Season Five

Episode Number: 96

Episode Title: The Tomb

Air Date: 08-17-01

Syndication Air Date: 10-28-02

First SciFi Syndication Air Date: 09-08-03

Chad's Summary: While on a mission (P2X--338), Carter finds a pack of Russian cigarettes on an alien world. General Hammond orders SG-1 to return to the planet in a joint mission with a Russian Stargate team. Dr. Jackson succeeds in opening the Ziggurat. The mission is a search and rescue operation to find a missing Russian Stargate team who disappeared six days before the mission depicted in the episode  Watergate. The teams split up with Teal'c accompanying the Russian team. A Russian also accompanies SG-1. SG-1 discovers the skeleton of one of the missing Russian team members. Teal'c and the Russian team finds a sarcophagus. The Goa'uld Marduk is found dead inside the sarcophagus. Both the skeleton and Marduk exhibit tiny teeth marks. Carter and Lt. Toliney (Jennifer Halley) find a cocoon. Teal'c and Col. Zukhov (Earl Pastko) discover more human remains. A creature attacks injuring Lt. Toliney. The creature is host to the Goa'uld parasite using the name of Marduk. Col. Zukhov removes the Eye of Te'amin -- the secret mission objective of the Russian team. The creature is injured and later found dead by Carter and Teal'c. Now, who among the group is host to the Goa'uld Marduk? Major Vallarin (Alexander Kalugin) is the host who is looking for the Eye of Te'amin. Vallarin gets into a fight with O'Neill and Zukhov. Col. O'Neill escapes death, and SG-1 along with Lt. Toliney ring transport out of the Ziggurat. They return to Earth. The ring transport takes place seconds before a C--4 explosion killing the Goa'uld Marduk.  

Guest Cast:

Gary Jones as Sgt. Tech. Walter Harriman

Earl Pastko as Col. Zukhov

Alexander Kalugin as Major Vallarin

Jennifer Halley as Lt. Toliney

Vitaliy  Kravchenko Lt. Marchenko

Garry Chalk as Col. Chekhov  

Production Credits:

Developed for Television: Brad Wright & Jonathan Glassner

Executive Consultant: Jonathan Glassner

Creative Consultant: Peter DeLuise

Supervising Producers: Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie

Co--Executive Producer: N. John Smith

Executive Producer: Robert C. Cooper

Writers: Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie 

Director: Peter DeLuise

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

Story Editor: Ron Wilkerson 

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: Rick Martin

Supervising Art Director: Bridget McGuire

Art Directors: Doug McLean, Ivana Vasak, & Brentan Harron 

Costume Designer: Christina McQuarrie

Make-Up Artist: Jan Newman

Unit Manager: John G. Lenic

Recurring Characters:

* This is Gary Jones' (Water Harriman) 36th Episode.

* This is Garry Chalk's (Chekhov) 1st Episode.

The Name Game:

* This episode of Stargate SG-1, "The Tomb," shares its' title with a season five episode of Smallville (2001 to present) that was originally broadcast on February 09, 2006.

Destination:

*  On planet P2X--338, SG-1 discovers a very old and seemingly abandoned Ziggurat. The planet has an intensely hot and dry climate. The Ziggurat is more than 4,000 years old. Along with the arid climate, the temperature rises to 135 degrees in the shade if shade can be found. The dead Goa'uld Marduk is found in a sarcophagus. Marduk's culture resembles the Babylonian culture of Earth.   

Chad's Summary is copyright 2005 by SciFi Corner.

Stargate SG--1 is copyright 2005 by MGM Corporation.