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* DiagnosisKnowingTooMuch: Martin's psychiatrist tried to do this to him, to suppress knowledge of their non-Earth origins, by heavily drugging him and playing up his ConspiracyTheorist personality.
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-->'''O'Neill:''' Look, Marty, I'm a busy man, and you don't strike me as any great threat to national security... ''[looks at the note, check, which reads "WE'VE GOT HIS ADDRESS STALL HIM."]'' ...but as you know, it never hurts to be thorough.
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* CheckPlease: O’Neill says it when Martin tells him he’s from outer space.
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* MoonLandingHoax: Yet another one of Martin's beliefs.
-->'''Martin''': For the longest time I was obsessed with all those alien conspiracies. {{Crop circles}}, [[AliensStealCattle cow mutilations]], the Apollo cover-up.\\
'''O'Neill''': I thought the lunar landings were a hoax.\\
'''Martin''': (''surprised'') No! That was a story created by the government to direct attention from the real cover-up. Everybody knows that!
-->'''Martin''': For the longest time I was obsessed with all those alien conspiracies. {{Crop circles}}, [[AliensStealCattle cow mutilations]], the Apollo cover-up.\\
'''O'Neill''': I thought the lunar landings were a hoax.\\
'''Martin''': (''surprised'') No! That was a story created by the government to direct attention from the real cover-up. Everybody knows that!
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->''"The truth is, I'm not just interested in outer space... I'm '''from''' outer space."''
-->'''-- Martin Lloyd
The SGC receive a phone call from a conspiracy theorist named Martin Lloyd, who claims to have information about the stargate; furthermore, upon meeting with O'Neill, he insists that he himself is an alien. O'Neill is initially dismissive of Martin's claims, but comes to realize there may be more to his story when Carter and Daniel are abducted by a group of shadowy individuals somehow involved with Martin.
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!!"Point of No Return" provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbandonedWarehouse: Dr. Tanner lures Daniel and Carter to one in order to take them hostage
* TheBait: O'Neill and Teal'c use Martin as bait, putting a GPS tracker on him and following him to where Carter and Daniel are being held when the others come to take him away. Martin is less than thrilled by this.
* BoundAndGagged: Carter and Daniel end up zip-tied to chairs while they're being interrogated by Tanner's men.
* CassandraTruth: Despite his having accurate knowledge of the stargate, O'Neill doesn't take Martin's claims that he's an alien particularly seriously until they find his spaceship.
* ComeAlone: Martin instructs O'Neill to meet him alone in the message he leaves for the SGC at the beginning of the episode.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Martin is something of a {{Deconstruction}}, since not only do most of his claims turn out to be correct, but the reason he knows the truth is that he himself is an alien.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Since Martin has the demeanor of a {{Strawman}} conspiracy theorist who happens to be taking a whole pharmacy's worth of different psychiatric medications, the team initially write him off as a harmless nutjob who stumbled upon some information about the stargate program, only for it to turn out that he really ''is'' an alien and he really ''is'' being watched by a shady organization who altered his memories. He's only wrong in thinking that the government was responsible, when in fact it's his fellow aliens.
* EscapePod: It's revealed that Martin and his comrades crash-landed to earth in one of these after deserting their military in the war that destroyed their homeworld.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Martin first tells O'Neill what he knows of the stargate, O'Neill responds that it [[PlausibleDeniability "sounds like a good idea for a TV show."]] The following season, Martin would go on to ''make'' that very show.
* HypocriticalHumor: ''Tons'' of it.
-->'''Martin:''' You still don't believe me? I'm an alien!
-->'''O'Neill:''' You look [[HumanAliens pretty human]] to me.
-->'''Martin:''' What I believe is that thousands of years ago, people were taken from Earth. Maybe as part of some experiment, maybe as slaves, who knows? But the point is, there are entire civilizations up there descended from those original humans.
-->'''O'Neill:''' Now that's just crazy talk.
* InhumanableAlienRights: Discussed:
-->'''Martin:''' This is totally unfair. Just 'cause I'm from another planet, I don't have rights? I mean, doesn't the Geneva Convention cover extraterrestrials? I have to remember to go online and look that up.
* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Teal'c seems to enjoy the vibrating beds in the motel that he and O'Neill stay at a little too much.
* LastSecondWordSwap: O'Neill does this as he's preparing to ditch Martin, only to get a note telling him to stall so that the others can search his house.
-->'''O'Neill:''' Look, Marty, I'm a busy man, and you don't strike me as any great threat to national security... ''[looks at the note, which reads "WE'VE GOT HIS ADDRESS STALL HIM."]'' ...but as you know, it never hurts to be thorough.
* LockedInTheBathroom: Teal'c locks Martin in the motel bathroom and refuses to let him out when he becomes overly insistent in demanding his medication.
* LongList: Martin rattles off a long, ''long'' list of conspiracy theories in his initial message for O'Neill at the beginning of the episode.
-->'''Martin:''' ''[on recording]'' I know all about Roswell, and the Kennedy cover-ups, and the...
-->''Hammond:''' ''[fast-forwarding the tape]'' He goes on like that for quite a while.
-->'''Martin:''' ''[on recording]'' ...and the CIA-sanctioned microwave harassment, and the...
-->'''Hammond:''' ''[fast-forwarding some more]'' [[OverlyLongGag Quite a while.]]
-->'''Martin:''' ''[on recording]'' ...and the lizard people!
* TheMenInBlack: Tanner and his men invoke this, though they don't actually work for the government.
* OhCrap: When Martin realizes that the device he stole from Tanner is displaying a countdown.
* OvertRendezvous: O'Neill meets Martin in a diner at the beginning of the episode.
* ProperlyParanoid: Martin. Nearly all of his "delusions" wind up being true, even if not in the exact sense that he expected.
* PsychoPsychologist: Dr. Tanner poses as a psychiatrist and gives Martin "medication" that alters his memory in order to convince him -- and everybody else -- that he's crazy.
* RunningGag: O'Neill tells Martin that the stargate program is really to do with "magnets".
* SelfDestructMechanism: Tanner sets the self-destruct on the escape pod in order to destroy the evidence of their true identities.
* TheStakeout: Carter and Daniel stakeout O'Neill's initial meeting with Martin, complete with surveillance van. This is lampshaded, naturally.
-->'''Daniel:''' You know, I've never been on a stakeout before. Shouldn't we have, like, donuts or something?
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Martin fears that this is what would happen if the government were to find out that he's an alien.
* ToThePain: As he's preparing to interrogate Carter and Daniel, Tanner begins pulling a series of increasingly lethal-looking torture implements from his bag.
-->'''Tanner:''' I understand your reluctance to cooperate. Situations like this, information is on a need-to-know basis. Fact of the matter is, we're running out of time, I'm running out patience, and I ''really'' need to know.
-->'''Daniel:''' [[CaptainObvious ...You're not a real doctor, are you?]]
* WheresTheKaboom: After Martin notices that the device he stole from Tanner is counting down, everybody assumes there's a bomb in the facility and makes their dramatic escape. When nothing happens, there's a few seconds of awkward silence and it's revealed the countdown was actually for the self-destruct of Martin's escape pod, several miles away.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: It turns out that Martin's homeworld has been pretty much completely destroyed after his people lost their war with the Goa'uld, forcing him to remain on Earth.
-->'''-- Martin Lloyd
The SGC receive a phone call from a conspiracy theorist named Martin Lloyd, who claims to have information about the stargate; furthermore, upon meeting with O'Neill, he insists that he himself is an alien. O'Neill is initially dismissive of Martin's claims, but comes to realize there may be more to his story when Carter and Daniel are abducted by a group of shadowy individuals somehow involved with Martin.
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!!"Point of No Return" provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbandonedWarehouse: Dr. Tanner lures Daniel and Carter to one in order to take them hostage
* TheBait: O'Neill and Teal'c use Martin as bait, putting a GPS tracker on him and following him to where Carter and Daniel are being held when the others come to take him away. Martin is less than thrilled by this.
* BoundAndGagged: Carter and Daniel end up zip-tied to chairs while they're being interrogated by Tanner's men.
* CassandraTruth: Despite his having accurate knowledge of the stargate, O'Neill doesn't take Martin's claims that he's an alien particularly seriously until they find his spaceship.
* ComeAlone: Martin instructs O'Neill to meet him alone in the message he leaves for the SGC at the beginning of the episode.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Martin is something of a {{Deconstruction}}, since not only do most of his claims turn out to be correct, but the reason he knows the truth is that he himself is an alien.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Since Martin has the demeanor of a {{Strawman}} conspiracy theorist who happens to be taking a whole pharmacy's worth of different psychiatric medications, the team initially write him off as a harmless nutjob who stumbled upon some information about the stargate program, only for it to turn out that he really ''is'' an alien and he really ''is'' being watched by a shady organization who altered his memories. He's only wrong in thinking that the government was responsible, when in fact it's his fellow aliens.
* EscapePod: It's revealed that Martin and his comrades crash-landed to earth in one of these after deserting their military in the war that destroyed their homeworld.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Martin first tells O'Neill what he knows of the stargate, O'Neill responds that it [[PlausibleDeniability "sounds like a good idea for a TV show."]] The following season, Martin would go on to ''make'' that very show.
* HypocriticalHumor: ''Tons'' of it.
-->'''Martin:''' You still don't believe me? I'm an alien!
-->'''O'Neill:''' You look [[HumanAliens pretty human]] to me.
-->'''Martin:''' What I believe is that thousands of years ago, people were taken from Earth. Maybe as part of some experiment, maybe as slaves, who knows? But the point is, there are entire civilizations up there descended from those original humans.
-->'''O'Neill:''' Now that's just crazy talk.
* InhumanableAlienRights: Discussed:
-->'''Martin:''' This is totally unfair. Just 'cause I'm from another planet, I don't have rights? I mean, doesn't the Geneva Convention cover extraterrestrials? I have to remember to go online and look that up.
* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Teal'c seems to enjoy the vibrating beds in the motel that he and O'Neill stay at a little too much.
* LastSecondWordSwap: O'Neill does this as he's preparing to ditch Martin, only to get a note telling him to stall so that the others can search his house.
-->'''O'Neill:''' Look, Marty, I'm a busy man, and you don't strike me as any great threat to national security... ''[looks at the note, which reads "WE'VE GOT HIS ADDRESS STALL HIM."]'' ...but as you know, it never hurts to be thorough.
* LockedInTheBathroom: Teal'c locks Martin in the motel bathroom and refuses to let him out when he becomes overly insistent in demanding his medication.
* LongList: Martin rattles off a long, ''long'' list of conspiracy theories in his initial message for O'Neill at the beginning of the episode.
-->'''Martin:''' ''[on recording]'' I know all about Roswell, and the Kennedy cover-ups, and the...
-->''Hammond:''' ''[fast-forwarding the tape]'' He goes on like that for quite a while.
-->'''Martin:''' ''[on recording]'' ...and the CIA-sanctioned microwave harassment, and the...
-->'''Hammond:''' ''[fast-forwarding some more]'' [[OverlyLongGag Quite a while.]]
-->'''Martin:''' ''[on recording]'' ...and the lizard people!
* TheMenInBlack: Tanner and his men invoke this, though they don't actually work for the government.
* OhCrap: When Martin realizes that the device he stole from Tanner is displaying a countdown.
* OvertRendezvous: O'Neill meets Martin in a diner at the beginning of the episode.
* ProperlyParanoid: Martin. Nearly all of his "delusions" wind up being true, even if not in the exact sense that he expected.
* PsychoPsychologist: Dr. Tanner poses as a psychiatrist and gives Martin "medication" that alters his memory in order to convince him -- and everybody else -- that he's crazy.
* RunningGag: O'Neill tells Martin that the stargate program is really to do with "magnets".
* SelfDestructMechanism: Tanner sets the self-destruct on the escape pod in order to destroy the evidence of their true identities.
* TheStakeout: Carter and Daniel stakeout O'Neill's initial meeting with Martin, complete with surveillance van. This is lampshaded, naturally.
-->'''Daniel:''' You know, I've never been on a stakeout before. Shouldn't we have, like, donuts or something?
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Martin fears that this is what would happen if the government were to find out that he's an alien.
* ToThePain: As he's preparing to interrogate Carter and Daniel, Tanner begins pulling a series of increasingly lethal-looking torture implements from his bag.
-->'''Tanner:''' I understand your reluctance to cooperate. Situations like this, information is on a need-to-know basis. Fact of the matter is, we're running out of time, I'm running out patience, and I ''really'' need to know.
-->'''Daniel:''' [[CaptainObvious ...You're not a real doctor, are you?]]
* WheresTheKaboom: After Martin notices that the device he stole from Tanner is counting down, everybody assumes there's a bomb in the facility and makes their dramatic escape. When nothing happens, there's a few seconds of awkward silence and it's revealed the countdown was actually for the self-destruct of Martin's escape pod, several miles away.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: It turns out that Martin's homeworld has been pretty much completely destroyed after his people lost their war with the Goa'uld, forcing him to remain on Earth.
