For the reveal of Daniel Jackson descending, Martin Wood proposed that the shot be a much more cinematic wide shot from a crane extremely high in the sky; however this was reduced to a far closer crane shot than Wood wanted, with the director commenting that "people felt it was giving away too much, like Oma had just deposited him [Daniel] there". Amanda Tapping and Michael Shanks debated with Wood and Cooper over Daniel Jackson and Samantha Carter's reunion scene. The script sees an amnestic Daniel Jackson question if there was ever a romantic relationship between him and Sam, something Shanks and Tapping felt was out of place given the characters purely platonic friendship. Cooper justified its inclusion as signifying just how close friends Sam and Daniel were, to the point where an outsider observer might mistake their friendship for something more; with Shanks ultimately feeling that it really helped justify why Daniel decides to leave the nomads and return with SG-1 to Earth. Discussing performing Daniel Jackson's memory loss, Shanks commented that it proved far more challenging than he had foreseen; "everything you do with your character is a part of who he is. If you erase all that and then ask hi, 'who are you now?' naturally he hasn't a clue". Shanks worked to convey a sense of frustration in the character at his "inability to remember things and having to reestablish ties with friends".
