Stargate: Atlantis s01e15 Episode Script

- There you are.
- Hey.
I was just stealing a breath of fresh air.
- I thought you were off exploring the city.
- About to.
Picked this up on the mainland.
The Athosians made it.
Happy birthday.
Hmm.
It's beautiful.
How did you find out? Mum's the word.
(Sheppard) Done with the living quarters.
Moving on.
You see anything better than our current quarters? A few.
Some of them are pretty nice.
What kind of square footage? What am I, your realtor, Rodney? We're here to unlock the secrets of Atlantis.
A one-bedroom with a den and preferably a balcony, but I'm not married to it.
- Check this out! - Be comfortable until the Wraith get here.
Shut up for a second.
- (McKay) What? What is it? - Some sort of laboratory.
We've come across dozens.
The city's full of them.
Something unusual about it? I'd have to say yes.
We could stand here looking at her all day.
We've gotta get her out of this box.
We can't.
She's at least 100 years old.
Which is why every second counts! She could drop dead.
How? You said she was frozen.
She's in a state of metabolic stasis, ageing slowed but not entirely suspended.
- This woman is still alive? - Yes.
Life-sign systems indicate viability.
She's been in that chamber for 10,000 years.
Doesn't look a day over 9,000.
She'll continue to age until she dies, sooner rather than later, bringing me back to my point.
She's so old I'm afraid reviving her might actually kill her.
We cannot let this chance to talk to an Ancient slip through our fingers - again.
Who knows her state of mind? She might be carrying some horrifying contagion.
Who knows what she knows about our city, or any ZPMs? Ah, there's a thought.
- Revive her.
- But - It's my call.
- Thank you.
And we thought this city was abandoned.
Is it possible the Atlanteans left her when they abandoned the city? - Maybe she wanted to stay.
- Or they forgot about her.
In which case she's gonna be pissed.
If she remembers anything at all.
Breathing shallow.
Pulse rapid.
I'll run an EEG to determine any brain activity.
- What is it? - Don't know.
It's gate addresses, five of them.
M7G-677.
We've been to this planet.
Dr Weir.
Hello? Can you hear me? Yeah, that's what I was afraid of.
- Freezer burn.
- I thought she wasn't frozen.
You expect her to dance a jig? It's the eyes.
You look at the eyes.
Lights are on but nobody's home.
Doesn't take a medical professional to know Of course she can see us.
And hear us.
Hello.
How are you feeling? - It worked.
- (McKay) What was that? - "It worked.
" - What does that mean? - I assume something worked.
- That's very sharp.
Thank you.
(Weir) Hello? She fell asleep.
When she's more stable, transfer her to the infirmary.
And I want video on her at all times.
We might not get a second chance at anything.
Let's hope we get a first, huh? - (Sheppard) Too big, huh? - I'm just pointing out its dimensions.
- It's not that big - Gentlemen.
We were wondering if there were any other frozen bodies out there.
There's no way of knowing.
It'd be like searching every room in Manhattan.
It'll take a while.
God knows what other surprises are not showing on the sensors.
- That's what we're here to find out.
- (Beckett) Dr Weir.
- Yes? - You'd better come to the infirmary.
- Is our patient awake? - Aye, and she's saying peculiar things.
On our way.
She's drifting in and out, still very weak.
But there's something a wee bit odd about this woman.
She called me Carson.
She knows my name.
- She overheard you talking to someone.
- No.
- I was alone here when she woke up.
- Subconsciously? I've read stories of coma patients It's more than that.
She knows things.
How are you feeling? Look at you! I didn't think I'd see any of you again.
Missed you all so terribly.
- Even you, Rodney.
- You see? I'm sorry? Do we know you? Oh, yes.
I'm you, Elizabeth.
- Time travel? - That's what she said.
She somehow found a way to travel back in time to when the Ancients inhabited the city.
How did she do this? That will be the first question when she wakes up.
- If she ever wakes up.
- There is the possibility she might be What is the clinical term nuts? She may be senile, yes, but that doesn't explain how she knows so much about us.
Is time travel even possible? There's nothing in the laws of physics to prevent it.
Extremely difficult to achieve.
You need to manipulate black holes to create wormholes through points in space and time.
- Not to mention a nice DeLorean.
- Don't get me started on that movie.
I like that movie.
The results of the DNA test.
It's a match.
She is you.
I know what you're thinking.
If she's been waiting all these millennia for us to arrive, why didn't the system attempt to revive her the moment we got here? Answer: It did.
I've been going over the data from our arrival.
One thing we noticed was a sudden power surge in the section where the stasis lab was.
It was trying to revive her, only we didn't know.
We saw more power draining from an already nearly depleted ZPM, so we shut down all secondary systems, almost killed her you.
- How weird is that, huh? - Very.
Very, very weird.
Looking at yourself how you will be.
Actually, how you will be will be different than how she is right now.
The moment she went back in time, she created a separate reality, a second you living in a parallel world.
According to one interpretation of quantum theory.
Simply put, this interpretation states that the universe is split into an infinite number of copies of itself in which every possible outcome to every decision ever made all exists somewhere.
- Simply put.
- Yeah, in a nutshell.
Elizabeth? There's so much to tell you.
- The note I had a note.
- Yes.
Yes, we got your note.
Forgive my bluntness, but we need to know everything about your encounter, beginning when you went back in time, specifically how you went back Rodney let me talk.
Yeah.
There was an accident.
I remember we arrived through the Stargate.
(Old Weir) The lights came on by themselves sensing our presence.
Who's doing that? The city slowly awoke.
Dr Weir, you have to see this.
There are a lot of things I have to see.
Just be careful.
This is the control room.
Obviously their version of a DHD.
- Obviously (!) - Power control systems.
- A computer interface.
- Why don't you find out? We've got lights coming on, air circulating, but no power coming on to these consoles.
(McKay) Wait.
That isn't the way it happened.
Everything came online when we arrived.
Lights, computers, power systems.
- I accessed the database immediately.
- That's not what happened.
Not the first time.
- Isn't there something you can give her? - She's in an extremely fragile state.
Her blood pressure is low, her heart is weak.
If I administer a stimulant, it may induce a dangerous arrhythmia, or worse.
Just enough to keep her alert for a few more minutes at a time.
We hardly get a couple of words out of her before she dozes off.
Which, I might remind you, is not uncommon for a woman of 10,000.
Carson, I understand your reticence, but trust me when I say I believe she can handle it, and I know she'd want it.
OK.
It's OK, Carson.
I'm just as freaked out about all this as you are.
How's our patient doing? Pressure's improving and, as you can tell, she's much more alert.
Are you up for getting outta here? Seeing the city like this, sitting on the surface of the ocean, you can't imagine how relieved I am.
What are you saying? The city didn't rise the first time round? No.
No.
The city was in serious trouble the very moment we arrived.
With temporary battery power, we're trying to access the city's main power systems.
Dr Weir, Colonel Sumner.
Can you come down here? We're three levels down.
- Right away.
- How we doing over there? - Nothing yet.
- Let's see what we can do.
We've only secured a fraction of the place.
It's huge.
- It might really be the lost city of Atlantis? - That's a good bet.
Oh, my God! We're underwater.
(Sumner) I'd say we're under several hundred feet of ocean.
(Sumner) This could be a problem.
Oh, no! Dr Weir, I need to see you in the control room immediately.
The city has a shield, a force field holding the water back.
Or it had a shield.
Power systems are nearing maximum entropy.
Our arrival hastened their depletion big time.
The shield is collapsing rapidly.
Several sections of the city are already flooded.
- Can we use our own power generators? - We probably don't have time to try.
When I say rapidly collapsing, I mean rapidly.
Colonel Sumner, order all your security teams to stop searching the city and fall back to the gate room immediately.
- Sumner, do you copy? - (shouting and rushing water) Colonel Sumner drowned? And he wasn't the only one to perish.
We should evacuate through the Stargate.
We can't.
Power's been diverted to the shield holding the ocean back.
Do we know why this is happening now? Power consumption spiked when we arrived.
- This is happening because we arrived? - Yes.
- What about auxiliary power? - I'll interface with one of our generators.
Grodin, see if you can locate any gate addresses in the database.
There won't be enough power to get back to Earth, but maybe enough for Pegasus.
Some of our team discovered a bay full of ships.
Spaceships? We should check 'em out.
- You could figure out? - I can fly anything.
Good.
Go.
(rumbling) - I'll start with this one.
- What am I looking for? See how many people they can fit.
Two piers are almost entirely flooded, the third about to collapse.
(Sheppard) Dr Weir, these ships can hold several people each.
Learning how to fly 'em is another matter.
I'll see if I can pull up a schematic.
- This ship is different than the others.
- How? It's a different control console.
Zelenka's on his way over.
- Good.
I'm on my way too.
- Oh, no! - What's wrong? - The city's in self-protect mode.
Bulkheads are slamming shut.
People are trapped.
- Wouldn't that protect them? - Most rooms are already breached.
We've got people trapped with water rising.
I'll try to override the system, but it could hamper efforts to power the Stargate.
If these ships are our only way out, don't wait too long to get to the bay.
- Rodney! - Yes, yes, yes.
I heard.
Go.
- How are we doing? - This ship is different.
- What does it do? - I don't know.
I need more time.
You don't have time! It's airtight, I assume? - It's a spaceship.
It better be.
- (McKay) I've located a roof hatch.
- I'll try to get it open.
- (clanging) What was that? Bulkhead doors have slammed shut.
We're locked in! - (Weir) Can you get it open? - I'm trying! Forget it! The gate room's flooding.
Get up here! We're waiting for you! I'm trying to retract the roof.
As soon as it opens, you go.
- Rodney! - There's no time to argue.
Catastrophic failure is imminent.
Just lock yourself in and go.
(Old Weir) There was nothing you could do.
Within seconds the control room was flooded.
I died? You never gave up trying, right until the end.
Well a man wonders how he would choose to go out, given such dire circumstances.
- Now I know.
- Trying to save the lives of others.
But ultimately failing.
- I'm sure if I had a few more seconds - Wait.
Why didn't the failsafe mechanism engage and raise the city? Because there was no failsafe the first time.
Atlantis remained on the ocean floor.
The shield completely collapsed.
Water came crashing in, flooding every room in the city.
You both drowned while attempting to get our people into ships.
And we, along with Dr Zelenka, we found ourselves trapped.
We need to get outta here! - Did McKay get the hatch open? - I do not know.
(Ford) There's six of us stuck in one of the ships! What do we do? - What did you do? - I think I just turned it on.
Stand by, Sergeant.
I'm not much for instruction manuals, but I could use one right about now.
- Oh, my God! - We're in space.
What happened? - Now what did you do? - I don't know.
I just What was that? We were under attack.
We didn't know where we were or who was shooting at us.
And that's when John - Carson! - I need medical assistance asap.
How's she doing? Stabilised, but still very weak, and getting weaker.
(Sheppard) Your own mortality staring you right in the face.
I can't imagine how you must be feeling.
When she looks at me, it's as if she's sensing my thoughts, and I'm sensing hers.
It's very unsettling.
Just when you thought this place couldn't get any weirder.
The puddle jumper they escaped in must have been a time machine, had to have an additional component.
- Flux capacitor.
- Yeah.
The question is, where's the time machine now, hmm? (Weir) Why don't we ask her? What happened? Can you tell us? The ship that you escaped in, where is it now? It's gone.
- Who is shooting at us? - How do we shoot back? Did I do that? Hang on! The next thing I knew I woke up here.
You mean now? No.
Then.
You're awake.
(Old Weir) His name was Janus.
He healed my wounds and explained to me what had happened.
Your ship was shot down.
We retrieved it from the ocean floor.
Major Sheppard, Dr Zelenka? No one survived.
Ha! Ah, the bitter taste of ultimate failure, hmm? If you'd figured out how to fix the damn shield, none of us would have died.
I valiantly attempted to save your sorry Gentlemen.
Focus.
Please, continue.
Needless to say, I was very confused.
He explained to me that the ship we had escaped in was a time machine.
He was the one who built it.
After I was feeling better, he brought me before the Atlantean Council.
We welcome you to the city of Atlantis.
Thank you.
Your arrival has come at a time of great conflict.
We've been under siege and have submerged our city for protection.
Yes, it's how we found the city when we came through the Stargate.
- From Earth? - Yes.
It should be noted that our actions have succeeded in protecting the city for so many years.
Let us hope Dr Weir's arrival has not altered this eventuality.
By encountering the Wraith, she may have already set in motion events that could lead to a future far different from the one she left.
I'm sorry.
What are the Wraith? They told me of beings called Wraiths, a vicious, formidable enemy whose power and technology rivalled their own.
Yes, actually, we've already The Atlanteans sent a delegation, protected by their most powerful warships, in the faint hope of negotiating a truce.
One on one, the Atlantean ships were more powerful, but the Wraith were so many.
After that great battle it was only a matter of time.
We're awaiting our offworld transport ships before beginning our evacuation.
- Where will you go? - We're returning to Earth.
You're welcome to join us.
Thank you.
That's very kind, but I'm sure you must understand my desire to return to the future, to my people.
I was hoping to be able to use the time machine again and programme it to arrive at the moment we came through the Stargate, and if you had a ZPM I could take back with me, that would help us considerably.
- The power systems were depleted - No.
Enough of this tampering with time.
- Causality is not to be treated lightly.
- No one's treating it lightly.
You are, with your insistence on continuing these experiments, despite the condemnation of this Council.
We ordered you to cease these activities and yet here we sit, face to face with a visitor from the future, who arrived here in the very machine you agreed not to construct.
We are about to evacuate this city in the hope that it will lie safe for many years and then, one day, our kind will return.
And they have.
Because of my experiments, we now have the opportunity Enough! We have no time for this.
I'm hereby ordering the destruction of this time-travel device and all the materials connected with its design.
You are welcome to return to Earth with our people.
You shall not be returning to yours.
The tests confirm her skeletal, muscular, circulatory and neuroendocrine systems have all been decimated by age.
I'm seeing renal failure, liver failure and evidence of a stroke.
- How long does she have? - I doubt she'll live out the night.
Please.
I don't know how much time I have left to tell the story I have waited so long to tell.
Oh The Council, they were very upset.
You said they decided to destroy the time machine.
I tried to talk them out of it.
I didn't give up hope.
Thankfully, I had an ally.
You need to talk to Moros.
Dr Weir was brought here through no fault of her own.
- She shouldn't be punished.
- She's free to come to Earth.
She needs to return to her time, not remain in ours.
That's not possible.
I'm sorry.
Wait.
I don't think you understand how far we've come, or how much my people have sacrificed in the hopes of meeting you.
We call you the Ancients, the gate builders.
We've crossed galaxies in the hopes of finding a great people.
Please, is there no other way you can help? We could block the Stargate permanently after the evacuation.
That way, your team will be unable to come here.
The city may never be found.
- But their lives would be saved.
- Thank you for your offer.
But we are explorers, just like you.
Which should come as no surprise, since they are the second evolution of our kind.
Don't you understand? This city will survive 10,000 years.
The Council's decision is final.
Of course, Janus refused to concede defeat.
The more someone told him not to do something, the more he had to do it.
So he came up with an alternate plan behind the Council's back.
It was all I could do to try to keep pace with him.
May I ask what it is you're doing? Calculating the necessary power needed.
- Needed for? - The shield collapsed after your arrival.
I have to find a way to extend the supply of power.
- What is it you called them? - ZPM.
Zero-point module.
Yes.
They operate in parallel, providing power to the city simultaneously.
However, used in sequence, it may be possible to sustain the necessary power for the needed time.
(Old Weir) I couldn't believe my eyes.
Three ZPMs right in front of me.
There is one small problem, however.
Someone will need to remain to transfer the power from one device to the other, to rotate them sequentially.
- Over thousands of years? - It is possible.
(Council member) Janus, please report to Central Control.
Their transport ship was inbound.
It was taking heavy fire.
(inbound ship) Cloaking shields damaged.
We're returning fire.
- There's too many enemy ships.
- And more coming.
Engage auxiliary power.
Try to outrun them.
(shouting and explosions) There are over 300 people on that transport.
The shields are down! (shouting) (big explosion) Begin evacuation.
We must leave now.
Damn.
Fell asleep again.
Well, you're not the only one.
- Are you in any pain? - Would we admit it if we were? I wish there was more we could do for you.
Look at you.
Always worrying.
You put too much pressure on yourself.
Remember that miserable Baltic negotiation? What Simon told us afterwards? "Breathe", among other things.
Enjoy the moment, what's here right now.
The sun the breeze.
Our birthday.
Sheppard couldn't keep it to himself, huh? I'm just saying stop being so damn hard on yourself.
Life is quick.
- Not for you.
- It was my choice, Elizabeth.
I didn't second-guess it then, and I don't regret it now.
- Where is Dr Weir? - She's gone through the gate.
She was among the first to evacuate.
Good.
(Old Weir) Janus prepared the stasis chamber for me, said it would be like a deep, dreamless sleep.
I'm inputting commands for the system to revive you at intervals of 3.
3 thousand years to rotate the ZPMs.
I'll give you instructions on how to reactivate the stasis process.
I'm entering commands to commence final revival the moment sensors indicate the presence of your expedition team.
Look, I feel that I must tell you that there is a possibility, remote as it is, that this might not succeed.
I know.
It's impossible to predict what'll happen.
I'm convinced that you will survive.
But if you don't, I've programmed a failsafe mechanism to protect the city.
- A failsafe? - Yes.
If the power drains, the mechanism holding the city will release and it will rise to the surface.
Really? (Old Weir) And then they left, all of them, returning to Earth through the Stargate.
What's all that? My research.
You're gonna build another time ship.
Doubt I'll succeed.
The Council will be watching.
I'm sure you'll find a way.
I've blocked all addresses to the gate except Earth.
You will be safe.
- Thank you.
- Thank you for giving me the hope that Atlantis will survive another 10,000 years after you discover it again.
I'm ready.
(Old Weir) And then I was alone.
I set the city to slumber and began my long journey home.
It worked the stasis, the failsafe.
You gave up your entire life.
No, because we are the same person.
The best part of my life is just beginning.
I'm exploring a new galaxy.
I have years ahead of me still.
Trust yourself, Elizabeth.
All that matters is right now.
And the note, I wrote it in case I didn't survive.
Has Rodney figured it out yet? - Five gate addresses.
- Outposts.
Each one with a zero-point module.
Janus told me.
The note she left, it's coordinates of planets to have known ZPMs.
- (Sheppard) They could still be there.
- (McKay) M7G-677! We've got We're about to start our mission briefing, so I'll be right there.
Actually, John give me a minute, will you? Sure.