"Subtitles downloaded from Podnapisi.NET" "How we doing?" "Okay, Lieutenant." "I've got her lined up pretty close." "No such thing as close." "You thread the needle, or we're dead." "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 off 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 pilot's seat." "Get it." "Major, everything we do to try to remove it just makes the pain worse." "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 1 is inbound with a medical emergency." "Please respond." "What's going on?" "The reconnaissance team is reporting a medical emergency." "I've alerted Dr. Beckett." "He's on his way." " Put on Major Sheppard." " He's the one who's injured." "What am I expecting to find in here to get rid of that thing?" " Something for the pain." " Tylenol's not gonna do it." " He needs a doctor." "How much longer?" " Almost there." "Flight, Jumper 1 on final approach." "This is Weir." "What's the nature of Major Sheppard's injury?" "Some sort 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 offhim, and we tried everything." "You understand the risk of bringing something like that back to Atlantis?" "I do, but we don't have a choice in the matter." "Understood, Lieutenant." "Good luck." "Quarantine the jumper bay." "It's all automatic from here." "Here we go." "Where are they?" "I don't know." "The gate's still active." "All indications read they should be through by now." " Oh, no." " What happened?" "The drive pod." "The wing things that stick out when we're flying must've failed to retract." "It's that, or the Stargate shrank, which I highly doubt." " This is a big problem." " What can we do?" "I don't know if there's anything we can do." "This is a very, very big problem." "Give me a 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 retract in time." "It's a square peg, round hole." "Can we pull Markham and Stackhouse out?" "Our hands and arms would dematerialize as soon as we cross the event horizon." "There's no way to reach for them." "The major!" "He must have been knocked unconscious by the impact." "Jumper 1, this is Weir." "What's your status?" "This is Ford." "Good to hear your voice." "The four of us are still here... but Markham and Stackhouse are inside the event horizon." "Say again?" "Ma'am, Jumper 1 is lodged in the Stargate." "Teyla, Dr. McKay and myself are in the rear compartment with the major." "He's in bad shape." "Markham and Stackhouse are in the forward section." " How did that happen?" " Engine pods." "We think it was one of the engine pods..." " but there's 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." "Elizabeth, it's a conundrum that I'd love to discuss with you in detail... until the Stargate shuts down and this ship is cut in two." " Rodney, calm down." " At which point of course" "If I'm gonna be any help to you at all, I need to catch up." "Lieutenant Ford, back it up for me." "We couldn't I.D. The Wraith base of operations from space... like we did the last time we were there... so we went to the same landing coordinates as before to get a closer look." " It's gone." " What?" "I thought you said it was in a mountainside." "It was." "We were inside it." "Let's 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." "So, a ship?" "I don't know, sir." "That mountainside was covered in trees." "Yeah, but the Wraith hibernate for centuries, right?" "So, a lot of trees could have overgrown in that time." "Then we were held prisoner... inside one of the great ships I showed you in the drawings." "They've left to begin culling worlds." "There's movement down there." "Go!" " She hardly meant begin at the beginning." " This is intel." " She needs to know." " We have less than 38 minutes." "Hold on." "Why 38 minutes?" "That's the amount of time a Stargate can remain open in non-relativistic conditions." "It's one of the more immutable laws of wormhole physics... and look at the time, it's now more like 35 minutes." " Are we all caught up?" " I get it." "What do you need?" " Help." " All right." "Let me put Kavanagh, Grodin, and Simpson in a room." " See what they come up with." " That's good." "And the Czech whose name I can never remember." " Dr. Zelenka?" " That's him." "We'll work it at our end." " What else?" " 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." "And turn that damn alarm off." "Hi, Teyla." " Are you all right?" " I'm fine." "Something tells me we haven't made it to Atlantis yet." "What is that?" " We're stuck, sir." " We're what?" "In the gate." "You mean my day just got worse?" "It was one or both of the drive pods." "I don't know whether it was mechanical failure or" "It was damaged as we tried to take off." "We're taking fire." " Get some altitude!" " I'm trying, sir!" "There's no way ofknowing, really... but if you know of some way of manually retracting the mechanism" "Cockpit, on the left." "The cockpit is regrettably demolecularized at the moment... but how about somewhere back here?" "No." "I didn't think so." "If you'll excuse me..." "I'll be a foot and a half over there taking some readings." "Feel free to talk amongst yourselves." "All right, you've all been briefed." "We have less than half an hour." "Where's Dr. Zelenka?" "He's working up a simulation in Puddle-jumper 2." "He went straight there." " That's good." " If there was time, it would be." "Let's not admit defeat just yet, Doctor." "There are six people on that ship." "I'm just a medical doctor here, so forgive me if this is a stupid question." "If they just stepped through the event horizon... wouldn't they come through the front when the gate shuts down?" "The front half won't rematerialize on this side." "The Stargate transmits matter in discrete units." "The front half of the ship cannot rematerialize... until the whole ship has crossed into the event horizon." "The Stargate is essentially waiting for the contiguous components- meaning the jumper and everyone 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 demolecularization 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 hard vacuum in 29 minutes." "What if they close the bulkhead 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 1 and make the recommendation." " What are you doing?" " Sorry." "Here." "Jumper 1, this is Atlantis." " We're still here." " We recommend closing the bulkhead 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!" "Anybody else claustrophobic, or is it just me?" " Why'd you close the door?" " So that when the Stargate shuts down... and the forward section is severed, we're not directly exposed to space." " Will it hold?" " Like a screen door on a submarine." "I just prefer hypoxia to explosive decompression." "It's a personal thing." "If the air is gonna get thin in here, you have to calm down." "See how thin it gets in 27 minutes." " Vacuum." "That's thin." " Knock it off." "I apologize for being the only person who comprehends how screwed we are!" "Don't talk to me about screwed!" "And let's not give up on Markham and Stackhouse either." "There's plenty of time to solve this thing... but you gotta stop using your mouth and start using your brain." "I'm sorry." "I'm just" "I react to certain doom a certain way." "It's a bad habit." "Maybe there's a way to manually retract the mechanism." "Yeah, maybe there is." "Here." " You seem stronger." " It's just the pain's not so bad now." " That's good." " No, it isn't." "I can't feel my legs." "Hands and arms are numb." "I can barely move them, and the feeling's creeping up." "Look, Lieutenant... 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. Zelenka?" "Apologies for not attending your briefing, Dr. Weir." "There was no time." "I don't wanna slow you down, but I need to know what you're working on... so I can communicate it to the team on Jumper 1." "We are attempting to retract... the drive pod back into the fuselage... from inside the rear compartment." "Anything yet?" "There's much redundancy in Ancient technology... making it dangerous for them to experiment in this way." "They might accidentally open the rear hatch or shut life support off entirely." "Yes, which is why we are attempting to isolate... the correct control pathway." "Understood." "What could I do to help?" "Stop talking, please." "Lieutenant, 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." "You're gonna lose me anyway." "Sir, we tried to get it off you when we were back on the planet." "We tried everything." "You ready, sir?" "Here we go." "Everything we didjust hurt you more." "The thing just heals itself." "It feeds on your strength, like a Wraith." "You had to say that." "My father often told stories of creatures such as this." "I always thought he was just trying to keep the children... from straying far from our camp." "Great." "Did he tell you how to kill it?" "I don't know, sir." "I'm not sure we can." "I could use a second opinion." "Get Beckett on the radio." "Affirmative." "Over here, sir." "This mike is open." "This is Dr. Beckett." "How's our patient?" "This is Ford." "Major Sheppard's conscious, but the creature's still latched onto 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?" "We were on our way back to the jumper... with the Wraith shooting at us." "Go tell Markham to get ready for takeoff." "I'll cover you." " What about you?" " I'll be there in a minute." "Go!" "Major, we're cut off from thejumper." "Negative." "There's one at your 3:00." "I drew the other two this way." "They're all around us." "Where'd they come from?" "Lieutenant, 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." "Two feet in length, including the tail, that's wrapped 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 forelegs- I guess you'd 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, leechy part underneath." "Major, what are your physical symptoms?" "At first, it felt like a knife in the eye." "Since then, I've lost all the feelings in my extremities." "I can't move." "So, incapacitates first with pain, then paralysis." "I need to be able to move around to help McKay with the mechanical problem." "Markham and Stackhouse are dead if I don't." " What have you tried?" " I tried to cut it off..." "I tried to burn it off, I even tried to shoot it off." "Nine-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 to 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." "Goodness." "I suppose the Wraith must have evolved from something." "It's probably some sort of prehistoric cousin." "Listen, Doc, the major's getting worse." "We gotta do something right now." "You said the creature had an underside of exposed soft tissue, like a leech?" "Yeah, I tried to cut into it." "The thing practically strangled him to death." "Son, you don't cut leeches off." "You pour salt on them." "If you activate the field, they'll die." "We can always open it again if they fix the problem." "They may not have time." "If they don't, we could destroy this facility." "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 have been pilot error." "So?" "So depending on the extent of the damage... we can't rule out a catastrophic power feedback in the drive manifold." "Without the technobabble, please." "Dr. Kavanagh 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 around inside the control conduits... to retract the drive pod manually." "And he will." "I know I would." "Zelenka is working 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 thought it was important to point out the risk." "Fine." "You did." "Now, please, worry a little bit more about their lives and less about your own ass." "Twenty-three 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 in to help." "Then you are aware that we are very short on time." "I am." "Still, this is important." "Okay." "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'm told it is all but inevitable." " By whom?" " That is not important." "What is important is that Teyla be allowed to prepare for death." "Knowing the time and place of one's end is a- is a very rare thing among our people." "It is a simple rite that would not take more than a few moments" "Halling, we need to concentrate all of our efforts on saving them." "At the risk of forsaking Teyla's own beliefs?" "It's important that we use what little time we have to try everything" "I would ask you not to tell me what's important and what's not in this case." "I'm sorry." "I can't have this conversation right now." " Why not?" " Because we're wasting time." "This is time Teyla could use to prepare." "All right." "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's nothing I can do about that right now." "I have to go." "We've got everything from the jumper manifest laid out here." "What's your personal inventory?" "Okay, from the vests, we've got a Swiss Army knife... some chocolate, some water... matches, emergency kit... we have alcohol, iodine, painkillers." "What's this?" "Teyla found a defibrillator in the ship 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." "Kavanagh, I hope you've got something to tell me." "Yes, I do." "What the hell was that?" "Excuse me?" "I happily left the SGC... because I'd had it up to here with the military running things... and you just busted me like a private." "Don't be so dramatic." "Besides, the air force doesn't have privates." "Neither do I." "You just cut them off, right in front of my research team." "That's what this is about?" "You're embarrassed?" "Humiliated would be a little more accurate." "I haven't worked up to humiliation yet." "I assumed that with a civilian in charge of the expedition... there'd be a little bit more" "A civilian is in charge, and we are cut off from Earth... which makes Atlantis almost like a colony, doesn't it?" "I suppose." " I'm governor of that colony." " 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... which could be used to help the people trapped on that ship, because of your ego..." "I promise you, I will dial the coordinates of a very lonely planet... where you can be as self-important as you wanna be." "You think I'm kidding?" "You wouldn't do that." "Kavanagh, get back in there." "We'll talk about this later." "Never again." "Go." "Go!" "Dr. Zelenka to control room." "I think I have something." "We're receiving." "Jumper 1, this is Weir." "Dr. Zelenka's come up with something." "Zelenka." "Why can I never remember that name?" "He has identified the control systems that retract the drive pod." "I'm relaying the schematics to your data pad." "Thank you." "Now we're getting somewhere." "What?" "Zelenka identified the control pathways to the engine pod... increasing my chances of fixing this from one in a million to one in a thousand... but... it's something." "Elizabeth?" "Yes." "I'll only have seven to nine seconds to warn you... if I accidentally trigger a catastrophic overload, so... if I tell you to raise the shield, 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 teetering on the brink of a hypoglycemic reaction, so" "Thank you." "Here." "I'm gonna try alcohol now." "Place a few drops on the soft tissue to see how it reacts." " Save some for me." " Wrong 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?" "I think that was a metaphor." "But it doesn't matter." "Just try everything." "Water." "Give me water." "Sir." "Sir." "Sir, are you all right?" "Sir!" "Major!" "Sir, are you all right?" "Sir." "Major." "Major!" "What's happening?" "What's happening?" "It reacted to either the salt or the water." "Or a combination of both." "Did it loosen its hold on Major Sheppard?" " Negative." " If anything, it dug in more." " Please don't do that again." " I won't, sir." "I'm sorry." "Most likely a primitive defensive reflex to saltwater." "We moved." "When you fell, I must've 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 gonna rush out through there." "We slid in further." "Fifteen minutes." "Ford, what can you tell me?" "The puddle-jumper has shifted slightly." "The rear compartment has now breached the event horizon." "Dr. McKay" " Dr. McKay... is still hopeful he can retract the drive pod in time." "Understood." "We haven't come up with anything yet, but there's 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..." "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 hejust saw me as good as dead, 'cause hejust walked away." "So, what I wanted to say was" "Save your strength,John." "You can 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 would effectively be in suspended animation for the entire time." " We can't risk that." " Why not?" "If the creature reacted that violently to water... who knows how it would react to Stargate travel?" "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." "You may be onto something, Major." " You said that might kill him." " That's the idea." "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... into thinking its 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 jolt." "Give it a try." "If it doesn't work, send him through the event horizon." "He'll keep there as good as the deep freeze." "John, are you sure you wanna do this?" "I want this damn thing off me." "Be prepared for a code blue." "Lt. Ford, do you know how to do this?" "Yes, sir." "Cut his shirt open." "What?" "Cut his shirt open!" "Charging 200." " Move his tags." " What?" "Move his chain to the side." "Place the lubrication right on the paddles." "Ready to go." "Once the bug falls off, I'm gonna have to kill it." "I'll wait for it to charge up again and I'm gonna give him another jolt." "If we can't restart his heart on the first try..." "I'm gonna need that bulkhead door open again." "Done." "One of us is gonna have to get him through." "I will." "Do it!" "No pulse." " It won't come off." " Gentle." "It may take a moment." "Lieutenant?" " Nothing?" " Nothing." "Let's get him through." " Got him?" " Yes." "This is Lieutenant Ford." "The creature's successfully been removed from Major Sheppard... but we were unable to revive him." "Both he and Teyla are now on the other side of the event horizon." "Thank you, Lieutenant." "Rodney, you have seven minutes." "I'm only halfway through the circuit pathways, and time's almost up." "We're never gonna make it." "Keep at it." "There's still time." "You should consider stepping into the event horizon." "I'm serious." "I'll keep trying, but given your choices, that's a far better way to go." "And leave you here alone with that thing wrapped up in my jacket?" " You made sure it was dead, right?" " It's dead." "Good, because death by suffocation with that thing on my face" " Work." " Sorry." " Time?" " Two minutes, 20 seconds." "Rodney, we're down to two minutes." "I know the time." "I've still got over two dozen circuits I haven't tried." "Don't be so methodical." "Just pick one at random." "If I do, 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?" "Inertia." "It shut down before we went through." "We've shed all our forward momentum." "You're wasting your time." "For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction." "Then what are we gonna do?" "One minute." "Wait." "The rear hatch." "Blow the rear hatch." "It should give you enough thrust to make it through." "That could do it, but the only mechanism to blow the hatch is back here." " Go through." "I'll do it." " You'll get blown into space." " There's no time to argue.Just go." " Make sure to hold on to" "Thirty seconds." "I'll be in the jumper bay." "Again." "He's gonna be fine." " Well done, Rodney." " We'll see." "We've got a pulse." "Getting stronger." "He's going to be okay." " How are you feeling?" " Starving." "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 gonna 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 gonna say... take care of each other." "That's nice." " Yeah." " And..." " indeed, we did." " Yes, you did." "Thank you." "Again." " You're welcome." " Good night." "You weren't really gonna say that, were you?" "I have no idea what you're talking about." "I didn't think so."