SG-1, move out.
- It was supposed to be a rescue mission. - It appears there's no one Ieft to rescue.
Exercise extreme caution.
- What is it? - I thought I heard something.
We're at Bridge Studios and this is Stargate.
This particular episode is entitled ''The Tomb'',...
..although it should be entitled ''Walking Around The Tunnels With A Flashlight''.
A fun episode where we go to another planet...
..and we go into this ancient structure that has a flimsy ceiling that keeps leaking.
We've got guys up in the rafters and every so often we'll have them drop dirt...
..to represent how weak the ceiling is.
- This doesn't seem very stabIe. - (DanieI) It's over 4,000 years oId.
Then they find out, in fact, if you'll come over with me, there's an animal in here,...
..who'd like nothing more than to eat them alive.
This is the cocoon from which it came out of.
And we find out that our pesky old enemy, the Goa'uld, has infested this beast,...
..and so we have a ferocious, carnivorous, piranha-like being...
..with a Goa'uld symbiote inside of it.
It's around here somewhere.
(inhuman squeaI)
And this animal has been existing in this tomb for 4,000 years...
..inside the personification of the Babylonian God known as Marduk.
He was eaten alive in his sarcophagus.
ShouIdn't we open this first, make sure no one's home?
- TeaI'c, ever seen anything Iike this? - Indeed I have not.
So over here we have the sarcophagus in which we find Marduk.
The beast was thrown in here with Marduk, with the Goa'uld in his head,...
..and then closed over.
And his followers, who didn't like him very much, strapped him in there.
The beast continuously ate him as the sarcophagus replenished him.
So he was dying and being replenished, dying and being constantly eaten.
Something ate this guy?
The Goa'uld left the humanoid host body and went into the beast that was killing it.
A better question is, where is it now?
You might recognise this sarcophagus. lt's been in many episodes.
Apophis was in this.
And we used this sarcophagus in ''Need'', and Hathor came out of it as well.
We're at lunch now, and Richard Dean Anderson is under this pile of rocks.
Richard, do you want us to get you a sandwich?
(muffled) That's OK. l'm fine.
We like to keep the rocks in continuity, so we can't allow him to get up.
And these are quite heavy. l mean, l can lift them, they are made of Styrofoam,...
..but you wouldn't want to get hit by one, especially if one was thrown from a rafter.
ln this scene it required a fair amount of stunts and some heavy-duty stuff like that.
lf you warn me, l can be looking up to see when it's coming, so it can be so close.
Dan Shea did the first part of the cave-in...
..and then Richard Dean Anderson did something equally as dangerous.
He stood under quite possibly 200lbs' worth of plastic-coated Styrofoam.
And... action!
CoIoneI O'NeiII.
So we got Richard Dean Anderson out of the shot...
..and in fact went into this room and tied him in. lt's always great to do a tie-in.
A tie-in literally does what it says: it ties in your actor to the actual action.
Sometimes we have clean POVs and Richard Dean Anderson's in the Bahamas.
But once in a while we tie in Richard Dean Anderson to the actual stunt.
Yeah, I'm OK.
The bigger pile in the back was what we think is the demise of our bad guy,...
..but in classic horror-film form he comes back and the hand sort of comes out...
..and we realise he's not dead.
l don't know if you recognise this slant, but this is the mother ship...
..because it has a pyramid shape.
When you turn you begin to see this big, black, beautiful,...
..pyramid-like Naqahdah finish.
And this is the kind of stuff you'll see in the mother ship.
And these hallways were all mother ship-ish,...
..and then they were covered over with the stone.
Carter, how do you know where to go in a pIace Iike this?
So this giant V that we're looking at is the front of a peltak,...
..and traditionally Apophis or even Cronus would be sitting there on his throne,...
..and he'd be yelling orders at his Jaffa.
You might even see a shot over a shoulder of an evil bad guy,...
..and then over here you would see a space window and a big planet,...
..or even a giant curtain which we like to call the star field.
lt's nothing more than just a giant piece of black velvet...
..with little pieces of sparkles on it.
This is another example of how we are able to reuse sets...
..and get the most production banked for our production dollar.
(shouting)
- Hey, get outta there! - (screams)