Note: I refer to "In the Line of Duty" (season 2, episode 2) where Samantha Carter is temporary host to the Tok'ra named Jolinar.

Duke led them through winding corridors and many secret doorways opened by the same kind of small crystal that Vesta had. Sam couldn't restrain herself any longer. "What kind of crystal technology is that?"

Duke stopped and turned around. "What? This? We don't really know. There are only ten of them. I have one, Vesta has one, and my daughter. You've met her—Aminta."

Jack nodded curtly. "Ah."

After a moment, Sam leaned close to his ear. "The clean one with the blue eyes."

"Ah! Her! Okay." He grinned at Duke. "So, how'd you get them?"

"You are Peregrinari of the Oribis Pius, are you not?"

Again, Jack, Sam, and Teal'c looked at Daniel. "Uh… I believe his is trying to ask us if we travel to many worlds…"

"Precisely. Sources say that you come through the Oribis Pius, which you call the star gate, or chapa'ai, was it?"

"Indeed," affirmed Teal'c.

"Well, our history says that the man who brought us these crystals came through the… star-gate. He was like the gods, but claimed that he was not, and that neither were those that claimed to be. He called them Goa'uld, just as you did. And he called himself Zohar."

Sam seemed to space out. "Zohar… Jolinar had memories of him… He was an explorer and great philosopher… of the Tok'ra…" SG-1 exchanged glances.

Duke smiled. "Yes! The Tok'ra—the alternate race of the Goa'uld. You know so much. And that leaves so little to explain. Good. Now on to the good stuff. Follow—"

"You," finished Jack. "Wouldn't miss it." Duke led them through one final door, but this one led to a small, empty room. "Wrong turn?"

"Oh, quite the opposite. Please do me the honor of walking into that wall." He pointed straight ahead.

"Excuse me?"

Duke grinned. "Sorry. I never get tired of that. Come on." He walked at a normal pace to the wall… and straight through it."

Sam raised both brows in surprise. Jack tilted his head. Daniel blinked several times. Teal'c merely raised his one brow. Appearances may be deceiving, thought Daniel. Then he grinned. "What was it, Jack? 'Never run with scissors'?"

"Oh, can it, Jackson." They proceeded to walk through the wall, and stopped dead in their tracks on the other side.

Duke was waiting for them. "Welcome to Mar Adriatic."

"Well I'll be…" Jack took in the scene. While the stone of the cavern hadn't changed much, the stalactite-covered 'ceiling' was about twenty feet higher, there was some form of small grass coating the ground, and they were staring at a vast body of water—an underground sea.

"This is the base of the Adriatic, the resistance to the false gods." He walked up close to them. "Now, heed yourself. Many still believe in the goddess Isis. They have not seen her for many generations, so they believe her to be our true higher ruler. This resistance is foremost a resistance to Februus and those of his kind."

"But Isis is of his kind…"

"I know this, Daniel Jackson, but others do not believe it. Please, respect their wishes."

SG-1 turned to each other to whisper amongst themselves. "Whadya think, Carter? Jackson?... Teal'c?"

"I believe all should be told of the Goa'uld, Colonel O'Neill, but I will not if you do not wish me to," stated Teal'c.

"Carter?"

"Sir, with all due respect to what you might think, and of course to what Teal'c believes, I think we should respect their wishes as Duke asks us to. Isis has obviously abandoned this planet years ago, so why shatter their faith without need."

Jack nodded. "Daniel?"

"I'm with Sam on this one."

"The two scientists agree." Jack nodded again. "Sorry, Teal'c, but that's how it'll happen."

Teal'c inclined his head. "Very well."

Jack spun around on his heel. " 'Kay, Duke. Got yourself a deal."

"This way then." Duke led them to a simple-design boat constructed from thin metal and about 3 feet wide and 7 feet long.

"Looks like a fishing boat… And it even has a motor."

"It is called an ion motor." Duke spoke the words uneasily, as if they were still somewhat foreign to him (which made perfect sense all things considered). "It is one of three that we have. While they are very old, they have proven quite useful in navigating across the Adriatic. Get in. I will take you to our main base of operations."

On the way across, Daniel naturally had many questions, but there was one that all four of them wanted to know: how they went undetected.

"Well, I don't know why, exactly, but our scientists think it has something to do with Cerberus."

"Even I know what that sounds like," stated Jack proudly. "It's Hades's dog… thing…"

"Yes," confirmed Daniel. "It was the dog guarding the path to the underworld."

"But I'm not dead, Jackson."

"True, but perhaps it's meant as literally under the world."

A moment later, Carter asked, "How is it that they do not realize that you are missing?"

"All of us in the Adriatic were thrown down to the prison. Not only do they not check down here often, but they don't bother to look for missing people. They assume that the caverns are endless, and that those who are never found are lost in its infinite depths." After about fifteen minutes, they could see lights ahead. "We are finally to the other side of the sea." Duke pulled the crystal necklace off again and held it high in the air with his right hand, and touched the ion motor with his left. The second his left hand came in contact with the ion motor, the crystal began to emit a bright red glow. "This is how my people know we are coming, and that we are friendly."

the 'never run with scissors' thing was a reference to "Urgo" (season 3, episode 16) in which this conversation occurs

Teal'c: Appearances may be deceiving.

Jack: One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Daniel: A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

Jack: …Never run with scissors?