What a mess.
This temple was destroyed long ago.
Let's get a move on before we meet somebody who remembers Why.
There's no signs of human life.
This could be some forbidden zone.
Wait. I hear something. Sounds like dogs.
Help!
Help me!
Hey, get outta here!
You okay?
Okay? 0...
Yes, I am. Thanks be to you.
But forgive me.
I am Abu of the Shavadai.
Shavadai?
The people of the Steppe.
Well, hello. I'm Daniel Jackson.
This is Jack. Jack.
You are not from the People of the River?
Uh, no.
We're travelers from very far away.
Sea of Ogada?
Sure.
Never have we met anyone from that far away.
You will be doubly welcome in my father's camp.
This is Teal'c...
and this is Dr. Carter.
The dogs are gone. For now.
Is this a woman? Oh, yeah.
What do...
Do I have something growing out of my nose?
He looks really upset. Must be some sort of cultural thing.
No, I can't look at you!
Okay, now I'm hurt.
You must take her. You must take her and go.
Go!
These people are from the Sea of Ogada. - One is a woman?
Yes.
Colonel, I think these people are Mongols.
Is this good news?
Daniel, find out What I did wrong so I can fix it.
No, let them go.
He's right. We'll just take her with us and go.
My son, when you did not return, I feared you were dead.
I would be in a dog's stomach now but for these.
Is this any way to greet a stranger?
That one is a woman.
Observant bunch.
Father, they come from the Sea of Ogada.
They do not know our ways.
Law is law.
What manner of weapon is that?
It's a firearm. It shoots like your bow shoots an arrow.
She speaks. She dies.
No, she saved my life.
A woman saved a life.
Hers cannot be taken.
You're my guests.
If you will travel this country...
you must learn our ways.
I'm thinking we should just go back while we're ahead.
If we learn their customs, we'll be okay.
It's an incredible opportunity to study an ancient culture up close.
They return. They found Abu.
Mother.
This is unbelievable.
The Mongols who settled in Persian China
adapted to the local customs...
but there was one tribe... the Chagatai...
that kept the tradition alive of the Steppe nomad.
Maybe these Shavadai are their descendants.
I mean, this camp could literally belong to Genghis Khan.
It's a living exhibit of a way of life that's been extinct for 900 years.
Oh!
Please, sit. Now you may talk.
Uh, good, 'cause I still don't understand
what happened out there.
Among our people, it is death for a woman to show her face in public.
Or to wear the clothes of a man.
The old laws...
weigh heavily.
It is well you have saved Abu from the dogs.
It gave me a way to prevent your death.
Uh, thank you for that.
Soon, the old laws and the old ways
will no longer serve us.
Trade will one day replace war.
This is the future.
We have strongest, fastest horses and camels...
the finest wool...
And medicines.
Drugs of unheard of power.
We've got pretty swell drugs of our own.
Colonel, a lot of breakthroughs in medicine...
are coming out of the mountains and the jungles.
We should really see what he's got.
I will show you. Follow me.
I'm afraid you cannot go
until you are properly attired.
Properly attired?
You should probably do what they want.
Anthropologists do it all the time.
They dress and live as the people they're studying.
I'm not an anthropologist.
You are today.
I used the medicine on this wound from a fire in a recent skirmish.
Shoulder was badly burned, and the moment I began treatment...
there was no pain.
This could be an anesthetic we haven't seen before.
We should take some back to test it, huh?
Find me an anthropologist that dresses like this...
and I will eat this headdress.
You are...
the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.
Guess the kid doesn't get out much.
Look, I will not wear this thing over my face.
I don't care how much embroidery it has on it.
And this dress... or whatever it's called...
I mean, I can't move, I can't walk.
I don't know.
It kinda works for me.
It's you.
Definitely you.
The good news is, you were right.
One of Abu's plants seems to work as an anesthetic.
We're taking some home to be analyzed.
All things considered, Samantha...
if we have to come back here,
it'd be better if we brought an all-male team.
No offense.
In view of the fact that you all get to go to this party tonight...
and I get to stay in this yurt that smells of rancid yak butter, none taken.
I'll just get a good night's sleep and hope for better luck next time.
Come on. Let's go. Bye.
You gonna be all right?
Still doubting me? I haven't been afraid of the dark since I was two.
You look great.
Doctor, we're about ready to go.
Doctor, we're about ready to...
You better kill me now, because I am gonna talk.
Here. You may drink and eat.
What do you think you're doing?
There is something I want more than life itself.
Until yesterday, I thought it was impossible.
Then I saw you...
dressed like that...
and I knew...
your beauty would buy it for me.
What do you mean, "buy"?
I will trade you.
You can't do that.
I can.
I'm a human being, not property.
Where we are going,
the men are not as tolerant as my father.
Be warned.
Any signs? No one's seen her since last night.
Find Teal'c. I want everybody ready to move out in 15 minutes.
Okay, let me talk to Mughal first.
This could be another misunderstanding... cultural differences.
The hell with culture. A member of my team has been neutralized.
That's a hostile act. How is it you always think the worst?
I practice.
I found fresh hoof-prints leaving out of the camp.
That's great.
The horse should be identifiable.
One of the hooves was splayed.
The horse belongs to my son.
He is also missing. Okay, Dad, what's going on here?
- I am as ignorant as you. - I don't think so.
Now, he took Captain Carter. I want to know why.
Among the Shavadai, women are valued highly for trade.
Foreign women most of all. Can you help me track him?
Now that I know what to look for, I believe so.
If Abu gives her up peacefully, no one will get hurt.
Right?
We'll do our best.
I will give you horses and guide you myself.
My son has betrayed me as well as you.
Turghan, you may wish to bid me welcome.
I have come to trade.
Then come, Shavadai.
See the son of my enemy...
how he pales in my presence.
You risk your head coming here.
For what? You think this interests me?
Yes.
I don't belong to this man.
I was abducted against my will.
Where is she from?
Sea of Ogada.
My friends will come after me. They have powerful weapons.
They won't hesitate to... Silence!
Or I will have you beaten.
You may do whatever you wish with her...
when she is yours.
Then I would see her.
Turn around.
No.
Slowly.
Your skin is very fair.
Look at me.
Your eyes...
look like carved blue river stones.
Sit.
Are you satisfied?
Name your price.
Why do you hesitate?
Name it. Gold, horses, weapons.
I have the finest metal craftsmen in the mountains.
No.
Well, what then?
Nya.
You trade a woman for another woman?
Nya is not just another woman.
No, she is my daughter.
She will marry a Chieftain...
the desert warlord, Chimakka.
Father, please. It is done.
Chimakka will come on the next moon.
That's three days.
How can you do that to your daughter?
Your beauty...
will not suffer my anger much longer.
The offer for the woman is 300 weights of gold.
Take it or die. Either way, the woman's mine.
Done.
Here...
a woman does not speak...
unless she is spoken to.
They stopped here.
To rest the horses and so must we...
for two marks.
If we do not find them...
I will pay whatever you ask for the loss of Carter.
We can't do that. We don't own our women.
Truly?
Yes.
Um...
And we heard stories about the Shavadai women.
That once they were free, some were even...
warriors who fought with their husbands in battles.
Mongol women might've been the legendary Amazon.
We do not speak of it.
The laws for women were made to protect
and hide them from the demons...
who brought us to this place. Demons?
It is only in legend and a long time ago.
The dawn of our time.
If the demons are gone...
why have not the laws been changed?
Some say they will return.
I think it is an excuse for men to have their way.
Among the Shavadai, even the lowliest man
is chief among his women.
Is that why you only have one wife?
To set a kind of example?
My people see it as a weakness.
Because you love her?
My father will kill you.
Come away with me tonight.
You know I cannot.
Now go before they find you here.
I have listened to the wind.
You will come.
I will wait for you by the Tem tree.
Now you are Tugai, woman of the forest.
What can you do? Can you cook?
Spin, weave, make dyes?
I'm a lousy cook, and I couldn't spin, weave or dye
if my life depended on it.
You made yourself a bad deal.
Where you come from, you must've done something.
In my world, I am a warrior and a scholar.
I do the work of men.
A warrior?
Let me tell you what I do.
I raid and burn the tents of my enemies...
and slaughter the men and trade the women and children.
For this, I am feared.
Because of that fear...
I have the allegiance of 22 tribes.&
But you have to sell your daughter off to make it 23?
How would you like to be hung upside down with dust-filled rags...
stuffed in your mouth and nostrils?
A slow death...
from suffocation.
I'm sorry. I'm sure you know what's best for her.
The spirits have brought you here to teach you...
how to be a woman.
We'll take you inside before they see you.
It's all right. You'll be fine.
You belong to Turghan. Get your hands off me. Let me go.
What kind of woman are you?
Do you respect nothing? Care for no one but yourself?
These were responsible for you. Now, because of you...
they will be punished.
No!
It was my fault. If you need to beat a woman to feel like a man, try me.
I value spirit in my horses, not my women.
You belong to me.
You will learn your place and be obedient...
or you will suffer far worse than a beating.
I heard What you did for my mother.
I am grateful. It's okay.
We are all afraid.
If you do not obey, my father will kill you.
I know.
My father's a good man.
He never mistreats women unless she has done something wrong.
Unless...
There is no excuse to beat a woman, ever.
He's a powerful warlord. Our women and children are always protected...
always have food.
How can you defend him? He's packing you off to marry a total stranger.
I have no choice.
I'm not free to choose.
And you never will be until one of you says no.
I want to say it. Will you help me?
The tracks lead directly there.
Who owns the place?
An enemy.
A man who kills for pleasure.
This is very bad.
Well, then, we'll go in and get her out tonight.
For your attack, there will be war...
and Turghan is allied with 22 clans.
And when he fights, he takes no prisoners.
You mean they'd kill all of you?
Yes.
If you will wait until morning...
I will go and request trade.
He cannot refuse.
But what will happen to Dr. Carter tonight if we wait?
Turghan will partake in his newest purchase.
There's not a chance in hell.
In our land, if a man wants a woman, she can say no.
No one refuses Turghan and lives.
Then we go now.
Stop!
Yes.
You're not allowed.
Go. Go, Nya, go.
I have paid 300 weights of gold.
Is that a lot? Enough to buy ten women.
How much are you willing to spend to get her back?
We will offer 350 weights of gold.
She is difficult...
but beautiful.
A rare prize.
Four hundred. Four hundred.
I may even make her a wife.
Oh, for cryin' out loud. Five hundred.
We'll pay you back.
Why this one?
I have others, younger, fit to bear many sons...
enough to start your own tribe.
She is a woman of power for our people.
Not only a warrior, but...
a shaman.
She knows spirits of our land.
They tell her when to plant, when water's low...
- You take me for a fool? - He speaks truly.
In the land of Ogada, the women are as ours were...
long ago.
That and more.
Carter is our Chieftain. Our people need her.
Get out.
You have nothing I want.
Oh, yeah?
Done.
All right, there's only five more rounds in that clip. Time to go.
What a relief. I've never been so happy to see you guys.
Sure, you have.
Remember that time on P3X-595...
you drank that stuff that made you take off...
We won't get into that right now.
Mughal, I wanna thank you for your help.
We'll leave at first light.
I don't blame you for what Abu did.
I don't blame him either now.
He's suffering the madness...
as I did when I was young.
It's what they call love.
Ah, got it.
Please, you must help me. What happened?
- Where's Nya? - She came to me...
just like the wind said she would.
But before we could make our way, her father caught us.
Now, if you don't help me, she will be stoned to death.
Curse me for the madness.
Better to have left her to marry Chimakka.
I would not see anything I cared for 90 to Chimakka.
Can I get a little clarification here?
Her own father ordered her stoned to death. Is that right?
Because she broke the law of the land.
Turghan is compelled to uphold the law...
even more if it applies to his own.
He must rule by example.
We have to go back now.
Negative.
She can't be more than 16 or 17.
Captain, if we try to get that little girl out,
we could start a war here.
Since when are you a politician, Colonel?
Easy, Captain. De Opresso Liber.
"To free from oppression"... Special Forces motto.
I know what it is.
That's our world. This is theirs.
Do we have the right to interfere in their customs...
- or reinterpret their laws? - Yes.
Maybe you guys aren't getting this,
but they are about to kill this girl...
simply for being in love with this boy.
Please, use your weapons...
and free her.
The colonel is right.
It would mean war, Abu.
My son...
you must choose...
between one woman...
and your people.
I cannot.
Neither can I.
Nya broke the law because of me.
I can't leave her here to die.
But if it is one life for many...
Wait. Now, there has to be another way.
Mughal, what about the old laws?
Isn't there something we can... Yes.
Yes. If we fight with law, Turghan cannot make war.
Father, please, think.
Remember. There must be a law.
There is one.
Father!
Forgive me.
I forgive you.
Stone her!
Do not.
You have no say here, Shavadai.
Stoning may be challenged by another Chieftain.
There is no such law. There is.
In the song of Arkhan-Tyr...
The spirit will strengthen...
the hand of the just.
I will not fight a cripple.
You must.
You insult my honor by implying
that I would engage in such a slaughter.
You will lose, and my daughter will still die.
So unless there's another Chieftain
who will challenge my decision...
I challenge it
You?
You plague me.
Then fight. Here's your chance to shut me up once and for all.
I Will abide...
by the wisdom of the spirits.
Let them decide it justly.
So when your back's up against the wall and there's no tomorrow...
just take it one day at a time and remember...
the bigger they are, et cetera.
You don't think I can win. Sure, I do.
I assume you've had at least some basic hand-to-hand training.
Yeah, level three, advanced.
You'll do fine.
So, just out of curiosity, how do the spirits determine who wins?
It is a fight to the death.
Death?
Hey, no one said anything about...
Knives.
Carter, do not kill him.
I don't want to.
You have won. I am free to go with Abu.
I wanna hear it from you.
She's free to go.
And the Shavadai.
By law, there can be no war between us.
And me?
You have won.
You are also free to go.
You will not stay for the wedding?
Oh, a six-day wedding. You know, we really should get back.
It is a joyous time.
But we all wish you and Nya many years of happiness...
and many sons too.
And daughters.
All Shavadai, be free!
That is how you will be remembered, Carter.
So, you think this new anesthesia will be a miracle drug on Earth?
Well, if it is, I bet somebody else will get the credit.
We can never say where it came from. Damn.
Guess I'm gonna have to cancel that Oprah interview.
What is an Oprah?