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Brad Wright (creator) &
Robert C. Cooper (creator) ...
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TV Series:
Original Air Date:
2 January 2009 (Season 5, Episode 19)
Plot:
The killings a Wraith is making in Las Vegas are investigated by detective John Sheppard... who knows nothing about life-sucking aliens from another galaxy. | full synopsis
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The one where we see SGA: Else-world... more (16 total)
Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Joe Flanigan | ... | Detective John Sheppard |
 | Rachel Luttrell | ... | Teyla Emmagan (credit only) |
| Jason Momoa | ... | Ronon Dex (credit only) |
 | Jewel Staite | ... | Dr. Jennifer Keller |
 | Robert Picardo | ... | Richard Woolsey |
 | David Hewlett | ... | Dr. Rodney McKay |
| Neil Jackson | ... | Wraith |
 | David Nykl | ... | Dr. Radek Zelenka |
| Christopher Heyerdahl | ... | Todd the Wraith |
| Gary Jones | ... | Chief Mst Sgt. Walter Harriman |
| Frank Vincent | ... | Poker Player #1 |
| Steve Schirripa | ... | Poker Player #2 |
 | Jody Thompson | ... | Nurse |
| Mark Burgess | ... | Sick Guy |
| Chris Nowland | ... | Crime Scene Guy |
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Dr. Rodney McKay:
Thank you for your co-operation, Detective. If you think of anything else...
[hands him a card]
Dr. Rodney McKay:
... call me at this number.
Detective John Sheppard:
If he's not finished yet, why'd he stop hiding the bodies?
Dr. Rodney McKay:
I don't know. Over-confidence that he can't be caught?
Detective John Sheppard:
He left money behind.
Dr. Rodney McKay:
How much?
Detective John Sheppard:
A few thousand.
Dr. Rodney McKay:
Not enough to worry about, I guess.
Detective John Sheppard:
That's it? You're just gonna let me go?
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References "Star Trek" (1966) more
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Solitary Man more
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'Vegas'~ Season five, episode nineteen
In the penultimate episode to SGA, we explore an alternate reality where Sheppard left the Air Force after his incident in Afghanistan and is now a world-weary detective in Las Vegas leading a rather bleak life wrought by addictive gambling and isolation from any friends or family. However, his life is set to change when he finds himself investigating a series of murders involving people who seem to have had the life sucked out of them (a la Wraith-style).
This is a unique episode because it moves so far away from the SGA that is featured in every other storyline and it is far more than a homage to 'CSI'. It grimly explores how the characters we have come to know and love could easily have walked a different path and become so unlike the people we see in the show, and how each have come to influence the others for the better. Just as we witness the emotionally dark depths Sheppard could have descended to without a team and the camaraderie he so enjoys, we also reflect on how pragmatic and cold McKay could have been if he had not learned the meaning of friendship.
It was a shame 'Vegas' came so late, as the show was about to end. It would have been nice to re-explore this else-world again. It was an adventurous piece of script-writing and this episode will definitely be a favourite among sci-fi fans like myself who appreciate insights into alternate realities.