Stargate SG-1

I'm sure I'll see you again.

Hey.

With any luck, I'll get sick.

"With any luck, I'll get sick"?

Lieutenant Rush is a nurse. She works in the infirmary.

So you were... flirting?

- Well, I'm thinking of asking her out. - Then you should.

In Kelowna, it's common for that request to be passed on by a friend.

- Oh, it is not. - You could at least see if she's receptive.

Jonas, you are such a chickenshit.

Unscheduled offworld activation.

- Who is it? - The Russian team, ahead of schedule.

- They're requesting a medical team. - Open the iris.

Page General Hammond and Colonel O'Neill.

I thought aliens weren't allowed back to the SGC without prior permission.

Carter, what's goin' on?

Colonel Evanov and his team brought this visitor back with them, sir.

- Sergei, who the hell's that? - I am Alebran.

Alebran has vital information on the Goa'uld Nirrti.

What about her?

She is experimenting on my people, transforming us.

I knew you would want to know what Nirrti was doing to his people,

since it was you who allowed her to go free.

Colonel, what's going on?

Old Sergei brought this guy back from 367 without authorisation.

- You'd better have a damn good reason. - General, sir...

Alebran and his people are innocent victims of Nirrti.

I felt certain you'd wish to act.

Colonel Evanov has promised you will help us.

Has he now?

Are you in pain?

It's nothing that I cannot endure.

Please, I must know if you will help my people.

Sir, I'd like to take him into isolation room three.

- Very well. - Come with me.

We found him near the Stargate after we performed a recon of Nirrti's fortress,

or I should say he found us.

Alebran has asked for our help to save his people being held prisoner inside.

I thought that she was helping us. We all did.

And then I saw one of my people die in such a horrible way, I realised...

When I questioned her methods, she released me.

- She let you go? - I was well enough to go home, she said.

When I arrived back in the village, everyone was dead.

She'd lied to us.

Those of us she took away were the last of our people.

- She was using us. - You look OK to me.

Please, do not be fooled by my appearance.

I have spent as much time in the machine as the others.

I know that I have been changed. Inside, I am not like I was before.

- What kind of machine? - It's one that sees inside of us.

It lets her manipulate that which we are made of.

If he's talking about a machine that can directly alter human DNA in real time...

You believe Nirrti is attempting to create a Hok'tar?

- I'm not familiar with that term. - It means "advanced human".

Nirrti wants to create the perfect human host to increase her power.

So... she's at it again.

No, sir. This is worse.

Sam's right.

Up to now, Nirrti has been using eugenics, like with Cassandra's people,

breeding only those that demonstrated specific genetic attributes.

With a machine to alter DNA and a population to experiment on,

Nirrti could create a new host, or alter the DNA of her current one.

A Goa'uld with the powers of a Hok'tar.

Obviously we can't let that happen.

Nirrti does not have the power and resources of the other Goa'uld.

She has only a small number of Jaffa in her service.

I believe her capture, or if necessary her assassination, is quite possible.

- Sir? - Agreed.

- Can you get us in that fortress? - No, I cannot go back.

- We're offering to help your people. - No, there's no time.

I feel something happening.

Alebran believes Nirrti has the power to kill him, even here.

What if she does?

Cassandra...

We need to know if Alebran has a device like the one Nirrti placed in Cassandra.

- You mean like a bomb? - Go.

Get him into x-ray.

- No, it's too late. - Breathe deeply. Go! Let's move!

Take it easy.

What is happening?

Several years ago Nirrti hid a naqahdah device inside a young girl

in order to destroy the SGC.

My team can take him back home.

No, these devices detonate in close proximity to the Stargate.

- You have to kill me. - Take it easy.

- Kill me now! - Give him a sedative, 2cc Valium.

- Something terrible is happening. - We need a chest x-ray.

- No! - Get him down.

Please kill me!

Everybody get back!

What happened?

This is Hammond. Hazmat team to the level 22 elevators immediately.

It's like every cell in his body broke down.

Nirrti must have written some kind of time delay into his DNA.

There's nothing we could have done, sir.

- How soon can your team be ready? - Right away.

- I'd like to take SG-3 with me as backup. - Very well.

Allow my team to join SG-1, General.

- I don't think so, sir. - Not so fast, Colonel.

- Sir? - Lieutenant Colonel Evanov's team

has gathered intelligence that could be useful to you.

We have scouted the entire area, sir.

I can get you right inside Nirrti's fortress.

Fine. Get geared up.

Thank you.

General...

Like it or not, a Russian team is operating out of the SGC.

I've been asked to integrate them more fully.

Does it have to be with my team?

Lieutenant Colonel Evanov's a fine officer. I'm sure you'll agree.

You'll be in command.

Yes, sir.

I'll remind him of that.

This is the path leading to the fortress, guarded by Jaffa.

- How many? - Only ten.

All right, Evanov. You're with us.

- They're well positioned. - We're gonna need a diversion.

Carter, Jonas, that's you.

Kree, Jaffa!

- Colonel! - I got him.

Evanov, stay out here for now. Watch our six.

Yes, sir.

Colonel.

Please... don't hurt us.

We're not here to hurt anyone.

We've come here to rescue you, take you from this place.

- No, we can't leave. - One step at a time here, Jonas.

Where's Nirrti?

- She is not here. - Are you expecting her back?

Of course... for our treatments.

My name is Jonas.

I am... Wodan.

We've come from a place called Earth...

to help you... all of you.

That is not necessary.

Nirrti is helping us.

- Excuse me? - She cares for us.

- Nirrti is our god. - Nirrti is of a race called the Goa'uld.

They are parasitical beings that use our kind as hosts.

We are very ill.

Nirrti is curing us of our sickness.

That is most unlikely.

When the god Nirrti came, a great plague had befallen our people.

We were dying.

With the machine, Nirrti has kept us alive.

Check it out.

Don't take this wrong, friend, but... if this is cured...

My brother Alebran once looked as I do now.

In time, she made him whole again.

Alebran, you say?

Your brother is dead.

Nirrti allowed him to return to our village.

There's no one left alive at your village.

Alebran told us himself.

Wha...?

Might have been a different Alebran.

It's... a popular name.

The point is, we need to know exactly when and where Nirrti's coming back.

Very soon.

And when she comes, she will punish you.

Your people were never sick.

- Nirrti's been lying to you. - No!

No, the plague ravaged our people long before she came.

Our village was almost wiped out.

It is possible she found them like this and took advantage of their situation.

She brought me to this place. She gave me back my life.

You said Nirrti would be returning for your treatments.

- What if you didn't get them? - We would die.

We must receive treatment by tomorrow.

- Their mutations might be unstable. - So... what happened to Alebran

will most likely happen to them too, if they don't go back in that machine.

This is incredibly advanced technology.

My guess is that it was built by the Ancients.

- Can you figure it out? - Not by tomorrow.

Maybe with a few days and a lot of help.

- We're gonna need Nirrti, sir. - Yeah.

Figure out what you can. I'll go brief Evanov.

Jonas, Teal'c, take these folk someplace where they can be comfortable.

He intends to kill her.

- What? - You are planning to kill Nirrti.

- Are you certain, Eggar? - Yes, even now.

No. First I intend to ask her, in the nicest possible way,

to undo what she's done to you folks.

You'll just have to trust me. We came here to help you.

Only because you believe you are responsible for what has happened to us.

Do what you can.

- Colonel. - Nirrti's not home.

She must have left while we were on Earth.

She's coming back. I wanna set up an ambush.

- I will inform my men. - Your team will be our backup.

We need her alive. She's the only one that knows how to use that machine.

Very well.

By the way, did you talk to any of the people in there, other than Alebran?

No. Why?

Probably nothing.

I'll relieve you in two hours.

- This is where you sleep? - Yes.

- How did you...? - We cannot allow you to harm Nirrti.