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Stargate: Atlantis Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
No Man's Land
Fri, Jul 14, 200643 mins
Having fallen into the Wraith trap, McKay resigns himself to captivity in a cocoon, but Ronon keeps trying to escape or at least take some Wraith down with them. Sheppard managed to hide his glider on the same hive ship and is surprised to be contacted over the radio by Michael, who seeks revenge after the ingrate queen considers him to be too human. The Daedalus and Orion race just in time to engage the two hive ships before they may reach Earth. Weir is summoned to the SGC for a pointless grilling by the International Oversight Advisory. She dismisses them as bureaucrats unable to risk a decision beyond questioning what has already been done. Sheppard manages to reach the Daedalus and his party comes up with a daring plan to overpower the hive with the weaponized retrovirus, despite heavy damage compromising even their life-support systems.
Episode 2
Misbegotten
Fri, Jul 21, 200644 mins
Sheppard and the others are now in control of the one remaining hive ship with most of the Wraith transformed into human form, courtesy of the retrovirus. They do learn something interesting about female Wraiths, however. After they return to Atlantis, the question becomes one of what to do with the Wraiths who are again human, especially Michael who has proved to be quite helpful. Elizabeth Weir meanwhile is surprised to hear that she is to return to Atlantis as the expedition leader. She will be accompanied however by Richard Woolsey who is to review her leadership and make recommendations to the International Oversight Advisory on whether she should be allowed to continue.
Episode 3
Irresistible
Fri, Jul 28, 200644 mins
Sheppard and the team continue their visits to new planets. McKay is tired of all these visits and is keen on implementing a series of gates that will allow them to travel from Atlantis to Earth in a mere 30 minutes without using the power of a ZPM or the two weeks it takes them on the Daedalus. He takes a somewhat different tack however when he sees all of the very friendly young women in the village. Their leader, Lucius Lavin, seems to be a very affable sort and has the locals eating out of their hands. He claims to be an apothecary of sorts and have a cure for every disease, which is certainly of interest to Dr. Beckett. Lavin is invited to Atlantis and soon everyone, including Elizabeth Weir and McKay have fallen victim to his charms. It's left to Sheppard to sort it all out.
Episode 4
Sateda
Fri, Aug 4, 200644 mins
Sheppard and his team visit a planet but Ronon feels that he's been there before. In his days as a runner, the Wraith had hunted him there, causing much destruction and resulting in the death of the local leader's daughter. They haven't forgotten and soon have the entire team in captivity. Turned over to the Wraith, Ronon is once again forced into being a runner and they return him to his home planet of Sateda. In flashbacks, key events in Ronon's previous life are revealed. Needless, his friends don't just sit by idly but head to Sateda to help him.
Episode 5
Progeny
Fri, Aug 11, 200644 mins
The Atlantis team receive a response to one of their probes from a society that seems to be the Ancients. Elizabeth Weir joins Sheppard, McKay and the rest of the team to meet them. To their amazement, they find another city very much like Atlantis only larger and more elaborate with millions of residents. The group's leader, Oberoth, says they left Atlantis many years before after a dispute and created a new life for themselves. McKay is amazed to learn that they have a virtually unlimited number of ZPMs to power the city. Elizabeth wants to discuss trade and the establishment of diplomatic relations but Oberoth seems uninterested. The Atlantis team soon discovers that all is not as it seems.
Episode 6
The Real World
Fri, Aug 18, 200644 mins
Dr. Elizabeth Weir wakes up in a locked hospital room only to be told that she is in a psychiatric institute on Earth. She's also told that her entire experience on Atlantis was a dream. Even Jack O'Neill professes to have no knowledge of Atlantis or of any such thing as the Stargate program. It all seems to be very real to her. Her mother visits and she even sees her pet dog. She also sees shadows at night that are quite frightening but seem to be trying to communicate with her. She is convinced that her time on Atlantis was real and that it is her current "reality" that is false.
Episode 7
Common Ground
Fri, Aug 25, 200644 mins
Sheppard is taken prisoner by his old nemesis, Commander Kolya of the Genii. He finds himself in a dungeon occupying a cell next to a Wraith who says he has been there a very long time. Kolya had expected to become the leader of the Genii but was ousted by Ladon Radim and is now a renegade. He contacts Atlantis and has a simple proposition for Dr. Weir: hand over Ladon Radim, with whom Weir has entered into a truce, and Sheppard will be freed. Weir flatly refuses so Kolya allows the Wraith to feed off Sheppard for a few seconds at a time, and he begins to age dramatically as a result. He broadcasts Sheppard's torture sessions to Atlantis so they can see the result of Weir's decision. While Weir and the others on Atlantis try desperately to find the planet where Kolya is keeping Sheppard prisoner, the Colonel forms a strange bond with the Wraith who work together to escape. The Wraith also shows him a power that no one from Atlantis knew they had.
Episode 8
McKay and Mrs. Miller
Fri, Sep 8, 200644 mins
Rodney McKay returns to Earth to visit his sister, Jeannie Milller, after she solves a mathematical proof that may provide for a means for transferring particles to a parallel universe. They need her help to further determine the practical aspects of her theory but she refuses to sign a non-disclosure agreement. She quite surprised to see Rodney on her doorstep given that he has not been in touch with her for four years. He manages to convince Jeannie to cooperate by transporting her to the Daedalus and soon they are in Atlantis working on the problem. There is more than just a little sibling rivalry between the two and she regales everyone with tales from Rodney's youth, not the least of which is that Rodney is his middle, not his first, name. Their attempt at transporting particles to a parallel universe goes somewhat awry when Rodney's doppleganger suddenly appears. The alternate Rodney has a somewhat different personality from the Rodney everyone knows - funny and self-effacing rather than nervous and abrupt. The experiment has caused a tear in the alternate universe and the real question becomes the alternate Rodney will be able to safely return.
Episode 9
Phantoms
Fri, Sep 15, 200644 mins
When a team led by Major Leonard is late in returning, Sheppard leads a mission to find what may have happened to them. They find three of the team dead as well as evidence that Major Leonard was responsible for killing his own men. Finding themselves under attack by the errant Major and with several Marines wounded, Sheppard, Teyla, Ronon, McKay and the others begin to hallucinate. The source of the problem is an experimental Wraith pulse generator but McKay is having trouble turning it off. With Sheppard fighting an imaginary battle in Afghanistan and Ronon an imaginary Wraith - they're actually shooting at each other - it's left to Teyla to sort it out.
Episode 10
The Return: Part 1
Fri, Sep 22, 200644 mins
The day Rodney McKay has long been waiting for finally arrives: the inaugural test of the interstellar subway that will link the Pegasus and Milky Way galaxies. Arranged as a series of interconnected gates, the traveler only stops at a mid-way transfer station. With Sheppard at the controls of a puddle jumper, the test is uneventful and works quite well. McKay does catch one anomaly however - a passing ship traveling just below the speed of light, apparently belonging to the Ancients. When they make contact, they learn that the Ancients' ship had lost its hyper-drive and the Daedalus offers assistance. Once back on Atlantis, the Ancients have only one request - that the Earthlings leave Atlantis immediately. The Replicators however also have their eye on the city
Episode 11
The Return: Part 2
Fri, Apr 13, 200744 mins
Apparently able to reprogram their base code, the Replicators have attacked and defeated the Ancients who had only recently taken over control of the city. General O'Neill and Richard Woolsey had stayed behind to negotiate with the Ancients and are hiding out in a remote part of the city. It doesn't really matter however since O'Neill's standing orders are that Atlantis is to be destroyed with a nuclear device should it ever be taken over by hostile forces. Sheppard, Weir, McKay and Beckett collect Teyla and Ronon Dex en route and devise a plan to surreptitiously enter the city and rescue their colleagues. If they are to be successful McKay will also have to find a way to destroy the Replicators before they reprogram themselves and make their weapons useless.
Episode 12
Echoes
Fri, Apr 20, 200744 mins
Teyla is shocked when she sees the ghostly image of a woman in the corridors of Atlantis. The woman is an Ancient in appearance but, initially at least, no one else can see her. Others begin to have their own visions however. Dr. McKay is enjoying himself watching a whale-like creature that is swimming just off the city. He's certain that it's the same creature who guided Sheppard to save him when he was trapped on the ocean floor. He nicknames the creature Sam, after his good friend Samantha Carter. When hundreds of the sea creatures are found to be heading for Atlantis, clearly something is wrong. McKay's search of the alien database reveals that Atlantis is under threat of destruction.
Episode 13
Irresponsible
Fri, Apr 27, 200744 mins
Sheppard and his team visit a planet where there supposedly lives a great hero, someone who has great powers. They arrive to find that the great hero is none other than their old friend, Lucius Lavin. they immediately suspect that he's seduced the locals by using his drug but that proves not to be the case. He does have a body shield however that seems to make him impenetrable. As his popularity begins to wane, a group of bandits attacks the village. He repels them and is once again the hero. The bandits turn out to be outcast Genii warriors, part of the late Cowan's personal bodyguards who were actually being paid by Lucius to stage a phony attack. When Lucius stiffs them on the agreed payment, they return for real this time with commander Kolya in charge....and he would like nothing better to get his revenge on Sheppard.
Episode 14
Tao of Rodney
Fri, May 4, 200744 mins
After a time when the Ancients have been shortly living in Atlantis, they have activated a whole bunch of equipment and devices. The Atlantis researchers team is walking around the city to shut it all down again. Suddenly they discover an old research terminal and McKay is going to try to shut it down. Although that does not quite happen like it should.
Episode 15
The Game
Fri, May 11, 200744 mins
Since soon after their arrival in Atlantis some 2 years ago, McKay and Sheppard have been playing a computer game. The game has two civilizations, separated by a river, with McKay and Sheppard tasked to see who can build the better society. McKay's approach is give his society more and better technology while Sheppard's solution is to increase the size of his society's army. They soon learn however that what they have been playing is not a game, but real societies who, until their intervention, lived in a state of peaceful co-existence. After nearly two years of meddling however, they are now on the verge of war.
Episode 16
The Ark
Fri, May 18, 200744 mins
On a distant moon, Sheppard, McKay, Ronon Dex and Teyla find an elaborate subterranean base. The technology is anything but up to date and the base seems to be abandoned, until McKay decides to restore power. When he does so, a scientist materializes and it would seem that he had developed a means of using transporter technology to store a person's essence. The technology was developed to save as many of their people as possible from the Wraith culling and there are several thousand of them in stasis. As the decrepit station begins to fail, Teyla is pulled into stasis by one of the surviving scientists forcing Sheppard to risk his own life to save all of them.
Episode 17
Sunday
Fri, Jun 1, 200744 mins
With everyone having a Sunday off - something recommended by psychologist Dr. Heightmeyer - all of the members of the Atlantis team pursue leisure activities. Rodney McKay and Carson Beckett are scheduled to go fishing; Sheppard decides to teach Ronon Dex about golf; Teyla spends some time in the gym; and Elizabeth Weir has a lunch date with the handsome Mike Branton. Their day off however is interrupted by a powerful explosion near the mess hall killing and injuring several members of the team. McKay thinks he knows the cause of the problem - a device found by two junior members of his team may have turned some of them into walking time bombs by creating explosive tumors in them.
Episode 18
Submersion
Fri, Jun 8, 200744 mins
The team locates a mobile geothermal drilling platform that may have the potential of providing them an unlimited power supply. Before going too far ahead, Dr. Weir wants to learn why the Ancients abandoned the project. On arrival, Teyla immediately begins to sense a Wraith presence on the platform. Her attempt to contact the Wraith doesn't quite go as planned however, and she is soon under a Wraith Queen's control. Weir and the team soon learn that the Wraith Queen has been waiting for millenia for a means to escape the ocean's depths and return to her people....and will stop at nothing to accomplish that.
Episode 19
Vengeance
Fri, Jun 15, 200744 mins
After losing contact with the new Taranin (the people rescued by the Atlantis team when a super volcano threatened to destroy their planet) settlement, Sheppard's team leaves to investigate. Finding the town deserted, they move to investigate an extensive subterranean tunnel system. What they find there holds dark tidings for the entire Pegasus Galaxy.
Episode 20
First Strike
Fri, Jun 22, 200744 mins
Col. Abe Ellis arrives at Atlantis with a new ship, the Apollo, and important news: a new Replicator base has been detected and it appears they have been building a new fleet of ships. He is under orders to destroy the Replicator base and while Dr. Weir doesn't agree with the plan and would prefer to negotiate with them, it's clear that the decision has already been made. The mission seems to go off without a hitch but when a gate appears above Atlantis, the city finds itself bombarded by a deadly ray. Their first attempt at saving the city proves to be temporary at best and they are left with only one choice: activate the city's hyper-drive and leave the planet. Meanwhile, having been bypassed in the decision to attack the Replicators in the first place, Dr. Weir questions whether she can continue as head of mission but fate intervenes.
