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Brenna: Colleagues! Your attention, please! I'm pleased to report that thanks to your hard work, we now have enough reserve energy to heat the greenhouses for the next two months! Special merit to the workers of section 23. (the workers cheer) Let us use this not as an excuse to work less, but as motivation to work harder. Our world may be covered in ice, but one day we will reclaim our place on the surface!
Workers (in unison): It is my honor to serve.

Teal'c (restraining Jack from beating up Daniel): This is not right! The two of you are friends, O'Neill!
O'Neill: Just stay out of this!
Teal'c: We are part of something called SG-1! I am Teal'c! Do you not remember?
O'Neill (struggling): Somebody get this guy off me! (three men drag Teal'c off Jack)
Brenna: Get him upstairs.
Teal'c: We don't belong here! You must remember! We must escape!
O'Neill (very disturbed): Brenna, it is my honor to serve. I don't know that man.
Brenna: I know, Jona, don't worry. He's nightsick.

Daniel (seeing Teal'c): Where has he been for the last five days?
Kegan: Recovering from nightsickness. It's a strange thing. There was this guy once, a couple years ago, tried to smash his way through one of those skylights.
Daniel: Did he do it?
Kegan: You would have known if he had! This place would have been buried under ice and snow and you would have frozen to death along with everyone else.

O'Neill: You all right?
Carter: Fine.
O'Neill: That explosion...
Carter: Oh. No, no. I'm fine, really.
O'Neill: Good.
Carter: Brenna wants to see me. She wants to hear my ideas for improving the plant.
O'Neill: You know, you could take a few minutes off.
Carter: Please. You work just as hard as I do.
O'Neill: That's different. It's called "stamina".
Carter (laughs at him): Have a good shift.

Calder (seen in video transmission through the Stargate): General Hammond. I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but our search has turned up nothing. Given the hostile conditions outside the dome, I don't see how SG-1 could have survived this long.
Hammond: With all due respect, Administrator, I'm not ready to give up on my people just yet. We have specialized equipment, and teams specifically trained for this type of operation.
Calder: When Major Carter first expressed an interest in exploring the glacier, I tried to explain the danger, but Colonel O'Neill was quite overly confident that they could handle the conditions.
Hammond: I appreciate your concern. But I assure you, I'll take full responsibility.
Calder: Very well. (transmission stops, and he nods to an assistant) Tell Brenna I want to see her tomorrow. I'd like to know how our new workers are doing.

Teal'c (shoveling fuel): Why are you speaking to me?
Daniel: I just thought... since, apparently, we're friends from way back, I just though that... what is that thing on your forehead?
Teal'c: A birthmark.
Daniel: A birthmark! You'd think I'd remember something like that.
Teal'c (hostile): I don't know you.
Daniel: You said you did... last week during morning lineup.
Teal'c: I wasn't here last week.
Daniel: You said we were friends, and you said we had to escape, and I'd really like an explanation.
Teal'c: I said no such thing.
Daniel: All right. I'm obviously completely wrong about that.
Teal'c: Yes. Don't talk to me again.
Daniel: Yeah, right. (joins Kegan)
Kegan: I told you to leave him alone.
Daniel: He was there, Kegan. You heard him. Why would he deny that?
Kegan: The nightsickness affects your mind.
Daniel: That doesn't explain the dreams I've had. Something is wrong here, Kegan. Something's not--
Kegan: Carlin -- It's bad enough he named you as part of his delusion. Now, if people hear you talking like this, they're gonna think you're nightsick.

Calder: Why didn't the memory stamp work on Teal'c?
Brenna: I'm sure it was the creature his species carries within them. We've stamped him again. This time it seems to be holding.
Calder: What about the others?
Brenna: They're all proving to be excellent workers. In fact, Therra has some very interesting ideas for improving the plant.
Calder: Therra?
Brenna: The personality we've stamped Major Carter with. (She hands him some papers, and Calder covers his hand with a piece of cloth before accepting them.) We've been having some problems with pressure overload. She suggested an automated relief valve which would relieve the excess pressure. If we didn't have to regulate the pressure manually, it would free up workers for other tasks.
Calder: Maybe one day she could increase productivity to the point where we don't even need workers.
Brenna: What would be so wrong with that?
Calder (snide): Nothing. I'm sure they'd fit right in. Of course, they don't even know the city exists.
Brenna: We could tell them.
Calder: That they've been lied to all their lives? And how would the people of the city react? When there was less to go around, and they had to make room for... workers? Right now, in our city, Brenna, we have no crime. No unemployment...
Brenna: But---
Calder: They're happy... where they are. That's what the stamp assures. Do only what is necessary to guarantee uninterrupted power.

Carter: It's not like I'm making this up off the top of my head! I've got a detailed plan including the safeguards.
O'Neill: I'm sure she knows that.
Carter: I could make a difference here! She won't even let me.
O'Neill: Why don't you go back to her in a couple days, offer up something small? Maybe you gotta work in to the big stuff.
Carter: How do you stay so calm?
O'Neill (shrugs): I think in another life, I handled dangerous explosives. I don't know.
Carter (curious): What do you mean, in another life?
O'Neill: I don't mean anything by it. Just an expression, isn't it?

Major: I can't imagine what scientific reason Major Carter or Doctor Jackson might have had to want to check out those ice fields. But even if they wanted to go up there, there's no way in hell Colonel O'Neill would have let them.
Hammond: According to Administrator Calder, Colonel O'Neill believed the risk was acceptable.
Major: I can't speak for that, sir, I'm not a diplomat.
Hammond: Off the record.
Major: They're not out there, sir. No way!
Hammond: Administrator Calder says they are.
Major: Then I'd say he's a damn liar.

Daniel: There's something else going on. The big nightsick guy with the uh.. (gestures at his forehead)
Carter: Tor.
Daniel: He said we were part of something called SG-1.
O'Neill: Yeah, what is that?
Carter: A team?
O'Neill: What kind of a name is that for a team?
Daniel: I don't know. Look, I just think I'm supposed to be doing something more important.
Carter: We're helping our people survive an ice age.
O'Neill: Yeah, what's more important than that?
Daniel: I don't know. Look, I just have this feeling that all of us are part of some bigger, grander thing.
O'Neill: Well, I certainly understand what you're talking about.
Daniel: You do?
O'Neill: No.
Daniel: Look, I don't know how to explain this, but I had this... dream. You were in it.
O'Neill: Me?
Daniel: There was this big, glowing puddle.
O'Neill: Okay! Just stop talking right now!
Carter: Wait a second, Jona. I had the same dream.
O'Neill: Would you two stop talking like that, for crying out loud? (Carter and Daniel stare at him) It's an expression, right?

Daniel: Tor said we had to escape. He also said we had to remember. Remember what?
O'Neill: Well, I remember when I was a foreman, anyone caught doing what we're doing right now, had their rations cut in half for a month.
Carter: We'll have to risk it.
Daniel: What if our memories have been somehow altered?
Carter: Well, if that's true, then we can't be sure of anything.
O'Neill: My memory's fine.
Daniel: Really?
O'Neill: Yeah.
Daniel: What did you do in the mines?
O'Neill (sarcastically): I mined.
Daniel: No, what did you do?
O'Neill: I remember shoveling ore into a cart.
Daniel: And?
O'Neill: I did that a lot.

Carter: We have to keep this to ourselves. If the others heard us talking this way, they'd think we were night sick.
O'Neill: What if we are night sick?
Carter: I don't think so, sir.
Daniel: What?
Carter: What?
Daniel: You just called Jona 'sir'.
Carter: Well, it's an expression. Isn't it?

O'Neill: I remember something. There's a man. He's bald and wears a short-sleeved shirt, and somehow he's very important to me. I think his name is Homer.
Carter (shakes her head): Doesn't ring a bell.
O'Neill: You?
Carter: Just a lot of vague images. (after a moment, she rests her head on O'Neill's shoulder) You know, there are things about this place that I like.
O'Neill: Really? (she looks at him and smiles) Would it mean anything if I told you I remember something else?
Carter: What?
O'Neill: Feelings.
Carter: Feelings?
O'Neill: I remember feeling --- feelings.
Carter (smiles): For me?
O'Neill (sarcastic): No, for Tor. (Carter laughs) I don't remember much, but I do remember that.
Carter: So.
O'Neill: So, I'm just saying.
Carter: Well, then I feel better.

Brenna: For some reason, Tor seems to be having an adverse reaction to the memory stamp. I think he may be dying.
Calder: Workers die. What about his friends?
Brenna: I've received a report. They've been gathering together in secret. Administrator, I think they're starting to remember. Their brain chemistry is slightly different than ours --- that could be the reason. But we can restamp them.
Calder: No. No, I think it's time they found out what it was like outside.
Brenna (tentative): All they really did was disapprove of our treatment of the workers.
Calder: No, no! No, they did much more than disapprove. They passed judgment on us, Brenna. I'm simply doing the same.

O'Neill (in flashback, remembering the events that led SG-1 to be put to work in the mines): Very impressive. Too bad it's a lie.
Calder: I don't understand.
O'Neill: While we were on the grand tour, Carter spotted some ventilation shafts coming out of apparently nowhere. We checked it out.
Calder: You were supposed to stay with your escort.
O'Neill: Yeah. I can see how you wouldn't want outsiders to know about your slave labor force you keep underground.
Calder: They're merely workers.
O'Neill: And what made them so worthy of that?
Calder: Colonel--
O'Neill: Administrator, I will not recommend trade with a culture that enslaves its own people. I don't care what technology you have to offer.
Calder: This system of government has allowed our culture to survive an ice age
O'Neill (disgusted): Tell me, what's the secret? Starvation? Torture? What?
Calder: Our methods are quite civilized.
O'Neill: Really?
Calder: Yes. In fact, I'll show you.

Brenna: Put him down over there. (Workers place Teal'c on a pallet) You're dismissed.
Carter: What's the matter with him?
Brenna: He's dying.
Daniel: Kelnoreem.
O'Neill: What?
Daniel: I'm not sure what it means, but I think -
O'Neill: It's a kind of meditation. He has to do it every day, or he gets sick. Right?
Carter: So, why doesn't he do it?
O'Neill: Because he can't remember.
Brenna: Colonel O'Neill is correct. As you've begun to suspect, all of you have had your memories altered. You are Major Samantha Carter, Doctor Daniel Jackson, and your friend here is named Teal'c.
O'Neill: Where does Homer fit in?
Brenna: You are all they sent down. At first, I thought it was necessary to protect the city, but now things have gone too far. You don't belong here. You need to return to your own world. Your memories will come back more quickly once you get home.

O'Neill: Teal'c? You all right?
Teal'c: I am.
Daniel: What happened?
Teal'c: When I removed my bandages, and realized I was unlike the rest of you, I began to remember. I placed myself in a deep state of kelnoreem for the night, and my symbiote restored me back to health. 
Carter: Brenna should be all right if we can get her to the uh ---
O'Neill: Infirmary.
Carter: Right.
Calder: You'll never make it back to the Stargate.
O'Neill: You know something? We've got you as a hostage. I don't see a problem.
Daniel: Jona--
O'Neill: Jack!
Daniel: Right. We can't. We have to tell these people what's happening.
O'Neill: Yep, you're right.

O'Neill: Everybody! Can I have your attention please? I'd like to introduce you to someone. This man has been keeping you locked up down here, while he and his friends live it up on the surface!
Kegan: What are you talking about?
Calder: Don't listen to them! They shot Brenna! It's true!
O'Neill: Listen to me! There is a big domed city up there full of people you serve! They've been hiding it from you your entire lives!
Kegan (disbelieving): It's a lie!
Daniel: He's telling the truth, Kegan.
Calder: You can't let them get away!
Kegan: Who are you?
O'Neill (glaring at Calder): That's a good question!
Calder: My name is Calder. I was a supervisor in the mines before I was transferred.
O'Neill (sighing): Yeah, whatever. You want proof? (aims his weapon at the skylight)
Kegan (terrified, as are all the other workers): No! (O'Neill shoots the skylight. Instead of ice and snow, sunlight shines down on the workers)
O'Neill: No ice, no snow!
Calder: You've accomplished nothing! These people will never be accepted in the city.
O'Neill: I think you're right about that.
Daniel: That's why we're gonna offer them a better place.
O'Neill: There's this nice little tropical planet out there, where the beaches go on forever. This, I remember clearly. You and your people can do your own shoveling for a while.

Scorched Earth

Point of No Return