Stargate Sg-1 (S1E05) - The First Cammandent
The SG-1 team is sent after the SG-9 team that has failed to return. They find that SG-9's captain, having been treated like a god by planetary inhabitants, is drunk with power and is tyrannizing them. Can they overcome him?
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00:00Come on, Frasier! Let's go!
00:20Connor! Connor! I lost the remote!
00:26I've got it!
00:56Franks! Franks!
01:06Go! Go!
01:26Franks, Franks, Franks... I'm disappointed in you, my son.
01:54So, Connor got through. What about this one? Burn him.
03:22For a planet with a UV radiation as high as this one's supposed to have, the plant life seems to be doing very well.
03:40Apparently, Abydos was the exception, not the rule, as far as trees are concerned.
03:43Well, that makes sense. I mean, in order for a planet to support human life, there must be some sort of carbon-based vegetation, right?
03:49It is no accident. Many Stargate worlds were terraformed by the Goa'uld centuries ago.
03:54Okay, let's take a quick look around the gate before we move out to find SG-9.
03:59It can't be that far.
04:01I don't know. This Stargate is literally out in the middle of nowhere. I doubt it plays an active role in anybody's culture.
04:15Is there a problem, Dr. Carter?
04:17No birds.
04:39There should be a road up here or something. Jack? Guys?
04:49Okay, okay, don't shoot.
04:52Very sound advice.
04:57Colonel O'Neil.
04:59Lieutenant Connor.
05:02All right, guys, come on.
05:07All right, Connor, what's going on? The man received your signal six hours ago. No one came through. Why?
05:13Hanson.
05:14Where is he? We need to talk.
05:15No. Don't.
05:17Why?
05:20Freaks. Heap.
05:39Connor.
05:46Connor.
05:48I need to know what happened.
05:50Permission to speak freely about a superior officer, sir.
05:54Yeah, go ahead.
05:57He's lost it. He's out of control.
05:59Captain Hanson?
06:01Maybe it was the sun, the radiation.
06:03What, are you saying that the sun did this to Freaks?
06:06No, sir. Captain Hanson did that to Freaks.
06:09What?
06:10They're trying to get back through the gate.
06:11I don't buy that.
06:13Sir, we were trying to warn command about what's really going on.
06:17The people here, they believe he's their god.
06:19Because you came through the Stargate.
06:21No, no, you don't get it.
06:23Hanson believes it, too.
06:27Carter?
06:37I want you to take Connor back through the Stargate. Report to General Hammond what's happened here.
06:42No, sir.
06:43No, sir?
06:45If you're going after Captain Hanson, I should go with you. I can get to him.
06:49Look, Captain, either we're bringing him back to face a court-martial or not.
06:55And I think we both know what the not means.
06:57I know him, Colonel.
06:58Yeah, that would be the problem, wouldn't it?
07:00I gave back the ring because I know him. I know how he thinks, how he operates.
07:03How he likes to play god?
07:05Look, I don't understand how that could happen any more than you do.
07:08But if SG-1 is going after him, then I am going with you.
07:10Wait a minute. No, you can't do that.
07:13There's hundreds, probably thousands of them. He's their god.
07:16They'll die for him. They'll kill for him in a heartbeat.
07:18That's not your problem.
07:20Now, I need someone to report back to the General, and that is you.
07:24No, sir.
07:25No, sir?
07:26Does it say Colonel anywhere on my uniform?
07:29I know the planet, the situation.
07:32I think it's suicide.
07:34But if you're going, I'm going, sir.
07:36But you're not physically able.
07:38Fricks was my friend.
07:39This isn't about revenge.
07:41It's about you.
07:44We gotta move now.
07:45In daylight.
07:53We're off to see the wizard.
07:55I'll be back lots of sun.
07:57We're mostly undercover.
08:00The probe's data indicated that shade, even heavy cloud cover, won't protect us.
08:04It can be pouring rain and we'll still burn.
08:06She's right.
08:07Then why on Earth are we traveling during the day?
08:10We're not on Earth.
08:11People here live in caves.
08:13I think they used to be mines.
08:15They only come out at night.
08:17They're probably still after me, sir.
08:22To Oz.
08:40To Oz.
08:50You were right.
08:52They sent SG-1.
09:11This tastes like chicken.
09:13So what's wrong with it?
09:14This is macaroni and cheese.
09:21Gil.
09:22The perimeter is established.
09:27Perfect.
09:29If any little rocks sneak up on us, we'll have plenty of warning.
09:41So, uh, any indigenous lions, tigers or bears I should lie awake worrying about?
09:46The plant life's all that seem to live very long in the sun.
09:49Now, how could something like this actually happen?
09:51I mean, the SD teams are supposedly made up of well-trained professionals.
09:56Oh, when we first met the cave dwellers, they immediately bowed down to us.
10:00Thought we were gods.
10:02Well, that's a fairly common phenomenon.
10:04I mean, uh, it happens.
10:06Except Hansen didn't deny it.
10:08He told us it might be safer if we allowed them to believe he was their god for a while.
10:12Said it was the system of government they needed to retake their world.
10:16And you were okay with that?
10:19Fricks was our anthropologist.
10:22He agreed with Hansen that it might be safer.
10:24But the longer we stayed here, the stronger they believed.
10:27In our fourth or fifth week here, a young child wandered out of the caves and must have gotten lost.
10:34Hansen went out after him.
10:36Two full days before he came back, carrying the child barely alive in his arms.
10:42Cave dwellers must have loved him for that.
10:44Yeah, they did.
10:46He wasn't the same after that.
10:48You're saying that that's what sent him over the edge, this sun?
10:51It wasn't any one thing.
10:53If it was, me and Fricks could have seen it coming.
10:57Done something about it before...
10:59Before what?
11:01There were a few cave dwellers who got the idea that Hansen was just a man like they were.
11:07Thanks to Frakes and I.
11:10He had them tied to stakes and left out in the direct sunlight.
11:14If they lived seven days, they were allowed back in the caves.
11:18A number of significant biblical events took place over the course of seven days.
11:22By then they were blind.
11:25Giant bleeding burns all over them.
11:28It just took them a little longer to die.
11:31Personally, I'd rather eat a bullet.
11:40I'll take first watch.
11:58I'll take second watch.
12:28Hey, Colonel, I'll take watchman.
12:51Let's go. We've got company.
12:53Are you sure?
12:55Pretty sure.
13:19It appears they are gone.
13:22Connor?
13:25Connor?
13:46The temple is taking too long to build.
13:49They're working as hard as they can.
13:51But not as long as they can. Divide them into shifts, day and night.
13:55You can't.
13:56What?
13:57They'll die.
14:00Sacrifice their way to salvation.
14:08They were probably just instructed just to take Connor and send us a message that Hansen's in control.
14:12Sounds familiar.
14:14Which part?
14:15He likes control.
14:17Well, what did you see in him?
14:19I don't know. I guess I've always had a soft spot for the lunatic fringe.
14:24He was charming.
14:26Well, that's good. Charming is good.
14:28I don't know. I should be more surprised by this than I am, but I'm not.
14:31You know, he had this in him, Daniel. Too many years of black ops.
14:34Well, that's typical of our government's evaluation of soldiers.
14:36The crazier they are, the more extreme the situation they seem to be put into.
14:41He wasn't happy when I broke off the engagement,
14:44but he seemed like he'd really pulled himself together when we met up at Stargate Command.
14:47Apparently not.
14:51What do you got, Kiel?
14:53This way.
15:14The road out of the valley. Toward the mountain.
15:44We'll be back in 30 minutes.
16:10If you were thinking about rescuing Connard...
16:12Not yet.
16:13When the time comes, I'll need your help to get in the front door.
16:16I'm prepared for that, sir.
16:22There will be none left to worship him if this continues.
16:24Unlike Abraham.
16:29Who was Abraham?
16:31A biblical figure. Believed to be the father of man.
16:34God tested his faith by instructing him to make a great sacrifice, his son Isaac.
16:41Did he sacrifice his son?
16:43He gave it a good shot before an angel stopped him at the last minute.
16:59Get up!
17:02He's worked straight through the night. He needs rest.
17:04Shut up!
17:07Do I have to make an example? Do I?
17:15Hey. Look over there.
17:21Whoa. Where are you going?
17:23We can't just stay here and watch him beat that man to death.
17:25You will be captured.
17:26Uh-huh.
17:27Then you think that's the plan?
17:28Daniel, I can get to Hanson. That's what the colonel was talking about.
17:31Well, can you at least wait until he gets back?
17:33The man could be dead by then.
17:38We should have stopped him.
17:40We would have failed.
18:09Well, that was refreshing.
18:14Connor looks bad. There's two guards, but...
18:22Daniel?
18:26Never mind. It's probably our only way in without a firefight anyway.
18:43All right, all right.
18:59Well, it's about time.
19:03Hello, Jonas.
19:07And you never thought I'd amount to anything.
19:11Quite a leap, isn't it? From captain to...
19:14What's happened to you, Jonas?
19:17Please, sit down.
19:24These caves were once mines. They permeate the hillside for miles.
19:29But these people have been multiplying like rabbits.
19:34They don't have the technology to dig themselves more space.
19:38They don't have the courage to leave the caves.
19:40It's like a third-world country in a bottle.
19:44And you think you're saving them?
19:45Oh, I know I am.
19:51These people, they're human beings. They're like us.
19:55How can we turn our backs on them?
19:58Kidnapped from Earth, forced into slavery for centuries.
20:01We can't change that.
20:02Yes, we can. We must help.
20:05Well, how does posing as a god and slowly working these people to death help you?
20:08I hate that word. Stop using it. I am not posing.
20:17It is a matter of definition.
20:20My people need me. They believe in me.
20:25And because they believe, they work.
20:27To death.
20:29We're building a civilization, Sam.
20:31There are going to be sacrifices.
20:34It's better than rotting in caves, living and dying in squalor like you've never seen.
20:43I'm creating a great people.
20:45In your image?
20:46Yes.
20:49It's going to be wondrous.
20:55You'll see.
20:59All right, we're going to have to get one of them alone and talk to him.
21:03They could give us away.
21:05Maybe not.
21:07Maybe not.
21:11I think I've got just the candidate.
21:15I think I've got just the candidate.
21:46I really wish I understood these drawings.
21:48Why don't you ask your people?
21:51All knowing.
21:55You knew I would come, didn't you?
21:56How could you not? Healer of the emotionally wounded.
22:01I was your one failure.
22:03A bird with a broken wing that wouldn't heal.
22:06You seem to be flying well enough on your own.
22:09I hoped that you would understand.
22:18I do understand.
22:19You're sick and you need help.
22:22That's your idea of help?
22:23Yes.
22:25You're coming back with me.
22:27Well, you're going to have to use it, Sam.
22:33Go on.
22:35Still loaded. Pull the trigger.
22:41Do it!
22:42Because so help me that is the only way you're going to stop me.
22:46What's a few deaths compared to the survival of my people?
22:53Killing their savior might irritate them a little, but at least I'd be gone.
23:00Don't make me do this.
23:02Go on.
23:04Pull the trigger. One more fraction of an inch.
23:18You had the gun.
23:21You appeared to have all the power.
23:25Yet I was in control.
23:27That is the strength of a god.
23:35My name is Jamala. Jamala.
23:37Please don't kill me. Please don't.
23:39No, we won't.
23:41Jonas said you would come.
23:43Devils with power like him here to destroy us.
23:45No. No, we're not devils or men like yourself.
23:49We're, I'm Daniel, this is Jack, and, uh, he's Teal'c.
23:52Hi.
23:57Is he Jafar?
23:59Yes.
24:00Don't kill me.
24:01No, uh, it's okay. Uh, he's friendly.
24:04He's a friend.
24:09See? Smile, look friendly.
24:12You're going to have to work on that a little bit.
24:15Now, how do you know he is Jafar? Have you seen one before?
24:19No.
24:20Just stories from when I was a young boy, long ago.
24:24He is a servant of the old gods, yes?
24:26Well, yes and no.
24:28He's from another place.
24:30So are we.
24:32Another place?
24:33Earth.
24:34It's way, way out there.
24:38Where we're from.
24:39Jonas, too.
24:40See, he's not a god, he's just a man.
24:42A crazy man, granted, but...
24:44Okay, okay, Jonas is bad.
24:48But it's all right, he can't hear you right now.
24:50He can't hurt you.
24:51But he will if you and your people continue to believe in him and follow him.
24:55No, he will save us.
24:56By laboring you in the sun until extinction.
24:58If we finish the temple, Jonas will make the sky orange.
25:01It will be safe to come out in the light.
25:03There will be no more sickness.
25:05The sky, orange?
25:08The sky, up there.
25:11Yeah, I know what the sky is.
25:13Why?
25:15The sky's orange, it's good.
25:18There's no more sickness.
25:20And Jonas can make the sky orange?
25:23Yes, he can.
25:25How do you know?
25:27He says he can.
25:29You know what he's talking about?
25:31I believe so.
25:34I believe so.
25:44It's going to be magnificent, isn't it?
25:48What's the point, Jonas?
25:50By the time it's built up, and no one left to worship you.
25:52Please.
25:54Mere survival for these people will require unquestioning faith.
25:58Pure devotion.
26:00Believe in me.
26:02If I am to lead them into the desert to the promised land,
26:05I'm merely separating the wheat from the chaff.
26:09Besides, I'm supposed to be crazy, right?
26:12I never said you were crazy.
26:14But you think it, don't you?
26:16Well, that's all right.
26:18I still have faith in you, even if you don't believe in me.
26:21Yet.
26:22You'll come around.
26:24I don't think so, Jonas.
26:27Come here.
26:31What is it?
26:33It is something I've seen the Goa'ulds use.
26:35It creates an energy force high in the air.
26:38What, protection from radiation, like this planet's sun?
26:41The device I saw appeared to turn the sky orange.
26:44The cave paintings tell of this.
26:46They show this symbol.
26:48Have you ever actually seen one of these things he's talking about?
26:51Where?
26:57Here.
27:11What is it?
27:13Looks like something the Goa'ulds left behind.
27:16What I've gathered from the local folklore is that the ancient gods
27:20used it to make the sky orange
27:23to protect the people from the sun's sickness.
27:25Some sort of shield.
27:26Yes.
27:28You don't know how to work it?
27:30Not my area of expertise.
27:33You never cared about my coming here because you wanted me, Jonas.
27:36You just wanted me to figure out how to turn this thing on for you.
27:39Oh, no.
27:41That's not true.
27:44I sincerely hope that one day
27:46you will agree to be my goddess.
27:52Turn it on.
27:54What if I won't?
27:56Then we will watch every last cave dweller die in the sun
28:00before I kill us both.
28:06He hath not failed one word of his good promises.
28:18I've been carrying this for years.
28:22All along, I've been looking for God.
28:30And here I am.
28:33So, you betrayed your gods as I am betraying mine?
28:38The beings I betrayed were not gods.
28:41They had power.
28:43But power alone does not make one a god.
28:46Do you understand?
28:49Can't leave Connor out there another day. He'll die.
28:52We also have to do something about Captain Carter.
28:54But if Kilt can turn on this device, we could seriously undermine Hansen's power.
28:57There's a problem with your plan, Daniel.
28:59Don't tell me you don't know how to turn it on.
29:01Yes, I can turn it on.
29:03But there must be two.
29:05What are you talking about?
29:06The shield technology involves a force field
29:08being bounced back and forth between two devices.
29:11I've only seen one in his cave.
29:14Hansen may not know he needs a second device.
29:17This is the valley.
29:19Here's the stargate.
29:21Here's the temple.
29:22Good drawing.
29:24Thank you.
29:26Where was the first device found?
29:33Then the second device.
29:40You're assuming the ghouls just shut him down and left him in place.
29:44That is correct.
29:45I'm sorry, Teal, but your calculations could be way off.
29:48Connor doesn't have time for us to be wrong.
29:51I'll go after him. You try and find that second device.
29:54I'll try to meet you back here.
30:16There's places like where the other one was found
30:18on the far side of the temple.
30:26This is like solid rock.
30:28We'll never be able to get through this.
30:45Stand aside.
31:15I just hope it still functions.
31:45Oh, no.
32:06They killed me.
32:08You sure? I've come all this way.
32:16Keep walking.
32:19Let's go.
32:29Think we could pick up the pace a little here?
32:35Go!
32:46Hey, how you doing?
32:48You know, we'd love to stick around,
32:50but some brain-dead sycophant left my buddy out here to die,
32:53so we're out of here.
32:56Out.
33:06Move.
33:08Move.
33:14Main control board seems to follow the same basic circuitry patterns
33:17as the gate technology.
33:20Just turn it on.
33:22What if I can't?
33:25Colonel O'Neil.
33:27Captain.
33:29I see everything's working out just as we planned.
33:39Shoot him.
33:41No.
33:43All right.
33:46Wait, you're gonna turn this thing on in here?
33:49Do it now.
33:51If it works, I'll spare him.
34:09It's beautiful.
34:21Will it work?
34:23I do not know.
34:27Everyone's being forced together at the Circle of the Gods.
34:30Stargate.
34:33My children.
34:35Today is a great day.
34:40The sun has stood still in the heavens
34:43and hastened not to go down about a whole day.
34:48I have the power to help
34:52and to cast down.
34:55But fear not.
34:57Stand still
34:59and see the salvation of the Lord.
35:04Today,
35:06we will bury the doorway
35:09that brings forth demons who threaten to undo us.
35:13But first,
35:15I will send those evil undoers
35:18who have already invaded our world back
35:20to the hell from whence they came.
35:27Fear not, for I, the Lord, your God,
35:30control the gateway to the Underworld.
35:48You said you wouldn't kill them.
35:50I'm not. I'm sending them back to Earth.
35:53Without sending the signal to open the iris, they'll die.
35:57Please, Sam. I'm having a moment here.
36:03I am the Lord, your God.
36:06There's nothing I cannot do.
36:09No one is greater than I.
36:11No one is more powerful than I.
36:15Throw them in.
36:17Wait!
36:27Wait! Stop!
36:31Back away!
36:41Listen to me.
36:43No matter what Jonas has shown you or done for you,
36:46he is not a god.
36:48Don't listen to him.
36:50They are demons, agents of the devil.
36:53I am your savior.
36:55They're not demons, for crying out loud.
36:58This...
37:00This...
37:02This is not magical power.
37:04It is called a gun, and it is a machine.
37:09Do as I say, or you will all die.
37:12Do as he says, and you will die.
37:14Pray me. That's all I've got for you.
37:17I promised you I would bring you out of the caves, into the light.
37:21Today, I fulfill that promise.
37:25Behold!
37:27The magical power that belongs to your God.
37:31I give you the sun.
37:33I give you the world.
37:45What's wrong?
37:46I don't know.
37:47Fix it.
37:48It's a machine.
37:49I can make it work, and so can you,
37:51just like Jamala there can fire that staff.
37:53Now, I'll show you how.
37:55There are two devices,
37:57and both must be turned on for the shield to work.
38:00Watch.
38:15Look!
38:16Look!
38:17That's magic!
38:23I'm taking you with me.
38:45No!
39:04I think we're ready.
39:08Think we should tell them to bury the gate after we're gone?
39:11Tilt seems to think the ghouls won't be back.
39:13Maybe we should come back and check on these guys.
39:16I think we've done enough, don't you?
39:28Something else on your mind?
39:30I had the chance to end this, Colonel.
39:32He literally asked me to do it.
39:34Killing a man is no badge of honor, Captain.
39:37Yeah.
39:39Look, I'm no expert on this thing,
39:42but I generally remember one commandment,
39:45and I think it's the first.
39:47I am the Lord your God,
39:49and you shall take no other gods before me.
39:51Okay, it's not the first one.
39:53You're talking about the no-killing one?
39:56No matter what the reason,
39:58every time you break it,
40:00you take one step closer to Hanson.
40:02Thanks.
40:09So, you gonna be all right?
40:11Yes.
40:15The world outside the caves, it's very big, yes?
40:19Yeah, it's bigger than you can imagine.
40:38No!
41:08No!