Stargate Atlantis 5.18 "Identity" Review

A woman appears on Atlantis (and I said it's Andie from The Vampire Diaries) and attacks Zelenka (David Nykl).  She sees herself as Jennifer (Jewel Staite).  Rodney (David Hewlett) catches up with her for lunch.  Zelenka needs to be operated on, but lucky for her, McBride (Rick Wong) was assisting, since Jennifer says she's not well enough to operate on him.  Beckett (Paul McGillion) examines her.  Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) says there weren't any witnesses to the attack and Woolsey (Robert Picardo) wants to know who is responsible.  Ronon (Jason Momoa) checks up on her and she tries to sound like Jennifer.  Rodney interrupts.

She doesn't know what a puddle jumper is (or piddle' as I call them, affectionately ha.)  Beckett doesn't find anything wrong, it's probably psychological.  The woman tries to escape on the jumper but Rodney catches her again. She can't fly one of those and so she attempts to seduce him into taking her for a ride.

Ronon knocks her out.  Beckett says he wouldn't have pulled the trigger and Ronon says she's not Jennifer.  Sheppard wants to talk to her.  She stabbed Zelenka.  Her name is Neeva (Dawn Olivieri) and she was looking at the artefacts in the village when she was brought here.

Rodney is interested in the artefacts.  Sheppard says she steals and put the rune into the device and connected to someone far away.  Rodney reminds them about SG1 and the Glastonbury Cavern.  Daniel's grandfather and Janus lab.  Jennifer visited him there and touched a rune.  The stones connect to a terminal.

Woolsey is told of the problems disconnecting and how Jennifer's mind is in her body.  She's elsewhere and is obviously going to be executed for her crimes.  The magistrate isn't fooled by her.  Rodney says they need to shut it down at the source.  Beckett reminds them of the psychological connection as well.   If Neeva is killed so will Jennifer.  Neeva agrees t take them there if they will free her.  She complains plenty.  Sheppard: "only when he's awake."  He thinks Rodney and Jennifer together is "hard to believe."  Teyla (Rachel Luttrell) thinks they shouldn't say anything in the village.  Sheppard telling them his rank as if that means anything to the villagers, ha.  The magistrate is at an execution. Jennifer manages to escape  and meets up with Neeva's accomplices.

Ronon tracks her.  They ask Jennifer about the plan and Teyla says the whole village is looking for Jennifer.  Neeva runs and Jennifer tells them they should leave the planet and set an explosion. Jannick (Ron Selmour) ask why they would run towards the explosion?  Which is what Daniel said to Rodney in First Contact/The Lost Tribe.  Neeva turns up at the cave.  She is shot and wounded.  Sheppard thinks the villagers are better off being Atlantis's friends than enemies.  Jennifer runs into Bordal (Todd Thomson). Sheppard tells him to blow up the device, which Ronon does, thus they change bodies as Jannick shoots Neeva.

Rodney brings Jennifer flowers and chocolates and they wheel Zelenka to another room.  Rodney wants to take her for a ride and a picnic under the stars.
It's a shame that with so very few eps left, they came up with this storyline which was more of a filler, reinforcing what's gone before really and Rodney and Jennifer's relationship, which we already know about.  Jennifer falling out of her top again, almost.  Felt more like a rehash of Stargate SG1.

Carl Binder was Jennifer's father in the photo of her graduation.