Back at SGC:UK

Aelix, Teal'c, Daniel and Jack drive back at Stargate Command from the Stargate pool to find the big silver disc spinning mid-air, with Peter, Gail and some technicians trying to work out how to tether it down. They are about to fire a series of ropes over it and as soon as Aelix sees what they are doing, he leaps from the still moving jeep and runs over, shouting, 'No! Don't try and stop it! It will not work...'

But Peter doesn't hear him and gives the signal for the ropes to be fired up over the disk and anchored on the other side, large grappling hooks embedding deep into the floor of the quarry. Aelix watches on aghast as the ropes seem to hold for a moment or two and the disc starts to slow. Then, without warning there is a large tearing and grinding sound and the hooks are dragged out of the ground and the ropes, split and flail, bouncing off the sides of the disc and flying off across the quarry.

'Look out!' Jack nimbly sprints to where Gail is standing and manages to throw her to the ground just as one of the ropes whizzes past, nearly slicing her in two. Aelix leaps over the end of one of the ropes and grabs Peter as he too, stands, rooted to the spot in disbelief that his plan hadn't worked. The ropes slither to a halt against the quarry sides and the disc spins quicker than before.

'What happened here?' Daniel asks, surveying the wrecked scaffolding and the free floating disc. 'And where is Agnes?'

Once everyone has picked themselves up and dusted themselves down they head back inside the atrium where Aelix explains his theory, almost certain now he has seen the big silver disc that it is a wheel from a Giantess's chariot.

'A giant's wheel from Maere? How on earth would it be stuck inside a cliff in Dorset?' Peter is not at all convinced by Aelix's theory.

'You once had giants on your planet too.' Aelix folds his arms and glares at Peter, not liking his tone of voice at all. 'Many simply sleep under your mountains still.'

'...Taranis, was thought to be the god of thunder in Celtic times and Cyclops in Greek times...they had chariots... are you saying these mythological giants existed?' Daniel trawls his mind for all the references to giants he can remember.

Gail joins in. 'There are lots of giants associated with these Isles, maybe they came through the Stargate..'

'No, no...not through the Stargate!' Aelix tries not to sound impatient. 'The wheel you found is from a space travelling chariot, the size is indicative of a giantess and I have one in mind in particular. One who is rarely remembered these days, so hidden by the great distance of time. The legend is known only by a few and one of those few is Spinner. Her kind, now almost vanished from Maere are master spinners, their silk is as bright as your moon is silver and stronger than metal, woven and then cast in the giants' foundries into weapons, chariots and armour. It can withstand the fabric of space itself.'

Peter can feel his blood pressure rise slightly at the thought that the big silver disc is turning into another bizarre chase across galaxies, this time for a giantess who has a chariot made of spider silk. This report would not go down at all well at the ministry. 'So how do we stop the wheel?'

'Stop it? There is no way to stop it Peter, you can only still it and hope it never breaks free from where it was hidden.' Aelix shakes his head and claps his hands together. 'Now, it is free to look for the other parts of the chariot it is from and it will tear apart anything, anyone and planet which gets in its way.'

There is a sudden silence across the atrium as everyone tries to digest what Aelix is saying.

'We must travel to Maere, Daniel. Find Spinner and find out where the rest of the chariot was cast asunder and hidden. Time is no longer on our side and the wheel is gaining power as it spins. Find the coin for Maere and let us go!'