Stargate

Professor!

Catherine!

Professor!

- We found something beautiful. - Ja?

- Big, big, big surprise! - Yeah?

- Over here! Over here! - ?

Catherina, come.

Yes. Do it slowly.

I mean, there are symbols painted everywhere-

names, titles of owners, lists of offerings.

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 Pyramid?

Look. Look.

Inside the pyramid, the most incredible structure ever erected...

there are no writings whatsoever-

Dnjackson. 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.

Well, 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 mean, I've been able to show a fully developed writing system...

appeared in the first two dynasties.

You know, which-

Almost as if it was based on an even earlier prototype.

Is there a lunch or something that everybody-

Taxi!

- Dnjackson. - What? Yes?

Someone wants to speak with you.

Air force? What's this? What is this?

Could you step over to the car, please?

Sir?

- We going somewhere? - You're gonna be fine.

We'll take care of these.

Jackson-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?

I mean, you've just been evicted from your apartment. Your grants have run out.

Everything you own are in those two bags.

You want to prove that your theories are right?

This is your chance.

- What's this? - Travel plans.

Travel.

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.

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.

Hi. Hi.

- Dr. Jackson? - Hello.

Dr. Gary Meyers. How are you?

- What is this place? - Nuclear missile silo.

Now don't worry. It's been completely converted. Barbara Shore.

- Hello. - Hi.

Okay, Jackson.

- Welcome to the well. - Hello. 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.

Now, 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.

Might be some form of hieratic or maybe cuneiform.

Yeah.

Well, the translation of the inner track is wrong.

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.

That's a curious word to use, eh? “Qebeh.”

- Yeah. - Then an adverbial-“sedjem-en-ef.”

Now “sealed and 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.

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.

This figure 10,000 is ludicrous. I mean, Egyptian culture didn't even exist.

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

Well, these are cover stones. Was there a tomb underneath?

No, 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.

- A fixed-quotient synapse- - I know.

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 of cuneiform and other predynastic hieroglyphics.

No matches whatsoever.

I've exhausted all reference material in comparing the symbols in the cartouche...

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.

The financial situation is-

- Hi. - Hello.

- Right here. - Jackson.

I'd like you to meet General West.

Hello. Right, General. Right.

Hi. Okay.

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

Two years?

All right.

Anytime.

I have some stuff to look at.

If you just pass them down.

You'll have to share them because-

I'm sorry, I don't have enough of those.

But, anyway-Okay. All right.

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

Now, on the outer track...

these figures that you would believe 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 or an address of sorts.

Seven points to outline a course to a position, and-

To find a destination within any three-dimensional space...

we need six points...

to determine the exact location.

You said you needed seven points.

Well, 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.

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'

Well, he did it.

No. That symbol isn't anywhere on the device.

What device?

Show him.

Yes, sir.

What is that?

It's your Stargate.

Come, Jackson.

Technical personnel, report to command center.

- Monitors up! - Monitors are up.

Mitch, you wanna bring up the details on the center monitor, please.

Yeah.

I've got details on.

Hold it. Wait.

Do you have a-Here. Sorry.

Hey, hey, don't-

Two figures on either side...

praying beside a pyramid with the 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. - Engage.

- Chevron two is locked in place. - We're at 35%.

All right, we got a condition red at the gate. Evacuate all personnel.

Clear the bay. Clear. Let's go.