Mitchell loses sight of Volnek, just before Volnek starts throwing him around.
Unfortunately, Mitchell, who is on the Sodan homeworld, suddenly becomes tangible. Daniel succeeds in restoring himself and Carter, just as they learn the coordinates where Merlin stored his prototype. Lee is further tinkering with the device and accidentally drains nearly all of its power. Carter and Daniel learn that the weapon is on another planet, and the log contains the Stargate address.īack in the regular dimension, Dr. As far as Daniel can determine, Merlin completed the weapon. Daniel explains that Merlin perceived the threat posed by the Ori to the people of the Milky Way, and anticipated the inaction of the Ancients. Carter is shocked to learn that he willingly gave up Ascension, until she learns what he was hiding from the Others - a weapon capable of killing ascended beings. They learn from the device's logs that Merlin used the device to hide his latest invention from his fellow Ascended Beings. On Earth at the same time, Daniel has been shifted to the same dimension by a mistake of Dr. Instructions in Ancient for Arthur's Mantle. Mitchell and Teal'c cooperate to lure Volnek into an explosive trap, using A-M18A1 Claymore mines that will hopefully completely obliterate his body.
Mitchell discovers that while Teal'c and Volnek are cloaked, Mitchell is visible and audible, yet intangible to them both. Volnek, apparently retaining some measure of intelligence despite his madness, has disabled the Eye of the Gods to reach the Stargate from their lofty mountain village and has trapped Teal'c and SG-12 with him. In the meantime, Major General Henry Landry sends SG-3 and SG-22 to support Teal'c's team when he does not report in Mitchell, still invisible and intangible to the rest of the base, decides to tag along to help. He is unable to kill Volnek, who simply rises to his feet despite being repeatedly struck down by either staff blasts or Tau'ri weaponry. Haikon reveals that Volnek is using a Sodan cloak, and Teal'c decides to use one himself in order to find Volnek. He survives when a member of Teal'c's squad administers Tretonin to compensate for the murder of his symbiote (Volnek struck at the typical Jaffa weak spot when engaging the villagers). Volnek went on to kill all villagers except for the chief, Haikon, who is badly wounded. Meanwhile, on the Sodan homeworld, Teal'c learns that Volnek (a Jaffa nearly mortally wounded by Mitchell in an earlier episode) had been rendered ill and then driven mad by a Prior. However, the device exists in both dimensions, so they begin to communicate by pressing buttons on the device. He goes to study the manuscripts from Merlin's cave and discovers that Mitchell and Carter have been shifted much as he was. Daniel is reminded of the device that shifted him years ago when he hears that this device emits lepton radiation as well. Bill Lee believes they have been miniaturized, but that theory is quickly abandoned. On the base, Daniel finds out, by comparing security camera footage, that the device must be responsible for his colleagues' disappearance. Meanwhile, the SGC learns that the Sodan homeworld has been attacked and, as Mitchell is missing, Teal'c takes SG-12 to find out what happened. Daniel Jackson fails (they expected him to have the ability to see them, as he had experienced something very similar in a previous episode - " crystal Skull"), they wait for the base personnel to detect them. Colonel Cameron Mitchell joins her to offer some breakfast, she manages to access the device, shifting them both into an alternate dimension. Colonel Samantha Carter has been trying for weeks to find a way to access an Ancient device found in Merlin's cave in " Avalon", so far without success. When Mitchell returns to Earth, he releases Volnek who promises they will meet again. Colonel Cameron Mitchell is captured and trained by his brother Jolan. After a fight with the Sodan warrior Volnek, Lt. The tablet leads to a cave under Glastonbury Tor where SG-1 finds many artifacts. Vala Mal Doran comes to Stargate Command with a tablet written by the Ancient Merlin.
Meanwhile, Teal'c and a team arrive on the Sodan home planet, and find that Volnek has been ravaged by a Prior, killing them all. Daniel Jackson finds himself sharing their fate. Colonel Samantha Carter are " out of phase", after activating Arthur's Mantle, and may be stuck that way forever.