While exploring a world populated by Mongol descendants, Capt. Carter is abducted as a wife of a local warlord
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00:00What a mess.
00:23This temple was destroyed long ago.
00:25Let's get a move on before we meet somebody who remembers why.
00:40There's no signs of human life.
00:41This could be some forbidden zone.
00:44Wait.
00:45I hear something.
00:47Sounds like dogs.
00:54Help!
00:58Help!
01:02Help!
01:06Get out of here!
01:17Are you okay?
01:20Okay?
01:23Yes, I am.
01:26Thanks be to you.
01:27But forgive me.
01:29I am Abu of the Shabadai.
01:31Shabadai?
01:33The people of the steppe.
01:36Well, hello.
01:38I'm Daniel Jackson.
01:39This is...
01:40Jack.
01:41Jack.
01:43You are not from the people of the river.
01:46Uh, no.
01:49We're travelers from very far away.
01:52Si, abogada.
01:55Sure.
01:58Never have we met anyone from that far away.
02:00You will be doubly welcome in my father's camp.
02:03This is Teal'c.
02:04And this is Dr. Carter.
02:06The dogs are gone.
02:07For now.
02:13This is a woman?
02:15Oh, yeah.
02:17What, do I have something growing out of my nose, or...
02:21He looks really upset.
02:23It must be some sort of cultural thing.
02:27No!
02:28I cannot look at you!
02:30Okay, now I'm hurt.
02:34Yolo!
02:35Abu!
02:36You must take her and go!
02:37Go!
02:46Draga! Draga!
02:47These people, they are from the sea of abogada.
02:50One is a woman?
02:51Yes.
02:53Colonel, I think these people are Mongols.
02:56This is good news?
02:57Daniel, find out what I did wrong so I can fix it.
03:01No, no.
03:03No, let them go.
03:05He's right.
03:06We'll just take her with us and go.
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04:51Yaluwai!
05:01Is this any way to greet a stranger?
05:06That one is a woman.
05:10Observant bunch.
05:12Father, they come from the Sea of Ogada.
05:14They do not know our ways.
05:16Law is law.
05:19What manner of weapon is that?
05:21It's a firearm.
05:23It shoots like your bow shoots an arrow.
05:25She speaks.
05:27She dies.
05:28Salt!
05:29No, she saved my life!
05:32Ah!
05:38A woman saved a life.
05:42Hers cannot be taken.
05:46Now, you're my guests.
05:49If you will travel this country, you must learn our ways.
05:55I'm thinking we should just go back while we're ahead.
05:58If we learn their customs, we'll be okay.
06:00It's an incredible opportunity to study an ancient culture up close.
06:06Here we come!
06:08Get down, Abu!
06:11Abu!
06:14Abu!
06:17Abu!
06:20Abu!
06:23Abu!
06:26Abu!
06:29Abu!
06:32Abu!
06:34Abu!
06:36Abu!
06:38Abu!
06:40Abu!
06:42Abu!
06:44Abu!
06:46Abu!
06:48Abu!
06:50Abu!
06:55This is unbelievable.
06:58The Mongols who settled in Persian China adapted to the local customs,
07:01but there was one tribe, the Chagatai,
07:04that kept the traditional life of the steppe nomad.
07:06Maybe these Shabadai are their descendants.
07:11I mean, this camp could literally belong to Genghis Khan.
07:14It's a living exhibit of a way of life that's been extinct for 900 years.
07:21Oh!
07:23Please sit.
07:26Now you may talk.
07:28Good, because I still don't understand what happened out there.
07:32Among our people, it is death for a woman to show her face in public.
07:37Or to wear the clothes of a man.
07:39The old laws weigh heavily.
07:43It is well you saved Abu from the dogs.
07:46It gave me a way to prevent your death.
07:50Thank you for that.
07:52Soon, the old laws, the old ways will no longer serve us.
07:59Trade will one day replace war.
08:02This is the future.
08:05We have strongest, fastest horses and camels,
08:10the finest wool, and medicines.
08:14Drugs of unheard of power.
08:16Oh, we've got some pretty swell drugs of our own.
08:19Colonel, a lot of breakthroughs in medicine are coming out of the mountains and the jungles.
08:24We should really see what he's got.
08:27I will show you.
08:30Follow me.
08:32I'm afraid you cannot go until you are properly attired.
08:36Properly attired?
08:38They should probably do what they want.
08:41Anthropologists do it all the time.
08:43They dress and live as the people they're studying.
08:47I'm not an anthropologist.
08:49You are today.
09:11I used the medicine on this wound from a fire at a recent skirmish.
09:15The shoulder was badly burned.
09:17The moment I began treatment, there was no pain.
09:20This could be an anesthetic we haven't seen before.
09:23We should take some back and test it.
09:37Daniel, find me an anthropologist who dresses like this and I will eat this headdress.
09:46You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.
10:03I guess a kid doesn't get out much.
10:05Look, I will not wear this thing over my face.
10:08I don't care how much embroidery it has on it.
10:10This dress, whatever it's called, I can't move, I can't walk.
10:15I don't know.
10:17It kind of works for me.
10:21It's you.
10:26It's you.
10:27Definitely you.
10:33The good news is you were right.
10:36The good news is you were right.
10:38One of Abu's plants seems to work as an anesthetic.
10:41We're taking something home to be analyzed.
10:44All things considered, Samantha, if we have to come back here,
10:49it might be a better idea if we brought an all-male team.
10:52No offense.
10:54Well, in view of the fact that you all get to go to this party tonight
10:57and I get to stay in this yurt that smells like rancid yak butter and untaken,
11:01I'll just get a good night's sleep and hope for better luck next time.
11:07Let's go.
11:17You going to be all right?
11:19Are you still doubting me?
11:21I haven't been afraid of the dark since I was two.
11:24You look great.
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12:06aka
12:19Doctor we're about ready to go
12:24Doctor we're about ready to
12:30know
12:36You better kill me now, because I am going to talk.
12:41Here, give me a drink and eat.
12:43What the hell do you think you're doing?
12:45There's something I want, more than life itself.
12:48Until yesterday, I thought it was impossible.
12:51And then I saw you, dressed like that.
12:55And I knew your beauty would buy it for me.
12:59What do you mean, buy?
13:01I will trade you.
13:03You can't do that.
13:05I can.
13:07I'm a human being, not property.
13:10Where we are going, the men are not as tolerant as my father.
13:15Be warned.
13:23Any signs?
13:25No, no one's seen her since last night.
13:27All right, find Teal'c.
13:29I want everybody geared up and ready to move out in 15 minutes.
13:32Okay, let me talk to Miguel first.
13:34This could be another misunderstanding.
13:36Cultural differences.
13:37The hell with culture.
13:39A member of my team has been neutralized.
13:41That's a hostile act.
13:43How is it that you always come up with the worst-case scenario?
13:45I practice.
13:47I found fresh hoof prints leading out of the camp.
13:50That's great.
13:52The horse should be identifiable.
13:54One of the hooves was splayed.
13:56The horse belongs to my son.
13:58He is also missing.
14:01I am as ignorant as you.
14:03I don't think so.
14:04Now, he took Captain Carter.
14:06I want to know why.
14:08Among the Shabadai, women are valued highly for trade.
14:13Foreign women, most of all.
14:15Can you help me track him?
14:17Now that I know what to look for, I believe so.
14:19If Abu gives her up peacefully, no one will get hurt.
14:23Right?
14:25We'll do our best.
14:28I will give you horses and guide you myself.
14:32My son has betrayed me as well as you.
14:58Let's go.
15:00Let's go.
15:26Turgi may wish to bid me welcome.
15:28I've come to trade.
15:36Then come, Shabadai.
15:46See the son of my enemy.
15:49How he pales in my presence.
15:58You risk your head coming here.
16:01For what?
16:02You think this interests me?
16:04Yes.
16:12I don't belong to this man.
16:14I was abducted against my will.
16:16Where is she from?
16:18The Sea of Ogada.
16:19My friends will come after me.
16:21They have weapons more powerful than you can imagine.
16:23And they won't hesitate...
16:24Silence!
16:26Or I will have you beaten.
16:30You may do whatever you wish with her.
16:33When she is yours.
16:35And I would see her.
16:41Turn around.
16:43No.
16:51Slow me.
16:56No.
17:07Your skin is very fair.
17:12Look at me.
17:17Your eyes are the color of blue river stones.
17:25Sit.
17:33Are you satisfied?
17:38Name your price.
17:56Why do you hesitate?
18:00So name it.
18:02Gold, horses, weapons.
18:04I have the finest metal craftsmen in the mountain.
18:07No.
18:09What then?
18:11Naya.
18:17You would trade a woman for Naya?
18:22You would trade a woman for another woman?
18:25Naya is not just another woman.
18:27No.
18:28She is my daughter.
18:30She will marry a chieftain.
18:32The desert warlord Chimaka.
18:35Father, please.
18:36It is done.
18:37Chimaka will come on the next moon.
18:40Three days.
18:42How can you do that to your own daughter?
18:44Your beauty will not soften my anger much longer.
18:51The offer for the woman is 300 weights of gold.
18:54Take it or die.
18:56Either way, the woman is mine.
19:03Done.
19:15No.
19:30The woman does not speak.
19:32Unless she is spoken to.
19:45They stopped here.
19:47Arrest the horses.
19:49And so must we.
19:51For two marks.
19:58If we do not find them,
20:00I will pay whatever you ask for the loss of Kata.
20:04We can't do that.
20:06We don't own our women.
20:08Really?
20:09Yes.
20:11And we heard stories about Shabadai women,
20:15that once they were free,
20:17some were even warriors who fought with their husbands in battles.
20:21Mongol and migrant in the legendary Amazon.
20:23Shh.
20:24We do not speak of it.
20:26The laws for women were made to protect and hide them
20:30from the demons who brought us to this place.
20:33Demons?
20:34It is only in legend and a long time ago
20:38in the dawn of our time.
20:40If the demons are gone, why have not the laws been changed?
20:44Some say they will return.
20:46I think it is an excuse for men to have their way.
20:50Among the Shabadai, even the lowliest man is chief among his women.
20:55Is that why you only have one wife?
20:58To set a kind of example?
21:03My people see it as a weakness.
21:06Because you love her?
21:37Father will kill you.
21:39Come away with me.
21:41Tonight.
21:42I cannot.
21:43Now go before they find you here.
21:45I have listened to the wind.
21:48You will come.
21:51I will wait for you by the temple tree.
22:06Now you are a true guy, woman of the forest.
22:11What can you do? Can you cook?
22:14Spin, weave, make dyes?
22:16I'm a lousy cook and I couldn't spin, weave or dye if my life depended on it.
22:20You made yourself a bad deal.
22:25Well, where you come from, you must have done something.
22:29In my world, I am a warrior and a scholar.
22:31I do the work of men.
22:37A warrior.
22:41Let me tell you what I do.
22:44I raid and burn the tents of my enemies.
22:47I slaughter the men, trade the women and children.
22:52For this, I am feared.
22:56And because of that fear,
22:58I have the allegiance of 22 tribes.
23:04But you have to sell your daughter off to make it 23.
23:07How would you like to be hung upside down
23:10with dust-filled rags stuffed in your mouth and nostrils?
23:14Slow death and suffocation.
23:23I'm sorry. I'm sure you know what's best for her.
23:33The spirits have brought you here to teach you how to be human.
24:04I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
24:07I'm sorry.
24:33I'm sorry.
24:59You belong to me.
25:01Let me go.
25:03Let me go.
25:08What kind of woman are you?
25:10Do you respect nothing, care for no one but yourself?
25:15These were responsible for you.
25:17Now, because of you, they will be punished.
25:30No!
25:31It was my fault.
25:32If you need to beat a woman to feel like a man, try me.
25:38I value spirit in my horses, not my women.
25:49You belong to me.
25:51You will earn your place and be obedient,
25:54or you will suffer far worse than a beating.
26:02I heard what you did for my mother.
26:05I am grateful.
26:06It's okay.
26:09We are all afraid.
26:11If you do not obey, my father will kill you.
26:14I know.
26:15My father is a good man.
26:17He never mistreats a woman unless she has done something wrong.
26:20Unless? There is no excuse to beat a woman, ever.
26:24He is a powerful warlord.
26:26Our women and our children are always protected by him.
26:29How can you defend him?
26:30He is packing you off to marry a total stranger.
26:34I have no choice.
26:36I am not free to choose.
26:39And you never will be until one of you says no.
26:50I want to say it.
26:52Will you help me?
27:00No.
27:08The tracks lead directly there.
27:11Who owns the place?
27:13An enemy.
27:15A man who kills for pleasure.
27:19This is very bad.
27:21Well, then, we'll go in and get her out tonight.
27:23If we attack, there will be war.
27:27Turgon is allied with 22 clans.
27:31And when he fights, he takes no prisoners.
27:37You mean they'd kill all of you?
27:39Yes.
27:41If you will wait until morning,
27:44they will go and request trade.
27:48He cannot refuse.
27:50But what will happen to Dr. Carden tonight if we wait?
27:54Turgon will partake in his newest purchase.
27:58Oh, there's not a chance in hell.
28:03In our land, if a man wants a woman, she can say no.
28:07No one refuses Turgon and lives.
28:15Then we go now.
28:19Stop! This way!
28:23This way!
28:30Yes!
28:36We are not alone.
28:53We are not alone.
29:07Go! Go!
29:16I paid 300 weights of gold.
29:20Is that a lot?
29:22Enough to buy 10 women.
29:25How much are you willing to spend to get her back?
29:28We will offer 350 weights of gold.
29:32She is difficult, but beautiful.
29:38A rare prize.
29:41400?
29:42400.
29:44I may even make her a wife.
29:46Not for crying out loud.
29:48500.
29:50We'll pay you back.
29:52Why this one?
29:55I have others, younger, fit to bear many sons.
29:59Enough to start your own tribe.
30:01She is a woman of power for our people.
30:05Not only a warrior, but a...
30:08a shaman.
30:10She knows the spirits of our land.
30:12They tell her when it's time to plant grain, when water will be scarce.
30:15Things like that.
30:16You take me for a fool.
30:17He speaks truly.
30:19In the land of Ogata, the women are as ours were.
30:23Oh, Mako.
30:25That and more.
30:27Cartier is our chieftain.
30:29Our people need her.
30:33Get out.
30:35You have nothing I want.
30:38Oh, yeah?
30:48Come on.
31:00Done.
31:08All right, there's only five more rounds in that clip.
31:11Time to go.
31:17Whoa!
31:23What a relief.
31:24I've never been so happy to see you guys.
31:26Oh, sure you have.
31:28Remember that time on P3X-595?
31:32You drank that stuff that made you take off...
31:34You won't get into that right now.
31:37Mugal, I want to thank you for your help.
31:41We'll leave at first light.
31:45I don't blame you for what Abu did.
31:48I don't blame him either now.
31:50He's suffering the madness as I did when I was young.
31:59It's what they call love.
32:01Got it.
32:14Let's go.
32:32Please, you must help me.
32:34What happened? Where's Naya?
32:36She came to me, just like the wind said she would.
32:39But before we could make our way, her father caught us.
32:42Now, if you don't help me, she will be stoned to death.
32:55Curse me for the madness.
32:58Better to have left her to marry Chewbacca.
33:01I would not see anything I cared for go to a Chewbacca.
33:05Can I get a little clarification here?
33:08Her own father ordered her stoned to death, is that right?
33:11Because she broke the law of the land.
33:14Turgan is compelled to uphold the law.
33:17Even more, if it applies to his own.
33:20He must rule by example.
33:23We have to go back, now.
33:25Negative.
33:27She can't be more than 16 or 17.
33:29Captain, if we go in there and try and get that little girl out,
33:32we could be starting a war on this planet.
33:35Since when are you a politician, Colonel?
33:37Easy, Captain.
33:38The Oppresso Liber, to free from oppression, Special Forces motto.
33:41I know what it is.
33:43That's our world. This is theirs.
33:45Do we have the right to interfere in their customs or reinterpret their laws?
33:49Yes. Maybe you guys aren't getting this,
33:51but they are about to kill this teenage girl simply for being in love with this boy.
33:55Please, use your weapons and free her.
34:00Colonel is right.
34:04It would mean war, Hubble.
34:06My son, you must choose between one woman and your people.
34:15I cannot.
34:19Neither can I.
34:21Naya broke the law because of me. I can't leave her here to die.
34:24But if it is one life or many...
34:26Wait. There has to be another way.
34:29McGow, what about the old laws?
34:31Isn't there something that we can...
34:32Yes.
34:34Yes, if we fight with law, Turian cannot make war.
34:38Father, please, think. Remember.
34:42There must be a law.
34:46There is one.
35:04Father.
35:15Father, forgive me.
35:30I forgive you.
35:35I forgive you.
35:47Stone her.
35:51Do not.
35:56You have no say here, Shabadai.
35:59Stoning may be challenged by another chieftain.
36:02There it is.
36:08In the song of Arkantea,
36:10the spirit will strengthen the hand of the just.
36:15I will not fight a cripple.
36:17You must.
36:21You insult my honor by implying that I would engage in such a slaughter.
36:26You will lose and my daughter will still die.
36:30So unless there is another chieftain who will challenge my decision...
36:37I challenge it.
36:46You plague me.
36:49Then fight.
36:51Use your chance to shut me up once and for all.
36:55I will abide by the wisdom of the spirits.
37:03Let them decide justly.
37:10Snowing your backs up against the wall and there's no tomorrow,
37:13just take one day at a time to remember.
37:16The bigger they are, et cetera.
37:19You don't think I can win?
37:21Sure I do.
37:23I assume you've had at least some basic hand-to-hand training?
37:26Yeah, level three advanced.
37:28You'll do fine.
37:40So just out of curiosity, how do the spirits determine who wins?
37:47It is a fight to the death.
37:54Death?
38:01Hey, no one said anything about...
38:06Knives?
38:24Come on.
38:36I'll get it.
38:38She'll do it.
38:53Come on.
39:10Carter, do not kill him.
39:12I don't want to.
39:13You have won. I am free to go with Abu.
39:15I want to hear it from you.
39:19She's free to go.
39:21And I?
39:23By law, there can be no war between us.
39:27And me?
39:30And me?
39:34You have won.
39:36You are also free to go.
39:52You will not stay for the wedding?
39:54Oh, a six-day wedding.
39:57You know, we really should get back.
40:00It is a joyous time.
40:02But we all wish you and Naya many years of happiness.
40:05And many sons, too.
40:08And daughters.
40:22All Shabbatai, be free!
40:36This is how you will be remembered, Carter.
40:52So, you think this new anesthesia will be a miracle drug on Earth?
40:56Well, if it is, I bet somebody else will get the credit.
40:59You can never say where it came from.
41:01Damn.
41:02Guess I'm gonna have to cancel that Oprah interview.
41:05What is an Oprah?