"What you got?" " Jaffa?" " Quiet!" "It is nothing." "just to keep me interested?" "Well that depends." "Are you losing interest?" "No!" "baby." "Teal'c's intel did suggest that the Sodan were rumoured to have a base of operations here." "Teal'c's intel came from a... you know?" "Old enemies and new allies and all that jazz." "But still." "You think the information's bad?" "I think it's vague." "A world once inhabited by Ancients." "A village shrouded in the mists of time." Sounds like a movie trailer." "Well we've found some pretty interesting things based on vague." "I'm getting that grasping at straws feeling." "just don't tell Teal'c." "I already did." "what did he say?" "Colonel Mitchell!" "I am certain of it." "Needs more bass." "Go!" "go!" "Where the hell are they?" "this is SG-1." "We are under attack!" "We need backup!" "Where the hell is Mitchell?" "what's your position?" "do you copy?" "His wound is grave my Lord." "His symbiote is badly damaged." "No!" "Bring him!" "Shal' Kree!" "Season 9" " Episode 8 Babylon" "He'll be dead by sunset." "If not sooner." "Then... you must keep him alive." "Chief?" "five by five." "no sign of Colonel Mitchell." "Let me know when you've completed your first sweep." "Affirmative." "SGC out." " Anything?" " Not yet." "How's he doing?" "Not well." "His symbiote is dying." "the host will die also." "radio Dr Lam." "Let her know we have a priority one medical emergency incoming." "No tattoo." "He is a warrior of the Sodan." "no Sodan has been indentured to the Goa'uld for over 5000 years." "So your intel was correct." "Indeed." "Colonel Carter." "There's something you need to see." " This writing." " Ancient." "Look familiar?" "Nope." "Teal'c?" "I have never before seen such a device." "I'm detecting energy readings." "It's definitely some form of technology." "Perhaps this is how the Sodan managed to escape so quickly." "that's exactly what it is." "This says it's some sort of aperture or gateway to..." " To where?" " Enlightenment." "Just enlightenment?" "Nothing more specific?" "That's all it says." "Hold still!" "your bedside manner totally blows." "Your wound is infected." "or you will die." "This... will cause you a fair amount... of pain." "How's it going in there?" "Touch and go." "They've been at it for nearly six hours now." "Most Jaffa would not survive such wounds." "Wich means she's very good." "That's why she's here." "Looks like you were both right about the device he was wearing." "More Ancient technology." "A cloak of invisibility." "That explains how they were able to ambush you so easily." "What about the transporter?" "working on it right now." "So far they haven't been able to even open up the damn thing." "Let alone turn it on." "sorry I couldn't have been more help." "Well one line of Ancient text isn't a hell of a lot to go on." "We're running surface scans with Prometheus on several moons and other planets in the system." "You believe Colonel Mitchell is no longer on P9G-844?" "It's a possibility." "Ground sweeps and UAV scans are all coming up empty." "Don't move." "Don't make a sound." "Jaffa." "It would seem you have me at a disadvantage." "It certainly appears that way. you're gonna tell me how I get... are two very different things." "For example." "You are free to leave this place whenever you choose." "now you're telling me?" "would take months on foot to the mountains of Dor'ta'nak." "No one who's attempted the journey has ever survived." " So how did we get..." " We were brought here through the eye of the Gods." " Which is?" " Your questions can wait!" "we should begin Joma'Sha'Tal'ac immediately." "I could eat." "You have spilled the blood of a Sodan warrior." "Did you think our mercy was without purpose?" "Lord Haikon has decreed that you will answer for your crimes by way of Kel Shak Lo." "Which you will battle with another warrior. you will die." "our friend is still with us." "That he is." "Though how he survived is a mystery to me." "I'd say that nine hours you spent working on him might have something to do with it." "Nice work." "but his symbiote was too badly damaged." "We had no choice but to remove it and start him on tretonin." "I wanna know." "Why?" "So you can interrogate him?" "but that's the idea." "Well it wasn't exactly the kind of post op recovery I had in mind." "Well let me know the moment he wakes up." "OK." "United States Air Force." "Earth. but things are a little different now." "The Goa'uld have been defeated." "The Goa'uld should have been defeated five thousand years ago." "My ancestors were one of the first of the Sodan." "They were part of an elite command force under the Goa'uld Ishkur." "they pillaged and plundered under his name." "Driving fear into the hearts of all those that would oppose his rule. the more they were able to discern the truth." "but merely an imposter." "Our true Gods are those that came before us." "You're talking about the Ancients." "Ishkur branded my ancestors as traitors and ordered their deaths." "They tried to fight to show their brothers their faith. hoping that their souls would find peace." "But instead their search led them to this world." "but you didn't help the other Jaffa defeat them." "the Jaffa are free." "But it won't last without strong leadership." "They need your help." "Their fate is of no concern to us." "Mitchell." "You will not be able to break your bonds." "We sought out the Sodan in peace." "Wishing only to open dialogue." "Instead you attacked us and took our comrade." "forfeit their lives." "you might want to post a few signs." "we just want our friend back." "so we're thinking straight swap." "Our guy in exchange for you." "he soon will be." "Hear me when I say that all free Jaffa have always had the greatest respect for the warriors of the Sodan." "I will be dead soon enough!" "courses through your veins." "You have been freed from your burden." "Such a thing is not possible." "but it is." "I assure you." "with no ill effects." "Your poisons will not work." "you would have let me die on the battlefield." "So is it you just don't know what's going on in the rest of the galaxy or you really don't care?" "The Jaffa made their choice 5000 years ago." "Their affairs are no concern to us." "but how do you survive?" "At some point you gotta go hunting for...you know." "We raid Goa'uld strongholds for shipments of symbiotes that have yet to be implanted in any Jaffa." "Such missions are rites of passage for our youngest warriors." "Well it sounds like fun." "The fighting style of Sodan has been a closely guarded secret for a hundred generations." "It is a shame you will die shortly after learning it." "Attack me." "You find me an unworthy opponent?" "it's just I don't feel like..." "OK." "Let's try that one more time." "You are slow and undisciplined." "you would die without landing a single blow." "And what happens if I refuse to fight?" "You just kill me?" "It is an alternative you do not wish to explore." "Dr Lam tells me you have refused to eat." "The very odour of your food turns my stomach." "you require sustenance." "It is only because your drug has weakened me." "it has freed you." "What do you know of freedom?" "who have served false Gods." "rather than among his own people." "since I was but a child." "Your bravery and skill are legend among all Jaffa." "It is because of my failure as a warrior that I languish here now." "Prisoner to a former slave and his pitiful allies." "Speak not of skill to me." "Many Jaffa have fought and died for a cause that was started by the warriors of the Sodan!" "And for what?" "you would only seek to lead them further astray!" "That way." "Blue is left." "Red is right." "Got it!" " Faster!" " Faster." "How did I do?" "Badly." "Again!" "I'll be better." "A Sodan warrior must anticipate an attack at any moment." "anyway?" "The writings of our Gods instructed us how to construct many of their devices." "We use them to protect our sacred ground." "but I need to talk to your boss." "That visitor you had yesterday." "I'm assuming it's not the first time he's been here." "I've met their kind before." "They're bad news." "training exercise you want... within reason." "Finish the course in time and I'll consider it." "a bag of sand with a hole in it is not an accurate timing device." "You are an evil man!" "sit." "I'm good..." "OK." "Maybe I will sit." "I'm starting to get an idea of why you guys attacked us." "That Prior is telling you we're enemies." "Is he wrong?" "but you didn't." "Generations of my people fought and died under exile." "Praying for the day when we could seek the path without recrimination." "Mitchell?" "Do they once give us a sign as proof of their existence?" "I know that the Ori are not the Ancients." "But can there be any doubt that they are Gods?" "how can I refuse them?" "You're making a big mistake." "These Ori are not what you think they are." "They are not even close." "Tek'Hel'Shee!" "you'll understand." "I've already been there." "I understand." "You may rest now." "let's keep going." "You are not tired?" "that's tiring." "This is nothing." "Come on!" "I'm gonna need a hell of a lot more than you're teaching me." "Quit pussy footing around and stop holding back." "Let's go!" "You believe this staff is what makes you strong." "The Kran'too is nothing but an extension of your body." "No true warrior depends on a weapon for strength or advantage." "that's what I'm talking about!" "Drink." "I'm not gonna get used to this stuff." "you would have died many days ago." "you know." "The Jaffa I killed." "It was him or me." "It does not matter." "Blood has been spilled." "Our laws decree you must answer for it." "So who was he?" "His name was Volnek." "A most skilled warrior." "for what it's worth?" "is there?" "No." "who do I fight?" "Lord Haikon will determine that on the eve of your battle." "Usually it is the closest blood kin to the slain warrior." "Right." "And the next of kin is just as tough as he was." "Do I stand a chance?" "Never mind." "I promise I'll die well and all that jazz." "I gotta ask." "You buying what these Priors are selling?" "Lord Haikon has led us for more than a hundred years." "He knows what is best for us all." "what do you think?" "It is not my place to question Haikon's judgement." "Nor is it yours! it's all going down the drain!" "Enough!" "We're finished for the day." "You say a Prior has come to the Sodan and you have decided to follow the word of the Ori." " I walk the path of our true Gods..." " The Ori are not Gods!" "What did the Prior promise you?" "A place of honour at his side." "As heralds for your new masters." "This Prior will have you hunt down and kill all Jaffa who refuse to follow the path of Origin." "That is the path you walk." "I will learn the codes of the Ancient transporter." "No matter how long it takes." "This is going nowhere." "Two weeks and he hasn't given us so much as a decent high coo." "Sir." "Most Jaffa would never break under normal interrogation techniques." "Not to mention the fact that the Sodan are an elite group of warriors." "I'm sure their minds are trained to withstand a lot worse." "What about the device?" "I'm afraid." "is rigged to some sort of defence mechanism." "while trying to implement an override." "How is he?" "Dr Lam says the feelings should return to his legs in a few days." "the international committee is keeping score of all the resources we're using to try to find Mitchell." "orbital scans by Prometheus." "All of them coming up empty certainly doesn't look good." "Another few days and they'll tell us to shut down search and rescue operations." "Shut it down?" "in the past we have spent months searching for our people in the field." "We can't just stop looking." "is we've never left a man behind." "soon." "Or the next paperwork I fill out will declare Mitchell MIA." "I just need a minute!" "Let him pass." "Thank you." "I'll make this quick. they are not the Ancients you wanna worship." "The Prior has healed our sick." "Caused our crops to grow as if by magic." "Why should I doubt the power of the Ori?" "their power is not what you should question." "It's how they use it!" "Anyone refuses to worship them and they die." "And I'm not talking about a few non believers here and there." "I'm talking about whole planets wiped out!" "And I should simply take your word for this?" "You wanna believe my people are godless and inferior?" "Go right ahead." "But we have never needed proof of our Gods' existence in order to believe in them." "Faith. not the Ancients themselves." "Don't throw your history away for a bag full of magic tricks." "Admit it!" "Haikon has totally lost his mind." "A warrior cannot talk and fight at the same time." "A fact you refuse to accept." "Got it." "Mitchell." "Followed by my violent death of course." "Of course." "To my inevitable demise!" "Why do you do this?" "Do what?" "Train this hard." "These are the last days of your life." "I would think you would spend more time in reflexion. that's when you're as good as dead." "all bets are off." "You cannot survive Kel Shak Lo." "but" "I've endured things I wasn't supposed to survive before and" "I'm still here." "How can you be certain the Prior speaks falsely?" "Because..." "I've seen entire planets wiped out because they refused to follow the Ori." "I'd wanna know." "your people shouldn't suffer for their faith." "again." "again." "I am not in the mood." "but we're not here to talk." "You require evidence that the Ori are not to be trusted." "This is Tass'an." "One of the founders of a free Jaffa settlement on a planet called Sarvarus." "Many families came to live there to enjoy the freedom that they fought so hard to achieve." "He is Sodan?" "Indeed." "Tell him what happened." "a man came through the Chaapa'ai." "He called himself a Prior." "who he claimed would give us protection and show us the path to enlightenment." "And he left." "He later returned." "Told us we had to make a choice." "Follow the Ori... or be destroyed." "We chose to resist." "brother." "He dialed the Chaapa'ai and merely placed his staff in the ground in front of it." "Then earth shook with a fierceness I have never seen nor heard of before." "our city was levelled." "Hundreds of our people wiped out in an instant." "Enough of these lies." "You expect me to take the word of this sorry excuse for a Jaffa?" "I witnessed the destruction with my own eyes!" "brother. leave. do you deny it?" "but it wasn't..." "I don't deny it. now!" "I seek it." "You? my brother." "settle this debt once and for all." "You may begin!" "May you die well." "Likewise." "The human is dead!" "The blood of the Sodan has been avenged." "my Lord." "It is only fitting he be given the rite of Shel'mak'asah." "Very well." "I would like to take care of it myself." "I was afraid you would not wake." "Well maybe I shouldn't have." " How long was I..." " Seven hours." "Seven?" "I thought it was only supposed to be two?" "I may have inadvertently made the elixir to strong." "that's gonna leave a scar." "did it work?" "The elixir was most effective." "They believe you are dead." "Bones." "Never mind." "where does this leave you? then I am his enemy." "And Haikon?" "It may be too late to convince him of his mistake." "But there are several other warriors who feel as I do. until the others see the error of their ways. you won't walk alone." "Come!" "How did it go?" "Not well." "Volnek still refuses to believe the Ori are responsible for what happened on Sarvarus." "What's he doing now?" "Nothing." "He hasn't said a word since Tass'an left." "Which puts us back to square one." "Yeah basically." " Teal'c seems to think that showing him more images..." " Unscheduled offworld activation!" "Chief?" "Recieving an IDC Sir." "It's Colonel Mitchell." "You're kidding?" "Sir." "You have a visitor." "You!" "too." "we have unfinished business!" "Just take it easy." "You shot me!" "You shot me first!" "I will have vengeance!" "brother." "I know that you think we're enemies and right now it doesn't matter if we become allies." "What matters is that you understand the truth." "You are fortunate my brother drugged you." "You would never have survived a true Kel Shak Lo." "Don't know." "Took you down pretty good." "You were lucky." "Lucky is good." "Mitchell." "We will meet again." "Looking forward to it."