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Related Episodes: Two references (one kinda vague) to "Spirits," two references to "Solitudes," a quick reference to the location of the second Stargate now being located at Nelles from "Touchstone." Also, O'Neill's reference to being in prison is foreshadowed in "Prisoners."

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Quotes:
O'Neill: "Look, I know I should know this by now. I swear it'll be the last time I ask. But these wormholes we go through, they're not always there, right?"
Carter: "No, Sir, they can only form between two open gates."
O'Neill: "What's with the 'worm' part? The worm thing? I...I don't get that."
Carter: "Um, that's just a metaphor."
O'Neill: "Alright, I knew that."
Carter: "Imagine the galaxy is an apple. We burrow our way through the apple like a worm, crossing from one side to another instead of going around the outside."
O'Neill does some heavy thinking...still thinking... Carter stares at him waiting for some sign of understanding from him. Finally, he responds: "Okay."
Carter: "Now, of course, the diameter of the apple is just a two-dimensional representation of space-time and, well, the hole isn't really a hole per se but an incremental conduit..." She cuts herself off, realizing O'Neill is starting to tune her out. "Colonel?"
O'Neill: "Okay." He makes some cute finger gestures. "I'll be alright."
Carter, smiling: "Okay."

Hammond, looking at the image the probe sent back: "I don't understand. It's just..."
O'Neill: "Red, Sir."

O'Neill: "The picture tells us everything we need to know. That team is in trouble. Probably under attack. Permission to go in, Sir?" Hammond nods but is cut off by...
Carter: "Negative, Sir."
O'Neill: "What do you mean, negative?"
Carter: "I'm sorry, Colonel, with all due respect, but if I'm right, we can't help them."

Hammond: "What will happen to them?"
Carter: "Well, Sir, the time dilation is a result of the intense gravity which is directly proportional to their proximity to the..."
Hammond: "Captain!"
Carter: "Sorry, Sir. Their bodies will be pulled apart by increasing tidal forces."
Teal'c: "They did manage to activate the Stargate once."
Carter: "Yeah, but from their perspective it couldn't have been open for more than a second."
Hammond: "There's nothing we can do to save them?"
O'Neill: "They've had it, Sir."
Hammond: "You know that for a fact, Colonel?"
O'Neill: "No, Sir, I don't. But have a look at Major Boyd's face. What does that say to you?"
Hammond: "Very well. Disengage the Stargate."
Carter: "Sir, by some fluke of Stargate technology, we are witnessing something that the laws of physics say we can't possibly witness."
O'Neill: "We are witnessing good men die in slow motion, Captain!"
Carter: "You're right, Sir."

Cromwell: "Sergeant, how long have you been out of contact with this facility?"
Sergeant: "Coming on four hours ago, Sir. But it was...funky for awhile before that."
Cromwell: "Is that proper military terminology? What exactly does 'funky' mean, Sergeant?"
Sergeant: "Everyone was talkin' real slow like...when the battery's down on your Walkman."
Cromwell: "Uh-huh."

Cromwell: "Don't worry. We brought our own transportation."

Hammond: "How is this possible?"
Carter: "Well, I'm guessing that because time is passing more slowly on P3W 451, relative to Earth, we're experiencing a paradox the Stargate was never designed for."

Teal'c: "Do not concern yourself with my injury."
Carter: "You're badly burned, Teal'c, even for you."

Davis: "Hold your fire! It's the General!"
Hammond: "What the hell is going on? Who are you?"
Davis: "Major Davis, Sir. I'm with the Office of the Joint Chiefs. If you'll come with me, please."
Hammond: "What are these men doing in my facility?"
Davis: "We were under the impression there had been an alien incursion, Sir. A special forces team had already been sent down before we understood what was going on. If it's alright with you, Sir, I'd like to brief you on the way to your aircraft. Time is of the essence."
Hammond: "We've got an emergency situation, Major. I'm not going anywhere until I talk to the President."
Davis: "He wants to see you personally, Sir. Your aircraft is standing by on the tarmac. It is urgent that we leave immediately."
Hammond: "Lead the way."

Cromwell: "My supervisors have reason to believe the SGC has been overrun by alien hostiles."
Fraiser: "Well all I can say is they've been misinformed."
Cromwell: "Well from what I have read about what goes on in this base, Dr. Fraiser, hell, you could be one of them for all I know."

O'Neill, feeling a mini-earthquake thing pass through the control room: "Carter?"
Carter: "Gravity waves. Colonel, I assumed that the wormhole itself would isolate us from the black hole's gravitational field but it seems that our space-time has begun to warp, just like on P3W 451."
O'Neill: "Will you stop that!"
Carter: "We're in trouble, Sir."
O'Neill: "Thank you. Think of something."
Carter: "Yes, Sir."

O'Neill: "What's the five hours?"
Cromwell: "That's how long this facility has been out of contact with the outside world. Pentagon suspects alien hostiles."
O'Neill: "And they sent you?!"

Cromwell: "What's the problem?"
O'Neill: "Well, we gated to a planet that's being sucked up by a black hole. Very bad. Very dangerous."
Cromwell: "Why is that?"
O'Neill: "Things tend to get sucked in."
Carter: "I took the liberty of closing the iris, Sir."
O'Neill: "Captain Carter, Cromwell. He's come to rescue us. But I wouldn't count on it."

Carter: "Sir, for some reason the warping of our space-time seems to be an advance of the gravitational field rather than as a result of it. It's probably a lensing effect generated by the Stargate itself but I can't be sure." O'Neill nods.
Cromwell, to O'Neill: "Don't even pretend you understood that."
Carter: "The point is, Sirs, time is passing more slowly down here than it is outside the mountain."
Cromwell: "Time is time."
Carter: "No, Sir. Not according to relativity. Now, with the intense gravity field of something like a black hole, time actually slows down."
Cromwell: "We are not in a black hole."
O'Neill: "Not yet."
Carter: "But we are connected to its gravitational field through the Stargate. And it's expanding in this direction like a bubble slowly extending outward. That's why I have to leave, Sir. I have to contact the Pentagon and try to find a solution before the gravity field extends beyond the Gate Room."
Hammond: "I just came from there myself, Captain. Colonel Cromwell, I believe?"
Cromwell: "General Hammond."
O'Neill: "You just came from Washington, Sir?"
Hammond: "There and back again, after someone upstairs managed to explain what was going on to me. We called an all-night session with the Joint Chiefs. I've been gone nearly eighteen hours."
O'Neill: "I thought you were on the phone."
Carter: "That means the time dilation is getting worse as the field expands."
Hammond: "That's the consensus. We set up a command post directly above, right on top of the mountain to monitor the expansion."
Carter: "I have to get up there."
Hammond: "The experts we consulted believe we're going to have to commence an auto-destruct sequence to destroy the Stargate itself."
O'Neill: "Sweet."
Hammond: "They assure me that the gravitational field now present around the gate will help to contain the blast within the mountain will pose no threat to the civilian population."
Carter: "With all due respect, Sir, I don't think so."
Hammond: "If we don't try we lose the planet, right through that."
Carter: "We may well succeed in destroying the base, Sir, but leave the gate and the wormhole intact. What happens to the planet then?"
Hammond: "Orders have been given at the highest level, Captain. It is our duty to carry out those orders."
Carter: "But Sir..."
Hammond: "The decision has been made. You don't get it, the people up there have been working on this a lot longer than you have. It's what they came up with."
Carter: "Yes, Sir."

Hammond: "I'll need two volunteers to stay behind in order to get our personnel a head start."
O'Neill: "I'll stay, Sir."
Cromwell: "Me too, Sir."
O'Neill: "Anyone else?"
Cromwell: "Looks like you're stuck with me, Jack."

Carter: "Make sure you give yourself enough time to get out, Sir."
O'Neill: "Time. Right."

Hammond, summarizing my own thoughts as I watched the episode the first time: "Captain, relativity gives me a headache."

Cromwell, pointing to the image from the probe: "Who's this?"
O'Neill: "Henry Boyd. Good officer. Smart. Kinda reminds me of Carter a little bit. This was their first mission as a team."
Cromwell: "He looks scared to death."
O'Neill: "He's on a planet that's about to be swallowed up by a black hole, and he knows it."

Teal'c, placing his hand on Carter's shoulder: "Perhaps with rest the answer will come."
Carter: "Hey, Teal'c. You know anything about quantum gravity?"
Teal'c: "Nothing."
Carter: "Apparently neither do I."
Teal'c: "What do these equations represent?"
Carter: "Probably a life's work. I don't have that much time, unfortunately."
Teal'c: "How may I be of assistance?"
Carter: "We're experiencing a time dilation in a radius wider than the gate room itself. Most of the SGC, in fact, and it's expanding. But it's all happening in advance of the gravity field that's causing it. Now, according to everything I thought I knew about relativity, that's just not possible."
Teal'c: "Yet it is so."
Carter: "Right."

Carter, about the Joint Chiefs' plan to blow up the SGC: "In other words, Teal'c, they don't know what the hell is going on so they're just going to blow it up. And there doesn't seem to be a damn thing we can do about it."

Cromwell, to O'Neill about having to leave Boyd behind to die: "Maybe now you know how it feels."
O'Neill: "You done?"

Hammond: "I take it you still believe our plan isn't going to work."
Carter: "To be honest, Sir, I'm afraid the gravity field will dampen the effects of the explosion. We'll lost the SGC but the wormhole will be intact. What's left of the mountain will collapse into the wormhole, six months after that, the state of Colorado, six months after that.... At least Daniel will live out there."
Hammond: "But if you're wrong, and for once I hope you are, we can restart the SGC with the second gate at Nelles in time..."
Carter, getting "the idea": "That's it! We do use a bomb, but we focus the energy of the blast. When Colonel O'Neill and I were sent to the Antarctic gate it was because we were under enemy fire."
Hammond: "It caused an energy surge."
Carter: "Yes! And that surge caused the wormhole to jump from one destination to another." She grabs a donut and proceeds to illustrate her point on it. "If we can channel enough energy in the direction of our Stargate it should cut the connection to the black hole and cause the matter stream to jump to any gate along the way."
Hammond: "Leaving our Stargate connected to some other world."
Carter: "Yes, Sir, but then all we have to do is shut it down."

O'Neill: "One minute."
Cromwell: "May be the last one." Long pause. "We used to be friends, Jack."
O'Neill: "Yup."
Cromwell: "I was sick to my stomach when I found out you were still alive. I wanted to go back for you."
O'Neill: "Why don't we just do this and get the hell outta here, alright?"
Cromwell: "Someone dropped a dime on the incursion. You got hit. You went down. I made a judgment call to save the rest of the team."
O'Neill, getting ticked: "And I saw you take off. And then I saw four months of my life disappear inside some stinkin' Iraqi prison."
Cromwell: "I thought you were dead!"
O'Neill, now really ticked: "You thought wrong! What do you want? You want me to forgive you, is that it?"
Cromwell: "Yeah, I guess I do."
O'Neill: "Well, that's tough. What happened to nobody gets left behind?"
Cromwell, pointing to Boyd on the screen: "What about him?"
O'Neill: "That is a totally different scenario."
Cromwell: "That is the same damn thing, Jack."

Cromwell, about the bomb arriving at the base: "How long's all that going to take?"
Carter: "Well, Sir, with any luck about five more minutes. Rel..."
O'Neill, interrupting and saying the words along with Carter: "Relatively speaking."

O'Neill, about Teal'c's burned shoulder: "You got better quick."
Teal'c: "It has in fact been several days."
O'Neill: "Yeah, I knew that."

Cromwell, about yet another one of Carter's speeches: "Man, she is...."
O'Neill: "Way smarter than we are."

Cromwell: "Like old times, ey, Jack?"
O'Neill: "Oh yeah. Black holes, worm holes, old times."

Simmons, about the Stargate: "Do you really think they'll be able to shut it down, Sir?"
Hammond: "We'll know sometime tomorrow."

Cromwell: "I feel like I've grown a couple hundred pounds."
O'Neill: "I wasn't going to say anything."

Daniel: "Hey, Jack, did I miss anything?"
O'Neill: "I made it."
Hammond: "We all made it thanks to you and Captain Carter."
O'Neill: "How?"
Carter: "Teal'c managed to pull you far enough away from the bomb before it went off."
O'Neill: "Thanks."
Teal'c: "You are welcome."
Carter: "The majority of the blast energy went right where it was supposed to. The wormhole jumped to P2A 870 and once it did that we just shut it off."
O'Neill: "Good thinking, Captain."
Carter: "Thank you, Sir."
Hammond: "A new trinium-strengthened iris is being installed right now. We should be back in business in no time."
O'Neill: "What day is it?"
Daniel: "Well, this might be a little difficult to accept, but since you reported for duty yesterday, two weeks have actually gone by."
O'Neill: "Two weeks. Think I'll sleep in."
Hammond: "You do that."

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