Stargate SG-1 - Season 6 (2002) (season)
Directed by:
Martin WoodScreenplay:
Christopher JudgeCinematography:
James Alfred MenardComposer:
Joel GoldsmithCast:
Amanda Tapping, Richard Dean Anderson, Corin Nemec, Christopher Judge, Don S. Davis, Michael Shanks, Teryl Rothery, Carmen Argenziano, Peter Williams, Tony Amendola, Musetta Vander, Gary Jones (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
In a busy hospital Teal'c is wheeled into surgery. As the surgeon in charge looks at him, the doctor's eyes glow white: It is the Goa'uld system lord Apophis. Teal'c awakens, startled, in his bunk at the firehouse, where fellow firefighter Jonas Quinn seems concerned. Teal'c does not have his head markings, and is speaking to Jonas in Earth slang, calling him "man" and "probie" — the nickname for new recruits on probationary status. Teal'c says he's fine and to go back to sleep. Then Teal'c notices his symbiote pouch is missing.... Teal'c awakens from his hibernation-like state of Kelnoreem to find himself back in his quarters at Stargate Command. Later, in the Stargate Command mess hall, Maj. Carter suggests that perhaps Teal'c is concerned about the upcoming mission. Teal'c suddenly finds himself back at the firehouse with Capt. Carter suggesting that perhaps he was worrying about his upcoming surgery, in which he would be donating a kidney to his stepfather, Brae. Fire Chief O'Neill suggests Teal'c give the matter more thought, but there is no better donor-match and Teal'c cannot let Brae die. The alarm sounds, and the firefighters are called to a highway accident. One of the men being carried out on a stretcher looks up at Teal'c — his eyes glow white. Again, it is Apophis. Chief O'Neill orders everyone away from the site, because one of the cars is about to explode. But Teal'c sees Brae — whom he now knows is his father-figure, Bra'tac, in his other reality — trapped in the car, which explodes, throwing Teal'c backward but not injuring him. Teal'c regains consciousness and finds himself collapsed on the floor of the Stargate Command cafeteria. He's rushed to the infirmary.
Dr. Fraiser is quite concerned: No Jaffa has ever fainted before. In Teal'c's other reality, at the hospital after the explosion, Brae/Bra'tac points out how strange it is that Teal'c was not burned or even scratched. Teal'c's wife Shauna (who was Shan'auc in his other reality) is deeply concerned as well, and asks Chief O'Neill to get Teal'c some help. The help comes in the form of Dr. Daniel Jackson — who tells Teal'c that he has postponed Brae's kidney transplant operation, but promises he'll do everything he can to help save Teal'c's father. Back at Stargate Command, Teal'c goes through the stargate, only to return to the hospital where Apophis keeps appearing, both as himself and as a surgeon. Apophis tells him, "You cannot escape your fate, shol'va," using the Jaffa word for "traitor." Back at the hospital, Brae/Bra'tac begs Teal'c to let him die, but Teal'c refuses. Daniel Jackson appears again, and talks Teal'c through the similarities between his life as a firefighter and as a Jaffa working for the Tauri (Earth humans) against the Goa'uld. Both seem equally real. Then Daniel suggests the impossible — that neither scenario is real. It finally occurs to Teal'c what has happened. Back at Stargate Command with Dr. Fraiser, O'Neill and the rest of SG-1, he recalls a meeting of the rebel leaders that had turned out to be a trap. Apophis' troops had slaughtered a hundred Jaffa and removed their symbiotes. Teal'c found Bra'tac, and passed his symbiote between them until help arrived. But they had each gone without a symbiote for too long, and are both about to die. Gen. Hammond contacts the Tok'ra, of whom Malek divines a solution. They adapt for Jaffa physiology the human life-extending drug tretonin — a distillate of Goa'uld symbiotes — that SG-1 had brought back from the planet of the Pangarans. If it works, it would mean that both Bra'tac and Teal'c will be able to live without their symbiotes — though they will be dependent on the drug until the Tok'ra can devise a way to make the effects permanent. The experiment is a success. As Teal'c recovers in the infirmary, Daniel Jackson materializes from his ascended plane to assure him that Bra'tac is fine — and that this reality is indeed genuine. Teal'c sees this as a very good thing, because it means that his and Bra'tac's new ability to live without their symbiotes could one day mean the end of Goa'uld oppression for all Jaffa. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM))
(more)Cast
![Amanda Tapping](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/433/162433556_275554.jpg)
Amanda Tapping
UK
Best series:
Supernatural (2005) (series)
The X-Files (1993) (series)
Stargate: Atlantis (2004) (series) - actor, a.f.
![Richard Dean Anderson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/430/162430842_34dbb1.png)
Richard Dean Anderson
USA
Best series:
The Simpsons (1989) (series)
Stargate: Atlantis (2004) (series)
Raising Hope (2010) (series)
![Corin Nemec](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270901_170220.jpg)
Corin Nemec
USA
Best series:
Supernatural (2005) (series)
Tales from the Crypt (1989) (series)
Stargate SG-1 (1997) (series) - actor, a.f.
![Christopher Judge](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/433/162433633_86668a.jpg)
Christopher Judge
USA
Best series:
Final Space (2018) (series)
Stargate: Atlantis (2004) (series)
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) (series)
![Don S. Davis](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272075_d07dbf.jpg)
Don S. Davis
USA
Best series:
Twin Peaks (1990) (series) - actor, a.f.
Supernatural (2005) (series)
The X-Files (1993) (series)
![Michael Shanks](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/433/162433637_18c805.jpg)
Michael Shanks
Canada
Best series:
Supernatural (2005) (series)
Stargate: Atlantis (2004) (series)
Project Blue Book (2019) (series)
![Teryl Rothery](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/433/162433654_66dd61.png)
Teryl Rothery
Canada
Best series:
Martin Mystère (2003) (series)
The Killing (2011) (series)
The Haunting (2018) (series)
![Carmen Argenziano](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/220/163220554_d0c196.jpg)
Carmen Argenziano
USA
Best series:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
House M.D. (2004) (series)
FlashForward (2009) (series)
![Peter Williams](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275869_567d9f.jpg)
Peter Williams
Jamaica
Best series:
The Expanse (2015) (series)
The X-Files (1993) (series)
Dead Like Me (2003) (series)
![Tony Amendola](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274964_095a3e.jpg)
Tony Amendola
USA
Best series:
The Chosen (2017) (series)
Dexter (2006) (series)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) (series)
![Musetta Vander](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/314/314544_dd71a5.jpg)
Musetta Vander
South Africa
Best series:
Frasier (1993) (series)
Boy Meets World (1993) (series)
Swedish Dicks (2016) (series)
Gary Jones
UK
Best series:
Supernatural (2005) (series)
Dead Like Me (2003) (series)
Stargate: Atlantis (2004) (series)
Dean Redman
Best series:
Supernatural (2005) (series)
The X-Files (1993) (series)
Stargate: Atlantis (2004) (series)