The second half of SG-1’s final season picked up on 13 April, 2007, almost seven months after the mid-season finale in September of 2006.

Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie throw us right back into things as SG-1, alongside Ba’al (Cliff Simon) and Adria (Morena Baccarin) continue their uneasy alliance and their search for the sangraal. Not to mention dealing with an actual dragon.

They are able to deal with the creature, and find Merlin (Matthew Walker) in stasis, and Mitchell (Ben Browder), Carter (Amanda Tapping), Teal’c (Christopher Judge) and Ba’al find out that they are all on a another world with a gate. In fact, it keeps happening. Merlin’s cave seems to be in a continuous loop. Can they find a way out?

Meanwhile, Adria returns to the village and confers with the Priors and troops before burning it down. She’s determined to track SG-1 through the gate loop they seem to be in, and claim the weapon for the Ori.

Can Daniel (Micheal Shanks) and Vala (Claudia Black) get Merlin to aid them? Will he lead them to the sangraal?

Daniel triggers the ancient mind device, the one that can overload one’s brain as we’ve seen in previous seasons. Will Daniel be able to hold on and solve things and create a sangraal before it’s too late? And what of Adria? She’s gonna be a huge problem before the end of the season.

I mean, she’s a problem now, Daniel is able to allow the rest of the team to escape, but is captured by Adria by story’s end. Man, we got trouble.

Line in the Sand first aired on 20 April, 2007. It was written by Alan McCullough, and directed by Peter DeLuise.

Carter and the rest of SG-1 are tasked with testing an experimental device based on Merlin’s technology that could actually hide a whole village. Which is good, because that’s exactly what they are going to have to do.

The Ori are moving against a planet and one of the villages on it who are refusing to convert to Origin. But things, of course, are going to go bad. The Ori attack, Carter is injured, Vala is captured by her husband, Tomin (Tim Guinee), and is ordered to re-educate her. After he has made her watch his men execute a group of villagers.

Mitchell is working to save Carter, but they’ll have to figure out how to save the day, or at least get away with the tech. Tomin and Vala clash as she struggles to reach him on an emotional and intellectual level… is he too dedicated to the Ori? And Teal’c is given up by some of the villagers who see accepting Origin as the only way for them to survive.

Characters are making choices that have lasting impact, and are having defining moments. It’s a solid story, and moves everything along nicely.

Things are definitely escalating on the Ori front. I mean they would have to considering the series is getting ready to wrap up.