"Previously, on Stargate Atlantis..." "What do we know about the Wraith?" "One of the few things we do know is that they are the enemy that defeated the ancients." "Sometimes, a few hundred years will pass before they awaken again." "We have visited many, many worlds." "I know of none untouched by the Wraith." "You are doomed, as are any humans that stand in our way." "The ancients were researching ascension." "What exactly is ascension?" "An advanced stage of being where they were able to rid themselves of their physical bodies and rise to a higher plane of existence, one in which they live as pure energy." " I count two." "How about you?" " Yes, sir." " I recommend shooting back any time now." " I'm trying." " That hit must've caused some damage." "McKay?" " I'm on it." "Where did they come from?" "She's right." "The darts are short-range fighters." "There's probably a hive ship around here somewhere." " Then we need to get out of here." " Yes, we do." "The Stargate's the other way, on the other side of the planet." "Yeah, we're taking the scenic route." "McKay!" "I've almost there!" "There's one on our tail!" "Thank you, I know all about that one." "Keep your eye on the other one." "Okay, you should have weapons now." " Negative." " Are you sure?" " Positive!" " I'm pretty sure I fixed it." "Well, obviously you didn't!" "Perhaps you can lose them in the atmosphere of the planet." "Two more darts on our two o'clock." "I see them." "McKay!" "It's not like I'm holding back on you." "Hang on!" "The Wraith darts have been destroyed." "Well, that's a good thing." "I thought for sure we were dead." "Didn't you think we were dead?" "What the hell was that?" "Some sort of, uh, energy weapon?" "What do you say we find out?" "Season 1:" "Episode 14 Sanctuary" "Team24 and SG-66 for seriestele. net and Forom. com Transcript:" "Raceman" "So just to confirm, we're all still... definitely not dead." "I feel very much alive." "Good." "Same here." "I wish I knew what that was." "Looked like lightning." "Space lightning?" "I already said, it's some sort of an energy weapon, one that apparently destroys Wraith darts." "Nice, but why them and not us?" "Well, assuming that we're still alive, and there doesn't appear to be any damage as a result of the pulse, I think we can safely conclude that, uh..." "I got nothing." "I mean, I got nothing to conclude." "I'm just talking for the sake of talking." "Are you sure you're okay?" "You know how much I hate certain death?" "You're alive." "Could something like that be naturally occurring?" "My money's on non-naturally occurring." "Like a weapon the ancients left behind?" "And any weapon that impressive would have to be powered by..." " ... a zero-point module." " That's right." "All right, we need to get down there." "I've got to check for damage anyway before we head back to Atlantis." "If there is a weapon somewhere down here, sir, these folks didn't build it." "Not these kids." "You picking up anything?" "I'm picking up everything, just nothing worth mentioning." "These folks look familiar to you, Teyla?" "The Stargate is in orbit, Major." "My people could never have ventured here." "Right." "What say we venture?" "Hi." "It's okay." "We're friendly." "Hi." "It is likely they have never seen anyone from outside their village." "Welcome." "I am Zarah, one of the abbots of Proculis." "I'm John." "John Sheppard." "This is Teyla, lieutenant Ford, and dr." "McKay." "Please, come." "This is the first time at least in my own lifetime that people from another land have come to us." "Well, we came by ship." "A flying thing that allows us to move from one world to another." "Another world?" "From among the stars you see in the night sky." "We are peaceful explorers." "Then glory to Athar for bringing you here safely." "Athar?" "The provider... and protector of all." "Surely you know." "Athar is known by many names among the stars." "Is, um..." "Athar around?" "We'd love to talk to him." "We're, uh, friends." "Athar is friend to all, and with us always." "Even now." "Of course." "Hi, Athar." "What dr." "McKay means is that we wish to offer our thanks." "We were attacked by the Wraith and would have been killed, were it not for Athar's intervention." ""Wraith"?" "Pale skin, sunken eyes, suck the life out of you with their hands?" "We have never encountered such beings." "Never?" "And there is no mention of them in your history?" "None." "I can assure you that for many thousands of years, we have lived here in peace." "Could you excuse us for a moment?" "Of course." "Please, I must tell the other abbots of your arrival before we go to meet with Chaya." "And Chaya is..." "The high priestess of Athar." "This is a great day for our people." "Ours too." "I'm not kidding." "This could really work." "I agree, Major." "Every inhabited world I have encountered in this galaxy has been ravaged by the Wraith." "Well, this planet is protected by an Ancient weapon." "This just confirms it." "Does it?" "Well, there's no other explanation." "I mean, the power requirements of something like that must be astronomical." "Only a Z.P.M. could generate that." "And yet... they do not appear to be technologically advanced." "Unless that guy was lying, but he doesn't seem like the lying type." "So, automated defenses." "Imagine a world where displaced refugees from dozens of planets could come and live in peace, without fear of being culled by the Wraith." "Maybe we can negotiate some kind of treaty." "We just need access to that weapon better still, the Z.P.M., not that we'd steal it or anything." "Let's just try to stay on our best behavior." "I'm always on my best behavior." "How much farther?" "Not very." "Oh, good." "See?" "We could have taken the jumper." "The exercise is good for you." "Chaya does live pretty far from your people." "It is not uncommon, Major, for clerics to live apart from the community." "Glory to Athar." "Welcome, and rest." "Thank you, sister." "You are new to Proculis." "Yes." "We're, uh... we're brand new, in fact." "Major John Sheppard." "I am called Chaya Sar." "And you are..." "Teyla..." "Lieutenant Ford, and Dr. McKay." "How did she know that?" "Oh, please." "One of the abbots ran ahead." "It's a pleasure to meet you, Chaya." "You must be tired after your long journey." "Shall I prepare some tea for us?" "I was hoping you were going to say just that." "And where do they come from, these Wraith?" "They seem to be everywhere in this galaxy, and they appear to have been on top of the food chain for a long time." "It's terrifying." "Truly terrifying." "My heart goes out to your people, Teyla." "It is not only my people who suffer, Chaya." "The Wraith have awakened from a long sleep, and this entire world is safe from the culling that has already begun." "Even Atlantis, with all its wonder, may not survive the onslaught." "It is our hope that Athar could grant sanctuary here on Proculis." "Sanctuary?" "For so many?" "Well, we're not talking about everybody in the galaxy showing up on your doorstep." "This planet is pretty big, ma'am." "And it is largely uninhabited." "More importantly, it is protected by that weapon of yours." "Weapon?" "I am aware of no such thing on Proculis." "Are you sure about that?" "Yes." "Oh, please." "Rodney, best behavior." "This is as good as it gets, Major." "Chaya, the only reason we're alive is because of a powerful energy weapon that emanated from somewhere on the surface of this planet." "It destroyed the ships that were shooting at us." "That weapon is what's keeping the Wraith away." "No, Dr. McKay." "It was Athar who protected you." "Athar?" "Yes." "Athar saw you were in need." "Chaya, there are a lot of people just like... you and me, who are in need because of the Wraith." "What you have here, what Athar has provided you, is a very rare thing... but we have a lot to offer too." "That's what friends do." "They share." "I think we could help each other." "I understand." "I shall consult with her now." "Please stay here." "I don't know how long this will take." "Thank you." ""What Athar provides for you?"" "You're buying into this?" "Rodney... what religious people don't take their religion seriously?" "We didn't imagine that weapon, Major." "We saw it with our own eyes, and we saw what it was capable of." "Yes, we did." "Perhaps Chaya is simply unaware of the weapon's existence." "Or she knows, and she wants to keep it a secret from us." "She doesn't strike me as the lying type either." "All right, let's just see what Athar has to say." "So, "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain," hmm?" "Exactly." "Major." "We have conveyed your request to our divine mother, and although she does not doubt the righteousness of your mission," "I'm afraid she cannot countenance any other people but hers settling here." "And you really had to chant all that time to come up with that?" "McKay." "Is there any way we can ask Athar to reconsider?" "Athar understands and sympathizes these Wraith are a scourge among our stars but she has to place the lives of her people first." "Well, I think we both knew what you were going to say long before you even went in there." "We prayed for Athar's guidance." "And what did Athar say?" "You're hiding behind your religion to justify your complete and utter selfishness." "Rodney... if Athar existed, she would be ashamed of herself." "We ask only to be left alone and in peace." "So untold thousands, possibly millions of people will die out there when they could have been saved, all in the name of Athar." "How very, very peaceful of you." "You should be grateful to Athar." "This is a waste of time." "Athar regrets that she cannot help you." "And I'm sure those were her exact words." "That's enough." "Head back to the jumper." "I'll be there in a minute." "Why?" "Because you're not helping." "Yes, sir." "I apologize." "He acts only in accordance to his beliefs, as do we." "But Rodney is right about one thing." "This really is about lives, human lives." "Sooner or later, the Wraith are going to show up at Atlantis, and when they do... you're a warrior." "Well, I don't know about "warrior. "" "It is your vocation, Major." "You will fight." "I'll try, but knowing what we're up against, and the odds..." "Look I'd appreciate it if you would ask Athar to consider that we are her people." "Even though we come from very far away, we're the same." "We're human, which means we're not strangers." "We're family." "Evening breeze." "I was kind of hoping it was a sign from Athar." "Your words are most compelling, Major Sheppard." "Thank you." "I was going for compelling." "Do you truly believe we are family?" "We are." "I can prove it to you." "How?" "Come back to Atlantis." "See who we really are." "Once Athar learns more about us... this is acceptable." "It is?" "Chaya, please, you cannot leave." "Athar is with us always, no matter where we are, Zarah." "I understand." "I am ready." "Welcome to Atlantis." "Thank you." "I hope you don't mind, but our doctors do require a medical exam of all off-planet team members and our visitors, but after that, perhaps you'd like a full tour." "I would love that." "Major Sheppard has already promised to do so." "Of course he has." "Of course I have." "Please, if you'll follow me to the infirmary... maybe I should tag along, in case you have any questions.." "I think I've got a handle, Rodney." "There are a lot of systems you know absolutely..." "Got it covered." "Fine." "Hold still." "Just a minute more." "Well, my dear, it seems you're just as lovely on the inside as you are on the out." "If health is synonymous with beauty." "You can get up now." "How does this device do what you say it does?" "It creates images of the tissues inside your body, and they are picture-perfect." "Did you bring these machines back from your world?" "Some." "Others are atlantean technology that we've figured out how to use, and a few... well, I haven't the vaguest idea what they do." "Hopefully one day I'll have a chance to meet one." "I'll ask them myself." "Do you know what happened to them?" "Well, some returned to Earth after the war with the Wraith." "That much we know, but we also know that some of them ascended." "Ascended?" "To a higher plane, where they exist only as energy." "Are all the people of your world as healthy as you?" "Yes." "No disease, ailments?" "No one ever breaks a leg?" "Such things are rare, but my people heal quite rapidly." "Really?" "Are we done?" "Are we?" "Healthiest patient I've ever had." "Off you go, love." "Where are we at?" "Well, either she knows where the weapon is and she's playing us, or else she has no idea, in which case, we are wasting our time." "So what do you suggest?" "Take another team back in the jumper, scan the planet for energy signatures." "Chaya's people won't have a clue what we're doing from orbit, unless they're a technically advanced race that are pretending not to be, which has happened before." "Did you find anything abnormal?" "I mean, something that would suggest they are more advanced than they claim to be?" "No, They're either pathetically pretechnological or brilliantly post-technological." "And there's no way this could be a natural phenomenon?" "A perfectly timed, directional energy burst that only affected the Wraith ships?" " That's a no?" " That's a no." "Dr. Weir, I have those results." "Thank you, Carson." "We're on our way." "How many of you are there?" "Counting all the athosians on the mainland, you might get a couple of hundred, which leaves a very large, empty city." "Right now, we're living in one section, because we don't have the power to spread out more than that." "What do you think so far?" "I think it's wondrous... but ultimately, the decision is up to Athar." "You're not a believer, are you?" "Look, Chaya..." "I respect that you believe." "Look, I can't talk to Athar," "I can only talk to you, so let me ask you this what if the shoe was on the other foot?" "What if your people were in trouble and we could help you?" "Would you just take no for an answer?" "It must have been very hard to live your entire life under the shadow of the Wraith." "Don't misunderstand me." "Teyla and her people have known the Wraith forever, but when I say we're new, I mean we just got here." "We're from another galaxy." "A planet called Earth." "Earth?" "It's very far away." "You know those clusters of stars you see in the night sky?" "Some of them are called galaxies, and they're even further away from you than the stars." "Earth is in one of those galaxies." "You came through the Stargate." "That's right." "And can you not simply return?" "Well, not simply." "We knew going into it that it was probably going to be a one-way trip, but we thought what we would find here would be worth the risk." "And is it?" "So far." "Ask me again when the Wraith show up." "Blood work shows no viral, bacterial, or parasitic infections." "Mri reveals no tumors or cancers, no heart defects of any kind." "Blood pressure 130 over 70, total cholesterol 107." "She's in perfect health." "I'm happy for her." "Why did we need to see this?" "Because, doctor, she's too healthy." "What does that mean?" "There's no trace of any diseases or congenital conditions that you typically find in pretechnological societies." "No rickets, no fungi, stds... perfect health?" "Aye, and from what she told me, this may be the norm among her people." "But she is human?" "Oh, without a doubt." "So how is that possible?" "I can't say that for certain without visiting the planet myself, but if this data is accurate, then people on Proculis" "live in optimal health for a very, very long time." " You make it sound like some sort of a..." " paradise?" "Aye, because it is." "And that's a problem because... because human life, quite simply, dr." "Weir, is more fragile than that." "I don't care what galaxy we're in." "It's unnatural." "The ocean air is so invigorating." "Plenty of that here." "Most of the planet's ocean." "Well surely there's enough land to resettle the refugees." "Well, there is." "We just can't guarantee their safety." "Even though you control all of this?" "I'd be lying if I said we controlled it all." "This place is so far beyond us in so many ways." "For example, Atlantis does have a shield that can withstand anything the Wraith could throw at us, but we have no way of powering it up." "We can't risk taking in any more refugees than we already have." "Come with me." "Major Sheppard..." "I'd prefer you call me John." "John... how did you make enemies of the Wraith?" "That was my fault." "Yours?" "I basically woke them up trying to rescue some people they'd captured." "They didn't take too kindly to that." "But you saved your people?" "Most of them." "And that is how you know for sure they're coming back?" "Yeah, we just don't know when." "Main control console, environmental support systems, communications, and this, this is, uh..." "Sorry, Major." "We haven't the faintest idea what it... this is a new piece of equipment we found in another section of the city." "It hadn't yet been initialized." "So you're saying she has... she has the gene." "Then I did this?" "What does the machine do?" "We don't know." "Not yet, anyway." "The Atlanteans were good at lots of things, but writing instruction manuals wasn't one of them." "We should probably wrap this tour up." "I know dr." "Weir is anxious to talk to you." "Will I see you afterwards?" "And during." "What we are proposing is a kind of land lease, in which refugees rendered homeless by the Wraith could resettle on Proculis." "In return, we can offer you services and knowledge which would be of benefit to your people." "Such as?" "Well, you've seen the sort of technology we possess here." "We could help you down a path to a more industrialized society, but at a pace that will maintain your planet's ecological balance." "Your scientific knowledge is impressive, dr." "Weir, but we have no need of it." "Athar provides us with everything we require." "Well, food just doesn't show up on the dinner table." "You do plant all your own crops?" "Of course we do." "We can show you ways to increase your crop yields." "We grow all the food we need to live." "Anything else would be gluttony." "Building materials, then." "We have abundant timber and iron ore to forge what little metal we need." "Athar is kind." "There must be something." "What my people value most is spiritual knowledge." "What can your culture provide in that regard?" "Earth's people don't share a single spiritual belief." "We embrace a number of different religions and philosophies..." "Christianity, Buddhism," "Judaism, Islam..." "Hinduism." "Kwanzaa..." "Interesting." "Tell me about them." "All of them?" "Yes." "They sound fascinating." "Well, I am hardly competent to discuss all of Earth's religions, but I can offer you some resources." "With very little training, you could have complete access to our historical database." "That would be wonderful." "You got it working?" "Yeah." "Well, do we know what it does?" "It would appear to be an internal-external biometric sensor array." "See, now, sadly, I understood that." "Where did all those saturday nights go?" "These seem to be the biosignatures of everyone in Atlantis." "How can you tell?" "I can't make heads or tails out of that mess." "I've been working on deciphering the ancient logarithms." "I suspect this was designed primarily as an early warning system, to signal any alien presence in the city, like the Wraith." "And you're saying that it activated when our visitor touched it?" "Which must mean she has the ancient gene." "Or it was initialized already and only activated because it was detecting her." "I mean, she could be some kind of an alien, and this thing knows more about her than we've been able to decipher." "Someone should be keeping an eye on her." "Major Sheppard is." "Oh, I'm sure he is." "Not entirely for the reasons you think." "Dr. Weir asked him to." "Oh, I'm sure she did." "Dr. Weir wanted me to make sure Chaya saw everything." "Everything?" "Well, not everything, everything." "Chaya mentioned she wanted to see the best view of the city at night, which I think is atop the southwest pier, and since it's such a long walk," "I thought I'd bring along a few provisions." "Continuing our efforts to secure a treaty." "Exactly." "As our ambassador." "I am an ambassador, and she is a... diplomat." "On a late-night... picnic?" "Yes." "I know that as ranking military officer here in Atlantis that you feel a heavy burden of responsibility, but you... are allowed to have feelings for others." "Oh." "No, this is a... this is an ambassadorial, diplomatic picnic outing." "Without... having to justify them to anyone." "Good night, Major." "Good night, Teyla." "You want to send her back?" "All I know is she's not who she's pretending to be." "And you know this because... what, I'm not allowed to have intuition?" "You?" "No." "I asked Major Sheppard to keep an eye on her." "Which is like asking the fox to guard the henhouse." "What?" "Well, look, the biometric differential is not insignificant, Elizabeth." "What I'm saying is... the woman set off an alien alarm." "Come on, you don't know that for certain." "Now, grodin says you are nowhere close to understanding what the nature of that device is." "There are too many unknown variables." "There's the energy weapon, the fact that they claim never to have seen the Wraith... what about the fact that she's essentially a textbook case of healthy?" "All very mysterious, yes, but what does it prove?" "That we should give her a one-way ticket back home." "There is obviously something very... different about her, yes, but that doesn't necessarily make her a threat." "It doesn't rule it out, either." "Then, for the moment, I think what we could gain by securing a treaty is worth the risk of her being here." "Fine." "This is delicious." "Well, enjoy it while you can, because that's the last of what we have." "Then I am honored." "When McKay finds out, he's going to kill me." "Athar will save you." "Oh, good." "Such wondrous things." "I can't imagine wanting to do anything but eat all the time with such a variety of foods." "Well, we manage to pull ourselves away somehow." "I've been learning much about Earth." "Dr. Weir has gotten me on your information machines." "Elizabeth's got you on a computer already, huh?" "I'm fascinated by your many religions." "So many beliefs." "So many philosophies." "Yeah, we've got a few of those." "So many contradictory faiths." "Yeah, it's a bit of a mess." "More?" "Yes, please." "We traded for grapes." "The athosians, Teyla's people, they make this on the mainland." "I wasn't completely truthful with you about something." "On Proculis, when I told you I did not feel lonely... coming here and being with you... it reminded me what it was like not to be alone." "What?" "Well, I mean, nothing." "It's just that... this is the first time I've been in a romantic situation with a woman from another planet, and it just strikes me as really,... wrong?" "No." "God, no." "Just... just... funny." "I'm sorry." "I just thought that I would, uh... you said it yourself... we're both human." "Yes, we are, and I'm really glad you didn't say "family" otherwise I'd have to leave." "Don't." "I'm not going anywhere." "Major." "Rodney." "What are you doing up so late?" "I was just, uh..." "I couldn't sleep, so I was going back up to the control room to do a little research." "What about you?" "Oh, no thanks." "No, I mean, what were you doing up so late?" "I'm always up late, rodney." "A word of caution... the whole captain kirk routine is problematic, to say the least, let alone morally dubious." "What routine?" "The romancing, the alien priestess." "It's very 1967 of you." "Actually, I'm surprised... if and when anything I do becomes your business... it becomes my business, major, when an alien woman who is clearly not who she claims to be has the ranking military officer wrapped around her little finger." "Don't go there, McKay." "I'm sorry." "I know I'm not normally mr." "Sensitive, but you've got to believe me when I say there is something about her." "I know it's intangible, but I can feel it..." "I said, don't go there." "It's just a matter of time before I prove it, Major." "I'm just recommending that in the meantime, you keep your... did you sleep last night?" "No." "This is the data from the biometric sensors." "I can't tell you exactly what all of these signatures mean, but, uh, look at this, these are ours, and this, this is hers." "There's a distinct difference." "She was born on another planet in another galaxy." "They're different from Teyla's too." "That doesn't mean..." "Elizabeth, she's not what she seems to be." "I sense nothing but a very honest and spiritual person." "All right." "there may be a way to find out." "You're opening negotiations with her this morning, right?" "Yeah." "Okay, well, let me sit in." "I'll pretend to be taking notes on the laptop when really I'll be scanning her for anomalies." "Radiation, E.M. Scans, energy signatures... that way, if I am crazy, you and I are the only ones who need to know." "Now, what's the harm?" "All right... but be discreet." "I'm mr." "Discreet." "I admit to being impressed by most of what I've read of Earth's religions." "The torah, the koran, the talmud, the bible... most of them reveal a diverse and deep desire to grasp the divine." "So we do have something we can offer you." "But I've also been reading about your history." "Even now, somewhere on your planet, you are at war." "Well, yeah, that's true." "I made no attempt to hide that fact from you." "Chaya, we are definitely not perfect." "There's a lot about you as a people that I find disturbing." "Can that not be said of any people?" "No." "Every soul in Proculis is free from the hatred and the anger the people from Earth seem to feel for each other." "Come on." "We're not all that bad." "You know that." "I do." "We're not talking about the people on Earth." "I'm talking about every member of my expedition team here, in Atlantis, and I'm talking about the friends we've met since coming here, like Teyla's people." "There are some among you, yourself included, Dr. Weir that I know Athar would welcome with open arms... but there are others." "I hand-picked every member of this expedition, and I know Teyla feels as confident about her own people." "I'm sure." "At the end of the day, this is a matter of trust." "Yes." "It is, dr." "Weir." "Have your scans found anything yet, Dr. McKay?" "Actually... no." "What the hell is this?" "I'm sorry, Major." "There was cause for legitimate concern as to... whether I was or not who I claimed to be." "I'm sorry, Chaya." "I honestly felt it would do no harm." "Stop apologizing, Elizabeth." "How did she know?" "McKay... she's an ancient, Major." "She's what?" "I'm right, aren't I?" "The perfect health, the energy weapon, the fact that she has the gene... it's the only logical explanation." "What the hell are you talking about?" "I just don't understand the act." "I mean, you must know we'd give just about anything to talk to you, to learn from you." "I mean, what is it?" "What, are you... checking us out?" "I see that in my desire to come to Atlantis," "I have revealed too much of myself." "He's right?" "I'm right?" "I am what you call an "Ancient"... and it is also true that I can never offer your people sanctuary... but you are wrong as to why I came here." "Why did you come here?" "You, John." "Me?" "I have lived in solitude for so long that when you asked me to come to Atlantis, I... oh, my god, he is Kirk." "So this was never about,... could we just have a moment to ourselves here?" "No." "That's all right." "I've stayed here long enough." "Come on, Chaya." "You and your people were the reason we came here in the first place." "I can't..." "I can't... no." "What the hell was that?" "They're coming for them." "I should have never left them." "What's going on?" "I'm sorry, John." "I'm taking a jumper back to Proculis." "What just happened?" "There's only one way to find out." "Go." "Major, are you sure you know what you're flying into?" "I have a pretty good idea the Wraith are attacking Chaya's people." "You can't hope to defend them with one ship!" "I don't think I'll have to." "What are you doing here?" "I'm here to help you." "Help me?" "To defend your people." "Leave." "I will take care of this." "Is it "Chaya"... or "Athar"?" "I'm just curious." "When I was mortal, I lived here." "This was my home." "When those of us who you call the ancients ascended, we were supposed to leave behind us all human ties." "Some of us found that difficult." "So you couldn't stand by and watch your people getting wiped out by the Wraith." "When their terrible fleet approached, I lashed out with my mind and with a single thought, destroyed them all." "The others of my kind did not approve of such interference with corporeal matters, and so I was exiled." "My punishment was the unending protection of this world." "Why pretend to be human at all?" "So that, time to time, I may walk among the people, know them as the good and kind souls they are." "For thousands of years, I have come and gone to the villages, never staying too long to get attached to anyone... until I met you." "I have never regretted the choice I made all of these years... until now." "I am permitted to safeguard my people, but my people only." "This is my punishment." "This is what makes it punishment." "If your people came here for my protection, the others would stop me." "Do you understand?" "I can never help your people." "I'm not sure I'm willing to walk away that easily, and I'm not just talking personally here, although that's definitely part of it... there is so much more we can learn from you." "I can't, John." "The others won't allow it." "That's just... it is their highest law to never interfere." "I am bound by those laws, however much I wish to help you." "So, uh, we can never..." "I can never leave." "Well, I could come and visit." "Now I'm flirting with somebody from another species." "We're not as different as you think." "Oh, I think we're more different than you think." "I can show you." "Show me?" "By sharing each other." "We will know each other as well as anyone ever can." "Okay." "I've got to get the car back by midnight, though." "This will only take a few moments." "Just close your eyes." "This is cool..."