Once you walk through that door, there is no turning back.
Oh, I understand, Brian,
and I'm not having any doubts.
Alec, it is not justyour credibility at stake here.
You're right, there.
It's the leaders of the Democratic free world that should be worried.
Think about the people who work for this company.
The shareholders.
I am, Brian.
They have a right to know the truth,
as does everybody else.
Trust me.
We're doing the rightthing.
Thank you all for coming.
As you all know,
about five months ago,
our planet suffered a horrible tragedy.
Over 2,000 American servicemen and women were killed
when a meteor shower disrupted global communications
and hit a United States naval carrier group
on maneuvers in the pacific ocean.
I'm here today
to challenge the facts of that incident
as they have been conveyed to the general public.
On the day in question,
none of our satellites
detected a meteor shower.
Hey, what's going on?
Sh h.
Now, I don't know how many governments
around the world
are in on this,
buti do know we are being lied to,
and the truth is being covered up
uh—oh.
Ladies and gentlemen,
there is life beyond our world.
There are aliens out there,
and they have a technology far beyond ours,
andthey have been
intervening in our existence
for ouite some time.
I have proof.
And I am giving the governments
of all the nations
that are aware of this
24 hours to reveal the truth...
Or I'm going to do it for them.
Thank you.
Well...
There you go.
For those of you living on another planet
for the past 20 years,
Alec Colson, age 42, net worth over $60 billion,
runs a global empire of companies
including communications, biotechnology,
aerospace, and aviation.
He's number eight on the fortune 500.
He personally holds
over 200 proprietary patents—...
Shut it off.
You know who he is.
Some of us better than others.
We worked together briefly, sir.
Colson aviation developed
the multi—engine control systems for the f—302.
Colson didn't know whatthey were for, of course.
But he is a brilliant engineer.
He's also a little nuts, isn't he?
You've test—flown experimental aircraft.
We all go through the gate.
This isn't about us.
Well, in away, it is.
The point is, sir,
he's not some loony cult leader.
People are taking him seriously.
So what do we think he knows?
He owns several earth observer
and weather satellites.
It's possible they picked something up—...
Pictures of Anubis' fleet in orbit,
or the battle over Antarctica.
What I don't understand
is how it could have come this far.
He's gotten the "national security" speech
from the Pentagon several times.
Apparently, the president has called him personally.
Why not merely tell him the truth?
His personality was profiled
and he was deemed a security risk.
For obvious reasons.
Apparently, his father was a newspaper reporter
who was jailed during the McCarthy era,
and he believes pretty strongly in the freedom of speech
and the rights for people to know what their government is doing at all times.
Leaking classified information could be considered treason.
All right, see if he can be convinced
not to go public.
Without actually telling him anything?
Right.
We've got all the major networks,
over a dozen live radio broadcasts
and reporters from newspapers—...
Both legit and tabloids—...
All waiting for the next shoe to drop.
Brian, calm down.
Our stock price is trading down 25%.
We overextended ourselves
competing for that last round of contracts.
That stock price is the onlything
covering our debt,
and you are alienating our biggest client.
We're going to have to start
selling off assets justto—...
Why does that matter, Brian,
given what we know?
I don't know.
I guess I'm just trying to hold onto some shred of reality.
Well, you, along with everyone else,
are going to have to start dealing
with a whole new reality from now on.
What if the world can't handle it?
What if Washington's right
and we should just keep this thing in the bag?
Trust me. The truth is always right.
We've already caused mass hysteria.
You have no idea how much chaos this could cause.
Alec... they're here.
Oh, show them in, would you?
It'll be okay.
Lieutenant colonel.
Alec. Radiant as ever.
Daniel Jackson. Oh, doc, I'm a big fan.
Really?
Yes, I've been following you
since your early career.
The pyramids as landing pads for alien ships?
Fascinating.
That was a long time ago.
Yeah, what have you been up to since?
It's like you just dropped off the map.
I've been around.
Oh... I beg your pardon.
May I introduce Brian volger?
Thank you for seeing us today.
Well, shall we?
Why don't we start
with something I'm sure we can all agree on, hmm?
That meteor shower was a cover story,
and a surprisingly weak one atthat.
Although, under the circumstances,
I'm not so sure I'd have come up with a better one.
What makes you say that?
I'm guessing that's one of ours?
We lost contact
with 12 communications and weather—mapping satellites
for over six hours on the day in question,
but once we got them back online,
they were able to transmit images stored in the buffers.
Images like these can be faked.
Or made to seem fake.
I know why you're here, Sam.
The Pentagon wants me to know that people like you
are going to be trying to me look like a fraud.
People like me?
Very smart people.
Oh, we have more than this.
Now, obviously, I don't know everything, but I do have a rightto,
as does everyone else.
Anything we can say to stop you?
Believe me, I've tried.
Carter.
Sam, it's Julia Donovan.
How did you getthis number?
I have my sources.
Our camera truck
just caught you and a nice—looking young man
going into Colson industries' head office in Seattle an hour ago.
I just saw the feed.
And?
Just wondering if you had an official comment.
Yeah, I think your coverage
is a little one—sided.
Come on, Sam.
Colson's going to out the whole operation.
You don't really think Washington can contain this?
We'll see.
Look, I don't have to remind you
about the non—disclosure agreement you signed, do I?
The reporter from the prometheus incident.
Colson doesn't seem to be worried about going to jail.
Well, he hasn't done anything illegal yet.
We had an agreement.
You said if something big
was going to break, you would call me first.
I will, okay?
Bye—bye.
I've got 13 messages from Emmett bregman.
The switch board's been jammed
ever since the press conference.
Every crackpot in the world is calling.
Well, I've arranged security
for all of you and your families.
Do you really think we need to be worried?
I'd be more worried about the things we still don't know yet.
I'm trying to convince him it's not too late.
It is too late, Brian.
Too late for the world to know
there was a large—scale
alien attack against our planet
which was barely thwarted.
Too late for the general public
to realize they've been lied to
bytwo different elected administrations
about the very nature of our existence.
So we're going public with everything?
I was really hoping the feds would come clean.
I can't believe Washington hasn't done more
to try and stop us.
Some sort of legal injunction.
That would legitimize our claims.
No, no, they're obviously going to try to play this
as if we can't be taken seriously.
We're one of the largest corporations in the world.
And we're telling the truth.
Alec, it doesn't matter
who we are or how right we are.
They can stop us if they really want to.
Come on, Brian.
What are they going to do, hmm?
Have me killed?
Alec Colson...
Well, he's got to have something more significant
than the pictures.
I'm going over government contracts
assigned to Colson's companies
over th e last few years.
I haven't got through them all yet,
butthere's quite a few
loosely related to r & d of alien technologies
that we procured off—world.
We'll now head to Colson industries.
Welcome.
Thank you for coming.
24 hours, to the minute.
Yesterday, itold you of our belief
in the existence of intelligent life
beyond our planet.
I also told you that we believe
several governments, including our own, have known about this
and have been concealing the information
for quite some time now.
Yesterday,
I challenged those governments
to come clean, reveal the truth.
We got only silence...
Which gives me no choice
butto presentto you
what evidence I have.
How do I know for sure
that alien life really does exist?
Ladies and gentlemen, seeing is believing.
Well, I'd call that something.
The world is in a frenzy
after yesterday's startling revelation
of what appeared to be a live alien
by billionaire industrialist Alec Colson.
Thus far, there has been no official statement
from the white house
and sources inside Colson industries
promise thatthere is definitely more to come.
Okay. Thank you, sergeant.
Well, we just got a message back
from Thor.
As far as he knows, there are no asgard currently on earth.
Well, loki was here for years, conducting experiments
without the high council knowing about it.
Okay, here's a possibility.
What if it wasn't really an asgard?
Looked like one. Didn't sound like one.
It didn't say anything. That's my point.
Colson wrapped things up
pretty quickly without taking any questions.
It was a perfect likeness.
Imagery of little gray aliens
have been commonplace on earth for years.
For that matter, Colson could have a picture.
So not a real asgard?
No asgard we know would allow himself to be used that way.
It did look a little vacant.
Still...
As much as he wants the whole truth,
I don't think Colson would perpetrate a hoax to get it.
Th en what was it?
I don't know.
Th e n etworks all want interviews.
Too bad our friend can't talk.
Well, we know he's capable.
The mris show a larynx nottoo different from ours,
but he doesn't seem to have anything to say.
They also want full access
for independent medical
and scientific personnel to verify
it's really what we say it is.
How are we supposed to convince the world
of alien intelligence
when this guy doesn't seem to have any?
We can't just trotthis thing out on television
with wild claims
we aren't going to be able to back up.
Granted, it's an amazing genetic experiment,
but we don't even know
thatthe thing is really alien.
What else could it be?
All we know is the DNA came from the department of defense.
Look, we're trying to build a circumstantial case here.
The more questions we can raise,
the more the burden of proof is going to shiftto Washington.
Sooner or later, they're going to have to
respond to the public pressure.
Meanwhile, we stay quiet.
The media's going nuts over this whole thing,
so let's just sit tight and see what happens.
Well, Sam was right.
There's something different about Colson's asgard.
It seems that a Colson biotech research company
was given a copy
of asgard DNA for sequencing.
We were trying to help with their cloning problem.
Colson grew a clone?
They weren'ttold it was alien DNA.
It was meantto be a blind study,
but they obviously tooktheir research a little further
than the contract specified.
Asgard DNA is programmed
to grow clones to maturity in just a few months,
but they're essentially an empty shell
until an existing consciousness can be transferred into them.
It did not speak because it was not capable.
Exactly.
Th ey've probably spent what time th ey've had with it
teaching it how to walk.
Well, the Pentagon has lost all Patience.
What are they going to do?
They want us to put a stop to it.
How?
We're calling in a marker.
Yep.
Calling in a marker.
Greetings.
Excuse me.
It's gone. What do you mean?
Just disappeared right out of the lab.
The alien, computers, everything.
How? What about our security—...
Nobody took it.
It disappeared.
We were standing rightthere.
There was a bright flash of light,
and it was all just gone.
All right, have Ron send out the decoy car,
and getthe plane ready
for a trip to Washington.
Have it ready by the time I get to the hangar.
Are you ready?
Not really.
Try notto think about the camera. Focus on me.
It's not that.
I respect Alec Colson.
I don't like being asked
to discredit a man who has every right to want the truth.
Butyou've been ordered to do this. Yeah.
Well, if you want to go againstthose orders, feel free.
I'll go with it.
In five, four...
Three, two...
We're here with lieutenant colonel Samantha Carter
of the United States air force.
Welcome. Thank you.
Your background is astrophysics,
and you're one of the military's
leading scientific researchers.
We're all very eager to finally hear some reaction
from Washington
regarding the revelation made by Alec Colson.
Well, first of all, I can assure people
that if aliens really existed
and were visiting the planet,
we would know about it.
So are you saying his claims have no merit?
We all saw an alien on live television.
Yes, well, Hollywood's been helping us
see things on TV. For a long time now.
Are you saying the alien wasn't real?
It depends on what you mean by "real."
Notice she hasn't actually lied once.
I can show you some advanced methods for creating
realistic 3—d images
that we've been working on.
By all means.
We've been experimenting with technology
that makes it possible
for us to create anything you can imagine, virtually.
Wow. That looks just like the alien
Alec Colson introduced to us.
Greetings, people of earth.
That's amazing. He looks so real.
Though I look real,
I have been created
through the use of advanced holographic technology.
That's just incredible.
It's just a projection.
You'll probably be seeing technology like this
in theme park rides in a few years.
Oh... she's good.
Not quite the exclusive I had in mind,
but it'll still do huge numbers.
You're hilarious. After everything you've been through,
you still care about ratings.
How did you do it?
I've seen visual effects before, Sam.
I mean, this was some sort of...
This was some sort of alien technology, wasn't it?
What is it?
10 minutes ago, Alec Colson's private plane
was forced into a emergency landing
after almost crashing on take—off from seatac.
The plane suffered sudden depressurization
and loss of engine power,
but was able to land without serious incident.
Excuse me, Sam. We've got to go to the air with this.
I need something on Colson's wife and his daughter.
They died in a plane crash when he was 24.
That's why he started Colson aviation.
Let's go.
Carter. Sam, it's Alec Colson.
Are you okay?
N ews travels fast.
It was close.
Brian's still white as a sheet.
How did you getthis number?
Oh, I have my sources.
You know, the ground crew here found evidence
the plane had been tampered with.
Someone tried to kill you?
Seems that way.
Any ideas?
You thinki know?
Why would I go on TV. To publicly discredit you
if I knew you were about to be assassinated?
To make sure it didn't look like Washington had anything to do with it.
And a fine job you did, too, by the way.
I'm sorry. I was following orders.
Yeah, I know.
Don't worry, Sam.
I don't believe for a second you were in on it.
If it was our government, I'm sure you were just a pawn.
That doesn't make me feel any better.
Look, Alec, I can assure you—...
It's okay, it's okay.
It wasn't my first rough landing.
I'm sure it won't be my last.
I won't be stopped, Sam.
I promise you, one way or another,
the world is going to learn the truth.
How about a hyperdrive for the prometheus?
That is something I must discuss
with the high council.
Thor, come on.
You said you wanted to get something nice for the president.
Carter.
Sir, anything on who might've tried to kill Colson?
It wasn't us.
We think that Colson may have
fragments of downed Goa'uld ships
recovered from the antarctic.
A subsidiary of his was involved
in the salvage and the cleanup.
Are we just going to keep trying to discreditthe man?
I mean, aren't we the ones
a little delusional to think that we can
cover up an attack of this scale?
What's th e alternative?
How about tell the truth?
I mean to Colson.
I know he's been profiled and deemed a security risk
and obviously that's an accurate assessment,
but what have we got to lose at this point?
He's already trying to go public.
Let's show him why it's so important to keep the secret.
Besides, think of the benefits
of having a man with his resources on our side.
Well, Thor and I are meeting with the president
in five minutes.
I'll bring it up.
Five minutes?
Oh, yeah.
Right.
2:00, we go live...
With the pictures, pieces of the alien ship,
everything we've got.
Alec, they tried to kill us.
You think that didn't work in our favor?
Dying doesn't work in our favor!
Okay... what just happened?
Well, in layman's terms,
we beamed you up...
And then down again.
Where am I?
The Cheyenne mountain complex, Colorado.
You know Daniel, of course.
Yeah. Hi.
And... this is Thor.
Greetings.
Ah, so this is a real one.
Yep.
Well, what happened to the clone?
It will become a host to an asgard consciousness
whose physical body is failing.
Okay.
Now I must take my leave.
General O'Neill said he will see you all tomorrow.
What—...
I want to show you something.
We call it a Stargate.
I'm okay, Brian.
I promise you, I'm fine.
I'll be back in a couple of days.
I've got to go. All right. Bye.
Ready? Whoa. Look at you.
Yeah, soldier Sam.
Oh, I get a uniform too?
Yep.
All right.
So, uh, where are we going?
P4x—650.
We have an off—world base there.
And how far away is that?
640 light years.
Really?
Let's go.
Didn't feel athing.
You were demolecularized.
Welcome to the Alpha site.
Alec Colson, captain shefield.
Well, it's... it's nice.
Our last Alpha site was destroyed in an attack.
We decided to build this one inside a mountain
like the sgc.
The conditions are a bit spartan,
but it's our home away from home.
I guess I was just expecting
something a little more, I don't know, otherworldly.
Now, that... That's more like it.
It's called the f—302.
Alien—human hybrid.
Andthis is what the m.E.C.S were for.
And thanks to you,
it's capable of leaving the atmosphere
and returning.
We used a number of these
to defend earth five months ago.
This is just one of the many advancements we've made
as a result of technology
procured through the Stargate.
You want to take a ride?
Brian, what are you doing?
Alec wants all the evidence
that we have about the alien coverup
duplicated and secured off premises.
You can get started on whatever we have left
on the clone research.
Okay.
Vogler.
I told you, I don't know where he is.
I have a meeting with the s.E.C. This afternoon.
I understand.
Don't worry.
It'll work.
Beautiful.
Yeah.
Must be hard,
keeping all this secret.
I don't know how you do it.
I think of all the fear it would cause,
the potential chaos.
Ah, but what about all the greater meaning
you could bring to people's lives,
just knowing that all of this is——is out here?
What's out here is a enemy so advanced, so evil,
it's a miracle
we haven't been wiped out or enslaved yet.
We've been very lucky so far.
I think most people would have a hard time
living with the threat
of constant, impending doom.
Oh, right, the old "if you had cancer" argument.
Would you want to know you were going to die
or would you rather live out your final days
in blissful ignorance?
Yeah, I guess I don't really buy it either.
Well, I'd rather know, try to cure it,
and if I couldn't do that,
then I'd try to make my final days
as meaningful as possible.
You want a turn?
I thought I was going to have to ask.
Switching to co—pilot control.
Go ahead. She's all yours.
So, what do you think?
Amazing!
She maneuvers like an fa—22
and feels like a 747!
That's the inertial dampeners.
All right. Let's try this.
Alec...
Alec, pull up!
Flight, this is Alpha command.
Is everything okay up there?
It is now. We're fine, thanks.
Bringing her back in.
Well, that was reckless.
Ah, the 302 can handle it.
I know.
I may not have known its name,
buti helped you build it, remember?
It was a joyride.
Itookyou up for a little fun.
This isn't a game, Sam.
What you guys are doing up here,
this is life and death, for all of us.
We know that.
It wasn't much fun
feeling out of control like that, was it?
You don't have to make your point
with my life.
Oh, come on.
We were never going to crash.
Unlike my plane back on earth.
I told you, we had nothing to do with it.
Yeah, well, someone did.
And if you think that or——or any of this
is going to prevent me from telling the world
whatthey have a right to know...
Well, you're dead wrong.
Alec, there's something else I need to talk to you about.
There's a clandestine group
of private businessmen like yourself
who where informed of the Stargate program
over six years ago
by rogue elements of the n.I.D.
We've tried to identify them and bring them down,
but they are very highly connected.
Former vice—president Kinsey
has been linked to them.
Now, instead of going public, like you,
they've been funding various secret en deavors,
all aimed at controlling alien technology
for their own purposes.
Which are?
You'd have to ask them.
Personal profit,
or maybe they think they can do a better job
of defending the planet than we can.
Why are you telling me all this?
Because I'm guessing that's who tried to kill you.
Th ey'll never get control of the gate
if the world finds out.
When I was young,
all I ever dreamed about
was flying.
I had every make of aeroplane
ever built hanging from my ceiling.
And th en... I take it you know
about my wife and daughter.
One of the downsides of celebrity.
We really do have no secrets.
Anyway, after the crash,
ivowed to make flying
as safe as it possibly could be.
I really thoughtthat I could do it better than anyone else.
You have made a difference.
But nothing's perfect, is it?
No.
Intergalactic travel,
advanced alien civilizations,
humans living on other worlds.
I do realize that there may be
bad guys out there, too...
You have no idea how bad.
But in the end, we have to believe in humanity.
I mean, who knows?
This might bring us all together as a planet.
If we knew itwould play out that way, then...
You're afraid that knowing about the Stargate
would fracture the world more than it already is.
Yeah.
Not just stop us fighting the Goa'uld,
but end things for good.
We've seen it happen on other planets like earth.
In one case,
public revelation of the Stargate
caused an apocalyptic world war.
Oh, that would be the ultimate irony, wouldn't it?
You secretly save the world from destruction
at the hands of alien invaders
only for us to destroy ourselves
out of fear, after the fact.
Change your mind?
Not really.
I don'tthink it would happen.
And if atruth of this magnitude,
about the very nature of human existence,
could lead us to destroy ourselves...
Then I'd say we would deserve it, wouldn't you?
Investigators now believe
that Alec Colson created the alien hoax
in order to divert attention
from his real corporate financial problems.
Colson, who's still made no public statement—...
Corporate financial problems?
What's she talking about?
The story broke about an hour ago.
The president's halted trading on the markets.
Your company's stock had fallen 80%
and the dow was down over 500 points on the whole.
What's going on?
The s.E.C. Is investigating you for securities fraud.
That's ridiculous.
They're saying there are irregularities
in your company's last two financial statements.
Why, it's not true.
Come on!
The timing of this...
I'm being set up.
What's she doing here?
She wants to help, Brian.
Oh, good. Why? Does she have atime machine
so we can go back and undo everything?
Brian... Brian, what's going on?
You wouldn't listen.
You wouldn't stop
so you admit you did this?
Oh, you go off on your adventures.
You fly your planes.
You drop by every now and then
with a bright idea.
Ever since we were kids...
You're always biting off more than you can chew,
and I'm always having to bail you out.
So you doctored the books?
I had to! I had to do something.
I told you.
We were overextended,
the stock price was the only thing
keeping us afloat,
and you wouldn't listen.
No, I don't believe this.
Alec, who—...
Who do you think told the s.E.C.?
Why? Why now?
What difference could it make, Brian?
Once the truth came out—...
Alec, I almost died in that plane, too.
I still have a family.
They tried to kill us. Who?
Did you really think they were going to let you
tell a secret like this? Brian, what are you—...
They call themselves the trust.
Look, all I know is...
They're very powerful...
And they think that Washington
abdicated its duty to protect the planet,
maybe even caused the problem in the first place.
They see it as their responsibility
to step in.
We can fix this.
It's too late. It's done.
It can't be undone.
Brian, we'll both go to jail.
Yeah, but my family will be safe.
What about the rest of the people
that work for this company?
What about their families?
Why weren't you thinking about them
three days ago?
How did they know?
How did the people who threatened you
know that you'd cooked the books?
How did they know thatthere would be enough
to indict both you and Alec?
They got to you six months ago.
Alec, they kn ew what you had.
Don't ask me how.
They had to make sure
they could stop you.
You were wrong, Alec.
True or not...
This shouldn't come out.
The world's not ready.
There must be something we can do.
You signed false financial statements.
No, I mean about the people who tried to kill us.
All I know is that they operate above the law
and that th ey've th reaten ed people's lives before.
Then we have to bring them down.
We've tried. Believe me.
Well, we have to try again.
So Colson has convinced vogler
to arrange a meeting with his contact
and wear a wire.
Hopefully, we'll get enough
to connect him to the rogue n.I.D.,
and then flip him for someone bigger.
We're coordinating with agent Barrett.
At the very least, it may restore Colson's public image.
Well, yeah, especially if itturns out
that someone in direct corporate competition
with Colson industries is pulling the strings.
Unfortunately,
without further evidence,
Brian volger's word alone
is not going to be enough to undo all the damage
already done to the company.
What of Brian vogler's safety?
He's under close surveillance.
His family has been taken into protective custody.
Well...
I guess the secret is safe again.
For now.
O'Neill.
You know, iwouldn't count Colson out just yet.
He still feels really strongly
that the world should know the truth.
All right.
Thank you.
Surveillance just found Brian vogler dead in his bathroom.
What?
How?
He hanged himself.
Alec.
I'm so sorry about Brian.
I killed him.
Might as well have
putthe gun against his head
and pulled the trigger myself.
You couldn't have known.
You saw how scared he was.
I know what his family meantto him.
He was never going to do anything to putthem in any danger.
Alec...
He was my best friend.
He betrayed you. No.
I betrayed him.
Why don't you putthe gun down?
My life's over, Sam.
Everything iworked for,
everything I believed in, held to be true...
Still exists.
Apparently, congress is looking into providing relief.
The companies, the employees will survive.
While I goto jail for something I didn't do?
Back on the Alpha site,
you said, no matter what, you would rather make
whatever time you had left meaningful.
I'm here to give you that chance.
How?
By making all the indictments against me
just disappear?
I was thinking more along the lines of making you disappear.
Problem with a guy like me.
No place on earth I can hide.
Who's talking about earth?
Oh, no.
I couldn't let you do that.
Believe me, I wouldn't be here
without the approval of my superiors.
The president wasn't responsible
for what happened to you, but he's also not sorry
that you were publicly discredited.
Please, Alec, come with me.
You can still make a difference.
"He who fights and runs away..."
"Lives to fight another day."
And no one will ever know.
Welcome to my world.