Well. Looks like we might meet a new Goa’uld or Tok’ra or something, based on the image of the woman with a ribbon device. But who is she?!
The scene opens in a room that could’ve been Daniel’s office, if not for the fact that it’s larger and not quite so messy. An elderly man, Dr. Jordan, is studying an artifact, and his young apparent protégé wants to open a particular jar, rumoured to hold a pharaoh’s heart.
Meanwhile, at the SGC, O’Neill is sitting in the Hangout reading one of those National Enquirer-esque pseudo-magazines. “Teal’c’s into this kind of stuff.” In a scene strangely reminiscent of the Stargate film, Jackson snatches it away and sees that his old archaeology professor… is dead!
The scene changes to Dr. Jordan’s funeral, where Jackson has shown up. Daniel is approached by the young man from earlier, Steven, and also Sarah, who I suspect was a very close friend. Very, very close.
You know, I already don’t like where this is going. The first time Daniel fell in love with someone, she fell prey to a Goa’uld. The second time, she turned out to be a mass murderer. Not to mention the last couple relationship stories haven’t gone so hot:
- Teal’c reunited with Sho’nauc… and now she’s dead.
- Carter and O’Neill finally admitted their feelings for each other out loud because everyone thought they were freaking za’tarcs, and now it’s just super awkward.
- Then the same two people seemed to fall for each other all over again in “Beneath the Surface” and now it’s even more awkward.
The three walk, and Steven seems a little resentful that Daniel fell out of touch with them. It’s funny how Jackson dances around their questions:
Sarah: “It’s like you fell off the face of the Earth.”
Jackson: “Yeah, it is a little like that, isn’t it?”
If only they knew…
Steven leaves them, so Sarah and Daniel walk together. Jackson’s under the impression that Dr. Jordan had been disappointed with him, given that his theories had been thought to be, well, wrong.
And, yup, Sarah is indeed his ex-girlfriend. She wants to know what this proof he’s found is, but all he tells her is, “The truth is more incredible than we could’ve ever imagined.”
Meanwhile, back on base, O’Neill tries to convince Carter to go fishing with him, but she’s got projects of her own, so it’s just him and Teal’c. ADVENTURE TIME! Let’s just hope it doesn’t involve getting trapped up in the nothingness of space this time.
Oh, and Teal’c has a Hawaiian shirt on. Again.
“If there’s an emergency, you better plan ahead and tell me now. If Thor needs me, he better beam me up. If the Tok’ra – forget it!”
Sarah and Jackson go back to Dr. Jordan’s office where she tells him that the artifacts are rumoured to be cursed. I’m thinking he’s thinking there could be some credence to this claim. After all, they’ve run into some weird things – such as that crystal skull thing.
But there’s something missing now.
A gold amulet.
I hate where this is going.
Jackson seeks out a woman who works in the research facility, and she shows him a statue of Isis… and it’s got Goa’uld symbols on it. Fun stuff.
Carter is working on her motorcycle (ooo, it’s really snazzy) with Sergeant Siler (that guy makes me laugh) when she gets a call from Jackson, and he tells her of his find.
Up in Minnesota (“Yeah sure, you betcha”) Teal’c and Jack are enjoying… well, sort of… their fishing trip. I believe this is also the first time Jack uses his nickname for Teal’c (which is simply “T”, haha) as he tries to explain fishing. Suddenly his cell phone rings, and it’s Jackson. O’Neill is, of course, less than pleased to be interrupted on his vacation, but he hands the phone over to Teal’c anyways.
Jackson needs something translated, and Teal’c obliges, but then it gets a bit amusing:
Teal’c: “If you require assistance, I would be more than happy to return to the SGC.”
Jackson: “No, thanks. I think I can take it from here.”
Teal’c: (Lowering his voice) “Are you certain?”
O’Neill: “Give me that!”
And he takes the phone away and throws out the battery.
And Teal’c looks less than thrilled to still be stuck here with those darned mosquitoes.
On base, Jackson tells Hammond and Carter the legend of Isis and Osiris’ banishment. He does tell them to be careful with the Isis jar, since it could be booby-trapped.
That night, he goes back to Chicago, and finds Steven trying to find the breaker box in the room full of artifacts. Steven claims that the Osiris jar is destroyed. However, bad goes to worse when they find the curator… dead. In the elevator.
The following day, Jackson talks to Sarah, and she keeps trying to push him to tell her what he knows. They also discover that all of Dr. Jordan’s work has been erased. (Conspiracy?!) When she reads Jordan’s evidence that the civilization is over 10,000 years old, Jackson tells her to keep quiet about this.
Carter scans the Isis jar, and… there’s a Goa’uld symbiote inside.
That is super-creepy.
She and Fraiser study it, and it’s dead, so the doctor begins to dissect it. (Ew, memories of anatomy class.) It’s perfectly preserved. They figure out that since the seal was broken, the symbiote died. However, if the Osiris jar is actually out there…
…Well, we could have a Goa’uld. On Earth.
Daniel is convinced that Steven is now a Goa’uld (well, it’s implied that’s what he thinks, with, “He may not be himself anymore”) and that he might be behind the killings as well. She gets mad at him because he’s continuously refusing to tell her about what he does for work, and they part.
He then returns to the SGC and they formulate a plan to go after Steven and hopefully take down the Goa’uld within – Osiris – in the process.
Carter, Jackson, and Fraiser travel to Egypt, but Steven is already in the tomb. He does indeed have the amulet, and he inserts it, and finds.. a hand device.
DON’T TOUCH IT DON’T TOUCH IT DON’T TOUCH IT too late.
The three finally arrive, but while Steven is injured he’s not a Goa’uld.
…Then, who is?
OH MY GOD IT’S SARAH.
Oh, Daniel, Daniel, Daniel, why is this now the THIRD woman you’ve fallen for that ends up being a complete nutcase?
Osiris/Sarah uses the hand device to knock out Carter and Fraiser, and more or less interrogates Jackson. He doesn’t reveal the location of the Stargate, but when he tells her they’ve killed Sokar, Ra, Hathor, etc, she’s actually happy because she think now she can rule unopposed.
Well, crap. We got another Apophis on our hands.
She tries and fails to get more information out of him, and ends up raising a pyramid ship from the sands and escapes with transport rings to the ship.
One more Goa’uld. Well, this is just fantastic.
Final thoughts… To be honest, I wasn’t all that impressed with this episode. Like most of the series, there are big hits, small misses, and a few mediocre episodes. I’d call this one relatively mediocre, because I don’t really see how the whole legend of Osiris and Isis is really going to be all that important later on. However, I must say that it’s always fun to meet a new Goa’uld, especially when there’s the potential for them to return.
More than anything I feel really bad for Jackson. First his wife, now his ex-girlfriend are Goa’uld’ed? And it seems like and Sarah were still pretty tight… Unless that was just Goa’uld trickery. One thing I’m not sure about is how long Sarah was host to Osiris, and how long it was actually her in control. Everything is so ambiguous! But, once again, lead in this wonderful show has had another unfortunate end to a relationship. God, how do these people move on?
There was one thing I found strange, though: The blatant exclusion of Teal’c and O’Neill from this episode (more or less, since they were off fishing). I wonder if there was some ulterior motive for the writers when they did this, or if they just wanted to have a Sam-Daniel-Janet adventure!! or something. Or maybe they just wanted to kind of pick up where we left off in “Tangent”? I’d say that being brought to the brink of death in the dead of space is sufficient reasoning for a well-deserved leave. In any case, Teal’c swatting at mosquitoes and complaining about fishing was pretty great.
So, one more Goa’uld to take! Hoo-rah!
PREDICTION/REFLECTION THINGY
(Teal’c and O’Neill return from their fishing trip and meet a very exasperated-looking Carter and Daniel in the Hangout.)
O’Neill: So! How are you guys?
Jackson: Jack!! You missed a whole mission! Now my ex-girlfriend is a Goa’uld, a potentially dangerous one at that, and there’s a priceless artifact missing, and I had to convince one of my colleagues that he was hallucinating when Sarah… er… Osiris nearly killed him!
Carter: We’ve been through hell while you two whiled away the weekend fishing!
(Awkward silence.)
Teal’c: Perhaps you should not have thrown the battery into the lake, O’Neill.
O’Neill: Oh, for cryin’ out loud, is it so much to get a break once in a while?
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