Season 4, Episode 20 - Entity
Original Air Date: February 9, 2001

The SGC makes contact with a world whose address was taken from the Ancients' repository of knowledge, and sends through a MALP probe. An alien virus infiltrates the SGC computer and gathers classified data. When the virus is presumed killed, it is learned that it has actually sought refuge in Carter's body.

this is probaly one of my fave eps i really liked the sad music it was v.relaxing and didnt u feel the tension between jack+sam

Ermmm by the way I can't remember what was the entity. Who or what was it!

If it was on the ancients computer thing then I was thinking it was clever.

But I can't remember

Steve

And poor jack having to shoot carter 3 times

One shot stuns, two shots kills, three shots disintegrate my young friend.

Don't know so much that it was an "invisible being" as a virus that came back though the probe telemetry.

The deal was that the radio signals that the probe was sending back to earth were causing enormous amounts of damage on the planet, and the "entity" came through on a virtual suicide mission to try and stop any more radio signals from happening.

But there were some big holes in the plot. Firstly, why did the entity go into SC? It claimed to have seen in computer files that O'Neill was unlikely to kill this person. But it's highly unlikely that any relationship between SC and O'Neill would actually be documented. And even if we accept that their relationship, such as it is, is documented, why go into something that O'Neill wouldn't kill? It's not like O'Neill is in charge of the base. Why didn't the entity go into someone like Hammond? While it didn't kill the episode, it certainly made things a little contrived!

well cummon they couldnt see it and it was real so it was like an invisable being which worked its way into a computer.

This episode have some really cute scenes... I think it was a good episode. When the doctor told Jack tha she may not back, and he dont wanted to belive on that, it was some good moments... The end was good.
Okay, favorite moment: when Jack told doctor that he just wanted one more second with her... Awwwwww, that was soooooo nice... evere shippers in the world enjoyed that!
Chat later!

just because he had a zat didnt mean he was necerserrily going to shoot he probaly brought it just in case summin went wrong and it got out of hand and in this case it did so he shot her but that didnt stop her so he shot her again.

This episode gives a thoughtful insight into the posiblity of real A.I. and the relationship of the computer to a human brain. The question, is there a relationship and if not can one be made. It is a interesting and intriguing concept. Einstien may be right?

This episode reminded me a lot of the movie Virus where robots and a cybernetic organism too over...

Scary shit if you ask me. I still can't hear a servo whir and not feel a slight panic.

what amazed me is how little amanda tapping blinked and how still she was i think its stuff like that which really do put actors to the test im not sure i could do that!
i think i would go crosseyed after a while

I've read that AT said this was one of the most difficult episodes she has been in as it was so NOT the character she usually plays. Apparently she also had a great deal of difficulty buying into the story line, which isn't usually a problem for her. And despite the fact that she spent most of the episode either lying in bed or just staring at people, she was absolutely exhausted because the part involved so much stillness and anger. So it does seem as though it was a lot of hard work - and very well acted on AT's part, which appears to be pretty much the norm for her.

know what? when i die, i gonna have my brain stuff uploaded into a computer and live forever!!!!!!! this would kinda suck, though.

Ok so after watching the episode again I have some questions... where these Invisible beings... or some type of Computer AI colony... where they only exist as data streams? (woudl explain why it was easily adaptable to our electronics...

and if it was just an electronic being... why havent we gone back? and not taken any electronics and conduct some archological stuff like they used to back in the day before electronics?

SrA Pennington

Very exciting and emotional episode. Sam was amazing and very convincing. The part where Jack begins to threaten with sending an army of probes back to the planet is amazing. Also the part where the phrase "I am here" keeps popping on all computer screens is just wonderful.

I was wondering though, Sam mentioned that the entity has a very powerful compression capability and that it's capable of regenerating itself from smaller fragments of itself. Why didn't the entity transfer part of it back to the computer and regenerate there? Also, how can that computer contain the mind of SC? I would suspect that only an astronomicaly huge space of storage can contain a human mind.

I liked the ending a lot when SC said that she was shouting for them to hear here. This is one wonderful episode

I have watched this one so many times it's great. Anderson really gives you the feeling that O'neill is angery with Carter for not listening to him and also I think that thiers guilt thier, he's said before he would rather die than watch Carter. When you hear her exhale when she is transformed back into her body theirs obviously a sense of relief, but I also picked up on the fact that O'niell really wanted to hold her hand. This episode was really showing O'niells caring side though more caring than he should be! Tapping was absolutly amazing. Though you are not ment to have relations ships it shows they are still human and obviously will have feelings that they cannot help..

Bless, I think they should just retire and be together cause they look fantastic or have a secret relationship/fling, i know your not ment to but they already have feelings for each other!