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Witness, if you will...

A ghost town.

Carter: A very advanced ghost town.

Jackson: The architecture may indicate an earth ancestry.

Aw, man.

Anybody have any idea what this is?

I hate to say it, sir,

but it... seems like they might have

a bit of a pigeon problem.

I don't see pigeons.

Andthere should be a lot of them.

Well, whatever did this did so pretty recently.

Teal'c: Perhaps they suffered the same fate

as th e in habitants of this city.

Conjectu re, captain?

My data's consistent with the probe, sir.

No radiation. The air's almost

Teal'c, it doesn't see very likely

that the Goa'uld are responsible for this, does it?

I mean, whatwith the indigenous people

of this planet being gone?

That is correct.

A Goa'uld attack would have resulted in much more damage.

Any technology would have been destroyed.

Wow!

Did you guys hear that?

Oh h.

What are you gonna do?

Aah! God!

Carter, novocaine.

Yes, sir.

Uh, we better get out of here.

No, really?

No. Really.

O'Neill: God!

Let's move. Come on. Let's go.

I'll dial!

Lock it up!

Medical team!

Hammond: What is that?! Those are bugs, sir!

Big, ugly bugs!

You're saying it's getting worse?

I am.

Easy.

Looks like some kind of a reaction.

Teal'c, shouldn't your larval Goa'uld be helping?

That is correct...

But it is not.

It is, in fact, getting worse.

Dr. Fraiser: He seems to be suffering

from the side effects of aviral infection.

Fever, aches, chills.

And his Goa'uld isn't helping?

Dr. Fraiser: No.

That's not the worst part.

What is?

The blood sample itook

showed a rather disturbing amount of DNA

that doesn't match Teal'c's.

What does that mean?

Actually, I'm not sure.

Um, to be perfectly honest with you, sir,

ithink I may be out of my league here.

General, if I may,

when iwas 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.

He'll be here before the end of the day.

Carter: Dr. Harlow.

Sam, well.

Ahh. Hi.

How many times have itold you to call me Timothy?

Timothy. You got here fast.

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 setup

well, you haven't seen the best yet.

I just wish it could have been under better circumstances.

Dr. Harlow has some bad news.

A subseouent analysis of the blood sample

revealed none of the subject's matching DNA.

Uh, the subject's name is Teal'c,

and what are you talking about?

The blood sample itook

had only a small percentage

of alien insect DNA in it.

Right.

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.

Mm—hmm, an d it wasn't Teal'c's.

Are you saying thatthe foreign DNA

actually transformed Teal'c's DNA

in the blood sample?

Well, DNA doesn't alter DNA.

It's probably some sort of retro—virus present.

Ok. Bottom line?

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.

The Goa'uld that Teal'c carries

is supposed to provide him with powerful immune capabilities.

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.

What happens if the Goa'uld loses the battle?

Well, 30 years of research into human DNA,

and till last year, I...

I didn't even know there were aliens.

Right.

I have felt great pain, O'Neill.

But never a sickness such as this.

I do not enjoy it.

Nobody does.

I am also...

Feeling something else.

Hey.

I'd be scared, too.

I do not want to become

something other than who I am.

Just let the doctors do their job.

O'Neill...

You are my friend.

When there is no longer any hope...

I would rather die.

Come in.

You wanted to see me, sir?

Oh, for crying out loud.

Colonel O'Neill.

Hello, maybou rn e.

I thought you would want to see this.

You've got to be kidding.

It's an official order. I have no choice.

Well, um, what about—...

The president is currently unavailable.

This facility is front—line.

Your 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—...

He saved your smarmy ass and everyone else on this planet.

Does that count for anything in your world?

Absolutely.

I am thrilled to getthe chance

to thank him personally.

General Hammond, request permission

to beat the crap out of this man?

You son of a bitch!

Sam?

It had to be you.

Damn it, Timothy, Teal'c is my friend. He's sick.

Yes, he is, and he's going to get

the very best help available—...

On this planet.

Butyour facility is not equipped

for this kind of situation

and you know it.

Please. Don't tell me that you're ignorant here.

I don't want to feel sorry for you.

Maybourne's people can be unscrupulous,

but if Teal'c is to have any chance,

it is with me...

And iwill do the best that I can.

Dr. Fraiser: General, I have a right to stop this.

He is not well enough to be moved.

Fortunately, I have a second opinion.

How can we just letthis happen?

What do you want me to do?

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.

What's with the chains?

Maybou rn e.

Of course.

God.

How long you figure he has?

I don't know. It's tough to say.

Depends on how strong the larval Goa'uld is.

We have drugs that may help.

That won't be necessary.

Of course it is. We can...

You want him to change.

Aah!

Aah! Aah!

All I'm saying is, that notwithstanding what happened to Teal'c,

there may be invaluable technology on that planet.

Carter, there are bugs on that planet.

Big, huge, ugly, honkin' bugs.

General Hammond: Colonel?

We just picked up an emergency communication from the driver.

The driver's unconscious.

Jackson: Jack?

Yeah?

It's alive.

I want as many personnel and canine units

as this base has at my disposal 5 minutes ago!

All of whom report to me.

I'm running this search.

This is still my responsibility.

Oh, I'm holding you responsible, maybourn e.

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.

I will.

Striking an officer

is a quick way to a court—martial.

I'm not gonna hit you, maybourne.

I'm gonna shoot you.

All right.

What the hell happened here?

Timothy: Well, he just went crazy.

He's so strong.

I've never seen anything like that.

What about the larval Goa'uld?

I don't know. He must have taken that out himself.

Why?

O'Neill: Um...

He told me he'd rather die

than change into something else.

Well, there has to be ouicker,

less painful ways to kill yourself,

even for a Jaffa.

I don't thinkthat's the way it's going to happen.

I mean, I doubtthat he will die.

Uh, he depends on that Goa'uld to live.

The alien insect's venom

is affecting his physical makeup.

With every passing moment, he's ceasing to be a...

A Jaffa.

The larva may be the onlything

that's holding that transformation back.

So by taking the worm out,

he might be expediting this... change?

Why would he do that?

Well, the metamorphosis...

Could be altering his mind.

It's stable.

I don'tthink it will be for long.

Ijustwish I knew more about Goa'uld physiology.

The frustrating this is, I might.

Jolinar might have left me

with some information, but I—...

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.

O'Neill: Andthere's no sign of him

inside the perimeter.

We don't have jurisdiction

if he's already gotten outside that.

We've got him!

They were picking up a radio in the field and patched it in here.

Teal'c?

Teal'c: O'Neill, it is I.

Do not allow colonel maybourne to follow me.

He's not going to. Where are you?

I will not say.

Come on, Teal'c. Where are you?

We can help you.

It is too late.

All right, listen.

You're changing.

You don't want this to happen.

You told me you'd rather die.

Teal'c?

O'Neill: Teal'c?!

Timothy: It is possible we can still save your friend—...

If we can get him back.

How?

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—...

Wait a minute.

You knewthis, and you didn't offer right away when it could've helped?

Maybourne was hoping Teal'c would change,

and you were gonna let him.

No, I wasn't.

Whatever you may think,

Samantha, I am offering you my help.

Ok, what do you need?

Well, we have to find out which of the drugs will work.

How?

We need the alien insect's venom.

How do you know you can trust Harlow this time?

I know, and you think maybourne

put him uptothis justto geta specimen of the insect.

I wouldn't put it past him.

Right at the moment, sir, we don't have a lot of options.

We got nothing, sir.

Must have covered 20 miles in an hour.

Maybourne is flying in his own personnel.

Any action on the red phone?

Still indisposed.

In the meantime, 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.

Ok. That's good news.

But someone has to go back to bp6—3q1

and catch one of those alien insects,

preferably alive.

Andthat would be the bad news.

I'll go, sir.

You'll need someone to watch your back.

And I'll go, too.

I'll make sure it's not for nothing.

We'll find Teal'c.

Pack your bug spray, kids.

Izith ey got the night, cuz izi

izithey're jammin' Mikes, cuz izi

n whassup, whassup? N

n gotta tell us, y'all n

n I'm 'boutto give it to y'all... n

man, check this dude out.

Hey, man!

Where you goin'?

Hey, cool tattoo, man. Where'd you get that?

Chulak.

Chulak?

Where is that, east side?

Remove yourself from my path.

Listen to this guy.

I'll remove myself when you tell me

how th ey do tattoos like that in chulak.

The skin is cut with an orak knife,

and pure molten gold is poured into the wound.

Ow, man. Don'tthat hurt when they do that?

Tremendously.

That guy is cool.

Ally, get out of here. No one wants you around.

General Hammond: Yes.

Thank you.

Any word on the search?

No. How's the Goa'uld doing?

Not well.

Damned if I ever thought I'd be praying for one of those things to live.

How long have they been gone?

I'm about ready to send sg—3 after them.

Incoming wormhole.

It's sg—I.

Lock it up!

Close those doors!

Where is it?

Where is it?!

There!

Justwinged it.

All right, hold it! You got it!

Not your garden variety mosquito.

There's no word on Teal'c yet,

but maybou rn e's put out an all points bulletin

to the state and local police.

We've gotta find him first, sir.

Right at the moment,

maybourne has the manpower advantage and the jurisdiction.

You really should see this, sir.

We thought we heard noises

coming from one of the buildings.

It seems the final stage of the metamorphosis

requires a dark place.

That's a man.

It looks like the inhabitants of the planet

were human, possibly from earth, originally.

Daniel was right.

Buttheir entire civilization

was obviously wiped out by this bug,

and all those inhabitants were changed.

It's amazing, really.

I mean, they had all the technology we do—— maybe more—...

And they couldn't preventtheir demise

at the hands of a simple insect.

Oh, yeah. Real simple.

Take a look at this, sir.

All those things came from one body?

Of course.

Equal matter conversion.

It's how they reproduce.

The insect's venom actually converts the body's mass

into its 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.

Thank you.

So Teal'c isn't going to turn into

just one of those things.

No, sir.

He's going to turn into a whole lot of those things.

Nobody move!

Sorry.

I didn't know the room was occupied.

What type of weapon do you possess?

This?

Chill, dude. It's just a water gun.

I was just playing, see?

Oh. Sorry, man.

Please don't freak on me.

Leave me.

You're not from around here, are you?

Whoa.

Man.

If you ask me,

you look like you could use a couple more days in rehab.

No one must know that I am here.

Are you sure, though?

I mean, you look worse than my dad did after he got shot.

And he died.

You must leave.

Wait.

What?

I must have nourishment.

Oh, man.

You want my chocolate bar?

I must eat.

Ok. How 'bout we share it?

Peanuts and caramel.

Pretty good, huh?

Can you get more?

Maybe.

What's in it for me?

Peanuts and caramel.

No, dumb ass.

Like, I mean,

what do I get?

I have nothing to offer you.

How 'bout...

Let's say you owe me one.

Like in the godfather.

How's that?

Ok. Back in a flash.

No one must know.

Don't sweat it.

I cannot prevent it.

I meant ok.

Will you retract that flap for me, please?

Me?

It's perfectly sedated.

It's very tough armor our little friend has.

Quite a creation.

All right.

There.

There's the juice.

Uh, iworked out a probability model.

Absolute worst—case scenario,

if the mutation in Teal'c runs the full course.

How bad?

Well, the insect can multiply exponentially,

so every person who's stung

could turn into about 10 bugs.

Now, we don't have an exacttime on the incubation, but—...

But we're easily guessing on the safe side.

We could have swarms in the order of millions

in 6—8 weeks.

Hey.

You a kimble?

What is a kimble?

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.

They must not find me.

What'd you do?

I have done nothing.

Innocent till proven guilty.

You must leave.

Why?

I am...

Dangerous.

No way. You won't hurt me.

How can you know this?

I gotthe sense.

My old man gave it to me.

He was a cop

he could tell who the bad guys were

just by smelling 'em.

What is your purpose here?

Got nothing better to do.

Do you not attend an educational institution?

What planet are you from?

Duh.

Nobody goes to school in the summer.

Unless you're stupid.

What of the one who gave you birth?

My mom?

She works all day so I can get dinner

and a place to sleep

listen, you're a sitting duck down here.

And ducks are bad?

Uh, the sitting kind are.

Here, if you can get up,

I can show you a place to hide.

Yes, sir. I understand.

We will.

The president has overruled maybourne's orders.

So if local authorities find Teal'c, we get him back.

Yes, but maybourne still has jurisdiction

to continue his search.

So the race is on.

Shouldn't you really see a doctor?

I must rest.

No, it's just up—...

It's just a bit more up there.

Almost...

Move it out, let's go!

Move out, men!

We're through!

It's up here.

It's not a long way.

I thin k 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.

We may not have that for much longer.

Harlow: What?

It's dying.

What can we do?

This is all we found.

Hello, young lady.

I'm colonel maybourne.

I work for the united states of america—...

Your government, the good guys.

Yeah, right.

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—...

I ain't seen nobody,

and even if I did, I wouldn't tell you.

Why is that?

Because I don't like the way you smell.

Colonel, from the looks of it, we only have minutes.

Captain, is there anything your tok'ra memories could—...

I know, sir, I know.

I can't just access th em at will.

Believe me, I've been trying.

Oh, it's too bad you can't zap it with those paddles

like they do on E.R.

That guy that's...

What?

It couldn't be that simple.

Defibbing would kill it.

But we've done our best to synthesize

almost every environmental condition

the Goa'uld larval has inside Teal'c's pouch—...

What?

Nutrition, temperature—...

Except electrical current.

And there's a very small constant electrical charge

flowing through all of our bodies.

The Goa'uld may need that.

Ok, so then all we need is a small enough power source.

Yeah.

What?

They're gone.

Oh, my god.

What happened to you?

Man, this is like serious alien stuff going on here.

If you don't tell me what to do,

I am gonna getthe cops.

My dad used to know a couple of guys we can trust.

No.

Well, look at you.

You don't really wantthis to happen, do you?

Dr. Fraiser: It's getting better.

It was so simple.

Well, I guess my work here is done.

Fraiser. Yeah.

Colonel.

Hello, is this colonel Jack O'Neill?

It's about time.

I on ly had to talk to about 15 people to getto you.

Do you know a big dude named Teal'c?

Yeah, man. I would hurry if iwas you.

Oh, my god.

Teal'c.

I'll go get help

Teal'c.

O'Neill.

Yeah, it's me.

Kill me.

Uh... no.

The change cannot be stopped.

I won't lie to you.

You don't look so great.

But you're gonna make it.

You're gonna be ok.

Why can't I go with you?

Sorry, you just can't.

These guys here are gonna take care of you and make sure you're ok.

Is Teal'c gonna be ok?

I hope so.

Me, too.

H ey!

Tell him he still owes me one.

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.

Andteal'c?

With the help of the drug,

it appears the symbiote has stopped the metamorphosis.

We're hoping the Goa'uld has the ability

to reverse the damage already done.

Jackson: It can't be easy knowing the thing

you despise most about yourself is what saved your life.

Hey, even I'm happy he's got the snake.

This sounds like good news.

Hope so.

Maybourne has ordered the insect specimen

and all related research

transferred to the area 51 facility.

I should have shot him.

I regret that's impossible, sir.

Why is that?

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.

Teal'c!

Hi!

Greetings, ally.

You're ok.

Thanks to you, I am feeling much better.

Ah, 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?

That is correct.

To show my gratitude,

I have brought you a new weapon.

One with increased range and firepower.

Wicked! This is so cool!

Have any time to play?

Uh, actually, we—...

Guess we shouldn't have loaded it, huh?

How else would she defend herself?

How else?