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Quotes:
O'Neill: "Good morning, Campers."

Daniel: "Wonder what's behind curtain number two."
O'Neill: "Take Carter and check it out."

O'Neill: "Carter! Daniel!"
Carter: "Found a souvenir shop, Sir."
O'Neill: "We're out of here."
Daniel: "What? Why? This place is a treasure chest of artifacts from diverse human culture."
O'Neill: "Daniel, I don't want to hear it. Let's go."
Daniel: "You don't want to...hear it."

Daniel: "Jack! Sam! Teal'c! Oh, I really hate when this happens."

Soldier: "Hands on your head, now, or we will open fire."
Daniel: "What's going on?"
Soldier: "Identify yourself."
Daniel: "Daniel Jackson, SG-1. General, what's this all about?"
Hammond: "General? Do you see stars anywhere on my uniform?"
Soldier: "Colonel, he says he's on SG-1."
Daniel: "Colonel?"
Hammond: "How did you get an SG-1 remote iris deactivation device?"
Daniel: "What are you talking about?"
Technician: "Unauthorized incoming travelers."
Hammond: "Who the hell are you?" Not surprisingly, Daniel is utterly confused.

Daniel: "Catherine."
Catherine: "You know me?"
Daniel: "Of course. You don't know me?"
Catherine: "Dr. Daniel Jackson. Ancient Egyptian historian. Better known for some of the more radical ideas. At the moment I'm more interested in how you came through my Stargate."
Daniel: "How I...your Stargate. What the hell is going on here, Catherine?"
Catherine: "I'd prefer you address me as Dr. Langford. You were wearing a remote device when you came through the Gate. You had SG-1's code. How did you obtain it?"
Daniel: "How did I...? How do you think I did it? I left from here, Stargate Command, today, a few hours ago. I went through on a mission to P3R 233."
Catherine: "What are you talking about? You've never been in this facility until now."
Daniel, laughing and making some really cute hand motions while he's talking: "Ok. Um, I figured out how to work the Stargate. You recruited me to translate the cartouche found at Giza. I went through on the first mission to Abydos. And unless the last two years have been some wacky, wacky dream, I am a member of SG-1."
Catherine: "Not as far as I'm concerned."
Daniel, stunned: "What?!"
Catherine: "I supervised the team that translated the cartouche found at Giza."
Daniel: "You did."
Catherine: "I admit, we referenced your work occasionally. I even went to meet you at one of your seminars to ask you to join us. But you said no."
Daniel: "I did."
Catherine: "You were quite rude, actually."
Daniel: "I was."
Catherine: "The MRI confirms you are not a Goa'uld."
Daniel: "Could I see Captain Carter?"
Catherine: "Samantha Carter?"
Daniel: "Yes!"
Catherine: "She's not in the military. She's a doctor. Ph.D, astrophysics. She's attending to more important business at the moment. Don't you have any explanation for this?"
Daniel: "God, NO!!! Catherine!...I mean, Dr. Langford, no! This doesn't make any sense. I know you. I belong here. You...don't."
Catherine: "Excuse me?"
Daniel: "You were retired. At least the Air Force made you retire. You were supposed to be at home living happily ever after with Ernest."
Catherine: "What?"
Daniel: "The man you were supposed to marry in 1945."

Daniel: "Jack."
O'Neill: "Look, we're in the middle of a situation right now. I don't know who you are but Dr. Langford says you might be able to help us."
Daniel: "Ok, this is starting to get a little spooky. Now, a few hours ago, everything about this place was different. I mean, well, I mean not completely different. I mean, you're still...you...sort of."
O'Neill: "What can you tell me about the Goa'uld?"
Daniel: "What?"
O'Neill: "The Goa'uld? You know who they are?"
Daniel: "Uh, yeah..."
O'Neill: "Tell me what you know."
Daniel: "Ok. Now, maybe I've completely lost my mind here but as far as I'm concerned we know each other very well. You know everything that I know. Look, I am a member of SG-1 with you, Captain Carter, and Teal'c...where...where is Teal'c?" Seeing they have no idea who Daniel's talking about, he continues. "Big guy, gold emblem on his head, Goa'uld in his stomach, you can't miss him."
O'Neill: "A Jaffa?"
Daniel: "He's our...our friend."
O'Neill: "Get this man outta here, now."
Catherine: "How'd he come through the Gate? How does he know the things he knows?"
Daniel: "According to Dr. Langford you solved the Gate without me. Did you still go to Abydos with the intention of blowing up a nuclear device?"
O'Neill: "How did you know that?"
Daniel: "You were willing to commit suicide because your son had recently died. He...shot himself with your gun, right?"
Catherine: "I swear, I didn't tell him anything."
Daniel: "So did you still go to Chu'lac?"
Catherine: "What is Chu'lac?"
Daniel: "The Jaffa homeworld."
Catherine: "You know the symbols?"
Daniel: "Yes. What, you want me to write it down?"
Catherine: "Yes!"
Daniel: "So if you've never been to Chu'lac you've probably never even met Teal'c."
O'Neill: "Teal?"
Daniel: "No, Teal'c! Everything is screwed up. Why?" Carter comes walking up the stairs, her hair long and wearing something that is not an SG uniform. "Sam!"
Carter: "Who is this?"
Catherine: "Dr. Jackson. The young man who came through the Stargate with the SG-1 code."
Daniel: "Of course."
O'Neill: "Report, Doctor."
Carter: "We've lost Washington and Philadelphia, Sir."
Daniel: "I'm sorry, what do you mean by 'lost'?"
O'Neill: "Show him."

Daniel: "I feel like the victim of the biggest practical joke ever."
Catherine, examining the mirror remote: "You got all this on the alien planet you talked about?"
Daniel: "Yeah, with the exception of the gun and the grenade. I found this lab. They had obviously collected things that they found on other planets. There was this mirror, like a slab of rock. It could have been made of Naquada, the Gate element, I don't know. Jack called, he said we were leaving, I touched the mirror."
Catherine: "Interesting. What is it?"
Daniel: "I have no idea."
Catherine: "You said you touched a mirror?"
Daniel: "Well, actually I touched that thing first. It turned on, I heard a noise. That's when I noticed the shimmering."
Catherine: "Maybe this is what controls it."
Daniel: "When I touched the mirror, there was this...this surge. It was like getting an electrical shock just for a second. And then I went to find Jack, Sam and Teal'c..."
Catherine: "He's the Jaffa you say is on SG-1 with you."
Daniel: "Yes! But I couldn't find them. It was like they were just...gone. So I...I figured that maybe they left without me, so I dialed in Earth's address and I came through the Gate and...what the hell are they doing down there?"

Daniel: "This isn't happening. This is nuts. This isn't happening. This isn't happening..." He raises his hand to his eyes, thinking. "Is it...is it possible that the Stargate malfunctioned or went haywire and...and I came through into a totally screwed up, different version of Earth?"
Carter: "No. I doubt that. The Stargate uses space-time to create a wormhole that allows us to travel across great distances, but it doesn't take you to an alternate reality."
Daniel: "Alternate...reality?"
Carter: "Well, basically scientists have theorized that there are an infinite number of dimensions, each containing a different possible version of reality."
Daniel: "Well it sounds like I theoretically, possibly, actually found one."
Catherine: "One what?"
Daniel: "What Sam said. A...an alternate reality, a parallel plane. I mean, wouldn't that explain why everything here is the same but...different? I mean..."
Carter: "Well, the theory is that there are an infinite number of alternate realities, some of them are very different and some are almost identical."
Daniel: "That has to be what this is! So this isn't...my world at all. This is some sort of..." he begins laughing "...other dimension?!"
Carter: "Yeah, but the Stargate wouldn't cause that."
Catherine: "Maybe it wasn't the Stargate that caused it."
Carter: "What are you suggesting?"
Catherine: "He found a mirror, possibly made of Naquada, on P3R 233."
Daniel: "All of this started to happen after I touched it!"
Carter: "P3R 233?"
Daniel: "What, have you been there?"
Carter: "Yes!" But their conversation is interrupted as the Stargate begins to activate.

Daniel: "Uh oh."
Carter: "What?"
Daniel: "I think I'm dead."
Carter: "What?"
Daniel: "The me in this reality."

Daniel: "The first part sounds like a derivation of ancient Egyptian."
Catherine: "We couldn't recognize it."
Daniel: "Oh. You didn't learn to speak it aloud on Abydos."

O'Neill: "We'll send a bomb through."
Daniel: "Excuse me? Ah, I'm sorry, I know you all think of me as an outsider here but what good will that do? I mean, forget the fact that it won't change what's happening here, how do you know they don't have some sort of iris like yours? I mean, this could all be for nothing."
Carter: "Yeah, we probably only have one shot at dialing out. If we use that opportunity to dial a Goa'uld world we'll never get out of here ourselves."
Catherine, watching the TV screen: "My God."
O'Neill: "What the hell is that?"
Daniel: "My reality."
Carter: "We are actually looking at ourselves in a parallel universe. Another version of our lives that actually exists. It's incredible."
O'Neill: "It's supposed to be theoretical."
Carter: "Not anymore. What first began with Einstein's theories about relativity..."
Hammond, seeing Teal'c on the screen: "Who is this?"
Daniel: "That is Teal'c. Big guy, gold emblem on his head and Goa'uld in his stomach."
Catherine: "We just saw him on the security camera. He's the Jaffa who led the invasion into the base."
Daniel: "Well, he was and probably still is the First Prime of Apophis. He would be charged with the most important mission. Look, this is going to sound pretty selfish, but where I come from none of this has happened yet. In my reality the Earth that I know still has a chance."
O'Neill: "You want to explain that?"
Daniel: "If this address really does lead to the Goa'uld world where this attack originated and I can get this information back to my world then maybe I can stop this before it starts there."
Carter: "What makes you think the Goa'ulds are even going to try attacking Earth in your universe?"
Daniel: "Oh, I'd say we've pissed the Goa'uld off just as much as you have, probably even more."
O'Neill: "Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. You want us to give up what might be our last chance to strike back at the Goa'uld so we can save ourselves in a what...what?"
Carter: "Alternate reality."
Daniel: "Not just yourselves, everyone on Earth."
O'Neill: "Your Earth."
Daniel: "The Jack O'Neill that I know would do it."
O'Neill: "Well apparently you and I have never met."
Daniel: "No, I guess not. Look, all I know is that because I came here, I have seen what can happen. Now I have a chance to keep this from happening to the Earth that I come from if you help me."
O'Neill, after a long moment of thought: "How much time, Doctor?"
Carter: "Twenty-two seconds."
O'Neill: "Ok, so the argument is academic. We can never hold them that long anyway."
Daniel: "Well, maybe we can buy some time."
O'Neill: "How?"
Daniel: "Not how. Who."

O'Neill, after seeing Teal'c shoot out a camera: "Whoa. You're kidding, right?"
Daniel: "You saw the videotape. In my reality Jack O'Neill convinced Teal'c to betray Apophis to save our lives. Teal'c gave up everything for the slim chance that we could help free his people from slavery."
O'Neill: "It doesn't exactly look like we could help him do anything right now. Keep in mind that we just sent a bomb off to his planet. There might not be anything left for him to save."
Daniel: "Not in this universe."
O'Neill, lifting a hand to his eyes: "You expect me to explain all this to him, don't you?"
Daniel: "He's very smart. I bet he'll understand."
Carter: "How do you know that he's even remotely the same Jaffa that you know in your universe?"
Catherine: "Not everything's the same here."
Daniel: "No, it's not. But it is...close. Look, I know what I am asking here. It's...insane. Look, if you don't want to help me, I understand. It's your lives, and it's your world." There's another really long pause as O'Neill considers.
O'Neill: "All I really have to do is buy a little time. A few minutes to get the Gate open, right?"
Catherine: "That videotape of that Jaffa and you together should catch his attention."
Hammond: "You're going to talk to this guy about alternate reality?" O'Neill just shrugs.
Carter: "Do you really think he's right about this Jaffa?"
O'Neill: "He was right about my son."
Daniel, handing him the camera: "Thank you."
O'Neill: "I think this is where you all wish me good luck." No one answers and he starts to leave.
Carter: "Jack..."
O'Neill: "Come here." He hugs her.
Catherine, as Daniel turns to her: "I take it they're not engaged in your reality."
Daniel: "No..." Interesting look on Daniel's face as he watches Jack and Sam, almost like an expression of "What have I done?"

Daniel: "Thank you."
Catherine: "You helped reunited me with Ernest in the other world?" Daniel nods. "I guess in the grand scheme of things we're even!"

Carter: "I surrender! I have information that can help Apophis! There is technology he will want to know about! This is a remote control to an interdimensional portal. I can tell Apophis how to find it!"
Jaffa: "Hashak Kreyak!"
Carter, pulling out a grenade: "Thank you. Oh yeah. I also wish to blow us all to hell."

Daniel: "Jack...we're all in very big trouble. They're coming. They're coming."

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