carter and jonas find another secret chamber, which sam shoots open, revealing the eye. jack and teal'c, with skaara, appear, bedraggled from the jaffa onslaught. their leader, herak, confronts sg-1, demanding the eye. jack simply threatens to destroy the eye. herak returns to the ship and informs anubis. as herak departs, daniel confronts anubis, who reveals what he truly is, a partially ascended being. in space, a fleet of ha'tak vessels appears and yu contacts anubis, threatening to destroy him. daniel, on the other hand, offers anubis a deal: he will bring him the eye if anubis promises to leave abydos unharmed forever. the goa'uld agrees. daniel goes to sg-1, where he hears to his surprise that skaara has died and ascended, realizing that oma must be present. he advises the team of anubis' partially ascended state: stuck between the mortal world and the ascended one. anubis was thought dead but actually ascended. the ancients, only accepting pure of heart among their ranks, de-ascended him but not completely. the shimmering energy that hides his true face keeps his form intact. he also informs them about his deal with anubis because he wants sg-1 to find the lost city of the ancients before anubis can.