It's a blip, a shadow on the ultrasound,
too deep to tell. You know, maybe a dead seal.
Anyway, we're, uh, we're going to rule it out
and pack up for the season.
Another week or two, it'll be dark most of the time,
much too cold to work outside.
As far as coming back next year,
well, you know, it's not up to me.
The Pentagon reevaluates our presence here every year.
Take it up with them.
Well, maybe my new conclusions aboutthe dhd
will be enough to convince them that we should continue.
I'm sure coming from you it will hold more weight.
The one found with the antarctic gate
died shortly after it was brought back to area 51.
It was used a fewtimes, and then just ran out of energy.
Now, that was the first indication we had
thatthe power sources fueling the gate technology have a limited life span.
We've run a number of tests
comparing the power source to other off—world dhds.
We think we now have evidence
that the gate we found down there
is one of the oldest in the entire system.
It could be as much as 50 million years old.
The antarctic plate wasn't covered by a glacier backthen.
It wasn't even at the south pole.
The gate didn't necessarily originate there.
It could have been moved from another planet
at any point in time, but that's what we need to try and determine.
How?
There has to be something else down there.
I mean, we've been here four years running.
Since we dug out those two Jaffa, we've found nothing.
If this latest lead turns outto be...
The thing in the ice, it's something!
Why is the plane leaving?
The cold's no good for the electronics.
It'll be back. When?
Let's ask these folks.
It's nice to finally meet you, major.
Dr. Michaels, this is Dr. Fraiser.
Doctors woods and osbou rn e...
Doctor... major...
Doctor... doctor...
All right, that's enough.
Welcome to Antarctica, colonel.
Thanks. Greatto be back.
Let's go inside.
How long is this going to take?
A few days, maybe more. Why?
The long—range forecast doesn't look good.
He's a bit of a weather freak.
He'll love it here.
Uh, you might want to leave your coats on.
We're keeping the quarantine lab below freezing
to maintain the specimen.
We thought you'd want to see it right away.
Absolutely.
As you can see, we're quite well equipped.
We have a research lab...
Observation room...
And in here, the quarantine lab.
After digging up those Jaffa the first year,
we expected to find a lot more a lot faster.
I named her ayiana. Means "eternal bloom."
Native American Indian?
My grandfather was on e—ouarter cherokee.
Now, how do you know it's a she?
Ultrasound. You're guessing.
The form appears to be female,
although I admit it's hard to tell for sure.
Have you made a guess about her age?
Mm, 25 to 35?
Give or take several million years.
Several million?
That's what the preliminary analysis
of the oxygen content in the ice indicates.
Yeah, but didn't humans evolve on this planet
between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago?
That's what we thought.
Oh, this could be big.
As you thought, evidence now points to the Stargate found here
pre—dating the glacier.
The Jaffa couldn't have been frozen that long ago.
Not even close.
Dr. Jackson th eorized
that when the gate from giza was buried roughly 2,000 years ago,
that the Goa'uld managed to open up the antarctic gate.
Well, that's because a crevasse was formed.
It allowed the wormhole to connect
and ultimately create a larger opening.
The Jaffa were frozen after that.
But she wasn't.
Much before that. So she's neither Jaffa nor Goa'uld.
Well, whoever this is,
she was probably around when the antarctic gate was first being used.
We need more samples to determine
if she was frozen in the same vein.
Did you do atissue sample?
Mm—hmm. I'd like you to have a look.
Could somebody bottom—line this for me?
We could be looking at evidence
that human beings evolved long before we thoughtthey did.
And maybe not even originally on this planet.
Darwin would be crushed.
D—oh!
What is it, O'Neill?
I forgot to tape the Simpsons.
It's important to me.
This is incredible.
I know. No adipocere.
What's that?
It's a residue that forms on dead animal tissue
when exposed to moisture,
but that's not the most amazing part.
These tissue cells are intact.
That's what I was hoping you'd say.
I thought maybe iwas losing my mind.
I'm sorry... what?
When you freeze live cells, crystals form
and ultimately destroy the integrity of the cell.
That's why we haven't been able to develop
a viable method of human cryogenic preservation.
These cells are perfect.
They could be from you or me.
Right hand, right arm, and partial head exposed...
The clothing appears tailored.
Material unknown.
Peeling back what appears to be
the right sleeve covering the face.
You got it? Okay.
She is remarkably preserved.
I got a cortical response! Sam, I need your help
let's go. What's going on?
Electroencephalogram. It measures brain wave activity.
All right, go, Sam.
Delta waves.
That's impossible.
We've seen stranger. We've got to get her out.
Sir, crank up the heat!
On three. When you're ready, Jonas.
Okay, one, two, three.
Easy.
Okay.
Temperature is 73 degrees.
Good.
No sign of frostbite.
I assume you don't have bypass? No.
Let's try warm saline with one milligram epi,
and do a blood gas.
You know, the medics have a saying down here.
You're not dead till you're warm and dead.
That's because anything below 82 degrees,
and life signs are often undetectable.
We've got disorganized electrical activity.
I'm intubating.
Tilt her head, Sam.
I'm in. Give me the tube.
That's it.
Okay...
There's a heartbeat.
Hey, uh, she's bleeding.
Sam, can you take over bagging?
I got it.
Ph is 6.9.
She's acidotic, but her poz is 98.
10 beats per minute.
She's in v—fib.
Charging to 200.
An d... clear.
Wait.
Sinus bradycardia?
30 beats per minute. BP 60 over 40 and rising.
I can't believe this is happening.
She's conscious.
She's breathing on her own.
Ithinkwe're scaring her.
It's okay. H ey, it's okay.
It's okay. Shh.
Can we take the tube out? Yeah.
It's okay.
Sam, give me a hand.
Easy, easy.
Hang on.
Take it easy.
It's okay. It's okay.
It's okay. There we go. Yeah.
Ho. Ho. Ho. Ho. Ho. Whoa.
Michaels, two point five milligram valium.
Nobody's going to hurt you. It's okay.
Shh. Okay. Here we go.
Here you go. Yeah.
We didn't do anything, sir.
She revived herself.
It was as if the thawing process
justtriggered an internal response
telling her body to come back to life.
But not a snakehead, right?
No, sir.
Then what are we dealing with here?
Something not humanly possible,
not as far as I know.
Then she may indeed be not of this world.
As far as we knew,
all human life in the galaxy
was transplanted to other planets from earth
by the Goa'uld.
Now, the odds of atotally alien life form
evolving to look exactly like us are astronomical.
Actually, if she's as old as we think she is,
wouldn't it be us evolving to look like her?
True. We really need to check out the site again.
At least get another core sample to prove the age of the ice.
You guys need some help?
We can handle it.
Uh, she's awake again.
I think I'lltry talking to her.
Hey.
It's, uh...
Jonas.
Francine.
We don't need these restraints anymore, do we?
It's all right, it's all right.
It's better, huh?
Wantto sit her up?
Can you speak?
Speak?
Uh, maybe she just doesn't understand us.
I'd be very surprised if she did,
but that doesn't mean we can't communicate, right?
I'm Jonas.
Jonas. That's my name.
Jon——jonas...
Yeah.
I guess she can speak.
Jonas, though, Jonas is my name.
It's my name.
Francine is her name.
Do you have a name? Hmm?
Is that bothering you?
Oh, that's my fault. I'm sorry.
S—sorry?
Yeah, it's what you say to somebody
when you cause them pain or sadness...
We didn't know.
Let me have a look?
It's okay.
That's amazing.
Amaz—ing.
Yes, you are.
Amazing.
The weather system Jonas was worried about
is blowing in more quickly than first predicted.
Woods, osbourn e, this is O'Neill.
Come in. Yeah, colonel, I read you.
That storm is headed our way.
Roger that. We're almost done here.
It'll be dark soon anyway.
We'll be back in a couple of hours. Woods out.
Well,
we didn't really learn anything.
Nothing? No, no, not even her name.
There's obviously a communication barrier.
She can speak, but, uh...
There's really no telling
whatthe effects of being frozen that long are,
even with her ability
to preserve or heal herself physically,
parts of her mind could have been damaged beyond repair.
The wound on her arm is completely gone.
What?
I mean, if we can figure out
how she's able to regenerate...
Could she not be deliberately hiding something?
What reason would she have to hide anything?
Fear.
Ithoughtyou might be hungry,
so I brought you some food.
You eat it.
It's not very good, but, uh... try it.
That's not much...
Better.
I guess if you've been frozen for that many years...
Wh ew...
Are you all right? Yeah, yeah.
Ijustthinkwe have the heatturned up a little high in here.
I want to show you something.
Uh, here. Look, look.
Have you ever seen this?
Yes? No?
Amazing.
We're going to try something else.
Look atthis.
What are they?
Eegs itook of Cassandra when she was suffering
the effects of nirrti's genetic experiment.
Cassie started developing telekinetic abilities.
These are the ones I took of colonel O'Neill
when had the knowledge of the ancient repository
downloaded into his brain.
Now, I've been comparing them to ayiana's.
A connection?
Okay, nirrti was trying to create genetically enhanced human beings,
and the ancient device was rewriting colonel O'Neill's memory
until the asgard put a stop to it.
It was doing more than that. It was activating dormant areas of his brain.
Sam, look.
What if there's more than just a coincidental similarity
in these patterns?
So you're saying this woman is...
She's another example of an advanced stage in the potential
human evolutionary process.
Leading to what?
Antarctic COD can live in water so cold
other fish would develop ice crystals in their blood.
Th ey've had
to adapt to the change of temperature,
andthey've developed this protein that acts like antifreeze.
They're fish.
Given enough time, evolution can do some pretty amazing things.
Humans can become much more powerful beings.
We've seen it happen with Daniel.
Uh—huh, with the help of other powerful beings.
Yes. We think this woman
might predate human evolution on earth by 50 million years.
Butthat would put her behind us on the evolutionary timeline,
not way ah ead.
Unless...
Unless our evolution
isn'tthe firsttime it's happened.
That's not big, Janet. That's huge.
It's just a theory. We certainly don't have any hard evidence yet.
Yeah, yeah, but if you're right,
this woman could be part of the race that first invented the gate.
One stage of their development, anyway.
A living ancient.
And we lookjust like her.
That could mean that our evolution
wasn'tjust some biological accident.
Dr. Fraiser!
Michaels fainted.
She's running a high fever.
I need to do more tests.
Ayiana?
She's fine. I know what you're thinking.
And?
It's possible she may be carrying a contagion of some kind.
Would she not also be ill?
There are a number of examples of diseases
that have no effect on the carrier
but can still infect others.
It may be that her healing abilities
are fighting off the infection in her own system
without eradicating it completely.
Should Jonas still be in there?
He wants to be.
Chances are, he's already been exposed.
It's possible we all have.
If this did come from her,
we need to know as much as she can tell us.
The c—130 is scheduled to pick us up tomorrow.
You'd better call it off.
Ah, they couldn't have flown in this weather anyway.
Until I know a lot more about what's going on here,
we're quarantined.
Woods, Osbourne, this is O'Neill. Come in.
Osbourne? Woods?
This is O'Neill. Come in.
How is she? Not good.
Fever won't come down. She's not responding to antibiotics.
Whatever this is, it's fast.
Woods and Osbourne still aren't back,
and they're not respon ding on the radio.
If they've developed the same symptoms as Michaels,
they could be weak, disoriented, or even passed out.
You definitely think this came from ayiana?
Well, Michaels seems to have been affected first,
and she was the one working with the tissue sample.
Help.
Core samples...
Where's woods?
We got separated.
I was hoping he made his way back here.
What about the snowcat?
It's stuck in a drift.
He won't last for long out there.
He's running a high temperature.
Sam, I'm going to need your help.
Hopefully, woods activated his epirb.
Stay in radio contact.
Rog er th at.
Oh, Dr. Woods is lost.
Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c went outthere to find him.
I hope they do.
Dr. Michaels and Dr. Osbourne are both sick.
Dr. Fraiser thinks
that we may have been, uh, infected
by some disease that you're carrying.
Eventually, we're all going to be very sick,
but...
You have no idea what I'm talking about, so...
Do you?
You can understand me?
You're a ouicker study than I am.
So is there anything at all that you can tell me
about this disease you're carrying,
why you're not sick?
You don't know?
You don't remember anything?
Do you know how you're able to heal yourself?
I'm going to boost the dose of antibiotic,
but I haven't seen any sign of bacterial growth in the culture.
If this is avirus, there is nothing I can do.
How much time do they have?
Days, hours. I don't know.
Michaels' kidneys have started to shut down, andthat's a bad sign.
The ice core sample that Osbourne brought back
places ayiana in the same vein as the Stargate.
She's at least three million years old,
but if she comes from a race
that actually predates the glacier
and your theory is correct,
she could be a lot older.
Carter, come in.
Colonel, this is Carter.
We found the abandoned cat.
We'll continue the search on foot.
Visibility is near zero,
and I keep losing the satellite lock on the tracker.
The cold must be affecting the active antenna on your satnav.
We'll keep looking. O'Neill out.
Dr. Woods!
It's unbelievable.
What? She understands everything I'm saying,
everything.
I told her exactly what's been happening,
and she seems to know
that she's responsible for it somehow,
you know, like it's her fault.
She told you that?
Not in so many words, no.
What about something that could help us?
Not yet, but it doesn't mean
that her memory won't come back.
It's logical that the mind would take longer than the body to heal.
The problem is, Jonas,
we don't know how much time we have.
Right.
O'Neill!
Let's get him into the lab.
On three. One, two, three.
He's in hypothermic shock.
We need to get his clothes off.
We need to get him wrapped in warm blankets.
Sam, I need you to hook him up onto the monitor.
This can't be good.
Oh, my god.
He's in v—fib.
You getthe paddles. I'll getthe gel.
Charge to 200.
Okay, everybody, clear.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey!
No, no, no, wait. Wait.
Jonas... let's see. See what she does.
His vital signs are back to normal.
Are you okay?
Do you know what you did?
Do you know how you did it?
Can you do it again?
Dr. Michaels and Dr. Osbourne are both...
They're in very bad shape,
and if you can't help them...
I guess it worked.
So this is good, right?
When she wakes up,
she can zap us all? Not necessarily.
Healing them really exhausted her.
What is it, Janet?
A blood sample from ayiana.
I'll know more in a little while.
Hey, are you okay?
Yeah.
What do you think the problem is?
Whatever or however she's able to do what she does,
it weakens her, more each time.
She's still carrying that virus herself, Sam.
I'm afraid there's going to be a point
where she puts herself at risk.
Good luck.
Yeah.
Okay, I can't say for sure,
but her white cell count is down significantly.
White blood cells are a major part of our immune system,
and she's still basically human.
What does that mean?
It means that you, me, Sam, and Jonas
are all going to get a lot worse over the next day or so,
and I don't know what will happen
if we let her try to heal all of us.
She could die.
She could save some of us or all of us. Who knows?
Maybe she just needs some time to get her strength back.
Well, for the moment, none of us are in dire need, so I suggest we get some rest.
I will stand watch.
No, Teal'c, if you don't kelnoreem,
your immune system will be vulnerable too.
We'll watch her.
Yeah, it's the least we can do.
I'll run some tests on the three of us
looking for antibody markers.
I mean, hopefully, whatever she did to us
means we're now immune to re—infection.
Okay, and the rest of us will get some sleep
that's an order.
Hi.
Thank you.
You saved my life.
I have to admit I feel a little guilty being okay,
while colonel O'Neill and the rest of them
keep getting sicker.
If we could just figure out how...
The storm is passing.
Good. Maybe now we'll be able to get a disease control team in here.
I'm going to relieve woods.
Okay.
Norm, wake up
nor—...
She's missing.
Woods is unconscious.
Check there. Yeah.
It's okay, it's okay.
He's burning up.
You're going to be fine, sir.
I'll see you soon.
Teal'c, even though you don't have the disease,
you can still carry the virus.
We'll all get properly cleared once we get back to the sgc.
Blood pressure's holding,
get me the results of his latest bloodwork.
How's he doing?
They're doing everything they can, sir.
We talked to the tok'ra.
They said this might be beyond their help,
but they're sending someone anyway.
His best chance is ayiana, sir.
She managed to haltthe virus completely
in the rest of us.
Why hasn't she been able to stop it in herself?
From what I've been able to learn, sir,
the virus ultimately acts like cerebrospinal meningitis
by attacking the brain.
Despite the physical similarities,
ayiana's brain chemistry seems to be quite different from ours.
I suppose it's possible she's able to trigger an immune response in us
that she can't muster in herself
once the disease reaches an end stage.
What are the odds she'll survive?
Hey.
Glad to see you're awake.
I had a feeling that you were going to make it.
Thanks for what you did for me.
You didn't have to do that, not for any of us.
Take it easy, you know.
You've got to get your strength back.
Colonel O'Neill still needs your help.
More than that, we want you to live.
I want you to live.
Sorry.
Ayiana!
She just, uh...
Bag her.
Give me one milligram epi.
Charging to 200.
Clear.
Nothing.
Charging 300.
Clear.
Come on, come on.
Again. Clear.
His condition is beyondthe healing of a hand device.
However, we have a symbiote who is in dire need of a host.
What happened?
The former host was mortally wounded on assignment,
and the symbiote was unable to heal him.
We believe that would not be the case with colonel O'Neill.
Physical trauma is much more difficult to deal with
than disease.
I do not believe colonel O'Neill would choose to become atok'ra.
I am aware of the colonel's dislike for our kind.
However, I am surprised
that you think he would choose death
over blending.
Ayiana's dead.
Dr. Fraiser did everything she could, but...
She may have been on borrowed time from the start.
Jonas, this is thoran of the tok'ra.
Thoran, this is Jonas Quinn.
The tok'ra are offering a symbiote
in the hopes that it can heal colonel O'Neill.
What does colonel O'Neill have to say?
Oh, O'Neill's in a coma.
The fact is, we may be in the position of having to decide for him.
How can we do that?
No tok'ra symbiote would choose to blend
with an unwilling host permanently.
Perhaps atemporary arrangement can be reached.
What do you mean?
The symbiote kanan is someone I know well.
I have no doubt that he would be willing to blend with O'Neill,
cure him, andthen leave him again
if another suitable host can be found.
If not?
I assure you he would ultimately sacrifice himself
rather than remain with an unwilling host.
Kanan's former host died
before he was able to reveal the details
of what we believe was vital intelligence
aboutthe undercover mission he was on.
I cannot stress enough how important that information could be.
Sir, we all want to do anything we can
to help colonel O'Neill,
buti really think this is something
we at least have to give him the opportunity
to decide for himself.
I'm administering one point epi.
I don't know if this is going to work.
Will it hurt him?
Can't get much worse.
Sir, I don't know if you can hear me.
The tok'ra have offered you a deal.
There's a symbiote that needs a host.
They think it could cure you. Now, it may be your only chance.
It would only be temporary.
It would come out of you as soon as they found another host.
Sir, are you getting any of this?
Carter...
Yes. I'm right here.
Over my dead body.
Sir, the symbiote's host died while they were on a mission.
The tok'ra have strong reason to believe
that the symbiote has vital information to reveal,
and this would give him that chance.
Now, they promised that if no other host was found
within a reasonable amount of time,
the symbiote would sacrifice itself
rather than stay in an unwilling host.
Sir, please.