Lost City, Part 2

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This episode is part 2 of 2; it is preceded by "Lost City, Part 1".

"Lost City, Part 2" is the twenty-second episode and the season seven finale of Stargate SG-1, and the 154th episode overall.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Previously on Stargate SG-1 3 Plot 3.1 References 4 Notable quotes 5 Background notes 5.1 Production 6 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Anubis is sending his entire fleet to Earth to gather the whereabouts of the Lost City. Meanwhile, Jack O'Neill, who is starting to get affected by the Ancient knowledge, leads SG-1 to Proclarush, which is believed to be the location of the Lost City, only to find that they have to return to Earth, which is the location of the city, Atlantus.

[edit] Previously on Stargate SG-1

Anubis has proceeded in his conquest to defeat the other System Lords throughout the Galaxy, and it would only be a matter of time before he would set his attention to Earth. The only way to defeat him is for SG-1 to find the "Lost City", an Ancient city that would have technology capable enough of defeating Anubis. The team find a clue on P3X-439; a repository of knowledge, but to prevent Anubis from getting his hands on it, O'Neill puts his head in again and has all Ancient knowledge downloaded into his brain. However, while the knowledge is slowly overwriting his brain, Vice President Kinsey has yet another plan to take over the Stargate Program, and has Elizabeth Weir take control. However, not only is this bad timing that O'Neill must know the location of the Lost City; but Anubis is sending his fleet to Earth to enslave the population. Teal'c and Bra'tac decide to leave for Chulak to gather ships to held defend Earth.

[edit] Plot

In Jackson's lab, Colonel Jack O'Neill is still trying to solve the crossword puzzle while he still can. Daniel Jackson notices he is not paying attention to anything he tries to have O'Neill read, and snatches the puzzle off him. When Major Carter walks in, Jackson notices that O'Neill has written "Taonas" on one of the solutions, and on another, he wrote "Proclarush". He also notices that the clue for where O'Neill wrote Taonas is "sphere," while the clue for Proclarush is "label." He believes that sphere means planet, and label means the name of that planet.

In the Mess Hall, Jackson reads through a book and finds out that "Proclarush Taonas" translates to "lost in fire." However, there is still no gate address to Proclarush. O'Neill then provides him with a clue; he rips off Jackson's patch containing the Point of Origin symbol, which O'Neill says is "At". Jackson starts to understand what O'Neill is trying to say, and demonstrates by showing him the Canis Minor; O'Neill responds with a "shh", which he says is what reminds him of that symbol. Jackson's theory may be confirmed; they don't have to look through the list of address to find the planet, the name themselves serves as the address.

Jackson shows Elizabeth Weir in the Control Room. However, Carter encounters a problem, they have already dialled the planet two years ago, but couldn't establish a lock, probably because the planet's Stargate must be buried. Jackson considers involving the Prometheus, but with Anubis on his way to Earth, the ship must stay to defend the planet. Instead, the team plan to Gate to Chulak to see if Teal'c and Bra'tac has any ships yet. Meanwhile, O'Neill is in a store room, packing various equipment including hazmat suits and a naquadah generator. However, he does not know why he is packing, though the rest of the team thinks that they're on the right track.

On Chulak, Teal'c and Bra'tac are in a tent calling in various Jaffa. One walks in, and introduces himself as Ronan, whose father is known to Bra'tac. He has a Tel'tak at his disposal, but warns them that no matter how brave they are, he has seen Anubis' fleet, and one Tel'tak is no match for a massive fleet. Bra'tac however, tells him that they will use the ship to find something far more powerful than whatever Anubis can throw at them. Ronan agrees and has only one condition; that he join them to find the means to defeat Anubis. Teal'c and Bra'tac accepts.

Carter, Jackson and O'Neill are ready to step through the Stargate to Chulak with O'Neill's supplies. Before they set off, Weir tells them a bad joke, though O'Neill says there is still hope for her to become better. A while later, they meet up with Teal'c, Bra'tac and Ronan, and set off in his cargo ship. On the way to Proclarush, Carter and Jackson check up on O'Neill, who admits to feeling "fron-aches." When he hears that even at top speed, the Tel'tak will arrive in two days, O'Neill feels this is too slow, and gets up to work on making the hyperdrive faster.

Meanwhile, three of Anubis' Ha'tak vessels exits hyperspace over the Moon, and is slowly making its way to Earth. The ships are detected by the military. In the White House, Hayes, Hammond Kinsey, Maynard and General Jumper, the Chief of Staff decide on what action to take. Hammond suggests that only three ships out of dozens has arrived to goad Earth into revealing their defences, and decides to hold off the Prometheus, as this could mean that the Tau'ri has bluffed about the powerful weaponry he is afraid of. Hayes decides to remain on Def Con-3, and make contact the governments of Canada, China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom to let them know what Earth is in for.

Onboard the Tel'tak, O'Neill is reconfiguring the ship's control crystals, asks for Carter's Zat'nik'tel, and fires it at the crystals. This action causes the ship's hyperdrive to increase in speed. Carter then tells O'Neill that Hammond authorised her to command the team should she determines that O'Neill's brain has been too overwritten. Given the circumstances, O'Neill immediately tells her to take command already, and resigns from his post. Carter is also about to tell him something that she meant to tell him earlier at his home, but O'Neill claims he already knows what she would say. Later, the Tel'tak arrives at their destination and drops out of hyperspace.

However, what they see is not what they expect. They discover that the planet's sun has turned into a red giant, meaning a million years ago, the planet was probably like Earth, but the red giant has caused the planet to be covered in molten rock and lava. They have arrived a million years too late. However, they notice that O'Neill packed hazmat suits, so subconsciously, he knew the planet was dead. Since Carter's now in charge, she oreders him to scan the planet's surface to look for any sign of a man-made structure in the area. He fairly quickly finds a dome underground, caused by some sort of shield protecting the area, though it doesn't seem as big as a city. They decide to check out the area.

In Anubis' mothership, Anubis' First Prime, Her'ak receives communication from the advanced party over Earth; there is no sign that they are being challenged. Anubis orders to begin an attack on Earth. The three Ha'taks launch an attack. Later, in the White House, Maynard informs Hayes that they contacted the captain of the destroyer USS Spruance, who reports that the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz has been destroyed, and then a cruiser of her battle group, before contact is lost.

Back over Proclarush, the Tel'tak positions itself over the dome. In hazmat suits, SG-1 is ringed into the outpost. They keep in contact with Ronan and Bra'tac. Carter finds a high levels of radiation, and the rings may have compromised the structural integrity. They can't stay too long. The facility is dark, but O'Neill still manages to find a throne-like chair. There, he proceeds to sit down and places his hands on the armrest controls. He erects a forcefield, and takes off his hazmat hood. Carter reads a stable and breathable atmosphere, so the team also takes off their hoods. He then activates a hologrammatic map of the Milky Way. He then zooms into our solar system, and Earth, as it was 30 million years ago. They wonder why O'Neill is showing them this. His reply is "Terra Atlantus," Terra meaning Earth, and Atlantis referring to Atlantis, the name of the Lost City.

The team comes to the conclusion that the city they were looking for the past year has been on Earth along, and they have to travel all the way back. O'Neill, who now speaks very little tells them there is something they need. He puts his hood back on, as do the team. He activates a panel on the floor, which raises to reveal a glowing power source. Once he removes it though, the structure starts to collapse. The team quickly run to the ring platform and signal Bra'tac to ring them back onboard the ship.

However, as he gets up, Bra'tac is betrayed, by Ronan, who stabs him in the symbiote pouch. He reveals to be an agent of Anubis, and calls him the betrayer of the "one true god." As Bra'tac falls on his knees, he tells Ronan he should have stabbed him in his heart, since he no longer has a symbiote. He still has enough strength to fight back, and during the brief struggle, tells Ronan that he maybe younger, but not wiser. Bra'tac manages to kill Ronan. With the last of his strength, he activates the rings, and SG-1 is transported before the structure on the outpost collapses. They tend to him, but then O'Neill stretches out his arms over his wound, and reveals to have healing powers, and heals Bra'tac. He declares that once again, he is in O'Neill's debt. Teal'c then plots a course for Earth.

In the Oval Office, the President and the advisors further discuss what to do, when the power turns down. Anubis unexpectedly appears in front of them. The Secret Service teams respond by firing at him, but the bullets merely passes through, meaning he is a hologram. Hayes talks to the hologram, where Anubis demand's Earth's surrender. Hayes attempts to bluff Anubis out of attacking, by telling Anubis that they'll give him a good fight and asking for his surrender instead. After the hologram leaves, a further 30 ships exit hyperspace over Earth. The ships don't attack Earth, but proceeds to take out power grids around the World. Kinsey wants a team to go to the Alpha Site, though in the end, Kinsey is the only one who goes, since the rest want to stay and fight. Hammond also wishes to stay, so Hayes offers him another assignment. They decide to launch the Prometheus, and Hammond is to command it.

In hyperspace onboard the Tel'tak, O'Neill works on the ring transporter platform. Teal'c visits O'Neill and wonders if he is making some kind of weapon using the tranporter. However, O'Neill doesn't answer, since his speech has mostly been overwritten. When Teal'c is about to say something else, O'Neill stops him, and they share a look. Teal'c leaves him to continue working.

Kinsey is in the embarkation room about to head through the Stargate to the Alpha Site. Weir brands him a coward, though he claims he's doing this for the survival of humanity, and announces he will be done with her, should she survive. Suddenly, the power goes down, including the Stargate. They close the iris using the manual iris control. Seconds later, the Gate is being dialled in. A massive explosion rocks the Gate Room, possibly from a naquadah enhanced weapon. Pearson then receives an encoded message for SG-1, where both Weir, and a very reluctant Kinsey call the President.

On the phone, Weir decides that the Prometheus be used to buy SG-1 time to get to Atlantis in Antarctica. However, Kinsey refuses to let this happen. After arguing, Hayes tells Kinsey to "shut the hell up!" He then forces Kinsey to resign, after he reads information given to him by Richard Woolsey a few weeks ago, stating he has enough info to have his shot. After Kinsey leaves in disgust, Hayes allows Weir to continue, and goes with her advice. Meanwhile, Hammond arrive onboard the bridge of the Prometheus. He and the crew prepare to take off.

Onboard the Tel'tak, Jackson works out that O'Neill is modifying the ring transporter's matter stream transmitter to make a hole through the ice. With Anubis' fleet over Earth, they decide to drop out of hyperspace dangerously close to the planet's surface. They do so, and the ship plummets into the Antarctic surface, though fortunately, Teal'c manages to regain control of the ship, and arrive over a plateau on the ice. O'Neill proceeds to use the modified ring transporter and burns a hole through the ice. However, it will take a while, and Anubis detects the ship, where he sends a wave to destroy the ship. Bra'tac detects several Al'kesh and gliders on their way, and also finds more ships coming, but they aren't Goa'uld.

The other ships are revealed to be F-302s, who start attacking the Al'kesh and gliders. The 302s are followed by the Prometheus, where Hammond orders the Tel'tak protected at all costs. However, the 302s have quickly expended their weaponry, so Hammond orders them to divert to McMurdo Air Force Base. Fortunately, Prometheus buys enough time for SG-1 to ring below the ice. Anubis' mothership establishes a weapons lock on Prometheus, and starts firing. With shields rapidly failing, Hammond orders the ship to engage Anubis' ship.

SG-1 investigates the "city," which looks familiar to Taonas. They find a chamber, which O'Neill describes "dolmata," Ancient for sleep. They then hear a noise, and investigate. There, they see Anubis, who tells the team they have failed. However, O'Neill realises he is only a hologram, and passes him. He sees another chair, and opens a similar panel, with a burned out power source, and replaces it with the one found in Taonas. Just then, the rings activate, revealing two Kull warriors. While Carter, Jackson and Teal'c holds them off, O'Neill sits on the chair. While a Kull is killed, two more arrive. The Prometheus nears Anubis' mothership, but shields are down, and can't last much longer.

O'Neill activates the chair, where by using his mind, is able to open a hole on the ground, where hundreds and even thousands of yellow energy projectiles erupt from the floor, wiping out the Kull warriors. They continue and destory all the gliders and Al'kesh in the swarm, but leaves Bra'tac and the Tel'tak alone. They keep going and heads towards Anubis fleet, but manages to go around the Prometheus. Hammond orders the ship to break off the attack, while the drones go through Anubis' shield with no effort what so ever. While watching his fleet destroyed, Anubis roars and holds his hand in front of his face as his ship blows apart.

Back in the ice cave, O'Neill, drained to exhaustion, indicates that he needs to go into the chamber he pointed out earlier. The chamber activates, freezing O'Neill into suspended animation as he says, "Aveo ... amacus," Ancient for "good-bye, friends." Carter, nearly in tears, is convinced that a way to save him is here, but to Daniel, it is now obvious that this base, like the outpost on the molten planet, is not the Lost City. As Teal'c wonders aloud where Atlantis really is, SG-1 can do nothing but stand and look at O'Neill, frozen in time.

[edit] References

2002; Address; Al'kesh; Alpha Site; Ancient; Ancient language; Ancient outpost; Ancient technology; Ancient Technology Activation gene; Antarctica; Antarctic outpost; Anubis; Anubis' mothership; Atlantis; Battle of Antarctica; Beta Gate; Canada; Canis Minor; China; Chulak; Control chair; Control crystal; Crossword; Death glider; Def Con; Drone weapon; Earth; Embarkation room; F-302; First Prime; Forcefield; France; Galaxy; General's Office; Goa'uld; Ha'tak; Hazmat suit; Healing power; Hologram; Hyperdrive; Hyperspace; "Inauguration"; Inertial dampener; Iris; Jaffa; Kull; Kull disruptor; Luna; M249 Squad Automatic Weapon; McMurdo Air Force Base; Manual iris control; Mess Hall; Micro 16 assault rifle; Milky Way; Naquadah bomb; Naquadah generator; Oval Office; P90 submachine gun; Peltac; President of the United States; Proclarush; Prometheus; Radiation; Red giant; Russia; Secret Service; Shield; Solar system; Stargate; Stargate Command; Stasis pod; Symbiote; Symbiote pouch; Taonas; Tau'ri; Tel'tak; Transportation rings; Uma Thurman; United Kingdom; United States Air Force; United States of America; USS Nimitz; USS Spruance; Vice President; Washington D.C.; White House; Zat'nik'tel; Zero Point Module

[edit] Notable quotes

Jackson: "Sphere"; planet. "Label"; name.
O'Neill: Following, still, you, not!

Carter: The clue for seven down is "celestial body", and he wrote "Uma Thurman".
O'Neill: (blush) Yes!

Weir: Well, have you got everything you need? I think there's still a sink in the kitchen.
O'Neill: Is that a joke?
Weir: Perhaps. A bad one.
O'Neill: Yes, very bad. But I sense hope for you.

Carter resumes command of SG-1 after O'Neill resigns his post as leader and they arrive of Taonas
Carter: Sit down and take a look. (O'Neill looks at her. Carter acts brusquely) That's an order.

After Ronan stabs Bra'tac in the abdomen
Bra'tac: I am betrayed.
Ronan: You are the betrayer, of your one true god, Anubis!

A hologram of Anubis appears in the Oval Office
Anubis: I am Anubis.
Hayes: You've got to be kidding.
Anubis: You are the leader of this World?
Hayes: Henry Hayes, President of the United States of America, one nation among many.
Anubis: No more. Bow before your god.
Hayes: Ha ha, I don't think so. However, I am willing to discuss your surrender.
Anubis: If you possessed weapons matching mine, you would have used them.
Hayes: Don't let the suit fool you, fella. We're gonna fight you.
Anubis: You bring destruction upon yourselves.
Hayes: Never going to happen! (the hologram disappears. Hayes tells the people in the room...) Too much?

Weir and Kinsey are arguing over the phone with the President, who has enough of this
Hayes: Will you shut the hell up!?
Weir: I'm sorry, sir.
Hayes: Not you, Doctor.
Kinsey: Excuse me?
Hayes: Consider your resignation accepted, Bob.
Kinsey: You can't do that.
Hayes: Oh please, I got enough on you to have you shot!
Kinsey: This is the biggest mistake you will ever make.
Hayes: But I think I'll stick with my original thought, which is shut the hell up!

A man's voice describes the destruction of Anubis' fleet
Voice: Thousands of bright yellow, I don't know, they're coming from the surface. I don't know what they are. They're cutting the enemy fleet to shreds! My God, it's beautiful!

[edit] Background notes

• Ronan, who says "you are weak, old man" to Bra'tac seems to parallel to what Darth Vader told Obi Wan Kenobi during their lightsaber battle.
• In "The Road Not Taken", Carter is transferred into an alternate reality where SG-1 were unable to discover the location of the Ancient outpost in time to fight off Anubis and the SGC were forced to reveal the existence of the Stargate program to the public, resulting in the US government being forced to declare martial law.
• Cameron Mitchell is revealed to be a pilot leading the squadron, though this isn't mentioned until "Avalon, Part 1".
• The voiceover of the man describing the destruction of the fleet is played again in "Avalon, Part 1".

[edit] Production

• "Lost City, Part 1" and "Part 2" were aired as separate episodes. But when placed on the Season Seven DVD, the episodes were edited into one 85 minutes featurelength episode under the sole title "Lost City".
• In the original screenplay, O'Neill and Carter were supposed to kiss after he resigns in the engine room of the Tel'tak. The relationship between the two characters had been a running theme throughout the course of the series, and spawned much speculation and debate as to what the ultimate result would be, but the kiss was edited out when an eighth season was confirmed.
• This episode (both parts) is the only time that Jessica Steen appears as Dr. Elizabeth Weir. Actress Torri Higginson plays the role in the eighth season opener, "New Order" and in Stargate Atlantis.
• This episode marks the death final appearance of Her'ak, portrayed by Michael Adamthwaite.
• Among the officials gathered in Hayes' office is General John P. Jumper, at the time the current (real) Air Force Chief of Staff.

[edit] External links

• Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited 2007-11-18. Most of site requires Flash.
• Screenplay of Part 2 (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Line 21 Media Services Ltd (2003-12-02). Retrieved on November 18, 2007. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site.
• Review of Part II from GateWorld. Reviewed by Alli Snow. Visited 2007-11-18.
• Lost City (Stargate SG-1) on Wikipedia