Stargate Atlantis/Recap/S03/E11 The Return, Part 2

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  • S01
    • E01 E02 Rising
    • E03 Hide and Seek
    • E04 Thirty-Eight Minutes
    • E05 Suspicion
    • E06 Childhoods End
    • E07 Poisoning the Well
    • E08 Underground
    • E09 Home
    • E10 The Storm
    • E11 The Eye
    • E12 The Defiant One
    • E13 Hot Zone
    • E14 Sanctuary
    • E15 Before I Sleep
    • E16 The Brotherhood
    • E17 Letters From Pegasus
    • E18 The Gift
    • E19 The Siege, Part 1
    • E20 The Siege, Part 2
  • S02
    • E01 The Siege, Part 3
    • E02 The Intruder
    • E03 Runner
    • E04 Duet
    • E05 Condemned
    • E06 Trinity
    • E07 Instinct
    • E08 Conversion
    • E09 Aurora
    • E10 The Lost Boys
    • E11 The Hive
    • E12 Epiphany
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    • E14 Grace Under Pressure
    • E15 The Tower
    • E16 The Long Goodbye
    • E17 Coup d'Etat
    • E18 Michael
    • E19 Inferno
    • E20 Allies
  • S03
    • E01 No Man's Land
    • E02 Misbegotten
    • E03 Irresistible
    • E04 Sateda
    • E05 Progeny
    • E06 The Real World
    • E07 Common Ground
    • E08 McKay and Mrs. Miller
    • E09 Phantoms
    • E10 The Return, Part 1
    • E11 The Return, Part 2
    • E12 Echoes
    • E13 Irresponsible
    • E14 Tao of Rodney
    • E15 The Game
    • E16 The Ark
    • E17 Sunday
    • E18 Submersion
    • E19 Vengeance
    • E20 First Strike
  • S04
    • E01 Adrift
    • E02 Lifeline
    • E03 Reunion
    • E04 Doppelganger
    • E05 Travelers
    • E06 Tabula Rasa
    • E07 Missing
    • E08 The Seer
    • E09 Miller's Crossing
    • E10 This Mortal Coil
    • E11 Be All My Sins Remembered
    • E12 Spoils of War
    • E13 Quarantine
    • E14 Harmony
    • E15 Outcast
    • E16 Trio
    • E17 Midway
    • E18 The Kindred, Part 1
    • E19 The Kindred, Part 2
    • E20 The Last Man
  • S05
    • E01 Search and Rescue
    • E02 The Seed
    • E03 Broken Ties
    • E04 The Daedalus Variations
    • E05 Ghost in the Machine
    • E06 The Shrine
    • E07 Whispers
    • E08 The Queen
    • E09 Tracker
    • E10 First Contact
    • E11 The Lost Tribe
    • E12 Outsiders
    • E13 Inquisition
    • E14 The Prodigal
    • E15 Remnants
    • E16 Brain Storm
    • E17 Infection
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    • E19 Vegas
    • E20 Enemy at the Gate
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And I was so sure we were gonna survive this one. —Sheppard

Tropes

• Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: O'Neill, to a small extent.

O’Neill: So, am I to assume you are not surrounded by heavily-armed SG teams and young strapping Marines? Weir: You've got Col. Sheppard, Ronan, Teyla, McKay, myself and Dr. Beckett. O'Neill (sarcastically): Oh! Dr. Beckett, is it? Well I'm comforted.

• Curse Cut Short: of the "another character interupts" variety, when Jack O'Neill expresses disdain for McKay's proposed "Plan C:"

O'Neill: Sounds more like a Plan F, doesn't it? As in, 'We are totally-' McKay: If we can fight our way back to the bay...

• Die Hard on an X
• Finger-Twitching Revival: Niam
• Genre Savvy: O'Neill, in explaining how Sheppard and his team aren't actually late yet.

Woolsey: It's been well over 11 seconds. O'Neill: Yes, but you're been ignoring the dramatic element of... suspense.

• Guns Akimbo: Teyla, with the Anti-Replicator Guns
• Human Popsicle
• Lie Back and Think of England

Richard Woolsey: He put his hand in my forehead. How can you resist that? Maj. Gen. Jack O'Neill: Well, I like to close my eyes and think of England.

• Space Is Cold
• Stock Episode Titles: 61 uses
• Time for Plan B: It takes Plan D before they get one that actually works.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Plan D is able to succeed because the audience (and, crucially, O'Neill and Woolsey) only learn up through Plan C.