Mientras O'Neill y Carter van a Washington para ser condecorados por el Presidente y encontrar una filtración de seguridad, Jackson y Teal'c van a Abydos (después de desenterrar su Stargate) para ver al padre de Sha're. Llegan para decirle que no han tenido éxito en encontrar a Sha're, solo para descubrir que ella ya está en Abydos. Pero descubren que está embarazada de Apophis y que el bebé guarda los secretos de los Goa'uld.

Responding to a help cry from Kasuf, SG-1 and more USAF wipe out a Goa'uld Jaffa guard to save most of the slaves on Abydonia. When Amaunet turns her hand device on Daniel, he can't bring himself to shoot his beloved wife Sha're, but Teal'c saves him by fatally staff-shooting her, and Abydononian funeral tradition squashes his hope of a sarcophagus resurrection. Crushed by grief, Daniel has apparitions of Sha're and, once released from hospital, resigns from SGC claiming the quest for his wife was his reason to join. Daniel's former research assistant, Dr. Robert Rothman, succeeds him in SG-1; but Jack is sure he'll be back. Sha're (or Amaunet's posthumous manual spell?) keeps appearing to Daniel life-like, telling him to forgive Teal'c and together find their boy who, as Harsisis, has all the Goa'uld knowledge in his genetic memory, which, to the Goa'uld, means he must be killed. Daniel agrees to return, but has a secret agenda, too.

Cuando un niño "elegido" encontrado en el planeta Abydos es llevado al SGC, envía un mensaje telepático, causando que la personalidad de Daniel Jackson experimente cambios perturbadores. ¿Podrá el resto de SG-1 resolver el misterio del origen del niño antes de que se convierta en un ambicioso belicista?