Stargate Atlantis/Recap/S01/E16 The Brotherhood

Allina: It's a layout of the Sudarian villages. The walls of this monastery have protected it for ten thousand years.
McKay: It's beautiful.

Allina: It is. (looks at McKay) And yet my eye is drawn elsewhere.

—McKay fails to take a hint.

Tropes

• Ancient Tradition: the titular Brotherhood, set up to guard the ZPM until the return of the Ancients.
• Badass Longcoat: Kolya has picked one up.
• Beard of Evil: Kolya has grown a dashing goatee since his last episode.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Zelenka, albeit in Czech.

Zelenka: Jesus, I can´t do anything with those actors, dude!'

• The Danza: This episode introduces Technician Chuck, played by Chuck Campbell.
• Distant Prologue
• Failure Is the Only Option: both with respect to the ZPM and McKay's love life.
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: Beckett, again.

Dr. Beckett: For the last time - I'm a doctor not a bloody fighter pilot!

• Magic Square Puzzle
• No Waterproofing in the Future: This is what Zelenka fears, at least, although it would technically be the past.

Zelenka: Yes well, it may if people stop insisting on having food and liquid in such close proximity to the ten thousand year old equipment!

• Oblivious to Love: McKay - see page quote.
• Only Smart People May Pass: although the specific intent is "only members of the Brotherhood may pass."
• Temporary Blindness: the effect of Ford's flash-bangs.

McKay: My eyes! I need my eyes for seeing!