DANIEL'S OFFICE, SAM'S NOT WELL. GENERAL O'NEILL DEMANDS INFO.

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"Daniel are you sure the heatings not on in here, have you checked it out?"

"No Sam, I told you yesterday, its definitely not on. In fact its not even that warm."

"Teal'c you feel it don't you?"

"No I do not Colonel Carter. Although I did for a time find it quite warm, hot, yesterday. Today I find the temperature as usual."

"Oh. Well it just feels really hot."

"Sam are you alright? Is there a chance you could be getting a slight fever?"

"No way. I feel fine Daniel. Em, actually no I don't feel very fine. I feel a bit spaced out really."

"Colonel Carter, please sit down."

"No, I'm fine. I'm alright Teal'c."

"Yes you are alright but please sit down."

"Okay."

Samantha, Samantha, Samantha. A beauty in boots. Mad scientist at large, harsh. She counts up to twenty, unaided, quite quickly too, as a rule geniuses usually do. She can spell her name without lookin', build a bomb while shes cookin'. Hot, its that sun, she'll get rid of that too. Ships nearly fixed, oops, timers, Colonel Carter's been through. Give her a gun she'll get the job done. Give her some men she'll take over the den. Point, six all the clicks. Carter Carter Carter. An amazing Star Charter.

"How come you're spaced out Sam, whats up?"

"Ooou, you will not believe the dream that I had last night. You will not believe it. I.. ..well I can't really call it a dream."

"Colonel Carter you suffered a nightmare?"

"No, no, no it was nothing like that Teal'c, it, no it wasn't.. ..phew, it wasn't anything like that."

"Was it one of those waking dreams Sam?"

"Well I definitely felt awake. It just didn't feel like a dream at all. It felt as real as we are in this room.. ..And it was the strangest, strangest dream I've ever had in my life."

"Sounds interesting."

"You said it Daniel."

"Well come on then out with it."

"Well alright but only if you get me a cold drink. I'm absolutely burning up here. Are you sure you don't feel hot?"

"There is no increase in temperature and no reason for us to feel extra hot."

"No Sam, I told you, its you."

"Yeah, must be."

Daniel took three cold bottles of water out of his mini refrigerator.

"Okay Sam, the floors yours. Don't be to long though, the others are in at nine."

"Oh yeah they're time keepers at Area 51."

"Yeah, by the booko."

"Okay it.. ..right, okay. Err, I went to bed and it felt like before I even got to sleep I was awake again. I was on the General's veranda, and you know his telescope?"

"Yeah."

"Okay, ha ha ha, wait for it, ha, okay, that was the size of the Hubble telescope."

"What on his house, on Jack's house. That would bury his entire house."

"I know it was so strange. You were all in the dream. Daniel you was dressed like Copernicus."

"Colonel Carter, this is not an ordinary dream. I am most surprised that it features Daniel Jackson wearing copper nickers, this is indeed a most strange affair."

"Ha ha ha .. ..come on Teal'c gimme a break. I don't wear copper nickers, not even in other peoples dreams."

"But.."

"Teal'c, Nicolaus Copernicus, koh pern nee kus, he was a famous astronomer in the fifteen hundreds."

"Yes indeed Colonel Carter, yes, I believe I have heard of him. I apologise Daniel Jackson."

"Don't mention it Teal'c. Again. Ever, thank you."

"Do you two wanna hear this or not?"

"Yes."

"Yes."

"Okay, Daniel you was dressed like a well known astronomer, circa early sixteenth C. Famous for his theories on a Solãris system. Teal'c you was dressed like Isaac Newton and the General was dressed like a nineteen twenties fighter pilot.

It was so damn weird, I can remember every single detail of it. It was so completely real. Em, okay Jack was looking up at the sky. He was wearing an eye patch. And erm, yeah he was looking through the telescope using binoculars, which is the strangest thing I've ever seen."

"O'Neill likes to be thorough Colonel Carter."

Daniel and Sam burst out laughing.

"Teal'c you should have been there."

"He was wasn't he Sam."

"Shush, erm, you were all talking to each other, oh gawd yeah, erm.. ..you.. ..were.. ..talking.."

"Sam? Sam? Are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine."

"No, no Colonel Carter you are not fine. You are unwell."

"No honestly Teal'c I'm fine."

"No, I insist, you are not fine."

"Sam hes right, you look pale. How are you feeling?"

"No I feel fine Daniel. I just feel very hot. Em actually do you know something, I could do with a little bit of a sleep."

"No, no erm, no don't, don't sleep. Erm, em.."

Teal'c jumped up, picked up Daniel's phone and speed dialled straight through to General O'Neill's private line.

"O'Neill, Colonel Carter is unwell. We are in Daniel Jackson's office."

"On my way."

Teal'c put the phone down again. General O'Neill cut short his meeting and excused himself. Colonel Carter wasn't objecting. She was now beginning to feel quite faint.

"Daniel em, have you got some ice. Maybe you could just put some ice on the back of my head."

"Yes Sam no problem just hold on a minute."

Daniel made a leap and dive for the freezer. He grabbed his ice pack out of the mini fridge, wrapped it in his jacket sleeve, and place it on the nape of the Colonel's neck and then brought it round to her forehead, and then wiped it across her forehead and began pressing it on either cheek.

"Sam how you feelin'?"

"I don't know I feel a bit weak. I feel fine.. ..I feel fine, but I just feel a bit weak. Erm I think I'll be alright in a minute, actually the ice is helping."

"Oh that's good, that's good."

Daniel put his ice pack back on the Colonel's nape and held it there.

General O'Neill barged into the office.

"Carter whats wrong?"

"Don't know Sir.. ..its just.. ..I was feeling fine but I just felt a little bit over heated. Erm, I actually feel fine. Just a little bit weak."

"A little bit weak is not fine Carter."

He peered into her eyes, looking for something, anything. He put his hand to her forehead. Yeah shes hot. And she looks pale. He looked round the room and gestured. 'Okay go on, tell me'.

"O'Neill, Colonel Carter had a most unusual experience last night."

"Excuse me?"

"Yeah it was actually General. It was a very very exceedingly strange dream, it wasn't like a dream at all. Em.."

"Yah, a dream, enchanting. Swinging Carter, but lets forget about that for now, just tell me how you feel."

"No its alright General, I've em, this ice pack that Daniel's administering seems to be doing the trick. I was just feeling very hot and over heated."

"Oh, is that right Daniel?"

"Yeah.. .. I think, yeah yeah she'll be fine."

"Well that's Dandy. Stop by the infirmary, just have a check up. You know the drill."

"No Sir I feel fine."

"Colonel."

"Yes General."

"Just a minute.. ..just a minute. Jack, just a minute.. ..just hold on."

"Holding. Daniel, we're all holding."

"Yesterday."

"Right okay, yesterday?"

"Yesterday Sam was fine, she left my office and she came back. When she came back she began commenting about the heat. There was no heat. It wasn't switched on and it was cool, but she was complaining about the heat.

Teal'c left my office, he came back and he too began complaining about the heat. So.."

"Oh yeah, big so right now Daniel?"

"When Teal'c left my office he went with Sam to her lab and when he came back it was like the first time Sam came back, he too was complaining about the heat."

"Yes Daniel, point being?"

"Jack the first time Sam left my office she took the samples from P7X 377 with her."

"Yeah that's right Daniel I did."

"You wasn't wearing gloves."

"No I wasn't wearing gloves, but it was just.. ..um.."

"Colonel Carter you did examine a particular rock fragment that showed traces of life, dead life."

"Yeah that's right Teal'c, that green moss, the em.. ..ope."

"Yes ope. Yes Carter?"

"Green moss Sam? I don't think you'd find any moss in the pyramid, how could it survive in that atmosphere. Are you sure it was moss?"

"No I'm not sure Daniel. I just presumed."

"You should know better than that Carter. We can't presume anything in our line of work."

"Yes, absolutely Sir. I should know better."

"So Daniel?"

"Can we just hear a little more about your dream, I've got an idea."

"Yeah okay, as I said you were all in it."

"Really, was I in it as well?"

"Yes General, you was in it. You was definitely in it."

"Oohkay. Right so we all visited you last night then?"

"Oh yes, and what a party you all had."

"Go on Sam."

"Well as I said you were all in it and we was on the General's roof. And em, there was a big telescope. General O'Neill was looking through the telescope. Oh goodness yeah. You, Sir you kept calling me is, I think you was trying to say Ms but you were calling me is, and you had an English accent like one of those aristocratic English men. And em, oh no, that's it. Very very strange. Em Daniel, Teal'c and General O'Neill called you Can instead of Dan. It was like a big joke and instead of calling General O'Neill Jack you and Teal'c were calling him Quack and instead of calling Teal'c, Teal'c, you were both calling Teal'c Meal'c, Milk or something."

"Really?"

"Yeah really, but I mean it doesn't matter it was just a dream."

"Really?"

"Yeah Daniel she just said, its just a dream. No offence meant, ha.."

"No Sam really, are you sure?"

"Well of course I'm sure it was my dream wasn't it?"

"No Sam this is extremely important, are you absolutely sure?"

"Daniel I'm sure."

"Just hold on one minute, just one minute, just hold on."

Daniel passed the ice pack to the General and ran out of his office. He shouted back to his friends that he wouldn't be a minute.

"Daniel Jackson appears to have made a discovery."

"Yeah hes definitely hot on the heels of something T, looks promising. Carter?"

General O'Neill was standing behind Colonel Carter. He had one hand pressed against her forehead and with the ice pack in his other hand was gently pushing against the back of her neck.

"Thanks Sir, I'm feeling much better."

Daniel ran down to his private quarters, collected a reference book and quickly returned to his office.

"Okay.. ..okay, hold on to your hats party people."

"Lets have it Daniel."

"The names that Sam's just quoted, in ancient Mesoamerican mythology are the exact names of the Bacabs."

"Indeed Daniel Jackson."

"Oh yes really Teal'c, don't you know, we're the bob cats."

"No Jack, the Bacabs. According to ancient Mesoamerican mythology, they were, are, the four Canopic g_ds who held up the sky at the cardinal points of the Earth."

"Well now thats what I call a promotion. Holding up the sky, easy peasy. Nice dream you were having there Carter."

"You have no idea Sir."

"No really come on.. ..I'm serious. This is very important. Sam what else was in your dream?"

"Lots Daniel."

"Go on, tell us some more."

"Well part of it was about looking up in the sky. There was a bit of a fuss going on. I don't know what General O'Neill was looking for but you were saying he didn't have his bearings, he was looking in the wrong field or something, but he wasn't looking in a field, he was looking in the sky.

Oh and Teal'c ha, you were floating."

"Indeed, floating Colonel Carter?"

"What you mean floating like the Giants, the Giant in the pyramid?"

"Never thought about that. He wasn't smoky cloudy like that but you were floating Teal'c. And em oh speaking about clouds at one point the General was saying, blue Dandy, em, smoky clouds.. nebu.. ..nebula I don't know.

Teal'c was floating and he kept saying about Oz. He was standing on the shoulders of Oz. No, oh em he was standing on the shoulders of many and em something about Oz and I said the wizard of Oz and the General said Oss.. ..Ossi, Ossiferous."

"Good grief. Ossiferous. Standing on the shoulders of Ossiferous?"

"More or less Daniel."

"Wow, strike big lucky!"

"Daniel what have you got?"

"I think we may have a lot Jack, an awful lot. This is really really weird. I think, em, Jack can I just tell you in a minute. Sam just.. ..what else was there?"

"Well the General gave me some strange words to remember, he said about keeping us safe."

"Carter do you remember the words?"

"Every word Sir."

"Well you're gonna have to let me have it in a Report, a written Report, every single word, detail, verbatim, transcript of your.. ..dream Carter. That is, if as Daniel says, its relevant."

"Sir you and Daniel were saying I'm not ready. Teal'c was saying that something hasn't dawned on me. General you were saying the penny's not dropped for me. Actually I think you were ganging up on me, ha ha."

"It does sound like that Colonel Carter."

"It does doesn't it. Mind you though I was having a bit of fun. It was all so amazing. Oh yes, General there was a red sky, like dawn, red dawn and you were warning me, no you were saying that a red dawn is a warning."

"There was no red dawn this morning though Carter, you know that yeah?"

"Yes Sir that occurred to me."

"Anything else Sam?"

"Oh yeah there was something really strange, something else really strange I should say. Towards the end of my dream General O'Neill changed his clothes."

"What I changed my clothes in front of you?"

"No Sir, it was more like magic."

"Oh, okay, just checking."

"Yeah em, you, and you lost your English accent. Oh and at one point you spoke some language, I don't recognise it."

"Do you remember the words?"

"Yes Sir, I can phonetically recall them yeah. And then you were saying about the red dawn, the red sky warning. But something really strange.."

"What something even more strange Carter, astounding."

"Gotcha. You change and you sort of.. ..actually you were immaculately dressed and then a few moments after Teal'c and Daniel also changed their clothes.."

"Magically Carter?"

"Abara Cadabara Sir. You were all wearing the same style suit. You all looked really smart. And you starting saying each other's name sort of acknowledging each other and em, oh yeah, you all stretched really amazing stretches like up towards the sky and after you all acknowledged each other you nodded to each other, smiled and then you sort of walked away from each other. And then you all started stretching again as if reaching up towards the sky.."

"You mean reaching up towards the heavens to hold the sky up Sam?"

"Oh, I see what you mean Daniel. That's exactly what it was, well that's exactly what it seemed to be. Gawd it wasn't a dream. This is very very creepy."

"Okay now Sam I don't want to freak you out but in ancient times the high priests, they would use hallucinogenic drugs."

Colonel Carter looked unwell. She remained quiet, presumably considering Daniel's words.

"Yes Daniel Jackson the Shamans."

"What!!"

The General shot a worried glance at Teal'c who discretely disagreed with the General's thoughts.

"Yeah exactly Teal'c. Jack, they would use these hallucinogenic drugs, apparently to enter the spirit realm."

"So Daniel are you saying that's where Carter went last night. Lifted into the next world by hallucinogenic drugs?"

"I'm definitely saying that Jack, definitely. I mean those names, the Bacabs, you couldn't dream them up. You couldn't invent them."

"Yeah, actually they did seem like pretty unusual names to me."

"See, where could Sam have known those names from, where?"

"Indeed."

"Sam your dream is turning out to be of monumental significance."

"Mental."

"Well more supernatural really Jack. I think Sam visited the spirit realm where the samples were actually discovered."

"The Mayan pyramid?"

"Yes Teal'c."

"What you mean the spirits of the pyramid, P7X 377?"

"It does seem to be the case, yeah. In which case a whole new light is cast over our research into the Mayan pyramid situation."

"Theres a lot of cases here Daniel. What, so you're telling me we're taking our intel from spirits and ghosts now, is that what we're doing?"

"Well Sir, those Bacabs did seem to have a good grasp of the situation and something hair raising which I don't want to go into right now, they, actually you Sir, mentioned the Redderain system, how could you, Quack, know that?"

"Indeed Colonel Carter the Bacab g_ds made many relevant references to our current situation. If as Daniel Jackson has observed, you did in fact travel to the spirit realm, these Canopic g_ds would doubtless know a great deal about many things, past and present."

"I don't know people, I need convincing. Is.. ..are you, three.. ..what are you actually telling me?"

"Jack at this very point in time, after Sam's revelation, I'm telling you we've just be given an helping hand, a giant helping hand. Jack I think we can crack this open. If I can just have a couple of hours with Sam and Teal'c in my office I think we can evaporate the Giant's smoke screen. Nail the Giant's behind. Theres other things that Sam's mentioned but we need time to reference it."

"Okay Carter we're going to need that full account of your .. ..experience, word for verbatim word, can you manage that?"

"Be glad to Sir. Although you were.. ..there, it's a pity you weren't actually.. ..there."

"Jack I don't think this was any dream. I think this was a full blown hallucination and I think it was brought about by handling the samples with the green slim thing on it."

"You think contamination Daniel Jackson?"

"Absolutely. In fact we need to get that stuff in for further analysis but not looking for toxins, just list all organics. Sam what else?"

"You're telling me I've been drugged?"

"I think so Sam. It sounds like you were exposed to residue which hadn't entirely oxidised. The traces must have been minute and slow acting. Any more than that Sam and you could have ended up like the Shamans of old. They would take hallucinogens in order to leave their body's and soar the skies."

"Yeah right okay Daniel, heaven forbid anyone should go off flyin' and leave their body behind. Any side effects. Is she in any danger?"

"No, no danger.

In the ancient times the shamans would induce hypnotic type hallucinogenic states by ingesting various types of organic compounds. There was a strongly held belief that the combined ingestion and hypnotic state would ferry them across the gateway into the spirit world. What Sam's describing here sounds like a visit to that very same realm.

Teal'c had a dose of it but his tretonin substitutes the healing effects of the symbiote. The substance would have been neutralised the moment it entered his system."

"You are correct Daniel Jackson. I did feel the effects for a short period immediately after having come into contact with the residue on the obsidian fragment, presumably that is why I too became over heated. The effect did not last."

"So no interesting dreams last night T?"

"None!"

"To bad. Okay I get your point Daniel. This is.. ..interesting.. ..okay extremely fascinating. The first thing I want is for Carter to go by the infirmary. And that would be a now thank you."

"Yes Sir."

"I will escort Colonel Carter one level down to the infirmary."

"Okay Teal'c thanks. Phone it through."

"Indeed O'Neill."

"Right Daniel whats going on?"

"Jack I'm absolutely convenience about this, as bizarre as it is. I think we've just been handed an alphabetised honey pot. Beyond a shadow of a doubt its all tied in with the pyramid, I'll guarantee it. If it wasn't for the fact the Sam's so shaken by it I'd say its an amazing piece of luck that she handled those samples."

"That's not what I call it!"

"I know, sorry. Anyway if Sam can produce that Report you asked for."

"I think not. Not right now Daniel."

"No, no shes alright. I think shes just a bit.. ..she might actually be a bit overwhelmed you know with the experience. I think the effects of those hallucinogens wear off quickly. She only had traces."

"You mean otherwise she'd be flying high."

"Yep."

"Well lets see what the Doctor says. Regardless I'm gonna have her pack up and get some rest."

"Okay Jack. I know she'll insist on giving us an account first."

"Well if shes up to it, fair enough. I'll tell you what, give it two hours and then report in."

"I'll do that. I can't get over it Jack. I've never ever heard of anyone having gone through this experience."

"No neither have I Daniel, but that's a good thing isn't it. Why would she handle the things without gloves. Oddish don't you think?"

"Well the samples had been processed and sorted. I know she was running a couple of tests on the rock. The only thing I can think is that its inorganic, well the rock is, so theoretically it posed no direct threat."

"Yeah, right. Marvellous. Okay Daniel, set to it if you will, full steam ahead. My office two hours!"

"That's enough time, thanks Jack. I think Sam and Teal'c will want to attend."

"I know."

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