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Man: Unauthorized incoming traveler!

Who is it? No idea, sir.

Sg—5 and 56—14 are out,

but neither are due back until tomorrow.

No Iris code? No, sir.

I did not give the order to open the Iris, mister.

I did not open it, sir. Well, close it.

Now getthat Iris closed, sergeant!

I'm trying, but the computer keeps overriding it.

General...

Search him.

General, if I may suggest

allowing Carter to do it.

She can detect other stuff.

Hello.

What's your name?

Ok. My name is Sam.

I have to checkyou for...

For things you probably know nothing about.

Butjust in case...

Well, he's not Goa'uld or Jaffa.

I can't sense any naquada.

As far as I can tell, he's clean.

What's he doing here?

I'm here to warn you.

Well, as far as I can tell,

he's human.

No bomb in the chest?

Little biohazard in the tooth, maybe?

Checked for both.

He's no threat to us, as far as I'm able to tell,

but he's pretty weak.

I'm guessing he's malnourished.

What's your name?

Your name is colonel O'Neill.

How'd you know that?

My mother told me.

Your mother?

Yes.

She says I am to speak only with you.

Well, these people are my friends.

You can trust them.

Mother says to speak only to you.

Why me?

Because mother has observed you

and determined she likes you.

You are one who can be trusted.

Well, thank you, ma'am.

How long have you been watching me?

For many weeks.

Weeks? Yes.

She first saw you on another planet,

and she followed your team

th rough the Stargate at that time.

She observed you all until your team

returned with the one called...

Tonane.

Based on your actions at the time,

mother believes you are the only honorable leader

among your people.

It was on ly you r team

who did not want to steal tonane's mineral.

Then why nottrust the rest of my team?

Because you are the leader.

Mother insists I speak no further

unless it is with you alone.

Let's step into the corridor for a few moments, folks.

So what do I call you?

I do not have a name.

What's your mom call you?

Son.

That's not much of a name.

No. It's more of a description.

Yes, it is.

Mother says you too have a son.

I had one.

He's gone now.

What was his name?

Charlie. Charlie.

I like Charlie. It's a good name.

Can I be called Charlie?

Yeah.

Sure, if that's what you want.

Ok, colonel O'Neill. I'm Charlie.

Hi, Charlie.

Call me Jack.

Jack.

So where are you from?

A planet called reetalia.

Nice place?

Used to be.

Until most of the reetou were destroyed by mean creatures

with glowing eyes.

Well, that's the Goa'uld.

I'm sorry to hear that.

That's why I'm here. To warn you.

Well, thank you, Charlie,

but we already knew about the Goa'uld.

Not the Goa'uld. It's the reetou rebels who intendto eliminate you.

We did a level 1 analysis on the Iris mechanism.

It behaved as if control was being commandeered

from the main computer by an override,

like it was being controlled from another keyboard somewhere.

We have software specialists picking it apart right now.

Colonel O'Neill, any more insight

into the boy?

Best I can tell, sir,

the kid survived a Goa'uld massacre.

Dr. Fraiser: Well, that would explain "mom".

See, it would be a natural psychological defense mechanism.

He's convinced himself that she never left him,

that her spirit, for lack of a better word,

is always with him.

Well, how did he know aboutthe salish?

How did he know about my kid?

Is it possible that he's some sort of psychic?

Maybe we'll turn something up in our examinations.

For the immediate, should not our concern

be the threat of the planned reetou attack?

That doesn't make much sense.

I mean, the Goa'uld attack the reetou,

so the reetou rebels attack us?

We need to determine the validity

of what little information the boy's given us.

Teal'c, I'd like you to accompany colonel O'Neill to see him.

Listen to his description of the attack on the reetou,

and let me know if it appears to follow normal Goa'uld tactics.

There you go.

See, that didn't hurt at all, did it?

Jaffa!

Get that a lot?

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie! It's ok.

He's a Jaffa. He wants to kill me,

just like he killed the reetou.

No, no. No, no, no. He's a good Jaffa.

In fact, he saved my life one time.

He hates the Goa'uld as much as you do—...

No!

Oh, for crying out loud.

Um, look, mom,

you said you trust me, right?

Well, I'm telling you, Teal'c is ok.

In fact, all my friends here at the base

are ok. Ok?

She's over there.

Mother says to trust only you

and the other members of your team.

Good. Thank you.

Charlie, Teal'c.

Teal'c, Charlie.

I am pleased to meet you.

Listen, Charlie,

we have to ask you some questions

about the attack on your people.

Can you talk about that?

I——I am sorry, O'Neill.

I——I must leave this room.

Excuse me, Charlie.

Uh, mother.

What's th e matter?

My symbiote became agitated when I entered the room.

Any idea why?

I can tell you onlythis, O'Neill.

In all of my years,

I have never experienced a symbiote so disturbed.

There is something unusual about this child, O'Neill.

I advise you to use extreme caution in his handling.

I was planning on it.

You have seen ityourself.

In the hands of the Goa'uld,

a child is nothing more than a potent weapon.

Carter and fraiser checked him out

for all the threats we encountered from the other kids.

I didn't find any apparentthreatto us,

but he's in worse shape than ithought, the poor kid.

Several of his major organs have congenital defects.

Oh, god.

It's like mother nature put him together in a hurry

and got everything just a little wrong.

His heart valves are defective,

his renal function is a mess,

and I have serious questions

about his lungs.

I'm afraid without some very aggressive

medical intervention,

he won't live to be much older than he is.

Can you help him?

Maybe.

But he may be beyond anything

our medicine can do. There's something else.

Charlie's c.A.T. Scan.

Now if you look along the lower part

of the brainstem,

this is the part where normal humans

have what is called the reticular formation.

It's the part of the brain that determines alertness,

our perception of things.

Charlie's is twice the size of ours.

And that could explain why he knew you had a son.

It may also explain why he had such an effect

on Teal'c's symbiote.

So, what, he's got e.S.P.?

Some telekinetic thing going on?

I don't know. I'm a skeptic on such things, but...

It would explain a lot.

So, Charlie,

tell us why the reetou want to attack us.

It's not the central authority of the reetou.

It's only the reetou rebel faction.

All right, why do the rebels want to attack us?

Because the glowing eye people attacked the reetou.

The Goa'uld?

Charlie: The rebels believe that the glowing eye people

are too powerful to destroy directly.

They believe they can only be destroyed by...

Attrition.

Attrition. What does that mean?

Uh, attrition is the gradual diminution

of strength or number bytime—...

I know whatthe word means. I meant in context.

My god.

They must want to kill all possible hosts.

They mustthink that if the Goa'uld

have no new hosts to infest,

that th ey'll eventually die out.

By attrition.

Yes.

Well, that's insane.

There are billions of possible Goa'uld hosts

all th roughout the galaxy.

Andthey are not all human.

Mother agrees.

That is why the central authority

of the reetou sent us here.

Charlie...

I'm curious. Are you a reetou?

No.

I am of your species.

Is your mother a reetou?

Of course.

And is that why we can't see her?

Yes.

Well, if you're one of us,

why can you see her?

Because I'm special.

You're special. How?

Mother created me to serve as an intermediary.

She created you?

Yes. She hoped I would be older

before we came,

but my accelerated growth

caused my body to begin failing,

so we had to come soon er.

Captain, you're our physics expert here.

Is it possible there's a creature standing here

that we can't perceive?

Th eoretically, it is possible, sir, yes.

I mean, according to quantum physics,

matter exists both in particles and waves.

If the reetou waves

are exactly 180 degrees

out of phase with ours,

right down to the subatomic level,

then their light and sound waves

would be undetectable by us.

So, what? Prepare for an attack

by an invisible army?

If there is a reetou in this room,

it came th rough the Stargate,

and it is capable of controlling the Iris.

Son, how did your mother do that?

I am no longer called "son."

Call me Charlie.

Charlie...

How did your mother control the Iris?

Mother came ahead of me weeks ago.

She observed you and how you operate the Iris.

Then, when the time came, she opened it for me,

just as you do.

She justtyped it into the computer?

That ishowthe computer behaved, sir.

As if it was being overridden by another console.

So the reetou can operate things in our phase?

Yes.

Carter?

It is possible, sir,

but it doesn't seem very likely.

Mother is growing impatient with your narrow—mindedness.

Stand down.

I assume that came from...

Mother.

Mother.

Theories? Suggestions?

It seems obvious that this reetou exists.

Well, here's a question.

How do we deal with an invisible threat?

We need a way to detectthem.

That would be helpful.

Teal'c: I have that way.

It seems my symbiote can sense this creature.

Ok... limited helpfulness rightthere.

Explain.

Can it tell us where exactly in a room a reetou is?

How many there are? What they're doing? Etcetera.

It was notthat specific. It only detected a presence.

So... limited.

Perhaps if my symbiote can detect this creature,

the Goa'uld can also sense them.

That's a good point. They had to see them

to wipe them out.

Perhaps the tok'ra can be of assistance.

Hammond: It could be our best hope.

Captain Carter, Dr. Jackson,

signal the tok'ra.

Yes, sir.

Hello, Sam.

Dad, we have a little bit of a situation,

and we may need selmak's help.

Selmak, selmak, selmak.

I thought maybe you just wanted to see your old man.

I do, dad.

Butthis time we do need your symbiote, Jacob.

Nice to see you, too, George.

No offense, old friend.

It is an honor to once again

return to your planet, general.

What can we do for you?

Have you ever heard of something called a reetou?

Yes. Why?

We may have one here.

Tok'ra kree.

Tak LAN onobi lon.

Please send him back to where we came from.

In the meantime,

take me to this reetou.

Hey, Charlie. How you feeling?

Tired. Really tired.

For crying out loud.

Charlie, Charlie. It's all right. It's ok.

It's all right. He's not a Goa'uld.

He's a tok'ra. They're ok.

Dad?

Oh h.

Ahem. You are correct.

There is a reetou in that room.

Taka ram.

This will eliminate the reetou, if it is there.

Follow me.

Jacob?

Please don't hurt her!

My god.

Hold your fire.

She could have hurt us a long time ago,

if that's what she intended.

Tok'ra kree.

Whoa.

I owe you an apology.

I wouldn't lie to you, Jack.

I know that. I'm sorry.

Charlie, I want you to do me a favor.

What?

You and your mom stay in this room until I get back.

Nobody's going to hurt you.

I promise.

Neither one of you.

Ok?

Will somebody please explain to me how that...

Thing could be the kid's mother.

He said their leaders created him to communicate with us.

They must have cloned him

or engineered him somehow.

Well, all they need is some human DNA

and it would be possible to construct him in a lab.

It would also explain the extra—reticular formation in his brain.

Could have been genetically engineered

to allow him to perceive this reetou mother.

But how do they do something that advanced

and leave the kid so screwed up?

Genetically engineering a human child

would be Avery precise exercise, colonel.

Changing one set of genes

to alter the reticular formation

could have numerous additional ramifications.

Even though we can't see them,

these reetou can definitely see us.

Which puts us at a great strategic disadvantage.

I understand why the Goa'uld would want to eliminate them.

They're Goa'uld, Teal'c.

That's their job.

The reetou are a pretty peaceful race.

The Goa'uld wiped most of them out

just because they were a possible threat.

Ok. But howdid the Goa'uld wipe them out?

The were able to isolate the emissions

that we are sensitive to and develop a device

that would expose the creatures.

This is atransphase eradication rod.

The tok'ra have managed

to rip off several versions of this device.

It's also capable of terminating a reetou.

Do me a favor, will you?

Don't terminate this reetou.

I promised the kid.

It appears this reetou

came to warn us of an impending rebel attack.

Yeah.

The reetou rebels are, uh...

Kind of like terrorists are here on earth.

Nasty guys.

They could do a lot of damage here, folks.

Kill a lot of people.

How many are there?

Don't know.

Buti do knowtheir m.O.

They work in small groups of 5 suicide infiltrators.

They sneak in, they split up,

plant destructive devices,

and try to maximize the damage

before th ey've even been detected.

Butthey usually attack Goa'uld plan ets.

Any idea why th ey want to attack here on earth?

Apparently to destroy

all possible hosts.

Is it possible that they can getthrough our Iris?

No. Their molecules wouldn't reintegrate

any more than yours or mine.

Can our weapons even touch them?

Earth weapons will not be as effective as at.E.R.

But since the, uh, reetou are somewhat affected

by solid matter in our phase,

your weapons might at least...

Slow them down.

But essentially, we'd be shooting at...

Nothing.

You bet.

Pretty tough to shoot at a moving target that you can't see.

Even with t.E.R.S it's tough.

Best weapon is advanced intel.

Knowing where they'll come from and how.

Well, I should talk to "mom".

She might know where this rebel staging planet is.

Wait a minute. Say she does give us the address

where they're coming from. Isn't it kind of risky to go looking for them?

I mean, it's possible we may let more of them through to earth

and not even know it.

If we've got t.E.R.S,

we'll be able to see them.

We need some intelligence, Dr. Jackson.

It's the only way we'll know what we're up against.

Mother says not to cry.

Crying's ok.

She says the boys of your culture do not cry.

Not true.

In fact,

there's an official list of reasons

for which crying is a good thing.

Mother is leaving.

Now, see, that's a good reason.

"Mom leaving", I believe,

is number 6 on the list of good reasons.

Actually, 6 is...

"Mom's says she's leaving in a couple of days."

5 is "mom leaving immediately."

4, of course, is "mom already left."

Now, 3, 3 is huge.

One of the bigger ones on the list.

She's still here.

She's leaving as soon as she has told you everything that can help.

She's not taking you with her?

She wants to leave me here with my own kind.

Well, for what it's worth,

ithink she's right.

Ithinkyou should stay here.

You'd be better off.

I think I belong with you, Jack.

Look, Charlie, um...

Before she leaves, do you think she could tell us

where we can find these rebel reetous?

She says she'll show me the address.

That'd be great.

Jack...

Could I be your son for a while?

I don't know, Charlie.

I don't think you'd want that.

Yes, I do.

You'd be great.

I can tell.

I'll tell you what.

Let's deal with these reetou,

then we'll talk about it, ok?

Technician: The m.A.L.P is in route.

This is a bit of overkill, George.

I told you, these rebels work in 5—man squads.

There will only be 5, maybe 10 of them there.

I don't want to take any chances, Jacob.

Ok, listen up

colonel O'Neill is in charge of this operation.

The m.A.L.P has reached destination.

Scanning with t.E.R.

Colonel, I want to remind you

that this is a recon mission only.

Do not engage the enemy unless you have no choice.

Can't engage what you can't see, sir.

Do your best for them not to see you, colonel.

M.a.I.pfl'.e.r. Shows immediate gate vicinity clear.

All right. Here we go, kids.

Move out.

Looks clear.

Clear!

Let's go do some snooping around,

what do you say? You stay with sg—12. Watch our 6.

Back sides.

Jacob: Colonel!

The reetou are present in that direction.

O'Neill: How many?

I don't know.

Whoa.

Sorio?

So you would say threat assessment is high?

Oh, yeah.

There were a lot of them, sir.

They are indeed invisible.

You sure none of them came through with you?

Jacob: Can't be sure, but I don'tthink so.

Selmak's tremors stopped a few seconds after we got through the gate,

and my guard did at.E.R. Sweep of the room.

Of course, it would only take one to open the Iris. Correct?

Well, we could put palm scanners

into the Iris control system to prevent that.

I mean, I assume they don't have palms.

Take who you need and do it now, captain.

Yes, sir.

Colonel, let's go see the boy.

Ok, that should...

Teal'c?

Colonel O'Neill, are you with Charlie now?

And mom's there?

I think we may have a stowaway reetou who came back with us.

Yeah.

Lock down in progress.

You all right? Strong... reetou!

Damn it.

Anyone get a count?

Well, we had 4 here,

plus that one in the control room.

Yeah, it's one of their terrorist teams.

They didn't want to be seen until their destruction had already started.

So what will they do?

Well, some of them will try to get out of the base

and start, uh, making a mess of things.

How?

They have cross—phasel explosives,

each one as powerful as a small nuke.

I hate to tell you this,

butthose 4 reetou rebels

could level a couple of cities

and take a lot of people with them.

Sweet.

Emergency lighting enabled.

We've dimmed the lights to get a better contrast

on the t.E.R.S,

and we've shut down all access

to this floor and sub 27.

So, hopefully, they're trapped in here with us.

Well, assume they are.

We'll do a sweep of all 3 access corridors,

sealing as we go.

Try to corral th em.

Jacob, Carter, chu: C—8.

Teal'c, rothman, brecker: C—3.

Daniel, plunkett, you're with me.

Let's move out.

Seal blast door c—3 east.

Jacob: Reetou!

Come on.

Seal blast a—7 west.

Jack, what happens if they come through the door behind us?

What?

Don't do that!

Damn it.

Dad!

You ok?

Not really.

Getthe damn thing!

Selmak can take care of me.

Go!

Hit the deck!

Mother!

Don't shoot!

Mother!

Fraiser: Easy, sir.

All right. That hurts.

Give me a count.

I got one.

I also eliminated one.

And we got 2,

and mother got one.

I guess that makes 5.

So that should be all of them, right?

Well, let's make sure.

Take ateam and do a sweep of the base, captain.

Yes, sir.

Ow!

I'm sorry.

Doc.

Doc.

Give me a hand over here.

Let's go!

Put him up on the bed.

What?

I don't know.

His pulse is very weak.

I may be able to stabilize him for now,

but you have to remember, sir,

he has 2 major organs about to fail.

Oh, come on.

He's just a kid.

You've got all this fancy equipment around here—...

Colonel, I'm sorry,

buti don'tthink so.

Jacob: Let us take him.

He will be in good hands.

Can the tok'ra help him?

Yes.

Excuse me. Isn't he a little young to be a host?

He is young. But the tok'ra symbiote

that we introduce to his mind can teach him.

He will grow up with the advantages

that great wisdom brings.

2 key words there:

Grow up.

The tok'ra are probably the only way that'll happen, sir.

Do it.

Keep the t.E.R.S. We'll get you more

as soon as they become available.

You know, there's another rule that says

it's ok to be sad when you're saying good—bye

to a new friend.

I want to stay with you, Jack.

Well, Jacob's going to take you

to a place where you can get well.

I can't do that.

But you know what? What?

I'll come visit.

You'll come visit.

Ok?

I guess.

I warn you.

The reetou are guileful creatures,

and you are at the disadvantage

of not being able to sense them,

as my Jaffa friend and I can.

Well, we've installed the hand scanners

so they can't open the Iris, at least.

You are only one, Teal'c.

Please be diligent.

They will not give up.

The will attempt to send more infiltrators.

George.

Bye, dad.

You take care. You, too.