I think whoever plays a doctor in any of the shows have to be worried. First Dr. Frasier in SG1 and now Beckett! I thought he was a great character....he seemed more of the moral compass of the series.

He was near the patients with the weird tumors, which came from the machine they didn't understand. Maybe it wasn't just explosive tumors that were supposed to affect the Wraith. Wouldn't the Ancients have made themselves and anyone with non-bug DNA immune? Maybe it was something else entirely. Maybe lots of little Beckets will be growing on the walls and in the airvents near where the explosion happened. Maybe they were blown into another dimension. Maybe Bobby will wake up to find it was all a dream.

I agree, he was a very likable character. Really disappointing.

The doctors in these two series are becoming "red shirts"!

I think a follow up episode regarding the emotions of how everybody schemed excuses to avoid a day of fishing with Beckett. Guilt, sorrow, regret... I know if I did something like that then a friend dies, I would ask for some time off duty.

I dont know if ascenion would work in Beckett's case because there wasn't an Acended being to guide him away as it was for Daniel or Skaara (and the rest of the Abydonians when Anubis destroyed the village from orbit). There may have been some Ancient device to heal such devastating injuries somewhere in the undiscovered parts of the city; but also remember, Beckett's body was taken back to Earth. Perhaps the conversation Rodney had with Beckett is some precurser to a psychic connection in the same manner as Chriton had in the Farscape series.