Sci-Fi

The Cardassian Legate who once believed that Kira was really his lost daughter (Second Skin) is now an outcast from the new Cardassia and comes to the station. He has a fatal disease and asks Kira to be his heir, the recipicent of all his knowledge of the key movers in the Cardassian state. Honoured, and aware of the strategic importance to both Bajor and the Federation, she agrees. Gul Dukat arrives on the station in an attempt to lure the Legate back and save his knowledge falling into the federations hands. This fails, but Dukat tries to turn Kira against him by revealling that he was involved in the military operation in which Kira's own father was killed. Can Kira overcome her anger and grief, both out of compassion for the dying man and to push through the strategic advantage his knowledge represents.

Jackson, Carter and Teal'c rush for the Stargate, and quickly dial back to Earth. They are under fire from a group of Jaffa soldiers, and barely make it back alive. Colonel O'Neill and Lieutenant Tyler remain on P7S-441, pinned down by enemy fire.

But when they request that General Hammond send them back with reinforcements, he denies their request and orders them to the infirmary for a complete evaluation. For reasons they can barely speculate on, no one else at the SGC knows who Tyler is, or remembers the last three weeks he has spent training with SG-1.

Back on the planet, O'Neill and Tyler find a small, stone structure to hide out in. Jack's mind is focused on his training, and with weapon in hand he keeps a lookout for the Jaffa. Tyler is injured, and can't stand up -- let alone help in their defense.

On the Tok'ra homeworld of Vorash, Tanith is surprised to learn that a Goa'uld mothership has been spotted entering orbit -- and that the Tok'ra have been expecting it. Jacob Carter transports into the hidden underground caves of the Goa'uld resistance movement, accompanied by the mothership's owners -- O'Neill, Carter, Jackson and Teal'c.

Actually, the ship is owned by Earth. General Hammond has agreed to loan it to the Tok'ra (after recovering it from Cronus after the System Lord's recent death ["Double Jeopardy"]), in exchange for instructions on how to operate it. The Tok'ra will use it to transport all of their people and the Vorash Stargate to a new world -- a planet off the Goa'uld map of gates, so that they can finally establish a secure, long-term base of operations.