#episode 11: despreate measures

[tabithahallows]

Hey do y'all remember epi 11, season 5 of Stargate SG1? In which Major Carter gets kidnapped in the hopes that her past experiences with being a goa'uld host and actually surviving could save the life of some dude? Yea, well, that part where Jack has to meet up with everyone's fav, Maybourne, to try and get some info on Carter's kidnappers? Yea, that shit fucking breaks my heart cause Jack is so fucking desperate to get her back. Like, he hates Maybourne's guts and here he is all like 'Harry this is Carter we're talking about here', cause Maybourne just has to know something, he just has to get Sam back. And literally without hesitation, Maybourne says 'I know and I'm sorry Jack. I really am', and I honestly? It feels so sincere to me? Maybourne, scum of the Earth, would-sell-out-his- own-mother-to-save-his-own- skin Maybourne is genuinely sorry. Even he can see how much Carter means to Jack and he is sorry. Just the look on his face when Jack says that Carter is missing says everything. He then goes out of his own way to help Jack save her. And why? Jack doesn't ask him to dig any further. He had accepted (at that point) that Maybourne didn't know who took Carter. Maybourne just decides that he's going to help. Sure, you can argue that he only did it so that Jack wouldn't drag him away to be executed for treason but that would only explain why he continues to go along with Jack's plan. Why would he go digging for more info in the first place? Yes, we find out that Maybourne supplied the same people that took Carter with a symbiote and that maybe?? He feels kinda responsible?? That the symbiote might be used for nefarious purposes???? Mmmm, maybe. I personally don't buy to far into it given his character and his vague attitude towards the situation. As far as I'm concerned, Maybourne did what he did because it was Carter. Because Jack came to him and he felt sorry. Now, I'm not an overly romantic kind of person and don't get the sense that Maybourne is any different, but maybe, just fucking maybe, how much Jack and Carter mean too each other has melted that cold dead heart, just a little? Maybe, if he can help it, he doesn't want to see them torn apart? Maybe some, tiny little piece of him sees how pure that bond is and doesn't want to just be sorry. He wants to preserve it.