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"The Gamekeeper" is the fourth episode of the second season of Stargate SG-1.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 References 4 Notable Quotes 5 Notes 6 In other languages 7 Sources

SynopsisEdit

On P7J-989, SG-1 is attached to virtual reality pods where Captain Samantha Carter and Dr. Daniel Jackson are replaying Jackson's parents' death and where Colonel Jack O'Neill and Teal'c are replaying a past mission gone awry. The man behind it, the Keeper, is keeping the planet's inhabitants from leaving.

PlotEdit

SG-1 visits a world and finds itself in a large beautiful garden, but then they find out that all people on the world are tied to some machines. Suddenly all team members are captured by some empty machines. Afterwards they are separated and find themselves in other places.

Colonel Jack O'Neill and Teal'c find themselves in a wooded area and suddenly meet other human soldiers from Earth, including Charles Kawalsky, who died one year ago. O'Neill then recognizes this place and remembers that this was the time of an undercover mission in East Germany, 1982, where one of them died. However the soldiers act as if Teal'c is one of them and call him "Thomas". Because they think that they might have traveled through time, they again go through the mission. However it again goes wrong and suddenly the mission starts again from the beginning. This scenario happens over and over again and O'Neill isn't able to change the outcome.

Dr. Daniel Jackson and Captain Samantha Carter in the meantime find themselves in a museum and Jackson remembers it as the time when his parents were killed by falling stones. He also tries to change this event several times but also fails.

Back at O'Neill and Teal'c they are visited by a strange man named the "Keeper", who tells them that he offers them the possibility to change the past - albeit only in a simulation. Afterwards he also visits Daniel and Carter and tells them the same. However all members of SG-1 decide that they won't take part in this simulations anymore and refuse to do anything. Because of this the Keeper brings all the team members back together and tells them that over 1000 years ago a chemical disaster took place which destroyed this world. Because of this the whole civilizations entered stasis and now they want more scenarios for their virtual world. Because Teal'c's and Carter's brain can't be accessed (Jaffa are apparently immune to the process and Sam's mind has been altered by Jolinar of Malkshur), the Keeper lets them take part in the simulations of their friends.

While they talk they are watched by many people (the other inhabitants of the virtual world) and when they hear that the outside world has recovered, they react. However the Keeper then sends them away and finally lets SG-1 free. The team then returns to Earth, where they are checked in the infirmary and then report to Major General George S. Hammond. However the General tells them to get more information about this virtual world, which would mean that they would have to be hooked up to the machines again and Hammond orders them to do so. Due to his uncharacteristic behavior, SG-1 then concludes that they are still in the VR and O'Neill attacks the General, who then orders them to be arrested.

In the cell they are visited by Kawalsky who tells them that they simply should stay in the VR. However the team then escapes and suddenly meets the residents of the VR, who ask the team about the outside world. They tell them that outside a beautiful garden exists. Since they are unaware of any exits out of the VR, SG-1 decides to show the residents their planets through their memories. Before they could step through the Stargate to show how, it is shut off by the Keeper, who was disguised as Hammond. They chase after him and accidentally discover the exit doors that the Keeper has been trying to keep his people from discovering, enabling them to exit the VR for real. They then capture the Keeper in the garden and demand to know why he didn't let out the people. He tells them that they would ruin the garden which he manages and finally the whole world, thus repeating their former mistakes. However they suddenly see that the people have already left the VR and now go through the garden and pick flowers, much to the anger of the Keeper. Promising to return and help the residents begin new lives, SG-1 returns to Earth.

ReferencesEdit

1982; Barbara Michaels; Black Ops; Charlie O'Neill; Dreamweaver; Germany; Goa'uld; Hockey; Jolinar of Malkshur; MALP; New York City; New York Museum of Art; Oxygen; P7J-989; Russia; SG-2; Snake; Stargate Command infirmary; Thomas; Virtual reality; Virtual reality pod; Volsinii

Notable QuotesEdit

Carter: This is beautiful.
O'Neill: Yeah... but where there's a garden, there's snakes.
Jackson: And flowers. (sneezes) Way too many flowers.

O'Neill: Uh, General, without meaning to, this time, to sound like a smart ass, are you cracked?

O'Neill: This is real this time, isn't it?
The Keeper: Do not pull that! You are ruining the garden! I told you they would ruin everything. First the garden, next the entire planet!
Jackson/O'Neill:- It's real.

NotesEdit

• In the eighth season episode "Avatar", it is revealed that scientists of Stargate Command brought back and modified some of the Virtual reality pod to use them as military training programs.
• The garden exteriors were shot in Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver. The dome itself is the Bloedel Floral Conservatory.
• In the season 3 episode "Point of View", you can briefly see one of the machines in Area 51.
• The point of origin for P7J-989, seen at the end of the episode as Daniel dials out, is the symbol used by the Keeper for the portals he creates.
• Dwight Schultz is known for playing Capt. H. M. Murdock on the series The A-Team and Reginald Barclay in several Star Trek spin-off episodes. The character of Reginald Barclay was particularly known for his addiction to holodeck programs on Star Trek, which may be referenced by the nature of the simulations in this episode and Schultz's role as the Gamekeeper.

In other languagesEdit

• French : Le Maître du Jeu (The Gamekeeper)
• Italian: Realtà Virtuale (Virtual Reality)
• Spanish: El Guarda (The Guardian)
• Czech: Správce (Guardian)

SourcesEdit

• Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
• Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity. Retrieved on October 15, 2006. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site. Also see Google's cache.
• Summary from SciFi. Visited June 5, 2006. Requires Flash.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 8, 2006.

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