""SEVERAL MILLION YEARS AGO"" ""ANTARCTICA:" "PRESENT DAY"" ""This is operations:" "General O'Neill is going down forty minutes now."" " Dr.Weir!" " Peter!" "You see?" "Nothing." "Carson, get back here!" "I can sit in that chair all bloody day long and nothing would happen." "It's a waste of time!" "Excuse me, Dr.Weir!" "He's not even trying" "He is the one who discovered the gene this technology responds to?" "Yeah, well." "He said, he wish he never had it." "Really?" "I know." "Can you believe that?" "We could always test you a third time, Rodney." "That's very funny." "We have only found a handful of people who are genetically compatible with the Ancient technology.." "..and despite your heroic efforts interface ours with theirs.." "..we need every one of them to sit in this chair.." "..including Dr. Beckett." "What am I supposed to do?" "He is afraid of the thing." "This chair controls the most powerful weapons known to humankind." "I'm afraid of the thing." "But every time someone sits in it, we learn something new about the Ancients who built this outpost." "Dr. Beckett should be proud he's genetically advance." "Not more advanced, it is a random characteristic." "This really bothers you, this whole gene thing, huh?" "Oh, clearly, I am overcome with envy." "Ah, just the people I need to see." "Come with me!" "We've gotten closer and closer to find the location of the lost city, but it turns out we've been looking in the wrong place all along." "Now, we thought we had a Stargate address." "Six symbols representing coordinates in space that determine the location of the planet.." "..the Ancients went to after they left Antarctica." "Now, recently, we determined a seventh symbol." "The point of origin, Earth." "That's not it!" "Then your address must be incorrect." "Not incorrect, incomplete." "What are you saying, Dr. Jackson?" "It's an eight symbol address." "What we're looking for may be further away than we ever imagined, but it's not out of reach." "Atlantis?" "Atlantis.." "I think we can go there." ""Apache, Blackhawk, Cobra, Osprey."" ""That's a lot of training for the Antarctic."" ""It was the one continent I never set foot on."" ""It's one of my least favourite continents."" ""I Kinda like it here."" ""You like it here?"" ""Yes, sir!"" ""Be there in about ten minutes, sir!"" "Look, we've been through this, I'm not your man." "Keep moving!" "I'm doctor, a medical doctor!" "There's nothing to be afraid of." "You don't understand." "I break things like this." "This device is survived for million of years intact." "It will survive you." "Now sit down, close your eyes and concentrate!" "Again nothing." "This time just try to imagine an image of where we are in the Solar system." "I think I feel something." "It could be lunch related?" "Shut up, and concentrate!" "Watch out!" "What did I do?" "Get us back down there!" ""All inbound aircraft, we have a rogue drone it can seek a target on its own."" ""Land immideately and shut down your engines."" """ "This is not a drill, I repeat..." "" "It's too late, hang on!"" ""Break right!"" ""I said right."" ""I'm getting to that, sir."" "I told you I was the wrong person." "It doesn't matter now." "Just do something!" "Like what?" "Carson!" "Concentrate on shutting the weapon down before hurts someone!" """ " I can't see it." "" " Pull up!" "Pull up!"" ""What about now?"" ""Now's good."" ""Shut it down!"" ""Sir, what the hell was that?"" ""Wait for it."" ""Get out!"" "I think I did it." "That was different." "For me, not so much." "Major Sheppard is reporting the drone appears to have been incapacitated." "General O'Neill's helicopter is unharmed and on it's way again.." "..seven minutes out." "Thank God!" "Holy crap!" " Jack!" " Daniel?" "Warm welcome." "Wasn't me." "How'd you manage to, uh...?" "Keep my ass from getting blown out of sky?" "The exceptional flying of Major John Sheppard." "He likes it here." "Exceptional." "You like it here?" "What say we cut to the part you start talking, real fast." "Ahh, Weir's in here." "Hey, don't touch anything!" "Yes, sir!" "I figure the Ancients packed up their entire city and left somewhere between 5 and 10 million years ago." "In their.." " Flying city?" " Yes." "What?" "Flying city?" "Well, uh, keep in mind this is the race that built Stargates." "They did everything... big!" "So, why'd they leave?" "Why'd they leave?" "Who knows?" "We know the Ancients on Earth were suffering from a plague." "Maybe some of them were trying to start overseeding life in a new galaxy." "Maybe that's what Ancients do." "The point is we know, where they went." "Pegasus." "Yes, it's the name of a dwarf galaxy in the Local Group." "After all the time is there any hope of actually meeting them?" "Who knows?" "But isn't that reason enough to go?" "Well, I've been chosing members for this expedition for months, doctor.." "I'm not the one needs convincing." "Oh, I'm convinced." "Have fun!" "It's a little more complicated than that." "We need the Zed PM to power the gate." "What?" "The ZPM.. he's a.. he's Canadian." "I'm sorry." "The Zero-Point Module, General." "The ancient power source that we recovered from Proklarush Taonas and that's now powering the outpost's defenses." "I have since determined that it generates it's enormous power from.." "..vacuum energy.." "..derived from a self-contained region of subspace time." "That was a waste of a perfectly good explanation." "The answer's no." "...it was such a surprise, you see." "I felt power I've never had before.... ...I had it dancing all over the sky it was magical it really was." "They are lucky." "I don't know where it came from." "I just had to concentrate and the drone shut itself down." "So you were the one?" "Me?" "You're the one who fired that thing at me?" "Look, we're doing research.." "working with technology that light years beyond us." "..and we make mistakes." "I'm incredibly, incredibly sorry." "Well, next time just be a little more careful, okay?" " That's what I said." " What the hell was that thing anyway?" "You mean the drone?" "The weapon the Ancients built to defend this outpost." "The who?" "You do have security clearance to be here?" "Yeah, yeah." "General O'Neill just gave it to me." "Then you don't even know about the Stargate?" "The what?" "Jack, you know that gating to another galaxy requires enormous amount of power." "Yes, I do." " Find another way!" " There is no other way." "You think there are more of these.." "Zed things in Atlantis?" "Yes!" "And who knows what else we could find?" "This isn't just some other civilizations we're talking about." "These are.." "..the Gatebuilders." "The potential wealth of knowledge and technology." "It outweights anything we've come across since we stepped through the Stargate." "Well, with the amount of power you need to make this trek, odds are it'll be one-way." "Yes, we know." "But the benefit to humanity is far greater than the risk, General." "And it is a risk that every one of my expedition members is willing to take." "They think the gene was used as a sort of genetic key if you will." "So that, only their kind could operate certain dangerous.." "..or powerful technologies." "So some people have the same genes as the Ancients." "The specific gene is very rare, but on the whole they look very much like we do." "In fact, they were first." "We're the second evolution of this form." "The Ancients having explored this galaxy for millions of years before..." "Major, please don't do it!" "Come on, what are the odds of me having the same gene as these guys." "Quite slim, actually." "Dr. Weir!" "Don't move!" "Who is this?" "I said, don't touch anything!" "I just sat down." "Major!" "Think about where we are in the Solar system!" "Did I do that?" "We could be on our way to discovering an entirely new ancient civilization." "Best case scenario.." "..we meet actual Ancients, who're willing to help us." "But if we don't..." "General, we need him!" "Sorry, Doc, I need Daniel here!" "I'm talking about Major Sheppard." "Oh.." "Don't you have a dozen or so people already, who can use the ancient technology?" "Yeah, with concentration and training they can make a work." "But John Sheppard, he does it naturally." "You know, I've checked into his record." "I know about the whole supposed black mark in Afghanistan." "He was trying to save the lives of three servicemen." "Disobeying a direct order in a process." "I have read your own file, General." "Please!" "Right..." "Okay, It's your expedition!" " You want them, you ask him." " That's the thing, I have." "Really?" "This isn't a long trip, so I'll be as succint as possible." "Well, that's pretty succint." "Thank you." "I told Dr. Weir, you know." "That.." "I'd think about it." "And?" "So?" "Well.. what?" "With all due respect, sir, we are just attacked by an alien missile." "Then I found out I have some mutant gene?" "Then there's this Stargate-thing and these expeditions to other galaxies." "You know this isn't about you, Sheppard." "It's a lot bigger than that." "Right now, at this very second,.." "..whether I decide to go on this mission or not seems to be about me." "Let me ask you something!" ""Why'd you become a pilot?"" ""I think people who don't wanna fly are crazy."" ""And I think people who don't wanna go.." "..through the Stargate are equally as whacked."" ""Now if you can't you can give me a 'yes', by the time we reach McMurdoch.."" "".." "I don't even want you."" ""Simon,.." "..if you're watching this,.." "..it means the President has been kind enough to grant you security clearance."" ""I'm not going on a diplomatic mission to another country."" ""I'm going to another planet.." "..in another galaxy by means of a device called a Stargate."" ""Millions of years ago there was a race of beings we called the Ancients."" ""They created a network of these Stargates.." "..throughout our galaxy in order to travel freely among their worlds."" ""We don't know why, but they left for another galaxy somewhere.."" ""..between 5 and 10 million years ago, taking their entire city along with them."" ""That city was called Atlantis."" ""I have been assembling an expedition team in order to try to find Atlantis.."" ""..and hopefully the Ancients that left Earth all those years ago."" ""I wanna do this, Simon, with all my heart."" ""You know me well enough to know" "I could never turn down an opportunity like this."" ""But I wanted the chance to tell you..."" ""The cellular customer you are trying to reach.." "..is currently outside the coverage area."" "Ok." "Does anyone else here speak whatever language this guys are speaking?" " I just need a couple of minutes to finish my..." "You got five minutes to get it going or I'm leaving it." "Everything in here has been double-checked and triple-checked and cleared for takeoff!" " Leave it alone." " Look, Colonel, I don't answer to you." "He said the same to me, sir." "That's what your sidearm is for." "You see, each chevron address is what tells our gate.." "..to look for a point in space outside our galaxy,.." "..so we wont know until it locks." " We there yet?" " We're just waiting on Dr. McKay." " It should work now." " Ok, Sergeant, give it a try." "ZedPM should light up when it senses a conductive connection to the Gate." "Oh yeah!" "Colonel!" "Can I have everyone's attention, please!" ""All right, here we go!"" "We're about to try to make a connection." "We've been unable to predict exactly how much power this is going to take.." "..and we may only get the one chance atf this." "So, If we're able to achieve a stable wormhole.." "..we're not gonna risk shutting the Gate down." "We'll send in the MALP robot probe check for viability and go." "Everything in one shot." "Now every one of you volunteered for this mission.." "..and you represent over a dozen countries." "You are the world's best and brightest!" "And in light of the adventure we are about to embark on.." "..you're also the bravest." "I hope we all return one day having discovered a whole new realm for humanity to explore." "But as all of you know.." "..we may never be able to return home." "I'd like to offer you all one last chance to withdraw your participation." "Begin the dialing sequence." " Let me make myself clear about you, "" " Chevron one,.."" ""- ..encoded." - ..you are not here by my choice." "I'm sure you'll warm up to me once you get to know me, sir." "As long as you remember who's giving the orders." """ " Chevron two encoded."" " That would be Dr. Weir, right?" ""Chevron three encoded."" "Chevron four encoded." " Nice." " Thank you." ""Chevron five encoded."" "Chevron six encoded." "This is it." "Seriously, Doctor, calm down.." " You're embarassing me." " Chevron seven.." "I've never been so excited in my entire life." "Chevron eight is locked." "Send the MALP!" "We have MALP telemetry." " What is it we're looking at?" """ " Switching to zero lux."" "The radar indicates a.." "large room." "It's virtually intact." "The climactic sensors state there's oxigen,.." "..no measurable toxins." "We have viable life support." "Looks like we're not getting out of this." "Dr. Weir,.. you have to go." "Thank you.. sir." "Let's go people!" "We don't know how much power we've got." "Security teams 1 and 2, you're up first!" "All the personnel will follow on our signal!" "Once on the other side, keep moving!" "Clear the disembarkation area!" " On my lead!" " Hold on, Colonel!" "We go through together!" "Fair enough." " Jack, it's not too late for me." " No." " I could just grab my..." " No." ""All clear, it looks good."" "Expedition team, move on!" "What does it feel like?" "Hurts like hell, sir." "Teams 1 and 2, secure the immediate area!" "Everyone else find an open space and park it until instructed otherwise!" "Who's doing that?" " Security teams, any alien contact?" """ " Negative, sir."" ""Team 4 negative, Colonel."" "The lights are coming on by themselves." ""Ok, get down here."" "That's everyone." "General O'Neill?" "Atlantis base offers greetings from the Pegasus-galaxy." "You may cut power to the Gate." ""BON VOYAGE!" "General Jack O'Neill"" "They look like ships." "Spaceships!" "I love it." "Dr. Weir?" "You have to see this." "I have a lot of things to see." "Just be careful!" " I didn't touch anything." " Relax, Major." "It's like the entire complex is sensing our presence and coming to life." "This is got to be the Control Room." "This is obviously their version of a DHD." "Oh, obviously." "This area could be power control system, possibly a computer interface or something..." "Hey, hey!" "What ever you find out." "Right." ""Dr. Weir, Colonel Sumner!"" ""Can you come down and meet me, please?"" ""We're three levels down from you."" "Right away!" "We've only been able to secure a fraction of the place." "It's huge." "So it might really be the Lost City of Atlantis?" "I'd say that's a good bet." "Oh, my God!" "We're under water." "I'd say we're under several hundred feet of ocean." "If we can't dial out, this could be a problem." " Colonel!" " Dr. Weir?" " We're under water?" " Yes, I was just coming to tell you." "Fortunately there's some sort of force field holding back the.. water." "Oh that's impressive, isn't it?" "Dr. Beckett.." "has found something you should see." ""In the hope of spreading new life in a galaxy.." "..where their appeared to be none."" ""Soon a new life grew.."" ""..and prospered."" ""Here as before, we built a system of Stargates.."" "It's a hologram." "The recording loops." "This is my second time through." ""..so that fledgling civilizations could travel between the stars.."" " What we missed?" " Not much." ""..exchange knowledge and friendship."" ""In time, a thousands worlds bore the fruits of life in this form."" ""Then one day, our people stepped foot on a.." "..dark world where a terrible enemy slept."" ""Never before we encountered beings with powers that rivaled our own."" ""In our overconfidence, we weren't prepared and outnumbered."" ""The enemy fed upon the defenseless human worlds.." "..like a great scourge until finally only Atlantis remained."" ""This city's great shield was powerful enough.." "..to withstand their terrible weapons."" ""But here we were besieged for many years."" ""In an effort to save the last of our kind.."" ""..we submerged our great city into the ocean."" ""The Atlantis Stargate was the one.." "..and only link back to Earth from this galaxy."" ""And those who remained used it to.." "..return to that world that was once home."" ""There, the last survivors of Atlantis lived out the remainder of their lives."" ""This city was left to slumber.."" ""..in the hope that our kind would one day return."" "So, the story of Atlantis is true." "The great city that sank in the ocean." "It just didn't happen on Earth." "Well, the ancient Greeks must have heard it.." "..from one of those surviving Ancients." "I don't like the fact they got their asses kicked." "Let's see it again from the beginning!" "Stop!" "Turn it off!" "Power levels throughout the city are dropping like a stone." "What does that mean?" "That if we don't stop everything we are doing right now, we are dead." "Please, tell me this is not my fault." " Not." " Thank you." "From what we've been able to ascertain the city is.." "..powered by three Zero-Point Modules." "Two are entirely depleted and the third is reaching maximum entropy." "When it does, it'll die too and nothing can reverse that." "Just tell me the bottom line." "The force field holding back the ocean has collapsed to its minimum sustainable levels." "Look you see, here and here.." "..where the shield already failed and city is flooded." "That could have happened years ago." "This section is likely more protected because of the Stargate..." " What if it fails completely?" " It's a matter of when, not if!" "Colonel Sumner, you need to order your security team to stop searching the city immediately." "All security teams, fall back to the gate room." "It's not gonna be good enough!" "All right." "Well, how much time do we have?" "It's hard to say." "Hours maybe days if we minimize power expenditure." " What about our own power generators?" " We're working on that.." "..but with our most advanced Naquada power generators.." "..the equations are coming up far short." "So, we need to find more ZPMs." "And how are we do that if we can't search the city?" "If there were more here, we have been able to detect them." "Can we use the Stargate?" "There's nowhere near enough power to open a wormhole back to Earth." "Maybe somewhere in this galaxy." "That's relatively easy." "Fortunately, some Ancient technologies still uses good 'ole fashion push buttons.." "..so we've been able to access the Stargate control system and a library of known gate addresses in the database." "That's not all." "Look at this!" "Just like the iris on the Earth's gate." "Using power, using power, using power..." "On least we don't have to deal with any uninvited guests." "Colonel!" "Assemble a team, we need safe harbor, or better still, and another power source." "Lieutenant Ford, gather security teams 1 and 2,.." " ..everyone gear up." " Major, I'd like you to go along." "Yes, ma'am!" "All right, pick an address and start dialling." "Chevron one encoded!" "Rodney!" "Ready MALP-4 for off-world recon." "The MALP reads full viability.." "and no immediate signs of activity around the Stargate, but it's pitch black." "For now, we're going to use the tried and true system of identification for inbound gate travellers." "Let's move out!" "Please, don't hurt us!" "Please!" "They're just playing!" " Everything okay here, Sheppard?" " Yes, sir." "Just a couple of kids." "Halling." "I don't know what that means." "It's his name." "Halling, it's nice to meet you." "Are you here to trade?" "Trade?" "Yes, we're traders." "Now, how many times have I told you not to play in the forest after dark?" "I'm just glad you're safe." "Teyla will wish to meet with you." "Come!" "Parker, Smitty, you are on gate duty." "Dial Atlantis base and let the good doctor know.." "..we've made contact with the indigenous people." "Sir?" "If you don't mind my asking.." "..I've noticed you've got a problem with Major Sheppard." "My problem, Lieutenant, is with his records." "I don't like anybody who doesn't follow the proper chain of command." "Yes, sir!" "What was that mask you had on?" "Helps you see in the dark." "Check it out!" " Whoa!" " Let me see!" " Whoa!" "Can I have it?" " No." "What's the mask you got on?" "This?" "The Wraith." "Wraith?" "What's that?" "You don't know?" "What world you come from?" " Can we go there?" " Afraid not." "I'm from a galaxy far, far away." "It's Halling!" "I'm bring men from away." "Enter." "These men wish to trade." "It's.. nice to meet you." "I'm Teyla Emmagan, daughter of Tegan." "Colonel Marshal Sumner.." "..Major Sheppard.." "..Lieutenant Ford." " We have very few specific needs." " We do not trade with strangers." "Is that a fact?" "Well then, we'll just.. we'll have to get to know each other." "Me.." "I like Ferris Wheels, college football, anything that goes more than two hundred miles per hour." "Sir, that's not gonna mean anything to them." "Feel free to speak." "I'm just trying to break the ice." "This people can't help us, I'd rather not waste the time." "Each morning.." "..before dawn our people drink a stout tea.." "..to brace us for the coming day." "Will you join us?" "I love a good cup of tea." "Now, there's another thing you know about me." "We're practically friends already." "We didn't even know that was there until the sun came up." "Look, more promising than anything else these folks have to offer." "Plenty of shelter, nice little valley.." "..location, location, location." "The city of the Ancestors is not safe." "We can handle ourselves." "The Wraiths will come." "Who are these Wraiths?" "We have never met anyone who did not know." "Well, you have now." "If the Wraiths have never touched your world, you should go back there." "Oh, we'd like to, but we can't." "See, here's the thing." "Ma'am, we've got ourselves into a bit of a bind." "We may need a safe place to stay for a while." "Our people have long believed that the Wraith will come, if we venture into the old city." "But.. it is a believe we have not tested in sometime." "Gentlemen!" "Look, I don't care what they say that city is worth a look." "Not to mention the possibility there could be" "ZPMs that they don't know or care about." "What if the Wraiths are the enemy the Ancient hologram lady is talking about." "All the more reason for us to have a defensible position.." "..should we need to abandon Atlantis." "Stay here and find out what you can." "Ford, you head back to the Gate and report in to Weir." "Tell her we'll have answers for her in a few hours."