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First Aired On: February 11, 2000
Written By: Jonathan Glassner
Directed By: Martin Wood
Guest Stars: Tom McBeath (Col. Maybourne), Steve Makaj (Col. Makepeace), Marie Stillin (High Chancellor Trevel), Christian Bocher (Neumann), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Janet Fraiser), Linnea Sharples (Claire Tobias)
Synopsis: We open on Tollana inside the Triad room we last saw in "Pretense." Daniel is speaking with High Chancellor Trevel, trying to establish diplomatic relations with the Tollans. Earth would like to exchange technology with the Tollans, namely the blueprints for the Tollans' ion cannons. However, as we've come to expect from "Enigma" and "Pretense," Trevel refuses to hand them over. O'Neill snaps, says he knew they wouldn't get anywhere, and orders the rest of SG-1 to head back to Earth. On their way out, however, he steals the Tollans' nifty weapon-disabling device. The others are appalled and protest this action, but O'Neill doesn't stop and back to Earth they go. Cut to opening credits.
SG-1 is in the debriefing room talking to General Hammond about the technology they've received from the Tollans. O'Neill announces what he took and Hammond is ecstatic about it...until he learns how they got it. He scolds O'Neill, O'Neill mouths off to him (effectively saying that if we can't get what we need to protect Earth, we should just take it), Hammond removes him from SG-1 and orders Carter, Daniel, and Teal'c to return the stolen technology to the Tollans. He sends O'Neill down to the infirmary for a full examination and wants Teal'c to accompany him. Before they leave, Hammond reminds Teal'c that he is no longer under O'Neill's command.
Before they have a chance to return the weapon-disabling technology, however, the Stargate activates. There's no iris code, but that doesn't matter--Trevel and another Tollan woman step through the iris ala Narim and Schroedinger in "Pretense." They announce that all diplomatic relations with Earth are now severed. Daniel asks them not to hold the actions of one man against a whole planet, and Hammond asks them to at least talk things over before they condemn their alliance.
Down in the infirmary, Dr. Fraiser finishes up her examination. She says she can't find anything immediately wrong with O'Neill, but they'll have to wait until the rest of the tests come back. O'Neill tries to leave the infirmary, but Teal'c blocks his way, refusing to move even when O'Neill makes it an order. Fortunately, before this confrontation can get ugly, Hammond calls down to the infirmary and says he wants to see O'Neill up in his office.
Teal'c accompanies O'Neill up to Hammond's office. On the way, they run into Carter, who asks O'Neill if there's anything she can do to help because, well, he's not exactly acting like himself. Nope, O'Neill is just acting like his real self, not the front he's projected since meeting her. He can be really cruel when he wants to be. Once in Hammond's office, O'Neill is told that, because of his crime against the Tollan people and because of multiple offenses of insubordination to superiors, he has the option of either being court-martialed or forced into early retirement. Hammond reminds him that he'd be better off choosing retirement than being court-martialed. O'Neill agrees and that's it--he's done with the Stargate program.
Some time after this, O'Neill is sitting in his house, playing chess with himself, when the doorbell rings. Whadda ya know, it's Daniel, come to find out what the heck is up with the way O'Neill's been acting lately. They talk, we find out Daniel really doesn't like beer, there's some talk about O'Neill being upset because the Pentagon cut funding for a second SGC that was being planned off world, and O'Neill insists he'd rather steal the technology they need to survive (and, therefore, be alive) than honest and dead. In the end, there are a few painful lines about the friendship between Daniel and O'Neill not being based on much of anything. Not surprisingly, Daniel leaves, hurt by this.
O'Neill plays some more chess by himself and the doorbell rings again, but this time it's Colonel Mayborne, of all people. Mayborne says he heard about O'Neill's retirement, but more than that, he heard that O'Neill believes they should take the technology they need instead of going through diplomatic relations. He has an offer he thinks O'Neill will want--a secret way to achieve his goals of acquiring technology for the good of the country. O'Neill tells him this is illegal and orders him to get out; but before Mayborne goes, he leaves his card and says when O'Neill gets bored with retirement, he should page him.
Back at the SGC, Hammond has decided to replace O'Neill with Colonel Makepeace (from the SG-3 Marines) as the leader of SG-1. Daniel thinks Carter should be given control of the unit and argues for her, but Hammond refuses because she's only a Major, which is a far cry from the rank of Colonel.
A week or so later, O'Neill looks outside his window and finds a dark car observing his house. (Anyone else expecting creepy X-Files music to start playing any second now? <g>) He picks up Mayborne's card and gives him a call. Next scene, O'Neill is sitting outside, listening to opera, when Mayborne joins him. O'Neill tells him he's interested in Mayborne's offer, but Mayborne warns him that once he agrees to go along with it, there's no way out. He will simply disappear. After turning up the volume on the music, O'Neill tells Mayborne he agrees.
We cut to O'Neill on an airplane with Mayborne. Mayborne reveals a Goa'uld communication device (those nifty gold balls we saw in "Within the Serpent's Grasp," "The Serpent's Lair," and "Family") and then uses it to contact an unofficial SG base on another planet, under the control of a man named Neumann. Neumann, incidentally, was one of the guys SG-1 chased through the second Stargate during "Touchstone." Apparently this second SGC was set up to "steal" technology that the SG teams couldn't acquire the peaceful way. O'Neill will be given command of a unit...if he agrees to go along with Mayborne's plan. He does.
Back we go to the SGC, where Hammond is talking to Colonel Makepeace when O'Neill enters. He tells Hammond he's bored out of his skull and asks for one last favor--to spend his retirement with Lara on Edora ("A Hundred Days"). Hammond tells him that if he leaves, he can never come back to Earth since he won't be given a GDO, and O'Neill agrees. So off he goes to Edora (after being given a send-off by the others in the SGC...minus Daniel, who just watches warily from the Control room), but the minute he's there, he dials the Stargate to go to a different world. He steps through...and finds himself in the off-world Stargate base, where he's met by Neumann and a bunch of rogue Stargate teams. They give him a tour, show off some of the technology they've stolen, and tell him their next mission is to take a device that makes you invisible from an Asgard-protected world. Off they go on the mission. They get the device, and return to the base.
The rogues explain that they have an insider on one of the SG teams who picks up technology from them and turns it over to Mayborne back on Earth. O'Neill volunteers to drop off the package for this contact (insisting that a good leader will have done every job at least once) and away he goes. He buries the Asgard device near the DHD, but as he's about to dial back out, the Stargate activates. Oops, someone's dialing in! To avoid making contact with whoever's coming, he hides behind a hill and watches to see who's going to grab the device.
To O'Neill's surprise, SG-1 steps through. Makepeace tells Daniel and Carter to take their samples (there's the chance of finding Naquada samples on the planet) and off they go exploring. O'Neill waits until they return and, when they do, Makepeace stoops down and takes the Asgard device. O'Neill waits until they're gone and dials up the planet where the rogue SG operation is located. Before we cut to the interior of that base, however, we see an Asgard beam land on the DHD and there's a brief scene of one of the Asgard observing the symbols O'Neill just entered.
The rogue base suddenly starts shaking and there's a lot of light as the Asgard arrive and take their stolen technology back. O'Neill dials up Earth and warns the other rogues that unless they want to stick around and be taken by the Asgard, they should come through the Stargate with him. He goes through the Gate, holds it open so they can't dial to any other planet, and just about everyone else follows him.
Back in the SGC, Hammond and Makepeace are arresting everyone who comes through after O'Neill. O'Neill then turns on Makepeace and arrests him for being involved in the very illegal program. Makepeace is just a tad upset by this, telling them that they've pissed off the wrong people...they have no idea how high up this goes. O'Neill counters that it's the people they need (i.e. the Tollans, the Tok'ra, the Nox, the Asgard), not their technology
After all the prisoners are escorted out of the Gate room, Hammond and O'Neill explain to the rest of SG-1 that within the past two weeks, both the Asgard and the Tollans had approached them, threatening to sever their treaties with Earth because Earth was stealing technology from them. In order to keep those treaties going, the Tollans insisted that the SGC find out who was responsible and stop them. So they created a setup to nab the crooks. O'Neill hasn't gone bad after all, he's still the leader of SG-1, and they still have diplomatic relations with the Tollans and the Asgard (who apparently, like O'Neill and didn't want anyone else to be involved in retrieving the technology and exposing the crooks).
Finally, O'Neill has a brief little talk with Daniel about their previous conversation and assures him there's nothing wrong with their friendship. His place had been bugged and so he had to keep up the act. And, hey, he was touched that Daniel was the one who came to his house to talk to him. Little does O'Neill know that Daniel, Carter, and Teal'c had drawn straws to see who'd be the one to talk to O'Neill...and Daniel had lost. Or did Daniel make up that story about drawing straws as "payback" for everything that had been said between the two of them? We may never know. =)
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Related Episodes: This episode could technically be considered a sequel to "Touchstone" since that's where we first learned about the corruption going on in the government with Col. Mayborne and the secret second Stargate program. The High Chancellor/Triad room/weapon-disabling device/reference to saving the Tollans from the Goa'uld is from "Pretense." There's a mention to O'Neill's love, Lara, from "A Hundred Days." O'Neill was pulled out of early retirement in "Children of the Gods." Hammond refers to O'Neill kidnapping Merrin, which happened during "Learning Curve." We learned that the Asgard liked O'Neill during "Fair Game," and we can only guess it has something to do with the events of "The Fifth Race." If you want proof that O'Neill really doesn't approve of stealing what they need from other cultures, refer to his argument with Hammond about stealing the Trinium from Tonani's people in "Spirits."
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Daniel: "Your Eminence, our government has asked us to return to Tollana to arrange formal diplomatic relations with your people."
Chancellor: "Consider it done. You are, after all, the people who saved us from the Goa'uld."
Daniel: "Thank you. Yes. Well, in that spirit we would like to arrange for a trade."
Chancellor: "What would you like to trade?"
Daniel: "Technology."
Chancellor: "I am sorry. You know that is the one thing we cannot give you. Tollan law strictly forbids it."
Daniel: "Okay, we can understand that. However, in our culture, laws can be changed when it is deemed that those laws are no longer relevant."
Chancellor: "The reasons for these laws are still relevant."
Daniel: "Okay, please if you just allow me to make our case."
Chancellor: "I assume you want weapons technology."
Daniel: "Yes."
O'Neill: "One of those ion cannons would be nice."
Chancellor: "I see. And for what will you use such a cannon?"
O'Neill: "To defend ourselves against the Goa'uld."
Chancellor: "Forgive me Colonel, but our research shows that you are far more likely to use our technology against enemies on your own planet."
O'Neill: "What if I gave you my word that would never happen?"
Chancellor: "Are you the commander of your entire nation?"
O'Neill: "No."
Chancellor: "Then in truth, you cannot guarantee it."
O'Neill: "You know what? Forget it."
Daniel: "Jack?"
O'Neill: "We knew you wouldn't give us anything. We are wasting a lot of time here."
Daniel: "Jack!"
O'Neill: "No, Daniel, let's go." They leave the Triad room.
Daniel: "What're you doing?"
O'Neill: "We never should've saved their technologically superior butts." He stops in front of a panel in the wall. "This is that thing they disabled our weapons with, isn't it?"
Teal'c: "As well as the Goa'uld technology."
Daniel: "Don't even think about it."
Carter: "Sir, isn't this against regulations?"
O'Neill: "I suppose it is, Carter." He pulls the device from the wall. "Let's go."
Daniel: "Kinda crossing the line here?"
O'Neill: "Shut up, Daniel."Hammond: "So, what is this device you've brought back?"
O'Neill: "It's the thing the Tollan used to disable our weapons the last time we were there."
Hammond: "And it really works?"
O'Neill: "It worked on us...and the Goa'ulds."
Hammond: "It should come in handy. Good job."
O'Neill: "Thank you, Sir."
Hammond: "So...what did you have to promise them in return, Dr. Jackson?"
Daniel: "Actually, General, we didn't, ah, have to promise to give them anything."
Hammond: "They just gave you the device as a reward for saving them from the Goa'uld?"
Daniel: "Actually, General, the Tollan refused to give us any technology."
O'Neill: "Offered us a nice fruit basket, though."
Hammond: "I'm confused. How did you get the device? Major Carter?"
Carter: "Um...."
O'Neill: "I took it sir."
Hammond: "Took it?"
O'Neill: "Yes."
Hammond: "You stole it?"
O'Neill: "I like to thing of it as...borrowed, Sir. Major Carter can figure out how to reproduce it and we'll give it back."
Hammond: "I can't believe what I am hearing. You and your team stole an alien device from an extremely advanced alien culture."
O'Neill: "They won't retaliate if that's what you're worried about. Not their way, right, Daniel?" Daniel doesn't answer.
Hammond: "This command has already been accused of stealing from several other alien cultures, Colonel. Until now we've denied it. Perhaps that was a bit premature. Dare I ask how many other items you've stolen?"
O'Neill: "None. This is the first."
Hammond: "Colonel, you don't seem to understand how serious this matter is. You and your team have committed a court-martiable offense."
O'Neill: "To be fair, General, I did it. Carter and Daniel protested. And Teal'c...well, he really didn't say anything, but I can tell he was opposed to my actions by the way he...cocked his head and raised his eyebrows...."
Hammond: "Enough, Colonel. Dr. Jackson, Major Carter, and Teal'c, you will return this device immediately to the Tollan and hopefully smooth over what must be some very ruffled feathers."
Carter: "Yes, Sir."
O'Neill: "Why? Our core mission is to go through that gate and find technologies we can use to defend against Goa'uld incursion. Am I right?"
Hammond: "You are bordering on insubordination., We do not steal from friendlies."
O'Neill: "Well, with no due respect, General, that is just plain stupid."
Hammond: "Colonel!"
O'Neill: "And since the Pentagon won't approve our backup program, we have no choice."
Hammond: "Colonel...."
O'Neill: "We have no choice but to take whatever steps we need to get whatever we need!"
Hammond: "As long as I am in command of the SGC, we will hold ourselves to the highest ethical standard."
O'Neill: "And when the Goa'uld wipe us out because we have nothing with which to defend ourselves, I'm sure we'll all feel great about ourselves and our high moral standard!"
Hammond: "Colonel O'Neill, you are out of line. Now, stand down! Colonel O'Neill, I am hereby relieving you of your command. You are to report to the infirmary and stay there until I send for you."
O'Neill: "No holding cell, Sir?"
Hammond: "That could very well be your next stop if you say another word, Colonel. Now, get down to the infirmary and submit for a complete examination. Teal'c, escort him." O'Neill walks out. "Teal'c, you are no longer under Colonel O'Neill's command. Is that understood?"
Teal'c: "Understood."O'Neill, to Dr. Fraiser after she's conducted her tests: "Let me know what wacky alien stuff you find in there."
Teal'c: "I am to keep you here until General Hammond is ready for you."
O'Neill: "Get out of my way, Teal'c. That's an order."
Teal'c, not moving: "I do not understand your behavior, O'Neill."
O'Neill: "Get out of my way."O'Neill: "Carter."
Carter: "Sir?"
O'Neill: "What?"
Carter: "Is there anything I can do?"
O'Neill: "About...?"
Carter: "Well, Sir, with respect, you aren't exactly acting like yourself."
O'Neill: "No, Carter, I haven't been acting like myself since I met you. Now I'm acting like myself."O'Neill, to the Tollans: "Well, look who's here. Come to retrieve your vastly superior stuff? You know, it would be a lot more superior if it wasn't so easy to steal!"
Hammond: "Colonel O'Neill! Get in here and take a seat! Close the door. My god, Jack, you've rally crossed the line here."
O'Neill: "In terms of my insubordination to you, you're absolutely right, General. And for that I'm truly sorry. I still think what I did was right."
Hammond: "I just met with two members of the Tollan high council who disagree."
O'Neill: "So the Tollan are dictating our policy now, eh?"
Hammond: "The victims of a crime are demanding that the perpetrator be dealt with appropriately."
O'Neill: "I'm a criminal?"
Hammond: "What you've done here is clearly a court-martiable offense. I have to press charges."
O'Neill: "Well, by all means, General, do what you have to do."
Hammond: "I do have one other option I can offer you, Jack."
O'Neill: "What's that?"
Hammond: "Early retirement."
O'Neill: "Now, see, I tried that once before. You pulled me out of it."
Hammond: "The offer is only on the table while you're in this room."
O'Neill: "All this for one little indiscretion."
Hammond, laughing and looking down at a file: "Five counts of direct insubordination to superior officers and a United States senator. Two counts of refusal to obey orders. Kidnapping an alien child. Should I go on?"
O'Neill: "The proverbial straw, Sir?"
Hammond: "You've got it. I'd accept the offer if I were you, Jack. Beats the hell out of the present time you'd get otherwise."
O'Neill: "Then I guess I'm retiring."Daniel: "Hi."
O'Neill: "What do you want?"
Daniel: "I'm not, ah, I'm not sure, to tell you the truth. I'm here to talk, I guess."
O'Neill: "So talk." He takes a sip from his beer.
Daniel: "You got another one of those?"
O'Neill: "Yeah."
Daniel: "Feel like sharing?"
O'Neill: "Beer? Sure." Daniel comes in and O'Neill goes to get another beer.
Daniel: "So...how you feeling about all this?"
O'Neill: "Yes to the beer. No to the feelings."
Daniel: "That's, ah, that's too bad because I don't really like beer."
O'Neill: "Stop your worryin'. I'm fine."
Daniel: "Really? That's, ah, that's funny because I didn't...I didn't figure you for the early retirement type anymore. There's another reason you're angry, isn't there?"
O'Neill: "Oh, here we go. Pop psych 101, right?"
Daniel: "No. When we were in the briefing, you said something about the Pentagon not giving us the backup we requested. What, ah, what were you talking about?"
O'Neill: "Hammond and I were planning a secondary SGC base off-world. It was going to serve as a backup in case ours was attacked. I was going to command."
Daniel: "And the Pentagon pulled the plug. So you're acting out because you're hurt because you didn't get a command."
O'Neill: "Gimme a break, Daniel. Their denial of the program was just another indication that they're not serious about attaining our goals."
Daniel: "Which you think is attaining the weapons and technology."
O'Neill: "Protecting ourselves."
Daniel: "But isn't our mission also about establishing and maintaining diplomatic relations with other cultures?"
O'Neill: "What's the point if we don't gain anything to help our other interests?"
Daniel: "Well, there's a lot we could learn from people like the Tollan that has nothing to do with technology and weapons."
O'Neill: "Stuff that interests people like you, Daniel, not people like me. I want to see tangible gains from our efforts and if people like the Tollan don't want to share, we should just take."
Daniel: "You really believe that."
O'Neill: "Being sweet and nice is going to stop three or four Goa'uld mother ships if they decide to come back again. I'd rather be a thief and alive than honest and dead. I know it's a cliché, but there it is."
Daniel: "If you really believe that, I guess, ah, I guess I never really knew you at all."
O'Neill: "Come on. You're a bright guy. You had to sense some of this." Daniel doesn't answer. "Then no, I guess you couldn't relate to me any more than I could to you."
Daniel: "So this whole, ah, this whole friendship thing we've been working on the last few years...?"
O'Neill: "Apparently not much of a foundation there, huh?" Daniel watches him a moment, then leaves.Mayborne: "Colonel O'Neill."
O'Neill: "What the hell, is this a joke, Mayborne? What are you doing here?"
Mayborne: "Well, in a way, you invited me."
O'Neill: "Come to gloat about my retirement, have you?"
Mayborne: "May I come in?"
O'Neill: "No. I am in no way obligated to put up with your crap anymore."
Mayborne: "I think you'll want to hear what I have to offer you."
O'Neill: "Offer?" He steps back from the door and Mayborne comes in.
Mayborne: "May I sit down?"
O'Neill: "No. You won't be here that long."
Mayborne: "Well, suffice it to say, I've heard about your little altercation with General Hammond."
O'Neill: "Sweet little grapevine we've got there, isn't it?"
Mayborne: "Let's just say that I see a lot of paper that goes through the mountain. I was most interested in your passionate argument that we shouldn't be quite so diplomatic about acquiring the things we need."
O'Neill: "Get to the point."
Mayborne: "What if I told you I could offer you a way to achieve your goals?"
O'Neill: "My goals."
Mayborne: "Yes. What if I told you I could arrange for you to lead a team through the Gate to acquire whatever you want whenever you want for the good of the country?"
O'Neill: "If I believed you could do that, I'd have to figure whatever you're doing is very illegal."
Mayborne: "What you did yesterday was very illegal, Colonel."
O'Neill: "Get out. Not interested."
Mayborne, placing his card on O'Neill's table: "Page me when you miss the action too much."Teal'c: "For what purpose were we summoned?"
Daniel: "Well, my guess is we're getting our fourth."
Carter: "Who do you think it'll be?"
Daniel: "Well, we'll probably get someone like Ferretti and you'll get command."
Carter: "Oooh...I don't know about that. They'll probably go with someone higher than Major." Hammond and Colonel Makepeace walk in.
Hammond: "As you were. Since SG-1 is considered the flagship unit, it falls on me to assure that you have the strongest possible leadership. Therefore, I am reassigning the most senior officer we have in the field as your new commanding officer. Colonel Makepeace will be joining SG-1 immediately. I hope you'll make him feel welcome."
Daniel: "Um, Sir, ah, I don't want to seem out of line here but, ah, since I'm a civilian here I'm probably the only one who can say this."
Hammond: "Spit it out, Doctor."
Daniel: "Well, no offense, but, ah, doesn't Major Carter deserve to take charge of SG-1?"
Hammond: "Major Carter has an exemplary record on the team as recognized by her recent promotion to Major. But Major is a far cry from Colonel."
Carter: "I understand, General."
Daniel: "I'm sorry, I don't. Ah, what difference does it make what title she has? The point is...."
Carter: "It's all right, Daniel, really."
Hammond: "Dismissed." He leaves.
Makepeace: "I'm proud to join you folks. I hope you can learn to trust my command as much as you did Colonel O'Neill's."
Carter: "I'm sure we will, Sir."
Daniel: "I never really trusted Jack's command but...I'm open."
Makepeace: "That's good. Then I'll see you at our first briefing."O'Neill: "What took you so long?"
Mayborne: "Frankly, I didn't think you'd get bored quite so fast or I would've stayed in town."
O'Neill: "Not quite the student of human behavior you thought you were?"
Mayborne: "Are you ready to go?"
O'Neill: "I have some questions."
Mayborne: "Can't tell you much."
O'Neill: "Expect me to jump into this operation blind?"
Mayborne: "Are you interested in my offer or not?"
O'Neill, after thinking for a moment, then turning up the volume of an opera song in the background: "I'm interested."
Mayborne: "Good. I want to be sure you understand one thing, O'Neill. What I'm about to show you is not so much classified as it is secret. Dangerous would be another world I would use."
O'Neill: "Keep talkin'."
Mayborne: "I want you to understand that once you see what I'm about to show you, there is no turning back. You will have the choice to go along with it or disappear."
O'Neill: "Disappear."
Mayborne: "This is your last chance to back out."
O'Neill: "Well, if you promise to cut back on the melodrama, I'll consider crossin' the line."O'Neill: "I never thought I'd agree with you about anything, Mayborne. But yeah, I'm ready."
Makepeace: "Well, Major Carter has accepted my command with no problem, Sir, but I'm afraid Dr. Jackson and the Jaffa have not."
Hammond: "Well, maybe if you didn't think of him as "the Jaffa," it would be a good start."Hammond: "How's retirement going?"
O'Neill: "Ah, great. I retire, I wake up, I retire...it's a living. I'm bored out of my skull, Sir."O'Neill: "So tell me about this thing."
Tobias: "Well, it utilizes super conducted gyroscopic action to generate an anti-gravitational field underneath...."
O'Neill: "Stop. Scientist?"
Tobias: "Engineer. Why?"
O'Neill: "You remind me of someone in my old command."
Tobias: "Major Carter."
O'Neill: "How do you know her?"
Tobias: "She beat me out of a position in the SGC."
O'Neill: "Oh."Mayborne: "Jack. I see you made it in one piece. What do you think of our little operation?"
O'Neill: "It's swell, Harry."
Mayborne: "We do what we can to make it comfortable."Mayborne: "Oh, and Colonel, just a reminder. This isn't the SGC so if someone gets in your way, do what you have to do."
O'Neill: "Listen up, you've got two choices here. As soon as they stop takin' stuff, they're going to start takin' people. Now, you can go with the Asgard...or you can follow me. It's your choice. I'll be holdin' the door open so you can't go anywhere else."
Hammond: "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm pleased to announce that you are all under arrest for high crimes against the United States and its allies."
Makepeace: "You really blew it, O'Neill."
O'Neill: "Oh, I think it came off quite nicely, don't you, General?"
Hammond: "Yes, I do."
Makepeace: "You have no idea how high up this goes. You've pissed off the wrong people."
O'Neill: "Like the Tollan, Tok'ra, Asgard, Nox, those folks?"
Makepeace: "They refuse to give us the things we need to defend ourselves against the Goa'uld."
O'Neill: "We don't need their stuff, Makepeace. We do need them."
Hammond: "Get them out of here."
Daniel: "So...just to clarify, this whole past week, beginning with the appeal we make on Tollana in which I...I did a lot of hard work, by the way, I take it that was all a scam?"
Hammond: "Within the last two weeks the Asgard and the Tollan approached us independently of each other with evident that we were stealing technology from them."
Carter: "We? The SGC?"
Hammond: "Yes. The Asgard, the Tollan, and the Nox were going to sever all ties with us. But we convinced them the theft must be the action of a rogue group from outside the SGC."
Chancellor: "We insisted that you apprehend them yourselves. You have now regained our trust."
Carter: "So, you set that whole thing up on Tollana in the hopes that the mole would think you were one of them and approach you."
Daniel: "And you didn't trust us to help."
Hammond: "We wanted to assure that your reaction to the Colonel's behavior was as it should be. And the Asgard insisted that Colonel O'Neill be the only one involved."
O'Neill: "They like me."
Hammond: "And now, will you come with me, your Eminence?"
O'Neill, to his team: "I'm back."
Carter: "It's good to have you back, Sir."
Teal'c: "Indeed."
O'Neill: "Thank you." He motions to Daniel that they need to talk. "Um, Daniel...?"
Daniel: "Mmm."
O'Neill: "That stuff I was talkin' about at my house? Um, the place was bugged, I had to keep up the act."
Daniel: "I...I...I understand."
O'Neill: "Obviously the whole friendship thing, the foundation, it's all solid...."
Daniel: "Obviously. You don't...you don't...."
O'Neill: "I feel kind of.... I do appreciate that you were the one to come and see if I was okay. That...that means something."
Daniel: "Ah...actually, no, it doesn't."
O'Neill: "No?"
Daniel: "Um...we, ah, we drew straws. I lost."
A Hundred Days New Ground
