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Somewhere Or Other, 1945. A bunch or workers are rotating the Stargate around while Professor Langford watches. He's apparently rather hands-on as he stands there and tells them when to stop over a particular symbol. He then gives a little nod to some guy, indicating it's time for an electric charge. The first chevron is now engaged. Yes,
Cheyenne Mountain, 1997. Daniel is watching old footage of this experiment when Jack enters. Jack tells him it's time for some exciting physical assessments, but Daniel is watching the tape in total awe and insists that he finish this reel first. Apparently, the tape was included without any notes so the only way to find out why they gave up is to watch the whole thing. The reason they gave up, however, soon becomes very clear. It turns out they actually managed to turn the gate on and send a man through wearing an old-fashioned diving suit, but the gate shut off after he entered it. The footage ends. "Holy cow," Jack mutters. Cut to [[Title Sequence]].
Daniel meets up with Catherine Langford, the old lady who acted as his [[Herald]] in [[Stargate|The Movie]] except now she [[The Other Darrin|looks different and has a different accent]]. She tells him all about the experiments performed on the gate by her daddy and her beloved
Back at the base, Hammond has been handed a [[Conflict Ball]] and is ''outraged'' that Daniel would dare tell top-secret information to a civilian, even one who already knows all about the gate and, in fact, used to run the entire program. He gets over this rather quickly though and agrees that a rescue mission should be mounted. Sam informs us that the address Ernest went to was not on the Abydos cartouche which she takes to mean the Gou'ald haven't charted it since an ancient list of Stargate addresses on some remote planet ''obviously'' comprise the entirety of Gou'ald knowledge. The mission is a go and SG-1 heads to the planet with Catherine, who they evidently somehow managed to convince Hammond to let them bring along.
They arrive in an abandoned castle perched precariously on a cliff overlooking a stormy ocean. Ernest shows up and he's not only old, but totally naked as well. He's overjoyed to encounter real people (he at first thinks they're
Sam and Teal'c set about trying to fix the DHD while Ernest shows Jack, Daniel and Catherine a room filled with writings from four different alien races, which, we will discover in later episodes, include the Asgard, the Nox, the Furlings and the Ancients. The room also has a holographic display of all the atomic elements, including some which haven't been discovered yet. Daniel excitedly gushes that this is "a true universal language" and that it may record [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Answer To Life The Universe And Everything]]. Of course, Ernest hasn't figured out how to read this language in the fifty-two years he was stuck there, but Daniel isn't deterred.
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