The stargate is gone! It vanished from Stargate Command right under the noses of the personnel on duty. Impossible? Not with Asgard beaming technology. Yet why would Earth's alien allies do that? It must be something else — and upon investigation of the surveillance tapes, Lt. Col. Samantha Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson and Brig. Gen. Jack O'Neill notice a scientist tagging the stargate with a locator beacon so that whomever was using the transporter could lock on to it.
That scientist, one Dr. Kevin Hartkans, cannot be found. It looks like this is the work of The Trust — rogue former agents of the National Intelligence Division (NID) taking whatever ruthless action they deem necessary to protect Earth from alien invaders.
Teal'c, after meeting with rebel Jaffa leaders on planet P4S-161, has found he cannot 'gate back to Earth. He goes to the fail-safe Alpha Site, where Col. Pierce confirms the interrupted contact with Earth. Teal'c returns to P4S-161 to borrow a ship to fly back to Earth — and finds thousands of Jaffa mysteriously dead with no sign of violence. With another new arrival, the Jaffa M'zel, Teal'c returns to the Alpha Site.
Meanwhile, satellite intelligence leads Carter, Daniel and SG forces to a warehouse, where they find VX rockets and enough nerve gas to kill hundreds of thousands of people. In a firefight with a Trust agent, some nerve gas containers are hit and begin leaking, but no one dies. Carter's analysis reveals that the gas is the symbiote poison that Stargate Command and the Tok'ra have been developing as a weapon against the Goa'uld system lords. Because the poison is equally deadly to the Jaffa, they've agreed not to use it except in defensive situations.
It's now clear that the Trust intends to use the poison, the VX rockets and the stargate to launch a full-scale chemical assault on the Goa'uld without any concern for the millions of Jaffa who will lose their lives in the process.
The wounded Trust agent from the warehouse had an Area 51 badge, which leads Carter and Daniel to question a Dr. Bricksdale there. Evidence suggests that a transporter wrist device, obtained from the system lord Osiris after she was captured, has somehow been taken, used and returned. However, SG-1 can't prove Bricksdale is involved, and the wrist device is inoperable.
Back at the Alpha Site, M'zel tells Teal'c that three more Goa'uld planets have been attacked and millions of Jaffa are dead from the Tok'ra symbiote poison. M'zel, who, like many Jaffa, is distrustful of the Tok'ra, is convinced that the Tok'ra have turned against them and that this genocide is their doing. But that's unlikely for many reasons, so Teal'c and M'zel 'gate to planet P3S-114, deep in Goa'uld territory, where they hope to contact an undercover Tok'ra operative named Zarin to try to learn more. The only way to see her, though, is to be captured.
Meanwhile, Carter and SGC forces follow Bricksdale to a meeting with Trust agent Hoskins, whom they've encountered before. The traitorous Bricksdale is taken into custody. Carter zats Hoskins and takes his locator beacon — and is suddenly beamed away somewhere in his place.
Carter finds herself in the cloaked Goa'uld Alkesh fighter that Osiris had left behind in orbit. The Trust retrieves Hoskins, then ties up Carter to watch helplessly as they launch rockets filled with poison to Goa'uld-occupied worlds. The next one is aimed at the very planet Teal'c is now on. The rocket hits after Zarin tells Teal'c and M'zel that the Tok'ra have nothing to do with the Jaffa slaughters. Then she, M'zel and all the Jaffa die from exposure to the gas. A horrified Teal'c — who no longer possesses a symbiote — is immune.
Back at Stargate Command, Daniel convinces Bricksdale to spill the beans and cooperate. Bricksdale fixes the wrist device so that Daniel can board the Alkesh. There he deactivates the cloaking device. He attempts to disable the hyperdrive but is captured. Hoskins, realizing that the ship is now visible, orders the ship to escape into hyperspace. He's about to kill Carter and Daniel when Teal'c, communicating through the stargate, startles Hoskins. Daniel tells Teal'c to come through. He does, and takes out the Trust men. Carter tags the stargate with a locator beacon. Just before the remaining Trust pilot can send the ship into hyperspace, Col. Pendergast in the SGC starship Prometheus locks on to the signal and beams the stargate, Carter, Daniel and Teal'c aboard.
The stargate is returned to Earth — but The Trust still has enough poison to wipe out a half-dozen Goa'uld worlds.
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JONATHAN HOLMES | ...... | Dr. Bricksdale |
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BRANDY LEDFORD | ...... | Zarin |
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ROB LEE | ...... | Col. Pierce |
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BENITA HA | ...... | Brooks |
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PETER BRYANT | ...... | Hoskins |
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LUCAS WOLF | ...... | Jennings |
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MARK GIBBON | ...... | M'zel |
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SCOTT OWEN | ...... | Sgt. Mackenzie |
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BARCLAY HOPE | ...... | Col. Pendergast |
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GARY JONES | ...... | Sgt. Walter Harriman (Technician) |
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DAN SHEA | ...... | Sgt. Siler |
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ROB HAYTER | ...... | Sergeant |
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CHELAH HORSDAL | ...... | Commanding Officer |
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RYAN BOOTH | ...... | Zarin's Jaffa |
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ED ANDERS | ...... | Warehouse Guy |
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Written by | ...... | Joseph Mallozzi
& Paul Mullie |
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Director | ...... | Peter DeLuise |
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