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First Aired On: July 30, 1999 (United States)
Written By: Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper, & Tor Alexander Valenza
Directed By: Peter DeLuise
Guest Stars: Jay Acovone (Major Kawalsky), Peter Williams (Apophis), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser)
Synopsis: Okay, so the Sam/Jack shipper in me enjoyed this episode tremendously. Not that I want to see them get together in the show since there is that regulation/team member problem, but, well, alternate reality episodes like these are lots o' fun. =) Anyway, we learn some really, really important information - the Asgard can raise people from the dead; Carter has successfully duplicated the device O'Neill used in "The Fifth Race" to dial outside our galaxy (i.e. we can travel to even more worlds and can contact the Asgard); that mirror Daniel touched in "There But For the Grace of God" is still alive and kicking and now we know how it works; and, the ever important, burning question in all Stargate fans' minds--what exactly does the Goa'uld word Kree mean? (For inquiring minds, it means several things, mostly along the lines of "attention.") But enough of that, on with the synopsis. Please forgive the confusion of having two different versions of the same people running around - it's hard to clearly narrate, as I've found out firsthand while writing my alternate reality-heavy "Paradox" sequel, "Parallel."
Note: "A.R." = Alternate Reality
Episode starts out in Area 51. We pan through a room where the artifacts the SG teams bring back are kept, finally landing on the A.R. mirror Daniel touched in "There But For the Grace of God." The device comes to life, and in the reflection we see Kawalsky and Carter (with long hair) racing toward it. They touch the mirror and are transported into this reality. Kawalsky asks Carter if she's sure they came to the right place, she says any place is better than where they just were. They trip the security alarm and are arrested by Air Force personnel.
Cut to the SGC where O'Neill is entering the infirmary, having been called in because of an emergency. He sees the alternate reality Carter (who, for my own sanity, I'm going to furthermore call Samantha to distinguish her from Major Carter), comments about her hair, finds out she's only a doctor and not in the military, and is generally stunned to find out that she and Kawalsky are from an alternate reality. She, likewise, has a rather intense reaction to seeing him...alive.
SG-1 discusses this turn of events in the debriefing room and watch a videotape of Samantha's questioning while at Area 51. Hammond then allows Samantha and Kawalsky to join them on the debriefing. The two of them have come to this reality, they say, to flee their own world which has just been overrun by the Goa'uld. A.R. O'Neill was apparently killed during the attack three days ago, and A.R. Teal'c was the Jaffa leading the attack on Earth. Neither has ever seen Daniel before; Samantha was the one who figured out how the Stargate worked in their reality. They say they want to stay in our reality because the SGA (their name for the SGC) is under Goa'uld control.
Hammond allows them to stay for the time being. Samantha is taken to one of the VIP rooms and takes out a picture...of her and Jack laughing together and having a good time. She starts crying as she looks at it. Meanwhile, Hammond talks to the President about Samantha and Kawalsky's request to stay, and the President grants them permission. He requests that Hammond try to make their two A.R. visitors part of the SGC routine. Hammond, however, says that something in the whole thing feels wrong, that some lines are not meant to be crossed. O'Neill agrees to go tell their "guests" the President's news.
He goes and talks to Samantha first. Finding her crying again, they get to talking...and it comes out that Jack and Samantha were married in their alternate reality. She is grieving over the loss of her husband. O...kay. A tad awkward for Jack, and she recognizes it. She tells him that she and he had been celebrating their first anniversary when the call came that the Goa'uld were attacking. They'd had to leave everything they were doing and go to the SGA, where Jack was killed. She starts crying again, he doesn't know what to say, she tells him that she knows him well enough that he doesn't need to say anything. Instead, he pulls her into a hug and lets her cry on his shoulder.
O'Neill finally leaves her room and runs into the other Carter, who's told Kawalsky the President's news. She's going to talk to Dr. Carter, but O'Neill tells her that now isn't a good time. They leave, but inside her room a problem emerges. Samantha's face suddenly...does a really weird convulsion thing, like she's growing two extra heads or something. Ah, the magic of special effects.
We cut to the infirmary, where Dr. Fraiser is trying to figure out what's going on with Samantha. One of the Carters proposes that it's due to the presence of two identical beings being in the same reality, something called entropic cascade failure. Kawalsky doesn't have this problem because his alternate is dead (which would also explain why Daniel didn't have a problem in "There But For the Grace of God" because his double was supposedly dead). If Samantha doesn't leave soon, something not-so-nice will happen to her. However, she can't return to her reality because the Goa'uld are there...or can't she?
SG-1 discusses the possibility of using their knowledge to benefit this alternate reality. If they can replicate the device O'Neill used to go to the Asgard world in "The Fifth Race," Samantha and Kawalsky can ask the Asgard for help removing the Goa'uld from Earth. Kawalsky says he'll help get Samantha to the Stargate (gotta help his best friend's wife, right?), O'Neill will go to connect the device to the SGA's power source, Daniel will go to operate the alternate reality device, Teal'c will go to swap places with his double. Carter, on the other hand, will stay behind because she doesn't want her face to start convulsing.
The two Carters get to work recreating "The Fifth Race" device. Carter isn't sure how to get it to work, but when she and Samantha discuss it (thoroughly annoying Jack with their scientific jargon), they figure it out. Kawalsky, meanwhile, explains to Daniel how to make the A.R. device work. If the device is shut off, you have to reconfigure it, using your current reality as the starting point. By rotating a panel, you shift realities toward similar or dissimilar. The first reality they try has absolutely no changes to it (which Kawalsky says can't be his reality because there should be grenade damage on the walls), another reality has a shot of the interior of Area 51, and yet another has two serpent guards guarding the hallways. Daniel keeps playing with it and he apparently finds the reality they're looking for.
The two Carters say good-bye and O'Neill, Teal'c (dressed unhappily as his double), Kawalsky, Samantha, and Daniel head into the alternate reality. Their first order of business is to lure the A.R. Teal'c to the storage closet where our Teal'c is waiting. They find him commanding a group of Jaffa and greeting a goatee-ed Apophis, who has just stepped through the Stargate. O'Neill and Kawalsky manage to get his attention and he follows them to the storage closet where the mirror is. Teal'c confronts A.R. Teal'c, our Teal'c asks A.R. Teal'c to revolt against Apophis, A.R. Teal'c refuses, and our Teal'c kills A.R. Teal'c with his staff weapon. Ouch. O'Neill reminds Teal'c that they were only going to zat him, but Teal'c replies that only their reality is of any consequence.
So Teal'c leads Samantha into the Gate room where Apophis is torturing A.R. General Hammond, trying to get information about where the leaders of Earth have gated to. Apophis and the other Jaffa are going to check out the rest of the base, leaving Teal'c to interrogate A.R. Hammond and Samantha. Teal'c tells A.R. Hammond not to worry, he'd never kill him, Samantha explains that her theory about getting help from another reality worked. A.R. Hammond is definitely relieved to hear this.
Back in the storage closet, Daniel is trying to locate their reality. He goes through worlds where the Jaffa are leading a human through the hallways, one with two more serpent guards walking around, another of Area 51 overtaken by the Goa'uld, and one of a beach world like the one we saw in "Fire and Water." He also temporarily lands on a world where Carter is waiting on the other side. However, her nametag reads "Capt. Carter" so he knows it can't be the right reality. (Does this mean that there's another version of SG-1 and the SGC doing the exact same thing in their reality, except for the difference that Carter is a Captain instead of a Major? Interesting!)
O'Neill and Kawalsky sneak into the depths of the base to connect the amplifying device to the power source. Kawalsky asks O'Neill about his relationship with Carter, O'Neill replies that it's against regulations and essentially tells Kawalsky to shut up. They manage to hook up the device to the power source.
Back in the control room, Samantha starts dialing the eight coordinates for the Asgard world. It engages, but a Jaffa tries to stop her from making it through. Teal'c prevents the Jaffa from shooting her and she leaps through the Stargate. However, Teal'c's cover has been blown since Apophis walks in and oversees him doing this. He calls Teal'c a sholva (traitor) and captures him and A.R. Hammond.
O'Neill and Kawalsky return to the storage room and find that a group of Jaffa have captured Daniel. They are also captured and taken to the Gate room. Apophis questions them all to find out what's going on. When no one answers, he orders one Jaffa to shoot A.R. Hammond with a zat gun. Daniel tries to explain that they're from an alternate reality, but Apophis doesn't buy the story and the Jaffa kills A.R. Hammond with a second zat blast. He demands answers, Kawalsky says Daniel was telling the truth. Now the impatient and trigger-happy Jaffa shoots Daniel with the zat gun.
Before he's able to kill Daniel with the second blast, however, a Jaffa runs into the Gate room and says something's going on. A second later the Jaffa start to disappear (along with the dead A.R. Hammond) when the Asgard start zapping them (remember "Thor's Chariot"?). Soon the Jaffa that are left in the base activate the Stargate and run through it in fear. Once everyone's gone except for O'Neill, Kawalsky, Teal'c, and Daniel, Samantha reappears in the room, saying she's met the Asgard. O'Neill comments two to three times about how much he loves the Asgard, and amazingly, A.R. Hammond also reappears in the Gate room, very much alive. The Asgard can bring people back from the dead! Yippee!
So everyone heads back to the storage closet. Daniel and Teal'c say good-bye, touch the mirror, and are transported back to their reality; O'Neill stays behind a bit longer to say good-bye to Samantha. He reminds her that he's not her Jack, and wonders how she could have ever hooked up with a loser like him. While an uncomfortable Carter watches on, O'Neill and Samantha kiss, then he too returns to his reality, leaving them alone to their own fate.
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Related Episodes: The amplifying device came from "The Fifth Race." The mirror and all the references to Daniel's time spent in the alternate reality are from "There But For the Grace of God." Kawalsky died in "The Enemy Within." The Asgard's Goa'uld-zapping laser was last seen in "Thor's Chariot." Carter was promoted to Major in "Fair Game." We learned that Area 51 is the home to all the SGC's artifacts in "Touchstone." Apophis died in our reality during "Serpent's Song." The one reality Daniel saw looked a lot like the planet in "Fire and Water." Carter draws on her knowledge of the Naquada generator she learned about in "Learning Curve" to help recreate the energy amplifier.
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O'Neill: "So, what's the big emerg...whoa! What happened to you?"
Samantha: "Jack...."
O'Neill: "Jack?"
Samantha: "It's me, it's Sam."
O'Neill: "Ah...yeah?"
Samantha: "I never expected this variation. You're alive."
Kawalsky: "Ah, don't feel so bad, Colonel. Everybody around here has been telling me the same thing."
O'Neill: "Kawalsky?!"
Hammond: "In a manner of speaking."
Fraiser: "Actually, in a manner of fact, Sir. This is Major Charles Kawalsky in almost every physical respect. His bloodwork, his dental records...."
Kawalsky: "I'm not supposed to be alive in this reality any more than you are in mine. Sorry, Sam."
Samantha: "It's not the same with us here, is it?"
O'Neill: "Does anyone want to let me know what the hell's going on here?! Anyone?"
Hammond: "They appeared a few hours ago in a Nelles high-security lockup."
Kawalsky: "That quantum mirror you've got locked up in Area 51...you guys never figured out how to use it?"
O'Neill: "Is he talking about that alternate reality thing Daniel fussed with on '233?"
Kawalsky: "Who's Daniel?"
Samantha: "We can't be followed if that's what you're worried about. We brought the remote through with us."
Hammond: "I've ordered the device sent here under heavy guard."
Kawalsky: "Where we come from the Goa'ulds just took over the world, Colonel."Samantha, on video: "Look, I told you this. Now let me talk to someone from the SGA."
Man's voice: "SGA. There is no such organization."
Samantha: "Well, then you call it something else, the Stargate Project, Stargate Command...."
Man's voice: "Stargate. What do you know about the Stargate?"
Samantha: "What do I know?! Everything! We've been through this!"
Man's voice: "Well, let's go through it again."
Samantha: "Oh for crying out loud...." (Awesome reaction by O'Neill and Carter to watching this. <g>) "It's a big round thing. It takes you to other planets. I made it work four years ago and we have been exploring the galaxy ever since. That is, up until yesterday when the Goa'uld came and started taking over every major city from orbit and making slaves of the population."
Carter, as Hammond freezes the screen: "Oh my god, this is too weird."
O'Neill: "How 'bout that hair?"
Hammond: "She claims to have traveled from an alternate universe in the same manner Dr. Jackson experienced a year ago."
Daniel: "Well, this can't be the Dr. Carter I met in the alternate reality. She's...dead."
O'Neill: "Alright, um, just to clarify...this Carter is from an alternate...alternate reality?"
Daniel: "Apparently."
O'Neill: "Anybody else have a problem with that?"
Teal'c: "Which reality is actually real?"
O'Neill: "Thank you."
Hammond: "She explains it." Plays the tape again.
Samantha: "Look, I know this is hard for you to understand, but according to quantum theory, for every possible universe there are an infinite number of variations diverging in every choice we make like forks in the road."
Man's voice: "Uh-huh."
Carter: "She's right."
O'Neill: "You just agreed with yourself."
Daniel: "No, actually Major Carter just agreed with Dr. Carter. She never joined the military in her reality."
O'Neill: "Fork in the road stuff?"
Daniel: "Apparently."
O'Neill: "Alright, so it's possible there's an alternate version of my self out there that actually understands what the hell you're talking about?" (Daniel's expression here is great. <g>)
Hammond: "They've asked to be debriefed. I'd like you all to participate. Show them in."
Kawalsky, seeing Teal'c: "What the hell is he doing here?!"
O'Neill: "Kawalsky!"
Daniel: "He's a member of SG-1."
Kawalsky: "Who the hell are you?"
Daniel: "Oh, I'm...I'm...Daniel Jackson, also a member of SG-1."
Hammond: "Have a seat, Major."
Samantha, seeing Carter: "Nice...hair."
Carter: "Ah, Air Force."
Samantha: "I can't imagine that, going military."
Carter: "Wow, I can't imagine not."
Hammond: "First of all, we'd like to say we know what you've been through. Dr. Jackson experienced a similar alternate reality some time ago on a mission to P3X 233."
Samantha: "Well, that's where we found our quantum mirror as well."
Hammond: "Fortunately for us, Dr. Jackson was able to return with intelligence that enabled SG-1 to stop the Goa'uld attack here on Earth."
Samantha: "Nice. That goes a long way to explain why yours was only one of a handful of alternate realities that looked like it hadn't been overrun by the Goa'uld."
Carter: "Actually, it's probably the very differences that set our universes apart from yours that contributed to our survival. Daniel's participation in the Stargate program, Teal'c's change of heart, the fact that I joined the military...."
Samantha: "You think your being in the Air Force could've made that big a difference?"
Carter: "No! I just said it made a contribution."
Samantha: "And, therefore, I didn't."
O'Neill: "Ladies! Sams! We're all in this reality together."
Hammond: "What we need to know is where you intend to go from here."
Samantha: "Our beta site was instructed to bury the Stargate the second the last man stepped through, and our own world is under Goa'uld control so we can't go back."
Kawalsky: "We want to stay."
Samantha: "That is, if we're wanted. We just left behind everyone we know, everything we ever cared about. If you're not going to give us a second chance...I don't know any of you."
O'Neill: "Exactly. You don't know any of us. And we don't know you. For all we know, you cold be her evil twin. But...then we'd be dealing with clichés and you know how I feel about those..." He quickly clarifies himself, pointing to Carter, "No actually, you know how I feel about those."
Hammond: "Okay, I'll speak with my superiors and make a determination. For now you will be assigned temporary accommodations. Take them to A-3 quarters."Carter: "Listen, I didn't mean to offend you back there."
Samantha: "Look, Major, I'm the one dealing with the inadequacy issues here, just forget about it."
Carter: "What?"
Samantha: "We knew the Goa'uld were coming for six months but I couldn't think of a way to stop them. You did."Hammond: "They can stay."
O'Neill: "That was quick."
Hammond: "Too quick. God knows what we're getting into."
O'Neill: "Well, the combined IQ of Earth might go up a few points having two Carters around. I take it you think there's a downside."
Hammond: "Just doesn't sit right. Some lines aren't meant to be crossed. Nonetheless, I've been encouraged to find a way to incorporate them into this command."Samantha, lying on the bed facing away from the door as O'Neill enters: "Just put it on the table and close the door on your way out."
O'Neill: "I'm sorry, put what on the table?"
Samantha: "Jack! I'm sorry, come in. Your...your Dr. Fraiser keeps insisting I eat something."
O'Neill: "Ah, well, she's your Doc Fraiser now too. You're in. They said yes."
Samantha, with tears in her eyes: "That's good."
O'Neill: "Yeah, I can see you're overjoyed."
Samantha: "I just never expected this. It's so hard."
O'Neill: "Ah, look, I can't even begin to know what you've been through. I know you've lost a lot...."
Samantha: "I lost you. I watched you die, Jack. Three days ago, trying to defend the mountain. I mean, here you are, alive and safe in this perfect world and you don't even know me."
O'Neill: "Well, I...I sort of know you...."
Samantha: "You know her. You don't even see her that way, do you?"
O'Neill: "I take it where you're from we're...?"
Samantha: "Married."
O'Neill: "Ah."
Samantha: "This makes you uncomfortable."
O'Neill: "No, no. I just...I get confused...."
Woman, entering her room with food: "Ma'am? Sorry, Colonel, I didn't realize...."
O'Neill: "Just put it on the table there, Airman."
Woman: "Yes, Sir."
O'Neill: "Close the door on your way out."
Samantha: "I haven't had a hot meal in forever. It was just a couple of weeks ago we were celebrating our first anniversary. We got the call that the Goa'uld ships had been spotted entering our solar system. We just left everything. You blew out the candles, I turned off the oven...we just left. They didn't hit Colorado Springs like most of the big cities so...table must still be set."
O'Neill: "Cold by now."
Samantha: "Yeah."
O'Neill: "Listen, um, I should probably be...."
Samantha: "Stay."
O'Neill: "Sam...."
Samantha: "Please."
O'Neill: "Look, you're dealing with a loss right now that I can't even begin to...what I mean is, maybe I'm not the right person to help you."
Samantha: "Yes! You are. You're the only one who can. Look, I know you well enough to know that you don't have a clue what to say. You don't have to say anything."
O'Neill, pulling her into a hug: "Come here."
Samantha: "Oh, I miss him."Carter, to O'Neill who's leaving Samantha's room: "Sir. General Hammond told me the news. I took the liberty of informing Major Kawalsky."
O'Neill: "Thank you. I was just on my way to do that."
Carter:" I thought I'd drop in on...Samantha, see how she's doing."
O'Neill: "Ah. I think she'd rather be left alone at the moment. You should stop in tomorrow."
Carter: "Oh. Alright. G'night, Sir."
O'Neill: "Carter."
Carter: "Yes, Sir?"
O'Neill: "How are you doing with this...twin thing?"
Carter: "Do you have a couple of hours?"
O'Neill: "Okay."
Carter: "That...that was the answer."
O'Neill: "Oh! Oh."
Carter: "Good night, Sir."
O'Neill: "Good night, Major."Daniel: "Think about it. Billions of people enslaved. I just can't help feel in the grand scheme of things that we owe them. Besides, the only way to really help Dr. Carter is to stop the Goa'uld in her reality and save whatever's left."
Hammond: "How do you suggest we do that, Dr. Jackson? The resources of their entire world couldn't defend against the Goa'uld."
Daniel: "What about the resources of our world?"
Carter: "Well, what do we have that they don't?"
Daniel: "Fate. We made contact with the Asgard."
O'Neill: "So?"
Daniel: "So if Dr. Carter can make contact with the Asgard in her reality, maybe their Asgard will be willing to help them."
Hammond: "Defend their world against the Goa'uld."
Daniel: "Yes."
O'Neill: "And just how do you propose we raise the Asgard? In their reality."
Daniel: "Okay, we still have the dialing program that took you to the Asgard home planet, right?"
Carter, catching on: "Which we could download to a removable hard drive. But that still won't do it. Remember, in order to dial the Asgard home world they had to provide us with a generator that transferred extra energy to the gate's capacitors. I can't get it to work again. Apparently, it was designed to work only once."
Teal'c: "Assuming Major Carter can figure it out, once in her reality it will be difficult to get Dr. Carter to the Stargate without the Goa'uld detecting and stopping her."
Kawalsky, overhearing: "That's where I come in. Permission to join the briefing, Sir." Hammond nods and motions to him to sit down. "I'll get her to the Stargate. What, you think I'm going to let her go alone? She's my best friend's wife."
O'Neill: "You'll need someone to hook up the power generator."
Carter: "And download the dialing program."
Teal'c: "You will also need my assistance."
Kawalsky: "We can handle this."
Daniel: "No, Teal'c has a point. You said yourself that Teal'c led the assault on the mountain in your reality. Now couldn't we use something like that to our advantage?"
O'Neill: "Quite the military mind, Daniel Jackson."
Carter: "No, Sir, I'm sorry, Teal'c can't go any more than I can. Entropic cascade failure. If I go there will still be two of me in one reality and the same will be true of Teal'c."
Teal'c: "Dr. Carter did not become ill during her first 48 hours. If our mission is not complete within that time, it is most likely that we will be dead."
O'Neill: "Good point. Are you okay with all this, Sir?"
Hammond: "If you feel confident you can pull this off, I have no objection. However, upon your return, I want that quantum mirror destroyed."
Daniel: "Well, this is all well and good but none of us are going anywhere unless we get that Asgard generator working again."
O'Neill: "Okay. Carter, download the program to the removable whatever it is and meet me and yourself in the lab."
Carter: "Yes, Sir."Samantha: "Well, this is incredible. If the Asgard could design this to give the gate extra juice, then they're just the little green men we're looking for."
O'Neill: "They're gray, actually. Roswell gray to be exact."
Carter: "You know, I had a hard time trying to figure out how to make this work the first time, let alone make it work again."
Samantha: "If it's powered by the energy module of the staff weapon, why doesn't it...."
Both Carters: "Blow up?"
Carter: "My best guess is that the device creates a modulated dampening field around the liquefied Naquada...."
Samantha: "...which controls the energy transfer to the capacitors."
Carter: "So maybe the modulation is thrown out of whack...."
Samantha: "...each time it's activated."
Carter: "That's exactly what I thought. But how do you even begin to recalibrate a field that you can't generate in the first place?"
O'Neill: "Alright, hey, hey, hey! Are you Carters going to be able to figure this out?"
Both Carters: "We'll figure it out."
Carter, as Samantha's face goes into wacky convulsions again: "We have to figure it out."Kawalsky: "Okay, the way Dr. C explained it, the controller is kinda not what you'd call an exacting science. You can't just dial up an address like you would on the Stargate. You kinda have to figure out where you are."
Daniel: "That doesn't sound like an expedient way to get home."
Kawalsky: "As long as you don't turn it off, it's always connected to the same reality."
Daniel: "So when you turn it on again it won't be connected to the reality you came from."
Kawalsky: "Right. We have to find it again. Now, this thing switches to the various realities. Now if I turn it on now, it should come up somewhere near the reality it was last on." He turns it on. "There. See? That's not it. No grenade damage. I tossed a grenade down the hall to slow them down so they wouldn't see us go through the mirror."
Daniel: "So we need to find a reality that's just right."O'Neill: "Daniel, you understand this thing?"
Daniel: "I think so."
O'Neill: "Good!"
Samantha: "Colonel! We did it."
O'Neill: "Already?"
Samantha: "Yeah. All we needed was the ratio of the decay of Naquada relative to the energy output...."
Carter: "...which I learned to calculate when I learned about our new Naquada generator. It's just the ratio...."
O'Neill: "Ah, ah! It works, right?"
Carter, as Samantha turns the device on: "It works."
O'Neill: "Good."Teal'c: "I am not fond of wearing this uniform again."
Kawalsky: "Yeah, well, I'm not to fond of seeing you wear it."Carter: "Wish I could go."
Samantha: "Same here. But you don't want to go through a cascade tremor, believe me. We made a good team, Major."
Carter: "Yeah, we did, Doctor."
Samantha: "Plus your hair's kinda grown on me. Pardon the pun."Teal'c, to his alternate version: "Kelnok, Teal'c."
Alternate Teal'c, stunned to see himself: "Kelshak."
Teal'c: "Renounce Apophis as a false god and join us in our deliverance of this world and I will spare you."
Alternate Teal'c: "Sholva!" Teal'c shoots Alternate Teal'c with his staff weapon, killing him.
O'Neill: "The idea was to zat him."
Teal'c: "As I said, O'Neill. Ours is the only reality of consequence."O'Neill: "Alright, I gotta know."
Daniel, thinking he's talking about the mirror: "Yes, I'm about to activate it."
O'Neill: "No, no, not that. What the hell does kree mean?"
Daniel: "Well, actually, it means a lot of things. Ah, loosely translated it means attention, listen up, concentrate."
O'Neill: "Yoo hoo?"
Daniel: "Yes, in a manner of speaking. Okay, here goes." He turns the mirror on, locking with a reality not theirs. "That's what I was afraid of. When I turned off the device, it lost its place. I have to find our reality all over again."
O'Neill: "Alright, it's okay. We knew that might happen. You stay with it."Kawalsky: "Carters are pretty smart figuring that thing out, huh? So you and Sam, you never had a thing in your world, huh?"
O'Neill: "Sam is a Major in my world."
Kawalsky: "Yeah, I know, it's against regulations, right? You two look pretty good together, let me tell ya."
O'Neill: "Kawalsky, during your special ops training in your world, did they cover silence?"Daniel, seeing the Goa'uld ship hovering over the mountain on a monitor: "Déjà vu."
Apophis: "Who are you? My First Prime killed you before my very eyes."
O'Neill: "I'm feeling much better, thank you."
Apophis, to Teal'c: "Then who are you? What magic is this?"
Daniel: "You should know better than anyone there is no such thing as magic."
Apophis, to a Jaffa: "Felon tonik." The Jaffa aims a zat gun at the alternate Hammond. "I will ask you one more time. How could you have risen from the dead without a sarcophagus?" No one answers, and the Jaffa shoots Hammond once.
O'Neill, to Daniel: "Alright, I'm guessing the second shot kills in this reality too, huh?" Daniel nods.
Apophis: "Tell me what I want to know!"
O'Neill: "Hey, I'd love to, but I don't understand it myself." He points to Daniel. "He does."
Daniel: "Okay, I'll, uh, I'll give it a try. Um, you see, at every point in time there are infinite possibilities, and a parallel reality exists for each possibility so there are literally infinite branches...." The Jaffa kills Hammond.
Kawalsky: "No! You son...." Another Jaffa grabs him.
O'Neill: "Kawalsky!"
Apophis: "Tell me where you come from."
Daniel: "From an alternate reality."
O'Neill: "One in which, by the way, you're dead."O'Neill, about the Asgard: "Oh, come on, you gotta love those guys!"
Kawalsky: "Colonel, it's been a pleasure serving with you...again."
O'Neill: "Likewise.Samantha: "This is hard. Good-bye for a second time."
O'Neill: "It's the first time."
Samantha: "It doesn't feel that way to me. You have to understand, my Jack had the same face, same voice, same hands...."
O'Neill: "Which brings to mind an obvious question. How could you marry such a loser?"Samantha: "You're really not him, are you?"
O'Neill: "No."
Samantha: "I just wish...."
O'Neill: "Yeah."
Learning Curve Deadman Switch
