Revelations
Meridian ..... Redemption Part One
Written By: Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
Directed By: Martin Wood
Guest Stars: Anna-Louise Plowman as Osiris & Teryl Rothery as the voice of Heimdall
THE PLOT
Flashbacks to Summit, Last Stand & Meridian
The episode begins with a couple of Goa'uld ships in orbit over a planet. An Asgard ship arrives with Thor on board. One of the Goa'uld ships is carrying Osiris, who is told to stand down by Thor. She refuses and the Asgard ship opens fire. The shields of Osiris's ship are more than a match for the Asgard firepower.
At the SGC, Sam is taking an emotional look around Daniel's office. Hammond turns up and tells her that Jack has advised SG-1 stay on duty. Sam isn't happy. As they talk there is an unauthorised dial in. It is the Asgard Freyr. Freyr tells them that Thor has been killed by the Goa'uld and that they need SG-1's help to save a scientist and the research trapped on the planet the Goa'uld have surrounded.
SG-1 travels to the planet in their cargo ship. They cloak and pass by the Goa'uld ships. Once at the co-ordinates Freyr gave them, they are beamed into the Asgard facility. They meet the Asgard scientist Heimdall who tells them that Thor isn't actually dead but a prisoner of the Goa'uld.
Osiris goes to see Thor and tells him that Anubis himself has taken a personal interest in the matter and is coming to oversee his interrogation. Jack asks Heimdall if it is possible to contact Thor, it is. Thor tells Jack that they must take Heimdall and the research and leave, the future of the Asgard depends on it.
Back in the lab Heimdall tells them what the research is. The Asgard are clones but are now having trouble reproducing themselves and are a dying race. Heimdall is researching ways to help them. They now come up with a plan to rescue Thor. Jack and Teal'c will ring to Osiris's ship at the same time Anubis does, Sam will then guide them using the Asgard sensors. They will take out the shields allowing them all to be beamed out. Heimdall starts to prepare to leave.
Osiris orders her Jaffa to take Gliders into the planets atmosphere and find the lab. She also gets a communication that Yu is mounting a strong offensive against Anubis's forces. Anubis now arrives and transports to Osiris's ship, as do Jack and Teal'c. As expected the unauthorised transport is detected and Osiris orders the intruders found. Jack and Teal'c start to make their way to the shield generator and they have to hide when they nearly run into Anubis and his guards. However more patrols are bearing down on their position and Sam has to project herself into the ship to distract the Jaffa allowing Jack and Teal'c to kill them.
Anubis goes to see Thor. He tells him that a device will be implanted into his mind that will download all his knowledge to the ship's computer. Thor says that the Goa'uld do not have that kind of technology, however Anubis says that since he has returned, many things have changed. Jack and Teal'c arrive at the door of the shield generator room, however they suddenly collapse, knocked out by coolant fumes Osiris has had released into the lower levels.
In the lab Heimdall shows Sam an ancient Asgard they found in stasis on the planet. This progenitor of the Asgardf is vital to the research and has been kept safe on thsi planet, far from the replcators. Sam, Heimdall and the Asgard in a stasis pod beam themselves to the cargo ship.
Jack and Teal'c are locked up in a cell. Thor is able to contact them due to the device in his brain, he opens the cell door. Sam goes back to the lab and contacts them with Asgard hologram technology, telling them that there is a control panel nearby which would allow them to disable the shields for a few moments, thus allowing them to transport out.
Osiris sends one of the Goa'uld ships off to fight Yu. One of the Gliders has also detected the lab's position. As Sam is talking to Jack and Teal'c Osiris arrives and captures her. Jack and Teal'c ambush a small Jaffa patrol and take their weapons. Jack destroys the control crystals with a staff weapon. Osiris meanwhile is demanding to know where Daniel is, Sam tells her that he is dead and she can go to hell. Just as Osiris is about to use her ribbon device on Sam again, Sam is beamed out.
They are all re-united on the cargo ship. Thor tells Jack that they must leave him behind as the device in his mind is still connected to the Goa'uld computer, thus meaning they can trace him. The Goa'uld mothership fires on the cargo ship, rendering the cloak and hyperdrive useless. Anubis contacts them demanding they stand down, however 3 Asgard ships suddenly come out of hyperspace and tell Anubis to retreat, he does so.
Back at the SGC, Sam is telling the others that the Asgard have seemingly turned the tide in the fight against the Replicators, they have also removed the device from Thor's brain but he is in a coma and as they know nothing about the device they can't do anything to help him. Hammond dismisses them.
A while later Jack, Sam and Teal'c meet up to go for a bite to eat. As they leave they feel a breeze in the corridor, Jack smiles wryly.
Meridian ..... Redemption Part One