Now married, Crichton and Katalla are frozen into living statues so that they may watch over the presiding governments of the next eighty cycles. Immediately, Clavor and the Scarran emissary attempt another assassination and succeed in removing Crichton's head. The crew must save John and Chiana while escaping Scorpius.
An Ancient machine is activated resulting in the day looping over and over. Only Teal'c and O' Neill are aware of this and must convince the others they are telling the truth and find out how to stop the loop.
