Menace
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Starring:
Richard Dean Anderson as Colonel Jack O'Neill
Michael Shanks as Dr Daniel Jackson
Amanda Tapping as Major Samantha Carter
Christopher Judge as Teal'c
Don S Davis as General George Hammond
Teryl Rothery as Dr Janet Fraiser
Also Starring:
Danielle Nicolet as Reese
Gary Jones as Technician Davis
Colin Lawrence as SG3 Leader
Tracy Westerholm as Female SF
Biski Gugushe as SF1
Kyle Riefsnyder as SF2
Dan Shea as Sergeant Siler
Scene: Alien Planet
SG1 walk along on an alien planet.
CARTER: Looks like it was once an advanced civilisation, Sir.
DANIEL: No survivors.
O'NEILL: No bodies either.
DANIEL: Based on the overgrowth, I'm guessing this place was
destroyed a long time ago.
Scene: Teal'c opens a door. SG1 walks in.
CARTER: Faint energy readings definitely coming from here. Nothing
dangerous as far as I can tell.
There is a body on a slab. Its face is covered. Jack takes the cloth
off.
DANIEL: She's perfectly preserved. Must be some sort of tomb or
crypt
of some kind.
CARTER: Or a science lab.
DANIEL: Why would you say that?
CARTER: Because these energy readings I'm getting, seem to be
coming
from her.
TITLES
Scene: SGC Control Room
Hammond comes down the stairs. The Gate is active but the iris is
closed.
DAVIS: It's Colonel O'Neill, Sir.
Hammond looks at the MALP transmission.
O'NEILL: General?
HAMMOND: Colonel. What do you have to report?
O'NEILL: Yeah. Confirming initial MALP recon. Place's pretty
much
toast. However, Carter did find something.
HAMMOND: Care to expand on that?
O'NEILL: She thinks it's a robot Sir.
CARTER: Sir. I'm positive this is some sort of artificial life
form
but I can't be sure of anything more than that under these
conditions. Request permission to bring it back to the SGC for
further evaluation Sir.
HAMMOND: Can you assure me that will be safe?
CARTER: Well it appears to be inactive at the moment Sir, I'm
getting
only very faint energy readings. I believe we could isolate it safely
and I definitely think this is worth examining.
DANIEL: It also may be the last remnants of a civilisation and the
key to finding out exactly what happened here Sir.
HAMMOND: Very well. Bring it through.
DANIEL: Thank you.
CARTER: Thank you.
O'NEILL: Out, Sir.
Scene: SGC Lab
Sam is looking at the body. Janet walks in.
CARTER: Hey, Janet.
FRAISER: Hey. How's the new toy?
CARTER: Amazing. This is more advanced than any android we've
encountered before. Check this out.
They go to a microscope. Janet looks into it.
FRAISER: That some sort of nanotechnology?
CARTER: They seem to be some self-repair mechanism.
FRAISER: But they're inactive.
CARTER: They seem to deactivate when disconnected from it. Her.
According to the ultra sonic scan the power system is centred here.
There seems to be some sort of mechanism to access it from the
outside. I was just about to try to…
Sam touches the robot's neck and a disc pops out. Sort of like a
CD-
ROM on a computer.
FRAISER: Wow.
Scene: Stairs leading up to the briefing room.
Jack is following Daniel.
DANIEL: The Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, Chinese, they all envisioned
synthetic beings that took on the shape and behaviour long before the
words robot or android were ever uttered.
O'NEILL: Yeah, so?
DANIEL: So, even in Earth's early civilisations, it's been
our nature
to seek immortality through the creation of vessels for our
consciousness.
O'NEILL: Vessels?
They reach the briefing room where Sam is talking to Hammond.
HAMMOND: Colonel O'Neill, Dr Jackson. Major Carter and I were
just
discussing whether or not to activate the robot.
DANIEL: You can?
CARTER: I think I found a way to recharge the unit's main power
cell.
Now prior to this, it's being operating on less than 1% capacity.
I'm
hoping that that was enough to maintain the memory systems. Assuming
that it had any to begin with, of course.
O'NEILL: Of course. Why do you want to do this again?
CARTER: Well sir, this is an incredibly advanced piece of technology.
Given enough time, eventually I might be able to figure out how some
of its functions work. The neurological systems seems to be as
complex as a human brain.
O'NEILL: So?
CARTER: So, I'm hoping the robot will be able to help me
understand
itself. Sir.
Scene: SGC Lab
Sam inserts a crystal into the robot's neck and closes it.
Nothing
happens.
O'NEILL: Now what?
CARTER: I don't know. The power cell should be fully charged. As
far
as I can tell there isn't an on switch. It's possible the
power was
depleted for too long.
O'NEILL: (To Daniel) Why don't you kiss her?
The robot takes a deep breath.
CARTER: There's a pulse.
DANIEL: There's a heartbeat?
O'NEILL: It has a heart?
CARTER: It designed to create a very realistic illusion of humanity.
The robot takes another breath and sits up.
REESE: Where am I?
DANIEL: You're in a special facility on the planet Earth. My name
is
Daniel Jackson. This is Major Samantha Carter; this is Jack
O'Neill.
O'NEILL: Hi.
REESE: My name is Reese. Where's my father?
DANIEL: We're not sure. Uh, please just let me explain.
REESE: Don't hurt me.
DANIEL: No one wants to hurt you.
REESE: How did I get here?
DANIEL: We found you on your planet and brought you through the
Stargate.
REESE: What is that?
CARTER: Well there was one on your planet. It's a device that can
be
used to travel great distances through space.
DANIEL: We can tell you more about that later.
REESE: Why did you bring me here?
DANIEL: Well I suppose there's no easy way to tell you this but
the
civilisation on your planet was destroyed.
REESE: How?
DANIEL: We don't know.
O'NEILL: We were sort of hoping you could tell us.
REESE: I was.. I was asleep.
DANIEL: Yes, we found you that way.
REESE: What about my father?
DANIEL: Well as far as we could tell, you were the only survivor. You
don't know anything about what happened?
REESE: My father knew there was danger. He told me to go to sleep. He
said he would wake me when the danger went away.
DANIEL: We're very sorry.
REESE: What do you want?
DANIEL: Well we want to understand.
REESE: What?
DANIEL: Your planet, its history.
CARTER: You.
REESE: What about me?
CARTER: Well I'd like to know more about how you work. Your
systems,
how they function.
REESE: I'm like you.
CARTER: Ah, not exactly. At least as far as I can tell.
REESE: How are we different?
DANIEL: Sam, can I have a word?
CARTER: Yeah.
DANIEL: We're just gonna step outside for a minute. Will you be
okay?
We'll be right back.
They walk out. Reese looks at Jack.
O'NEILL: Excuse me.
Jack walks out to join Sam and Daniel.
DANIEL: I don't think she knows she's a robot.
O'NEILL: Okay, how is that possible?
DANIEL: Well the last time your consciousness was copied into a
robot, you didn't figure it out right away.
CARTER: Okay what are you suggesting?
DANIEL: I'm just saying, maybe we should avoid slapping her in
the
face with the reality of her existence just moments after telling
her, her planet was destroyed.
O'NEILL: Why? It's a machine.
DANIEL: She just found out her father's dead.
O'NEILL: It's a machine.
CARTER: He's right. It's not like it had a real father.
DANIEL: Well maybe not. Maybe it's her creator. Or maybe
we're
talking to the stored consciousness of a real human being who once
did have a real father. I think our past experience should be telling
us to be careful about deciding what is and what isn't a life
form.
CARTER: Okay, I agree. All I'm saying is if she really
doesn't know
what she is, she has a right to.
DANIEL: Okay, maybe we should wait a while. I mean, she did seem
pretty upset.
O'NEILL: For a machine.
DANIEL: We don't know what kind of psychological effect it will
have.
CARTER: Psychological?
DANIEL: Whether her behaviour is a result of sophisticated
programming or not, I think the best way to find out about her and
what she knows, is by dealing with her on her own terms, at least for
now.
O'NEILL: Couldn't hurt.
Daniel goes back in.
CARTER: Doesn't make any sense.
O'NEILL: Which part?
CARTER: Why would somebody attack and destroy an entire civilisation
and leave one piece of incredibly advanced technology intact?
O'NEILL: Isn't that what he's trying to figure out?
CARTER: What I'm saying is, maybe there's something on the
planet we
missed.
O'NEILL: I'll go back.
Scene: Reese's room
Daniel and Reese are sitting down while Sam watches from the
observation lab.
REESE: Is the rest of your planet like this?
DANIEL: No it's very different.
REESE: What's it like?
DANIEL: Well, there's lots of varying climates, different
landscapes,
big oceans, wide range of civilisations and each is home to a lot if
different kinds of people.
REESE: Sounds beautiful.
DANIEL: Much of it is.
REESE: Can I see it?
DANIEL: Soon.
REESE: Why not now?
DANIEL: Well, because we still have more to talk about Reese.
REESE: I know, but we've been talking for so long now.
DANIEL: I know, but you must know a lot more than what we've
already
talked about.
REESE: I do know a lot.
DANIEL: What can you tell me about the danger that came to your
planet?
She shakes her head.
Scene: Planet lab
Jack and Teal'c walk in.
O'NEILL: Well this might have turned out to be one colossal waste
of
time. You boys find anything?
SG3 LEADER: Just lots of debris.
O'NEILL: I think our work is done here.
SG3 LEADER: Colonel, you said to look for anything uncharacteristic
of the indigenous technology, right?
O'NEILL: *I* would never say anything like that.
SG3 LEADER: Right. Well, Major Carter said not to ignore anything
however insignificant it may seem.
O'NEILL: What have you got?
SG3 LEADER: Well I'm sure it's nothing, Sir, but we found a
bunch of
these scattered around. I've never seen anything like them before.
He hands Jack a container. He pulls out a replicator piece.
SG3 LEADER: You know what they are?
O'NEILL: Oh yeah.
Scene: Carter's lab.
SG1 and Hammond are there. Sam is looking at the piece.
CARTER: No energy readings. I'd say these blocks are dead.
Probably
been on the planet since it was destroyed.
HAMMOND: Replicators were the cause of the destruction?
TEAL'C: The first evidence of the replicators in this galaxy.
DANIEL: It must have been a long time ago.
CARTER: Something still doesn't fit. The replicators we know go
after
advanced technology, why would they eat everything on the planet and
leave Reese alone?
TEAL'C: Perhaps she has some means of defending herself against
the
replicators.
DANIEL: She was asleep.
CARTER: It's possible she's giving off some kind of signal or
frequency that repels them, maybe not even by design but by
coincidence.
O'NEILL: Bug spray?
TEAL'C: If that is the case, then Reese herself may be the key to
helping us and the Asgard in the fight against the replicators.
CARTER: Yeah, maybe, but we're still a long way from determining
that.
HAMMOND: Dr Jackson, what have you learned?
DANIEL: Well actually not much, Sir. She's kind of hard to pin
down
in a conversation, her attention wanders. It's like she has the
mind
of a child.
Jack is using the magnifying glass from Small Victories and pulling
daft faces in the background as Daniel is talking. When Daniel has
finished, they all look at Jack.
O'NEILL: What?
DANIEL: I'm not sure, but she may not be telling me everything
she
knows about what happened.
HAMMOND: You think she's deliberately hiding something?
DANIEL: I get that feeling.
HAMMOND: Why would someone create a robot with the mind of a child?
CARTER: Well, like Daniel suggested, it could be a transferred
consciousness, or it could be that the creator intended for her to be
emotionally mature but just couldn't get the programming right.
HAMMOND: If Dr Jackson is right, and she is hiding something, we
should proceed very carefully with any further interactions.
CARTER: Sir, I think it's time we told Reese the truth. Daniel,
maybe
if she's forced to confront the fact that she's an artificial
life
form, it could change any pre-programmed priorities that she's
adhering to.
Scene: Reese's room
Daniel walks in.
REESE: I'm so happy you're here.
DANIEL: What's that?
Reese is holding a piece depicting two people.
REESE: Oh, I made it. Do you like it?
DANIEL: It's very nice. How did you make this?
REESE: I'm so tired of this room, Daniel. Can I please go outside?
DANIEL: Ah, sit down for a minute, Reese. We need to talk.
Sam and Jack walk into the observation room and sit down. Reese sees
them.
REESE: No.
DANIEL: Look this is just going to take a minute, so just please sit
down.
REESE: No, I don't want to talk any more Daniel, I want to have
fun.
Don't you ever have fun?
DANIEL: Not as much as I would like to. Would you please sit down,
this is very important. Sit.
REESE: Then can we have some fun?
DANIEL: Yes.
REESE: Promise.
DANIEL: Yes. Okay, Reese, you know that there are different kinds of
people, right?
REESE: Yes.
DANIEL: In fact there are many different kinds of life forms.
REESE: This is boring.
O'NEILL: (To Sam, in the Observation Lab) I'm starting to
identify
with this girl more and more.
Sam smiles.
DANIEL: Reese, I know you think we're the same but we're not.
REESE: My father always said I was special.
DANIEL: You are. You are very special. But despite the fact that you
and I look very much the same, we're very different.
REESE: That's obvious.
DANIEL: I mean on the inside.
REESE: How?
DANIEL: Well, I'm flesh and blood. You're a machine. A very,
very
sophisticated machine, more of a computer really.
REESE: I'm alive.
DANIEL: Yes you are. Just not like me. Even though you are created to
be very human like, you are not human.
REESE: Yes, I am.
DANIEL: No you're not, Reese. Okay, I can prove that to you.
She turns round and throws Daniel against a wall into a bookcase.
She then jumps up to the glass where Jack and Sam are watching and
bangs on the glass.
REESE: I wanna leave here! Let me out! Let me out!
Scene: Corridor
Jack comes round the corner. Janet is patching up Daniel. Sam is
there too.
O'NEILL: Hey. That went well.
CARTER: Maybe she has some kind of programming that prevents her from
acknowledging she's anything but human.
O'NEILL: Robot denial?
DANIEL: Looks that way.
O'NEILL: Has it occurred to anyone that, that thing may have been
lying around that planet for, oh, quite some time and that maybe
it's
broken? Or perhaps it never worked right in the first place?
CARTER: So you think we should just shut her down?
O'NEILL: Oh, I don't know, let's just ask the man who
just had his
head cracked open.
DANIEL: I don't think she meant to hurt me. I just don't
think she
liked what I was saying.
O'NEILL: I don't like most of what you say. I try to resist
the urge
to shove you through a wall.
CARTER: Somehow Reese managed to survive a massive attack from
Replicators. There has to be more we can learn from her Sir.
Scene: Reese's room
Daniel walks in again.
REESE: Finally!
She hugs him.
REESE: Do you forgive me? You know I didn't mean to hurt you,
right?
DANIEL: I know.
REESE: Good. I forgive you too.
DANIEL: Wh..wh..wh..what?
REESE: For attacking me.
DANIEL: I didn't attack you Reese.
REESE: It doesn't matter. Let's forget it.
DANIEL: No. No, I think we should talk about this.
REESE: No, Daniel, I'm so bored. I just wanna get out of here. I
wanna see your world. Why are you all so afraid of me?
DANIEL: No one's afraid of you.
REESE: I won't do anything bad, I promise.
DANIEL: I know.
REESE: I made you something.
DANIEL: Yeah?
REESE: Remember when you said you wished you could have more fun?
DANIEL: Yeah.
A replicator peaks out from the shelves and crawls onto Reese's
arm.
REESE: Don't be afraid. It's just a toy.
Scene: Sam's lab
The replicator is in a glass case and Jack is tapping on it. SG1 is
there and Teal'c has a weapon.
CARTER: Sir, that glass is supposed to be acid resistant but it
hasn't been tested against replicator spray.
Jack stops.
O'NEILL: Why are we keeping this thing anyway? We know what they
can
do.
CARTER: She made it. She can control it.
DANIEL: Yes, but how did she make it?
CARTER: Well I think I have a pretty good idea.
Sam pulls up the video of the room Reese is in. She is holding a pair
of scissors and they turn into a replicator piece.
CARTER: Nanotechnology. The nanobots that she uses for self-repair
are apparently able to reorder matter on a microscopic level. She
understands their construction completely. She should know how to
defeat them.
HAMMOND: Will she tell us?
DANIEL: Well that's the problem.
O'NEILL: What?
DANIEL: She's not talking.
O'NEILL: We make her talk.
DANIEL: I think she was offended because I didn't appreciate her
present very much.
CARTER: This is so far ahead of my understanding. I recommend we
contact the Asgard. Maybe they can help.
HAMMOND: Agreed. I'll send SG2 to try and make contact. In the
meantime see what else you can learn.
Scene: Reese's room
Daniel and Jack walk in.
DANIEL: Reese, we need to talk.
O'NEILL: Tell us what you know about the replicators.
REESE: Replicators?
O'NEILL: It's what we call them because that's what they
do.
REESE: It's just a toy. It won't hurt you.
O'NEILL: A toy? There are millions of those things floating
around in
space destroying everything they touch.
REESE: I don't know what you mean.
O'NEILL: They destroyed your planet and please, don't tell me
you
don't remember because I think you do.
REESE: No! You want to destroy me!
Scene: Sam's lab.
The replicator moves. Teal'c raises his weapon.
CARTER: Easy.
Scene: Reese's room
DANIEL: No one wants to hurt you.
O'NEILL: Just tell us what happened.
REESE: It wasn't my fault.
Scene: Carter's lab
The replicator stops moving.
Reese's voice comes over the video feed.
REESE: The people on my planet were afraid. They wanted to destroy my
toys. They wanted to destroy me.
Scene: Reese's room
REESE: They said my father made me wrong, they thought that I was bad.
DANIEL: What did you do?
REESE: I taught my toys to make more of themselves. I taught them to
defend themselves and me. In case anyone tried to destroy us.
O'NEILL: Well you taught them well.
DANIEL: When your toys started to attack your world, why didn't
you
stop them?
REESE: I tried but I couldn't. They wouldn't listen to me any
more.
DANIEL: Why did you go to sleep?
REESE: They killed everyone, they killed me father. Then they went
away. I was alone, I was sad. You don't like me any more. You
think
I'm bad.
O'NEILL: Actually, we want you to help us.
DANIEL: Reese, the replicators have become a problem for a lot of
different worlds. We need to know how to stop them.
REESE: You want to destroy them!
O'NEILL: Yes.
DANIEL: They're bad. They have to be stopped.
REESE: You want to destroy me!
DANIEL: No.
REESE: Yes, you do. You think my father made me wrong, you hate me.
Scene: Sam's lab.
The replicator suddenly moves towards the glass and it cracks.
It then sprays the glass and then jumps through. Teal'c shoots it
and
destroys it.
Scene: Reese's Room
She looks shocked.
Scene: Briefing room
Jack and Daniel walk in with Hammond.
HAMMOND: SG2 has been unable to contact the Asgard through the Katal
hall of wisdom.
CARTER: I hope they're okay.
HAMMOND: It would be unfortunate if the Asgard lost their battle with
the replicators at the time when we may have the key to stopping them
in our midst.
O'NEILL: Oh, I wouldn't count the little fellas out just yet,
Sir.
CARTER: Sir, this robot is far beyond our understanding. We may be
able to use our weapons to fight the replicators, but without the
Asgards help, I don't think we're going to be able to figure
out how
to use Reese to defeat them on a grand scale.
HAMMOND: The robot's unwilling to co- operate?
O'NEILL: Completely clammed up, Sir.
DANIEL: She thinks we don't like her. Apparently her impression
is
that the people of her world thought she was poorly constructed and
wanted her and her toys eliminated.
O'NEILL: Which would make them far smarter than we are.
CARTER: It seems whoever made Reese made a critical error. Made her
smart enough to build the replicators and yet emotionally immature.
DANIEL: She's just trying to defend herself. She really is just a
kid
who unwittingly taught her toys to become a weapon of destruction.
O'NEILL: Maybe. She's been lying to us from the start.
HAMMOND: Major, it sounds to me like we're over our heads here.
Until
we successfully contact the Asgard, I'm ordering you to shut the
robot down.
O'NEILL: Well, that's not gonna be pretty.
HAMMOND: Do whatever's necessary.
Scene: Reese's room
She is sitting on a bed and looks up to the security cameras. They go
off in the security station. The SF picks up the phone.
WESTERHOLM: The cameras in Isolation room 1 are offline and I
can't
seem to get them back.
Scene: Outside Iso Room 1.
SF: We got it. (To the other SF) Cameras are down.
He gets out his card and swipes it. The door doesn't open. The
second
SF goes up the stairs.
SF2: They're in here.
Replicators start to move down the walls.
Scene: Reese's room
She is sitting on the bed and we hear the shouts of the SF's.
SF1: There behind you!
Gunfire.
SF2: Get somebody down here now! Arrrggghhh!
Reese just sits dispassionately.
Scene: Corridor
SG1 walks out of an elevator. The alarm goes off. They start to run.
Scene: Corridor outside Reese's room
One of the SF's is on the floor having been attacked by a
replicator.
SF1: He's still alive. Medical team's on the way.
DANIEL: Where is she?
SF1: The door was open and the prisoner was gone when I arrived Sir.
CARTER: Replicators.
Jack is on the phone.
O'NEILL: O'Neill for Hammond. Yes Sir, we may have a
replicator
situation down here. I suggest sealing the base and doing a clean
sweep. Yes Sir. And we also have a robot on the loose.
CARTER: Sir, we have to preserve her in one piece.
O'NEILL: And we'd like it in one piece, if possible. Yes Sir.
He puts the phone down.
O'NEILL: All right, how'd this happen?
TEAL'C: The room has been cleared of any substance that may be
used
to create another replicator.
CARTER: She must have made enough blocks for two of them the first
time that would create more. There could be hundreds by now.
SG1 moves out.
Scene: Obligatory shot of lots of Airmen running around with guns as
the base is sealed.
Scene: Jack and some other airmen move down a corridor.
Scene: Teal'c and other airmen move down a corridor and the
lights go
out.
Scene: Sam and Hammond move into the control room. Sam sits at a
computer.
CARTER: They've already breached the power systems Sir.
Initiating
computer lockdown.
HAMMOND: Is this really going to stop any replicators from accessing
the dialling computer?
CARTER: Doubt it, Sir, but it might buy us a little time.
The computer screen goes off.
WESTERHOLM: (On radio) Major Carter, security has been breached on
level 28. Replicators have been spotted heading towards the control
room.
CARTER: Roger that.
A replicator suddenly drops onto the computer. Sam jumps back.
CARTER: Suggest retreating until backup arrives Sir.
The Gateroom door suddenly opens and Reese walks in accompanied by
replicators. She looks up and the blast doors start to come down.
CARTER: Sir!
Scene: Corridor
Jack moves down it. Does some nifty hand signals to the airmen. He
then comes across Sam, Hammond and Daniel.
CARTER: She's sealed herself in the Gateroom. She's got a lot
of
replicators with her.
DANIEL: She's probably trying to go home.
O'NEILL: Let's let her.
CARTER: Sir, we can't just let her leave.
O'NEILL: We'll tell the Asgard where she is.
DANIEL: Well I'm only guessing she's trying to go home, if
she thinks
we're trying to destroy her, she could be going anywhere.
CARTER: We can't just let her leave with the replicators. She
lost
control of them once, it could happen again.
O'NEILL: So we'll toss a nuke in behind her.
DANIEL: I'd like to try and stop her first.
O'NEILL: How?
DANIEL: Maybe, get her trust back.
O'NEILL: Then what?
DANIEL: Then, then, then I don't know. I'm just making this
up as I
go.
CARTER: If you could somehow get close enough to her, you might be
able to remove her power chip.
TEAL'C: What of the replicators?
CARTER: These aren't the same replicators we're used to
dealing with.
Right now, she's controlling them. If Daniel can shut her down,
the
replicators might just cease to operate. Look, they exist to protect
Reese. If she's eliminated, they have no protocol upon which to
act.
TEAL'C: They may attack Daniel Jackson in order to exact revenge
and
restore their leader to power.
DANIEL: Yeah, well that's where you guys come in.
HAMMOND: I'm willing to give you a chance Dr Jackson.
O'NEILL: General, with all due respect, I think it's a bad
idea.
HAMMOND: Hope not, Colonel.
Scene: Gateroom
Reese is stood on the ramp in the dark while the replicators run
loose in the control room. The lights come on again. Daniel moves
towards the gateroom door. We see him through the camera view.
DANIEL: Reese, please let me in, I just want to talk to you.
The door opens and Daniel walks in. The door closes behind him. There
are replicators all over the floor.
REESE: Activate the Stargate.
DANIEL: No. I don't want you to go.
REESE: You hate me.
DANIEL: No I don't. No one does.
REESE: They're afraid of me.
DANIEL: They don't understand you, Reese.
REESE: I never meant to hurt anyone.
DANIEL: I know. Please stay.
REESE: It's too late now. I've accessed your computer system.
I'll
figure it out for myself.
DANIEL: Reese. I don't want you to go.
REESE: Why not?
DANIEL: I want to be your friend.
REESE: I've never had a friend.
DANIEL: I'll be your friend. Your toys may be a lot of fun but
they're not human like us.
REESE: They protect me.
DANIEL: I'll protect you.
REESE: Do you promise?
DANIEL: I promise. No one will hurt you. Come on. Show you my world?
He holds out his hand and she walks down the ramp.
REESE: Really?
DANIEL: Yeah.
He puts his hand on the back of her neck but Reese grabs it.
REESE: You tried to deceive me.
DANIEL: No.
REESE: Yes. You lied. Lying is bad.
DANIEL: Arrgghhh.
She runs back up the ramp.
REESE: None of you will ever hurt me!
Scene: Security office
Sam is there. All the cameras go off.
CARTER: Sir, Daniel's in trouble. Replicators have evacuated the
Gateroom. We're not sure where they went. All the cameras are
down.
O'NEILL: Yeah, roger that. We're going in.
A man goes to the gateroom door with a cutting torch.
Scene: Security office
HAMMOND: Major, I won't let the replicators escape this base. We
have
to set the self destruct.
CARTER: Replicators have taken over the main computer Sir. We'll
have
to cut the system access and set the device locally.
They leave the security office.
Scene: Corridor outside the Gateroom
An airman starts to cut open the Gateroom door.
Scene: Gateroom
DANIEL: Reese, please listen to me.
Scene: Corridor
Teal'c starts firing on a replicator. So do Jack and the other
Airmen.
Scene: Gateroom
Reese grabs her head.
REESE: Nnnnoooo! Make them stop!
Scene: Corridor B5
HAMMOND: On three count. Three, two, one.
Sam and Hammond swipe their cards and the door opens. Sam has a pair
of wire cutters.
HAMMOND: Clear.
The door closes behind them.
Scene: Outside the Gateroom
More shooting of replicators.
Scene: Main computer room
CARTER: (On radio to Jack) Sir, we're getting ready to set the
self
destruct.
Scene: Corridor
O'NEILL: (Over radio) I can't hear you!
Scene: Main computer room
Sam inserts a key and types something.
HAMMOND: On my mark. Three, two, one, turn.
The self destruct countdown is set for 5 minutes.
CARTER: (Over radio to Jack) Sir, we've set the self destruct.
You
have less than five minutes to tell us to override. Do you copy?
Scene: Corridor
O'NEILL: (Over radio to Sam) Roger that.
They continue firing.
Scene: Main computer room.
A replicator appears and Hammond fires on it.
CARTER: Thank you.
Another one appears.
CARTER: Sir!
Sam shoots it.
Scene: Gateroom
REESE: Make them stop!
DANIEL: I can't. You can.
REESE: No! You'll kill me.
DANIEL: No, no one wants that. We just don't want you to destroy
our
world the way you destroyed yours.
REESE: I didn't do it!
DANIEL: Yes, you did. You created the replicators, you told them to
replicate at all costs. They destroyed your world and you let them.
REESE: It wasn't my fault!
DANIEL: You could have stopped them before there were too many. You
could stop them now before you lose control.
REESE: No!
Scene: Main computer room
HAMMOND: Cease fire!
The replicator stops.
HAMMOND: What's it doing?
CARTER: I'm not sure, it's like it doesn't know what to
do.
Scene: Corridor
More shooting the replicators by Jack, Teal'c and numerous airmen.
Scene: Gateroom
DANIEL: Reese. Your father made you wrong!
REESE: No!
DANIEL: Yes! You destroyed your world.
REESE: I didn't mean to.
DANIEL: I know. But now you're going to destroy mine too.
REESE: I don't want to.
DANIEL: I know. That's why you have to stop now. No one will hurt
you. We may be able to fix you.
REESE: How?
DANIEL: Shut off your toys, go to sleep. We'll find a way.
REESE: I don't believe you.
Scene: Corridor
More firing on the replicators
Scene: Main computer room
The countdown has reached 2 minutes. The replicator starts to move
again. Sam and Hammond fire on it.
CARTER: (Over radio to Jack) Colonel, I think Reese is losing
control. At least one of the replicators down here started to act on
it's own.
Scene: Gateroom
DANIEL: I will wake you up myself, I promise. I'm your friend. I
don't want you to die.
REESE: I don't want you to die either.
Scene: Corridor
Replicators swarm round Teal'c.
TEAL'C: O'Neill!
The airman finishes cutting open the door,
Jack comes in and takes aim at Reese. He fires and she is thrown
back. He then turns to continue firing in the corridor.
Daniel goes to Reese and her eyes close. The replicators in the
corridor disintegrate into little blocks.
CARTER: What's happening in there? (Over radio)
TEAL'C: The replicators appear to have been disabled. (Over radio)
Jack moves over to Reese and takes out her power crystal.
O'NEILL: The robot has been neutralised.
Scene: Main computer room
HAMMOND: Abort the self destruct.
Sam and Hammond both take out the keys.
Scene: Gateroom
Daniel takes off his glasses. He has a tear running down his face.
Jack is standing next to him.
DANIEL: You stupid son of a bitch.
O'NEILL: Hey. You're welcome.
DANIEL: You didn't have to shoot her.
O'NEILL: Yes I did.
DANIEL: She was shutting them down.
O'NEILL: I had no way of knowing that and neither did you.
DANIEL: They didn't stop because you shot her, they stopped
because
she told them to.
O'NEILL: Carter said she was losing control. Now if just one of
those
damn things got out of this base, developed it's own personality,
we
would be royally screwed.
DANIEL: You just killed the only chance we'll ever have of
stopping
them.
O'NEILL: Look, I'm sorry. But this is the way this had to go
down and
you know it.
Daniel just looks at Reese.
O'NEILL: (Over radio) All units, this is SG One Niner, commence
sweep. I want every one of those things out of here.
He walks out leaving Daniel sitting on the floor with Reese.
THE END
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