Stargate

Professor!

Catherine!

Professor!

I found something beautiful.

I don't believe it! Big, big, big surprise.

Dr. Langford. Hello.

What have we here?

Cover stones.

It's fantastic.

Catherine, come.

What in God's name is that?

I wish I knew.

Look at that.

There is something buried underneath.

Looks like some kind of fossil.

Every other major architectural structure at the time

was covered with detailed hieroglyphics.

When is the academic community gonna accept the fact

the Pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty did not build the Great Pyramids?

Look. inside the pyramid, the most incredible structure ever erected,

there are no writings whatsoever.

Dr. Jackson. You've left out the fact that Colonel Vyse

- discovered quarrymen's inscriptions... - Right.

of Khufu's name within the pyramid.

His discovery was a fraud.

Well, I hope you can prove it.

Who do you think built the pyramids?

I don't have any idea who built them.

Men from Atlantis? Or Martians perhaps?

The point is not who built them. The point is when they were built.

I mean, we all know new geological evidence

dates the Sphinx back to a much earlier period.

And knowing this, I think we have to begin to reevaluate everything

we've come to accept about...

I've been able to show a fully developed writing system

appeared in the first two dynasties.

Which is almost as if it was based on an even earlier prototype.

Is there a lunch or something that everybody...

- Dr. Jackson. - What? Yes?

Someone wants to speak with you.

Air Force? What's this? What is this?

Will you step over to the car, please?

Sir?

- Are we going somewhere? - You're gonna be fine.

We'll take care of these.

Jackson, are those your parents?

Foster parents.

- What is this all about? - A job.

- What kind of a job? - Translation.

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Interested?

I'm gonna go now.

Go where? You've just been evicted from your apartment.

Your grants have run out.

Everything you own are in those two bags.

Want to prove that your theories are right?

This is your chance.

- What's this? - Travel plans.

Sir?

Mrs. O'Neil?

Come on in.

Mrs. O'Neil, is your husband at home?

Yes.

Do you think we might be able to speak with him?

You can try.

Excuse me, Colonel O'Neil. We're from General West's office.

Sir?

We're here to inform you that you've been reactivated.

The guy's a mess.

How'd he get like that?

His kid died. Accidentally shot himself.

Jesus!

Cleared.

Cold?

Allergies.

Always happens when I travel.

There you go.

- Dr. Jackson? - Hello.

- Dr. Gary Meyers. How are you? - What is this place?

Nuclear missile silo. Don't worry, it's been converted. Barbara Shore.

- Hello. - Hi.

- OK, Jackson. Welcome to the well. - Hello.

This is...

Where'd you find this?

Giza Plateau, 1928.

I've never seen anything like this.

Of course you haven't. No one has.

There's two lines of hieroglyphs.

The inner track has the classic figures,

but the outer track is like the cartouche in the center.

It's got writing unlike we've ever found before.

Those aren't hieroglyphics. They might be a form of hieratic, or maybe cuneiform.

Well, the translation of the inner track is wrong.

They must have used Budge. I don't know why they keep reprinting his books.

Excuse me? What are you doing?

- We've used every known technique. - Curious word to use, qebeh.

- Yeah. - Then an adverbial sejemenef.

"Sealed... buried."

Excuse me. What are you doing?

It's not "coffin."

"For all time."

Who the hell translated this?

I did.

Well, this should read, "A million years into the sky is Ra, Sun God...

"sealed and buried for all time..."

It's not "door to heaven."

"His...

"stargate."

So, why is the military so interested in 5,000-year-old Egyptian tablets?

My report says 10,000.

Good afternoon, Colonel.

Do I know you?

I'm Colonel Jack O'Neil from General West's office.

I'll be taking over from now on.

The figure 10,000 is ludicrous. Egyptian culture didn't exist...

We know, but the sonic and radiocarbon tests are conclusive.

These are cover stones. Was there a tomb underneath?

No. But we found something a lot more interesting.

Excuse me. This information has become classified.

From now on, no information is to be passed on to nonmilitary personnel

without my express permission.

Catherine, what's going on here?

I'm not sure.

Colonel O'Neil, I think you owe me an explanation.

I was told I had complete autonomy.

Plans change.

Why are you here? Why did they bring you on this project?

I'm here in case you succeed.

Completed search on cuneiform and other predynastic hieroglyphics.

No matches whatsoever.

I've exhausted all reference material comparing the cartouche's symbols

against all known writing samples from the period pre and post.

Still no similarities.

I'm never gonna get paid.

Can I borrow this?

Orion.

- Right here. - I'd like you to meet General West.

Oh, hello. Oh, right, General.

So you think you've solved in 14 days what they couldn't solve in two years?

Two years?

Anytime.

I have some stuff to look at.

Just pass them down.

You'll have to share them. I'm sorry. I don't have enough.

We're obviously looking at the picture of the cover stones.

Now, on the outer track,

these figures that you had believed to be words to be translated

were, in fact...

Sorry about that. Were, in fact, star constellations.

Now, these constellations were placed in a unique order forming a map.

Seven points to outline a course to a position and...

To find a destination within any three-dimensional space,

you need six points

to determine the exact location.

You said you needed seven points.

No, six for the destination.

But to chart a course, you need...

a point of origin.

Except there's only six symbols in the cartouche.

Well, the seventh actually isn't inside the cartouche.

It's just below it here, designated by

a little pyramid...

with two...

funny...

neat little guys and...

funny little line coming out of the top.

Anyway...

- He did it. - No!

That symbol isn't anywhere on the device.

What device?

Show him.

What is that?

That's your stargate.

Come, Jackson.

Technical personnel, report to command center.

- Monitors up. - Monitors are up.

Mitch, bring up the details on the center monitor.

I've got details on.

Hold it. Wait.

Do you have a...

Oh. Here. Sorry.

Hey. Don't...

Two figures on either side...

praying beside a pyramid, with a sun directly above it.

He's right. It was in front of us the whole time.

General West.

Jackson has identified the seventh symbol.

Go ahead.

Programming seventh symbol into computer.

Chevron one is holding.

Chevron one is locked in place.

Power output at 23%.

Chevron two is holding.

- Engaged. - Chevron two is locked in place.

We're at 35%.

We got a Condition Red at the gate. Evacuate all personnel.

This was under the cover stones?

Yes. My father found it, 1928.

Made out of a mineral unlike any found on Earth.

Chevron five, locked in place.