Mitchell thumbed aimlessly through the report in front of him. He never liked waiting in the briefing room; every second always seemed to pass unbearably slowly no matter what he tried to do to pass the time.

Vala had her boots up on the table and was deeply engrossed in a magazine when Carter came into the room.

"Hey Mitchell," She sat down in the large office chair next him. "How was he?" her voice and face easily showed her worry.

"What, Jackson? Well, good luck getting him to admit it but his head is getting worse."

"Well, I guess we can rule them out as being just dreams if the Gate address he gave made a connection." She said.

"I'm still gonna keep him away from here as long as possible." He turned to face Sam with an evident look of concern on his face, "You gotta admit dreams or not, he's been working himself into the ground lately."

"He's not the only one, I can't remember the last time I had a decent nights sleep. Is that the footage from the M.A.L.P.?" She indicated to the disc in front of Mitchell.

Mitchell picked up the disc and gave a wide smile, trying to lighten the melancholy mood, "Uh huh, and you will be treated to an exclusive viewing," his voice faltered slightly as he realised the flaw in his statement, "just as soon as Teal'c gets here."

Sam couldn't help but to smirk at Cameron's uncomfortable situation.

"I didn't know that the big guy was back yet." piped in Vala, finally bored with her magazine.

"Neither did I." said Carter.

Cameron attempted to clarify "Well, apparently the attempts to gain any order among the Jaffa after the Ori destroyed Dakara have been a bit of an up hill battle. Moment he heard we might have an address that could lead us to Merlin's weapon he jumped at the chance. He's just getting changed now."

Sam nodded in agreement, "Getting rid of the Ori would definitely help in reforming the Jaffa nation."

Vala gave Sam a rare serious look as she corrected her "Getting rid of the Ori would simply be good for the wellbeing of everyone in this galaxy."

"Too true." General Landry said in his tired voice. He had just walked up from the control room and was closely followed by a technician who silently took the disc from Colonel Mitchell and set it up on the screen.

Both Carter and Mitchell got up and saluted with twin greetings of "Sir."

"T," Mitchell called as he saw the large Jaffa walk through the door behind the General, "finally we can get started."

Teal'c gave a slight nod to the General as everyone sat down, "I apologise for my lateness."

"Not at all Teal'c, your people are in turmoil, I think I can forgive you for being a few minutes late to a meeting" at this statement everyone, save the General, noticed the look on Teal'c's face that clearly showed that he found this statement far from comforting.

"Okay, let's get this show on the road." Mitchell jumped up, breaking the uncomfortable silence. He dimmed the lights, lowered the screen, grabbed the remote to the DVD player and addressed the team gathered there. "As you all know. Jackson came in yesterday with an address that he thinks may lead to the Merlin's weapon. Of course we tried to make a connection and were surprised to see the intel was good."

After a few moments attempting to get the remote to work the screen filled with static. As the camera on the M.A.L.P. broke through the event horizon, they watched it reveal an alien landscape. It was different to many of the planets that they had been to before, the soil was very sandy and the plants that grew around the 'gate were greyish and spindly with sharp points on slender leaves. The few trees that could be seen had white, paper like bark and a smattering of small leaves.

"Well," said Carter, almost disappointed, "This doesn't look anything like the planet that Daniel described."

"Kinda reminds me of Australia." said Mitchell, tilting his head to one side.

Carter turned to him, looking perplexed, "What?"

"Oh," chimed in Vala, excited she could be of service "I believe it is a large mass of land in your planet's southern hemisphere that seems to be populated by many types of wild life, the most peculiar of which seems to be a creature that is able…"

Carter cut her off abruptly trying to make it as polite as possible, "I know what Australia is." thinking it was not enough she added, "I appreciate the thought though."

Vala gave a tiny pout. She had been quite sulky the last few weeks without her Daniel to torment.

"We seem to have strayed off topic." said Mitchell, a little louder than normal so as to get the two ladies attention, "and if you would watch, you would see that things are about to get interesting." The playback paned slowly to the left.

"What's that?" Carter lent forward in her seat as she watched the ancient remains of a wall came into view. As the camera continued to pan, more ruins came into view.

"It appears to be the remains of an extremely ancient village." Teal'c said. He wasn't wrong, it was a village, small houses of stone, that time had razed to the ground.

Grimacing slightly, Carter voiced what everyone was thinking. "We're going to have to get Daniel in aren't we?"

"I'm sure we will eventually." said Landry. "But I believe that SG-1 will be able to survive without him on a simple scouting mission of the planet." He gave a smile like a father would when talking about his children.

"Thank you, sir," said Mitchell. He had been worried about bringing Daniel in before he had to. The fact that these dreams meant something was more worrying than if they were just stress. When they needed Jackson, they needed him thinking straight and not falling asleep on his feet.

"SG-1, your mission to P23-723 is scheduled to depart in an hour, I suggest you get ready"