History Recap / StargateAtlantisS01E12TheDefiantOne

* ChekhovsGun: Literally. While trawling through the jumper, the wraith finds a pistol and throws it aside. After being shot, he plays dead long enough for Sheppard to come close before picking up the gun and taking him by surprise.

* ShoutOut

* TookALevelInBadass: Gall points out that [=McKay=] has done this, that he has stopped being a coward since he arrived in Atlantis.

* GutFeeling: Dr. Weir knows to send a rescue mission before the team is even late reporting in.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: [[spoiler:Gall [[HeroicSuicide shoots himself]] so that [=McKay=] will go out and join the fight.]]

* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler:Gall's suicide]].

* SpotOfTea: [=McKay=]'s proposed solution to Gall's problems:
-->'''[=McKay=]:''' All you need is a good meal, a pot of tea, and to stop talking.

* BadassBoast: see page quote.

* GenreSavvy: Weir has a rescue team prepped basically as soon as Sheppard and [=McKay=] say they intend to investigate the ship.
* GhostShip

* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: [[spoiler:Gall [[HeroicSacrifice shoots himself]] so that [=McKay=] will go out and join the fight.]]

Sheppard, [=McKay=], and a couple of up and coming young scientists take a romp around their local solar system. This serves the dual purposes of checking out an Ancient defense satellite discovered by Dr. Gaul and giving [=McKay=] some driving lessons out in space where there's nothing much to hit. When they get to the satellite, which is huge but apparently burnt out, they pick up a faint Wraith distress signal from the planet's surface, and manage to extract permission from Weir to go and investigate.

It turns out to be a Wraith supply ship, shot down by the satellite in the last days of the war. Finding no life signs except some ubiquitous glowy bug things, they decide to split the party: Gaul and Abrams catalogue the hold full of cocooned dead people while Sheppard and [=McKay=] head off to find the bridge and any information stored in the computers. And so the solitary Wraith survivor comes out of hibernation to take advantage of this snack that has been dropped in his lap.

The Wraith eats Abrams immediately, but cocoons Gaul and starts dragging him off to another part of the ship, with Sheppard and [=McKay=] in hot pursuit. He feeds off of Gaul but leaves him alive, thereby discovering the location of the cloaked Puddle Jumper. When Sheppard and [=McKay=] catch up, he's already gone. [=McKay=] stays behind with Gaul, who is still mostly paralyzed, while Sheppard takes off after the Wraith, hoping to beat him to the Jumper.

* CharacterDevelopment: Gaul notes that [=McKay=] has changed -- he wants to go join Sheppard in the fight, rather than staying where it's safe. This might or might not have something to do with getting tortured in [[Recap/StargateAtlantisS01E10TheStorm the previous episode.]]

* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: [[spoiler:Gaul [[HeroicSacrifice shoots himself]] so that [=McKay=] will go out and join the fight.]]

* NoOntologicalInertia: Averted in the case of Dr. Gaul, despite [=McKay=]'s protestations to the contrary.

* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler:Gaul's suicide]].
* SpotOfTea: [=McKay=]'s proposed solution to Gaul's problems:

* TookALevelInBadass: Gaul points out that [=McKay=] has done this, that he has stopped being a coward since he arrived in Atlantis.

* IAmNotShazam: The episode title refers to Sheppard, not to the Wraith.
-->'''Wraith:''' I will savor the taste of your defiance!

* PropRecycling: Or rather, visual effect (and sound) recycling: the "Light Bugs" previously made an appearance in an episode of ''[[Series/StargateSG1 SG-1]]''. Though this being another galaxy, and them not having the same behavior, it's certainly a different species.

Sheppard, [=McKay=], and a couple of [[strike: RedShirts]] up and coming young scientists take a romp around their local solar system. This serves the dual purposes of checking out an Ancient defense satellite discovered by Dr. Gaul and giving [=McKay=] some driving lessons out in space where there's nothing much to hit. When they get to the satellite, which is huge but apparently burnt out, they pick up a faint Wraith distress signal from the planet's surface, and manage to extract permission from Weir to go and investigate.

* HeyItsThatVoice: RichardIanCox plays Dr. Gaul.

* TookALevelInBadass: Gaul points out that [=McKay=] has done this, that he has stopped being a coward since he arrived in Atlantis.

* ThrowingTheDistraction: Sheppard sets a smoke flare and fires a couple shots to get the Wraith to leave the Jumper and investigate it. Unfortunately, the Wraith is GenreSavvy enough to set a force field before leaving the Jumper.

* MakeSureHesDead

Sheppard, [=McKay=], and a couple of [[strike: Red Shirts]] up and coming young scientists take a romp around their local solar system. This serves the dual purposes of checking out an Ancient defense satellite discovered by Dr. Gaul and giving [=McKay=] some driving lessons out in space where there's nothing much to hit. When they get to the satellite, which is huge but apparently burnt out, they pick up a faint Wraith distress signal from the planet's surface, and manage to extract permission from Weir to go and investigate.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Gaul shoots himself so that [=McKay=] will go out and join the fight.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Gall points out that [=McKay=] has done this, that he has stopped being a coward since he arrived in Atlantis.

* CharacterDevelopment: Gaul notes that [=McKay=] has changed - he wants to go join Sheppard in the fight, rather than staying where it's safe. This might or might not have something to do with getting tortured in [[Recap/StargateAtlantisS01E10TheStorm the previous episode.]]
* ChekovsGun: Literally. While trawling through the jumper, the wraith finds a pistol and throws it aside. After being shot, he plays dead long enough for Sheppard to come close before picking up the gun and taking him by surprise.
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide:]] Gaul [[spoiler:shoots himself]] so that [=McKay=] will go out and join the fight.
* ContinuityCameo: The "Light Bugs" previously made an appearance in an episode of [[Series/StargateSG1 SG-1]].

* LastOfHisKind: Sheppard tells the Wraith he is the last, that the Ancients won the war.
** Though it should be noted that the Wraith immediately calls bullshit on this statement.

* NoOntologicalInertia: Averted in the case of Dr. Gaul, despite [=McKay=]'s protestations to the contrary
* ShoutOut: To Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries
-->'''Sheppard:''' He’s aboard my ship.
-->'''[=McKay=]:''' What are you, [[TheKirk Captain Kirk]]?
** The episode title is a reference to the film ''{{The Defiant Ones}}''
* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler:Gaul's suicide]]

* TheCavalry: Ford and his team in the second Puddle Jumper.

* ContinuityCameo: The "Light Bugs" previously made an appearance in an episode of [[StargateSG1 SG-1]].

* NoOntologicalInertia: Tragically averted in the case of Dr. Gaul, despite [=McKay=]'s protestations to the contrary

* ShoutOut: To StarTrek

* ContinuityCameo: The "Light Bugs" previously made an appearance in SG1.

* TookALevelInBadass: Gall points out that McKay has done this, that he has stopped being a coward since he arrived in Atlantis.

* LastOfHisKind: Sheppard tells the Wraith he is the last, that the Ancients won the war.

Sheppard, [=McKay=], and a couple of [[RedShirt [[strike: Red Shirts]]]] up and coming young scientists take a romp around their local solar system. This serves the dual purposes of checking out an Ancient defense satellite discovered by Dr. Gaul and giving [=McKay=] some driving lessons out in space where there's nothing much to hit. When they get to the satellite, which is huge but apparently burnt out, they pick up a faint Wraith distress signal from the planet's surface, and manage to extract permission from Weir to go and investigate.

Sheppard, [=McKay=], and a couple of [[RedShirt [[strike: Red Shirts]] ]] up and coming young scientists take a romp around their local solar system. This serves the dual purposes of checking out an Ancient defense satellite discovered by Dr. Gaul and giving [=McKay=] some driving lessons out in space where there's nothing much to hit. When they get to the satellite, which is huge but apparently burnt out, they pick up a faint Wraith distress signal from the planet's surface, and manage to extract permission from Weir to go and investigate.

Sheppard, [=McKay=], and a couple of [[strike:RedShirts]] up and coming young scientists take a romp around their local solar system. This serves the dual purposes of checking out an Ancient defense satellite discovered by Dr. Gaul and giving [=McKay=] some driving lessons out in space where there's nothing much to hit. When they get to the satellite, which is huge but apparently burnt out, they pick up a faint Wraith distress signal from the planet's surface, and manage to extract permission from Weir to go and investigate.