David Hewlett credited as playing...
Dr. Rodney McKay
- [Throughout the scene, Rodney is complaining that John shot him]
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [third time] You shot me.
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: [exasperated] Yes, Rodney, I shot you, and I said I was sorry.
- Ronon Dex: You shot me, too.
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: I'm sorry for shooting everyone!
- Teyla Emmagan: [Ronon draws his gun] What is it?
- Ronon Dex: I saw something.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Well, what? Person? Animal? How many syllables?
- Dr. Carson Beckett: Rodney.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Hmm?
- Dr. Carson Beckett: Have you experienced anything yet?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: No. Everyone's brain chemistry is different. Maybe some people are more susceptable than others. Look, I toked pot once in college. Didn't feel a thing.
- Dr. Carson Beckett: Really?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Mm. Well, aside from itchy. And the overpowering urge to eat an entire loaf of white bread.
- Dr. Carson Beckett: [about a decaying body] He's been dead for months.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: No... really?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm picking up that puzzling energy reading.
- Dr. Carson Beckett: What is it?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Did I not just use the word "puzzling"?
- Dr. Carson Beckett: Charming.
- Dr. Carson Beckett: Do you suppose the Genii are responsible for the energy readings we're detecting?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Probably. It'd be just our luck we've stumbled on one of their nuclear testing sites.
- Lt. Kagan: [worried] Nuclear testing site?
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Just a small one.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [they come across two more dead Genii] Oh, for God's sake. Enough with the bodies.
- Ronon Dex: A Wraith bunker, but no Wraith.
- Teyla Emmagan: It appears to have been abandoned for some time.
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: The Genii probably stumbled on to it just like we did.
- Dr. Carson Beckett: And then promptly killed each other. Why?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Another Hardy Boys mystery.
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: What is this?
- Dr. Carson Beckett: It appears to be organic.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: It's like the energy conduit aboard a Wraith ship... and every bit as disgusting.
- Lt. Kagan: This frequency... can it hurt us?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: It's doubtful, apart from the obvious sterility issues.
- Lt. Kagan: Wh-What?
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: He's kidding. You're kidding, right?
- [Rodney makes a non-committal noise]
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Can we stop for a second?
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: No.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Look, I mean no disrespect, but this guy's heavy and ever since I was shot in the ass by an arrow, I've been prone to sciattica.
- [beat]
- Dr. Rodney McKay: No?
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: [They both look at destroyed DHD] Is there any other way to dial? And don't say no if there is *any* possibility, because I am not in the mood for your usual impossible heroics game.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I wouldn't do that!
- Teyla Emmagan: I am trying to impress upon Dr. McKay that determining how to turn the thing off is more pressing than learning what it actually does.
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: You don't even know what it does?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Well, I can now state for certain that it is, in fact, a generator.
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: We already knew that.
- Teyla Emmagan: Is that what made all these people kill each other?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I hope so.
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: You hope so?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Otherwise, there are two bizarre things going on, and one is more than enough for me, thank you very much.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Genii. They must have discovered the place, started messing around with the machine without having the first clue as to what they were doing. Which explains why the place is covered in this.
- [indicates organic material]
- Teyla Emmagan: And before the realized what they'd done ...
- Dr. Rodney McKay: They couldn't figure out how to turn it off, so they shot the thing, hoping they could somehow kill it, which only made it regrow more, make it that much more difficult for someone with the ability to actually turn it off *to* actually turn it off.
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: So you can't actually turn it off?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I never said that.
- Lt. Colonel John Sheppard: Well, what *did* you say?
- Dr. Carson Beckett: You wanted a scalpel?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Yeah, I need it to cut through this membrane. It's like surgery. It's more up your alley, maybe you oughta do it.
- Dr. Carson Beckett: I'm a little preoccupied at the moment, thank you.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Yeah, how is Kroger?
- Dr. Carson Beckett: Kagen.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Kagen. Kagen. What is it with me and names?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [to Carson] So you made a mistake. You thought he was dead and he wasn't. Better off that way than the other way around.