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First Aired On: October 30, 1998
Written By: Sam Egan
Directed By: Brad Turner
Guest Stars: Tom McBeath (Mayborne), Matthew Walker, Jerry Wasserman
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Daniel Jackson's History/Linguistic/Mythology Lesson:
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Hammond: "You sure you weren't under the local voodoo?"Hammond, about the Touchstone: "Do we have any idea what makes it tick?"
O'Neill: "That's why we'd like to go back, Sir. Carter wants to get a closer look with some of her specialized...doohickeys."
Hammond: "Doohickeys?"
O'Neill: "I believe that's the technical term, Sir."O'Neill, as the Medronian people prepare to attack them: "Hold it! Alright, we came here in peace, we expect to go in one..." he pauses, "...piece."
O'Neill: "Look, let me give you a little life lesson about thieves. They're not really in touch with their feminine side. Caring would be on a low...priority."
Roham: "How do we know that you will not use the gate to escape responsibility?"
O'Neill: "Trust us!"
Lemour: "We are a simple people, Colonel. We have no means to protect ourselves from this disaster. If my uncle decides to trust you this day, our entire future will depend on that decision."
O'Neill: "Ok, that's a little pressure. But we can handle that."Hammond: "If a person sneezes in here, I get a report."
O'Neill: "Anything yet?"
Carter: "Not on the Touchstone."
Daniel: "Possibly its effects. Have you been watching the Weather Channel?"
O'Neill: "I'm more of a C-SPAN guy."Carter: "You remember what happened the last time the gat's power supply was overloaded."
Daniel: "It...jumped tot he second gate in the Antarctic."
O'Neill: "Yeah, thanks for the memory."O'Neill, about timing the second Stargate's energy burst with the first's: "Kinda like shooting off a gun when a train's going by." Everyone stares at him blankly. "To hide the sound."
Carter: "Yes, Sir."Carter: "Bear with me."
O'Neill: "Bearing...."Daniel: "Who would've been authorized to use the second gate? I thought it had been officially decommissioned."
O'Neill: "It was....officially."O'Neill: "Apparently, the second gate is being used."
Hammond: "What? I was given top-level assurance that gate was to be sealed."
O'Neill: "Case of the left hand not knowing what the right foot is doing, Sir?"Hammond: "This is going to sound paranoid, Colonel. Back when the Stargate program began, there was a philosophical skirmish about the mandate. Some people wanted to make sure that any and all discoveries were brought back regardless of considerations like interplanetary diplomacy."
O'Neill: "Do you mind if I ask who these 'some people' were?"
Hammond: "Well, the truth is I'm not sure I ever fully knew who they were. I have a feeling that someone chose not to surface during the debate. Not the military. Politicians pulling strings behind the scenes. No one said so exactly. Thirty years in the service you develop an instinct about these things."
O'Neill: "General, is your gut telling you that this group, person, whatever is responsible for stealing the Touchstone?"
Hammond: "I'm a long way from drawing that conclusion. But I'll be damned if I'll be blocked by some sycophant in the White House."O'Neill: "Permission to take a little trip to Nevada, Sir."
Hammond: "Ok, I'll call the commander at Nelles and get you cleared."
O'Neill: "General, it's become pretty obvious that our own people are involved here. The government types, you know. How do you know who to trust?"
Hammond, after much thinking: "Colonel, I need some documents hand-delivered to the Groom Lake Facility."
O'Neill: "Are those documents sensitive enough to warrant a three-man team with a Jaffa escort, Sir?"
Hammond: "Absolutely." (Teal'c's pleased look after Hammond says this is great!)Major: "To your left is medical research. They're focusing on the potential new cure for Alzheimer's that SG-5 brought back. On the other side is geology, space metallurgy, and artifact study. That's where they're pouring over your notes on that Heliopolis place, Dr. Jackson. The meaning of life stuff. I love that!"
Major, seeing SG-1 staring at a death glider which doesn't look much like a death glider but rather like the mini alien spaceship from ID4: "That's where we're studying those two Goa'uld death gliders that you returned when you did your hero thing. Nice work, by the way."
O'Neill: "Yeah, thanks."
Major: "This way. This is the bioresearch lab."
O'Neill: "Is this where you're keeping the little green men?"
Major: "There are no alien life forms at Area 51."
O'Neill, to Teal'c: "Present company excluded, of course." They turn as Mayborne approaches.
Mayborne: "Colonel O'Neill."
O'Neill: "Hello, Mayborne."
Mayborne: "Major, if you'll excuse us. Teal'c! It's good to see you well."
Teal'c, standing right in front of him: "In my culture, I would be well within my rights to dismember you."
Mayborne, after Teal'c walks away: "Well, that's interesting."
(Also great nonverbal stuff going on as Mayborne is trying to leave...Teal'c stands in his way, towering a good head above him, then smiles after Mayborne goes around him.)O'Neill: "You tell me the punishment for losing a Stargate."
Carter: "Now, if we can't track the Touchstone, there may still be a way that we can track the second gate on Earth."
O'Neill: "Oh, sure. Let's just put out an APB for a huge, honkin' two-story metal ring with 39 little pictures all nicely engraved on it."Hammond: "Here we are, transporting our people across the galaxy to find something we lost in our own backyard. Incredible."
Carter: "Well, as far as I can tell, it's in southern Utah."
O'Neill: "Oh! Well...southern Utah."Hammond: "Is there anything strange going on at Nelles?"
Whitlow: "Well, there's always something going on at Nelles, and most of the time it's strange."O'Neill, about the iris being put over the second Stargate: "Does this put you out of a job, Mayborne?"
Mayborne: "Oh, you'd be surprised. Strange things happen in high places, Colonel."
O'Neill: "Don't I know it."
Mayborne: "People get reassigned. So does property. Artifacts get misplaced, orders changed. Every day is a new day."
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