Stargate SG-1 s05e02 Episode Script

Previously on "Stargate SG-1": Finally, you have resumed|your rightful position as my first prime.
- Apophis is dead.
|- Gods cannot be killed.
You got his body back.
Getting|his mind back may not be as easy.
It is good to see you, O'Neill.
- You too.
|- You appear to be well.
Well forget appearances.
The back's gone, the knee's shot.
|Forget curling.
- You?|- I am well again.
So I hear.
Welcome back.
I again pledge you my allegiance, and ask|forgiveness for succumbing to Apophis.
Well, he did sorta have you over a barrel|you bein' dead an' all.
The power of the sarcophagus forced|me to believe that Apophis was my god.
Sarcophagi will do that.
- Dr McKenzie convinced me otherwise.
|- You convinced yourself, Teal'c.
All I did was shine a light on|something you already knew.
You know, just for fun I'd love to hear you say it out loud.
That Apophis is a false god? That the|Goa'uld are nothing more than parasites? Yeah, that stuff.
I hope to one day restore|your trust in me, O'Neill, and to return to your service,|General Hammond.
What do you think? After you.
- Hello, old friend.
|- Master Bra'tac.
It has been too long.
So it has.
Your friends of Earth|took great pains in bringing me here.
He is deceiving you.
Teal'c.
Shol'va! - (squelch)|- Hoh! What are you doin'? If Teal'c won't hear the truth in words,|he must learn of it another way.
(squealing) The only way left to us.
- Master Bra'tac, before we proceed|- We waste time! Please explain what you hope to achieve|by depriving Teal'c of his symbiote.
I hope to save him.
- By killing him?|- If necessary.
See I think we disagree on|the meaning of the word "save".
You would have him remain this way,|loving a false god, spitting and cursing? No - There may be other methods.
|- I have seen your methods.
You underestimate the hold|Apophis has on Teal'c's heart.
In time, you will have little choice|but to lock him away, for he is far too dangerous an enemy|to have in your midst.
- The rite of M'al Sharran is the only way.
|- Last rite? To save Teal'c's soul, first we must|take him to the very threshold of death.
On Chulak, it is said that|when a warrior is dying, the events that forge him|wash over his mind like a great wave.
His whole life passes before his eyes.
|We have a similar What does that get us? Through his fever and hallucination,|he will relive his true path, buried beneath this lie.
You've done this before? Twice in my 137 years.
So you know it works? Neither Jaffa had the strength|to turn back from the precipice, but I am content they died free.
Teal'c would ask for nothing more.
|I owe him that.
Do you? He's in and out of consciousness.
His temperature is rising, his BP is falling.
His immune system is failing.
If we don't|return his symbiote within a few hours - Do nothing.
|- I can't do that.
Bra'tac made his case.
|Hammond gave the go-ahead.
I see.
Then I will take this up with him.
Do you call yourself Teal'c's friend? Of course.
Then stay.
When the time comes, he may need|your help to find his way back to us.
Can you hear me, old friend? Kal kek ma'l, shol'va.
- Then where is your god now, Teal'c?|- He will come.
I don't think so, buddy.
I know we've been over this a few times,|but in case you weren't listening, I am 100 per cent sure He has deceived you, O'Neill, as I have deceived you all these years,|claiming to be in the service of the Tauri.
I have never left the service of|my lord Apophis, and I never will.
So all that time you were|savin' the world, killin' Goa'ulds - Subterfuge.
|- Savvy.
You can take my life, but you can|never take away my loyalty to my god.
I die in his name.
- I die for you, my lord!|- Enough.
- Do you know me, Teal'c?|- You are the shol'va, Bra'tac.
There was a time I was once the first|prime, loyal servant of your lord Apophis.
- You were my apprentice.
|- Kek tal shree, shol'va.
Remember? Remember, Teal'c! It was glorious.
For years we fought side by side.
- In battle.
|- In his name.
My lord Apophis.
My lord Apophis, your enemy is defeated.
You have won the day.
Shal met, Bra'tac.
Rise.
You have done well,|and will know my gratitude.
You do me honour.
In displaying great skill and cunning, these three most honoured|your name in battle.
- Tell me of this one.
|- His name is Teal'c, my lord.
My apprentice and,|with your blessing, my successor.
Who was your father? - He is the son of|- Let him speak.
If he is to take your place as my first|prime, I must know he has a tongue.
My father was Ro'nak,|first prime of Cronus, who was murdered for|failing to win an unwinnable battle.
My family was exiled to Chulak.
He failed his god.
He did not.
Shek kree, Teal'c! My lord, I speak only the truth.
The battle could not have been won.
Your father should have died trying.
- He was a coward.
|- My lord, my father was not.
Aargh! Aargh! Uh what was that? A conjured memory.
The first of many.
He's obviously in a lot of pain.
|At least let me Pain is what we seek.
Teal'c's path was|laid down with suffering.
- It is the path he must take to return to us.
|- At the moment he's unconscious.
- All the better.
|- All the better? It is his unconscious mind we must reach.
I know my ways are foreign to you, but I have known Teal'c longer than any|of you have lived.
I have walked his path.
You cannot hope to understand|the darkness in his heart as I do.
Trust in me.
All of you.
- We do.
|- Whatever you need.
For the moment|I must meditate in kelno'reem.
This rite will take most of the night|and I am tired from my long journey here.
In the meantime,|stay with him, speak to him.
- He won't be able to hear us unless|- Perhaps not in his mind.
But in his heart.
Even in silence|he will know of your presence, but your words will|force him to remember.
Challenge him when he does.
|Question his beliefs.
Without his symbiote he will not resist reason so readily.
Carter, maybe you could|show Bra'tac to the VIP room? Yes, sir.
I hope you understand|how difficult it is for us to just stand by while Teal'c is in such|obvious agony, especially Dr Fraiser.
Humans concern themselves|too much with pain.
Yeah, we also don't approve of torture.
The greater torture|would be to leave him as he is.
Teal'c is strong, stronger than l.
I don't know.
|You're the fittest 137-year-old I know.
Perhaps, but I am|nearing the end of my time.
Kelno'reem is more and more difficult.
The symbiote I carry within|will mature within two years.
It will be my last.
Why? Even if I could procure another,|the new symbiote would reject me.
It is how old warriors die.
Maybe we can find some way to help you.
Life for the sake of life means nothing,|neither for me, nor for Teal'c.
- Do you understand?|- I think I do.
Either he will return to us|as we know him, or he will not return.
You wanna go first? Sure.
- I'll go.
|- Yeah.
So explain this to me one more time.
You believe that from the moment you|broke us out of that prison on Chulak, that you've been serving Apophis? Because I gotta tell ya, as your best|friend, at least in this whole wide world, that makes absolutely no sense at all.
I mean, that would make you the most ineffective double agent|in the history of double-agenting.
Va'lar.
- What?|- Va'lar.
- Va'lar.
|- Teal'c, are you all right? I met him.
I spoke to him.
With Apophis himself?|You were granted an audience? As a reward for my deeds in battle.
A reward? When they brought|you here, you were so weak.
- He punished me.
|- Then you must have failed him.
This day I struck down|one hundred of Apophis's enemies.
You fought well, Teal'c.
|None would deny that.
But he is a god, and if you fail him, by sparing even one enemy's life|that was yours, he will know.
This was not for the battle.
What god|would punish a son for loving his father? - Your god.
|- Yes, but - Never question that again.
|- (guard) Quiet! Today you served Apophis well in battle.
Serve him well again tomorrow|and you may live to see another day.
"Valar.
" Is that what he said? - I thought he said "velour".
|- Velour? The fabric? - That's what I heard.
|- Why say that? - Why say "valar"?|- I don't know.
Va'lar was my friend.
- What?|- Teal'c.
O'Neill.
What is happening? Why am I restrained? Well, you were sort of trying to|kill everyone these past few weeks.
I could never have harmed you.
The rite of M'al Sharran has been|successful.
Please release me.
Yeah.
Nice try, but no.
I am not your enemy.
|We are brothers, Daniel Jackson Tell us about Va'lar.
I have not heard that name in many years.
I trained with him under Bra'tac.
We|served in the personal guard of Apophis.
If you do not return|my symbiote to me, I will die.
What happened to him? He failed his god! His god? You mean that scumsuckin', overdressed,|boombox-voice snake-in-the-head? Latest on our long list of dead bad guys? Colonel, his heart rate just doubled.
Ha'shak! That I understood.
Do you think I don't know|what you're doing to me? - We hope you do.
|- No Jaffa can survive M'al Sharran! You are allowing Bra'tac to kill me! Where is he? - Shol'va! Where are you?|- BP is crashing.
Let's start an IV.
Where are you, shol'va?|Are you afraid to face me? Where are you? Where are you? Kel mak! (Bra'tac) Were I truly your enemy,|you would be dead.
This is pointless.
I am not blind.
In battle, you must use all your senses.
- Once again.
|- You have died enough for one day.
We'll begin again in the morning.
Without this! Do you believe you can defeat the|first prime of Apophis in a challenge? I am the stronger.
Shall I fire, and stop this waste of time? Or will you learn? - I was not prepared.
|- There are no second chances in battle.
You have ears to hear and eyes to see,|but you will not learn.
Shall I put us both out of our misery? The choice is mine.
Who can stop me? - Apophis?|- Yes.
So you believe our lord Apophis|is all-seeing, all-powerful? - He is a god.
|- Is he? In battle, Teal'c, faith will not save you.
Blind faith least of all.
Rely on your own strength|and your own wits, or you are of no use to me.
I think the point Jack was trying to make|is that you're generally a logical person.
Your assertion that you never left the|service of Apophis is completely illogical, almost to the point of|making no sense whatsoever.
Do you not know the meaning of faith,|Daniel Jackson? I think I do.
Then you should know that my faith|in Apophis is beyond question.
Still, if you remember me|and you remember Jack, then you must remember|questioning your faith.
Never! - Apophis is a god.
|- False god.
Dead false god.
Your words cannot change the truth.
They're not my words, Teal'c.
|They're yours.
You were wrong at the time - he wasn't|dead - but that's neither here nor there.
- Lies!|- The point is, there was a time in your life when you|realised the Goa'uld can't all be gods.
Every symbiote a Jaffa carries will try to|take a human host and become a Goa'uld.
How can they all be gods? Do not test my temper, woman.
- I know you honour Bra'tac.
|- I said, do not test my temper! But you have no choice|but to tell Apophis of his betrayal.
- Bra'tac is my master.
|- Apophis is your god.
If I am ever to be first prime of Apophis,|I must first honour Bra'tac.
You have seen the power of Apophis.
You have seen his chariots|rise from the ground, - walk through the Chaapa-ai|- As I have done.
Explain how light can leave his palm|and throw a warrior across the square! I cannot! Yet neither have I seen|a warrior greater than Bra'tac.
- Then you are the servant of two masters.
|- What am I to do, Drey'auc? Come to bed.
(Daniel) "Woman"?|Did he just call me a woman? (O'Neill) Yes, I believe he did.
He's still unconscious? (Daniel) ln and out.
Obviously delirious.
- How's Junior doing?|- The symbiote is fine for now.
But I don't know what we're gonna do|with it if we let Teal'c die.
But won't be my problem.
I'll have|already resigned if we let this go that far.
- Janet, I know how you feel|- No.
I'm a doctor, Sam.
This goes against every part of me,|to just stand by and do nothing.
I don't think that we're doing nothing.
Yeah.
So is it working? Has he said anything? He talked about fabric, briefly.
- He just called me a woman.
|- So I think it's working.
Well, something's happening.
It looks like we're in for the whole night.
|We should take turns sitting with him.
Yeah.
I'll come back in a couple of hours.
|Daniel, you go after me.
Then I think we'll all wanna be here.
Hey, Teal'c.
Look, I don't know how good|I'm gonna be at this, but I guess the important thing|is just to be there for you.
Major Carter.
- How can you allow them to do this?|- Teal'c I have no wish to die, Major Carter.
- You and Dr Fraiser could yet save me.
|- You're not gonna die.
- I am being murdered as we speak.
|- We're helping you.
Help me escape.
- Please.
|- Oh, God.
Teal'c, we want you to remember.
- Do you believe in a god, Major Carter?|- This isn't about me.
How would it be if you were punished|for loving your god as I love mine? - It's not the same.
|- I cannot help what I believe.
You believe in freedom, Teal'c.
You believe in justice,|in protecting people from false gods.
You despise everything Apophis was.
He failed his god.
He failed God.
Teal'c? Teal'c.
- Why have you returned?|- I need to speak with you.
- Speak now.
Apophis has summoned me.
|- Alone.
Please.
The battle did not go well.
|Ra's warriors were in too great a number.
- You were given a battalion.
|- Ra sent gliders.
We were bombarded.
- There was no choice but to retreat.
|- Shek kree, Va'lar.
- It was the only way to save my men.
|- And yourself.
No! I intend to return,|and with greater numbers.
I will drive Ra's warriors|from their foothold.
Please tell him I am no coward.
If given the chance,|I will yet prevail, I swear it.
Go to your sleeping quarters.
|Wait for me there.
Teal'c.
It would have profited no one|merely to fight and die.
You may yet wish you had.
My lord, we are at your service.
Who did you entrust with this campaign? Va'lar of Chulak, my lord.
|A promising warrior.
Yet he has returned in disgrace.
Perhaps not in disgrace, my lord,|but as part of a cunning strategy: withdraw and return in greater numbers|to crush an overconfident enemy.
Va'lar himself would like|to lead the second wave.
- Does he?|- My lord, allow me to Would you have done the same|in his place, Teal'c? - No, my lord.
|- You would have held your ground? Yes, my lord.
Then return with him|to his place of shame and kill him.
Yes, my lord.
Jaffa! Kek shal kree, shol'va! You may take solace for|what you are about to do, Teal'c.
I should have died on this battlefield.
Please tell Apophis I died well,|honouring his name.
Rise.
There is a small village|two or three days' walk south of the city.
You may find shelter.
Do not allow|yourself to be captured by either side.
Teal'c, you cannot do this, even for me.
- He will know.
|- We shall see.
I'm more willing to face punishment than|to live knowing what he will do to you.
For your sake, you must.
Go now, and never show your face again.
He is a god, Teal'c.
He will know that you have spared me.
We shall see.
Go.
It is done.
You have promise, Teal'c.
You didn't stay away long.
You should talk.
- You can go in there, you know.
|- I know.
General if Teal'c were here,|he'd say you made the right decision.
If he were here He'll be back.
If not, he will be sent to a high-security facility|and placed in solitary confinement.
When his symbiote matures|in four or five years I won't do that to him, Jack.
No, sir.
Of course not.
What is wrong, Teal'c? Three days ago I led a battalion to retake a planet|that had been occupied by Ra's army.
Apophis ordered me to burn a village|of Ra's followers to the ground.
(Drey'auc) You did this? Yes.
Then sleep well in the knowledge|that you have served Apophis.
I cannot close my eyes without seeing the innocent faces of|women and children who lived there.
A Jaffa lived there also.
A warrior named Va'lar.
No.
I banished him to that village|to save his life, only to take it away, for fear that|Apophis would learn my secret.
I put my own life before that of|an entire village, and that of a dear friend.
- No.
You had no choice.
|- I did have a choice.
A son will soon be born to us, Teal'c.
You must ensure that he has a father.
Our son will be born into a real home,|a gift from Apophis himself.
It is the best life we can hope for.
Then why am I so ashamed? Tek matte! Master Bra'tac! Tek matte! Apophis has made you his first prime.
- You are not pleased.
|- No.
There's no greater honour among Jaffa|than to become first prime to one's god.
You know as well as I|what the Goa'uld truly are.
We pretend, men like you and l,|so we may advance in rank and privilege.
But do not pretend to me now.
You know the truth.
Can you|look me in the face and say otherwise? My entire life you have|prepared me for this day.
Why? I saw the spark of doubt in you, and the|wisdom to keep that doubt unto yourself.
I saw you play the game|with those who would play god.
If I do not believe in him, how can I serve? Because there is no other choice|but to serve.
The Goa'uld are powerful.
They have seen to it that we cannot live|without them, and so it may always be.
But neither can they live without the Jaffa.
- We are their true power.
|- I do not understand.
As first prime, that power will be yours.
When Apophis throws his armies into the|fire, you will be there to temper his sword.
In so doing, you may save countless lives,|as I have done in my time.
And you have done all these things|against his will? His will can be made to bend.
But not always.
I have done deeds for which|I cannot forgive even myself, as will you.
Men such as you and I have|only the comfort of those times.
We make a difference.
Make a difference.
(crying) There.
Those are the humans|who came through the Chaapa-ai.
They do not appear to be|as formidable as I imagined.
Their weapons are not of Goa'uld design.
That may be so, Teal'c|but they are only three.
They have something more.
A strength.
They know the taste of freedom.
Your dreams of freedom|will be your undoing, Teal'c.
- Perhaps so.
|- Pray they are not chosen as hosts.
That is the best fate|you can wish for them.
- What have I done?|- (monitorbeeps rapidly) He's in v-fib! Get the cart! - This is it.
|- Get Bra'tac down here.
- I'm returning the symbiote.
|- Stand aside.
- If I don't return it immediately|- Stand aside! Or his suffering|will have been for nothing.
This is the moment|when he must choose.
Stand aside, Dr Fraiser.
Choose now, Teal'c.
Return to those who love freedom,|or die in the name of a false god.
Choose! Shaka ha! Kree hol mel, Goa'uld! Choose to be the warrior we know! Renounce Apophis and return to us! It's now or never.
Choose! - Very well.
|- Let's move.
- Kill the rest.
|- (screaming) Symbiote's in.
No change.
- We waited too long.
Charge to 200.
|- Charging.
Clear.
(prisoners screaming) No pulse.
- Make it 360.
Give me five of epi.
|- Charging.
Clear.
I can save these people! Help me! Help me.
Many have said that.
But you are the first I believe could do it.
I choose freedom.
The rite has succeeded.
He has returned to us.
Uh Just out of curiosity - How do you feel about?|- Apophis is a false god.
A dead false god.
Huh? That's good enough for me.
|Get him out of those restraints.
Thank you, Doctor.
Well done.
Yes, sir.
I'm glad it worked out too.
- Hey, Teal'c.
|- Major Carter.
Daniel Jackson.
- Tek matte.
|- My friend.
General Hammond.
I once again pledge my allegiance|to you and the people of this world and I request permission|to return to SG-1 .
Permission granted.