Rite of Passage (Stargate SG-1)
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| “Rite of Passage” | |
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| Stargate SG-1 episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 6 |
| Guest stars | Colleen Rennison as Cassandra Jacqueline Samuda as Nirrti Teryl Rothery as Dr. Janet Fraiser Richard de Klerk as Dominic Karen van Blankenstein as Nurse |
| Written by | Heather E. Ash |
| Directed by | Peter DeLuise |
| Production no. | 506 |
| Original airdate | August 3, 2001 |
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"Rite of Passage" is an episode from Season 5 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.
[edit] Plot
It is the 4th year of Janet Fraiser's adopted daughter, Cassandra, living on Earth. She has become a difficult teenager. Cassandra goes outside and meets Dominic from class. He gives her a shiny crystal prism which sparkles in the moonlight. They then kiss. Suddenly, the outside light flickers and falls, and Cassandra collapses.
At the SGC, Cassie demands to go to a forest. Fraiser discovers that there's some retrovirus reworking her DNA. Daniel reviews the tapes SG-7 brought back. Apparently, when a Hankan reach their 16th birthday, they would suddenly collapse. They would have to go into the forest and, a few days later, come out cured. The village elders said it was normal among their people.
SG-1 goes back to Hanka and discover that a fire was recently made. Daniel touches a green handprint on a tree, and the fire starts up. Suddenly, O'Neill and Teal'c are ringed to an underground Goa'uld lab. Carter and Daniel ring in as well and search around. Daniel came upon a record tablet and sees the word "hok'tar", which--according to Teal'c--hasn't been used in centuries. Suddenly, the rings activate, but nothing comes through them. As SG-1 leaves, something with blue vision watches them.
Cassandra wants to leave but is restrained, and wires in the room shoot sparks. Fraiser gives her daughter a chess board. Cassandra suddenly begins to levitate a knight, saying it's the only way to transfer heat to relieve her of her fever. Fraiser tries touching it, and the piece is hot.
Daniel finishes the translation of the tablet and determines that "hok'tar" means "advanced human". Nirrti was trying to create a human to become the perfect host. After countless generations, she has succeeded with Cassandra. When SG-7 had arrived, she had wiped out the entire planet so the System Lords wouldn't be alerted. Fraiser is busy studying the results and when she leaves her work, something invisible is also studying it, which then becomes visible as a blue burqa-clothed person. Cassie senses a Goa'uld in the facility. All personnel, armed with anti-invisibility TERs and Zats, began to survey the base. They realize it must be Nirrti. O'Neill is knocked down by a hand device blast but a soldier uses his TER to show the invisible Goa'uld and O'Neill zats Nirrti.
Nirrti asks for a sample of Cassandra's blood and her freedom for saving her. SG-1 feel uneasy about it: if they give her what she wants, Nirrti would succeeded in creating the perfect host. Fraiser becomes more and more desperate.
While SG-1 and Hammond argue about the situation, Fraiser forces her way into Nirrti's cell and threatens to kill her. Hammond comes in and they all make an agreement to exchange Nirrti's freedom for curing Cassandra with no blood sample or cloaking device. Nirrti says that is not enough, while Hammond then pointedly reminds the former System Lord that Fraiser is Cassandra's mother. Going to Cassie's room, Nirrti used a Healing Device along with her equipment but Cassandra didn't stir. Fraiser fiercely tells her to try again. This time, it was successful. They let Nirrti go. She announces that she still will try to create the perfect host; however, she will have to start all over again.
Back in the infirmary, Carter teases Cassandra about how she kissed Dominic and the lights "exploded". They start playing chess, Fraiser smiles joyfully.
[edit] Quotes
- Hammond: How can she do that (telekinesis)?
O'Neill: Magnets?
[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 Casablanca Continuity (2001-07-06). Retrieved on October 15, 2006. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site.
- Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 7, 2006.
