406 "Window of Opportunity"
Transcript by AQ.
We begin on a planet with a yellow sky. The team is setting up equipment. Jack looks up at the sun thru an extra sunglasses lens. It is an uneven looking ball of gas. It kinda looks like the solar flare in 1969, but it's all over, not just in one place.
JACK: Is it suppossed to be doing that?
SAM: It's a coronal mass emmision. Like a solar flare.
JACK: But it's safe, right?
SAM: 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.
JACK: But it's Safe, right?
SAM: (Nodding her head) As long as we don't stay here too long, yes, Sir.
JACK: Anyone explain that to Daniel?
Scene goes to Alien guy at desk, and Danny has a piece of paper over the artifact, and is tracing the glyphs onto the paper with a pencil or crayon.
*Sounds of thunder and wind.*
Danny: I've encountered this script before. It's simular in pronounciation to a language on our planet called latin. Now, as near as I can tell the main body of the text represents some kind of planetary history.
ALIEN GUY(AG from now on) : I agree. But isn't it time for you to return thru the stargate?
DANNY: What I don't understand is the signifigance of this ... some kind of control mecognism. It's obviously in working order compared with the rest of the ruins. I wonder if that's significant.
AG grabs some kind of weapon and turns it on.
AG: The storm is approaching, Doctor Jackson. The radiation may be dangerous for you and your team.
DANNY: OH! Yes, Um ... Major Carter will let us know when we have to leave. Now, this line recurs several times ... 'Dommo waitus, westol motibilium'.
AG: Concurer of time?
DANNY: In this context it seems more like Master of the uncertain past.
AG: You're a skilled lenguist, Doctor Jackson.
DANNY: OH! Thank you! Actually, I heard the language spoken aloud a year or so ago.
AG plays with the device making it beep.
DANNY: What's that?
AG: The geomagnetic desturbance is reaching its peak. I have to act now.
Danny looks away, and then back to AG. AG has the weapon pointed at Danny.
DANNY: I don't understand.
AG shoots a lighted laser at Danny. Danny falls to the ground. AG draggs an uncontious Danny to the rocks, and starts pressing on the panel.
SAM: All set up, Sir.
JACK: Good. Let's hit it! *into 2 way radio* Daniel! Let's go home. *no responce* Daniel?! (The three walk over to the AG and the desk/contol panel)
Sound of electricity crackling is heard.
TEAL'C: O'Neill ...
JACK: Yeah, I hear it.
You see the electricity crackling and crawling up the poles. It shoots out to the stargate, making the chevrons lock. The wormhole opens, nearly hitting Sam , Jack, and Teal'C who were standing in front of it. The three duck just in time.
In the gateroom ...
Technitian: Incoming wormhole.
The irised gate has electricity on it.
GENERAL HAMMOND (GH FNO) What is that?!?!?!
TECH: I have no idea , Sir.
JACK: Are you doing this?
AG: STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!
SAM: Daniel?
JACK: What the hell are you doing?
AG: Stay Back!!!!
Jack and Teal'C are struggling with AG while Sam is helping Daniel. Jack, Teal'C and AG are hit with what appears to be lightning.
SAM: COLONEL!!!!!??!?! (I wonder who she loves! <g>)
OK! For future refference, anytime you see *BL,* that means bright light, which is what the time loop looks like, OK?
*BL* (See? The first time loop has occured!) <g>
Shot goes to a close up of a spoon of Froot Loops. (FL from now on!)
DANNY: ...Anyway, I'm sorry. But that just happens to be the way I feel about it ... What do you think?
Jack looks up from his FL with a confused look.
JACK: What?
DANNY: What do you think?
Jack looks from Danny to Sam and back again several times.
SAM: Colonel? Is something wrong?
JACK: Maybe.
Jack looks down at his FL rather confused.
OPENING CREDITS ...
JACK: Weren't we just somewhere else?
Sam & Danny looks at each other.
DANNY: Where?
JACK: Some planet.
DANNY: When?
JACK: Just now.
DANNY: No.
JACK: Ya sure?
DANNY: Yeah.
Jack looks at his companions, then at the room, then at his spoon of FL and drops it.
JACK: Everything just changed....
SAM: Sir, we have been sitting in the commensary for the last half hour.
JACK: Really?
DANNY: Although it is understandable how you could have gotten the two places confused.
Sam smiles.
SAM: We're gonna be late for the briefing.
JACK: Briefing?
DANNY: Are you OK, or are you just avoiding answering my question?
JACK: I'm fine. *A few second later* What question?
The sun from the planet is up on projector in the briefing.
SAM: Two weeks ago, SG-15 took these images of solar activities on P4X-639. Anylisis of the data indicates a steady increase in intencity. Now, if I'm right, the explosions are just a percurser from an even greater violent ejectory.
Shot to Jack with Teal'C behind him. They both look confused.
TEAL'C: MajorCarter. Have we not previously been briefed concerning this matter?
JACK: I was just gonna say that.
SAM: Sir?
JACK: You wanna go to the planet set up some kind of remote obseratory.
SAM: Yes.
JACK: We just did that.
DANNY: No we didn't.
TEAL'C: I believe we did, DanielJackson.
GH: No, Teal'C. That's what this briefing is about.
JACK: I distinctly remember sitting here listening to Carter prattle on about solar activity and a ... corona ... something.
SAM: Coronal Mass emmision. I was just about to bring it up.
JACK: There you go. How would I know that?
SAM: Mabe you read my report?
DANNY: (Adoringly skeptical<g>) *Sarcastically* Maybe he READ your report? (Raises eye brow and smiles)
JACK: I'm telling you guys, we've done this before.
TEAL'C: I am in agreement with O'Neill. I am experiencing a great deal of familiarity with these event.
Sam looks confused. Alarm goes off.
(Over PA) TECH: Unscheduled off world activation. (In Control Room) We have an unschdules incoming traveler, Sir.
JACK: It's SG-12.
GH: They're not due back for days.
TECH: Recieving GDO transmission. It's SG-12.
Everyone looks at Jack who raises his eyebrow.
GH: Open the iris.
TEAL'C: One of them will be injured.
SG-12 walks thru the gate. One of them is in fact being helped by another. General Hammond looks @ Jack & Teal'C . Jack raises his eyebrow again.
GH & Sam are walking down the hallway.
GH: What do you make of all this, Major?
SAM: Well, Sir. I'm not sure.
GH: SG-12's early return was the result of an accident. One of the team fell and broke his ankle. How could Teal'C & Colonel O'Neill have known that was going to happen?
SAM: Both of them claim to have momories of SG-1's mission to P4X-639.
GH: A mission that isn't scheduled to start for another six hours.
Next shot is Janet shining a light ...
In Jack's eyes.
DANNY: OK. So, Sam was setting up instruments and ... Where was I?
JACK: You were by the alter deal with the guy.
DANNY: Right. Yo ... You're gonna have to be a little bit more spacific.
TEAL'C: Malikai. (Here Teal'C gives the nurse the cutest look when she shoves the thermometer in his mouth!)
DANNY: That 's the alien archiologist SG-15 met on the first survey. I was looking forward to meeting him.
JACK: You did! ... You got along swell. Anyway, at some point, a beam shot out from the alter and hit the stargate.
TEAL'C: (Taking out thermometer & looking at it!LOL!) There was a blinding flash of light.
JACK: And then I was back in the commensary eating my froot loops.
Sam & GH walk in.
JANET: Well, Sir. I can't find anything wrong with either one of them. We'll have to wait for the lab results to be sure, but they both appear to be in perfect health.
SAM: Except for the facts they're remembering events that haven't even happened yet.
DANNY: But why Jack & Teal'C, and not us?
GH: I'm not taking any chances. Until we figure out what's going on, I'm postponing your mission to P4X-639.
Next scene, Jack's walking down hall.
DANNY: Jack! Wait up! Um ... I was thinking about what you said about a beam coming out of the alter. Uh ... SG-15 took digital images of the carvings in the ruins. I was thinking there is a clue in here as to what's going on, but it's the equivilent of about 400 pages of alien text. But uh ... if you can give me more details about the ... ruins ... it might be easier to ...
BANG! A newly recovered Siler runs into into Danny knocking him down! LOL! Siler recovered fast, don't ya think?!?!
SILER: Gee, sorry, Doctor Jackson.
Siler and an Airman (Peter DeLuise) help Danny to his feet.
JACK: Shoulda seen that commin'.
Jack's in the comesary drinking a cup of coffee. Sam walks up to him and smiles her killowatt smile. <g>
SAM: So ...
JACK: So?
SAM: Don't ya know what I'm gonna say?
JACK: Actually, by this time, we were on the planet. It's all different now.
SAM: OH! Well, I was thinking about what you said about a beam hitting the stargate.
JACK: (Looking up from his coffee) What about it?
SAM: After the flash, You found yourself back here, (Jack's sticking his finger in the coffee and taking something out.) and then you were basically reliving the moments up to the mission. Maybe, you're not remembering future events. Maybe you were sent back in time.
JACK: For what? Six hours?
SAM: It wouldn't be the first time we've seen something like this. The stargate did send us back to 1969.
JACK: (Smiles) Good year.
SAM:(Smiles) So, I was wondering, could this beam you mentioned be a means to access the gate's subspace field in order to create some kind of timing version of side of subspace? (AQ's personal note: HUH?!?!?! <g>)
JACK: (Stares at her for a few seconds) I knew you were gonna say that.
SAM: (Smiles and blushes?) I guess I'm just thinking out loud. I'm gonna go run a few simulations. (She smiles and gets up.)
JACK: (Smiling) *Sarcastically* You run ... simulate. *Drinks coffee* Let me know how it turns out. Keep me posted. *To himself* Keep me aprized. *He sighs & closes his eyes.*
HAMMOND: The lab results confirm Dr Frasier's original assessments. You're both in perfect health. Any more of these premonitions?
TEAL'C : Not for some time.
O'NEILL: Can we go back to work now General please?
HAMMOND: I have no objection as long as.
Suddenly the sound of the gate activating is heard and the alarms go off. TECHNICIAN :(on intercom) Unscheduled off world activation The three leave the office, and arrive in the gateroom. O'NEILL: D'oh!
The gate starts up. The lightning thing happens to the gate again.
GH: What is that?
TEAH: I'm not sure, Sir. I've never seen anything like it.
JACK: *He and Teal'C are standing behind Tech* We have!
*BL*
Back to Shot of FL.
Danny : Anyway I'm sorry but that just happens to be how I feel about it. What do you think?
Jack puts his spoon down shocked, sits back in his chair and looks at his watch. Sam and Danny stare at him puzzled.
SAM: Colonel, is something wrong?
JACK: Oh, yeah! Something.
Jack looks at his 2 companions.
Back to briefing.
SAM: 2 weeks ago, SG-15 ...
JACK: We've done this!
DANNY: We do this every day.
JACK: I'm not talking about briefings in general, Daniel. I'm talking about THIS briefing! I'm talking about THIS DAY!
Everyone exchanges confused looks.
TEAL'C: Colonel O'Neill is correct. Events do appear to be repeating themselves.
DANNY: Since when?
JACK: Since we went to P4X-639.
SAM: We haven't been to P4X-639.
JACK: Yes we have. (Points to Daniel) "No, we haven't!" That's what you were gonna say.
DANNY: Of course, that's what I was gonna say.
JACK: OK! Bad example.
HAMMOND: Colonel I'm not sure what to make of all of this.
CARTER : If we've had this meeting before sir.
O'NEILL : Why are TEAL'C and I the only ones who remember it? I know, that's what you said last time. (He looks around. ) Well I'll venture a guess that it has something to do with that planet. (The others look unconvinced. ) and You'll all believe me when SG-12 comes thru that gate in ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... *He points his finger* (Silence) <Sam looks out at the still stargate.> (More silence) <Jack taps his watch>
GH: SG-12 isn't due back for 3 days ...
TECH: Unscheduled offworld activation.
JACK: So close!
Back to medical exam!
JACK: You're not gonna find anything.
FRASIER: Why don't we wait for the lab results before we jump to any conclusions.
TEAL'C: The results will be negative.
FRASIER: Humor me.
Hammond and Sam enter. FRASIER (to Hammond):Well sir. JACK: ( raises his hand and interrupts). General I know you're thinking of postponing the mission but there's no point. We tried it last time and it didn't work. Hammond looks to Danny who doesn't know what to say. A nurse puts a thermometer in Teal'C'S mouth and he sighs. CORRIDOR As before Jack is walking down a corridor. Instead of looking at his watch he is just counting the seconds until Danny jogs round the corner after him carrying a bundle of papers.
DANIEL: Jack wait up. (Jack raises his arms and turns to face Danny). Err. I was thinking about what you said about a beam coming from the altar. JACK: (Pointing to the papers that Danny is carrying. ) Four hundred pages of alien text. DANIEL : (Shocked) Right, SG15 took digital images of the carvings on the ruins. (He hands the papers to Jack who looks at them )
JACK: 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.
JACK: Well if you're looking for help translating it you're barking up the wrong genius. (He hands the papers back to Danny).
DANNY: No I realized that the Asgards returned you to normal, which is.fortunate I suppose. But err if you could give me more details about the layout of the ruins it might be useful. Sgt Siler again comes jogging around the corner and runs straight into Danny knocking him to the floor. All of the images scatter everywhere.
SILER: Gee sorry Dr Jackson. SILER and another airman help Daniel to his feet.
O'NEILL: Ooops.
Hammond's office ... Jack and Teal'C knock.
HAMMOND: Come in. They enter the office. Hammond is sat at his desk.
JACK: Any word from Frasier?
HAMMOND: She's still waiting for the lab result.
TEAL'C: If we delay any longer it will be too late.
HAMMOND: Too late for what?
JACK: To stop this day from happening again!
HAMMOND: You realize that this is a little difficult for me to accept.
JACK: Hey! If it was just me, I'd say yeah. But what about Teal'C? Does this look like the face of a crazy man? (Teal'C looks at him with the usual stoic face) BAD EXAMPLE!!!!
HAMMOND: What do you want?
JACK: We wanna go back to 639.
They go back to the planet.
SAM: A geomagnetic storm is building up, we shouldn't stay long.
JACK: (Points toward the platform) That's the machine right there. They walk towards the pedestal.
SAM: I wonder how it works?
JACK: Subspace fields and time inversions. (Sam looks at Jack suprised) It's what you said. They see AG and Jack aims his weapon at him followed by Sam.
AG: Hello. (He raises his arms in the air. )
DANIEL: Woah, easy guys!
JACK: That's the guy, that's the one who started all this.
AG: I don't understand.
JACK: Whatever you did I want you to undo it.
AG: I did nothing!
SAM: Colonel I don't think he knows what you're talking about.
TEAL'C: Perhaps he has no memory O'Neill.
JACK: Oh he remembers. He's the one who was pushing all of those buttons. AG: ( walks towards the pedestal. )Please I'm an archaeologist. I've been trying to translate these alien symbols. I.I told the others that came before you.
DANIEL: SG15?
AG: Yes, but they didn't point weapons at me. I can show you my notes. (He reaches for his bag but Jack yells and moves towards him. ) I've been making periodic visits to this planet for some time now. My research is almost complete. O'NEILL searches through MALAKI'S bag. He finds the weapon.
JACK: ( searches through AG's bag. He finds the weapon. ) What kind of archiologist carries a weapon?
DANNY: (Raised hand) Uh ... I do! (Danny's soooo cute!) <g>
JACK: BAD example! (finds a holigram of a beautiful woman.)What's this?
AG:If you must know, it's my wife.
The alter goes crazy. The lightning thing happens.
JACK: (to Sam) What'd you do?
SAM: I didn't do anything! It engaged on its own.
JACK: Turn it off.
SAM: How?
AG: It's drawing energy from the ionization in the atmosphere. There's nothing MAJOR CARTER can do!
JACK: Excuse me? How'd you know her name?
AG: (Looks @ Sam then @ JAck then back again) You told me.
JACK: No, I didn't. Not this time around.
AG: It doesn't matter. You're too late.
JACK: How do you shut this thing off?
The energy build up increases.
AG: Even if I knew I wouldn't tell you.
SAM: Sir, it's building up some kind of charge.
JACK: Daniel, you know how to read this stuff. Get up here and shut it off.
DANIEL: What? (He walks up to the pedestal and stares at it. ) Are you kidding me? I wouldn't even know where to begin, I mean it would take years to translate. I don't even have enough. The energy build up, the Stargate activates and they are enveloped in a blinding light. We next see.
*BL*
DANIEL: (After shot of FL) Anyway I'm sorry but that just happens to be how I feel about it. What do you think? (JAck drops his spoon into the bowl and grabs his forehead in frustration. Sam looks at hi shocked. ) It was just a question.
Back to briefing.
JACK: 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 one's who realize it. Now there's this alien device on six thirty nine. It shoots a beam at the Stargate which.err subspace something.(he looks at TEAL'C) What?
HAMMOND, DANIEL and CARTER stare at him.
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.(he points at TEAL'C) I know this one.(he thinks about it) Magnets!
TEAL'C: The geomagnetic storm.
JACK: Of course. Anyway I don't know why none of you don't remember this. But I do know for a fact there's no point in having old doc FRASIER examining us again!
Next scene ... The examination.
JACK: I ask you ... what could possibly be in my eye to explain this.
Teal'C with the thermometer again. That poor nurse!<g>
Sam and Hammond are talking.
HAMMOND:What do you make of all this?
SAM: Well sir, when was the last time you heard Colonel O'Neill use terms like subspace field and geomagnetic storm?
HAMMOND: Good point.
SAM: And he actually used them correctly.for the most part.
HAMMOND: You believe him?
SAM: Well I'm considering the possibility sir. I mean the more I think about it, if he's right the ramifications are huge.
HAMMOND: And the next time loops we'll forget this conversation even happened.
SAM: Yes sir.
Daniel's getting ready to leave his office.
JACK: You're better off in here.
DANNY: I was just going look for you.
JACK: I know.
DANNY: (Puts the papers on a table) Err.I've managed to translate a section of the west wall. (He taps a touch sensitive computer screen to show the section of the wall. ) It appears to be some sort of planetary history.
JACK: Daniel, that's very nice, but focus on the altar.
DANIEL Why?
TEAL'C: Malaki initiated the time loop by manipulating the symbols on the surface. JACK Figure out the symbols, figure out how to stop this!
DANIEL: Just because someone can recognize symbols on a keyboard doesn't mean they can run a computer. If I can translate the rest of the text I can put the device in a proper context and figure out what it's supposed to do.
O'NEILL (loudly and running out of patience) We know what it does! It's a time loop machine.
DANIEL: Err.Think about it. Who would build a device that loops time every ten hours?
JACK: Who knows? But that's what it does.
DANIEL:Yes but maybe that's not what it's supposed to do. I mean for all we know that's just an accidental by-product of its true function. (Phone rings)We're on our way. (he puts the phone down) Sam has something. BRIEFING ROOM We see a schematic of a galaxy on the computer screen and Sam steps forward to begin talking to Hammond and the rest of SG1.
SAM: According to Colonel O'Neill in the first loop he and Teal'C witnessed a beam striking the Stargate on P4X 639. Then the gate became energized somehow. But now in the second loop at the exact same moment they witnessed a similar effect in our own gate room here on Earth.
O'NEILL: Sounds about right.
SAM: Ok so if we really under the influence of an alien technology then the effect is clearly being translated to Earth via the Stargate. In which case the solution is simple.
She looks at the others to see if they realize.
DANIEL: We dial out.
SAM: Exactly, a few minutes before this is set to begin again we establish an outgoing wormhole to I don't know.say the Tollan home world and anyone or anything trying to dial in from P4X 639 will get a busy signal.
HAMMOND(Nods) : Let's do it. GATE ROOM The gate is dialing out. Base alarms are going off. CONTROL ROOM We see SG1, Hammond and a technician gathered around the console.
TECHNICIAN: Chevron five locked. (A computer screen shows the dial out sequence progression. ) Chevron six locked. (The gate continues to spin the seventh chevron slide into place but doesn't light up. They all stare at the gate. ) Chevron seven will not engage.
CARTER (surprised) : What?
TECHNICIAN: It won't lock. I can't establish a connection.
CARTER: I'm running a diagnostic.
Suddenly the gate begins to spin.
TECHNICIAN: Incoming wormhole.
HAMMOND: Close the iris. The iris closes. We see armed guards take up position in front of the gate.
JACK: Oh crap!
CARTER: This doesn't make any sense, there's nothing wrong on our end. We should have been able to dial out. The gate opens and we see the arcing energy again. Carter looks to Jack who just waves his hand as the light engulfs them all and the loop starts again.
*BL*
We see the spoonful of fruit loops again as the trio are all at breakfast as before.
DANIEL: Anyway I'm sorry but that just happens to be how I feel about it. What do you think? Jack just puts his spoon down and sits back in his chair.
JACK: Ask me tommorrow.
Same confused look from Danny & Sam. Jack closes his eyes and sighs.
DANIEL (In his office) .Just because someone can recognize the symbols on a keyboard doesn't mean they can run a computer.
JACK: (waving his hands to stop Daniel) We've been over this! (Daniel looks at him) I'm telling you, the only way to stop this loop (he touches the screen to bring up images of the pedestal).is to figure out how to run that stuff. DANIEL: ( looks at the screen.) If we really have had this conversation before then I probably pointed it out to you that there's no way I can translate this entire text in less than a day.
JACK: I'm a step ahead of ya ... I put the whole thing on tape last time. So you don't have to start from scratch.
He plays it ... nothing but static!
DANNY: If what you say is true, then when loop started again ... you recording wouldn've happened yet.
JACK: *Quietly* Yeah ... right.
TEAL'C: Did I not say your plan would be unsucessful?
JACK: (To Teal'C) Careful! *quieter* Be careful. (To Daniel) What about notes? Indulable ink?
Danny and Teal'C shake their heads.
DANIEL: Look if you guys are the only ones with memories of previous loops then you're gonna have to help me by learning and remembering.
JACK: Fine. How hard can this be?
Jack's looking at the paper. Danny turns it around. He was looking at it upside down! LOL!
CARTER (To Hammond) According to Colonel O'NEILL in a previous loop we attempted to block the connection with P4X 639 but we were unable to dial out. I think what's happened is that the Earth has become in a sense out of sync with the rest of the gates system. Making it impossible for us to establish contact with these worlds.
HAMMOND: What about SG12, they managed to gate in?
CARTER: I realize that, so we ran a sequence of random dialings and this is what we found. (She begins the display and is shows some gate locations lighting up. ) These were the worlds we were able to contact, including Alaris, the planet where SG12 were doing its survey. At the center of this group is P4X 639. I believe that the alien device is establishing a simultaneous connection with all of these gates creating a kind of subspace bubble and that everything within the bubble is cut off from the normal flow of time.
HAMMOND: What are the implications of this?
CARTER: Well sir, we could be reliving the same day over and over maybe thousands of times and we'd never know it.
HAMMOND:What can we do?
CARTER: Unfortunately not much. By the next time this loop starts we won't even remember we had this conversation. It's up to Teal'C and Colonel O'Neill. DANIELS OFFICE We see Jack looking bored and reading a book entitled 'Latin for the novice' by Joseph Mallozzi PhD. Teal'C is next to him also studying.
JACK: Potteramous, pottera, protarat, cram, eras, crat, cramus. We see Danny writing on a chalkboard translating some of the text. Jack puts the book down and puts his hands up to his head.
JACK: This is a bad idea.
TEAL'C: It would appear we have no choice.
SG-12 's return is heard.
JACK: *Sighs* You know the worse part of this? Everytime we loop, Daniel askes 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.
Flashback to Teal'C getting hit in the face by a geek with a door.
GEEK: Sorry, Sir. I didn't realize you were there.
TEAL'C: You have said that on many occasions. *Geek studders I, I* Perhaps next time I will not be so forgiving.
End of flashback.
DANNY: Section twenty three ends with a reference to perennial inventus.
Jack has a piece of paper on his eyes. He drops it to his lap.
JACK: We've been over this.
TEAL'C: I believe it means the aproaching disaster.
*BL* OK! From here, until further notice, when you see *BL*, Danny will be at the chalkboard doing his thing. I will tell you what Jack and Teal'C are doing, OK?
DANNY: The machine surrenders ...
TEAL'C: That is incorrect, DanielJackson.
JACK: The word abiceerum Means give up, not surrender.
*BL*
Jack's turning around on the chair extremely bored.
DANIEL: Ok, this section of the text seems to deal primarily with their arrival on P4X 639.
*BL*
DANNY: Ok, now this section of the text seems to deal primarily with their arrival on P4X 639 (he points at a symbol) Now this word here, deductavum is a derivation of devuctum.
Jack's juggling something that looks like rocks ... uh ... artifacts.
*BL*
DANNY: Ok, this section of the text seems to deal primarily with their arrival on P4X 639.
Now he's standing and juggling. Teal'C just watching him.
*BL*
DANNY: .Appears to be a reference to the gradual degeneration of the machine itself.
Now Teal'C is standing and juggling. Nice form, NICE biceps! <g> Jack's just watching him.
*BL*
DANNY: .Foundation of a colony. (Daniel turns from the board, and sees both Jack and Teal'C juggling.) Guys, you getting this? Because this is important.
*BL*
This is the end of then being in Danny's office.
Jack's in the mess hall. He's looking at a plate, His feet are up on the table.
TEAL'C: O'Neill? Should we not be assisting DanielJackson with the translation?
JACK: I'm taking this loop off. *He put 2 blobs of ketsup on the plate.* I'm tellin' ya, Teal'C, (softly) If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna loose it. *Teal'C cocks his head looking confused* Lose it? It means go crazy ... nuts ... (He gets progressively louder and faster in his talking!) insane ... Bonzo ... *He's putting more ketchup and mustard on the plate as he's talking* No longer in possession of one's faculties ... Three fries short of a Happy Meal ... WACKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *He shows Teal'C the smiley face he drew on the plate*
*BL*
Jack is writing on the chalkboard.
JACK: *sigh* Teal'C?
TEAL'C: Thank you O'Neill. *Teal'C stands up and walks toward the board.*
JACK: No, No. Thank YOU, Teal'C.
Jack sits on the chair , sighs, puts the back of the chair back and rubs his eyes.
JACK: OH ... GOD!!!!
DANNY: Exactly how many of these loops have you ... we ... been ... thru?
JACK: I've ... lost track.
DANNY: That must be frustrating.
JACK: Uh ... yeah! *Said sarcastically*
DANNY: On the other hand, it's kind of an oppertunity.
JACK: How's that?
DANNY: Well, think about it. If you know in advance that everything will be going back to the way it was, then ... you could do anything ... For as long as you want without having to worry about consequences!
Jack and Teal'C look at each other and grin.
JACK: *Standing up* Excuse me. *Jack and Teal'C run out the door.*
*BL*
Jack's taken up pottery. Not so sucessfully. <g>
*BL*
Jack's riding a bike thru the hallway.
JACK: Hi, Bert. How are you? *To an airman*
AIRMAN: I'm fine ... Sir.
*BL*
Teal'C is hitting a golf ball thru the open stargate.
JACK: Yeah! Out a play. How far is Aloris, anyway? *Jack's teeing up.*
TEAL'C: Several billion miles, O'Neill.
JACK: That's gotta be a record.
Jack's preparing to hit the ball. He hits it. (Very NICE swing!)
*BL*
Back to Jack doing pottery. (He's getting better!)
*BL*
Jack is preparing to hit the golf ball again.
GH: (Yelling) COLONEL O'NEILL!!!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?!?!?!
JACK: (yelling back <g>) IN THE MIDDLE OF MY BACK SWING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
*BL*
Geek hits Teal'C again.
GEEK: I'm sorry, Sir. I didn't realize ...
Teal'C hits him into the door ... HARD. (Poor guy!) Teal'C smiles.
Jack walkes into the control room dressed in a yellow shirt with a baseball hit backwards on his head.
JACK: Excuse me, George?
Jack hands George a piece of paper.
GH: Colonel, what are you doing out of uniform?
JACK: *Looking at his watch, and turning to Sam.* Handing you my resignation.
SAM: You're resigning?! What for?
JACK: *Still looking at his watch* So I can do ... this!
He takes her face in his hands, and kisses her on the mouth. She starts to put her hand up as he puts his left hand around her neck. His right hand is at the small of her back. He dips her, moving his left hand to the side of her breast, and his right hand a little lower ... Somewhere in the kiss, he slips her the tongue, (I think it's when his face is turned right before he dips her) becouse she startes to respond by putting her arms around his neck and the way their mouths are moving, they are definately kissing open-mouthed! <g>
*BL*
Light shines in Sam's face, making her blue eyes seem bluer. Sam's looking around.
SAM: What are you smiling at?
Jack's leaning on the table with his hand on his face, grinning. He's staring at her.
JACK: Nothin'.
Sam looks down at her hands, and smiles.
We see Danny in front of the computer display of the images from P4X 639. He is reading some notes. GH sits at the table reading the briefing.
HAMMOND: What have you got for us Dr Jackson?
DANIEL: Err.with the help of Teal'C and (he points at Jack and raises his eyebrows).Jack I've managed to complete the translation. (Jack and Teal'C look up.) As I originally suspected P4X 639 was once a colony of the Ancients. They thrived there for thousands of years until they were struck by some sort of unspecified cataclysm, perhaps a disease, but we'll never really know for sure. In any case facing certain destruction they built a time machine.
JACK: They were going to go back and change their history, to avoid their fate.
DANIEL: Right, but it didn't work. Instead of sending a team of scientists back to the key moment in their history the device caused a short term continuous loop. Just like the one we've been experiencing. They experienced the same day dozens perhaps hundreds of times trying to get the machine to work but in the end they gave up, they shut it down and.let the end come.
HAMMOND: So the loop can be broken? Jack nods silently at GH. DANIEL (walks over to the computer screen. ) : Err.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. JACK: ( interrupts frustrated.) Yes sir! The loop can be broken. He looks at Danny who has stopped talking.
DANIEL: I was getting to that. When we activate the symbols on the altar in the right sequence I think we can shut it down.
HAMMOND: Colonel have your team geared up and ready to embark in thirty minutes.
JACK: Yes sir! He gets up to leave. P4X 639 SG1 exit the Stargate. Sam reads her instruments.
JACK: The geomagnetic storms are building up. We shouldn't stay long. (Sam looks at him shocked.) Lucky guess. (He shrugs his shoulders). (They make their way cautiously over to the altar and Malaki). MALAKI!
SAM: I don't see anyone sir.
JACK: He's around here somewhere and he knows we're on to him. He gives a hand signal for them to pan out in their approach. Teal'C is looking around, and runs into a forse shiled. The FS knocks the big man backward onto the ground! He lands pretty hard! The AG knows that they're there to break the time loop , and he refuses to let them do that. TEAL'C APPEARS TO BE UNCONSIOUS!!!!!!!!!!
JACK: TEAL'C!
They all rush over to him. Sam kneels beside him to help and Jack moves towards the force field. We see AG approach the altar and take his sunglasses off calmly.
AG: I'm sorry but you've come to break the time loop and I'm afraid I can't let you do that. JACK: Get away from that thing! (He picks a stone up to throw at the barrier. He throws it but it just rebounds off quickly narrowly missing him and Danny.
SAM: It's no good sir. It looks like a variation of a Goa'uld force shield.
AG: In fact it is Major. I had to trade several rare artifacts for the field generator but it was well worth it. (He continues working at the altar. ) DANIEL: ( approaches the force field.) Malaki, we have to reset those controls or the loop is going to restart itself again. AG: 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. JACK: Why? So you can be the king of Groundhog Day?
AG: You think i would do this for personal power? She ... You wouldn't understand.
JACK: What happened?
AG: She died. 12 years ago. When I found this place, and discovered it's true purpose, I dedicated myself to unlocking it's mysteries.
Teal'C is finally waking up.
SAM: So you can go back and save her?
AG: No, that would be quite impossible. She died from a congentital heart weakness. Not even the ability to travel time could change that.
JACK: Then why are you doing this?
AG: To be with her once more.
DANNY: *Takes off his glasses.* Malikai, the device doesn't work. It never did.
AG: It never did? You're living proof.
DANNY: We finished translating the text on the ruins. The antients who built this place never got it to work. They tried over & over again, just like you, but in the end, they gave up. Why do you think this place has been deserted so long? They couldn't save themselves.
AG: You're wrong! There must be some other explination. I know I can make this work.
DANNY: You can't. They proved it can't be done. You're just gonna go on like this forever, you'll be trapped.
TEAL'C: Along with billions of innocent others.
SAM: This device activated 14 stargates simultaniously. That's 14 worlds reliving the same day over & over.
AG: I uh ... I didn't realize. But, It doesn't matter. Once I'm able to input the correct time corridinents, The cycle will be broken.
JACK: The people who made that machine, are the same people who made the stargates, and they couldn't get the damn thing to work, and even if you could, just for the sake of arguing, You can't change what happened.
AG: I can ... touch her face again. Talk with her. Hear her laugh ...
JACK: Like you remember?
AG: Yes.
JACK: Then what? Listen to me, I know what it's like!
AG: *Yelling over the lightning and wind* YOU CAN'T!
JACK: I LOST MY SON!!!!!!!!!!!! I know!
Sam closes her eyes.
JACK: And as much as I ... *Calmer now* (Softer) I could never live that over again. Could you?
AG: *Tearfully* No.
JACK: Let her go.
AG stops the machine. & removes the forse shield. AG looks at his wife. Then at Jack.
Gate room ... open gate. SG-1 walks thru.
GH: Well, if we're still here Colonel, I guess you were sucessful.
JACK: Well, General, you know what they say, if at first you don't succeed, TRY ... try ... try ... try, try, try, ... ah ... try again!
Next scene Jack's really enjoying a big glob of oatmeal.
JACK: mmn!
DANNY: I've never seen anybody enjoy oatmeal so much.
JACK: When you've been eating froot loops for who knows how long, a little variety helps. (He stuffs the oatmeal in his mouth.)
SAM: Well, we got a message from the Tok'Ra. Apparently, they've been trying to contact us for over 3 months.
JACK: (Mouth full of oatmeal) Really?
SAM: Who knows when they first realized that we were cut off. I mean, there's really no way of telling how much time passed.
DANNY: (Jack's still enjoying his oatmeal) Let me ask you something, in all the time you were ... um ... looping, were you ever tempted to ... uh ... um ... do something crazy? I mean, you could do anything without worrying about consequences.
Sam looked at Jack.
JACK: You know, it's funny, you've asked me that before.
DANNY: And?
Jack shifts his eyes from Danny to Sam. He's staring at her. She and Danny look at each other. She looks at Jack, while Daniel's still looking at her. (AQ!'s observation: if Danny didn't know before, he suspects now!) Jack smiles a shit eating grin, and puts the spoon of oatmeal to his mouth, and eats it, not taking his eyes off of Sam.