Another one.
Perhaps the ancestors used it
for astronomical calculation.
The settlement must be nearby.
(Clang)
Chevron 4 locked. Report.
Sir, we've just got our first hit
with the cold address program—...
P2x4i 6.
Prepare the m.A.L.P.
(Chevron locks)
We must leave, nyan.
Nyan, you'll drown.
It doesn't feel like water.
What's up?
Cold dialing program made a positive hit on p2x416.
Wonder why.
Looks like the locals have unburied the Stargate
since the computer last dialed.
Now, see, that's what I don't understand.
How does the computer know how to do that?
It doesn't, sir.
I created the cold dialing software
to periodically redial cartouche Stargate addresses
that hadn't connected the firsttime.
This is our first hit.
Receiving m.A.L.P. Telemetry
now.
Woman: Nyan, what is it?
I don't know.
Can you, uh,
can you follow him?
Hello, nyan.
Jackson: Don't be afraid.
My name is Daniel Jackson.
Are you a mechanical life form?
No. I'm——I'm communicating with you through that device.
From where?
From another planet.
This is atrick.
We must report this, nyan.
No. Not yet.
Why?
Sir, request permission to visit p2x416.
Wait a minute.
Jack, they're obviously intelligent.
Judging from their clothes and tools,
they appear to be close to our level of technology.
And has anyone seen a d.H.D. In this transmission?
He's right.
Maybe you'd better take a naouada reactor with you
so you can power up the gate and dial out man ually.
Right.
Mallin, ithink we found the gateway.
There is no gateway.
That is optrician legend.
Well, then how do you explain this?
This could be very dangerous, nyan.
Do you realize what this would mean?
It would mean we were wrong
and the optricians were right.
Jackson: Nyan, is it all right if we visityou?
No. Yes.
Ok. Well, we'll be with you shortly.
Try to stay close to that mechanical device
I'm——I'm speaking through,
and, uh, try to avoid that big splash that you saw before.
It's——it's kind of dangerous.
We will be waiting here to welcome you, Daniel.
Mallin, come back!
If you tell them, they might kill whoever comes through.
Mallin!
Hello, nyan.
You're human.
Yes.
Jackson: I'm Daniel Jackson,
the person you were talking to before.
This is major Carter,
colonel Jack O'Neill, andteal'c.
We're from a planet called earth.
You all right?
Then the legend is true.
What, uh, what legend is that?
Um...
The optricians believe that humans
were brought to this planet
by aliens who traveled th rough a gateway,
but during the upheaval, the gateway was buried,
and the beings could no longer come through.
What was the upheaval?
A period of violent earthquakes
andvolcanic eruptions covering most of this continent
about 2,000 years ago.
So if the Stargate's been buried for that long,
how did you know where to look for it?
Well, iwas not looking for it.
I was hoping to find a primitive settlement
that was here before the upheaval.
I was hoping to prove the bedrosian theory.
What's that?
That human life was created on bedrosia
without a gateway.
So this country is called bedrosia?
This continent.
And then who are the optricians?
A rival continent.
Rival as in... what?
We believe that we were created on this continent,
and the optricians believe that
their holy gateway is on this continent.
Therefore, we've been at war for decades.
Ok. Carter, you want to make sure the reactor's all hooked up
just in case?
Mind if I ask
how close to the front lines we might be?
A great distance. There's no need for concern.
Mm—hmm.
(Whirring)
O'Neill!
Oh, no. No!
Come with me. We have to hide.
I thought you said they weren't around here.
Nyan: Those are not optrician.
They're my people, bedrosian.
Good guys?
Good is not the first word
that I would use to describe the ones
that approach. Aha.
We must run now.
Ok. Carter,
dial it up.
I need 5 minutes before I can be operational, sir.
This way. Quickly.
Screw it. Let's go. Come on.
Do you believe we come in peace?
Gota commanding officer around here?
Wow. Tough crowd.
What happened to nyan?
I'd imagine he's saving his own butt right about now.
(Branches snap)
(Footsteps)
Unh!
Ooh. Aah!
Mallin.
You said there were aliens here.
Yes, sir.
Those people came through the gateway.
No, they didn't.
Man: It's atrick,
a contrivance.
Perhaps, but one of those aliens named Daniel,
he talked to nyan through that machine
that came through the circle.
The shuttle craft will take you to my base.
We will question you on this matter further.
Either this nyan fired at my craft,
or another optrician is out there.
Either way, I want them found.
Yes, sir.
Ok. That'sa needle.
Unh!
Ow!
Jackson: Unh!
Which of you is Daniel?
I'm in command.
Colonel Jack O'Neill here.
I'm unfamiliar with that optrician designation.
We're not optrician. We're explorers from another planet.
We traveled th rough the Stargate.
This type of psychological warfare,
simulating the optrician gateway fallacy
to undermine our most basic beliefs,
will not work.
Yeah.
I know that could be hard to believe,
so why don't you let us show you
how th e Stargate works,
and if you're still not convinced,
we'll justtake our stuff and go.
Fair enough?
Erect a quarantine field.
H ey!
Unh!
State your purpose.
Nyan.
Grr.
(Shuttle flying)
We have to get away from here.
Where are my friends?
Captu red.
I will not leave my friends.
We can't get to them.
Rigar's set up a quarantine field,
and as soon as he finds the soldier you killed...
You're blind.
They were starting to dig here.
Finish for them.
Iwantto know what's in there.
(Beeping)
I have the results from the blood analysis.
There's a 98% correspondence.
They are definitely human,
but none of them are showing a particle match
for the bedrosian central registry.
Andthat proves they are optrician.
Does it not?
Say what you are thinking.
What if they're telling the truth?
What if it is a gateway
and the optricians are right?
No. It's a lie.
But how can you be sure? I am sure
because we have not spent our lives
praying to a god who does not exist,
and many of our people have not lost their lives
fighting a meaningless war.
I won't accept that.
I've studied the book of nefertum word for word,
cover to cover.
It is the truth.
What if it's not?
It is the truth.
We began here.
That device is a fabrication
to fake the optrician gateway myth.
To what end? To sowthe seeds of doubt
among our people,
to create dissension from within.
I will not allow our people
to have their faith attacked
in such a cynical way.
What do you want to do?
We will not allow the events
that have transpired here to leave this place.
Then we must find this nyan
and the fourth optrician.
Yes.
And we'll find out what we can
from the 3 we have in custody.
Then we will dispose of them.
Yes, sir.
I come here for shelter.
We also store supplies here.
Are you injured in addition to your eyes?
I will be fine.
You can sit here.
Here.
It's water.
It's amazing how one discovery can change everything.
For years, I've been searching for proof
that we were created on this continent by nefertum.
Nefertum?
The blue lotus blossom of ra.
He's represented in our text by a blue lotus blossom,
but what is ra?
And how do you know about nefertum?
Nefertum was an undersystem lord to the one named ra
with whom I did battle.
I do not understand.
Nefertum was and is the creator of all of us.
He created this planet
andthis great continent.
Correction.
Nefertum was an alien who most likely brought your people
th rough the Stargate as slaves
many thousands of years ago.
That is what the optricians say.
Then they are correct.
Oh, dear nefertum, this is blasphemy.
But if it is true, then it could change everything.
I must show my colleagues at the research academy.
Can you be certain they will believe you?
They are scientists as I am.
They will realize they are wrong when presented with the evidence.
Your military has the Stargate in its command.
Not th e gateway—— you.
You are the proof.
I will not be the proof!
And iwill not allow my friends to be imprisoned as they are.
You must help me rescue them.
Let me see. Do not!
You could have a serious injury.
I will be fine.
I have something that will help.
I'll bring it back with the other supplies.
Nyan.
Nyan!
(Animals screeching)
All right!
That hurts.
Well, this day just keeps getting better and better.
Yeah.
(Animal slithering)
We should talk.
Yes.
Let us talk aboutyour friend in the woods.
I have no friends
in the woods or otherwise.
We're not spies.
We're peaceful explorers.
We travel th rough what you call your gateway.
Fine, the Stargate then, but that's what we came through.
All 4 of you?
All 3 of us.
It is impossible for one to travel to other plan ets,
much less through a circle of stone.
The Stargate isn't made of regular stone.
If given enough power, a wormhole forms within the circle,
and that allows us to travel to other worlds.
Wormhole?
Giant worms. Huge.
Wormhole is just an expression.
It has nothing to do with worms.
It's a tunnel through space.
And how is this illusion of water
created that I have heard described?
Well, you're right in that it is an illusion.
It's not actually water.
Then what is it?
Magic.
It's an event horizon made up of quantum particles
that form a wormhole.
An alien race, the Goa'uld,
used the Stargate to transport humans
from earth to other plan ets,
which is how your people
came to be on bedrosia.
Aah!
My people began on bedrosia as did yours.
We were all created by nefertum.
Nefertum?
Son of sakhmet, blue lotus blossom?
That who you believe created you?
Yes.
Well, he must have been a Goa'uld.
A what?
An alien.
He must have transported your people through the star——unh!
Optrician fallacy.
Return him to the prison tent.
What are you doing?
You're an alien.
Come no further.
Daniel said you were all human.
Speak of it no more.
What are you?
As I have said, speak of it no more.
I did not believe you would return.
You are the most important thing
that has ever happened to my planet...
Although I have notyet decided
if it is a good thing or bad.
I brought something for your eyes.
It is a healing device
that, among other things,
can regenerate the visual nerves.
It will help most of your sight return within a day.
Of course, it was designed for humans,
so how you will respond is, uh—...
I have no need for it.
My sight will return on its own.
Because you're an alien?
The others are human.
I am a Jaffa,
and I possess within me a symbiote that accelerates healing.
Forgive me, but you do not appear to be healing at all.
My symbiote was severely damaged
by my own staff weapon blast.
It must first heal itself.
How long will that take?
It could be days.
Might it not die itself?
It is possible.
And if that happens?
Then I, too, will die.
(Door opening)
Problem?
Rigar: Move!
Explain.
Explain!
I can't.
There is a fourth.
He didthis.
No, there isn't. I don't know how this man was killed.
Explain this.
What do your people intendto do with my friends?
They are evidence that everything my people believe in
is wrong,
that everything the enemy believes is right,
andthat is not an easy thing
for military minds to digest.
Then they will kill my friends
and destroy the Stargate
and denythis event ever occurred.
Probably.
We must soon depart.
To do what?
Rescue them.
Y—y—you're still blind.
I will manage.
Nyan!
You will?
I will not be part of a suicide mission.
This device only works within the first 30 hours.
Do you want my help or not?
You wish to use me to further your scientific aspirations,
do you not?
You are proof that my th eories have been all wrong.
Then perhaps you would be better off
if iwere no longer alive.
Teal'c, I'm a scientist.
When I find evidence that my theories are wrong,
it's as exciting as if they were correct.
Scientific advance in either direction is still an advance.
You sound like Daniel Jackson.
Do what you can.
(Grunts)
The pain is the nerve regenerating.
Only a moment. Arr!
When I was out, I wentto a place
where I could look upon rigar's camp.
Your friend are still there,
but rigar's men have dug up
a smaller device that looks related to the gateway.
A d.H.D.
Perhaps circumstances have become more favorable.
There.
There. I see a lightthere.
Yes. Good.
Then it works on your kind.
But I can only see a faint light.
That was only the first treatment.
We'll do it as many times as necessary.
There's no guarantee, but it should help.
Then do it.
We must wait between treatments,
or we will do damage rather than good.
Daniel, are you ok?
O'Neill: Hey, rigar.
You know that "we come in peace" business?
Bite me.
You have one last chance.
I don't know how that man was killed.
We are not optrician spies.
Rigar: Is there another one of your people out there?
I don't know how that man was killed.
We are not opt—...
Jackson: No, there is not another one
of my team outthere. Turn it off!
What's he look like?
Turn it off! You'll kill him.
No. You will kill him.
Man: Commander rigar.
Chevron 7 locked, sir. Wormhole engaged.
Woman: Ohh!
Ready to transmit signal, sir.
Sg—I.
This is general Hammond. Come in.
I repeat. Sg—I, this is general Hammond.
Come in.
It is th e gateway.
This is not the gateway.
It's atrick.
Rigar, sir.
Hammond: Sg—I, please respond.
Sg—I, please come in.
Who is this?
This is general Hammond of the sgc.
With whom am I speaking?
Rigar: The one who holds your people.
Iwantto speak with colonel O'Neill now.
You will speak with me.
Nyan: Almostthere.
Our objective is to free O'Neill and the others.
We will then lay down cover fire
to enable one of them to dial the Stargate.
Getting inside the camp is gonna be our first problem.
The quarantine field is only penetrable by shuttle craft.
An obstacle easily overcom e.
My vision has improved.
Than you, nyan.
You may use this to defend yourself.
I've never used a weapon before.
I am confident that you will learn quickly.
We must depart.
Tell me. How does this trick work?
Is it some sort of projection?
I assure you, what you are seeing is real.
Now please let me speak to colonel O'Neill.
Try to pull up the m.A.L.P.
Rigar: From where do you broadcast?
Are you in optricia or within bedrosian borders?
Hammond: Once my people are returned,
I will be happy to discuss
an exchange of information with you.
Hammond: See if you can get a clear line of sight on O'Neill.
Rigar: You will send the plans for this device.
You will send the coordinates of your position,
and when you have exposed your entire fraud,
I will consider sparing your operatives' lives.
Hammond: You will return my people immediately.
Is that clear?
Do we understand each other?
I assure you. If you attempt any sort of rescue,
iwill kill your people.
We've lost all m.A.L.P. Telemetry, sir.
Shut it down.
Rigar: Call in a transport sh uttle.
I want them moved to a more secure facility.
Put them away until it gets here.
Are you sure I should be the one to do this?
You will perform well.
I am certain.
Stun. Don't kill.
The transport shuttle will be here in a moment, sir.
I will accompany the prisoners back to the base.
You will remain here to guard the ring.
Be sure—...
(Shuttle flying)
Nyan: Help me! Help me!
He's out there in the forest.
Who's out there?
The alien. He killed the soldiers.
Then hetried to kill me
with his lightning weapon,
but I got away, and I came here.
Take the shuttle craft. Find him!
Put him under guard.
Tell them to launch now.
Yes, sir.
Why haven't you launched this craft?
Unh!
Carter: Nyan.
Hitthe side button to shoot long range.
Where's Teal'c?
He's outside.
Daniel, dial us up.
We'll lay down cover.
Unh!
Aah!
Unidentified traveler.
Close the Iris.
I'm not receiving a g.D.O. Code, sir.
It's sg—I, sir.
Open the Iris.
Go!
Carter, go!
Nyan, you can cover me?
I will.
Aah!
Teal'c! Uh—uh.
You look a little rough there, Teal'c.
We got to go.
You ready? Go.
Aah!
Unh!
Teal'c! He's coming with us, O'Neill.
(Alarm sounding)
General Hammond, he's a friend.
Stand down.
Man: Yes, sir.
A little help here.
Woman: I've got the kit right here.
Man: Ok. Let's check the eyes for dilation.
Can you hand me that one?
There you are.
Well, Teal'c, all I can say is
thatjunior is a resilient little guy.
Who is junior?
That is the name colonel O'Neill has given my symbiote.
Carter: So how are you feeling?
Greatly improved, major Carter.
Thank you.
O'Neill: Here's some good news.
The air force has agreed
to get you refugee status,
which means you can stay here on earth
with us
if you'd like.
What would I do here?
Well, I thinkwe've got a little job
for you, nyan, if you're interested.
I have a backlog of ancient arti facts
gathered from previous missions,
and I can really use a research assistant.
It would also be a great way to learn
aboutthe history of your ancestors.
But for now, you both need to rest.
And we'll leave you to that.
Thank you, Teal'c.
You have saved my life,
as well as the life of my friends.
It is iwho should thank you.
I still wish I could have shown you
to my friends in the science community.
They would have been fascinated.
Perhaps one day, the situation
on your planet will improve,
and you will get that opportunity.