Well, okay, we don’t know that for a fact, but I think it’s pretty obvious. Nobody walks around smirking like that unless they’ve just finally gotten laid after a considerable absence from said activity.
So, let’s see, what other purpose does this episode serve other than to get Teal’c laid? Well, we introduce another bad guy, Tanith. And that’s fine. More than fine! Because, to be honest, Peter Wingfield is just plain dishy. Anyway, as far as bad guys go, we need a new one. But, come on! I know that the only thing they’re going to do with him again is bring him back for another episode so they can kill him. And that’s boring. If I were the writers (which I’m not, sadly), I would first introduce him. Okay, so we have Tanith with the Tok’Ra and Shan'auc's dead. Let Teal'c's suspicions stay, but end the episode. Keep it going for a couple episodes. Then, in another episode, let it be made clear that Tanith killed Shan’auc, and that the Tok’Ra know it too. Then bring him back a couple more times. Then kill him. Because we know he will be killed eventually. That much is pretty obvious. Of course, if I were the writers (which, again, I’m not sadly) I probably wouldn’t kill him at all. I probably wouldn’t kill any of the bad guys (except maybe Apophis, but if I were the writers I would have never brought him on in the first place). In fact, I would probably kill off all the main characters, and make the show just about the bad guys. A bunch of bad guys running around in the Universe, being bad, but being good at it. Then I would hire Ewan McGregor and have him do one of his famous full-frontal nudity scenes. Hey, it’s Showtime! I can do whatever I want, right? Then I would do an entire episode consisting solely of flying monkeys and magical pigs. And in the final episode, it would be revealed that the whole series was nothing more than an autistic child looking at a snow dome.
Unfortunately, it is for that very reason that I am not the writers.
The episode also brought up the concept of a Jaffa being able to contact it’s symbiote. Interesting, I suppose. It will probably never come up again, except in one episode, where they kill off the new bad guy. Oh, and we also got to see how Teal’c’s father died. Apparently, this is to provide angst or something. Now, I ask you, is that nearly as entertaining as flying monkeys, magical pigs, and a naked Ewan McGregor?