Plot summaries for ‘Progeny,’ ‘Real World’

GateWorld has received official summaries for two highly anticipated episodes of Stargate Atlantis! Here’s how SCI FI Channel describes “Progeny” and “The Real World,” the fifth and sixth episodes of the show’s upcoming third season.

Beware of significant spoilers!

PROGENY
Guest Star: David Ogden Stiers

Scouring the Atlantian database, Dr. Rodney McKay (David Hewlett) discovers a reference to an abandoned Ancient testing site. The team’s investigation of the site uncovers a vast metropolis supporting millions of Ancients. Eager to create an alliance with such an advanced society, Weir (Torri Higginson) is shocked when their leader Oberoth (David Ogden Stiers) refuses the offer.

Seeing no way to appeal to their humanity to help save the Pegasus Galaxy from the Wraith, Weir and the team head back to Atlantis. However, before they are able to leave, the team is ambushed and taken prisoner by Oberoth and his guards. They are then subjected to a mind probe by what they now discover are actually Replicators who have taken the form of Ancients.

Having created the Replicators as a weapon against the Wraith, the Ancients feared they were losing control of their creation. But the Ancients’ attempts to destroy the Replicators failed. Now, the surviving Replicators are divided — some wish to mimic their creators and seek ascension. Others, including Oberoth, want nothing more than the destruction of Atlantis as revenge for the Ancients’ betrayal. Will the team be able to find a way to free themselves and stop the Replicators from reaching Atlantis?

THE REAL WORLD
Guest Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Alan Ruck

Waking up in a psychiatric hospital outside Washington D.C., Dr. Elizabeth Weir (Torri Higginson) is shocked to discover that her entire experience in Atlantis over the last two years was solely a figment of her imagination. Through the help of her psychiatrist Dr. Fletcher (Alan Ruck), she learns that a car accident that killed her fiance left her in a near catatonic state and suffering from delusional psychosis.

Forced to come to terms with this new reality, Weir is visited by her mother and General Jack O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson), who assures her that he has never heard of a Stargate program, let alone the lost city of Atlantis. Yet as she starts to pick up the pieces of her life, she continues to have unsettling visions warning her that she must return to Atlantis.

Back on Atlantis, the team holds a vigil for the comatose Weir, who in reality has been infected by Replicator nanites that are quickly taking over her body and mind. Even with the medical expertise of Dr. Carson Beckett (Paul McGillion) and the emotional support of Lt. Colonel John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan), it is ultimately up to Dr. Weir to save herself and find a way back to the real world.

Season Three premieres Friday, July 14 at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific on SCI FI! Learn more about these and other upcoming episodes in GateWorld’s Season Three episode guide.

(Thanks to Valerie for passing these along!)