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She used to leave the lights on,
all over the house.
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Every room.
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It drove my father nuts!
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For me it was my brother.
Only we had no lights.
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He used to leave candles burning everywhere.
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Yeah well, you know what? No-one wants to hear any more
stories about how poor you were as a child, alright?
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We already feel as sorry for you
as is humanly possible.
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He burned the house down, you know.
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My sister was afraid of the dark
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only used to blame me for leaving the lights on.
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Of course my father believed her.
He never sided with me.
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We had to live in a tent
in the dead of winter for three months.
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You know, at least my stories
relate to what we're doing.
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So do mine.
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You know, we're trekking all over the City,
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shutting down everything the Ancients
activated while they were oh so briefly in control,
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so that we can stop the power
from draining from our one precious ZedPM.
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How does that relate to your idiot brother
burning the house down?
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If we don't succeed...
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We're not going to have
to live in a tent in the dead of winter!
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It's a metaphor.
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- Doctor McKay
- Thank God!
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The control panel.
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- It's completely shot.
- Really? You think so?
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You know, I don't get these Ancients.
They're supposed to be so smart,
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but why activate something that
you don't need and you're not using...?
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Well, maybe they didn't have time to get to it,
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you know, before the human-form Replicators
that you reprogrammed, attacked.
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Yes, yes, we all know what happened!
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Ah...
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Voila!
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You're just angry that you couldn't figure out
how to override the Ancient protocols
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that kept us from shutting down
this place remotely from the control room.
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Hey, neither could you!
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Yes, but I didn't bet everyone
a months pay that I could do it.
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You... OK, you know what, look around,
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see if you can figure out how
to turn this place off, whatever it is.
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Hey...
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are you sure you should be going up there?
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How else am I gonna find out what this room does...?
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God forbid there should be
anything in the Ancient database.
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Ah, there probably is,
we just don't have the time to...
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Ah, here we go.
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- OK, there should be a main power switch...
- Yes, I know that! What do you think I'm doing?
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Alright.
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Alright, double or nothing.
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- Oh, you're on.
- Alright.
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Alright. It's gonna be around here somewhere.
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Rodney...
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what happened?
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I'm not sure...
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but I think I just lost...
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big time.
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Season 3, Episode 14
Tao of McKay
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Transcript by Callie Sullivan & Suzanna
Czech translation by Klenotka.
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Subtitles by SG-66
www.seriestele.net
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As far as I can tell, he's fine.
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I was hit by a mysterious energy pulse.
How can that possibly be fine?
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I've run every test I can.
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Bloodwork, MRI's, X-Rays, the lot.
I found no anomalies in any of the results.
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OK, one more time! Mysterious energy pulse,
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from a device created by the Ancients?
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I mean, who knows what kind of
long term effects I could be in for.
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I mean there's gross mutation,
giantism, invisibility...
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That would be cool. I turned into a bug.
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Alright. Like I said, as far as I can tell,
he's as healthy as a horse.
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- I'm clearing you for active duty.
- Are you insane?!
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Look, I need to be put under guard.
Who knows what I could become.
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What are the chances
it could make him more pleasant?
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- Oh, thank you.
- I'll keep an eye on him.
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Thank you.
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Can you still see me?
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What are you saying?
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That you were showing off!
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Normally, if Doctor Esposito weren't around,
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I doubt you would have been
as reckless as you were.
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Are you insane?
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- Which one's Esposito?
- Oh the... the long dark hair?
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Oh right, the one with the perfect little...
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Would you mind?
We're trying to work here.
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For the record, I was gonna say smile.
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Yeah, sure you were. What have you got?
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Nothing.
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Whatever you did fried all the power conduits
leading into the room.
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Whatever I did?
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Look, up until very recently,
this lab was entirely under water,
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quite possible for over 10,000 years.
How is that my fault?
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Well, that part of it isn't.
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OK, that's it. I'm going for lunch.
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How's he doing?
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Same old Rodney.
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You sure?
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He looks a couple of pounds heavier to me.
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Ronon.
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What?
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He eats all the time.
It's not like he exercises.
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He's feeding his unhappiness.
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Hello, I'm right here! I can...
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I can hear you.
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For your information!
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I'm exactly the same weight
I've been since I got here.
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I need to eat regularly,
otherwise I become hypoglycemic
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and I am generally a very happy person!
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Colonel Sheppard, please have your team report
to the control room, immediately!
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Colonel Sheppard.
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We received this transmission
six minutes ago from Major Lorne's team.
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Atlantis base. Repeat!
We are under attack and cut off from the Gate.
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I counted at least 20, maybe more!
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Request backup immediately!
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- Where are they?
- M72-656.
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Have a team of marines
meet us in the Jumper bay.
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Doctor Weir...
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any word?
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Not yet.
But, it has only been an hour.
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- You wanted to see me.
- Yes. I could use your help.
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I managed to get power to part of the console,
to access the labs research logs.
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- Well, that's good news.
- Well, I'm not so sure.
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I could use a second opinion.
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It seems much of this refers to
different elements of human physiology.
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It mentions the mutation of base genetic coding?
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I realise Doctor Beckett said that
there were no evident effects,
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from Rodney's exposure to the device.
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- It seems...
- It's meant to manipulate human DNA.
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Doctor Weir to the Jumper Bay.
The rescue team has returned.
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Let's go.
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What else could it be?
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You're losing your mind.
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I'm telling you it's a bit of a coincidence...
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Well then, prove it!
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Colonel?
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Everyone's present and accounted for.
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How bad is it and who's been hit?
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No-one Doc, we're all fine, thanks to...
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- McKay.
- So he says.
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Rodney?
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Well to be honest, I'm not entirely sure.
I wasn't even sure it was me, at first, but...
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the correlation is impossible to ignore.
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I saw Lorne's team pinned down,
the bad guys closing in, and I just thought...
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You know, wouldn't it be great
if all of their weapons jammed...
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at the same time?
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Next thing I know, they're all running away, so...
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So you think, because you wanted it to happen,
it just did.
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It was a little more than that!
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OK, you know what?
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Watch this!
I'll...
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Rodney!
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Rodney?
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Believe me, I find this just as disturbing as you do.
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Like bloody hell you do!
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Put him down.
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Oh God...
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Have there been any other instances
of this power manifesting itself?
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Powers, plural.
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What else can you do, besides telekinesis?
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Well, super hearing for one and I'm not sure,
but I think I may actually be getting smarter.
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It's hard to say for sure, because
I was pretty smart to start with. But...
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Recently I've been having some ideas that I don't think
even I would have thought of before.
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Does super-ego count as a power?
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Oh, finally! Look, keep it coming!
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We may also be dealing with a super appetite, although
it's hard to tell because he ate so much before.
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Very funny.
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My God, he's eating again?
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- I have a very active metabolism.
- Aye, among other things.
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The scan show a dramatic increase
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in synaptic interaction throughout all
the sections of Rodney's brain.
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Much higher than normal human levels.
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There was an incident at SGC, just over a year ago.
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I recall that file.
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I studied the data.
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Fascinating.
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SG-1 discovered a highly evolved human being in stasis.
Turned out...
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he was the result of experimentation
by a Goa'uld named Anubis.
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He was trying to create a means of
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artificially accelerating human physiology
to the point of Ascension.
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Look, that device I found must have been
some kind of an accelerator.
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We know that the Ancients developed
all kinds of powers as they evolved.
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So, it's just a matter of bad luck that
we didn't run into that lab earlier.
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Seriously!
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Me, a super hero.
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Who would have thought it?
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Look, we all agree,
the Ancients were pretty screwed up.
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We do?
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Well, all the ones I met were arrogant,
condescending, and not for good reason!
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But they made giant mistakes and never fixed them.
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They were still Human.
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But then there were all those crazy rules.
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Those only came after they ascended.
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Whatever!
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Maybe this thing doesn't work on everyone, who knows,
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- but we do know it works on McKay.
- It's only been a day.
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Assuming it's safe. But to be honest, even if it's not,
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if we can get a significant advantage
over the Wraith and the Replicators...
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John, I agree, this device may have great potential.
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And with great potential comes
great responsibility, I know.
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Like a lot of other things we have found in this City,
it is a very advanced piece of technology.
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For all we know, it could also be very dangerous.
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- I'm just saying...
- Yes, you can be next.
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Thank you!
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You know, if you're compiling a list, I...
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- Could we stay focused, please?
- Right.
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Come on, you can't keep me cooped up in here, forever.
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You might not be sick, Rodney, but I think we could
both agree what's happening here is far from normal.
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Exactly! So let me go out and start
using my powers to do some good.
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Oh! Are you going to finish that?
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I'm serious!
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We have no idea of the extent of your genetic mutation.
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Please, mutation has such negative connotations.
Advancement is more like it.
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Until we know exactly what is going on here...
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Carson!
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I'm still me! Anyway, it's not like you or these guys
could stop me from leaving, anyways.
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No, but I could!
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Oh, you care to put that to a test?
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Do you?
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Well, no, not really.
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Anyways, as I was saying, I think you're fine
to go about your daily duties
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- as long as you have someone with you, and you...
- Check in every couple of hours, yes, yes, bye bye!
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You know, we could be a team.
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You could be my sidekick.
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Sidekick?
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Yeah, it would be like Batman and Ronon.
Has a nice ring to it.
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Yeah, you keep eating like that
it's gonna be more like, Fatman.
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I'm warning you,
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you will probably be bored out of your mind,
unless you find incredibly advanced physics to be...
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Really?
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- What?
- You think so?
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Hey, she thinks I'm hot!
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- I didn't say anything.
- No-no-no, I'm sure that you...
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Oh, of course not, I should have known.
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She meant you.
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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McKay, she didn't say a word.
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Oh my God, I can read minds.
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This is cool!
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No it isn't.
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Oh I'm fine.
No, yes and it doesn't.
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- What?
- I can read your mind. Everyone's actually.
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That was very cool for the first like,
ten seconds there, but,
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now I'm finding it a little disturbing, so
I'm trying to tune it out as much as I possibly can...
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Well, sort of. Anyways, look, I wanted to get
your permission to access the Control Chair.
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I've got some...
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pretty interesting ideas for maximising our ZedPM.
I reconfigured the City's power systems...
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it's too complicated to explain but
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trust me when I say that you are going to be
incredibly happy with the results.
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Look, Elizabeth, I know... you have
every right not to trust me but I promise you,
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I'm gonna make things much, much better, OK?
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Good. She wants you to shoot me
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if you think for even one second that I might be
trying to take over the City for my own evil purposes.
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I'm kidding. That was a joke.
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Is your weapon set to... stun?
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Wait... never mind. There... I did it myself.
OK, to the Chair Room, Ronon.
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Can I shoot him now?
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I can hear you!
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Look, she just wants you to keep a close eye on me!
C'mon, let's go. Chop, chop... much to do.
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I will send a science team down to supervise.
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* Not like that, this is crap. *
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What the hell is he doing?
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Don't ask me.
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Actually, I wasn't.
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I have no idea.
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Rodney, you are affecting power all over the City.
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I know.
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Awesome isn't it?
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No.
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I can't work.
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It's just temporary.
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Rodney, I'm trying to determine
if that device did any permanent damage to you.
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Quite frankly, given your usually
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rampant hypochondria,
I'm surprised you don't seem to care.
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- You're jealous.
- That is ridiculous.
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You should be working with me,
trying to figure out what is happening to you.
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Instead, you're here burying your head in the sand.
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That is not true.
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My head, which happens
to be housing my ever-evolving brain...
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is actually being better utilised here
doing important things that will affect everybody.
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* I am not gonna work with him.
I can f*** at this. He is... *
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He tries to hide it, but deep down,
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I'm the wind beneath his wings.
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Well, how's it coming?
279
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Actually, I think I'm just getting to the good bit.
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Don't you hate it when people interrupt right
when things are getting good?
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I know McKay is some super-genius now, but...
282
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I find the flickering lights incredibly unnerving.
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The Doctor Coleman has...
284
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however reluctantly...
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admitted...
286
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it does seem as if Rodney is significantly
improving the City's power system.
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Whatever.
288
00:15:04,988 --> 00:15:06,990
Anyway, you were saying?
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Well...
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we know the Ancients evolved physiologically
to a certain point where they
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could transform into a state of pure energy.
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Ancient history 101.
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Yes. We also know that not all of them
managed to get there.
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You're saying some of them
needed a kick in the pants.
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So to speak.
296
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I think this machine was not meant
to help them fight the war against the Wraith
297
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but rather to help them escape it.
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An ascension machine?
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Like the one the Goa'uld tried
to create in the Milky Way.
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00:15:40,524 --> 00:15:43,360
Are you saying McKay's going to ascend?
301
00:15:44,570 --> 00:15:47,698
Unfortunately there's a whole lot more
to ascension than just being physically evolved.
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00:15:47,739 --> 00:15:52,202
Believe me, after spending six months
with a bunch of pansy wannabes, I know.
303
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But, what does this mean for McKay?
304
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Like I said, just getting to the good bit.
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I'll leave you to it.
306
00:16:02,462 --> 00:16:03,922
John, wait!
307
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We need to talk to Rodney, right away.
308
00:16:13,223 --> 00:16:14,725
You can all relax.
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I'll have us back online in two minutes.
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We need to talk to you.
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What do you mean, I'm gonna die?
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I'm not even sick! I feel great, never better!
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- That Ancient device...
- has accelerated my evolution.
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Eventually I'll reach a point where
I'm physically capable of ascension,
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00:16:31,825 --> 00:16:33,827
but ascension takes more than that... there's a...
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there's a mental component.
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I need to know how to make it happen...
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which I don't.
319
00:16:39,166 --> 00:16:40,375
Yet!
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00:16:40,459 --> 00:16:44,713
I'm getting smarter by the minute. It's a pretty good
assumption I'll be able to figure it out on the way...
321
00:16:44,755 --> 00:16:48,675
OK, so it's not as easy as that. Well, even if I don't,
so I stay a highly-evolved human.
322
00:16:48,717 --> 00:16:51,053
I mean, I don't have to ascend...
it's, it's a choice, right?
323
00:16:51,220 --> 00:16:53,180
No? What do you mean, no?
324
00:16:53,388 --> 00:16:56,517
Oh, that stupid Ancient device
doesn't work properly, does it?
325
00:16:56,725 --> 00:17:01,730
It's set in motion a series of genetic mutations
that will result in my death if I don't ascend?!
326
00:17:01,772 --> 00:17:03,857
There is something easier about this.
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00:17:03,899 --> 00:17:06,235
That's why the Ancients
didn't put it into common use...
328
00:17:06,401 --> 00:17:10,822
it's just one more in a long line of abysmal,
over-ambitious failures!
329
00:17:11,323 --> 00:17:12,699
Oh God!
330
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I'm a dead man!
331
00:17:13,825 --> 00:17:15,744
- Doctor McKay
- Yes, yes, I just...
332
00:17:15,786 --> 00:17:19,790
it's because I stopped in the middle.
I will fix it... just give me a second here.
333
00:17:25,045 --> 00:17:26,213
That's it!
334
00:17:26,296 --> 00:17:28,924
* I will kill him,
he is nuts, complete idiot. *
335
00:17:28,966 --> 00:17:31,635
OK, there's still time left, right,
so maybe there's a way to reverse the process.
336
00:17:31,677 --> 00:17:34,137
Zelenka! Where's Zelenka?
What the hell has he been doing?
337
00:17:34,179 --> 00:17:37,558
We have massive power surges throughout the grid.
Shut down protocols are not responding.
338
00:17:37,599 --> 00:17:38,725
Dammit!
339
00:17:54,616 --> 00:17:56,451
Come on Radek! Come on!
340
00:17:56,577 --> 00:17:58,078
He's not breathing, we need to intubate.
341
00:17:58,120 --> 00:17:59,913
Start an IV wide open.
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00:18:00,622 --> 00:18:02,249
Get that monitor set up.
343
00:18:03,750 --> 00:18:06,837
Right, on my count.
One, two, three.
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00:18:08,797 --> 00:18:09,590
Radek!
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00:18:09,631 --> 00:18:11,341
Get the leads set up, please.
346
00:18:12,342 --> 00:18:14,636
He's in V-tach. Prepare to de-fib.
347
00:18:15,846 --> 00:18:17,347
- Clear.
- Move.
348
00:18:17,389 --> 00:18:18,932
- Rodney, the man is dying!
- No!
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00:18:18,974 --> 00:18:20,934
Just give me a second. I know.
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00:18:45,167 --> 00:18:46,752
Heart rate's good.
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00:18:47,794 --> 00:18:49,463
Breathing's steady.
352
00:18:51,381 --> 00:18:52,966
Pulse is good.
353
00:18:58,138 --> 00:18:59,264
Radek...
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00:18:59,598 --> 00:19:01,099
are you OK?
355
00:19:02,559 --> 00:19:04,228
What happened?
356
00:19:20,494 --> 00:19:21,703
Rodney.
357
00:19:21,745 --> 00:19:23,080
Hold on!
358
00:19:24,831 --> 00:19:27,334
I see you've been busy.
359
00:19:27,668 --> 00:19:29,753
Yeah, I invented a new math.
360
00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:30,963
Really.
361
00:19:31,004 --> 00:19:34,007
It's gonna change the human
understanding of the universe as we know it.
362
00:19:34,258 --> 00:19:36,760
How is Zelenka?
363
00:19:37,511 --> 00:19:38,929
You need to ask?
364
00:19:38,971 --> 00:19:40,472
I'm blocking out people's thoughts.
365
00:19:40,514 --> 00:19:43,684
It was becoming too overwhelming.
I wasn't able to think.
366
00:19:44,977 --> 00:19:46,103
Rodney.
367
00:19:46,144 --> 00:19:48,146
I know what you're gonna say.
368
00:19:48,188 --> 00:19:50,607
Oh, no... just intuition, I swear.
369
00:19:50,649 --> 00:19:51,650
I just...
370
00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:55,529
I tried to fix the Ancient device
but it wasn't meant to reverse the process.
371
00:19:55,654 --> 00:19:58,907
Once the mutation has started,
it cannot be stopped.
372
00:19:59,449 --> 00:20:01,285
Actually,
373
00:20:03,579 --> 00:20:08,584
I was gonna say, if you want
any help in understanding ascension.
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00:20:12,588 --> 00:20:13,797
Well, I've already...
375
00:20:13,839 --> 00:20:16,800
- re-read everything I could in the database.
- Well, it's not exactly a
376
00:20:16,842 --> 00:20:19,136
- clear-cut set of instructions, is it?
- No.
377
00:20:19,178 --> 00:20:19,928
And to be honest, you know,
378
00:20:19,970 --> 00:20:22,431
I've never really been all that big on
the whole idea of ascending in the first place.
379
00:20:22,472 --> 00:20:24,600
There's too many rules, you know?
380
00:20:24,766 --> 00:20:25,726
I mean,
381
00:20:25,767 --> 00:20:28,270
to me, life is about working towards achievement,
382
00:20:28,312 --> 00:20:29,521
you know? Discovering things...
383
00:20:29,563 --> 00:20:31,190
- Getting credit for it.
- Exactly!
384
00:20:31,231 --> 00:20:32,774
I mean, once you know it all, what do you do then?
385
00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:33,942
I don't know.
386
00:20:33,984 --> 00:20:37,362
I don't think that ascension necessarily means the end.
387
00:20:37,404 --> 00:20:38,197
Yeah, see...
388
00:20:38,238 --> 00:20:40,073
I'm not very big on leaps of faith either.
389
00:20:40,115 --> 00:20:43,202
I mean, sure, there was a part of me that, from
the beginning knew that this was too good to be true.
390
00:20:43,243 --> 00:20:48,248
Nothing this great could ever happen to me
without really, really bad consequences.
391
00:20:48,957 --> 00:20:51,001
Anyways, now I have
come to terms with that
392
00:20:51,043 --> 00:20:53,545
and I just wanna get as much done
in the time I have left and not
393
00:20:53,587 --> 00:20:56,924
waste my time on a bunch of mumbo jumbo
I'm not going to understand anyways.
394
00:20:57,716 --> 00:21:02,471
Oh, I've uh, come up with a way
for increasing the Daedalus' shield power.
395
00:21:02,513 --> 00:21:06,475
Tell Hermiod to give me a call if he needs
any help understanding the base code.
396
00:21:06,517 --> 00:21:09,603
I'm sure Colonel Caldwell will be thrilled.
397
00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:13,357
Look Rodney,
398
00:21:13,899 --> 00:21:15,484
I'm not gonna try to convince you
399
00:21:15,526 --> 00:21:19,613
that ascension is right for you or
even possible for that matter, I don't know.
400
00:21:19,863 --> 00:21:20,864
But,
401
00:21:21,073 --> 00:21:23,784
I wonder if you have considered the fact that
402
00:21:24,034 --> 00:21:27,579
if you did somehow manage to ascend,
you can always,
403
00:21:27,621 --> 00:21:30,415
theoretically, retake human form?
404
00:21:33,168 --> 00:21:34,837
Why didn't I think of that?
405
00:21:35,003 --> 00:21:36,255
I don't think it's gonna work.
406
00:21:36,296 --> 00:21:37,714
I had this shipped from the SGC.
407
00:21:37,756 --> 00:21:40,759
Aye, I know, the Ancient device used
to measure a persons synaptic activity.
408
00:21:40,801 --> 00:21:43,178
Ah, more than that. The brains evolutionary level.
409
00:21:43,220 --> 00:21:45,264
Look, it's basically an asendometer.
410
00:21:45,389 --> 00:21:47,432
I really don't think we're going
about this the right way.
411
00:21:47,474 --> 00:21:50,686
If you're a highly evolved super-genius,
put up your hand.
412
00:21:52,771 --> 00:21:55,274
- From everything I read about the subject area...
- Look,
413
00:21:55,315 --> 00:22:00,112
when you get down to it, even mental states
are actually only physical states, are they not?
414
00:22:00,153 --> 00:22:02,489
I mean, the brain is just a chemical supercomputer.
415
00:22:02,531 --> 00:22:06,326
- Oh, I suppose an incredibly complex...
- Yes, is all you need to say, my friend. Look,
416
00:22:06,368 --> 00:22:08,912
the universe may seem mystical to...
417
00:22:08,954 --> 00:22:11,248
those without understanding,
when in truth,
418
00:22:11,290 --> 00:22:14,251
anything and everything can be quantified.
419
00:22:14,293 --> 00:22:16,420
Look, all that hocus pocus stuff is just a...
420
00:22:16,461 --> 00:22:18,005
way of getting the brain into the...
421
00:22:18,046 --> 00:22:22,176
proper electro-chemical state,
to allow the final physical evolution.
422
00:22:22,217 --> 00:22:26,054
At which point the matter that makes up
this body will turn into pure energy.
423
00:22:26,096 --> 00:22:27,097
Look...
424
00:22:27,139 --> 00:22:29,266
what mere mortals
425
00:22:29,308 --> 00:22:32,311
would refer to as the mystery of ascension
426
00:22:32,352 --> 00:22:35,564
is actually just a scientific process.
Just protons and electrons.
427
00:22:35,606 --> 00:22:37,274
- Protons and electrons.
- If you say so.
428
00:22:37,316 --> 00:22:39,484
Now, if you don't mind, can we...
429
00:22:44,698 --> 00:22:47,701
Now, based on what I've extrapolated from the...
430
00:22:47,743 --> 00:22:48,994
Ancient research,
431
00:22:49,036 --> 00:22:52,831
I have been able to set measurable parameters
for achieving the proper mental state.
432
00:22:52,873 --> 00:22:57,127
Once I reach 96% synaptic connection
as measured by this device,
433
00:22:57,169 --> 00:23:02,841
all I need to do is maintain an EEG frequency
of 0.1 to 0.9 hertz and presto,
434
00:23:03,258 --> 00:23:05,969
I rise to a higher plane of existence.
435
00:23:06,011 --> 00:23:10,766
Ok, let's assume for one completely
insane moment, that you are right.
436
00:23:10,807 --> 00:23:14,311
Those frequencies are associated
with near comatose patients.
437
00:23:14,353 --> 00:23:16,063
No-one who's actually awake can just
438
00:23:16,104 --> 00:23:17,856
will themselves anywhere close to that,
439
00:23:17,898 --> 00:23:21,818
- no matter how bloody relaxed they are.
- No unevolved person.
440
00:23:22,236 --> 00:23:24,947
- Give it a rest, Rodney.
- Just turn it on.
441
00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:31,578
Your synaptic activity's abnormally high. Over 60%.
442
00:23:31,620 --> 00:23:35,249
Yes, I don't have much time left. As I said, by my
calculations, when I reach 96%,
443
00:23:35,290 --> 00:23:36,875
I either ascend or die.
444
00:23:36,917 --> 00:23:38,502
Now, what's my EEG?
445
00:23:38,544 --> 00:23:42,464
29 Hertz, which is about average for someone
in an extremely heightened, wakeful state.
446
00:23:42,506 --> 00:23:44,925
OK, so I just need to clear my mind and...
447
00:23:45,133 --> 00:23:46,426
relax.
448
00:23:49,054 --> 00:23:49,930
What's it at now?
449
00:23:49,972 --> 00:23:50,973
- Thirty.
- What?
450
00:23:51,014 --> 00:23:53,100
Oh come on, that's impossible.
You must have me hooked up wrong.
451
00:23:53,141 --> 00:23:56,436
No I didn't, thank you very much.
We're getting a clear reading.
452
00:23:56,812 --> 00:23:57,688
Rodney,
453
00:23:57,729 --> 00:24:00,190
the Ancients that eventually learned to ascend,
454
00:24:00,232 --> 00:24:03,068
dedicated their entire lives
preparing for this moment.
455
00:24:03,110 --> 00:24:04,069
Trust me, this will work.
456
00:24:04,111 --> 00:24:06,905
I just need some more time.
Now stop talking so much, you're...
457
00:24:06,947 --> 00:24:08,949
you're rippling my pond.
458
00:24:14,997 --> 00:24:19,042
I think he's having a hard time accepting
this can't be solved with science.
459
00:24:19,084 --> 00:24:21,378
No matter how brilliant he is.
460
00:24:21,461 --> 00:24:22,921
You know what he needs?
461
00:24:23,755 --> 00:24:26,466
He needs to release his burden.
462
00:24:27,092 --> 00:24:28,969
Yeah, well, you know McKay.
463
00:24:30,012 --> 00:24:32,723
Maybe Dr Heightmeyer can help.
464
00:24:32,931 --> 00:24:35,601
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of you.
465
00:24:35,642 --> 00:24:36,476
Me?
466
00:24:37,728 --> 00:24:40,647
You lived with the Ancients for six months
on the brink of ascension.
467
00:24:40,689 --> 00:24:43,942
You helped them face their fears
and finally ascend.
468
00:24:43,984 --> 00:24:46,695
I fought a scary monster. That's what I do best.
469
00:24:46,904 --> 00:24:48,155
And for Rodney,
470
00:24:48,197 --> 00:24:51,074
I'm sure this seems like a really scary monster.
471
00:24:55,829 --> 00:24:58,707
I don't think this is gonna work with
you still hooked up to the machine.
472
00:24:58,749 --> 00:25:00,584
How else am I gonna know if it's working at all?
473
00:25:00,626 --> 00:25:02,628
Look, you're teaching me how to meditate.
474
00:25:02,669 --> 00:25:06,298
- Not exactly good odds there to start with.
- I realise that.
475
00:25:06,507 --> 00:25:08,050
Truth is,
476
00:25:08,258 --> 00:25:10,677
I was never really very good at this myself.
477
00:25:10,719 --> 00:25:12,554
So why am I here?
478
00:25:12,596 --> 00:25:16,099
- Elizabeth made me.
- Oh. Yeah, me too.
479
00:25:16,391 --> 00:25:17,809
I was with those Ancients for six months.
480
00:25:17,851 --> 00:25:20,479
Maybe I picked up something
that might be able to help you.
481
00:25:23,398 --> 00:25:26,318
First thing I think you need
to come to terms with...
482
00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:27,778
is...
483
00:25:27,819 --> 00:25:29,446
this is not a means to an end.
484
00:25:29,488 --> 00:25:30,280
What?
485
00:25:30,489 --> 00:25:33,700
- Well, of course it is.
- No, you can't do that. You can't think
486
00:25:33,742 --> 00:25:36,954
that you're just gonna ascend and
then retake human form and be done with it all.
487
00:25:36,995 --> 00:25:39,248
That is exactly what I'm trying to do.
488
00:25:39,289 --> 00:25:43,001
Look, from what I understand,
dishonesty's not gonna help the process.
489
00:25:43,961 --> 00:25:44,837
Good point.
490
00:25:44,878 --> 00:25:46,755
You know, while we're at it,
my knees are killing me.
491
00:25:46,797 --> 00:25:48,090
How's anyone relax like this?
492
00:25:48,131 --> 00:25:50,509
Find a position that works.
493
00:25:50,551 --> 00:25:52,177
Right. OK.
494
00:25:53,554 --> 00:25:54,763
Fine.
495
00:25:55,097 --> 00:25:56,306
Now.
496
00:25:56,890 --> 00:25:59,268
I want you to become aware of your breaths...
497
00:25:59,685 --> 00:26:01,144
going in...
498
00:26:01,270 --> 00:26:03,021
and out of your body.
499
00:26:03,063 --> 00:26:04,189
In...
500
00:26:04,690 --> 00:26:06,567
and out.
501
00:26:06,608 --> 00:26:08,861
Do it without talking.
502
00:26:09,486 --> 00:26:11,154
Oh, right.
503
00:26:12,072 --> 00:26:13,240
Now,
504
00:26:14,283 --> 00:26:17,828
I want you to think about the things
you worry about the most.
505
00:26:17,870 --> 00:26:20,747
- You mean, like death?
- There's no talking.
506
00:26:21,707 --> 00:26:24,710
Think of anything that makes you anxious.
507
00:26:24,751 --> 00:26:26,795
Oh God, there's so many things.
508
00:26:26,837 --> 00:26:29,506
- Not talking, happens to be one of them, by the way.
- Deal with it!
509
00:26:31,383 --> 00:26:32,634
Now,
510
00:26:33,677 --> 00:26:37,431
- imagine yourself sitting on a ferris wheel.
- What?
511
00:26:37,639 --> 00:26:42,019
Look, I told you I didn't pay much attention
to what the Ancients were teaching me.
512
00:26:42,060 --> 00:26:44,521
I like ferris wheels, so that's what I thought about.
513
00:26:44,563 --> 00:26:46,565
And the fact that the woman
514
00:26:46,607 --> 00:26:48,483
teaching me how to meditate, was...
515
00:26:49,234 --> 00:26:50,235
very attractive.
516
00:26:50,277 --> 00:26:52,321
Why am I not surprised you didn't ascend...?
517
00:26:52,362 --> 00:26:54,323
OK, look, I'm a busy man.
518
00:26:54,364 --> 00:26:56,033
You're a busy man. We're both busy men.
519
00:26:56,074 --> 00:27:00,204
Just relax, alright? I'm gonna try and
remember what the woman taught me.
520
00:27:01,205 --> 00:27:02,539
Alright.
521
00:27:04,583 --> 00:27:05,792
Now,
522
00:27:06,335 --> 00:27:10,172
there's a dark storm swirling around in your head.
523
00:27:10,214 --> 00:27:12,883
- How is that comforting?
- I'm getting there.
524
00:27:13,926 --> 00:27:15,802
I just thought of a brilliant adjunct
to the Chaos Theory.
525
00:27:15,844 --> 00:27:17,888
- Look, I should write this down.
- McKay!
526
00:27:19,264 --> 00:27:21,225
Letting it go. Letting it go.
527
00:27:21,266 --> 00:27:23,936
Now. The sky is clearing.
528
00:27:23,977 --> 00:27:26,438
All your troubles are fading away.
529
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,107
Bright blue sky. I am there.
530
00:27:34,571 --> 00:27:36,281
- How am I doing?
- Don't think that way.
531
00:27:36,532 --> 00:27:37,699
Oh, forget it!
532
00:27:37,741 --> 00:27:39,743
- Look, this is never gonna work.
- What's wrong now?
533
00:27:39,785 --> 00:27:42,829
I just realized why light behaves
as both particles and waves.
534
00:27:42,871 --> 00:27:45,040
- Rodney, if you don't try to do this...
- I know!
535
00:27:45,082 --> 00:27:47,000
I don't have much time left.
536
00:27:56,134 --> 00:27:57,052
Hey!
537
00:27:57,094 --> 00:27:58,303
Just a second.
538
00:28:09,398 --> 00:28:10,440
What are you doing?
539
00:28:10,482 --> 00:28:11,525
There are like, fifty...
540
00:28:11,567 --> 00:28:14,194
simulations I'd like to be running right now,
but the computers can't keep up with me.
541
00:28:14,236 --> 00:28:17,573
The irony being that I've actually figured out
how to make them run ten times faster,
542
00:28:17,614 --> 00:28:19,783
but I haven't had time to actually stop and do it.
543
00:28:19,867 --> 00:28:26,331
I've uploaded the virtual prototype for a hyperspace
generator for the Puddle Jumpers into the database.
544
00:28:26,373 --> 00:28:28,250
Well, that sounds great.
545
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:31,628
Are you sure that
546
00:28:31,670 --> 00:28:35,841
- this is how you want to...
- spend my last couple of days alive?
547
00:28:35,883 --> 00:28:37,259
Don't have much choice, do I?
548
00:28:37,301 --> 00:28:43,182
Rodney, I think it's very decent and noble of you
to wanna leave a scientific contribution behind,
549
00:28:43,473 --> 00:28:47,269
but I still believe there's a chance you
can ascend if you put your mind to it.
550
00:28:47,311 --> 00:28:49,396
We both know that, that is a waste of time.
551
00:28:49,438 --> 00:28:50,397
Maybe you could do it, but...
552
00:28:50,439 --> 00:28:55,444
I don't know if I could, but you are certainly
selling yourself short, by not even trying.
553
00:28:56,069 --> 00:28:56,904
To be honest,
554
00:28:56,945 --> 00:29:00,032
- I don't have the first clue where to start.
- Stop thinking.
555
00:29:00,073 --> 00:29:01,200
See, I don't understand that.
556
00:29:01,241 --> 00:29:04,244
One of the biggest things that holds people back is
557
00:29:04,328 --> 00:29:06,413
that somewhere deep down,
558
00:29:07,331 --> 00:29:09,958
they believe they're not deserving.
559
00:29:10,334 --> 00:29:12,169
You have to...
560
00:29:12,794 --> 00:29:15,172
- release your burden.
- Oh please!
561
00:29:15,214 --> 00:29:17,758
I know, spirituality use a load of mumbo jumbo,
562
00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:20,052
but it does help people find peace with themselves.
563
00:29:20,093 --> 00:29:22,387
- But you have to believe.
- I'm not talking about religion.
564
00:29:22,429 --> 00:29:26,308
I'm talking about shedding yourself of guilt,
of anger, of ill feeling.
565
00:29:26,350 --> 00:29:28,852
Of anything that makes you feel shame.
566
00:29:29,937 --> 00:29:34,066
And then you can focus all of your energy on ascending.
567
00:29:34,566 --> 00:29:37,444
So what you're telling me is that
I don't think I'm worthy.
568
00:29:37,486 --> 00:29:38,445
Rodney,
569
00:29:38,612 --> 00:29:41,573
I don't know what
you truly believe about yourself.
570
00:29:42,407 --> 00:29:43,575
For all I know, you...
571
00:29:43,617 --> 00:29:47,287
use your intelligence to compensate.
To make yourself feel better for
572
00:29:47,329 --> 00:29:49,581
other things you think you may lack.
573
00:29:49,623 --> 00:29:50,541
Like what?
574
00:29:50,582 --> 00:29:52,209
That I can't tell you.
575
00:29:52,709 --> 00:29:55,212
But maybe you could start reading your own mind?
576
00:30:12,437 --> 00:30:15,440
Rodney, I don't care what you're gonna say.
I'm gonna keep working on this, OK?
577
00:30:15,482 --> 00:30:17,943
Ah well, I appreciate that.
578
00:30:18,277 --> 00:30:20,487
I mean, you saved my life, so...
579
00:30:20,612 --> 00:30:22,823
the least I can do is try to save yours, you know?
580
00:30:22,865 --> 00:30:24,116
Radek,
581
00:30:25,492 --> 00:30:27,494
I think it's safe to say that...
582
00:30:27,536 --> 00:30:29,663
I am at times a petty,
583
00:30:29,705 --> 00:30:31,248
vindictive, even...
584
00:30:31,290 --> 00:30:32,958
jealous man.
585
00:30:33,292 --> 00:30:38,046
I sublimate my own anxieties or feelings
of inadequacy by creating a
586
00:30:38,088 --> 00:30:40,591
bubble of hostility around myself.
587
00:30:40,924 --> 00:30:42,134
I know that you...
588
00:30:42,176 --> 00:30:44,052
probably more than anyone else,
have had to...
589
00:30:44,094 --> 00:30:46,722
- bear the brunt of that hostility...
- Rodney, you don't have to...
590
00:30:46,763 --> 00:30:49,183
Actually, I do. Here's the thing...
591
00:30:51,310 --> 00:30:53,061
You're a brilliant scientist
592
00:30:53,395 --> 00:30:55,480
and a decent human being.
593
00:30:55,522 --> 00:30:58,317
I mean, you should not have had to endure the kind of
594
00:30:58,358 --> 00:31:00,944
abuse that you've taken from me in the past few years.
595
00:31:02,029 --> 00:31:05,782
I hope you can find a way to forgive me
for all the things I've said and done to you.
596
00:31:05,908 --> 00:31:08,619
You deserve much better than that.
597
00:31:10,204 --> 00:31:12,039
So, I wanted you to know that...
598
00:31:14,791 --> 00:31:16,168
Yes.
599
00:31:30,766 --> 00:31:32,518
- Rodney.
- Mind if I come in?
600
00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:33,936
- Should you...
- Hope you don't mind.
601
00:31:40,317 --> 00:31:41,485
I was talking with Halling and
602
00:31:41,527 --> 00:31:45,072
he happened to mention that it was the anniversary
of the death of your father, next week.
603
00:31:45,113 --> 00:31:46,323
He did?
604
00:31:46,365 --> 00:31:49,576
OK, I might have asked a few...
pointed questions, but
605
00:31:49,618 --> 00:31:51,745
I just thought it would be nice if...
606
00:31:52,996 --> 00:31:54,623
what I mean is,
607
00:31:55,207 --> 00:32:00,003
I would be honoured if you'll let me share
the memorial tea ceremony with you.
608
00:32:00,754 --> 00:32:03,340
I don't know if it's wrong to do
it early or anything, but...
609
00:32:03,382 --> 00:32:05,425
I may not be around next week. Anyway,
610
00:32:05,676 --> 00:32:09,054
I understand it's something
you're not supposed to do alone.
611
00:32:10,222 --> 00:32:12,182
Thank you Rodney.
612
00:32:12,933 --> 00:32:14,059
No, no, no, no, no.
613
00:32:14,101 --> 00:32:15,686
I know exactly what to do.
614
00:32:15,727 --> 00:32:17,354
You are the one who's lost a loved one.
615
00:32:17,521 --> 00:32:19,189
I will serve you.
616
00:32:22,526 --> 00:32:23,735
Hey buddy!
617
00:32:23,777 --> 00:32:24,945
Pal!
618
00:32:25,696 --> 00:32:27,114
Been looking all over for ya!
619
00:32:27,155 --> 00:32:28,699
Checked the gym, the mess...
620
00:32:28,740 --> 00:32:29,741
Wasn't there.
621
00:32:29,783 --> 00:32:32,661
No you weren't.
Usually, one of those is a good bet.
622
00:32:32,703 --> 00:32:33,996
So, where you off to?
623
00:32:34,037 --> 00:32:34,955
Shooting range?
624
00:32:34,997 --> 00:32:36,790
A little target practice?
625
00:32:36,832 --> 00:32:37,666
I don't need practice.
626
00:32:37,708 --> 00:32:40,210
Oh no. No, no of course you don't. Look...
627
00:32:40,836 --> 00:32:43,297
I don't know how much time I have left,
so I'm just gonna...
628
00:32:43,338 --> 00:32:47,050
cut to the chase here
and ask you a rather personal question.
629
00:32:47,092 --> 00:32:49,636
Hopefully you wont just hit me in the face.
630
00:32:50,804 --> 00:32:52,431
Asking away.
631
00:32:53,265 --> 00:32:54,141
Those...
632
00:32:54,641 --> 00:32:56,143
scars on your back,
633
00:32:56,185 --> 00:33:00,105
from your encounters with the Wraith,
you know, with the tracking device?
634
00:33:00,981 --> 00:33:02,107
Are those like a...
635
00:33:02,399 --> 00:33:03,650
a badge of honour,
636
00:33:03,692 --> 00:33:05,110
for you, or they just a...
637
00:33:05,152 --> 00:33:07,946
a constant reminder
of something you'd rather forget.
638
00:33:08,906 --> 00:33:11,575
Now, I know it's none of my business, I just...
639
00:33:12,826 --> 00:33:15,954
I try not to let things I can't change bother me.
640
00:33:18,498 --> 00:33:19,875
That's very healthy.
641
00:33:37,601 --> 00:33:39,061
I hope you don't mind.
642
00:33:40,020 --> 00:33:41,730
I just healed them.
643
00:33:56,787 --> 00:33:58,914
You're not still trying to find
a way out of this for me, are you?
644
00:33:58,956 --> 00:34:00,749
You think I'm gonna give up?
645
00:34:01,083 --> 00:34:04,211
Look, all the Ancients that experimented
with that device, they either...
646
00:34:04,253 --> 00:34:07,172
ascended or died.
Most of them the latter, which is..
647
00:34:07,214 --> 00:34:10,759
- why it did not get put into common use.
- Like you said, there were exeptions.
648
00:34:11,176 --> 00:34:14,429
Yes well, this will all be over soon and
you can get back to some real work.
649
00:34:14,471 --> 00:34:15,430
Rodney...
650
00:34:15,472 --> 00:34:17,474
- don't.
- No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not...
651
00:34:17,516 --> 00:34:19,601
fishing for sympathy.
I just...
652
00:34:19,893 --> 00:34:22,187
hey, I just wanted to give you that.
653
00:34:22,813 --> 00:34:24,273
What have you invented now?
654
00:34:24,398 --> 00:34:26,859
Oh nothing, it's a...
it's a book.
655
00:34:27,401 --> 00:34:28,569
About what?
656
00:34:28,610 --> 00:34:29,653
You.
657
00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:31,905
Well you've taken a lot of crap as the...
658
00:34:31,947 --> 00:34:34,324
leader of this expedition and
I just thought someone should...
659
00:34:34,366 --> 00:34:36,076
leave a record of all the good things you've done.
660
00:34:36,118 --> 00:34:37,911
Everything you've done right.
661
00:34:39,580 --> 00:34:42,374
Everything I do is on record for review.
662
00:34:42,416 --> 00:34:44,543
Oh yes, I know, I know. I just...
I just thought that
663
00:34:44,585 --> 00:34:48,130
I would have somewhat of a unique perspective
that other people might benefit from.
664
00:34:48,172 --> 00:34:52,217
You know, I actually took the liberty
of doing some research into your past
665
00:34:52,259 --> 00:34:53,844
and included that as well.
666
00:34:53,886 --> 00:34:55,554
Sorry if I'm not a very good writer.
667
00:34:55,762 --> 00:34:59,266
It might be a bit overly maudlin in places.
668
00:35:01,810 --> 00:35:04,396
Rodney, this is 500 pages long.
669
00:35:04,438 --> 00:35:07,441
- When did you...
- Anyway, that's all.
670
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:09,651
Right.
671
00:35:15,824 --> 00:35:17,117
What's it down to?
672
00:35:17,284 --> 00:35:18,660
It's not important.
673
00:35:18,702 --> 00:35:19,661
What?
674
00:35:20,621 --> 00:35:22,956
Of course it is. It's gotta...
675
00:35:22,998 --> 00:35:26,960
- What, 17 hertz? It's not even close!
- It's closer than you've ever been.
676
00:35:27,002 --> 00:35:28,170
Oh forget it.
677
00:35:29,421 --> 00:35:33,050
Look, if you have to keep asking,
you're obviously not getting it!
678
00:35:33,091 --> 00:35:34,593
This is about letting go.
679
00:35:34,635 --> 00:35:36,845
I don't know how to do that, OK?!
680
00:35:36,887 --> 00:35:39,181
I mean, I don't know how not to be me.
681
00:35:40,766 --> 00:35:42,809
Look, thank you for all of your help.
682
00:35:43,435 --> 00:35:45,854
I think in the grand scheme of things, we're...
683
00:35:45,896 --> 00:35:47,314
we're good, aren't we?
684
00:35:48,774 --> 00:35:50,442
Of course.
685
00:35:51,693 --> 00:35:54,196
Look, if it's not too much trouble,
I'd like you to read my eulogy.
686
00:35:54,238 --> 00:35:56,406
I refuse to discuss that!
687
00:35:56,823 --> 00:35:58,367
Just keep it simple.
688
00:35:58,742 --> 00:36:01,912
Make up a few nice things.
I'd like my little sister to be there
689
00:36:01,954 --> 00:36:02,746
and...
690
00:36:02,788 --> 00:36:07,042
oh, you should know that I told Beckett that he should
most definitely do a full autopsy.
691
00:36:07,084 --> 00:36:11,588
They can use my body for any kind of experimentation
that might prove helpful and...
692
00:36:11,839 --> 00:36:13,465
oh, and I'd like to be cremated.
693
00:36:13,507 --> 00:36:15,592
with my...
my ashes to be
694
00:36:15,634 --> 00:36:18,554
- thrown out into space from the Jumper. So...
- Rodney!
695
00:36:19,054 --> 00:36:20,264
Rodney!
696
00:36:26,562 --> 00:36:28,814
Medical team to my quarters.
697
00:36:30,607 --> 00:36:34,444
The synaptic activity in your brain
has reached over 90%.
698
00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:36,655
I don't know why, but it seems the more
699
00:36:36,697 --> 00:36:39,116
pervasive evolved state of the cortex
700
00:36:39,157 --> 00:36:41,660
is causing lapses in the lower brain function.
701
00:36:41,702 --> 00:36:45,956
It's almost as if your body is losing
its natural ability to keep itself alive.
702
00:36:45,998 --> 00:36:48,041
When ascension occurs naturally,
703
00:36:48,083 --> 00:36:51,211
the physical body is no longer necessary
in the final stages.
704
00:36:51,253 --> 00:36:54,214
Rodney, I don't know how much more you can take.
705
00:36:54,756 --> 00:36:56,425
About 6%.
706
00:36:56,675 --> 00:36:58,719
There must be something we can do.
707
00:36:58,802 --> 00:37:00,012
It's OK.
708
00:37:00,554 --> 00:37:01,763
You know,
709
00:37:01,972 --> 00:37:03,807
I'm actually feeling a sense of
710
00:37:03,974 --> 00:37:05,267
peace.
711
00:37:06,351 --> 00:37:09,396
Interspersed with moments of sheer terror of course.
712
00:37:09,438 --> 00:37:10,647
Rodney,
713
00:37:10,689 --> 00:37:13,233
as far as this ascension thing...
714
00:37:13,901 --> 00:37:17,487
I know you didn't have much success,
but at this point...
715
00:37:18,030 --> 00:37:19,781
what have you got to lose?
716
00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:22,117
May as well go out fighting...?
717
00:37:22,159 --> 00:37:23,619
Absolutely.
718
00:37:25,204 --> 00:37:26,663
Hook me up.
719
00:37:30,459 --> 00:37:31,668
Carson...
720
00:37:33,212 --> 00:37:34,588
thank you.
721
00:37:35,506 --> 00:37:37,216
Thank you for everything.
722
00:37:38,926 --> 00:37:41,553
I only wish I could have done more, my friend.
723
00:37:53,607 --> 00:37:55,275
Clear blue skies.
724
00:37:56,235 --> 00:37:57,819
All my troubles just...
725
00:37:58,529 --> 00:38:00,364
drifting away.
726
00:38:01,323 --> 00:38:02,533
OK...
727
00:38:02,950 --> 00:38:04,993
stop talking now.
728
00:38:07,955 --> 00:38:10,249
Rodney, you're a good person.
729
00:38:11,375 --> 00:38:13,043
Know that we love you.
730
00:38:14,503 --> 00:38:16,213
You love me?
731
00:38:17,714 --> 00:38:18,924
Really?
732
00:38:19,091 --> 00:38:21,593
- All of you?
- In the way a friend...
733
00:38:21,635 --> 00:38:23,512
feels about another friend.
734
00:38:23,554 --> 00:38:26,306
You're just saying that because I'm gonna die.
735
00:38:26,974 --> 00:38:28,058
Oh, God.
736
00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:31,019
- I can't believe I'm gonna die.
- Alright, just back to the blue skies.
737
00:38:31,061 --> 00:38:32,729
Let your thoughts go.
738
00:38:32,771 --> 00:38:36,066
Concentrate on our breathing.
739
00:38:43,782 --> 00:38:45,242
Oh my God.
740
00:38:55,085 --> 00:38:57,671
He's not breathing, quick, bag him.
We need to get him on the ventilator.
741
00:38:57,713 --> 00:39:00,132
- Carson, he gave us strict orders...
- You don't understand.
742
00:39:00,174 --> 00:39:01,967
He just told me how to save him.
743
00:39:03,927 --> 00:39:06,138
We're enroute.
His pulse is very weak, are you ready?
744
00:39:06,180 --> 00:39:07,556
We will be.
745
00:39:10,058 --> 00:39:11,268
Almost.
746
00:39:18,650 --> 00:39:19,818
Right.
747
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,115
Hurry, he can't breathe on his own.
748
00:39:29,119 --> 00:39:30,370
OK, stand back!
749
00:39:42,674 --> 00:39:43,717
Rodney?
750
00:39:44,468 --> 00:39:46,470
- It worked!
- Did it?
751
00:39:46,512 --> 00:39:49,348
- Well, I'm alive aren't I?
- Sounds like him.
752
00:39:49,389 --> 00:39:50,474
Yes, yes.
753
00:39:51,475 --> 00:39:53,268
I can't hear one of your thoughts.
754
00:39:54,686 --> 00:39:56,355
Telekenesis is gone.
755
00:39:57,314 --> 00:40:00,108
I'm still smart, I think.
756
00:40:00,317 --> 00:40:01,527
Yes.
757
00:40:01,568 --> 00:40:02,819
Yes, I'm me!
758
00:40:03,070 --> 00:40:03,862
I'm my old self.
759
00:40:03,904 --> 00:40:07,241
- Are you certain?
- Yeah, I'm alive. I feeel... I feel great! I feel...
760
00:40:08,617 --> 00:40:10,536
- hungry?
- He's fine.
761
00:40:10,577 --> 00:40:14,248
- And you said it was impossible.
- Yeah, it just came to me.
762
00:40:14,289 --> 00:40:18,752
I was... floating in this big black emptiness
and then the answer came out of nowhere.
763
00:40:18,794 --> 00:40:21,338
Look, the device was designed to manipulate your DNA.
764
00:40:21,380 --> 00:40:24,925
It couldn't reverse the evolutionary advancement
process, because everyone's DNA was different. It makes
765
00:40:24,967 --> 00:40:27,052
certain changes that causes the DNA to
766
00:40:27,094 --> 00:40:30,222
evolve in ways specific to your own unique physiology.
767
00:40:30,264 --> 00:40:32,307
In order to manipulate the DNA
back to a previous state,
768
00:40:32,349 --> 00:40:34,309
the program required a precise reference point.
769
00:40:34,351 --> 00:40:38,146
Fortunately I keep blood samples from all
the Atlantis team members for baseline comparisons.
770
00:40:38,272 --> 00:40:41,108
I don't understand what any of you are talking about.
771
00:40:42,025 --> 00:40:43,986
It's good to have you back buddy!
772
00:40:44,444 --> 00:40:47,447
- Yes well... it's good to be back.
- Yeah.
773
00:40:55,998 --> 00:40:57,666
Hey, how are you feeling?
774
00:40:57,708 --> 00:40:58,959
Terrible!
775
00:40:59,251 --> 00:41:02,379
- Should I get Carson?
- No, no, no. Physically I am fine, but
776
00:41:02,713 --> 00:41:04,298
this doesn't make any sense.
777
00:41:04,756 --> 00:41:06,550
I can't figure out any of these...
778
00:41:06,592 --> 00:41:09,970
equations. I mean, the algorithms are
complete gibberish. I mean, this is torture.
779
00:41:10,012 --> 00:41:14,433
I can clearly remember exactly how important
this all is, but I cannot figure out
780
00:41:14,474 --> 00:41:18,520
- why or... how.
- Well I just dropped by to show you this.
781
00:41:19,563 --> 00:41:22,774
Your EEG readings from your last meditation.
782
00:41:26,862 --> 00:41:28,155
Oh my God!
783
00:41:29,031 --> 00:41:30,324
It's 0.3 Hertz.
784
00:41:30,365 --> 00:41:31,450
I did it!
785
00:41:31,491 --> 00:41:34,203
I mean, I was in the zone.
I could have actually ascended.
786
00:41:35,329 --> 00:41:38,665
You said you were floating in a big empty space,
787
00:41:38,707 --> 00:41:40,751
when the idea of how to save yourself came to you.
788
00:41:40,792 --> 00:41:43,629
I may have momentarily thought about
how hard it is to rid oneself of ego.
789
00:41:43,670 --> 00:41:48,634
I mean, and that existence without the individuality
of consciousness would be pointless, but...
790
00:41:49,092 --> 00:41:53,430
Now I say that, that's probably what gave me
the idea to reprogram the device with my old DNA.
791
00:41:53,472 --> 00:41:54,848
Yeah, I thought so.
792
00:41:54,890 --> 00:41:56,058
Yeah well, you know what?
793
00:41:56,099 --> 00:41:57,935
I don't care if you don't think
that I was capable of ascension,
794
00:41:57,976 --> 00:42:01,939
I never wanted to do it anyways. In fact...
you know what, I am very happy with who I am.
795
00:42:02,397 --> 00:42:03,941
And you love me.
796
00:42:05,192 --> 00:42:07,653
- What? I never...
- You so did!
797
00:42:07,819 --> 00:42:09,863
Yeah, I may not be able to understand
this new math I created, but...
798
00:42:09,905 --> 00:42:12,115
I distinctly remember that you said you love me.
799
00:42:12,157 --> 00:42:14,660
- Actually, I said we love you and...
- And what.
800
00:42:14,701 --> 00:42:16,703
What, you were just saying that,
because you thought I was dying?
801
00:42:16,745 --> 00:42:20,415
- No, I said it bec...
- See? You love me! It's true, you've said it.
802
00:42:20,457 --> 00:42:22,668
Now I know.
I've always suspected it. In fact...
803
00:42:22,709 --> 00:42:24,711
you know, I've always noticed that there's been a...
804
00:42:24,962 --> 00:42:30,050
indefinable and yet magical chemistry between us,
that I think I covered in chapter ten.
805
00:42:30,175 --> 00:42:31,760
- Rodney...
- You had lunch yet?
806
00:42:31,802 --> 00:42:34,388
- Yes.
- Mid-afternoon snack, then?
807
00:42:35,138 --> 00:42:36,682
I will keep you company.
808
00:42:37,182 --> 00:42:38,684
Now, is Sheppard still
809
00:42:38,725 --> 00:42:41,770
bugging you to let him use the ascension device
to turn himself into some kind of a superhero?
810
00:42:41,812 --> 00:42:42,813
Oh yes.
811
00:42:42,855 --> 00:42:44,481
Despite the fact that the Ancient database states
812
00:42:44,523 --> 00:42:47,985
that its effects on people are wildly unpredictable
and that I'm just lucky I wasn't
813
00:42:48,026 --> 00:42:50,571
instantly melted down into a pool of protoplasm.
814
00:42:50,612 --> 00:42:51,530
Yes.
815
00:42:51,572 --> 00:42:53,907
- Ah, well maybe you should let him.
- I think not.