Col. O'Neill is still with the Tok'ra after having a Tok'ra symbiote implanted in his head to cure him of the deadly virus he contracted. The Tok'ra continue to seek a suitable host for the symbiote implanted in O'Neill so that it can be removed from him

Meanwhile, on Earth, Maj. Carter receives a 2 a.m. call from a man identifying himself as Richard Flemming. He claims to have vital information about Adrian Conrad, who had captured a Goa'uld symbiote 10 months ago and created havoc. Flemming tells Carter that "the project is out of control" and then Carter hears his car crash

At Stargate Command, Carter briefs Gen. Hammond, Teal'c and Jonas Quinn. She says that Flemming was a biologist and former professor of advanced genetics at Stanford University. Jonas immediately recognizes the name, noting that Flemming was famous for developing hybrid strains of disease-resistant corn and cotton. Two years ago, Flemming accepted a position at Immunotech Research, which, as it turns out, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zetatron Industries � Adrian Conrad's corporate base

Conrad had himself implanted with a stolen symbiote in order to cure himself of a deadly disease. After Stargate Command took him into military custody, Immunotech scaled back their operations and moved to a small Oregon town named Steveston. Hammond orders Carter, Teal'c and Quinn to go there and investigate, and to interview Dr. Flemming if he's still alive. He was reported missing after the car crash; no body was found in the wreckage

In Steveston, the townspeople appear to be half-asleep, as if drugged or under outside control. SG-1 learns that the Immunotech lab had burned down, and that the local sheriff believed Dr. Flemming had been murdered. The team searches Flemming's house, but it has been wiped clean. Then a package arrives that Dr. Flemming had sent himself to prevent it from being discovered while his house was searched

The package contains a huge syringe full of serum. The scientists working for Adrian Conrad had been studying a symbiote in order to create some kind of superdrug. Carter thinks this might be it and sends a sample back to Stargate Command for analysis

SG-1 is contacted by a dark-haired man who claims to be a former Immunotech night guard whom Dr. Flemming had taken into his confidence. He says Flemming had warned him away from Immunotech the night of the fire, and told him of people who come out only at night

Jonas at this point remembers seeing fresh tire tracks leading up to the town's recently closed mill. Investigating, SG-1 discovers that Immunotech apparently had moved there. Carter gathers some computer disks for evidence, while Jonas discovers a partially constructed alien ship. Jonas and Teal'c stake out the mill while Carter attempts to decode the disks

She cracks the code and Goa'uld symbols appear on the screen. Carter realizes that Flemming and another scientist, who is also dead, had cloned Adrian Conrad's symbiote. The townspeople had been implanted with immature Goa'uld-symbiote clones that were strong enough only to take over their bodies while the hosts slept. The townspeople were inordinately tired during the day because they were building a Goa'uld ship at night without knowing it. Teal'c hadn't sensed these Goa'ulds' presence because, being clones, they had no Naquadah in their blood

Teal'c and Jonas are captured by the sheriff's deputy � in actuality, Agent Cross of the covert National Intelligence Department (NID). The NID has been monitoring the situation from the beginning, waiting for the ship to be built so that they could commandeer it for a new planetary defense system

Further complicating matters, Carter is captured by the Goa'uld and taken to the sheriff's office, where she is implanted with a symbiote � as is Cross. While the Goa'uld's plan originally was just to build a ship and escape Earth, they've now decided to take over the NID

Before the Goa'uld captured Carter, though, she had deciphered enough of Flemming's file to discover he had engineered the symbiotes with a kill-switch � a susceptibility to a particular antibiotic. Taking a calculated risk, Carter had deduced that this was the content of Flemming's syringe. She injected herself before she was taken, the symbiote implanted in her died within moments, and she then operated undercover, saving Teal'c and Jonas and escaping the Goa'uld. The townspeople respond to the antibiotic as well as Carter did

The partially constructed ship is now at Area 51. It might prove useful even though unfinished

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