All language subtitles for Stargate SG-1 - S1E08 - Brief Candle.en

Give them strength, Lord!

Let their hearts beat as one.

And, who might
this be, Daniel?

I'm not sure...

...maybe early Greek, but I
don't recognize the god form.

Sorry...we, we...we didn't
mean to scare anyone.

You are not Pelops.

No, no, uh, you mean him?

Uh, no, we're, we're
visitors...friends.

Husband, the child
is near...please...

The midwife is gone, I do not
know the birthing mysteries...

...and the village is
too far. Please...help us.

What? Don't look at me,
I don't know what to do.

Push, push...push.

- You're doing just fine.
- Where did you learn how to do this?

Uh, on a dig in the Yucatan.

Um, after the first one, I made friends with
the local mid-wives and they taught me a lot.

How many babies
have you delivered?

Uh...two...uh, counting today.

Alekos...

...it's a boy.

Hey, congratulations.

May he grow strong
and bring you honor.

You never cease to amaze
me with all your talents.

Thank you.

Wow, this...place
is incredible.

It's like we just stepped
into the citadel at Mycenae.

I thought you
said it was Greek?

Oh, uh, the Mycenae was an ancient city
in the southern Peloponnesus region.

- Where's that?
- Greece.

- Why do I do that?
- Wait, I don't think you should be walking right now, I mean...

Shouldn't you be resting?
Daniel, shouldn't she...

I'm fine. I'm fine.

We wish for you all to
be the first to see...

- A birthmark.
- A tri-point.

It will bring him luck.

I would call him Dan-el,

- to honor the stranger who birthed him.
- Oh, you don't have to do that.

May we offer you the
hospitality of our village?

Well, that'd be nice.

Who are you folks?

We are the Chosen.

Where do the gods reside?

Doesn't everyone know?

In the sky...of course.

Of course.

I have a son.

(in the crowd) Look at this.
What a lovely child, lovely child.

Look at these people.

I guess they've never hear
the word "unattractive" here.

- They all look as healthy as a Jaffa.
- That's a good thing, right?

I don't see anyone who
looks like they're over 40.

Um...do things feel
a little..."off" here?

Are you crazy?
It's a paradise.

Yeah, sure, have an
apple. What could happen?

I am Kynthia.
Welcome to our village.

Thank you...

Jack O'Neill.

It is pleasing?

Very.

- You should have some.
- It is only for you.

Only for me?

Thanks.

It is only for you.

I think you have
a fan, Colonel.

I believe this woman wishes
to spend time with O'Neill.

Thank you, Teal'c.

This place must be loaded with artifacts.
That statue in there, for example,

...must be the Mycenaean hero, Pelops,

...who fought from his winged
chariot, hurling lightning bolts.

Poetic way to describe
a Goa'uld Death Glider.

Yeah, probably.

These people are
obviously not laborers.

I must wonder why a Goa'uld
would bring them to this planet.

Perhaps it was a good Goa'uld.

Right! Like there
is such a thing.

I did not intend for my
statement to be humorous.

Trust me, they weren't.

Hello, girls...

Uh, Colonel?
Where're you going?
Hello?

Please, sit down.

Unto ever man the creator
gives 100 blissful days.

It is a sin not to
celebrate each and every one.

A hundred day celebration?

Guess we should
pace ourselves.

What, exactly, just happened?

Kynthia?

Um...what happened?

To them or...you?

We'll talk about that later.

I've seen parties end
abruptly, but never like this.

They all just...collapsed.

It happened just
as the sun set.

Kynthia did the same thing.

What is it? Some kind of
sleeping sickness? What?

There's no sign
of fever or pain,

...breathing's shallow,
heartbeat's slow but regular.

A disease can't affect
everyone all at once.

It seems to be nothing more
than a deep state of sleep.

Now...how about you?

Let's just stick to
the matter at hand.

How does an entire
village pass out?

Something in the food?

We all partook
of the same food.

Except for that cake.

Which was "only for you".

Damn, she drugged me.

Oh...he's still feeling
the effects of the drug.

- No...I'm just a little tired.
- Colonel?

From now on, we
stick to rations.

No fever, shallow breathing, slow
heartbeat...just like the others.

What the hell
is going on here?

Hey, Colonel...how
you feeling?

Hung over...

...but okay.

Gettin' any answers out here?

No. They all act as if what
happened last night was normal.

They party until sundown. Then they fall
asleep, and they wake when the sun rises.

I'd like an explanation.

Daniel, get back to that
temple. See what you can find out.

Take Teal'c with you.

Come on.

Carter...

...keep asking
questions out here.

He is the creator...Pelops,
the giver of days.

This was his home
when he lived among us.

We keep it as it was then and
will do so until he returns.

- And when will that be?
- Well, that is a mystery.

Until it is revealed, it is the duty
of the Chosen to rejoice and wait.

Why are your people
called the Chosen?

My ancestors were so
beloved by Pelops that...

...he fashioned
this garden for us.

It is said...

...he chose us and brought
us here from beyond the stars.

Are there any writings
of your history?

"Writings"?
I do not know this word.

...more of this.

Writings.
Do you know what this is?

It is of Pelops.

It is Goa'uld...
an obscure dialect.

Why didn't you
tell me that before?

You never before inquired.

Well...you call it Goa'uld.

Um, I call it
linear "A" script.

We found pictographics like this in ancient
Greece and ancient Cretan, but...

...we never completely
deciphered this form.

The symbols are a sequence.

What, like a...combination?

What is a combination?

Well, it's a sequence
of symbols or motions...

- Can you read this?
- I believe I can.

It seems to be
some sort of record,

...an archaic dialect.

Very difficult to decipher.

- Come on, I want to show you something.
- Okay, I-I'm coming.

Hi. I found this shell this morning and,
uh, I thought maybe Dan-el might like it.

He can use it as a rattle.

- You want to give it to him for me?
- Oh, you can do so yourself.

This is Dan-el.

No, no, I meant the baby.

This is baby Dan-el.

Okay...

...that's not possible.

Do you not have children
who change and-and grow?

Well, yeah, sure we
do...but not like that.

Thetyes, how old is that boy?

That is Phillippos. He is 12.

- Okay, well, he's a little big for 12 years old, but...
- Years...

...what are "years"?

Uh, well...uh, I-I guess it would be
a little different for each planet,

...but a year is basically the
time it takes for the globe...

...to complete one orbit around the sun.

Right...let's just
keep this simple, okay?

Where we come from,

...there are 365
days in one year.

No, no...we have no such
counting of time on Argos.

Phillippos is 12 days old.

- How old are you?
- Twenty-one days.

And, uh...Kynthia?

Thirty-one days.

I think Pelops brought
humans here to be lab rats.

From what we've been able
to translate so far...

...he wanted to know
how humans evolve,

...so he shortened
the life span...

...to about 1/250th of normal.

So, instead of having to wait a hundred thousand
years to see how human physiology evolves,

- ...he could do it in a hundred?
- That is correct.

Pelops wanted to determine what the human
host body would become in the future,

...and perhaps
accelerate the process.

How did he do it? Was
it genetic alteration?

We do not know. It
is an archaic dialect.

Okay...I didn't want to say this
'til I was absolutely sure but...

I think he may have
created some kind of virus...

...and viruses are often
spread through bodily contact.

Some are and some
are airborne...

...But I think
that this one isn't.

What has drawn you
to this conclusion?

Because only one of us passed
out last night, and that was Jack.

You have to give them credit for
one thing...they do enjoy life.

Perhaps it is because they do
not have much life to enjoy.

...reat! So now what you're telling me is this
virus - which, by the way, I do not have -

...is deadly?

Well, if the kids age
five years in five days,

...what happens when
they reach 100 days?

Colonel? Colonel?

I guess it wasn't the cake.

Maybe it was your physical
contact with Kynthia.

Get back to Earth, Captain.
Figure this thing out.

Tell me you brought the blood
back in sealed containers.

Yeah, of course
I did. What is it?

I'm not sure.

First I ran a routine check
for antibodies...nothing.

So then I thought, all right, maybe this alien
bug found a way to hide from the immune system,

...so I ran a protein analysis.
Take a look at what I found.

All right, these are the
blood samples you brought back.

Now, look at the strange
particulate in there.

So that's from one
of the Argosians?

- Now...that's from Colonel O'Neill.
- Wow...what is it?

Something we don't
have a word for...yet.

Well, how come the Colonel has
way more of it than the Argosians?

Maybe because he started
out older than they did...

...sort of like a-a head start
for whatever this thing is.

- I'd better wake up General Hammond.
- Yeah.

Jack! Carter's comin' back!

Welcome back, Captain.

So, what did you find out?

Come on now, don't keep the
elderly waiting. It's rude.

Uh, it isn't a virus.

- All right...what is it?
- Well, Dr. Fraiser and I came up empty.

She's still working on
it...but it's gonna take time.

Time...is something these
people don't have, Captain.

- Nor do I.
- Colonel, there's something else.

You're blood sample showed way more
organisms compared to the Argosians.

- How many more?
- Maybe on the level of a hundred times more...

...and they are multiplying.

Which means?

It-it means the organism
- or what ever it is -...

...seems to be compensating
for your natural age.

You've already lived
way longer than anyone...

...with this, for lack of a
better word, disease, ever should.

Cut to it, Captain.

At the rate your changing,

...by the end of two weeks, you'll
be the equivalent of 100 years old.

So, in two weeks I'll be dead?

Not if I can help it.

- I'd like to set up a lab here.
- Negative, Captain.

We may be able to retard the
aging process long enough...

...to find a cure.

I want you to pack up
and head back to Earth.

Now. All of you.

That's an order.

We're not gonna bring another
disease back through that 'gate.

I will remain
here, with O'Neill.

I cannot be affected
by...whatever this is.

I don't need company.
I need a cure...

...and Daniel needs help
translating that Goa'uld tablet thing.

- It might hold the answer.
- Jack...

And don't you dare
say good bye...

...because you damn will
better be coming back...soon.

Now, get outta
here. All of you.

Oh my God...

What?

They're not multiplying.
They're replicating.

- What's the difference?
- Living organism multiply,

...machines replicate.

Machines inside the
body? How is that possible?

They're molecular devices that
take atomic particles from...

...their environment and use
them to make more of themselves.

You're talking
nanotechnology...

- You know anything about that?
- No.

Yes. When I was
at the Pentagon,

I worked for a year with a
group that studied nanotechnology.

We were looking at it for a lot of different
uses. One of them was medicine...

...creating artificial immune
systems, repairing individual cells,

...even manipulating DNA
to stop the aging process.

It sounds like Pelops succeeded in
what you were experimenting with,

...only in reverse. Nice guy.

What're you lookin' at?

Think you're hot stuff, doing this to
me from six billion light years away?

Can you really talk
to the great Pelops?

Sure...why not?

Just a piece of rock.

Not so great, anyway.

You're people...they
have gone?

Yeah...they have gone.

Then, you will leave also?

No, I'll be here for a while.

I am glad.

I would like to
learn of your customs.

Maybe some other time, hmm?

I've kinda got
a lot on my mind.

But you ate the marriage
cake...came to my bed...

"Marriage cake"?

Kynthia, you thought
we were married?

By all our customs, yes.

Sweet...

Kynthia, wh-what you were
feeling wasn't really love.

That takes time.

I mean, you can't get to
know someone in one day.

Unto every woman the creator
gives 100 blissful days.

Kynthia, will you stop that?

You're creator was not a god,

...and he certainly didn't
give you life. He took it away.

We are the Chosen.

He made this place for
us...to be happy...to love.

To be experimented on!

I mean, look at me!

I'm 40 years old...or I was.

That's...thousands
and thousands of days.

You do not tell the truth.

The average human life span...

...is 60 or 70 years.

Some people live
to be 100 years.

It is not possible.

Pelops was an alien
who used your people!

He shortened your lives
to satisfy his curiosity!

We've given the nanocytes some
live tissue to interact with,

...but they
aren't touching it.

The only thing they appear to
do is make more of themselves.

So, how are they causing
the aging on Argos?

Maybe there's something on Argos that
they need to make them do another task,

...something in the
air or, uh, in the food.

- Is there a problem, Captain Carter?
- I-I don't know!

It's eating
through the rubber.

Oh, God!

What? What is it?

They're trying to spread.

"Dear Sarah"

Is it true that you have
lived thousands of days?

I should have
kept my mouth shut.

But wouldn't you
rather know the truth.

Why do we deserve this?

He can't hear you.

We are good people.

We love each other and
this land you have given us.

Why?

Science,

...progress, knowledge...

Alekos,

what would you do if you had
thousands of days ahead of you?

I would walk out into the world,
beyond the borders of the Chosen.

Why?

To see what is there.

No one knows.

Pelops has forbidden
us ever to leave.

And how has he done that?

He's nothing but a big
piece of rock. He's a statue.

He will strike us
down, it is taught.

No, he will not strike you
down. Trust me on that, will you?

Look, go on out
there. Take a walk.

See what's there. Go on...

Then I could return...

...and teach the
people what I know...

...and in their thousands of
days they would learn more...

...and teach their children.

Now you're talkin'.

Come back to the village.

It is not good to
be always alone.

Whatever time I have left,

...let me spend
it in my own way.

But you do not spend
it. You waste it.

I don't think
reflecting on my life,

...or trying to figure out how to
get the rest of it back, is a waste.

You are angry.

Yes.

Yes I am.

Aren't you now that
you know the truth?

What can we do but live
in the way we always have?

We do not have thousands of
days. But we treasure every moment.

I know, Kynthia.

But in my heart...

I'm a military man,

...a warrior.

That's my life.

To which my
ex-wife will attest.

You love her still?

And now, because of me,
you will never see her again.

You meant no harm.

Then let me give
what I have taken.

The time of one heartbeat
can become an eternity.

I'm sorry, people,
my decision is final.

Sir, neither of us show
any evidence of the nanocyte.

We can keep working
here in total isolation.

All blood and tissue samples are
to be incinerated and pulverized.

- Work on the Argos project stops now.
- General,

...you are condemning Colonel
O'Neill and the Argosians to death.

Captain Carter,

...these thing appear to possess
artificial intelligence. Correct?

Yes, sir. That's the only way they could adapt
their programming to their situation.

Which means they could adapt
themselves right out of this facility.

Sir, if we destroy the samples
we will have nothing to work from.

I'm sorry. The risk
is just too great.

The order is final.

Sir!

We cannot just
leave him there.

Dr. Jackson, Colonel O'Neill
is one of the finest men...

...it has ever been my pleasure to serve with.

It will be a great loss to this
country and to all of us in this room,

...but I am sure he would not hesitate...

...to make the same decision for
himself that I'm making now.

We're working with computer
simulations and practical simulations.

Realistically, sir, I'm
afraid it might take years.

The General says that 'gate
travel to Argos is strictly...

...off-limits for the
next few, uh, millennia...

...but we can send objects through,
so if you need anything...just call.

Say something.

Colonel...I've learned
very much from you.

Thank you.

You know, good-byes
really suck.

Excuse me,

...what are you doing?

You're people do not have
enough knowledge to help us.

We must ask Pelops to return.

Oh, for crying out loud!

Ol' Pelops doesn't
give a rat's ass about...

...things like love!

His kind kidnap
people like you and...

...take them to other
worlds to be used as slaves!

Pelops thinks of
us as his slaves?

Then I will no longer
be one of the Chosen.

Nor will I.

That's the message
you ought to be sendin'.

He-He did not strike us.

So, you like older men, do ya?

- Wh-what is it?
- We should go back.

We have gone too far from
the village. Pelops forbids it.

He's gone, Kynthia. He's gone.

It'll be okay,

I promise.

here!

Aw, hell.

Have to teach you
a game I can win.

It is good to see you smile.

Tell me, will you live the rest
of your days without making love?

Oh, God, I hope not.

Ah, we'd probably
just pass out.

Why aren't we unconscious yet?

It shoulda happened
already Kynthia.

Why aren't we asleep...

No one has awakened.

Except for us.

Why?

How important is this rule that
no one can leave the village?

It is Pelops first law.

Then whatever it is that knocks
us all out at night is right here.

What?

I'll bet...

...you and I stayed awake...

...because we
walked out of range.

The cure could be
as simple as just...

...getting' the
hell outta Dodge.

We stay out of proximity,

...no sleep.

They all stay here,

...they get no wake-up call.

There's got to be
some other variable,

...some other change.

Excuse me.

I've got a phone call to make.

Welcome back, kids.

It's damn good
to see you again.

Don't worry.

Aside from a little prostate
problem we won't go into,

...it's not so bad.

I was right.

It's a transmitter.

Uh, there were two sets of glyphs that
were quite tough to translate...

...until Teal'c realized
they weren't words.

They were, in fact, numbers.

Two different frequencies:

One to put the villagers to sleep
and to activate the nanocytes,

...the second one to shut
it all off for the day.

When you broke the statue, you
must have damaged the wake-up call.

Can you recalibrate this
thing to wake these people up?

No, sir, it's useless.

I'm gonna have to use the
equipment that we brought with us.

I've loaded the frequency.

I'm switching it on, now.

Alekos, the sun
is already turning.

Why did we wake so late?

Our tests indicate that your body
has been cleansed of the machines...

...that plagued you.

I figure the immune system must
attack them if they aren't operating.

From now on, you and your people
should age at a normal rate.

What about Jack?

Me?

Oh, I'll probably
move to Florida,

...get into a little
retirement home of some kind.

- You'd look pretty out of place there at your age.
- Why? I look like my grandfather.

Look is the
operative word here.

If our hypothesis is right, the nanocytes
in your system were only meant...

...to imitate aging.

They weren't meant to start the
process in a full-grown adult.

What are you sayin' to me?

Without these little buggers in
your system to maintain the changes,

...you should return to
normal within a week or two.

That is wonderful news.

I don't know.

I was kinda looking forward to a
little shuffleboard with the fellas.

Then you are leaving?

You will not be
staying with me then?

No, I won't.

What will happen to us
now if Pelops returns?

Well, I don't think
that's gonna happen.

But just in case, we'll send some folks
by now and again to check up on you.

My heart would be glad
if you were one of them.

Sweet Kythia,

I've learned so much from you.

I'll treasure
every day of my life,

...because of you.

For thousands of days?

I sure hope so.

That is almost forever.

Almost.