 Healed after being nearly killed by an Ancient virus, O Neill finds himself held captive on a planet controlled by the Goa uld Ba al. O Neill was brought here by the Tok ra symbiote that healed him and Ba al wants to know why. When O Neill can not give him an answer, he soon finds himself being tortured by Ba al. As Carter, Teal c and Jonas Quinn attempt to go trough the Tok ra records to find out where O Neill was sent by the symbiotic, O Neill is killed and brought back to life many times by Ba al and his only hope to keep his sanity comes in the form of the ascended Daniel Jackson.