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Joe Flanigan in Stargate: Atlantis (2004)

Joe Flanigan: Lt. Colonel John Sheppard

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Stargate: Atlantis

Joe Flanigan credited as playing...

Lt. Colonel John Sheppard

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  • Commander Acastus Kolya: [over the radio] Kill the Wraith on sight, but I want Sheppard alive.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Well, we learned two things. One, he likes me better than you.
  • [Wraith laughs]
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Two, we probably never would've made it to the stargate anyway.
  • Male Wraith: Then it is over.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: No. Our people don't leave each other behind. That's three things you've learned.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: How far is the stargate?
  • Male Wraith: It will be guarded.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: We've got guns.
  • Male Wraith: They will be waiting for us.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Don't be so negative.
  • [Wraith grunts]
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: You think you're gonna make it?
  • Male Wraith: If I feed.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Well, don't look at me.
  • Male Wraith: There is no escape.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Yeah, well, prisons are like that. Never stopped me before. How long you been down here?
  • Male Wraith: Many years.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: How many is many? 5? 10?
  • Male Wraith: It no longer matters.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: That many, huh?
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: You have no idea where the stargate is, do you?
  • Male Wraith: It was many years ago.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Way to go, John - listening to a Wraith!
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Rodney, dial the damn 'gate. Don't wait for us!
  • Dr. Rodney McKay: As if the bullets whizzing past my head weren't encouragement enough!
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: [by himself in a prison cell] Kolya! I didn't kill you last time, remember? You promised me points for that. Kolya! Dammit. I should have killed him.
  • Soldier: Move.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Where are we movin' to?
  • [Soldier cocks gun]
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: I kind of like it heere.
  • [Soldier shoots the wall behind John]
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Ow!
  • Soldier: Commander Kolya insists.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Oh, he insists? Well, why didn't you just say so?
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: [to the Wraith prisoner who just fed on him] This might come as a surprise to you, but I'm not really in the mood for conversation. So why don't you do me a favor and
  • [shouts]
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: shut the hell up!
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: I thought you said this wasn't personal.
  • Commander Acastus Kolya: The truth is, I would've settled for Dr. McKay. But I don't imagine i would enjoy his constant wailing.
  • Commander Acastus Kolya: You'd prefer I stormed Atlantis and take Ladon by force?
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: [laughs] You've got... half a dozen men and a starving Wraith? Yeah, you go right ahead.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: You know, I could've sworn I was gonna wake up dead today.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: You stopped yourself.
  • Male Wraith: Yes.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Why?
  • Male Wraith: Because, the longer I feed, the weaker you become... and we will need what strength you have left to escape.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Now he wants to escape.
  • Soldier: [Over the radio] Tell Kolya there's nobody around the 'gate.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Sounds like they're concentrating their search around the 'gate. They must think we knew where we were going.
  • Male Wraith: [laughs ruefully] Oh, it was worth it... if only to see the sky again.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: I got slightly higher expectations.
  • Male Wraith: My wound is deep. If I do not feed soon... I will die.
  • Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Buck up.

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