Episode 124 of "Stargate-SG1"
s06e14 Smoke & Mirrors
Title: Smoke & Mirrors
Original Air Date: 01/24/2003 on Sci-Fi Channel
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Paul Mullie, Joseph Mallozzi
Guest Stars: Peter Kelamis (Dr. Langham), Dale Wilson (Committee Member #3), James Michalopoulos (Leo), Don MacKay (Committee Member #2), L. Harvey Gold (Committee Member #1), Simon Egan (SF #1), Yvonne Myers (Area 51 Technician), Daniel Pepper (Hospital SF), John Mann (Luthor), Peter Flemming (NID Agent Malcolm Barrett), Chris Harrison (Guard), Mi-Jung Lee (Reporter), Darryl Scheeler (Man)
Plot Outline:
When SG-1's old "friend" Senator Kinsey is assassinated, O'Neill becomes the lead suspect with indisputable evidence against him - a surveillance camera that took his picture and the murder weapon in the lake near his cabin where he was purportedly fishing. Sam goes to the NID and teams up with an agent Barrett, while Teal'c interrogates a prisoner and Jonas deduces that the transformation devices (last seen in Foothold) were used to frame Jack. Sam and Barrett discover a conspiracy of secret businessmen that gained access to the devices at Area 51 and stole them. Revealing that Kinsey survived the attack, Sam and Barrett use his presence as a decoy - one of the conspiracy's agents sends a man transformed into Major Davis but they thwart him and Sam, hologrammatically disguised as the killer, arrests them all. Jack is cleared but Kinsey reveals that he plans to use the sympathy used by the assassination attempt, and Jack's reputation, to cement his own reputation as he makes a run for the Presidency.