History Recap / StargateSG1S4E15ChainReaction

* GeneralFailure[=/=]GeneralRipper: General Bauer manages to be both.
* GoneHorriblyRight: A naquadah-enhanced nuke is tested on a former Goa'uld mining colony, which even in its mined-out state has trace deposits in the soil. Bauer anticipated that the nuke would cause a chain reaction, devastating the surface. What he didn't anticipate is that the radiation released would hold the gate open from the other side. If not for the 38 minute failsafe, it would have not only rendered the gate useless, but turned it into a near-perpetual radiation fountain.

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Maybourne invokes this, but Kinsey attempts to subvert it by telling O'Neill and Maybourne that he has "a wife, three children, seven grandchildren, and various nieces and nephews. Good luck!"[[note]]Even if the password were any one of these, it would still be a straight example, since the possibility of a random string of characters isn't even considered.[[/note]] It takes O'Neill about five seconds to correctly guess that the password is the family pet's name.

* UnwittingPawn: General Bauer [[AmbiguouslyEvil may not be actively in bed with the NID]] but an over-promoted idiot who's easily manipulated.

* UnwittingPawn: General Bauer may not be actively in bed with the NID but an over-promoted idiot who's easily manipulated.

* UnwittingPawn: General Bauer isn't actively in bed with the NID, he's just an over-promoted idiot who's easily manipulated.

* ShoutOut: According to WordOfGod aspects of O'Neil working with Mayborne was a shout out to the film ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''. Biggest reference was the final scene with Mayborne calling Jack from an undisclosed location, out of jail.

* NoOneIsIndispensable: Bauer tells O'Neill as much when he starts doing his usual MilitaryMaverick routine.
-->'''Bauer:''' No-one around here is above reproach. If it continues, your long history of insubordination will come to a swift and unspectacular end under my command, that I can assure you.

* ITakeOffenseToTheLastOne: O'Neill is displeased when Kinsey states that O'Neill barged into his house waving a gun.

* JerkassHasAPoint: General Bauer's suggestion that naquadah could enhance the power of nukes is later proven to correct, though not in the way he intended. However, flash forward a few seasons, and naquadah-nukes have become standard ordnance for the SGC.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Kinsey quotes the New Testament among a series of religious statements while debating his actions with O'Neill, suggesting hemis (or is pretending to be) Christian. But in the same conversation he says the Stargate should be used to "defend God's creation" meaning the Earth against its enemies. No Christian or believer in any Abrahamic religion would suggest that only Earth is God's creation: it's the entire Universe. It's unknown whether this is a case of license by the writers, or a deliberate sign of Kinsey's hypocrisy, revealing that he's not really religious and is only mouthing phrases he doesn't understand for political posturing.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: The NID threaten Hammond by picking up his grandkids from school, driving them round the block and then returning them home.

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Maybourne invokes this, but Kinsey attempts to subvert it by telling O'Neill and Maybourne that he has "a wife, three children, seven grandchildren, and various nieces and nephews. Good luck!" It takes O'Neill about five seconds to correctly guess that the password is the family pet's name.

* CorruptPolitician: It's revealed that Senator Kinsey received much of his campaign funding from the NID and has been involved with a number of their shadier activities, including [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E15Touchstone Maybourne's offworld operation]] and [[Recap/StargateSG1S4E7Watergate the involvement with the Russians]], in addition to blackmailing Hammond.