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{{quote|''I'm invulnerable!''|'''Dr. McKay''' is very enthusiastic}}
Dr. Beckett has found a way to impart the ATA (Ancient Technology Activator) gene to normal humans, and the normally reticent Dr. McKay is the first to volunteer. He even has a handy bit of Ancient Technology to try it out on - a personal shield that renders him invulnerable to everything from nasty falls to being shot. Both the gene therapy and the device work perfectly - until they realize that the things that can't touch him include ''him'' - he can't eat or drink, or even take the wretched thing off. ([[Fridge Logic|He's lucky]] he can still even ''breathe.'') This of course takes all the fun out of jumping off ledges, letting people shoot him, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|watching football]].
Meanwhile, one of the Athosian children has wandered off and discovered a teleporter to an unexplored part of the city, where he [[Sealed Evil in
They eventually find the child, as well as the container the entity escaped from. It is theoretically possible to lure the entity back into its container, but someone will have to be physically present to press the button. All eyes turn to Invulnerable Dr. McKay - whose personal shield device immediately goes dead and falls off, confirming Dr. Weir and Dr. Beckett's suspicions that it was at least partially psychosomatic all the time. McKay, of course, insists that it just ran out of power, and goes off to eat everything he can find, leaving Sheppard to trap the entity.
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=== Tropes: ===
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: At the very beginning of the episode, Dr. Beckett reveals that the ATA gene McKay is about to receive is delivered via a (deactivated) mouse retrovirus:
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'''Beckett:''' Dry mouth, headache, the irresistible urge to run in a small wheel... }}
* [[Blessed
* [[Bottle Episode]]
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: McKay gets one when he mans up and gets rid of the entity, despite the chance that it might drain his shield and kill him.
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* [[Fainting]]: Of the '''Girly Man Faint''' variety for McKay, although he prefers the term "passed out from manly hunger."
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: And lots of other things.
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'''McKay''': Oh, believe me that's not the first thing we tried.
'''Sheppard''': I shot him. ''*beat*'' In the leg! }}
* [[Inertial Dampening]]: Part of the overall package provided by the personal shield.
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** Of course, they did leave a sentient being imprisoned for 10,000 years when they packed up and abandoned the city.
* [[Recycled Script]]: This episode originally aired back-to-back with the SG-1 episode "Lockdown", which also featured an (unrelated) inky black [[Energy Beings|Energy Being]] haunting the team's base. The two were also disposed of the same way — through the stargate.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Self
* [[Stock Episode Titles]]: 45 uses
* [[What Do You Mean
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'''Weir:''' You're allowed one personal item, and you chose this?
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