STARGATE SG1
Episode 513
"PROVING GROUND"
By
Ron Wilkerson
OUTSIDE SOMEWHERE. JACK, TEAL'C AND ANOTHER TEAM IN SG UNIFORMS
ARE APPROACHING A BUILDING. THEY ARE ROOKIES, ELLIOT, HALEY,
GROGAN AND SATTERFIELD.
ELLIOT
Sir? If you don't mind, I've got a couple
of questions.
O'NEILL
Talk fast.
ELLIOT
Well, do you have any idea how the Goa'uld
escaped from the SGC?
O'NEILL
None whatsoever.
ELLIOT
What about weapons? Do we know what
we might be facing in there?
O'NEILL
Not a clue. Anything else?
ELLIOT
Sorry, Sir. Just trying to assess the
situation.
O'NEILL
Two of my team members were chasing
a Goa'uld. They've been missing four
hours. That's the situation.
They run alongside a wire fence.
TEAL'C
This building was the last known location
of Major Carter and Daniel Jackson.
O'NEILL
All right, Elliot. Have your team secure
the perimeter. Keep a channel open.
Teal'c, you're with me.
ELLIOT
Sir! We're not going in with you?
O'NEILL
Have your team secure the perimeter.
Do you understand the order?
ELLIOTT
Yes, sir.
O'NEILL
Then do it, Lieutenant.
Jack and Teal'c move off.
ELLIOT
Grogan, Satterfield. Swing around and
cover the other side of the building.
GROGAN
Yes sir.
ELLIOT
Haley, you're with me.
They move towards the building and hear zat fire.
ELLIOT
Hold position.
GROGAN
They're taking fire.
ELLIOT
Grogan, stay where you are. I mean it.
O'NEILL
(Over radio) Backup. Elliot, get off
the channel. I say again, we need backup.
ELLIOT
Okay, move in. Move in.
They move in to the building.
They enter a room and Elliot raises his weapon.
ELLIOT
Drop your weapon, Major!
We see Sam holding a zat gun on Daniel who has a gun trained
on her. Teal'c and Jack are lying on the floor incapacitated.
CARTER
Daniel's become a goa'uld. (In Goa'uld
voice)
DANIEL
She's the Goa'uld. Listen to her voice.
ELLIOT
Major, drop that weapon!
CARTER
I'm Tok'ra. Now listen carefully. Daniel
has become a Goa'uld, we need to get
him back to the SGC. (Goa'uld voice)
DANIEL
Lieutenant, she's already shot me once
with that thing, if she shoots me again....
ELLIOT
Drop it Major!
There's a standoff. Grogan then shoots Sam and we see they are
carrying intars.
ELLIOT
Grogan. What the hell was that?
GROGAN
She was going to shoot Dr Jackson, Lieutenant.
Two shots from a zat kills.
DANIEL
That's true but you're wrong about one
thing. (Switches to Goa'uld voice) She's
the Tok'ra, I'm the Goa'uld.
Daniel then shoots them all and looks around. Everyone starts
to get up.
O'NEILL
Oookkkay. We're all dead and there's
an armed Goa'uld on the loose. I got
a problem with that. Anybody else got
a problem with that? Think it over.
Report to the ready line in twenty minutes.
Dismissed. Move!
DANIEL
Aren't you being a little hard on them?
(Still in Goa'uld voice)
O'NEILL
Would you turn that thing off?
DANIEL
Sorry. (Still in Goa'uld voice)
O'NEILL
And no, I wasn't being too hard on them.
Jack walks off.
TITLES
WAREHOUSE
The rookies are lined up in front of Jack and Sam.
O'NEILL
You hesitated Lieutenant.
ELLIOT
I was assessing the situation, sir.
O'NEILL
Okay, we all ended up dead. Assess that.
ELLIOT
I stopped to argue with Grogan and lost
control of the situation.
O'NEILL
And that wasn't even your first mistake.
(Jack points at Satterfield) What's
your excuse?
SATTERFIELD
I didn't believe Dr Jackson was a Goa'uld.
CARTER
Why not, Satterfield?
SATTERFIELD
I don't know, ma'am. That was just my
instinct.
HALEY
She thinks he's cute.
CARTER
You let your personal feelings for the
host, in this case Dr Jackson and myself,
get in the way of what needed to be
done.
SATTERFIELD
Yes, ma'am.
CARTER
Haley?
HALEY
I was awaiting Lieutenant Elliot's order,
ma'am.
CARTER
To do what?
HALEY
Shoot `em both. If you don't know who's
Goa'uld and who's Tok'ra, disable them
by whatever means necessary and sort
it out later.
O' NEILL
Thank you. That was your mistake. It's
not always one or the other.
ELLIOT
I understand that Sir. May I ask how
you and Teal'c were taken out?
O'NEILL
It was part of the scenario.
ELLIOT
I don't buy that, sir.
O'NEILL
Excuse me?
ELLIOT
You're Special Ops trained, Teal'c is
a former First Prime. There's no way
you'd allow yourself to be taken out
in that situation.
O'NEILL
We were taken by surprise.
ELLIOT
Then you wouldn't have been able to
call for backup.
O'NEILL
And that's why you hesitated?
ELLIOT
Yes, Sir.
O'NEILL
Okay, so one of your team members distracted
you into getting shot by the enemy and
you want to poke holes in the training
scenario?
ELLIOT
It wasn't a fair test.
O'NEILL
There's such a thing as overthinking
a situation, Lieutenant. When you're
dealing with what we deal with, you've
got to think on your feet and think
fast. These and other cliches will be
available to you all for one more day
of training with me. After that, you'll
either be assigned to an SG team or
not. Dismissed.
They leave. Sam walks over to Jack.
CARTER
You realise he's right about the scenario,
sir.
O'NEILL
Yeah, we'll have to fix that for next
time. See you at the garage.
Jack walks off.
CARTER
Sir. Good luck with them.
OUTSIDE THE WAREHOUSE.
Jack walks out and Elliot is waiting.
ELLIOT
Colonel!
O'NEILL
Something on your mind, Lieutenant?
ELLIOT
I wanted to apologise for the attitude
I gave you back there.
O'NEILL
I like people with attitude. In fact,
I much prefer them to people who suck
up.
ELLIOT
That's not what I was doing, Sir.
O'NEILL
You want my approval? You're a fine
officer. The Air Force has already decided
that or you wouldn't be here. But not
everyone is cut out to go off world.
ELLIOT
I am.
O'NEILL
You don't decide that.
ELLIOT
What I'm trying to say, sir, is that
I feel like I've trained for this program
my whole life. I don't intend to let
it slip by.
O'NEILL
See that you don't.
Jack walks off.
THE ROOKIES ARE SITTING OUTSIDE ON MILITARY LOOKING VEHICLES.
ELLIOT
Maybe he's just not on our side.
GROGAN
Either that or he just doesn't like
you.
HALEY
Oh, but he loves you.
GROGAN
I don't think he likes anybody.
HALEY
You're wrong about that. He'd do anything
for his team.
SATTERFIELD
How do you know?
HALEY
I saw him in action. He put his life
on the line for us.
GROGAN
Yeah, tell us again Haley. Maybe some
detail you left out the last ten times.
HALEY
Hey. Nobody gets assigned to an SG team
without the recommendation of an SG
team commander. It just so happened
to be Colonel O'Neill's turn and I for
one, don't have a problem with that.
ELLIOT
Why not?
HALEY
It means if we get chosen, we were chosen
by the best.
ELLIOT
What happens if we don't?
HALEY
Then let's all decide, right here, right
now. We all make it, together.
ELLIOT
Like the man said, it's not up to us.
HALEY
You're wrong about that too. I'm going
for a run. Who's in?
SATTERFIELD
I'm in.
GROGAN
All right.
They walk off.
ELLIOT
Later.
COMMISSARY
Jack picks up a banana and red jello and walks to a table carrying
reports. He walks past Sam at a table.
CARTER
Colonel. I thought you'd have gone home
for the night.
Jack sits down with Sam.
O'NEILL
I thought about it. But I wanted to
finish up these training reports.
CARTER
What do you think of Lieutenant Elliot?
O'NEILL
He thinks too much which makes him indecisive.
He's trying to figure out what I want
instead of trusting his instincts.
CARTER
Or, he's very intelligent, recognises
the whole point of this training program
is to introduce non-terrestrial factors
in our approach to a problem and he
respects you more than you know.
O'NEILL
You bought his excuse for hesitating,
didn't you?
CARTER
Well, he was right. You would never
had let it happen. I think he was giving
you the benefit of the doubt.
O'NEILL
I think he was tap dancing.
CARTER
Well, you have to admit he's got leadership
potential.
O'NEILL
Do I?
CARTER
Grogan. He'll make a fine addition to
an SG team one day.
O'NEILL
He'll make a fine target. He's good
at getting shot.
Sam laughs.
CARTER
Okay, Satterfield's bright.
O'NEILL
I give her high marks for her high marks.
I'd never go into combat with her.
CARTER
Then there's Haley.
O'NEILL
Oh yeah. Four foot nine fightin' machine.
CARTER
Colonel.
O'NEILL
All right. Fine. They're the future
of the Air Force, the program, the entire
planet. God help us.
CARTER
Try to remember when you were in their
shoes.
O'NEILL
I wore boots.
CARTER
Think back to when you were their age.
O'NEILL
I was never their age.
Sam finishes her jello and gets up.
CARTER
Goodnight, Sir.
O'NEILL
What?
OUTSIDE THE WAREHOUSE
O'NEILL
Inside that building is a valuable piece
of alien technology. Two things stand
in your way. Opposing fire and time.
The Stargate will only be open for another
twelve minutes and it's a half a mile
away. Is that clear?
ELLIOT
Yes, Sir.
Jack hits a button on a laptop and barrels and burnt out cars
start to burn.
O'NEILL
Conduct yourselves as though this were
the real thing. The clock starts now.
Jack hits another button on the laptop and a smoke bomb goes
off.
O'NEILL
Move `em out Lieutenant.
ELLIOT
Sir! Team advance! (Little unsure here)
The team moves out. Around them barrels explode. They move forward
and reach the warehouse. They enter and Jack starts shooting
at them.
ELLIOT
Take cover! Second level.
They move forward and Jack continues shooting.
GROGAN
Yeah, sure he's on our side.
ELLIOT
Grogan, you're with me. Haley, Satterfield,
cover fire. Now!
Elliot and Grogan move forward and Grogan is shot. Elliot pulls
him out of the line of fire. Haley and Satterfield join them.
HALEY
He broke contact.
GROGAN
What the hell was that?
SATTERFIELD
Colonel's got his intar on max.
ELLIOT
We gotta keep moving. (To Grogan) Can
you get out of here on your own?
GROGAN
Yeah, I think so.
ELLIOT
We've got seven minutes. We'll need
three to get to the Gate at a dead run.
Let's go.
Elliot, Haley and Satterfield go.
They move through the warehouse.
HALEY
I'm picking up some kind of radiation.
Here.
Satterfield finds the controls and lowers a bundle from the ceiling.
ELLIOT
All right, what have we got this time?
He unwraps it and Haley opens it.
SATTERFIELD
Could be some sort of Goa'uld power
source.
ELLIOT
Okay, Haley, wrap it up. We don't have
a lot of time.
HALEY
Yes, Sir. Whoa! Dammit.
ELLIOT
What?
HALEY
Booby trap.
SATTERFIELD
It's counting down in Goa'uld.
ELLIOT
How much time?
SATTERFIELD
Ninety seconds.
HALEY
I can try to disarm it.
ELLIOT
There's not enough time.
HALEY
Well what do you want me to do?
OUTSIDE THE WAREHOUSE.
Jack is waiting, looking at his watch. The team come out minus
Grogan.
O'NEILL
Where is it?
ELLIOT
We couldn't get the device Sir. There
was a booby trap.
O'NEILL
Really?
HALEY
Five seconds.
The object explodes in the background.
O'NEILL
Did you try to disarm the device?
ELLIOT
Negative Sir, we only had ninety seconds.
O'NEILL
Ninety seconds? (To Haley) Could you
have disabled the device in ninety seconds?
HALEY
I supported Lieutenant Elliot's decision
to pull out Sir.
O'NEILL
I don't care if you support him or not.
Could you have disarmed the device?
HALEY
Possibly.
ELLIOT
I put the lives of my team members first
Sir.
O'NEILL
Really? Where's Grogan?
They look around.
ELLIOT
I ordered him to get out.
O'NEILL
Did you see him get out?
ELLIOT
No Sir.
O'NEILL
Grogan was just killed in that explosion.
ELLIOT
He should have been out here by now.
O'NEILL
You left one of your team members behind.
That's one thing I will not tolerate,
Lieutenant!
Jack's phone starts to ring. He walks away and answers it.
O'NEILL
O'Neill.
SATTERFIELD
Saved by the cell.
Grogan walks up behind them.
GROGAN
Sorry. Colonel shot me again. How we
doing?
SATTERFIELD
You were killed in the explosion.
ELLIOT
I washed out.
SATTERFIELD
You don't know that.
HALEY
Guys, something's going on.
O'NEILL
Sierra Golf Niner. Code Foxtrot Alpha
Six.
GROGAN
Maybe he's ordering our execution?
ELLIOT
Shut up.
O'NEILL
Confirmed. Foothold Sierra Golf Charlie.
Understood. Out.
Jack walks back.
O'NEILL
Training's over.
ELLIOT
What?
O'NEILL
I said training's over. Go home until
someone from the Air Force contacts
you.
ELLIOT
Sir I think we deserve to know...
O'NEILL
Dammit Elliot, what am I going to have
to do...
Jack turns around as three vehicles pull up and marines get out.
Jack pulls out the intar clip and replaces it with bullets.
O'NEILL
Wait here.
He walks off to the marines.
ELLIOT
He said Sierra Golf Charlie.
GROGAN
Stargate Command.
SATTERFIELD
He also said the word `foothold'
HALEY
Alien incursion.
GROGAN
Lieutenant?
ELLIOT
Everybody set their intars to maximum.
GROGAN
Those are our guys.
ELLIOT
Do it Grogan.
As they watch Jack suddenly pulls his gun and shoots three of
the men. The fourth gets off a shot at Jack before he is taken
out.
GROGAN
We have to help him!
ELLIOT
Hold your position.
Jack gets up and they run towards him. Jack has been shot in
the side.
O'NEILL
You're all dismissed!
ELLIOT
Colonel, you're injured. Satterfield.
Jack waves her off.
O'NEILL
Stay together as long as you can. Don't
trust anybody until I contact you.
ELLIOT
You're injured. You're gonna need help.
O'NEILL
This is not an exercise.
ELLIOT
No Sir. It's a foothold situation, from
what we just saw, it's already reached
outside the SGC. You need our help.
O'NEILL
Forgive my bluntness, Lieutenant, but
I was just about to fail you. I'm not
sure I want your help.
ELLIOT
Can't speak to that, Sir, but at the
moment, we're all you've got.
O'NEILL
God help me.
Jack walks off and they follow.
FOREST OUTSIDE THE MOUNTAIN.
Jack and the team reach the same access point Sam used in Foothold
to escape the mountain.
ELLIOT
What's our first objective once we make
it down?
O'NEILL
Armoury.
ELLIOT
Then what?
O'NEILL
Then we look for Major Carter, if she's
still alive. She's the one that got
the word out.
Jack lights something to get the hatch open.
GROGAN
What happens if they've changed the
access codes?
O'NEILL
Tear gas.
Jack opens a panel and inputs a code. He then opens the hatch
and Elliot checks it.
ELLIOT
Clear.
O'NEILL
Lieutenant. Take point. Carter's lab's
on sub-level 19.
They climb in.
INSIDE THE SGC.
The team come in the same door Carter went out in Foothold. They
move out weapons raised and we see them on the base security
camera.
ARMOURY
Jack hands out weapons.
ELLIOT
Sir, I thought we weren't authorised
to use lethal force.
O'NEILL
I want you all to have backup. Just
in case.
They hear noises and Jack indicates they should move into the
armoury.
Teal'c comes into shot with two SF's.
TEAL'C
Major Carter has escaped custody. You
will search sublevels 14 through 20
until she is located.
The SF's leave. Teal'c talks into his radio.
TEAL'C
Daniel Jackson. General Hammond has
been captured by my forces. And he is
the last to be conformed. I have despatched
units to locate Major Carter. She will
be put to death as you have ordered.
Teal'c walks off.
CORRIDOR.
The team move down, weapons raised. They come round a corner
and shoot the SF on guard with their intars. Elliot takes out
his access card and swipes it through the door. They pull him
in with them and enter Carter's lab. Jack sits down and Haley
goes to the computer.
O'NEILL
Gather up any other weapons you can
find and lock `em up somewhere.
ELLIOT
We could use them.
O'NEILL
Got enough intar rounds to take out
everybody in the mountain three times
over. Plus your backup weapons.
HALEY
I think I found something.
She brings up the security screens.
O'NEILL
All right. This is a problem.
HALEY
The Gate's active, Sir.
ELLIOT
Can we shut it down from here?
HALEY
Not a chance. The dialling computer's
isolated from the base mainframe.
O'NEILL
Then that's our first order of business.
Haley then brings up a camera on Hammond's office. Daniel is
sitting in the General's chair.
ELLIOT
Looks like their leader is Dr Jackson.
O'NEILL
I always knew he wanted that office.
On the camera, Daniel then walks into the briefing room and puts
his hands over something on the briefing room table. It glows.
ELLIOT
What is that?
O'NEILL
It's not our normal centre piece.
SATTERFIELD
Okay, so he's just possessed by something.
We gotta save him. Haley, can you get
me a closer view on that?
HALEY
I'll try.
She zooms in and Daniel takes his hands off.
SATTERFIELD
Can't make out the writing.
ELLIOT
Maybe Dr Jackson took photos. Check
out his office one level up. Grogan,
make sure she gets there. Report when
you've got something.
GROGAN
Yes, sir.
ELLIOT
Haley, you and I will shut down the
Gate.
O'NEILL
Yep, let's move out.
ELLIOT
Sir. You're in no shape to do this.
O'NEILL
I've been worse.
ELLIOT
We can handle this Sir. You're no good
to us if you're dead.
Jack pulls out his access card.
O'NEILL
Stay on channel 12. This'll get you
anywhere in the base. (Hands it to Haley)
Remember, those are our people out there.
ELLIOT
We'll get `em back Sir.
O'NEILL
Yeah.
They leave. Jack looks at his wound.
O'NEILL
Damn.
ANOTHER CORRIDOR.
Haley and Elliot move down the corridor. The turn a corner and
come across some SF's.
ELLIOT
Wrong turn.
They start firing.
OUTSIDE DANIEL'S OFFICE.
Satterfield and Grogan shoot the SF outside. They take his access
card and enter, pulling the SF with them.
CORRIDOR.
Haley and Elliot continue firing.
DANIEL'S OFFICE.
Satterfield picks up an artefact and looks round.
GROGAN
We're not here on the tour, Satterfield.
SATTERFIELD
Right.
She goes to his computer.
CORRIDOR.
Haley and Elliot have taken out some of the SF's and Haley stops
to reload. Another SF comes towards her and she has to shoot
him with her backup weapon.
HALEY
I didn't have a choice.
ELLIOT
You did the right thing.
HALEY
I've.. never..
ELLIOT
Haley. Let's get `em out of sight.
They move him.
DANIEL'S OFFICE.
Satterfield is still at the computer.
SATTTERFIELD
I've got it. (She thumbs her radio)
Lieutenant, Satterfield.
ELLIOT
What have you got?
SATTERFIELD
I've found photos of the device that
reveal an obscure dialect SG-1 found
on the planet Argos. P3X8596. Rough
translation. `Gift from on high' I think
we're looking at a Goa'uld trojan horse.
ELLIOT
Colonel, are you reading this?
O'NEILL
Yeah, I read you. That's enough chatter,
huh?
ELLIOT
The Goa'uld Pelops used nanotechnology
to rapidly age the people on Argos.
HALEY
Well let's get a blood sample from one
of the SF's.
ELLIOT
First we shut down the Gate.
They leave.
CARTER'S LAB.
The phone rings. Jack answers it.
O'NEILL
O'Neill. Yeah, I got `em.
Jack goes back to the computer screen and sees Elliot and Haley
outside the Gateroom.
O'NEILL
Elliot, get out of there! (Over his
radio) That's an order.
ELLIOT
Colonel, we're at the Gateroom.
O'NEILL
Pull back to my position.
ELLIOT
Yes, sir.
CARTER'S LAB.
All the team is there.
HALEY
Oh my god, this blood is teeming with
nanobots. The nanobots must somehow
rewire the brain and make people responsive
to the suggestions from the alien device
that we saw in the briefing room.
SATTERFIELD
So the nanobots work together as some
kind of receiver?
ELLIOT
Well that's how they worked on Argos.
Right, Colonel?
O'NEILL
I was a hundred years old at the time.
The memory's the first to go.
SATTERFIELD
Maybe we can find out how they communicate
with the master and shut it down.
HALEY
No, there are no analogue or digital
signals being transmitted.
ELLIOT
Then we need to shut down the device
in the briefing room.
GROGAN
That level's heavily guarded.
HALEY
We still need to get control of the
Stargate.
ELLIOT
If we take out the briefing room at
the same time, you'll have a better
chance to get into the Gateroom and
lock out the dialling computer.
O'NEILL
That's the plan then. Take corridor
C19.
ELLIOT
Sir.
They move out. Jack then gets up, seemingly in no pain and picks
up the phone.
O'NEILL
They're on their way.
CORRIDOR
The team moves down the corridor and suddenly Sam walks round
the corner.
ELLIOT
Major Carter.
CARTER
What are you doing here?
ELLIOT
Just helping out, Ma'am. Satterfield,
check the Major for weapons.
GROGAN
She was captured by the aliens, sir.
We can't trust her.
CARTER
I escaped. Where's Colonel O'Neill?
ELLIOT
We'll take you to him.
SATTERFIELD
She's clear.
ELLIOT
This way please.
The team follows Sam down the hall.
CARTER'S LAB.
Jack is untying the SF just as the door opens.
ELLIOT
Colonel.
O'NEILL
I was about to interrogate the prisoner.
ELLIOT
No. You weren't.
Elliot then shoots the SF.
ELLIOT
Step away from the prisoner please Colonel.
Sam then grabs Satterfield's backup weapon and pulls it on Jack.
CARTER
Colonel O'Neill's obviously been compromised.
I'll take it from here.
O'NEILL
Lieutenant, you've only been gone for
two minutes, there's no way in that
time..
CARTER
You saw what he was doing.
ELLIOT
Why d'you pull us out of the Gateroom,
sir?
O'NEILL
It was an ambush, a trap.
ELLIOT
I don't buy it Sir.
O'NEILL
Look, I am your commanding officer...
Elliot shoots Jack.
ELLIOT
Return Satterfield's weapon, please
Major. We've got a job to do.
She does so.
CARTER
How did you know you could trust me?
ELLIOT
Haley figured the Goa'uld markers in
your blood wouldn't allow you to be
influenced by Goa'uld designed nanotechnology.
CARTER
Lucky me.
HALEY
Yes, ma'am.
CARTER
I need to stay here to work on a cure,
can you take out the device on your
own?
ELLIOT
Yes, ma'am.
CARTER
You'll also need to shut..
ELLIOT
Shut down the Stargate. Yes ma'am, we're
on it.
CARTER
Good luck, Lieutenant.
The team moves out. Sam looks down at Jack, who is opening his
eyes.
CARTER
Whoops.
ANOTHER CORRIDOR.
ELLIOT
Everybody clear on your assignments?
SATTERFIELD
Yeah.
GROGAN
Yes, sir.
ELLIOT
Grogan, just make sure you take out
Daniel.
GROGAN
It's done.
Elliot opens another one of those access hatches in the wall
and Satterfield checks it. They all get in.
CARTER'S LAB.
Jack is still on the floor in pain.
O'NEILL
Colonel O'Neill has been compromised?
CARTER
They didn't take corridor C19 like you
told them to.
Sam helps Jack to get up.
O'NEILL
Crafty little buggers.
CARTER
At least we pulled it off.
O'NEILL
Yeah. Ow. God!
CARTER
Well, you did order them to set their
training weapons to maximum stun, sir.
O'NEILL
Yes, I did. It's only because Daniel's
had it so easy on this one. Everybody
upstairs?
CARTER
General Hammond and the Pentagon staff
are monitoring from the security office
on Level 16. Uh, sir, if you don't mind,
your wound is getting all over my lab.
O'NEILL
Hmm. Sorry.
Jack walks out and Sam follows.
SECURITY OFFICE.
Hammond and General Kerrigan from Prodigy are there.
KERRIGAN
Same wager as last time, George?
HAMMOND
Well that's hardly fair. These people
are against SG-1.
KERRIGAN
I'll give you double or nothing.
HAMMOND
Well, in that case, how can I refuse?
KERRIGAN
You never could. So how's the pilot
training program coming along so far?
Latest batch of graduates working out?
HAMMOND
We believe they're fairing better than
new team members in the past.
KERRIGAN
Makes sense. Up until this point, we've
only been training our people to defend
this country. Now that we're in the
business of defending the planet.
HAMMOND
That's exactly right. In fact in next
year's SGC budget, I'm proposing an
off world training facility.
KERRIGAN
Must drive everyone a little crazy tying
up several floors of the SGC every few
months to run these scenarios.
HAMMOND
My people are happy to co- operate.
Elliot certainly seems confident.
KERRIGAN
Top of his class in the Academy. You
should have seen his face when I told
him about the special training he'd
been hand picked for.
HAMMOND
I can imagine. They should be emerging
from the access shaft on sub level 27.
KERRIGAN
Looks like they've split up, George.
Grogan just came out on sub level 26.
HAMMOND
Apparently, Lieutenant Elliot is planning
on assaulting the briefing room from
several points of access.
Jack and Sam walk in.
O'NEILL
General. Generals.
HAMMOND
What do you think of their strategy
so far Colonel?
O'NEILL
Oh it's hard to say. But I think he
knows it's a test.
HAMMOND
How's that?
O'NEILL
Well I pulled them out of the Gateroom
just as SG3 was coming back. What's
with those Marines anyway? Don't they
know we've got a scenario playing out
here?
HAMMOND
They were under heavy fire from a Goa'uld,
Colonel.
O'NEILL
Well, if he knows it's an exercise,
he won't show it. However he did appear
to enjoy shooting me.
KERRIGAN
In light of SG3's emergency, maybe we
should call off the exercise?
HAMMOND
I don't think so, General. They all
made it back. Besides, Elliot's team
is almost ready to launch their attack
on Dr Jackson.
HAMMOND'S OFFICE
Daniel is sat in Hammond's chair reading a report and Teal'c
is sitting opposite him looking in a magnifying glass.
DANIEL
You know, I have to tell you, I like
this scenario way better than the last
one. Have you ever tried this chair,
this is like, really comfortable.
TEAL'C
Indeed I have not.
The phone rings.
DANIEL
Hello.
O'NEILL
Have fun Daniel.
DANIEL
Yeah, you did tell them to take me prisoner
this time and not shoot me, right? Right?
Jack just puts the phone down.
DANIEL
Hello?
There is gunfire in the background. Daniel and Teal'c get up
and go into the briefing room. Elliot comes up the stairs from
the control room and takes out an SF. Grogan comes down the other
stairs and takes out another one. Daniel zats Grogan.
SATTERFIELD
Dr Jackson?
Satterfield shoots Daniel. Elliot then shoots Teal'c.
SATTERFIELD
So sorry.
Elliot throws some C4 to Satterfield.
ELLIOT
Rig the charge, I'll get Grogan out
of here.
She starts to rig the charge.
ELLIOT
Come on, let's go.
Elliot picks up Grogan.
GROGAN
Ohhh.
ELLIOT
Had to hurt a little.
GROGAN
Did we pull it off?
ELLIOT
Almost.
Satterfield shuts the door behind them.
SATTERFIELD
Fifteen seconds.
Satterfield suddenly gets up and runs into Hammond's office.
ELLIOT
Satterfield!
She grabs Daniel and moves him away from the door.
SATTERFIELD
Four.
They cover their ears and the timer hits zero. Nothing happens.
ELLIOT
Did you...?
SATTERFIELD
I set it. Something's wrong.
They get up and go to the door to the briefing room. They enter
to see Sam, Jack, Hammond, Teal'c and Daniel waiting for them.
Jack is waving the block of C4.
O'NEILL
Modelling clay doesn't pack much of
a punch does it?
HAMMOND
We've been watching your every move
since your arrival, Lieutenant. Welcome
to Stargate Command.
ELLIOT
Yes, Sir.
O'NEILL
You may have noticed I lied a little
bit about the foothold situation.
SATTERFIELD
But you were shot?
O'NEILL
So it appeared.
ELLIOT
Haley killed an SF.
CARTER
The SF's you were fighting were using
blank cartridges, same as your back
up weapons.
GROGAN
Then you staged the whole thing when
you shot that General back at the training
complex?
O'NEILL
Yep.
CARTER
It was important for us to know how
you'd react in a real life situation
before you encountered one like it offworld.
O'NEILL
You weren't a little bit suspicious,
Lieutenant?
ELLIOT
No Sir. How did we do?
HAMMOND
The entire exercise was recorded Lieutenant
and will be properly reviewed before
making a final assessment. But I'm sure
you did very well.
GROGAN
We kicked ass!
O'NEILL
You got yourself shot again, Grogan.
Don't be so cocky.
Daniel nudges Satterfield.
DANIEL
Yeah, thanks for the rescue by the way.
CARTER
Where's Lieutenant Haley?
ELLIOT
(over radio) Haley, report. Haley. (to
others) She must still be in the Gateroom.
TANNOY
Unscheduled offworld activation.
Everyone goes to the briefing room window. Sam grabs Grogan's
radio.
CARTER
Haley, evacuate the Gateroom.
The Gate activates. Haley is caught in some sparks from the panel
she is working on and collapses. Everyone moves down to the Control
Room.
CONTROL ROOM
Sam goes to a computer.
CARTER
Sir, I can't close the iris. There's
radiation coming through the Stargate.
Sir, you have to order an evacuation
of this level.
HAMMOND
This is Hammond. All personnel evacuate
Level 28 immediately. This is not a
drill, I repeat this is not a drill.
ELLIOT
What about Haley?
Jack looks at his watch.
O'NEILL
She's already dead.
GATEROOM
Haley is lying unconscious on the floor.
CONTROL ROOM
GROGAN
What kind of radiation are we talking
about?
CARTER
Gamma. Probably from the Goa'uld SG3
just barely got away from.
HAMMOND
I like to know why in God's name we
were unable to close the iris.
CARTER
In the foothold test scenario, Lieutenant
Haley was trying to shut down Gate control.
She must have found a way to take our
controls off line.
O'NEILL
She's very smart, sir.
HAMMOND
Apparently.
O'NEILL
We should head up to the security office
on 16.
CARTER
We can monitor the Gateroom from there.
They leave.
ELEVATOR
Everyone walks out into the corridor.
CARTER
We never thought she'd get around our
command codes, at the moment she did,
we came under attack. It's a worst case
scenario.
HAMMOND
What are our options?
CARTER
The only way to stop it is to manually
close the iris but at these radiation
levels it would be suicide.
They walk towards the security office and we see Elliot has sneaked
off.
SECURITY OFFICE
Sam looks for access card.
HAMMOND
Major?
CARTER
My access card, sir.
Elliot goes back down in the elevator.
SECURITY OFFICE
We see Hammond, Sam, Jack, Grogan and Satterfield enter the security
office on one of the cameras. Kerrigan is in there. Sam sits
down and pulls up a camera.
CARTER
There he is.
HAMMOND
Lieutenant Elliot, this is General Hammond.
If you enter that Gateroom, you're going
to be killed by radiation poisoning.
Now I'm ordering you..
They see Elliot reach the Gateroom and he looks into the camera
before entering.
GATEROOM.
Elliot goes to the sparking panel.
SECURITY OFFICE
We see Elliot is at the panel.
O'NEILL
He's gonna get it closed.
SATTERFIELD
That much radiation... he's already dead,
isn't he?
GATEROOM
The iris closes. Elliot goes to Haley.
ELLIOT
(on his radio) Haley's still alive,
we need a medical team down here. I
say again, Haley needs help in here.
Elliot picks up Haley. The gate shuts down and the blast door
open. Jack, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c, Grogan and Satterfield are all
in there applauding.
ELLIOT
You've got to be kidding me.
HALEY
You can put me down now, hero.
ELLIOT
You were in on it.
HALEY
How do you think I was able to show
you nanobots if they don't really exist?
ELLIOT
I'm gonna kill you.
HALEY
You should have seen what they put me
through.
The doors open. Jack and Hammond walk in.
HAMMOND
SG teams require the commitment to go
above and beyond the call of duty. You've
just demonstrated that, Lieutenant.
ELLIOT
Yes, sir.
HAMMOND
After a few days rest, you're to report
back to the SGC, where you will be assigned
to SG17 under Major Mansfield.
O'NEILL
If you think I was tough on you.
ELLIOT
What about the rest of the team?
HAMMOND
They will be assigned to SG teams as
positions become available down the
road. But the first assignment is yours.
ELLIOT
Yes, sir.
HAMMOND
Congratulations, son.
O'NEILL
Good job. Hey, you knew it was a test
when you shot me, right?
ELLIOT
Well maybe, suspected.
O'NEILL
And you really think the test is over
now?
The alarms go off as they walk past.
THE END
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