Summary
After a quick recap of important happenings in episodes
past, including Vala's kidnapping and Daniel's adventures
as an Ori Prior, the penultimate episode of Stargate:
SG-1 begins. In a crowded but unnamed bar Vala sits opposite
a long-haired man at a table playing some sort of game
with little triangular chips. She goes all-in, using
her wrist-activated cloak of invisibility as collateral
against her opponent's cargo ship. When she wins, however,
she is promptly searched and after the patrons discover
she actually has a few cards up her sleeve, a dozen weapons
are quickly aimed at her head. Suddenly, all the weaponry
in the room is pulled to the ceiling.
Adria has arrived.
(After the opening credits.)
Adria explains her return by stating that her work is
unfinished. She then throws everyone Vala out of the
tavern. Poor Vala cannot catch a break. Not only did
she lose her game but Adria has explained that SG-1's
attack on the Ori was unsuccessful. Lots of ships are
under construction and Adria is sure.
NOTE: Flashback alert!
A pajama-clad Vala rushes in on Daniel with the exciting
news that she has solved the mystery of the Clava Thessar
Infinatus. The answer came in a dream (in which Vala
was participating in Dancing with the Stars). Somehow,
the Earth symbol for infinity encircles some numbers
that correspond to a gate address. Teal'c worries that
Adria is once again trying to trap them. Still, Vala
is able to convince General Landry to send a team to
check things out.
He sends two teams. They return through the gate under
heavy fire. It was an ambush. They were attacked by Ori
soldiers and two men were killed. That night, Vala had
the same dream with one major difference: the symbol
for infinity was rotated another way. The rest of the
team insists that Adria is using Vala. Even Daniel will
not stick by Vala. She is put under guard in her room
as a potential security risk. Not only will she be removed
from the team, she will be confined at Area 51.
Adria is not buying the whole story. Vala continues,
however, explaining that she stole the wrist-activated
cloak of invisibility and was able to use it to escape
through the stargate. And before Adria showed up, Vala
had won a cargo ship. Now she has nothing. Adria asks
Vala to join her -- Adria wants to find the Clava Thessar
Infinatus. However, before she left Earth, Vala overheard
SG-1 planning to check out the second gate address using
the Odyssey rather than the stargate. Adria insists on
using the stargate in order to overtake SG-1.
When Adria and Vala exit the stargate, they find themselves
at the receiving end of SG-1 and a contingent of heavily-armed
soldiers. Vala quickly professes her ignorance and snaps
at Daniel. Mitchell smugly informs Adria that her powers
are useless and that everything is going according to
the plan. Suddenly, a dozen or so jaffa warriors beam
in, surrounding SG-1 & Co. They are working for Ba'al.
Mitchell tells everyone to stand down and one of the
jaffa walks up to Adria puts something on her arm, and
they all teleport away, leaving SG-1 scratching their
heads.
Aboard Ba'al's mother ship, Adria is informed that her
powers are still useless. Although she insists that she
will.
(After a commercial.)
Mitchell debriefs Colonel Landry alongside Teal'c and
they all wonder what Adria and Ba'al are doing together.
Colonel Landry asks after Vala and is told she is pissed.
Daniel and Sam sit her down and explain that everything
that happened to her was part of a plan. It turns out
the plan involved implanting a memory in Vala's mind.
She even recorded a video to herself to explain what
happened. Convincing Adria that Vala was not lying necessitated
for her to truly believe everything she was saying.
Back aboard Ba'al's mother ship, Adria insists that
Ba'al has made a terrible mistake. And she calls him
a fool. Ba'al retorts with the information that her army
will not be able to find her. And her wants that army.
Adria is certain that there is nothing Ba'al can do to
force her to allow him to use her army. He flashes his
Goa’uld eyes at her and smiles.
At the SGC, an Agent Barrett brings some exciting news:
the Ba'al clones are planning a convention. General Landry
sends SG-1 and a marine unit to check things out. Moments
later, SG-1 lies atop a stone wall looking own at a vast
army of jaffa -- all dead. When they head down to investigate,
they discover no wounds and no signs of combat. Symbiote
poisoning, it seems. But the jaffa were not the target:
the Ba'al clones were. Over a dozen clones lie slumped
over on a table. All dead.
Back on the mother ship, Ba'al pulls an angry Goa’uld
larva out of its tank and smiles his creepy smile at
Adria.
(After a commercial.)
A lone jaffa survived Ba'al's attack. He is quickly
taken out by a zat blast from Vala. The jaffa was hooked
on tretonin and had no symbiote to poison. Back at the
SGC, General Landry is informed of the latest developments.
The jaffa confirms everything: Ba'al was behind the attacks
on the clones. He also shares with them the location
of Ba'al's mother ship. SG-1 and the Odyssey are sent
to find the mother ship and bring back Adria.
Mitchell pulls Vala aside and tells her she can sit
this mission out. There may be a need to kill Adria.
Vala has no problems with that, however, and stays on
the mission. Thanks to the cloaking ability of the Odyssey,
the ship is able to get quite close to the mother ship.
The radiation generated by the anti-Prior device is detected
onboard and SG-1 beams in. They take out the guards with
ease and bust in, killing Ba'al. Vala quickly zats Adria,
Daniel blows the lock with a staff blast, and Sam shoots
down a few jaffa running to the rescue. They are all
beamed back to the Odyssey, which promptly flies off.
The team is taking no chances with Adria and have securely
bound her to a chair. When she wakes up, they tell her
that it is all over. When she responds, her voice has
that lovely Goua'uld reverberation and her eyes flash
with the power of the symbiote inside her. Adria is no
longer available.
(After a commercial.)
SG-1 informs General Landry of Ba'al's infestation of
Adria. Teal'c's plan is to kill them both. But that may
not stop Adria's army. Sam suggests removing Ba'al and
suppressing Adria's consciousness with one of the Tok'ra.
It sounds like a solid plan. Mitchell and Teal'c have
a little chat with Ba'al-as-Adria and learn that his
plan was to order Adria's army out of the galaxy. He
confirms that the Ori are dead and suggests a partnership.
He offers all of Adria's knowledge, which would be lost
if they kill him and her.
The Tok’ra contingent arrive, led by Ta'seem,
along with a symbiote named Zanuf. Daniel hits Ba'al-as-Adria
with a zat blast and his/her body is brought to the infirmary
to remove Ba'al and swap in Zanuf. While the rest of
SG-1 watches the surgery, Vala walks out and Daniel promptly
follows. He wants to know if she is really okay with
what is happening to Adria. But Vala insists that Adria
is not her daughter and she has no qualms with what is
happening.
Something starts to go wrong in the surgery and the
gang heads back to the infirmary. By the time they get
there, Ba'al has been removed but Adria has been poisoned.
The kindest thing to do at this point is hit her with
some more of the toxin in order to kill her quickly.
Vala wants to be at her side when she passed and Daniel
joins her. Ta'seem injects the toxin but before it can
take affect, Adria wakes up, knocks out the guards, tosses
Daniel out of the room and locks the door. Vala is left
alone with a very angry Adria.
(After a commercial).
The infirmary has been sealed off from the rest of the
ship. Fortunately, Adria's body really is dying. She
wants to use what little time she has left to prepare
for ascension. Mitchell and Teal'c attempt to cut through
a bulkhead with a torch as Vala tries to convince Adria
not to ascend. Mitchell gets through the bulkhead but
find the door to the infirmary locked. Adria is apparently
holding it shut with her mind. Mitchell and Teal'c grab
crowbars and attempt to manhandle the door open. Meanwhile,
Adria has released toxic coolant near Daniel. Vala grabs
a gun but before she can do anything with it Adria tosses
the gun aside and begins choking Vala.
Thankfully, Adria passes out before she can kill Vala.
As the rest of the team rushes towards the infirmary,
Vala watches as Adria begins to ascend. The brilliance
of the light is blinding but momentary. When it dissipates,
Adria is gone. It is too late.
Back on Earth, the team thinks things over with General
Landry. They have no idea what she will do. If the Ori
are dead, as Ba'al contends, she will have all their
power. If they are still alive, she may simply join them.
And one of Ba'al's clones may still be alive. So, in
the end, despite killing both Adria and Ba'al in the
same day, exactly what SG-1 accomplished is still up
in the air. Nevertheless, Vala is certain that the Ori
have been set back a few steps.
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