Submersion - Recap

Sheppard’s team goes on an expedition via jumper to find an Ancient mobile power station, with Weir, Zelenka, and three of McKay’s science team accompanying them. They finally find the station and dock with it, unaware that nearby a Wraith has sensed them and wakes up.

McKay figures out that the station is working at full capacity, but Weir wants him to slow down until they can figure out why the Ancients abandoned it. Sheppard, Ronon, and Teyla explore the station and Teyla says she senses a Wraith presence. Sheppard orders an immediate retreat while McKay runs a search and can’t detect anything. Teyla offers to try and find the Wraith using her sensing abilities, but after a few minutes says he was mistaken. She and Ronon go to explore further, and she turns on Ronon and knocks him out. She then goes to an auxiliary control station and starts selectively knocking out power throughout the station and setting up force fields. Sheppard and Weir are caught in one blacked out section and call in to McKay, who tells them what’s going on. Sheppard and Weir find Ronon and they go to look for Teyla, who uses her pistol to destroy the control crystals. McKay sends two of his scientists, Dickinson and Graydon, to use the jumper sensors to find Teyla and Ronon. Elsewhere in the station, a moon pool opens and the Wraith enters the station from the ocean.

Teyla wakens up from her trance with no memory of what she’s done. Sheppard and Ronon capture her and they believe her story when she explains that she made contact with the mind of a Wraith Queen. The Queen took control of her because she was unprepared for the contact. Sheppard and Ronon go to hunt down the queen while Weir insists that Teyla stay behind.

Graydon and Dickinson deactivate the force field between them and the jumper, and Graydon goes to check it out the jumper. The Wraith Queen attacks him. Back in the main control center, McKay sends Dr. Coleman to use the external sensors to scan the area.

Ronon and Sheppard hear Dickinson as the Queen Wraith attack him. The force fields block their path and by the time McKay and Zelenka deactivate them, Dickinson has disappeared. Sheppard finds Graydon in the jumper, the energy drained from him by the Wraith Queen. She enters behind him and controls his mind to force him to fly her back to her people. Ronon arrives and opens fire but the Wraith Queen dodges and the jumper’s front screen shatters, flooding them in. McKay initiates the force fields to keep the water out, and the Wraith Queen is knocked out by the in-rush.

Sheppard takes the Wraith Queen to a room where they can interrogate her, but the Queen refuses to tell them anything about where it came from or its plans. Meanwhile Coleman determines that the Queen was never on the station initially but came from a Wraith Cruiser buried nearby. She swam to the station, using Teyla to open the way for her. Teyla agrees to enter the Queen’s mind and discovers that the Wraith Queen led an alliance in an attack against Atlantis but her ship was damaged and crashed in the ocean near the city. She fed off of her crew until they were dead, then went into hibernation until the Atlantis team arrived. She needs Sheppard to fly her out because she lacks the Ancient gene that allows her to pilot the jumper. Further, the Queen set the auto-destruct sequence on the nearby cruiser and they have two hours until blows up. Worse, McKay discovers that the planet’s crust is thin where the power station is located, and the explosion will cause the magma to erupt and destroy Atlantis.

With time running out, McKay remembers that he saw several deep-sea suits. He and McKay go to the Cruiser but discover they need an access code to shut down the self-destruct. Teyla tries to get the code from the Queen, but Weir is concerned she isn’t strong enough. Teyla does it anyway and the Queen takes her over and frees itself. She then probes further in Teyla’s mind and finds a memory of a conversation where Sheppard told Teyla and Weir that the Cruiser is flyable but they can’t deactivate the self-destruct codes.

The Queen swims to the Cruiser and prepares to take control of Sheppard while deactivating the self-destruct. McKay jumps out and shoots her, but even that doesn’t put her down. Finally Sheppard disposes of her once and for all. The entire thing was a trap: Teyla created a false memory for herself so they could trick the Queen into deactivating the self-destruct.

With everything back to normal, McKay and Weir go off to explore the station while Sheppard, Teyla, and Ronon collapse out of exhaustion.

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