top of you!
Teal'c!
You are one stubborn son of a bitch!
So, when the third malp sent back just a few seconds of telemetry,
we knew the gate was horizon... tal.
Is he all right?
He's fine.
I just don'tthink he was expecting to go home again.
You must be very happy to be going home.
No. I'm not.
You don't have to.
Come with me.
I belong here.
I'll come back. Soon.
We still have that treaty to talk about.
Of course.
Our two worlds are going to be friends.
Close friends.
Fair day and be well.