"I'm not asking you to," Jack said, frowning a little as he tried to figure out what had Carter all worked up. She seemed a little on edge about it, to him, and he had to wonder if maybe he'd said something wrong. She'd never seemed overly sensitive or anything and had usually seemed all right with his take on stuff...maybe the island was just getting to her.

"It's as good a theory as any," he conceded. "I don't follow that stuff as well as you and McKay, but from what I know about the stargate and the crap we've seen out there, what you're saying is making sense. I trust you. If you say you think it's virtual reality, I'm behind you 110%."