First Aired On: July 21, 2000
Written By: Katharyn Powers
Directed By: Peter DeLuise
Guest Stars: Vanessa Angel (Anise/Freya), Musetta Vander (Sha'nauc), Peter Wingfield (Hebron/Tanith), Gary Jones (Technician), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Janet Fraiser), Ron Hadler (Cronus), Sean Millington (Ronac)
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Davis: We're receiving Bra'tac's IDC, sir.
O'Neill: Bra'tac?
Hammond: Open the iris. Have Teal'c come to the gate room. (instead of Bra'tac, a female Jaffa steps through the Stargate)
Woman: I mean you no harm.
O'Neill: Bra'tac... you've done something with your hair.
Hammond: Identify yourself.
Woman: I am Sha'nauc of the Red Hills. Master Bra'tac opened the Chappaa-ai but was unable to accompany me.
O'Neill: Why is that?
Sha'nauc: There is much unrest. He took great risk in sending me here. (Teal'c enters the room)
Teal'c: Sha'nauc.
O'Neill: Friend of yours?
Teal'c: Indeed.
Sha'nauc: Tal ma'te, Teal'c.
Teal'c: Tal ma'te. (they stare at each other)
O'Neill (clears throat): Teal'c, how about a little introduction of some sort?
Sha'nauc: There is no need. Bra'tac has told me much of the Tauri. You are O'Neill, Teal'c's apprentice.
O'Neill: Yeah... apprentice?
Sha'nauc: Also a warrior of great skill and cunning.
O'Neill: Apprentice?
Sha'nauc: Hammond of Texas, a great and strong leader among humans.
Hammond: What can we do for you?
Sha'nauc: You must take me to the Tok'ra immediately. I have information that could destroy the Goa'uld.O'Neill: I think what Teal'c's trying to say is that--
Teal'c: I have said precisely what I intended, O'Neill.Fraiser: I gave you a sedative. You should be asleep.
Sha'nauc: Kalma has neutralized the sedative.
Fraiser: Kalma?
Teal'c: It means child. The demon you carry within you is no child.
Sha'nauc: Do I not carry it within me as I would my own? Have I not taught right from wrong, as any mother would? You've closed your mind, Teal'c. I expected more.
Teal'c: May we speak privately?
Sha'nauc: My symbiote has assured me that this will not happen again.
O'Neill: Oh, well, if the snake says so, then who are we?Sha'nauc: One day as I meditated in the temple with the others, I heard the thoughts of my symbiote. Dreams that were not my own. I reached out to them with my mind and I heard it answer. Not in words, but in grotesque images and pain. I realized then that being I carried was no god. A powerful mind, yes, but not that of a god. I dedicated my life that day to showing it the way of peace. It understands now the Goa'uld are an abomination. Can you not see what it is that I offer?
Carter: How is she?
O'Neill: Fraiser says she has maybe a couple of days, tops. Find anything?
Daniel: No, but Teal'c knows more on this subject than I ever will.
Carter: He sure doesn't believe her.
O'Neill: Well, there may be more than meets the eye here. I'm thinking they got history.
Carter: History?
O'Neill: Oh yeah.
Daniel: She's a temple priestess.
O'Neill: So?
Daniel: So they don't do a lot of dating.
O'Neill: Maybe not, but there was some serious sparkage when she arrived.
Carter: Okay, the question is, what if she's telling the truth?
O'Neill: So what? She can't tell the Tok'ra any more than they already know, can she?
Carter: Actually, sir, she can. The Tok'ra--
O'Neill: Consider themselves different than the Goa'uld, I know, but let's call a snake a snake, shall we?O'Neill (pretending to be humble): Master Teal'c.
Teal'c: I am in need of your assistance.
O'Neill: I'm here to serve.Anise: The great queen, Egeria. She broke from the Goa'uld over two thousand years ago. Her offspring became the Tok'ra.
Daniel: Egeria.. Roman goddess of fountains.
O'Neill: Fountains?
Daniel: Also childbirth.
O'Neill: How do those two go together?
Daniel: It doesn't matter. Um, she was also advisor to Numa Pompilius, a legendary ruler.
Anise: Correct, Dr. Jackson. Egeria came to the Tauri to stop the Goa'uld from taking humans through the Stargate as slaves. Ra found her and killed her, but not before she spawned our movement.
Carter: Literally?
Anise: Yes.
O'Neill: Thanks for the image.Sha'nauc: Since word came to the temple that you had betrayed Apophis, I have thought of you every day.
Teal'c: As a Shol'va?
Sha'nauc: No, Teal'c. Because of you, my doubts became certainties. When we were children, you were always the strongest, the bravest. That you would one day be First Prime was never doubted. But then you did what no Jaffa before you had ever done. You challenged the gods themselves and won. Among many on Chulak, you are as revered as the gods once were. And yet you walk away.Shau'nauc: When you touched the mind of your symbiote, what did it show you?
Teal'c: The murder of my father, a most slow and painful death.
Sha'nauc: At the hand of Cronus?
Teal'c: Yes.
Sha'nauc: It wanted you to know fear.
Teal'c: Yes.
Sha'nauc: You are stronger than that. Why does it appear to have succeeded? My first communion was the same. It was many days before I tried again. But one day the images it chose to share with me began to change. They became sorrowful, as though my kalma were awakening to its own shame. In time, the images became beautiful, even caring. If that is all--
Teal'c: There is more. I fear losing you a second time.
Sha'nauc: No. Never again. (they embrace and kiss)Anise: Sah'nauc of the Red Hills, welcome to Vorash.
Sha'nauc: It is a great honor to meet the Tok'ra.
O'Neill: They're all right, if you like the type.
Anise: It is an equal pleasure to see you, Colonel O'Neill. (walks up to Carter) Your father asked that I shake your hand, and give Colonel O'Neill a big kiss from him.
Carter: Um, that might've been the other way around.Anise: This is the volunteer host, Hebron of Paraval.
O'Neill: Jack O'Neill, Earth. Forgive my bluntness here, but do you have any idea what you're getting into?
Anise: We have told him everything.
O'Neill: Yeah, well I've noticed the Tok'ra have a tendency to leave out minor details along the way sometimes. You do know this thing's going to be in your head, right? You only get your body part-time?
Hebron: My own people were enslaved by the Goa'uld a generation ago. I understand what benefit may come of this.
O'Neill (skeptically): All right.
Teal'c: This is Sha'nauc.
Hebron: What can you tell me of the one with whom I will spend the rest of my days?
Sha'nauc: That he wishes to forswear his birthright, and desires to stop the Goa'uld from causing any more harm.
Hebron: Then we will have that in common.Anise: Colonel O'Neill, lower your weapon. The transference is complete.
O'Neill: Transference? That's what you call that?
Teal'c: Sha'nauc?
Tanith: There was no more time. Sha'nauc's life was in grave danger. I had to act. Have you a prim'ta ready for implantation?
Anise: Yes.
Tanith: Do it now. She is near death. I am Tanith. It is my honor to pledge my allegiance to the Tok'ra.O'Neill: Hello, Hebron.
Tanith: He is here, Colonel O'Neill:
Daniel: Actually, we'd like to hear that from him.
Tanith: Of course.
Hebron: It is true. It is a strange feeling, but I am very much here.
O'Neill: How do we know that?
Hebron: Tanith wants you to know that we will submit to any test you may wish to perform to assure you that I am speaking freely, as host. Rest assured, Tanith is pure of heart. Sha'nauc was indeed a great teacher.
O'Neill: Good. Then maybe Tanith wouldn't mind sharing some of that fine Goa'uld knowledge?
Tanith: Of course.
Anise: When the time is appropriate.
O'Neill: I think now is appropriate.
Anise: We disagree.
O'Neill: Oh, here we go. Here we go!
Anise: Tanith has asked to join the Tok'ra, not the SGC.
O'Neill (yelling): Are you kidding me?
Anise: We will gladly share what knowledge we feel is useful to the furthering of our alliance with Earth.
Carter: Does my father go along with this?
Anise: I am sure he will.
O'Neill: How do I hang up with Anise and talk to Freya?
Anise: Why?
O'Neill: I like Freya!
Anise: She and I are in complete agreement.
O'Neill: How do I know that?
Anise: I have told you.
O'Neill: And I'm supposed to trust you? You know, this whole talking to two people in one body thing really sucks! (Teal'c and Sha'nauc enter)
Tanith: Sha'nauc. It is good to finally see the face of she who taught me so much.
Sha'nauc: To speak with you in words... it is something I never dreamed of.
Tanith: There will be time for words. You must stay a while. We have so much to talk about.O'Neill: I guess we should just mosey on back to Earth and tell General Hammond how the Tok'ra boned us again.
Sha'nauc: I could not wait to speak with you.
Tanith: Yes. We must speak of your audacity.
Sha'nauc: I do not understand.
Tanith: How dare a priestess touch the mind of one who would be her god?
Sha'nauc: You despise the Goa'uld!
Tanith: I am the Goa'uld.
Sha'nauc: But I showed you the-- (Tanith claps a hand over her mouth)
Tanith: You showed me the means to destroy the Tok'ra. Now accept your reward.Freya (who has brought Sha'nauc's body back through the Stargate): Teal'c, it is with great sorrow that I return.
Teal'c: Sha'nauc...
Freya: We found the body just outside her chamber. The symbiote she carried is also dead. If we had found a more mature larva..
Teal'c: She appeared well.
Freya: Sha'nauc's death is simply the unfortunate result of waiting too long.
Teal'c (uncovering her face): Shau'nauc...tal met. Pal tiem shree...tal ma.
Daniel (translating): Our love does not end in death. (Teal'c bends down and kisses her body)Anise: We have no secrets from each other.
O'Neill: Beg to differ with you.
Teal'c: I have reason to believe the Goa'uld Sha'nauc carried was not truly convinced to become a Tok'ra. I believe the Goa'uld used this opportunity to become a spy among you.O'Neill: Teal'c, let them take the Goa'uld out of the host.
Anise: No. He will be infinitely more valuable to us if we do not.
O'Neill: You knew.
Freya: We suspected, but only after her death. Teal'c, we truly had hoped that Sha'nauc had succeeded, but if we allow Tanith to believe he has deceived us, we will be able to use that against the Goa'uld.
Teal'c: Disinformation.
Freya: Yes. If we control what he sees and hears, the Goa'uld will never know our true intentions. We will be able to use that advantage for months. When Tanith no longer serves a useful purpose, we will extract what Goa'uld secrets we can in other ways.
O'Neill: What about the host?
Anise: He knew well the risks. When we have learned all that we can, we will try to remove the Goa'uld. We are fighting a war for our very existence. I make no apologies for the means.Tanith: You must feel the pain of Sha'nauc's death as deeply as I do. It is a terrible loss to both of us. It has been difficult. Why have you come to see me?
Teal'c: To look upon you, and know that Sha'nauc's sacrifice will not be in vain.
Tanith: You have my promise. I hope one day we will meet again, Teal'c, and together remember she who meant so much to both of us.
Teal'c: We will meet again. (bows his head and looks back up, eyes full of hate) You have my promise.
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