First shot is of the engaging Stargate an a closing iris. In the control room Jack and Sam are informed that the Tok'ra's iris code is coming through. Sam hopes that it is her dead, but it turns out that Martouf and two other Tok'ra arrive to bring news of Jake/Selmak's capture at the hands of Sokar.

Sam and Jack escort Martouf through a corridor, discussing a rescue mission. Jacob was most likely brought to Netu a moon of Sokar's home planet that the System Lord converted into hell. Only Jolinar ever managed to escape, which is why they need Sam to remember how the Tok'ra did it.

In the briefing room, General Hammond agrees to the rescue mission. It is decided that SG-1 will transport to Netu by ship, since there is no Stargate on Netu.

Teal'c is flying the Tel'tac, while Martouf applies the memory devise on Sam. At first she gets a flashback to her father bringing the news of her mother's death when she was about fifteen. Then, with Martouf's help she is capable to remember the night before Jolinar was captured. A night she spent with Martouf. Then she loses the memory.

Later on Sam wakes Martouf, telling him that she wants to try the devise again. She receives the picture of Jolinar being tortured. Feeling the Tok'ra's pain, she wants the devise turned off, waking Jack and Daniel with her screams. Martouf lowers the setting on the devise and Sam remembers an ugly Gua'uld, but she can't put a name to the face. Then she looses the memory again. When Martouf is being a little too insistent in Jack's opinion, he asks to talk to the Tok'ra in private. Martouf doesn't want to risk the team getting killed, therefore he wants to go to Netu alone, if Sam cannot remember how Jolinar escaped. Jack insists that they go together, certain that they'll find a way to escape.

The arrive in Netu's orbit and Martouf explains the descend pots to the team, before they depart. On the surface, the reunite and make their way to the underground caves. Sam starts to remember, recognizing her surroundings, thanks to the memory devise.

The enter a large cavern and are surrounded by people. Sam asks to see Binar, when she finally remembers the name of ugly-guy, as well as Jolinar sleeping with him. His first prime wants to banish them to the surface, causing Jack to pull his weapon. He's thrown against the wall by a ribbon devise when Binar appears. Hearing that Sam is host to Jolinar, he orders them to be thrown into the pit. In the pit they find Jacob, who tells them that Selmak is dying. Martouf gives him some sort of medicine, but tells Jack that he will die if they don't get out of here soon. Upon being asked, why she thought binar would help them, she admits to the scene she witnessed through Jolinar. Martouf is grief-stricken.

Binar transport to Sokar's palace, thanking him for Jolinar's return. The System Lords tells him that he's not responsible for their presents and orders Binar to extract as much information out of them as possible, before killing them. He has 24 hours to do so. After Binar leaves, Sokar orders his guard to find the ship that brought SG-1 to Netu.

In the pit Jacob tells Martouf that Sokar's fleet is ten times larger than they'd thought and that he's planning to attack the System Lords in ten days. Disturbed and worried by the news, Martouf transmits the information to Teal'c

Binar's first prime appears, wanting to take Sam to Binar. Jack objects at first, but Sam convinces him that he is the key to their escape. In Binar's chambers Sam remembers that there are transporter rings in the sealing, that can be activated by the necklace around Binars neck. The Gua'uld is upset to here that Jolinar is dead, since Sokar cut his eye out, because of her escape. he'd been hoping to get his revenge, but will settle for killing Sam instead.

Before he can follow through on that, however, his first prime kills him, ordering Sam back to the dungeons.

Sam tells her team about the transporter rings and Binar's death. Luling the guards into an ambush they escape to Binar's quarters, telling Teal'c that it is possible for him to intercept the transporter beam, so they can teleport directly to the ship. Teal'c is under attack, but promises to be there. In Binar's chambers, Martouf is manuely engaging the transporter rings, since Binar's body is missing the necklace.

Their escape has not gone unnoticed though and the first prime breaks into the room with his guards, taking SG-1, Martouf and Jacob prisoner once again. The episode ends, with the first prime removing the mask he'd been wearing revealing that he is actually Apophis.

With the Stargate activated from off-world, O'Neill and Carter go to the Gate Room where they receive the Tok'ra IDC signal; the iris opened, Martouf and two other members of the Tok'ra resistance exit the wormhole. Martouf has some news for Carter: her father, Jacob, blended with the Tok'ra Selmak, has been captured by the Goa'uld Sokar and imprisoned on the moon Netu, transformed into Hell by the System Lord. The only good news Martouf has is that Sokar would rather see people suffer than die, and so Jacob is likely still alive. The problem is that no one has ever escaped from Netu - except for Jolinar, who never revealed how she managed to get off the moon. Carter explains how she has only a few scattered flashes and the occasional dream from her time as host to the Tok'ra, but certainly nothing like what Martouf is describing. However, the Tok'ra have a technology that can help, if Carter is willing to use it. O'Neill asks Hammond for backup, but Martouf disagrees; if they are to successfully pose as denizens of Netu, they must be as small a group as possible so that they will be able to blend in. Martouf then reveals more of what's really going on: while they are there to rescue Jacob, he is not their first priority. Carter's father was there on an information-gathering mission; they have learned that Sokar is readying a fleet to attack the other System Lords. Since the feudal nature of the System Lords keeps a single Goa'uld from coming to power, Sokar would be able to control most of the galaxy if he were to succeed in his plan. The rescue team's priority is to see what information Jacob has and to relay that knowledge to the Tok'ra, hopefully in time to prevent Sokar from launching his plan.

In the Control Room, SG-1 learns that they will not be 'gating to Netu, for there is no Stargate there. Instead, they will be taking a tel'tak - a Tok'ra cargo vessel - and flying to the moon, where they will be sent down in descent pods just like any other denizen. Arriving at "Hell", it's revealed that Teal'c won't be joining the team on the surface: there are only four pods (for Carter, O'Neill, Jackson, and Martouf), and Teal'c will be needed to fly the ship and wait in orbit. In one of the ship's bays, Martouf and Carter try the memory amplifying device, which is the same as the technology that Hathor had used on them once before (Out of Mind). Martouf explains that they won't be able to see Carter's memories: since specific memories can't be targeted, some of Carter's own personal memories might surface. In fact, the first thing to come to the major's mind is personal: as a teenage girl, she's baking cookies when her father comes home crying; young Sam wants to know where her mom is. This memory is Carter learning of her mother's death. Martouf tries to direct her thoughts by reminding her of the last night he and Jolinar spent together before she left; as he talks, Carter starts to remember their meeting on Noctana, where the two of them stayed up all night together.

Later, as Teal'c is flying the ship and everyone else is asleep, Carter wakes Martouf to tell him that she wants to try again. Before they begin, the Tok'ra says he believes that Jolinar refused to tell how she escaped because it would hurt him, but he doesn't want Carter to hide anything from him: she doesn't have to protect him. This time, Carter's memories are of being tortured by a Goa'uld; the feelings behind the memories are so strong that she begins screaming in pain, waking O'Neill and Jackson as she begs Martouf to shut off the device. Once she's regained her equilibrium, they try again at a lower setting and Carter describes what she sees: she now remembers being in a ship similar to the one they're on now and being in a descent pod. When she "loses" the memory, Martouf begins pushing her to keep trying until O'Neill asks to have a word with him outside the room. He tells the Tok'ra to lay off Carter; she knows what the stakes are without him making it worse. Martouf points out that if Carter can't remember how Jolinar escaped then they won't be able to either, and if that should happen then he won't ask SG-1 to come with him to the surface; instead, he will go down himself to get the information from Jacob and SG-1 can relay it to the Tok'ra resistance. O'Neill refuses to let Martouf go alone: One, Carter won't let him, and two, if Jolinar escaped then so can they. Still in the cargo bay, Carter reveals to Jackson that there's a Goa'uld on Netu besides Sokar; she can't quite remember his name but she gets a "horrible, sick feeling" every time she thinks of him. Something happened between him and Jolinar, she says, something that Jolinar never wanted Martouf to know about.

Finally arriving at Netu, Martouf puts the memory amplifier behind Carter's ear where it will be hidden by her hair; he leaves it on a low setting so that she can continue to work through the memories. O'Neill and Carter arm themselves, despite Martouf's assertions that they need to blend, and the four are sent to the moon via the descent pods. Once there, Carter directs them to some underground tunnels; the underground colony is one of the only inhabitable places left, as the atmosphere has been filled with barely breathable air. As Carter finds her way around, she begins to remember more. When they reach a group of people, she calls for Bynarr - the name, she says, that she couldn't remember earlier. His face completely covered with a black cloth, Nayo'nac, Bynarr's First Prime, banishes them to the surface and O'Neill and Carter pull their weapons; however, they are swiftly overpowered because Bynarr has a ribbon device. When Bynarr asks how they know him Carter identifies herself as host to Jolinar of Malkshur. Instead of being sympathetic, as she'd hoped, he has them thrown in the pit. There, Carter explains how Bynarr is Sokar's First Prime and is permitted one ribbon device and one staff weapon; that's why he was armed. When Jackson wants to know why the major thought Bynarr would be sympathetic to Jolinar, Carter reveals that the Tok'ra had seduced the Goa'uld in order to escape; this was the news that Jolinar never wanted Martouf to know. In any case, she says, Bynarr helped the Tok'ra escape, willingly or not, and at the very least knows how she got out. It's at this point that a voice is heard calling, "Sam?" - Carter's father is in the pit with them. He's in bad shape and Selmak is dying; he needs to get out soon or they will both die.

Bynarr, using transportation rings, visits Sokar on his planet and thanks "the devil" for returning Jolinar to him. Sokar says that he never sent these people to the surface: they are intruders and he wants them killed. Bynarr has one day to report back. Sokar then orders his First Prime to find the ship that brought them there and destroy it.

In the pit, Jacob reveals that Sokar's fleet is ten times larger than they'd originally thought and it's set to launch against six key System Lords in ten days. If he is successful at defeating them, he will have forces powerful enough to rule the galaxy. O'Neill uses a communications device to relay the information to Teal'c, who's still in orbit, and Martouf is about to give him a message to take back to the Tok'ra when he is interrupted by guards coming to get Carter. The major convinces O'Neill to let her go see Bynarr; once there, she might be able to get closer to him and find a way out.

Carter is taken to Bynarr's quarters, where she is left alone with him but with Nayo'nac waiting outside the partially open door. Bynarr is able to sense that Carter has no symbiote within her and she tells him that Jolinar died. Carter says that she believes that Bynarr helped Jolinar escape because he loved her and that's why he hates her so much now. The Goa'uld replies that he has long dreamed of exacting revenge for what Jolinar did to him - Sokar took Bynarr's left eye as punishment for letting her escape - and while he won't get the same satisfaction from killing Carter, he will get some. As he's speaking, Carter has another memory: Jolinar managed to escape by stealing the key from around Bynarr's neck while he was sleeping and using it to activate the transportation rings that are in his quarters. Meanwhile, Bynarr has just raised his hand with the ribbon device activated when Nayo'nac shoots him with a staff weapon, killing him.

Returned to the pit, Carter fills the rest of her team in on what happened and they decide to take the opportunity to escape. The transportation rings that lead to the planet can theoretically be interrupted by the tel'tak, transporting the five people directly to the ship. Just as Jackson is attempting to contact Teal'c, however, the Jaffa is attacked. The guards see Jackson with the communication device and O'Neill and Carter knock them unconscious, and the group heads for Bynarr's quarters as Jackson explains the plan to Teal'c. When they reach Bynarr's dead body, however, the key needed to activate the transportation rings is no longer around his neck. Martouf attempts to activate the rings manually, but Nayo'nac manages to recapture them just seconds before they escape. It's at this time that Nayo'nac reveals his true identity: He is actually Apophis.

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