Outsiders

"Outsiders" is the twelfth episode of the fifth season of Stargate Atlantis.

Plot
Dr. Beckett is treating several people on a planet when Colonel Sheppard and his team arrive. Sheppard had come do deliver medical supplies to Beckett. Beckett tells them that the locals have allowed people from Balar who survived the Hoffan Drug plague. He introduces the team to Novo, a Balaran. Beckett tells the team that the supplies won't last long because the Hoffan drug has caused infections in the survivors.

Suddenly nine wraith arrive on foot in the village. The Wraith tell Elson that if they turn over the Balarans the planet will be safe, if not everyone will be killed. Elson, Jervis, Renni, and the other councilors who serve as village leaders debate the fate of the outsiders. If they do not surrender the people they have given shelter, their entire village is at risk of destruction. Colonel Sheppard enters the council chamber as they are considering the problem, and offers them another option: Rather than hand over their guests, his team can help resettle everyone on another world, in relative safety from the Wraith -- more than 600 people.

Convinced that the Wraith might kill them either way, Elson agrees to the evacuation. A small contingent of Wraith guard the gate, and Sheppard's team prepares to attack them. Suddenly dozens more wraith arrive at the gate. Ronon and Teyla inform the rest of the team that they can not leave now.

Jervis leaves the council meeting and gathers several other villagers and guns. His men begin to capture the Balarans in the village. Sheppard's team arrives at the building where Carson is treating the Balarans and tells Carson that they need to move the Balarans out of the village. Suddenly Jervis and his men arrive and atempt to take the rest of the Balarans but Sheppard and his team force them to surrender. Jervis tells them that the rest of his men have already delivered the first group of Balarans to the Wraith. The team lock up Jervis and his men in the villages jail and decide to move the villagers into the mine.

The hive ship arrives at the planet and the wraith inform the Balarans that they will be moving soon. Sefaris tries to make a deal with the wraith by giving them Beckett and McKay in exchange for his life. The wraith agrees and Sefaris takes them to the doctors. Carson and McKay are packing more supplies when the wraith and Sefaris arrive and stun them then kill Sefaris.

Carson and Becket awake in a holding cell aboard the hive ship. The wraith commander arrives and takes them to a laboratory that belonged to the top wraith scientist. The scientist was researching a way to detect the Hoffan Drug before he died because his experiments failed and he feed on a human with the drug. The wraith tell Carson that if he finishes the research they will not kill the humans on the planet below.

Carson is working on the research when he stops and demands to see the commander. Carson is taken to the commander's chambers and tells him that he is not going to finish the research. The Wraith becomes angered and feeds on Becket. Carson is unaffected by the feeding and the wraith falls to the floor. Carson tells the commander that he was infected by the drug too and used the wraith scientist's research to detect the drug in his own body.

Becket grabs the commander's gun and escapes. he stuns several guards and frees McKay. The two men wonder through the ship until they find a control console. McKay hacks into the system and gains control of communications. They contact Sheppard, who tells them to take the ships weapons off line. McKay and Becket are then attacked by the wraith, who have discovered the body of their commander. Carson fights them off while McKay disables the ships weapons. They flee to the dart bay and try to take one of the darts but are unable to make it work. McKay tells Carson that he has another plan.

On the planet, Elson goes to Jarvis' holding cell and Tells them that he does not trust the Atlantians either. He asks if Jarvis can get the wraith to honor the original deal. Jarvis says yes but he will need to get all the outsiders at once. Elson tells him they are all in the mine and gives him the keys to the cell door.

Jarvis, his men and the wraith are marching through the mines when they arrive at the spot where the outsiders should be but the room is empty. the wraith commander picks up a block of C-4. Outside the mine Sheppard detonates the C-4 and a large area of the ground collapses. Sheppard Tells Elson good job and Ronon asks if he thinks they killed enough wraith to make a difference.

The team takes out the remaining wraith at the gate and begin to evacuate the villagers when several darts arrive. Almost all the people have gone through the gate when Teyla is nearly abducted by a dart but instead McKay and Becket beam down. McKay tells her that he programed the dart to beam them down and not beam people up.

Back at Atlantis, Carson is working on using the enzyme that is keeping him alive to help the survivors of the Hoffan Drug from getting infections. McKay enters to let him know that Major Lorne's team has found a suitable planet for the Balaran survivors. Beckett is aware, and plans to leave with them, but Richard Woolsey will not let the information off the base, so he has to work on the enzyme while he can. McKay asks him to have lunch with him, and Beckett reluctantly agrees.

Notable Quotes
Wraith Commander: "Turn over these outsiders and your lives will be spared.  Resist...and you will all die together.  The choice is yours."

Carson: "So, interested in anyone these days?" Rodney: "Me? No I'm no-I'm (stutters)." Carson: "You're a terrible liar, Dr. McKay. Tell me, tell me, tell me."

Background

 * Teyla Emmagan announces the "Previously on Stargate Atlantis" at the beginning of the episode.
 * Richard Woolsey and Jennifer Keller do not appear in this episode.

Production

 * The working title for this episodes was "Amort".
 * Paul McGillion makes his third appearance as Carson Beckett in the fifth season of Stargate Atlantis.