I've written a short missing scene - it's not the scene I described here as that didn't seem to work for me. It hasn't been beta-read yet and I think I need to polish it up a bit tomorrow ... I'll let you know when I post it if you want!

It was nice to see Bates back again (some closure, so to speak, on what happened to him). I hope we see Bates again one day (hopefully with Teyla around, he-he!).

And Bill Lee is always fun to have around. Nice to see that he is a good scientist (very good, in fact, in this episode), despite sometimes coming across as a bit of a buffoon in other eps (especially when he was first introduced in SG1, if I remember correctly!).