Between Two Fires
Written By: Ron Wilkerson
Directed By: William Gereghty
Guest Stars: Garwin Sanford, Marie Stillin, Peter Wingfield & Gary Jones
Between Two Fires starts with flashbacks to Enigma, Pretense & Shades Of Grey.
SG-1 are present on Tollana for the funeral of Omac. After the funeral Travail asks them to return the next day to discuss a trade of technologies, something that takes them all, including Narim, by surprise. As they leave Narim hands something to Sam. When they get back to the SGC Sam shows them what it is, it is a hologram of Narim, he tells them Omac believed Earth is in great danger.
In a briefing they discuss it all with Hammond who tells them to proceed with caution. Returning to Tollana Jack and Daniel go too see Travail. She tells them the High Council has been having second thoughts on their isolationist ways, Omac was against them sharing technology but now he is gone the vote swings in favour of the new order. Travail tells them they can trade technology for Trinium. She then turns off the recording devices in the room and tells them the trade is actually only a face saving exercise to appease the non-believers in the Council. Turning the devices back on Travail tells them they will trade the Trinium for an Ion Cannon.
Outside Sam and Teal'c meet with Narim. Jack and Daniel arrive a while later and they tell them what has happened, NArim is astonished. Back at the SGC Sam tells them the technology is not backward engineered and they will need more than one cannon, infact 38 would be good! They decide to go back and ask for them but they will tread carefully.
Back on Tollana Narim meets them and they tell him what they are going to ask for. He tells them things have gotten worst, Omac supposedly died of a heart attack yet was in perfect health, the authorities also took 10 minutes to respond, something that would never happen, he believes Omac was murdered. Daniel and Jack go to meet Travail and ask for the guns, she says they will think about it.
Sam & Teal'c go to Narim's flat with him. They start to look through the curates records for any indiscretions on Omac or Ion Cannon. A while later Daniel & Jack arrive, the Council has agreed to them having 38 cannons. Teal'c meanwhile has found an entry about an unscheduled test on an Ion Cannon, Narim looks at it and notices there are two hours of missing time as he knows Omac didn't see him till late at night yet the meeting supposedly finished early, he also remembers Omac being very angry about it and believes it has something to do with his death.
Back at the SGC they decide to tag the first shipment of Trinium and see where it goes. Back on Pollyanna they convince Narim to help them further, he agrees to help them access Travail's computer and also gives Jack & Teal'c a phase shifting device so they can find the Trinium. they get into Travail's office and find out the Ion Cannon test was actually an attempt to destroy a Goa'uld ship that had entered orbit, the ships shield protected it and it left, the Ion Cannon's were useless. Jack & Teal'c find that the Trinium is being used for some new weapon of which there are many. In Travail's office Narim finds out the weapon is a bomb of mass destruction that incorporates phase shifting technology. Travail enters and has them arrested, a Goa'uld also enters, it is Tanith.
Jack & Teal'c arrive back at Narim's and manage to outsmart the guards that are there to arrest them. Narim also manages to escape using a phase shifting device and meets up with Jack & Teal'c, Jack tells him that he must destroy the weapons even if it costs his planet as the Goa'uld could use them to wipe out millions. Tanith contacts Travail and tells her to test one of the weapons, on the Tau'ri.
Jack & Teal'c are caught by the guards but it has allowed Narim to move freely, he is at one of the Ion Cannons and uses it to destroy the building with the bombs in. The Goa'uld start to attack and Narim arrives to help SG-1 escape. Sam asks him to come with them but he says he must stay.
Back at the SGC they decide the Goa'uld can't have obtained any of the weapons and they also don't know who Tanith is working for, he obviously doesn't want to attack Earth outright. They get a communication from Narim saying the stargate has been destroyed and they Goa'uld are shooting down all their escape ships, the Tollans are all but gone.