All language subtitles for Stargate Atlantis Season 05 Episode 04 - The Daedalus Variations

SHEPPARD: What are you talking about?

l'm telling you, she's hiding him from me.

-She's not hiding him.
-Oh, yeah?

Every time l go to see him,
she tells me that he's just settled down.

-Can you blame her? You dropped him.
-l did not drop him, he jumped.

-Jumped?
-Well, he wiggled out of my arms.

l said l was sorry. Besides, how much
damage could l possibly have done?

He fell, like, maybe two feet.
Stuff like that happens all the time.

l mean, l was dropped, like, a dozen times
when l was a kid.

Well, that explains a lot.

Why do you even care?
You don't even like kids.

lt's the principle of the thing.

Everyone else gets to hold him,
why shouldn't l?

Colonel, we've got a new contact.
Looks like a ship.

-How far out?
-lt's in orbit.

-Well, how come we didn't detect it?
-l don't know.

We didn't even detect
a hyperspace window.

lt just appeared out of nowhere.

(COMPUTER BEEPlNG)

Hang on a second, we're getting lFF.

lt's the Daedalus.

The Daedalus? How can that be?
They're on their way back to Earth.

Well, they were.
Or they were supposed to be.

Open up a channel.

(STA TlC BUZZlNG)

Daedalus, this is Atlantis, please come in.

Daedalus, please respond.

-They're not going to answer.
-Why not?

Because l'm not reading any lifesigns.

What are you telling me, Rodney?
This thing flew here by itself?

l don't know how they got here,
but there's no one on board.

At least, no one alive.

MAN ON RADlO: Colonel, we just got
confirmation from Stargate Command.

The Daedalus is in the Milky Way,
on course and on schedule.

They expect to reach Earth
within two days.

Understood.

So that's not the Daedalus, then?

Well, not unless it can be
in two places at once.

Perhaps the Apollo
or one of your other ships...

They wouldn't be sending Daedalus lFF.

Plus, it doesn't explain how they got here,

or why we're not picking up
lifesign readings.

All right, l'm taking us in for a closer look.

(CONTROLS BEEPlNG)

Wow, you see that?

McKAY: Yeah, some scorch marks.

You think weaponsfire?

Wherever she's been, she's been
through some pretty hard times.

(ALARM BEEPlNG)

-What's that?
-l'm picking up an energy reading.

(TAPPlNG ON CONSOLE)

-lt's coming from the ship.
-ls it dangerous?

l don't think so,
but l have no idea what's causing it.

Can you get the bay doors open?

lf the ship's command systems
are as familiar as the rest of it,

it shouldn't be a problem.

(SHEPPARD SlGHS )

No F-302s, but there's a Jumper.

You sure there's no one else inside?

As far as l can tell.

All right, we're going in.

TEYLA: Why is it so cold in here?

McKAY: The ship's operating
on emergency power.

Look, some of the systems
were barely registering.

-Except for the whole weird energy thing.
-That's right.

Can you do something about it?
lt's freezing in here.

Oh, sure, l just have to get to engineering.

You and Ronon are together.

Teyla, you and l are going
to check out the bridge.

Radio me if you find anything.

No bodies in here.

Colonel...

lt's the Daedalus, all right.

(POWER SURGES )

McKay, is that you?

McKA Y: Of course it was me.
Who else would it be?

You think we've got
a ghost on board or something?

(CLATTERlNG)

Will you please not touch anything?

SHEPPARD: What's our status?

l've restored basic power
to most of the ship.

lt should be warming up any second now.

SHEPPARD: Good.

Check on that energy reading.

Try to figure out what it is, all right?

l'm on it.

Colonel, ship's log, last entry.

Preparations are almost complete.

We've beamed down
the last of our supplies

and any equipment
we think might be useful.

l'll be taking the last
of the F-302s down myself.

Of course, we haven't had time
to do a proper survey

of the planet's surface,
but it seems habitable enough.

Plenty of fresh water, arable soil
not that different from our own.. .

l realize our chance of rescue is slim,

but it's become obvious
that we no longer have a choice.

This is Colonel Sobel,
commander of the Daedalus, signing off.

-Do you recognize her?
-l've never seen her before in my life.

Well, it appears as if they abandoned ship.

Yeah. The question is, why?

l'll check previous entries.

(TAPPlNG ON KEYBOARD )

Man, this ship has been
through the wringer.

No hyperdrive, subspace communications
are all damaged beyond repair,

the shields are virtually depleted...

(ALARM BEEPlNG)

RONON: What is it?

lt's the energy reading. lt's spiking.

-Sheppard, come in.
-SHEPPARD: Go ahead.

Something's happening.

The energy reading,
it's going off the chart.

-Do something. Turn it off.
-l don't know how.

Look, it's not coming
from any of the main systems.

LORNE ON RADlO:
Colonel Sheppard, this is Atlantis.

We're picking up some kind of
power surge coming from the ship.

Yeah, we noticed it.
We're trying to check it out ourselves.

The levels are still rising.

Colonel, should we send
another Jumper to assist?

SHEPPARD: Stand by.

(RUMBLlNG)

All right, that's our cue to leave.
Everyone, back in the Jumper.

-McKay, what the hell was that?
-l have no idea,

but the energy reading's
gone back down the way it was.

Atlantis, you reading anything unusual?

Atlantis, come in.

Atlantis, do you read?

(SlGHlNG) Colonel Sheppard, do you read?

Daedalus, this is Atlantis, please respond.

-What the hell's going on?
-ZELENKA: l don't know.

One moment they were there,
and the next minute, they were gone.

Rodney? l'm having problems
with communications.

Can't reach Atlantis.

Wait a second. That can't be right.

What?

l'm not seeing the city
on any of my screens.

What are you talking about?

McKA Y: l just did a sensor sweep,
and there's nothing down there but ocean.

Well, maybe they cloaked.

Well, they wouldn't have
done that without telling us.

Well, l don't know,
maybe there's a Wraith ship in the area.

l'm not reading anything.

Are we certain it's the same planet?

Perhaps the energy burst
shifted our position.

No, according to our instruments,
we haven't moved at all.

SHEPPARD: What do you want me
to believe, Rodney?

That Atlantis just disappeared?

Look, l don't know. Just give me a second,
l'll figure it out, all right?

ln the meantime, l've managed to localize
the energy reading.

lt's coming from a hold on Deck 9.

All right, keep trying to reach Atlantis.
We'll check it out.

McKA Y: Sheppard,
l think l've got something.

lt's the residual radiation from the flash.

lt's similar to what happens
when you open a hyperspace window,

but different enough that the sensors
wouldn't have picked it up automatically.

What the hell does that mean?

l think we're looking at
a new kind of drive.

TEYLA: l thought you said
we didn't go anywhere.

We didn't. At least not according to
the ship's navigational systems.

So, a malfunctioning drive?

McKA Y: Maybe. Just hang on.

(BLEEPlNG)

Oh, my God, Sheppard...

Stand by, Rodney.

McKA Y: No, you don't understand,
l know what it is.

Look, the residual radiation,

it's exactly what we recorded
when my double arrived on Atlantis

from an alternate reality.

l can't believe l didn't see this before.

Sheppard, hey.

McKA Y: lt's a drive, all right,
but it didn't move us through space.

l think it's moved us
into a parallel universe.

That would explain a lot of things.

(RONON EX CLAlMS lN DlSGUST)

How long have they been dead for?

This place was like a meat locker.

They could've been preserved
like this for months.

TEYLA: They look just like us.

That's because they are us,
the alternate reality versions of us.

l feel like someone just
walked over my grave.

Take it easy. Everything's fine.

-Oh, no, no, no, this is very bad.
-What?

Look, this tablet belonged
to the other McKay.

They weren't part of the original crew.
They came here just like us.

Look, a ship appeared in orbit
over their Atlantis.

They came to check it out.

That would explain
the other Jumper in the bay.

The ship jumped to another reality
and they were stuck,

they couldn't get back.

Look, eventually
their supplies ran out, and they...

All right, all right, mystery solved.
Let's move on.

No, don't you realize what this means?

They were us, and they failed.

Well, they're not us.
We're still alive. Let's go.

The answer's in here somewhere.
Can you power up the systems?

(EXHALlNG) Yeah, just hold on.

All right...

All right, that's a start.

What's behind here?

That's a good question.

(CONSOLE BEEPS )

McKAY: l'm guessing
that's our alternate reality drive.

Can you figure out how to control it?

Offhand, l'd say no.

(EX CLAlMS lN EXASPERATlON)

That's what the other McKay
was trying to do, and he had weeks.

Rodney...

Fine. l'll start with his research.
lt'll at least give us a head start.

Yeah, that's better.
We're going to go look for supplies.

What, you don't think the other us
wouldn't have already tried that?

SHEPPARD: Get to work.

Did you find anything?

Not unless you know a way to cook this.

Then perhaps we should consider going
down to the planet to collect supplies.

Sheppard says it's too risky.

The drive could kick in
and the ship could take off without us.

Then we'd be stuck here.

The others that we found,

do you think their lives
were very similar to ours?

Who cares?

How can you say that?

We've seen our doubles before.

Replicator-manufactured copies.

These were real people, with real lives.

l can't help but wondering
who might still be waiting for her

back on her Atlantis.

Do you mean, did she also have a son?

The thought had crossed my mind.

Look, you know,

l've heard McKay talk
about this stuff before,

and supposedly, there's a million
different realities out there,

with every possible variation,

which also means
there's a million different Torrens.

You going to worry
about every one of them?

No.

lt's difficult enough worrying about one.

l'll bet it is. Come on.

Why is the blast door closed?

-Hello? Residual radiation?
-Oh, right.

Have you made any progress?

-As a matter of fact, yes, we have.
-''We''?

Me and the other McKay,
who, unsurprisingly, is a genius.

Not only that,
but it looks like the drive was created

by yet another McKay
from the original reality.

What makes you say that?

Well, there's a certain elegance
to the design that l recognize.

l'm sure that's what the crew was saying
when they abandoned ship.

Well, admittedly there are problems,
but it is still a monumental achievement.

All right. So, what do we do?
Can we just throw this thing in reverse?

Yeah, it's a little
more complicated than that.

The first problem is navigation.

They've developed a coordinate system
to identify the various realities

and allow them to get back,
but obviously that didn't work.

Obviously.

(McKAY SlGHS )

-That's not what bothers me.
-Well, do you know, it kind of bothers me.

lt's power generation.

l mean, jumping from
one reality to another

requires massive amounts of power.

We're talking ZPM levels here.

Obviously, they didn't have
one of those rattling around,

so they created a capacitor

that's constantly
drawing power from subspace.

(CONSOLE BEEPlNG)

And it looks like it's almost charged.

ls this your long-winded way of telling me
you just can't turn it off?

Think of it like a tap
pouring water into a bucket.

When the bucket is full, the drive engages,
except this particular tap has no valve.

That seems like a pretty serious
design flaw, don't you think?

Exactly. Which leads me to believe
they were tampering with it

in a vain attempt to generate more power.

As they got further and further
from their own reality,

l guess they figured
they'd need it to get back.

And here we go.

(RUMBLlNG)

Okay.

Where are we?

Don't look at me.

l haven't had time to route
the main systems to these control panels.

l'm flying blind down here.

-Ronon, Teyla, meet me at the bridge.
-TEYLA: On our way.

-Keep it up, Rodney.
-Hmm.

Colonel, Atlantis is back.
l'm picking them up on the sensors.

(COMPUTER BEEPlNG)

You know how to work this stuff?

The last time the Daedalus was in orbit,
Major Marks generously offered

to give both of us
some preliminary training.

-l was busy.
-Atlantis, this is Sheppard, come in.

Atlantis, do you read?

Atlantis, this is Sheppard, come in.

Maybe they already have a Sheppard.

Rodney, what are the odds

of us randomly jumping back
into our own reality?

McKA Y: l'd say slim to none.

(BEEPlNG)

TEYLA: l'm detecting another ship in orbit.

What kind?

l'll see if l can pull it up on screen.

(TAPPlNG ON KEYBOARD )

SHEPPARD: l don't recognize it.

What's that?

-RONON: You know it?
-No.

Colonel, l believe
the ship is powering weapons.

-What's our shield status?
-Minimal.

lt's firing on Atlantis.

The city's shields are failing.

Rodney, do we have enough juice
to power up the Asgard beam?

McKA Y: Maybe. l mean, you might be able
to get a couple of shots off. Why?

There's some alien ship attacking Atlantis.

-So?
-What do you mean, ''So?'' lt's Atlantis!

lt's not our Atlantis.
We have no idea who's down there.

Look, we should just stay out of it.

lf we do not intervene,
the city will be destroyed.

Yeah, we need help.
My gut tells me we're better off

going with the people on that planet
than whoever's on that ship.

-McKA Y: l hope you're right.
-Yeah, well, me too.

The ship's been damaged.
lt's stopped firing.

Hopefully, we took out its main weapons.

Wait, something's happening.

(BEEPlNG)

They're launching fighters.

Ronon...

You should've took Marks up
when you had the chance.

Now you're going to have to learn fast.

Railgun targeting systems.

Button's on the right. Control, radar,
tracking and target acquisition,

use the red button to fire.

(CONTROLS BEEPlNG)

-What the hell was that?
-SHEPPARD: We're under attack.

Any chance of getting
that hyperdrive back online?

No, it's completely shot!
l already told you that!

Great.

(FlRlNG CONTlNUES )

There's too many of them. l can't do this.

Keep trying!

(CRASHlNG)

(GROANlNG)

We've lost sublight.

TEYLA: We have a hull breach.

We're venting atmosphere.
l don't know what to do.

(ALARM BEEPlNG)

(FlRlNG CONTlNUES )

Seal off damaged areas.
We should be okay for the moment.

RONON: l wouldn't be so sure about that.

Sheppard, l have an idea !

Let's hear it.

l've set up a few protocols

that should increase the efficiency
of the alternate reality drive.

lf l enable them,
we might be able to jump sooner.

And what?
What, jump to the next universe?

McKA Y: Exactly!

But if l do this, l can't undo it!

l mean, we'll just start jumping
faster and faster!

(EXPLOSlONS )

Do it.

-lt worked.
-Where are we?

TEYLA: We have a problem.
Temperature in the hull is rising rapidly.

What the hell is this?

According to these readings,

we're less than two million kilometers
from the surface of the sun.

l thought we always jumped
to the same place in every reality.

As did l.

(ALARM BEEPlNG)

Hull temperature is approaching critical.

-lf we do not restore shields...
-We're going to burn.

Are you sure about this?

Well, we're not imagining it, Rodney.

All right. Well, let me transfer the sensors
down to the station. Then at least l can...

Oh.

You're definitely not imagining that.

-Thanks for the vote of confidence.
-McKA Y: l don't understand it.

We always jump to the same
relative position in space.

-Unless...
-SHEPPARD: Unless what?

You said when you went to the future,

you saw our sun expanding
into a red giant, remember?

What are you saying,
we're jumping through time now?

No, no, no, no, no,
but maybe what eventually happens

in our reality is happening in this one,
only much sooner.

Look, we didn't go to the sun.
The sun came to us.

So how does this help us?

l don't know. l just... l found it interesting.

What's interesting, Rodney,
is a way out of this without getting fried,

like getting the sublight back on
so we can get the hell out of here.

Actually, l think our best bet

is just to transfer as much power
as we can to the shields,

and ride it out till the next jump.

When does that happen?

Well, the time the capacitor
takes to charge is different

now that l've enacted
those new protocols.

You know... l have no idea.

You're not exactly
selling the plan, Rodney.

l have no idea how long it would take me
to fix the sublights either!

Look, l've got to run a diagnostic,

but theoretically, transferring power
to the shields should be relatively easy.

All right, what do we do?

All right, the first thing l need you to do
is head down to engineering.

Let's go.

SHEPPARD: All right, we're here.
What do we do?

l need you to kill all power
to non-essential decks,

which means
you're going to have to access

the main administrative interface.

That should bring up a list
of all available override commands.

Got it.

Okay. So choose the command
for life support.

You're going to have to designate
the decks one by one.

(CONSOLE BEEPlNG)

(DlSTANT THUD )

(GRUNTlNG)

-l think that's all of them.
-McKA Y: Damn it.

That didn't buy us nearly as much power
as l would have thought.

-Well, there's got to be something else.
-Right.. .

All right, look, the ship has
auxiliary power modules

for most of the main systems.

Most likely they're depleted,
but if not, well,

it might buy us a little more juice.

Well, there you go.

(ROARlNG)

McKA Y: What the hell was that?
Was it gunfire?

Where's Ronon?

Keep working.

Stay focused, Rodney.

-Tell me what to do next.
-All right.

(ROARlNG)

(GRUNTlNG)

-You okay?
-Yeah.

Where the hell did he come from?

Check it out.

lt's the same symbol
that was on the alien ship.

How'd he get onboard?

You know, they crashed into us,
penetrated our hull, remember?

-You think he did it on purpose?
-That's a good question.

Hey.

Let me try that.

That's it. That's all of them.

l must go help
Colonel Sheppard and Ronon.

-Good luck, Rodney.
-McKA Y: No, no, no, it's not enough!

-What do you mean?
-Without sublights, our orbit is decaying,

which means more radiation
slamming into the shields.

The alternate reality drive
is only charged to 70% ,

which means it'll never make 100
before the shields fail.

Well, what do we do?
We have no more power.

Just give me a second.

(GUN COCKS )

(FlRlNG)

Rodney, Colonel Sheppard
and Ronon are under attack.

All right, l got it, l got it. Drop the shields.

-What?
-Drop the shields.

l will transfer
all available power to the drive.

Hopefully, it'll be enough to induce a jump.

-Hopefully?
-lt is our only option,

and every second we argue about it
is less of a chance it's going to work!

Very well. Dropping shields.

(ALARM BEEPlNG)

Hull temperature is passing critical.

Okay, transferring power to the drive now.

-Oh. No, no, no, no.
-TEYLA: What is it?

lt's not enough. lt's only 98% !

(ALARM BEEPlNG)

Rodney, the hull
is beginning to deteriorate.

Come on, come on!

That's it! Sheppard, we're jumping!

(GUNS FlRlNG)

(GROANS )

Nice work, Rodney.

Uh, you may want to hold off
on the congratulations.

Now what?

McKA Y: l think l've overtaxed the drive.

Look, it's not completely blown,

but we've only got a handful of jumps
before it's burned out.

All right, then what happens?

lf we haven't found our way back by then,
we will be stranded forever.

RONON: What happened to the planet?

Rodney believes that in this reality,
it was destroyed by an impact,

possibly millions of years ago.
All that remains is this asteroid field.

All right, l think l got something.

ln fact, it was staring me
in the face the whole time.

l was just too busy trying
to avoid imminent death

-to notice it.
-What are you talking about?

See, my mistake was focusing
on the navigation system.

l should've known
that was never going to work.

So what, then?

So, in a spectacular feat
of multi-dimensional mathematics,

l have discovered a way
to send the ship back

along the path it's previously traveled,

bypassing the navigation
system altogether.

Wait a minute.

You're talking about
putting this thing in reverse?

-Exactly.
-l just suggested that two hours ago.

And naturally, l dismissed it out of hand,

but then l realized that
including the original designer,

not one, but two versions of myself
have failed to make this thing work.

l had to think not like me.

ln fact, l had to think like
the opposite of me,

and it doesn't get much
more opposite than you.

l'll take that as a compliment.

-So can we get back or not?
-Well, not directly.

lt's impossible to calculate

the relative position
of our original starting point

from where we are now,
but we can retrace our steps,

passing through each reality in turn
until we reach the right one.

Well, there's a slight problem, Rodney.
We barely got out of those realities alive.

lf we do not restore the shields,

the radiation from the red giant
will kill us.

McKAY: Not necessarily.

Look, we know that the ship carries
its momentum in real space

from one reality to the next.

Now, we may not have sublight engines,
but we do have maneuvering thrusters.

You know, one long continuous burn
along the right trajectory

from now until the next jump
should be enough to allow us

to establish a higher,
more stable orbit around the sun.

So the radiation will not affect us?

l wouldn't go that far, but, still,
it'd be not quite as deadly?

(CONSOLE BEEPlNG)

Okay. That's it.

Course is already plotted.

What about those alien dudes?

They know we're the ones
that shot at them.

-Maybe they'll be gone.
-McKAY: l wouldn't count on it.

l mean, time is passing at the same rate
in each of the realities, which means...

Well, which means,
it hasn't been that long.

To get past those aliens,
we're going to need sublight engines,

and l'm going to need to fix them in time.

Wait, but you said you don't even know
what's wrong with those.

Well, l haven't had a chance
to check it out.

l'm sorry l can't do 10 things at once.

l've already told you,
the drive is going to burn out, soon.

We have to do something.

Who's to say the next reality
won't be even worse?

All right, all the modifications
to the drive are in place.

Here we go.

lt worked. You did it, Rodney.

All right,
l'm going to head up to engineering,

get to work on the sublights.

What's our status?

Hull temperature is rising,
but not as rapidly as it did before.

l think we'll be okay.

So much for the frying pan.
Let's hope we make it through the fire.

-TEYLA: How is it coming?
-Hmm?

(SlGHlNG) lt's not good.

The main systems are completely fried.
l'm going to have to do a full bypass.

-Can l be of assistance?
-l doubt it.

Okay...

Oh, jeez! What the...

(SlGHS lN RELlEF)

(CLEARS THROAT)

Thanks.

Perhaps a separate diagnostic
of the auxiliary system might be useful.

Uh, sure.

l wanted to thank you, Rodney.

For what?

For not giving up.

Oh, l know what this is.
lt's your first mission back.

Look, l am not about to let it
be your last, okay?

(ALARM BEEPS )

Oh, no, that's what l was afraid of.

-TEYLA: What is it?
-Well, the drive's charging

a lot faster now.

Sheppard!

Looks like the next jump's going
to happen a lot sooner than we thought.

How's it coming with the sublight engine?

l'm going to need a few minutes.

-Do we have a few more minutes?
-l doubt it.

All right, let's split railgun positions.
l'll take forward, you take aft.

You really think
that's going to make a difference?

Without shields, probably not,
but we don't have much of a choice.

RONON: Where's the alien ship?

l'm not sure.

Well, maybe they left.

(BEEPlNG)

No such luck. They're right behind us.

We got fighters closing in on our position.
How's it going down there?

Look, just give me a second!

Rodney...

Okay, try it now.

(MACHlNERY POWERlNG UP)

That's it, l've got it! Go! Go! Go! Go!

Sheppard...

How we doing?

They're gaining on us.
Can you get us more speed?

There's not a chance! Look,
l've barely got this thing working as it is!

lf we tax it any more,
we're going to blow the whole system !

All right, well,
then we've got a real problem.

They're in weapons range.

(FlRlNG)

-Return fire.
-l'm trying.

(GRUNTlNG)

Easy, Chewie,
those buttons are your friends.

-Just keep trying.
-l'm trying!

That's it, sublights are gone
for good this time!

-What the hell was that?
-F-302s.

lt's Atlantis.

What's happening?

SHEPPARD: Looks like we're getting
some help from some friends.

Guess we bet on the right side after all.

MAN ON RADlO: Daedalus, this is
Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard.

Do you read?

Daedalus, do you read?

Yeah, Daedalus. This is Daedalus. Come in.

Who.. . Who is this?

lt's a long story.

Well, whoever you are,
you saved our asses

when you took out their main weapons.

Figured the least we could do
is return the favor.

Much appreciated.

(ALARM BEEPS )

(CLEARS THROAT) Sheppard...

Oh, crap.

(WEAPONS FlRlNG)

MAN: Sorry about that.

One of them got through.
Nice shooting, though.

Thanks.

All right, looks like that's the last of them.

So.. . So, what happens now?

SHEPPARD: Well, we go our own ways.

Just like that?

Pretty much.

Well, the thing is,
we do have a few questions.

See, the Daedalus we know
was destroyed two years ago

in a battle with the Replicators.

Sorry to hear that,

but this isn't exactly our Daedalus,
we're just borrowing it for a while.

Okay, l have no idea what that means.

Like l said, it's a long story.

All right, Daedalus, good luck.

Thank you, Colonel,
and one last thing, it's been a pleasure.

You're obviously a man of great integrity

and a dedicated commander
and a very skilled pilot.

Well, that's funny.
l was going to say the same to you.

All right. The alien ship's gone.

l'm reading a planet
with no energy signatures.

lt's the first reality we jumped to.
One more, and we're home.

Let's get down to the hangar bay.

All right.

(BEEPlNG)

(SCREAMlNG)

l got shot!

-l thought we got them all.
-Apparently not.

Think there's any more of them?

l'm not waiting around to find out.

(TlCKlNG)

Move, move, move!

(ALARM BEEPlNG)

(GRUNTlNG)

The explosion's caused a hull breach.

Whole sections have been de-pressurized,
including the hangar bay!

And we just lost the Jumpers!

Our stop is coming up, Rodney.
lt's time to get off this train.

Look, there's no way off.

Once we jump into our own reality,

Atlantis will detect us
and they will send help.

We broke orbit to get away
from the fighters, remember?

Look, we carry our momentum

and relative position in space
from one reality to the next,

which means by the time we next jump,

we're going to be, like,
half a million kilometers out.

They're never going to get to us in time!

We got C4, l say we wait till we get back
and then we'll blow the drive.

That could work, or it could tear a hole
in the space-time continuum

not only killing us,
but destroying the entire solar system !

Well, we better think of something fast.

CHUCK: Another contact just appeared
on our screens.

ls it the Daedalus?

They're too far out for us to get lFF.

Try subspace.

Colonel Sheppard, do you read?

Colonel Sheppard, this is Major Lorne,
do you read?

-Was there a hyperspace window?
-No, sir.

They just appeared out of nowhere.

Well, it's got to be them.

Alert Mr. Woolsey.
Doc, you're with me. Let's go, come on.

All right, we should be within radio range.

Colonel Sheppard, come in.

(STA TlC CRACKLlNG)

Dr. McKay, this is Major Lorne.
Do you read?

No, there's too much interference.

(CONSOLE BEEPlNG)

l'm picking up
some kind of energy reading.

lt's spiking.

What the hell just happened?

-They disappeared.
-(STAMMERS ) What are you talking about?

Well, they're just gone.

(CONSOLE BEEPS )

Oh, wait a minute.

l'm picking up four lifesigns.

Okay, where?

Dead ahead.

LORNE: Colonel Sheppard, is that you?

SHEPPARD ON RADlO:
Major, nice of you to stop by.

Kind of hard to get a cab
in this neighborhood.

Yes, sir.

How many jumps you think
that drive has left in it before it burns out?

Half a dozen, tops.
Then it'll be completely inert.

Good. l'd hate to think of somebody else

getting trapped inside
that thing like we did.

Actually, you know,
l've been thinking about that.

Now, true, the navigation system
was flawed to start,

but the basic principles of the drive
are fundamentally sound...

-Forget it, Rodney.
-l've saved the relevant data.

Minor adjustments, and l should be able

-to have this thing up and running...
-Like l said, forget it.

Hey, look who's here.

How's your shoulder, Rodney?

lt's pretty bad,
but, you know, better, thanks.

ls it well enough to hold him?

Really?

-Don't drop him.
-Thank you.

(GRUNTS )

Hey there, little guy.

-l think he likes me.
-TEYLA: lt suits you.

You think so?

l think you'll make
an excellent father someday.

l've seen a lot of scary things in my time,
but that thought scares me the most.

-Do you want to...
-l think so.

Yeah. There you go.
Watch out, they wiggle.

Right.