"They were trying to create a human who could tell them everything a Goa'uld would know."
— Maj. Samantha Carter
With O'Neill still on stand down, Carter, Daniel and Teal'c are called in by Agent Barrett after several dozen rogue NID agents are seemingly massacred by their own experiment: a young woman named Anna who was created by splicing human and Goa'uld DNA. To make matters worse, the team discover that Anna has activated a naquadah bomb on the premises, and they have only hours to shut it down before it causes mass devastation.
This episode has the odd distinction of having been both written and directed by cast members, namely Michael Shanks and Amanda Tapping respectively. This episode also marks the beginning of Tapping's directing career, which has since become a significant part of her filmography.
"Resurrection" provides examples of the following tropes:
- Abandoned Warehouse: The entire episode takes place in an abandoned industrial complex.
- Asshole Victim: It's difficult to feel sorry for Dr. Keffler when Anna riddles him with bullet holes, given everything he did to her.
- Bad Boss: Daniel and Carter ultimately come to the conclusion that Keffler deliberately triggered Anna's Sekhmet personality to emerge and allowed her to escape so she would kill all the other scientists in the facility. Why on Earth he'd want to do that is never brought up or explained, and with Anna's escape soon afterwards and the bomb about to go off they ultimately have bigger things to worry about.
- Bottle Episode: The episode is confined to a single location on Earth and only features three of the five regular characters.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: When reading through the reports on Anna, Carter disgustedly notes that Keffler tortured her with sensory deprivation and electrocution.
- Continuity Nod:
- Carter thanks Agent Barrett for providing her with the information on Woolsey.
- Anna was artificially aged using nanite technology from the planet Argos.
- Carter points out that the NID have cloned a Goa'uld symbiote before.
- Daniel tells Anna that he knows what having the genetic memories of the Goa'uld can do to a person.
- Daniel tries to help Anna recover the information he needs via meditation after it helped him regain some of his lost memories.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Downplayed; Barrett asks Carter if she wants to get dinner sometime, but doesn't push it when she says that she's seeing somebody.
- The Face: Barrett lampshades this by saying that he'd been hoping Daniel could talk to Anna since he has a "knack" for this kind of thing.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: Carter and Barrett take up these roles respectively when interrogating Keffler.
- Hannibal Lecture: Keffler is fond of this, to the extent that he's directly compared with the man himself.Barrett: The guy was colder than Hannibal Lecter in there.Carter: Still, obviously no match for a master interrogator.Barrett: I didn't see you get all Clarice Starling on his ass.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Anna tells Keffler that even with all the knowledge of the Goa'uld that she carries, nothing compare to the evil she sees in him.
- This is also clearly felt by Daniel, Carter, and Barrett who grow increasingly disgusted by Keffler's actions.
- Jekyll & Hyde: Anna is an artificial human who had her DNA spliced with genetic material from the Goa'uld Sekhmet when she was created, meaning that she has a separate Goa'uld "personality" that emerges with the right trigger.
- Murder-Suicide: Anna kills herself after getting her revenge on Keffler since she knows there's no way to save her.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Daniel accidentally triggers the Sekhmet personality to emerge by getting Anna to meditate, and she then uses the candle he had place in her cell to start a fire, allowing her to escape when the guards come to put it out.
- Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Keffler makes Anna draw disturbing pictures of her insights into the Goa'uld and hang them around her cell.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Anna tells Daniel that he reminds her of Keffler when he starts pushing her to remember the deactivation code for the bomb.
- Oh, Crap!: When Teal'c and Barrett open up a Goa'uld ark found in one of the storage rooms and realize it contains a naquadah bomb that's already been activated.
- People Jars: Carter and Barrett find a series of glass containers with half-developed fetuses inside, presumably from Keffler's earlier attempts at creating a human with the Goa'uld knowledge.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Keffler's father was apparently a Nazi war-criminal, prompting Carter to remark that the rogue NID have no limits.
- Power Glows: Gets lampshaded after Teal'c and Dr. Lee succeed in deactivating the bomb, in a nice Call-Back to "Evolution, Part 2".Lee: That's it. It's off. I mean, the lights turned off, that means it's off, right?Teal'c: Indeed.
- Precision F-Strike: Daniel lets loose an emphatic "son of a bitch" after realizing that Keffler deliberately let the Sekhmet personality out and allowed her to kill everybody else on the project.
- Race Against the Clock: The team discover that they have roughly sixteen hours to figure out how deactivate the bomb before it goes off, though this is whittled down to less than two hours after a Wire Dilemma situation.
- Rewind, Replay, Repeat: Daniel does this while watching the security footage of Keffler's sessions with Anna.
- Shout-Out: The episode has several nods to "The Silence of the Lambs": in addition to the exchange between Carter and Barrett detailed above, Keffler's mannerisms and behavior while being interrogated are very reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter, and Anna is kept in a square cell in the middle of the room similar to that which Lecter is held in in the movie.
- Split-Personality Takeover: It's mentioned that the way Anna's DNA was blended with that of the Goa'uld means that eventually the Sekhmet personality will override Anna and take over completely, giving her (according to Carter) "a horrible, painful death". However, this is ultimately averted due to Anna killing herself at the end of the episode.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Keffler claims to be one, but no one buys it.
- What Is One Man's Life In Comparison?: Keffler attempts to use this as a justification for his treatment of Anna, claiming that he was just looking for a way to help save Earth from the Goa'uld.
- Wire Dilemma: Teal'c and Lee have a discussion to this effect while trying to deactivate the bomb, though it's with crystals, not wires.Teal'c: I am unsure which of these crystals will control the detonation of this device.Lee: Well, blue is typically for power regulation.Teal'c: Indeed.Lee: So if we remove the power regulation for the entire control board...Teal'c: The device could explode.Lee: ...Yeah, yeah, I suppose. I mean, it's not like I was gonna pull a yellow one.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Keffler fakes a heart attack in order to take out the guard and make his escape after Anna gets free.
