Dr. Jackson, Lt. Colonel Carter and others in “Unfinished Business”

The next idea we come up with has to be outside the box.

Okay, the gate is composed of individual units. The—There must be some sort of energy linkage between them, like a—like a chain.

Exactly, so we—

So we need a big ol' set of bolt cutters.

Oooh. Too far outside the box. Get closer to the box.