"Previously in Stargate Atlantis..." "You have some Wraith DNA." "My father told people that it was a gift." "I could help my people by warning them of the Wraith's approach." "No matter how many Wraith ships they destroyed, more kept coming." "You seem to think Teyla might be able to tap into this" "Wraith psychic network?" "If she can, we'll be able to gather all the intel we ever needed about them." "I would not even consider asking you to do this if I didn't think it could potentially provide us with some vital information." "And Doctor Beckett will remain on hand at all times to monitor your physiology." "I am on a ship..." "You are all so pathetic." "Shotgun is it?" "Come on!" "I don't know why I have to do this?" "What?" "Nobody said anything." "You don't have to, do you." "Look it's not my fault things are hard to find" " on the bottom of the ocean!" " Rodney, you said you knew where it was." "I said I knew its last known location." "It is a mobile drilling station, remember?" "Obviously, that's gonna take a few hours." "If we don't find it soon, this is going to be your last known location." "OK kids, do I have to pull this thing over?" "It's hard enough being in this damn thing for hours without listening to you guys." "Actually, Dr McKay has managed to narrow the search field to a remarkably small area." "Finally!" "A voice of reason." "Thank you Dr..." "Graydon." "Yes, yes, of course." "Welcome to the team." "I've been here almost eight months." "Really?" "It's been that long, has it?" "Time certainly flies." "Of course, not when you're sitting in a Jumper looking for a needle in a haystack." "You know what?" "Shut up!" "You know what, you shut up, McKay!" "I don't hear Grayson complaining!" "It's Graydon... with a D." "What?" "You sure?" "It... it... it's my name." "No, no, no, cos I could have sworn that the guy I wanted from your department was called Grayson, cos I remember thinking Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne's ward." "Well it's Graydon." "Guess that means I hired the wrong guy." "Well, we're still glad you came." "Oh, sorry." "I was preoccupied thinking about the geothermal drilling platform." "Shouldn't take us much longer." "We just passed a thermal layer and I'm getting some readings, a couple of hundred feet ahead." "If we did manage to find an alternate and potentially limitless power supply, well that would make even this insufferably long search seem worthwhile." "OK, kids, we're here." "Well, hopefully it won't take too much longer to power up this station." "That wasn't so hard." "All I gotta do is dock this thing and we can find out what this place is all about." "Season 3, Episode 18 Submersion" "Transcript by Callie Sullivan  Suzanna" "All systems are online and functioning at full capacity." "You mean we're generating power already?" "Well, no, but we probably could if we wanted to." "No, slow down." "The Ancients abandoned this project for a reason." "Let's try to find out what that reason might be before we start drilling into the planet's crust." "Yes well, fair enough." "Have we not been down this hallway before?" "Every corridor looks the same." "Don't worry, I have an uncanny sense of direction." "I think she's right." "We've been down this way before." "That's impossible." "We took a left and a left and then a right." "Hey look, all I'm saying is..." "What?" "I'm sensing a Wraith presence nearby." "Are you sure?" "We're..." "pretty deep underwater." "I cannot be certain, but I believe it is onboard the drilling platform." "This is Sheppard." "Everyone drop what you're doing, get back to the control room immediately." "We did a complete lifesigns scan." "It was the first thing we did when we stepped aboard this station." "Look, I promise you, there is nobody here but us." "No, Rodney." "And I'm sensing it even closer now." "Well, maybe it's the pressure, it's been known to do things to the mind." "Just humour me and check again." "There!" "All of these lifesigns have been accounted for." "Humoured?" "Wraith don't show up on life signs detectors if they're hibernating." "I know what I am sensing." "There is no Wraith here, I'm telling you!" " Has your sense ever been wrong?" " Never!" "And I cannot shake this feeling." " I trust her." " As opposed to irrefutable fact!" " Your machines don't know everything." " I never said that they did!" "There is a way for me to be sure." "If I can reach out with my mind and establish a link..." "It's a little reckless, don't you think?" "If there is no Wraith, then there will be no mind for me to link with and therefore no risk, but if there is a Wraith nearby..." "We need to know." "I'm ready." "You sure?" "The briefest contact will determine whether or not I'm right." "That's all we need, so don't stick around any longer." "And we will bring you out of it at the first sign of trouble." " Just to be sure..." " It's already set to stun." "Sorry!" "Teyla?" "I was mistaken." " There is nothing there." " Well... that's good!" "I'm sorry." "No reason to be sorry." "Perhaps it was the effect of the pressure at this depth." "Well, if you've ever seen The Abyss, pressure can make you nuts..." "Not that I think you're nuts!" "It's alright, John." "I'm relieved." "So am I." "Well, we have a lot of exploring to do." ""We"?" "Until Rodney delivers the preliminary status reports, I'm all yours." "Put me to work, Colonel." "Alright, let's make up some time, break into teams." "Ronon you're with Teyla, Elizabeth you're with me, or..." "I'm with you." "However you wanna put it." "Either way... or either way." "That was weird." "Well, we are at the very bottom of the ocean." "Maybe you're right." "Teyla's just experiencing the effects of the pressure." "Hopefully not as bad as that guy in The Abyss." "This place is big, huh?" "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Why?" "You just haven't said a word." "Have I not?" "No." "Has my silence made you..." "uncomfortable?" "No." "Your friendship is very important to me." "I would hate to do anything that made you... uncomfortable." "OK." "Well..." "I'm good." "Rodney... what's going on?" "What do you mean, what's going on?" "We've just lost the lights." "What?" " You're right." " Yes, we can see that!" "We just lost power to forty percent of the station." "Sensors are currently offline." "Zelenka, what are you doing?" "What do you mean, what am I doing?" "Have you lost power where you are?" "No." "Have you?" "No!" "We have!" "I wanna know what's going on." "You know, this station has been lying idle down here for a few millenia." "We're bound to blow a few fuses." "Look, I'll have power back on in a minute, just hang tight." "Ronon, Teyla." "Report your position." "Ronon, Teyla, come in." "Ronon?" "Teyla?" "Rodney, we've lost contact with Ronon and Teyla, you know their position?" "No, negative." "Internal sensors are out, but I have determined the location where the power went down." "It's in auxillary control area, search grid six." "It's the deck that Teyla and Ronon were exploring." "We'll meet you there." "OK." "Davidson!" " It's..." "Dickenson, sir." " Yeah well, I was in the ballpark, give me a break here." "Look, get back to the Jumper, see if you can use its sensors to determine the location of our people within the drilling platform." " Sir." " Graydon, you go with him." "There you are." "Weapons fire." "9 mil." "This way!" "Oh yes, let's race towards the gunfire." "Ronon, Teyla, come in." "Are you alright?" "No!" "Did you see who attacked you?" "Yeah, it was Teyla." "What?" " Why?" " OK, until we know what's going on," "I'd like everyone in one place." "This is Zelenka." "Somebody has just activated emergency forcefield throughout the station." "Can you make it back to the control room?" " Yes, I think so." " Do it." "That doesn't make any sense." "What is she doing?" "You and Elizabeth go back to the control room." "Ronon and I are gonna check up on Teyla." " Be careful." " No kidding." "Drop it." "John!" "What the hell's going on?" "I do not know." " Rodney, what's the status?" " As far from the quo as it gets." "Look, Teyla didn't just shut down several key systems, she scrambled the existing operating codes." "This is going to take a while." " Can we contact Atlantis?" " The station's communication system is just gone." "I can't even patch it, she's blown the control crystals and shut down half the power to the station and set up a series of emergency force fields." "To what purpose?" "This is Sheppard." "We got Teyla." "And?" "And nothing." "She has no memory of anything that happened in the last hour." "We're on our way to crew quarters." "I'll meet you there." "OK, let's forget about restoring this station to its former glory." "Concentrate your efforts on internal sensors and disabling the forcefields that are cutting us off from the Jumper." "Elizabeth, I am so sorry." "Don't worry about that." "How are you feeling now?" "I'm fine, but to hear of the damage I caused and yet to have no memory of my actions..." "Just tell us what you do remember?" "I was attempting to seek out the Wraith presence with my mind... and then..." "There is a Wraith?" "The most powerful mind I have ever encountered." " I tried to shut her out..." " Her?" "Yes." "I believe this Wraith is a Queen." "I hate Queens." "In that brief moment I sensed... great power." "The experiences of many centuries, hunger... and then... nothing." "My next memory is of Colonel Sheppard and Ronon aiming their weapons towards me." "So there is a Wraith aboard the drilling platform." "Well if that were the case, why'd she use Teyla to do all that damage and why didn't the life signs detector pick up her signal?" "Doesn't matter." "If she's here," "I'll find her." " We'll find her." " I would like to help." "I'm sorry, Teyla," " but until we can determine exactly what..." " Yes, of course." "I understand." "Dickenson." "Any progress on disabling those forcefields?" "I'm getting indications that some of them are going up and down." "We could really use the Jumper sensors." "I..." "I..." "I'm doing my best sir." "One of these days I'm just gonna call him Doctor McCoy." " I'd love to be there for that." " Well, the next time he calls me Grayson..." "Actually," "I know a Grayson." " There really is a Grayson?" " Yeah!" "He's a damn good scientist, too." "I'm surprised McKay didn't hire him." "Did you do that?" "I don't know, but I'm happy to take credit for it." "Check it out." "Yeah." "I don't understand." "What could the Wraith possibly want with an Ancient drilling platform?" "For that matter, how did they even get here?" "I don't know, maybe on a ship, nearby!" " Underwater?" " Look, who knows!" "Teyla's spidey sense works for miles." "Look, are the external sensors up and running?" "Yes they're operational, but they're designed to scan the ocean floor." "It doesn't matter." "Coleman!" "Take a look at the drilling platform's external sensors." "See what you turn up." " What am I looking for?" " Anything." "How are you feeling?" "I've never been more ashamed." " Oh, you can't blame yourself." " I should have been more careful." "A Wraith Queen's mind is extremely powerful, Teyla." "You know that better than I do." "Still, if my actions while under her control result in people getting hurt..." "If you hadn't done what you did, who knows what could have happened." "At least now we know what we're dealing with." "If anything, I should thank you." "I certainly don't blame you." "I would like to help them find her." " Teyla." " There is no risk." "I don't know that." "Unless you suspect I am still under her control, even now?" "Would I be alone with you if I did?" "Then you think I am... somehow vulnerable to her." "I think it is best to keep you away from her for the moment, yes." "Look, I don't fully understand this capability you have of linking with a Wraith mind, but if it's even remotely possible..." "She was only able to control me because I opened my mind to her." "If I choose to do so again..." "I will be ready." "Teyla, I know you wanna help." "I do." "The best way for you to do that is allow Ronon and Colonel Sheppard to find her." "As you wish." "It's about time." "I was beginning to think that you'd gotten lost." "Listen, did you manage to..." "Oh my God!" "Colonel Sheppard!" "If you can hear me... please..." "Help me!" "Who am I talking to?" "What's your location?" "McKay." "Do you have any men unaccounted for?" "Two guys I just sent back to the Jumper." "I think they're in trouble." "Can you get those forcefields down?" "We're working on it." "The Wraith presence is even stronger than before." "She is aboard this station, you must warn them." "Colonel Sheppard," "Teyla is certain the Wraith is aboard this station." "Understood." "Ronon, I'm heading back to the Jumper, meet me there!" "I'm on my way!" "Sheppard!" "Help me!" "Please!" "McKay!" "McKay?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah, almost there." "I can only do one at a time." "The Jumper's sensors should be able to locate them." "Graydon?" "Graydon's dead." "Fed upon." "What about Dickenson?" "No sign of him yet." "Let's see if we can find him using the..." "Sheppard?" "Sheppard come in!" "You are Sheppard." "The one who can fly this ship." "You will return me to the surface." "Kneel!" "Sheppard, this is McKay." "What have you got?" "Sheppard, you hear me?" "Is something wrong?" "You will fly me to the Stargate and return me to my people." "Sheppard, this is Mckay." "Please respond!" "Sheppard, come in!" "I'm here!" "We had to throw the emergency forcefields up." "The section you were in was flooding." "I noticed." "She was thrown by the force of the water clear of the forcefield bulkhead." "Ronon." "I missed." "I noticed that, too." "Everyone else is accounted for." "Any sign of Dickenson?" "Stand by, Mckay." "Look, I don't know what just happened, but we are now cut off from the Jumper." "I won't miss now!" "Wait!" "What for?" "Well, we lost the Jumper and we lost communications with Atlantis." "Maybe she can help us get out of this place." "Welcome back." "I trust you're comfortable?" "That groggy sensation you're feeling are the sedatives we're pumping you full of." "Just a precaution." "As for the other precautions..." "Now, you're gonna tell us everything we want to know." "In exchange for?" "This is not a negotiation." "I disagree." "Let me get this over with." "How did you get aboard this station?" "Are there any more of you?" "You are all about to die!" "Really." "Care to elaborate on that at all?" "We should be able to keep the forcefields up until Atlantis sends a rescue Jumper, but the station communications are still down, so..." "I should have listened to Teyla." "This wouldn't have happened..." " Don't worry about it, Rodney, it's not your fault." " I'm the one who sent those men back to the Jumper." "Well, the sensors indicated that there was nobody here, so..." "I don't think there was, sir." "I think the Wraith arrived here after we did the initial scans." "What?" "You asked me to do a search with the remote sensors." "I found something." "We didn't notice it on the way down, because it's radiating very little E.M." "Guys?" "Head back here." "I think I have a few answers." "A Wraith cruiser." "It seems completely buried in silt." "Which means it's been here a very, very..." "very long time." " Yes, give or take a very." " That doesn't explain how she got here." "Maybe she swam over." "No, no," " the pressure at that depth is..." " Deadly to Humans... but she's not Human, remember?" "Yes, it's difficult to imagine, but with a Wraiths ability to heal itself..." "And there are no other Wraith on board?" "No way to know for sure, our prisoner isn't talking, other than:" ""You're all about to die. "" "Which may or may not be an empty threat." " And you have no way of knowing." " Well, she said it with a lot of confidence." "There is a way to find out." "We've already been down that road." "And what is to stop her asserting control over you again." "She's heavily sedated." "And this time I know exactly what I'm dealing with." "You!" "I was caught offguard the first time." "That will not happen again." "It does not matter." "Well, we think it does." "Your fate is sealed!" "If you have any reason to suspect that I am not myself, do not hesitate to use that." "I won't." "I see her." "Leading the first wave of ships that attacked Atlantis during the war." "Queen of a great alliance." "Her ship was damaged during the battle." "It crashed into the ocean." "She fed upon her own crew, to survive." "Too deep to ever swim to the surface." "Waking... between centuries." "Waiting for rescue that never came." "Until finally, she was alone." "She sensed our presence during our descent." "She sensed... me!" "And saw us has her one chance of freedom from her prison." "The water was... crushing," "but she was determined." "Finally... after all these millenia... a ship." "But she did not possess the gene to fly it." "She used Dickenson to call for me." "Teyla!" "You are all about to die!" "That doesn't sound like Teyla." "You are all about to die!" "You are all about to die!" "Teyla, snap out of it!" "Wait!" "She has activated the self destruct device of the Wraith Cruiser." "It is set to detonate within two hours." "So... not an empty threat." "How's Teyla?" "She's resting." "I think it took a lot more out of her than she's willing to admit." "What's the news?" "OK, well it looks like the Ancients chose this section of the ocean floor because the planet's crust is remarkably thin, right below us." "Allowing them to drill directly into the magma and maximize the geo-thermal power output." "OK." "Which means there's a great deal of potential energy directly beneath the station." "That's the news, that this place works as advertised." "No, no, the news is that if they were to detonate, say, the self destruct of a Wraith Cruiser, on just such a wafer thin crust..." "Oh my God!" "All that thermal energy directly beneath us will be released all at once." "So... it's a bad news." "The initial explosion will be magnified a thousand times." "We're talking catastrophic!" " So it won't just be us that's affected." " No." "Atlantis will be affected as well." "It's well within the blast radius." "We have no way to warn them?" "And they'd never even see it coming." "So we..." "disarm the self destruct!" " That's brilliant, but we still need to get there!" " How do we do that without the Jumper?" "We're way behind schedule." "They're gonna send a rescue Jumper any minute now." "Even if they've left already, I mean the moment we were overdue..." "They won't make it in time." "How far is the Cruiser?" "Less than a kilometre." "She swam that far?" "What is she?" "A formidable enemy." "I have an idea." "I found these in the database when we first got here." "They were used primarily to make repairs to the exterior of the station." "Very cool!" "Yeah, you should be able to traverse the distance between here and the Cruiser." "You mean, we?" "Yes of course." "We..." "This must be how she got in." "Probably." "Alright, lets get suited up." "Right." "You're breathing too hard." "Forgive me for being aware of exactly how much pressure is being exerted on this suit, right now." "Just think of it as a walk on the beach." "A beach that's about to explode." "That's supposed to make me feel better?" "No, it's supposed to make you walk faster, we're on a clock here." "This is Weir, how close are you?" "Almost there, but we're running out of time." "We may need Teyla to do her Kreskin act again." "I'd rather not have to." "I think it could be much too dangerous for her." "So's exploding magma." "I am walking as fast as I can!" "How do we disarm the self-destruct?" "You won't survive the blast any more than we will." "I can get the information we need." "If you were strong enough, you would have done so already." "I can feel how weak you are." "We shall see who is stronger." "That took too long." "Yeah well," "I probably won't be able to disarm the self destruct in time, anyways, so... we're really not in a rush." "Why don't we find it first and then you can be negative." "The ship is remarkably preserved." "You'd think after 10,000 years, she'd want to redecorate." "I'm serious." "Hull damage is minimal." "They probably just lost their main drive." "Are you saying this thing is salvageable?" "I'd have to assess damage to primary systems, but it's not completely out of the question." "Of course you'll probably just go and blow it up or slam it into a Hive ship or something and all that work will be for nothing." "This way." "Teyla?" "You are weakening." "Teyla, I think you should stop." "My concentration slipped just for a moment." "And in that moment, I could have crushed you with a single thought." "Perhaps next time, I will." "There isn't gonna be a next time." " Elizabeth, I am fine." " No, you're not." "I can see what this is doing to you." "Let's just give McKay a chance." "There it is." "What?" "I'm pretty sure this is the device, and I'm pretty sure it says we have less than half an hour." "So turn it off." " What does that mean?" " It's not accepting commands of any kind." "There must be some kind of a... command code that needs to be entered first." "Can you figure it out?" "Yes, well, command codes are usually quite simple, like the number one or the letter A," " like, in Wraith, which would be..." " Can you figure out the code or not?" "No!" "Not if I stood here and tried for a million years, and we have... just under a million years less than that." "Elizabeth, you there?" "Any luck?" "Negative." "If we don't get the command code in less than thirty minutes, we're dead." "This is the only way." " I told you, Rodney has another idea." " That may or may not succeed." " There is only one way to be certain." " She said she would kill you next time." "I will not let that happen." "No." "We're gonna give them more time." "Ronon." "There's been an emergency in the Control Room." "Doctor Weir needs your help." "What about her?" "I'll watch the prisoner." "Hurry." "Watch yourself." "Are you fool enough to try again?" "I have very little to lose." "You're trying to hide something from me." "There's been a development." "Have you been able to disarm the self destruct device?" "No, but..." "Rodney thinks if we can tie in a naquadah generator, we can still get the Wraith Cruiser to fly." " After all these years?" " Yeah, the damage was superficial." "The problem was the engines." "McKay's already restored power and I think..." " I can fly the ship to a safe distance." " That's a suicide mission." "Well, if I can ditch the ship on the mainland, maybe I can get far enough away from the explosion." " I gotta go now." " Wait!" "Let me try again." "If I can get her to give up her command code, you won't have to risk it." "You're in no condition to do that." "Sorry." "Well, you're a hell of a swimmer, I'll give you that." "You have restored power?" "It'll fly." "You shall be rewarded..." "With a quick death!" "She's not dying according to plan here!" "I thought you'd forgotten about me." "Of course not." "I just had to wait for her to disable the device." "Hey!" "Just be thankful she didn't feed on you before she entered the command code." "That's why you didn't wanna be bait." "No... you had to be bait because she was expecting you to be the one to try and fly the ship..." " She's dead, right?" " Let's get outta here." "How are you feeling?" "Much better, now that I no longer feel the constant presence of a Wraith." "That was no ordinary Wraith." "It took a lot of bullets to take her down." " I wish I was there." " He's right, you know." "I mean, deceiving a Wraith Queen... that's no small feat." "Well, when there are so many lives at stake, it's easy to summon the strength." "Well, Zelenka's finally got communications back up." "Turns out Atlantis had sent another Jumper." "Should be here within the hour." "That's good news." "Yeah, no kidding." "I can't wait to see the sun." "What no, no, no..." "we haven't finished what we came here for." "Look, the Wraith's gone, we got a ton of research to do." " Yes we do." " In fact," "I'm pretty sure we should be able to come up with a way to get auxiliary power online in a couple of days." "Is he serious?" " Yeah, he is." " Well..." "I for one intend to spend the next little while, resting." "Same here." "Yeah... same here."