Teal'c, having finally been cleared to live off-base, settles in to his new neighborhood. His neighbors love him. He's quiet, and he has become a sort of protector of his community, having most recently defended a driver against three bullies

Not everybody is as pleased about Teal'c's civilian assimilation. The recent incident with the bullies has come to the attention of Col. Richard Kendrick in the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), who pressures Brig. Gen. Jack O'Neill to have Teal'c removed from the civilian population. He realizes that Teal'c has helped save Earth a couple of times, but having an alien living at large in the civilian population is already drawing unwanted attention

O'Neill sends Dr. Daniel Jackson to Teal'c's apartment to convince him to keep a low profile, which Teal'c agrees to do. Later, though, when Teal'c does nothing as a woman's purse is snatched in front of him and her groceries strewn all over the street, his neighbors, including a skateboarding teen named Eric, egg him on to help. So he throws an avocado a full city block and knocks the thief out cold

He also comes to the aid of another neighbor, a pretty young woman named Krista James, who is being abused by her boyfriend. Krista believes that Teal'c has recently moved here from Mozambique and is Dr. Jackson's research assistant. She asks Teal'c to teach her some defensive moves. They seem to be attracted to one another

Then Krista's abusive boyfriend, Doug McNair, comes back into the picture, and Teal'c sees that he has beaten her. She begs Teal'c not to intervene, so Teal'c simply warns Doug that if he ever harms Krista again, he will kill him where he stands. An elderly neighbor overhears the hallway dispute. Unbeknownst to Teal'c, all his moves are being monitored through a powerful lens somewhere nearby

Meanwhile, Lt. Col. Samantha Carter is surprised when her cop boyfriend, Pete Shanahan, tells her that he has put in for a transfer to the Colorado Springs P.D. � and she's shocked when he pulls out a ring and proposes. This is something that Carter has to think about, since she goes from planet to planet every week without ever knowing if she will return

In his apartment house, Teal'c finds Krista sitting in the hallway waiting for him. She tells him it's over with Doug, for real this time, and begs Teal'c to get in a car with her and just drive away for the weekend. Teal'c obliges, unaware that Doug lies dead in Krista's apartment

Kendrick has issued an all-points bulletin to locate Teal'c, who is now wanted for kidnapping and murder. Teal'c believes the cars following him and Krista are doing so only to bring him back to Stargate Command, so at Krista's insistence, he evades them. Teal'c and Krista wind up in a motel, where they spend the night together

Teal'c awakens to find Krista gone and a Special Forces squad at his door. He is taken to Stargate Command and held in his quarters. Kendrick pressures O'Neill to put Teal'c in the brig. O'Neill, who takes Teal'c at his word, asks how Kendrick knew where Teal'c was and why Teal'c would say he was being followed. Kendrick replies that the OSI was not tailing him and that he'd merely received an anonymous tip as to Teal'c's whereabouts

Meanwhile, Daniel receives a message, written in Ancient, in his e-mail, and a mysterious phone call demanding that the message be translated into Goa'uld in exchange for a videotape of Doug's death, a tape that would confirm Teal'c's innocence

Carter gets Pete to help her investigate the crime scene, which indicates that a large individual, like Teal'c, killed Doug after pinning him up high against a wall and choking him. Through some good old-fashioned police work, Pete ascertains that Teal'c has been under surveillance from across the street and has been framed

Meanwhile, Daniel goes to a park as instructed by the mysterious caller, who turns out to be Jennings, an ex-National Intelligence Division (NID) operative who is now with a rogue group of former agents who call themselves The Trust. Jennings takes Daniel hostage and brings him to a warehouse where Krista is being held

En route, Jennings explains that The Trust's chief concern is the safety of Earth, which is why they had Teal'c, an alien in the civilian population, under surveillance. In a way, Teal'c is partially responsible for Doug's death, says Jennings: Had Teal'c not shown Krista how to crush an assailant's windpipe, she would not have killed Doug in self-defense and The Trust wouldn't have been able to frame Teal'c, enabling them to blackmail Daniel to do their bidding

To save Krista, Daniel translates the Ancient text for The Trust, who then verify its authenticity and transmit the data to an unknown location. Then they zat Daniel and Krista unconscious

Acting on a lead Pete has developed, Carter, Pete and SGC Special Forces storm the warehouse. They find Daniel and Krista, but the bad guys seem to have vanished

Teal'c moves back to Stargate Command and says good-bye to Krista, who has been cleared of murder

Carter says "yes" to Pete's proposal

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