Quotes of the Week S2E7 Instinct
What did John and Teyla say in this episode to each other, and to others? Can you create something with one of these or a few of these quotes? How about a fic, a motivational poster, an artwork, or simply start a discussion? A video maybe? The possibilities are endless with these two with just a simple word. ;)
I tried to clean it up as much as I could. This is NOT a transcript. Just J/T quuotes within convos. If you'd like me to post the entire transcript, just let me know and I will, but it will be in more than one entry. :)
EPISODE NUMBER - 207=
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 08.26.05
SYNDICATION AIR DATE - 10.30.06
WRITTEN BY - Treena Hancock & Melissa R. Byer
DIRECTED BY - Andy Mikita
The team discovers a young Wraith girl who has been raised by a human, and is in hiding from the people of her human village in fear of her life.
Transcript by justalurkr taken from gateworld.net edited by jeyla4ever to only include John and Teyla scenes only.
[Long, swooping shot over a Stargate orbiting a blue and white planet with a quick cut to a foggy night in a village lit by what might be torches, if they were flickering. Sheppard's team walks single file down a village lane, looking alert. Sheppard's on point, followed by Teyla, McKay and Dex. Shep and Teyla have their firearms at the ready.]
SHEPPARD: Another great vacation getaway in the Pegasus Galaxy.
TEYLA: Where is everyone?
DEX: There's smoke from the chimneys. They're inside.
McKAY: Hmph. Can't say I blame them. Nothing I hate more than a damp cold.
[The team arrives at a village square. They spread out in a semi-circle, still looking about alertly. Sheppard heads for one of the larger, better built structures that has an iron-bound door.]
SHEPPARD: Let's check this out.
[Door opens to a candle and firelit village tavern. It looks more like dinnertime than happy hour, though. Folks do not look happy to be disturbed, especially by strangers. Not a smiling face in the bunch as everyone in the tavern turns to stare and all conversation comes to a stop.]
SHEPPARD: Howdy, folks.
[More silence, more stares. A younger guy we saw serving dinner as Sheppard and the others entered steps into view.]
CALLUP: Who are you?
SHEPPARD: Sheppard. [Gestures to the others as they come through the door behind him.] This is Teyla, Ronon, McKay ...
[Dex gives a brief, abortive wave to the crowd. No one responds. While not hostile, it's clear they'd be just as happy if the strangers turned around and left the way they came.]
CALLUP: [tossing a towel over his shoulder] You from Ratira?
[Sheppard exchanges a look over his shoulder with McKay, who has stayed behind the armed members of the team since they all arrived in the village square.]
SHEPPARD: No.
CALLUP: Over the mountains, then?
SHEPPARD: A little further.
CALLUP: Huh. Then you've come a long way. You'll be in need of food and drink.
[McKay looks interested. The camera switches to a view of the tavern over his shoulder and Callup gestures offscreen.]
CALLUP: Sit.
[The team moves in the direction indicated, everyone in the tavern still staring at them in silence. As he closes the tavern door and follows the team to their table, Dex is obviously surveying the room for threats. Cut to Callup brushing off a table and pulling an extra chair over as Sheppard and Teyla take their seats.]
McKAY: [gesturing to the staring guests] I take it you don't get many strangers around here?
CALLUP: No. [He nearly collides with Dex, who is a lot bigger, and pulls out a bench for Dex to sit on.] Especially those who travel near dark.
SHEPPARD: Why's that?
CALLUP: [looks up in real surprise from wiping down their table] You really don't know?
OFFSCREEN MALE VOICE: Callup! [swing around shot to an older, bearded man standing near the bar, arms crossed in more obvious hostility.] What's your business here?
SHEPPARD: [turning up the charm a little] No business really, we're just travelers.
GORAN: [clearly not charmed] Then you'd best keep traveling.
[Pan across the team. Teyla looks surprised at this lapse in hospitality; McKay, whose charming smile was turned up even higher than Sheppard's, fades to his usual cynical look.]
McKAY: Yeah.
[Pan back to Goran, who wasn't kidding. The team all exchange looks and make as if to rise.]
SHEPPARD: All right, then.
CALLUP: Wait! [turns to Goran] Goran, you can't send them out there.
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[Quick camera cut between Teyla and Sheppard, both of whom look puzzled.]
SHEPPARD: Never heard of it.
GORAN: It lives in the forest. It'll be feeding soon.
McKAY: And it is ... some kind of an animal, or…?
GORAN: It's a creature, that has the appearance of a man, but it can suck the very life from your bones. It leaves only a dead, withered husk behind.
SHEPPARD: Sounds familiar.
[Sheppard and Dex exchange resigned looks, cut to titles.]
[We return to the village tavern. The team is re-seated at the table with Goran joining them, Callup serving drinks in the form of a clear red beverage in tumblers and nobody staring anymore.]
SHEPPARD: Look, uh ... we know you're not used to dealing with strangers, but we may be able to help you with this little problem you're having. We're used to dealing with this kind of thing.
[Quick cut to McKay, sniffing the reddish beverage suspiciously before discreetly putting it back down, then to Dex, downing the same drink in one gulp.]
TEYLA: We call them the Wraith.
GORAN: These are the creatures from the old stories, from the time of the cullings.
McKAY: So you have heard of them?
GORAN: Yes, but the histories of them are incomplete. They tell of the great ships that descended from the sky, but there's no description of the Wraith themselves, although there were a few among us who guessed the Daimos might be one of them.
TEYLA: Why?
GORAN: Because it, too, came from the sky.
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[Pan around the entire team. None of them are having an easy time with this at all, though Dex looks the most impassive. Goran stares down at the table, then takes a drink.]
DEX: That's it? One Wraith in the forest? [reaches for his gun on the table and flicks the arming mechanism]
GORAN: Yes.
DEX: [rising to his feet] I'm done by morning!
SHEPPARD: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! [Lightning crashes outside.] We'll all go together ... in the daylight!
[Dex looks as if he has something he'd really like to say about that, but restrains himself. Callup pauses as he walks past with a pitcher.]
CALLUP: You're really going to help us?
SHEPPARD: Well, like the man said [gestures at Dex, who is still standing] it's just one Wraith. It'd be downright unneigborly if we didn't. [Picks up his own glass of red beverage and drinks as, next to him, McKay stares uneasily at the table.]
CALLUP: In that case? Drinks are on me.
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McKAY: What?!?
GORAN: [approaching from behind the rest of the team, who turn to look at him] As far as we know, no one was taken last night, but it will strike ... and soon.
DEX: [making impressive noises with his firearm again] We'll kill it before that happens.
SHEPPARD: [as they head out] You must be great at parties.
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[Dissolve to team spread out and stalking through the woods, Dex on point, then Sheppard and McKay, with Teyla bringing up the rear. Dissolve to an impatient-looking Teyla crossing in front of McKay and Sheppard, who both look a lot less alert than in the other shot.]
McKAY: We're talking about a hundred square miles of forest, here.
SHEPPARD: [in a lower voice] Be patient. Ronon's been going up against the Wraith, one-on-one, for the last seven years. If anyone can track this thing, it's him.
McKAY: And exactly how is he going to do that, huh?
DEX: [from a distance, where he was examining a log] It helps to have good hearing.
McKAY: [looking a little shocked] Right!
[Sheppard smacks the back of McKay's head and walks toward Dex, Teyla and their log.]
McKAY: Carry on! [turns to follow Sheppard.]
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[Dissolve to another forest scene. Team moving with a lot less enthusiasm. Cut to Teyla, who sighs and looks up at the forest canopy.]
SHEPPARD: What about you? Are you sensing anything?
TEYLA: I am not sure.
SHEPPARD: What do you mean?
TEYLA: There is a presence here, but it is ... different.
TEYLA: I cannot quite explain it.
DEX: It's in there.
SHEPPARD: Ronon! Dammit.
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DEX: It's in there.
SHEPPARD: It was the Wraith?
DEX: Yeah.
McKAY: Did you see it?!?
DEX: No.
McKAY: So, how do you know?!
[Dex turns his head toward McKay, clearly ready with a withering take-down of his own, when Teyla interrupts.]
TEYLA: Ronon is correct. I can definitely sense it now.
TEYLA: A female!
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SHEPPARD: Get out of the way!
[It's his ‘no kidding around, someone's about to be very dead' voice. The rest of the team are all wearing their ‘he is so not joking about this' faces as they take aim.]
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[Cut from man and daughter to the team, all of whom still look skeptical, to put it mildly.]
SHEPPARD: Let me guess? Wraith with a heart of gold?
ZADDIK: She doesn't feed. She's never taken a human life.
TEYLA: [seen over the barrel of her gun] How is that possible?
ZADDIK: Please! Lower your weapons, and I'll explain it to you.
[There is a very long pause. Sheppard lowers his weapon first, followed by McKay (who had pulled out and aimed a pistol) then Teyla. We can't see if Dex has followed suit.]
ZADDIK: [to Ellia] It's all right.
ELLIA: [shakily] Father!
ZADDIK: I won't let them hurt you. [Pulls her back into a comforting hug as he turns to address the team.] I raised her as my own.
[Quick cut to Teyla, arching a skeptical eyebrow and standing with her gun down, but clearly ready to pull it back into position.]
TEYLA: You live here? Together?
[She seems to find that prospect somewhat sickening]
ZADDIK: This was part of a mine, before the last culling. It's not much to look at, I know, but we don't have much choice. The people of the village would not understand.
SHEPPARD: Gee. I wonder why?
TEYLA: The villagers told us that there was a Wraith in the forest. It came here in a crashed ship ten years ago.
ZADDIK: Ten years ago? [McKay looks toward father and daughter with that doom and gloom look he does so well.] Ellia was just a child! Do you really think she could be responsible for the deaths that happened immediately after that crash?
McKAY: So you know about that, then?
ZADDIK: I was there. [Dramatic music swells, and he puts Ellia away from him. She looks distressed as all get out.] I helped kill the survivors.
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[Cut to Sheppard, looking skeptical again.]
ZADDIK: An adult. That's who you should be looking for!
TEYLA: [who might have some Wraith recipes to share with Dex] If she does not feed, how does she live?
[Cut to classic “ewwww” reaction shots from Sheppard and McKay.]
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[Quick cut back to exterior of Atlantis, then to the infirmary as seen over Beckett's shoulder, where Sheppard is seated very casually across an exam bed as Weir questions him.]
WEIR: A drug that allows the Wraith to survive without feeding?
SHEPPARD: That's what he said.
WEIR: Is such a thing even possible?
[Cut to Beckett, looking neutral.]
BECKETT: We don't know enough about Wraith physiology to say for certain, although I must admit it's intriguing that this Doctor Zaddik claims the Wraith survived on normal food for a time.
SHEPPARD: Why?
BECKETT: Well, if he's telling the truth, it might be the answer to a very puzzling question. Right now, our best guess is that the Wraith evolved from the iratus bug.
SHEPPARD: Like the one that attached itself to my neck a year ago?
BECKETT: That's right.
SHEPPARD: I hate those bugs.
BECKETT: Trust me, I know. We speculated that they evolved into the Wraith when they began to take on the characteristics of the humans they were feeding on.
[Sheppard looks as if this is way too much information.]
BECKETT: Now, there are many aspects of human physiology that are quite useful: bipedal motion, opposable thumbs, large brain capacity ... but the human digestive system serves no purpose in the adult Wraith. So why have one at all?
WEIR: Because they eat normal food when they're young?
BECKETT: Exactly! Then at some point, they lose the ability to sustain themselves with that food.
SHEPPARD: So it's a teenage thing? Pimples, rebellion, life-sucking?
[Weir is wearing her ‘must you always joke?' face, then smiles slightly at Sheppard before turning back to Beckett.]
BECKETT: Something like that! The question is, what causes it? If it's due to some chemical deficiency, like a diabetic's inability to process sugar, then it's possible it may be addressed with some kind of drug.
[Beckett is looking hopeful at this point.]
WEIR: Zaddik could be telling the truth.
BECKETT: I'd like to go to the planet and check into it.
WEIR: Is that really necessary? I'm sure we could get a sample, bring it back here for you to analyze?
BECKETT: It's not just the drug I'm interested in! This young Wraith could be very important for our research.
[This gets Sheppard's attention.]
SHEPPARD: What research?
BECKETT: We're working on a retrovirus that would alter Wraith D.N.A., essentially stripping out the iratus bug elements of the genetic code and leaving only the human aspects behind.
SHEPPARD: A drug that turns Wraith into humans?
BECKETT: Effectively, yes! But so far we haven't had much success, partly because we lacked the living tissue and blood samples we need to test it.
WEIR: You think this ... girl would be willing to provide them?
BECKETT: Look, I realize we can't bring her back to Atlantis, but I could take the retrovirus and equipment necessary for the analysis with me to the planet. A few days with a cooperative test subject could be worth months of theoretical research. [Weir is looking reluctantly interested.] Elizabeth, I don't have to tell you how important this could be for us.
[Weir turns back to Sheppard.]
WEIR: Is she dangerous?
SHEPPARD: She's a Wraith!
[Weir looks sharply at Beckett, who looks disappointed.]
SHEPPARD: Although ... I have to admit ... she does seem a little different.
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[Cut to McKay and Teyla, looking on from the other side of the room. McKay, looking creeped out, lets out a huff of breath.]
McKAY: [quietly to Teyla] Seriously. Have you ever seen anything like this before?
TEYLA: [looking away, then back] No, I have not. She's unlike any Wraith I've ever encountered.
McKAY: What if it's all an act?
TEYLA: If she were a killer, why would he protect her?
McKAY: Maybe the act's for his benefit, too?
TEYLA: [shaking her head] They live here together, Rodney. If she were like other Wraith, he would be her first victim.
[Chirp of static from the radio]
SHEPPARD: [over radio] Teyla, this is Sheppard.
TEYLA: [turning slightly so she can speak quietly into her radio] Go ahead.
SHEPPARD: Just got back with Beckett. Ronon's gonna take him up to the cave, I'm gonna check in with the villagers.
TEYLA: [softly, over the radio] What are you going to tell them?
SHEPPARD: I'm still workin' on that.
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[Quick as a snake, Dex strikes the plate out of her hands, scaring her (and me) to death.]
DEX: STAY AWAY FROM ME!
[Ellia lets out an ear-splitting Wraith shriek, scaring everyone in the room but Dex to death. It's extremely shrill and creepy. Dex has his sidearm out and pressed to her chest in one very smooth motion.]
TEYLA: Ronon!
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TEYLA: [low voice, very intent] Was that really necessary?
DEX: You can dress her up and teach her table manners, but that's not going to change who she is.
[Radio chirps static]
SHEPPARD: [over the radio] Teyla, this is Sheppard. Come in?
TEYLA: Go ahead, Colonel.
[The next bit is partly over the radio, partly cutting between Teyla in the cave and Sheppard in the village square.]
SHEPPARD: Is Ellia still in the cave?
TEYLA: Yes.
SHEPPARD: She been there the whole time?
TEYLA: Yes, why?
SHEPPARD: I just found another victim.
SHEPPARD: Apparently he's only been missing a couple of hours, which means she couldn't have done it.
SHEPPARD: Looks like Zaddik might have been telling the truth after all.
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[Dissolve to exterior daylight shot of the village square, with villagers milling around and talking restlessly about self-defense. Goran breaks away from a conversation and walks to Sheppard.]
GORAN: Colonel Sheppard, is there any progress with this hunt?
SHEPPARD: We're workin' on it.
GORAN: Maybe we can help you.
SHEPPARD: That won't be necessary.
CALLUP: We're sick of doing nothing! We're sick of being afraid all the time. That thing is hunting in daylight now! We'll never be safe.
SHEPPARD: Just be patient. We'll take care of it!
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[Dissolve to interior cave shot, camera following Dex as he walks past Zaddik and Sheppard, where the camera pauses. Dex moves, stalks out of the shot.]
ZADDIK: See? I told you she wasn't responsible for the killings. The serum makes it unnecessary for her to feed.
SHEPPARD: [to Beckett] Can you confirm that?
BECKETT: Not yet. It will be a while before I can complete my analysis.
SHEPPARD: [softly] All right. [aloud, to Zaddik] Well in the meantime, there's another Wraith out there.
[Turns to look at Teyla and Dex, who are standing nearly in the shadows by a tunnel out of Zaddik's laboratory. Teyla approaches them.]
TEYLA: I believe Ellia may be able to help us find it.
ZADDIK: How?
TEYLA: May I speak with her?
ZADDIK: All right.
[Quick cut to Ellia's room, where she is seated on her cot, staring down at her hands in her lap, a picture of adolescent dejection. Teyla peeks around the draped brown cloth that separates the space from the rest of the caves.]
TEYLA: May I join you?
[Ellia looks over her shoulder and shrugs wordlessly. Teyla takes that as a yes and comes in.]
TEYLA: Ellia, we need your help.
[Long, wordless stare between the two.]
TEYLA: You can sense the other Wraith.
[It was more a statement than a question, and Ellia looks away from Teyla, still not speaking.]
TEYLA: It is all right. [moves to sit beside Ellia on the cot] There's nothing to be ashamed of ... in fact, I have the same ability.
ELLIA: [looks up hopefully] Really?
TEYLA: I sensed you in the forest, when you were watching us, and I knew even then that you were ... different.
[Cut to Ellia lowering her eyes at that.]
TEYLA: Your father has raised you well, he has taught you right from wrong.
[Faint smile from Ellia, nearly a human one.]
TEYLA: You are not like the other one.
ELLIA: [looking near tears, slightly shaking her head] I don't let him in. [looks away] I don't like what he shows me.
TEYLA: I know. [inhales deeply] But you have to try now. We need to find him.
ELLIA: [looking back, shaking her head] You don't understand.
TEYLA: I have tried myself, but I can get nothing. [long pause, faint lip-twitch of a smile from Teyla.] Please.
ELLIA: All right.
TEYLA: Good. [takes another deep breath] Now concentrate.
TEYLA: Try again.
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TEYLA: Zaddik? Is there a river nearby?
ZADDIK: Yes, just to the east.
SHEPPARD: All right, let's go. McKay, stay here and help Beckett.
McKAY: Ah, medical research? Not really my thing.
SHEPPARD: And hunting Wraith?
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[Dissolve to exterior shot by the river Ellia saw in her vision. We see Sheppard and Teyla make their way over the rocky riverbed.]
TEYLA: This must be the river she saw in her vision.
SHEPPARD: Assuming she's telling the truth.
SHEPPARD: Just because there's another Wraith doesn't mean you can trust her.
SHEPPARD: What've you got?
DEX: Fresh tracks. It's him.
TEYLA: [to Sheppard] Now do you believe?
SHEPPARD: I still think there's something more to this than she and Zaddik are telling us.
DEX: [rising to his feet and gesturing] He's headin' upstream, into the hills.
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[Quick cut to another part of the forest as a radio chirps static.]
McKAY: [voiceover] Sheppard, this is McKay.
SHEPPARD: What is it, Rodney?
McKAY: The villagers are on the move, and it doesn't look like they're goin' to a picnic.
[Cut back to Sheppard, hiking through a denser part of the forest with Teyla and Dex.]
SHEPPARD: They headin' for the caves?
[Cut back to McKay, watching villagers head off down a trail.]
McKAY: Not at the moment, no.
[Cut back to Sheppard, watching Dex look more alert.]
SHEPPARD: All right, get back there and sit tight. [Closes radio connection and looks over at Teyla and Dex.] We're losin' time, guys.
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[Dissolve back to exterior forest, with Dex making his way alertly through the trees with Sheppard, then Teyla, at intervals behind him.]
[Radio chirps static]
BECKETT: [over radio] Colonel Sheppard, come in!
SHEPPARD: Go ahead.
[Cut back to Sheppard in the forest, still staring around sharply.]
SHEPPARD: Why would she do that?
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SHEPPARD: [over radio] Look! Ronon says we're close ... [cut to Sheppard outside] If we lose the trail now, we may never catch the Wraith!
BECKETT: [over radio] Rodney and I will find her!
[Cut back to the cave. McKay looks disbelieving.]
SHEPPARD: [over radio] All right, but be careful!
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CALLUP: There's another one of those things out there. Look what it did to Zaddik! I say we go after it now!
SHEPPARD: No one's goin' anywhere. We'll handle this! Stay calm. [to Beckett] How is he?
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[Cut from flashback Ellia sobbing over her father to present day, Sheppard and Beckett looking very uncomfortable.]
SHEPPARD: She never fed on anyone after that?
[There is a very long pause.]
ZADDIK: [firmly] No.
SHEPPARD: All right. Teyla? Ronon? You're with me. The rest of you stay here.
BECKETT: Colonel, the retrovirus is acting quickly. The human part of her is almost gone.
SHEPPARD: You said she killed the other Wraith and saved McKay's life.
BECKETT: Yes, but I'm not sure she knew what she was doing. She's operatin' on a purely animal level right now.
TEYLA: Is there nothing you can do for her?
BECKETT: I might be able to reverse the effects, if you bring her back alive, but I doubt she'll cooperate. She's also stronger and faster than any Wraith I've ever seen.
SHEPPARD: [squeaks] Great!
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[Cut to Sheppard, Dex and Teyla in the misty woods.]
BECKETT: [over radio] Colonel? This is Beckett.
SHEPPARD: Go ahead.
BECKETT: Zaddik's dead.
[Sheppard and Teyla exchange a look.]
SHEPPARD: Understood.
[They walk on, then Sheppard pauses when he sees Dex stopped off the trail, staring away.]
DEX: She knows we're here. [approaches Sheppard] She's watchin' us.
[Pan to Teyla, who has her Wraith sensing face on, which is to say, her eyes are eerily unfocused and she looks a little stoned.]
TEYLA: Ellia? We want to help you! Doctor Beckett can make you better, but you have to come with us! We will not hurt you!
[Pause, while she looks around for any reaction. A twig breaks and Teyla turns around in time to face Ellia as the Wraith leaps from the underbrush and knocks her to the ground with a shriek, which attracts the men's attention and they rush toward the scuffle. Meantime, Ellia is crouched over Teyla and it looks and sounds as if they're having a slap fight.]
[As the men come over a rise in the forest floor, Teyla tosses Ellia off of her and Ronon seamlessly fires his energy weapon at her. Ellia pauses, then scrambles away out of sight. Teyla is unconscious on the ground, and both men crouch by her.]
SHEPPARD: Aww ...
[He looks up to catch where Ellia is headed as Dex checks Teyla for injuries. Dex's fingers come away from her head wet with blood. Sheppard strips out of his jacket and puts his vest back on.]
DEX: She took a blow to the head when it hit her.
SHEPPARD: [indicating Teyla] Stay with her!
DEX: Sheppard!
SHEPPARD: That's an order.
[Sheppard runs off after Ellia as Dex places the rolled up jacket under Teyla's head, then stares grimly after him.]
[Long shots from a few different angles of Sheppard making his way through the woods, very grim and purposeful.]
[Back to Dex and Teyla, as she regains consciousness.]
DEX: Teyla!
TEYLA: [sitting up] What happened? Where's Colonel Sheppard?
DEX: He went after the creature!
TEYLA: You let him go alone?!?
DEX: He wanted me to stay with you.
TEYLA: [with an exasperated breath] I am fine. Go!
DEX: Aren't we supposed to follow his orders?
TEYLA: Sometimes, we are allowed to make exceptions.
DEX: And who decides when it's one of those times?
TEYLA: We do.
DEX: [springs to his feet] That's good enough.
[Dex runs off after Sheppard who, after a quick cut to his part of the forest, we see sneaking around large fallen logs. A roar and a growl bring him around to aim at Ellia, who is pacing down a fallen log over his head, looking hungrily intent.]
SHEPPARD: Ellia?! [pause as she continues to stalk toward him] Don't make me do this.
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[They stare at her body for a few moments to make sure she's really dead, then Ronon catches sight of John's bleeding arm.]
DEX: You OK?
SHEPPARD: Yeah. She tried feedin' on me.
[They look at Ellia's crumpled form again.]
DEX: She wasn't gonna let us take her back.
SHEPPARD: [who wants to believe, but may be having trouble] Yeah, I know.
[Dex claps him on the shoulder and walks away. John stares for a moment more at Ellia, then lifts his injured arm, which is now covered with blood. Her claw hand made quite a wound. Cue foreboding music, and ... ]