Originally posted by RangerOne SG13 SOR
That was a dam good episode, and i needed it after the pathetic Stargate episode just before it.
I agree, I have a plot summary but I always forgot little things, so correct me if they are important.
My question last week was answered: L.U.D.-7 was determined to have suffered "Structural inadequacies."
Neil and Chuck investigate an LUD-7 type lab, and a man with a cross-hatched rash on his skin. Chuck gets scratched by him on the hand, and infected by something. Antibiotics don't seem to have an effect, but it heals up too fast to be normal.
Chuck gets the dreaded rash, and his temperature falls to 93ºF (Paige said that, Kurt would never have used ºF) He begins to not need sleep, food, or the toilet. He carries out fantastic mental arithmetic problems easily (was the whole purpose of the decorating sub-plot just so he could count paint cans and rolls of wallpaper?)
He speaks in a Goa'uld type voice "Something is connecting me to them, something is calling!"
Kurt and his cyberpunk friend from 'Rapture' discover that Chuck is infected by nanobots (they call them nanites first, which is what Wesley Crusher invented, but then only call them nanobots afterwards.) They must have a hive-mind since they are working together in unison. Kurt and Neil work on a way to intercept the nanobot communications signals.
Paige turns up in a foul mood, demanding to see Chuck, and to know what is going on. Chuck shouts at her, she slaps Neil and walks out. She tells Marc his father has left home. Marc meanwhile is still failing his exams and Cynthia Hodge asks him to spy on Chuck in return for ensuring that he stays in the astronaut training programme. He finds pictures of the Project Brightsky lab platform hidden in a book. (So what? Chuck has pictures of satellites! My word! He's a astronaut!)
Two synthetics turn up to take Chuck but he refuses to go. By now they determine half of his brain is synthetic. He gets a phone call, a weird loud noise that summons him to the sentient "that created him."
After communicating with the sentient, something inside him still is human and pulls him back (his soul says Sarah, Kurt scoffs at that.)
But he has learnt the nanobots language, and escapes, then uses an car radio aerial stuck in his arm and his laptop, to speak to them and reverse the process. (Hmmmm! That might just work!)
Meanwhile, Paul has taken Corey away to keep him safe from Sarah. He takes her to a family court because of her apparently irrational obsession that their son will get cancer; which she loses, and he gets custody. Cue all the pulling-my-heart-strings scenes.
Angela must still be sitting in her tin can.
Paige asks Chuck to tell her the whole story from the begining. (has she got a few weeks to spare?)
Kurt begins an experiment with two vats, one embryo, infra-red lamps, and a chemical in a dropper....
