613 Sight Unseen
"There's always something isn't there"
Carter brought another doohickey back from another dead world and wanted to play with it. I had a date with a cold mountain stream and a fly rod. I invited her. Okay, it was on my way out the door. She might have enjoyed it, I sure would have but she said no, again. There's always something isn't there.
Why would anyone want to take an instrument or machine from a deserted ruin of a world even if it was an Ancient Scientific Outpost, and that was just a guess. Okay, it was emitting energy but it could be a bug zapped. I could probably use one at the cabin. And now Jonas Quinn was seeing things. Poor guy thought he was either nuts or had brain damage. So plans were delayed and the base was locked down and swept looking for these creatures. No one else reported Jonas' delusions, just stress they said. And so I was off.
Then other people were seeing them, including me. This whole thing was kinda bizarre and kinda creepy. And there goes my fishing trip. Why did I answer my phone? Of course I blamed her for screwing with my plans again. At least Jonas felt better that he wasn't losing his mind.
They diddled endlessly with the device -
sent it to Area 51, that didn't work,
brought back to the SGC, that didn't work,
returned it to the other planet, that didn't work,
brought it back to the SGC, that didn't work,
now playing with all the crystals, this better work.
And it did.
After being given the antidote, I was left organizing a quarantine of the area and arranging road blocks. I had to calm citizens and convince erratic drivers they were not crazy. Then helped pass around the antidote. I felt somewhat sorry to have lied to Vernon but, all things considered, it seemed like the right thing to do.
Carter explained the phenomenon of seeing giant creepy crawlies. Well she could have explained it until she was blue in the face, the phase - out of phase thing made no sense to me. As long as they weren't a threat and I couldn't see them and they couldn't bother me, I just don't care.
Well my down time was shot to hell and Hammond assured us he'd make it up. I did find out Carter used her feminine wiles to sucker an old lady into giving information. I'd have killed to see that. Jonas was so easy to pump for information.