While employing the help of a planet's highly intelligent children for a project, the team discovers their horrific imposed fate when they reach a certain age.

The SG1 team embark on a trip to visit a planet with an idyllic beach, but as soon as they step through the stargate, they find they are back in the SGC. They thought that they just left, but have been missing for hours. They soon discover that an alien device has been implanted in their brains and a being called Urgo reveals himself to the team. But no one else can see him and he is extremely irritating. Will they be able to extract him before they lose their minds?

The SGC is contacted by an advanced and embattled alien human civilization seeking military assistance, but their exact reasons for it become increasingly suspect.

When an SG-team member tries to assassinate the Tok'ra leader, it is believed that some of the SGC have been converted into Za'tarc - programmed assassins. The Tok'ra Freya comes to the SGC with Martouf to try and test all SG-team members. But the Za'tarc detector suggests that O'Neill and Carter are actually Za'tarcs. Is this correct and is there another Za'tarc at the SGC?

While SG-1 is conducting training exercises for new recruits, Jack gets a call about a "foothold" situation. Wounded by compromised officers, O'Neill must lead the recruits in retaking the SGC.

The discovery of the Stargate creates a war between two nations on the planet Tegalus with Daniel in the middle of it.

Dr. Lee is adapting a virtual reality chair for use as a training device. Teal'c thinks its current scenario is all too easy and agrees to work with them to make it more realistic. He enters the game scenario and is quickly "killed" at which point the chair shocks him. Lee says it must be part of its basic construct. As the scenario resets - it's an invasion of SGC by Goa'uld - Teal'c is repeatedly killed and shocked putting him in danger. The computer program is set up to learn after each scenario and the challenge for Teal'c increases at every turn. Daniel volunteers to enter the game as well to see if together they can find a way out.