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First Aired On: July 24, 1998
Written By: Robert C. Cooper
Directed By: Martin Wood
Guest Stars: Heather Hansen (Shyla), George Touliatos (Pirous)
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O'Neill, as Daniel runs off again: "I wish he'd stop doing that." (A direct reference to Children of the Gods, perhaps?)O'Neill: "What were you thinking?"
Daniel: "I thought she'd be grateful."
O'Neill: "She was trying to kill herself!"
Jaffa: "On your knees."
O'Neill: "No, actually I've got this cartilage problem, little ACL thing..." The Jaffa hits him with his staff weapon. "That helps."Carter: "Colonel. He isn't a Goa'uld. And I don't think these are real Jaffa, either."
O'Neill: "How do you know?"
Carter: "First clue was his voice."
O'Neill: "Yeah, I noticed that too."
Carter: "Sir, I can't really explain it but when he grabbed me I just knew. I felt it. Or, to be more accurate, I didn't feel it. Sir, I think it has something to do with the Goa'uld that invaded me. Lately, I get this weird feeling when I'm near Teal'c."
O'Neill: "Hey, who doesn't?" Teal'c's facial response to this is great!
Carter: "No, I can sense the presence of a Goa'uld now. I didn't get that feeling when he grabbed me."
Teal'c: "I agree with Captain Carter. The ruler here is not a Goa'uld."
O'Neill: "Alright, let's assume you're both right. How does that help us?"
Carter: "I'm not sure."
Daniel: "Look, I'm really sorry you guys. This is totally my fault."
Jaffa: "You will meet your quota for the day or you will not eat."
O'Neill: "You know, I've seen an awful lot of union violations around here. I should probably speak to your supervisor."
Jaffa hits them: "You will work."
O'Neill, on his knees: "Hi ho hi ho, back to work."Jaffa: "How does your leg feel now?"
O'Neill: "Oh, much better. Thanks." He beats the Jaffa up.Shyla: "By what name are you called?"
Daniel: "Daniel Jackson."
Shyla: "May I help you out, Daniel Jackson?"
Daniel: "Thank you. Why am I wearing this?"
Shyla: "I took the liberty of providing you with royal robes. You may call me Shyla. In return for saving your life, please do not try to escape again. I have taken personal responsibility for you."
Daniel: "...Ok."
Shyla: "It would also be rude of you to try and harm me in any way."
Daniel: "Well, you do realize it's also kinda rude to kidnap people and chain them up in a mine."
Shyla: "Please forgive me for not telling my father the truth about what happened by the cliff. I...he would not understand."
Daniel: "Ok. So, you're not Goa'uld but you're running a Naquada mine and you've got yourselves a..." he knocks on the sarcophagus, "Goa'uld sarcophagus."
Shyla, getting excited: "You know of the sarcophagus?"
Daniel: "Yeah, I've...I've used one before. Couple of times too many if you ask me."
Shyla: "Really?"
Daniel, motioning to his eyes: "My, um..."
Shyla: "Oh! You want your glass circles. I'm afraid they were broken." Daniel puts them on, then proceeds to wear them with a really annoying crack on one side through half the episode. "I just know I've done the right thing."O'Neill, after drinking a cup full of mud: "I've had worse."
Shyla, about the scenery around them: "Isn't this splendid?"
Daniel: "Why are we here?"
Shyla: "I know you must've seen much in your travels, but...surely you've never seen anything quite so beautiful. We call them trees."
Daniel: "Ah! Uh, so do we."
Shyla: "So you've seen them before, on other worlds?"
Daniel: "Yeah."
Shyla: "I'm a fool, aren't I?" (By this point the audience is about ready to agree with her!) "Surely you must've seen much more incredible things than I can imagine. Please, tell me about them."
Daniel: "Um, look, uh, I'd really like to tell you everything you want to know, but, um, but my friends..."
Shyla: "My father still believes that you and your friends have a nefarious purpose here."
Daniel: "But you don't."
Shyla: "We will convince him that you are decent, honest people who will bring no harm to our kingdom."
Daniel: "Uh, well, I don't suppose we could go talk to your father now..."
Shyla: "He is not well now."
Daniel: "I don't...I don't want to spoil this little repoire we seem to have going here...."
Shyla: "That sounds almost romantic."
Daniel: "Oh boy, ok, um, here's the thing. Look, I am very grateful to you that you saved my life and that you want to help me free my friends, but I'm sensing that you did it because your, ah..."
Shyla: "Because you're my destiny."
Daniel: "Whuah....What?"
Shyla: "Before she died, my mother-in-law used to come out here and take long walks at night. You can see every star in the sky through the treetops."
Daniel: "No, see, about the destiny thing?"
Shyla: "She used to tell me how a great man would come from beyond the sun, just for me."
Daniel: "Oh boy."
Shyla: "I had come to believe my mother was wrong. That my true love would never come. I stood on that cliff and I wished one last time. At exactly the right moment you were there to save me, Daniel Jackson. You cannot deny that is fate."Daniel: "Hi guys."
Carter: "Daniel!"
O'Neill: "Well. It's surprisingly difficult to kill you, isn't it?"
Teal'c: "We are pleased to see you, Daniel Jackson."
Daniel: "Ah, Sam was right. Pirous isn't a Goa'uld."
O'Neill: "What's with the dress?"
Daniel: "Oh! Ah, they're royal robes." (What's with his smile there?! Our Daniel...bragging?) "Ah, long story short, they have a sarcophagus. Um, the princess put me in it and saved my life because she has, ah, a crush on me."
Carter: "A crush?"
Daniel: "Yeah. Actually, she thinks I'm her destiny, the whole saving her life thing. I guess she was grateful after all."
O'Neill: "Well, good job. Now how about getting the goons to unlock us and get us the heck out of here?"
Daniel: "Ah, yeah. Not yet."
O'Neill: "I'm sorry?"
Daniel: "Well, it's...it's kind of a sensitive situation. Pirous hasn't exactly agreed to let you go yet. But I'm...I'm working on it. I'm trying to gain his trust. Yeah, I know, this is really...."
O'Neill: "Weird?"
Daniel: "Look, I just wanted to let you know that I was ok. I'll talk to Pirous tonight at dinner."
Carter: "You get dinner?"
Daniel: "Yeah, um, some feast in my honor or something."
O'Neill: "Feast?! There's a feast, is there?"
Daniel: "Just trust me, ok? I just...I need more time." He leaves.
O'Neill, shouting after him: "I'm glad you're ok!"Shyla: "Do not worry about your friends. I have instructed the guards to treat them well."
Daniel: "I'm sorry, this is unacceptable. I can't be up here like this when they're down there."
Shyla: "We will change my father's mind about them."
Daniel: "Yeah. I don't think you're understanding what they mean to me."
Shyla: "It may just take some time."
Daniel: "Or maybe you do. The longer it takes to free them, the more time we have together."
Shyla: "I admit that is what I would like."
Daniel: "Well, then, release my friends. I won't leave, I'll stay here and get to know you better. I...I promise."
Shyla: "So you do feel as I do." She kisses him, and finally he pulls away. "Should I not have done that?"
Daniel: "No, no. It's ok. It's just, um..."
Shyla: "Maybe you're still not fully recovered." She walks over to the sarcophagus.
Daniel: "Oh, you know, I really don't think that's necessary. I mean, I'm ok."
Shyla: "But you'll feel so much better."
Daniel: "It's, uh, please..."
Shyla: "For me? You will feel better than you have ever felt. Trust me...and I will trust you. I promise."O'Neill, to Daniel as he walks down to the mine sporting a new hairdo: "What the hell's going on?"
Carter: "It's been days since we heard from you."
Daniel, really zapped: "Oh, yeah yeah yeah yeah! Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm still working on getting you guys out. Oh, in the meantime, I've discovered something...incredible."
O'Neill: "You do know we're dying down here, don't you?"
Daniel: "I've taken the opportunity to do a little research on the sarcophagus. It's amazing what it does to you when you're already healthy."
Carter: "Wh...is that such a good idea?"
Daniel: "Well, I can't get Shyla to trust me if I don't show that I trust her."
O'Neill: "Oh, Shyla is it now. First name basis. Shyla."
Daniel: "And I've used it before without any side effects. And look! No glasses!"
Carter: "That looks like a side effect to me."
O'Neill: "Daniel, get us out of here."
Daniel: "Oh, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yeah, I'm working on it. I just need a little more time. Um, oh, I sent General Hammond another message. Hopefully he won't order an all-out attack. Look, if we do this right we will have access to all the Naquada...and the sarcophagus!"
Carter: "How many times have you used it?"
Daniel: "Oh, I don't know. Nine or...ten. Oh, Sam, everything is so clear. I mean I fell like I could do anything."
O'Neill: "One thing. You only have to do one thing!!! And if you can't handle that, we're going to break outta here without you."
Daniel: "She wants me to marry her."
O'Neill: "What? Alright, look...."
Daniel, his voice rising three levels in intensity: "No, you look, Jack!!! I have everything under control, ok? God, you never show me any respect! Your way didn't work. Now I'm handling it. All you have to do is hang in there!" He leaves in frustration, leaving SG-1 really shocked and confused.Daniel, still drugged: "I can help make it much easier to mine the Naquada and we can defend you against the Goa'uld if you trust me."?
Shyla: "Even after I used your friends to keep you close to me?"
Daniel: "Oh, yeah. I don't think you meant any harm."
Shyla: "Then you will stay? Even after they are free?"
Daniel: "I've never felt better anywhere in my life. I've felt out of place on my planet, I always wanted to make a difference. There's still so much you don't know about me."
Shyla: "I know all I need to. We could change things here. Together."O'Neill, seeing Daniel reclining lazily on a throne: "The man who would be king."
Daniel: "Hi Jack!!!" He jumps off his throne and climbs down. "Oh, Jack! Hi Jack!" He sits down and taps his feet together like a kid throughout the rest of their conversation.
O'Neill: "We're losing the battle down there, you know. Carter's started having Goa'uld flashbacks, says if you keep using the sarcophagus you're going Dark Side on us. If you haven't already."
Daniel: "Well, don't worry a bit. We're getting out of here tomorrow."
O'Neill: "What?"
Daniel: "I agreed to marry her."
O'Neill "You did."
Daniel hops down from the step and supports O'Neill: "I said I had to go home and straighten a few things out first, and you guys are coming with me."
O'Neill: "And she trusts you."
Daniel: "She...loves me."Shyla: "He will come back to me. He can't live without me."
O'Neill: "We had a nice time, Sir. Carter picked up some Naquada. Teal'c made some new friends as usual. Daniel got engaged. And, um, I'm gonna hit the showers."
Carter, to Daniel who can't stop pacing and picking things up and playing with them: "You're going to wear a hole in the floor."
Daniel: "I can't get her out of my head, Sam. I think I made a big mistake."
Carter: "You're not serious."
Daniel: "I am."
Carter: "You have a wife."
Daniel: "Had. Had a wife. I mean, seriously, how long am I supposed to wait? And even if I find...Sha're one day, what are the chances that she'll ever be the same again?"
Carter: "Look, your endorphin level was through the roof when we came back. Now you're coming down off of it. The effects of the sarcophagus are like a narcotic, Daniel."
Daniel: "Yeah, that makes you smarter, stronger, you live for hundreds of years, feel great. What the hell is so wrong with it?"
Carter: "I think it's partially what make the Goa'uld as bad as they are."
Daniel: "How?"
Carter: "Who knows? It's Goa'uld technology, Daniel. Maybe it's healing effects alter your brain chemistry. Increase adrenalin, the hormones that make you more aggressive and irrational. Pirous probably used to be a decent man. Look at yourself. It's like you need a fix. You only used it a few times and already it's changed you."
Daniel: "We can't just leave it there. We have to study it."
Carter: "We can't go back, either."
Daniel: "Well, I'm going."
Carter: "She used us to get you addicted." Daniel gets really mad, knocks a bunch of stuff off the table.
Daniel: "You've never really know what love is, have you?"
Carter, offended: "See, the Daniel I know would never have said that." He glares at her for another moment, then knocks some more stuff off the table and leaves.O'Neill, cornering Daniel in the storage room where Daniel just shot a light out with a gun: "Geez, dammit! Daniel! Are you trying to kill me?"
Daniel: "You're trying to kill me."
O'Neill: "There'll be guards here in thirty seconds."
Daniel: "I'm going back."
O'Neill: "You don't have to! Fraiser says you're getting better."
Daniel: "You're lying!"
O'Neill: "Why would I do that?!" Daniel rushes him, and they fight for a few minutes. Daniel turns out to be really strong with that sarcophagus drug in him. Finally Daniel gets the gun and aims it at O'Neill.
O'Neill: "Daniel! God...What're you going to do, Daniel? Do you want to kill me?" O'Neill seems to recognize something in Daniel's appearance and behavior, and his voice softens. "Look at you. I know what this is. I know what it's like. You can get through it..." Daniel finally breaks down crying, and O'Neill pulls him into the infamous hug.
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