Ronon and the team visit a friendly planet, only to find it unfriendly to Ronon, as Ronon brought the wrath of the Wraith down upon them, when they took Ronon in years before while he was a runner. The villagers plan to send them to the Wraith as a sacrifice, as the Wraith has promised not to cull them if they do. Ronon is finally able to get the villagers to at least send his friends back to Atlantis.

The team later returns with reinforcements, but Ronon is gone and the village destroyed. Meanwhile, Ronon has been re-implanted with a Wraith tracking device and dropped on the ruins of his home world “Sateda,” with the Wraith chasing him again as a Runner.

Ronon also begins to experience flashbacks to his past on Sateda, and to the earlier Wraith attacks there. Even as the Atlantis team searches for him, Ronon has plans of his own, and a goal he has set to attain for himself, before he can be allowed to be killed by his trackers.