Excuse me! You cannot come in here. Where's Security?
At ease, Doctor. They have authorisation to be here.
Welcome. l'm General George Hammond.
- This is Doctor Janet Fraiser. - Hello.
- Sir, are they Air Force? - No, they're not, Doctor.
But they've been briefed and they have authorisation to be here.
Yes, sir, but shouldn't l give them a medical for clearance?
That won't be necessary. They're going to view one computer file, and then leave.
Sir, you're gonna let them have access to our classified files?
At ease, Doctor. They know this is highly sensitive material.
lf l catch them viewing an unapproved file,...
..l'll have them transferred to a Goa'uld-controlled world.
Yes, sir. lf you say so.
There. Now you're all set up. l'll check on your status in a few minutes.
Sir, are you sure you don't want me to monitor this procedure?
Let it rest, Doctor.
A man named John Symes approached me. He was working for MGM.
l worked with John over at Paramount during the MacGyver days.
John called me and said ''l want you to do this project.''
l said ''Well, what is it?''
He said MGM had purchased the rights to the Stargate franchise,...
..that they were developing a series, and he wanted me to be a part of it.
CoIoneI Jack O'NeiII?
Retired.
I'm Major SamueIs.
I'm, uh, under orders to bring you to see GeneraI Hammond, sir.
- Never heard of him. - He repIaced GeneraI West.
He says it's important. Has to do with the Stargate.
l told them ''lf we're gonna try and get Rick involved,...
..then he's gonna have to have a lot more leeway with the character'',...
..because l couldn't really picture Rick playing Kurt Russell's O'Neill.
ln the feature film, Jack O'Neill, who was suicidal in the feature film...
He was suicidal because his son...
..accidentally killed himself with his own gun.
So we've covered the fact that the Jack O'Neill character has had that experience.
lt's a dark part of his past. lt helps define why he is a funny, happy-go-lucky guy.
He doesn't wanna go to that dark place where he was when we first met him.
They had to be receptive to whatever input, character-wise, that l could bring...
..because, as portrayed by Mr Russell,...
..it was a little more stoic than l think l could endure over a long period of time.
Where's the fanfare, GeneraI?
- We did kind of save the pIanet, sir. - Again.
It shouId not get oId, GeneraI.
- Job weII done. - Thank you, sir. It was nothing.
l had to make sure that they were willing to put up with,...
..well, in this case endure, my sense of humour,...
..and somehow infiltrate it into the character subtly, or with a sledgehammer.
If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna Iose it.
It means ''go crazy''.
Nuts. Insane.
Bonzo. No Ionger in possession of one's facuIties.
Three fries short of a Happy MeaI.
Wacko!
O'Neill's demons...
..we brought from the movie to the first season of our show.
That had to do with his son...
..and some emotional baggage he brought along, with his son having killed himself.
''Cold Lazarus'' actually dealt with that...
..and confronted the problems that he had with those memories.
From that point on, l've just had fun...
..doing a gradual growth process.
Your deepest pain was not the physicaI injury I had caused.
Your pain comes from an empty pIace in your heart...
..where CharIie once was.
- CharIie's gone. - No.
He's in here.
CharIie!
Just as being part of a character, and trying to be credible,...
..and still stretch it and make sure there is that sense of lightness, of humour,...
..l put a little bit of irreverence in the character of O'Neill.
lt's a lot more fun to play. l think it's a lot more fun for an audience to watch.
lt makes it a little more credible and humanises the character a little more.
Guys? This is important.
l believe it was our first season...
..l got to endure the rigours of a four-and-a-half, five-hour make-up job...
..to age from whatever O'Neill was to 100 years old, in stages.
That was a phenomenal experience as an actor,...
..because l'd never been able to really hide behind a mask,...
..a mask that almost made me indistinguishable.
That, as an actor, got my attention.
TeII me. WiII you Iive the rest of your days without making Iove?
Oh, God, I hope not!
We'd probabIy just pass out.
lf you ever want an actor to show up on time, know his lines, not screw around:
make him an executive producer.
He'll show up. Make him responsible to the budget.
Just so you know - this is a completely staged, impromptu meeting.
A rehearsal for some ad-lib.
Everybody looks serious, don't they?
l do have to walk the line a bit, because l know what we need to get, filmically,...
..to be able to edit and to tell the story.
Special effects on video.
So l have to rein in a bit.
He's so great to work with because you know that all your beats are gonna get in.
And you know that he's gonna bring more to the show.
He'll take a scene and it will always be better than you envisioned.
Hey!
- What the heII do you think you're doing? - The same thing you do... onIy better.
- What does that mean? - Better?.
It means bet-ter.
Stronger. Faster.
Sirs!
As much as I'd Iike to see this pIay out, we have something more important to do.
You feel lucky that you have someone like Rick,...
..and people who we've been able to both cast and hire,...
..that raise the bar, qualitatively, from the page to the screen.
l remember hearing that you have to dumb down material...
..to meet the mainstay of the audience,...
..which l thought was one of the more offensive things l'd ever heard,...
..the reflection about mankind in general.
AImost there, sir. This time of year the direct Iine between P2X-555...
..and the Earth takes us within 70,000 miIes of the sun.
I'm updating the drift caIcuIation to incIude gravitationaI space/time warping.
We know that! Let's go.
That's ludicrous. Give us all the benefit of the doubt, if nothing else,...
..but certainly give us some credit for being intelligent beings.
CouId this beam be a means to access the gate's subspace fieId...
..in order to create some kind of time inversion outside of subspace?
I knew you were gonna say that.
There is intelligence in humour.
Bring it up and maybe sow the seeds of a grander idea...
..by speaking in a more lofty way, or about loftier ideas.
Don't dumb it down so a cow could understand it.
That's not me.
Carter!
Sir. Hi.
What are you doin'?
I'm getting ready to anaIyse the decay rate of naqahdah within the reactor.
Agh!
- I'm on vacation. - Yes, sir.
l learned a lot from Rick.
He has a saying... We'll be talking about something in a meeting.
l don't remember what we were talking about,...
..but the first time he said it, he said ''LTS''.
Life's too short. lf it's not fun, it's not worth doing any more.
Write that down, someone.
His philosophy is he's not gonna do it if it's gonna be painful.
He wants the set to be a pleasurable place.
He wants everybody to be comfortable and happy.
lf everything's gonna be miserable, let's not do it.
l think that's a great attitude. l love that.
He's just a genuine guy. There's no ego about him, no bravado,...
..and there's so much opportunity for there to be that.
I suppose you expect my maIe bravado to kick in right about now.
- I've read your fiIe. - No mention of bravado, eh?
He's got a goofy sense of humour. Sometimes he's like an eight-year-old.
Captain James TKirk of the Starship Enterprise.
l enjoy the look on Rick's face any time there's a lot of explosions or gunfire.
He turns into this 1 4-year-old.
Jack of the Windy City.
Sometimes he's like a 16-year-old.
Afternoon, ma'am. I'm Mr Starsky.
This is... Hutch.
l've never seen him really get beyond 18.
I'II be honest with you, Bob.
My name's not Kirk.
It's SkywaIker. Luke SkywaIker.
This is a little aside here, but... l saw him for the first time this season...
We'd been away on hiatus for three months.
l was coming round the parking lot, and l saw him.
And l forgot how damn handsome he is.
l was disarmed, which surprised me after four years,...
..that l could turn a corner and go ''Oh, yeah. l work with him. Lucky me!''
CoIoneI.
Uh...
Have a good time.
Land of sky-bIue waters, Ioofahs,...
..yah sure, you betcha, snookums.
l like the family.
lf things are well-oiled, as they are around here, then it's a joy to come to work.
And it's a great venue to tell good stories.
Time's up. Hope you were able to get what you needed.
Sir, please, let me give them an evaluation.
We don't want any sensitive material going off-base.
l'll take full responsibility, Doctor.
Thanks for visiting the SGC.
l know that's not a lunch bag.
Doctor.