Stargate Atlantis/Recap/S03/E11 The Return, Part 2

And I was so sure we were gonna survive this one.

—Sheppard

Tropes

• Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: O'Neill, to a small extent.

O’Neill: So, am I to assume you are not surrounded by heavily-armed SG teams and young strapping Marines?
Weir: You've got Col. Sheppard, Ronan, Teyla, McKay, myself and Dr. Beckett.
O'Neill (sarcastically): Oh! Dr. Beckett, is it? Well I'm comforted.

• Curse Cut Short: of the "another character interupts" variety, when Jack O'Neill expresses disdain for McKay's proposed "Plan C:"

O'Neill: Sounds more like a Plan F, doesn't it? As in, 'We are totally-'
McKay: If we can fight our way back to the bay...

• Die Hard on an X
• Finger-Twitching Revival: Niam
• Genre Savvy: O'Neill, in explaining how Sheppard and his team aren't actually late yet.

Woolsey: It's been well over 11 seconds.
O'Neill: Yes, but you're been ignoring the dramatic element of... suspense.

• Guns Akimbo: Teyla, with the Anti-Replicator Guns
• Human Popsicle
• Lie Back and Think of England

Richard Woolsey: He put his hand in my forehead. How can you resist that?
Maj. Gen. Jack O'Neill: Well, I like to close my eyes and think of England.

• Space Is Cold
• Stock Episode Titles: 61 uses
• Time for Plan B: It takes Plan D before they get one that actually works.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Plan D is able to succeed because the audience (and, crucially, O'Neill and Woolsey) only learn up through Plan C.