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Carter: It's a coronal mass emission, like a giant solar flare.
O'Neill: But it's safe, right?
Carter: Well, that's what this equipment is designed to find out. Apart from disrupting the planet's magnetic field, it might cause a significant increase in surface radiation.
O'Neill: But it's safe, right?

Malachai: The storm is approaching, Dr. Jackson. The radiation may be dangerous for you and your team.
Daniel: Oh, yes, Major Carter will let us know when we have to leave. Now, this line occurs several times. "Domuatus vestul motabilum."
Malachai: "Conqueror of time?"
Daniel: In this context, I'd say more like "Master of the uncertain past."
Malachai: You're a skilled linguist, Dr. Jackson.
Daniel: Oh, thank you, actually I had the opportunity to hear the language spoken aloud a year or so ago. (one of Malachai's instruments beeps) What's that?
Malachai: The geomagnetic disturbance is reaching its peak. I have to act now. (points a weapon at Daniel)
Daniel: I don't understand. (Malachai shoots him and he falls to the ground)

O'Neill: Weren't we just somewhere else?
Daniel: Where?
O'Neill: Some planet.
Daniel: When?
O'Neill: Just now.
Daniel: No.
O'Neill: Sure?
Daniel: Yeah.
O'Neill: Everything just changed.
Carter: Sir, we've been sitting in the commissary for the past half hour.
O'Neill: Really?
Daniel: Although it is understandable how you could have gotten the two places confused.
Carter (looks at her watch): We're going to be late for the briefing.
O'Neill: Briefing?
Daniel: Are you okay, or are you just trying to avoid answering my question?

Teal'c: Major Carter, have we not previously been briefed concerning this matter?
O'Neill: I was just going to say that.
Carter: Sir?
O'Neill: You want to go to the planet and set up some kind of remote observatory.
Carter: Yes.
O'Neill: We just did that.
Daniel: No we didn't.
Teal'c: I believe we did, Daniel Jackson.
Hammond: No, Teal'c, that's what this briefing is about.
O'Neill: I distinctly remember sitting here listening to Carter prattle on about solar activity and a corona...something.
Carter: Coronal mass emissions. I was just about to bring it up.
O'Neill: There you go. How would I know that?
Carter: Maybe you read my report.
Daniel (raising his eyebrows in disbelief): Maybe he read your report?

Technician: We have an unscheduled incoming traveler, sir.
O'Neill: It's SG-12.
Hammond: They're not due back for days.
Technician: Receiving GDO transmission. It's SG-12.
Hammond: Open the iris.
Teal'c: One of them will be injured. (SG-12 comes through the wormhole, one of them injured)

Daniel: Okay, Sam was setting up instruments, and where was I?
O'Neill: You were by the altar deal with the guy.
Daniel: Right. You're going to need to be a little more specific.
Teal'c: Malachai.
Daniel: That's the alien archaeologist SG-15 met on the first survey. I was looking forward to meeting him.
O'Neill: You did. You got along swell. Anyway, at some point a beam shot out from the ruins around the altar and hit the Stargate.
Teal'c: There was a blinding flash of light.
O'Neill: Then I was back in the commissary eating my Froot Loops.

Carter: So.
O'Neill: So?
Carter: Don't you know what I'm going to say?
O'Neill: Actually, by this time we were on the planet. It's all different now.

Carter: Maybe you're not remembering future events. Maybe you were sent back in time.
O'Neill: For what, six hours?
Carter: Well, it wouldn't be the first time we've seen something like this. I mean, the Stargate did send us back to 1969.
O'Neill: Good year.
Carter: So I was wondering, could this beam you mentioned be a means to access the gate's subspace field in order to create some sort of time inversion outside of subspace?
O'Neill: I knew you were going to say that.

Carter: Two weeks ago, SG-15--
O'Neill: We've done this.
Daniel: We do this every day.
O'Neill: I'm not talking about briefings in general, Daniel, I'm talking about this briefing, I'm talking about this day!
Teal'c: Colonel O'Neill is correct. Events do appear to be repeating themselves.
Daniel: Since when?
O'Neill: Since we went to P4X-639.
Carter: We haven't been to P4X-639.
O'Neill: Yes we have. (points at Daniel) "No, we haven't." That's what you were going to say.
Daniel: Of course that's what I was going to say.
O'Neill: Okay, bad example.

Daniel: Um, I was thinking about what you said about a beam coming from the altar--
O'Neill: four hundred pages of alien text?
Daniel: Um, right. SG-15 took digital images of the carvings on the ruins.
O'Neill (looking at the papers): Looks familiar.
Daniel: It should, it's something that you spoke for a few days. It's a variation of the writings used by the ancients.
O'Neill: Well, if you're looking for help translating it, you're barking up the wrong genius.
Daniel: No, I realize that the Asgards returned you to normal, which is fortunate... I suppose. But if you could give me more details about the layout of the ruins-- (an airman runs into Daniel and knocks him down) 
Airman: Gee, sorry, Dr. Jackson!
O'Neill: Oops.

Hammond: You realize this is a little difficult for me to accept.
O'Neill: Hey, if it was just me, I'd agree, but what about Teal'c? Come on, is this the face of a crazy man? (Teal'c glares at him) Bad example.

Malachai (being held at gun point by Jack): I can show you my notes. I've been making periodic visits to this planet for quite some time now. My research is almost complete.
O'Neill (finding a weapon in Malachai's bag): What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?
Daniel: Uh, I do.
O'Neill: Bad example.

O'Neill: Turn it off.
Carter: How?
Malachai: It's drawing energy from the ionization in the atmosphere. There's nothing Major Carter can do.
O'Neill: Excuse me? How'd you know her name?
Malachai: You told me.
O'Neill: No I didn't, not this time around.
Malachai: It doesn't matter, you're too late.
O'Neill: How do you shut this thing off?
Malachai: Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you.

Daniel: Anyway, I'm sorry, but that just happens to be how I feel about it. What do you think? (Jack drops his spoon and places his head in his hands) It's just a question.

O'Neill: All right, here's the deal. We're all stuck in a time loop of some kind. However, Teal'c and I seem to be the only ones who realize it. Now, there's this alien device on 639. It shoots a beam at the Stargate, which, uh, subspace something...
Teal'c: Accesses the subspace field the Stargate is capable of generating. It is powered by ionization.
O'Neill: In the atmosphere, right. Which is caused by... I know this one. Magnets!
Teal'c: The geomagnetic storm.
O'Neill: Close. Anyway, I don't know why none of you remember any of this, but I do know for a fact, there's no point in having old Doc Fraiser examine us again. (cut to the infirmary, where Fraiser is shining her penlight in O'Neill's eyes, for the third time)
O'Neill: I ask you, what could possibly be in my eye that would explain this?

Hammond: What do you make of all this, Major?
Carter: Well, sir, when was the last time you heard Colonel O'Neill use terms like subspace field and geomagnetic storm?
Hammond: Good point.
Carter: And he actually used them correctly...for the most part.

Daniel: Anyway, I'm sorry, but that just happens to be how I feel about it. What do you think?
O'Neill: Ask me tomorrow.

Daniel: If we really have had this conversation before, then I probably pointed out to you that there's no way I can translate this entire text in less than a day.
O'Neill: Oh, I am so ahead of you. (picks up a tape recorder) Put the whole thing on tape last time, so you don't have to start from scratch. (He presses play, and nothing happens. He slams it back down on the desk)
Daniel: If what you say is true, then when the loop started again, your recording wouldn't have happened yet.
O'Neill: Right.
Teal'c: Did I not say that your plan would be unsuccessful?
O'Neill: Careful! Be careful. What about notes? Indelible ink?
Daniel: Look, if you guys are the only ones with memories of previous loops, then you're going to have to help me by learning and remembering.
O'Neill: Fine. (takes a sheet of text) How hard can it be? (Daniel takes the sheet from him, turns it right side up, and hands it back to him)

O'Neill: You know the worst part about this? Every time we loop, Daniel asks me a question, and I wasn't listening the first time.
Teal'c: You are not the only one who must endure some discomfort, O'Neill.
(next scene. An airman opens a door, slamming it into Teal'c's face)
Airman: Sorry, sir, I didn't realize you were there.
Teal'c: You have said that on many occasions.
Airman: I--
Teal'c: Perhaps next time I will not be so forgiving.

Daniel: With recurring use, the machine surrenders to the rigors of time.
Teal'c: That is incorrect, Daniel Jackson.
O'Neill: The word, abicierum means to give up, not surrender.

Daniel (turning around from his translation work to see both O'Neill and Teal'c juggling. Countless loops have gone by and they're getting bored): Guys, are you getting this, because this is important.

Teal'c: O'Neill, should we not be assisting Daniel Jackson with the translation?
O'Neill: I'm taking this loop off. (He starts spraying an empty plate with ketchup and mustard) I'm telling you, Teal'c, if we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm going to lose it. (Teal'c raises an eyebrow) Lose it. It means go crazy. Nuts. Insane. Bonzo. No longer in possession of one's faculties. Three fries short of a happy meal. (Holds up his plate, which now has a crazed smiley face on it) WACKO!

Daniel: Exactly how many of these loops have you... have WE been through?
O'Neill: I've lost track.
Daniel: That must be frustrating.
O'Neill: Uh, yeah.
Daniel (with no idea of the trouble he's setting in motion): On the other, it's kind of an opportunity.
O'Neill: How's that?
Daniel: Well think about it, if you knew in advance that everything is always going to go back to the way it was, then you could do anything for as long as you want, without having to worry about consequences.

O'Neill (riding his bicycle through the halls of the SGC): Bert, how's the wife?
Bert (looking really confused): Fine... sir.

O'Neill (as he and Teal'c are driving golf balls through an open wormhole): How far is Alaris, anyway?
Teal'c: Several billion miles, O'Neill.
O'Neill: That's gotta be a record.

Hammond (upon finding O'Neill and Teal'c doing the golf thing again): Colonel O'Neill, what the HELL are you doing?
O'Neill: In the middle of my back swing?!

Airman (to Teal'c, whom he's just hit with the door again): Sorry sir, I didn't realize-- (Teal'c takes the door and shoves it closed) Aaaaaugh!

O'Neill (hands Hammond a piece of paper): Excuse me, George?
Hammond: Colonel, what are you doing out of uniform?
O'Neill (checking his watch): Handing you my resignation.
Carter: You're resigning? What for?
O'Neill: So I can do this. (Grabs Carter, kisses her, then dips her back into an embrace, as she wraps her arms around him and Hammond looks on in shock)

Carter: What are you smiling at?
O'Neill: Nothing.

Hammond: So the loop can be broken?
Daniel (going into lecture mode): There's a section of text on the altar that deals specifically with the geomagnetic storms that power the device. Apparently, they recur every fifty or so years. Which is why, incidentally--
O'Neill (interrupting): Yes, sir! The loop can be broken.
Daniel: I was getting to that.

Malachai: I'm sorry, but you've come to break the time loop, and I'm afraid I can't let you do that.

Daniel: Malachai, we have to reset those controls, or the loop's going to start all over again.
Malachai: I'm counting on it. I need more time. Once I've correctly deciphered the symbols on the altar, I will be able to master the time device.
O'Neill: Why? So you can be king of Groundhog Day?
Malachai: Do you think I would do this for personal power? She... you wouldn't understand.
O'Neill (realizing that Malachai is referring to his wife): What happened?
Malachai: She died. Twelve years ago. When I found this place and discovered its true purpose, I dedicated myself to unlocking its mysteries.
Carter: So you could go back and save her?
Malachai: No, that would be quite impossible. She died from a congenital heart weakness. Not even the ability to travel time could change that. 
O'Neill: Then why are you doing this?
Malachai: To be with her once more.
Daniel: Malachai, the device doesn't work. It never did.

O'Neill: The people who made that machine are the same people who made the Stargates, and they couldn't get the damned thing to work. And even if you could, just for the sake of argument, you can't change what happened to her.
Malachai: I could... touch her face again. Talk with her. Hear her laugh.
O'Neill: Like you remember?
Malachai: Yes.
O'Neill: Then what'll happen?
Malachai: She'll die.
O'Neill: And then what? Do you start over? (the machine starts) Listen to me, I know what it's like--
Malachai: You can't!
O'Neill: I lost my son! I know! And as much as I-- I could never live that over again. Could you?
Malachai (broken): No.
O'Neill: Let her go.

Hammond: Well, we're still here, Colonel. I assume you were successful.
O'Neill: Well, general, you know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try again.

Daniel: I don't think I've ever seen anyone enjoy oatmeal so much.
O'Neill: When you've been eating Froot Loops for who knows how long, a little variety helps.
Carter: We got a message from the Tok'ra. Apparently they've been trying to contact us for over three months.
O'Neill: Really?
Carter: Who knows when they first realized we were cut off. I mean, there's really no telling how much time passed.
Daniel: Let me ask you something. In all the time you were... looping, were you ever tempted to... do something crazy? I mean, you could do anything without worrying about consequences.
O'Neill: You know, it's funny, you've asked me that before.
Daniel: And? (O'Neill stares at Carter. She smiles, then narrows her eyes suspiciously. O'Neill smiles and takes another bite of oatmeal)

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