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"Death Knell" is the 16th episode from the seventh season of
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'' and is the 148th overall. It was first broadcast on January 27, 2004, on
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in the
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. The episode was written and directed by
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. In the episode,
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) and
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/ Selmak (
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) are developing a prototype weapon to fight
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's
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at the Alpha Site when they are attacked. After the base is destroyed, Carter is relentlessly pursued by one of the Super Soldiers. Meanwhile, the fragile alliance between the Tok'ra, Rebel Jaffa and Earth hangs in the balance. The episode continues on from the events of the season six episode "
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Plot

Major
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) and
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/ Selmak (
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) are at Stargate Command's offworld base, the Alpha Site, working on a prototype of a weapon designed to kill
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's
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. Soon, the base is attacked by Anubis' forces and Stargate Command personnel begin to evacuate to the Beta Site. At
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General George Hammond ( Don S. Davis) informs Colonel
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(
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), Dr.
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(
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) and
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(
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) of the attack and the fact that many personnel, including Carter are still missing. O'Neill, Daniel, Teal'c & Colonel Reynolds team head to the Alpha Site and begin their search. They soon locate a number of survivors including rebel
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and Stargate Command personnel, and not long after that they find Jacob who gives O'Neill the prototype weapon. Daniel and Jacob head back to Stargate Command with the other survivors where Hammond has begun an investigation to find out who leaked the location of their secret offworld base. Jacob tells Daniel that he believes Anubis knew they were creating a weapon that could neutralise his Super Soldiers and that the soldier was likely now hunting Sam as she has the designs. Stargate Command launch a
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armed with
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s, however it is soon shot down by the Super Soldier who is hunting Sam through a forest. Sam locates the downed UAV and manually fires its missile at the soldier, however it survives and continues its attack. Teal'c arrives and draws its attention, whilst Jack is able to retrieve the power source for the weapon from Sam, who uses it to successfully kill the Super Soldier. At Stargate Command, having learnt that a Tok'ra spy unwillingly gave away details of the Alpha Site after being captured by Anubis, the Tok'ra and Jaffa inform Hammond that they will not be moving to the Beta Site and that both parties wish to go their own way. The tripart alliance seems to be breaking up.


Production


Development and writing

The episode was written by
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. One of his main inspirations came from the
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". According to DeLuise, he "half kidding" suggested to showrunner Robert C. Cooper that they "do an episode where the thing is blown up, and all the trees have gone down". Cooper approved the idea and they subsequently developed it into an episode. DeLuise wrote the episode "very fast"In order to take advantage of the location. For his story, DeLuise continued on from events established in his episode "
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", dealing with the alliance between Earth, the
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and Rebel Jaffa. In preparation for the
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which would see
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attack Earth, DeLuise wanted the episode to further isolate Earth from its allies "so that they wouldn't come speeding to our help so easily, so that we would look a little more helpless", and therefore used the destruction of the Alpha Site to "disintegrate the alliance" between the three factions. The question of who was responsible for allowing the location of the Alpha Site to fall into the hands of Anubis would play a key role in the episode and DeLuise quickly realised that Anubis could have learnt the location from his probing of
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in the episode "
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", therefore it would be established in the story that this was an entirely new base.


Cast and filming

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reprises his role as
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/ Selmak and
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returns as the
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. The episode introduces the Rebel Jaffa M'zel, portrayed by
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. Gibbon previously portrayed a human version of
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in the episode " Thor's Chariot".
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guest stars as Delek, a Tok'ra. The character was named after Derek Lowe who worked on the show as a behind the scenes video producer. Dan Shea, Gary Jones and Eric Breker reprise their roles as Siler,
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and Colonel Renyolds. Nels Lennarson and Sam MacMillan portray Lt. Glenn and Major Green. The episode was
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by Peter DeLuise, whilst Andrew Wilson served as
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. Filming took place in late July 2003, the episodes "
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" and "
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" were also shooting at the same time. As
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was being heavily featured in both "Grace" and "Chimera", the episode's story and filming was structured so that Tapping would be able to complete all her scenes in just two days of photography. The exterior scenes were filmed around Mount Seymour Provincial Park and Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve in North Vancouver. For the prototype weapon that would kill the Super Soldier, art director James Robbins designed a piece that attached to an existing weapon from the show, the Transphase Eradication Rod gun. The new piece would light up when snapped onto the T.E.R.


Reception


Broadcast and ratings

"Death Knell" first aired on January 27, 2004, on
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in the
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. It was watched by approximately 759,000 households and was the channels 9th most popular broadcast that week. In the
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, the episode first aired on February 6, 2004, on the Sci-Fi Channel. ''Stargate SG-1'' continued to be the Sci-Fi Channel's highest rated show to air that week, reportedly earning a 1.9 household rating, equating to approximately 2.3 million viewers. "Death Knell" was first shown in
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on December 23, 2004, on
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.


Reception

Response to the episode was mixed. Jan Vincent-Rudzki for
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awarded the episode 5 out of 10, comparing it to the ''
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'' episode "
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". Vincent-Rudzki felt that whilst it was "probably a credible conclusion" to the Earth, Jaffa & Tok'ra Alliance, he "didn't really care", believing that it was possibly a "money saving" episode. Paul Spragg for
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awarded the episode 2 out 5, believing that writer & director Peter DeLuise "disguises a story that's been done to death as something new and almost gets away with it". Spragg was of the opinion that after "interminable tales showing the lack of trust between the Jaffa and Tok'ra" resulting in the alliance's dissolution "shouldn't need an entire episode", although felt that the episode gave "Argenziano's Jacob some of the best material he's had in a long while as he tries to mend bridges". Jayne Dearsley for SFX was also critical, calling the episode "action-packed and stuffed with big-stakes drama and conflict. It's got battles, explosions, life-and-death situations and intrigue. Shame none of it comes together into an episode you really enjoy watching". Dearsley did however highlight the "brilliant acting", singling out Carmen Argenziano's performance. James Hoare for The Companion positively received the episode for how it made Carter "real", writing "This is a Sam Carter we rarely see. With no toys to tinker with and no team to inspire, what remains? Is this wounded and weary woman in battered battledress more than the sum of her parts?". Hoare praised seeing the character in a situation "like nothing we had seen before" going on to write "We’re often shown glimpses of Jack’s special forces training, but this is our first sustained encounter with Sam’s own fieldcraft". Writing for
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was critical of "not enough time" being spent on "Carter's plight". DeCandido believing Jacob Carter being marginalized by his fellow Tok'ra was an "interesting plot point" but felt that "neither Sebastian Spence’s Tok’ra nor Mark Gibbon’s Jaffa is anyone we give a damn about", instead suggesting that the presence of
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and an established Tok'ra character would have made the plotline "much more convincing". Reviewing for fansite Gateworld, Alli Snow praised the episode, believing it had "terrific balance" between "political intrigue and action". Snow called Carmen Argenziano "the star of the show" as well as praising the "wonderful" character additions, such as Delek and M'Zel. Samantha Carter resting her head on Jack O'Neill's shoulder was commented upon by both reviewers as well as the cast and crew. Snow for Gateworld appreciated the character moment, calling it a "a rare scene of one character comforting another after a harrowing experience" and asking "Who doesn't love that?". Dearsley felt the moment "shows her as a real human being for once and is a lovely touch". Hoare meanwhile wrote "it's tempting to view it through the giddy glee of ‘shipping, but this moment of rare physical affection between the two is deeper and more nuanced than that. It's a comradeship honed through experience, battle, trauma, and love". Tapping commented that she originally "balked" at the scene as she felt it made Carter "look weak" and believed that O'Neill would not comfort Teal'c or Daniel in that way. DeLuise justification was that "she's been through hell, she deserves to be comforted for a second", also acknowledging the relationship & chemistry between the two characters.


Home media

"Death Knell" along with the episodes "
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", "
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" and "
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" were first released on Region 2 DVD on May 3, 2004, as part of the "Volume 35" standalone disc, before being released as part of the Season 7 boxset on October 19, 2004. The episodes
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is provided by director Peter DeLuise and actor
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. "Death Knell" along with the rest of season 7 was first made available digitally in January 2008 through
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and Amazon Unbox. The episode, along with every other episode of the series, were made available to stream for the first time through
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in the USA on August 15, 2010. The episode, along with the rest of the series has been upscaled for releases on various streaming platforms and the 2020
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release.


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