Carson Beckett (clone)

"About bloody time, what took you guys so long?"

- Cloned Beckett

The clone of Carson Beckett was one of Michael Kenmore's creations after holding the real Carson Beckett prisoner on M8G-352. The clone has the same physiology as the real Beckett, and the same mermories up until the time he was captured.

Creation
Back in 2006, the real Carson Beckett was looking after the 200 Wraith that turned Human on M8G-352, including Michael, so that he could teach them how to administer the Iratus bug retrovirus on their own. However, a faction of Wraith learnt the truth about their past, and Michael held Carson prisoner. Beckett was later released by Teyla. However, Michael took some cells from Beckett and escaped to a hodeout of his own, where he created the clone. With the creation, Beckett believed that he was still captured.

Michael made his clone so that he could help upgrade the Hoffan drug. Beckett refused to help. However, Michael bought in a young woman no more than 20 years old and killed her right in front of Carson. With Michael's promise that he would kill one person everyday in front of him, Carson immedietly co-oporated. For two years, he worked to minimise the mortality rate of the Hoffan drug to 30%, but still remained hopeful that his people would eventually find him.

Discovery by the Atlantis Expedition
He was eventually found in 2008, by Sheppard's team, unintentionally, because the real Beckett was killed in an explosion a year previously. Dr. Keller discovered that the Beckett they discovered was a clone, since the Telomeres had shortened from the man of his age. They also learnt that his cells were degenerating, and could die. His first sign was that he fainted during an operation to save Nabel Golan's life. Beckett learnt that he would of died long ago, but didn't because Michael created a serum that eliminates his degeneration.

He still insisted to help, as he knows where the Athosians were held, as well as a pregnant Teyla, who was captured for Michael's purposes. He managed to have arrived on the planet in question, with a few teams. Beckett found Teyla and killed both of her guards. However, he was later stunned by Michael, who wouldn't shot him because Michael made all his creations obey him. After returning to Atlantis, they had to put him in stasis, so that they can find a way to save his life.

Two months later, Keller found a way to replicate the serum from Michael's database left on M2S-445. They tested the serum, which worked Beckett was treated. However, Rodney McKay learnt that he was to be sent back to Earth, until such a time he would be deemed fit to return to the Atlantis Expedition. But before he returned, he had to stay in Atlantis to save Keller, after being infected with a pathogen that was slowly converting her into a Hive Ship. He developed a phage that would stop the pathogen spreading. After the success, he was sent back to Earth.