When Rodney McKay was suffering from second childhood, he was taken to the shrine. There, Jennifer Keller was able to operate on him and remove the parasite. (SGA: "The Shrine") In 2009, while hiding in a tomb on PX5-442, Ronon berates Keller for not believing him about the Shrine of Talus and its effects, telling her that while his people may not have understood how the Shrine worked on Second Childhood, they all knew it did. (SGA: "The Shrine")