I'm sure I'll see you again.
Hey, with any luck, I'll get sick.
With any luck, I'll get sick?
Well, lieutenant rush is a nurse.
She works in the infirmary.
So you were flirting?
Well, I'm thinking of asking her out.
Then you should.
In kelowna, it's common for that request
to be passed on by a friend.
Oh, it is not.
Well, you could at least find out for me
if she'd be receptive.
Jonas, you are such a chicken sh—...
Unscheduled off—world activation.
Who is it?
The Russian team, major, ahead of schedule.
And they're requesting a medical team.
Open the Iris.
Page colonel O'Neill and general Hammond
to the gate room. Yes, sir.
I thought aliens weren't allowed back to the sgc
without prior permission.
They're not.
Carter, what's going on?
Colonel evanov and his team
broughtthis visitor back with them, sir.
Sergei, who the hell is that?
I am alebran.
Alebran has vital information
regarding the Goa'uld nirrti.
What about her?
She is experimenting on my people,
transforming us.
I knew you would want to know
what nirrti was doing to these people,
since it was you who allowed her to go free.
Colonel, what's going on?
Old Sergei broughtthis guy back from 367
without authorization, sir.
You'd better have a damn good reason.
General, sir,
alebran and his people
are innocent victims of nirrti.
I felt certain you would wish to act.
Colonel evanov has promised that you would help us.
Has he now?
Are you in pain?
It's nothing that I cannot endure.
Please, I must know if you will help my people.
Sir, with your permission,
I'd like to take him to isolation room three.
Very well.
Come with me.
We found him near the Stargate
after we performed a recon
of nirrti's fortress,
or I should say, he found us.
Alebran has asked for our help
to save his people being held prisoner inside.
I thought that she was helping us.
We all did,
then I saw one of my people die in such a horrible way,
I realized...
When I ouestioned her methods, she released me.
She let you go?
I was well enough to return home, she said,
butwhen I arrived back in the village,
everyone was dead.
She had lied to us.
Those of us she took away were the last of our people.
She was using us.
Well, you look okay to me.
Please, do not be fooled by my appearance.
I have spentjust as much time within the machine
as the others.
I knowthati have been changed.
Inside I am not like iwas before.
What kind of machine?
It's one that sees inside of us
and allows her to manipulate that which we are made of.
If he's talking about some sort of machine
that can directly alter human DNA in real time...
You believe nirrti
is attempting to create a hok'tar.
I am not familiar with that term.
It means advanced human.
Nirrti is most interested in creating
the perfect human host in order to increase her power.
So she's at it again.
No, sir, this is worse.
Sam's right.
Up to now,
nirrti has been using eugenics,
like with Cassandra's people,
selectively breeding only those
that demonstrated specific genetic attributes.
With a machine that can alter DNA
and a population with which to experiment,
nirrti could create a new host
or even alter the DNA of her current one.
A Goa'uld with the powers of a hok'tar.
Obviously, we can't let that happen.
As you know,
nirrti does not have the power and resources
of the other Goa'uld.
She has only a small number of Jaffa
in her service.
I believe her capture,
or if necessary, her assassination,
is quite possible.
Sir? Agreed.
Can you get us in that fortress?
No. I cannot go back.
We're offering to help your people, alebran.
No, there is no time.
I feel it. Something's happening.
Alebran believes nirrti has the power to kill him,
even here.
What if she does?
Cassan dra.
General, we need to find out
if alebran has a device similarto the one
that nirrti placed in Cassandra.
You mean, like a bomb?
Let's get him into x—ray. Let's move.
No, it is too late.
Breathe deeply. Let's go.
Move!
Come on, let's move.
Take it easy.
What is happening?
Several years ago,
nirrti placed a naquadah device
inside ayoung girl
in order to destroy the sgc.
My team can take him back th rough the Stargate.
No. These devices are designed to detonate
in close proximity to the Stargate.
You have to kill me. Just take it easy.
Kill me. Kill me now!
Give him a sedative, two ccs valium.
Please, something terrible is happening.
Alebran, we need to take a chest x—ray.
No! Get him down.
Please kill me!
Everybody get back!
What happened?
This is Hammond.
I want a Hazmat team to level 22 elevators
immediately.
It's like every cell in his body just broke down.
Nirrti must have written some kind of time delay
right into his DNA.
There's nothing we could have done, sir.
Colonel, how soon can your team be ready?
Right away, sir.
I'd like to take sg—3 with me as backup
very well.
Allow my team to join sg—I, general.
I don't think so, Sergei.
Not so fast, colonel.
Sir?
Lieutenant colonel evanov's team
has gathered valuable intelligence
that could be useful to you.
My team has scouted the entire area, sir.
I can getyou right inside
nirrti's fortress.
Fine.
Get geared up
thank you.
General. Like it or not,
a Russian team is operating out of the sgc.
I've been asked to integrate them more fully
into our own operations.
Does it have to be with my team?
Lieutenant colonel evanov's a fine officer.
I'm sure you'll agree.
You'll be in command.
Yes, sir.
I'll remind him of that.
So this is the path leading to the fortress
guarded by Jaffa.
How many?
Only 10.
All right, evanov, you're with us.
They're well position ed.
We're going to need a diversion.
Carter, Jonas, that's you.
Yes, sir.
Kree Jaffa!
Colonel!
I've got him.
Evanov, stay out here for now.
Watch our six.
Yes, sir.
Colonel.
Please, don't hurt us.
We're not here to hurt anyone.
We've come here to rescue you,
take you from this place.
No. No, we cannot leave.
One step at a time here, Jonas.
Where is nirrti?
She is not here.
Are you expecting her back?
Of course, for our treatments.
My name is Jonas.
I am...
Wodan.
We've come from a place called earth...
To help you,
all of you.
That is not necessary.
Nirrti is helping us.
Excuse me?
Well, she cares for us.
Nirrti is our god.
Nirrti is of a race called the Goa'uld.
They're parasitical beings
that use our kind as hosts.
We are very ill.
Nirrti is curing us of our sickness.
That is most unlikely.
When the god nirrti came,
a great plague had befallen our people.
We were dying.
With the machine...
Nirrti has kept us alive.
Check it out.
Don't take this wrong, friend,
but if this is cured...
My brother alebran once looked as I do now.
In time,
she made him whole again.
Alebran, you say?
Your brother's dead.
Nirrti allowed him to return to our village.
There's no one left alive
at your village.
Alebran told us himself.
What?
Might have been a different alebran.
It's a popular name.
The point is
we need to know exactly when and where
nirrti's coming back.
Very soon,
and when she comes, she will punish you.
Your people were never sick.
Nirrti's been lying to you.
No. No!
The plague ravaged our people
long before she came.
Our village was almost wiped out.
It is possible
she discovered them in this condition
and then took advantage of their situation.
She brought me to this place.
She gave me back my life.
You said nirrti would be returning
for your treatments.
What would happen to you if you didn't getthem?
We would die.
We must receive treatment by tomorrow.
Their mutations might be unstable.
So what happened to alebran
will most likely happen to them, too,
if they don't go back in that machine.
Sir, this is an incredibly advanced
piece of technology.
My guess is that it was built by the ancients.
Can you figure it out?
Not by tomorrow.
Maybe with a few days and a lot of help...
We're going to need nirrti, sir.
Yeah.
Figure out what you can.
I'm going to brief evanov.
Jonas, Teal'c, take these fine folks some place
where they can be comfortable for a while.
He intends to kill her.
What?
You are planning to kill nirrti.
Are you certain, eggar?
Yes, even now.
No.
First, I intend to ask her, in the nicest possible way,
to undo what she's done to you folks.
You're just going to have to trust me.
We came here to help you.
Only because you believe you are responsible
for what has happened to us.
Do what you can.
Colonel.
Nirrti's not home.
She must have left while we were on earth.
Well, apparently, she's coming back.
Iwantto set up an ambush.
I will inform my men.
Your team will be our backup,
and we have to take her alive.
Right now, she's the only one that knows
how to run that machine in there.
Very well.
By th e way,
did you talk to any of the people in there
other than alebran?
No. Why?
Probably nothing.
I'll relieve you in two hours.
This is where you sleep?
Yes.
How did you...
We cannot allow you to harm nirrti.
We have no quarrel with your people,
but I must insist you enter this cage.
And I must insist the same of you.
Wodan, you're making a mistake.
No, it is you who has made the mistake, Jonas.
She is coming.
Jonas, I'm already stymied here.
I could really use your help.
Jonas?
Colonel, Jonas isn't responding on his radio.
Understood.
Jonas? Teal'c?
Evanov, this is sg—I niner, come in.
Carter, stay put. I'm on my way.
Yes, sir.
I'm sure you're aware
that a second shot from this weapon will kill.
This weapon kills on the first shot.
Then why haven't you already fired?
Because I need you alive.
You? Yeah.
I knowthat's kind of hard to believe...
Buti need you to help these people.
But I am helping them.
Yeah, I can see that.
Appearances can be deceiving, colonel O'Neill.
Now, as I said...
Yeah...
Carter?
Sir.
I really, really don't like that woman.
Yes, sir.
Teal'c: O'Neill.
This is an unpleasant surprise.
Indeed.
Wodan's telekinetic.
He took our weapons right out of our hands just by thinking it.
Clearly, nirrti is progressing
in her attempt to create a hok'tar.
Maybe we're too late.
No.
These genetic manipulations are unstable.
She's not there yet.
Eggar's telepathic.
He did know that colonel O'Neill intended on killing nirrti.
That was not my intention.
Who knows what abilities these others possess—...
Enhanced senses, superhuman strength?
Hey, folks?
How you doing? Jack O'Neill, earth.
Listen, originally, we came here to rescue you...
But as you can see, we've run into a bit of a snag,
so if any of you
can bend steel with your bare hands
or happen to be more powerful than a locomotive,
just raise your hand.
Identify yourselves.
Let us know where you are.
Must not know what a locomotive is.
Wood man, buddy.
Listen,
ithinkwe're dealing
with a bit of a misunderstanding.
Do you really think nirrti will keep you alive
with these powers
after she's finished her experiments?
She's using you.
What'd she do to him?
You are next.
Ithinkl'm next.
Nirrti has asked for this one.
And I'm asking you to take me in her place.
No.
All right, look,
if you really can see in my mind,
you know we came here to help you.
I did sense that when you first arrived,
but when I looked deeper into your mind,
I realized that you would sacrifice us all
if necessary to destroy nirrti.
That's not true.
You cannot lie to me.
Come.
At least I'll find out how the machine works.
Major Carter.
I am pleased
to have such an excellent subject.
I might even consider you for my new host.
Over my dead body.
True, that is far more likely.
Now...
Step inside.
Let's see what you are made of.
Colonel, I'm sorry.
I should never have allowed myself
to be captured.
Did you get a message off to your team?
Itried, but my radio—...
Yanked right out of your hand?
Da...
And then, at the same moment,
I was struck by a zatnukatel
that appeared from nowhere.
My team would follow their standing orders
to return to base
if we were out of contact this long.
Perhaps general Hammond will send reinforcements.
Hopefully it won't come to that.
What'd they do to you up there?
I don't know for how long iwas in the machine
or what she did,
but something is different.
We'll get out of this.
Where is major Carter?
Enough.
She has served her purpose.
Bring me the one called Jonas.
Come on.
Hey, fellas, you want to do me a favor?
Go on back and let her know that I'm next.
She should pick me.
Her will is my command.
Yeah, well...
There's your mistake right there.
Jonas.
You didn't see that coming, did you?
Do not attempt that again.
Carter?
Sir...
You made it th rough.
You're going to be all right.
No, sir, I don'tthink I am.
We have not met.
No, buti have heard a lot about you.
You're not human.
I'm human...
I'm just not from earth.
A Goa'uld like yourself took my ancestors from earth
thousands of years ago and enslaved them.
Sadly, it was not I.
Those few thousand years on another world
have changed you more than you know.
Are you in pain?
Something is happening.
I can feel it.
Is there water?
We'll ask.
Try to rest.
I have been attempting to communicate
with the other prisoners,
butthey also believe nirrti is a god.
They will not listen.
He's in pretty bad shape.
He appears to be suffering the same symptoms as alebran.
We've got to get to that guy, that what's his name?
Wodan. No, the other one.
Eggar.
Yeah.
I mean, if he can read my mind, why can't he read nirrti's?
He can't read minds all the time,
otherwise he would have known Jonas was going to jump him.
Perhaps he is afraid to look into the mind
of one he perceives as a god.
What?
Nothing. I'm fine.
Get some rest.
That's an order.
Why did you bring me here?
Because you're different.
How's that?
You are much closer than the others.
With my help,
you could complete the transformation.
And end up looking like those others?
No, I assure you.
You must know that you're capable of much more
than the petty tasks
that life among the tauri can offer.
I like my life the way it is.
I can make you more powerful
than you could imagine.
The powers you have seen in wodan and the others,
only a fraction of what I could give you.
Well, that is...
Definitely the most interesting offer I've had
in a very long time...
But you can't risk giving me those kind of powers
unless you're certain
that I won't use them against you.
Once I share those powers...
We could rule the galaxy together.
What about everyone else?
Unnecessary.
Wow.
I can only imagine what it would be like
to have powers like that.
What would I do?
I guess the first thing iwould do...
Would be to free my friends
and all those other people
you have caged up down there...
And then I would destroy you.
Not necessarily in that order,
butyou getthe idea.
Take him away and bring O'Neill.
Once you see what has happened to the others,
perhaps you will change your mind.
Evanov?
Dead...
Just like alebran.
Yeah, that's right.
Nirrti killed your brother.
Go ahead,
take a look in my mind if you don't believe me.
Better yet,
look into nirrti's head.
That is forbidden. No kidding?
Because she's hiding something.
She is a god. She would know.
She would not know because she is not a god.
O'Neill is next.
Look...
She just killed a good man.
She's going to do the same thing to the rest of us.
Together, you're stronger than she is.
You just don't realize it.
You know, you're right,
I did want to kill her,
but if you'd look into her mind for a split second,
you'd want to do the same thing
for what she's done to your people.
You should not have come here, O'Neill.
Can you undo what you've done to Carter?
If I choose to.
I let you go once.
We made a deal. I honored it.
I told you then, I would not have done the same.
Fix what you've done to Carter, let the rest of my team go,
that's all I ask,
and you can do whatever you want to me.
Yes, colonel, I can.
Stop!
What he says
is true.
My brother? She murdered him.
She has murdered hundreds of our people,
and she intends to do the same to us.
Jaffa, kree!
I command you!
Wodan...
Stop
I am your god!
We need her alive.
Wodan, she's the only one who can help your people.
I can make you more powerful than your wildest dreams.
Why did you do that?
She deserved to die.
She was Carter's only chance.
Not so, O'Neill.
Before she died,
I looked into nirrti's mind
andtook whati needed.
Hurry, while there is still time.
Sir...
It is done.
You are as you were before.
Thank you.
Yes, thank you.
We can all be as we were before,
nowthatyou have shown us the truth.
Hail, Dorothy.
The wicked witch is dead.
It's a movie, Margaret Hamilton...
The point is with nirrti gone,
you can get back to your lives,
rebuild your village.
We can help you out with food and supplies,
get you back on track.
And once we getto know each other better,
I'd really like a chance to study this machine.
As soon as we have made our people whole again,
we intend to destroy it.
Butthis is an incredibly advanced
piece of technology.
Carter?
Don't you think it would be for the best?
Yes, sir, I guess it would.
To oz?
It's more of that movie.
Thank you.