Previously on Stargate sg—1
first we must rescue Thor.
He is a prisoner of the Goa'uld.
I am Anubis.
This device will be implanted into your brain.
It will form a link between your mind
and the ship's computer.
Your knowledge will simply be downloaded into our memory banks.
O'Neill... Thor?
I am using the internal communication system
to synthesize my voice.
I believe I may be able to rewrite some minor subroutines
in the security protocol.
Lord Anubis, the asgard prisoner is gone.
He will not get far.
You cannot take me with you.
Why not?
The link between myself and the Goa'uld ship
has not been severed.
They managed to remove the device from his brain,
but it may have been too late.
Apparently, he's lapsed into a coma.
Looks like your analysis was right, Sam.
It's dead in space, but completely intact.
Has Anubis ever done anything like this before?
This is a first.
Must've been a little crazy around the sgc
when it showed up, huh?
You have no idea.
I have a pretty good idea, Sam.
I used to be an air force general, remember?
Are we there yet?
Not yet, sir, just close enough to do some scans.
Scanned anything yet?
Nothing, sir.
Nothing?
It's in a stable planetary orbit.
Shields and weapons are down,
and it's emitting no e.M. Of any kind.
Still just kind of sitting there.
Yes, sir.
Well, if they were going to attack earth,
th ey'd have done it by now.
What're you smiling at?
It's just that it's my first time...
In space. Ah.
We'd only begun to consider the possibility of space travel.
To actually be out here is...
It's amazing.
Indeed.
Until something goes horribly wrong.
What's our status?
The ship should be just a few hundred kilometers dead ahead.
There.
Ship ahoy—oy.
That's incredible.
I'm not ioo%,
butthis could be the same ship Anubis used to kidnap Thor.
Now we know why they haven't attacked.
There's no discernible life signs.
All the escape pods have been jettisoned.
The ship does not appear to have been damaged in battle.
Power and life supports are functioning normally.
There's just nobody on board.
Why would they aban Don a perfectly good ship?
They wouldn't.
Jack, rather than fly into a cargo bay,
I recommend we use transport rings to getthere
until we can get a better idea of what's going on.
Yeah.
Boys?
Radio Hammond.
Let him know we'll have something in a couple of hours.
Very well. Jonas, stay with Teal'c.
I don't understand.
I'm sorry.
Stay here.
So I'm not going with you? Notthis time.
Colonel, I've studied every report, every specification
on Goa'uld moth erships—— Because I gave you an order, Jonas.
I always have a reason I'm not required to explain.
It's a military thing.
Jack...
(Computerized garble)
What is that?
I can't make it out.
The crew appears to have abandoned ship, general Hammond.
That's good news.
We've all been holding our breath down here.
That is most unwise.
Yes, of course, Teal'c.
Colonel O'Neill is leading ateam
to determine if the vessel can be salvaged.
Very well.
Keep me apprised.
Hammond out.
This is strange.
The ship is operational, but before they left,
they initiated a self—destruct sequence.
It looks like the countdown's stuck.
It just doesn't make any sense.
The only way to stop a self—destruct
is with a command override,
butthat would completely erase the sequence,
not suspend it halfway.
So is the ship going to explode or not?
Well, until we know why the countdown was suspended,
we can't be sure it won't start up again.
We need to get to the computer core and do a diagnostic.
Carter,
you and Davis—...
See if you can disable that self—destruct altogether.
Yes, sir. Sir.
Jack, are you seriously considering salvaging this ship?
Why, yes, I am, Jacob.
This ship belonged to Anubis.
Excellent.
What if it's some sort of trojan horse?
Well, then, apparently, they did it wrong.
Look, Jack, none of this makes any sense,
so before you go slapping a us. Air force sticker
on the side of this ship—— Will you stop?
Obviously, we've got to check things out around here
to see what happened before we do anything.
And find out what the hell it's doing in earth orbit.
But our standing orders are to recover tech nology
that can help us defend against the Goa'uld.
I'd saythis ship falls under that heading, wouldn't you?
Okay.
Thank you.
You know, sometimes, I get a little concerned
that you're going to get my favorite planet wiped out.
Yes.
What planet is that?
So, listen, if they wanted to scuttle the ship
and the self—destruct didn't work,
their next logical option
would be to sabotage the hyperdrive.
Friesen, let's go.
I'll do a systems check from here.
(Computerized garble)
Find out what that sound is.
What's the problem?
Dad, this is Sam.
What's up?
We're on our way to the computer core,
but we can't access this corridor.
All right, hang on.
The whole section's been sealed off,
and the life support's been shut down.
Why would they do that?
I have no idea.
I'll see if I can open it up
and getthe ventilation going again.
Colonel, we should also check on the shield generators.
Jacob... how's the hyperdrive?
Friesen says the engine checks out,
but he wants to have a look at the shield generators.
Does he say why?
Why? To see them.
To see them?
Never mind.
If this was the ship that destroyed
an asgard ship and kidnapped Thor,
then its shields were clearly superior
to any...
We're in. All right. Just be careful, Sam.
Yes, dad.
Whoa.
Something bad definitely happened here.
Dad, we're just outside the computer core.
The door looks like it's been hit
by several staff blasts.
That's interesting, because it's the only door I can't open.
The circuits are fused.
It's almost as if there was a deliberate overload.
It's starting to look more and more like a saboteur on board.
Someone damaged the computer and then sealed it off
so they couldn't effect repairs.
Whatever happened, I can't get you inside.
Colonel, have you been monitoring?
Affirmative. On my way.
I have to go blow something up.
Head on back to the peltac,
see if Jacob needs any help
Shall we?
Whoo, that was Lou d.
What?
Jacob, we're in.
This is fantastic.
No, this is fantastic.
Shield generators...
(Tapping)
Hello?
Colonel O'Neill?
Why would he bring me all the way out here
if I'm not going to be allowed to contribute anything?
This is your first mission.
It may take some time for colonel O'Neill
to gain confidence in your abilities.
So it was the same for you?
No, it was not.
You know, I heard the rumor
that I only gotthis assignment because colonel O'Neill
didn't want to have a Russian on the team.
Such rumors are meaningless.
O'Neill would not have chosen you if he did not believe
that one day you would be an effective member of sg—I.
Thanks, Teal'c. I really appreciate that.
I mean, those of us
who aren't originally from the planet earth
have got to stick together, right?
Are you suggesting an alien conspiracy?
No.
Of course, yes.
I was warned about your occasional use of humor.
It's... got me.
No conspiracy.
The computer log confirms
that this is the same ship that Thor was aboard.
And?
Well, it could explain a lot, sir.
Thor's brain was directly linked to this computer.
Anubis may have grossly underestimated
the power of an asgard's mind.
And?
It's possible that when his mind was linked,
Thor was able to rewrite some of the ship's programming,
maybe even leave something behind.
Like a virus? Exactly.
By interfering with everything
from navigation to life support,
a complex virus could have driven Anubis to abandon ship
might explain why the self—destruct got stuck.
He could have generated awhole new subroutine
that sentthis ship to our solar system
after it was abandoned,
like a gift.
I know it sounds a little wacky, sir,
but the more ithink about it,
the more it seems like the most reasonable explanation.
There's a little wishful thinking there, major.
Well, if this ship wasn't ultimately intended for us to find,
why did it travel halfway across the galaxy
all by itself?
For that matter, why didn't the self—destruct just go off?
Well, even if you're right, I mean, I really doubt
thatavirus is going to know the difference
between us and the Goa'uld.
There has to be a way to disable it somehow,
or Thor wouldn't have sentthe ship here.
Dr. Friesen, this is major Carter.
We could use your assistance in the computer core.
Friesen, come in.
Dad, have you seen Dr. Friesen?
N egative.
You scientists...
Stay here. I'll find him.
It's a big ship, sir.
Ithinki know where he went.
(Computerized garble)
It's coming out of the ship's intercom.
What is?
The sound we keep hearing.
You h ear that?
There's a pattern to it,
almost like distorted words.
Let's check it out.
Carter,
I want you and Davis back on the peltac
with Jacob. What's going on, sir?
Friesen's dead.
Jacob, come in.
Jacob, do you read?
Jacob, come in.
Jacob?
Dad!
Colonel, we've got another problem.
I'll live. Go, go, go.
We're decelerating out of orbit,
and th ey've disabled the drive controls.
Sir, we've got no way of altering course.
We're going to crash.
Teal'c, come in.
O'Neill, you are approaching earth's atmosphere.
Yeah, you know, we noticed that.
You're going to have to ring us out of here.
Standing by.
It's no use.
I estimate impact between 500 and 1,000 miles
west—southwest of Alaska.
The amount of energy released at impact will be massive.
There could be atidal wave.
Raise the shields and set inertial dampening to maximum.
That way, the ship should survive in one piece.
Done. That's all I can do.
Teal'c, we're heading to the ring room.
Wait, wait, wait.
Teal'c?
We have been attacked by Jaffa from the mothership.
What's your situation?
They are no longer athreatto us,
but the ship has been damaged.
The crystals that allow us to receive ring transmissions
have been destroyed,
and there is insufficient time to dock aboard the mothership.
Well, I guess we're goin' in.
The official line is that early this morning,
at approximately eight hours,
NORAD tracked a meteor as it entered earth's atmosphere
and landed somewhere in the north pacific.
So far, no word from the Chinese government,
but I'm sure we'll be hearing from them soon enough.
As for the Russians, I have a call going through to colonel Chekov
in about 10 minutes.
Yes, sir.
I'll be keeping you apprised of any further developments.
Gentlemen, it's good to have you back.
We've located the mothership
sonar readings suggest that it's still intact.
Then they may still be alive.
We're proceeding under that assumption.
There's a deep submergence rescue vehicle
en route from Pearl harbor,
but we still have to figure out
how the crew is going to access the mothership.
A mothership's escape pods
are jettisoned through pressurized tubes.
It may be possible that one of them
could be used as a point of access.
That sounds like our best shot.
General, with your permission, Teal'c and I
would like to join the rescue operation.
There's a plane waiting. Thank you, sir.
I should have been with them.
Do you believe you could have prevented this from happening?
Maybe. You don't think so?
It was an ambush.
Your presence would have made little difference.
Like on the cargo ship?
You could not have known those Jaffa would ring aboard ship
yeah, I stood there.
You saved my life like Dr. Jackson did back on my planet.
I didn't do athing.
It is my understanding
that it was largely your idea
that led to the successful disposal of the other Stargate
before it could be detonated.
You saved the lives of millions.
Yeah, that was different. That was an intellectual exercise.
I'm talking about knowing what you can do in the heat of the moment
when there is no time to think.
One can never be certain
until the opportunity presents itself.
So far, my track record is not great.
Perhaps that is so,
but there are many battles left to be fought, Jonas Quinn.
How are you doing?
Aside from the burns, I've got a broken collarbone.
Selmak's working on it.
You know, for guys with no life signs,
those Jaffa did a bit of damage.
They must have been trapped in the section of the ship
that was sealed off.
To stay alive as long as possible,
they would have gone into a deep state of kelnoreem,
slowing down their heart rate
to one or two beats per minute.
In that condition, the cargo ship's
sensors weren't sensitive enough to pickthem up.
Thinkthere are any more running around?
I doubt it.
My guess is the three that attacked me
were on the computer core level.
I letthem out when I opened the door to allow Sam inside.
Well, we've got life support operating at 50%.
It won't be too comfortable in here,
but at least we won't freeze to death...
Right away.
Can we fix the engines?
Not a chance,
andthat's not our only problem.
We found evidence of structural damage on the lower levels,
probably a result of the impact.
How bad?
I'm not sure.
The exterior pressure's pretty severe,
especially on the lower levels of this ship
it wouldn'ttake much to compromise the hull.
Well, help'll be on the way.
There's also the matter of the self—destruct sequence
frozen halfway through its countdown.
You haven't turned that off yet?
No, sir, and I'm not sure we should even try.
Why?
Well, first, the door to the computer core was locked,
andthen when the Jaffa tried to blasttheir way in,
the entire section was sealed off
and life support was shut down.
By who?
It's "whom."
Actually, sir, it's more like "what."
What?
The virus Thor left behind.
Exactly.
What if it was trying to defend itself?
So Thor leaves behind avirus
that forces Anubis to abandon his ship,
and then this virus defends itself
againstthe Jaffa Anubis left behind to blowthe ship?
Or maybe it was left here so we could find it.
Sir, with your permission, I'd like to return
to the computer core.
I'll go with you.
Sir, we've just got word from the task force.
The dsrv is in the water.
(Computerized garble)
Major Davis is right.
It is definitely coming through the ship's intercom.
Maybe the virus is trying to talk to us.
What the hey?
Dad, we've got evidence of flooding here.
Stan d by.
There's been a hull breach on the engineering level.
We're nowhere near engineering.
It looks like the sea water penetrated
to the central access shaft,
and nowthe pressure's pushing it up
through the core of the ship
we're flooding from the inside.
Dad, the door is closing behind us.
It's a security measure.
All doors are sealed aroundthe breach.
I'll tryto open it from here.
It's a bit chilly.
Dad, how's it coming with that door?
This could take some time, Sam.
(Dsrv pilot): We have visual contact.
I'm sorry, sir. I can't bypass the system locally.
Jacob?
Yeah, without the proper codes,
I can't access the security program.
I'm going down there. To do what?
The local controls are locked out.
Jack, I'll try to find a back door to the program.
How long's that going to take?
I'm looking at some major shrinkage here.
I don't know. This is kind of a unique situation.
Give me a few minutes.
How long do you figure it'll take for this thing to fill up?
A few more minutes.
Yeah.
Approaching point of entry.
Nexttime we crash our brand—new mothership,
what do you say we do it in the tropics?
Actually, sir, it wouldn't make a difference.
Atthis depth, all water is ice—cold.
Shallower water, then. Shallower.
Yes, sir, I'll keep that in mind.
Or we could just not crash at all.
Itwould be nice to keep our nice new mothership
more than a couple of hours.
Yes, sir.
Jacob, we could blow the door.
In such a confined space,
the concussion would kill them.
They'll be dead if we don't. We can't leave them to drown!
We have to do some—— whatthe hell do you think I'm trying to do, major?
You're dad's cutting it a little close—...
I can't do it.
Sam...
I'm sorry.
(Beeping)
What is that, Jacob?
The security protocol's been erased.
Jack, Sam, come in.
Jacob, this is Teal'c.
We are on board the ship.
Teal'c, Jack and Sam are in trouble,
main computer level.
That's two levels down this way.
Remain here. Yes, sir.
Dad, this is Sam.
We're okay.
Yes!
Thank god. Sam, you really had me worried.
Tell him itake back everything I was thinking
when iwas underwater.
Whatever you did, it worked.
I didn't do anything. The security protocol erased itself.
Waita minute. How is that possible?
I don't know.
Who cares? Let's go.
O'Neill...
Are you all right?
Uh, a little wet, a little chilly.
The knee gets a little stiff
in cold water, you know.
We have a rescue submarine docked with the ship
we can't leave yet. Yes, we can.
No, sir.
Something else is definitely going on here.
Sir...
We just got a message from the task force.
The dsrv pilot reports they made contact,
and sg—1's okay,
but Dr. Friesen's dead.
Did they getthem off the ship?
Not yet.
They're staying aboard for some reason.
(Computerized garble)
It's definitely avoice.
Give me a second. I'll see if I can clean it up.
Why would it be so distorted?
Anubis probably tried to shut it off.
Carter?
Well, the security program
that locked us in that corridor
didn't just shut down by itself.
You thinkthis virus Thor left in the ship's computer
is acting intelligently?
If that door hadn't have opened,
colonel O'Neill and I would have drowned.
It knows who you are.
To synthesize my voice. I got it.
I am using the internal communication system
to synthesize my voice.
I am using the internal communication system
to synthesize my voice.
Thor spoke the same words to O'Neill and I
when were imprison ed aboard this vessel.
Sir, maybe what we've been calling avirus
isn't a virus at all.
Maybe it's Thor.
We got him off this ship months ago.
Not before Anubis was able to download his mind
into the computer core.
Now, if his consciousness remained intact,
he would be an independent entity
operating within the system.
His mind took control of the vessel.
Way to go, Thor.
Sir, the asgard said that Thor was on life support,
but there was little chance that he'd come out of it,
so?
So if we can down load his consciousness
from the computer,
the asgard can transfer it into a new cloned body.
If that's what you want to do, Sam,
you'd better move fast.
The computer core isn't flooded yet,
but it's only a matter of time.
Wait a second. If Thor is really in control of this ship,
then he's the only thing keeping the self—destruct on hold.
If we remove that consciousness,
the countdown will start up again.
How much time will we have left when the countdown resumes?
Approximately
that gives us plenty of time to get out of here
after we've got Thor.
I knowthor was a friend,
butthis is a Goa'uld mothership
if we allow it to blow up,
there'll be nothing left to salvage.
Jack, this ship is never going to fly again.
I'd say having the supreme commander of the asgard fleet
owe you one is more valuable.
Yeah.
All right. Next mothership we keep, okay?
Jonas, take Davis and Jacob back to the sub.
Wait for us there.
Colonel, I'd like to assist major Carter—...
Jonas...
I'll take them back to the sub.
Thank you.
Here he is.
You sure you got all of him in there?
He's a smart guy, you know.
(Goa'uld computer voice speaking)
The self—destruct has been reactivated.
Let's go.
This door should not be closed.
Dang.
The corridor must have flooded.
Jacob...
Yeah, what's going on?
Our exit is blocked.
We need another way around.
Jack, all the other passageways into that section
were already flooded.
There is no other way around.
Jack, I'm going back to the peltac,
see if I can figure something out.
Negative. Get that sub to a safe distance.
We'll think of something.
Understood.
I've got nothing.
How are you doing?
Sir, there's only one other way off this level.
The glider bays.
We can do that?
I have no idea.
Okay.
This ship's self—destruct has been activated.
We need to getthe dsrv as far away as possible.
Jack, we're at the sub. What's your status?
Here's our plan, Jacob.
We're going to take a couple of gliders.
Jack, a glider isn't designed
to operate UN derwater.
It's our only shot.
Uh, all right, all right.
Um, you'll have to activate the compartment's force field
to stop the flooding.
Now, those systems went off—line after the crash.
I know. I'm trying to reroute the power.
What is it? Glider bays have force fields
that allow ships to go in and out
without having to depressurize the compartment.
If she can't get it on—line,
she won't be able to open the doors
without flooding the hangar.
Right.
Sam?
Jacob, I want you to getthat sub
to a minimum safe distance.
Understood.
Let's go.
There's an auxiliary control panel on this deck.
I can reroute the power from there.
How do you know?
Because I've gone over these schematics of these motherships
a dozen times, and I'm a very quick study.
Yeah? Well, where is it?
Don't wait for me.
Now, Jonas—...
No pressure, Carter.
Plenty of time.
On the contrary, O'Neill.
Lots and lots of time.
Yes, sir.
Jack?
Jacob, will you please get out of here?
We are, but Jonas went off
to try to get the force field on—line
from a relay panel on this deck.
Listen... good luck.
Okay...
(Computer voice)
What did he say?
We are being advised that in approximately seven minutes,
the ship will be destroyed.
Ah. See?
Plenty of time.
This terminal isn'ttied into the primary system.
I can't reroute the power from here.
The force field just came on—line.
Nice.
It wasn't me.
Jonas.
Okay.
Wait!
Did it work?
We're about to find out.
Powering engines...
Listen, if we don't survive this,
thanks.
You're welcome.
Opening glider bay doors.
Nice.
Hang on.
Everybody all right?
Yes, sir. We're fine.
This is Jacob.
We're a little seasick down here,
but we're in one piece, too.
Glad to hear it.
What about Jonas?
All members of sg—I
present and accounted for.
Teal'c, take lead.
Are you smiling?
Firsttime in a death glider.
Oh. Well...