Prisoners
In The Line Of Duty ..... The Gamekeeper
Written By: Terry Curtis Fox
Directed By: David Warry-Smith
Guest Stars: Bonnie Bartlett
On an alien world, P3X-775, SG-1 are exploring a forest when a man approaches saying that the Taldor will find him, will find them. They go to help him. As they walk threw the forest a light engulfs them and they suddenly find themselves in a dark room under a spotlight.
SG-1 come under the spotlight.
Two voices discuss their crimes against the Taldor, they trespassed on ancient grounds, carried weapons on ancient grounds and are also guilty of aiding and abetting an escaped criminal and will share in his crime, that of murder. The Taldor tell them that they will be sent to the prison world of Hadante for the rest of their lives.
Arriving on Hadante via the stargate they are surrounded by prisoners whistling. Teal'c and Sam find the burnt out shoes of a man infront of the stargate, he was obviously standing there when it opened and was killed by the vortex. As SG-1 are surrounded and Sam is attacked, an middle aged woman called Linea calls everyone off, she tells the prisoners that Sam is under her protection and that no man will take her.
SG-1 meet Linea.
After Linea departs the team discuss what they need to escape, a power source for the gate that would allow them to manually dial out. While Teal'c and Daniel search for some of that stuff, Jack and Sam go looking for Linea.
At the SGC, SG-1 return from trying to find SG-1. SG-2's commander tells Hammond that the Taldor gave them SG-1's equipment and told them that they had been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Hammond discusses SG-1 with SG-2's commander.
Jack and Sam find Linea, she tells them that she believes that they are on another world, she also tells them that the prisoners believe that if they stand infront of the gate when it activates they will be taken back to where they came from, Jack and Sam tell her that they are actually killed. Sam tells Linea that they need a power source to activate the gate, Linea says she may be able to help them. Linea shows Sam her activators, these are some for of chemicals that work with a local plant to produce energy via cold fussion, Sam tells her it would power the gate and for sharing it with them they would take her with them.
Linea shows off her activators.
Rejoining Teal'c and Daniel, they watch as the gate is activated and a food slop is sent threw. The prisoners gather around and their leader, Vishnor, allows Linea to get food first, the other prisoners then jump in, leaving SG-1 till last.
Dinner time on Hadante.
Back at the SGC, the commander of SG-9, the SGC's diplomatic core, reports to Hammond. He tells him that the Taldor have a zero tolerance attitude to crime, therefore they have virtually none. He says that they shouldn't try to extract SG-1 by force as the Taldor are open to diplomatic links with Earth. Hammond tells him that tomorrow he will go to P3X-775 with him and speak to the Taldor.
Sam goes to see Linea and asks her what her crime was. Linea tells her that she was running an experiment that went terribly wrong, lots and lots of people died, she tried to help with a cure but everything she did made matter worst. She tells Sam that since SG-1's arrival the balance of power on Hadante has swung against her, Vishnor may now be able to remove her control over the other prisoners, she must go with SG-1. The gate dials up again and three men stand infront of it, Daniel tries to stop them but he is stopped by Vishnor. The men are killed and another prisoner arrives. Vishnor now tries to kill Daniel and Jack is also attacked. Linea kills Vishnor, unseen by the others, by a hand device that looks Goa'uld in origin.
Hammond arrives on Taldor and tells them that if SG-1 are not released them diplomatic relations will not proceed. The Taldor tell him that SG-1 can not be freed, there is no way to get them back from Hadante.
Hammond on Taldor.
On Hadante the man who came threw the gate is brought before Linea, he is blind. Linea cure him and he sees her and runs off, petrified. As Daniel regains consciousness after his fight with Vishnor, he remembers that SG-2 are going to P2A-509, they should go there and meet up with them, thus they will get iris codes to return to Earth. They decide that the next day after food delivery when the prisoners are all off elsewhere eating they will escape.
The next day after feeding time they set up the power equipment, it works and they start dialling out. The ex-blind man sees them and follows them threw the gate.
Returning to Earth, they introduce Linea to Hammond. They let Linea have access to all their computer so she can show them how to create activators. In a briefing between Hammond and Jack, SG-2 bring in the ex-blind man, he tells them that Linea is a destroyer of worlds, the disaster she told Sam about wasn't an accident, she did it deliberately. Linea is going through the computer database about the gate network, she knocks Sam out and heads towards the gate. Hammond and Co. go to stop her but she has already dialled up and locked out the computers, she has also activated the base auto-destruct. They watch as Linea exits via the gate.
Linea takes her leave.
As the gate shuts down the computers crash so that no one can follow her and the destruct sequence deactivates. A message appears on one of the computer screens :
> 'Thank you for your kindness.'
> 'All debts have now been repayed.'