Irresistible (Stargate Atlantis)
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| “Irresistible” | |
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| Stargate Atlantis episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 03 |
| Guest stars | Richard Kind as Lucius Lavin David Nykl as Dr. Zelenka Julia Anderson as Willa Lisa Marie Caruk as Helcen Chuck Campbell as Technician |
| Written by | Carl Binder |
| Directed by | Martin Wood |
| Production no. | 303 |
| Original airdate | July 28, 2006 |
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"Irresistible" is an episode from Season 3 of the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.
[edit] Plot
The Atlantis team encounters a man called Lucius Lavin on a not yet explored 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 the security protocol, he takes Lucius with him.
First Dr. Weir and the others are skeptical but they all learn to like Lucius; excepting 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 McKay thinks is what makes Lucius so irresistible for everyone else, only to find McKay has become addicted to Lucius like everyone else. John is temporarily immune because he has a cold. Sheppard kidnaps Beckett and is able to convince him to create an antidote. Managing to trick Lucius into a Puddle Jumper which they then take to the mainland, they are able to 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 McKay is ordered by Weir to burn all remaining samples of the herb, after she finds he has used it to charm Sheppard.
[edit] Trivia
- Richard Kind (Lucius) also played a minor role as Gary Meyers in the original Stargate film.
- This episode has the first mention of the McKay-Carter intergalactic bridge
