Irresistible (Stargate Atlantis)

"Irresistible (Stargate Atlantis)"

"Irresistible" is an episode from Season 3 of the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.

Plot

The Atlantis team encounters a man called Lucius Lavin on an unexplored planet. He lives in a community where everyone seems to like him and he is the center of all attention. Dr. Beckett decides to visit him after the team returns to check if he really has the medical abilities he claimed to have. After several hours, Dr. Beckett returns to Atlantis and (breaking security protocol) takes Lucius with him.

At first, Dr. Weir and the others are skeptical, but they all come to like Lucius, except Sheppard and McKay who doubt that everything is normal with the rest. Trying to find out what happened, Sheppard returns to Lucius' homeworld and finds Lucius' people ill with yearning for Lucius. Sheppard returns with a substance that McKay thinks is responsible for Lucius being so irresistible to everyone else, only to find that McKay has become addicted to Lucius like everyone else. Sheppard, temporarily immune because he has a cold, kidnaps Beckett and convinces him to create an antidote. Managing to trick Lucius into a Puddle Jumper which they then take to the mainland, they administer the antidote to all of the Atlantis personnel and the people on Lucius' homeworld without his interference, thus reversing the effect. All of Lucius' former admirers now despise him, and he is sent home to a not-so-warm welcome.

At the end of the episode, Weir orders McKay to burn all remaining samples of the herb, after finding that he has used it to influence Sheppard.

Trivia

• Richard Kind (Lucius) also played a minor role as Gary Meyers in the original Stargate film.
• This episode contains the first mention of the McKay-Carter intergalactic bridge.

External links

• Summary from GateWorld. Visited July 30, 2006.