Osiris (Anna-Louise Plowman) is haunting Daniel’s (Micheal Shanks) dreams as her former self, and his former lover, Sarah. What is Osiris up to? Does it have something to do with the Lost City?

Chimera was written by Damian Kindler from a story by Robert C. Cooper.

And outside of Stargate Command we see that Carter (Amanda Tapping) is in a relationship with a police officer named Pete Shanahan (David DeLuise). Yay for Samantha Carter! She even hums, something O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) comments on. It’s really nice to see Carter this happy. Will Carter having to keep her job a secret be an insurmountable problem?

Interestingly enough, the role was initially written for Ben Browder who ended up being unavailable. This, however, would free him for a future leading role in the series.

Both arcs deal with love, the potential for loss, and in Daniel’s case, wanting to save Sarah as well as find the Lost city. Sarah, in his dreams, begins to act differently from how Daniel remembers things, and he becomes suspicious that there is more than just his dreams going on.

Teal’c (Christopher Judge) realizes that Osiris is using Goa’uld technology to manipulate his dreams and memory to help find the Lost City.

Anderson is obviously missing from a lot of the episode, continuing his stepping back from the series for more free time with his family.

The episode is able to bring both narratives together, and maybe, Pete will get to see a little bit more of what Carter’s life is all about, and maybe, just maybe, Daniel is closer to discovering the location of the Lost City.

And SG-1 captured Osiris, and frees her from the Goa’uld.

Death Knell finds Carter and her father Jacob/Selmak (Carmen Argenziano) at the Alpha Site working on a prototype for a weapon that could stop the super-drones. But it’s not going to go well, as the planet comes under attack by Goa’uld ships.

Written and directed by Peter DeLuise, this episode was first broadcast on 6 February, 2004.

The attack, which expands to include the drones, could tear apart the fragile alliance between the Tok’ra, the free jaffa and earth. Hammond (Don S. Davis) becomes aware of the strained relations between all parties, and it appears to be fraying. The alliance may be over.

And Carter and Jacob could be on the run.

O’Neill, Daniel and Teal’c head out to find their friend. They are able to rescie Jacob, but Carter is out there, being pursued by a super-drone.

What could have been a simple chase episode with Carter working to elude the super-drone is a layered with the politics of the series. We get to see that things really aren’t great with the alliance, there is a lot of mistrust over past incidents and the lack of sharing of technology.

The alliance crumbles and Jacob goes off with the Tok’ra in hopes of mending fences. They all may be allies, but the alliance is non-existent, which puts everyone at risk now.

And getting two solid Carter episodes back to back just shows how awesome Tapping is. She went from playing Carter in love to Carter in action. She’s great!