Abyss (Stargate SG-1)

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“Abyss”
Stargate SG-1 episode
Episode no. Season 6
Episode 6
Guest stars 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
Written by Brad Wright
Directed by Martin Wood
Production no. 606
Original airdate July 19, 2002
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"Abyss" (Part 2 of 2) is an episode from Season 6 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

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On a unknown planet, a man and a woman run away from a number of Jaffa. The man, a Tok'ra, tells the woman to hide, while he tries to reach the Stargate. However, before he can activate it, he is shot down with a Staff weapon and the symbiote leaves his body. The host, Col. Jack O'Neill, is captured and later wakes up in a Sarcophagus. He 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 had blended with a comatose O'Neill in the previous episode to save him from an Ancient disease) left them on his own and the SG-1 thinks that he might have done this without O'Neill's approval, 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. Gen. Hammond and SG-1 explain that they only want the mission reports so that they can attempt to find O'Neill, so he finally agrees to give them to SG-1. The team then tries to find out why Kanan left, but cannot find any clues.

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 tortures him with knives, "dropping" them into the gravity field, and thus into O'Neill, who soon dies. He is then reanimated via the Sarcophagus and brought into a cell. After seeing a woman at the top/end of his cell (a similar gravity device to the used by Ba'al to torture O'Neill alters the gravity in his cell, turning it into a pit of sorts when activated) he is visited by the ascended Daniel Jackson. Although O'Neill first thinks that he is a delusion, Daniel manages to convince O'Neill that he is real. They start to talk about what has happened to O'Neill and why he is imprisoned. Eventually, Jackson offers him to help O'Neill ascend but he wants more information, which Daniel can't give him. Instead, O'Neill wants Jackson to help him escape but he is unable to do this due to the Others' policy of non-interference.

They are interrupted when two guards appear to take Jack back to Ba'al. O'Neill is again questioned by the System Lord, this time being tortured by acid. After some time, O'Neill finally gives him the name of his symbiote. Ba'al heals O'Neill once more and send him back to his cell. O'Neill is later brought back into his cell where he again sees the woman from before. Daniel appears shortly thereafter and they continue their discussion. While Daniel tries to explain to him what a person he is, O'Neill gets angry with Daniel's refusal to interfere. Jack is taken away once again for another torture session.

Back at the 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 wanted to rescue her, using O'Neill's body to do so while he still had the chance. They tell Hammond about what they discovered, but he won't allow a rescue mission since Ba'al's base is a veritable fortress.

Back in Ba'al's base, O'Neill sees the woman again 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 soon questioned again but his mind is too weak to give clear answers and he only mumbles Daniel's name.

At SGC, Teal'c, after his Kel no'reem, concludes that they would be able to rescue O'Neill if they only had a Goa'uld mothership, so they make a temporary alliance with the System Lord Yu and give him the plans of the base so that he can destroy it's power generator.

Back in O'Neill's cell, Daniel once again visits O'Neill, but the Colonel is too weak to fight on. However Daniel tells him that it will soon be over, but their conversation is interrupted by explosions. It turns out that Yu is attacking, giving O'Neill the chance to flee. He finds Ba'al's lo'taur (the woman he had seen many time previously) and they both escape. He later wakes up in the infirmary of SGC, where he thanks his friends. After they leave, Daniel appears and they have a short discussion. Daniel leaves just before Carter returns.

[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 Oma was here, she would say something like "If you immediately know that the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago."
    Jack: Why would she say that?
    Daniel: To open your mind.
    Jack: Though a light shines in my house... there's nobody home.

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