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* AnAlienNamedBob: Lampshaded by Vala when Mitchell is trying to convince her she's an alien.
-->"Vala isn't a particularly alien name." (Reading the back of a twinkie): "Disodium guanylate. That would make a great alien name, don't you think?"
-->"Vala isn't a particularly alien name." (Reading the back of a twinkie): "Disodium guanylate. That would make a great alien name, don't you think?"
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* LawOfAlienNames: Lampshaded by Vala when Mitchell is trying to convince her she's an alien.
-->"Vala isn't a particularly alien name." (Reading the back of a twinkie): "Disodium guanylate. That would make a great alien name, don't you think?"
-->"Vala isn't a particularly alien name." (Reading the back of a twinkie): "Disodium guanylate. That would make a great alien name, don't you think?"
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* SuperWindowJump: This is how Vala escapes the warehouse as the two sides are shooting at each other despite the fact that there was an open door mere feet from the window.
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* SuperWindowJump: This is how Vala escapes the warehouse as the two sides are shooting at each other despite the fact that there was an open door open-door mere feet from the window.
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-->'''Daniel:''' If I let you go, I know you're going to make yourself disappear. You've been running so long, it's almost second-nature to you. You don't remember it, but you made a decision to stop running. It's over. And now it's time to come home.
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-->'''Daniel:''' If I let you go, I know you're going to make yourself disappear. You've been running so long, it's almost second-nature second nature to you. You don't remember it, but you made a decision to stop running. It's over. And now it's time to come home.
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-->'''Daniel:''' You don't remember who you are, but I do. You won't shoot.
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-->'''Daniel:''' You don't remember who you are, but I do. You won't shoot.
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: It's never revealed if Vala ever contacted Sal or Detective Ryan to let them know she was alright.
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: It's never revealed if Vala ever contacted Sal or Detective Ryan to let them know she was alright.
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* LawOfAlienNames: Lampshaded by Vala when Mitchell is trying to convince her she's an alien.
-->"Vala isn't a particularly alien name." (Reading the back of a twinkie): "Disodium guanylate. That would make a great alien name, don't you think?"
-->"Vala isn't a particularly alien name." (Reading the back of a twinkie): "Disodium guanylate. That would make a great alien name, don't you think?"
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* SuperWindowJump: This is how Vala escapes the warehouse as the two sides are shooting at each other despite the fact that there was an open door mere feet from the window.
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* NeverLiveItDown: An in-universe example, with Carter laughing at Mitchell for losing his pants [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E13RippleEffect again]].
-->'''Carter:''' I just think it's funny how you're always losing your pants.
-->'''Mitchell:''' I'm not ''always'' losing my pants. It's happened ''twice''. Twice is not always.
-->'''Carter:''' I just think it's funny how you're always losing your pants.
-->'''Mitchell:''' I'm not ''always'' losing my pants. It's happened ''twice''. Twice is not always.
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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Carter laughs at Mitchell for losing his pants [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E13RippleEffect again]].
-->'''Carter:''' I just think it's funny how you're always losing your pants.
-->'''Mitchell:''' I'm not ''always'' losing my pants. It's happened ''twice''. Twice is not always.
-->'''Carter:''' I just think it's funny how you're always losing your pants.
-->'''Mitchell:''' I'm not ''always'' losing my pants. It's happened ''twice''. Twice is not always.
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* FlowerInHerHair: Vala wears one for her not-date with Daniel, which becomes a minor plot point when he finds it on the sidewalk outside the restaurant and realizes she's been taken.
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* LineOfSightName: Vala gives her name at the police station as "Valerie Todad" after noticing a children's drawing addressed "To Dad" on the wall behind the detective questioning her. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't buy it.
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* LineOfSightName: LineOfSightAlias: Vala gives her name at the police station as "Valerie Todad" after noticing a children's drawing addressed "To Dad" on the wall behind the detective questioning her. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't buy it.
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* ActionGirl: Vala gets an opportunity to showcase her fighting skills when she takes down two random guys who decide to try and rob the diner she's working at without even breaking a sweat.
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* ActionGirl: Vala gets an opportunity to showcase her fighting skills when [[CurbStompBattle she takes down two random guys who decide to try and rob the diner she's working at without even breaking a sweat.sweat]].
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* NotADate: Daniel insists that his taking Vala out to a fancy restaurant is nothing more than "two friends and coworkers out for dinner". [[EveryoneCanSeeIt No-one really believes him]].
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* NotADate: Daniel insists that his taking Vala out to a fancy restaurant is nothing more than "two friends and coworkers out for dinner". [[EveryoneCanSeeIt No-one No one really believes him]].
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Said by Mitchell when the rest of them team find him chained to a bed eating snack cakes in his boxers.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Said by Mitchell when the rest of them the team find him chained to a bed eating snack cakes in his boxers.
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* {{Flashback}}: Vala is plagued by flashbacks of her time as a host as a side effect of the memory device Athena uses on her. The fact that she doesn't ''remember'' she was a host at the time only make them more disorienting.
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* {{Flashback}}: Vala is plagued by flashbacks of her time as a host as a side effect of the memory device Athena uses on her. The fact that she doesn't ''remember'' she was a host at the time only make makes them more disorienting.
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* {{Flashback}}: Vala is plagued by flashbacks of her time as a host as a side-effect of the memory device Athena uses on her. The fact that she doesn't ''remember'' she was a host at the time only make them more disorienting.
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* {{Flashback}}: Vala is plagued by flashbacks of her time as a host as a side-effect side effect of the memory device Athena uses on her. The fact that she doesn't ''remember'' she was a host at the time only make them more disorienting.
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* ChainedToABed: After Mitchell catches up to Vala -- after getting himself shot in the process -- she takes him hostage, makes him drive to a motel and proceeds to handcuff him to the bed in order to get some answers out of him.
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* ChainedToABed: After Mitchell catches up to Vala -- after getting himself shot in the process -- she takes him hostage, makes him drive to a motel and proceeds to handcuff him to the bed in order to get some answers out of him.
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->''"I have no idea who I am, much less what I'm capable of."''
-->'''-- Vala Mal Doran'''
Vala is abducted by Trust, acting under the orders of the Goa'uld Athena, who hopes to retrieve knowledge once possessed by [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E5ThePowersThatBe Qetesh]] from her subconscious memories of her time as a host. A botched rescue attempt causes the memory retrieval device to overload and erase all of Vala's memories; she manages to escape, but with no idea of who she is ends up taking a job as a waitress, and SG-1 enter into a race to find and retrieve her before the Trust do.
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!!"Memento Mori" provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Vala gets an opportunity to showcase her fighting skills when she takes down two random guys who decide to try and rob the diner she's working at without even breaking a sweat.
* ChainedToABed: After Mitchell catches up to Vala -- after getting himself shot in the process -- she takes him hostage, makes him drive to a motel and proceeds to handcuff him to the bed in order to get some answers out of him.
* ContinuityNod:
** The Goa'uld Athena is [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E7ExDeusMachina Ba'al's assistant Charlotte Mayfield]].
** Daniel claims that he didn't give up on the belief that Vala was alive when she [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E6Beachhead disappeared after destroying the Ori beachhead]].
** Mitchell tells Vala that if she comes with him back to the SGC, they have a [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E12CollateralDamage device he picked up on another planet]] that can help her recover her memories.
* CooldownHug: Daniel embraces Vala after talking her down and getting her to remember who he is at the end of the episode.
* {{Flashback}}: Vala is plagued by flashbacks of her time as a host as a side-effect of the memory device Athena uses on her. The fact that she doesn't ''remember'' she was a host at the time only make them more disorienting.
* FlashedBadgeHijack: Mitchell commandeers a police motorcycle in order to chase after the bad guys making off with Vala by doing this.
* FlowerInHerHair: Vala wears one for her not-date with Daniel, which becomes a minor plot point when he finds it on the sidewalk outside the restaurant and realizes she's been taken.
* GreasySpoon: Vala ends up working as waitress at one when she explains her situation to the owner after he catches her trying to leave without paying for her meal, prompting him to take pity on her and offer her a job.
* HashHouseLingo: Vala practices speaking like this while she's working at the diner.
-->'''Vala:''' Okay. ''(Brooklyn accent)'' Dead cow on a turban, hold the yellow, extra spud mush.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Daniel does this to Vala to try and stop her from leaving the warehouse and disappearing again while the others are fighting the Trust.
* InMediasRes: The pre-credits scene shows Vala working as a waitress for some unexplained reason and foiling the would-be robbers at the diner, and after the title sequence we flash back to the night she's taken three weeks previously.
* InstantSedation: Averted; Vala is still semi-conscious and on her feet even after the sedative is injected directly into her carotid artery.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After the memory device malfunctions, Vala forgets all the specific details of her life and identity, but retains enough knowledge of social conventions that she's able to "pass" as a normal Earth-born human.
* LineOfSightName: Vala gives her name at the police station as "Valerie Todad" after noticing a children's drawing addressed "To Dad" on the wall behind the detective questioning her. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't buy it.
* NeuroVault: Athena has Vala kidnapped as she believes that the location of the Clava Thessara Infinitas, an Ancient "treasure map" is buried in her subconscious memories of her time as a host.
* NeverLiveItDown: An in-universe example, with Carter laughing at Mitchell for losing his pants [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E13RippleEffect again]].
-->'''Carter:''' I just think it's funny how you're always losing your pants.
-->'''Mitchell:''' I'm not ''always'' losing my pants. It's happened ''twice''. Twice is not always.
* NonIndicativeName: ''Sol's'' Diner is owned by a man named ''Sal'', much to Vala's confusion. He explains that he bought it from the previous owner, who ''was'' called Sol.
* NotADate: Daniel insists that his taking Vala out to a fancy restaurant is nothing more than "two friends and coworkers out for dinner". [[EveryoneCanSeeIt No-one really believes him]].
-->'''Vala:''' Oh, I've watched enough of your television to know what a date is, Daniel. It's a romantic event typified by dinner, a movie and/or karaoke, and usually culminating in a night of...
-->'''Daniel:''' Okay, this is definitely ''not'' a date.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Said by Mitchell when the rest of them team find him chained to a bed eating snack cakes in his boxers.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Mitchell is shot in the upper arm by one of the Trust operatives who take Vala, and while he's obviously in a lot of pain he's able to drive a car okay, and seems to be mostly fine after Vala administers some DIY first aid using a bed sheet.
* PerpSweating: Daniel invokes this by deliberately leaving the one Trust operative the team manage to capture alone with Teal'c in the interrogation room. The guy even ''says'' that he knows Teal'c is only there to intimidate him, and Teal'c ''still'' manages to get the information out of him in about two minutes flat.
* SelfDestructMechanism: The warehouse where Vala is taken at the beginning of the episode is rigged to explode in the event that it's ever raided.
* SilentWhisper: Teal'c whispers something to the Trust operative he's interrogating; the audience doesn't hear what it is, but judging from the guy's reaction it's obviously horrific.
* SixthRanger: Vala finally becomes an official member of the team when she gets her SG-1 patches from Landry at the end of the episode, making them a true FiveManBand for the first time in history.
* ShipTease: A lot of it for Daniel/Vala. In addition to the matter of their not-date and the EveryoneCanSeeIt reactions from the other characters (including ''Landry''), Daniel is the only one who manages to get through to Vala during their emotional confrontation in the warehouse, and while Vala remembers each member of the team sitting around the briefing table in a flashback, she also has an additional memory of ''just'' Daniel on his own, standing next to her in the elevator.
* ShirtlessScene: Mitchell spends quite a while shirtless and pants-less after Vala steals his clothes and handcuffs him to a bed.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Vala wakes up this way after being taken from the restaurant.
* TiredOfRunning: Daniel claims that this is the reason Vala chose to throw her lot in with the SGC while he's trying to convince her not to run away again.
-->'''Daniel:''' If I let you go, I know you're going to make yourself disappear. You've been running so long, it's almost second-nature to you. You don't remember it, but you made a decision to stop running. It's over. And now it's time to come home.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Ostensibly this is the reason Sal gives Vala a job at his diner, though in reality it's more for her benefit than his.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Daniel pulls this on Vala when she threatens to shoot him if he doesn't let her leave.
-->'''Daniel:''' You don't remember who you are, but I do. You won't shoot.
-->'''-- Vala Mal Doran'''
Vala is abducted by Trust, acting under the orders of the Goa'uld Athena, who hopes to retrieve knowledge once possessed by [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E5ThePowersThatBe Qetesh]] from her subconscious memories of her time as a host. A botched rescue attempt causes the memory retrieval device to overload and erase all of Vala's memories; she manages to escape, but with no idea of who she is ends up taking a job as a waitress, and SG-1 enter into a race to find and retrieve her before the Trust do.
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!!"Memento Mori" provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Vala gets an opportunity to showcase her fighting skills when she takes down two random guys who decide to try and rob the diner she's working at without even breaking a sweat.
* ChainedToABed: After Mitchell catches up to Vala -- after getting himself shot in the process -- she takes him hostage, makes him drive to a motel and proceeds to handcuff him to the bed in order to get some answers out of him.
* ContinuityNod:
** The Goa'uld Athena is [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E7ExDeusMachina Ba'al's assistant Charlotte Mayfield]].
** Daniel claims that he didn't give up on the belief that Vala was alive when she [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E6Beachhead disappeared after destroying the Ori beachhead]].
** Mitchell tells Vala that if she comes with him back to the SGC, they have a [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E12CollateralDamage device he picked up on another planet]] that can help her recover her memories.
* CooldownHug: Daniel embraces Vala after talking her down and getting her to remember who he is at the end of the episode.
* {{Flashback}}: Vala is plagued by flashbacks of her time as a host as a side-effect of the memory device Athena uses on her. The fact that she doesn't ''remember'' she was a host at the time only make them more disorienting.
* FlashedBadgeHijack: Mitchell commandeers a police motorcycle in order to chase after the bad guys making off with Vala by doing this.
* FlowerInHerHair: Vala wears one for her not-date with Daniel, which becomes a minor plot point when he finds it on the sidewalk outside the restaurant and realizes she's been taken.
* GreasySpoon: Vala ends up working as waitress at one when she explains her situation to the owner after he catches her trying to leave without paying for her meal, prompting him to take pity on her and offer her a job.
* HashHouseLingo: Vala practices speaking like this while she's working at the diner.
-->'''Vala:''' Okay. ''(Brooklyn accent)'' Dead cow on a turban, hold the yellow, extra spud mush.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Daniel does this to Vala to try and stop her from leaving the warehouse and disappearing again while the others are fighting the Trust.
* InMediasRes: The pre-credits scene shows Vala working as a waitress for some unexplained reason and foiling the would-be robbers at the diner, and after the title sequence we flash back to the night she's taken three weeks previously.
* InstantSedation: Averted; Vala is still semi-conscious and on her feet even after the sedative is injected directly into her carotid artery.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After the memory device malfunctions, Vala forgets all the specific details of her life and identity, but retains enough knowledge of social conventions that she's able to "pass" as a normal Earth-born human.
* LineOfSightName: Vala gives her name at the police station as "Valerie Todad" after noticing a children's drawing addressed "To Dad" on the wall behind the detective questioning her. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't buy it.
* NeuroVault: Athena has Vala kidnapped as she believes that the location of the Clava Thessara Infinitas, an Ancient "treasure map" is buried in her subconscious memories of her time as a host.
* NeverLiveItDown: An in-universe example, with Carter laughing at Mitchell for losing his pants [[Recap/StargateSG1S9E13RippleEffect again]].
-->'''Carter:''' I just think it's funny how you're always losing your pants.
-->'''Mitchell:''' I'm not ''always'' losing my pants. It's happened ''twice''. Twice is not always.
* NonIndicativeName: ''Sol's'' Diner is owned by a man named ''Sal'', much to Vala's confusion. He explains that he bought it from the previous owner, who ''was'' called Sol.
* NotADate: Daniel insists that his taking Vala out to a fancy restaurant is nothing more than "two friends and coworkers out for dinner". [[EveryoneCanSeeIt No-one really believes him]].
-->'''Vala:''' Oh, I've watched enough of your television to know what a date is, Daniel. It's a romantic event typified by dinner, a movie and/or karaoke, and usually culminating in a night of...
-->'''Daniel:''' Okay, this is definitely ''not'' a date.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Said by Mitchell when the rest of them team find him chained to a bed eating snack cakes in his boxers.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Mitchell is shot in the upper arm by one of the Trust operatives who take Vala, and while he's obviously in a lot of pain he's able to drive a car okay, and seems to be mostly fine after Vala administers some DIY first aid using a bed sheet.
* PerpSweating: Daniel invokes this by deliberately leaving the one Trust operative the team manage to capture alone with Teal'c in the interrogation room. The guy even ''says'' that he knows Teal'c is only there to intimidate him, and Teal'c ''still'' manages to get the information out of him in about two minutes flat.
* SelfDestructMechanism: The warehouse where Vala is taken at the beginning of the episode is rigged to explode in the event that it's ever raided.
* SilentWhisper: Teal'c whispers something to the Trust operative he's interrogating; the audience doesn't hear what it is, but judging from the guy's reaction it's obviously horrific.
* SixthRanger: Vala finally becomes an official member of the team when she gets her SG-1 patches from Landry at the end of the episode, making them a true FiveManBand for the first time in history.
* ShipTease: A lot of it for Daniel/Vala. In addition to the matter of their not-date and the EveryoneCanSeeIt reactions from the other characters (including ''Landry''), Daniel is the only one who manages to get through to Vala during their emotional confrontation in the warehouse, and while Vala remembers each member of the team sitting around the briefing table in a flashback, she also has an additional memory of ''just'' Daniel on his own, standing next to her in the elevator.
* ShirtlessScene: Mitchell spends quite a while shirtless and pants-less after Vala steals his clothes and handcuffs him to a bed.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Vala wakes up this way after being taken from the restaurant.
* TiredOfRunning: Daniel claims that this is the reason Vala chose to throw her lot in with the SGC while he's trying to convince her not to run away again.
-->'''Daniel:''' If I let you go, I know you're going to make yourself disappear. You've been running so long, it's almost second-nature to you. You don't remember it, but you made a decision to stop running. It's over. And now it's time to come home.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Ostensibly this is the reason Sal gives Vala a job at his diner, though in reality it's more for her benefit than his.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Daniel pulls this on Vala when she threatens to shoot him if he doesn't let her leave.
-->'''Daniel:''' You don't remember who you are, but I do. You won't shoot.
