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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SKyOdin" data-source="post: 5142655" data-attributes="member: 57939">What actually happened is pretty simple and straightforward. The telepathic devices are one-way, exactly as Rush told Young-in-an-Alien. Rush used the device to read Young's mind, then, immediately after Young got disconnected, he was able to read the mind of the alien Young was possessing. From that information he was able to find out where Chloe was and how to escape the ship.Later on, Rush lied to the other crew members on the ship about how the mind reading device worked in order to cover up the fact that it was Col. Young who sprang him. This was part of his set of lies protecting Col. Young.So no, there is no evidence in the episode that indicates Rush was working with the aliens. He seemed perfectly happy killing one with his bare hands after all. I seem to remember lots of battle against hostile aliens in those series. The idea of a rogue scientist joining up with the hostile forces fighting against a rag-tag group of survivors is the entire plot of the original Battlestar Galactica too. The idea that the rogue scientist is a villain is even more cliche. I think what Stargate Universe is doing is a little less cliche. Just the fact that Dr. Rush is morally ambiguous instead of simply evil is a nice change of pace from the usual cliches.</blockquote>