stargate

Season Four

Episode Number: 72

Episode Title: Window of Opportunity

Air Date: 08-04-00

Syndication Air Date: 10-15-01

First SciFi Syndication Air Date: 02-03-03

Chad's Summary: While on an alien planet to study that planet's sun, O'Neill and Teal'c get stuck in a time loop. When Jackson goes missing and the Stargate is hit by an Electrical pulse, the team start a search. O'Neill, Teal'c, and Malakai (Robin Mosseley) are placed inside a time loop while Carter tends to Jackson. Flashback to before the mission, Carter gives a briefing on the solar activity which can be seen from planet P4X-639. Meanwhile, O'Neill and Teal'c mention that the team has already been briefed on the mission. Before SG-12 returns to the base with an injured man, O'Neill and Teal'c know that the SG-12 team will return. Dr. Fraiser can find nothing wrong with O'Neill or Teal'c. General Hammond postpones the mission to P4X-639. Jackson asks O'Neill for help in translating alien writings to find out why O'Neill and Teal'c are in a time loop. The Stargate is hit by an electrical charge, and the time loop restarts. O'Neill and Teal'c must convince their friends of the time loop all over again. SG-1 return to P4X-639, and they encounter Malakai who calls Carter by her name just as an electrical charge hits the Stargate. While on the planet, O'Neill looks at a picture of Malakai's wife. The time loop starts over again. O'Neill and Teal'c assist Jackson in translating symbols from the planet in order to prevent time from looping again. Carter has a plan to establish a wormhole to another planet in order to stop the loop. Upon dialing the address, the seventh chevron will not engage. The loop restarts again. To assist Jackson, O'Neill and Teal'c must learn Latin in order to stop the device causing the time loops. Carter has a theory that the Earth Stargate is in a subspace bubble, thereby the gate can not connect to a planet not within a close distance to P4X-639. From Teal'c's perspective when the time loop restarts, Teal'c is accidentally hit in the face with a door by an Airman (Cam Cronin). Jackson tells O'Neill and Teal'c that they can do whatever they want with no consequences. O'Neill and Teal'c leave Jackson in his office. O'Neill makes pottery, rides a bike down a hallway, plays golf with Teal'c using the Stargate as a golf hole, and resigns his commission in order to passionately kiss Carter. Meanwhile, Teal'c closes the door on the Airman who usually hits Teal'c in the face with the door when the time loop restarts. After some research, Jackson informs the group that the time machine on P4X-639 was built by the Ancients - the same people who built the Stargate system - to avert their own demise. The machine does not work properly and caused the time loop. SG-1 returns to P4X-639 in search of Malakai and to shut down the machine. A forcefield prevents SG-1 from getting near the device. Malakai reveals that he only wants to see his wife who died 12 years before. O'Neill finally gets Malakai to shut the machine down by telling Malakai about his son Charlie. SG-1 return to Earth. After having a steady diet of Fruit Loops for three months (the time it took the SGC to solve the time loop problem), O'Neill orders oatmeal.

Guest Cast:

Teryl Rothery as Dr. Janet Fraiser

Dan Shea as Sgt. Siler

Daniel Bacon as Technician

Bill Nikolai as Alberts

Cam Cronin as The Airman at the Door

Robin Mosseley as Malakai

Production Credits:

Developed for Television: Brad Wright & Jonathan Glassner

Executive Consultant: Jonathan Glassner

Creative Consultant: Peter DeLuise

Co--Producers: Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie

Co--Executive Producers: Robert C. Cooper & N. John Smith

Writers: Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie

Director: Peter DeLuise

Executive Producers: Michael Greenburg, Richard Dean Anderson, & Brad Wright

Production Manager: Andy Mikita

First Assistant Director: Bill Mizel

Second Assistant Director: Ryan Kosmynka

Music: Joel Goldsmith

Original Stargate Themes: David Arnold

Director of Photography: Peter Woeste, C.S.C.

Production Designer: Richard Hudolin

Editor: Allan Lee

Art Director: Bridget McGuire

Costume Designer: Christina McQuarrie

Make-Up Artist: Jan Newman

Unit Manager: John G. Lenic

Recurring Characters:

* This is Teryl Rothery's (Janet Fraiser) 40th Episode.

* This is Dan Shea's (Siler) 11th Episode.

* This is Daniel Bacon's (Technician) 7th Episode.

* This is Bill Nikolai's (Alberts) 7th Episode.

Actor Notes:

Robin Mosseley played Clark in the SciFi Channel Original Movie Clive Barker's Saint Sinner (2002). He played the role of the Interrogator in the Jeremiah (2002 to 2004) episode "Letters From the Other Side, Part 1." Mosseley appeared in the Jake 2.0 episode "The Good, the Bad, and the Geeky" as the Banker. On the series Dead Like Me (2003 to 2004), he portrayed the Taxidermy Instructor in the episode "Reapercussions." Mosseley played Dr. Belluci in the "Diagnosis: Jimmy" episode of The Lone Gunmen (2001). He also played three different doctors on four different episodes of The X-Files (1993 to 2002). In the two-part episode "Tunguska" and "Terma," Mosseley played Dr. Kingsley Looker. In The X-Files episode "Young at Heart," he played Dr. Joe Ridley. Mosseley played Dr. Vance Randolph in the episode "Our Town." In the Dead Man's Gun (1997 to 1999) episode "Seven Deadly Sins," he played Wilbur Mitchell. Mosseley portrayed the role of Gary in The Sentinel (1996 to 1999) episode "Pennies from Heaven." He played Jimmy the Weasel in the "Glory Days" episode of Highlander: The Series (1992 to 1998). Mosseley appeared as the Doctor in The Outer Limits (1995 to 2002) episode "Afterlife."

Connections:

* Actor Robin Mosseley first worked with Richard Dean Anderson on eight episodes of Anderson's MacGyver (1985 to 1992) TV series.

Destination:

* Planet P4X--639 has a rocky landscape, absent of any greenery, near the Stargate. The planet is also subject to periodic high levels of Solar radiation. The planet is a deserted former world of the Ancients with a high level of technical capability.

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