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PLOT Col. Carter has been trying for weeks to find a way to access an Ancient device found in Merlin's cave in " Avalon ", so far without success. Just as Col. Mitchell joins her to offer some breakfast, she manages to access the device, shifting them both into an alternate dimension. After their attempt to contact Daniel fails (they expected him to have the ability to see them, as he had experienced something similar in a previous episode), they have to wait for the base personnel to detect them. Meanwhile, the SGC learns that the Sodan homeworld has been attacked and, as Mitchell is missing, Teal'c takes SG-12 to find out what happened. On the base, Daniel finds out, by comparing security camera footage, that the device must be responsible for his colleagues' disappearance. At first Dr. Lee believes they have been miniaturised, but that theory is abandoned when Daniel hears the device emits Lepton radiation similar to the device that shifted him years ago. He goes to study the manuscripts from Merlin's cave, discover that Mitchell and Carter have been shifted much as he was - however, the device exists in both dimensions, so they begin to communicate by pressing buttons on the device. Meanwhile on the Sodan homeworld, Teal'c learns that Volnek, a Jaffa nearly mortally wounded by Colonel Mitchell in an earlier episode, has been driven mad by a Prior and recently killed all villagers except for the chief, Haikon, who is badly wounded; he survives when a member of Teal'c's squad administers Tretonin treatment to compensate for the death of his symbiote (Volnek has, logically, struck at the traditiional Jaffa weak spot when he was engaging the villagers). Haikon reveals that Volnek is using a cloaking device, and Teal'c decides to use one himself in order to find Volnek. He succeeds but is unable to kill him, Volnek simply rising to his feet once again when he is struck down by either staff blasts or traditional physical weaponry. In the meantime, General Landry sends SG-22 to support Teal'c's team when he does not report in; Mitchell, still invisible to the rest of the base, decides to tag along to help. Volnek, apparently retaining some measure of intelligence despite his madness, has disabled the device used by the Sodan to reach the Stargate from their lofty mountain village and has trapped Teal'c and SG-12 with him. Mitchell discovers that in cloaked mode Teal'c, and thus Volnek, too, can see and hear him, but are unable to interact with him as the as the phase he is functioning on is still different from that used by the cloaking devices. Mitchell and Teal'c decide to lure Volnek into an explosive trap, claymores hopefully obliterating the body rather than simply damaging it as bullets and staff blasts do. On Earth at the same time, Daniel has been shifted to the same dimension by a mistake of Dr. Lee and learns from the device's logs that Merlin used the device to hide his latest invention from the other Ancients - a weapon capable of killing ascended beings. Daniel explains that Merlin constructed it because he knew about the threat the Ori pose, and because the other Ancients were unwilling to take precautions. Carter and Daniel learn that the weapon is on another planet. Back in the regular dimension, Dr. Lee is further tinkering with the device and accidentally drains nearly all of its power. Daniel succeeds in bring Carter and himself back just as they learn the coordinates where Merlin stored his prototype. Unfortunately, the device also affects Mitchell on the Sodan homeworld who had almost succeeded in luring Volnek into the trap. However, with some help from Teal'c, the trap succeeds after all and Volnek is reduced to miniscule and harmless pices. Thankfully, Mitchell managed to remove the vital control crystal from Volnek's pocket before the explosive detonated and was able to repair the transport device. NOTES
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