The Hive

The Hive
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Series	Stargate Atlantis
Episode	2.11
Production #	211
Original air date	November 22, 2005
Written by	Carl Binder
Directed by	Martin Wood
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Preceded by	The Lost Boys
Followed by	Epiphany

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This episode is part 2 of 2; it is preceded by "The Lost Boys".

"The Hive" is the eleventh episode of the second season of Stargate Atlantis.

Synopsis

The team are captured by Wraith, and notice that a second Hive Ship is joining them. Meanwhile, Dr. Rodney McKay manages to escape his captors and returns to Atlantis, where they resume the search for the rest of the team.

Plot

Before the Wraith queen can interrogate Lt. Colonel John Sheppard, she senses that a second Wraith Hive Ship arrives (which is also sensed by Teyla Emmagan) and he is brought back into the cell. Meanwhile Dr. Rodney McKay, still on Aiden Ford's hideout planet, tries to convince his guards to let him go since the mission seems to have gone awry, but they refuse. After much hesitation he decides to inject himself with a massive amount of the Wraith enzyme. Thanks to this he easily disables the guards, then takes the control crystals Ford has removed from the Dial Home Device. He replaces them, and escapes to Atlantis where he babbles excitedly and then collapses due to enzyme overdose.

Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla, Ford and Kanayo are able to escape from the cell by throwing knives into the device that controls the cell door. They then try to escape with the Wraith Darts. Soon, however, they are captured once again after stopping to rescue some cocooned live humans. They are separated into two cells, with Teyla, Ronon, and Kanayo in one cell, while Ford, Sheppard, and the woman they rescued earlier are in another.

At Atlantis the Daedalus arrives to help while McKay is facing withdrawal from the enzymes. Because they have none, McKay faces a hard withdrawal which causes him to become very hyperactive and speak excitedly. Dr. Carson Beckett tries to help him by talking with him but in the end McKay has to make it alone. Meanwhile, the people on board the Hive ship who have taken the enzyme experience the same withdrawal. While Teyla and Ronon are able to withstand it without damage, Kanayo dies shortly thereafter because he was addicted too long. Ford also is near death but Sheppard convinces him to fight. The former Lieutenant is later taken away by the Wraith to be cocooned while they also take Kanayo's corpse away.

Later the woman (named Neera), imprisoned with Sheppard, flirts and snuggles and tells him about herself, her world and what has happened to them. She then tries to acquire information from him, particularly the name of his world. He refuses to tell her anything, and is taken away to be interrogated by the queen again. During the interrogation, the woman in the cell is revealed to be a "Wraith worshipper" like thousands of others in the galaxy. Sheppard then tells her that he is the same and has made "deals" with the other queen that arrived earlier in the episode. Suddenly Ford appears and rescues Sheppard. After giving Sheppard Ronon's Particle magnum, Ford stays behind to cover him while Sheppard escapes and also rescues Teyla and Ronon. Sheppard then boards a Wraith dart with Ronon and Teyla dematerialized in the "cargo hold". He then leaves the ship while hundreds of other darts leave both Hive ships.

McKay in the meantime finally became free of the enzyme and informs Weir about what has happened and that the Wraith plan to cull a planet. The Daedalus then travels to Edowin where the culling is to take place and arrives just when it begins. When they try to contact Sheppard they get no answer and prepare to destroy the ships. The attempt to beam Nuclear warheads onto the ships fails due to the transport inhibitor the Wraith have developed, and immediately after, the ships attack Daedalus. Sheppard saves the day by using his dart to attack the other Hive ships, causing them to fire on each other, while he escapes through the local orbital Stargate prior to the explosion, which destroys everything in a 15,000 meter radius. He later returns to Atlantis with Teyla and Ronon after dialing in from another planet. He did not go directly because he doubted the dart would fit in Stargate Operations.

In the end the command crew discuss the current situation of the Wraith and that their battles among each other can be used for their advantage. Sheppard pointedly reminds the others that Ford, presumed killed when the hive ships exploded, "was last seen aboard one", but may have escaped once more.

References

Atlantis infirmary; Clowns; Cocoon; Control crystal; Battle of Edowin; Edowin; Ford's Coalition; Heads up display; Jamming code; Particle magnum; Railgun; Wraith; Wraith Dart; Wraith civil war; Wraith enzyme; Wraith enzyme withdrawal; Wraith stunner rifle; Wraith worshipper

Notable Quotes

(Talking about clowns)
Sheppard: We fight them too. Entire armies spilling out of Volkswagens. We do our best to fight them off, but they keep sending them in.

Notes

• Andee Frizzell previously played the Wraith Keeper in "Rising", and would go on to play many other Hive Queens that appear in future episodes.
• Despite Lt. Colonel John Sheppard's closing dialogue, this is the final appearance of Lt. Aiden Ford for two and a half seasons. He is not seen or mentioned again until "Search and Rescue".
• The tactic Sheppard uses to destroy the two Hive ships is similar to the one Bra'tac planned to use in the Stargate SG-1 episode "The Serpent's Lair": by attacking a Hive ship with the Wraith Dart of another, the two ships believed the other to be hostile and destroyed one another.

Goofs

• When Dr. Rodney McKay is activating the Dial Home Device a protruding arm reveals that someone is hidden behind the dispositive.
• At the end of the episode when the gate activates with an incoming wormhole, Chuck says they are receiving Lt. Colonel John Sheppard's IDC, yet you can hear the wormhole still opening in the background.
• Just before Sheppard and everyone was captured for the first time. Sheppard threw a Stun grenade at a wraith blocking his way. The wraith actor covered his eyes from the intense light and started to fall down before the grenade went off.

External links

• Template:SciFi
• Official Stargate Atlantis site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006.
• Transcript from GateWorld. Transcribed by Callie Sullivan. Visited May 14, 2006.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 14, 2006.
• Review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Taylor Brown. Visited May 14, 2006.
• Gatenoise from Moon-catchin'. Visited June 23, 2006.