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This review is also kind of an synopsis of the story for those that have not seen
Death Knell. What can I say, I have no life now on a Tuesday, you guys pester me for these! Peter DeLuise
wrote this one, should be gooooood...or betttterrrr and biggerrrr... I digress, lets get to the
action.
Alrighty...
Where do I start?
Well, they look back at the past episodes featuring the Alpha site and Anubis' superwarriors, so as
to set the scene.
It opens with Jacob and Sam working together to develop the prototype weapon that can stop the
super warrior. There are some nice moments between them as Sam works on the bit that makes the
weapon work properly. Jacob is grouchy and Sam laughs, asking if he had had his coffee.
Apparently he gave it up for Selmak! Then alarms sound, the base is under attack and cue da hummy music!
The SGC get notification of the attack and send a MALP through to investigate. It ends up on its side
showing to the rest of SG-1, who are understandably concerned and want to go looking for Sam, that
the gate is on it's side.
Off they go to see the wizard...well... they go to the alpha site and climb out of a hole!
Then they go searching with SG3 to try and find survivours. They had initiated the Self Destruct
which is how they knew it wasn't completely caused by Anubis' ships.
As they split up, Teal'c finds the armour of one of the drones. So now they know they are not alone...
SG3 then stumble across the survivours there are only 12, and many are injured. Major Green, of the
Alpha site reports in to Colonel Reyonlds of SG3 that there were no other that survived to his knowledge,
and that an Alkesh took out the gate. Cue Jack telling Hammond, what, when , who and where and he
sends more teams to help raise the gate to get the injured back and to help search for Carter.
They find Jacob, who is trapped under a tree and he hands Jack the prototype weapon, but explains
that Sam has what is needed to make it better. He doesn't know if Sam survived. He is taken back to
the SGC with Daniel, while Jack and Teal'c continue the search. He explains that maybe a missile will
stop the drone if fired at close range. Hammond orders Siler to spec fit a UAV with a missile. Then he
questions Major Green about what happened and investigates the possibility that someone comprimised the
location of the Alpha site.
Jack and Teal'c find a boot print but are worried as they see the Drones one right beside as if it
is following Carter. They speed up to try to find her before it does as she has the chip the device needs
to work effectively.
Jacob is on the mend, thanks goodness for snakybuttheads like Selmak, always handy in a injury
crisis! Daniel is sent to question him about what happened. He flashes back to when they were attacked
Sam was trying to download the information to the crystal, but the drone reached them first, she
grabbed the crystal and Jacob shot the Drone twice before it dropped. They managed to escape, but the
self destruct was due to go and the weapon wasn't set to kill the Drone yet. So Jacob deduced to
Daniel that they were set up, that Anubis knows they have the only weapon to get rid of the Drone and
that they knew that Sam and Jacob were the ones working on it. He fears for Sam.
Hammond continues with his investigation and talks to the Jaffa leader, M'Zel? just a guess at the name, not Bra'tac.
He explains that they left to persuade other Jaffa of the Goa'uld, Olakun (the names this week are a nightmare!)
, to join their ranks to choose to be free. He blames
the Tok'ra for their operative's reluctance to take out a Goa'uld that Anubis was attacking.
It seems that the Jaffa are convinced that the Tok'ra operative is to blame, and insists that
his Jaffa would never give the location of the Alpha site away. Hammond tells him of the
superior equipment Anubis uses to gain information and that he doesn't even need to ask them to get
the intel from them. He shrugs it off and offers to go to the BETA site, yep you got it, a Beta site.
Is there a Charlie site? Who knows! Anyway he is going to go and question the Jaffa that made it back
from the mission and find out what happened. If you ask me what the name of the Goa'uld is you are
barking up the wrong drone!
Meanwhile poor Carter is injured, she has a nasty injury to her left thigh and she keeps having to
stop and release the torniquet she has applied. Her arm is also badly lacerated, so I guess she's a mess.
However, if one of the guys was in a similar way, they'd be dead!!! The Drone is tracking her and nearly finds her! Ohhhh
don't worry he didn't find her, not yet anyway. She looks really tired, but soldiers on and avoids capture.
The next bit is a really cool bit. The direction and photography really captures the imagination
as the Drone thinks he has Carter and he acts like the Predator, the scene cuts back to Carter sitting
with her back to a tree, then it cuts to the Drone who views someone in an SGC uniform sitting with their
back to a tree. Even the music has a hint of 'Jaws' to it!
Of course... its not her, its one of the missing 64 SGC personnel, dead!
We cut to lovely Hammond, who now has to suffer another arrogant Tok'ra, the leader of the Alpha site
Tok'ra peeps. He's not Malek...WHY NOT??? That's what I'd like to know. Even so, they found an actor,
Sebastian Spence, reasonably cute...OK guys let me just indulge, you had the Kyanna bird, it's the girls time to drool.
He's ok and plays the Tok'ra arrogance perfectly, that's enough, but I think we miss some continuity
by not having Malek back. Anyway, he denies the fact they have the operative in that Goa'uld with the
incomprehensable name. He debates with Hammond and shows that the Tok'ra are changing their minds over
the trust in their relationship. Hammond insists he is going to get to the bottom of it with or without
his help.
We cut to Carter, who is drinking like a little deer from a lake and Droneman is watching her and begins
to fire on her from across the lake. He starts chasing her until he gets calf deep in the water.
Now is this a clue? Are they afraid of water. Hmm.. anyone else thinking Signs here? The usual relentlessness
that the Drone has when getting to its objective never occured, because he stepped in the water.
Maybe they just need water pistols to defeat them!!!!!!!
Jacob pays a visit to the new Tok'ra guy, Delek, sounds like Darlek!
Ok so, their names this week are really a nightmare to catch.
However they get into a little spat, evidently the Tok'ra High Council think that Selmak has gone soft
because of Jacob and they are not telling him everything. Jacob reports back to Hammond and explains that
he doesn't think that the Tok'ra operative would be the one to have compromised the Alpha site.
He also thinks that they will never trully know. He wants to go search for Sam, but Hammond needs him
to bring the Jaffa and Tok'ra back together in an alliance.
Carter is hiding in camoflage and hears the UAV, she signals it with the reflection on her watch but
mr Drone man shoots it down. Jack and Teal'c are told where it was shot down and make their way there.
M'Zel and Jacob chat about the Tok'ra and Jaffa and Selmak explains about the Tok'ra and Egeria.
He explains where the Tretonin came from. But although Jacob/Selmak feels that way, M'Zel determines
that he is the only one that believes in the alliance. Until the others feel as he does, the Jaffa
will not reconcile.
Cue MacGyver Sam, she fixes up the UAV missile to fire, with her 'lil multipurpose swiss army knife!
Back to an exposition in the briefing room with Hammond, Delek, Jacob, Daniel and M'Zel are discussing
the situation on the Beta site, where there has been lots of fighting between the Jaffa and Tok'ra.
Nobody can come to any kind of reconciliation.
Sam fires the missile on the Drone and it's completely buried from the explosion, or is it...
I resist the urge to put my little finger to my mouth! She rests against the rubble. Like the Terminator,
he arises again to fight again. It's then that Jack and Teal'c who are running to the explosion
arrive in the nick of time. Teal'c draws his fire, then Jack bops him with the special energy weapon.
It stops him but not kills him, Sam wordlessly passes him the chip and he slots it then fires twice on him.
He's dead, but I'm sure heeeeeee'llll be baaaaack!
Jack tells Teal'c to cover him, while he checks on Sam. She is really in poor shape. He asks her if she wants to
get up, she says I'll just rest a bit, so he sits beside her and puts his arm around her.
Come 'ere
Tear up peeps, cos its cute as hell.
Penultimately, they are still in the briefing room and the Tok'ra decide to leave the Beta site for good.
The Jaffa then decide to do the same, claiming that they have to get used to doing for themselves, and that
although the Tau'ri do not act like the Goa'uld, they feel they have swapped one master for another.
Daniel has a little emotive outblast about how they finally could work together to defeat Anubis, but they
still all decide to go.
We leave this episode with another little gem of a scene between Jacob and Sam.
She awakes after a very long sleep, understandable after that experience, and he announces he isn't
gonna be staying, he is going with the Tok'ra again to try and influence them to work with the Tau'ri again.
The Tok'ra hate the fact they have to disclose everything and secrecy is what they are about.
He says he will miss her, she says the same, with a tear in her eye... He kisses her forehead and they fade
out on a teary Sam...Awww.
Moral of the story?
Bad guys always get up, even when they have been hung drawn and quartered, then burnt, fired upon etc... but there is always one thing that gets them...
WATER! hehe
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