Stargate SG-1 s02e21 Episode Script
1969
What is she doing? She said she had to time the caIcuIations|exactIy right this time of year.
This time of year?|What difference does it make? Uh, she said something about soIar Uh WeII, to be honest with you,|I wasn't reaIIy paying attention.
ReaIIy? Carter? AImost there, sir.
This time of year|the direct Iine between P2X-555 .
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and the Earth takes us|within 70,000 miIes of the sun.
I'm updating the drift caIcuIation to|incIude gravitationaI space/time warping.
We know that! Let's go.
Yes, sir.
You can start the diaIIing procedure.
Sir? - How's the hand?|- A IittIe sore, but aII right.
Thank you.
Chevron one encoded.
Take this note with you.
Keep it in your|vest pocket tiII you get on the other side.
It's fairIy seIf-expIanatory.
Chevron two encoded.
- Is everything aII right?|- Everything's fine.
- (technician) Chevron three encoded.
|- Time to ship out, Captain.
Yes, sir.
Chevron four encoded.
Chevron five encoded.
Ah! Done aIready? Chevron six encoded.
Chevron seven Iocked.
(rumbling) (O'Neill) What the? - Did you see that?|- Uh, Jack, do you see this? (O'Neill) Captain Carter, .
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where are we? I don't know.
For a minute,|we were back in the gate room.
You know, this Iooks suspiciousIy|Iike the butt end of a Titan missiIe.
(PA) Standing by for test burn|in T minus 20 seconds.
- What is a test burn?|- Just what it sounds Iike.
Any ideas here? Abort! Abort! Fifteen seconds.
Abort! Stand by for ignition.
- Abort!|- Ten, .
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nine, eight, seven, .
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six, .
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five, .
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four, three, .
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two, one, .
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ignition.
How'd you know that wouId work? - I did not.
|- (buzzer) Hands on your head! Get on your knees! Who are you?|How did you get into this faciIity? - What faciIity?|- Answer the question! Sir, don't say anything.
|This is the gate room.
- Shut up!|- We're stiII in Cheyenne Mountain.
Next person who shoots|his mouth off gets this! - Take them to the holding room.
|- Yes, sir.
No, take me to your CO.
The major wants aII of this|stowed for transport, sir.
What is it? My orders are to forget I ever saw it, sir,|so I don't know what you're taIking about.
Thank you, Sergeant.
I think we've traveIIed back in time,|about 30 years.
I think we were in both time frames|simuItaneousIy, .
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so the Stargate was there|one minute and gone the next.
LittIe bump in the caIcuIations, Captain? I'm sorry, sir.
I don't know what to say.
Get us back home|and we'II say it never happened.
Or get us back before we Ieft|and it won't happen.
WeII, think about it.
We're the first humans in history|to go back in time.
WeII, for aII we know.
If we couId figure out how to do this|again, think of what we couId do.
We couId actuaIIy visit BabyIon.
We couId|see the Great WaII of China being buiIt! - Or prevent regrettabIe historicaI events.
|- No! That's exactIy what we can't do.
Why not? Because of the grandfather paradox.
If you murdered your grandfather, your|own father wouId never have been born.
So you're saying that|if we change our own past We couId change our worId|in ways that we can't possibIy imagine.
We might cease to exist, aIong with|everything and everyone we know.
I have no part in the history of your worId.
But when they find out about|the Goa'uId threat, .
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they might not open the Stargate|in the first pIace.
In which case, we never meet and you're|back to being first prime of Apophis.
I see.
So we don't teII them about the Goa'uId.
How do we expIain the IarvaI Goa'uId|that TeaI'c is carrying? Our advanced weapons, our GDOs? Correct me if I'm wrong, but .
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haven't we aItered history aIready|just by being here? We have to concentrate|on damage controI.
At the very Ieast, destroy|our weapons and technoIogy.
- That's gonna be a IittIe tough.
|- We aIso cannot teII anyone anything .
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about who we are or where we're from.
This is a top-secret faciIity.
Anonymity does not go over big here.
We cannot teII them|we're from the future, sir.
- Even if|- (door opens) - DanieI?|- He asked if we were Soviet spies.
I just Come with me.
Sure.
You bet.
(O'Neill) Nyet?! I'm Major Robert Thornbird.
And you are? (coughs) Captain James T Kirk|of the Starship Enterprise.
Your dog tags say otherwise.
They're Iying.
Your American accent|is very impressive, Mr Kirk.
Before we ship you out and hand you over|to wherever they take spies Iike you, .
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I wanted a word.
Your incursion into our training faciIity .
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is gonna Ieave|an embarrassing mark on my record.
Training faciIity? You don't think we'd test fire a real|missiIe 28 fIoors inside a mountain? Listen, you don't have the exact date What was the weapon you used? Weapon? Our cameras saw some sort of weapon.
WeII, it's hard to say.
Some sort of state secret? No, just difficuIt to pronounce.
My government doesn't take kindIy|to spies in its highest security faciIities.
Neither do I.
Oh Bob Can I caII you Bob? Even though you achieved nothing.
UnIess that's exactIy|what we were trying to achieve.
Kirk, you can taIk to me,|or you can taIk to the CIA.
Ooh AII right.
I'II be honest with you, Bob.
My name's not Kirk.
It's SkywaIker.
Luke SkywaIker.
StiII no sign of SG-1 , sir.
|They never made it to P2X-555.
Very weII.
SG-5 wiII have to compIete their mission.
If I may ask, sir,|what are we going to do about SG-1? They're out there somewhere.
|HopefuIIy, they'II find their way back.
ShouIdn't we start a search? I'm afraid this is one mission|they're on their own.
Yes, sir.
I don't know where we're headed.
They'II|spIit us up.
We won't have much time to Escape and Iive out our Iives|without affecting history.
Or I can't think of an ''or'' at the moment, sir.
- No ''or''?|- There's an ''or''.
You can't wiII something to happen|because you want it that way.
Captain, where there's a wiII,|there's an ''or''.
Way.
If I remain on this pIanet, I wiII eventuaIIy|be taken over by my mature symbiote.
I'II keep an eye.
You heIp the driver.
- FIat tyre?|- I'm the one who arranged it.
Before I even think of doing|what's asked of me in the note, .
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I need to know who you are|and who gave it to you.
Oh, my God! My name is Samantha Carter|and you gave me the note, sir.
GeneraI Hammond gave me a note .
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and toId me to keep it in my pocket|untiI I got to the other side.
It's addressed to me.
In my handwriting.
What's it say? ''HeIp them.
'' HeIping you wiII Iead to court martiaI,|so I'd Iike to know why I wouId do that.
- Because it's your idea.
|- AIbeit one you won't have for 30 years.
What? I know this is hard to understand, but that|is how far back in time we've traveIIed.
- I'm sorry.
I can't heIp you.
|- (Daniel) Wait! We can we can prove it.
- (O'Neill) What's the date?|- August 4th.
- '69.
What happened in '69?|- The moon Ianding.
- That was a coupIe of weeks ago, right?|- The entire worId knows that.
But you watched it from your father's|bedside in his hospitaI room, .
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just two days after his first heart attack.
- How did you know?|- Because we know you.
We will know you.
For some reason, 30 years ago|you decided we wouId need heIp.
Otherwise you wouIdn't be|standing there with a note.
Now, are you gonna|Iisten to yourseIf or not? - There are two men, incIuding the driver.
|- Thank you.
Ow! I'm sorry, miss.
Did I hurt you? It's ''Captain''.
And it's aII right, Lieutenant.
Uh May I see the note? We don't want to hurt anybody,|but we do have to knock those guys out.
WiII this do? CaII for heIp.
The dangerous foreign agents you now|guard have inexpIicabIy freed themseIves.
HeIp! - Where's the rest of our gear?|- In a separate truck for security reasons.
- They shouId be right behind.
|- OK, good.
Get down on the ground.
Go! Everything you confiscated from us|is in these two boxes? - Except for your ray gun, yes.
|- Right.
Watch yourseIf.
Your Major Whatshisname|had video tape of this thing in action.
Uh, yes.
It was in those boxes|aIong with everything eIse.
Good.
- Got any cash?|- Uh, yeah.
- I might have some.
|- That's good.
I'II pay you back.
With interest.
You must keep everything you've seen|and everything we've toId you a secret.
- For the rest of your Iife.
|- GeneraI Hammond.
I Iike the sound of that.
What are you gonna do now? WeII, you're better off not knowing.
But I do want you to know that I'm about|to keep you from getting court-martiaIIed.
We shouId get off this road.
|Find the interstate.
- (Daniel) So what's the pIan?|- (O'Neill) Find the Stargate.
- (Daniel) That's the pIan?|- (O'Neill) EIegant in its simpIicity, isn't it? And if we don't find the Stargate? - There's one in Antarctica.
|- Antarctica! That's a fabuIous pIan.
(Teal'c) Assuming we find the Stargate,|how do we get back to the future? WeII, now, that's aII in the note.
Right? Uh, no, sir.
No, sir? WeII, it doesn't expIain how to get back.
|At Ieast, not expIicitIy.
''HeIp them.
'' ''August 10th, 9.
1 5am.
|August 1 1th, 6.
03pm.
'' That's heIpfuI.
He had to be intentionaIIy cryptic, so as|not to risk changing his own history.
August 10th.
That's cryptic.
It just means that at 9.
1 5am|something is going to happen.
And happen again the next day at 6.
03.
We just have to figure out|what that something is.
Right.
(car approaches) The 'Vette bIew it when they went with|that body styIe.
They used to be so cooI.
ActuaIIy, I was about|four-and-a-haIf years oId in '69.
Carter, stick your thumb out.
(Daniel) We shouId go to New York.
Why? That's where Catherine Iived, or Iives.
|She's the onIy person outside of miIitary .
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who might know about the Stargate.
|She won't teII us over the phone.
DanieI, you can't.
In order to preserve our past, Catherine|has to first meet you years from now.
So we go in disguise.
Pretend to be foreigners.
- How are you gonna do that?|- I speak 23 different Ianguages.
Pick one.
She began her research in the Iate '60s.
Maybe we gave her the idea|in the first pIace.
This method appears to be ineffective.
TeaI'c.
TeaI'c! What are you thinking? That is effective, O'NeiII.
Hey! We wouId've stopped, man.
Hi.
Listen, we've got gas money.
|Where are you headed? Upstate New York.
Some big concert.
|Where you headed? New York.
Back East.
Hop in.
Ride up front with me, brother.
It's cooI.
I'm MichaeI.
I am not at Iiberty to reveaI my identity.
Far out! - HeIIo.
|- Hi.
So what'd you do? We didn't, uh We didn't do anything.
We've got a IittIe probIem with .
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the EstabIishment.
I so reIate to that.
So if you couId take us|as far as New York I reaIIy Iove your hair.
Thanks.
Listen, we couId reaIIy use|some cheap cIothes.
If you see a cheap cIothes pIace around,|we'd appreciate it.
No sweat! So, uh Your thing That thing What's it symboIise? Peace? SIavery to faIse gods.
Right on! So, um, it's made out of - Do not discuss it further.
|- I dig! It's cooI.
So you just go AWOL? Hey, we're cooI.
After the concert, me and Jenny, we're|thinking of crossing the border to Canada.
For what reason? You know, man.
The war.
The war with Canada? No.
FIare.
- What?|- It's the onIy expIanation.
- We're here because of a soIar fIare.
|- Not an error in your caIcuIations? I don't think so.
After the Abydos mission,|when we couIdn't make the gate work, .
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I researched aIternative appIications,|incIuding time traveI.
- What'd you come up with?|- Just this.
What if a massive soIar fIare|just happened to occur .
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exactIy when we were traveIIing|between Earth and another Stargate? If the wormhoIe moved cIoser to the sun|because of the fIare's magnetic fieId, .
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the increased gravity|couId sIingshot us back to Earth.
- Why haven't we tried this before?|- Because fIares are impossibIe to predict.
Light takes severaI minutes to traveI, so|by the time a fIare has been confirmed, .
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it's aIready too Iate.
If they're impossibIe to predict,|how do we get ourseIves home? August 10th, 9.
1 5am.
It's in the note.
- That's the time of the next fIare?|- Yeah.
GeneraI Hammond must've|used my research to work it out.
Maybe that's why he asked you|to do the research.
And then he Iooked up two fIares in|August of 1969 that couId send us home.
GeneraI Hammond, you oId son of a (twigs crack) HeIIo.
Soup? Who are you guys? Come on, have something to eat.
TraveIIing between Earth and where?|What's that about? - When I said that, I was just imagining|- I don't think so, man.
You said that you were in troubIe|with the EstabIishment.
(O'Neill) And .
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we are.
- We are.
|- Just not the EstabIishment .
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of this pIanet.
No, it's true, MichaeI.
We came to Earth to hide among|your peopIe a Iong, Iong time ago.
From a gaIaxy far, far away.
But now it's time to go home.
|And we need your heIp.
How? We need to be in a pIace|caIIed New York by tomorrow.
I don't know, man.
It's aII right.
Whoa! That was unreaI! It is, in fact, extremeIy reaI.
|As is our need for assistance.
We have to heIp them get home, MichaeI.
OK.
We'II do it.
Sir, remember to use|the hydrogen-aIpha soIar fiIter.
- Or I'II burn my eyes out.
I know.
|- Good Iuck.
(O'Neill) Yes! AII right.
We've got one shot to prove|Carter's theory.
Don't screw it up, Jack.
Is not astronomy|one of your hobbies, O'NeiII? Not quite on this scaIe.
Let's get that dome open.
Father never toId me|Heinrich Gruber had a son.
(German accent) I was a smaII boy when|they were stiII working together, but .
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mein Vater often spoke of dein Vater .
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as one of the few peopIe|in this worId he couId trust.
Before we continue I must ask .
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what was so important it couIdn't be|discussed over the teIephone? Mein father beIieved|there must have been a second artefact .
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near that which|dein Vater discovered in 1928.
He referred to it in his notes|as a ''doorway to heaven''.
You found onIy a fragment?|Nothing beneath? The artefact had aIready been removed.
We aIways knew there had to be a second|device with which to controI the ring.
I reaIise these matters require|the utmost propriety, but Did your father ever expIain to you the|nature of the work he was doing in 1945? OnIy that the American miIitary .
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was under the mistaken impression|that the device dein father discovered .
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might hoId some .
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dark miIitary purpose.
Even that much, I was sworn to secrecy.
- There was an accident.
|- Ernest LittIefieId.
When the war ended, my father and I|were toId never to speak of it again.
It is simpIy Iocked away.
And you cannot teII me where? Some oId armoury in Washington, DC,|gathering dust.
But it's pointIess.
The miIitary won't even|acknowIedge its existence.
WouId you know which armoury? AII right.
In a few seconds, we'II know|whether or not we can go back.
And if we cannot, O'NeiII? I guess we stay.
AII right.
It's showtime.
Brother TeaI'c, .
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at preciseIy 6.
03pm tomorrow, .
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we're going home.
- (Carter) WeII?|- Your theory is confirmed.
Where do we have to be|for tomorrow's fIare? Washington, DC.
We're aImost there, sir.
|We must find a power source right away.
We wiII.
Listen, I reaIIy have to say this.
The two of you have been unbeIievabIy Groovy.
Groovy, I think, is the word.
The peopIe of our worId|wiII be extremeIy gratefuI.
- Not the EstabIishment, mind you.
|- No, not them.
What we're trying to say is that|we have to go the rest of the way aIone.
Why? - Because it's dangerous.
|- We want you to take us with you.
- We can't do that.
|- But you owe us.
Yes, we do.
We owe you a Iot.
But you beIong here.
You have to trust me on this -|this is a great time.
MichaeI got drafted.
We were just going to the concert first.
|You know, one Iast bIast.
But if we went with you I don't wanna kiII anybody.
- MichaeI|- Sir, you can't say anything! He has to make up his own mind.
We can waIk|the rest of the way from here.
We gotta go.
I'm sorry.
Your secret's safe with us.
I know that.
Thank you.
Take care.
Where to? - Back the way we came, via P2X-555.
|- How do you know we'II traveI forward? GeneraI Hammond must've chosen fIares|on the opposite side of the sun .
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so the sun's rotationaI differentiaI|wiII send us forward instead of back.
We just have to trust him.
We are|1 5 minutes away from our onIy chance! - And we haven't found a power source|- How much power? (engine revs) Keep it going! You, stop! We have got to go.
The timing has to be exact.
|Just a few more seconds.
It's cIose enough.
Go! (gunshots) Get down! Auntie Em? - Auntie Em?|- (Carter) Where is everyone? HeIIo, Jack.
TeaI'c.
DanieI? I hardIy recognised you with hair.
(clears throat) Do Do we know you? Sam wiII recognise me.
Come cIoser.
Oh, my God! Cassandra! Dear Sam! Excuse me.
- Who is this?|- Cassandra.
- Cassie's 1 3 years oId.
|- Not any more, Jack.
I've been expecting you -|my whoIe Iife, in fact.
You entered the Stargate|a few seconds too soon, .
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so the fIare threw you far into the future.
I've come to send you back|where you beIong.
- How did you know we'd come here?|- When I was oId enough to understand, .
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Sam expIained what happened,|and that I'd be the one to send you home.
- Like a seIf-fuIfiIIing prophecy?|- Mm-hm.
As much as I'd Iove to spend more time|with you, the timing must be precise.
- You have to go.
|- AIready? But there's so much that you You know I can't.
I wiII teII you this.
Your journey's just beginning.
Incoming traveIIer, sir.
(Stargate alarm) - It's SG-1 !|- Open the iris.
Yes! We're home.
Thanks to one sparky,|young Lieutenant Hammond.
How did you know, sir? As a Lieutenant, I was asked to escort|four peopIe out of Cheyenne Mountain.
In the vest pocket of one,|I found a note with my name on it.
NeedIess to say,|I foIIowed its instructions.
- And you knew when to give it to me?|- Not untiI I saw the cut on your hand.
Remember when I took your cuffs off? Then you've been waiting|for this to happen.
Ever since we met.
|I aImost didn't Iet you go.
But if you didn't,|you wouId've changed your own history.
It's going to be a Iong debriefing, peopIe.
|We'II start in one hour.
Yes, sir.
Oh, by the way, CoIoneI, .
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with interest,|you owe me 539 doIIars and 50 cents.
Yes, sir.
This time of year?|What difference does it make? Uh, she said something about soIar Uh WeII, to be honest with you,|I wasn't reaIIy paying attention.
ReaIIy? Carter? AImost there, sir.
This time of year|the direct Iine between P2X-555 .
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and the Earth takes us|within 70,000 miIes of the sun.
I'm updating the drift caIcuIation to|incIude gravitationaI space/time warping.
We know that! Let's go.
Yes, sir.
You can start the diaIIing procedure.
Sir? - How's the hand?|- A IittIe sore, but aII right.
Thank you.
Chevron one encoded.
Take this note with you.
Keep it in your|vest pocket tiII you get on the other side.
It's fairIy seIf-expIanatory.
Chevron two encoded.
- Is everything aII right?|- Everything's fine.
- (technician) Chevron three encoded.
|- Time to ship out, Captain.
Yes, sir.
Chevron four encoded.
Chevron five encoded.
Ah! Done aIready? Chevron six encoded.
Chevron seven Iocked.
(rumbling) (O'Neill) What the? - Did you see that?|- Uh, Jack, do you see this? (O'Neill) Captain Carter, .
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where are we? I don't know.
For a minute,|we were back in the gate room.
You know, this Iooks suspiciousIy|Iike the butt end of a Titan missiIe.
(PA) Standing by for test burn|in T minus 20 seconds.
- What is a test burn?|- Just what it sounds Iike.
Any ideas here? Abort! Abort! Fifteen seconds.
Abort! Stand by for ignition.
- Abort!|- Ten, .
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nine, eight, seven, .
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six, .
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five, .
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four, three, .
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two, one, .
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ignition.
How'd you know that wouId work? - I did not.
|- (buzzer) Hands on your head! Get on your knees! Who are you?|How did you get into this faciIity? - What faciIity?|- Answer the question! Sir, don't say anything.
|This is the gate room.
- Shut up!|- We're stiII in Cheyenne Mountain.
Next person who shoots|his mouth off gets this! - Take them to the holding room.
|- Yes, sir.
No, take me to your CO.
The major wants aII of this|stowed for transport, sir.
What is it? My orders are to forget I ever saw it, sir,|so I don't know what you're taIking about.
Thank you, Sergeant.
I think we've traveIIed back in time,|about 30 years.
I think we were in both time frames|simuItaneousIy, .
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so the Stargate was there|one minute and gone the next.
LittIe bump in the caIcuIations, Captain? I'm sorry, sir.
I don't know what to say.
Get us back home|and we'II say it never happened.
Or get us back before we Ieft|and it won't happen.
WeII, think about it.
We're the first humans in history|to go back in time.
WeII, for aII we know.
If we couId figure out how to do this|again, think of what we couId do.
We couId actuaIIy visit BabyIon.
We couId|see the Great WaII of China being buiIt! - Or prevent regrettabIe historicaI events.
|- No! That's exactIy what we can't do.
Why not? Because of the grandfather paradox.
If you murdered your grandfather, your|own father wouId never have been born.
So you're saying that|if we change our own past We couId change our worId|in ways that we can't possibIy imagine.
We might cease to exist, aIong with|everything and everyone we know.
I have no part in the history of your worId.
But when they find out about|the Goa'uId threat, .
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they might not open the Stargate|in the first pIace.
In which case, we never meet and you're|back to being first prime of Apophis.
I see.
So we don't teII them about the Goa'uId.
How do we expIain the IarvaI Goa'uId|that TeaI'c is carrying? Our advanced weapons, our GDOs? Correct me if I'm wrong, but .
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haven't we aItered history aIready|just by being here? We have to concentrate|on damage controI.
At the very Ieast, destroy|our weapons and technoIogy.
- That's gonna be a IittIe tough.
|- We aIso cannot teII anyone anything .
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about who we are or where we're from.
This is a top-secret faciIity.
Anonymity does not go over big here.
We cannot teII them|we're from the future, sir.
- Even if|- (door opens) - DanieI?|- He asked if we were Soviet spies.
I just Come with me.
Sure.
You bet.
(O'Neill) Nyet?! I'm Major Robert Thornbird.
And you are? (coughs) Captain James T Kirk|of the Starship Enterprise.
Your dog tags say otherwise.
They're Iying.
Your American accent|is very impressive, Mr Kirk.
Before we ship you out and hand you over|to wherever they take spies Iike you, .
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I wanted a word.
Your incursion into our training faciIity .
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is gonna Ieave|an embarrassing mark on my record.
Training faciIity? You don't think we'd test fire a real|missiIe 28 fIoors inside a mountain? Listen, you don't have the exact date What was the weapon you used? Weapon? Our cameras saw some sort of weapon.
WeII, it's hard to say.
Some sort of state secret? No, just difficuIt to pronounce.
My government doesn't take kindIy|to spies in its highest security faciIities.
Neither do I.
Oh Bob Can I caII you Bob? Even though you achieved nothing.
UnIess that's exactIy|what we were trying to achieve.
Kirk, you can taIk to me,|or you can taIk to the CIA.
Ooh AII right.
I'II be honest with you, Bob.
My name's not Kirk.
It's SkywaIker.
Luke SkywaIker.
StiII no sign of SG-1 , sir.
|They never made it to P2X-555.
Very weII.
SG-5 wiII have to compIete their mission.
If I may ask, sir,|what are we going to do about SG-1? They're out there somewhere.
|HopefuIIy, they'II find their way back.
ShouIdn't we start a search? I'm afraid this is one mission|they're on their own.
Yes, sir.
I don't know where we're headed.
They'II|spIit us up.
We won't have much time to Escape and Iive out our Iives|without affecting history.
Or I can't think of an ''or'' at the moment, sir.
- No ''or''?|- There's an ''or''.
You can't wiII something to happen|because you want it that way.
Captain, where there's a wiII,|there's an ''or''.
Way.
If I remain on this pIanet, I wiII eventuaIIy|be taken over by my mature symbiote.
I'II keep an eye.
You heIp the driver.
- FIat tyre?|- I'm the one who arranged it.
Before I even think of doing|what's asked of me in the note, .
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I need to know who you are|and who gave it to you.
Oh, my God! My name is Samantha Carter|and you gave me the note, sir.
GeneraI Hammond gave me a note .
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and toId me to keep it in my pocket|untiI I got to the other side.
It's addressed to me.
In my handwriting.
What's it say? ''HeIp them.
'' HeIping you wiII Iead to court martiaI,|so I'd Iike to know why I wouId do that.
- Because it's your idea.
|- AIbeit one you won't have for 30 years.
What? I know this is hard to understand, but that|is how far back in time we've traveIIed.
- I'm sorry.
I can't heIp you.
|- (Daniel) Wait! We can we can prove it.
- (O'Neill) What's the date?|- August 4th.
- '69.
What happened in '69?|- The moon Ianding.
- That was a coupIe of weeks ago, right?|- The entire worId knows that.
But you watched it from your father's|bedside in his hospitaI room, .
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just two days after his first heart attack.
- How did you know?|- Because we know you.
We will know you.
For some reason, 30 years ago|you decided we wouId need heIp.
Otherwise you wouIdn't be|standing there with a note.
Now, are you gonna|Iisten to yourseIf or not? - There are two men, incIuding the driver.
|- Thank you.
Ow! I'm sorry, miss.
Did I hurt you? It's ''Captain''.
And it's aII right, Lieutenant.
Uh May I see the note? We don't want to hurt anybody,|but we do have to knock those guys out.
WiII this do? CaII for heIp.
The dangerous foreign agents you now|guard have inexpIicabIy freed themseIves.
HeIp! - Where's the rest of our gear?|- In a separate truck for security reasons.
- They shouId be right behind.
|- OK, good.
Get down on the ground.
Go! Everything you confiscated from us|is in these two boxes? - Except for your ray gun, yes.
|- Right.
Watch yourseIf.
Your Major Whatshisname|had video tape of this thing in action.
Uh, yes.
It was in those boxes|aIong with everything eIse.
Good.
- Got any cash?|- Uh, yeah.
- I might have some.
|- That's good.
I'II pay you back.
With interest.
You must keep everything you've seen|and everything we've toId you a secret.
- For the rest of your Iife.
|- GeneraI Hammond.
I Iike the sound of that.
What are you gonna do now? WeII, you're better off not knowing.
But I do want you to know that I'm about|to keep you from getting court-martiaIIed.
We shouId get off this road.
|Find the interstate.
- (Daniel) So what's the pIan?|- (O'Neill) Find the Stargate.
- (Daniel) That's the pIan?|- (O'Neill) EIegant in its simpIicity, isn't it? And if we don't find the Stargate? - There's one in Antarctica.
|- Antarctica! That's a fabuIous pIan.
(Teal'c) Assuming we find the Stargate,|how do we get back to the future? WeII, now, that's aII in the note.
Right? Uh, no, sir.
No, sir? WeII, it doesn't expIain how to get back.
|At Ieast, not expIicitIy.
''HeIp them.
'' ''August 10th, 9.
1 5am.
|August 1 1th, 6.
03pm.
'' That's heIpfuI.
He had to be intentionaIIy cryptic, so as|not to risk changing his own history.
August 10th.
That's cryptic.
It just means that at 9.
1 5am|something is going to happen.
And happen again the next day at 6.
03.
We just have to figure out|what that something is.
Right.
(car approaches) The 'Vette bIew it when they went with|that body styIe.
They used to be so cooI.
ActuaIIy, I was about|four-and-a-haIf years oId in '69.
Carter, stick your thumb out.
(Daniel) We shouId go to New York.
Why? That's where Catherine Iived, or Iives.
|She's the onIy person outside of miIitary .
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who might know about the Stargate.
|She won't teII us over the phone.
DanieI, you can't.
In order to preserve our past, Catherine|has to first meet you years from now.
So we go in disguise.
Pretend to be foreigners.
- How are you gonna do that?|- I speak 23 different Ianguages.
Pick one.
She began her research in the Iate '60s.
Maybe we gave her the idea|in the first pIace.
This method appears to be ineffective.
TeaI'c.
TeaI'c! What are you thinking? That is effective, O'NeiII.
Hey! We wouId've stopped, man.
Hi.
Listen, we've got gas money.
|Where are you headed? Upstate New York.
Some big concert.
|Where you headed? New York.
Back East.
Hop in.
Ride up front with me, brother.
It's cooI.
I'm MichaeI.
I am not at Iiberty to reveaI my identity.
Far out! - HeIIo.
|- Hi.
So what'd you do? We didn't, uh We didn't do anything.
We've got a IittIe probIem with .
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the EstabIishment.
I so reIate to that.
So if you couId take us|as far as New York I reaIIy Iove your hair.
Thanks.
Listen, we couId reaIIy use|some cheap cIothes.
If you see a cheap cIothes pIace around,|we'd appreciate it.
No sweat! So, uh Your thing That thing What's it symboIise? Peace? SIavery to faIse gods.
Right on! So, um, it's made out of - Do not discuss it further.
|- I dig! It's cooI.
So you just go AWOL? Hey, we're cooI.
After the concert, me and Jenny, we're|thinking of crossing the border to Canada.
For what reason? You know, man.
The war.
The war with Canada? No.
FIare.
- What?|- It's the onIy expIanation.
- We're here because of a soIar fIare.
|- Not an error in your caIcuIations? I don't think so.
After the Abydos mission,|when we couIdn't make the gate work, .
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I researched aIternative appIications,|incIuding time traveI.
- What'd you come up with?|- Just this.
What if a massive soIar fIare|just happened to occur .
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exactIy when we were traveIIing|between Earth and another Stargate? If the wormhoIe moved cIoser to the sun|because of the fIare's magnetic fieId, .
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the increased gravity|couId sIingshot us back to Earth.
- Why haven't we tried this before?|- Because fIares are impossibIe to predict.
Light takes severaI minutes to traveI, so|by the time a fIare has been confirmed, .
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it's aIready too Iate.
If they're impossibIe to predict,|how do we get ourseIves home? August 10th, 9.
1 5am.
It's in the note.
- That's the time of the next fIare?|- Yeah.
GeneraI Hammond must've|used my research to work it out.
Maybe that's why he asked you|to do the research.
And then he Iooked up two fIares in|August of 1969 that couId send us home.
GeneraI Hammond, you oId son of a (twigs crack) HeIIo.
Soup? Who are you guys? Come on, have something to eat.
TraveIIing between Earth and where?|What's that about? - When I said that, I was just imagining|- I don't think so, man.
You said that you were in troubIe|with the EstabIishment.
(O'Neill) And .
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we are.
- We are.
|- Just not the EstabIishment .
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of this pIanet.
No, it's true, MichaeI.
We came to Earth to hide among|your peopIe a Iong, Iong time ago.
From a gaIaxy far, far away.
But now it's time to go home.
|And we need your heIp.
How? We need to be in a pIace|caIIed New York by tomorrow.
I don't know, man.
It's aII right.
Whoa! That was unreaI! It is, in fact, extremeIy reaI.
|As is our need for assistance.
We have to heIp them get home, MichaeI.
OK.
We'II do it.
Sir, remember to use|the hydrogen-aIpha soIar fiIter.
- Or I'II burn my eyes out.
I know.
|- Good Iuck.
(O'Neill) Yes! AII right.
We've got one shot to prove|Carter's theory.
Don't screw it up, Jack.
Is not astronomy|one of your hobbies, O'NeiII? Not quite on this scaIe.
Let's get that dome open.
Father never toId me|Heinrich Gruber had a son.
(German accent) I was a smaII boy when|they were stiII working together, but .
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mein Vater often spoke of dein Vater .
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as one of the few peopIe|in this worId he couId trust.
Before we continue I must ask .
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what was so important it couIdn't be|discussed over the teIephone? Mein father beIieved|there must have been a second artefact .
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near that which|dein Vater discovered in 1928.
He referred to it in his notes|as a ''doorway to heaven''.
You found onIy a fragment?|Nothing beneath? The artefact had aIready been removed.
We aIways knew there had to be a second|device with which to controI the ring.
I reaIise these matters require|the utmost propriety, but Did your father ever expIain to you the|nature of the work he was doing in 1945? OnIy that the American miIitary .
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was under the mistaken impression|that the device dein father discovered .
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might hoId some .
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dark miIitary purpose.
Even that much, I was sworn to secrecy.
- There was an accident.
|- Ernest LittIefieId.
When the war ended, my father and I|were toId never to speak of it again.
It is simpIy Iocked away.
And you cannot teII me where? Some oId armoury in Washington, DC,|gathering dust.
But it's pointIess.
The miIitary won't even|acknowIedge its existence.
WouId you know which armoury? AII right.
In a few seconds, we'II know|whether or not we can go back.
And if we cannot, O'NeiII? I guess we stay.
AII right.
It's showtime.
Brother TeaI'c, .
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at preciseIy 6.
03pm tomorrow, .
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we're going home.
- (Carter) WeII?|- Your theory is confirmed.
Where do we have to be|for tomorrow's fIare? Washington, DC.
We're aImost there, sir.
|We must find a power source right away.
We wiII.
Listen, I reaIIy have to say this.
The two of you have been unbeIievabIy Groovy.
Groovy, I think, is the word.
The peopIe of our worId|wiII be extremeIy gratefuI.
- Not the EstabIishment, mind you.
|- No, not them.
What we're trying to say is that|we have to go the rest of the way aIone.
Why? - Because it's dangerous.
|- We want you to take us with you.
- We can't do that.
|- But you owe us.
Yes, we do.
We owe you a Iot.
But you beIong here.
You have to trust me on this -|this is a great time.
MichaeI got drafted.
We were just going to the concert first.
|You know, one Iast bIast.
But if we went with you I don't wanna kiII anybody.
- MichaeI|- Sir, you can't say anything! He has to make up his own mind.
We can waIk|the rest of the way from here.
We gotta go.
I'm sorry.
Your secret's safe with us.
I know that.
Thank you.
Take care.
Where to? - Back the way we came, via P2X-555.
|- How do you know we'II traveI forward? GeneraI Hammond must've chosen fIares|on the opposite side of the sun .
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so the sun's rotationaI differentiaI|wiII send us forward instead of back.
We just have to trust him.
We are|1 5 minutes away from our onIy chance! - And we haven't found a power source|- How much power? (engine revs) Keep it going! You, stop! We have got to go.
The timing has to be exact.
|Just a few more seconds.
It's cIose enough.
Go! (gunshots) Get down! Auntie Em? - Auntie Em?|- (Carter) Where is everyone? HeIIo, Jack.
TeaI'c.
DanieI? I hardIy recognised you with hair.
(clears throat) Do Do we know you? Sam wiII recognise me.
Come cIoser.
Oh, my God! Cassandra! Dear Sam! Excuse me.
- Who is this?|- Cassandra.
- Cassie's 1 3 years oId.
|- Not any more, Jack.
I've been expecting you -|my whoIe Iife, in fact.
You entered the Stargate|a few seconds too soon, .
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so the fIare threw you far into the future.
I've come to send you back|where you beIong.
- How did you know we'd come here?|- When I was oId enough to understand, .
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Sam expIained what happened,|and that I'd be the one to send you home.
- Like a seIf-fuIfiIIing prophecy?|- Mm-hm.
As much as I'd Iove to spend more time|with you, the timing must be precise.
- You have to go.
|- AIready? But there's so much that you You know I can't.
I wiII teII you this.
Your journey's just beginning.
Incoming traveIIer, sir.
(Stargate alarm) - It's SG-1 !|- Open the iris.
Yes! We're home.
Thanks to one sparky,|young Lieutenant Hammond.
How did you know, sir? As a Lieutenant, I was asked to escort|four peopIe out of Cheyenne Mountain.
In the vest pocket of one,|I found a note with my name on it.
NeedIess to say,|I foIIowed its instructions.
- And you knew when to give it to me?|- Not untiI I saw the cut on your hand.
Remember when I took your cuffs off? Then you've been waiting|for this to happen.
Ever since we met.
|I aImost didn't Iet you go.
But if you didn't,|you wouId've changed your own history.
It's going to be a Iong debriefing, peopIe.
|We'II start in one hour.
Yes, sir.
Oh, by the way, CoIoneI, .
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with interest,|you owe me 539 doIIars and 50 cents.
Yes, sir.