Jennifer Keller is attacked by a strange organism which grows and takes over her body, as well as most of Atlantis. Dr Beckett is released from his stasis pod and makes a full recovery. Woolsey arrives On Atlantis.
Teyla (Rachel Luttrell) thanks Jennifer (Jewel Staite) for helping Kanaan and the others get better. Jennifer owes it to Beckett's (Paul McGillion) retrovirus and she may have found a formula to help him too. She hates seeing him in a box. Of course she'll have found a way to treat Beckett cos she'll need his help now. Rodney (David Hewlett) visits Beckett and she's surprised by Rodney, cos she likes him.
Woolsey (Robert Picardo) arrives on Atlantis, well he's beamed down and doesn't have any words for them. Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) "nice speech - very inspiring." Jennifer finds a sticky substance on her hand as she awakes form falling asleep at her desk. Sheppard notices the new table in the conference room, which Woolsey brought with him. Ronon (Jason Momoa) thinks Carter did a good job as leader. Sheppard calls Sam a victim of her own success. Sam and Weir didn't stick to protocol either. Jennifer mentions Sheppard's foray into the future (season 4) and he learned what would happen. Sheppard: "Woolsey wasn't the weirdest things of that timeline." Sheppard doesn't believe Michael is dead, he could have left the ship. Rodney reminds someone stole their jumper. Woolsey thought you needed the gene to fly those. Rodney adds gene therapy works all the time.
Jennifer believes she may have found a serum to help Beckett but has to know if it works for certain. Beckett is removed from his pod and they must watch out for cellular degradation, but there aren't any signs of this so far. Beckett wakes and missed Atlantis but he's being sent back to earth for monitoring. Teyla is concerned Jennifer didn't report for duty. She asks Rodney to break into her chamber and trust Rodney to come up with the line of her being naked! Jennifer has some sort of fibrous growth on her. Beckett saw something like this in Michael's lab, except the tendrils are attached to her and the bed. She's isolated. Beckett needs to stay to help her. Sheppard tells Woolsey Beckett staying, "isn't exactly by the book."
Beckett identifies some sort of alien pathogen and they could all be exposed too. Tendrils have spread to form a cocoon. Jennifer appears to be communicating with it and hears voices. Everyone who was on MZS445 has to be tested, Sheppard, Rodney and Ronon test positive and are confined to quarters. Sheppard protests if this was to happen to them then it already would have. Beckett sees it as some form of biopolymer and Woolsey asks for an explanation for the uninitiated. Zelenka (David Nykl) explains how Wraith ships are organic and how they are formed. The tendrils have extended to the walls and are on three levels taking power from the electric system. If they cut power they could slow it down. Teyla suggests taking the ZPM out after speaking with Rodney. Zelenka agrees and they conduct a visual inspection. Zelenka is attacked; leading Beckett to comment it shows intelligence. They need to separate Jennifer from the main body. Beckett thinks a phage could sever the connection but it's never been tested, allowing Sheppard to volunteer to test it. He thinks it could turn him onto another Iratus bug, but he's already been there. Beckett was going to say it could kill him.
Rodney complains of palpitations, etc. Beckett: "That's nothing new." Sheppard flatlines and the treatment works. Ronon volunteers to inject her and he won't get through obviously. Ronon shoots at the tendrils and is trapped. Sheppard speaks to the alien and takes a jumper, with Beckett distracting it, he flies straight into it. Why didn't it attack Sheppard when he was walking through it to inject Jennifer? It didn't attack until after he injected her. Ronon suffers from a bruised larynx and can't speak for days. Sheppard: "I wonder if anyone will notice the difference." Beckett leaves for earth.
Woolsey tells Sheppard he admitted in his report he compromised protocols and compromised the safety of the base. Sheppard assures him if he played by the rules, Jennifer would be dead. The IOA agree but Woolsey knows the rules are there for a reason and he's not sure if he can do this job. Sheppard welcomes him to the Pegasus Galaxy; where there really are no rules, only a fight for survival.
Woolsey gets his first initiation into the galaxy by having to break rules. Now he must understand how all the others gone before were placed in that position - but he's still a stickler for rules. A possible allusion to prisoners, aka "enemy combatants" at Gitmo when Woolsey mentions those Atlantians who were converted into hybrids by Michael. Rodney and his sarcastic humour, brings home a true point by saying maybe they should leave them there forever then. A bit of a slow start, predictable in places like needing Beckett to help Jennifer; thus the serum worked on him. Sheppard volunteering to test the phage solution was nothing new - he'd take the risk, it's in his nature and also when he flew the jumper into the alien, again showing he wasn't going to lose another team member if he can help it, as he said last episode.
It was good to finally get an explanations to how Wraith ships are formed. This episode was nominated for an Emmy for Visual Effects in 2008.
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