Transcript: Bane
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Transcript by Sarae
Scene: Alien Planet - Jack and SG-1 are walking around a plaza in front of a
large building.
Jack: "Witness if you will, a ghost town."
Sam: "A very advanced ghost town."
Daniel: "The architecture may indicate an Earth ancestry."
We hear a beep, beep and Daniel looks down at something he is holding. At that
same time, Jack steps in some squishy yellow-gold substance on the ground.
Jack: "Aw, man..."
Carter grimaces.
Jack: "Anybody have any idea what this is?"
Sam: "I hate to say it sir, but it...seems like they might have a bit of a
pigeon problem."
Jack: "I don't see pigeons...and there should be a lot of them."
Sam: "Well, whatever did this, did so pretty recently."
Teal'c: "Perhaps they suffered the same fate as the inhabitants of this city."
Jack: "Conjecture, Captain?"
Sam takes some readings with the instrument she is holding.
Sam: "My data is consistent with the probe, sir. No radiation, the air's almost
100% pollution free. Teal'c, it doesn't seem very likely that the Goa'uld are
responsible for this does it? I mean, what with the indigenous people of this
planet being...gone."
Teal'c: "That is correct. A Goa'uld attack would have resulted in much more
damage. Any technology would have been destroyed."
Suddenly a large "something" whizzes by Jack. He ducks to avoid the flying
menace,
Jack: " Wow! Did you guys hear that?"
All other SG-1 members are now looking at Teal'c with expressions of surprise
and apprehension for there is now a large...really large winged bug on his back.
It looks like a cross between a mosquito and...I don't know.
Jack approached Teal'c slowly.
Jack (with some obvious disgust): "Ohh..."
Sam: "What are you gonna do?"
Jack takes out his pistol and aims it at the creature. Teal'c looks on with some
obvious trepidation. Daniel looks as though he wants to say something but is
afraid to...
Just as Jack cocks the pistol, the bug flicks it's tail up and stings Teal'c.
Teal'c: "Ahh!" He leans into a pole in front of him. He is in obvious pain.
Jack: "God!" He trys to shoot the bug as it quickly departs from Teal'c but is
unsuccessful and rushes to Teal'c. "Carter...novacaine."
Sam rushes forward to lend assistance.
Sam: "Yes, sir."
Daniel looks up as he is observing from a slight distance.
Daniel: "Uh...we'd better get outta here."
Jack (sarcastically): "No, really?"
Daniel (seriously): "No, really." He points to the sky behind them.
Jack turns to look in the direction he is pointing. Suddenly, hundreds of the
bugs appear over the top of the building and they are headed toward SG-1.
Jack: God! Let's move! C'mon! Let's go!"
Jack and Sam each take and arm and begin helping Teal'c to follow Daniel.
Daniel: "I'll dial..."
Scene: SGC - 'Gate Room
The wormhole has just whooshed open and alarm claxons can be heard. The SGC
computers announce Alert! Incoming Traveller. General Hammond comes down the
stairs from his office in time to see SG-1 come through the wormhole.
Jack: "Lock it up!"
Sam: "Medical team!"
Teal'c lands (softly due to Sam and Jack's help) face down on the ramp.
General Hammond comes into the 'gate room and hears several hits on the iris.
Hammond: "What is that?"
Jack: "Those are bugs, sir! Big...ugly bugs!"
The hits continue on for several seconds.
Scene: SGC - Infirmary
Janet is cutting away the material surrounding Teal'c's wound. She pulls back
the material to reveal a very large, ugly looking welt with a hole in the center
of it.
Janet: "You're saying it's getting worse?"
Teal'c: "I am."
Janet takes a cotton swab and gently presses on the hole in the center of the
welt to get a sample. Teal'c moans.
Janet: "Easy...looks like some kind of a reaction. Teal'c, shouldn't your larval
Goa'uld be helping?"
Teal'c: "That is correct...but it is not. It is, in fact getting worse."
Opening Credits
Richard Dean Anderson as Col. Jack O'Niell
Michael Shanks as Dr. Daniel Jackson
Amanda Tapping as Capt. Samantha Carter
Christopher Judge as Teal'c
Don S. Davis as Gen. George Hammond
Executive Producers:
Michael Greenburg
Richard Dean Anderson
Developed for Television by Brad Wright & Jonathan Glassner
Guest Stars:
Teryl Rothery as Dr. Janet Fraiser
Tom McBeath as Col. Harry Maybourne
Scott Hylands as Dr. Timothy Harlow
Produced by N. John Smith
Written by Robert C. Cooper
Directed by David Warry-Smith
Scene: SGC - Outside the Infirmary
Janet emerges from the treatment room to speak with SG-1 and Gen. Hammond who
are waiting to hear news of Teal'c.
Janet: "He seems to be suffering from the side effects of a viral
infection...fever, aches, chills..."
Sam: "And his Goa'uld isn't helping?"
Janet: "No...that's not the worse part..."
Jack: "What is?"
Janet: "The blood sample I took showed a rather disturbing amount of DNA that
doesn't match Teal'c's."
Jack and Daniel (simultaneously): "What does that..."
Daniel: "...mean?"
Janet: "Actually, I'm not sure...um, to be perfectly honest with you, sir, I
think I may be out of my league here."
Sam: "General, if I may...when I was assigned to the Pentagon, I had the chance
to work with Dr. Timothy Harlow. He's one of the world's top geneticists and he
has full security clearance."
Hammond: "He'll be here before the end of the day."
We see trucks going into Cheyenne Mountain.
Then we're back in the SGC Medical Facilities. Dr. Fraiser is working at a
computer and Dr. Harlow is looking over her shoulder as Sam walks in.
Sam: "Dr. Harlow..."
Harlow: "Sam...well...Ah..."
They hug.
Sam: "Hi."
Harlow: "How many times have I told you to call me Timothy?"
Sam: "Timothy...you got here fast."
Harlow: "With a chance to see this? Light speed wouldn't have been fast enough
for me...and it's not a bit disappointing either. You're a front line set up."
Sam: "Well, you haven't seen the best yet. I just wish it could have been under
better circumstances."
Janet: "Dr. Harlow has some bad news..."
Harlow: "A subsequent analysis of the blood sample revealed none of the
subject's matching DNA..."
Sam: "Uh, the subject's name is Teal'c...and what are you talking about?"
Janet: "The blood sample I took had only a small percentage of alien insect DNA
in it."
Sam (nodding): "Right..."
Harlow: "Now when the exact same sample of Teal'c's blood was tested only a few
hours later, it revealed only one type of DNA strand present."
Janet: "Hmm-mmm...and it wasn't Teal'c's."
Sam: "Are you saying that the foreign DNA actually transformed Teal'c's DNA in
the blood sample?"
Harlow: "Well, DNA doesn't alter DNA. It's probably some sort of retro-virus
present."
Sam: "OK...bottom line?"
Harlow (sighs): "I can't believe I'm going to say this. It appears that the
alien insect's venom is rewriting Teal'c's genetic material and it happened very
quickly in that blood sample."
Sam: "The Goa'uld that Teal'c carries is supposed to provide him with powerful
immune capabilities."
Harlow: "Yes, so I read on the plane. It's amazing, but in this case, it appears
that it's merely stemming the tide rather than reversing the problem."
Sam: "What happens if the Goa'uld loses the battle?"
Harlow: "Well, 30 years of research into Human DNA, until last year I...I didn't
even know there were aliens..."
Sam: "Right."
Scene: SGC - Infirmary
Teal'c is not looking so good.
Teal'c (quietly, weakly): "I have felt great pain, O'Neill, but never a sickness
such as this. I do not enjoy it."
Jack (quietly): "Nobody does."
Teal'c: "I am also...feeling something else."
Jack: "Hey...I'd be scared too."
Teal'c: "I do not want to become something other than who I am."
Jack: "Just let the doctors do their job."
Teal'c: "O'Neill...you are my friend. When there is no longer any hope...I would
rather die."
Jack swallows and gives a slight nod, but does not answer.
Scene: SGC - General Hammond's Office
There is a knock on the door and the General looks up from his desk.
Hammond: "Come in."
Jack (opens the door and sticks his head in): "You wanted to see me, sir?"
Hammond waits for Jack to notice who else is in the room. Jack looks slightly to
his right and notices Harry Maybourne.
Jack: "Oh, for cryin' out loud."
Harry: "Colonel O'Neill..."
Jack: "Hello Maybournce..."
Hammond: "I thought you would want to see this..." He hands Jack some papers.
Jack walks over, takes the papers and reads them. Then he looks up straight into
General Hammond's eyes.
Jack: "You've got to be kidding."
Hammond: "It's an official order. I have no choice."
Jack: "Well, uh...what about..."
Hammond: "The president is currently unavailable."
Harry: "This facility is front-line. You're mandate is search and retrieval.
Mine is research and development. As a source of information, Teal'c has been
invaluable to your operation. Now he may prove equally invaluable to mine. This
organism could be the biological weapon..."
Jack: " He saved your smarmy ass and everyone else on this planet. Does that
count for anything in your world?"
Harry: "Absolutely. I am thrilled to get the chance to thank him personally."
Jack: "General Hammond, request permission to beat the crap out of this man."
Harry looks a little nervously to General Hammond and then back to Jack. General
Hammond looks at Jack with a hint of a smile on his face as he appears to be
contemplating the request. Jack looks at Maybourne...
Scene: SGC - Medical Facilities
Sam walks into the lab where Harlow is looking in a microscope. She is not
happy.
Sam: "You son of a bitch..."
Harlow: "Sam?"
Sam: "It had to be you. Damn it, Timothy, Teal'c is my friend. He's sick..."
Harlow: "Yes he is and he's going to get the very best help available...on this
planet. But your facility is not equipped for this kind of situation and you
know it."
Sam: "Please, don't tell me that you're ignorant here. I don't want to feel
sorry for you."
Harlow: "Maybourne's people can be unscrupulous, but if Teal'c is to have any
chance, it is with me...and I will do the best that I can."
Scene: SGC - Infirmary
Teal'c is in a biohazard suit, standing and is having cuffs placed on his
wrists. The cuffs are connected to chains which are connected to shackles that
have also been placed on his ankles. He is surrounded by men in black.
Janet: "General, I have a right to stop this. He is not well enough to be
moved."
Harry: "Fortunately, I have a second opinion." He indicates Harlow who is
standing next to him. Harlow smiles.
A man in black places the biohazard helmet over Teal'c's head. Meanwhile, out in
the corridor, the remaining members of SG-1 are waiting.
Daniel (shakes his head): "How can we just let this happen?"
Jack (moves his head around as though trying to release tension in his neck and
shoulders, then rubs his hand on his forehead): "What do you want me to do?"
Sam: "As much as I don't trust Maybourne, I have to admit...Timothy is the best
and he gave me his word he was gonna help Teal'c."
Just then the door opens. Maybourne is first out, followed by Harlow, who smiles
briefly at Sam. Then Teal'c is escorted out, slowly, in his shackles by two
guards. He is followed by General Hammond and Janet. Teal'c glances at his
teammates as he is lead away.
Jack (shakes his head as Janet and Gen. Hammond approach): "What's with the
chains?"
Hammond: "Maybourne."
Sam makes a disgusted sound.
Jack: "Of course..."
Daniel looks away, unable to watch Teal'c being led away down the corridor.
Jack (who can take no more): "God!"
He walks away from the others.
Scene: We see a white delivery truck driving down the road. Then we see inside
the cargo area of the truck. Teal'c is seated on one side flanked by men in
black. Harlow and Maybourne are at the back of the truck near the cab.
Harry: "How long you figure he has?"
Harlow: "I don't know. It's tough to say. Depends on how strong the larval
Goa'uld is. We have drugs that may help."
Harry: "That won't be necessary."
Harlow: "Of course it is. We can...you want him to change."
Teal'c's hands begin to shake and he busts the chains between his wrists and
ankles as well as the chains between his wrists. He reaches up and pulls the
helmet from his head and screams. He is quite pale looking and appears to be in
great pain. Next we see the driver who is hearing some unusual noises coming
from the back of the truck along with Teal'c's screams. Then Teal'c's arms busts
through the back glass and the metal grate which covers it to grab the driver by
the head.
Scene: SGC - Briefing Room
Sam and Daniel are seated at the table. Jack is standing behind them staring out
into the 'gate room.
Sam: "All I'm saying is that not withstanding what happened to Teal'c, there may
be invaluable technology on that planet."
Jack (turns around to face the others): "Carter...there are bugs on that planet.
Big, huge, ugly, honkin' bugs."
Hammond (who just comes from his office): "Colonel, we just picked up an
emergency communication from the driver..."
Scene: Back on the road. The delivery truck is sitting slightly askew on the
side of the road. We see inside the back of the truck. Teal'c removes the
biohazard suit. Next, he unbuttons his shirt and reaches into his pouch to pull
out his Goa'uld. He takes one of the unconscious guard's walkie-talkies and
leaves the truck. We see the squirming Goa'uld larva left behind on top of the
biohazard suit. We see Teal'c running through the forest and then we see a
HumVee approach the truck. Jack, Sam and Daniel get out of the vehicle and
approach the delivery truck. Jack and Daniel climb in the back. Sam checks on
the driver. Jack bends down to check Harlow.
Sam (through the backglass to O'Neill): "The driver's unconscious."
Daniel (who is behind Jack near the back of the truck): "Jack..."
Jack (turning to join him): "Yeah?"
Daniel: "It's alive..."
Daniel reaches out to touch the larval Goa'uld.
Scene: SGC - Infirmary
Janet is shining her pen light into the eyes of one of the guards that led
Teal'c away. Maybourne is sitting on a bed next to them with his arm in a sling.
Harry: "I want as many personnel and canine units as this base has at my
disposal 5 minutes ago!"
Jack (walks in with Daniel following): "All of whom report to me. I'm running
this search."
Harry: "This is still my responsibility."
Jack: "Oh, I'm holding you responsible, Maybourne, don't you fret. But the
troops are SGC. I'm running the show. You got a problem with that, take it up
with Hammond."
Harry (rising and grabbing his jacket): "I will."
Maybourne's departure is blocked by Jack.
Harry (rather quietly to Jack only): Striking an officer is a quick way to a
court-martial."
Jack (looks down at Harry): "I'm not gonna hit you, Maybourne. I'm gonna shoot
you."
Maybourne walks around Jack to pivots slightly to let him by.
Jack: All right...what the hell happened here?"
Harlow: "Well, he just went crazy. He's so strong. I've never seen anything like
that."
Daniel: "What about the larval Goa'uld?"
Harlow: "I don't know. He must have taken that out himself."
Daniel: "Why?"
Jack: "Um...he told me he'd rather die than change into something else."
Daniel: "Well, there has to be quicker, less painful ways to kill yourself, even
for a Jaffa."
Harlow: "I don't think that's the way it's going to happen. I mean, I doubt that
he will die."
Daniel: "Uh, he depends on that Goa'uld to live."
Harlow: "The alien insect's venom is affecting his physical makeup. With every
passing moment he is ceasing to be a...a Jaffa. The larva may be the only thing
that's holding that transformation back."
Jack: "So by takin' the worm out he might be expediting this...change?"
Daniel: "Why would he do that?"
Harlow: "Well, the metamorphosis...could be altering his mind."
Scene: We see Teal'c's symbiote in a glass cylinder in fluid. Janet and Sam are
monitoring it.
Janet: "It's stable.
Sam: "I don't think it will be for long."
Janet: "I just wish I knew more about Goa'uld physiology."
Sam: "The frustrating thing is, I might. Jolinar might have left me with some
information but I..."
Janet: "OK, look, we've got samples of the fluid from inside Teal'c's pouch. So,
for now, we'll just have to do our best to synthesize the environment."
Scene: Forest
Teams with dogs are searching the forest for Teal'c.
Scene: SGC - Briefing Room
Jack (pointing to a map): "...and there's no sign of him inside the perimeter.
Hammond: "We don't have jurisdiction if he's already gotten outside of that."
Daniel (who has just run up the stairs): "We've got him."
All follow Daniel down to the control room.
Daniel: "There were picking up a radio in the field and patched it in here."
Jack (taking a phone handset): "Teal'c?"
Teal'c (over the phone): "O'Neill, it is I. Do not allow Col. Maybourne to
follow me."
Jack: "He's not going to. Where are you?"
Teal'c: "I will not say."
Jack: "C'mon, Teal'c, where are you? We can help you."
Teal'c: "It is too late."
Jack: "All right, listen. You're changing. You don't want this to happen. You
told me you'd rather die. Teal'c?"
Silence.
Jack: "Teal'c!"
We see the radio Teal'c had been using laying on the ground. He has left it.
Jack hangs up the handset.
Scene: SGC - Infirmary
We see the larva in the tank. It is lying on the bottom of the tank and not
looking good.
Harlow: "It is possible we can still save your friend...if we can get him back."
Sam: "How?"
Harlow: "Well, I have access to several variations of experimental RNA
inhibitors which are being researched at the moment, and combined with the
natural healing abilities of the symbiote..."
Janet: "Wait a minute...you knew this and you didn't offer right away when it
could have helped?"
Sam: "Maybourne was hoping Teal'c would change and you were gonna let him."
Harlow: "No I wasn't...whatever you may think. Samantha, I am offering you my
help."
Sam (sighs): "OK, what do you need?"
Harlow: "Well, we have to find out which of the drugs will work."
Sam: "How?"
Harlow: "We need the alien insect's venom."
Scene: SGC - Briefing Room
Hammond: "How do you know you can trust Harlow this time?"
Sam: "I know and you think Maybourne put him up to this just to get a specimen
of the insect."
Hammond: "I wouldn't put it past him."
Sam: "Right at the moment, sir, we don't have a lot of options."
Jack and Daniel walk in.
Jack: "We got nothin', sir."
Daniel: "Must have covered 20 miles in an hour."
Hammond: "Maybourne is flying in his own personnel."
Jack: "Any action on the red phone?"
Hammond: "Still indisposed."
Sam: "In the mean time, we have kind of a good news/bad news scenario here. If
we do find Teal'c soon, we may have a way of saving him."
Jack: "OK...that's good news..."
Sam: "...but someone had to go back to BP6-3Q1 and catch one of those alien
insects, preferably alive." (Jack cringes.)
Daniel: "And that would be the bad news."
Jack: "I'll go, sir."
Sam: "You'll need someone to watch your back."
Daniel: "And I'll go too."
Hammond (rising from his chair): "I'll make sure it's not for nothing. We'll
find Teal'c."
Jack: "Pack your bug spray, kids."
Scene: City (Colorado Springs?)
Teal'c is walking down a street. We hear rap music in the background and see
several punks on the street hanging out. One of the notices Teal'c coming their
way.
Punk1: "Man, check this dude out." (He approaches Teal'c, his buddies follow.)
"Hey man, where you goin'?" (Teal'c slows and stops as he approaches the punks.)
"Hey, cool tattoo, man. Where'd you get that?"
Teal'c: "Chulak."
Punk1: "Chulak? Where's that? East side?"
Teal'c: "Remove yourself from my path."
Punk1: "Listen to this guy. I'll remove myself when you tell me how they tattoos
like that in Chulak."
Teal'c: "The skin is cut with an Orak knife and pure molten gold is poured into
the wound."
Punk1: "Ow, man, don't that hurt when they do that?"
Teal'c grabs the punk by the throat and moves him aside. The punk is obviously
scared.
Teal'c: "Tremendously."
He puts the punk down and continues on his way. He looks back over his shoulder
and about that time a younger child moves out to look at him. The child is
wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses and carrying a large squirt gun. Her name
is Ally.
Ally: "That guy is cool."
Punk1: "Ally, get outta here. No one wants you around."
He pushes Ally. Ally leaves in the same direction Teal'c had gone.
Scene: SGC - 'Gate Room
Jack, Sam and Daniel are heading back to the alien insect planet.
Scene: City
Teal'c has walked into a warehouse district. He notices a police car and hears
chatter on their radio. He continues on.
Scene: SGC
Hammond is on the phone.
Hammond (into the phone): "Yes. Thank you."
He hangs up as Dr. Fraiser walks in.
Janet: "Any word on the search?"
Hammond: "No...how's the Goa'uld doing?"
Janet: "Not well..."
Hammond (quieter): "Damned if I ever thought I'd be praying for one of those
things to live."
Janet (shakes head in agreement): "How long have they been gone?"
Hammond: "I'm about ready to send SG-3 after them."
Scene: City
Teal'c has walked up to what appears to be an abandoned building. He goes
inside. He is finding it more difficult to walk and eventually collapses. He
looks at his arms which are now covered in lesions.
Scene: SGC - Control Room
Female Officer: "Incoming wormhole. It's SG-1."
Hammond looks at Janet and raises his eyebrow slightly. They both go to watch
SG-1 return. Jack, Sam and Teal'c come through in a rush. All are wearing gas
masks.
Jack (recovering from his tumble through the gate): "Lock it up!"
The iris begins to close, but not before one bug flies through.It dives toward
Jack, who ducks and growls. He pulls off his mask and looks to the entrances.
Jack: "Close those doors!" (The doors are closed.) "Where is it? Where is it!?"
Daniel (pointing): "There!"
The bug flies around the 'gate room and then straight toward Jack who fires his
P-90 at it. The bug continues to fly over Jack, who turns and continues to fire
at it. The bug flies through the 'gate and falls to the ground on the other
side. Jack gets up to investigate. The bug is on the ground but still moving.
Jack: "Just winged it."
Sam approaches with liquid nitrogen or some other freezing substance and shoots
the bug.
Jack (after a few seconds): "All right! Hold it...you got it!" (He touches Sam's
shoulder and she stops.)
Scene: SGC - Medical Facilities
The bug is lying on a table and Harlow is looking at it with a magnifying glass.
Harlow: "Not your garden variety mosquito."
Hammond: "There's no word on Teal'c yet, but Maybourne's put out an all points
bulletin to the state and local police."
Jack: "We've gotta find him first, sir."
Hammond: "Right at the moment, Maybourne has the manpower advantage and the
jurisdiction."
Sam: "You really should see this, sir."
She pushed a remote and starts playing video that they recorded on the planet.
Daniel (by way of narrating): "We thought we heard noises coming from one of the
buildings."
Sam: "It seems the final stage of the metamorphosis requires a dark place."
Hammond: "That's a man."
Daniel: "It looks like the inhabitants of the planet were human...possibly from
Earth, originally."
Jack: "Daniel was right."
Daniel: "But their entire civilization was obviously wiped out by this bug...and
all those inhabitants were changed."
Sam: "It's amazing, really. I mean, they had all the technology we do...maybe
more...and they couldn't prevent their demise at the hands of a simple insect."
Jack: "Oh, yeah, real simple."
Sam raises her eyebrows in concession.
Jack: "Take a look at this, sir."
The video shows the cocooned form of the man they had been looking at when
suddenly several smaller versions of the bug erupt from the cocoon. Then the
video turns to static Jack cringes and swallows.
Hammond: "All those things came from one body?"
Jack looks to Sam.
Harlow: "Of course...equal matter conversion."
Sam (shakes her head in agreement): "It's how they reproduce. The insect's venom
actually converts the body's mass into it's own DNA material. But a human,
or...in this case, a Jaffa's total matter is far greater than one of the
insect's natural mass."
Jack: "Thank you."
Hammond: "So Teal'c isn't going to turn into just one of those things."
Sam: "No, sir. He's going to turn into a whole lot of those things."
Scene: City - The building where Teal'c is hiding.
Teal'c is looking at his hands which seem to be covered in a sticky substance.
Just then Ally bursts into the room, pointing her squirt gun.
Ally: "Nobody move."
Teal'c looks at her. He does not look good. There are lesions all over his neck
and face now too.
Ally (very quietly): "Sorry. I didn't know the room was occupied."
Teal'c (almost a whisper): "What type of weapon do you possess?"
Ally: "This? Chill, dude. It's just a water gun. I was playing, see?"
She squirts Teal'c who groans as the water hits him.
Ally: "Uh, sorry, man. Please don't freak on me."
Teal'c: "Leave me."
Ally (taking off her cap to reveal long brown hair): "You're not from around
here, are you?" (She removes her sun glasses and moves closer to Teal'c.) "Whoa,
man, if you ask me...you look like you could use a couple more days in rehab."
Teal'c: "No one must know that I am here."
Ally: "OK. Are you sure, though? I mean you look worse than my Dad did after he
got shot...and he died."
Teal'c: "You must leave."
Ally: "OK."
She gets up to leave.
Teal'c: "Wait."
Ally: "What?"
Teal'c: "I must have nourishment."
Ally: "Oh, man! You want my chocolate bar?"
Teal'c: "I must eat."
Ally (sighs): "OK. How 'bout we share it."
She opens the candy bar and give a chunk to Teal'c. She then eats part herself.
Ally: "Peanuts and caramel. Pretty good, huh?"
Teal'c: "Can you get more?"
Ally: "Maybe. What's in it for me?"
Teal'c: "Peanuts and caramel."
Ally: "No, dumb ass, like I mean...what do I get?"
Teal'c: "I have nothing to offer you."
Ally: "How 'bout...let's say you owe me one. Like in the Godfather...how's
that?"
Teal'c does not answer so Ally gets up to go.
Ally: "OK...back in a flash."
Teal'c: "No one must know."
Ally: "Don't sweat it."
Teal'c: "I cannot prevent it."
Ally: "I meant OK."
She leaves.
Scene: SGC - Medical Facilities
Daniel is helping Harlow with the examination of the alien insect.
Harlow: "Will you retract that flap for me, please?"
Daniel looks around to be sure that Harlow is not trying to hand the retracting
tool to someone else. No one else is in the room.
Daniel: "Me?"
Harlow: "It's perfectly sedated." (Daniel reluctantly takes the instrument.)
"It's very tough armor our little friend has. Quite a creation. All right,
now..."
Sam walks in as Harlow begins digging into the bug.
Harlow (whispering): "There..." (He pulls something out of the bug as Daniel and
Sam look on.) "There's the juice."
Sam: "Uh, I worked out a probability model...absolute worse-case scenario if the
mutation in Teal'c runs the full course..."
Daniel: "How bad?"
Sam: "Well, the insect can multiply exponentially, so every person who's stung
could turn into about 10 bugs. Now, we don't have an exact time on the
incubation, but..."
Harlow: "...But we're easily guessing on the safe side..."
Sam: "We could have swarms on the order of millions in 6 to 8 weeks."
Scene: City - Teal'c's building.
Ally is eating a candy bar and doing recon. She sees cops outside speaking to
the punks Teal'c encountered earlier. She returns to where Teal'c is and
finishes her candy bar as she contemplates her next move. She thumps Teal'c with
a candy bar.
Ally: "Hey..." (she waits for Teal'c to take the candy bar) "You a kimble?"
Teal'c (whispering): "What is a kimble?"
Ally: "What planet are you from? You know, Dr. Richard Kimble, the fugitive. I'm
asking if you're wanted by the law. Looks like the cops are asking about you on
the street."
Teal'c: "They must not find me."
Ally: "What'd you do?"
Teal'c: "I have done nothing."
Ally: "Innocent 'till proven guilty."
Teal'c: "You must leave."
Ally: "Why?"
Teal'c: "I am...dangerous."
Ally: "No way. You won't hurt me."
Teal'c: "How can you know this?"
Ally: "I got the sense. My old man gave it to me. He was a cop. He could tell
who the bad guys were just by smellin' 'em."
Teal'c: "What is your purpose here?"
Ally (shrugs): "Got nothin' better to do."
Teal'c: "Do you not attend an educational institution?"
Ally: "What planet are you from? Duh...nobody goes to school in the summer,
unless you're stupid."
Teal'c: "What of the one who gave you birth?"
Ally: "My mom? She works all day so I can get dinner and a place to sleep.
Listen, you're a sittin' duck down here."
Teal'c: "And ducks are bad?"
Ally: "Uh...the sitting kind are. Here...if you can get up, I can show you a
place to hide."
She takes Teal'c by the hand.
Scene: SGC - Gen. Hammond's Office
He is on the red phone (finally).
Hammond: "Yes, sir. I understand. We will." (He hangs up the phone and addresses
Jack, who is standing on the other side of the desk.) "The president has
overruled Maybourne's orders."
Jack: "So, if the local authorities find Teal'c, we get him back."
Hammond: "Yes, but Maybourne still has jurisdiction to continue his search."
Jack: "OK...so the race is on."
Scene: City - Teal'c's Building
Ally is helping Teal'c up a stair case.
Ally: "Shouldn't you really see a doctor?"
Teal'c: "I must rest."
Ally: "No its just up...it's just a bit more up there. Almost..."
Scene: City - Outside Teal'c's Building
We see a white van pulling up to the building. Several men in hazmat gear,
carrying weapons jump out of the van.
Voice: "Move it out...let's go!"
A second van approaches. Maybourne is riding in this one.
Voice 2: "Move out, men!"
Maybourne gets out of the van, waits for the men to go into the building ahead
of him and then walks toward the building. His men bust the doors to the
building open.
Voice 3: "We're through!"
Voice 4: "Fan out!"
Elsewhere in the building, Ally has taken Teal'c to a ladder.
Ally: "It's up here. It's not a long way."
Teal'c climbs laboriously up the ladder. His head pops through a small square
hole in the floor. Meanwhile the search in other parts of the building
continues.
Scene: SGC - Medical Facilities
Harlow is showing Sam some readouts.
Harlow: "I think we've got it. It's this drug that's actually slowing the
transformation in the sample. Now that wouldn't cure a normal human, but Teal'c
may at least stand a chance with the help of his symbiote's natural healing
abilities."
Janet: "We may not have that for much longer."
Sam and Harlow move to where Janet is monitoring the symbiote.
Harlow: "What?"
Janet: "It's dying."
Harlow: "What can we do?"
Sam shakes her head as she has no idea.
Scene: City - Teal'c's Building
The search crews are getting closer. They continue to ascend staircases and are
getting closer to Teal'c. Ally is hiding out in another part of the building.
She is stopped by one of the searchers. Meanwhile, Teal'c is laying in a semi-fetal
position on the floor. Several searchers bring Ally out to where Maybourne is.
Searcher: "This is all we found."
Harry: "Hello, young lady." (Ally gives him a snotty smile.) "I'm Colonel
Maybourne. I work for the United States of America...you're government, the good
guys..."
Ally (rolls eyes): "Yeah, right..."
Harry (bending down to look her in the eye): "Oh, we're here on a little
investigation. Actually, we're looking for someone. He was last seen around this
building. We think he could still be here. Maybe you could help us...Now, he's
tall..."
Ally: "I ain't seen nobody, and even if I did, I wouldn't tell you."
Harry: "Why is that?"
Ally: "Because, I don't like the way you smell."
Maybourne straightens up, none too pleased.
Scene: SGC - Medical Facilities
Jack walks in to check on the progress.
Janet: "Colonel...from the looks of it, we only have minutes."
Jack: "Captain...is there anything your Tok'ra memories could..."
Sam: "I know, sir, I know. I can't just access them at will. Believe me, I've
been trying..."
Jack: "Oh, it's too bad you can't zap it with those paddles like they do on...E.
R. That guys that's...What?"
Sam: "It couldn't be that simple."
Janet: "Defibbing would kill it."
Sam: "...but we've done our best to synthesize almost every environmental
condition the Goa'uld larva has inside Teal'c's pouch...
Jack: "What?"
Sam: "...nutrition, temperature..."
Janet: "Except electrical current..."
Sam: "...and there is a very small constant electrical charge flowing through
all of our bodies. The Goa'uld may need that."
Janet: "OK...so then all we need is a small enough power source."
Sam: "Yeah."
Jack: "What?"
Scene: City - Teal'c's Building
Ally is back inside. She has waited until Maybourne's people have left. She
climbs the ladder to where she left Teal'c.
Ally: "They're gone." (She is stunned when she sees Teal'c.) "Oh, my God."
Teal'c is now beginning to turn in to a cocoon. He is covered in white sticky
stuff.
Ally (as she slowly approaches): "What happened to you?" (She kneels down next
to him and looks him over.) "Man, this is like...serious alien stuff going on
here. If you don't tell me what to do, I am going to get the cops."
Teal'c is gasping as he tries to communicate.
Ally: "My Dad used to know a couple of guys we can trust."
She starts to get up but Teal'c reaches out and grabs her hand.
Teal'c: "No."
Ally: "But look at you. You don't really want this to happen, do you?"
Scene: SGC - Medical Facilities
Janet and Sam have hooked up an electrical current to the symbiote tank.
Janet: "It's getting better."
Sam: "It was so simple."
Jack: "Well...I guess my work here is done."
Sam and Janet smile at each other. Just then, the phone rings. Janet goes to
answer it.
Janet: "Fraiser. Yeah. Colonel."
Jack turns and walks to the phone.
Ally: "Hello...is this Colonel Jack O'Neill? It's about time. I only had to talk
to about 15 people to get to you. Do you know a bug dude named Teal'c? Yeah,
man, I would hurry if I was you."
Scene: City - Teal'c's Building
Jack climbs up through the opening in the floor with a flashlight. He spots a
nearly complete cocooned Teal'c on the floor.
Jack: "Oh, my God." (He hurries over to Teal'c.) "Teal'c."
Daniel is the next up the ladder. He sees Jack and Teal'c.
Daniel: "I'll go get help."
Jack: "Teal'c."
Teal'c: "O'Neill."
Jack: "Yeah. It's me."
Teal'c: "Kill me."
Jack: "Uh...no."
Teal'c: "The change cannot be stopped."
Jack: "I won't lie to ya...you don't look so great...but you're gonna make it.
You're gonna be OK."
Jack begins removing the white, sticky, stringy substance that is covering
Teal'c's face.
Next we see Teal'c being brought out of the building on a stretcher. He is
covered with a blanket and only his head is visible. His face is quite pale and
covered with lesions.
Ally: "Why can't I go with you?"
Daniel: "Sorry, you just...can't. These guys here are gonna take care of you and
make sure you're OK."
Ally: "Is Teal'c gonna be OK?"
Daniel: "I hope so."
Ally: "Me, too."
Daniel walks toward the military vehicle in which Teal'c and Jack already are
waiting.
Ally: "Hey...tell him he still owes me one."
Daniel nods.
Scene: SGC - Infirmary
Sam, Daniel and Jack are sitting, waiting as Teal'c is wheeled into the room.
Dr. Fraiser is right behind Teal'c.
Janet: "His pouch had started to close, but we were able to reopen it. The
Goa'uld is back where it belongs and it seems to be doing OK."
Daniel: "And Teal'c?"
Harlow: "With the help of the drug, it appears the symbiote has stopped the
metamorphosis."
Janet: "We're hoping the Goa'uld has the ability to reverse the damage already
done."
Daniel: "It can't be easy knowing the thing you despise most about yourself is
what saved your life..."
Jack: "Hey...even I'm happy he's got the snake..."
Hammond (who has just arrived): "This sounds like good news."
Sam: "Hope so."
Hammond: "Maybourne has ordered the insect specimen and all related research
transferred to the Area 51 facility."
Jack (shaking his head and under his breath): "I should've shot him."
Harlow: "I regret that's impossible, sir."
Hammond: "Why is that?"
Harlow: "Well, as soon as Teal'c is fully recovered, the insect is going to be
involved in an unfortunate lab accident. I'm afraid I'll have to take full
responsibility."
Harlow smiles as Sam, who returns the smile. Jack raises his brow in surprise,
then shakes his head in agreement.
Scene: City - Teal'c's Building
We see Ally playing in the building with her water gun. She comes around a
corner and runs into a fully recovered Teal'c and Daniel.
Ally: "Teal'c! Hi!"
Teal'c: "Greetings, Ally."
Ally: "You're OK."
Teal'c (giving a slight nod): "Thanks to you I am feeling much better."
Ally: "Aw, man, it was no sweat. You look way better. I guess you can't really
tell me what happened...all that top-secret, James Bond stuff, right?"
Teal'c: "That is correct. To show my gratitude, I have brought you a new weapon.
One with increased range and firepower."
Teal'c offers her a new super-soaker water gun.
Ally (gasps): "Wicked! This is so cool! Have any time to play?"
Daniel: "Uh, actually we..."
Daniel is stopped mid-sentence as a large stream of water blasts Teal'c in the
chest. Ally giggles and runs away. Daniel wipes a little water out of his eye,
as he has been splashed by the water stream which hit Teal'c.
Daniel: "Guess we shouldn't have loaded it, huh?
Teal'c pulls out some cool sunglasses and places them on his face. He then turns
to Daniel...
Teal'c: "How else could she defend herself?"
Teal'c turns his water gun on Daniel and fires at point-blank range into
Daniel's chest. Then he runs down the hall after Ally.
Daniel (somewhat stunned) "How else?"
He wipes his eye again, then pulls his shirts out away from his chest and shakes
it so get some of the water out.
End Credits:
Executive Producers: Jonathan Glassner & Brad Wright
Colleen Rennison as Ally
Alonso Oyarzun as Punk Leader
Richard Leacock as Sergeant
Laara Sadiq as Female Technician