"How we doing?" "okay Ltd." "I think I've got it lined up pretty close." "No such thing as close." "You thread the needle or we're dead." "Right..." "It's okay you can do it... nice and easy..." "Okay I think we're close enough to dial the gate." "Yes yes..." "hurry up and get us back..." "Get this damn thing of me..." "We can't..." "Cut it off..." "As soon as we establish a connection, radio back that we've got a medical emergency." "There must be something we can do for him..." "There's an emergency first aid kit behind the pilots seat." "Get it." "Major, everything we try to do to remove it just make the pain worse." "Now try and be still." "Is there no way to go faster?" "He's just trying to get us back in one piece." "Atlantis Base." "This is Ford." "Jumper one is inbound with a medical emergency." "Please respond." "What's going on?" "A reconnaissance team is reporting a medical emergency." "I've alerted Dr Beckett, he is on his way." "Put on Major Sheppard..." "He's the one that's injured." "What am I expecting to find in here that's going to help get rid of that thing?" "Something for the pain..." "I don't think Tylenol's going to do it need the dr." "How much longer?" "Almost there." "Flight..." "Jumper one on final approach." "This is Weir, What is the nature of Major Sheppard's injury?" "Some kind of funky alien Bug attached itself to his neck." ""he's completely immobile."" "What's it doing to him?" ""we don't know but we can't get it off him..."" ""and we tried everything."" "You understand the risk of bringing something like that back to Atlantis." "Yes ma'am I do but we don't really have a choice in the matter" "Understood ltd." "Good luck." "Quarantine the Jumper bay." "Its all automatic from here..." "Here we go..." "STARGATE-ATLANTIS Season 1." "Episode 4." "= Thirty Eight Minutes =" "Where are they?" "I don't know, but the Gate's still active... all indications say they should be through by now..." "Oh no..." "What happened?" "The drive pod." "The wing things that stick out when we're flying must have failed to contract." "That's the only thing that could be... it's that or the..." "Or the Stargate shrank...which I highly doubt." "This is...this is a..." "a big problem." "What can we do?" "I don't know if there is a thing we can do..." "This is a ...this is a ......a......a...very very big problem." "Give me hand." "What the hell was that?" " ..that's strange." " Yes it is..." " That is the..." " Yes it is." "That scraping sound." "We're stuck." "Yes we are... apparently the engine pods failed to contract in time..." "Square peg... round hole." "Can we pull Marco and Stackhouse..." "Our hands and arms would dematerialize as soon as we cross the event horizon... it's...there's no way to reach for them." "The major?" "He must have been knocked unconscious on the impact." "Jumper one this is weir." "What's your status?" "This is ford good to hear your voice." "The four of us are still here but" ""Marco and Stackhouse are inside the event horizon."" "Say again." "Ma'am" "Jumper one Is lodged in the Stargate." "Teyla, Dr McKay and myself are in the rear compartment with the Major." "He's in bad shape." "Marco and Stackhouse are..." "in the forward section." "How did that happen?" "Engine pods... we think it was one of the engine pods..." " but there is no way to be sure." " It is the only viable possibility." "If I understand you correctly." "You won't be able to access the flight controls." "Yes Elizabeth it's an extremely intriguing conundrum and one.." "..I would love to discuss with you in detail till the Stargate shuts down and..." " "..this ship is cut in two!"" " Rodney calm down..." " At which point it occurs..." " "Rodney!"" "If I am going to be of any help to you at all I need to catch up." "Ltd Ford back it up for me." "We couldn't ID the wraiths base.." "..of operations from space like we did the last time we were there." "so... we went to the same landing co-ordinate as before to get a closer look." "It's gone." "What?" "I thought you said it was as big as a mountain side." "It was." "We were inside it." "Lets move." "This was the spot." "It's more of a hole than a mountain really..." "Could it have been destroyed?" "This is definitely not a blast crater." "No." "Looks like they just picked up and left." "A ship?" "I don't know sir the mountain side was covered in trees." "Yeah but the wraith hibernate for centuries right?" "So a lot of trees could of overgrown in that time." "Then we were held prisoner in one of the great ships.." "..I showed you in the drawings." "They've left to begin culling worlds." "Something's moving down there." "Go!" "She hardly meant begin at the Beginning" " This is Intel she needs to know." " And we have less than 38 minutes." "Hold on why thirty eight minutes?" "Because that is the Maximum amount of time a Stargate.." "..can remain open in non relativistic conditions." "Its one of the more immutable laws of wormhole physics and.." "..oh my look at the time...it's more like 35 minutes..." "Are we all caught up!" "I get it." "What do you need?" "Help." "Alright let me put Kavanov," "Groden and Simpson in a room see what they come up with." "That's good and the chec...chec... the chec whose name I can never remember." " Dr Zalinka..." " "That's him..."" " we'll work it at our end." " "What else do you need?"" "We'll call you." "Thank you." " Where's my patient?" " There's been a problem..." " ..conference room." " Oh no..." "Keep a channel open with them at all times." "and turn that damn alarm off." "Hi Teyla." "are you alright?" "I'm fine" "Something tells me we haven't made it to Atlantis yet..." "No..." "Ford?" " What is that?" " We're stuck sir..." " We're what?" " in the gate." "You mean my day just got worse..." "We're going with the assumption that it was.." "..one or both of the drive pods.." "..I don't know whether it was mechanical failure or..." "If it was damage as we tried to take off..." "Taking fire..." "Get some altitude" "I'm trying sir." "There's no way of knowing really but.." "If you know some way of manually contracting the mechanism." "Cockpit...on the left." "The...uh...cockpit is regrettably demolecularized at the moment but... how about some where back here?" "No..." "No...no..." "I didn't think so...well...if you'll excuse me.." "I'll be a foot and a half over there taking some readings... feel free to talk amongst yourselves." "Alright you've all been briefed we have less than half an hour..." "Where's Dr Zalinka?" "He's working out a simulation on puddle Jumper two He went straight there..." " That's good." " If there was time it would be..." "Let's not admit defeat just yet doctor there's six people on that ship... well, I'm just the Medical doctor here so forgive me if this is a stupid Question..." "If they just step through the event horizon... wouldn't they come through the front part of the ship when the Gate shuts down..." "The front half won't re-materialize on this side..." "The Stargate transmits matter into discrete units the front half of the ship.." "..cannot rematerialize till the whole ship is crossed into the event horizon." "The stargate is essentially waiting for the continuous component, that's meaning the Jumper and everything inside.." "..to enter completely before it can transport them..." "He says the Gate only sends things through in one piece." "Right...sorry..." "Unfortunately... the outgoing Stargate won't transmit the matter stream.." "..until the de-molecularisation is complete." "When it shuts down.." "..the entire forward section along with the men inside will cease to exist." "And what about the others?" "The ship will be severed instantaneously along the event horizon.." "they'll be exposed to hot vacuum in... twenty nine minutes." "What if they close the bulk head door?" "The rear portion of the ship would remain pressurized, become a sort of lifeboat." "It would leak atmosphere like a sieve" "It could buy enough time to send a second jumper." " And do what?" " Figure it out." "Contact Jumper one and make the recommendation." "What are you doing?" "Sorry... here..." ""Jumper One this is Atlantis..."" "Still here..." ""We recommend closing the bulk head door..."" "oh..." "Good thinking...what else?" ""We're still working on the problem..."" ""we'll get back to you..."" ""Atlantis Base out."" "Thanks for calling." "anyone else claustrophobic or just me?" "Why did you close the door?" "So when the Stargate shuts down the forward section is severed... we're not directly exposed to space..." "Will it hold?" "Like a screen door in a submarine.." "..but I just prefer Anoxia to explosive decompression it's a... it's a personal thing..." "If the airs going to get thin in here." "You really do have to calm down." "Oh wait till you see how thin it gets in twenty minutes" "Ok..." " Vacuum." "That's thin." " Knock it off." "Oh I apologize for being ill versed to fully comprehend how Screwed we are!" "Don't talk to me about screwed!" "And let's not give up on Marco and Stackhouse either." "There's plenty of time to solve this thing... but you got to stop using your mouth and start using your brain." "I'm sorry..." "I'm just..." "I react to certain doom in a certain way..." "It's a bad habit... and..." "Maybe there is a way to manually contract the mechanism" "Yeah maybe there is" "Here..." "You seem stronger..." "No...it's just the pains not so bad now..." "That's good..." "No it isn't." "Can't feel my legs..." "Hand and arms are numb." "I can barely move them... feelings creeping me out Look ltd... what I'm trying to say... is if you don't get this damn thing off me..." "I have even less time than you do." "Dr Zalinka" "Apologies for not attending your briefing Dr Weir there was no time..." "I don't want to slow you down but I need to know what you're working on.." "so I can communicate it to the team on Jumper one." "We are attempting to retract the em...the er... the gt... the drive pod back into the fuse lodge from inside the rear compartment" "Anything yet?" "Well there is much redundancy in ancient technology, making it dangerous for them to experiment with it in this way..." "So they might accidentally open the rear hatch or shut life support off entirely..." "Yes yes yes yes...which is why we are attempting to isolate the correct control pathway..." "Understood." "What could I do to help?" "Stop talking please." "Ltd... get your knife out and cut this damn thing off." "It can't hurt as much as it did last time." "The last time we almost lost you..." "Ah well, you're going to lose me anyway." "Sir we tried to get it off you when we were on the planet... we tried everything." "Ready sir... here we go..." "Everything we did just seemed to hurt you more... the thing just heals itself." "It feed's on your strength like a wraith" "You had to say that." "My father often told stories of a creature such as this." "I always thought he was just trying to.." "..keep the children from straying far from our camp." "Great..." "He tell you how to kill it?" "I don't know sir..." "I'm not even sure I can" "Well I could use a second opinion." "Get Beckett on the radio..." "Affirmative" "Over here sir." "This mic is open." "This is Dr Beckett, how's our patient?" "This if ford." "Major Sheppard is conscious but the creature is still latched on to him." "How do you feel about house calls doc?" "would if I could major Sheppard.." "..but you'll have to settle for long distance..." "I'm told you have something of a cling-on" "That's funny... it's like the ugliest damn tick you've ever seen" "How did it attach itself?" "Well...we were on our way back to the jumper with the wraith shooting at us..." "Go tell Marco to get ready for take off I'll cover you..." "What about you?" "I'll be there in a minute!" "Go!" "Major we're cut off from the jumper" "Negative." "They're should be one at your three o'clock I drew the other two this way" "They're all around us where'd they come from?" "Ltd you know how they can make you see things that aren't there, the path in front of you is clear Now Move!" "Can you describe it to me." "Yes sir." "It's about two feet in length including the tail that's right down under his armpit it's got two sharp spiny things in his neck near the Major's carotid artery" "I'll need more than that son..." "It's got four legs I guess you call them that..." "They're wrapped around the Major's throat..." "I can't see any eyes." "It's got a real hard shell, but there's a soft meaty part underneath..." "Major what are your physical symptoms?" "Well, first it felt like a knife in the eye since then I've lost all the feeling in my extremities can't move." "So it incapacitates first with pain and prophases." "I need to be able to move around and help McKay with mechanical problem" "Marco and Stackhouse are dead if I don't." "What have you tried?" "Tried to cut it off, tried to burn it off I even tried to shoot it off 9 mil point blank." "Not much worse I can do without killing the Major along with it." "I believe the creature is related in some way with the wraith." "Really?" "How so?" "It healed itself after each attempt to remove it.." "..by sapping life from major Sheppard, just as a wraith would." "I suppose the wraith must have evolved from something.." "..It's probably some sort of a prehistoric cousin" "Listen doc, The Major is getting worse, we've got to do something right now..." "You said the creature had an underside of exposed soft tissue like a leech?" "I tried to cut into it... the thing practically strangled him to death" "Son you don't cut leeches off." "you pour salt on to them..." "If you activate the field they'll die." "It we can always open it again if they fix the problem..." "Well they may not have time..." "If they don't we could destroy this facility" "Well i-... you're supposed to be working on solutions..." "We think the Jumper must be damaged.." "..for this to have happened in the first place... ancient systems are too advanced for this to be pilot error." "So?" "So...depending on the extent of the damage.." "..we can't rule out a catastrophic power feed back in the drive manifolds." "Without the techno babble please..." "Dr Kavanov was pointing out that there's a very slim chance.." "..that with the cockpit controls interrupted and the pod damaged.." "..the main drive could overload" "She means to say Explode..." "Especially if McKay starts nosing round inside the control conduits.." "..to retract the drive pods manually." "And he will..." "I know I would." "Zalinka is running on simulations." "I just came from there." "If there is a catastrophic overload." "the full force of the explosion will break up the jumper.." "..follow the burning fragments through the Stargate like a bomb." "You think the risk of this happening is minimal?" "In my opinion?" "Yes." "You all agree?" "Then we take the chance." "I though it was important to point out the risk." "Fine." "You did." "Now please worry a bit more about their lives and less about your own ass" "23 minutes." "Dr Weir." "I'm sorry I don't have time right now." "Neither do those people who are trapped aboard the ship of the ancestors." "News travels fast," "I was speaking with one of your expedition members when she was called into help." "Well then you are aware that we are very short on time." "I am." "Still...this is important" "OK..." "You do not know this... ..but among our people.." "..there is a ritual prayer that is said when one knows that death is upon them" "We don't know that it is" "I am told that it is all but inevitable" "By whom?" "It is not important..." "What is important is that Teyla be allowed to prepare for death." "Knowing the time and place of ones end is a... it's a very rare thing among our people... it is a simple rite, it will not take more than a few moments to pre..." "We need to concentrate all of our efforts on saving them..." "At the risk of forsaking Teyla's own beliefs." "It is important that we use what little time we have to try everything..." "I would ask you not to tell me what is important and what is not in this case." "I'm sorry I can't have this conversation right now..." "Why not?" "Because we are wasting time..." "This is time that Teyla could use to prepare" "Alright you perceive death a certain way..." "I accept that in fact I respect that.." "..but we do not prepare for death." "We do everything we can to stave it off." "That is who we are..." "I'm not asking you to suspend your efforts..." "No you want me to tell everyone on that ship that they should expect to die..." "I will not send them that message." "And if you feel that that violates Teyla's personal rights." "I apologize..." "I truly do... but there is nothing I can do about that right now." "I have to go..." ""Alright we've got everything from the Jumper manifest already laid out here."" ""What's your personal inventory?"" "Ok...from the vests we got a..." "Swiss army knife..." ""Some chocolate, some water, matches, emergency kit..."" ""we have alcohol, Iodide, pain killers..."" "What is this?" "Teyla, found a portable deliberator in the ships stores." "Already thought of that Major Sheppard would receive.." "..the same electric shock it would likely kill him." "Right..." "Try everything, one item at a time..." "Dr Weir?" "Kavanov I hope u have something to tell me..." "Yes I do" "What the hell was that?" "Excuse me?" "I happily left the SGC because I had had it up to here with the.." "..military running things and you just busted me like a private." "Don't be so dramatic beside the airforce doesn't have privates." "Neither do I" "You just cut them off." "Right in front of my research team." "That is what this is about?" "You're embarrassed." "Well humiliated would be a little more accurate." "I haven't worked up to humiliation yet." "I just assumed... that with a civilian in charge.." "..of the expedition there would be a little bit more." "A civilian is in charge.." "..and we are cut off from earth which makes Atlantis like a colony doesn't it." "I suppose" "Well I'm governor of that colony" "Well that's all very well and good..." "Do you have a problem with that?" "you're missing my point" "No you're missing mine..." "If you waste one more minute, that could be used to help.." "..the people trapped on that ship, because of your ego." "I promise you." "I will dial the co-ordinates of a very lonely planet.." "..where you can be as self important as you want to be." "You think I'm kidding?" "You wouldn't do that." "Cavona..." "Get back in there." "We'll talk about this later..." "Never." "Again." "Go." "Go!" "Dr Zalinka to control room..." "I think I have something" "We're receiving." "Jumper one this is Weir..." "Dr Zalinka's come up with something." "Zalinka." "Why is it I can never remember that name?" ""He's positively Identified the control systems.."" ""..in the port side of the Jumper that retract the drive pod."" "I'm relaying the schematics to your data pad." "Thank you..." "Now we're getting somewhere..." "What?" "Zalinka's Identified the control pathways to the engine pods.." "..which means that's increasing my chances of fixing this from one in a million.." "..to one in a thousand... but... ..it's something." "Elizabeth..." "Yes?" ""I only have 7 to 9 seconds to warn you.."" ""..if I accidentally trigger a catastrophic overload so..."" "If I tell you to raise the shields... don't hesitate" "We're aware of the risk Rodney..." "Do your best." "Starting with Iodine..." ""Scratch Iodine"" "What else have you got there?" "Yes, what have you got there?" "Any food?" "you're kidding." "I have less than 20 minutes to save our lives.." "..and I am tethering on the brink of a hypoglycemic reaction." "So?" "Thank you." "Here..." "I'm going to try alcohol now..." "Place only a few drop on the soft tissue to see how it reacts." "Save some for me..." "Not that type of alcohol sir..." "What's the good of that?" "Not much sir..." "No reaction to Alcohol." "Right what next?" "Did the Doctor not say to pour salt on the creature." "That was a metaphor... but it doesn't matter try everything..." "Water..." "Give me water..." "Sir...sir..." "Sir are you alright..." ""Sir?" "Major?" "!"" ""Sir are you alright?" "Sir?" "Major?"" "Major What's happening?" "What's happening?" "It reacted to the salt or the water..." "Or a combination of both." "Did it loosen it's hold on Major Sheppard?" "Negative" "If anything it dug in more." " Please don't do that again..." " I won't sir sorry" "Most likely a primitive defensive reflex to salt water..." "We moved... when you fell I must have crossed one of the circuits.." "..I think the engine fired for a microsecond but it stopped," "Oh no..." "What?" "What?" "So much for Plan A" "What?" "When the Stargate closes now... every molecule of air.." "..in this compartment is going to rush out through there..." "We slid in further" "15 Minutes" "Ford what can you tell me?" "The puddle Jumper shifted slightly." "The rear compartment has now breeched the event horizon." "Dr McKay..." "is still hopeful he can retract the drive pods in time." "Understood, we haven't come up with anything yet but there is still time." "yes ma'am" "How is Major Sheppard?" "I'm still here" "Hang in there Major..." "We're working on the problem." "I know you are..." "Listen...err..." "I'd like to say something while I still can..." "Don't..." "You're gonna get through this." "If I was..." "He wouldn't have let me go" "Who wouldn't have let you go..." "The wraith" "I guess he just saw me as good as dead cause he just walked away." "So..." "what I wanted to say was..." "Save your strength John and tell me in person." "No...this is important" "I'm listening" "We should send him through the event horizon." "if Dr McKay figures it out in time we can fix the Major up on the other side... if he doesn't we're all dead anyway." "No pressure" "Major Sheppard will effectively be in suspended animation for the entire time" "We can't risk that." "Why not?" "If the creature reacted that violently to a few drops.." "..of water who knows how it will react to Stargate travel." "You're telling me that Major Sheppard can't come through the gate.." "..while that thing is on him?" "Then we must do something now." "Hit me with the Defibrillator" "oh... you may be on to something Major" "You said that might kill him." "That's the idea" "I..." "I..." "I don't understand" "Teyla... you said this creature is like a wraith" "Yes" "Then how do you think it would respond if God forbid.." "..Major Sheppard were to die right now then?" "It would stop feeding" "Exactly." "Just as a wraith would." "How is that an idea?" "!" "We're suggesting that we fool the creature in to thinking that.." "..the prey is dead by stopping the Major's heart..." "If I'm right it should let him go." "When the thing lets go we give him another." "If you give it a try, If it doesn't work send him through the event horizon.." "..he'll keep there as good as a deep freeze." "John are you sure you want to do this?" "I want this damn thing off me." "Be prepared for a code blue in the Jumper bay." "Ltd Ford do you know how to do this." "Yes sir." "Cut his shirt open" "What?" "Cut his shirt open" "Charging to 200." "Move his tags." "Move his chains to the side!" "Place some lubrication right on the paddles." "Ready to go..." "Once the bug falls off I'm going to have to kill it." "Wait for this to charge up again and then give him another Jolt." "McKay." "If we can't restart his heart on the first try.." "..I'm going to need that bulkhead open again." "Done" "One of us is going to have to get him through." "I will." "Do it!" "No pulse" "It won't come off" "Settle... it may take a moment" "Ltd?" "Nothing?" "Nothing lets get him through!" "got him?" "yes." "This is Ltd ford the creature was successfully removed from Major Sheppard.." "..but we were unable to revive him." "Both he and Teyla are now on the other side of the even horizon." "Thank you Ltd." "Rodney You have seven minutes" "I'm only through half all the circuit pathways and times almost up..." "Just keep at it there's still time" "You should consider stepping into the event horizon." "I'm serious." "I'll keep trying to the end but given your choices that's a far better way to" "And leave you here alone with that thing wrapped up in my Jacket" "You did check to make sure it was dead right?" "It's dead." "Good because the explosive decompression and death by suffocation is..." " Work - possible the worst..." " Work!" " Sorry" "Time?" "Two minutes twenty seconds" "Rodney we're down to 2 minutes" "I know the time." "I still got over 2 dozen circuits I haven't tried." "Don't be so methodical Just pick one at random" "If I do that I run the risk of attempting to activate the same circuit twice." "Just try!" "I'm telling you there's no way I can..." "Wait" "I think I did it..." "Elizabeth..." "I think the engine pods retracted" "Then why haven't you shown up?" "She's right why aren't we moving?" "Its inertia..." "The drive shift went down before we went through the Stargate." "We've shed all our forward momentum." "You're wasting your time." "For every action there is an Equal and opposite reaction." "Then what are we going to do?" "One minute" "Wait... the rear hatch..." "Blow the rear hatch it should give you enough thrust to make it through" "I can do it..." "But the only mechanism to blow the hatch is back here." "you go through..." "I'll do It" " no...no...no...you'll be blown into space..." " there's no time to argue go...go...go... 30 Seconds" "I'll be in the Jumper bay." "Again." "He's going to be fine." "Well done Rodney." "We'll see." "We've got a pulse" "Its getting stronger..." "He's going to be ok." "How are you feeling?" "Starving err...he's got quite the hickey.." "..but Dr Beckett says he'll be fine in a few days." "We should let you rest." "no you should get me food..." "I think we can arrange that." "Welcome back sir" "I have to admit it is a pleasant surprise." "by the way..." "what were you going to say?" "When?" "Before...when you thought..." "you know..." "Oh that" "I didn't want you to say it at the time... but now I'm curious" "I was going to say errm..." "Take care of each other." "That's nice and..." "Indeed we did." "Yes you did..." "thank you... again..." "You're welcome." "Goodnight." "you weren't really going to say that were you?" "I have no Idea what you're talking about." "I didn't think so..." "Transcript by Tara Subtitle by Jasy"