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Previously, on Stargate SG-1.

Come back and rejoin SG-1.

I have my reasons for wanting this job.

What if the world needs saving?

If the world needs saving I will be there to do what I can.

ARLOS: The bracelets create a physiological bond between the wearers.

They were used by the Goa 'uld.

Jackson! Jackson!

You were completely unresponsive when we brought you in,

but your condition suddenly improved when she came back.

Miss me?

Who is that?

A gentleman who claims that he represents some gods called the Ori.

There are as many humans out there as there are Jaffa.

LANDRY: If we don't continue to work together,

the victory we worked so Iong and hard for

could result in chaos.

-BlRRA: You show no fear, Latal. -He is one man. What is there to fear?

He promised retribution if we did not bow to their gods upon his return.

The Jaffa have shed too much blood to replace one false god with another.

We have made our decision, and we will tell him.

Have you come alone?

The Ori are with me always.

-You have read from The Book of Origin? -We have.

What say you to the promise of the Ori?

We will hear no more of false gods.

Go now and we will spare your life.

You speak for all?

We do.

One way or another, this world will serve their purpose.

Jaffa!

Unscheduled offworld activation.

What have we got, chief?

Receiving a message, sir. It's text only.

It's in Goa'uld.

None of you folks read Goa'uld, do you?

You boys aren't gonna let people from two different planets

beat you at your own silly game, are you?

The silly game isn't over yet.

-That's my wingman. -You need a new wingman.

-I'm gonna kick your ass. -Promises, promises.

As you were, Colonel. Actually, I was looking for Teal'c.

We received a communiqu? from a Goa'uld named Nerus.

-Ring any bells? -I am aware of his identity.

He was a minor Goa'uld who served Ba'al for many centuries.

-What can you tell me about him? -VALA: Honestly, you don't want to know.

-Honestly, I do. -Why?

What do you say we go with the idea that I'm in charge,

and I've asked a simple question?

Nerus defines avarice and gluttony, simple answer.

He is a Goa'uld known for his many appetites.

He's also known as an inventor,

responsible for a host of Goa'uld technologies.

Really? That's when I started paying attention to him, too.

Weird as it sounds, he's offering to work for us.

Nerus is not to be trusted.

Funny, he had nice things to say about you.

No, he really did. He said some very nice things.

"l would consider it a great honor to meet the heroes of the Tau'ri,

"who brought the Goa'uld to their knees."

-Yeah, that is nice. -No, he's disgusting.

You can't honestly open the doors to a pathetic, minor Goa'uld

posing as one of the big boys.

Well, at least promise me you're intending on torturing him.

-We're setting him up in the VlP suite. -No.

-Yes. -Sir, if you don't mind my asking...

-Why? -Yeah.

Well, according to his communiqu?,

he's in possession of military intelligence of the "utmost urgency."

-Sounded like it was worth a listen. -Still, why throw in with us?

Why not stay with Ba'al or work for some other Goa'uld?

Well, look at it in terms of optics.

We must look like major players now.

TEAL'C: By defeating Anubis.

Most of the System Lords were killed by the Replicators,

then we defeated the Replicators.

-Wow, we look cool. -Don't let it go to your head.

Have you seen his list of dietary requirements?

LANDRY: Already taken care of.

"Ripened Traqeel eggs?"

We've got eggs. I don't know if they're ripe or not.

SG-3 is with him on a neutral planet doing a security check as we speak.

As soon as they give the green light, I want you to...

HARRIMAN ON RADIO: Offworld activation.

Speak of the devil.

-He's clean, sir. -Thank you, Sergeant.

We'll take it from here.

-I am Nerus. -Major General Hank Landry.

I'm in command of Stargate...

Yes, I'm sure you're a very important person, and you had important reasons

to subject me to your security precautions,

but to meet you,

to look upon the face of the one.

-The one what? -The one who inspired

the great uprising, of course.

Oh, the time of false gods is at an end

in no small part because of this man,

Dr. Daniel Jackson.

It is rumored among the Goa'uld

that you alone defeated Anubis. Is that true?

-Where did you hear that? -Oh, I hear everything.

Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell, leader of SG-1.

-But you're not...? -No.

-Will he be here? -Nope.

And you're not even Colonel Carter, are you?

This isn't at all the way I imagined it would be.

Nerus, if you'd follow me to our briefing room,

we have much to discuss.

Yes, yes, but first, I must have sustenance.

Have you met all my dietary requirements?

As much as humanly possible.

Good, good, because I'm positively famished.

No seeds!

How is that possible?

It's a state secret, but we're willing to negotiate.

That's impossible, but delicious.

Still...

Still, we have important matters to discuss, don't we?

Your voice just changed.

Oh, we don't have to talk that way.

This is a device that I invented.

What you're about to see occurred nearly two days ago.

Now, the free Jaffa, who claim this planet, call it Kallana.

What was that?

The formation of an extremely large force field around the planet's stargate.

Brilliant.

And you're sharing this information with us, because...

Why are you so surprised?

We joined forces to destroy the Replicators.

I have no recollection of your participation.

Teal'c, you wound me.

I was the one who figured out

how to activate all the stargates in the galaxy at once.

Didn't Ba'al mention that to you?

That is so like him.

Isn't it, though? That's all right.

Your adversaries call themselves the Ori.

We know all about the Ori.

Yes, well, thus far I detect only a single individual

no doubt a Prior, inside the force field,

but it is expanding.

Then it will soon be able to accommodate entire armies.

Yes, and furthermore, the stargate itself has not shut down since it opened.

Wait a minute, you say this happened two days ago?

Yes.

Thirty-eight minutes is the maximum time

a stargate can stay open. That's a law of wormhole physics.

Not according to the Ori.

JACKSON: Which means they have a power source

which can indefinitely maintain a wormhole from another galaxy,

plus this force field. A ZPM can't even do that.

How are we to do battle with an enemy so powerful?

With my help.

Every force field has a weakness, and I'm confident that I shall find it.

Sir, if this intel is correct, it represents a complete change of tactics.

-We'll have to respond. -I agree, Colonel.

But if this Kallana is a Jaffa world, I'm not sure how this is our fight.

Not your fight?

You engineered the downfall of the Goa'uld.

This is very much a galaxy of your own making, General.

And you must take responsibility.

What would you have us do?

Attack them as quickly as possible

with as much force as you can bring to bear.

This is nothing short of an invasion, General.

Like it or not, you're in a state of war.

LANDRY: Jack, Jack.

Jack, she practically invented the Mark lX,

and you're the one who thinks we should use the damn thing.

Why are you wasting valuable time saying no?

I've read enough of your SG-1 mission reports to know there were times

when no one else but Samantha Carter could have pulled your ass out of the fire.

Well, this is one of those...

Reporting as ordered, sir.

Yeah, she's standing right here.

You're a funny man, Jack. Very funny.

-HARRlMAN: Chevron four encoded. -I promise you, he's lying.

-About which part? -All of it.

Chevron five encoded.

Yeah, but we have been unable to dial the coordinates to Kallana,

despite several attempts.

Goa'uld don't do anything for anyone other than themselves.

HARRlMAN: Chevron six encoded.

Maybe it's in his own interest to stop the Ori.

Chevron seven still will not lock.

LANDRY: All right, we've tried that long enough.

Colonel Carter?

We've revised the original plan slightly to expedite matters.

The Prometheus is en route and will rendezvous with us at P4C-452.

We'll proceed to Kallana from there.

Now considering their unique ability to maintain an active stargate indefinitely,

and their force field capabilities, the President has authorized

any and all means to complete the mission.

Oh, boy.

Here I was trying to have a nuke-free career.

We've been developing something at Area 51

that General O'Neill believes will be our best chance

to stop them right here, right now.

But you don't agree.

I agree we have to try. I just don't think it'll be enough.

It's what we've got. Questions?

-No, sir. -Still no response from the Jaffa Council?

None as of yet.

Well, we can't wait for Gerak. We proceed as planned.

-Chief, dial the gate. -Yes, sir.

Move out.

Well, temporary or not, it's good to have you back.

How good is this? Got the band back together.

-So what's with the extra backup singer? -Oh, she's good fun.

-Plus, we figured if Jackson were to... -Die.

Yeah, that's the word. It would jeopardize the mission.

When we spoke a couple of weeks ago,

you said you thought the effect of the bracelets was wearing off.

It was. I just didn't wanna put it to a test from the other side of the galaxy, so...

Wow, you're just dying to get rid of me now, aren't you?

-No. Not "dying to." -Oh, no, I know I'm not welcome here,

despite all my efforts to try and fit in to your little stargating club.

You can all rest assured that as soon as I can safely part Daniel's company,

without killing the both of us, I will.

Oh, and you.

You'll wish you'd listened to me

when I said letting the Goa'uld come here was a mistake.

Get to it, and good Iuck.

All right, let's do this.

Request permission to come aboard.

Shaft, welcome back to the Prometheus.

Thank you, Colonel.

-Shaft? -My call sign.

Cam, Shaft.

-Oh. -Yeah, disappointing, isn't it?

Flight deck, this is Pendergast. SG-1 is aboard.

Engage hyperdrive and proceed to Kallana, best possible speed.

-CARTER: Is the Mark lX ready to go? -Standing by for your systems check.

-I hear you're in a hurry. -You heard correctly.

What is a Mark lX, exactly?

-It's also known as a gate buster. -Sounds big.

-Some might say too big. -Really?

I've always thought there's no such thing.

-Vala, this is a military vessel. -I know, darling, I've stolen it before.

-Well, just try to be... -My charming self?

Just a little less talk, a little more "shut the hell up."

General! Join me for a glass of wine.

-It's from a place called France. -I'm on duty.

What is this?

This is exquisite. What is it?

Chicken.

-Chicken? -It's a rare delicacy among our people.

It's exquisite. I want more chicken. More chicken!

I'll try to pull some strings.

Nerus, this arrangement is only going to work

if you actually do something to help with this problem.

I was working. I was deep in thought when you walked in.

Yeah, I can see that.

-You don't trust me. -Of course I don't trust you.

Now, here is the latest transmission from my satellite.

As you can see, the force field continues to expand in phases,

and as it does so, it weakens considerably.

Enough to penetrate with our beaming technology?

Yes, with those nuclear devices that you were talking about.

Or SG-1. They could talk to this Prior face to face.

-Why would they do that? -We resort to force only when necessary.

Oh, I assure you, it will be. It will be, General.

And with the most powerful weapons in your arsenal.

I'll forward this new information directly to Prometheus,

and I'll see if I can arrange for more chicken.

Do!

Sir, we received an encrypted data burst from Stargate Command

the moment we came out of hyperspace.

Decode it immediately. We picking up any other vessels in the system?

-Negative, sir. -Can we get a closer look at the surface?

You can already see the extent of the incursion with the naked eye.

My God, it's enormous.

-Not everything I say is innuendo. -We can all see, thank you.

It's increased by almost 900% since our original intel.

It's increased by almost 900% since our original intel.

What of the Jaffa, Colonel Carter?

Sorry, Teal'c. I'm not detecting any life signs outside of the force field.

-lnside? -Just one.

-Prior. -I don't know how he's managing it.

According to these readings, the atmosphere inside the field

has become toxic.

Probably as a result of the Jaffa weapons fire on the force field.

Send a subspace message to Stargate Command.

We are over the enemy beachhead.

JACKSON: You do realize that no matter how nicely we ask them,

they're not all that likely to stop?

Then why are we going down there?

Well, you're going 'cause I'm going.

And we're going because we have orders.

Thanks to Nerus. Doesn't that alarm anyone?

Well, our government believes we need to send the Ori a message.

Indeed. The Ori need to be made aware that they are not welcome.

Well, some of you are certainly expert at getting that message across.

PENDERGAST ON INTERCOM: SG-1, this is the flight deck.

My people are predicting an expansion phase

to occur any time in the next few minutes.

CARTER: Understood.

If Nerus is correct, we should be able to punch through

with our transport beam.

And if not?

Then we're all dressed up with nowhere to go.

CARTER: Your return window will be roughly 16 seconds once on the surface.

After which time you'll be committed until the next expansion phase

in about half an hour.

-I'll be monitoring from the bridge. -Thanks.

Let's do this.

Standby mode in three, two, one, mark.

Good luck.

Set. Weapon is now in mode two.

We are go till the next window.

JA CKSON: How can he breathe?

Perhaps he has a personal shield of some kind.

Yo!

-My name is Lieutenant Colonel... -I know who you are.

Yeah, he just told you his name.

I also know you will do everything in your power to stop us.

-Obvious. -You will fail.

-The Ori are more powerful than you... -BIah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Here's the thing. We're not here to talk to you.

We wanna talk to the guys you take orders from.

-The Ori are all-seeing. -MITCHELL: Great.

In that case, we have in our possession a Mark IX naqahdriah

enhanced nuclear warhead, which was designed solely

for the purpose of vaporizing stargates and anything else in a 100-mile radius.

If you attempt to disable this warhead, physically, electronically or otherwise,

it will result in an immediate detonation.

Now, we ha ve a number of these god-awful things at our disposal,

and we will not hesitate to use them if necessary.

If you do not disengage the stargate

within 30 of our "Earth minutes, "

we will shut down the gate for you.

Go ahead.

We know who and what you are,

and want no part of what you ha ve to offer.

If you attempt this on any other planet in this galaxy,

we will find you and we will fight you.

That's it?

I just ga ve them 30 minutes.

Twenty-nine minutes.

-Earth minutes. -Yeah, I always wanted to say that.

Well, now you ha ve.

Sure hope they shut down that gate before we have to set this thing off.

TEAL 'C: That would appear to be highly unlikely, Colonel Mitchell.

VALA: I know. It's naive, even for you.

MITCHELL: Detonating the Iargest warhead ever built by man

is not exactly the historical footnote that I had in mind.

Not to mention the guilt you're gonna feel for vaporizing a perfectly good stargate.

-And that guy. -Oh, he 's probably Iooking forward to it.

Hey, Prior,

do you understand that you 're within a 100-mile radius,

and that personal shield ain 't gonna help you?

Death is only the beginning of the real journey.

-Sounds familiar. -lt should sound familiar, Dr. Jackson.

When I die, I will ascend.

It is the promise of the Ori.

Even if you fail your task?

What the hell is that?

-PENDERGAST: Lieutenant? -MARKS: There was no warning, sir.

They started firing the second they came out of hyperspace.

Damn fortunate they're not firing at us. Open communications.

To Jaffa vessels, this is the Earth ship Prometheus.

We request that you hold your fire. We have people down there.

I repeat. SG-1 is on the planet attempting to negotiate an Ori withdrawal.

Cease fire now!

The force field is being fired upon by Ha 'tak vessels.

-Why are they doing that? -Could we get them to stop doing that?

MITCHELL: Oh, this could be bad.

The Mark IX's fuse in mode two is a wee bit twitchy.

- You mean it could go off? - Yeah.

They stopped firing.

Sir, the force field is entering an expansion phase

ahead of the predicted time.

This is Pendergast. I want SG-1 brought back aboard

as soon as we can beam them through the force field.

PENDERGAST ON RADIO: SG-1, prepare for immediate extraction.

MITCHELL: The weapon is now in mode one.

Prometheus, we are ready for beam up.

Prior, Iast chance.

I am Gerak of the free Jaffa.

Why have you come here?

It's an honor to speak with you, sir.

My name is Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter.

By insisting that we cease fire on the enemy stronghold,

you've allowed it to expand even further, and we've lost the element of surprise.

And quite possibly saved the lives of SG-1.

I ask you again, why have you come to this world?

We have reason to believe that the Ori are attempting to use this planet

to stage a full-scale invasion.

And you hoped to repel this invasion with words?

There is more to this.

Words are often the most powerful weapon of all, Gerak.

The old ways will not stop an adversary as powerful as the Ori.

So you said in your message to the High Council, Teal'c.

To which we received no response.

We had no choice but to act on the information we had.

And how is it that the Tau'ri received this information even before the Council?

How we got this information is not important.

What is important that we stand together as allies in the face of our common enemy.

-You said you've come to fight. -We have.

I dispatched a scout in a cloaked cargo ship.

He tells me you have done nothing.

We're sending the Ori a message,

which they should receive in about 10 seconds.

Shields to maximum.

Gerak, I suggest you give the same order aboard your ships.

-There will be a blast wave. -Jaffa!

Five seconds.

Sir, the force field went into another expansion phase

just as the bomb detonated.

And it's a big one.

What is happening?

The force field continues to expand.

-lt isn't supposed to be doing that, is it? -JACKSON: No.

-Why is it doing that? -I don't know.

-What are you gonna do about it? -Shut up.

That was a multi-gigaton detonation. There's just no way.

-Maybe the gate was destroyed. -No.

If the field is still expanding, the gate still has to be active.

The environment inside the field has been turned into superheated plasma.

It makes it impossible to get a reliable reading.

And this is your message to the Ori?

Pithy, wasn't it?

We've struck the enemy with our most powerful weapon.

And yet their force field grows.

-That was not our intention. -Their beachhead must be destroyed.

If you are truly our ally, you will join us in this attack.

If you do not, your ship will become our next target.

The detonation did weaken the force field.

Our combined weapons fire might just finish the job.

If it does not, we will soon be engaged in battle with Gerak's forces.

We just don't have enough information.

Until I can explain how they're keeping the gate open,

or powering a force field this large...

It's your call.

I say we run away and rethink the whole thing.

Open up with everything we've got.

Bring the main rail gun online and commence firing.

Launch missiles.

Is the fire having any effect?

The force field is definitely losing strength.

But it's still expanding at a faster rate than it's weakening.

It's almost enveloped the entire planet. What happens then?

Damn it.

-What? -What?

Colonel, we need to cease fire now.

-Now! -Do it.

The greater the intensity of our weapons fire,

the greater and more frequent their expansion phases.

There is a direct correlation.

They're using the energy of our own weapons to build their beachhead.

You mean they planned this?

CARTER: There's no way to project the necessary power

through a stargate across galaxies. So they designed a force field

that could be powered by our own weapons.

The Ori knew the Jaffa of Kallana would defend their home world

and others would follow.

And Nerus made certain we'd join in.

Which means he's working for the Ori.

The Mark lX gave them almost 70% of the power they needed

to envelope the entire planet.

-Oh, yeah, we've been set up. -What a complete shock.

Won't say another word.

-Gerak's forces must also cease fire. -Open communications.

Too late.

I'm reading activity on the surface.

We've got incoming. Three objects and counting.

Bearing 180. Rising from the planet's surface

from the coordinates of the stargate and accelerating.

Shields to maximum.

Why have you ceased fire?

We have reason to believe our weapons may power the enemy force field.

Impossible.

CARTER: Well, that's what I thought, but it's the only explanation.

Gerak, they used both of us.

Multiple contacts on multiple bearings, sir.

-What the hell are they? -They're about 10 meters long,

but sensors read no internal space, no life signs aboard.

Rail guns to defensive fire mode. Stand by to launch fighters.

-One of them is on a collision course. -CARTER: I can confirm that.

One thousand meters. Five hundred.

Sublight engines to emergency thrust. Brace for impact.

Damage report!

There's a hull breach on the hangar deck. Shields are down to 20%.

Return fire, all positions.

Sensors are down.

Take us out of orbit. We can't stay here.

I want to know what you sent my people into.

General, I've been expecting you.

You know, these eggs, they're not properly ripe.

I asked you a question. Sergeant!

They say all good meals come to an end.

I assume, General, that by now SG-1 has reported that the Ori,

the closest thing to true gods in the entire universe,

have successfully established a permanent foothold.

What did you do?

Oh, it's not what I did, General.

What I have done pales in comparison to your contribution.

And by now, the force field has almost entirely enveloped the planet,

which makes them unstoppable.

And we couldn't have done it without you.

Two ofmy ships have been destroyed,

and my own flagship has been damaged.

-We must withdraw. -We, too, have suffered damage, Gerak.

But the battle is not yet over.

Our sensors tell us that the planet has begun to collapse.

We cannot tell you to what extent.

If you choose to remain to find out, know that your actions will be watched.

Hey, we're on the same side here.

We shall see.

What is he talking about?

He's leaving.

CARTER: We've got the sensors back up,

but we're gonna have to get closer to the planet to find out.

PENDERGAST: Right, bring us about. Take us back into the system.

Okay, I've got a fix on the planet. Looks like Gerak was right.

According to the sensors, its diameter has decreased by 16%.

Planets don't shrink in my experience.

CARTER: Oh, there's something else.

What is that?

-A ship? -CARTER: It's hard to say.

Whatever it is, I think it's composed of the objects

that came through the stargate.

-Doesn't that look an awful lot like a... -Yeah, it does.

In fact, I think that's just what it is.

No, it can't be, because I was gonna say stargate.

Try supergate. I estimate it's 300 to 400 meters across.

Large enough for passage of an entire armada.

-It's incomplete. There's still time. -Time?

Time to do what? Everything we've done has just made things worse.

The planet's diameter has now decreased by up to 50%.

-And it's accelerating rapidly. -CARTER: I think I know why.

Only one thing in the universe could power a gate that size.

It's also the only thing that could allow them to keep the gate open this long.

-And there's one on the other end. -A black hole.

That's what the force field was for. It wasn't meant to keep us out.

It was designed to collapse the planet into a micro-singularity.

Why?

This is how they can create a wormhole that can span such a vast distance.

And with a black hole at either end,

they can maintain an open wormhole indefinitely.

-Fine, fine. How do we stop it? -I have an idea. If we can...

The next idea that anybody comes up with has to be outside the box.

Okay, the gate is composed of individual units.

There must be some sort of energy linkage between them, like a chain.

-Exactly, so we... -So we need a big old set of bolt cutters.

JACKSON: Oh, too far outside the box. Get closer to the box.

Planetary collapse is speeding up exponentially.

I estimate singularity formation is minutes away,

and there will be a significant shock wave.

Whatever we're gonna do, we have to do it now.

Sir, someone has just activated the ring transporter.

What?

Oh, no.

Hey, don't leave without me.

JACKSON ON RADIO: Vala, where the hell are you?

Oh, you care now?

Vala!

I'm aboard the cloaked cargo ship that Gerak left behind to watch us.

-How did you find it? -Good guess.

When controls are set a certain way, rings seek out the nearest set,

which happened to be aboard this cargo ship, cloaked or not.

-What are you doing? -Trying to help, Daniel.

Someone had to do something, and you wouldn 't Iisten.

Actually, I got the idea from Colonel Carter.

The objects are being held in some sort of energy field,

Iike links in a chain,

and I intend to take the place of the last link.

Vala, when that singularity forms, there will be a powerful shock wave.

-The cargo ship won't survive. -VALA: I'm counting on it.

I'II ring back before it hits. Then you can all thank me immensely.

Shields to maximum.

She's running out of time.

Oh, boy.

It's working.

She disrupted the energy field holding the objects in place.

The singularity is forming.

She did it. The gate's been destroyed.

Did Vala make it back onboard?

Negative, sir.

Jackson? Infirmary.

Get a message to Stargate Command. The Ori beachhead has been destroyed.

There's still time to repent, General.

The Ori are forgiving.

That won't be necessary. SG-1 has destroyed the Ori beachhead.

-You're lying. -I'm not.

I've witnessed their power, General.

Power that will one day be mine.

And if what you say is true, you've merely forestalled the inevitable.

And when you put me to death

for what I have done,

I shall ascend.

You will descend to a small, dark room in the basement of Area 51,

and you'll stay there till you come up with a defense against the Ori.

That was our deal.

What would possibly compel me to do that?

Hunger.

You know, these Ori are just gonna try it again.

Probably.

Sam, we could sure use someone like you on the front line.

Just think about it.

Hey, Jackson.

Sorry. I keep falling asleep.

Well, it's better than the alternative.

You're lucky the bracelet's effect was wearing off.

Yeah, lucky me.

Vala Mal Doran will be mourned.

I'm going over the telemetry from the last few seconds

before the formation of the singularity.

A matter stream left the cargo ship just before it exploded.

There's at least a slight chance that it was pulled into the singularity.

So you're saying she could be alive somewhere in the Ori home galaxy.

It's possible.

Well, we wanted to send them a message.