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== MGM/SciFi.com Official Summary ==
== MGM/SciFi.com Official Summary ==


'''The official summary is not available as this episode has not yet aired in the United States.'''
While exploring an abandoned and claustrophobic moon base, Sheppard's team is startled when a man, Herick, materializes in one of the rooms. He has emerged from a modified version of a Wraith beaming device, and he has a bizarre story to tell.


===Spoiler Summary===
Long ago, before an apocalyptic Wraith attack, his people on the planet below planned to hide two modified beaming devices on this secret base. Within each of these pattern-storage modules, they archived the energy signatures of 1,000 inhabitants of their planet, hoping to beam them back into existence someday when the Wraith threat was past. Herick's job was to rematerialize all these people, so the base's computer automatically restored him when McKay activated it.


The team encounters two people who had been preserved in a technology designed to hold their patterns in an energy buffer. Stored like this, they hoped to outlive the Wraith. Over a thousand people have been preserved in this fashion.
Herick is shocked to learn that the moon base holds only one of the two modules. His wife and child, who were in the missing module, are lost. Furious, he rematerializes another of the project's leaders, Jamus, and demands answers. Jamus explains that they ran out of time to transport the second module from the planet before the attack, so they decided to destroy it to prevent the Wraith from discovering the plan.


Herick is the engineer behind the space station’s technology. He is released from his storage upon the team’s arrival. He restores Jamus, a leader of his people. Herick discovers that Jamus didn’t preserve his wife and son, while Herick claims that there wasn’t enough time. According to Jamus, the program was a secret and not all of the people could be preserved. When they launched their first shuttle of those to be preserved, the word got out and the people rioted. The second shuttle, the one on which Herick’s wife and son were most likely on, was delayed. They waited a day for the shuttle, but the Wraith came in the meantime. Fearing that the second shuttle’s navigational systems would lead the Wraith to their position, Jamus ordered that the second shuttle be destroyed. Afterwards, the entire planet was wiped out with nuclear weapons, making it uninhabitable for a very long time, ensuring that the Wraith would never return.
Herick is devastated. Moments later, in suicidal vengeance, he blasts a hole in the base's exterior wall and dies instantly in the resulting explosive decompression. Sheppard's team struggles to seal themselves in various chambers as wind and debris whip through the base.


Herick is devastated, all hope has left him. No longer able to endure his grief and anger at Jamus, he commits suicide. His manner of suicide, however, leaves the rest of the people on the moon in danger as it begins to approach the planet’s atmosphere where it will burn up.
Sheppard and Ronon are locked in together. Teyla and Jamus are trapped with the surviving module, which contains the last thousand of Jamus's people. McKay, stuck alone in the base's control room, soon discovers that their situation is even worse than they thought: the explosion has destabilized the small moon's orbit. In a few hours, the moon and its base will plunge to a fiery death in the planet's atmosphere, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it.


Because the entire population of the planet was killed, the people preserved in the storage device are the only survivors. Jamus takes Teyla hostage to guarantee that these last remaining people survive.  
The trapped team struggles to maintain patience and hope until Maj. Lorne arrives from Atlantis to rescue them. Even then, the crisis isn't over. Jamus rightly suspects that without the specialized equipment needed to transport the pattern storage module easily, Sheppard's team won't risk their lives trying to save it from the moon's imminent destruction. In desperation, Jamus takes Teyla hostage, then beams himself and Teyla into the device. Now, if Teyla's friends want to see her again, they must find a way to transport the module to safety — as the moon breaks into flaming fragments around them.


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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== Related Links ==
== Related Links ==
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--[[User:DeeKayP|DeeKayP]] 06:13, 12 January 2007 (PST)

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Précis

The team boards a crippled space station to discover people have been preserved there with the hope to outlive their enemy, the Wraith.

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MGM/SciFi.com Official Summary

While exploring an abandoned and claustrophobic moon base, Sheppard's team is startled when a man, Herick, materializes in one of the rooms. He has emerged from a modified version of a Wraith beaming device, and he has a bizarre story to tell.

Long ago, before an apocalyptic Wraith attack, his people on the planet below planned to hide two modified beaming devices on this secret base. Within each of these pattern-storage modules, they archived the energy signatures of 1,000 inhabitants of their planet, hoping to beam them back into existence someday when the Wraith threat was past. Herick's job was to rematerialize all these people, so the base's computer automatically restored him when McKay activated it.

Herick is shocked to learn that the moon base holds only one of the two modules. His wife and child, who were in the missing module, are lost. Furious, he rematerializes another of the project's leaders, Jamus, and demands answers. Jamus explains that they ran out of time to transport the second module from the planet before the attack, so they decided to destroy it to prevent the Wraith from discovering the plan.

Herick is devastated. Moments later, in suicidal vengeance, he blasts a hole in the base's exterior wall and dies instantly in the resulting explosive decompression. Sheppard's team struggles to seal themselves in various chambers as wind and debris whip through the base.

Sheppard and Ronon are locked in together. Teyla and Jamus are trapped with the surviving module, which contains the last thousand of Jamus's people. McKay, stuck alone in the base's control room, soon discovers that their situation is even worse than they thought: the explosion has destabilized the small moon's orbit. In a few hours, the moon and its base will plunge to a fiery death in the planet's atmosphere, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it.

The trapped team struggles to maintain patience and hope until Maj. Lorne arrives from Atlantis to rescue them. Even then, the crisis isn't over. Jamus rightly suspects that without the specialized equipment needed to transport the pattern storage module easily, Sheppard's team won't risk their lives trying to save it from the moon's imminent destruction. In desperation, Jamus takes Teyla hostage, then beams himself and Teyla into the device. Now, if Teyla's friends want to see her again, they must find a way to transport the module to safety — as the moon breaks into flaming fragments around them.

Cast

Guest Stars

  • Kenneth Welsh as Jamus
  • Joris Jarsky as Herick
  • Kavan Smith as Maj. Lorne
  • Chuck Campbell as Technician
  • Gerry Durand as Marine

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--DeeKayP 06:13, 12 January 2007 (PST)