Rite of Passage

Rite of Passage
Production
Series	Stargate SG-1
Episode	5.06
Production #	506
Original air date	August 3, 2001
Written by	Heather E. Ash
Directed by	Peter DeLuise
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Preceded by	Red Sky
Followed by	Beast of Burden

Template:SG1-5 "Rite of Passage" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of Stargate SG-1.

Plot

It is the 4th year of Janet Fraiser's adopted daughter, Cassandra, living on Earth. She has become a difficult teenager. Cassandra goes outside and meets Dominic from class. He gives her a shiny crystal prism which sparkles under the outside light. They then kiss. Suddenly, the outside light flickers and explodes, and Cassandra collapses.

At the SGC, Cassie demands to go to a forest. Fraiser discovers that there's a retrovirus reworking her DNA. Daniel reviews the tapes SG-7 brought back. Apparently, when Hankans reached their 16th birthday, they would suddenly collapse. They would have to go into the forest and, a few days later, come out cured. The village elders said it was normal among their people.

SG-1 goes back to Hanka and discover that a fire was recently made. Daniel touches a green handprint on a tree, and the fire starts up. Suddenly, O'Neill and Teal'c are ringed to an underground Goa'uld lab. Carter and Daniel ring in as well and begin a search. Daniel finds a record tablet and sees the word "hok'tar", which--according to Teal'c--hasn't been used in centuries. Suddenly, the rings activate, but nothing comes through them. As SG-1 leaves, something with blue vision watches them.

Cassandra wants to leave but is restrained, and wires in the room shoot sparks. Carter gives her Cassandra a chess board. Cassandra suddenly begins to levitate a knight, saying it's the only way to transfer heat to relieve her of her fever. Fraiser tries touching it, and the piece is hot.

Daniel finishes the translation of the tablet and determines that "hok'tar" means "advanced human". Nirrti was trying to create a human to become the perfect host. After countless generations, she had succeeded with Cassandra. When SG-7 had arrived, she had wiped out the entire planet so the System Lords wouldn't be alerted. Fraiser is busy studying the results and when she leaves her work, something invisible is also studying it, which then becomes visible as a blue burqa-clothed person. Cassie senses a Goa'uld in the facility. Personnel armed with anti-invisibility TERs and Zats began to search the base. They realize it must be Nirrti. O'Neill is knocked down by a hand device blast but a soldier uses his TER to show the invisible Goa'uld and O'Neill zats Nirrti.

Nirrti claims to be able to cure Cassandra, but in return her terms are freedom (with her cloaking device), as well as a sample of Cassandra's blood. SG-1 feel uneasy about it: if they give her what she wants, Nirrti will have succeeded in creating the perfect host. Fraiser becomes more and more desperate.

While SG-1 and Hammond argue about the situation, Fraiser forces her way into Nirrti's cell and threatens to kill her. Hammond comes in and they all make an agreement to exchange Nirrti's freedom for curing Cassandra with no blood sample or cloaking device. Nirrti says that is not enough, while Hammond then pointedly reminds the former System Lord that Fraiser is Cassandra's mother. Going to Cassie's room, Nirrti used a Healing Device along with her equipment but Cassandra didn't stir. Fraiser fiercely tells her to try again. This time, Nirrti succeeds. O'Neill escorts Nirrti to the Embarkation Room, where she tells him that she still will try to create the perfect host; however, she will have to start all over again.

Back in the infirmary, Carter teases Cassandra about how she kissed Dominic and the lights "exploded". They start playing chess, while Fraiser smiles joyfully.

References

Chess; Chief Medical Officer's Office; Goa'uld cloaking device; Goa'uld laboratory; Goa'uld tablet; Hanka; Hankan; Hok'tar; Injection syringe; Nirrti's laboratory; Nirrti's Table; Page turning device; Telekinesis

Notes

• In "Show and Tell" a trans-phase eradication weapon was supposedly placed in the gate room to prevent the Reetou from entering SGC. The TER weapon was shown to be able to reveal Nirrti. If a TER weapon was in the gate room, why did it not reveal Nirrti when she entered the SGC with SG-1?
• When Cassandra levitates a chess piece, Carter tells her that until her "head starts spinning around, and probably even then," Carter will still see Cassandra as herself; this is likely a reference to the film The Exorcist.

Sources

• Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
• Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity (2001-07-06). Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 7, 2006.

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