Stargate: Atlantis2004

Dr. Elizabeth Weir:
Are you sure that this is how you want to...?

Dr. Rodney McKay:
...spend my last couple of days alive? Don't have a lot of choice, do I?

Dr. Elizabeth Weir:
Rodney, I think it's very decent and noble of you to want to leave a scientific contribution behind, but I still believe there's a chance you can ascend if you put your mind to it.

Dr. Rodney McKay:
We both know that that is a waste of time. Maybe you could do it, but...

Dr. Elizabeth Weir:
I don't know if I could, but you are certainly selling yourself short by not even trying.

Dr. Rodney McKay:
To be honest, I don't have the first clue where to start.

Dr. Elizabeth Weir:
Stop thinking.

Dr. Rodney McKay:
See, I don't understand that.

Dr. Elizabeth Weir:
One of the biggest things that holds people back is that somewhere deep down they believe they're not deserving. You have to... release your burden.

Dr. Rodney McKay:
Oh, please!

Dr. Elizabeth Weir:
I know, spirituality to you is a load of mumbo jumbo, but it does help people find peace with themselves.

Dr. Rodney McKay:
But you have to believe.

Dr. Elizabeth Weir:
I'm not talking about religion. I'm talking about shedding yourself of guilt, of anger, of ill-feeling, of anything that makes you feel shame. And then you can focus all of your energy on ascending.

Dr. Rodney McKay:
So what you're telling me is that I don't think I'm worthy.

Dr. Elizabeth Weir:
Rodney, I don't know what you truly believe about yourself. For all I know, you use your intelligence to compensate, to make yourself feel better for other things you think you may lack.

Dr. Rodney McKay:
Like what?

Dr. Elizabeth Weir:
That, I can't tell you... but maybe you could start reading your own mind?