They sit down with Jack and discuss their work while eating with all the gusto and table manners of Homer Simpson. When an announcement calls them to the infirmary, Jack takes the pie with him.
Behold the man
Fraiser shows the team MRI scans of their brains. She had initially thought that the scans contained an errant pixel, but since the anomaly was in the same place in all the photos, she magnified it 1,000 times.
As it turns out, the blip is actually a small, complicated electronic device.
In light of this, Hammond confines the team to high security observation accommodations.
Our heroes sit together in a nicely decorated room, reading, studying and playing chess. Then from nowhere we here an echoing voice that says, "Boring."
"Who said that?" O'Neill asks. No response, so he asks Teal'C, his walking reality check, the same question. Teal'C heard the same thing.
"Who’s there?" O'Neill asks. The voice says it will let them all see him, but only because they asked. Then in a flash of light appears Dom DeLuise, dressed in what could only be described as ornate disco-era curtains.
The imaginary friend
He bids them hello. Then he asks them to say, "Hello, Urgo," which they do in unison.
Jack calls their guard in and asks him if he sees Urgo. Since he doesn’t, Carter deduces that "Urgo" is actually the manifestation of the little wireless network in their heads.
She further postulates that Urgo can alter their senses -- giving them hallucinations -- and make "suggestions."
Meanwhile, Urgo rambles on about being bored.
Back at the infirmary, the crew tries to tell Fraiser about what they are experiencing while Urgo tries to get more information in his silly, annoying way.
When asked how they might remove him, he is evasive, explaining only that he is there to learn about them but any attempt to contact his creators will result in the team's death.
He does it all the time
Later, the team meets with Hammond and Fraiser in the conference room.
Urgo continues to be annoying, causing Jack to yell at him, much to the amazement of the general and doctor. All they see is Jack yelling at nothing.
To defuse the awkward moment, Carter says that she is experimenting on some ways of turning Urgo off. As they leave, the viewers see Urgo hiding his eyes and counting in preparation of playing hide-and-seek.
While the team tries to find a way to turn Urgo off, he continues to plague them.
Finally, Sam announces that she has come up with a solution. She is going to trigger an electromagnetic pulse in a shielded room to short out Urgo while protecting Stargate Command's technology. Urgo tries a few theatrics. She flips the switch and he is gone.
Fraiser gives the team a clean bill of health, but Hammond decides to keep them under observation for a week.
Return of the repressed
Sam meets with Fraiser, who tells her she looks great and is ready to return to duty. Fraiser offhandedly invites her on a boating trip with her daughter next weekend, but the invitation goes awry -- as she leaves, Carter starts singing, "Row, row your boat."
On the monitors, we see Daniel, O'Neill and Teal’C start in singing the same song.
Hammond and Fraiser hold an emergency meeting with the SG-1 team, who don’t remember singing and are startled when they are shown the videotape.
Hammond tells them that they have been compromised because an alien entity has control over them. As such, they are officially relieved of active duty.
Urgo, meanwhile, has appeared. O'Neill asks the malevolent hallucination how they could get rid of him, but he’s not very informative -- only annoying.
Eventually, in desperation, the team opens a channel through the stargate to communicate with Urgo's masters.
A booming voice asks them, "Who challenges Togar?"
Very sorry, it's all a mistake
Jackson explains that they don’t mean to challenge. He explains as diplomatically as he can that they found the devices implanted in them and that they would like them -- him, Urgo -- to be removed.
Togar, whatever it is, tells them that Urgo is an error and they should return and Urgo will be removed.
Urgo tries to convince them not to go, first telling them that Togar will kill them and then confessing that he will be the one to die if they go back.
Carter and Jackson come to the conclusion that Urgo is a new sentient life-form because he is self-aware, can think independently and fears death.
Teal’C compares Urgo to the Goa’uld because both are parasitic creatures, but Sam also points out that the Tok'ra indicate that "parasitic" does not always equal "bad."
O'Neill refuses to buy into any of these arguments and tells the team to go back.
Where Dom comes from
Once through the gate, SG-1 arrives in a black room, where some beam transports them to a laboratory.
A door opens and we are greeted with Togar, also played by Dom DeLuise in full bombastic mode. Urgo tells the team he will render them unconscious if they move, all the while babbling on about Togar being a madman and how the humans should run for their lives.
Togar then shows them a strange little life-form in a tank and how he easily removes the Urgo implant from it without causing harm.
Daniel asks whether Urgo will survive the procedure. Togar says that Urgo is an error and will be destroyed.
Sam and Daniel then convince Togar to take Urgo into his own mind, telling the strange alien that Urgo has many traits that he doesn’t and that he could learn from his creation.
Togar decides to do it but Urgo is not so sure. Finally Urgo changes his mind -- as there seems to be little choice -- and, after a quick session under a white pulsing light, Urgo is removed from SG-1 and given to Togar.
We then get to bid the duo of Doms good bye and our heroes return through the gate.
SG1 comes through the gate one more time, but has no memory of the experience.
Off to the infirmary they go. Fade to black.
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