Teal'c lets out some home truths about his past life. That he has a wife and son. Which rounds out the male marriage racket and Sam with her ex-fiancé. They go back to ground zero in Chul'ack. This episode builds again on the Goa'uld and Jaffa mythology. It helps humanise Teal'c and gives Daniel a darker side to his nature.

The Plot

Basically the plot is that Teal'c's son is going to go through the Primta a ceremony in which a young Jaffa receives his first infant Goa'uld. Teal'c doesn't want that to happen so he wants to go back to Chul'ack, get his sin and bring him back to earth. So they infiltrate Chul'ack via the Stargate in disguise. Teal'c takes them to his training master. Daniel and Sam are told to head back to the Stargate and wait for Jack, Bra'tac and Teal'c to get Rya'c. However Rya'c has scarlet fever and is near death that was why his mother wanted him to go through the Primta, it was the only way she knew to save his life. Daniel and Sam find a repository for the Goa'uld lava. Daniel angry about the damage that they could do kills them despite Sam's warnings. When they get back they find out that Teal'c has given his given his Goa'uld lava to his son and is now dying. So Daniel brings out junior and Teal'c lives to fight another day.

1) Where did they get Teal'c's mask since he didn't have it with him at the end of Children of the Gods? I assume they made the monk gear up themselves, but I doubt they could have done the same for the helmet. I would be really worried if they tried to say that they got the monk gear from Chul'ack too.

Cheers for the way they dealt with a future problem before it became a big issue. The removal of Teal'c's Goa'uld lava, by giving him a younger one they can now go on for a few more seasons before they have to deal with that problem of the delivery of an adult Goa'uld and a home for it.

The acting was really nice. I think when Daniel shots the Goa'uld lava holder, I believe he is thinking of his wife. It was interesting that they didn't hit us with that fact rather let us (maybe just me) the viewer feel that by the act itself. It was also an ironic touch to have the two "fathers" trying to save Teal'c's son.

Though they have minor roles Michael Shanks and Amanda Tapping make the best of their one real scene at the Goa'uld pool. Especially Michael Shanks, whose coldness towards the lava and it had to be done attitude. Richard Dean Anderson is great as he tries to help his friend save his son. Christopher Judge is the driving force in this episode, he plays a worried Teal'c so well even if he is not allowed to show the full range of possible emotions, via facial expression, rather his voice and actions convey the emotional distress over the fate of Teal'c's son. This episode shows what a pity it can be when a character is not allowed to have real emotions.

Jeff King did some really good sub-plot lines in this without having to make it obvious. First in helping his son Teal'c has pushed back the date the SGC would have had to deal with an adult Goa'uld in need of implantation. He also deals with Sha'uri without being obvious in the notion, when Daniel sees the Goa'uld lava. Daniel's actions show that he will kill when provoked.