Carter: Looks like it was once
an advanced civilization, sir.
Jackson: No survivors.
O'Neill: No bodies, either.
Based on the overgrowth, I'm guessing this place
was destroyed a long time ago.
Carter: Faint energy readings definitely coming from here.
Nothing dangerous as far as I can tell.
Jackson: She's perfectly preserved.
This must be some sort of tomb or crypt of some kind.
Carter: Or a science lab.
Why would you say that?
Because these energy readings I'm getting
seem to be coming from her.
It's colonel O'Neill, sir.
General?
Hammond: Colonel. What do you have to report?
Yeah, confirming initial malp recon.
Place is pretty much toast.
However...
Carter did find something.
Care to expand on that?
She thinks it's a robot, sir.
Carter: Sir... I'm positive
this is some sort of artificial life form,
but I can't be sure of anything more than that
under these conditions.
Request permission to bring it back to the sgc
for further evaluation, sir.
Can you assure me that will be safe?
Well, it appears to be inactive
at the moment, sir.
I'm getting only very faint energy readings.
I believe we can isolate it safely,
and I definitelythink this is worth examining.
Jackson: Uh, it also may be the last remnants
of this civilization and the keyto finding out
exactly what happened here, sir.
Very well. Bring itthrough.
Thank you. Thank you.
Out, sir.
Hey, Janet.
Hey. How's the n ew toy?
Amazing.
This is more advanced than
any Android we've encountered before.
Check this out.
Janet: That some sort of nanotechnology?
They seem to be some sort of self—repair mechanism.
Yeah, but they're inactive.
They seem to deactivate
when disconnected from it... uh, her.
According to the ultrasonic scan,
the power system is centered here.
There seems to be some sort of mechanism
to access it from the outside.
And I was just about to try to...
Wow.
Jackson: The Greeks, romans, babylonians, chinese—...
They all envisioned synthetic beings
thattook on human shape and behavior long before
the words "robot" or "Android" were ever uttered.
O'Neill: Yeah, so?
So even in earth's earliest civilizations,
it's been our nature to seek immortality th rough
the creation of vessels for our consciousness.
Vessels?
Colonel O'Neill, Dr. Jackson.
Major Carter and I were just discussing
whether or not to activate the robot.
Jackson: You can?
Ithinki found a way to recharge
the unit's main power cell.
Now, prior to this, it's been operating
on less than
I'm hoping that that was enough to maintain
the memory systems,
assuming it had any to begin with, of course.
Of course. Why do you want to do this again?
Well, sir, this——this is an incredibly advanced
piece of technology.
Given enough time, I might eventually be able
to figure out how some of its functions work.
The neurological system
seems to be as complex as a human brain.
So?
So, I'm hoping that the robot will be able
to help me understand... Itself... sir.
Now what?
I don't know.
The power cell should be fully charged.
As far as I can tell, there isn't an "on" switch.
It's possible the power was depleted
for too long.
Why don't you kiss her?
(Inhales deeply)
There's a pulse.
It has a heartbeat?
It has a heart?
It's designed to create Avery realistic
illusion of humanity.
Where am I?
Uh, you're in a special facility
on the planet earth.
My name is——is Daniel Jackson.
This is major Samantha Carter,
and this is Jack O'Neill.
Hi.
My name is Reese.
Where's my father?
We're not sure.
(Cocking guns)
Uh, please. Just let me explain.
Don't hurt me.
No one wants to hurt you.
How did I get here?
Um... we found you on your planet.
We brought you here through the Stargate.
What is that?
Carter: Well, there was one on your planet.
It's a device that can be used to travel
great distances through space.
We can tell you more about it later.
Why did you bring me here?
Well, I suppose there's no easy way to tell you this,
but the civilization on your planet was destroyed.
How?
We don't know.
We were sort of hoping you could tell us.
I, uh...
I was asleep
yes, we——we found you that way.
What about my father?
Well, as far as we could tell,
you were the only survivor.
You don't know anything about what happened?
My father knew there was danger.
He told me to go to sleep
he said he would wake me when the danger went away.
We're very sorry.
What do you want?
Well, we want to understand.
What?
Your planet and its history.
You.
What about me?
Well, I'd really like to know more
about how you work.
Your systems, how they function.
I'm like you.
Uh... not exactly.
At least as far as I can tell.
How are we different?
Sam, can I have a—— have a word?
Yeah.
We're just going to step outside for a minute.
Will you be ok?
We'll be right back.
Excuse me.
I don'tthink she knows she's a robot.
Ok, how is that possible?
Well, the last time your consciousness was copied into a robot,
you didn't figure it out right away.
Ok, what are you suggesting?
I'm just saying that maybe we should avoid
slapping her in the face with the reality of her existence
just moments after telling her her planet was destroyed.
Why?
It's a machine.
She just found out her father is dead.
It's a machine.
He's right.
Well, it's not like it ever had
a real father.
Well, maybe not. Maybe it's her creator.
Or maybe we're talking to the stored consciousness
of a real human being who once did have a real father.
I think our past experience should be telling us to be
careful about deciding what is and what isn't a life form.
Ok, I agree.
All I'm saying is, if she really
doesn't know what she is,
she has a rightto.
Ok. Maybe we should wait a while.
I mean, she did seem pretty upset.
For a machine.
We don't know what kind
of psychological effect it will have.
Psychological?
Whether her behavior
is a result of sophisticated programming or not,
ithinkthe best way to find out
about her and what she knows
is by dealing with her on her own terms, at least for now.
Couldn't hurt.
It doesn't make any sense.
Which part?
Well, why would somebody attack and destroy
an entire civilization but leave one piece
of incredibly advanced technology intact?
Isn'tthat what he's trying to figure out?
But what I'm saying is maybe there's something
on the planet that we missed.
I'll go back.
Is the rest of your planet like this place?
No, it's very different.
What's it like?
Well, there's lots of varying climates,
different kinds of landscapes,
big oceans, uh...
Wide range of civilizations,
and each is home to a lot of different kinds of people.
It sounds beautiful.
Much of it is.
Can I see it?
Mmm, soon.
Why not now?
Well, because we still have more
to talk about, Reese.
I know, but...
You know, we've been talking for so long now.
I know, but, uh... You must know a lot more
than what we've already talked about.
I do know a lot.
(Giggles)
What can you tell me about
the danger that came to your planet?
O'Neill: Well, this may have turned outto be
one colossal waste of time.
You boys find anything?
Uh, just lots of debris.
Ithinkourwork is done here.
Colonel, you said to look for anything
uncharacteristic of the indigenous
technology, right?
I would never say anything like that, major.
Right.
Well, major Carter said not to ignore anything,
however insignificant it may seem.
What do you got?
Well, I'm sure it's nothing, sir.
But we found a bunch of these scattered around.
I've never seen anything like them before.
You know whatthey are?
Oh, yeah.
No energy readings.
I'd say these blocks are dead.
Probably been on the planet since it was destroyed.
Replicators were the cause
of the destruction?
The first evidence of the replicators
in this galaxy.
It must've been a long time ago.
Carter: Something still doesn't fit.
I mean, the replicators we know
go after advanced technology.
Why would they eat everything on the planet
and leave Reese alone?
Perhaps she has some means of defending
herself against the replicators.
She was asleep.
It's possible that she's giving off
some kind of signal or——or frequency that repels them.
Maybe not even by design, but by coincidence.
Bug spray?
If that is the case, then Reese herself
may be the key to helping us and the asgard
in our fight against the replicators.
Yep, maybe.
But we're still a long way
from determining that.
Dr. Jackson, what have you learned?
Well, actually, not much, sir.
She's kind of hard to pin down
in a conversation. Her attention wanders.
It's like she has the mind of a child.
What?
I'm not sure, but she may not be telling me
everything she knows about what happened.
You think she's deliberately hiding something?
I getthat feeling.
Why would someone create a robot
with the mind of achild?
Well, like Daniel suggested,
it could be a transferred consciousness.
Or it could be that the creator intended for her
to be emotionally mature
but just couldn't get the programming right.
Hammond: If Dr. Jackson's right,
and she is hiding something, we should proceed
very carefully with any further interactions.
Sir... I think it's time that we told Reese the truth.
Daniel, maybe if she's forced to confront
the fact that she's an artificial life form,
it could change any preprogrammed priorities
that she's adhering to.
(Giggling)
I'm so happy you're here!
What's that?
Oh. I made it. Do you like it?
Uh, it's very nice. How did you make this?
I'm so tired of this room, Daniel.
Can I please go outside?
Um, sit down for a minute, Reese.
We need to talk.
No.
Look, this is just going to take a minute,
so just please sit down.
No, I don't want to talk anymore, Daniel.
Iwantto have fun! Don't you ever have fun?
Not as much as I'd like to.
Would you please sit down?
This is very important. Sit!
Then can we have some fun? Yes.
Promise? Yes.
Ok... um...
Reese, you know thatthere are
different kinds of people, right?
Of course.
In fact, there are many different
kinds of life forms.
This is boring.
I'm starting to identify
with this girl more and more.
Reese, I know you think
that we're the same, but we're not.
My father always said I was special.
You are. You are very special.
But despite the fact
that you and I look very much the same,
we're very different.
Well, that's obvious.
I mean on the inside.
How?
Well——ahem—— I'm flesh and blood.
You are a machine.
Avery, very sophisticated machine.
Uh, more of a—— A computer, really.
I'm alive.
Yes, you are. Just... not like me.
Even though you were created
to be very human—like, you are not human.
(Voice cracking) Yes, I am.
No, you're not, Reese.
Ok? I can prove thatto you.
No!
I want to leave! You let me out!
Let me out! Now!
Hey. That went well.
Maybe she has some sort of programming
that prevents her from acknowledging
she's anything but human.
Robot denial?
Looks that way.
Has it occurred to anyone
thatthis thing may have been laying around
that planet for, oh, quite some time,
and that maybe it's broken?
Or perhaps it never worked right in the first place?
So you think we should just shut her down?
Oh, I don't know.
Let's askthe man who just had
his head cracked open.
I don'tthink she meantto hurt me.
I just don'tthink she liked what I was saying.
I don't like most of what you say.
Itry to resistthe urge
to shove you through a wall.
Somehow, Reese managed to survive
a massive attack from replicators.
There has to be more
that we can learn from her, sir.
Finally!
(Giggling)
(Grunts)
Do you forgive me?
You know! Didn't mean to hurt you, right?
I know. Good.
I forgive you, too.
W—w—wh at?
What?
For attacking me.
I didn't attack you, Reese.
It doesn't matter. Let's forget it.
No. No, ithinkwe should talk about this.
No, please, Daniel. I'm so bored.
I just want to get out of here.
I want to see your world.
Why are you all so afraid of me?
No one's afraid of you.
I won't do anything bad. I promise.
I know.
I made you something.
Yeah?
Remember when you said you wished
that you could have more fun?
Yeah.
(Machine squeaks)
Don't be afraid.
It's just a toy.
Carter: Sir, that glass
is supposed to be acid—resistant,
but it hasn't been tested against replicator spray.
Why are we keeping this thing, anyway?
We know what they can do.
Carter: She made it. She can control it.
Jackson: Yes, but how did she make it?
Well, ithinki have a pretty good idea.
Nanotechnology.
The nanobots that she uses for self—repair
are apparently able to reorder matter
on a microscopic level.
She understands their construction completely.
She should know how to defeatthem.
Will she tell us?
Well, that's the problem.
What?
She's not talking.
We make her talk.
I think she was offended because
I didn't appreciate her presentvery much.
Butthis is so far beyond my understanding.
I recommend that we contact the asgard.
Maybe they can help
agreed.
I'll send sg—2 to try and make contact.
Hammond: In the meantime, see what else you can learn.
Yes, sir.
(Door opens)
Reese, we need to talk.
Tell us what you know about the replicators.
Reese: Replicators?
Yeah.
It's what we call them, because that's what they do.
It's just a toy.
It won't hurt you.
A toy?
There are millions of those things floating around in space,
destroying everything they touch.
I don't know what you mean.
They destroyed your planet,
and please, don'ttell me you don't remember,
because ithinkyou do.
No, you want to destroy me!
Easy.
O'Neill: No one wants to hurt you.
Justtell us what happened.
It wasn't my fault.
The people on my planet were afraid.
They wanted to destroy my toys.
They wanted to destroy me.
They said that my father made me wrong.
Th ey——th ey thought that I was bad.
What did you do?
I taught my toys to make more of themselves.
And I——I taught them to defend themselves...
And me...
In case anyone ever tried to destroy us.
Well, you taught them well.
When your toys started to attack your world,
why didn't you stop them?
(Crying) Itried, but I couldn't.
They wouldn't listen to me anymore.
Why did you go to sleep?
They killed everyone. They killed my father.
And then they went away.
I was alone. I was sad.
You don't like me anymore.
You think I'm bad.
Actually, we want you to help us.
Reese, the replicators have become a problem
for a lot of different worlds.
We need to know how to stop them.
You want to destroy them.
Yes. They're bad.
Andthey have to be stopped.
You want to destroy me!
No. Yes, you do!
You think that my father made me wrong!
You hate me!
(Gasps)
Sg—2 has been unable to contact the asgard
from the k'tau hall of wisdom.
Nothing?
Carter: I hope they're ok.
It would be unfortunate if the asgard lost
their battle with the replicators
atatime when we may have the key
to stopping them in our midst.
Oh, iwouldn't count the little fellers out
justyet, sir.
Sir, this robot is far beyond our understanding.
I mean, we may be able to use our weapons
to fightthe replicators, but without the asgard's help,
I don'tthinkwe're going to be able to figure out
how to use Reese to defeat them on a grand scale.
The robot's unwilling to cooperate?
Completely clammed up, sir.
She thinks we don't like her.
Apparently, her impression is that the people of her world
thought that she was poorly constructed
and wanted her and her toys eliminated.
Which would make them far smarter than we are.
Carter: It seems whoever made Reese
made a critical error.
He made her smart enough to build the replicators
and yet emotionally immatu re.
She's justtrying to defend herself.
She really is just a kid who unwittingly
taught her toys to become aweapon of destruction.
Maybe.
She's been lying to us from the start.
Hammond: Major, it sounds to me
like we're over our heads here.
Until we successfully contact the asgard,
I am ordering you to shut the robot down.
Well, that's not going to be pretty.
Do whatever's n ecessary.
The cameras in isolation room 1 are offline,
and I can't seem to getthem back.
We got it.
The cameras are down.
(Mechanical clanking)
They're in here!
Man: Look out behind you!
(Yelling and gunshots)
Hurry! Aaah!
(Silence)
(Alarm blaring)
They're still alive. A medical team's on the way.
Jackson: Where is she?
The door was open and the prisoner
was gone when I arrived, sir.
Replicators.
O'Neill for Hammond.
Yes, sir, we may have
a replicator situation down here.
I suggest sealing the base and doing a clean sweep
yes, sir.
And we also have a robot on the loose.
Sir, we have to preserve her in one piece.
And we'd like it in one piece, if possible.
Yes, sir.
All right, how did this happen?
Teal'c: The room has been cleared of any substance
that may have been used to create another replicator.
She must have made enough blocks
for two of them the firsttime.
That one could have made more.
There could be hundreds by now.
They've already breached the power system, sir.
Initiating computer lock down.
Is this really going to stop any replicators
from accessing the dialing computer?
I doubt it, sir, but it might buy us a little time.
Woman: Major Carter.
Security has been breached on level 28.
Replicators have been spotted
heading towards the control room.
Carter: Roger that.
Suggest retreating until backup arrives, sir.
Sir!
She's sealed herself in the gate room.
She's got a lot of replicators with her.
Jackson: She's probably trying to go home.
Well, let's let her.
Sir, we can't just let her leave.
We'll tell the asgard where she is.
We'll I'm only guessing she's trying to go home.
I mean, if she thinks we're going to destroy her,
she could be going anywhere.
Carter: We can't just let her leave
with the replicators.
She lost control of them once.
It could happen again.
So, we'll toss a nuke in behind her.
I'd like to try and stop her first.
How?
Maybe get her trust back.
Then what?
Then——then——then I don't know.
I'm just making this up as I go.
If you could somehow manage
to get close enough to her, you might
be able to remove her power chip
what of the replicators?
These aren't the same replicators
that we're used to dealing with.
Right now, she's controlling them.
If Daniel can shut her down,
the replicators mightjust cease to operate.
Look, they exist to protect Reese.
If she's eliminated, they have
no protocol upon which to act.
They may attack Daniel Jackson in order to exact revenge,
to restore their leader's power.
Yeah, well, that's where you guys will come in.
I'm willing to give you a chance, Dr. Jackson.
O'Neill: General, with all due respect,
ithink it's a bad idea.
I hope not, colonel.
Reese, please let me in. I just want to talk to you.
(Door buzzes)
Activate the Stargate.
No.
No, I don't want you to go.
You hate me.
No, I don't. No one does.
They're afraid of me.
They don't understand you, Reese.
I never meant to hurt anyone.
I know.
Please stay.
It's too late now.
I've accessed your computer system.
I'll figure it out for myself.
Reese, I don't want you to go.
Why not?
Iwantto be your friend.
I've never had a friend.
I'll be your friend.
Your toys may be a lot of fun,
but... th ey're not human, like us.
They protect me.
I'll protect you.
Do you promise?
I promise.
No one will hurt you.
Come on.
Show you my world?
Really?
Yeah.
Aah!
You're trying to disable me!
No! Yes.
You're lying. Lying is bad!
None of you will ever hurt me!
Sir, Daniel's in trouble.
Replicators have evacuated the gate room.
We're not sure wh ere th ey went.
All the cameras are down.
Yeah, Roger that. We're going in.
Major, I won't let the replicators
escape this base.
We have to set the self—destruct.
The replicators have taken over
the main computer, sir.
We'll have to cut the system access
and set the device locally.
Reese, please listen to me.
Oh, no! Make them stop!
On a 3—count.
3,2,1!
Clear!
Sir, we're getting ready to set the self—destruct.
I can't hear you!
On my Mark.
3, 2, I, turn!
Sir, we've set the self—destruct.
You have less than 5 minutes to tell us to override.
Do you copy?
Rog er th at!
Thank you.
Sir!
Make them stop!
I can't. You can.
No, you'll kill me!
No, no one wants that.
We just don't want you to destroy our world
the way you destroyed yours.
I didn't do it!
Yes, you did!
You created the replicators.
You told them to replicate at all costs.
They destroyed your world, and you let them!
It wasn't my fault!
You could've stopped them before there were too many.
You could stop them now before you lose control.
No!
Cease fire!
What's it doing?
I'm not sure. It's like it
doesn't know what to do.
(Gasping)
Reese!
Your father made you wrong!
No! Yes!
You destroyed your world.
I didn't mean to.
I know.
But now you're going to destroy mine, too.
I don't want to.
I know.
That's why you have to stop now.
No one will hurt you.
We may be able to fix you.
How?
Shut off your toys. Go to sleep
we'll find a way.
I don't believe you.
Colonel, ithink Reese is losing control.
At least one of the replicators down here
started to act on its own.
I will wake you up myself. I promise.
I'm your friend.
I don't want you to die.
I don't want you to die, either.
O'Neill!
Carter, on radio: What's happening in there?
The replicators appear to have been disabled.
The robot has been neutralized.
Abort the self—destruct.
You stupid son of a bitch.
Hey.
You're welcome.
You didn't have to shoot her.
Yes, I did.
She was shutting them down.
I had no way of knowing that.
Neither did you.
They didn't stop because you shot her.
They stopped because she told them to.
Carter said she was losing control.
Now, if just one of those damn things
got out of this base, developed its own personality,
we would be royally screwed!
You just killed the only chance
we'll ever have of stopping them.
Look...
I'm sorry.
Butthis is the way it had to go down,
and you know it.
All units, this is sg—I—niner.
Commence sweep
I want every one of those damn things out of here.