[S4E13] Quarantine

After Shawn, Gus, Lassiter and Juliet are decontaminated and cleared, they meet Dr. Steven Reidman from the CDC at the hospital. Reidman tells them that only two people from the cafe are showing Thornburg symptoms. Luckily a lab only two hours away has been working on an antiviral for Thornburg, which is already on route to them. With the public health threat contained, Shawn and Gus talk to the victims, hoping they saw who left the vial at the cafe, but neither one of them noticed anything suspicious. As the guys are leaving, they see the antiviral arrive, and the lab it was shipped from is GenuTech. Shawn doesn't believe that's a coincidence, and he and Gus head to the lab. There, a lab tech tells them that he shipped all the antiviral to the hospital because they had underestimated the dose it would take to cure the virus, and unfortunately they can't make any more because their lab was shut down a week ago. He tells them Dr. Tony Mallon, who was running the lab, lost funding, but now that there's an outbreak, they could be starting back up again. Shawn realizes that Mallon probably created the outbreak to justify further funding of his work. He looks through the personal effects Mallon left in the lab and finds a bus schedule, a theater program and a photo of him in front of a log cabin. Shawn recognizes Mallon as one of the victims in the hospital. They've got the culprit in quarantine. Shawn calls Juliet to warn her, but she tells them Mallon already broke out before he was treated with the antiviral. Shawn says he must have his own stash somewhere, but at least he doesn't have any more Thornburg to release. The lab tech overhears this and corrects Shawn - there are two more vials that are missing.

Dr. Reidman puts Juliet into quarantine as Shawn, Gus, and Lassiter try to decipher what Mallon meant by his last word. Shawn notices the GenuTech logo is a cabin, and remembers the picture in the lab. Shawn realizes that Victoria is the lake where Mallon's cabin is located. Lassiter says the lake is two hours away. Mallon must have the antiviral stashed at his cabin. Lassiter and Shawn race out as Gus stays with Juliet. At the cabin, Lassiter and Shawn are stymied by a raging Rottweiler. Shawn would do anything to save Juliet, so he puts on Lassiter's baseball catcher's gear and runs through the yard to distract the dog. Lassiter then dashes inside for the cure. They get back to the hospital in time, but Reidman tells them she doesn't need it. She was lucky and never contracted the virus. Shawn realizes it was too close a call, and goes to Juliet to finally tell her how he feels about her, but before he can finish, he is interrupted by Lassiter, who is ecstatic that his partner is going to be okay.

A Quarantine lockdown leaves everyone in Atlantis trapped, threatening several relationships in the process. However, some of the team learns that the quarantine lockdown might be nothing more than a false alarm, but it does not matter, as the entire city could be threatened.

Sheppard, Keller and Carter separately calls McKay for help in what is going on, but there are no answers. Zelenka notices that communications are down. Meanwhile, McKay explains to Katie that they are in a quarantine lockdown. He tweaked the system after the Kirsan fever outbreak, since the quarantine did not take effect then. Now that he knows what is going on, he needs access to a computer to stop it. However, Katie says he can't since she left the computer and radio in another room, that can't be reached because of the lockdown. In the infirmary, Keller has Ronon help her ready the infirmary, since she knows that this is also a quarantine.

Sheppard and Teyla discover that they are in a \"category five\" lockdown, the highest level, meaning absolutely everything is out; ventilation, communications, long range sensors, as well as all primary and secondary systems. Teyla then tells Sheppard that she originally came to discuss the future of her position in the team, due to the child. If the rest of the Athosians aren't found, then she may have to pull back, since she doesn't want her son to grow up without a mother. Sheppard then assures her that if something does happen, then Atlantis would be the son's family. Meanwhile, Carter and Zelenka, who are also trapped figure out the quarantine status. Carter starts to doubt if there is a disease outbreak, since everything is down. Their suspicions turn out to be correct, as there was an intense ionospheric storm that day which spiked Atlantis' power, which ultimately caused the city to lock down. They realize it doesn't have anything to do with McKay's changes after all; it is a feature of the new planet they are on. They briefly discuss steps they will have to take to prevent future lockdowns. They also begin to wonder why McKay hasn't figured out the problem yet, not knowing he has no access to a computer.

Carter and Zelenka are starting to get a little hot, since the ventilation is down, no cool air is coming in. They plan to use the computer to get the transporter door open. However, in the process, a power surge knocks Radek back. The surge also burnt out the RAM, meaning they are now stuck for good. Sheppard continues to climb up Atlantis, and almost falls on one occasion. However, he is able to make it up to the control room balcony and then breaks himself into the control room. There they find a group of technicians frantically working on restoring the ventilation, which they restored on the central tower, and tries to stop the distress call, which is protected by McKay's password. Sheppard is able to get into McKay's system and shuts down the signal. However, there is another problem, since Sheppard broke into the control room, this means that there is a breach in quarantine, which causes all the computers to shut down and the self destruct sequence activates with an unknown time until the timer goes off..

In the mess hall, the whole team congratulates Radek on his work in shutting down the lockdown, and all owe him a debt of gratitude. Carter also informs them that for 24 hours now, there has been no sign of any ships, Wraith, or otherwise that has detected the signal, and are all in the clear. Ronon tells them that he heard McKay thought there was an actual quarantine, since he was sick, but stops talking when Keller arrives. Sheppard and Teyla then tease Ronon about a possible relationship between him and Keller.

In a talk with AJ she realizes that Rebetzel's Pretzels is not her dream and that she does not know what it is. At the hospital, Paula is studying for her bar exam and asks the doctor to release her today, but her refuses and tells her that she can go home tomorrow morning. Darryl tries to visit Paula, but the room is full so he waits in the lobby where he befriends a woman named April and they go to get coffee. Moments later Nathaniel, Greg and Josh arrive a the hospital. Soon they get exposed to a squirrel flu and are forced to quarantine in the special ward.

April's daughter Chloe and Darryl's daughter Madison are revealed to be rivals at school which complicates April and Darryl's relationship. Madison and Chloe decide to make peace with each other and force the Cough Boy to make April and Darryl quarantine together. 781b155fdc