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Back at the flat, McKay tells Torrell the Jumper can't be repaired. Torrell doesn't believe him, and orders him to choose who of his friends will die first. When McKay refuses, Torrell says he will give McKay some time to think it over and leaves. Eldon then tells them that most people on the island are innocent but were sent there nevertheless so that the Wraith have enough to feed on. He warns them that Torrell is not one of the innocent--he killed 8 people before coming the island and has killed 3 since. He says in the beginning only the worst criminals were sent to the island. But over time people became so afraid of the consequences that the crime rate fell dramatically. So they had to apply the same punishment for lesser and lesser crimes, and finally even to the innocent. |
Back at the flat, McKay tells Torrell the Jumper can't be repaired. Torrell doesn't believe him, and orders him to choose who of his friends will die first. When McKay refuses, Torrell says he will give McKay some time to think it over and leaves. Eldon then tells them that most people on the island are innocent but were sent there nevertheless so that the Wraith have enough to feed on. He warns them that Torrell is not one of the innocent--he killed 8 people before coming the island and has killed 3 since. He says in the beginning only the worst criminals were sent to the island. But over time people became so afraid of the consequences that the crime rate fell dramatically. So they had to apply the same punishment for lesser and lesser crimes, and finally even to the innocent. |
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+ | In the Olesian city Weir in the meantime meets the Magistrate and they talk about the missing team and the Magistrate agrees to search for them. Back on the island Sheppard's team is freed by Eldon who wants to escape with them and they agree. McKay says the ship really is broken, but he might be able to fix the DHD so they can dial out and escape through the gate on foot. |
They then run to the Jumper where they plan to take out the guards. Suddenly the gate activates and a [[Wraith Dart]] flies through. This leads the guards away and the team is able to enter the Jumper. |
They then run to the Jumper where they plan to take out the guards. Suddenly the gate activates and a [[Wraith Dart]] flies through. This leads the guards away and the team is able to enter the Jumper. |
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Later the Magistrate meets with a single [[Wraith Commander (Condemned)|Wraith]] which came in the dart and it is revealed that the Magistrate and his predecessors have an agreement with him to give him enough food and in exchange they are spared from culling. This Wraith considers himself smarter and mire sophisticated than most of his people. This arrangement has provided him with a steady source of food, so he has not needed to hibernate, and he even enjoys socializing with the Magistrate. Now, though, all the hive ships are awake and he has been pressured to make his source of humans available to more of his kind. The Wraith tell the Magistrate that he needs to augment the population on the island to give the Wraith more people to feed on and the Magistrate promises to do so. Afterwards the Wraith leaves the planet. |
Later the Magistrate meets with a single [[Wraith Commander (Condemned)|Wraith]] which came in the dart and it is revealed that the Magistrate and his predecessors have an agreement with him to give him enough food and in exchange they are spared from culling. This Wraith considers himself smarter and mire sophisticated than most of his people. This arrangement has provided him with a steady source of food, so he has not needed to hibernate, and he even enjoys socializing with the Magistrate. Now, though, all the hive ships are awake and he has been pressured to make his source of humans available to more of his kind. The Wraith tell the Magistrate that he needs to augment the population on the island to give the Wraith more people to feed on and the Magistrate promises to do so. Afterwards the Wraith leaves the planet. |
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+ | Meanwhile Weir and her group are informed by Marin that the Magistrate told her to cancel the search for Sheppard's team and has ordered many innocent people to be arrested to augment the population on the island, but then the Magistrate appears with a security team and accuses Marin of lying and plotting to overthrow the government. He orders her to be arrested but Weir protects her and ends the alliance with the Olesians. Then she and her team leave after Weir warns the Magistrate, whom Lorne has at gunpoint, that he doesn't want to cross her. |
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Template:ATL-2 Thda"Condemned" is the fifth episode of the second season of Stargate: Atlantis.
Synopsis
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard's team is ambushed by unfriendlies when they are rescued by a technologically advanced civilization. They learn that the people on "the Island" are convicts, so the Wraith cannot feed on the innocent.
Plot
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard's team are flying in a Puddle Jumper through the Stargate on an unknown world. In the forest over which they fly they see smoke and find a small camp, however no people. Suddenly some people hiding in the bushes attack them with arrows and small explosives but when Sheppard calls to them they stop firing. The team then wants to retreat but the people then fire again. Suddenly some sort of airplane arrives, covers Sheppard's team and literally blows away some of the attackers with wind. This gives the team the possibility to escape to their Puddle Jumper, in which they are contacted by the plane to follow them.
The team is led into a city where they are greeted by a woman named Marin who tells them that the island on which the Stargate is located is used as a penal colony. Afterwards they meet the Magistrate who reveals to them that they use the island as a prison. The Atlantis team is surprised that the city hasn't been attacked. The Magistrate says that the Wraith feed on the prisoners and are satiated before leaving the island. in this way the people on Olesia (the planet's name) have reached a high grade of technology. In fact, they have discovered a non radioactive fissionable ore that McKay finds very promising. The Magistrate also assures them that only the most violent criminals are sent to the island. After further talking Sheppard contacts Dr. Elizabeth Weir and informs her about the situation. They agree to talk about trading agreements with the Olesians. Ronon expresses surprise that the Wraiths don't attack the city and Sheppard finds the Magistrate a little creepy, but McKay argues this is just their civilization's form of capital punishment.
Later the team flies back to the gate but during the flight the Jumper is attacked with some primitive explosives. One of them hits the Jumper and Sheppard is forced to crash-land. When they leave the Jumper they are taken captive by the prisoners. While the team is tied in a small flat, the prisoners try the new weapons and afterwards their leader Torrell orders Dr. Rodney McKay to fix the damaged Jumper. He agrees to do so when Torrell threatens to kill him. McKay then meets Eldon, who developed the explosives for the prisoners and now shall help him with the Jumper. Also Torrell threatens to kill one after another of McKay's team members if he can't fix the ship.
Meanwhile in Atlantis Weir plans to search for Sheppard's team and together with Major Evan Lorne and a team flies with a Jumper to Olesia. There McKay works on their Jumper while talking with Eldon, who says that he is innocent. McKay then finds out that the main power-distribution has been damaged. He also realises there is no DHD on the island, so now there's no way to operate the Stargate. Eldon tells him that if he can't fix it, Torrell will make sure McKay and his friends are the first offered to the Wraith at the next culling.
Back at the flat, McKay tells Torrell the Jumper can't be repaired. Torrell doesn't believe him, and orders him to choose who of his friends will die first. When McKay refuses, Torrell says he will give McKay some time to think it over and leaves. Eldon then tells them that most people on the island are innocent but were sent there nevertheless so that the Wraith have enough to feed on. He warns them that Torrell is not one of the innocent--he killed 8 people before coming the island and has killed 3 since. He says in the beginning only the worst criminals were sent to the island. But over time people became so afraid of the consequences that the crime rate fell dramatically. So they had to apply the same punishment for lesser and lesser crimes, and finally even to the innocent.
In the Olesian city Weir in the meantime meets the Magistrate and they talk about the missing team and the Magistrate agrees to search for them. Back on the island Sheppard's team is freed by Eldon who wants to escape with them and they agree. McKay says the ship really is broken, but he might be able to fix the DHD so they can dial out and escape through the gate on foot.
They then run to the Jumper where they plan to take out the guards. Suddenly the gate activates and a Wraith Dart flies through. This leads the guards away and the team is able to enter the Jumper.
In the city Weir and her team are informed about the arrival of the Wraith but the Magistrate promises to search for the missing team again when the Wraith have left.
Later the Magistrate meets with a single Wraith which came in the dart and it is revealed that the Magistrate and his predecessors have an agreement with him to give him enough food and in exchange they are spared from culling. This Wraith considers himself smarter and mire sophisticated than most of his people. This arrangement has provided him with a steady source of food, so he has not needed to hibernate, and he even enjoys socializing with the Magistrate. Now, though, all the hive ships are awake and he has been pressured to make his source of humans available to more of his kind. The Wraith tell the Magistrate that he needs to augment the population on the island to give the Wraith more people to feed on and the Magistrate promises to do so. Afterwards the Wraith leaves the planet.
Meanwhile Weir and her group are informed by Marin that the Magistrate told her to cancel the search for Sheppard's team and has ordered many innocent people to be arrested to augment the population on the island, but then the Magistrate appears with a security team and accuses Marin of lying and plotting to overthrow the government. He orders her to be arrested but Weir protects her and ends the alliance with the Olesians. Then she and her team leave after Weir warns the Magistrate, whom Lorne has at gunpoint, that he doesn't want to cross her.
Back on the island McKay still tries to repair the Jumper while the others attack the returning guards. Although they are able to defeat some of them they are soon confronted by the other prisoners with their own weapons right in the moment when McKay is able to fix the Dial Home Device. Torrell wants to come with them to Atlantis but Sheppard won't let him. Suddenly a Wraith cruiser appears and Sheppard orders McKay to dial the gate. However the energy is gone again but McKay is able to activate the weapons which allows Sheppard to fire a single Drone weapon on the cruiser, which damages the ship. Weir and her team see that and contact Sheppard. He tells her to dial the gate to one of the possible Alpha Sites. Afterwards all the prisoners leave the planet through the gate. Next the Jumper dials Atlantis and under fire from the cruiser. Sheppard's team is able to get through the gate. In the end a cruiser is seen arriving at the city, much to the shock of the Magistrate.
References
Alcatraz; Arrow; AT4; Braveheart; Dial Home Device; Drone weapon; FN P90 Personal Defense Weapon; Goldilocks; Hover jet; Jumper 6; MacGyver; Meredith Rodney McKay's aunt; Olesia; Olesian; Olesian earpiece; Olesian ore; Pizza; Poros; Puddle Jumper; Sandwich; Skirmish on Olesia; Star Wars; Margaret Thatcher; The Wizard of Oz; Wraith; Wraith cruiser; Wraith Dart
Notable Quotes
(Ronon walks over to a steaming pot on a campfire and tastes it)
McKay: What are you - Oh, my gosh, he's tasting it! (to Ronon) You don't know what that is, that could be their laundry!
Ronon: Pretty good.
McKay: Oh, yes. Good idea. And when you're finished with their poridge, Why don't we try their beds?
Ronon: (to McKay) Want some?
McKay: How good is it?
Sheppard: Leave it be, Goldilocks.
(The team is talking to Dr. Weir on the radio about their prison island)
McKay: I prefer lethal injection, although I do have a certain fondess for the electric chair. Call me romantic.
Teyla: Do you kill all your violent criminals on Earth?
McKay: (looks at Col. Sheppard) Certain countries, yes.
Sheppard: Can we not get into this right now?
(The prisoners shoot down the Jumper and it crash lands)
Teyla: Are you all right?
McKay: I think I chipped a tooth. Did I chip a tooth? Am I bleeding? Because I am a high risk for endocarditis.
(After they walk out of the jumper they find themselves surrounded by the prisoners)
Sheppard: Hi, folks. I hope I didn't crash-land on anybody.
Ronon: (after Sheppard, Teyla, McKay, and Ronon are held captive, Ronon is trying to get out of his hand restraints) I think they're loosening.
Sheppard: Take it easy, Chewie - You're gonna cut your damn hands off!
Sheppard: Leave it to convicts to know the best way to tie people up.
Ronon: Well, eventually I will get free and when I do, he's gonna pay for this.
Sheppard: Now listen to me. When you get free, you get us free and we all get out of here. Let 'em find out we're gone after we're gone.
Ronon: You're expecting me to let them get away with this?
Sheppard: The operative words are "get away".
Ronon: After I kill them!
Sheppard: That type of thinking will get us killed.
Ronon: Well, if you had returned fire...
Sheppard: The weapons systems were damaged.
Ronon: If you say so.
Sheppard: I do say so, and right now I'm saying knock it off.
Ronon: Is that an order, Sheppard?
Sheppard: I am beat up, tied up, and couldn't order a pizza right now if I wanted to. But if you need it to be, yeah it's an order.
McKay: What am I, MacGyver? Fix it with what?!
Torrell: I could kill you, but you strike me as the type of man who despite being weak and cowardly on the outside harbors strength of character he doesn't even know he has.
McKay: I'm sorry, is there a compliment in there?
Eldon: The technology on this ship is far more advanced than the Olesians.
McKay: How ironic then to have been shot down by the cast of Braveheart.
Sheppard: How's it coming, Rodney?
McKay: Slower than I expected, but faster than humanly possible.
Sheppard: Good, any chance of getting the cloaking generator back on line?
McKay: Okay, and uh maybe then you want me to make you a nice sandwich?
Sheppard: Only if it's humanly possible.
Sheppard: How much time do you need to rework the DHD?
McKay: Well, in a perfect world, two days.
Sheppard: Rodney?
McKay: Right now, uh, ten minutes, give or take.
Ronon: I was beginning to think you were afraid to fight.
Sheppard: I'm just naturally lazy, but I will if I have to — and it's starting to look like we have to.
Male Wraith: (sipping a glass of wine) I think this is my favorite vintage yet.
Magistrate: I hope you find the food acceptable as well. My new chef is quite accomplished.
Male Wraith: I certainly hope so. Your previous chef unfortunately proved to be far more appetizing than the meals he prepared.
Notes
- This episode shows that Wraith can eat normal food although it does not sustain them.
- The video of the Puddle Jumper flying over the lake is stock footage from season one episode "Childhood's End". It was also used in the episode "Sanctuary".
- Dr. Rodney McKay makes a subtle jab at the United States of America when Teyla Emmagan asks if violent criminals are killed on Earth. McKay, a Canadian, says, "Some countries," while glancing at Lt. Colonel John Sheppard.
- McKay asks "What am I, MacGyver?" when told to fix the downed Jumper, a reference to Richard Dean Anderson (Major General Jack O'Neill) who played the title character in MacGyver before doing Stargate SG-1.
- The Government building is actually the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. It was also used as the 4400 Center on the USA Network show The 4400, as the Madacorp headquarters on ABC Family's Kyle XY and as the meeting place of the Quorom of Twelve aboard the luxury liner Cloud 9 in the Battlestar Galactica episode "Colonial Day".
- This is the first episode in which Teyla refers to Sheppard by his first name and in which Sheppard refers to Ronon as "Chewie."
- This is the only episode of Stargate: Atlantis written by Sean Carley.
- Paul McGillion (Dr. Carson Beckett) does not appear in this episode.
- Alan C. Peterson (Magistrate) previously played the Canon in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Demons".
- Christian Bocher (Torrell) previously played Major Dean Newman in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Shades of Grey" and Raymond Gunne/Dr. Levant in the episodes "Wormhole X-Treme!". He would later reprise his role as Raymond Gunne/Dr. Levant in "200".
- James Lafazanos (Wraith Commander (Condemned)) previously played Jimmy in the Stargate: Atlantis episode "Rising", Steve in the episodes "Suspicion" and "Poisoning the Well", Mister Hooper in the episode "The Defiant One", Gordon in the episodes "The Gift", "The Siege, Part 2" and "The Siege, Part 3", Bob in the episode "The Siege, Part 1" and Wraith Commander (Runner) in the episode "Runner".
Goofs
- At 44 seconds into the episode, in the burning rubble, there is an upside down OREO wrapper.
- At the beginning of the episode Ronon's hair iss tied up, next at the camp it is down as is it when he is limping away then as they arrive back at the ship it is tied up again.
External links
- Condemned on GateWorld. (backup link)
- Condemned on the official MGM website. (backup link)