Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) and Rodney (David Hewlett) race cars and Teyla (Rachel Luttrel) is shocked when she turns a corner with the baby. Rodney comments on how his mother let him cry himself to sleep, again another similar comment to the one where he dropped the baby and then said he was dropped as a baby too. No sarcastic comments from Sheppard this time though, but there was that look.
Power is out all over Atlantis except for the control room. Zelenka (David Nykl) tries to reboot the system from the main power room. However Michael (Connor Trinneer) takes over Atlantis, surprise, surprise. Not really, he had to be about somewhere. Sheppard and Rodney have to use the stairs and Rodney is clearly unfit. Sheppard finds the stairwell door to the gateroom is locked. Rodney thinks there should be power in the lab. Loren (Kavan Smith) finds all the doors are sealed. From the surveillance cameras Sheppard notices the jumper in the gateroom. Hey when Stargate Atlantis first aired, my affectionate name for the puddle jumpers was 'piddle' jumpers! Ha. He also sees Teyla in Woolsey's office. Ronon thinks they should evacuate the gateroom.
Michael intends to destroy Atlantis and take Torren who holds the key to an increase in his strength and his rule over the galaxy. He's as strong as ever. Loren thought Michael was dead. Well of course he wasn't dead when they encountered him on his Hive ship when Torren was born, since their jumper went missing. He's like a cockroach as Rodney describes him. Sheppard wants to blast the door and take back the room.
Ronon escapes from the room where all the captives are being held with Amelia's (Sharon Taylor) help Michael's techs are having problems with the self destruct device. Rodney picks up an energy reading and Loren already walks into it. Some sort of a forcefield using modified Wraith stun technology.
Zelenka says the jumper has an external power source. Teyla showed Michael compassion once so she can come with him. Michael is what he is out of necessity. He was their experiment.
Sheppard thinks he can blow up the jumper by firing a drone but it doesn't have any power. Sheppard thinks he can take the jumper from under the water, then fire the drone and take out Michael's jumper. The jumper was damaged in the flood two years ago and Rodney didn't repair it so he has to do it now.
Amelia does kick boxing and Ronon heads for the armoury. Ronon hears about the self destruct on Atlantis being used and has a change of plans. Teyla takes the communicator and Ronon fights Michael, giving Teyla a chance to run but she doesn't go until he tells her to, which was a bit slow on her part. Ronon is thrown from the balcony and is out for the count.
Woolsey is also knocked out by the forcefield. Teyla hides in a duct. There aren't any weapons on the jumper. Michael arms the self destruct Sheppard wants to crash the jumper into the tower like he's done before. Sheppard asks how many suicide missions he's flown and Rodney's lost count. Rodney suggests lowering the gate shield, abandoning the jumper and using the DHD to a random planet, when he drops the shield, Rodney can fly the jumper.
Teyla tells Michael to turn off the self destruct and she'll accompany him. Michael's got Torren's DNA so he can clone him. He killed Ronon. The shield is dropped and the gate is dialled, the jumper is destroyed disarming the self destruct in the process. Sheppard chases Michael and they fight, leaving Michael hanging off the side of the building. Teyla loosens Michael's grip and he falls. How did she know where they were? He's not really dead though, in my opinion and if Atlantis had been back for more seasons, so would Michael.
Woolsey asks for Ronon's report which he records now: Michael invaded, stopped him. Sheppard and Rodney have another car race. Sheppard says Torren can watch him win. Rodney getting vexed over Zelenka explaining the forcefield as a stun bubble. Michael having Torren at his grasp and Teyla too, which was the real purpose of his 'visit' to Atlantis, but hangs around to exact his revenge. Would've thought it would have been his intention to leave immediately. Did he really think he could beat the Atlantis team on their home turf. Beggars belief.
Michael wants Teyla to feel his need to do this, to understand, as she once showed compassion towards him. How he was a Vic; their Vic and they are responsible ultimately for who he is and has become. This doesn't bode well for him when she kills him. Yet Teyla is always the voice of reason in the show. Here she changes all that as she lets him die at her hands. Rightly or wrongly, was it really for her to decide to do that, even if Michael is beyond help.
Another thing, I didn't like her showing up to do the dirty deed when it was Sheppard's fight. He would've won eventually, or was Sheppard not deemed man enough to do this. That only a mother saving her child had the right. It was easy when Michael was hanging over the edge; but not so easy throughout the rest of the episode especially as he was after Torren. She couldn't even leave Woolsey's office until Ronon told her to run!
Rodney created the ARG crystal in Lifeline and Michael used the same principles for the forcefield/bubble. Michael got info on Atlantis from the jumper he stole in the season 5 opener Search and Rescue. See Teyla had to be rescued even then. Oh Trip Tucker didn't know you had such delusions of grandeur, ha. Does anyone miss Enterprise like me?!
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