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{{Trivia|date=September 2007}}{{Infobox Television episode | Title = Paradise Lost
| Colour = {{SGColor}}
| Series = Stargate SG-1
| Season = 6
| Episode = 15
| Airdate = ], ]
| Production = 615
| Writer = ]
| Director = ]
| Guests = Tom McBeath as Harry Maybourne<br /> Bill Dow as Dr. Lee<br /> ] as Walter Harriman<br />Dan Shea as Sgt. Siler
⚫ | Episode list = ]
| Image = ]
| Prev = ]
| Next = ]
}}
"'''Paradise Lost'''" is an episode from ] of the ] ] '']''.
==Plot==

] is visited by former Col. ], who helped him in the past years when it comes to illegal ] operations. Maybourne tells him that he knows about the goal of Col. Simmons, when he tried to steal the ] (to find a planet with ancient weapons) and that he knows the ] address of that planet.

O'Neill agrees and, together with the rest of ], visits the planet without Maybourne. There they find out that the writings on the planet aren't of ] origin but instead belong to the ], another one of the ]. However they don't know how to unlock the seal to get to those weapons, so they have to trust Maybourne, who later goes with them to the planet. Unbeknownst to SG-1, Maybourne has his own agenda in mind as he escapes from SG-1's charge and flees through the alien door, which turns out to be a transportation device, pursued by O'Neill. Carter and a team of scientists try to activate that device again, but fail. Searches come up empty; O'Neill and Maybourne are nowhere to be found.

The two adversaries are in the meantime spirited away to the planet's moon (though no one is yet aware of this) where Maybourne explains to O'Neill the significance of the moon, described in legend as an "alien utopia" where Maybourne had hoped to hide away from his checkered past on Earth.

As Carter begins a frantic project to reopen the alien portal, O'Neill and Maybourne discover an empty shell of a civilization with no survivors left to explain their demise. They both realize they may be stuck on this alien world indefinitely and begin to dig in for the long haul, which Maybourne doesn't make easy for Jack. After a week the scientists have to give up (much to ] protest) and even the ] don't find anyone on the planet.

O'Neill begins to uncover clues to the utopia's fate and notices increasingly paranoid behavior from Maybourne. He hears something at night, demands Jack's pistol and even runs away after a few days. Finally, O'Neill discovers dead ] hosts in some of the houses with a mysterious plant nearby that he identifies as the substance he saw Maybourne eating all throughout their stay on the alien moon. O'Neill returns to discover that Maybourne has taken weapons that O'Neill hid with the very intent of keeping them from the delusional Maybourne. However he also starts to become paranoid.

Finally, after a passionate attempt to recover O'Neill, Carter realizes that O'Neill and Maybourne were sent to the alien moon from ] playback footage. By this time, however, Maybourne's paranoia has erupted into a grueling fire-fight with O'Neill. When O'Neill tries to explain how the plant has affected Maybourne's mind, he is answered with more gunfire from Maybourne. The fight ends with O'Neill shooting Maybourne, effectively subduing the madman. O'Neill cares for the wounded Maybourne who now, with a cleared mind and injured body, can understand that O'Neill, no matter how much he may like to, isn't trying to kill him. Soon after, a Tok'ra ship, whose aid was enlisted by Carter, flies over their position, rescuing them from the empty paradise. Jack also says he will convince the Tok'ra to bring Maybourne to a nice planet on which he can retire.

== Notes ==
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* Apparently, Maybourne hates ].
* This episode marks a spot in the Stargate SG-1 series where each of the Four Great Races have been introduced to some degree past their initial mention in the episode "]." (The individual names of the races were actually identified by the ] in the episode "].")
* The DVD documentary shows most of the episode was shot at ], near Vancouver.
* This episode shares its title with a ] ] and is a reference to ]'s ].

==External links==
* . ]. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires ]. <!-- There is a synopsis of the episode in there, but it cannot be linked to directly to our knowledge. Though the URL above contains links to the rest of the site (which is Flash), it in itself is not Flash; hence this link is in accordance with WP:EL. Even if it were, it is acceptable because it is the official Stargate site and is being used as a reference. -->
* {{cite web
| url = http://media.dave.tv/sites/stargatesg1/screenplays/s06e15.PDF
| title = Screenplay
| date = ]
| accessdate = 2006-10-18
| format = ]
| publisher = Distributed by ]. Prepared by Line 21 Media Services Ltd
}} Linked to from .
<!-- * from StargateWiki. Visited May 7, 2006. -->
* from GateWorld. Visited May 7, 2006.

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