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Voice: Chevron 4 encoded.

This is video the malp sent back from p7j—989.

Atmosphere temperature and radioactivity levels

are ideal.

Hey, Teal'c, is this structure familiar at all?

It does not appear to be of goa—uld origin.

It looks pretty advanced.

Carter: It's a possible new source

of information andtechnology.

Maybe even an ally against the goa—uld.

Looks worth a try, colon El.

Yes, sir.

Wow, this is beautiful.

Yeah.

But where there's a garden, there's snakes.

And flowers.

Ahchoo!

Way too many flowers.

I like what they've done with the place.

I'm not so sure I like what the place has done to them.

They're human.

They are breathing.

All right.

Does anyone have any idea

whatthese chambers might be?

Some kind of medical device, maybe.

Suspended animation of some kind.

Wow. This is way past our science,

whatever this is.

What is this place?

Uh... I don't know.

Can't put my finger on it.

It appears to be earth.

Yeah.

Teal'c...

What the hell just happened to us?

We were exploring pj7—989.

We entered into a large domed facility

and endured some form of bodily attack.

Kawa ls ky?

John?

It's colonel.

You can lower your weapon, captain.

Why you acting so spooked, Jack?

Maybe because I am.

You're both supposed to be dead.

That's real cute, Jack.

Look, the intel on this one is good.

They keep Boris here during the day,

take him underground at night.

Our bird confirmed on its last flyover—...

No snipers, it's only

it's a piece of cake.

This ain'tthe one that you and me die on.

As a matter of fact, this is the one you die on.

I went on this mission in 1982.

East Germany.

We were supposed to grab

a Russian agent from that house down there.

It all went bad.

You ready to move out or not, captain?

No. No.

Because this isn't real.

It can't be.

Oh, it's real. It's very real.

Your stall here is putting the rest of this unit

in jeopardy—— Now let's move out.

No.

Because I'm either dreaming

or hallucinating.

Is that real enough for you, Jack?

All right, how do you explain him?

Does he look like a member of this team?

Thomas has been on this team

longer than you have.

Now, you get your head on straight, captain.

We are not aborting the mission this late.

Do you understand?

What the hell is this?

What the hell's going on?

I am as perplexed as you.

Teal'c.

Do you think...

Is there a chance

those machines we were sucked into

were some kind of—— I don't know—...

Time machine or something?

It is possible.

The goa—uld have experimented

with time manipulation for years.

Perhaps another race succeeded.

So it's possible this is real.

You say this is a mission from your past that did not go well.

Yes.

Perhaps someone has given you

the opportunity to alter your history.

Let's move out.

It's about time.

Hold up.

Let's not make the same mistake twice.

What the hell are you talking about?

Sniper on the roof.

Nice catch, Jack.

Let's go.

Move now!

Come on, John.

So much for satellite recon.

Hey, Jack?

Take care of Barbara for me, man.

Fall back!

Ahh...

Where's kawalsky?

He was immediately behind us.

Lower your weapon, captain.

Ok. What just happened?

I'm not sure.

This place looks familiar.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

This is the newyork museum of art.

I've been here many times.

Many times.

Man: Ok, careful with that cover stone.

Second man: Yes, Dr. Jackson.

No.

Daniel?

Man: No. Move it this way, this way.

I'm sorry. This area isn't open to the public.

Man: Be careful with that cover plate.

Jake, it's turning a bit.

Can we bring this in on the left a little more?

Daniel, what's going on?

No. This can't be real.

Who are these people?

They're my parents.

Man: A little bit towards the back. Careful...

Watch it on your left.

On your left, Jake...

Can we bring this in? Careful...

Bring it down. Let's look at the front.

Bring it in.

It's swinging.

It's ok. It's fine. We'll be fine. Careful.

No. No!

Bit more level, Jake.

Ok, Jake, just bring it down.

Get out of there, mom! Get out of there, dad!

This is too real.

Every detail.

All the players are here.

Why should I go through this again?

If someone has used advanced technology

to send us here to repair your history—...

See, that's just it.

It's history. It's over.

It happened. I can't change it.

Remaining here doing nothing

will most certainly change nothing.

Oh, god.

Colonel,

we should check those hedges.

Negative. Stick to the plan, captain.

Move now!

Jack, what are you doing?

It's not part of the plan!

John!

Oh!

Come on, John.

Uh.

So much for satellite recon.

Jack?

Take care of Barbara for me, man.

God.

Fall back!

Lower your weapon, captain.

What the hell is going on here?

What's with you, Jack?

Operation east fly's go—...

No!

You.

Who are you and who are those people?

There's no one here but us.

What, are you looking for a section 8, Jack?

Man: You must stop arguing

and proceed with the mission.

Allow me to introduce myself.

I am the keeper.

Keeper of what?

The keeper of all that is around you.

Of all that is...

And all that might be.

Why do you wish us to proceed with this mission?

Because it is that

which you have always wanted.

You've gotto be kidding me.

This was the most blown operation

I've ever been involved with.

What makes you think I want to watch

my friends be killed over and over again?

You have always wished to do it again

in order to do it differently.

We're going with or without you, Jack.

See you.

All right.

Have it you r way.

Keeper: You must go with them.

It is the only way to evince the change

that you have desired for so many years.

I can't change the outcome

if you keep changing the rules.

Do you not wish to save the lives

of your friends and comrades?

If they were real.

Butthere are so many fantastic variations

that you can try.

Perhaps this time...

You could try a different route.

Sit down, Teal'c.

We're not playing this game.

Very well.

Have it you r way.

I hope by doing nothing we are taking

the correct action, O'Neill.

So do I.

Carter: Daniel,

I'm so sorry you had to go through that again.

I've been thinking.

We were pulled into those things—...

Those machines, right?

At first, when we got here,

ithought maybe they were some sort of

time dilation machines.

Oh, Sam, please.

Just——justtell me thatthis isn't real.

No, I don'tthink it is.

It isn't consistent with

any of the logical th eories of time travel.

For example, you should be seeing yourself here

as a child, or become a child again.

Daniel, I'm guessing here, butithink

we must be in some sort of advanced re—creation

being pumped into our minds by those machines.

Dr. Jackson: Ok, careful with that cover stone.

I'm sorry. This area isn't open to the public.

Daniel, I don'tthink we're actually here.

Jake, it's swinging a bit.

Excuse me.

Listen to me. Um...

You have to come out of there.

Danny, go back outside.

"Danny"?

No, I—I—look,

you have to come out right now because I—...

Because I hurt myself. I hurt myself badly.

Ithinki might have broken my leg.

Now, you have to come out right now

andtake care of me.

You couldn't have hurt your leg too badly, dear.

You're walking on it. Ok?

We'll be out in a minute, ok, sweetie?

Man: Ok, Jake.

No.

No!

Jake: This way!

Come on, help me with this! Help me with this!

Dr. Jackson. Dr. Jackson!

Can you hear me?

He's asphyxiated.

Here, help me with this.

Lift it, lift it. Ugh. Ugh!

Ch eck——ch eck over here.

It's too heavy!

Can you hear me?

Daniel.

Correct me if I'm wrong,

but I'll bet when this really happened,

you didn't have this audience.

I think that we must be

in some sort of really advanced simulation,

like a——a virtual reality.

It's the only thing ican think of

that could explain all this.

Oh, super.

So it takes one of the most tragic moments in my life

and it plays it over and over again.

Well, maybe that's your strongest memory.

He called me Danny like I'm still—...

Like I'm still a little kid.

That's probably because that's how old you were

when this happened.

You have taken on the role of Daniel Jackson

as a child in this simulation.

You know, I used to replaythis

over and over in my mind,

trying to think if there was anything

I could have done to make a difference.

Ok, so maybe that's the point.

Here's your chance.

Man: Is it not wonderful?

Now you get the chance.

I beg——I beg your pardon?

The chance?

The chance to relive your momentous event;

to try the plethora of variations

that have been weighing on your mind;

to finally see if you can make a difference.

Who are you?

Why, I am the keeper, of course.

The keeper of...

The keeper of all that is, was,

and will be in this place.

Where exactly are we?

I believe you call this

the New York museum of art.

No, no. Where are we in reality?

Reality is in the eye of the beholder, is it not?

You have always wished to go back

and do things differently.

I have given you that opportunity.

Now, go!

Make things right in this place.

And how do I—— how do I do that?

Well, if I told you that,

it wouldn't be any fun, would it?

Fun?

Th—th—that's what you thinkthis 5 for me?

Fun?

Watching this happen again and again?

There would be no pleasure from the gain

if there were no risk

from the journey.

Dr. Jackson: All right, careful with that cover stone!

Second man: Yes, Dr. Jackson.

Over here.

Dr. Jackson: This way. This way.

Dr. Jackson: Easy.

Danny.

What are you doing?

Come on.

D—dan NY Jackson!

You stop this right now.

Jake! Jake, give me a hand here, please.

No, no, no, no!

Bring it in.

More level.

Careful.

A little more level. Bring it in.

Aah!

No!

Aah!

No!

God, no!

Damn you. Stop this game now!

Whatever for?

You haven't explored all of your options yet.

Well, obviously my options are infinite,

and my solutions are zero.

Now, stop it!

I won't play anymore.

Ah, but you will.

You will.

Dr. Jackson: Careful with that cover stone.

Daniel, do you want me to—...

No.

Dr. Jackson: Just bring it down.

Let's look at the front.

Bring it in.

Mrs. Jackson: It's swinging.

It's ok. It's fine. We'll be fine.

You must try another alternative.

No.

You would allow your parents

to suffer this awful death?

I won't play your game.

Aah! Oh!

You are indeed an obstinate race.

You.

You guys all right?

Well, I'm not really sure, to tell you the truth.

What is this place?

Oh, it's the New York museum of art.

Actually, we think it's a simulation of the museum.

I figure we're in some sort of virtual reality world

created from our own minds—...

Or, at least, Daniel's.

You are a very stubborn, unimaginative,

and noncompetitive race.

Why do you refuse

to enjoy the opportunities

that I have given you?

Enjoy?

What makes you think I enjoy

watching my friends get killed?

Or their parents die?

You have both been given challenges

to be met and conquered.

You have it in you.

Why will you not partake?

Why will you not just let us go?

Go where?

Where would you like to go?

I can take you anywhere you can remember,

anywhere you can imagine.

We want to go free.

Carter: So we're right.

This is a simulated world.

It is aworld completely inside your minds,

channeled, coordinated,

and administered by myself...

The keeper.

But how?

How does it work?

I don't care how it works.

I just want out of here.

Keeper: I cannot do that.

The devices that enwrap you

serve to nourish and stimulate your senses.

The devices implanted in your brains

channel experience and imagination

into and out of your minds.

So we're trapped

with our——our brains hooked up like computers

to some sort of network?

Yes.

Andyour minds

are very valuable to my residents

because you enrich and add value to our own.

Daniel: Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

How long have your residents been in this virtual world?

Roughly 1,000 of your years.

Well, we're certainly not gonna

stick around for the next thousand

of anyone's years.

So until we came along,

you've only had your own minds,

your own experiences to provide scenarios

for your virtual lives?

You're beginning to understand.

So——so, what?

We're like——we're like new software.

I mean, imagine if you were locked in a room

for a thousand years

with only a VCR, a TV, and 5 movies.

How long could you watch those 5 movies

until you were bored silly?

What you wouldn't give for just 4 more.

Carter: So you're using our minds—...

Our memories, imaginations, dreams—...

For——for some sort of programming?

Actually, I can remove information

from only two of your minds.

This species' mind

seems to protect against output,

as does yours, madam.

It does?

Teal'c: Perhaps because of the change in your mind

that jolinar of malk—shur

left behind.

Keeper: But fear not.

There is no block against input

intoyour minds.

You, too, can enjoy our adventures.

And these two minds...

They provide more than enough

rich experience and imagination

to provide years of entertainment

for my residents.

Well, I'm sorry.

With all due respect to you fine folks,

I don't give a damn about "residents."

I just want to get us out of here.

It is I that am sorry,

for I am not able to accommodate your request.

But I am sure you will be able to enjoy

the many adventures that you will have here.

Why are your people in here, anyway?

I mean, why don't you just go out

and get some new experiences of your own;

live some new experiences?

We cannot leave our chambers.

The world outside

is uninhabitable.

It has been poisoned and desecrated.

You are mistaken.

Your planet is a fertile garden world.

It is you who are mistaken,

my alien friend.

Our planet was destroyed by a chemical disaster

1,022 years ago.

We were victims of our own technology

advancing faster than we could control it.

Atthattime, the few of us who were left

placed our physical bodies in suspended animation.

Good news.

Your planet seems to have regenerated itself.

This is nottrue!

I monitor all conditions at all times.

Then your monitoring systems are wrong.

It is beautiful outthere.

O'Neill: Of course,

you already knew that, didn't you?

The question is, why don't you want them to know?

Residents must not leave the environment.

The outside world is uninhabitable!

Who made you the warden here, huh?

I do not understand.

Why are you the one running things here?

The environment is my design.

I'm its creator;

its keeper.

So if your residents leave,

you lose control.

That man is lying to you, folks.

He's got you imprisoned in your own—...

Oh, that's good.

That's fair.

Send them to where they can't hear the truth.

Good one.

I will not allow you to poison their minds.

Um... if you keep us here,

you won't be able to prevent us

from interacting with them for very long,

especially if we're supposed to be

new software for them.

Very well.

You weren't wanted here anymore anyway.

We're out.

Whoa! Wh ew.

Wait. Didn't that seem just a little too easy?

Yes, it did. Let's go home.

They all have small puncture wounds

in their temples, spinal cords,

and several abdominal areas.

Meaning... what?

Well, looks like

the machines you were describing

were sustaining your lives—...

Providing you with oxygen,

feeding you, removing the waste,

and from the sound of it,

completely controlling your nervous system.

But is there any problem with that?

No, notthat I can see.

Pupil dilation is bang on,

reflexes are as they should be.

Everything seems fine to me.

Daniel: Jack, we should go back to the planet

and free those people.

I'm not sure it's any of our business, frankly.

I concur. Who are we to judge

how someone on another planet lives?

Butthe people are in those machines

under false pretenses.

The keeper is lying to them

about what's outside.

Ok, if I may weigh in here,

all evidence points to the fact

the machines are clinically sustaining those people.

Removing them could be like taking a patient

off life support when he still needs it.

Hammond: It sounds to me

like we have to get more information

to make this decision, folks.

The only way to gain more information

would be to venture back into the artificial world

of p7j—989.

Then that's exactly what I want you to do.

Uh... general,

without meaning this time

to sound like a smart ass...

Are you cracked?

Folks, I don't need to tell you

how valuable a resource this planet could be for us.

Their technology is far beyond our own—...

The kind of technology

thatjustifies this entire program.

Carter: General Hammond, going back into that world

could be very hazardous.

Well, I fail to see how.

It's an artificial environment.

Can you actually die in there?

We don't know.

I'm a little more concerned about

being trapped there, sir.

You got out the last time.

Teal'c: There is no guarantee

we will be able to extract ourselves again.

Ok, I'll tell you what.

If you don't come out in one week,

I'll send in sg—2 to pull you out.

Besides, what's so bad about being in there?

It sounds to me

like you can experience all sorts of fascinating things.

You mean like watching old friends and family

getting killed over and over again?

Or seeing major kawalsky alive and well?

Who knows, colonel?

Maybe you could even see your son.

Dr. Jackson,

perhaps you could visit the ancient worlds

you've always wondered about.

You can go anywhere

your memories or imaginations want to go.

Ok, that's enough.

Let's just have a little look here, shall we?

What are you doing, colonel?

Oh, I'm looking for the edges of the mask.

What?!

You're obviously not the real general Hammond.

Sit down, colonel.

I don't think so, bucko.

The jig's up. We're onto you.

What are you talking about?

We're still on p7j—989.

Oh, you betcha.

This is just a new game

broughtto you by our good friend the keeper.

You are way out of line, colonel!

You could be having a nervous reaction to the machines.

We should head back to the infirmary

and run some tests.

No, you should get us out of these damn machines,

is what you should do!

Oh, what?

Colonel, your insubordination is testing my Patience!

I will give you one final chance to follow my orders

and rejoin the residents of the artificial world!

Residents?

That's what the keeper called them.

Are you going back in or not, colonel?

I'm already in!

Place sg—1 under arrest.

Putthem in isolation where they can speak to no one.

Man: Yes, sir.

Teal'c: O'Neill,

you seem quite confident

that we are not on earth.

Because we're not!

Did that sound like the real general Hammond to anyone?

It is my understanding

that we could only experience past events

in this environment.

Actually, the keeper said we could experience

anything that we remember or that we could imagine.

We're still on pj7—98 niner.

It's a fake environment.

Is that really so bad?

I mean, come on.

Haven't you people missed me at all?

Why are you resisting this?

Think of all the fun we could have together.

Dr. Jackson, you got to admit I used to make you laugh.

Colonel...

Who else are you gonna get to play street hockey with

who can kick your butt the way I can?

Captain Carter...

Thinkwhat it would be like to never grow old,

'cause you never do here, you know.

Who are you?

Who am I?

Colonel, are you telling me you don't remember me?

I'm hurt. I'm really hurt.

No, no. I know who you're pretending to be,

but who are you, really?

Are you the keeper?

Nah. Not me.

Then what?

Some kind of projection or...

Because you're not real.

And if you're not real, you won't mind this.

Hello.

We have been looking for you.

Please, tell us what you began to tell us before...

About what it is like outside.

It is, in fact, quite agreeable outside.

First woman: The poison is gone?

Everything is not dead?

No, uh, quite the opposite.

Everything is blooming.

How can that be?

The keeper tells us it is dangerous.

Well, the...

The keeper lies.

How can we trust these creatures

above the keeper,

who has cared for us for so long?

Tell you what.

Come with us. We'll show you.

Excuse me.

Where are we going?

Back th rough the gate

to show 'em what their planet looks like.

In our memories...

Before the virtual reality.

Leave me alone.

Hammond: Unauthorized Stargate activation!

Sh utting down gate.

Sg—1, you are trying my Patience!

Daniel, with me!

You think we're really out this time?

H ey!

Please, do not hurt me.

I meantyou no harm.

Understand,

my people's existence has become stagnant.

I wanted only good for them.

How long have you been coming outto tendthis garden?

Lovely, is it not?

How long?

Oh, many, many years.

Then why do you lie to your people?

Why don't you give them the option

to come out here with you?

Because it was our kind

that damaged the planet

in the first place.

If I letthem out,

they will only hurt it again.

You're kidding.

Perhaps your people will not make

the same mistakes again.

Yeah. you're big on giving people

a second chance, aren't you?

No one is preventing them from leaving.

Portals such as the ones you've used

are everywhere within.

You mean we could have left anytime we wanted?

All we had to do is go through one of those doors?

Anyone may leave at any time.

Portals are always open.

Of course, people have to know they existto use them.

Which you have now shown them.

And they have to know that there's somewhere to go.

And you have told them that.

You have ruined everything,

poison ed their minds.

The damage is done.

Woman: Again, we than k you.

You have given us a whole new world

of beauty and future experiences.

Well, you've still got a lot of work to do,

but we'll send along some supplies

to get you started.

They are ruining everything!

Did you know they are actually picking the flowers?

This is real this time, isn't it?

Unh... do not pull that!

You are ruining the garden!

I told you, they will ruin everything—...

First the garden, next the entire planet!

It's real. It's real.

You are ruining the garden!

O'Neill: Well, thank you, ma'am.