 While Lt. Colonels Michell and Carter are aboard the Odyssey, it hits a minefield and loses contact with Earth. They are captured by the Lucian Anateo, who kills the ship commander Emerson, and ultimately wants to replace Nethan, whose leadership of the Lucian Alliance is highly contested. The other team members have no starship available, but Vala  finds  a lousy Goa uld craft and, with Daniel, tracks the Odyssey s signal to her dodgy acquaintance Shamus, only to be trapped there and brought to Anateo, but escape in a Ha tak vessel. Col. Mitchell uses a hallucinogen to make Nethan believe he is the mysterious Lucian Kefflin, finds Teal c a captive and  takes over  his torture, but is recognized by a space pirate Tenak who knows him as a bounty-hunter and just wants a cut...