I’m actually trying to eat dinner, make screencaps and watch the episode again at the same time, and now I will also try to write this summary some people on other threads requested. I won’t go into every detail though, and I apologize for any mistakes:
Summary "Grace under pressure"
(Oh, I just realize that 'pressure' is a double entendre in this ep)
McKay and a pilot named Griffins are in a Puddle Jumper, returning home from the mainland. They are testing the PJ because it was damaged and had been repaired. The pilot talks about a lot of meaningless stuff (tomatoes for example), getting on McKay’s nerve because he’s trying to work. Suddenly something goes wrong, McKay tried to figure out what the problem is, but it’s too late. The PJ gets down, crashes into the water and starts to sink. --> Opening credits
McKay’s regains consciousness. He gets up from the ground, and one can see that he has a bleeding head wound. Griffins is also injured but alive. Zelenka is talking to McKay via radio. He was obviously trying to contact them for some time now after the PJ vanished from the city’s sensors. Together they establish that they are in trouble, because they are under water - and still sinking. But soon there’s another problem. The windshield cracks. McKay and Griffins try to get into the rear compartment of the jumper, but they can’t close the bulkhead door. McKay blames Griffins that he got them into this mess, and while he does so, Griffins goes back to the front part of the jumper, wishes McKay good luck and seals the door with the front controls. Shortly after that Rodney hears that the windshield breaks. Griffin is dead. (This scene is really pretty intense!) Rodney goes into panic mode soon after. The radio is dead because the transmitter was in the front compartment. Rodney desperately tries to get his claustrophobia under control.
In Atlantis they discuss a possible rescue, but first they have to locate the jumper. Zelenka’s starting to work on that with a team. Sheppard has the idea to lift the jumper with special equipment and has a team working on that. He wants to submerge another jumper for that, something he and Rodney obviously wanted to try for a long time.
Meanwhile Rodney has calmed down in the still sinking jumper. He talks to himself a lot in the following scenes while he tries to think of a way to send a message or slow down the rate in which the ship is sinking. He also addresses the jumper as if it was a person when he discovers that he only has about 3 hours of energy left if he boosts up the transmitter signal and raises the temperature in the jumper. Soon it seems as if he’s slowly losing it, he’s talking to himself, half crying, half laughing. Then he hears something outside, it sounds like a whale, and he talks to it too, jokingly telling the animal to tell his friends where he is. This triggers the idea to move the jumper like a submarine. He starts to work on that. After some time Sam Carter appears (in a pink jacket, the zipper very low…). Rodney can’t believe it at first when she tells him that she’s only a hallucination, but she explains that this is caused by his head wound. She’s denying Rodney the romping he’s hoping for, and together they start working on the problem to get the jumper to move.
Radek has narrowed down the area in which they have to search but fears the jumper’s too deep already. Sheppard suggests to turn the cloak of another PJ into a shield, just the other way round as they did with the city (in the last episode). Zelenka thinks it’s possible, and John wants to start with the search. He wants Zelenka to come with him. Radek’s objecting since he obviously fears this and says that he cannot even swim, but finally he decides to come along.
Sam tries to convince Rodney not to continue with his plan so that he doesn’t jeopardize the rescue mission. She wants him to wait and to trust his friends to come to help him. Rodney doesn’t want to stop working. He doesn’t think they are planning his rescue but rather his memorial service. And he can’t believe that his own hallucination/subconscious is trying to convince him to ‘give up’ and slow him down. Suddenly the jumper hits the bottom of the ocean. Micro fractures in the hull let water through, which is rising quickly. Sam tells Rodney to increase the air pressure to slow down the leaking. Rodney does, and it works. He hugs Sam, saying that if she’s his hallucination she could at least lose her top! Rodney also admits that he always wanted to work together with Sam and that they’d make a good team, although he’s arrogant and bad with people. And he also states that Sam might be physically attracted to him, but she switches the topic then. Rodney continues to work on a way to control the jumper from his workpad and tells Sam to be quiet if she doesn’t want to help. Sam states that this is the reason she could never have a relationship with him, because he never listens to other people and doesn’t trust him. Rodney asks how he should trust them, after all it was Zelenka’s fault that he’s trapped down here now, because Zelenka supervised the jumper repairs but didn’t dare to go on a test flight himself and asked Rodney to do it.
Sheppard and Zelenka have started the mission and successfully submerge their jumper. They initialize the shield, but it needs a lot of power and they don’t have much time now to find the other PJ.
Sam tries to distract Rodney so that he stops working. She gets rid of some of her clothes, suddenly standing in front of Rodney with only a bra on. They kiss a few times, until Rodney realizes that she’s only trying to slow him down. He gets back to work and tries to start the jumper, but it fails. He only wasted power, and the water’s rising again.
Sheppard and Radek see the ‘sea monster’, obviously the whale Rodney heard before, on the sensor display. It circles around something, so they decide to search there.
Inside of the jumper there isn’t much air left, the water is nearly at the ceiling. Rodney thinks about Griffin’s sacrifice and what a brave man he was compared to himself. Hypothermia is setting in and he nearly loses consciousness. Sam tells him to hold on. Rodney admits that he should have listened to Sam not to try to move the jumper. He states that she isn’t smarter than him but wiser, and Sam tells him that at least he was right subconsciously, since she is his subconscious.
Zelenka and Sheppard find the jumper, but since it’s nearly full of water they can’t pull it up to the surface. They land and extend the shield so that it covers both jumpers. John walks out and contacts Rodney via radio, he wants him to open the hatch. But Rodney thinks this may just be another hallucination. Finally Sam convinces him that Sheppard is real. Rodney opens the door, but it doesn’t work, so he dives and uses the secondary release Sam reminds him of. The water leaves the jumper and Radek and John come in and help Rodney to get up. They walk through the tunnel the shield creates, the whale who helped them to find Rodney is circling above them. Then they sit Rodney down on the bench and hurry to the front department. In the moment the hatch closes Rodney looks to the wreckage and sees Sam standing there, waving goodbye.
Credits and end.
Bye, A.
Summary "Grace under pressure"
(Oh, I just realize that 'pressure' is a double entendre in this ep)
McKay and a pilot named Griffins are in a Puddle Jumper, returning home from the mainland. They are testing the PJ because it was damaged and had been repaired. The pilot talks about a lot of meaningless stuff (tomatoes for example), getting on McKay’s nerve because he’s trying to work. Suddenly something goes wrong, McKay tried to figure out what the problem is, but it’s too late. The PJ gets down, crashes into the water and starts to sink. --> Opening credits
McKay’s regains consciousness. He gets up from the ground, and one can see that he has a bleeding head wound. Griffins is also injured but alive. Zelenka is talking to McKay via radio. He was obviously trying to contact them for some time now after the PJ vanished from the city’s sensors. Together they establish that they are in trouble, because they are under water - and still sinking. But soon there’s another problem. The windshield cracks. McKay and Griffins try to get into the rear compartment of the jumper, but they can’t close the bulkhead door. McKay blames Griffins that he got them into this mess, and while he does so, Griffins goes back to the front part of the jumper, wishes McKay good luck and seals the door with the front controls. Shortly after that Rodney hears that the windshield breaks. Griffin is dead. (This scene is really pretty intense!) Rodney goes into panic mode soon after. The radio is dead because the transmitter was in the front compartment. Rodney desperately tries to get his claustrophobia under control.
In Atlantis they discuss a possible rescue, but first they have to locate the jumper. Zelenka’s starting to work on that with a team. Sheppard has the idea to lift the jumper with special equipment and has a team working on that. He wants to submerge another jumper for that, something he and Rodney obviously wanted to try for a long time.
Meanwhile Rodney has calmed down in the still sinking jumper. He talks to himself a lot in the following scenes while he tries to think of a way to send a message or slow down the rate in which the ship is sinking. He also addresses the jumper as if it was a person when he discovers that he only has about 3 hours of energy left if he boosts up the transmitter signal and raises the temperature in the jumper. Soon it seems as if he’s slowly losing it, he’s talking to himself, half crying, half laughing. Then he hears something outside, it sounds like a whale, and he talks to it too, jokingly telling the animal to tell his friends where he is. This triggers the idea to move the jumper like a submarine. He starts to work on that. After some time Sam Carter appears (in a pink jacket, the zipper very low…). Rodney can’t believe it at first when she tells him that she’s only a hallucination, but she explains that this is caused by his head wound. She’s denying Rodney the romping he’s hoping for, and together they start working on the problem to get the jumper to move.
Radek has narrowed down the area in which they have to search but fears the jumper’s too deep already. Sheppard suggests to turn the cloak of another PJ into a shield, just the other way round as they did with the city (in the last episode). Zelenka thinks it’s possible, and John wants to start with the search. He wants Zelenka to come with him. Radek’s objecting since he obviously fears this and says that he cannot even swim, but finally he decides to come along.
Sam tries to convince Rodney not to continue with his plan so that he doesn’t jeopardize the rescue mission. She wants him to wait and to trust his friends to come to help him. Rodney doesn’t want to stop working. He doesn’t think they are planning his rescue but rather his memorial service. And he can’t believe that his own hallucination/subconscious is trying to convince him to ‘give up’ and slow him down. Suddenly the jumper hits the bottom of the ocean. Micro fractures in the hull let water through, which is rising quickly. Sam tells Rodney to increase the air pressure to slow down the leaking. Rodney does, and it works. He hugs Sam, saying that if she’s his hallucination she could at least lose her top! Rodney also admits that he always wanted to work together with Sam and that they’d make a good team, although he’s arrogant and bad with people. And he also states that Sam might be physically attracted to him, but she switches the topic then. Rodney continues to work on a way to control the jumper from his workpad and tells Sam to be quiet if she doesn’t want to help. Sam states that this is the reason she could never have a relationship with him, because he never listens to other people and doesn’t trust him. Rodney asks how he should trust them, after all it was Zelenka’s fault that he’s trapped down here now, because Zelenka supervised the jumper repairs but didn’t dare to go on a test flight himself and asked Rodney to do it.
Sheppard and Zelenka have started the mission and successfully submerge their jumper. They initialize the shield, but it needs a lot of power and they don’t have much time now to find the other PJ.
Sam tries to distract Rodney so that he stops working. She gets rid of some of her clothes, suddenly standing in front of Rodney with only a bra on. They kiss a few times, until Rodney realizes that she’s only trying to slow him down. He gets back to work and tries to start the jumper, but it fails. He only wasted power, and the water’s rising again.
Sheppard and Radek see the ‘sea monster’, obviously the whale Rodney heard before, on the sensor display. It circles around something, so they decide to search there.
Inside of the jumper there isn’t much air left, the water is nearly at the ceiling. Rodney thinks about Griffin’s sacrifice and what a brave man he was compared to himself. Hypothermia is setting in and he nearly loses consciousness. Sam tells him to hold on. Rodney admits that he should have listened to Sam not to try to move the jumper. He states that she isn’t smarter than him but wiser, and Sam tells him that at least he was right subconsciously, since she is his subconscious.
Zelenka and Sheppard find the jumper, but since it’s nearly full of water they can’t pull it up to the surface. They land and extend the shield so that it covers both jumpers. John walks out and contacts Rodney via radio, he wants him to open the hatch. But Rodney thinks this may just be another hallucination. Finally Sam convinces him that Sheppard is real. Rodney opens the door, but it doesn’t work, so he dives and uses the secondary release Sam reminds him of. The water leaves the jumper and Radek and John come in and help Rodney to get up. They walk through the tunnel the shield creates, the whale who helped them to find Rodney is circling above them. Then they sit Rodney down on the bench and hurry to the front department. In the moment the hatch closes Rodney looks to the wreckage and sees Sam standing there, waving goodbye.
Credits and end.
Bye, A.
-> perfect, I couldn't ask for more 
I hereby dub him Flipper, the Funky Atlantis Humpback Whale.
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