Smoke & Mirrors (Stargate SG-1)

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“Smoke & Mirrors”
Stargate SG-1 episode
Episode no. Season 6
Episode 14
Guest stars Colin Cunningham as Maj. Davis
Peter Flemming as Agent Malcolm Barrett
Ronny Cox as Senator Kinsey
Jon Cuthbert as Agent Devlin
Peter Kelamis as Dr. Langham
John Mann as Luthur
Mi-Jung Lee as Reporter
Chris Harrison as Guard
Simon Egan as SF #1
Daniel Pepper as Hospital SF
Yvonne Myers as Area 51 Technician
Darryl Sheeler as Mann
L. Harvey Gold as Committee Member #1
Don McKay as Committee Member #2
Dale Wilson as Committee Member #3
James Michalopulos as Leo
Written by Kathryn Powers
Directed by Peter DeLuise
Production no. 614
Original airdate January 24, 2003
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"Smoke & Mirrors" is an episode from Season 6 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

While Senator Kinsey is leaving a building a sniper prepares his rifle. Before the Senator is able to enter his car, he is shot in the heart by the sniper, much to the shock of the crowd. Suddenly Col. O'Neill leaves a building.

Back at Stargate Command SG-1 (without O'Neill) watches TV about this incident when O'Neill enters the room. They talk about the incident when General Hammond enters. He tells O'Neill that he is under arrest for the murder of Kinsey. The remaining members of SG-1 are informed by Major Davis about the facts as they are known. The others don't want to believe it was O'Neill. They decide to find out what really happened.

Jonas and Teal'c visit O'Neill in prison and question him about where he was. Afterwards they talk about the time when aliens infiltrated SGC by using devices which allow them to impersonate another person. They go to Area 51 to look for the devices; it is revealed that they are duplicates. Some time later Carter visits Agent Barrett at the NID headquarter and talks with him about the situation. They meet again later in a nearby park. Barrett tells her that he was ordered by the White House to find out who is the shadow organization inside the NID and that Kinsey was helping him.

At SGC Jonas and Teal'c find out that one of the scientists named Dr. Langham, who was working with the mimic devices, was supposedly killed in a car accident but it appears that he faked his death. They find out that Langham took a new identity. Jonas and Teal'c visit his new home. Langham disguises himself but Jonas and Teal'c realize he is in disguise. Langham tries to flee but is caught. Carter and Barrett visit an underground store for weapons where the killer bought the rifle. They find out that someone looking like O'Neill bought the rifle but they find out that it wasn't O'Neill but someone from the NID. Back at SGC Langham is imprisoned but won't talk. When Teal'c visits him he finally reveals what he knows.

Major Carter and Agent Barrett visit the NID agent who really shot Senator Kinsey. When they break in his house they only find a bomb and barely escape. At SGC Dr. Langham reveals he was working for an organization named the Committee and that they do this for making profit. He also reveals the names of the people behind the assassination in exchange for immunity. They inform Carter about this, who then informs Barrett about the mimic devices. He on the other hand reveals that Kinsey isn't dead but is in a coma in a hospital and that he will shortly be visited by Major Davis. Carter then reveals that Davis is one of the persons who can be imitated.

In the meantime the rogue NID-agent imitates Davis and tries to kill Kinsey in the hospital but is stopped. The agent informs the committee and they reveal that they plan on bringing General Hammond to retirement. When the agent is ordered to visit General Hammond he reveals that he is in fact Major Carter, much to the surprise of the committee, who is then arrested.

Later O'Neill is released and visits the recovered Kinsey, with whom he has to shake hands in front of the press to regain his trust. O'Neill isn't happy about this arrangement.

[edit] Notes

  • When Jonas Quinn inquires as to who taught Teal'c how to drive a car, he replies "Daniel Jackson". Jonas goes on to ask when this happened; Teal'c replied "I believe the year was 1969."
  • The mimic devices were introduced in "Foothold", though it appears that no one on Earth has figured out how to reprogram them successfully yet.
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  • General Hammond: Well, if these people are as powerful as you say they are, there's probably no place on Earth you'd be safe. Fortunately, we have other options...


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