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== Précis ==
== Précis ==
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== SciFi.com Official Summary ==
== SciFi.com Official Summary ==


''The official summary is not yet available as this episode has yet to air in the United States.''
Daniel is missing, presumably a prisoner of Adria, but his worried teammates have no time to lose in the fight against the Ori. Carter has been modifying the invisibility device known as Arthur's Mantle until it can shift large objects into a neighboring dimension, hiding them from enemy eyes. Now, over her objections, Gen. Landry insists that the highly experimental device be pressed into service for a life-or-death crisis: the natives of P9C–882, inspired by their leader Thilana, have refused a Prior's call to convert to Origin. Without help from Earth, they will face terrible retribution when the Prior returns to their village in three days.


== Episode Spoilers ==
The team travels to P9C–882. At first, Carter's device works perfectly: the entire village, with SG-1 inside, vanishes from the face of the planet. Unfortunately, the dimensional displacement field then collapses prematurely, rendering the village and its people visible again. Before Carter can fix it, the Prior arrives — with an army.


'''Note:''' Latest updates are <font color="#AC4516">in color</font>.
SG-1 and the villagers fight a losing battle against the superior force of crusaders. Carter, defending the device in the village library, is shot. Mitchell, finding her, activates the damaged device as a last-ditch effort to save the village, but it has barely enough power to cloak the library. Only Carter and Mitchell are hidden from their enemies' eyes, and Carter's wound is serious. As time passes, she urges Mitchell to accept the inevitability of her death, but he refuses to give up, searching doggedly for hope.


===Storyline===
Outside, the triumphant invaders capture Vala. To her horror, their brutal commander is Tomin, the once-kindly man she married in the Ori galaxy. Tomin transports Vala to a warship in orbit, where he tries to convert her with stories from the Book of Origin. Hoping to remind him of his gentler past, Vala stubbornly points out the contradictions between the Book's compassionate words and the Priors' bloody crusade.


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.
On the planet, having seen the library vanish, Tomin's soldiers suspect that infidel magic is at work. They demand that the guilty parties confess. Teal'c has been biding his time undercover among the villagers, but soon some of them, frightened and angry, betray him to the soldiers. He remains silent under torture, but Thilana eventually breaks and describes Carter's device. Even then, the Prior himself still fails to expose the library. Infuriated, he orders that the village be bombed to oblivion from orbit. Now, only Carter's scientific brilliance can save the day &mdash; if Mitchell can keep her alive.
 
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." &mdash; Michael Shanks, [http://www.michaelshanks-online.com/archives/msol/msfeet.shtml 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.
* <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>
 
'''Note that all spoilers are subject to change before the finished episode is produced.'''


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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'''Ori:'''
'''Ori:'''
* [[Tim Guinee]] as [[Tomin]]
* [[Tim Guinee]] as [[Tomin of Ver Isca|Tomin]]
* [[Greg Anderson]] as [[Priors of the Ori|Prior]]
* [[Greg Anderson]] as [[Administrator|Prior]]
* [[Sean Tyson]] as [[Ori Firstman]]
* [[Sean Tyson]] as [[Ori Army|Ori Firstman]]


== Production ==
== Production ==
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=== Keywords ===
=== Keywords ===


* [[Adria]]
* [[Arthur's Mantle]]
* [[Merlin]]
* [[Merlin]]
* [[Ori]]
* [[Ori]]
* [[Ori Army]]
* [[Ori Warship]]
* [[P9C-882]]
* [[Priors of the Ori]]
* [[Priors of the Ori]]
* [[SG-1]]
* [[SG-1]]
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== Related Links ==
== Related Links ==
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==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." &mdash; 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.
* "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; 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.)
* "Also, in case you’re wondering why nary a word is mentioned about the fact that Daniel is missing in this episode, the teaser (the first scene before the title) dealt specifically with Daniel’s absence, but had to be cut for time." &mdash; Alex Levine, script coordinator, Scifi.com blog, April 18, 2007.


== Further Reading ==
== Further Reading ==
* [http://www.michaelshanks-online.com/archives/msol/msfeet.shtml Michael Shanks Online Interview with Michael Shanks, January 2006.]
* [http://www.michaelshanks-online.com Michael Shanks Online: TT20 2006 Update, July 9, 2006.]
* [http://blog.scifi.com/stargate/archives/2007/04/ Alex Levine's blog at scifi.com, April 2007.]


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Précis

Carter uses Merlin’s technology to move an entire village into another dimension to save them from an imminent Ori attack, but the village soon comes under danger when the technology fails and the villagers are faced with capitulating to the Ori or being destroyed.

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SciFi.com Official Summary

Daniel is missing, presumably a prisoner of Adria, but his worried teammates have no time to lose in the fight against the Ori. Carter has been modifying the invisibility device known as Arthur's Mantle until it can shift large objects into a neighboring dimension, hiding them from enemy eyes. Now, over her objections, Gen. Landry insists that the highly experimental device be pressed into service for a life-or-death crisis: the natives of P9C–882, inspired by their leader Thilana, have refused a Prior's call to convert to Origin. Without help from Earth, they will face terrible retribution when the Prior returns to their village in three days.

The team travels to P9C–882. At first, Carter's device works perfectly: the entire village, with SG-1 inside, vanishes from the face of the planet. Unfortunately, the dimensional displacement field then collapses prematurely, rendering the village and its people visible again. Before Carter can fix it, the Prior arrives — with an army.

SG-1 and the villagers fight a losing battle against the superior force of crusaders. Carter, defending the device in the village library, is shot. Mitchell, finding her, activates the damaged device as a last-ditch effort to save the village, but it has barely enough power to cloak the library. Only Carter and Mitchell are hidden from their enemies' eyes, and Carter's wound is serious. As time passes, she urges Mitchell to accept the inevitability of her death, but he refuses to give up, searching doggedly for hope.

Outside, the triumphant invaders capture Vala. To her horror, their brutal commander is Tomin, the once-kindly man she married in the Ori galaxy. Tomin transports Vala to a warship in orbit, where he tries to convert her with stories from the Book of Origin. Hoping to remind him of his gentler past, Vala stubbornly points out the contradictions between the Book's compassionate words and the Priors' bloody crusade.

On the planet, having seen the library vanish, Tomin's soldiers suspect that infidel magic is at work. They demand that the guilty parties confess. Teal'c has been biding his time undercover among the villagers, but soon some of them, frightened and angry, betray him to the soldiers. He remains silent under torture, but Thilana eventually breaks and describes Carter's device. Even then, the Prior himself still fails to expose the library. Infuriated, he orders that the village be bombed to oblivion from orbit. Now, only Carter's scientific brilliance can save the day — if Mitchell can keep her alive.

Cast

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Ori:

Production

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Fan

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.
  • "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.)
  • "Also, in case you’re wondering why nary a word is mentioned about the fact that Daniel is missing in this episode, the teaser (the first scene before the title) dealt specifically with Daniel’s absence, but had to be cut for time." — Alex Levine, script coordinator, Scifi.com blog, April 18, 2007.

Further Reading


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