So...
how did it go?
Absolutely incredible, Sir.
You can forget about the Ori with an act like that, Sam'll be headlining in Vegas.
OK. Stop...
The performance of the device did exceed all expectations General Landry.
I'm telling you Sir, a few tweaks here and there,
we'll be able to hide anything we want.
Troops, ships, planets...
Well, it's a lot more complicated than that, Sir, but I do think we're ready for a large scale test.
Good. Get changed.
I may have just the thing.
Colonel Reynolds has been conducting reconnaissance
on P9C-882 as part of the on-going mission to track the Ori advance in the Galaxy.
Approximately 4 hours ago, the people of 882 were visited by a Prior.
Let me guess, he made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
With a slight twist...
told them to build this.
I take it you've seen that before.
Oh, yes.
They...
use these to burn people alive who don't follow their rules...
He gave them three days at which time he said he'd return to check their progress.
What has been the villager's response?
Already rejected the idea.
They lived under the Goa'uld for centuries,
they're not about to give up their freedom again.
They've asked for our help.
You want to use Sam's device to make them disappear.
Hold on a second. First of all,
it's Merlin's device...
and second while I agree the modifications I've made have potential,
it's far from ready to deploy in the field on that scale.
I'm sure that that's not what the General is proposing.
Actually Colonel. That is what I'm proposing.
The IOA's reviewed the reports of your experiments
and they think it's time to take this new technology out of the lab.
I happen to agree with them.
With respect, Sir.
You're talking about trying to hide an entire village...
of people.
I realise it's a tall order Colonel,
but we seem to have a three day window here.
Any chance you can
make the necessary adjustments in that time?
Can do, Sir. Not a problem.
Good.
What?
Don't look at me like that...
we've got a village to save.
Subtitles by SG-66 www.seriestele.net
Transcript by Tara Pathirana / Suzanna
Season 10 Episode 12 Line in the Sand.
You have returned.
Bless us all.
SG-1, this is Thilana, Leader of the Village,
Colonel Mitchell, Teal'c, Vala and Colonel Carter.
I cannot express our thanks to you in coming to our aid.
It's our pleasure.
We are at your service,
the building we've selected is this way.
Matar.
Allow me to carry this.
Thank you.
Don't you just love helping people.
I hope this location is suitable for you. I can have the rest of these things removed, if you'd like...
Oh no! It's great. Thank you.
For years my ancestors were forced to record the true history of our people in secret,
beyond the eyes of the Goa'uld.
This room now houses their legacy.
It seemed appropriate you do your work here.
I'm flattered.
I must admit, Colonel Carter, some of my people are concerned about what this machine will do.
I would like to be able to reassure them.
Oh! Yeah, of course. Let me walk you through it.
Basically, this machine shifts all matter within a preset range, in this case the entire village,
into another dimension.
So when the Prior returns he won't be able to see or hear you.
In fact he'll be able to walk right through you.
Don't worry. It doesn't hurt at all...
and it is just temporary, just long enough to fool the Prior.
Once he leaves...
we can put everything back to normal.
Sam's all set.
Colonel Reynolds and his team are standing by at the Gate.
Reynolds this is Mitchell.
Remember we're gonna be out of radio contact once we go out of a phase.
Understood.
Listen up folks... we're gonna try a little disappearing act here.
Please remember to keep your arms and legs inside the village at all times
until we come to a complete and final stop.
Blank stares work too.
Sam! Light her up.
Copy that.
We have the craziest job in the world.
Dial us out Lieutenant.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
Tonight,
we honor our newest friends from Earth...
whose wisdom...
generosity and kindness
have allowed us to resist those who wish to return us to slavery.
We extend to you our deepest and most sincere thanks.
What was that?
I think the displacement field collapsed, I'll go check it out.
OK. I've got some Good news and some Bad news.
Good first.
Well, in order to bring everything back completely,
the machine has to maintain a connection with every single molecule that it sends out of phase,
now obviously that requires a lot of energy.
So I implemented a failsafe
that would automatically bring everything back into our dimension in the event of a power disruption.
And such a disruption occurred?
Well, it was just a slight fluctuation but it was enough to trigger the failsafe.
So, what do we do?
Actually...
that's the problem.
I thought I'd stabilized the power supply.
Can you fix it?
You will not abandon us?
We're not.
But is there a safe place that you can take your people? A planet...
maybe you're familiar with?
Won't the Prior find us wherever we go?
Perhaps we should consider heeding the Priors wishes.
No.
I will not stand by while we are once again subjugated into serving false gods.
We must stand our ground.
- The Prior is very powerful. - Then please...
you must help us.
Don't give up on us yet.
We're not.
Coffee!
Thank you...
Don't get to excited they packed us De-caf by mistake.
Teal'c's gone to the Gate to watch for the Prior...
Look, I hate to rush you Sam, but we've got to make a decision about this,
Landry was pretty clear we're not to let this thing fall into enemy hands.
I know.
I've rigged an Ancient capacitor
similar to the kind used in the Stargates, between the device and the generators.
It should collect the power and hopefully feed it more evenly.
Well, that sounds great.
Colonel Mitchell do you read?
Loud and clear Teal'c. What's up?
Our time.
What is it?
They're checking for the monument.
Sam! We've got fighters circling, how are you coming with that disappearing act?
Just a few more minutes.
Get these people inside, now!
Go.
Not you...
Teal'c... buddy, looks like we could use you back here now...
I am on my way.
Colonel Mitchell...
an Ori fighter has deposited a ring platform outside the village.
Now a ground force is headed your way.
Alright, this way...
Come with me.
Have you ever fired a gun before?
No...
Alright, blank stares aren't gonna cut it this time...
Listen up.
Pull this...
aim there...
squeeze that.
Alright, yeah...
just make sure this end is pointed away from you
and anyone else you don't want to kill.
Pass these out to whoever want some.
We can't hold them off forever you know.
I know.
They're splitting up, trying to flank us...
Sam?
It's OK.
You'll be OK.
Stay where you are!
You'll be fine, just stay with me...
Search the buildings
Alright, we have to move...
We can't...
Sam we have to.
The device.
Right.
Yeah.
No... we can't destroy it.
Well, what you want me to do? I can't carry you and all that junk!
Activate it.
It's no good they're fried.
- All of them? - Well, we've got one working.
Bypass the other two, connect the leads.
Alright What's next?
There's a macro on the... main control screen.
I have no idea where that is!
Sam!
That's it.
I think.
Well, it better be it.
What just happened?
How did that building disappear?
Perhaps it was the will of the gods.
All those who oppose the Ori
shall perish.
Stop!
Commander.
All those here have resisted with force.
Then they shall be punished.
Tomin...
Have her taken to the rings. Transport her to the ship.
Kill the rest.
No!
Tomin!
No!
No...
Hold still! Hold still... hang on.
This'll help.
How long was I out?
Well, unfortunately not long enough for me to finish this.
Just hang on...
What's going on outside?
Shooting has stopped, the Ori army is in control.
Cam!
Dammit Sam!
Don't scare me like that.
What?
Oh, the...
device is on, I forgot to mention it.
I don't know how big the field is. I think you and I are the only ones inside it.
- Teal'c and Vala? - I tried to contact them on the radio...
there was no response.
Well... that could mean anything.
It could...
Hey, we'll pull through this Sam.
Why are you still wearing the clothes of a blasphemer?
If I put on this dress,
and say "Hallowed are the Ori".
Will you stop mass-murdering innocent people?
Tomin wait!
I know you think that everything that comes out of mouth is a lie
I've deceived you too many times to change that now...
but there's one thing I want you to know that is the truth.
There were real moments between us. I did fall in love with you.
In your heart you were a good man.
Not because Origin told you to be.
I know you can't possibly like what you've become, what this...
faith has made you do.
After all that time we spent together, you still know nothing about me.
I know you must still love me.
Why else would I be here?
If it were up to me,
I would light the fire that would burn you alive for your desecration.
The only reason you are still here is because it was so ordered by the Orici.
You will remain in this room.
You will see no-one. You will speak to no-one.
You'll be educated in the ways of Origin until such time as evil no longer possesses you.
No Tomin...
I'm, I'm, I'm street smart that's always got me by, but I have to warn you I've never been much for school.
I am to teach you...
This is my punishment for allowing you to deceive me.
If you continue to resist you will die.
Teal'c.
Thilana,
I am happy to see that you are uninjured.
You as well. Where's the rest of your team?
I was hoping that you'd have seen them.
I have not.
I have spoken to many others Thilana.
We have decided that as Village leader
you must go forward to the Prior
- and embrace Origin on our behalf. - What?
You have no right.
- You see how powerful they are. - A poor reason to abandon ones beliefs.
This no longer concerns you.
Your attempts to have us resist
- have only led to death. - My concerns
extend to those who would worship false gods.
The Ori are not worthy of your devotion.
Well, gods or not,
their power is real,
and the same cannot be said for your people. You pledged to protect us,
but when the time came you failed to do so.
We have no choice.
We shall bow down to the Ori and beg for their mercy or we shall all perish.
It's getting worse?
Not getting better.
Listen I've been thinking.
Yeah...
Dangerous, I know.
I can leave the field and still stay out of phase right?
So I was thinking I'd take some C-4 plant it round the village,
come back here...
use the explosions as a distraction to... What? You haven't heard the rest of the plan.
You can't leave the device here.
Well, I was gonna save some C-4 for that as well.
You cannot sacrifice the device for me.
It is still our best chance against the Ori.
No offence but that Gizmo's not showing a whole lot of promise right now.
It'll work...
I just wasn't ready for this.
- I'm probably not going to make it either way... - No.
Don't you start to talk like that...
Cam...
you have to face the fact that I'm gonna die here.
No I don't have to face that fact because I am not gonna let it happen.
Well I appreciate that...
but the truth is...
even if you manage to create a distraction and destroy the device...
You are never gonna get me to the Gate by yourself.
Yes I will.
Not alive.
So it came to pass that Veramesh was gripped by a great famine,
so Markon went to the Prophet, Artakes, and asked to go to the forest for food.
How many people have you killed?
Do you keep track?
Put little notches in your Ori belt?
The Prophet bade him be patient for the Ori provide for all who have faith.
But Markon did not believe...
Do you remember their faces?
Or were there to many of them?
Hundreds...
Thousands?
So the Prophet drew a line in the sand and told him: "Step across...
and you may do as you wish".
So Markon did and left the Village and feasted on wild berries.
What about the stories in there that are all about not ki...
Enough!
They were each given a chance to save themselves.
Those who do not walk the path are not worthy.
You can preach all you want to me Tomin
- but I know that's not what you believe. - But the food was bitter and did not satisfy him
and he longed to return to the village,
but found that the line had widened to a great chasm.
I've read the book.
I've read it.
I understand why you think its so important,
the words give you comfort and at face value it appears to be
- as if they are trying to inspire - he called out to the prophet in fear
- the best out of people honesty, morality - but the Prophet said "the line has not changed, it is
you who have changed,
- step across if you truly believe" - This whole crusade is a manipulation...
nothing in there says that those who don't
- believe should be massacred. - So Markon prayed for forgiveness
- Where does it say that Tomin? - and took the first step,
- Where does it say that? - and the hands of the Ori
- envelope... - The Ori are not gods.
You should kill me now.
There is a building in the village square that disappeared upon our arrival.
You will tell me what trickery is being used to conceal it.
I am Thilana,
leader of this village...
we do not know what magic is at work...
but it strikes me, by your asking us lowly peasants,
you're saying that the great power of the Ori cannot see passed such deception?
I ask you...
so that you may show the Ori the error of your ways,
If you do not bow...
your village will be burned to the ground.
- Wait! - Matar! No!
You would stand by
while more of our people are murdered
to protect the identities of those
- who have failed us. - What do you speak of?
This man is not of our village...
he came with the others... to try to conceal us...
You have served the Ori well my friend.
Seize him.
Both of them as well.
Forgive me for striking you.
Hitting me is nothing compared to the lives you mercilessly extinguished...
You can never make up for that Tomin.
I thought that I could save you... but I realize now it's too late.
Yes it is...
You'll never see me again.
One last story...
from me...
A long time ago some people just like you and me...
over time, evolved.
They became so advance that they figured out how to turn themselves into energy
an ascend to a higher plane of existence. I know...
it sounds crazy...
but it happened.
Then they discovered that if regular humans worshipped them...
that made them more powerful,
so they used their knowledge to make as many people as they could...
and then created a religion that would force them to prostate in their name...
the more prostrating the more power...
The religion said that these beings
were benevolent...
but they couldn't offer their followers ascension
because that would mean they would have to share their power.
They just use people up and throw them away.
I know I'll never convince you otherwise...
but everything you believe...
is a lie.
Tell me what you know.
Please! Prior!
We were misled...
the outsiders tried to convince us the Ori were false gods.
- Matar! - Forgive us!
For we are now ready to embrace the teachings of Origin
with open hearts.
Tell me...
do you know how the outsiders have concealed themselves?
This is not good.
Carter! Wake up!
No sleeping.
My laptop, there's a file...
You want me to get it?
In my personal directory...
letters mostly...
Sam...
One to Cassie...
Some other people...
Password's 'fishing'.
See...
Now you're gonna have to change the password.
Sam...
don't give up on me...
You just gotta think of my position here.
I worked my ass off to get this team back together, and now we've lost...
Well, we've lost Jackson...
I can't lose you too.
I've spent my entire life dedicated to science...
the last ten years...
trying to convince people they believed in false Gods.
I don't feel like Science is going to help me...
right now...
I'm just hoping
somewhere...
one of those gods...
My Grandma used to say...
God is like a prairie wind storm.
If you look too hard, you get dust in your eyes, but there's still plenty of ways to know it's there.
Is that what you believe?
I generally just nodded until she gave me a macaroon.
There is one thing...
that I do know is true...
mind is a powerful thing.
No matter who or what you believe in,
sometimes belief itself makes all the difference in the world...
you just don't give up.
Tell yourself whatever you have to...
just believe you're gonna make it Sam.
Oh crap.
Guess your little bag of tricks don't work on us?
Show yourself or this village will be destroyed...
Score 1 for Science.
Prior, I beg forgiveness for my failure in teaching the mother of the Orici.
You've only just begun Tomin.
Please allow me to recuse myself. She is intolerable.
I fear I will be of no further use...
my skills are much better spent as a commander.
Indeed...
you have proven yourself a ruthless and skillful warrior. And a fine leader.
Thank you... I'll head straight back down to the planet.
That won't be necessary. We are done here.
I'm sorry I don't understand.
The village will be destroyed.
Why?
They have been touched by evil...
there is no salvation for them.
But we eliminated all of the unbelievers.
Not all of them.
I thought the village had capitulated, if you'll allow me.
Markon walked away from the Ori to satisfy his hunger,
but no matter how much he ate he did not feel full.
Realizing his mistake
he ran back to the Ori,
but they denied his pleas and struck down the village that welcomed him back.
Forgive me Prior, but I was reviewing that very passage just this morning.
Markon prayed for forgiveness and took the first step...
and the hands of the Ori enveloped all those who welcomed him back...
the village was destroyed.
All those who stand by and accept transgressions must be punished.
That is not the implication of the Text Prior.
The Ori granted forgiveness when Markon realized his mistake
and blessed the village with their light for showing him the way back to the path.
You dare question my judgment?
- No, it was just not how I was taught. - There are many words, but only one truth.
They're gonna clear out, and bomb the village from orbit...
I reckon...
we'll be okay...
the device will be preserved...
they'll go away thinking they wiped us out.
But they're gonna kill all those people.
I know.
So what are we gonna do about it?
Teal'c...
I'm so sorry.
I told the Prior of the device.
He decreed that the village would be destroyed if your friends do not show themselves.
Stand aside Thilana.
What do you think you're doing?
He must be sacrificed
to show the Ori we are not allied with them.
You will do no such thing.
If you stand in the way...
you too will be shown no mercy.
So what we got to do is, we have to expand the field around the village just for a little while.
There's not enough power.
Carter come on.
There's gotta be something.
Hang on, hang on, I'll get you some morphine...
Wait.
I need to think clearly,
there might still be a way.
Matar...
killing Teal'c will prove nothing...
If these Gods are truly worthy of our devotion, then pray to them.
No God...
should ever ask you to kill an innocent man to prove your sanctity.
I know you're afraid...
we all are...
but if you are going to die...
let us die in noble peace...
and truth of spirit...
Why do they not reveal themselves?
Who?
Your friends.
They're concealing a building on the planet's surface.
The Prior plans to destroy the village because of them...
Hundreds will die because of your friends' treachery.
Innocent people.
Yes.
You're not happy about that?
No...
he twisted the meaning.
Who?
The Prior.
He changed the meaning of the story of Markon to suit the situation.
To justify killing villagers...
Well... if you think that's wrong you should do something about it.
He's a Prior.
Tomin, those people down there don't have to die
and you're the only one who can do something about it.
You want to use this?
The power crystal in Merlin's device was depleted...
That's why we needed the Naquadah generators...
I'm sorry, is... that not apples and oranges?
Ancient and Ori technology is similar.
We can make it work for a short time.
Alright...
so what do I do?
Put the crystal in the back of the device...
Got it.
It's too big it doesn't fit.
Power interface adapter...
What?
Connector.
Generator. Ancient tech...
Carter...
you've had a lot of morphine...
so I want you to explain it to me...
so that it makes sense.
Excuse me, Prior.
Come in Tomin.
It is good you have seen your way clear.
Hallowed are those who walk in unison.
Forgive me Prior but I am still troubled.
I believe we are in error,
the people of the village have expressed a willingness to seek the truth...
I believe they are in earnest.
Do not the Ori wish all who seek their wisdom to follow the path?
I'm disappointed Tomin.
It seems you have begun to question the will of the Ori,
or is it the unbeliever under your tutorage
that has corrupted you.
No
I have not begun to question the will of the Ori.
But I have begun to question the interpretation of their words.
No matter what you say I will not believe the book of Origin asks us to massacre innocent people
and I will not stand by while the holy doctrine of good will
and faith, that I have sworn to uphold
is twisted into a hammer and used to beat people down!
How dare you!
It's a good sign.
That's easy for you to say, you with the...
little flesh wound.
Alright, what next?
Laptop...
You OK?
No.
Right...
Behold...
the Hand of the Ori at work.
What happened?
- Come with me... - Let go of me...
The Prior destroyed the village.
There was nothing I could do...
Now keep silent please, for both our sakes.
The ship's about to break orbit,
they'll probably kill me for this.
But I'm going to ring you down to the planet.
Come with me...
- please, Tomin? - You're right, I still love you.
Then come...
This is all that I can do.
No Tomin, you can do more...
Hello?
Anyone?
Vala Mal Doran.
Colonel Carter was able to expand the range of the device in time...
Colonel Mitchell...
Vala Mal Doran is here.
That's good news. Do we know if that ship has left?
As far as I know it has.
OK.
Look, Carter's in bad shape we need a med team here right away.
Hey there.
- You're looking better. - Thanks.
A few more weeks and I should be back in action.
Yeah. No, I... don't wanna rush you.
Listen Cam...
Sam...
Don't say a word.
Here...
I baked you some Macaroons.
You baked them?
Yeah, Grandma's recipe.
Thanks.
Go on, try one.
You know what...
maybe a little later.
You don't like macaroons?
It's just that I'm still a little queasy.
Well try one, they'll make you feel better.
Get ya a good one.
Pretty good...?
Actually... they are pretty good...
You hate it.
Yep.
Sorry.
Well, to each their own.
Thank you.