Abyss (Stargate SG-1)
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| Stargate SG-1 episode | |
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| “Abyss” | |
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| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 6 |
| Guest star(s) | Dorian Harewood as Thoran Cliff Simon as Ba'al Gary Jones as Technician Michael Shanks as Daniel Jackson Ulla Fris as Woman Patrick Gallagher as Jaffa Commander |
| Writer(s) | Brad Wright |
| Director | Martin Wood |
| Production no. | 606 |
| Original airdate | July 19, 2002 |
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"Abyss" is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.
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[edit] Plot
On a planet a man and a woman run away from Jaffa. The man, a Tok'ra, tells the woman to hide, while he tries to reach the Stargate. However before he can activate he is shot down with a Staff weapon and the symbiote leaves his body. The host, Col. O'Neill, is then captured and later wakes up in a Sarcophagus and is watched by a strange man in the shadows.
At Stargate Command the Tok'ra Thoran visits and tells General Hammond and SG-1 that the Tok'ra Kanan, who blended with O'Neill, left them on his own and the others think that he might have done this without O'Neill agreeing, which angers Thoran. He later discusses Kanan's behavior with SG-1 but refuses to give them mission reports from Kanan. Because of this he isn't allowed to leave the base and the others explain that they only want the mission reports so he finally agrees to give them to SG-1. The team then tries to find out why Kanan left on his own although all his missions were a success.
Meanwhile in Ba'al's base O'Neill is brought into a room and pinned to a wall with some kind of gravity device. He is then questioned by Ba'al who also threatens him with knives which he shoots into O'Neill until he is dead. He is then reanimated and brought into a cell and after seeing a woman he is visited by Daniel Jackson. Although O'Neill at first thinks he is a delusion but Daniel convinces him it is really him. They start to talk about what has happened to O'Neill and why he is here. He then offers him to help him ascend but O'Neill wants more information which Daniel can't give him. Instead O'Neill wants him to help him escape but he can't do this.
Suddenly two guards appear and bring him away. O'Neill is then again questioned by Ba'al and this time is tortured with an acid. O'Neill finally gives the Goa'uld the name of his symbiote and Ba'al then heals his wounds from the acid and O'Neill is later brought back into his cell. He again sees a vision of this woman until Daniel appears. They continue their discussion from before but while Daniel tries to explain to him what a person he is, O'Neill finally gets angry because Daniel won't do anything. He is then brought away again.
Back at SGC Major Carter points out that during Kanan's mission to get information about Ba'al's base the Tok'ra used the System Lord's lo'taur, his personal slave, to get the information. She concludes that perhaps he had an affair with the female lo'taur and that he then wanted to rescue her because he was blended with O'Neill. They tell Hammond about what they found out but he won't allow a rescue mission since Ba'al's base is a fortress.
In Ba'al's base O'Neill again has a vision of the woman while being tortured by Ba'al. O'Neill can't answer Ba'al's questions but the System Lord nevertheless tries to get the information. O'Neill is later brought back to the cell where he nearly breaks down. He is then questioned again but his mind is too weak to give clear answers and he only mumbles Daniel's name.
At SGC, Teal'c, after meditating, concludes that they would be able to rescue O'Neill if they would have a Goa'uld mothership which the System Lords have. So they give Lord Yu the plans of the base so that he can destroy the power generator of it.
Back in the cell in Ba'al's base Daniel again visits O'Neill but the Colonel is too weak to fight on. However Daniel tells him that it will soon be over and suddenly there are sounds of explosions. It turns out that Yu is attacking and so O'Neill is able to flee. He finds Ba'al's lo'taur and they both escape. He later wakes up in the infirmary of SGC, where he thanks his friends and after they leave Daniel appears. They shortly talk and Daniel then disappears as Carter appears.
[edit] Quotes
- Ba'al: Who are you?
Jack: You go first.
Ba'al: [picking up a knife] You claim you do not know me?
Jack: Well, take no offense there, Skippy, I'm sure you're a real hot, important Goa'uld, I've just always been kind of out of the loop with the snake thing.
Ba'al: I am Ba'al.
Jack: That's it? Just "Ball"? As in Bocce?
Ba'al: Do you not know the pain you will suffer for this impudence? [aims the knife at Jack]
Jack: I don't know the meaning of the word. Seriously. "Impudence." What does that mean?
- Daniel: If you immediately know that the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
Jack: Though a light shines in my house... there's nobody home.
[edit] Notes
- In most of the shots where Ba'al is talking to O'Neill, Cliff Simon is actually talking to a stand-in for O'Neill and not Richard Dean Anderson.
[edit] External links
- Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
- Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Line 21 Media Services Ltd (2002-05-28). Retrieved on 2006-10-18. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site.
- Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 3, 2006.
- Review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Tere Campbell. Visited May 11, 2006.
