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* Casting for this episode is to be completed by June 28 and filming is scheduled for July 31 to August 9.
* Casting for this episode is to be completed by June 28 and filming is scheduled for July 31 to August 9.
'''Note that all spoilers are subject to change before the finished episode is produced.'''
'''Note that all spoilers are subject to change before the finished episode is produced.'''
* <font color="#AC4516">"Michael stated that as far as he recollected, the four episodes he will be absent from are the 4th, 5th, 12th and 13th episodes. (At this stage not sure if he was talking about shooting order or airing order, but he did confirm he is not appearing in the episode "Lines In The Sand")." &mdash; [http://www.michaelshanks-online.com Michael Shanks Online: TT20 2006 Update], July 9, 2006. (As far as is known, "Line in the Sand" is the 14th episode in production order, scheduled to be before cameras July 31 through August 9, but is most likely to be aired as either the 12th or 13th episode to account for Daniel's two-episode absence.)</font>


== Cast ==
== Cast ==

Revision as of 11:55, 31 July 2006

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Précis

The team, sans Daniel Jackson, travels to a planet which has been visited by a Prior of the Ori. The villagers aren’t sure that this Prior is as much of a threat as the team thinks he is. When the team meets the Prior, they realize why he is so very different from the rest.

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Episode Spoilers

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Storyline

SG-1 continues on missions without Daniel Jackson. SG-3’s commander, Col. Reynolds, has put them in touch with Thilana, the leader of a village which is about to be attacked by the Ori’s army. Thilana is a strong leader with backbone and determination to refuse the Ori, but her fellow villager, Matar, isn’t as strong. SG-1 has come to the village to set up technology which will make the village seem to disappear so that the Ori will have no one to attack.

Thilana leads SG-1 to the village’s library where the records of her people are stored. Her ancestors recorded the history in secret, outside of the Goa’uld’s knowledge. There, Carter explains Merlin’s device to her: It shifts all matter within a preset range (the village) into another dimension. Because they’ll be in another dimension, the Prior of the Ori will not see or hear them and he’ll actually walk right through them. Mitchell is impressed that Thilana understands Carter’s explanation and claims that Carter normally has to “dumb things down” for him, but Carter says that he’s easier than General O’Neill!

After Carter sets up the device, SG-3 watches the Stargate for the Prior’s arrival. They’re aware that they’ll lose radio contact once the village and SG-1 are shifted into a different dimension.

The Ori have sent a squadron to attack the village, led by Firstman. He is a devoted Ori follower, having no problem at all in executing any villager who resists them. He witnesses the library where Carter and Mitchell are disappear before his eyes and determines to find out how it happened. Unfortunately, the village is discovered and Firstman threatens to burn the entire village to the ground if they do not capitulate.

Firstman’s squadron of fighters buzz through the air and attack the village. The wounded are taken to the local pub which has been converted into a makeshift hospital.

Teal’c is separated from his team. He searches for them, dressed in the robes of the villagers to hide his presence. He finds Thilana in the pub and asks her if she has seen his team, and Thilana says that she thinks that they have been captured or killed for resisting. Matar tells Thilana that he’s spoken to many of the other villagers and that they wish for her, as village leader, to go to the Prior on their behalf and embrace Origin so that the remaining people will be spared. Teal’c and Thilana try to talk Matar out of it, but he refuses to change his mind.

Carter and Mitchell are still inside the library, but Carter is badly wounded. Mitchell must administer morphine to ease her suffering. Both of them are still out of phase with the rest of the village and Mitchell proposes to set C-4 around the village and then turn off the device. In the meantime, Firstman has entered the pub and asks about the building which disappeared. Because he asks about the “magic”, Thilana challenges him that his gods are weak because they have not seen past the deception. Matar, knowing that SG-1 was behind activating the device, offers Teal’c for sacrifice, revealing his presence to Firstman as a show of devotion. Then, to Matar’s surprise, Firstman not only takes Teal’c, but himself and Thilana as well.

Production Notes

  • "I'm contracted for 16 episodes this season," Shanks says. "I'll probably be out of the fourth and fifth episodes and two others later on." — Michael Shanks, Michael Shanks Online Interview with Michael Shanks, January 2006.
  • Casting for this episode is to be completed by June 28 and filming is scheduled for July 31 to August 9.

Note that all spoilers are subject to change before the finished episode is produced.

  • "Michael stated that as far as he recollected, the four episodes he will be absent from are the 4th, 5th, 12th and 13th episodes. (At this stage not sure if he was talking about shooting order or airing order, but he did confirm he is not appearing in the episode "Lines In The Sand")." — Michael Shanks Online: TT20 2006 Update, July 9, 2006. (As far as is known, "Line in the Sand" is the 14th episode in production order, scheduled to be before cameras July 31 through August 9, but is most likely to be aired as either the 12th or 13th episode to account for Daniel's two-episode absence.)

Cast

Guest Stars

SGC:

Villagers:

  • Thilana
  • Matar

Ori:

  • Firstman
  • Prior of the Ori

Production

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--DeeKayP 17:44, 22 June 2006 (PDT)