Stargate SG-1 (TV Series)

Fail Safe (2001)

Richard Dean Anderson: Colonel Jack O'Neill

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• Sam Carter : [explaining the contents of the asteroid and how the bomb will affect it]  The explosion will be enhanced by the Naquadah, probably to the force of a small nova. This close to Earth, it would be enough to set the atmosphere on fire and boil the oceans.

  Jack O'Neill : Okay, this was not in the movie.

• Jack O'Neill : [looking out the window of a Goa'uld cargo ship, approaching the Earth]  Carter... I can see my house!

• Jack O'Neill : ...And after that, I kind of lost my temper.

  Major General George Hammond : What exactly does *that* mean?

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : Let's just say Jack made a reference to Freyr's mother.

• Sam Carter : The asteroid has an irregular shape, but we've calculated its length from end to end to be approximately 137 kilometers.

  Jack O'Neill : I've seen this movie. It hits Paris.

• Dr. Daniel Jackson : I'm confident.

  Jack O'Neill : Me too.

  Teal'c : As am I.

• Sam Carter : Now find the wires leading from the timer to the detonator and cut the red one.

  Jack O'Neill : Carter, they're all yellow.

  Sam Carter : Say again?

  Jack O'Neill : There are five wires and they're all yellow.

• Sam Carter : Sir, the asteroid's core is composed almost entirely of Naquadah.

  Jack O'Neill : Of course it is.

  Sam Carter : It makes up about 45 percent of the total mass.

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : Of course it does.

• Dr. Daniel Jackson : Well, we have a couple of options. Number one, we give up. We use what's left of power and life support to make it to the nearest unoccupied gate world. There's a small chance we'd make it. From there we head to the Alpha site.

  Jack O'Neill : Number two?

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : We take off and hope that our radio signal can be picked up by the Asgard in time to inform them that this was a Goa'uld attack disguised as a natural disaster.

  Sam Carter : There isn't enough time for that.

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : I know.

  Jack O'Neill : Is... there a number three?

  Sam Carter : There's no three.

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : Well, maybe there is. Teal'c, you said Naquadah wasn't native to our solar system.

  [Teal'c nods in acknowledgement] 

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : Which means that the Goa'uld must have towed it through hyperspace by ship.

  Teal'c : A mother ship.

  Sam Carter : Daniel, that's it!

  Jack O'Neill : What's it?

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : We don't have a mother ship.

  Sam Carter : But the effect only has to last a few seconds.

  Jack O'Neill : What only has to last a few seconds? What?

  Sam Carter : Choice three, sir. We expand the ship's hyperspace field to encompass the entire asteroid. We take it out of normal space long enough to avoid the collision with earth.

  Jack O'Neill : [Long pause]  Is there a *four*?

• Jalen : I'm Jalen of the Tok'ra. We received your distress call, and came as fast as we could. Can we render assistance?

  Jack O'Neill : Well, you know, it's not like we don't have everything totally under control here, but... Sure, render away.

• Jack O'Neill : You know, I'd like to take this opportunity to say that this is a very poorly designed bomb, and I think we should say something to somebody when we get back.

  Sam Carter : I agree, sir.