6x03 - DESCENT EPISODE SUMMARY AND QUOTES
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Jack: "What are you smiling at?"

Jonas: "Well, it's just that it's my first time... in space."

Jack: "Ah."

Jonas: "We'd only just begun to consider the possibility of space travel, and to actually be out here is... It's amazing."

Teal'c: "Indeed."

Jack: "Until something goes... horribly wrong."

Paul: "What's our status?"

Sam: "Well, the ship should be just a few hundred kilometers dead ahead.  There."


Ship's intercom: *unintelligible garble*

Paul: "What is that?"

Jacob: "I can't make it out."


Jack: "Carter, you and Davis see if you can disable that self-destruct all together, huh?"

Sam: "Yes, sir."

Paul: "Sir."


Paul: "What's the problem?"

Sam: "Dad, this is Sam."

Jacob: "What's up?"

Sam: "We're on our way to the computer core, but we can't access this corridor."


Paul: "Well, something bad definitely happened here!"

Sam: "Dad, we're just outside the computer core. The door looks like it's been hit by several staff blasts."


Paul: "Whew! That was loud!"

Jack: "What? ... Jacob, we're in."

Paul: "This is fantastic!"


Sam: "It's possible that when his mind was linked, Thor was able to rewrite some of the ship's programming, maybe even leave something behind."

Paul: "Like a virus."

Sam: "Exactly! By interfering with everything from navigation to life support, a complex virus could have driven Anubis to abandon ship!"

Jack: "Might explain why the self-destruct got stuck."

Sam: "He could have generated a whole new subroutine that sent this ship to our solar system after it was abandoned. Like... a... a gift! I know it sounds a little wacky, sir, but the more I think about it, the more it seems like the most reasonable explanation."

Paul: "There's a little wishful thinking there, Major."

Sam: "Well, if this ship wasn't ultimately intended for us to find, why did it travel halfway across the galaxy all by itself? For that matter, why didn't the self destruct just go off?"

Paul: "Well, even if you're right, I mean I really doubt that a virus is gonna know the difference between us and the Goa'uld."

Sam: "There has to be a way to disable it somehow, or Thor wouldn't have sent the ship here. Dr. Frieson, this is Major Carter.  We could use your assistance in the computer core."

Jack: "Frieson, come in!"

Sam: "Dad, have you seen Doctor Frieson?"

Jacob: "Negative."

Jack: "You scientists... Stay here. I'll find him."

Sam: "It's a big ship, sir."

Jack: "I think I know where he went."

Ship's intercom: *unintelligible garble*

Paul: "It's coming out of the ship's intercom."

Sam: "What is?"

Paul: "The sound we keep hearing. You hear that?  It's... uh Th-there's a pattern to it, almost like distorted words."


Paul: "Colonel, we've got another problem!"

Jacob: "I'll live. Go! Go!"

Sam: "We're decelerating out of orbit, and they've disabled the drive controls. Sir, we've got no way of altering course.  We're gonna crash."

Jack: "Teal'c, come in."

Teal'c: "O'Neill, you are approaching Earth's atmosphere."

Jack: "Yeah, you know, we noticed that. You're gonna have to ring us outta here."

Teal'c: "Standing by."

Sam: "It's no use.  I estimate impact between 500 and 1,000 miles west-southwest of Alaska."

Paul: "The amount of energy released at impact will be massive.  There could be a tidal wave."


Jacob: "Can we fix the engines?"

Paul: "Not a chance, and that's not our only problem."

Sam: "We found evidence of structural damage on the lower levels, probably a result of the impact."

Jacob: "How bad?"

Sam: "I'm not sure. The exterior pressure's pretty severe, especially on the lower levels of this ship. It wouldn't take much to compromise the hull."

Jack: "Well, help'll be on the way."

Sam: "There's also the matter of the self-destruct sequence frozen halfway through its countdown."

Jack: "You haven't turned that off yet?"

Sam: "No, sir, and I'm not sure we should even try."

Jack: "Why?"

Sam: "Well, first the door to the computer core was locked, and then when the Jaffa tried to blast their way in, the entire section was sealed off, and life support was shut down."

Jacob: "By who?"

Jack: "It's 'whom'."

Sam: "Actually, sir, it's more like 'what'."

Jack: "What?"

Paul: "The virus Thor left behind."


Sam: "I'm sorry, sir. I can't bypass the system locally."

Jack: "Jacob?"

Jacob: "Yeah, without the proper codes, I can't get access to the security program."

Paul: "I'm going down there."

Jacob: "To do what? The local controls are locked out. Jack, I'm gonna try to find a back door to the programming."


Paul: "Jacob, we could blow the door."

Jacob: "No, in such a confined space, the concussion would kill them."

Paul: "They'll be dead if we don't! We can't leave them in there to drown, Jacob! We have to do some--"

Jacob: "What the hell do you think I'm trying to do, Major!?"


Sam: "Dad, this is Sam. We're okay!"

Paul: "Yes!"


Paul: "It's definitely a voice. Give me a second. I'll see if I can clean it up."

Jonas: "Why would it be so distorted?"

Jacob: "Anubis probably tried to shut it off."

Jack: "Carter?"

Sam: "Well, the security program that locked us in that corridor didn't just shut down by itself."

Jacob: "You think this virus Thor left in the ship's computer is acting intelligently?"

Sam: "If that door hadn't have opened, Colonel O'Neill and I would have drowned."

Jonas: "It knows who you are."

Paul: "I got it!"

Thor: "...to synthesize my voice... I am using the internal communication system to synthesize my voice... I am using the internal communication system to synthesize my voice..."

Teal'c: "Thor spoke the same words to O'Neill and I when we were imprisoned aboard this vessel."

Sam: "Sir, maybe what we've been calling a virus isn't a virus at all. Maybe it's Thor."

Jack: "We got him off this ship months ago."

Sam: "Not before Anubis was able to download his mind into the computer core. Now, if his consciousness remained intact, he would be an independent entity operating within the system."

Jacob: "His mind took control of the vessel."

Jack "Way to go, Thor."

Sam: "Sir, the Asgard said that Thor was on life support, but there was little chance that he'd come out."

Jack: "So?"

Sam: "So, if that we can download his consciousness from the computer, the Asgard can transfer it into a new cloned body."

Jacob: "If that's what you want to do, Sam, you'd better move fast. The computer core isn't flooded yet, but it's only a matter of time."

Paul: "Wait a second.  If Thor really in control of this ship, then he is the only thing keeping the self-destruct on hold.  If we remove that consciousness, the countdown will start up again."

Sam: "How much time will we have left when the countdown resumes?"

Teal'c: "Approximately seventeen minutes."

Sam: "That gives us plenty of time to get out of here after we've got Thor."

Paul: "I know Thor was a friend of yours, but this is a Goa'uld mothership. If we allow it to blow up, they'll be nothing left to salvage."
 


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