Mitchell and Teal'c found the first piece of the Triplex, but Molo didn't make it easy for them to keep it, he conjured up a group of Sodan warriors to stop them but together Teal'c and Mitchell successfully beat them and are now heading back to the others.
"Everybody this is Mitchell." says Mitchell over the radio.
Carter is walking down the hall when she hears the radio and stops, "Go ahead." she says.
"You better be careful if you find a piece of the Triplex, Molo played a trick on us." says Mitchell.
"What kind of trick?" asks Daniel.
"He sent a group of Sodan after us, we almost got our butts kicked." replies Mitchell, "Molo isn't playing around, they almost killed us, be careful." he says.
"Copy that." says Carter and she continues walking down the hall, as she turns a corner she sees Alisana walking towards her at the opposite end, "Find anything?" she asks.
Alisana shrugs, "Nope, nothing." she says.
"Well this is my lab, lets take a look in here." says Carter, her lab is the only room between her an Alisana, as they both get to the door they look inside and on a table at the far end of the room they see a piece of the Triplex, they look at each other and smile, "Found one." says Carter, they both turn with excitement and run in to the room.
They reach the table and Alisana picks it up, "Two down, one to go." she says.
As Carter and Alisana reach the door to Carter's lab, it slides closed locking them inside, they look at the door puzzled, then they hear a faint humming behind them, they slowly turn around and see the Naquadah generator Carter has been working on sitting on the table in the middle of the room and it's powering up.
"It's powering up, we need to turn it off." says Carter, "Grab the control key." she says pointing to the corner of the table as they walk over.
Alisana gets to the corner of the table and reaches out for the key, but before she can grab it it floats up in to the air, "Carter" she says while watching it, as Carter turns and sees the key floating in the air, it begins to spin very rapidly and then hundreds of keys burst out from it landing all over the tables and floors of the lab.
They hear Molo's mischievous laugh, just like how Mitchell heard it down in the gym.
"Oh boy." says Carter.
"What, what's happening?" asks Alisana.
"The generator is going to overload." says Carter.
"Well turn it off." says Alisana.
Carter places her arms on the table and hunches down facing the generator, she then looks back up, "This is an early prototype for the next generation of Naquadah generators, it doesn't have a control piece like the others, the only way to turn it off is with the deactivation key." she says.
Carter then steps back and waves her hands around, "A key which now buried somewhere in all of this." she says, frustrated.
"Then we better start trying keys." says Alisana, "Right." replies Carter.
They start picking up handful's of keys off the floor and trying them one by one in the port at the side of the generator, key after key after key they try but none of them are working, they continue the process for a little over 5 minutes.
Carter gathers a bunch of keys from the tops of the tables around the room and hurries back over to the generator, as she does she sees Alisana trying keys and then throwing them over her shoulder back on to the floor.
"Alisana." shouts Carter in disbelief.
"What?" replies Alisana, still trying keys.
"You're throwing the ones you've tried back on to the floor." says Carter, "You're mixing them back up with the ones we haven't tried yet." she adds.
Alisana stops trying keys, "Well what do you want me to do with them." she asks.
"Put them aside somewhere so we know which we've tried and which we haven't." replies Carter as she comes over.
"OK I'm sorry." says Alisana, "It's very stressful." she adds.
They continue trying more and more keys but still haven't found the right one, the pressure and life threatening situation begins to get to them, Carter is standing at the generator struggling to get a key out of the port, she gets frustrated and chucks the rest of the keys she's holding on to the floor.
"This is pointless. We're never going to find it in time." she shouts.
Alisana comes over holding a big bunch of keys, dropping a few as she walks, "We just have to keep trying." she says.
"We have about 10 minutes before this thing goes critical and we'll never check all these keys in time." says Carter.
"Well isn't there another way to turn this thing off?" asks Alisana.
"No." replies Carter, sounding quite hopeless.
"There has to be some way to do it." shouts Alisana.
"Well there isn't." says Carter, "You're suppose to be super smart, why don't you turn it off." she adds.
Alisana drops the bunch of keys she's holding, "Are you making fun of me now?" she asks angrily.
"No I'm not making fun of you, but you're meant to be really smart, you should know how to fix this no problem." says Carter.
Alisana takes a few steps forward towards Carter, pushing keys out of the way with her feet as she does, "I don't know anything about this technology, you're the one who built it, so turn it off." she shouts.
"I told you there's no way to..." says Carter, who is then slapped across the face by Alisana.
A shocked Carter looks at Alisana, "Ouch." she says, "What did you do that for?" she adds.
"Get a hold of yourself." shouts Alisana, "You're the great Samantha Carter, I read all your mission reports and I know you can do this. We're not dying here, so get a grip and turn this thing off." she says, quite firmly.
Carter stares at her for a moment in disbelief, "OK. OK." she says.
"OK" says Alisana.
They step around the table to the front of the generator, "Hand me those tools" says Carter, and Alisana passes her a set of tools from the table opposite.
"So what's the plan?" asks Alisana as she watches Carter remove the top of the generator casing.
The casing comes off revealing a central chamber with a Naquadah core and several wires attached to it, "Well we need to disconnect the power from the core, problem is if we touch the inner casing or cut the wrong wire in the wrong sequence then it'll blow prematurely." she explains, as she rubs her saw cheek.
"I'm sorry I slapped you." she Alisana.
"It's OK." replies Carter, "It was pretty hard though." she adds.
Carter gently pulls out a metal ring from around the core that has wires attached to it, "OK hold this." she says to Alisana, "But hold it still, don't let it touch the inner casing." she adds.
"Got it?" asks Carter, "Got it!" replies Alisana as she holds the ring steady.
"OK, cutting the first wire." says Carter as she reaches over with a pair of cutters, as she cuts the wire the lights on the side of the generator change colour, she continues the process and cuts 4 more wires successfully and three wires remain.
Alisana looks back and forth at Carter, "What?..why are you stopping?" she asks.
"Dr Hanson was working on the generator this morning, there's suppose to be a pink wire on here." says Carter, "There's only red, blue and green." she adds.
"Which means?" asks Alisana.
"It means I don't know which one to cut, if I cut the wrong one we're dead." replies Carter, worryingly, "We've got about 2 minutes before this thing blows." she adds.
Carter and Alisana stare at each other not sure what to do at this point, it appears Dr Hanson changed the colour of the wire while he was working on it earlier that day, now Carter doesn't know which is the correct wire that needs to be cut in order to shut the generator down and time is running out as the humming of the generator rapidly increases, indicating an overload is about to occur.
"Just pick one and cut it. If it doesn't work we're dead anyway right?" says Alisana, gently smiling at Carter.
Carter reaches over and gives Alisana a sideways hug, "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?" she says with a laugh.
Alisana laughs with her, "Sure." she says.
"OK. ….. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe..." says Carter as she reaches between the wires with the cutters one by one, "Here we go." she says as they hold hands and close their eyes, she cuts the wire.
The generators humming slows and in a few seconds it shuts down, Carter opens one eye followed by the other, "It worked." she says.
Alisana opens her eyes and looks, "Are we still alive?" she asks.
"Yes we are." replies Carter.
They look at each other as the door of the lab slides open, "Lets get out of here." says Carter, "Yeah." says Alisana, and they pick up the piece of the Triplex and run out as quick as they can.
"This is Carter, we found another piece. Mitchell we'll meet you back at Daniel's office." says Carter over the radio, and they head off down the hall.