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Threat level foxtrot Alpha six.

All security teams to the gate room.

Give me your weapon.

Simulation time, 49 seconds

that's not bad, not bad.

How was it?

Was it fun? Indeed.

You died well in battle, O'Neill.

Obviously, there's something defective

with this thing.

Agreed.

An Anubis drone is a far more formidable warrior

than this simulation would suggest.

What?

No, we've been working on this chair for two years

to make it a viable virtual reality training tool

for SGC personnel.

You have failed.

He's nothing if not honest.

Well...

I mean, maybe we could...

It could use a little more work, but...

Can you make it harder... More difficult?

Well, I mean, we can input the parameters

for different scenariqs,

but the vast majority of the simulation array

comes from the mind of the user.

The programming is actually built

by interfacing memories from the individuals consciousness

with the chair's matrix.

Carter, all I heard was "matrix,"

and I found those films quite confusing.

I think what Dr. Lee is trying to explain

is that the simulation actually learns its realism

from the person using it. What?

Yeah, we've built it,

we tested the software extensively

using a variety of subjects...

Obviously, no one with Teal'c's field experience.

Subjects?

To whom do you refer?

Well, um...

Hey, if Teal'c would agree to work with us a little more...

Look, all you'd have to do is basically just play the game,

let it learn from you.

Oh, come on, it'd be fun.

You'd be so good.

Very well.

There you go.

Just make sure there's a beginners level for the rest of us.

Oh, yeah, we can always make it easier.

Not-not that we'd have to

for you, certainly.

I mean, for others, but you... you would be fine...

Carter, gentlemen.

Now, thanks to colonel Carter's

new code translation program,

we can actually monitor your progress

through a graphic representation of your point of view.

You've played doom.

I played def jam vendetta.

Exactly, yes.

Now, there is a two-second delay

between the chair's processor and your perceived experience,

but, um...

Well, I mean, you shouldn't notice anything.

Anyway, we can store every aspect

of your activity in the game

and then later choose what we're going to incorporate

into our programming of the training scenario.

Oh. You understand, as before,

once your mind is interfaced with the chair,

we cannot forcibly remove the connection

or cut power to the chair without endangering you.

Indeed.

It's afunction of the new chair design.

Since the whole gamekeeper incident,

the aliens of p7j-989 built the shutoff command

into the internal program,

so only someone in the chair can control it.

You have previously given me this information, colonel Carter.

This a little different this time,

because the game will actually be learning from you

and then incorporating those changes

into its programming code.

If you're killed in the game, it will reset,

and you'll automatically start again.

The chair will only disconnect

and end the game under two conditions.

Once you complete the scenario,

or if you engage the internal failsafe,

which of course you're freeto do at any time.

That will be unnecessary.

Don't be so cocky, Teal'c.

The chair is intuitive.

It's eventually going to learn everything you know.

Now, if you want to stop it

before the conclusion of the simulation,

just get to the base elevator, head for the surface.

Ready?

Proceed.

Threat level foxtrot Alpha six.

All security teams to the gate room.

Give me your weapon.

What just happened?

It looks like the chair induced a pain response

when he was killed.

It's directly linked to his brain.

We knew it was capable of this.

But it's just a simulation. It doesn't have to hurt.

Yeah, see that's the difference between you and Teal'c.

He knows that in a real situation,

your tactics would be completely different

if you thought you couldn't feel any pain.

Man, that was a heck of a shock.

He wanted it to be realistic.

Well, fortunately, we limited the chair

from being able to deliver any sort of lethal jolt.

Threat level foxtrot Alpha six.

All security teams to the gate room.

O'Neill...

Get out of here, Teal'c.

That's twice.

Looks like the chair is learning quickly.

Don't count Teal'c out yet.

Ooh, that's cold.

Colonel, I'm, uh, I'm pretty concerned

about some of these bio-readings.

Me too.

Dr. Carmichael, this is colonel Carter.

Can you join us in science lab five?

Threat level foxtrot Alpha six.

All security teams to the gate room.

Teal'c!

Colonel Carter, I require your assistance.

Likewise. SG-3 came in hot.

Sounds like our gate room people could use a little backup.

They are all dead.

Excuse me? The gate room has been breached.

Our most effective defense

will beto seal off the east and south ends of level 28.

If we act now, we may be able to force them into a crossfire.

Force who? The two Anubis warriors.

How the hell can you know that?

Because they have chosen the same route seven of the last 10 times.

Colonel, we have two hostiles headed your way.

Roger that. We're in position.

Heads up, people.

Fall back!

Well, you were right to be concerned

about these readings.

Frequent sympathetic spikes

in his natural adrenaline production

are causing blood pressure and heart rate way too high

to be sustained over the long term.

That last ambush should have worked.

Why did the energy weapon have no effect?

I don't know.

Have you ever known a super soldier

to be resistant to the weapon like that in reality?

No.

But it is possible, right? I mean,

we've seen situations

where the Goa'uld have adapted their technology

to defend against something we've thrown at them.

Well...

Hopefully, the game will also extrapolate possible solutions and offer them to Teal'c.

Well, I mean, it'd just be fair.

Threat level foxtrot Alpha six.

All security teams...

Teal'c, SG-3 came in hot.

Sounds like the gate room people could use some backup.

We've got to move!

Colonel Carter, listen to me.

The SGC has been penetrated by two Anubis drones.

Our weapons are now ineffective against their armor.

How could you... How is this possible?

That's what I want to know.

I am speaking of the armor.

It could have been altered to resist the effectiveness of the energy weapon.

Can they now be defeated?

I've been working on a frequency modulator chip.

Where is it? In my lab,

but I still don't...

Show me.

It's only a prototype.

Warning.

Base auto-destruct sequence has been activated.

Nice of you to join us.

We've been busy.

They've found a way to counteract our little weapons here.

Warning. Base auto-destruct sequence has been activated.

30 seconds to detonation.

Base auto-destruct has been aborted.

We're clear.

Then the threat has been eliminated.

The threat has been eliminated.

Teal'c, you're injured.

Teal'c?

I'm fine.

I don't get it. That should be the end.

You're saying he should have won?

Well, that was the conclusion of the originally

programmed scenario.

But the chair is not disconnecting.

Yeah, and the game's not resetting

to the beginning either.

Well, that's not fair. You can't win a race

if someone keeps moving the finish line.

He said he wanted it to be harder,

more realistic.

In reality, we haven't defeated the Goa'uld.

Are you saying the game won't end until he defeats all the Goa'uld?

I don't know. You tell me.

You said the game is learning the rules from Teal'c.

Yeah, but the parameters can't go beyond

the base invasion scenario.

Can you get him out?

Not without risking serious neural damage.

The game has a failsafe.

All Teal'chasto do is quit.

Yeah... Teal'c quit.

Anubis" drones must have waited for SG-3 to dial the gate

and then overwhelmed them at the last minute.

Now, what I can't figure out is how they knew

how to set the base self-destruct.

I can't believe general O'Neill is really dead.

He is not dead.

What?

We must focus on the situation.

The threat has not been neutralized.

What? We will search the base immediately.

More warriors remain.

What?

He also knew the super soldier's armor

was resistant to our energy weapons.

Sergeant harriman reported

that there were only two intruders before he got killed.

They held the control room long enough

to keep the Iris open and let others through.

Maybe, but the gate logs would've indicated

there was another incoming wormhole.

The threat has not been neutralized.

There are others. I am certain of it.

Because...

The game has not yet ended.

Teal'c, I know this isn't your strongest suit,

but this is a really bad time for jokes.

You are all part of a simulation

designed to test the SGC's preparedness in case of a gate breach.

None of you are real.

I am fine.

Warning! Base auto-destruct sequence has been activated.

Sam...

I don't understand it.

Somebody must have re-activated the auto-destruct

from a remote location.

I'm locked out of the system. I can't shut it down.

How did you know?

His heart rate and blood pressure are too high.

How long can he do this?

I don't know. A day, maybe less.

I thought the chair wasn't supposed to be able to kill him.

Well, the physiological effects it can have at any one time are limited.

Yes, but I'm afraid that while each individual pain stimulus

isn't in any way life-threatening,

the cumulative effect is now starting to take its toll.

If he doesn't have a heart attack,

he'll eventually run out of adrenaline.

His heart will slow down, his blood pressure will drop,

his entire organ system is going to fail.

Death by a thousand cuts.

You must disable the auto-destruct command.

What? The SGC will be breached by Anubis' warriors.

They will attempt to destroy the base

via the auto- destruct command.

What are you talking about?

If you disable the command,

they will be forced to use other means to achieve their goal.

Only then can we hope to defeat them.

Teal'c, how could you possibly know?

Threat level foxtrot Alpha six.

All security teams to the gate room.

There is little time.

Colonel...

He's at level 28.

He's already got the modulator chip,

and he's used it to kill the first two super soldiers.

He's hunting for the third.

Man, he's not in good shape.

This is ridiculous. It's torturing him.

Why won't he quit?

Wait a minute.

He's headed for the elevator.

He's going to use the failsafe.

Threat level foxtrot Alpha six.

All security teams to the gate room.

It didn't work. He's back in the game.

You know, I always thought a failsafe system

was supposed to be somewhat safe...

From failure.

From the beginning, in Teal'c's mind,

the goal was to make the simulation as real as possible.

As much as he must now want to quit,

we think the game evaluated his character

and decided that if this were a real situation,

Teal'c would never give up under any circumstances.

Well, it's right.

It's also just a game.

The game doesn't know that.

So how do we get him out?

Well, removing the connections

while the system is operating

is very dangerous, potentially fatal.

On the other hand, the physical stress

the chair is putting him under will eventually kill him anyway.

Right now, the only way out is for Teal'c to win the game.

Can he?

It seems to be getting harder and harder.

Every time it appears he's won, the game adds a new twist.

So it's not going to let him win.

No, the chair doesn't have an ego.

It's not trying to beat Teal'c,

just provide a challenge that's worthy of his abilities.

Ironically, it'steal'c's ego

that created this problem in the first place,

not that his self-image isn't entirely accurate.

If this continues,

he's going to require adrenaline to sustain his heart rate,

and the thing is, I can't keep him going like this for long.

There has to be a way for him to win.

I think it's helping.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They've adapted their armor.

Cover me.

Colonel Carter...

Teal'c, what's going on?

What are you doing with a thermographic sensor?

There is a third drone.

Are you sure? I thought only two came through.

I am certain.

It Is using a cloak of invisibility.

Nice one.

And it is not yet over.

There are more?

Colonel?

Go ahead. Ma'am, I've got a problem with a naquadah generator

in storage room 28009.

I can't stop it.

Someone's rigged it on a feedback loop.

There's not enough time to stop the overload.

Sergeant, dial the gate, now! P4m-523!

Yes, ma'am. Starting dialing sequence.

Chevron one encoded.

Chevron two encoded.

Chevron three encoded.

Chevron four...

Daniel?

What the hell are you doing?

Threat level foxtrot Alpha six.

All security teams to the gate room.

Warning! Base auto-destruct sequence has been activated.

How's he doing? Not well.

His physical exhaustion

is translating into the game.

It looks like he's having trouble even playing any more.

It stillwon't let him go.

I spoke to one of the scientists on p7j-9809.

He says there's nothing they can do under the circumstances.

What are you doing?

They had a neural imprint of Teal'c's mind on file

from when we were trapped in the chairs six years ago.

Creepy.

Yeah. I'm trying not to think about it.

Anyway, I'm running a simulation on this chair

using the same parameters that Teal'c's dealing with now.

And? Well, the imprint's nowhere near the same

as a live, active mind.

Plus, a lot has changed in the last six years.

Yeah, but not the essence of Teal'c's character.

See, that's what worries me.

I hope it has.

I have run hundreds of simulations.

No matter what Teal'c does,

the programming adapts.

Every time it looks like he's won,

the chair makes it harder.

It's almost like the game is reading Teal'c's mind

and somehow seeing this one game

as a microcosm for our war against the Goa'uld.

Well, that's how Teal'c probably treats every battle we fight with them.

According to these results,

six years ago, despite what Teal'c led us to believe,

deep down, he didn't really think

the Goa'uld could ever be defeated.

Well, he doesn't think that now.

He can't, not after everything we've accomplished.

I hope you're right.

Otherwise, no matter how long or hard Teal'c plays the game,

he won't win.

This can't go on for much longer.

We're going to have to make a decision pretty soon

about forcibly removing the connections.

You know, it's too bad

we can't hook up a joystick to this thing.

Give him a little help,

a little backup, maybe.

Actually, we could link up another chair

and send someone else into the same simulation.

Oh... it wouldn't make any difference.

The processors would network

and the second person would just fall victim

to the same altered elements in the simulation

that have already trapped Teal'c.

Unless the new player had an advantage.

Sir, you may have done it again.

Yes.

How did I do it this time?

Those graphics are being generated by a data recorder

that's tracking the game.

It's actually interfaced into the system

between the chair's processor and Teal'c.

The chair decides what's going to happen, Teal'c responds.

Those responses are then incorporated, processed,

and we see the results.

It's a continuous loop of ever-changing data.

Still waiting on my good idea.

The recorder causes a two-second delay

between the programming in the chair

and the experience in Teal'c's mind.

And he won't know the difference,

but we could use it to our advantage.

If we hook up the second chair to the first

without using the recorder in the loop...

The new player would know

what was about to happen in the game two seconds

before it occurred.

Like precognition. Exactly.

It's not much,

but it might give us enough of an edge

to help both players win.

That's assuming the chair's programming

won't become aware of it and adapt.

Which means that there's a good chance

that the second player could be trapped along with Teal'c.

I'll do it.

Threat level foxtrot Alpha six.

All security teams to the gate room.

Teal'c!

What are you doing?

No, don't! Don't...

Why did he shoot him?

Because Daniel was a Goa'uld

in the last several simulations.

I told you I should have gone.

The last thing we needed

was the game learning from your tactical experience.

I've got to get used to this.

Threat level foxtrot Alpha six.

All security teams to the gate room.

Easy, don't shoqt.

Just hear me out.

Okay, it's me. I'm real, I'm not a Goa'uld,

and I'm going to prove that to you, okay?

Crap.

Threat level foxtrot Alpha six.

All security teams to the gate room.

I'm sorry, buddy, you're going to have to listen to me.

Okay.

Now, a minute ago, we were in Sam's lab.

I was trying to convince you I was real, and you shot me,

remember?

What happened next?

The game reset.

I know, it's probably happened so many times

it's just one big blur,

but the reason it happened this time

is because I'm playing too.

I'm in a chair, just like you.

If either one of us die, we both lose.

It will not let me out.

I know.

The game thinks that in a real situation, you'd never quit.

No matter what I do,

it Is not possible, Daniel Jackson. It is not possible!

Yes, it is.

That's why I'm here.

Come on, let's do this.

Together.

We must leave this area immediately.

Yeah, I heard that.

You possess the ability to foresee the future?

Yeah, two seconds in the future.

To be honest with you, it's kind of freaking me out.

Two seconds is not a lot of time.

I mean, you...

You just get a chance to see something happen,

and all you can say Is..." Watch out."

No, seriously, watch out!

I'm going to need a crash cart in here.

You can't introduce an electrical impulse

to the chair like that.

He's right.

There's a very good chance

teal'cis going to go into cardiac arrest

if he suffers one more reset.

Teal'c!

His heart's stopped.

He's got a pulse.

That's not going to work again.

I don't want to see that again!

I thought they were going to be able to beat this thing.

It may take Daniel a while

to adjust to the precognitive abilities.

Plus, two seconds isn't a lot of time.

He'll need the right opportunity to take advantage of it.

We must possess the modulator chip

to compensate for the drone's modified armor.

Any idea where she keeps it?

It changes location each time.

Of course it does.

Found it!

Down!

Yeah...

This could work.

Why didn't you shoot him?

Such an action has always proven fatal.

In the previous version of the game,

when I've eliminated a drone from this location,

it has inevitably attracted the attention

of a third, cloaked drone.

So we shoot him too.

It Is merely a diversion

designed to allow a Goa'uld

hidden in our midst time to destroy the base.

He will use either our self-destruct mechanism

or a naquadah generator designed to overload.

And if you try to stop one, he uses the other.

Indeed.

I suppose the identity of the Goa'uld always changes too?

Yes.

I believe it to be the final component of the game

we must overcome.

You guys all right? Oh, yeah. Thanks.

The naquadah generator.

You guys all right?

I've almost got it. Just give me a second.

Step away from the device.

Teal'c, what are you doing? We've got less than a minute

before this thing goes critical.

T?

Step away.

I'd do as he says.

What the hell's going on here?

Teal'c, we're all going to die

if you don't let me stop that overload.

She may be a Goa'uld.

It was siler.

Siler? Siler...

He was in here. I found him setting the generator.

Teal'c, put the weapon down.

That's an order.

What if it's not her?

You said yourself you could never tell

who it was until the last second.

You may be correct, Daniel Jackson.

Hey!

Now what?

Well, know for a fact it's not me orteal'c.

Daniel Jackson...

I don't know.

I can't tell.

Carter.

Teal'c!

Carter!

Is it finished?

Yeah, you did it.

Shutting off power to both chairs.

O'Neill... Hey.

We have won.

Well...

It's what we do.