SG-1 is providing security for three scientists who are conducting research on a far-off planet. Goa'uld warlord Khonsu arranges to capture the SG-1 team and O'Neill tells Jay Felger, nominally the group's leader, to use the gate and head back to SGC. Felger is quite enamored with SG-1, admiring their exploits and daring-do. Rather than follow O'Neill's orders, Felger and another scientist, Simon Coombs, transport themselves up to the Goa'uld ship. What the scientists don't know is that SG-1's capture is a ruse to allow Khonsu, who is actually a Tok'ra, to pass on information. O'Neill is quite annoyed with the two scientists but their presence proves useful in the end.

To save his job, Dr. Felger tests a new virus on the Stargate Network to help control it and it ends up disabling it instead.