Stargate Sg-1 (S1E08) - Breif Candle
On the planet Argos, Kynthia seduces Colonel O'Neil, which gives him an Argosian lifespan of only a 100 days. As his skin turns the color of death, will the SG-1 team succeed finding a cure?
Transcript
00:00Give them strength, Lord.
00:11Let their hearts beat as one.
00:38And who might this be, Daniel?
00:40I'm not sure. Maybe early Greek, but I don't recognize the god form.
01:06Sorry, we didn't mean to scare anyone.
01:10You are not Pelops?
01:12No, no. You mean him?
01:15No, we're visitors, friends.
01:20The child is near. Please.
01:25The midwife is gone. I do not know the birthing mysteries.
01:29And the village is too far. Please, help us.
01:35What?
01:36Don't look at me. I don't know what to do.
01:40No!
02:40No!
02:49Push, push, push.
02:54You're doing just fine.
02:55Where did you learn how to do this?
02:57On a dig in the Yucatan.
02:59After the first one, I made friends with the local midwives and they taught me a lot.
03:03How many babies have you delivered?
03:06Two.
03:08Counting today.
03:11Five.
03:30Alicos.
03:34It's a boy.
03:36Hey, congratulations.
03:37You grow strong and then you...
03:44You never cease to amaze me with all your talents.
03:47Thank you.
03:50Wow, this place is incredible.
03:54It's like we just stepped into the citadel at Mycenaea.
03:58You said it was Greek.
04:00Oh, Mycenaea was an ancient city in the southern Peloponnesus region.
04:04Where's that?
04:05Greece.
04:06Why do I do that?
04:07Wait, I don't think you should be walking right now.
04:09I mean, shouldn't you be resting? Daniel, shouldn't you...
04:11I'm fine.
04:12I'm fine.
04:14We wish for you all to be the first to see him.
04:21A birthmark.
04:22A tri-point.
04:24It will bring him luck.
04:28I would call him Daniel to honor the stranger who birthed him.
04:32Oh, you don't have to do that.
04:33May we offer you the hospitality of our village?
04:36Gladly nice.
04:38Who are you folks?
04:40We are the Chosen.
04:43Where do the gods reside?
04:46Doesn't everyone know?
04:50In the sky, of course.
04:53Of course.
04:56I have a son!
05:03I love you.
05:11Look at these people.
05:13I guess I've never heard the word unattractive here.
05:18They all look as healthy as a Jaffar.
05:20That's a good thing, right?
05:21I don't see anyone who looks like they're over 40.
05:34Um...
05:35Do things feel a little...
05:37off here?
05:39Are you crazy? It's a paradise.
05:41Yeah, sure. Have an apple.
05:43What could happen?
05:45I am Kynthia.
05:47Welcome to our village.
05:49Thank you.
05:51Jack with you.
06:04It is pleasing?
06:07Very.
06:10You should have some.
06:12It is only for you.
06:16Only for me?
06:20Thanks.
06:33Hi!
06:37It is only for you.
06:39I think you have a fan, Colonel.
06:41I believe this woman wishes to spend time with O'Neil.
06:45Thank you, Teal.
06:50This place must be loaded with artifacts.
06:52That statue in there, for example,
06:54must be the Mycenaean hero Pelops.
06:56He fought in this winged chariot
06:58hurling lightning bolts.
07:00Poetic way to describe a ghoul of Death Glider.
07:01Yeah, probably.
07:03These people are obviously not laborers.
07:06I must wonder why a ghoul
07:08would bring them to this planet.
07:10Perhaps it was a good ghoul.
07:14Right.
07:16Like there is such a thing.
07:18I did not intend for my statement
07:20to be humorous.
07:22Trust me, they weren't.
07:26Hello, girls.
07:28Colonel, where are you going?
07:29Hello?
07:31Please, sit down.
07:59What is it?
08:30Hi.
08:38Unto every man the Creator gives 100 blissful days.
08:41It is a sin not to celebrate each and every one.
08:45A hundred-day celebration?
08:48I guess we should pace ourselves.
09:00Hmm.
09:07What exactly just happened?
09:17What?
09:18Can't hear.
09:20Can't hear.
09:49Um...
09:51What happened?
09:54To them, or you?
09:58We'll talk about that later.
10:00I've seen parties end abruptly,
10:02but never like this.
10:04They all just collapsed.
10:06It happened just as the sun set.
10:08I can't believe you did the same thing.
10:11I don't know.
10:13I don't know.
10:15I don't know.
10:16You did the same thing.
10:19What is it?
10:20Some kind of sleeping sickness?
10:22There's no sign of fever or pain.
10:24Breathing's shallow.
10:26Heartbeat's slow, but regular.
10:28A disease can affect everyone all at once.
10:31Seems to be nothing more than a deep state of sleep.
10:34Now, how about you?
10:37Let's just stick to the matter at hand.
10:40How does an entire village pass out?
10:43Something in the food?
10:46We all partook of the same food.
10:48Except for that cake.
10:51Which was only for you.
10:59Damn.
11:01She drugged me.
11:03Hey, whoa.
11:05Colonel, are you still feeling the effects of the drug?
11:08No.
11:10Just a little tired.
11:12Colonel?
11:14From now on, we stick to rations.
11:17No fever.
11:19Shallow breathing. Slow heartbeat.
11:21Just like the others.
11:23What the hell is going on here?
11:24What the hell is going on here?
11:46Hey, Colonel.
11:48How are you feeling?
11:50Hungover.
11:52But okay.
11:54Any answers out here?
11:58No.
12:00They all act as if what happened last night was normal.
12:02They party until sundown, then they fall asleep,
12:04and they wake when the sun rises.
12:06I'd like an explanation.
12:08Daniel, get back to that temple.
12:10See what you can find out.
12:12Take Teal'c with you.
12:14What?
12:16Carter?
12:18Keep asking questions out here.
12:25He is the creator.
12:27Pelops, the giver of days.
12:29This was his home when he lived among us.
12:31We keep it as it was then,
12:33and we'll do so until he returns.
12:35And when will that be?
12:37Well, that is a mystery.
12:39Until it is revealed,
12:41it is the duty of the Chosen to rejoice and wait.
12:43Why are your people called the Chosen?
12:45My ancestors were so beloved by Pelops
12:48that he fashioned this garden for us.
12:50It is said he chose us
12:52and brought us here from beyond the stars.
12:54Are there any writings of your history?
12:56Writings?
12:58I do not know this word.
13:00Uh...
13:02More.
13:04Of this.
13:06Writings.
13:08Do you know what this is?
13:10It is of Pelops.
13:12It is Goa'uld,
13:14an obscure dialect.
13:17Why didn't you tell me?
13:18Why didn't you tell me that before?
13:20You never before inquired.
13:22Well, you call it Goa'uld.
13:25Um...
13:27I call it Linear Ascript.
13:29We found pictographics like this
13:31in ancient Greece and ancient Cretan,
13:33but we never completely deciphered this form.
13:35The symbols are a sequence.
13:37What, like a combination?
13:40What is a combination?
13:42Well, it's a sequence of symbols or motions.
13:46Symbols or motions.
14:03Can you read this?
14:05I believe I can.
14:07It seems to be some sort of record.
14:10An archaic dialect.
14:12Very difficult to decipher.
14:16Owen, I want to show you something.
14:19Okay, I'm coming.
14:28Hi.
14:30I found this shell this morning
14:32and thought maybe Dan-El might like it.
14:34I can use it as a rattle.
14:36Want to give it to him for me?
14:38Oh, you can do so yourself.
14:40This is Dan-El.
14:42No, no, I meant the baby.
14:44This is baby Dan-El.
14:54Okay.
14:56That's not possible.
14:58Do you not have children who change and grow?
15:01Well, yeah, sure we do.
15:03But not like that.
15:05So, how old is that boy?
15:09That is Philippos.
15:11He's 12.
15:13Yeah, well, he's a little big for 12 years old.
15:15Years.
15:17What are years?
15:19I guess it would be different for each planet,
15:21but a year is basically the time it takes
15:23for the globe to complete one orbit around the sun.
15:25All right, let's just keep this simple, okay?
15:28Where we come from, there are 365 days in one year.
15:32No, no, we have no such counting of time on Argos.
15:36Philippos is 12 days old.
15:38How old are you?
15:4021 days.
15:43And, uh,
15:46Kempia?
15:4831 days.
15:58I think Pelops brought humans here to be lab rats.
16:02From what we've been able to translate so far,
16:04he wanted to know how humans were made.
16:05So he shortened the lifespan to about
16:08one 250th of normal.
16:12So, instead of having to wait 100,000 years
16:14to see how human physiology evolves,
16:16he could do it in 100?
16:18That is correct.
16:20Pelops wanted to determine
16:22what the human host body would become in the future
16:24and perhaps accelerate the process.
16:27Well, how did he do it?
16:29Was it genetic alteration?
16:31We do not know.
16:33It is not clear.
16:35It is a cake dialect.
16:40Daniel?
16:43Okay.
16:45I didn't want to say this until I was absolutely sure, but
16:48I think he may have created some kind of virus.
16:53And viruses are often spread through bodily contact.
16:58Some are, and some are airborne.
17:01But I think that this one isn't.
17:03What has drawn you to this conclusion?
17:05Because only one of us passed out last night,
17:07and that was Jack.
17:17You have to give them credit for one thing.
17:19They do enjoy life.
17:21Perhaps it is because they do not have much life to enjoy.
17:24Great.
17:26So now what you're telling me is this virus,
17:28which, by the way, I do not have, is deadly?
17:30Well, if the kids age five years in five days,
17:32what happens when they reach 100 days?
17:35Colonel!
17:47I guess it wasn't the cake.
17:50Maybe it was your physical contact with Kinthea.
17:53Get back to Earth, Captain.
17:55Figure this thing out.
18:06Tell me you brought the blood back in sealed containers.
18:09Yeah, of course I did.
18:11What is it?
18:13I'm not sure.
18:15First I ran a routine check for antibodies.
18:17Nothing.
18:19So then I thought, all right, maybe this alien bug
18:21found a way to hide from the immune system,
18:23so I ran a protein analysis.
18:25Okay.
18:27I think I like what I found.
18:29All right.
18:31These are the blood samples you brought back.
18:33Now look at the strange particulate in there.
18:36So that's from one of the Argosians.
18:38Now...
18:40that's from Colonel O'Meal.
18:42Wow.
18:44What is it?
18:46Something we don't have a word for yet.
18:48Well, how come the Colonel has way more of it
18:50than the Argosians?
18:52Maybe because he started eating it.
18:54I don't know.
18:55He has way more of it than the Argosians.
18:57Maybe because he started out older than they did.
18:59Sort of like a head start for whatever this thing is.
19:03I better wake up General Hammond.
19:11Jack!
19:13Lord is coming back!
19:17Jack.
19:25Jack.
19:42Welcome back, Captain.
19:45So what did you find out?
19:48Come on now.
19:50Don't keep the elderly waiting.
19:52It's rude.
19:55It isn't a virus.
19:57All right. What is it?
19:59Well, Dr. Fraser and I came up empty.
20:01She's still working on it.
20:03But it's going to take time.
20:05Time is something these people don't have, Captain.
20:08Nor do I.
20:10Colonel, there's something else.
20:12Your blood sample showed way more organisms
20:14compared to the Argosians.
20:16How many more?
20:18Maybe on the level of a hundred times more.
20:20And they are multiplying.
20:22Which means?
20:23It means the organism,
20:25or whatever it is,
20:27seems to be compensating for your natural age.
20:29You've already lived way longer than anyone with this,
20:31for lack of a better word, disease, ever should.
20:34Cut to it, Captain.
20:38At the rate you're changing,
20:40by the end of two weeks,
20:42you'll be the equivalent of 100 years old.
20:46So in two weeks I'll be dead?
20:48Not if I can help it.
20:53I'd like to set up a lab here.
20:55Negative, Captain.
20:58We may be able to retard the aging process
21:00long enough to find a cure.
21:02I want you to pack up and head back to Earth.
21:04Now.
21:06All of you.
21:08It's an order.
21:10We're not going to bring another disease
21:12back through that gate.
21:14I will remain here with O'Neil.
21:16I cannot be affected by
21:18whatever this is.
21:20I don't need company.
21:21I need a cure.
21:23And Daniel needs help translating
21:25that ghoul tablet thing.
21:27It might hold the answer.
21:29And don't you dare say goodbye.
21:31Because you damn well better be coming back soon.
21:39Now get out of here.
21:41All of you.
21:52Oh, my God.
21:54What?
21:57They're not multiplying.
21:59They're replicating.
22:01What's the difference?
22:03Living organisms multiply.
22:05Machines replicate.
22:07Machines inside the body.
22:09How is that possible?
22:11They're molecular devices
22:13that take atomic particles from their environment
22:15and use them to make more of themselves.
22:17Well, you're talking nanotechnology.
22:19Do you know anything about that?
22:21Yes.
22:23When I was at the Pentagon,
22:25I worked for a year with a group
22:27that studied nanotechnology.
22:29We were looking at it for a lot of different uses.
22:31One of them was medicine,
22:33creating artificial immune systems,
22:35repairing individual cells,
22:37even manipulating DNA to stop the aging process.
22:39Well, it sounds like Pallop succeeded
22:41in what you were experimenting with,
22:43only in reverse.
22:45Nice guy.
22:51What are you looking at?
22:53You think you're hot stuff
22:55doing this to me from six billion light years away?
22:58Can you really talk to the great Pallops?
23:01Sure, why not?
23:03He's just a piece of rock.
23:05He's not so great, anyway.
23:12Your people, they have gone?
23:15Yeah, they've gone.
23:17Then you will leave also?
23:20No, I'll be here for a while.
23:23I am glad.
23:25I would like to learn of your customs.
23:29Maybe some other time, huh?
23:32Kind of got a lot on my mind.
23:35But you ate the marriage cake,
23:37came to my bed.
23:41Marriage cake?
23:44Kentia, you thought we were married?
23:46By all our customs, yes.
23:48Sweet.
23:52Kentia,
23:55what you were feeling wasn't really love.
23:59That takes time.
24:02I mean, you can't get to know someone in one day.
24:06And to every woman,
24:08the Creator gives 100 blissful days.
24:10Kentia, will you stop that?
24:13Your Creator,
24:14was not a God.
24:16And He certainly didn't give you life.
24:18He took it away.
24:20We are the chosen.
24:22He made this place for us,
24:24to be happy, to love.
24:26To be experimented on.
24:28I mean, look at me.
24:30I'm 40 years old, or I was.
24:33That's thousands and thousands of days.
24:39You do not tell the truth.
24:41The average human lifespan is 60 or 70 years.
24:46Some people live to be 100 years.
24:51It is not possible.
24:53Pelops was an alien who used your people.
24:56He shortened your lives to satisfy his curiosity.
25:12We have given the nanocytes some live tissue to interact with,
25:15but they aren't touching it.
25:17The only thing they appear to do
25:19is make more of themselves.
25:21So, how are they causing the aging on Argos?
25:24Maybe there's something on Argos
25:26that they need to make them do another task.
25:28Something in the air,
25:30or the food that they eat.
25:32I don't know.
25:34I don't know.
25:36I don't know.
25:38I don't know.
25:39Something in the air, or the food.
25:51Is there a problem, Captain Carter?
25:53I don't know.
25:55Well, it's eating through the rubber.
25:57Oh, God.
25:59What?
26:01What is it?
26:03They're trying to spread.
26:10What is it?
26:30Is it true that
26:32you have lived thousands of days?
26:35I don't know.
26:37I should have kept my mouth shut.
26:42Or wouldn't you rather know the truth?
26:47Why do we deserve this?
26:49I can't hear you.
26:54We are good people.
26:56We love each other
26:58and this land you have given us.
27:01Why?
27:03Science.
27:04Progress.
27:06Knowledge.
27:14Alicos.
27:19What would you do
27:21if you had thousands of days ahead of you?
27:23I would walk out into the world.
27:26Beyond the borders of the chosen.
27:29Why?
27:31To see what is there.
27:32No one knows.
27:34Pelops has forbidden us ever to leave.
27:36How has he done that?
27:38He's nothing but a big piece of rock.
27:40He's a statue.
27:42He will strike us down.
27:44It is taught.
27:46No, he will not strike you down.
27:48Trust me on that, will you?
27:50Look, go on out there.
27:52Take a walk.
27:54See what's there.
27:56Go on.
27:58Then I could return
28:00and teach the people
28:02what I know.
28:04And in their thousands of days
28:06they would learn more
28:08and teach their children.
28:10Now you're talking.
28:25Come back to the village.
28:27It is not good to be always alone.
28:29Whatever time I have left
28:30let me spend it in my own way.
28:38But you do not spend it.
28:40You waste it.
28:43I don't think reflecting on my life
28:45or trying to figure out
28:47how to get the rest of it back
28:49is a waste.
28:51You are angry.
28:54Yes.
28:57Yes, I am.
28:58Aren't you?
29:00Now that you know the truth.
29:03What can we do
29:05but live in the way we always have?
29:07We do not have thousands of days
29:09but we treasure every moment.
29:14I know, Cynthia.
29:19But in my heart
29:24I'm a military man.
29:26A warrior.
29:28That's my life.
29:32To which my ex-wife will attest.
29:37You love her still.
29:43And now because of me
29:45you will never see her again.
29:56You have no heart.
30:01Then let me give what I have taken.
30:05The time of one heartbeat
30:07can become eternity.
30:26I'm sorry, people.
30:28My decision is final.
30:30Sir, neither of us show
30:32any evidence of the nanosite.
30:34We can keep working here
30:36in total isolation.
30:38All blood and tissue samples
30:40are being incinerated and pulverized.
30:42Work on the Argos project stops now.
30:44General, you are condemning
30:46Colonel O'Neill and the Argosians to death.
30:48Captain Carter,
30:50these things appear to possess
30:52artificial intelligence, correct?
30:53Yes, sir.
30:55That's the only way they could adapt
30:57their programming to their situation.
30:59Which means they could adapt
31:01themselves right out of this facility.
31:03Sir, if we destroy the samples,
31:05we will have nothing to work from.
31:07I'm sorry, the risk is just too great.
31:09The order is final.
31:11Sir!
31:13We cannot just leave him there.
31:15Dr. Jackson,
31:17Colonel O'Neill is one of the finest men
31:19it has ever been my pleasure to serve with.
31:21It will be a great loss to this country
31:23if he would not hesitate
31:25to make the same decision for himself.
31:27I'm making now.
31:34We're working with computer simulations
31:36and practical simulations.
31:38Realistically, sir,
31:40I'm afraid it might take years.
31:42The General says that gate travel to Argos
31:44is strictly off limits
31:46for the next few millennia.
31:48But we can send objects through
31:50so if you need anything,
31:51just call.
31:56Say something.
31:59Colonel,
32:01I've learned very much from you.
32:03Thank you.
32:05You know,
32:07goodbyes really suck.
32:22Excuse me.
32:26What are you doing?
32:29Our people do not have enough
32:31knowledge to help us.
32:33We must ask Pellops to return.
32:37For crying out loud!
32:40Oh, my God!
32:42Oh, my God!
32:44Oh, my God!
32:46Oh, my God!
32:48Oh, my God!
32:50Oh, Pellops
32:52doesn't give a rat's ass
32:54about things like love.
32:56He just can't kidnap people like you
32:59and take them to other worlds
33:01if he uses slaves.
33:03Pellops thinks of us as his slaves.
33:11Then I will no longer be
33:13one of the Chosen.
33:15Nor will I.
33:16That's the message you ought to be sending.
33:47He...
33:49He did not strike us.
34:00Oh, you like older men, do you?
34:04What is it?
34:06We should go back.
34:08No.
34:10No.
34:12No.
34:14No.
34:16We have gone too far from the village.
34:19Pellops forbids it.
34:21He's gone, kidnapped.
34:23He's gone.
34:25It'll be okay.
34:28I promise.
34:37Here.
34:41Oh, hell!
34:43I have to teach you a game
34:44I can win.
34:47It is good to see you smile.
34:51Tell me.
34:53Will you live the rest of your days
34:55without making love?
34:57Oh, God, I hope not.
34:59No, we'd probably just pass out.
35:07Why aren't we unconscious yet?
35:12It should have happened
35:14already, can't it?
35:18Why aren't we asleep?
35:25No one has awakened.
35:27Except for us.
35:29Why?
35:31How important is this rule
35:34that no one can leave the village?
35:37It is Pellops' first law.
35:41And whatever it is
35:42that knocks us all out at night
35:44is right here.
35:46What?
35:49I'll bet
35:51you and I stayed awake
35:53because we walked out of range.
35:56If you're good,
35:58be as simple as
36:00getting the hell out of Dodge.
36:03We stay out of proximity.
36:06No sleep.
36:08They all stay here.
36:10They get no wake-up call.
36:13There's got to be some other
36:15variable.
36:18Some other change.
36:43Excuse me.
36:45I've got a phone call to make.
37:13Welcome back, kids.
37:17It's damn good to see you again.
37:24Don't worry.
37:26Aside from a little
37:28prostate problem we won't go into,
37:31it's not so bad.
37:39I was right.
37:41It's a transmitter.
37:43There were two sets of glyphs
37:45that were quite tough to translate
37:47until Tilk realized they were words.
37:49They were, in fact, numbers.
37:51Two different frequencies.
37:53One to put the villagers to sleep
37:55and to activate the nanosite.
37:57The second one to shut it all off for the day.
37:59When you broke the statue
38:01you must have damaged the wake-up call.
38:03Can you recalibrate this thing
38:05to wake these people up?
38:07No.
38:08It's useless.
38:10I'm going to have to use
38:12the equipment we brought with us.
38:14I've loaded the frequency.
38:16I'm switching it on now.
38:34The sun has already turned.
38:36Why did we wake so late?
38:40Our tests indicate that your body
38:42has been cleansed of the machines
38:44that plagued you.
38:46I figure the immune system
38:48must attack them if they aren't operating.
38:50From now on you and your people
38:52should age at a normal rate.
38:54What about Jack?
38:56Me?
38:58I'll probably move to Florida.
39:01Get into a little
39:03retirement home of some kind.
39:04You look pretty out of place
39:06there at your age.
39:08Why?
39:10I look like my grandfather.
39:12Look is the operative word here.
39:14If our hypothesis is right
39:16the nanosites in your system
39:18were only meant to imitate aging.
39:20They weren't meant to start the process
39:22in a full-grown adult.
39:24What are you saying to me?
39:26Without these little buggers
39:28in your system to maintain the changes
39:30you should return to normal
39:32within a week or two.
39:34I was kind of looking forward
39:36to a little shuffleboard with the fellas.
39:45Then you are leaving.
39:58You will not be staying with me then?
40:00No, I won't.
40:05What will happen to us now
40:07if Pellops returns?
40:09I don't think that's going to happen.
40:15But just in case
40:17we'll send some folks by
40:19now and again to check up on you.
40:21My heart would be glad
40:23if you were one of them.
40:25Sweet Cynthia,
40:27I've learned so much
40:28from you.
40:32I'll treasure every day
40:34of my life
40:36because of you.
40:40For thousands of days?
40:43I sure hope so.
40:46That is almost forever.
40:49Almost.
40:58I love you.