History Recap / StargateAtlantisS01E10TheStorm

* GunsAkimbo: Kolya
* HostileWeather

* TooDumbToLive: The soldier guarding the gate that decided to raise the shield without authorisation from Weir, despite the suspicious nature of the transmission, which [[OnlySaneEmployee his colleague]] even points out. Both men end up getting murdered by Koyla, as a result of his impulsiveness.

** Not to mention the stupidity of Weir not having placed a blanket "no incoming travelers" rule due to their imminent evacuation.
* WhatWouldXDo: Sheppard, wandering around the city, asks himself "What would [=McKay=] do?"

* StockEpisodeTitles: 27 uses

* MissionCreep: The Genii's original plan is straightforward: a small strike team infiltrates Atlantis, takes the main character's stuff (primarily C4 for the Genii nuclear weapons program and a Wraith data device), and gets out. It's simple and doable, and their initial capture of the control room goes well. But then they decide that they might as well ''keep'' the city (possibly because Weir's statement that only the Earth crew can effectively use the city gets under their skin), which means they have to keep Weir and McKay alive to get the shields up- and thus can't use them as hostages to stop Sheppard's rampage, resulting in him killing a big chunk of the initial Genii team along with 55 out of 60 of their reinforcements and rendering the city unholdable.

* MissionCreep: The Genii's original plan was straightforward: a small strike team infiltrates Atlantis, take the main character's stuff (primarily C4 for the Genii nuclear weapons program and a Wraith data device), and get out. It's simple and doable, and their initial capture of the control room goes well. But then they decide that they might as well ''keep'' the city (possibly because Weir's statement that only the Earth crew can effectively use the city gets under their skin), which means they have to keep Weir and McKay alive to get the shields up- and thus can't use them as hostages to stop Sheppard's rampage, resulting in him killing a big chunk of the initial Genii team along with 55 out of 60 of their reinforcements and rendering the city unholdable.

** Not to mention the stupidity of Weir not having placed a blanket "no incoming travellers" rule due to their imminent evacuation.

* DieHardOnAnX: The end of the episode sets up this situation. The bad guys have taken Atlantis and everybody except Sheppard is a hostage, putting Sheppard in the McClain position.

* DieHardOnAnX

** The lackey whom summons Kolya will later play a starring role as Finn Hudson on ''Series/{{Glee}}''.

Rather than playing games with Sheppard, Kolya sends two of his men to kill him, since, for one, they can track him via the Atlantis systems, and for two, they know where he's going. He still has to turn off the last grounding station (which Kolya [[ColdBloodedTorture persuaded]] [=McKay=] to reveal to him). Sheppard can also track lifesigns and manages to take out his pursuers, but not before they've damaged the grounding station control panel. Sheppard declares that they're now even (and, incidentally, doomed), but Kolya responds that "I don't like even" and points his gun at Dr. Weir.

Rather than playing games with Sheppard, Kolya sends two of his men to kill him, since, for one, they can track him via the Atlantis systems, and for two, they know where he's going. He still has to turn off the last grounding station (which Kolya [[ColdBloodedTorture persuaded]] [=McKay=] to reveal to him). Sheppard can also track lifesigns and manages to take out his pursuers, but not before they've damaged the grounding station control panel. Sheppard declares that they're now even (and, incidentally, doomed), but Kolya responds that "I don't like even" and [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt shoots Weir in the face.]]

* BaconAddiction:
-->'''Guard #1:''' Bacon.
-->'''Guard #2:''' The one thing you wish you had brought with you is bacon?
-->'''Guard #1:''' It's the food that makes other food worth eating.
-->'''Guard #2:''' You wish you brought bacon to another galaxy?!?

* HeyItsThatGuy: Kolya is Agent Johnson from ''Film/DieHard.'' The DieHardOnAnX plot may even be a deliberate ActorAllusion.

Meanwhile [=McKay=] and Dr. Zelenka are working on a plan to possibly save the city. They realize that they can harness the lightning from the storm itself to power the shields - IF they turn off the mechanisms that allow lightning strikes to ground themselves harmlessly in the ocean. Sheppard, Weir, and [=McKay=] run around turning off grounding stations, while Teyla, Ford, and Beckett finish evacuating the Athosians from the mainland. Weir and [=McKay=] return finish their stations and return to the gateroom just in time to hear an Athosian distress call. They open the iris to let them in - but instead it is a Genii task force, led by [[strike:Robert Davi]] ColonelBadass Acastus Kolya. The task force makes short work of the [[RedShirt gateroom guards]] and take Weir and [=McKay=] hostage.

** The lackey whom summons Kolya will later play a starring role as Finn Hudson on {{Glee}}.

A pair of giant hurricanes bears down on Atlantis, unprotected on the ocean's surface. Sheppard evacuates most of the personnel and Athosians to Manaria to wait it out. Because he's kind of a JerkAss about it, though, the Manarians immediately call up [[Recap/StargateAtlantisS01E08Underground the Genii]] and tell them that Atlantis will be virtually undefended for the next couple of days.

* LightningCanDoAnything: in this case, power the shields so Atlantis doesn't get blown away.

* ColdBloodedTorture: The reason [=McKay=] reveals the plan to save the city. All we see is a Genii knife, but in the next scene [=McKay=]'s arm is visibly bleeding, and the implication is pretty clear, as well as driving in Kolya's status as a CompleteMonster.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Kolya is Agent Johnson from ''DieHard.'' The DieHardOnAnX plot may even be a deliberate ActorAllusion.

* EverythingsBetterWithBacon:
-->'''Guard #1:''' Bacon.
-->'''Guard #2:''' The one thing you wish you had brought with you is bacon?
-->'''Guard #1:''' It's the food that makes other food worth eating.
-->'''Guard #2:''' You wish you brought bacon to another galaxy?!?

* TheUnfettered: Acastus Kolya.