Stargate SG-1 (TV Series)

Ripple Effect (2006)

Amanda Tapping: Lt. Col. Samantha Carter

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• Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : As we discussed the situation we realized we could pinpoint the source of the phenomenon to a precise window. Specifically the interim journey between the two gates.

  Cameron Mitchell : Did she just say "we"?

  Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : Pardon me?

  Dr. Daniel Jackson : She said we. You said we?

  Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : Ah, me and... myself, I suppose. The other Samantha Carter.

  Cameron Mitchell : Right, finally someone who can keep up with you.

  Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : [Smiling]  Yep!

• Cameron Mitchell : [softly]  You know, I read all the mission reports on the Asgard. They're not what I expected.

  Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : What were you expecting?

  Cameron Mitchell : [glancing at Kvasir]  Well, pants for one.

• Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : The theory holds that anything that can happen, will happen. If not in this reality, then in another.

  Cameron Mitchell : So you're saying that somewhere in an alternate universe, I got to second base with Amy Vandenberg?

  Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : [annoyed]  Theoretically, yes.

• Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : It's possible the first spatial tear may have caused a ripple effect across several realities, transforming an area of their subspace into into a kind of funnel that's redirecting their gate travel into this universe. Any wormhole passing close enough to the black hole is being drawn into the singularity and rerouted here.

  Hank Landry : So you're telling me that we're the hub?

  Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : A convergence point, yes sir. It might account for why gate travel in this universe isn't affected.

  Hank Landry : Inform all off world teams to proceed to the Alpha Site. Until further notice gate travel to and from Stargate Command will be suspended indefinitely.

  Cameron Mitchell : What if there are more teams coming in hot?

  Hank Landry : I'm willing to make the occasional exception but I'm not about to turn this base into the Grand Central Station of the multiverse.

• Dr. Bill Lee : Given the fact that previous trips through this black hole didn't produce a rupture in the subspace structure...

  Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : They may not have produced the rupture but it is entirely possible that their repeated trips contributed to the deterioration of the space-time fabric that eventually ceded to the singularity, creating a bridge between the various realities.

  Dr. Bill Lee : And I'm thinking that the proximity of these realities in relation to each other may account for the absence of the entropic cascade failure. But this still doesn't help us with main problem... how do reverse the process?

  Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : I don't have any answer to that, because if I did

  [camera pans around to show 15 Samantha Carters behind her] 

  Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : we all wouldn't be here.