Stargate SG-1 (TV Series)

Serpent's Song (1999)

Richard Dean Anderson: Colonel Jack O'Neill

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• Apophis : I am worth far more to you than you will admit.

  Jack O'Neill : You tell me what are you worth?

  Apophis : Your people, they are still primitive. They will be destroyed.

  Jack O'Neill : You don't look like you're up to it.

  Apophis : Not me. There is another.

  Jack O'Neill : Yeah? Who?

  Apophis : There is much you would learn from me, Tau'ri.

  [breathes heavily] 

  Apophis : But for that knowledge there is a price.

  [O'Neill rolls his eyes] 

  Apophis : A new host.

  Jack O'Neill : [raises his eyebrows]  A host?

  Apophis : So that I may live. In exchange for all the knowledge of the Goa'uld. The secrets of star travel, our weapons, our power.

  Jack O'Neill : All that...

  Apophis : In time, more.

  Jack O'Neill : [leans down further]  Go to hell.

  Apophis : A single human life is worth so much you would risk a world?

  Jack O'Neill : That's right. That's why they call us the good guys.

  [Apophis lies back and exhales] 

  Jack O'Neill : [Directed at Fraiser, but still looking at Apophis]  Doc, let me know when he dies.

• Jack O'Neill : What do you want?

  Apophis : To live.

  Jack O'Neill : Can't help you there. That's between you and your god. Oh, wait a minute, you *are* your god. That's a problem.

• Apophis : I demand kal mah.

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : I'm not really sure, but I think what he's asking for is...

  Teal'c : Sanctuary.

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : Right.

  Major General George Hammond : Why?

  Jack O'Neill : I think some rival Goa'uld just kicked his ass.

• Jack O'Neill : So what does he really want?

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : You heard him yourself. He wants sanctuary.

  Jack O'Neill : I'm not buying that.

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : He gambled we would show compassion even to our worst enemy. He was right.

  Jack O'Neill : You think he orchestrated this? Let me tell you something. The only compassion I showed him was by not blowing his head off.

  Teal'c : I have witnessed once powerful Goa'uld enter the service of their conquerors in exchange for life. When Apophis himself was a conqueror it gave him great pleasure to see his enemies so weakened.

  Captain Samantha Carter : But we're a long way from being his conquerors.

  Teal'c : But we are greatly responsible for his downfall.

  Major General George Hammond : He lost an army when you destroyed those two ships in orbit.

  Captain Samantha Carter : Bra'tac did say that seriously weakened his place among the Goa'uld System Lords.

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : So his blood is in the water and all the other sharks are having a feeding frenzy.

  Teal'c : And he has come here seeking refuge.

  Jack O'Neill : Well that's tough. I say we beat whatever information we can out of old snake boy, open that gate and toss him back to the sharks.

• Teal'c : Sokar is a Goa'uld of ancient times. He was once ruler of the System Lords but was defeated by an alliance of Goa'uld many centuries ago. Apophis and Ra were among his conquerors.

  Captain Samantha Carter : Where did he go?

  Teal'c : Apophis himself believed him destroyed. Obviously, he was mistaken.

  Jack O'Neill : If he was almost wiped out how bad could he be now? It's rhetorical Teal'c.

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : His name is also very old in Earth mythology. He was the most feared deity in ancient Egypt, the original god of death.

  Jack O'Neill : Got anything a little more up to date?

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : I don't know what he has been up to lately but according to the Book of the Dead there was a time he ruled all of Earth. His lands around Memphis were covered by darkness and inhabited by serpents.

  Teal'c : Unas. The first host of the Goa'uld.

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : Well that makes sense. If the Unas were the first ones there had to have been a time when both form of Goa'uld host coexisted, Unas and human. Kind of like Neanderthal and human.

  Jack O'Neill : Which is he?

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : I don't know but his portion of Tuat or "Other World" was filled with lakes of fire where the wicked were thrown into as punishment after torture and mutilation.

  Jack O'Neill : Hell.

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : Yeah, basically he was the original Satan.

  Jack O'Neill : Well isn't that special.

  Gate operator : [Over the PA system]  Incoming traveler.

  Jack O'Neill : Speak of the Devil.

• Jack O'Neill : Holy buckets!