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== 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.''
The Pentagon orders SG-1 to escort diplomat Richard Woolsey and three representatives from the International Oversight Advisory on a tour of the Gamma Site. At that off-world base, the British, French and Chinese diplomats meet scientists who are studying alien bugs that might have been created by the Priors. Meanwhile, Daniel and Mitchell speculate that the real purpose of this tedious mission is to placate the Chinese, who are frustrated by American refusals to share Stargate-related military technology.


== Episode Spoilers ==
Suddenly, the voracious bugs escape containment and kill a scientist. As the critters multiply, taking over the 'gate room and swarming the base, Col. Pearson, the base commander, sends the IOA representatives outside for their own safety. Guarded by SG-1 and two airmen, the group struggles through dense forest toward an uncrewed research station, where they can wait until Pearson and his team defeat the infestation.


'''Note:''' Latest updates are <font color="#AC4516">in color</font>.
They don't get far before the bugs &mdash; which burrow underground and have highly sensitive hearing &mdash; burst from beneath the feet of an airman and devour him alive. The survivors race to a nearby cave, where the rock walls can protect them … for a while.


International representatives of the I.O.A. (International Oversight) are going on a little field trip with SG-1 to the Gamma Site. They include representatives from Britain (Russel Chapman), France (Jean LaPierre), and China (Shen Xiaoyi). The group is excited at seeing the Stargate for the first time and at the prospect of going through it.
During a long, tense night in the cave, Mitchell tries and fails to radio Pearson while Daniel, true to form, squeezes in some high-stakes diplomacy with the Chinese delegate.


Richard Woolsey begins his introductions of the members of SG-1 and the Chinese ambassador interrupts him, knowing fully well the person of Dr. Daniel Jackson. She recites his background: “PhD in Archaeology, Anthropology, and Philology. The man who solved the riddle of the Stargate.” Daniel, in turn, recognizes her and recites her background: “Graduate of Beijing Foreign Studies University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Former attache to the Chinese Mission in the United States.” They then exchange words in her native tongue, but Mitchell feels like he’s the topic of their conversation and laughs uncomfortably.
In the morning, the second airman dies horribly, the victim of a single insect that laid its eggs within him. Determined not to suffer the same fate, Mitchell and Teal'c risk returning to the base, hoping to find F-302s with which they can fly everyone to safety. As they approach, however, a massive explosion rocks the ground. The Gamma Site's self-destruct has gone off, leaving nothing but a smoking ruin.


The party goes through the Stargate, with Woolsey quite uncomfortable about the prospect of being molecularly deconstructed.
With the F-302s destroyed in the explosion, Mitchell and Teal'c return to the cave. There, Carter explains that Gen. Landry, on Earth, will have to follow standard procedure to defeat the infestation by sending the ''Odyssey'' to the planet with a neurotoxin that kills bugs and humans alike. Only hours remain before the Earth ship arrives; when it does, it will unwittingly annihilate the group from orbit unless they can reach it with the news that they're still alive.


Once at the Gamma Site, the members of the party are introduced to the various personnel and their projects. There are forty scientists working on more than thirty ongoing projects at any given time. The Site has a complement of F-302s as well.
The planet's radioactive ionosphere will block the team's usual transmitters, but the research station might have the communications equipment they need. To get there, however, SG-1 must lead four frightened diplomats through five miles of bug-infested forest.
 
They have an R&D Department which is coordinated with Area 51 and keep in touch on a daily basis. Dr. Myers, entomologist, is studying an asexual, fast-producing insect responsible for the devastation of numerous off-world crops. Dr. Myers has made the study of these bugs top priority because they have only appeared on planets visited by the Priors of the Ori. But, they have a very short life cycle of only three days and they are sensitive to light.
 
Mitchell and Daniel have a difference in opinion concerning the promises made three years to the Chinese government. Mitchell doesn’t think that the Chinese government should be given access to military intelligence, while Daniel reminds him that the original agreement (Gate Alliance Treaty) didn’t stipulate any form of restrictions.
 
While everyone stops to have lunch, some in the cafeteria, others in their labs, Dr. Myers discovers that the bugs have an appetite for meatloaf and all of a sudden, they grow and multiply so rapidly that they burst out of their containment box. Myers and Pullman close them off, but one of the bugs actually bites Myers. The bugs are now carnivorous!
 
They attempt to take Myers through the Stargate to the SGC because they don’t have the proper medical facilities, but he dies in the transport pod. Unfortunately, his death throws cause the medics to lose their grip on the pod and it falls and opens. Myers has a host of bugs inside his body and they get loose! The Gamma Site is under lockdown — no one is permitted to leave!
 
The Gamma Site goes into chaos. Power failures ensue as Colonel Mason tries to defend his base against these deadly bugs — most assuredly sent by the Priors as a follow-up to the virus. They lose the gateroom and Mitchell volunteers his team to help them retake it, but Woolsey wants SG-1 to stay with the delegation because they were assigned to ensure the safety of the group. They evacuate to the planet’s surface, headed toward the research station. But, to their shock, the bugs have escaped the Site and are on their way. As they flee, they find safety in a cave.  
 
Mitchell and Teal'c decide that they must go after the F-302s in order to make their escape after they lose contact with the base.
 
Shen and Daniel discuss the Stargate Program and the U.S. military. Shen wants to know where he stands in his loyalties concerning the U.S. military. She asks if it had been her country instead of the U.S. military that offered him the chance to travel to the stars, and he answers, “As long as the priority was off-world exploration that could help this planet, I’d have gladly accepted the offer.”
 
But, in the meantime, one-by-one, the people in SG-1’s party start to go missing...
 
"Paul and I were in editing today, doing a visual effects spotting session for The Scourge. Lots of creepy bug sequences in this one. Guaranteed, these critters'll get under your skin. Overall, great performances from [our] guest stars, especially Tamlyn Tomita (who [...] played Waverly in my wife's favorite movie, The Joy Luck Club), and the ever-solid Robert Picardo (who's wife Linda, incidentally, makes the most amazing rumcake I've eaten in my entire life)." &mdash; Joseph Mallozzi in his Gateworld Blog, October 4.
 
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"By the way, we just watched the day one mix of Scourge and it is a pretty darn good team episode." &mdash; Joseph Mallozzi, SG1Solutions Forum, November 23.
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Note that all spoilers are subject to change before the finished episode is produced.


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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== Guest Stars ==
== Guest Stars ==


'''IOA Delegates:'''
* [[Robert Picardo]] as [[Richard Woolsey]]
* [[Robert Picardo]] as [[Richard Woolsey]]
* Russel Chapman (British representative)
* [[Tamlyn Tomita]] as [[Shen Xiaoyi]]
* Jean LaPierre (French representative)
* [[Andy Maton]] as [[Russel Chapman]]
* [[Tamlyn Tomita]] as [[Shen Xiaoyi]] (Chinese representative)
* [[Mark Oliver]] as [[Jean La Pierre]]
* Colonel Mason (base commander, Gamma Site)
 
* Dr. Myers (entomologist)
'''Gamma Site:'''
* Dr. Pullman (Dr. Myers' assistant)
* [[John Prowse]] as [[Pearson|Col. Pearson]]
* Dr. Sharma (lead botanist)
* [[Tony Alcantar]] as [[Myers|Dr. Myers]]
* Airman Walkers
* [[Guy Fauchon]] as [[Pullman|Dr. Pullman]]
* Jason McKinnon as Airman Walker
* Sean Hall as Airman (SF)
 
'''SGC:'''
* [[Bill Dow]] as [[Bill Lee|Dr. Bill Lee]]
* [[Gary Jones]] as [[Walter Harriman|Chief Sgt. Harriman]]


== Production ==
== Production ==


* Written by [[Joseph Mallozzi]]
* Written by [[Joseph Mallozzi]] and [[Paul Mullie]]
* Directed by  
* Directed by [[Kenneth J. Girotti]]


== Related Articles ==
== Related Articles ==


=== Keywords ===
=== Keywords ===
* [[F-302]]
* [[Gamma Site]]
* [[International Oversight Advisory]]
* [[Odyssey]]
* [[Prior Bugs]]
* [[Priors of the Ori]]
* [[Transmitter Implants]]


=== Other ===
=== Other ===
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== Related Links ==
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--[[User:DeeKayP|DeeKayP]] 14:44, 18 Aug 2005 (PDT)

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Précis

During what was intended to be a routine mission babysitting members of the civilian International Oversight Committee through a PR visit to the Gamma Site, SG-1 and their party come up against something totally unexpected and deadly. A scientific experiment goes terribly wrong, unleashing the latest Ori plague to devastating effect.

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SciFi.com Official Summary

The Pentagon orders SG-1 to escort diplomat Richard Woolsey and three representatives from the International Oversight Advisory on a tour of the Gamma Site. At that off-world base, the British, French and Chinese diplomats meet scientists who are studying alien bugs that might have been created by the Priors. Meanwhile, Daniel and Mitchell speculate that the real purpose of this tedious mission is to placate the Chinese, who are frustrated by American refusals to share Stargate-related military technology.

Suddenly, the voracious bugs escape containment and kill a scientist. As the critters multiply, taking over the 'gate room and swarming the base, Col. Pearson, the base commander, sends the IOA representatives outside for their own safety. Guarded by SG-1 and two airmen, the group struggles through dense forest toward an uncrewed research station, where they can wait until Pearson and his team defeat the infestation.

They don't get far before the bugs — which burrow underground and have highly sensitive hearing — burst from beneath the feet of an airman and devour him alive. The survivors race to a nearby cave, where the rock walls can protect them … for a while.

During a long, tense night in the cave, Mitchell tries and fails to radio Pearson while Daniel, true to form, squeezes in some high-stakes diplomacy with the Chinese delegate.

In the morning, the second airman dies horribly, the victim of a single insect that laid its eggs within him. Determined not to suffer the same fate, Mitchell and Teal'c risk returning to the base, hoping to find F-302s with which they can fly everyone to safety. As they approach, however, a massive explosion rocks the ground. The Gamma Site's self-destruct has gone off, leaving nothing but a smoking ruin.

With the F-302s destroyed in the explosion, Mitchell and Teal'c return to the cave. There, Carter explains that Gen. Landry, on Earth, will have to follow standard procedure to defeat the infestation by sending the Odyssey to the planet with a neurotoxin that kills bugs and humans alike. Only hours remain before the Earth ship arrives; when it does, it will unwittingly annihilate the group from orbit unless they can reach it with the news that they're still alive.

The planet's radioactive ionosphere will block the team's usual transmitters, but the research station might have the communications equipment they need. To get there, however, SG-1 must lead four frightened diplomats through five miles of bug-infested forest.

Cast

Guest Stars

IOA Delegates:

Gamma Site:

SGC:

Production

Related Articles

Keywords

Other

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Fan


--DeeKayP 14:44, 18 Aug 2005 (PDT)