Stargate SG-1 s01e08 Episode Script
Brief Candle
Give them strength, Lord! Let their hearts beat as one.
And, who might|this be, Daniel? I'm not sure maybe early Greek, but I|don't recognize the god form.
Sorrywe, wewe didn't|mean to scare anyone.
You are not Pelops.
No, no, uh, you mean him? Uh, no, we're, we're|visitorsfriends.
Husband, the child|is nearplease The midwife is gone, I do not|know the birthing mysteries and the village is|too far.
Pleasehelp us.
What? Don't look at me,|I don't know what to do.
Push, pushpush.
- You're doing just fine.
|- Where did you learn how to do this? Uh, on a dig in the Yucatan.
Um, after the first one, I made friends with|the local mid-wives and they taught me a lot.
How many babies|have you delivered? Uhtwouh, counting today.
Alekos it's a boy.
Hey, congratulations.
May he grow strong|and bring you honor.
You never cease to amaze|me with all your talents.
Thank you.
Wow, thisplace|is incredible.
It's like we just stepped|into the citadel at Mycenae.
I thought you|said it was Greek? Oh, uh, the Mycenae was an ancient city|in the southern Peloponnesus region.
- Where's that?|- Greece.
- Why do I do that?|- Wait, I don't think you should be walking right now, I mean Shouldn't you be resting?|Daniel, shouldn't she I'm fine.
I'm fine.
We wish for you all to|be the first to see - A birthmark.
|- A tri-point.
It will bring him luck.
I would call him Dan-el, - to honor the stranger who birthed him.
|- Oh, you don't have to do that.
May we offer you the|hospitality of our village? Well, that'd be nice.
Who are you folks? We are the Chosen.
Where do the gods reside? Doesn't everyone know? In the skyof course.
Of course.
I have a son.
(in the crowd) Look at this.
|What a lovely child, lovely child.
Look at these people.
I guess they've never hear|the word "unattractive" here.
- They all look as healthy as a Jaffa.
|- That's a good thing, right? I don't see anyone who|looks like they're over 40.
Umdo things feel|a little"off" here? Are you crazy?|It's a paradise.
Yeah, sure, have an|apple.
What could happen? I am Kynthia.
|Welcome to our village.
Thank you Jack O'Neill.
It is pleasing? Very.
- You should have some.
|- It is only for you.
Only for me? Thanks.
It is only for you.
I think you have|a fan, Colonel.
I believe this woman wishes|to spend time with O'Neill.
Thank you, Teal'c.
This place must be loaded with artifacts.
|That statue in there, for example, must be the Mycenaean hero, Pelops, who fought from his winged|chariot, hurling lightning bolts.
Poetic way to describe|a Goa'uld Death Glider.
Yeah, probably.
These people are|obviously not laborers.
I must wonder why a Goa'uld|would bring them to this planet.
Perhaps it was a good Goa'uld.
Right! Like there|is such a thing.
I did not intend for my|statement to be humorous.
Trust me, they weren't.
Hello, girls Uh, Colonel?|Where're you going?|Hello? Please, sit down.
Unto ever man the creator|gives 100 blissful days.
It is a sin not to|celebrate each and every one.
A hundred day celebration? Guess we should|pace ourselves.
What, exactly, just happened? Kynthia? Umwhat happened? To them oryou? We'll talk about that later.
I've seen parties end|abruptly, but never like this.
They all justcollapsed.
It happened just|as the sun set.
Kynthia did the same thing.
What is it? Some kind of|sleeping sickness? What? There's no sign|of fever or pain, breathing's shallow,|heartbeat's slow but regular.
A disease can't affect|everyone all at once.
It seems to be nothing more|than a deep state of sleep.
Nowhow about you? Let's just stick to|the matter at hand.
How does an entire|village pass out? Something in the food? We all partook|of the same food.
Except for that cake.
Which was "only for you".
Damn, she drugged me.
Ohhe's still feeling|the effects of the drug.
- NoI'm just a little tired.
|- Colonel? From now on, we|stick to rations.
No fever, shallow breathing, slow|heartbeatjust like the others.
What the hell|is going on here? Hey, Colonelhow|you feeling? Hung over but okay.
Gettin' any answers out here? No.
They all act as if what|happened last night was normal.
They party until sundown.
Then they fall|asleep, and they wake when the sun rises.
I'd like an explanation.
Daniel, get back to that|temple.
See what you can find out.
Take Teal'c with you.
Come on.
Carter keep asking|questions out here.
He is the creatorPelops,|the giver of days.
This was his home|when he lived among us.
We keep it as it was then and|will do so until he returns.
- And when will that be?|- Well, that is a mystery.
Until it is revealed, it is the duty|of the Chosen to rejoice and wait.
Why are your people|called the Chosen? My ancestors were so|beloved by Pelops that he fashioned|this garden for us.
It is said he chose us and brought|us here from beyond the stars.
Are there any writings|of your history? "Writings"?|I do not know this word.
more of this.
Writings.
|Do you know what this is? It is of Pelops.
It is Goa'uld|an obscure dialect.
Why didn't you|tell me that before? You never before inquired.
Wellyou call it Goa'uld.
Um, I call it|linear "A" script.
We found pictographics like this in ancient|Greece and ancient Cretan, but we never completely|deciphered this form.
The symbols are a sequence.
What, like acombination? What is a combination? Well, it's a sequence|of symbols or motions - Can you read this?|- I believe I can.
It seems to be|some sort of record, an archaic dialect.
Very difficult to decipher.
- Come on, I want to show you something.
|- Okay, I-I'm coming.
Hi.
I found this shell this morning and,|uh, I thought maybe Dan-el might like it.
He can use it as a rattle.
- You want to give it to him for me?|- Oh, you can do so yourself.
This is Dan-el.
No, no, I meant the baby.
This is baby Dan-el.
Okay that's not possible.
Do you not have children|who change and-and grow? Well, yeah, sure we|dobut not like that.
Thetyes, how old is that boy? That is Phillippos.
He is 12.
- Okay, well, he's a little big for 12 years old, but|- Years what are "years"? Uh, welluh, I-I guess it would be|a little different for each planet, but a year is basically the|time it takes for the globe to complete one orbit around the sun.
Rightlet's just|keep this simple, okay? Where we come from, there are 365|days in one year.
No, nowe have no such|counting of time on Argos.
Phillippos is 12 days old.
- How old are you?|- Twenty-one days.
And, uhKynthia? Thirty-one days.
I think Pelops brought|humans here to be lab rats.
From what we've been able|to translate so far he wanted to know|how humans evolve, so he shortened|the life span to about 1/250th of normal.
So, instead of having to wait a hundred thousand|years to see how human physiology evolves, - he could do it in a hundred?|- That is correct.
Pelops wanted to determine what the human|host body would become in the future, and perhaps|accelerate the process.
How did he do it? Was|it genetic alteration? We do not know.
It|is an archaic dialect.
OkayI didn't want to say this|'til I was absolutely sure but I think he may have|created some kind of virus and viruses are often|spread through bodily contact.
Some are and some|are airborne But I think|that this one isn't.
What has drawn you|to this conclusion? Because only one of us passed|out last night, and that was Jack.
You have to give them credit for|one thingthey do enjoy life.
Perhaps it is because they do|not have much life to enjoy.
reat! So now what you're telling me is this|virus - which, by the way, I do not have - is deadly? Well, if the kids age|five years in five days, what happens when|they reach 100 days? Colonel? Colonel? I guess it wasn't the cake.
Maybe it was your physical|contact with Kynthia.
Get back to Earth, Captain.
|Figure this thing out.
Tell me you brought the blood|back in sealed containers.
Yeah, of course|I did.
What is it? I'm not sure.
First I ran a routine check|for antibodiesnothing.
So then I thought, all right, maybe this alien|bug found a way to hide from the immune system, so I ran a protein analysis.
|Take a look at what I found.
All right, these are the|blood samples you brought back.
Now, look at the strange|particulate in there.
So that's from one|of the Argosians? - Nowthat's from Colonel O'Neill.
|- Wowwhat is it? Something we don't|have a word foryet.
Well, how come the Colonel has|way more of it than the Argosians? Maybe because he started|out older than they did sort of like a-a head start|for whatever this thing is.
- I'd better wake up General Hammond.
|- Yeah.
Jack! Carter's comin' back! Welcome back, Captain.
So, what did you find out? Come on now, don't keep the|elderly waiting.
It's rude.
Uh, it isn't a virus.
- All rightwhat is it?|- Well, Dr.
Fraiser and I came up empty.
She's still working on|itbut it's gonna take time.
Timeis something these|people don't have, Captain.
- Nor do I.
|- Colonel, there's something else.
You're blood sample showed way more|organisms compared to the Argosians.
- How many more?|- Maybe on the level of a hundred times more and they are multiplying.
Which means? It-it means the organism|- or what ever it is - seems to be compensating|for your natural age.
You've already lived|way longer than anyone with this, for lack of a|better word, disease, ever should.
Cut to it, Captain.
At the rate your changing, by the end of two weeks, you'll|be the equivalent of 100 years old.
So, in two weeks I'll be dead? Not if I can help it.
- I'd like to set up a lab here.
|- Negative, Captain.
We may be able to retard the|aging process long enough to find a cure.
I want you to pack up|and head back to Earth.
Now.
All of you.
That's an order.
We're not gonna bring another|disease back through that 'gate.
I will remain|here, with O'Neill.
I cannot be affected|bywhatever this is.
I don't need company.
|I need a cure and Daniel needs help|translating that Goa'uld tablet thing.
- It might hold the answer.
|- Jack And don't you dare|say good bye because you damn will|better be coming backsoon.
Now, get outta|here.
All of you.
Oh my God What? They're not multiplying.
|They're replicating.
- What's the difference?|- Living organism multiply, machines replicate.
Machines inside the|body? How is that possible? They're molecular devices that|take atomic particles from their environment and use|them to make more of themselves.
You're talking|nanotechnology - You know anything about that?|- No.
Yes.
When I was|at the Pentagon, I worked for a year with a|group that studied nanotechnology.
We were looking at it for a lot of different|uses.
One of them was medicine creating artificial immune|systems, repairing individual cells, even manipulating DNA|to stop the aging process.
It sounds like Pelops succeeded in|what you were experimenting with, only in reverse.
Nice guy.
What're you lookin' at? Think you're hot stuff, doing this to|me from six billion light years away? Can you really talk|to the great Pelops? Surewhy not? Just a piece of rock.
Not so great, anyway.
You're peoplethey|have gone? Yeahthey have gone.
Then, you will leave also? No, I'll be here for a while.
I am glad.
I would like to|learn of your customs.
Maybe some other time, hmm? I've kinda got|a lot on my mind.
But you ate the marriage|cakecame to my bed "Marriage cake"? Kynthia, you thought|we were married? By all our customs, yes.
Sweet Kynthia, wh-what you were|feeling wasn't really love.
That takes time.
I mean, you can't get to|know someone in one day.
Unto every woman the creator|gives 100 blissful days.
Kynthia, will you stop that? You're creator was not a god, and he certainly didn't|give you life.
He took it away.
We are the Chosen.
He made this place for|usto be happyto love.
To be experimented on! I mean, look at me! I'm 40 years oldor I was.
That'sthousands|and thousands of days.
You do not tell the truth.
The average human life span is 60 or 70 years.
Some people live|to be 100 years.
It is not possible.
Pelops was an alien|who used your people! He shortened your lives|to satisfy his curiosity! We've given the nanocytes some|live tissue to interact with, but they|aren't touching it.
The only thing they appear to|do is make more of themselves.
So, how are they causing|the aging on Argos? Maybe there's something on Argos that|they need to make them do another task, something in the|air or, uh, in the food.
- Is there a problem, Captain Carter?|- I-I don't know! It's eating|through the rubber.
Oh, God! What? What is it? They're trying to spread.
"Dear Sarah" Is it true that you have|lived thousands of days? I should have|kept my mouth shut.
But wouldn't you|rather know the truth.
Why do we deserve this? He can't hear you.
We are good people.
We love each other and|this land you have given us.
Why? Science, progress, knowledge Alekos, what would you do if you had|thousands of days ahead of you? I would walk out into the world,|beyond the borders of the Chosen.
Why? To see what is there.
No one knows.
Pelops has forbidden|us ever to leave.
And how has he done that? He's nothing but a big|piece of rock.
He's a statue.
He will strike us|down, it is taught.
No, he will not strike you|down.
Trust me on that, will you? Look, go on out|there.
Take a walk.
See what's there.
Go on Then I could return and teach the|people what I know and in their thousands of|days they would learn more and teach their children.
Now you're talkin'.
Come back to the village.
It is not good to|be always alone.
Whatever time I have left, let me spend|it in my own way.
But you do not spend|it.
You waste it.
I don't think|reflecting on my life, or trying to figure out how to|get the rest of it back, is a waste.
You are angry.
Yes.
Yes I am.
Aren't you now that|you know the truth? What can we do but live|in the way we always have? We do not have thousands of|days.
But we treasure every moment.
I know, Kynthia.
But in my heart I'm a military man, a warrior.
That's my life.
To which my|ex-wife will attest.
You love her still? And now, because of me,|you will never see her again.
You meant no harm.
Then let me give|what I have taken.
The time of one heartbeat|can become an eternity.
I'm sorry, people,|my decision is final.
Sir, neither of us show|any evidence of the nanocyte.
We can keep working|here in total isolation.
All blood and tissue samples are|to be incinerated and pulverized.
- Work on the Argos project stops now.
|- General, you are condemning Colonel|O'Neill and the Argosians to death.
Captain Carter, these thing appear to possess|artificial intelligence.
Correct? Yes, sir.
That's the only way they could adapt|their programming to their situation.
Which means they could adapt|themselves right out of this facility.
Sir, if we destroy the samples|we will have nothing to work from.
I'm sorry.
The risk|is just too great.
The order is final.
Sir! We cannot just|leave him there.
Dr.
Jackson, Colonel O'Neill|is one of the finest men it has ever been my pleasure to serve with.
It will be a great loss to this|country and to all of us in this room, but I am sure he would not hesitate to make the same decision for|himself that I'm making now.
We're working with computer|simulations and practical simulations.
Realistically, sir, I'm|afraid it might take years.
The General says that 'gate|travel to Argos is strictly off-limits for the|next few, uh, millennia but we can send objects through,|so if you need anythingjust call.
Say something.
ColonelI've learned|very much from you.
Thank you.
You know, good-byes|really suck.
Excuse me, what are you doing? You're people do not have|enough knowledge to help us.
We must ask Pelops to return.
Oh, for crying out loud! Ol' Pelops doesn't|give a rat's ass about things like love! His kind kidnap|people like you and take them to other|worlds to be used as slaves! Pelops thinks of|us as his slaves? Then I will no longer|be one of the Chosen.
Nor will I.
That's the message|you ought to be sendin'.
He-He did not strike us.
So, you like older men, do ya? - Wh-what is it?|- We should go back.
We have gone too far from|the village.
Pelops forbids it.
He's gone, Kynthia.
He's gone.
It'll be okay, I promise.
here! Aw, hell.
Have to teach you|a game I can win.
It is good to see you smile.
Tell me, will you live the rest|of your days without making love? Oh, God, I hope not.
Ah, we'd probably|just pass out.
Why aren't we unconscious yet? It shoulda happened|already Kynthia.
Why aren't we asleep No one has awakened.
Except for us.
Why? How important is this rule that|no one can leave the village? It is Pelops first law.
Then whatever it is that knocks|us all out at night is right here.
What? I'll bet you and I stayed awake because we|walked out of range.
The cure could be|as simple as just getting' the|hell outta Dodge.
We stay out of proximity, no sleep.
They all stay here, they get no wake-up call.
There's got to be|some other variable, some other change.
Excuse me.
I've got a phone call to make.
Welcome back, kids.
It's damn good|to see you again.
Don't worry.
Aside from a little prostate|problem we won't go into, it's not so bad.
I was right.
It's a transmitter.
Uh, there were two sets of glyphs that|were quite tough to translate until Teal'c realized|they weren't words.
They were, in fact, numbers.
Two different frequencies: One to put the villagers to sleep|and to activate the nanocytes, the second one to shut|it all off for the day.
When you broke the statue, you|must have damaged the wake-up call.
Can you recalibrate this|thing to wake these people up? No, sir, it's useless.
I'm gonna have to use the|equipment that we brought with us.
I've loaded the frequency.
I'm switching it on, now.
Alekos, the sun|is already turning.
Why did we wake so late? Our tests indicate that your body|has been cleansed of the machines that plagued you.
I figure the immune system must|attack them if they aren't operating.
From now on, you and your people|should age at a normal rate.
What about Jack? Me? Oh, I'll probably|move to Florida, get into a little|retirement home of some kind.
- You'd look pretty out of place there at your age.
|- Why? I look like my grandfather.
Look is the|operative word here.
If our hypothesis is right, the nanocytes|in your system were only meant to imitate aging.
They weren't meant to start the|process in a full-grown adult.
What are you sayin' to me? Without these little buggers in|your system to maintain the changes, you should return to|normal within a week or two.
That is wonderful news.
I don't know.
I was kinda looking forward to a|little shuffleboard with the fellas.
Then you are leaving? You will not be|staying with me then? No, I won't.
What will happen to us|now if Pelops returns? Well, I don't think|that's gonna happen.
But just in case, we'll send some folks|by now and again to check up on you.
My heart would be glad|if you were one of them.
Sweet Kythia, I've learned so much from you.
I'll treasure|every day of my life, because of you.
For thousands of days? I sure hope so.
That is almost forever.
Almost.
And, who might|this be, Daniel? I'm not sure maybe early Greek, but I|don't recognize the god form.
Sorrywe, wewe didn't|mean to scare anyone.
You are not Pelops.
No, no, uh, you mean him? Uh, no, we're, we're|visitorsfriends.
Husband, the child|is nearplease The midwife is gone, I do not|know the birthing mysteries and the village is|too far.
Pleasehelp us.
What? Don't look at me,|I don't know what to do.
Push, pushpush.
- You're doing just fine.
|- Where did you learn how to do this? Uh, on a dig in the Yucatan.
Um, after the first one, I made friends with|the local mid-wives and they taught me a lot.
How many babies|have you delivered? Uhtwouh, counting today.
Alekos it's a boy.
Hey, congratulations.
May he grow strong|and bring you honor.
You never cease to amaze|me with all your talents.
Thank you.
Wow, thisplace|is incredible.
It's like we just stepped|into the citadel at Mycenae.
I thought you|said it was Greek? Oh, uh, the Mycenae was an ancient city|in the southern Peloponnesus region.
- Where's that?|- Greece.
- Why do I do that?|- Wait, I don't think you should be walking right now, I mean Shouldn't you be resting?|Daniel, shouldn't she I'm fine.
I'm fine.
We wish for you all to|be the first to see - A birthmark.
|- A tri-point.
It will bring him luck.
I would call him Dan-el, - to honor the stranger who birthed him.
|- Oh, you don't have to do that.
May we offer you the|hospitality of our village? Well, that'd be nice.
Who are you folks? We are the Chosen.
Where do the gods reside? Doesn't everyone know? In the skyof course.
Of course.
I have a son.
(in the crowd) Look at this.
|What a lovely child, lovely child.
Look at these people.
I guess they've never hear|the word "unattractive" here.
- They all look as healthy as a Jaffa.
|- That's a good thing, right? I don't see anyone who|looks like they're over 40.
Umdo things feel|a little"off" here? Are you crazy?|It's a paradise.
Yeah, sure, have an|apple.
What could happen? I am Kynthia.
|Welcome to our village.
Thank you Jack O'Neill.
It is pleasing? Very.
- You should have some.
|- It is only for you.
Only for me? Thanks.
It is only for you.
I think you have|a fan, Colonel.
I believe this woman wishes|to spend time with O'Neill.
Thank you, Teal'c.
This place must be loaded with artifacts.
|That statue in there, for example, must be the Mycenaean hero, Pelops, who fought from his winged|chariot, hurling lightning bolts.
Poetic way to describe|a Goa'uld Death Glider.
Yeah, probably.
These people are|obviously not laborers.
I must wonder why a Goa'uld|would bring them to this planet.
Perhaps it was a good Goa'uld.
Right! Like there|is such a thing.
I did not intend for my|statement to be humorous.
Trust me, they weren't.
Hello, girls Uh, Colonel?|Where're you going?|Hello? Please, sit down.
Unto ever man the creator|gives 100 blissful days.
It is a sin not to|celebrate each and every one.
A hundred day celebration? Guess we should|pace ourselves.
What, exactly, just happened? Kynthia? Umwhat happened? To them oryou? We'll talk about that later.
I've seen parties end|abruptly, but never like this.
They all justcollapsed.
It happened just|as the sun set.
Kynthia did the same thing.
What is it? Some kind of|sleeping sickness? What? There's no sign|of fever or pain, breathing's shallow,|heartbeat's slow but regular.
A disease can't affect|everyone all at once.
It seems to be nothing more|than a deep state of sleep.
Nowhow about you? Let's just stick to|the matter at hand.
How does an entire|village pass out? Something in the food? We all partook|of the same food.
Except for that cake.
Which was "only for you".
Damn, she drugged me.
Ohhe's still feeling|the effects of the drug.
- NoI'm just a little tired.
|- Colonel? From now on, we|stick to rations.
No fever, shallow breathing, slow|heartbeatjust like the others.
What the hell|is going on here? Hey, Colonelhow|you feeling? Hung over but okay.
Gettin' any answers out here? No.
They all act as if what|happened last night was normal.
They party until sundown.
Then they fall|asleep, and they wake when the sun rises.
I'd like an explanation.
Daniel, get back to that|temple.
See what you can find out.
Take Teal'c with you.
Come on.
Carter keep asking|questions out here.
He is the creatorPelops,|the giver of days.
This was his home|when he lived among us.
We keep it as it was then and|will do so until he returns.
- And when will that be?|- Well, that is a mystery.
Until it is revealed, it is the duty|of the Chosen to rejoice and wait.
Why are your people|called the Chosen? My ancestors were so|beloved by Pelops that he fashioned|this garden for us.
It is said he chose us and brought|us here from beyond the stars.
Are there any writings|of your history? "Writings"?|I do not know this word.
more of this.
Writings.
|Do you know what this is? It is of Pelops.
It is Goa'uld|an obscure dialect.
Why didn't you|tell me that before? You never before inquired.
Wellyou call it Goa'uld.
Um, I call it|linear "A" script.
We found pictographics like this in ancient|Greece and ancient Cretan, but we never completely|deciphered this form.
The symbols are a sequence.
What, like acombination? What is a combination? Well, it's a sequence|of symbols or motions - Can you read this?|- I believe I can.
It seems to be|some sort of record, an archaic dialect.
Very difficult to decipher.
- Come on, I want to show you something.
|- Okay, I-I'm coming.
Hi.
I found this shell this morning and,|uh, I thought maybe Dan-el might like it.
He can use it as a rattle.
- You want to give it to him for me?|- Oh, you can do so yourself.
This is Dan-el.
No, no, I meant the baby.
This is baby Dan-el.
Okay that's not possible.
Do you not have children|who change and-and grow? Well, yeah, sure we|dobut not like that.
Thetyes, how old is that boy? That is Phillippos.
He is 12.
- Okay, well, he's a little big for 12 years old, but|- Years what are "years"? Uh, welluh, I-I guess it would be|a little different for each planet, but a year is basically the|time it takes for the globe to complete one orbit around the sun.
Rightlet's just|keep this simple, okay? Where we come from, there are 365|days in one year.
No, nowe have no such|counting of time on Argos.
Phillippos is 12 days old.
- How old are you?|- Twenty-one days.
And, uhKynthia? Thirty-one days.
I think Pelops brought|humans here to be lab rats.
From what we've been able|to translate so far he wanted to know|how humans evolve, so he shortened|the life span to about 1/250th of normal.
So, instead of having to wait a hundred thousand|years to see how human physiology evolves, - he could do it in a hundred?|- That is correct.
Pelops wanted to determine what the human|host body would become in the future, and perhaps|accelerate the process.
How did he do it? Was|it genetic alteration? We do not know.
It|is an archaic dialect.
OkayI didn't want to say this|'til I was absolutely sure but I think he may have|created some kind of virus and viruses are often|spread through bodily contact.
Some are and some|are airborne But I think|that this one isn't.
What has drawn you|to this conclusion? Because only one of us passed|out last night, and that was Jack.
You have to give them credit for|one thingthey do enjoy life.
Perhaps it is because they do|not have much life to enjoy.
reat! So now what you're telling me is this|virus - which, by the way, I do not have - is deadly? Well, if the kids age|five years in five days, what happens when|they reach 100 days? Colonel? Colonel? I guess it wasn't the cake.
Maybe it was your physical|contact with Kynthia.
Get back to Earth, Captain.
|Figure this thing out.
Tell me you brought the blood|back in sealed containers.
Yeah, of course|I did.
What is it? I'm not sure.
First I ran a routine check|for antibodiesnothing.
So then I thought, all right, maybe this alien|bug found a way to hide from the immune system, so I ran a protein analysis.
|Take a look at what I found.
All right, these are the|blood samples you brought back.
Now, look at the strange|particulate in there.
So that's from one|of the Argosians? - Nowthat's from Colonel O'Neill.
|- Wowwhat is it? Something we don't|have a word foryet.
Well, how come the Colonel has|way more of it than the Argosians? Maybe because he started|out older than they did sort of like a-a head start|for whatever this thing is.
- I'd better wake up General Hammond.
|- Yeah.
Jack! Carter's comin' back! Welcome back, Captain.
So, what did you find out? Come on now, don't keep the|elderly waiting.
It's rude.
Uh, it isn't a virus.
- All rightwhat is it?|- Well, Dr.
Fraiser and I came up empty.
She's still working on|itbut it's gonna take time.
Timeis something these|people don't have, Captain.
- Nor do I.
|- Colonel, there's something else.
You're blood sample showed way more|organisms compared to the Argosians.
- How many more?|- Maybe on the level of a hundred times more and they are multiplying.
Which means? It-it means the organism|- or what ever it is - seems to be compensating|for your natural age.
You've already lived|way longer than anyone with this, for lack of a|better word, disease, ever should.
Cut to it, Captain.
At the rate your changing, by the end of two weeks, you'll|be the equivalent of 100 years old.
So, in two weeks I'll be dead? Not if I can help it.
- I'd like to set up a lab here.
|- Negative, Captain.
We may be able to retard the|aging process long enough to find a cure.
I want you to pack up|and head back to Earth.
Now.
All of you.
That's an order.
We're not gonna bring another|disease back through that 'gate.
I will remain|here, with O'Neill.
I cannot be affected|bywhatever this is.
I don't need company.
|I need a cure and Daniel needs help|translating that Goa'uld tablet thing.
- It might hold the answer.
|- Jack And don't you dare|say good bye because you damn will|better be coming backsoon.
Now, get outta|here.
All of you.
Oh my God What? They're not multiplying.
|They're replicating.
- What's the difference?|- Living organism multiply, machines replicate.
Machines inside the|body? How is that possible? They're molecular devices that|take atomic particles from their environment and use|them to make more of themselves.
You're talking|nanotechnology - You know anything about that?|- No.
Yes.
When I was|at the Pentagon, I worked for a year with a|group that studied nanotechnology.
We were looking at it for a lot of different|uses.
One of them was medicine creating artificial immune|systems, repairing individual cells, even manipulating DNA|to stop the aging process.
It sounds like Pelops succeeded in|what you were experimenting with, only in reverse.
Nice guy.
What're you lookin' at? Think you're hot stuff, doing this to|me from six billion light years away? Can you really talk|to the great Pelops? Surewhy not? Just a piece of rock.
Not so great, anyway.
You're peoplethey|have gone? Yeahthey have gone.
Then, you will leave also? No, I'll be here for a while.
I am glad.
I would like to|learn of your customs.
Maybe some other time, hmm? I've kinda got|a lot on my mind.
But you ate the marriage|cakecame to my bed "Marriage cake"? Kynthia, you thought|we were married? By all our customs, yes.
Sweet Kynthia, wh-what you were|feeling wasn't really love.
That takes time.
I mean, you can't get to|know someone in one day.
Unto every woman the creator|gives 100 blissful days.
Kynthia, will you stop that? You're creator was not a god, and he certainly didn't|give you life.
He took it away.
We are the Chosen.
He made this place for|usto be happyto love.
To be experimented on! I mean, look at me! I'm 40 years oldor I was.
That'sthousands|and thousands of days.
You do not tell the truth.
The average human life span is 60 or 70 years.
Some people live|to be 100 years.
It is not possible.
Pelops was an alien|who used your people! He shortened your lives|to satisfy his curiosity! We've given the nanocytes some|live tissue to interact with, but they|aren't touching it.
The only thing they appear to|do is make more of themselves.
So, how are they causing|the aging on Argos? Maybe there's something on Argos that|they need to make them do another task, something in the|air or, uh, in the food.
- Is there a problem, Captain Carter?|- I-I don't know! It's eating|through the rubber.
Oh, God! What? What is it? They're trying to spread.
"Dear Sarah" Is it true that you have|lived thousands of days? I should have|kept my mouth shut.
But wouldn't you|rather know the truth.
Why do we deserve this? He can't hear you.
We are good people.
We love each other and|this land you have given us.
Why? Science, progress, knowledge Alekos, what would you do if you had|thousands of days ahead of you? I would walk out into the world,|beyond the borders of the Chosen.
Why? To see what is there.
No one knows.
Pelops has forbidden|us ever to leave.
And how has he done that? He's nothing but a big|piece of rock.
He's a statue.
He will strike us|down, it is taught.
No, he will not strike you|down.
Trust me on that, will you? Look, go on out|there.
Take a walk.
See what's there.
Go on Then I could return and teach the|people what I know and in their thousands of|days they would learn more and teach their children.
Now you're talkin'.
Come back to the village.
It is not good to|be always alone.
Whatever time I have left, let me spend|it in my own way.
But you do not spend|it.
You waste it.
I don't think|reflecting on my life, or trying to figure out how to|get the rest of it back, is a waste.
You are angry.
Yes.
Yes I am.
Aren't you now that|you know the truth? What can we do but live|in the way we always have? We do not have thousands of|days.
But we treasure every moment.
I know, Kynthia.
But in my heart I'm a military man, a warrior.
That's my life.
To which my|ex-wife will attest.
You love her still? And now, because of me,|you will never see her again.
You meant no harm.
Then let me give|what I have taken.
The time of one heartbeat|can become an eternity.
I'm sorry, people,|my decision is final.
Sir, neither of us show|any evidence of the nanocyte.
We can keep working|here in total isolation.
All blood and tissue samples are|to be incinerated and pulverized.
- Work on the Argos project stops now.
|- General, you are condemning Colonel|O'Neill and the Argosians to death.
Captain Carter, these thing appear to possess|artificial intelligence.
Correct? Yes, sir.
That's the only way they could adapt|their programming to their situation.
Which means they could adapt|themselves right out of this facility.
Sir, if we destroy the samples|we will have nothing to work from.
I'm sorry.
The risk|is just too great.
The order is final.
Sir! We cannot just|leave him there.
Dr.
Jackson, Colonel O'Neill|is one of the finest men it has ever been my pleasure to serve with.
It will be a great loss to this|country and to all of us in this room, but I am sure he would not hesitate to make the same decision for|himself that I'm making now.
We're working with computer|simulations and practical simulations.
Realistically, sir, I'm|afraid it might take years.
The General says that 'gate|travel to Argos is strictly off-limits for the|next few, uh, millennia but we can send objects through,|so if you need anythingjust call.
Say something.
ColonelI've learned|very much from you.
Thank you.
You know, good-byes|really suck.
Excuse me, what are you doing? You're people do not have|enough knowledge to help us.
We must ask Pelops to return.
Oh, for crying out loud! Ol' Pelops doesn't|give a rat's ass about things like love! His kind kidnap|people like you and take them to other|worlds to be used as slaves! Pelops thinks of|us as his slaves? Then I will no longer|be one of the Chosen.
Nor will I.
That's the message|you ought to be sendin'.
He-He did not strike us.
So, you like older men, do ya? - Wh-what is it?|- We should go back.
We have gone too far from|the village.
Pelops forbids it.
He's gone, Kynthia.
He's gone.
It'll be okay, I promise.
here! Aw, hell.
Have to teach you|a game I can win.
It is good to see you smile.
Tell me, will you live the rest|of your days without making love? Oh, God, I hope not.
Ah, we'd probably|just pass out.
Why aren't we unconscious yet? It shoulda happened|already Kynthia.
Why aren't we asleep No one has awakened.
Except for us.
Why? How important is this rule that|no one can leave the village? It is Pelops first law.
Then whatever it is that knocks|us all out at night is right here.
What? I'll bet you and I stayed awake because we|walked out of range.
The cure could be|as simple as just getting' the|hell outta Dodge.
We stay out of proximity, no sleep.
They all stay here, they get no wake-up call.
There's got to be|some other variable, some other change.
Excuse me.
I've got a phone call to make.
Welcome back, kids.
It's damn good|to see you again.
Don't worry.
Aside from a little prostate|problem we won't go into, it's not so bad.
I was right.
It's a transmitter.
Uh, there were two sets of glyphs that|were quite tough to translate until Teal'c realized|they weren't words.
They were, in fact, numbers.
Two different frequencies: One to put the villagers to sleep|and to activate the nanocytes, the second one to shut|it all off for the day.
When you broke the statue, you|must have damaged the wake-up call.
Can you recalibrate this|thing to wake these people up? No, sir, it's useless.
I'm gonna have to use the|equipment that we brought with us.
I've loaded the frequency.
I'm switching it on, now.
Alekos, the sun|is already turning.
Why did we wake so late? Our tests indicate that your body|has been cleansed of the machines that plagued you.
I figure the immune system must|attack them if they aren't operating.
From now on, you and your people|should age at a normal rate.
What about Jack? Me? Oh, I'll probably|move to Florida, get into a little|retirement home of some kind.
- You'd look pretty out of place there at your age.
|- Why? I look like my grandfather.
Look is the|operative word here.
If our hypothesis is right, the nanocytes|in your system were only meant to imitate aging.
They weren't meant to start the|process in a full-grown adult.
What are you sayin' to me? Without these little buggers in|your system to maintain the changes, you should return to|normal within a week or two.
That is wonderful news.
I don't know.
I was kinda looking forward to a|little shuffleboard with the fellas.
Then you are leaving? You will not be|staying with me then? No, I won't.
What will happen to us|now if Pelops returns? Well, I don't think|that's gonna happen.
But just in case, we'll send some folks|by now and again to check up on you.
My heart would be glad|if you were one of them.
Sweet Kythia, I've learned so much from you.
I'll treasure|every day of my life, because of you.
For thousands of days? I sure hope so.
That is almost forever.
Almost.