Stargate Atlantis

McKay: Previously on Stargate Atlantis.

Colonel Ellis, you made excellent time on your first voyage here.

The Replicators know the location of Earth,

and with these new ships, have the means to get there.

So, you're going to blow up their ships.

Oberoth. We had no choice but to attack you.

You were building warships. They needed to be neutralized.

And now, so do you.

No matter where we try to hide on this planet,

the Replicator satellite will be able to track us.

McKay: We submerge the city.

The water attenuates the satellite's beam intensity, buys us some more shield time.

The water has no effect?

It's having an affect, but just nowhere near what we want it to.

You want to bring an asteroid towards us? Is that wise?

Atlantis is leaving this planet.

We're not flying high enough.

We don't have enough power.

Lower the shield.

McKay: The hyperdrive just shut down. We are lost.

We dropped out of hyperspace way too soon. I have no idea where we are.

She's unresponsive and her pupils are sluggish.

I need you to prep the OR and have the scanner ready when we get there.

We're on it. The scanner is moving into position.

She's crashing.

Let's go, guys. I don't want to do this in the hall.

Here we go, here we go.

You got city-wide sensors back online?

Hopefully, yeah. Slowly booting up right now.

Can we contact the Apollo?

Not yet, no. TEYLA: Why not?

Don't worry, I've got Chuck working on it.

Well, maybe you should be working on it.

I've got bigger fish to fry.

What could be more important than contacting the Apollo?

This can't be right.

What's wrong?

Power.

We're losing massive amounts of power.

Just pull it out.

I can't do that.

Why not?

We have to wait to get you under the scanner,

make sure pulling it out's not going to cause even more damage.

Pull it out.

Yeah, yeah, I get it, you're a tough guy.

If you want to pull it out, go ahead, but I'm not going to...

Are you crazy?

On three, ready? One, two, three.

Clear.

Charging.

I don't think the problem is on this end.

McKay: I don't care where the problem is, I want to know what the problem is.

It's in the conduits.

Oh...

It looks like...

Several of the main conduits were affected by the brush with the beam.

All right, that means we'll need to, uh...

Yes, yes, yes. You should get the...

Yeah, I will, as soon as I've shut down all of the...

Yes, yes, yes, I will do the same thing.

Wait, wait, wait, what's going on here?

Every second I waste, we're draining more power.

Just trust me, we're doing the right thing here.

No change.

Let's start her on mannitol, 200 ccs IV.

Tell me what's going on, Rodney.

Long story short, there are a bunch of systems on right now

that don't need to be, and given our current situation,

they're draining the life out of the city.

Can you not just shut them off?

Yeah, just wait, uh...

Maybe, yeah. Okay...

Come on.

Oh, come on.

Time?

She's been flat for almost two minutes.

Come on, we need you here, Elizabeth.

She's going back into v-fib. Let's hit her again.

Clear.

Here we go.

Here we go. Let's start the scan.

Dr. Keller?

That's not good.

Her brain is swelling quite seriously.

That would explain the sluggish pupils.

Yeah, among other things.

Give her nimodipine, 30 milligrams q4h,

and keep an eye on her blood pressure.

Nothing.

The control grid's all out of whack.

I can't shut the systems down from here. We're bleeding out.

We can shut down the systems manually, right?

I don't think we have the time.

You would rather not try?

Okay, you're right, you're right. Uh...

Zelenka? We need to deploy some teams.

She's not responding.

We're losing her.

I'm sending some of my men with your guys

in case they need help. Their ETA is under five minutes.

Does that give us enough time? I don't know.

What little power we had left is almost gone.

We'll be lucky if we can make it through the night.

Listen.

What?

You've been making a lot of decisions without consulting me.

I'm sorry. We're a little under the gun here. Things move fast.

I understand that, but with Elizabeth

incapacitated, I hate to say it, but, uh...

You're in charge. I know, I'm sorry.

Just keep me in the loop.

Okay.

Okay, well, I'll give you the Coles Notes.

The what?

Uh, the Cliff Notes?

Why didn't you just say that?

Look, never mind. Look, as we were leaving Lantea,

we got grazed by the Replicator's satellite beam, right?

It impacted the side of the tower, and from what we can tell,

it wreaked havoc on a number of power conduits.

So? Re-route the power, then.

Yeah, it's not so easy.

Look, the ZPM room is at the base of the tower,

which means that the conduits in and around where the beam hit

are primary conduits, they can't be routed around.

So parts of the city don't have power?

No, no, no, the conduits weren't severed, they were damaged.

Look, it's complicated, but imagine them as, uh,

leaky pipes, okay? Okay.

So you pump water through them, they leak, right?

You dumb this down any more and you're going to get hit.

Sorry.

Look, the city realizes that, for whatever reason,

power's not making it to the outer piers.

So instead of repairing the leaks, which it can't do,

it increases the ZPM's output

so that even though the pipes are leaky and we lose power,

enough energy makes it to the end of the line.

And that's bad?

No, that's good.

Well, otherwise, we'd lose the shields, we'd lose atmosphere, we'd all be dead.

Okay. Look, there are a number of systems

on right now that don't need to be, and they're screaming for power.

Look, we're going to lose juice,

potentially a fatal amount, no matter what we do,

but if we can get those nonessential systems shut down,

then the ZPM will need to pump less power through the leaky pipes,

and we'll be able to put off imminent death for another hour or so.

So then, where are we at?

Well, the teams are making good time.

Uh, we've got about 60% of the nonessential systems shut down, so...

What? What's happening?

The city's outer buildings are decompressing

and shutting down the artificial gravity.

Why would the city do such a thing?

It's going to collapse the shield. It's trying to save power.

We've got guys out there.

Matthews, fall back to the tower immediately.

I don't think we're done, sir.

The city's shield's collapsing. Move.

You heard the man. Go, go!

They're not going to make it.

Stop it. Stop it from doing this.

The city doesn't think it can maintain the shield unless we make it smaller.

If we delay its collapse, it could fail completely.

I don't care. Override it.

It's not letting me.

We're almost there.

We're going to lose those guys, McKay!

You think I don't realize that?

The gravity just shut down!

Tell the other teams to hurry.

I don't want them out there any longer than they need to be.

Hey, are you getting the same data rate inconsistencies

off these flash drives?

Bill?

Bill?

Oh, sorry.

Oh, boy.

It's this damn weightlessness.

You know, maybe you should gate back to Earth.

I can get somebody else to help me bring the station online.

No. I'll be fine,

as soon as I can figure out how to get the gravity back on.

Uh, what were you saying about the flash drives?

Yeah, it's just that every time I update the software, the drives...

The Pegasus gate just activated.

This is Colonel Abe Ellis, commander of the Apollo.

Midway Station, please respond.

Colonel Ellis, this is Colonel Samantha Carter.

I am on the Midway Station. How did the mission go?

Well, as far as we can tell,

Atlantis successfully evaded the Replicator's beam

and was able to enter hyperspace.

From what you can tell?

Well, they're not at the predetermined rendezvous point.

Really? They should have beaten you there.

Actually, hey, how are you dialing us? M12-578 doesn't have a gate.

It's off the grid.