Believing Moya has abandoned him, Crichton finds himself stranded on an alien world, and catches the eye of the daughter of the local ruler. When the crew finds him, Rygel is mistaken for the people's legendary savior.

On a world where tabloid journalism is in place of real news, a photo suggests Maggie is having an affair with the President. But the President's advisers decide to exploit it in order to distract attention from a war with Switzerland.

An alternate reality Carter and Kawalsky appear at the super secret Area 51 site. They say they have traveled through the Quantum Mirror. They tell the SGC that the Goa'uld are attacking the Earth in their reality, and are about to finish decimating Earth and the SGC facility. To make matters worse, the Alternate Sam appears not to be able to survive in this reality. Her body begin suffering temporal distortions which will eventually lead to her death. This reality's SG-1 needs to help the other SG-1 team save their Earth from the Goa'uld attack.