Stargate: Continuum Page #2

This is Colonel Cameron Mitchell.

Do you hear me? Please respond.

Mayday. Mayday.

I don't think anybody's

going to hear you.

- We're in the cargo hold of a ship.

- What?

Not just any ship.

- This is the Achilles.

- That name's familiar.

Yeah, because it was the ship

that brought the stargate

from Africa to America

before the outbreak of World War II.

No, that's not why.

See, at the time, they thought the

stargate might be a weapon of some kind,

so they wanted to keep it

out of the hands of the Nazis.

Do you realize what this means?

Guys, I hate to interrupt,

but the temperature's falling.

We just passed minus 40.

- Celsius or Fahrenheit?

- At that temperature, they're the same.

Really? Didn't know that.

We've got about three minutes

before frostbite sets in.

Hypothermia, five minutes after that.

I'm already starting

to lose the feeling in my fingers.

All right, break out the camp stove

from the emergency pack.

Oh, you mean the one

that was with Teal'c?

We can't light a fire in here.

There's nowhere to vent the smoke.

Cover your ears.

You realize that's not going to

do much.

I'm not done yet.

If you don't blow a hole in the ice

with that, the entire blast is going

to come flying back

into this compartment.

Or worse, what if that ice

is holding back seawater?

Yeah, I admit, there's a few problems

with this idea.

Carter, how cold is it?

Uh...

Minus 43.

Fire in the hole.

Well, it's warmer.

Yeah, I'm seeing stars.

Let's get this fire started.

What was that?

Okay, the explosion must've

dislodged the ship from the ice.

Don't tell me. We're sinking.

- Well, we had to leave sooner or later!

- Foul-weather gear.

There's got to be some

around here somewhere.

Hey, we've got water coming in over here!

Hey, I've got something!

Jackson, try this on for size!

Carter!

Hey, we've got to go!

Jackson!

Jackson!

The ship was warmer.

- You want to go back?

- No, I'm good.

All right. So, which way?

Well, we're above the Arctic Circle,

so does it really matter?

- South it is.

- Daniel!

I know.

Back on the ship,

my foot went through the deck

where water was coming in.

It froze the laces on my boots.

I couldn't get it off.

Jackson, what did you want to go

and do that for?

Look, we'll just have to help you walk.

No, I can't feel a thing below my knee.

I don't think I'm going anywhere.

Look, I'm being selfish, here.

Our only chance is for you guys to get

within radio range of some kind of help.

The sooner you go,

the sooner you can send help back for me.

Go, don't waste time!

Once that sun rises,

it's going to warm right up.

Jackson.

Daniel.

Bye.

Oh, sh*t!

I keep wondering

what Daniel was going to say.

- When?

- Back at the ship, he got all excited

when he said,

"Do you realize what this means?"

Well, obviously, that Ba'al

had gone back in time

and stopped the ship

that was carrying the stargate

from ever reaching the United States.

By sending it to the North Pole.

- Yeah, apparently.

Carter, that is a terrible plan.

Yeah, but you have no problem

with the fact that he went back in time?

All I'm saying is,

why not just sink the damn boat?

I think the bigger point here

is that Ba'al has rewritten history.

Teal'c and Vala just disappeared

because they never joined SG-1.

The stargate program never happened.

In which case,

I would have never crashed in my F-302,

which means I wouldn't have

a titanium pin in my leg, killing me,

- which it is, right now.

- You're right.

- You're right, it's a paradox.

- Thank you.

Or maybe because we were in transit

through the stargate

when the timeline shifted.

Well, Ba'al never would've intended

that gate to wind up anywhere

but the bottom of the ocean.

Something went wrong,

and we were not supposed

to make it back to Earth alive.

That's his first mistake.

Maybe he's already taken over

the entire planet.

I mean, humanity could be enslaved,

for all we know.

That's quitter talk.

All we got to do is stay alive

until you figure a way to undo this.

- Undo this?

- You heard me.

Mayday. Mayday!

This is Colonel Cameron Mitchell. Mayday!

Mayday!

Sam, we have to keep moving.

Why?

If we're going to freeze to death,

here's as good a spot as any, isn't it?

Uh...

I don't like this spot.

Cam, come on. What is the point?

There's no one around for hundreds of...

What is that?

Hey!

- Which one of you is Mitchell?

- That'd be me.

- Jack O'Neill, Special Forces.

- Oh, my God!

We thought you were dead.

Well, back at you, ma'am.

- Do you recognize her?

- Sure do.

Sir, we've got to go back for Daniel.

What we have to do

is get you people off this ice.

- Major Wood!

- Yes, sir!

I marked the "X" and dropped the buoy.

It should be along any minute, sir.

Mitchell, I don't know what you're doing

in the Arctic with a dead astronaut,

but I'm going to need some answers.

Yeah, well, back at you.

What are we looking for?

There! Your ride!

Colonel O'Neill!

- Permission to come aboard!

- Permission granted, sir.

The C.O. would like

you to make it snappy.

Sonar picked up

a Russian sub nosing around.

Let's go.

- Down scope.

- Aye, sir.

- Colonel, welcome aboard the Alexandria.

- Captain, thanks for the ride.

We're always happy to help the Air Force.

Chief of the boat,

escort our guests to the ward room.

Escort our guests to the ward room.

Aye, Captain.

- Colonel, isn't that...

- If it isn't, it's her twin sister.

I'm going to need a couple minutes

to debrief those two.

You mean those three.

What?

Officer of the deck,

prepare to stationary dive.

- I intend to take her down immediately.

- Prepare to stationary dive. Aye, Captain.

Stationary dive, stationary dive.

- Jackson!

- Hey!

- Daniel.

- Hi!

I didn't think you guys

were going to make it.

Us? What about you?

Oh, no, the sub actually came up

about a half hour after you guys left.

It must have heard

the Achilles going down.

Scared the hell out of me, too.

I thought I was hallucinating.

In fact, I still am afraid I might be.

See, they pumped me up

with something, and...

No, it's...

- It's all real.

- Oh.

- How bad is the leg?

- Oh, they say I'm probably going to lose it.

Hey, you know, I thought I was dead.

I guess in the grand scheme of things,

I can't really complain that much.

Excuse us.

Jack?

Are there any more of you

I should know about?

No. Look, I understand

how weird this is...

About four hours ago,

one of our satellites

took the damnedest picture

you ever did see.

How did you get here so fast?

I was already on my way up here to

supervise a training exercise on the ice,

and then I got orders to make a drop

to determine what caused this.

Whatever that was is gone.

- And you have no idea what this is?

- You're the astronaut, you tell me.

The device that made

what you see in this picture,

an energy vortex created

prior to the establishment

of a stable wormhole,

is called a stargate.

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