Another one.
Perhaps the ancestors used it for astronomical calculation.
The settlement must be nearby.
- Chevron four locked. - Report.
Sir, we've just got our first hit with the cold-address program. P2X-416.
Prepare the MALP.
We must leave, Nyan.
Nyan, you'll drown!
It doesn't feel like water.
What's up?
Cold-dialling program made a positive hit on P2X-416.
I wonder why.
Locals must have found the Stargate since the computer last dialled.
See, that's what I don't understand.
- How does a computer know to do that? - It doesn't, sir.
I created the software to redial cartouche Stargate addresses...
...that hadn't connected the first time. This is our first hit.
Oh.
Receiving MALP telemetry... now.
Nyan, what is it?
I don't know.
Can you, uh... Can you follow him?
Hello, Nyan.
Don't be afraid. My name is Daniel Jackson.
- Are you a mechanical life form? - No.
I'm communicating with you through that device.
- From where? - From another planet.
- It's a trick. We must report this, Nyan. - No, not yet.
Why?
Sir, request permission to visit P2X-416.
- Wait a minute. - Jack, they're obviously intelligent.
Judging from their clothes and tools, they are close to our level of technology.
And has anyone seen a DHD in this transmission?
He's right.
Take a naqahdah reactor with you so you can power up the gate and dial manually.
All right.
Mallin, I think we've found the gateway.
There is no gateway. That is Optrican legend.
Well then, how do you explain this?
This could be very dangerous, Nyan.
Do you realise what this would mean?
It would mean we were wrong and the Optricans were right.
Nyan, is it all right if we visit you?
- No. - Yes.
OK, we'll be with you shortly.
Try to stay close to that mechanical device I'm speaking through.
And try to avoid that big splash that you saw before. It's kinda dangerous.
We will be waiting here to welcome you, Daniel.
Mallin, come back!
If you tell them, they might kill whoever comes through!
Mallin!
Hello, Nyan.
You're human.
Yes.
I'm Daniel Jackson, the person you were talking to before.
This is Major Carter, Colonel Jack O'Neill and Teal'c.
We're from a planet called Earth.
You all right?
Then the legend is true.
What legend is that?
The Optricans believe humans were brought here by aliens,...
...who travelled through a gateway.
But during the Upheaval it was buried
and they could no longer come through.
What was the Upheaval?
A period of violent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions...
...covering most of this continent, about 2,000 years ago.
If the Stargate's been buried for that long, how did you know where to look for it?
I was not looking for it.
I was hoping to find a primitive settlement that was here before the Upheaval.
I was hoping to prove the Bedrosian theory.
What's that?
That human life was created on Bedrosia, without a gateway.
- So this country is called Bedrosia? - This continent.
And then who are the Optricans?
A rival continent.
Rival, as in... what?
We believe we were created on this continent.
The Optricans believe that their holy gateway is on this continent.
Therefore we've been at war for decades.
OK. Carter, you wanna make sure the reactor's all hooked up, just in case?
Mind if I ask how close to the front lines we might be?
A great distance. There's no need for concern.
Mm-hm.
O'Neill!
Oh, no. No!
- Come. We have to hide. - You said they weren't around here.
Those are not Optrican. They're my people - Bedrosian.
- Good guys? - Good is not the word I would use...
...to describe the ones that approach.
- We must run. Now. - OK. Carter, dial it up!
We need five minutes to be operational, sir.
This way. Quickly!
Screw it. Let's go. Come on.
Would you believe... we come in peace?
Got a commanding officer around here?
Wow. Tough crowd.
What happened to Nyan?
I'd imagine he's savin' his own butt right about now.
Mallin!
- You said there were aliens here. - Yes, sir.
- They came through the gateway. - No, they didn't.
It's a trick. A contrivance.
Perhaps, but one of those aliens, named Daniel,...
...he talked to Nyan through that machine that came through the circle.
The shuttlecraft will take you to my base.
We will question you on this matter further.
Either this Nyan fired at my craft, or another Optrican is out there.
- Either way, I want them found. - Yes, sir.
OK, that's a needle.
Ow!
- Which of you is Daniel? - I'm in command.
Colonel Jack O'Neill here.
I'm unfamiliar with that Optrican designation.
We're not Optrican. We're from another planet.
We travelled through the Stargate.
This type of psychological warfare,...
...simulating the Optrican gateway fallacy to undermine our most basic beliefs,...
- ...will not work. - Yeah, I know that it's hard to believe.
So why not let us show you how the Stargate works?
If you're still not convinced, we'll just take our stuff and go. Fair enough?
Erect a quarantine field.
Hey!
State your purpose.
Nyan.
- We have to get away from here. - Where are my friends?
Captured.
- I will not leave my friends. - We can't get to them.
Rigar set up a quarantine field, and as soon as he finds the soldier you killed...
You're blind!
- They were starting to dig here. - Finish for them.
I wanna know what's in there.
I have the results from the blood analysis.
There's 98% correspondence. They are definitely human.
But none of them match the Bedrosian Central Registry.
Then that proves they're Optrican.
Does it not?
Say what you were thinking.
What if they're telling the truth? What if it is a gateway and the Optricans are right?
- No! It's a lie. - But how can you be sure?
I am sure because we have not spent our lives praying to a God who does not exist.
And many of our people have not died fighting a meaningless war.
I won't accept that.
I've studied the book of Nefertum word for word, cover to cover.
- It is the truth. - What if it's not?
It is the truth.
We began here.
That device is a fabrication, to fake the Optrican gateway myth.
- To what end? - To sow the seeds of doubt among us.
To create dissension from within.
I will not allow our people to have their faith attacked in such a cynical way.
What do you wanna do?
We will not allow the events that have transpired to leave this place.
Then we must find this Nyan and the fourth... Optrican.
Yes. And we'll find out what we can from the three we have in custody.
Then we will dispose of them.
Yes, sir.
We come here for shelter. We also store supplies here.
- Are you injured in addition to your eyes? - I will be fine.
You could sit here.
Here.
It's water.
It's amazing how one discovery can change everything.
I've been searching for proof that we were created on this continent by Nefertum.
Nefertum?
The Blue Lotus Blossom of Ra.
He's represented in our texts by a blue lotus blossom.
But what is "Ra"? And how do you know about Nefertum?
Nefertum was an under-System Lord to the one named Ra,...
...with whom I did battle.
I don't understand.
Nefertum was and is the creator of all of us.
- He created this planet and this continent. - Correction:
...Nefertum was an alien who most likely brought you as slaves...
...many thousands of years ago.
That is what the Optricans say.
Then they are correct.
Oh, dear Nefertum, this is blasphemy.
But if it is true, then it could change everything.
I must show my colleagues at the academy.
Can you be certain they will believe you?
They are scientists. They will realise they are wrong when shown the evidence.
Your military has the Stargate in its command.
Not the gateway. You.
- You are the proof. - I will not be the proof!
And I will not allow my friends to be imprisoned as they are.
You must help me rescue them.
- Let me see. - Do not!
You could have a serious injury.
I will be fine.
I have something to help.
- I'll bring it back with the other supplies. - Nyan...
Nyan!
All right!
That hurts.
Well, this day just keeps getting better and better
Yeah.
- We should talk. - Yes.
Let us talk about your friend in the woods.
I have no friends, in the woods or otherwise.
We're not spies.
We're peaceful explorers.
We travelled through what you call your gateway.
Fine, the Stargate, then. But that's what we came through.
- All four of you? - All three of us.
It is impossible to go to other planets, much less through a circle of stone.
The Stargate isn't made of regular stone.
Given enough power, a wormhole forms that allows us to travel to other worlds.
- Wormhole? - Giant worms. Huge.
"Wormhole" is just an expression. It has nothing to do with worms.
It's a tunnel through space.
How was this illusion of water created that was described?
You're right in that it is an illusion. It's not water.
- Then what is it? - Magic.
An event horizon, made up of quantum particles that form a wormhole.
An alien race, the Goa'uld,...
...used the Stargate to transport humans from Earth to other planets,...
...which is how your people came to be on Bedrosia.
My people began on Bedrosia, as did yours. We were all created by Nefertum.
Nefertum?
Son of Sakmet? Blue Lotus Blossom? That's who you believe created you?
- Yes. - Well, he must have been a Goa'uld.
A what?
An alien. He must have transported your people through the Stargate...
Optrican fallacy!
Return them to the prison tent.
What are you doing?
- You're an alien. - Come no further.
- Daniel said you were all human. - Speak of it no more.
- What are you? - As I have said,...
...speak of it no more.
I did not believe you would return.
You are the most important thing that has ever happened to my planet,...
...although I have not yet decided if it is a good thing or bad.
I've brought something for your eyes.
It is a healing device that, among other things, can regenerate the visual nerves.
It will help most of your sight return within a day.
Of course, it was designed for humans, so how you will respond...
I have no need for it. My sight will return on its own.
Because you're an alien?
The others are human.
I am a Jaffa.
And I possess within me a symbiote that accelerates healing.
Forgive me, but you do not appear to be healing at all.
My symbiote was severely damaged by my own staff-weapon blast.
It must first heal itself.
- How long will that take? - It could be days.
Might it not die itself?
It is possible.
And if that happens?
Then I too will die.
Problem?
Move!
Explain.
- Explain! - I can't.
There is a fourth! He did this!
No, there isn't. I don't know how this man was killed.
Explain this.
What do your people intend to do with my friends?
They are evidence that everything my people believe in is wrong.
That everything the enemy believes is right.
And that is not an easy thing for military minds to digest.
Then they will kill my friends,...
...destroy the Stargate and deny this event ever occurred.
Probably.
We must soon depart.
- To do what? - Rescue them.
- You're still blind. - I will manage.
- Nyan! - You will?
I will not be part of a suicide mission.
This device only works within 30 hours. Do you want my help or not?
You wish to use me to further your scientific aspirations, do you not?
- You are proof my theories are wrong. - You would be better off if I were dead.
Teal'c, I'm a scientist.
If I find evidence my theories are wrong, it's as exciting as if they were correct.
Scientific advance in either direction is still an advance.
You sound like Daniel Jackson.
Do what you can.
The pain is the nerve regenerating.
Only a moment.
When I was out, I went to a place where I could see Rigar's camp.
Your friends are still there. Rigar's men have dug up a smaller device...
- ...that looks related to the gateway. - The DHD.
Perhaps circumstances have become more favourable.
There.
There! I see a light there!
Yes. Good. Then it works on your kind.
- But I can only see a faint light. - That was only the first treatment.
We'll do it as many times as necessary. There's no guarantee, but it should help.
- Then do it. - We must wait between treatments,...
...or we will do damage rather than good.
Daniel, are you OK?
Hey, Rigar, you know that "we come in peace" business?
Bite me.
You have one last chance.
I don't know how that man was killed. We are not Optrican spies.
Is there another of your people out there?
I don't know how that man was killed. We are not...
- There is not another one of us out there! - What's he look like?
- Turn it off! You'll kill him! - No, you will kill him.
Commander Rigar!
Chevron seven locked. Wormhole engaged.
Ready to transmit signal, sir.
SG-1...
This is General Hammond. Come in.
I repeat: SG-1, this is General Hammond. Come in.
- It is a gateway. - This is not the gateway. It is a trick!
Rigar, sir!
SG-1, please respond.
SG-1, please come in.
- Who is this? - This is General Hammond of the SGC.
- With whom am I speaking? - The one who holds your people.
- I want to speak with Colonel O'Neill now. - You will speak with me.
Almost there.
Our objective is to free O'Neill and the others,...
...who will lay down cover fire to let one of them dial the Stargate.
Getting inside the camp is a problem. The field is only penetrable by shuttlecraft.
An obstacle easily overcome.
My vision is improved. Thank you, Nyan.
You may use this to defend yourself.
- I've never used a weapon before. - I am confident you will learn quickly.
We must depart.
Tell me... How does this trick work? Is it some sort of projection?
I assure you, what you are seeing is real.
Now please let me speak to Colonel O'Neill.
Try to pull up the MALP.
From where do you broadcast? Are you in Optrica, or within Bedrosian borders?
Once my people are returned, I will be happy to discuss...
...an exchange of information with you.
See if you can get a clear line of sight on O'Neill.
You will send the plans for this device and the coordinates of your position.
When you have exposed your fraud, I will consider sparing your operatives' lives.
You will return my people immediately. Is that clear?
Do we understand each other?
I assure you, if you attempt any sort of rescue, I will kill your people.
- We've lost all MALP telemetry, sir. - Shut it down.
Call in a transport shuttle. I want them moved to a more secure facility.
Put them away until it gets here.
Are you sure I should be the one to do this?
You will perform well. I am certain.
Stun, don't kill.
Transport shuttle will be here in a moment, sir.
I will accompany the prisoners to base. You will remain here to guard the ring.
Help me! Help me!
He's out there, in the forest!
- Who is out there? - The alien.
He killed the soldier and he tried to kill me.
But I got away and I came here.
Take the shuttlecraft! Find him!
Put him under guard!
- Tell them to launch. Now! - Yes, sir.
Why haven't you launched this craft?
Nyan!
Hit the side button to shoot long range.
- Where's Teal'c? - He's outside.
Daniel, dial us up. We'll lay down cover.
- Unidentified traveller. - Close the iris.
I'm not receiving a GDO code, sir.
- It's SG-1, sir. - Open the iris.
Go!
Carter! Go!
- Nyan, can you cover me? - I will.
Teal'c!
Look a little rough there, Teal'c.
We gotta go.
All right? Go!
- Teal'c! - He's coming with us, O'Neill.
- General Hammond, he's a friend. - Stand down!
A little help here!
Well, Teal'c, all I can say is that Junior is a resilient little guy.
Who is Junior?
It is the name Colonel O'Neill has given my symbiote.
- So how are you feeling? - Greatly improved, thank you.
Here's some good news. The air force has agreed to get you refugee status.
Which means you can stay here on Earth... with us... if you'd like.
What would I do here?
We've got a little job for you, Nyan, if you're interested.
I have a backlog of artefacts from previous missions...
...and I could really use a research assistant.
It'd also be a great way to learn about the history of your ancestors.
But, for now, you both need to rest.
And we'll leave you to that.
Thank you, Teal'c.
You have saved my life, as well as the lives of my friends.
It is I who should thank you.
I wish I could have shown you to the science community.
They would have been fascinated.
Perhaps one day the situation on your planet will improve...
...and you will get that opportunity.