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== Précis ==
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== SciFi.com Official Summary ==
== SciFi.com Official Summary ==


''The official summary is not yet available as this episode has yet to air in the United States.''
After a long night of work on an Ancient device found in Glastonbury, England, Carter achieves a breakthrough. As Mitchell looks on, she activates the device — which unexpectedly shifts them both into a different dimension. Invisible and powerless, they can now only observe as their friends try to figure out where they've gone.


== Episode Spoilers ==
A distress call from the Sodan warriors interrupts Teal'c and Daniel's search. Teal'c and SG-12 hurry to the Sodan homeworld, where a brutal massacre has taken place. The Sodan leader, Haikon, clings to life as he explains what happened. A Prior of the Ori turned one of the warriors, Volnek, into an irrational killer. Wearing a Sodan wrist device that makes him invisible, Volnek butchered his comrades and is still stalking the area. Because warriors wearing the wrist devices can see each other, Teal'c puts on a second device and sets out in pursuit.


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On Earth, Dr. Lee discovers lepton radiation near the Ancient device. Daniel, recalling that leptons were associated with his own disappearance into another dimension several years ago (3.21 "Crystal Skull"), delves into Ancient texts recovered in Glastonbury. There he finds a legend about Arthur's Mantle, a mythical cloak that made the famous king invisible. The cloak, Daniel concludes, was actually a medieval metaphor for the Ancient device, which allows transportation &mdash; and communication &mdash; between alternate dimensions.


"Alan is finishing up his second draft of Arthur's Mantle." &mdash; Joseph Mallozzi in his GateWorld Blog, August 23.
As Carter and Daniel begin a painstaking, trans-dimensional conversation, Mitchell tags along with a team of reinforcements to the Sodan world. There, Teal'c has just confronted Volnek in a desperate battle, but Volnek was eerily invincible to gunfire and forced Teal'c to retreat. Now, Teal'c volunteers to be the bait in a lethal trap for the renegade warrior. Mitchell follows Teal'c, hoping to do more than look on helplessly as his teammate risks his life.


According to Arthurian legends, Arthur's mantle, or cloak, gave the wearer invisibility while he could see everyone around him. Arthur's mantle is one of the Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain which "reveal a preoccupation with worthiness of the person finding or using them: they will not work for the unworthy. This is a clear indication of their function in the king's relationship with Sovereignty: they cannot be found or wielded by any save the rightful king or champion of the king. Merlin was supposed to have procured these from their owners and taken them to his abode of glass on Bardsey Island." &mdash; [http://www.celt.net/Celtic/celtopedia/t.html Encyclopedia of the Celts].
Meanwhile, Dr. Lee activates the Ancient device &mdash; mistakenly sending Daniel to the alternate dimension, too. Frustrated, Daniel nonetheless seizes the chance to read pages of holographic text that the device only displays on this side. He learns that Merlin, an Ascended Ancient, built the dimensional transporter to keep a critical project secret even from his fellow Ancients. He was designing a weapon to defend his people from the Ori &mdash; a weapon that can kill Ascended Beings.


STORY:
As Daniel and Carter absorb this stunning information, Dr. Lee accidentally drains the device's power supply. Carter, Daniel, and Mitchell now have only fifteen minutes before the power is gone and they become stranded in the other dimension forever.


Mitchell and Carter disappear! The security cameras at the base recorded their last location, then, suddenly, they were gone.
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Teal'c and Major Hadden’s team, SG-9, have gone to the Sodan homeworld and encountered a massacre at the Stargate. They transport to the Sodan’s hideaway using the codes given to Col. Mitchell after he gained their trust ("Babylon"). When they arrive, they are shocked and stunned to find that someone has burnt the village to the ground and killed several Jaffa there. Someone who knew the codes to the transporter had to have done this.
 
Teal'c examines some of the dead Jaffa and realizes that whoever did the deed knew the best way to kill a Jaffa — targeting the symbiote. They discover Haikon still alive, but his symbiote is dead. Quickly, they decide to administer tretonin to save his life.
 
Back at the SGC, Mitchell and Carter realize that they are phased out similar to the way that Daniel was several years ago after the process of looking into the Crystal Skull was interrupted ("Crystal Skull"). While Mitchell tries to get over the shock of what has happened to him, Daniel leads the investigation to find them.
 
Maj. Hadden and Teal'c realize that they have become stranded on Sodan because the obelisk housing the transporter has been damaged. Unable to get back to the Stargate, Hadden becomes uneasy and grows fatalistic. They’ve discovered that it was Volnek ("Babylon") who attacked the village. Teal'c decides to use one of the Sodan personal cloaking devices to track down Volnek, who is also using one. They will be able to see each other when their cloaks are activated.
 
Mitchell and Carter watch as Daniel makes progress in his investigation and soon they learn about what Volnek has done. Convinced that they are invincible, Mitchell decides to go after Volnek while still invisible...
 
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From TV Zone #67: Arthur's Mantle, written by Alan McCullough, is part of a three-episode arc that culminates with the season finale Camelot [9.20]. "This story opens with Colonel Carter, who, along with Doctor Lee, has been trying to figure out how to operate one of the Ancient's devices found in the Glastonbury cave (9.01 "Avalon Part 1")," explains McCullough. "Unfortunately, they haven't been successful and are about to ship the device to Area 51 when Carter triggers something and she and Mitchell are transported to another dimension. They're still on the base, they just can't make themselves seen or heard. In the meantime, the SGC receives a message from the Sodan warriors saying they've been attacked by an unknown enemy, so Teal'c and another SG team go to investigate. Unbeknownst to anyone, Mitchell tags along and ends up getting stranded with Teal'c and the others. As in Stronghold [9.14], these two stories eventually join up and play out in the end." [Thanks to Sandra for the quotes.]
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== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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* [[Jarvis George]] as [[Volnek]]
* [[Jarvis George]] as [[Volnek]]
* [[Bill Dow]] as [[Bill Lee|Dr. Bill Lee]]
* [[Bill Dow]] as [[Bill Lee|Dr. Bill Lee]]
* [[Eric Breker]] as [[Reynolds|Col. Reynolds]]
* [[Doug Wert]] as [[Hadden|Col. Hadden]]
* [[Darren Giblin]] as [[Conway]]
* [[Gary Jones]] as [[Walter Harriman|Sgt. Harriman]]
* [[Gary Jones]] as [[Walter Harriman|Sgt. Harriman]]
* Major Hadden, commander of SG-9
* [[Andrew McNee]] as [[Stargate Technicians|Technician]]
* SG-9 members McKenzie, Conway, Stevens
* [[Morris Chapdelaine]] as [[Priors of the Ori|Prior]]
* Raymond Chan as Sparring Warrior (Stunt)


== Production ==
== Production ==
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=== Keywords ===
=== Keywords ===
* [[Ancients]]
* [[Arthur's Mantle]]
* [[Ascended Beings]]
* [[Eye of the Gods]]
* [[Merlin]]
* [[Ori]]
* [[Priors of the Ori]]
* [[SG-12]]
* [[Sodan]]
* [[Sodan Cloaking Device]]


=== Other ===
=== Other ===


{{Season Nine Ep Guide Links}}
{{Season Nine Ep Guide Links}}
* [[3.21 "Crystal Skull" Episode Guide]]
* [[9.18 "Arthur's Mantle" Transcript]]
* [[9.18 "Arthur's Mantle" Transcript]]
* Previous: [[9.17 "The Scourge" Episode Guide]]
* Previous: [[9.17 "The Scourge" Episode Guide]]
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== Related Links ==
== Related Links ==
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Précis

Mitchell and Carter are sent into another dimension after activating a personal cloaking device. While Daniel leads an investigation to find his missing teammates, Mitchell decides to use the technology to his advantage when a similarly cloaked assassin attacks the Sodan. Daniel and Carter learn from the device that the Ancient Merlin had designed a weapon against ascended beings.

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SciFi.com Official Summary

After a long night of work on an Ancient device found in Glastonbury, England, Carter achieves a breakthrough. As Mitchell looks on, she activates the device — which unexpectedly shifts them both into a different dimension. Invisible and powerless, they can now only observe as their friends try to figure out where they've gone.

A distress call from the Sodan warriors interrupts Teal'c and Daniel's search. Teal'c and SG-12 hurry to the Sodan homeworld, where a brutal massacre has taken place. The Sodan leader, Haikon, clings to life as he explains what happened. A Prior of the Ori turned one of the warriors, Volnek, into an irrational killer. Wearing a Sodan wrist device that makes him invisible, Volnek butchered his comrades and is still stalking the area. Because warriors wearing the wrist devices can see each other, Teal'c puts on a second device and sets out in pursuit.

On Earth, Dr. Lee discovers lepton radiation near the Ancient device. Daniel, recalling that leptons were associated with his own disappearance into another dimension several years ago (3.21 "Crystal Skull"), delves into Ancient texts recovered in Glastonbury. There he finds a legend about Arthur's Mantle, a mythical cloak that made the famous king invisible. The cloak, Daniel concludes, was actually a medieval metaphor for the Ancient device, which allows transportation — and communication — between alternate dimensions.

As Carter and Daniel begin a painstaking, trans-dimensional conversation, Mitchell tags along with a team of reinforcements to the Sodan world. There, Teal'c has just confronted Volnek in a desperate battle, but Volnek was eerily invincible to gunfire and forced Teal'c to retreat. Now, Teal'c volunteers to be the bait in a lethal trap for the renegade warrior. Mitchell follows Teal'c, hoping to do more than look on helplessly as his teammate risks his life.

Meanwhile, Dr. Lee activates the Ancient device — mistakenly sending Daniel to the alternate dimension, too. Frustrated, Daniel nonetheless seizes the chance to read pages of holographic text that the device only displays on this side. He learns that Merlin, an Ascended Ancient, built the dimensional transporter to keep a critical project secret even from his fellow Ancients. He was designing a weapon to defend his people from the Ori — a weapon that can kill Ascended Beings.

As Daniel and Carter absorb this stunning information, Dr. Lee accidentally drains the device's power supply. Carter, Daniel, and Mitchell now have only fifteen minutes before the power is gone and they become stranded in the other dimension forever.

Modified by Solutions.

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