“We’re borrowing it, not stealing it.”
- Release Date: 3rd February 2003
- Season 1
- Episode 19
- Director: Will Meugniot
- Writers: Katherine Lawrence
The team are under attack from Tlak’kahn gliders. They quickly dial the stargate while using their weapons to kick up dust to hide the chevron sequence, fleeing to a new world. There they encounter something interesting: a space ship. When they approach, automated defences attack the, but they quickly enable it.
They take a closer look at the ship and Bonner and Ec’co want to take a look inside, as the communication equipment might be able to reach Earth. Stacy has a problem with this, as it’s not their ship, so they should find the owners first, so he sends Harrison and Seattle out to look for them.
They break in and Bonner and Ec’co have a look around. While the communication equipment doesn’t have much of a range, the rest of it is perfect: it’s capable of interplanetary travel, Earth is only a week away and they can set an autopilot to send it back to its current location. As the owners haven’t been found yet, he gathers everyone back at the ship and they decide to head off.
They approach Earth and land (not bothering with sending a message to warn them about the strange ship landing right outside Stargate Command), but then they exit, they discover that they’re on the Tlak’kahn homeworld – this was all an elaborate trap set by Da’kyll to capture them all. With nowhere to go, they have no choice but to surrender.
Da’kyll reports to the council and they’re very pleased, but then Da’kyll quotes some ancient law where the prisoners belong to him, not the council. The council are unhappy, but have to accept this, which means they can’t study Draga. Da’kyll thinks he’ll become more powerful than the council once he finds the secrets of the ancients. However, the leader has other plans – he hires a spy to capture Draga and make it look like everyone else has escaped.
Da’kyll gloats to the group then orders Bonner to be brought to him. As the goons take him, the spy (disguised as an outcast) ties them all up and frees Bonner, helping him free everyone else. When they ask why he’s helping them, he say he’s an outcast getting revenge. Suspecting a trap, Bonner asks Draga to read his mind, and she senses he’s a spy. They lock him in a crate.
Draga can sense the stargate so they fight their way out, managing to get through. The council reprimand him, and he vows to get the ancient back, handing her over to the council next time. The team get to a rainy forest and find a locked barn – but decide to camp in their tents instead. It’s one of those episodes that requires everyone to be stupid to make sense.
