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he's burning up.
From what I've been able to learn so far, sir,
the virus ultimately acts like cerebral spinal meningitis
by attacking the brain.
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.
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.
Sir, please.
It's too far.
I can't.
Hide there until the chappa—ai is activated.
Go!
Sh ek'mal, tok'ra.
Kree!
Jaffa.
Shal, kek.
The host lives, my lord.
It's the tok' ra.
It's about damn time.
Stand down.
General Hammond.
Counselor thoran.
I'm afraid my Patience on this matter
has just about run out.
You've been promising
the safe return of colonel O'Neill for days.
Where is he?
I'm afraid I am the bearer of bad news.
And he just walked out of your base.
Nobody noticed he was gone until it was too late.
With the attack on revana,
our numbers have been severely diminished,
and we had no reason to expect this.
I see no reason to assign blame.
Colonel O'Neill did put his life in your hands.
Receiving a symbiote was his only hope for survival.
He could have refused.
So you never would have been able
to retrieve the knowledge in kanan's mind.
A more than fair exchange.
Colonel O'Neill would not agree to a blending with a symbiote
unless there was more at stake than his life.
Perhaps it was that repugnance of blending with another mind
that caused O'Neill to behave so irrationally.
General, I can't speculate on colonel O'Neill's state of mind,
but while a mature symbiote can take control of the host body
when ever it wants to, it doesn't work both ways.
I can vouch for that, sir.
There's no way colonel O'Neill could have walked out on his own.
Then he was forced to do so by the symbiote.
You accuse an honored tok'ra of behaving as a Goa'uld.
Counselor...
Kanan has fought the Goa'uld
longer than any of you have lived,
yet you spit the word "symbiote" as though you spoke of vermin.
Whatever you may think of our form,
kanan was as a brother to me.
The tok'ra council accepts that kanan may be lostto us.
That's the big difference between us, counselor.
We don't leave our people behind.
Who are you?
You go first.
You claim you do not know me?
Well, take no offense there, skippy.
I'm sure you're a real hot, important Goa'uld.
I've just always been kind of out of the loop with the snake thing.
I am ba'al.
That's it?
Just "ball"?
As in bocce?
Do you not know the pain you will suffer for this impudence?
I don't know the meaning of the word.
Seriously.
"Impudence." what does that mean?
I shall begin again.
Who are you?
Colonel Jack O'Neill. U.S. air force.
Two "I" s in that.
That may be who you once were, tok'ra.
I may be a lot of things, but I am no tok'ra.
It is true we were only able to capture the host.
Your symbiote fled the body out of cowardice.
But it is also true
that tok'ra share body and mind equally.
You will know all that it knew.
Ithinki know less than you thinki know.
Why have you come to this outpost?
Now, you see, that's a perfect example right there.
I haven't a clue.
Aah.
You've been here before.
Firsttime.
You know your way to and from my most secret outpost.
You have been here.
Did you really hope to escape my personal guard?
Why did you abduct my slave?
All right, look.
This is the lastthing I remember, I swear to god.
I was sick.
I agreed to letthetok'ra put a snake in my head
or iwould have died.
Right now, I'm kind of wishing I had.
A wish easily granted.
What was your mission here?
No mission.
Why have you returned?
I've never been here.
What did you want with the female?
What female?
Death will only offer atemporary escape.
I can revive you again and again.
Athousandtimes, if need be.
Only once you have told me everything I ask
will you be allowed to die one lasttime.
Where was his last mission?
As an operative aboard a mother ship in zipacna's fleet.
He managed to escape during a battle with lord yu's forces,
but just barely.
Did he have a motive to return to that vessel?
Such as?
Unfinished business?
Atask left undone?
His report stated the mission objectives were complete.
We are willing to attempt contact
with our operatives on these worlds
here, here, and here.
His previous missions.
If kanan returned to either of these worlds,
for whatever reason,
our operatives may have learned of it.
Well, when will we hear news?
It may take many months.
You spoke of kanan's mission reports.
What of it?
Well, we'd like to see them.
If Jonas's instinct is correct
and kanan had unfinished business,
there may be clues.
Their contents are not relevant.
Well, colonel O'Neill's life is at stake.
I believe that is relevant.
What you ask is not possible.
Really?
Is ityou?
Hi, Jack.
Daniel?
I leave,
and look at the mess you get yourself into.
It's good to see you.
Yeah.
You too.
It's a shame you're a delusion.
No, I'm here. I'm really here.
Sure you are.
Here in the sense that my consciousness is here,
if not here in the full physical, flesh—and—blood sense,
which is really neither here nor there.
The point is you're not imagining this.
I justtossed my shoe through you.
That's because I've ascended to another plane of existence.
Remember oma desala, the whole glowing thing?
I couldn't have done that without you. Remember?
Yeah.
I'm...
I'm energy now.
How's that working out for you?
Good, actually. Very...
Good.
Very good.
You, however...
Yeah, well,
you know what it's like, coming back from the dead.
Takes a while to getthe color back in the cheeks.
Yeah.
So...
Not a delusion?
No.
Okay, show me your stuff.
Bust me out of here.
I can't. Why not?
I'm not allowed to interfere.
You're interfering right now.
No, I'm not. Yes, you are
no, I'm not. I'm consoling a friend.
What good's the power to make the wind blow
or toss lightning around if you can't use it
to spring an old friend out of jail?
I would if I could.
You can't do that stuff?
I can. I just... I can't.
Well, thanks for stopping by, then.
Ba'al is torturing you, and iwasn'tjust going to sit by.
Look, all he wants to know is the reason you came to this planet.
You really don't know?
Do you?
Well, all I know is that you, or, more accurately,
the symbiote the tok'ra placed inside of you...
Congratulations, by th e way—...
Walked off undetected in the middle of the night and came here.
I can't believe I actually let them put a snake in my head.
My head. I agreed to this.
It never shared with you why it would walk alone
into a heavily fortified Goa'uld outpost?
There was no sharing.
I was sick.
I know.
They did the implantation, aword I intend never to use again,
and iwoke up here.
That's my week so far.
So you really don't know.
Uh, something to do with one of ba'al's slaves.
I've got avisual, but I've never met her before.
Nobody knows you're here.
Even if they did they would never be able to pull off a rescue,
because this place is a fortress.
Ba'al's going to keep on torturing you to death
and reviving you in his sarcophagus
until he finds out what he wants,
which is impossible, because you don't know anything.
Or until you're not worth reviving,
but you'll cease to be the Jack O'Neill we know long before that.
Well, apparently I've got a big day tomorrow.
No, I'm not going to letthat happen.
I won't let him destroy you.
You just said you couldn't help
no, I can't stop ba'al from torturing you
any more than oma could heal my radiation sickness,
but I can help you ascend.
Your underlings will not allow me to leave.
My officers and enlisted personnel
are following my direct orders.
This Jaffa threatened my life.
I merely informed you that any further attempt to activate the Stargate
would result in physical injury.
Then I am a prisoner?
I would prefer you consider yourself a guest.
You'll be free to leave when you provide us
with the mission reports we've requested
under article nine of our treaty.
Such a request to the council must be made in person.
Why is that?
This control facility is quite capable of relaying a request
on multiple frequencies,
including those used by the tok'ra.
Of course, if you choose notto avail yourself of that capability,
we would be pleased to provide you with comfortable quarters
until you decide to change your mind.
You threaten the peaceful continuation
of relations between our two peoples, general Hammond.
If our relations continue in the direction they're going, counselor,
I don't give a damn.
Very well.
I will make your request
thatthe reports be sent here immediately.
Thank you.
So... you want to be my oma?
You could put it that way.
I mean, iwouldn't, but maybe that's just me.
And then what?
Then, then I don't know.
You don't know?
No,
ascension doesn't make you all—knowing.
I mean, I really don't know.
If I'm catching
the next plane of existence out of here,
you've got to give me something.
It's your journey.
No one but you can choose what you become
or the path you take.
All I can promise you is it will be an amazing journey.
Once you release your burden.
Daniel, so help me, if you start talking like oma...
I'm nottalking like oma desala.
Sounds like oma to me.
No, oma desala would say something like
"if you immediately know the candlelight is fire,
then the meal was cooked a long time ago",
or something like that.
Why?
To open your mind.
Though a candle burns in my house,
there's nobody home.
Okay.
Let's take this one step at a time.
This has to be something you want, I can't do this for you.
One step at atime.
Oh, there's got to be another way out of here.
Jack, what if you did a little scouting for me?
That would be all right, wouldn't it?
I'm not asking you to knock down walls or anything, just recon.
Ba'al's just going to torture you again.
Or a zat gun.
Help me get my hands on a zat gun.
The nexttime is going to be worse.
That's when we move, the nexttime they come for me.
You can't fight your way out of this.
Then help me! Notthat way.
They're coming.
They can see you, right? We can use that.
I'll be back.
A distraction, that's all I'm asking for.
I promise.
Daniel?
His motive had to be personal.
For what reason?
Well, the tok'ra claim that all of kanan's spy missions
were a complete success,
therefore he'd have no reason to go back
to any of those planets.
If we take them attheir word,
we can rule out any logical reason.
No, kanan had to be motivated
by something profound enough
to not only risk his life,
but also the life of his host.
The tal'vak acid will take some time
to burn through all the way.
Though it cauterizes the flesh as it burns,
a very small amount
often finds its way into the blood
and begins to spread.
Why have you returned here, tok'ra?
I'm human.
Betrayed by your symbiote.
It used me. To do what?
I don't know, and I don't care.
What did the symbiote call itself?
I don't remember.
Tok'ra retain the identities
of both host and symbiote.
You are O'Neill.
What was the name of your symbiote?
I justtold you.
Whattok'ra secrets could a single name reveal?
I don't know.
Why protect the one who betrayed you?
Abandoned you to this?
If I knewthe name, I'd give you the damn name!
I don't care about protecting the tok'ra.
Tok'ra have been a nuisance for centuries.
Don't...
Even when we thought they'd been wiped out,
th ey've become all the more insidious.
Like acid, burrowing holes into our empires.
Kanan!
That's the name.
Kanan.
I... I justtold you.
Yes, you did.
This neutralizes the acid and numbs the pain...
So you see, the truth is rewarded.
I don't know anything else.
There may be much more of this kanan
still in your memory than even you know.
It'll come to you in time.
Is ityou?
What?
You shouldn't have come back.
I don't remember.
If I leave with you, he will know.
You...
Jack, who are you talking to?
The woman.
There's nobody there.
Look who's talking.
Does it still hurt?
No.
I told you I'd come back.
If the Daniel Jackson I knew was really here...
I am.
Then do something.
You listen to me.
I don't want to go through that again.
If you were really my friend
and had the power to, you'd stop it.
The hardest part of being who or what I am
is having the power to change the things iwantto change
and knowing that I can't...
Even when I'm certain,
even when it's absolutely clear to me,
even when it affects the people I care about,
because for all I can do,
I'm no more qualified to play god
than the Goa'uld are.
Ba'al will keep this up
yes, he will.
So we don't have an unlimited amount of time.
Got to be some place, do you?
No.
Look, there must be a reason that kanan came back here.
Was it for the woman?
The one you were justtalking to?
She must have something to do with all of this.
You know, screw it. It doesn't matter.
Carter andteal'c will think of something.
Even if they could find out where you are...
And, you know, Jonas, he's at least as smart as you.
There isn't always a way out, Jack.
If that was true, I'd have been dead a long time ago.
How many more times do you think you can go into that sarcophagus?
Before it starts changing you?
How many times has it been already?
It can regenerate your body, make you strong enough
to go th rough that all over again,
but all the time, it's destroying who you are.
And once that happens, you won't be able to ascend
no matter how much you want to.
Hey.
I appreciate what you're trying to do.
Iwouldn't be here if I didn't believe you could do it.
This is me we're talking about. Yes, it is.
Now, please... justtry to open your mind.
Oh, stop it, will you?
Oh, come on, Jackie. You thinkthe asgard named a ship after you
because they thought it was a cool name?
Now is notthe time to play dumb.
You're a lot smarter than that.
They saw our potential in you
because of who you are and what you've done.
Humanity's potential.
That's the same thing oma saw in me.
I'm not you.
Yeah, when has that ever stopped you from doing anything?
Okay.
Putyourself in my shoes and me in yours.
You'd be here for me.
Damn straight.
I'd have busted you out, blown this rat hole to hell,
and made sure that son—of—a—bitch suffered.
The others would have stopped you.
They'd have a hell of a fight on their hands.
You wouldn't do that.
Ba'al would be dead, and I wouldn't stop there.
You're a better man than that.
That's where you're wrong!
Right now,
I can't imagine doing or being anything other than what I am.
I see things, I understand things
in away I never could have before,
but I chose this.
Even when Jacob was trying to heal me,
I chose this,
but you, in the place you're at right now...
You don't have any other choices.
This is notyour life we're talking about, Jack.
This is your soul.
This is it.
What I'm offering you is your only way out.
You're wrong about that too.
I have another choice.
What are you talking about?
No.
Any minute, they're going to come,
and ba'al is going to kill me again.
You can make it the last time.
Don't ask me to do that.
You can put an endto it.
I won't do it.
I'd do it for you, and you know it.
I don't want to see this cell again, Daniel.
I don't know about you two,
but I'm beginning to getthe feeling
that there's absolutely nothing here.
Wait.
Guys...
Look atthis.
What is it?
The mission where kanan worked undercover
as a minor Goa'uld in ba'al's service.
How long ago was that?
Several months.
Ba'al has kept the existence of the outpost hidden
from the other system lords.
The outpost was a secret test facility
for weapons technology and gravity field generators.
Over a period of several months,
he was able to map out the entire facility.
That's what kanan reported to the tok'ra council...
But something just struck me.
He used ba'al's lotar, his personal slave,
to access much of that information.
Yeah, the lotar gave him access to ba'al's chamber
when he was away.
Do you believe kanan withheld information in his report?
No, butthink about it.
A lotar is a Goa'uld's most trusted servant.
Why would he so blithely betray his master?
H er master.
The slave was a woman.
Access to ba'al's own chamber?
Are you suggesting that kanan engaged in an affair with this slave
in order to gain access to her master's quarters?
Well, something had to be going on between them.
Otherwise, why would she take the risk?
A tok'ra would go to great lengths to accomplish a mission.
So maybe he was just using her.
But who knows? The tok'ra are Avery passionate race.
The tok'ra accept sacrifice as a function of war.
I do not believe this slave was sufficient motive for kanan to return.
Sufficient motive for kanan...
The decision to act came after blending
with the mind of colonel O'Neill.
At which point, he would have been confronted
with every thought and belief that make the colonel who he is,
and be forced to judge himself by that same code of honor.
Especially what general Hammond referred
to as "the difference between us and the tok'ra."
We don't leave our people behind.
Is ityou?
You shouldn't be here.
You look so different.
How can you be kanan?
I'm not.
If I leave with you, he will know.
He used both of us.
He did use both of us.
How long were you host to this kanan
before he convinced you to come to here?
Days, or merely hours?
I don't remember.
What did this kanan share about his previous mission here?
Nothing.
What did he want with my slave?
I don't know.
Why did he return?
I don't know.
I believe you.
You're avictim of this tok'ra, just as I am.
This kanan took over his host body, your body,
just as I or any other Goa'uld would have done.
He used you to come here.
Butto what purpose?
I believe the answers are there in your mind.
Even if you were host for a mere matter of hours,
something of him will be left behind...
An unfortunate inheritance for you,
because I will find them...
If I have to dig them out.
You're telling me kanan was compelled
to rescue a slave he encountered months ago.
As a direct result of blending with colonel O'Neill.
Based on the arrogant notion
the colonel would never have left her behind.
Sir, I know from first—hand experience
how deeply the emotions can be shared
between atok'ra symbiote and its host.
So do I, major Carter.
Still, your theory seems to be based
on nothing more than intuition.
I won't argue with that,
but it's not without reasoning.
I know that's where colonel O'Neill is.
As do I.
We're all in agreement.
It makes no difference.
If indeed colonel O'Neill is in ba'al's hands,
then he is far beyond our reach.
We have plans to the outpost.
Then you know it is a fortress.
An army could not hope to pen etrate it.
Kanan obviously thought it was possible.
Sir, if we went in with a small force,
maybe two sg teams...
I'm sorry, major, but I agree with the counselor.
I've gone over the intel we have on this outpost.
A successful attack of any magnitude
is beyond our capabilities.
Come in.
General Hammond...
Teal'c, what is it?
I have been meditating on the possibility of rescuing colonel O'Neill.
I've just been going over the plans of the outpost again.
I just don't see how we'd have any chance of success
against a fortress this well defended,
no matter how big the force.
Agreed.
I believe it would take the power of a Goa'uld mother ship.
Unfortunately, we don't have one of those.
Perhaps not,
butthere are many system lords that do.
What was its name?
Kanan.
There. You remember his name.
What was his mission?
No mission.
Was it to steal the slave from me?
I don't know.
Did kanan believe a slave could know my secrets?
There is something else you are hiding from me.
I sense it.
I feel it.
When are you going to end this?
If you tell me what I wish to know, iwill endthis.
Daniel?
The mind is beginning to fail.
It is time for the sarcophagus,
but as you regain the strength to return here,
consider this...
It will be far worse the nexttime.
Daniel?
Counselor thoran is th reatening to end diplomatic relations.
What did he say?
Among other things I won't mention,
thatthis is precisely the reason
they've been reluctant to share intelligence.
So be it.
That's more or less what I said.
The tok'ra need us right now more than we need them.
Do we expect any response from lord yu?
No, sir.
We know he received the plans to ba'al's outpost
and the message that went along with it,
but we have no way of knowing if he'll act on it.
I believe he will.
Ba'al has keptthe existence of this outpost
from the other system lords.
I still don't understand
how destroying the power generators first
is going to help the colonel.
It will give O'Neill a fighting chance.
Nothing more.
Daniel?
I'm here.
You were gone.
I know. I'm sorry. There was something I had to do,
but I'm back now,
and I promise I'll stay with you until this is over.
It will never be over.
Yes, it will.
Daniel, you have to end this.
Jack, you just have to hang in there a little while longer.
No.
I can't go back in there.
If I go back, I swear to god...
I'll give ba'al what he wants.
I'll tell him.
What?
That he loved her.
Kanan.
He came back for her.
He wanted to save her.
Ba'al doesn't know this.
If he finds out, he'll doto her what he's doing to me.
Daniel, if you don't end this,
I'll tell him.
You won't have to.
It's almost over, Jack.
How?
You were right.
There's always a way out.
Well, at least, there's always a chance.
Your journey isn't over, Jack. Not yet.
What did you do?
I didn't do anything. It was, um, Sam and Teal'c,
and, uh, Jonas too.
What?
They thought of something.
What?
This is it.
All you ever wanted was a fighting chance, Jack.
Now you have it.
If anyone can make it out of here, you can.
Lord yu attacks.
Daniel?
Come with me.
No, he will stop us.
Dr. Fraiser says he'll probably suffer with drawal symptoms
from so much time in a sarcophagus,
but otherwise, she expects a full recovery.
What happened to the woman he went back for?
Her name is shallan. She stayed with the tok'ra.
So she may continue kanan's fight in his name.
H ey...
I'm trying to sleep here.
Sorry, sir.
Glad to see you're okay.
Listen...
That was a good idea you had there.
Actually, sir, we all contributed to it.
Do you need anything, or...
Water.
Sure.
I always seem to be saying goodbye to you.
Yeah, I noticed that.
Why don't you stick around for a while?
I can't, really.
You just did.
Special occasion.
Christmas?
No.
Groundhog day.
No.
I've got my journey, you've got yours?
Something like that, yeah.
Look, I know you don'tthink so right now.
I mean, I know you have your doubts, but...
Because you've been through something
that no one should have to go th rough...
I guess what I'm trying to say is
you're going to be all right.
How do you know?
You're just going to have to trust me.
I can do that.
Are you going to be okay?
I'm going to be fine.
Here you go, sir.
Thanks.
Good night.
Thanks.