US Airdate : 19 February 1999
UK Airdate : 20 January 1999
Summary
On a routine reconnaissance mission, SG-1 discovers a civilisation of
friendly aliens.
Synopsis by Katana
Sam sends a UAV through the Stargate to a planet that SG1 had visited the previous day.
"That never gets old, I love that " Jack remarks as it flies off the ramp and
through the event horizon.
The sensors begin to detect heat, could it be life forms? As the signal starts to
distort, Sam takes over manual control, but the UAV still crashes, hitting some kind of
plant life. Sam is puzzled as to why it crashed, she wants to see the flight recorder.
Jack works out that the 10 miles the UAV has travelled is a 6-hour journey there and back.
A humanoid figure appears on the screen, "That would confirm the presence of life
forms on PJ2-455 " Sam states
"Guess that changes the priority of this mission then sir." Jack tells
Hammond.
SG1 gate to the planet as they arrive Daniel says "Deja-vu" attempting a joke
about the earlier visit Teal'c looks blank. Daniel sneezes.
They walk to the UAV crash site and find the damaged plant but no sign of the drone.
Daniel sneezes again. It appears the UAV has been dragged away.
They find a village with dome shaped dwellings; one of the humanoids appears and runs
off when greeted, " Are they friendly spirits? " Jack wonders. The aliens are
human in appearance and are covered in white markings.
"I guess we should go find out" Daniel replies.
The aliens crowd round, the team raise hands in greeting they copy them, SG1 smile they
smile back, "this is bizarre " Jack comments
The aliens close in nearer.
"I'm not fond of this" says Teal'c
"Me either" Jack agrees.
On of them grabs Daniel's knife, as Sam goes to retrieve it he sneezes again causing
the aliens to jump and the knife slips cutting Sam's hand.
Daniel follows them inside one of the huts in an attempt to communicate The aliens are
painting each other with the white stuff. The scene here with the gentle aliens is
wonderful to watch.
"You don't speak at all do you? " Daniel asks, not expecting or receiving an
answer.
He draws in the dirt they copy him, talking off his glasses he allows them to paint him
too. "Thank you" he acknowledges.
Meanwhile outside Jack remarks, " you gotta wonder what those guys are talking
about in there!"
Daniel does an impression of the UAV, he runs around the hut with his arms flapping and
making aeroplane noises.
Returning to the others Daniel reports what he learnt but he had no luck with the UAV.
However seems he was successful in his communication, the aliens are dragging forward the
damaged equipment, one of them has engine oil on his hand.
Suddenly one of the aliens collapses.
The others begin to sing, Daniel suggests it could be like some kind of healing chant
like the Native Americans use
"I guess it didn't work quite like they hoped," says Daniel
As more aliens collapse, SG1 wonder if they could be responsible?
Janet Frasier makes a house call!
Fourteen of the aliens are now effected by whatever. The SGC members discuss the
situation and look for possible reasons. The sneezing, Sam's Blood or the oil? Janet has
no idea; it could have been one of the guys' after-shave. She recommends taking one of the
sick back to earth under a level two quarantine. Because of her cut, Jack orders Carter to
go back with her. Daniel is going to keep trying to communicate. Janet suggests checking
other villages to see if it has spread.
On the walk back from the gate Jack asks to walk back without talking, he has a little
headache.
Back the SGC infirmary Janet tries to do an ultra sound test on the alien but he reacts
with a high pitched noise, she gives him a MRI, which reveals they are very different to
us.
Back on the planet as Daniel comes out of a building, he sees one of the bulb like
plants suddenly rise up and grow tall. He explains all this to the returning Jack and
Teal'c how it went to 6ft tall and then shrunk back to the ground. Jack is unimpressed as
Daniel walks away and approaches the plant again trying to get it to repeat the
performance, "witness if you will…swat" he says dryly.
"You..You saw it too?" Daniel attempts to get confirmation from one of the
aliens
Teal'c' informs them that many of the nearby villagers are also ill.
"OK what are we going to do?" asks Daniel
"How should I know?" Jack sighs
"We need to do something," Daniel insists
"I agree with you. But I haven't had the brilliant revelations you seem to have
had" Jack says bitterly
" Well maybe you can try coming up with something better than inappropriate
sarcasm?" Daniel suggests
"You want sarcasm?" He greets one of the aliens " Nice to meet you.
What's he smiling at?"
Teal'c intervenes sensing something is not quite right "He appears to be bothered
by the tone you have taken towards each other. As have I."
Jack realises what he's been doing, "Ah, Teal'c, try to head back to the gate, get
a message to General Hammond letting him know what's happened here."
"And the two of you will be fine?" Teal'c wonders
"Yeah, yeah. We'll be okay. I'm going to stick around and work on this quarantine
thing with plant boy here," Jack replies, christening Daniel with a new nickname.
The condition of the Alien at the SGC is worsening, Janet and Hammond discuss the
situation, she is surprised that kind of contamination hasn't happened before, time is
running out the aliens are dying.
Jack shoos a bunch of aliens out of the way, "Ah, ah, ah, ah! Get back! Get back!
Fine. Knock yourself out. Go ahead. Go play in the street. Don't forget your sunblock. Why
aren't you helping me?" he demands of Daniel
"Oh, it's no use, they don't understand. They want to be with each other"
sighs Daniel.
"Well, we're not going to stand around doing nothing!"
"We're not doing nothing!" Daniel replies indignantly
"You're videotaping a plant!" says Jack incredulously
"Well I think this might be important!"
Jack begins to get irritated; "Well I think you might be losing what's left of
your mind!"
Daniel also irritated snaps back "What's that supposed to mean?
"It means that on a good day you can be a little flaky!"
Daniel gives back as good as he gets, "And on a good day you can be a little
ignorant and condescending."
Things begin to get heated," Not condescending. You're obviously misreading a
basic philosophical difference of opinion on how to handle a crisis."
"Oh, please," Daniel looks exasperated," we have a difference of opinion
on just about everything."
"Give me an example?"
"I don't know, pick something! How about mythology?"
"Rumours! lies! fairy tales!"
Daniel does a little dance, "See see see see see see! Mythology is one of the
primary motivations for cultural development!"
Jack is now shouting, "Maybe it is! What does it have to do with filming a
plant?"
"Exactly!" Daniel shouts back
"What does that mean?"
"I don't know!"
Jack realises something is wrong "Okay...what was that?"
"I don't know. I don't feel so good."
"I've got a headache." Jack admits
"Maybe we're getting whatever they have." Suggests Daniel
Yet another alien collapses the one that has been following SG1 the closest, as Teal'c
returns Jack and Daniel's headaches are worsening. Teal'c reports that Fraiser and Carter
have had little success. Jack suggests he and Daniel should probably go back to earth and
get checked out.
Daniel asks Teal'c to keep an eye on the plant, "I will keep both my eyes on
it!" he tells Daniel.
Jack and Daniel return to the SGC, Daniel stumbles at the start of the journey but he
agrees to continue.
On earth the headaches fade and as they sit on a bed in the infirmary the pair conclude
that there must be something wrong to have caused the confrontation on the planet, with
perfect comic timing Janet announces, there is nothing wrong with them.
Not so the alien, he's in a bad way, Janet rushes to him; he's flat lining.
Meanwhile Teal'c sees the same effect from the plants that Daniel witnessed, the plants
growing and then shrinking again. Teal'c digs down to find the roots discovering that the
plants are all inter-liked, when cut they emit a green goo, Teal'c collapses in agony.
Daniel suggests that if the alien is gonna die they should at least return him to be
with his own people. He returns to his office and plays the Video taken by the UAV, Jack
enters and they start to bicker again, Daniel loses it, knocking everything flying
"we are killing a whole race of people here how can I not care?"
"What? Jack asks gently
"My head hurts again."
However by the time he has returned to Janet, he feels fine. Daniel thinks it must
something on the tape that the camera can't see…. Or hear Sam adds. She asks for the
tape and heads for the control room. An audio spectrum analysis reveals sounds out of the
audible range.
"It's kinda annoying," says Jack, "can't you turn it down?"
Janet explains, " actually it's more than just annoying sir, it's probably
responsible for the symptoms you are describing"
She goes into more depth and the longer they were exposed to it the worse it got. Sam
reckons it was also the reason they lost control of the UAV. But still doesn't explain the
alien's condition.
Incoming wormhole alarms signal Teal'c's arrival, he nearly collapses as he comes down
the ramp,
"You alright?" asks Jack
"My condition is improving."
Teal'c explains what happened to him and the others tell him about the 'bad sound' they
have discovered.
"That's it" Daniel exclaims, he knows what the problem is. He asks the tech
to compare the noise before and after the UAV crashed, they are different. The plants make
the sound. Janet theorises that the aliens need the sound to be at certain frequencies and
of course, the crashing drone interrupted that; an unidentified organ from the MRI scan
could be sound related. They play the pre-crash tape to the alien he stirs, sings and then
smiles.
SG1 return to the planet and set frequency emitters to duplicate the noise. The team
leaves to watch from a distant ridge.
Sam announces she has a hunch.
As the plants begin to grow the aliens begin to chant, Sam says she realised there must
be some sort of symbiotic relationship between the aliens and the plants. When questioned
how she knew her answer is " I…I talk to my plants."
The plants grow and flower beautifully; everything has been restored.
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