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{{Infobox Episode
 
{{Infobox Episode
 
| name=Gemini
 
| name=Gemini
| image=[[File:Gemini (Stargate SG-1).jpg|250px]] {{caption|Carter x 2}}
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| image=[[File:Gemini (Stargate SG-1).jpg|250px]] {{caption|Replicator Carter and the original Sam Carter working together.}}
 
| series=[[Stargate SG-1]]
 
| series=[[Stargate SG-1]]
 
| episode=[[SG-1 Season 8|8.11]]
 
| episode=[[SG-1 Season 8|8.11]]
 
| production=811
 
| production=811
| airdate=December 14, [[2004]]
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| airdate=[[December 14]], [[2004]]
 
| story=
 
| story=
 
| writer=[[Peter DeLuise]]
 
| writer=[[Peter DeLuise]]
 
| director=[[Will Waring]]
 
| director=[[Will Waring]]
| guests=[[Amanda Tapping]] as [[Replicator Carter]]<br>[[Patrick Currie]] as [[Fifth]]<br>[[Gary Jones]] as [[SMSgt.]] [[Walter Harriman]]<br>[[Jason Emanuel]] as [[TSgt.]] [[Joel Brecker]]<br>[[Dan Shea]] as [[MSgt.]] [[Sylvester Siler]]<br>[[Chris Robson]] as S.F.<br>[[Michael Shanks]] as Voice of [[Thor]]
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| guests=[[Amanda Tapping]] as [[Replicator Carter]]<br>[[Patrick Currie]] as [[Fifth]]<br>[[Gary Jones]] as [[SMSgt.]] [[Walter Harriman]]<br>[[Jason Emanuel]] as [[TSgt.]] [[Joel Brecker]]<br>[[Dan Shea]] as [[MSgt.]] [[Sylvester Siler]]<br>[[Chris Robson]] as [[Sergeant (Gemini)]]<br>[[Michael Shanks]] as Voice of [[Thor]]
 
| preceded_by="[[Endgame]]"
 
| preceded_by="[[Endgame]]"
 
| followed_by="[[Prometheus Unbound]]"
 
| followed_by="[[Prometheus Unbound]]"
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==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==
[[SG-1]] is shocked to see a [[Replicator Carter|duplicate]] of [[Lt. Colonel]] [[Samantha Carter]], who reveals that she is a [[Replicator]] created by [[Fifth]]. She wishes to be destroyed with the [[Replicator disruptor]], to prevent Fifth from getting his hands on her again, since he is heading straight for the [[Milky Way]]. However, the [[Tau'ri]] plan to have her help them defeat them, since she claims Fifth has created a cipher to become immune to the disruptor.
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[[SG-1]] is shocked to see a [[Replicator Carter|duplicate]] of [[Lt. Colonel]] [[Samantha Carter]], who reveals that she is a [[Replicator]] created by [[Fifth]]. She wishes to be destroyed with the [[Replicator disruptor]], to prevent Fifth from getting his hands on her again, since he is heading straight for the [[Milky Way]]. However, the [[Tau'ri]] plan to have her help them defeat them, since she claims Fifth has created a cipher to become immune to the disruptor but all is not what it seems....
   
 
==Previously on ''Stargate SG-1''==
 
==Previously on ''Stargate SG-1''==
[[SG-1]] encounter a group of [[Human-form Replicator]]s on the planet [[Hala]]. They managed to trap them in a [[Time dilation field]] by betraying the trust of [[Fifth]]. A year later, [[Major]] [[Samantha Carter]] is [[Asgard transporter|beamed]] to a [[Replicator]] ship and tortured by Fifth before being rescued by SG-1. Fifth then creates [[Replicator Carter]].
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[[SG-1]] encounter a group of [[Human-form Replicator]]s on the planet [[Hala]]. They managed to trap them in a [[Time dilation field]] by betraying the trust of [[Fifth]]. A year later, [[Major]] [[Samantha Carter]] is [[Asgard transporter|beamed]] to a [[Replicator]] ship and tortured by Fifth before being rescued by SG-1. Fifth then uses the knowledge and information he gained during Carter's imprisonment to create a Human-Form Replicator who is later shown to be a copy of Carter known as [[Replicator Carter]].
   
 
==Plot==
 
==Plot==
[[File:Disrupterfires.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
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[[File:Vlcsnap-2014-12-06-21h39m50s165.png|thumb|left|Daniel and Sam walking through the Base.]]
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[[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Samantha Carter]] and Dr. Daniel Jackson walk through a level of the SGC, discussing the Prometheus's new assignment which is to go to find the lost [[Atlantis expedition]]. Daniel wants to go but Sam reveals that [[Brigadier General]] [[Jack O'Neill]] has turned down Daniel's request yet again with Sam quoting that Jack's exact words were "Over my dead body".
[[Stargate Command]] receives an unscheduled off world activation, and with it an old [[IDC]] that had been used by [[Lt. Colonel]] [[Samantha Carter]]. Then comes the message, "SEND [[Mobile Analytic Laboratory Probe|M.A.L.P]].," and when one is sent through, it reveals a [[Replicator Carter|second Carter]]. She identifies herself as a [[Human-form Replicator]], designed by [[Fifth]] with all of Carter's memories and thoughts. Her message is urgent: Fifth has discovered a way to overcome the [[Replicator disruptor]] [[Brigadier General]] [[Jack O'Neill]] designed while he had the [[Ancient]] database downloaded into his [[brain]]. The replicator version of Carter has rebelled against Fifth and offers her assistance in altering the weapon to work again.
 
   
 
As soon as Daniel has gone into the elevator, [[Stargate Command]] receives an unscheduled off world activation, and with it an old [[IDC]] that had been used by [[Lt. Colonel]] [[Samantha Carter]]. Then comes the message, "SEND [[Mobile Analytic Laboratory Probe|M.A.L.P]].," and when one is sent through, it reveals a [[Replicator Carter|second Carter]]. She identifies herself as a [[Human-form Replicator]], designed by [[Fifth]] with all of Carter's memories and thoughts. Her message is urgent: Fifth has discovered a way to overcome the [[Replicator disruptor]] [[Jack O'Neill|O'Neill]] designed while he had the [[Ancient]] [[Repository of knowledge]] downloaded into his [[brain]]. The replicator version of Carter has rebelled against Fifth and offers her assistance in altering the weapon to work again.
Carter accepts the proposal, and with O'Neill's approval, goes to the [[P4X-650|Alpha Site]] with [[Teal'c]] to work on the weapon. After connecting to the [[Replicator]] collective, Replicator Carter downloaded the cipher. After experimenting with the disruptor, they adjust the weapon and launch a [[Replicator disruptor satellite]].
 
   
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[[File:Vlcsnap-2015-01-25-09h44m26s232.png|thumb|left|Replicator Carter arriving at the Alpha Site.]]
[[File:ReplicatorSat.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
 
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Carter accepts the proposal, and with O'Neill's approval, goes to [[P4X-650|the Alpha Site]] with [[Teal'c]] to work on the weapon with Replicator Carter herself soon arriving.
However, it is eventually revealed that Fifth had no immunity to the weapon, and in fact he had sent her to study the weapon and develop the very cipher she claimed to be trying to defeat. She destroys Fifth with the disruptor satellite that had worked all along and makes her way to the [[Stargate]]. After taking out the guards, she begins dialing the Stargate. Teal'c attempts to stop her but she deactivates the [[nanite]]s in the arm Teal'c is holding and she escapes.
 
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[[File:Vlcsnap-2014-07-15-17h51m34s170.png|thumb|left|Replicator Carter probing the original Carter's mind.]]
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To get an insight into what happened, Replicator Carter reluctantly probes the real Carter's mind, showing Carter one such training scenario of Replicator Carter arriving at the SGC before killing her original self's colleagues and friends in cold blood which left Replicator Carter in tears.
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After connecting to the [[Replicator]] collective, Replicator Carter downloaded the cipher and after experimenting with the disruptor, they adjust the weapon and launch a [[Replicator disruptor satellite]].
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However, it is eventually revealed that Fifth had no immunity to the weapon, and in fact he had sent her to study the weapon and develop the very cipher she claimed to be trying to defeat. She destroys Fifth with the disruptor satellite that had worked all along and makes her way to the [[Stargate]].
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After taking out the guards, she begins dialing the Stargate. Teal'c attempts to stop her but she deactivates the [[nanite]]s in her own left arm Teal'c is holding and she escapes through the Stargate while the arm itself dissolves into nanites.
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Later, in the lab, Jack and Teal'c try to assure Carter that what happened wasn't her fault but Carter grimly remarks that it ''is'' her fault because her Replicator self learnt betrayal from Fifth who had in turn learnt it from the original Carter herself.
   
 
==References==
 
==References==
[[P4X-650|Alpha Site]]; [[Ancient]]; [[Asgard]]; [[Atlantis]]; [[Samantha Carter's mother]]; [[Dialing computer]]; [[F-302 fighter-interceptor]]; [[Goa'uld]]; [[Human-form Replicator]]; [[Iris Deactivation Code]]; [[Keron]]; [[MALP]]; [[Naquadah generator]]; [[Replicator]]s; [[Replicator disruptor]]; [[Replicator disruptor satellite]]; [[Pizza]]; ''[[Prometheus]]''; [[Subspace communication]]
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[[P4X-650|Alpha Site]]; [[Ancient]]; [[Asgard]]; [[Atlantis]]; [[Debra Carter]]; [[Dialing computer]]; [[F-302 fighter-interceptor]]; [[Goa'uld]]; [[Human-form Replicator]]; [[Iris Deactivation Code]]; [[Internet]]; [[Keron]]; [[MALP]]; [[Naquadah generator]]; [[Replicator]]s; [[Replicator disruptor]]; [[Replicator disruptor satellite]]; [[Pizza]]; ''[[Prometheus]]''; [[Skirmish on the Alpha Site]]; [[Subspace communication]]
   
 
==Notable Quotes==
 
==Notable Quotes==
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'''Replicator Carter''': The one you call Fifth.<br />
 
'''Replicator Carter''': The one you call Fifth.<br />
 
'''Carter''': Oh my god. She's a replicator.
 
'''Carter''': Oh my god. She's a replicator.
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'''Carter''': ...and we need the Asgard to send us a disruptor satellite as soon as possible.<br />
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'''O'Neill''': I've already talked to 'em. Be there in there in 30 minutes, or it's free.
   
 
'''O'Neill''': I need you to be perfectly honest with me. Is Carter letting herself get too involved in this one?<br />
 
'''O'Neill''': I need you to be perfectly honest with me. Is Carter letting herself get too involved in this one?<br />
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'''Replicator Carter''': You should know. You made me what I am.
 
'''Replicator Carter''': You should know. You made me what I am.
   
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'''Carter''': We will stop you.<br />
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'''Replicator Carter''': You're forgetting, I know exactly how your mind works. I know what you're going to do before you even think of it.
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''(Carter is working on Replicator Carter's nanites)''<br />
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'''O'Neill''': You know, I'm still of a strong belief that it's a bad idea to have that stuff on the base.<br />
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'''Carter''': She deactivated these cells when she separated them from her arm.<br />
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'''Teal'c''': Can we be certain they will not become active again?<br />
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'''Carter''': She deliberately shut down the cohesive energy between them so it would be more difficult for me to figure out how she made herself immune to the disrupter.<br />
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'''O'Neill''': Now, how do you know that?<br />
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'''Carter''': Because that's what I would have done.<br />
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'''O'Neill''': Carter…<br />
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'''Carter''': Sir, if you don't mind, I've got a lot of work to do. We've never had the opportunity to study human-form Replicator cells before. If we can learn something from them, this won't be a total loss.<br />
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'''O'Neill''': This isn't your fault.<br />
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'''Carter''': I'm not so sure about that. Fifth came here because of me. She rejected him because she was made like me. Now we've got Replicators in our galaxy and they're immune to the only technology we have that could have stopped them.<br />
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'''Teal'c''': None of us correctly anticipated the actions of the Replicator.<br />
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'''Carter''': I thought she was afraid of him. But really she just wanted to get rid of him so she could lead the Replicators herself. She killed him because she thought he was weak.<br />
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'''O'Neill''': Carter, she isn't you.<br />
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'''Teal'c''': O'Neill is correct. Though she shared your memories, her personality was altered.<br />
 
'''Carter''': The fact is, she learned betrayal from Fifth. And he learned it from me.
 
'''Carter''': The fact is, she learned betrayal from Fifth. And he learned it from me.
   
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*"Gemini" is [[Latin]] for "twins." It is also the name of a {{WPS|Gemini_(constellation)|constellation}} depicting the mythical twin brothers {{WPS|Castor}} and {{WPS|Pollux}}.
 
*"Gemini" is [[Latin]] for "twins." It is also the name of a {{WPS|Gemini_(constellation)|constellation}} depicting the mythical twin brothers {{WPS|Castor}} and {{WPS|Pollux}}.
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*The [[Alpha Site]] on P4X-650 is located on the planet's equator as they were able to put a the anti-replicator satellite in a stationary orbit above the base which is only possible for equatorial orbits. The altitude given by Thor also means that P4X-650 is less massive than Earth.
 
*In reference to a [[Replicator disruptor satellite]] that was requested from the [[Asgard]] to protect the [[P4X-650|Alpha Site]] from a potential [[Replicator]] attack [[Brigadier General]] [[Jack O'Neill]] states, "Be there in thirty minutes, or it's free." This is a cultural reference to [[pizza]] delivery places in the U.S. which promise delivery within thirty minutes of the order, or it's free.
 
*In reference to a [[Replicator disruptor satellite]] that was requested from the [[Asgard]] to protect the [[P4X-650|Alpha Site]] from a potential [[Replicator]] attack [[Brigadier General]] [[Jack O'Neill]] states, "Be there in thirty minutes, or it's free." This is a cultural reference to [[pizza]] delivery places in the U.S. which promise delivery within thirty minutes of the order, or it's free.
 
*Broadcast in the [[USA]] as the 11th episode of the season, it is the 12th on Region 2 DVDs.
*[[Dr.]] [[Daniel Jackson]] only appears at the beginning of this episode. It's often presumed that this episode takes place at about the same time as the next episode, "[[Prometheus Unbound]]," so, therefore, Daniel would be on the ''[[Prometheus]]'' during the majority of the action in this episode.
 
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*The [[Asgard]] have equipped the ''[[Prometheus]]'' with an [[Asgard hyperdrive]] after O'Neill asked [[Thor]] for one in the episode "[[Covenant]]".
*Broadcast in the [[USA]] as the 11th episode of the season, it is the 12th on [[DVD region code|Region 2 DVDs]].
 
 
*The episode marks the return of [[Replicator Carter]], who was last seen briefly at the end of "[[New Order, Part 2]]", the season opener.
 
*The episode marks the return of [[Replicator Carter]], who was last seen briefly at the end of "[[New Order, Part 2]]", the season opener.
 
*[[Dr.]] [[Daniel Jackson]] only appears at the beginning of this episode. It's often presumed that this episode takes place at about the same time as the next episode, "[[Prometheus Unbound]]". When Jackson enters the elevator after talking to [[Lt. Colonel]] [[Samantha Carter]], he went to try to convince O'Neill to allow him to join the crew of the ''Prometheus'' on their mission to [[Atlantis]] which is shown on the teaser for "Prometheus Unbound".
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*This episode takes place approximately four months after the events of "[[New Order, Part 2]]".
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*After "[[Tin Man]]", "[[Point of View]]" and "[[Double Jeopardy]]", this is the fourth episode in which Sam interacts with another version of herself. She would later encounter multiple versions of herself from various [[Alternate reality|alternate realities]] in "[[Ripple Effect]]".
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*The [[Replicator Carter]] refers to the death of Sam's mother [[Debra Carter]] in the early [[1980s]], which was first established in "[[The Devil You Know]]".
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*In the illusion allegedly created by Fifth, Jack's uniform does not have general stars. This is consistent with the fact that the Replicator Carter was not then aware that he had been promoted to brigadier general as Sam's memories were copied shortly before the promotion took place.
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*Fifth refers to the events of "[[Unnatural Selection]]".
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*This episode foreshadows the Replicators's full scale attack on the [[System Lord]]s and the [[Goa'uld Empire]] in "[[Reckoning, Part 1]]" and "[[Reckoning, Part 2]]".
   
 
==Goofs==
 
==Goofs==
 
*[[Replicator Carter]] claims to be able to upload data directly into the base's mainframe, and then moves her hand into a computer monitor, presumably to allow her nanites to interface directly with the computer. This does not make sense considering that monitors only display output from a computer and are not capable of inputting data into a computer. Later in the episode she interfaces with a computer by moving her hand into a keyboard, which makes considerably more sense, since keyboards are input devices and so interfacing with it would allow her to interact with the computer. (It should also be noted that modern monitors are capable of two-way signaling.)
 
*[[Replicator Carter]] claims to be able to upload data directly into the base's mainframe, and then moves her hand into a computer monitor, presumably to allow her nanites to interface directly with the computer. This does not make sense considering that monitors only display output from a computer and are not capable of inputting data into a computer. Later in the episode she interfaces with a computer by moving her hand into a keyboard, which makes considerably more sense, since keyboards are input devices and so interfacing with it would allow her to interact with the computer. (It should also be noted that modern monitors are capable of two-way signaling.)
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*Thor tells Teal'c that the anti-replicator satellite should be placed in geosynchronous orbit above the alpha site base with an inclination of 0 and a specific altitude. This would actually require a stationary orbit (which is a special case of a synchronous orbit where the orbiting body remains above a specific point rather than just passing over a specific point at the same time every sidereal day) and there is only one possible inclination and altitude such a satellite could be placed at for a given body. Also, the prefix "geo-" is only used if the orbit is around Earth. Around any other body, the "geo-" is dropped or replaced with another appropriate prefix.
 
*After Replicator Carter contacts [[Stargate Command]] and [[Brigadier General]] [[Jack O'Neill]] orders [[MSgt.]] [[Walter Harriman]] to deactivate the gate he presses the [[Iris]] deactivation button.
 
*After Replicator Carter contacts [[Stargate Command]] and [[Brigadier General]] [[Jack O'Neill]] orders [[MSgt.]] [[Walter Harriman]] to deactivate the gate he presses the [[Iris]] deactivation button.
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* [[Teal'c]] should not have struggled to pull [[Replicator Carter]] back from the [[Stargate]]. Once she passed beyond the [[event horizon]], she would have been converted to energy and lacked physicality, thus preventing her from exerting force of any kind.
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* It is implausible that Stargate Command would be so reckless to give Replicator Carter the address of the alpha site so she can dial in by herself, as it is shown on screen. On the same note, it is a bit far fetched that no one would take issue with letting a Replicator study the anti-replicator weapon.
   
 
==Death==
 
==Death==
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Template:SG1-8 "Gemini" is the eleventh episode of the eighth season of Stargate SG-1.

Synopsis

SG-1 is shocked to see a duplicate of Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter, who reveals that she is a Replicator created by Fifth. She wishes to be destroyed with the Replicator disruptor, to prevent Fifth from getting his hands on her again, since he is heading straight for the Milky Way. However, the Tau'ri plan to have her help them defeat them, since she claims Fifth has created a cipher to become immune to the disruptor but all is not what it seems....

Previously on Stargate SG-1

SG-1 encounter a group of Human-form Replicators on the planet Hala. They managed to trap them in a Time dilation field by betraying the trust of Fifth. A year later, Major Samantha Carter is beamed to a Replicator ship and tortured by Fifth before being rescued by SG-1. Fifth then uses the knowledge and information he gained during Carter's imprisonment to create a Human-Form Replicator who is later shown to be a copy of Carter known as Replicator Carter.

Plot

File:Vlcsnap-2014-12-06-21h39m50s165.png

Daniel and Sam walking through the Base.

Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter and Dr. Daniel Jackson walk through a level of the SGC, discussing the Prometheus's new assignment which is to go to find the lost Atlantis expedition. Daniel wants to go but Sam reveals that Brigadier General Jack O'Neill has turned down Daniel's request yet again with Sam quoting that Jack's exact words were "Over my dead body".

As soon as Daniel has gone into the elevator, Stargate Command receives an unscheduled off world activation, and with it an old IDC that had been used by Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter. Then comes the message, "SEND M.A.L.P.," and when one is sent through, it reveals a second Carter. She identifies herself as a Human-form Replicator, designed by Fifth with all of Carter's memories and thoughts. Her message is urgent: Fifth has discovered a way to overcome the Replicator disruptor O'Neill designed while he had the Ancient Repository of knowledge downloaded into his brain. The replicator version of Carter has rebelled against Fifth and offers her assistance in altering the weapon to work again.

File:Vlcsnap-2015-01-25-09h44m26s232.png

Replicator Carter arriving at the Alpha Site.

Carter accepts the proposal, and with O'Neill's approval, goes to the Alpha Site with Teal'c to work on the weapon with Replicator Carter herself soon arriving.

File:Vlcsnap-2014-07-15-17h51m34s170.png

Replicator Carter probing the original Carter's mind.

To get an insight into what happened, Replicator Carter reluctantly probes the real Carter's mind, showing Carter one such training scenario of Replicator Carter arriving at the SGC before killing her original self's colleagues and friends in cold blood which left Replicator Carter in tears.

After connecting to the Replicator collective, Replicator Carter downloaded the cipher and after experimenting with the disruptor, they adjust the weapon and launch a Replicator disruptor satellite.

However, it is eventually revealed that Fifth had no immunity to the weapon, and in fact he had sent her to study the weapon and develop the very cipher she claimed to be trying to defeat. She destroys Fifth with the disruptor satellite that had worked all along and makes her way to the Stargate.

After taking out the guards, she begins dialing the Stargate. Teal'c attempts to stop her but she deactivates the nanites in her own left arm Teal'c is holding and she escapes through the Stargate while the arm itself dissolves into nanites.

Later, in the lab, Jack and Teal'c try to assure Carter that what happened wasn't her fault but Carter grimly remarks that it is her fault because her Replicator self learnt betrayal from Fifth who had in turn learnt it from the original Carter herself.

References

Alpha Site; Ancient; Asgard; Atlantis; Debra Carter; Dialing computer; F-302 fighter-interceptor; Goa'uld; Human-form Replicator; Iris Deactivation Code; Internet; Keron; MALP; Naquadah generator; Replicators; Replicator disruptor; Replicator disruptor satellite; Pizza; Prometheus; Skirmish on the Alpha Site; Subspace communication

Notable Quotes

O'Neill: Alright, you got our attention. Who are you?
Replicator Carter: My name is Samantha Carter.
O'Neill: Alright. We've got a little conflict with that statement. We've already got one here.
Replicator Carter: There are two of us.
O'Neill: If only.

Replicator Carter: I was made in Samantha Carter's image. I know what she knows. Feel what she feels.
Carter: You were made. Who made you?
Replicator Carter: The one you call Fifth.
Carter: Oh my god. She's a replicator.

Carter: ...and we need the Asgard to send us a disruptor satellite as soon as possible.
O'Neill: I've already talked to 'em. Be there in there in 30 minutes, or it's free.

O'Neill: I need you to be perfectly honest with me. Is Carter letting herself get too involved in this one?
Teal'c: Colonel Carter and the replicator share thoughts and memories. It is understandable that a certain sympathy would develop between them.
O'Neill: Can’t have that.
Teal'c: However I do not believe Colonel Carter would allow these feelings to interfere with the commission of her duties.
O'Neill: Fair enough. But when the time comes, I want you to finish the job.
Teal'c: Understood.

Fifth: Why?
Replicator Carter: You should know. You made me what I am.

Carter: We will stop you.
Replicator Carter: You're forgetting, I know exactly how your mind works. I know what you're going to do before you even think of it.

(Carter is working on Replicator Carter's nanites)
O'Neill: You know, I'm still of a strong belief that it's a bad idea to have that stuff on the base.
Carter: She deactivated these cells when she separated them from her arm.
Teal'c: Can we be certain they will not become active again?
Carter: She deliberately shut down the cohesive energy between them so it would be more difficult for me to figure out how she made herself immune to the disrupter.
O'Neill: Now, how do you know that?
Carter: Because that's what I would have done.
O'Neill: Carter…
Carter: Sir, if you don't mind, I've got a lot of work to do. We've never had the opportunity to study human-form Replicator cells before. If we can learn something from them, this won't be a total loss.
O'Neill: This isn't your fault.
Carter: I'm not so sure about that. Fifth came here because of me. She rejected him because she was made like me. Now we've got Replicators in our galaxy and they're immune to the only technology we have that could have stopped them.
Teal'c: None of us correctly anticipated the actions of the Replicator.
Carter: I thought she was afraid of him. But really she just wanted to get rid of him so she could lead the Replicators herself. She killed him because she thought he was weak.
O'Neill: Carter, she isn't you.
Teal'c: O'Neill is correct. Though she shared your memories, her personality was altered.
Carter: The fact is, she learned betrayal from Fifth. And he learned it from me.

Notes

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  • "Gemini" is Latin for "twins." It is also the name of a constellation depicting the mythical twin brothers Castor and Pollux.
  • The Alpha Site on P4X-650 is located on the planet's equator as they were able to put a the anti-replicator satellite in a stationary orbit above the base which is only possible for equatorial orbits. The altitude given by Thor also means that P4X-650 is less massive than Earth.
  • In reference to a Replicator disruptor satellite that was requested from the Asgard to protect the Alpha Site from a potential Replicator attack Brigadier General Jack O'Neill states, "Be there in thirty minutes, or it's free." This is a cultural reference to pizza delivery places in the U.S. which promise delivery within thirty minutes of the order, or it's free.
  • Broadcast in the USA as the 11th episode of the season, it is the 12th on Region 2 DVDs.
  • The Asgard have equipped the Prometheus with an Asgard hyperdrive after O'Neill asked Thor for one in the episode "Covenant".
  • The episode marks the return of Replicator Carter, who was last seen briefly at the end of "New Order, Part 2", the season opener.
  • Dr. Daniel Jackson only appears at the beginning of this episode. It's often presumed that this episode takes place at about the same time as the next episode, "Prometheus Unbound". When Jackson enters the elevator after talking to Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter, he went to try to convince O'Neill to allow him to join the crew of the Prometheus on their mission to Atlantis which is shown on the teaser for "Prometheus Unbound".
  • This episode takes place approximately four months after the events of "New Order, Part 2".
  • After "Tin Man", "Point of View" and "Double Jeopardy", this is the fourth episode in which Sam interacts with another version of herself. She would later encounter multiple versions of herself from various alternate realities in "Ripple Effect".
  • The Replicator Carter refers to the death of Sam's mother Debra Carter in the early 1980s, which was first established in "The Devil You Know".
  • In the illusion allegedly created by Fifth, Jack's uniform does not have general stars. This is consistent with the fact that the Replicator Carter was not then aware that he had been promoted to brigadier general as Sam's memories were copied shortly before the promotion took place.
  • Fifth refers to the events of "Unnatural Selection".
  • This episode foreshadows the Replicators's full scale attack on the System Lords and the Goa'uld Empire in "Reckoning, Part 1" and "Reckoning, Part 2".

Goofs

  • Replicator Carter claims to be able to upload data directly into the base's mainframe, and then moves her hand into a computer monitor, presumably to allow her nanites to interface directly with the computer. This does not make sense considering that monitors only display output from a computer and are not capable of inputting data into a computer. Later in the episode she interfaces with a computer by moving her hand into a keyboard, which makes considerably more sense, since keyboards are input devices and so interfacing with it would allow her to interact with the computer. (It should also be noted that modern monitors are capable of two-way signaling.)
  • Thor tells Teal'c that the anti-replicator satellite should be placed in geosynchronous orbit above the alpha site base with an inclination of 0 and a specific altitude. This would actually require a stationary orbit (which is a special case of a synchronous orbit where the orbiting body remains above a specific point rather than just passing over a specific point at the same time every sidereal day) and there is only one possible inclination and altitude such a satellite could be placed at for a given body. Also, the prefix "geo-" is only used if the orbit is around Earth. Around any other body, the "geo-" is dropped or replaced with another appropriate prefix.
  • After Replicator Carter contacts Stargate Command and Brigadier General Jack O'Neill orders MSgt. Walter Harriman to deactivate the gate he presses the Iris deactivation button.
  • Teal'c should not have struggled to pull Replicator Carter back from the Stargate. Once she passed beyond the event horizon, she would have been converted to energy and lacked physicality, thus preventing her from exerting force of any kind.
  • It is implausible that Stargate Command would be so reckless to give Replicator Carter the address of the alpha site so she can dial in by herself, as it is shown on screen. On the same note, it is a bit far fetched that no one would take issue with letting a Replicator study the anti-replicator weapon.

Death

In other languages

  • French: Vulnérable (Vulnerable)
  • Italian: Gemelle (Twin)
  • Spanish: Géminis (Gemini)
  • Czech: Blíženci (Gemini)
  • German: Gemini (Gemini)
  • Hungarian: Ikrek (Gemini)

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