STARGATE SG1
Episode 321
"CRYSTAL SKULL"
By
Brad Wright
We see an enormous pyramid and the MALP travels along a walkway
towards it. Meanwhile, Jack, Sam, Daniel and Teal'c are in the
control room watching the video playback.
CARTER
This is well over a thousand metres
high.
O'NEILL
And as pyramids go, that's.... big?
TEAL'C
I know of no goa'uld structure of that
magnitude.
DANIEL
Definitely Mayan. This is a major find;
I have to see this.
O'NEILL
Any signs of life there?
CARTER
There is a breathable atmosphere Sir
but no complex life signs.
The MALP goes into the pyramid and we see an enormous cavern
with a walkway leading to something in the middle.
CARTER
This *is* a major find. *I* have to
see this.
O'NEILL
You too?
CARTER
Well look at these readings. Sir, these
are leptons.
O'NEILL
Get out.
CARTER
Well that means something inside this
pyramid is slowing down neutrinos. Normally
neutrinos pass right through ordinary
matter no matter how dense. I mean something
like 500 million billion just passed
through you
O'NEILL
No matter how dense?
CARTER
A material that slows neutrinos could
change everything we know about physics,
the formation of the universe.
DANIEL
Wait a minute Sam. Get, ah get closer.
CARTER
I can't, the MALP's too big to cross
the span.
DANIEL
Then zoom in. On that.
TEAL'C
It appears to be a human skull.
DANIEL
No that's a crystal skull.
CARTER
How do you know?
DANIEL
Because it's exactly like the one found
in 1971 in Belize. By my grandfather.
Opening Titles
Briefing room
Daniel is standing by a projection screen showing pictures of
various crystal skulls. Jack, Sam, Janet and Hammond are sat
around the table.
DANIEL
I could name at least a dozen different
crystal skulls from various parts of
the world but the skull that Nick discovered
in Belize was unique.
O'NEILL
Nick?
DANIEL
Ah yeah. The, ah, great explorer. The
not so great grandfather Nicholas Ballard.
He preferred being called Nick, even
when I was a kid. It was. anyway ah
the point is that no one can explain
how the skull Nick discovered was carved,
from a single piece of crystal, against
the grain, given the technology of the
day. He claimed that it possessed a
certain power.
HAMMOND
What kind of power?
DANIEL
That if one were to look into the eyes
of the skull, one would be teleported
to see aliens.
TEAL'C
Your grandfather saw these aliens.
DANIEL
So he insisted to the entire academic
community.
FRAISER
I take it his claim didn't go over very
well?
DANIEL
As you might imagine, no. He tried for
years under controlled conditions to
make the skull teleport him again but
he never could.
O'NEILL
Doesn't mean he wasn't right.
CARTER
The academic community didn't believe
your theory that the pyramids were landing
sites for alien space ships either
O'NEILL
We have to see this.
HAMMOND
I'll authorise a standard recon mission.
FRAISER
Colonel, I can only guess at the effect
this type of radiation may have on the
human body. I recommend limited exposure,
ten, fifteen minutes at most.
DANIEL
Wait a minute, that's not enough time.
I mean there has to be some sort of
radiation suit or.
O'NEILL
Hey! If you'd been listening you know
that nintendos pass through everything.
DANIEL
I heard.
O'NEILL
Everything.
P7X 377
SG1 walks into the pyramid.
O'NEILL
Whoa!
CARTER
Muon radiation is increasing.
O'NEILL
Unhealthy?
CARTER
I don't think so Sir, not if it stays
at these levels.
TEAL'C
Whoever the builders are, they would
appear to be a formidable race.
DANIEL
You could fit every pyramid on earth
inside this thing and still have room
to spare.
O'NEILL
Could you imagine heating this place?
They walk across a walkway towards the crystal skull.
O'NEILL
Major. Start the clock.
Daniel looks at the skull on a pedestal.
DANIEL
It's identical to the one Nick discovered
in Belize.
TEAL'C
Can you determine if it is a means of
transport, as your grandfather believed?
DANIEL
Ahh, I can't be sure, there's no writings
of any kind on the pedestal.
CARTER
This cavern must act like some sort
of containment bottle.
DANIEL
It's no wonder Nick was so fascinated
by.
CARTER
If I can get a sample of the substance
that's slowing down these neutrinos,
we can change the face of physics.
DANIEL
It's like a living thing, it's.
O'NEILL
Wonder how far down that is?
The skull starts to glow.
TEAL'C
Daniel Jackson!
CARTER
Sir, radiation is spiking. It's at 300%.
O'NEILL
What?
CARTER
400.
O'NEILL
All right, that's it. We're out of here.
Daniel?
The skull emits a light that seems to envelop Daniel. Teal'c
zats it and Daniel is thrown backwards while the light disappears.
O'NEILL
Where'd he go?
Teal'c walks to the pedestal and appears to walk through Daniel's
body lying on the ground.
TEAL'C
He seemed to disappear.
CARTER
Sir these readings are off the scale
now. If we don't leave here soon, we're.
Carter collapses and O'Neill catches her and turns to run back
to the Stargate.
O'NEILL
Teal'c, get outta there!
The SGC
TECH
Incoming traveller Sir. It's SG1.
HAMMOND
Open the iris.
The Gateroom
Sam, Jack and Teal'c collapse on the ramp.
HAMMOND
Get a medical team in here. Where's
Doctor Jackson?
They don't answer.
The Infirmary
FRAISER
He's coming to Sir. (about Jack.)
O'NEILL
Carter? Daniel?
FRAISER
She's still unconscious. Teal'c is better
off than both of you, his symbiote is
helping him. It was close Colonel, if
you hadn't left when you did..
O'NEILL
Hot.
FRAISER
Yes, I know. We're trying to keep your
temperature down. The muon radiation
affected your hypothalamus. Essentially
your internal thermostat went haywire.
Your respiration, heartbeat and your
temperature have been fluctuating wildly.
O'NEILL
No kidding.
HAMMOND
As for Doctor Jackson, Colonel, he never
returned with you.
TEAL'C
He is no longer there General Hammond.
The skull enveloped him in an energy
field. I fired my zatnikatel but it
was too late. He seemed to disappear.
HAMMOND
What?
P7X 377
Daniel is lying on the pedestal seemingly unconscious.
The SGC
Control Room
HAMMOND
Pan the camera left again. Do the infra
red sensors detect any sign of Doctor
Jackson?
TECH
No Sir.
Teal'c walks in.
HAMMOND
You should be in the infirmary. (To
Teal'c)
TEAL'C
I am well again General Hammond.
HAMMOND
Not according to Doctor Fraiser.
TEAL'C
Nicholas Ballard believed the crystal
skull to be a teleportation device.
Recovering the skull may help us to
determine the location to which he was
teleported.
HAMMOND
The MALP telemetry suggests the radiation
levels are still too high.
TEAL'C
My symbiote provides me with a greater
tolerance against the effects of radiation.
HAMMOND
And if that thing zaps you to wherever
it sent Doctor Jackson?
TEAL'C
Then I will have succeeded in locating
him.
P7X 377
Teal'c runs across the bridge to collect the crystal skull.
DANIEL
Teal'c! What happened? Where is everybody?
(Teal'c ignores him and runs back across
the bridge through Daniel.) You just
ran right through me. TEAL'C! (Teal'c
stops and looks back) What the hell
is going on?
The SGC
Teal'c steps back through the Gate and Daniel just makes it through.
DANIEL
Hey!
HAMMOND
Well done Teal'c.
TEAL'C
Regrettably there was no sign of Daniel
Jackson.
DANIEL
So I take it nobody else can see me
either?
HAMMOND
Doctor Rothman is awaiting the artifact
in Lab 3c. (To Siler)
SILER
Yes Sir.
TEAL'C
Major Carter will also want to study
it.
HAMMOND
As soon as she's fully recovered.
DANIEL
Recovered from what? What happened?
Infirmary
Teal'c and Daniel walk in. They go to Sam's bed.
FRAISER
She's gonna be fine Teal'c. They're
exposure wasn't long enough to cause
any permanent damage.
O'NEILL
DOC!
FRAISER
You can protest all you want Colonel
but it will be a while till you get
your strength back. So relax. Ah. Doctors
orders.
Teal'c has also walked over from Sam's bed.
O'NEILL
Napoleonic power monger. News?
TEAL'C
Daniel Jackson was nowhere in the vicinity
of the pyramid.
O'NEILL
What the hell happened to him?
TEAL'C
I do not believe the skull is a weapon
O'Neill.
DANIEL
Well you're right about that, it's not
a weapon.
TEAL'C
It is indeed a teleportation device.
I believe the artifact itself .
DANIEL
No something else happened.
TEAL'C
Doctor Rothman is now studying it.
O'NEILL
Rothman couldn't figure out an ashtray.
The guy we need working on that skull
is Daniel.
TEAL'C
It is he whom we endeavor to locate,
O'Neill.
O'NEILL
Look I'm sick of laying around. Help
me up.
TEAL'C
Doctor Fraiser believes you are not
strong enough to undertake such a mission.
(Jack tries to get up and hits the floor
like a sack of potatoes.) Doctor Fraiser
is usually correct in such matters.
(He picks up Jack and drops him on the
bed.)
O'NEILL
Thank you. (muffled)
TEAL'C
You are welcome O'Neill.
Lab 3c
DANIEL
Okay, you can do this Robert, I know
you can. Focus on the Mayan legends.
The lost pyramids of Belize. The Ballard
skull. That's where the answer is.
ROTHMAN
Well, it's a crystal skull.
HAMMOND
We knew that Doctor.
ROTHMAN
It's almost identical to the Nicholas
Ballard skull in the Smithsonian.
DANIEL
He doesn't know it was found on P7X
377.
ROTHMAN
Actually the craftsmanship is very impressive.
It's probably made in Germany, early
1900's. What I don't understand is what
it has to do with Daniel being missing.
TEAL'C
We believe it to be a teleportation
device.
ROTHMAN
Are you serious?
DANIEL
That's good Robert. Be skeptical.
HAMMOND
We were hoping your archaeological expertise
could help provide insight into where
he may have been sent.
ROTHMAN
It's a skull.
DANIEL
Not that skeptical.
TEAL'C
I myself witnessed the artifact create
a tremendous field of energy that engulfed
Daniel Jackson.
ROTHMAN
It's made of crystal not plutonium.
I don't see how this could..
HAMMOND
Humor me Doctor. I want a full report
within 12 hours.
ROTHMAN
Yes Sir, I was just.
TEAL'C
Do not look directly into its eyes.
ROTHMAN
Okay.
DANIEL
Don't let me down Robert.
ROTHMAN
Teleportation device? I. What do you
think? (To Siler)
SILER
I think you're gonna get fired.
Teal'c's quarters.
Teal'c is meditating.
DANIEL
Teal'c. In case I don't ever get the
chance to say this. If you hadn't have
come back for me, I might have been
stuck in that place forever. Thank you.
Teal'c opens his eyes.
TEAL'C
Is there someone present?
DANIEL
Yes. It's me. It's Daniel. I'm right
here. I'm right here. Just don' t walk...through
me. It's very disconcerting. You sensed
I was in the room, you just can't see
or hear me which is a little frustrating
as you may imagine.
Lab 3c
Rothman is looking into the eyes of the skull.
CARTER
STOP! That's exactly what Daniel was
doing when he was absorbed by the energy
field.
DANIEL
That's what I've been trying to tell
him.
ROTHMAN
I know that. I was trying to prove something.
FRAISER
Prove what?
DANIEL
That the skull didn't do this.
CARTER
You don't think the skull is responsible
for what happened to Daniel, do you?
ROTHMAN
I'm still here.
CARTER
There was intense muon radiation at
the time the energy..
ROTHMAN
There's no residual radiation..
CARTER
Look I saw what that thing is capable
of.
ROTHMAN
Hey. I wish it was a teleportation device.
I could use it to go find Daniel. He's
my friend too you know. I don't think
that's what we've got here. I think
what we've got here is a paperweight.
I'm sorry, that's my opinion.
CARTER
It's all right, I'll take over from
here. There may be properties in the
crystalline structure that are invisible
to the naked eye. We should run some
diagnostic tests.
Janet goes to get Sam a drink of water.
DANIEL
Wait a minute, I'm not hungry or thirsty.
Why not?
CARTER
Thank you. (To Janet)
DANIEL
Because I'm dead.
Sam suddenly stops drinking and looks up.
ROTHMAN
What?
CARTER
Did anybody else feel that?
FRAISER
What?
DANIEL
What if I'm a ghost?
CARTER
I just got a shiver.
FRAISER
You're still feeling the after effects
of the radiation.
DANIEL
No I think that was me.
The Gateroom
Daniel is sitting on some equipment in the background while Jack,
Sam, Janet, Teal'c and Hammond watch the Gate.
TECH
Chevron 4 encoded.
CARTER
Sir, we've subjected the skull to every
piece of diagnostic equipment we have.
TECH
Chevron 5 encoded.
HAMMOND
What have you found out?
CARTER
Nothing.
O'NEILL
We could take another look at that planet
Sir.
FRAISER
I'd strongly recommend against it. We're
still getting periodic readings from
the MALP. The radiation levels have
dropped slightly but they're still elevated.
TECH
Chevron 6 encoded.
HAMMOND
We're preparing a UAV for a long-range
search around the pyramid. I don't see
any point in risking another SG team
unless that search turns up something.
TECH
Chevron 7 locked.
HAMMOND
Launch when ready Sergeant.
TECH
Launching UAV in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 mark.
CARTER
I can't believe I'm gonna suggest this
but what about Daniel's grandfather?
O'NEILL/DANIEL
Nick?
CARTER
He claimed that the skull teleported
him somewhere. Maybe he's the only person
who actually knows where Daniel is?
FRAISER
I'm not so sure Major. I've already
taken the liberty of looking him up.
DANIEL
Oh you didn't.
FRAISER
His current address is a psychiatric
institution in Oregon.
O'NEILL
Psychiatric?
FRAISER
Apparently his failure to prove the
crystal skull was more than just a curiosity
caused a severe mental breakdown from
which he's never recovered. Nick checked
himself in.
CARTER
Why wouldn't Daniel have told us that?
DANIEL
Oh yes, by the way, he's insane.
FRAISER
Daniel was a regular visitor there up
until 4 years ago, right before he joined
the Stargate program.
DANIEL
Oh please, he kicked me out, we had
a huge fight.
FRAISER
Apparently Nick still talks about him
all the time.
DANIEL
He doesn't want anything to do with
me.
FRAISER
The doctor I spoke to says any friends
of Doctor Jackson's are welcome.
DANIEL
What?
CARTER
We don't have much else to go on.
HAMMOND
Find out what you can but I needn't
remind you that the details of this
matter will have to remain classified.
That means you won't be able to tell
him what happened to Doctor Jackson
or where the skull was found.
Institution
NURSE
Sorry for the wait. Is there anything
I can do for you?
TEAL'C
You may take us to Nicholas Ballard
immediately.
O'NEILL
He's just a little anxious to see ol'
Nick.
NURSE
Oh, are you close?
TEAL'C/DANIEL
No.
CARTER/O'NEILL
Yes.
TEAL'C
Yes, extremely.
NURSE
Well, I'll just check and see if he's
ready for you.
DANIEL
What am I waiting for?
NURSE
Colonel O'Neill and his party are here.
(To Doctor and Nick)
DOCTOR
Friends of Daniel I told you about are
here just outside. Would you like to
see them now?
NICK
I miss him.
DANIEL
Hi Nick, long time no see.
DOCTOR
Would you show them in please? (To Nurse)
DANIEL
Nick, I need your help. Friends of mine
want to ask you about the skull you
found in Belize. Tell them everything,
trust them.
Jack walks in.
DOCTOR
Nick, this is Colonel Jack O'Neill.
He's a friend of Daniel's.
O'NEILL
Doctor would you mind if we.
NICK
Nick.
O'NEILL
Jack. (He holds out his hand as Nick
just looks at it.) O'Neill. Colonel.
NICK
Daniel followed my footsteps.
O'NEILL
You must be very proud.
NICK
He made a fool of himself.
DANIEL
Oh here we go.
NICK
He staked his entire academic career
on this belief that that the great pyramids
of Egypt were made by aliens.
O'NEILL
Yes, well that's.
NICK
He was more insane than I was. I told
him to forget all that nonsense.
DANIEL
It wasn't nonsense, I was right.
NICK
He lost his apartment, his research
grant. He hasn't published a paper in
two years. Now where is he? Where is
he now?
CARTER
In a way that's what this is all about.
We wanted to hear exactly what happened
to you back in 71 when you first found
the skull.
NICK
Nothing happened. There were no aliens.
DANIEL
Trust them Nick.
NICK
No one believed me.
O'NEILL
Daniel believed you.
DANIEL
Oh no. No no don't.
NICK
He didn't. He wanted to, he did listen.
In the end he did not believe in my
theories of the skull just as I did
not believe his theories of the pyramids
and the aliens.
DANIEL
I guess we were both right.
O'NEILL
Nick, can you tell us what happened
when you found that skull?
NICK
Why?
O'NEILL
Because we found another skull. Identical
to the one you found in Belize.
NICK
Show me.
CARTER
It's in a high security facility at
the moment. But if you tell us about
your experiences..
NICK
Then take me there.
O'NEILL
We can't do that. It's classified.
DANIEL
You have to.
NICK
If you don't then I won't tell you anything.
It is up to you.
The SGC
Hammond's Office
Daniel is standing by the star map.
HAMMOND
Colonel, there is no greater secret
in this nation than the Stargate.
O'NEILL
So we keep him away from Level 28.
HAMMOND
A civilian who's spent the last 20 years
of his life in a psychiatric institution?
O'NEILL
Exactly, who's gonna believe him if
he says anything?
HAMMOND
Colonel you walk a fine line.
O'NEILL
Thank you Sir.
Jack leaves and the phone rings.
HAMMOND
Hammond.
DANIEL
General, I know you can't hear me but
thank you.
HAMMOND
Absolutely, put her through. Kayla,
sweetheart, this is grandpa. Isn't this
past your bedtime? You lost another
tooth? Well you put it under your pilla
tonight. I bet your big sister Tessa
wishes she lost a tooth. I'd love to
come and see you in your school play
tomorrow night sweetheart. Well a very
close friend of mine is lost and he
needs my help. Yes he's a very close
friend. I hope so too.
Lab 3c
Nick walks in and reaches for the skull.
SILER
I don't think you should touch that
sir.
CARTER
It's all right Sergeant thank you. Nick,
this is Doctor Robert Rothman.
ROTHMAN
It's a pleasure to meet you..
NICK
It's exactly the same as the one I found
in Belize. Where did you find it?
O'NEILL
We can't tell you that
DANIEL
You're gonna have to tell him eventually
Jack.
NICK
The skull stood on a stone pedestal.
You have been there haven't you?
CARTER
You mean Belize?
NICK
No, no, no, no. That was the ruins of
the temple where I found the skull,
all gone, collapsed. I am talking about
a cavern.
TEAL'C
You know the location of this cavern?
NICK
Nowhere on this earth. It was so enormous
that the light of my torch never reached
the bottom.
DANIEL
Yes, but how did you get there?
NICK
I don't know how I got there, a field
of energy surrounded me and suddenly
I was simply there. And then they came.
CARTER
They?
NICK
The giants.
CARTER
Giants?
NICK
The giant aliens. They rose up as if
they were made of mist; they flew around
me like spectres.
DANIEL
Now you know why no one believed him.
NICK
They spoke, "Oo ya wolin wolin we tayil."
ROTHMAN
That's Mayan.
ROTHMAN/DANIEL
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
DANIEL
But what does it mean?
NICK
I was afraid to answer, I just closed
my eyes and suddenly I found myself
back again under the temple in Belize.
The ground was shaking as in an earthquake
and I just grabbed the skull and climbed
out and everything collapsed.
O'NEILL
Wow, that's erm. giants?
CARTER
So you were sent to this cavern and
back again without ever knowing where
it was? And the ruins where you found
the skull?
NICK
I spent years trying to find it again
but it was as if the temple never existed.
CARTER
So I guess you couldn't take us there
either?
NICK
Can you imagine what it feels like to
go on the most incredible journey of
your life and have no one believe you.
O'NEILL
Ahh Teal'c, you wanna escort Nick down
to the VIP room?
TEAL'C
Nicholas Ballard, would you come with
me please.
O'NEILL
So tell you anything? (To Rothman)
ROTHMAN
Maybe, I mean, no.
O'NEILL
Work on it.
Corridor
Sam and Jack are walking down a corridor, Daniel is following.
CARTER
He described the cavern perfectly Sir,
he had to have been there.
O'NEILL
Ahh giants?
DANIEL
Yes that's weird, I admit.
CARTER
Somebody built that place.
O'NEILL
Doesn't help us.
DANIEL
But if he really was transported to
P7X 377 maybe the skull was trying to
send me somewhere and something interrupted
the process.
Sam enters the elevator and holds it open while she talks to
Jack.
CARTER
You get the feeling Daniel's still around?
DANIEL
We have to go back there.
O'NEILL
Kinda.
CARTER
I guess it's cos we miss him.
DANIEL
And we have to talk to those giant aliens.
O'NEILL
Or radiation sickness?
CARTER
Goodnight Sir. (Smiling)
The elevator shuts and Jack walks off in the other direction.
DANIEL
What? That's it? Whatever happened to
working through the night? I'd do it
for you.
VIP Room
TEAL'C
There will be a guard posted outside
your door should you require assistance.
NICK
When you see Daniel would you tell him.
Never mind. It's something I should
tell him myself.
TEAL'C
Very well.
Teal'c leaves and Nick sits down. Daniel is in the room.
NICK
I am sorry.
DANIEL
For what?
NICK
For not adopting you when your parents
died.
DANIEL
You were traveling all over the world.
NICK
That wasn't your fault.
DANIEL
I was 8 years old, how could it be my
fault?
NICK
I am sorry for allowing my obsession
to drive me into madness. Would you
forgive me?
DANIEL
You can see me?
NICK
Yes, Daniel. I can see you.
DANIEL
Why didn't you say something?
NICK
You're not real so it doesn't mean anything.
DANIEL
No I'm real. I'm real. You're not hallucinating.
NICK
Hallucinations always say that.
DANIEL
Not this time Nick. The skull, the skull
did this to me. I'm trapped. I'm in
another dimension, I'm out of phase,
something. Look all I know is I need
your help. If you don't help me I don't
know how I'm gonna get home.
NICK
So what do you want me to do?
Briefing room
SF
Sirs, Mr Ballard insisted on seeing
both of you immediately.
NICK
Forgive me, he insisted. Daniel is here.
HAMMOND
Here?
DANIEL
Repeat what I'm saying. I'm standing
right beside you.
NICK
Standing right beside me.
O'NEILL
He's lost a few pounds.
DANIEL
Jack, don't be an ass.
NICK
Jack, don't be an ass.
O'NEILL
Daniel?
DANIEL
Yes. We have to go back to the planet
and we have to let the skull finish
what it started.
NICK
We must go back to the planet.
HAMMOND
Planet?
O'NEILL
Not a word Sir, I swear.
NICK
Daniel told me all about the Stargate.
We must replace the skull on the pedestal
so that the giant aliens will come.
Something must have interrupted the
process.
O'NEILL
Teal's fired a zat. That's all I could
imagine it would be Sir.
DANIEL
That's it. That's what interrupted the
process. We have to, we have to let
it happen. We have to, we have to trust
it.
HAMMOND
Why didn't you say something sooner?
NICK
I thought I was hearing voices. It wouldn't
have been for the first time.
FRAISER
Forgive me, but why are you the only
person who can see him?
NICK
Perhaps because I went through the same
experience.
DANIEL
Tell General Hammond if we go back right
now he might be able to see his granddaughters
school play after all.
NICK
General Hammond, if you let us go now
you might be able to see your granddaughters
play.
HAMMOND
I was alone in my office when Kayla
phoned. (looking around as if expecting
to see DANIEL) Doctor Jackson, are you
absolutely certain you and SG1 can safely
return to the planet?
DANIEL
Say yes.
NICK
Yes.
O'NEILL
It's good enough for me Sir.
Corridor
Jack, Daniel and Nick are walking to the Gateroom.
O'NEILL
So it wasn't the skull alone that did
this, it's its connection to the cavern?
DANIEL
Yes, I think the skull is just the icon..
NICK
Yes.
O'NEILL
Daniel said you should come along to
make it work?
DANIEL
Wait, I never said that. You're taking
advantage of me.
NICK
Yes.
They walk into the Gateroom where Sam and Teal'c are already
waiting.
The Gate activates.
NICK
So this is what you have been doing
these past few years?
DANIEL
Exploring planets.
HAMMOND
SG 1 you have a go. Maintain radio contact.
(over tannoy)
Sam and Jack walk up the ramp.
NICK
Then, behind that there's another world.
You must tell me everything.
DANIEL
As soon as we get back, I promise.
TEAL'C
After you Nicholas Ballard.
P7X 377
NICK
It's just as I remembered it. This is
where they live.
They walk across the bridge.
Nick puts the skull on the pedestal.
NICK
Now we must wait for the giant aliens.
O'NEILL
That just has a nice ring to it.
O'NEILL
General Hammond, we're in position.
(over radio)
HAMMOND
Understood Colonel, proceed.
Daniel looks into the eyes of the skull and the energy appears.
CARTER
Sir, radiation is climbing again.
NICK
This is incredible.
O'NEILL
Daniel said to let it happen.
The energy envelops all of the team.
CARTER
Daniel!
DANIEL
Sam! It worked.
TEAL'C
O'Neill? Major Carter?
O'NEILL
Carter?
CARTER
It appears that we're out of phase like
Daniel but Teal'c isn't.
DANIEL
Why?
O'NEILL
You're asking me?
TEAL'C
General Hammond. I was not teleported
with the others. (over radio)
HAMMOND
Return to base immediately.
The pyramid starts to shake and a giant alien rises up out of
the mist.
O'NEILL
Holy smoke bullwinkle! Hello! What's
your name?
QUETLZELCOATL
Oo ya wolin wolin we tayil.
O'NEILL
Daniel?
DANIEL
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
O'NEILL
I know what it's saying. Why's it saying
that?
DANIEL
It didn't affect Teal'c. Why?
CARTER
Because he's jaffa.
DANIEL
He's carrying a symbiote. The goa'uld.
We are enemies of the goa'uld.
QUETLZELCOATL
Then you are welcome here.
O'NEILL
Keep talking.
DANIEL
We're travelers, we come in search of
friendship. We'd like to exchange our
knowledge and culture.
QUETLZELCOATL
We accept your proposition. (pointing
at NICK) You may remain.
NICK
Me?
O'NEILL
Him?
QUETLZELCOATL
This is not the first time you have
journeyed here.
NICK
You remember.
DANIEL
There are others among our people who
would gladly return.
NICK
No Daniel. Let me.
DANIEL
Nick,
NICK
This was my life's work. I've been hoping
for another chance at this for 20 years.
Please.
DANIEL
You just came back into my life,
NICK
I'll be back again. Please.
QUETLZELCOATL
Look again into the eyes of the skull.
O'NEILL
Well, Nick, take notes.
NICK
I will.
DANIEL
You have to tell me everything.
NICK
I promise. Daniel, I am proud of you.
DANIEL
Goodbye, Grandpa.
THE END
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