Double Jeopardy wraps up a story thread that you didn’t know you wanted wrapped up, and it works wonderfully.

There are clues right from the off that the SG-1 arriving through the gate isn’t the one we know. They’re using MP-5s instead of the P-90s, O’Neill’s (Richard Dean Anderson) hair is darker, Carter (Amanda Tapping) is a captain, Teal’c (Christopher Judge) doesn’t have a staff weapon, and Daniel (Michael Shanks) is worry a bandanna to hide his full head of hair.

Before anything really happens, fans will clue in to what is going on… these are the robots created in the first season episode, Tin Man. Michael Shanks seems to be absent a lot of this episode, and that’s because he’s the one behind the camera.

Double Jeopardy first aired on 16 February, 2001 and was written by Robert C. Cooper.

When the robot SG-1 arrives on a planet that the ‘real’ SG-1 team has been to, and tried to fight the Goa’uld, the run afoul of the local system lord, who intends to turn them over to Cronus (Ron Halder).

The robots’ creator, Harlan (Jay Brazeau) comes to Stargate Command to ask for help. O’Neill is initially reticent, but when the team signs of, they’ll learn that the mission won’t succeed unless both SG-1 teams work together.

It’s smart, funny, and Shanks handles the direction with aplomb making the show work on every level. It gives Teal’c a nice emotional arc tie-off with Cronus, has lots of nods to continuity, and is just a damned entertaining episode.

Like a restful breath before we dive into the season four finale.

Exodus wraps up season four. First broadcast on 23 February, 2001 it was written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie.

It works to wrap up the Goa’uld spy, Tanith (Peter Wingfield) embedded in the Tok’ra story, as well as the continued threat of Apophis (Peter Williams).

SG-1 arrives at the Tok’ra base with their newly claimed mothership to help relocate the Tok’ra and let Tanith know they’ve rumbled him. But that’s only the beginning of things.

When Tanith makes a run for it, Teal’c sets off on a personal journey of vengeance against the wishes of the rest of the team, and jeopardizing the full plan, which could mean not being able to stop Apophis and a giant Goa’uld fleet.

Teal’c and O’Neill pursue Tanith while Daniel, Carter and Jacob (Carmen Argenziano) go after the fleet.

Things go badly. Teal’c is captured by Tanith and delivered to Apophis, the Tok’ra plan, which involves dropping a stargate into a sun to cause a supernova and launching an attack on Apophis doesn’t work quite as well as they hoped.

Teal’c is somehwere out the with Apophis, possibly dead, the Tok’ra mothership under Jacob’s control with the rest of SG-1 aboard have tumbled through hyperdrive (thanks to the supernova explosion) and ended up 400 million lightyears away, in an altogether different galaxy.

And who just happens to be tumbling through hyperspace with them, and ends up in the same place?

Apophis and a To Be Continued!