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The episode 'Quarantine' explores character interactions during a crisis in Atlantis.

Every door in Atlantis seals at once. Communications, ventilation, sensors and internal transport all go down, the expedition is scattered across the city in pairs, and the one man everyone assumes will fix it is locked in the botany lab with no computer, no radio, and a diamond ring in his pocket. "Quarantine" is the 13th episode of Stargate Atlantis season 4, and it is a bottle episode in the strictest sense — the characters aren't merely on standing sets, they're physically sealed inside them. [**Lisa Jones**](https://sqpn.com/team_member/lisa-jones/), [**Jeff Haecker**](https://www.sqpn.com/team_member/jeff-haecker/) and [**Victor Lams**](https://www.sqpn.com/team_member/victor-lams/) work through why a talky, trapped-in-a-room hour lands here when so many don't. The answer is the pairings. **Rodney McKay** spends the crisis catastrophizing at **Katie Brown**, who stays patient right up to the point it becomes clear these two shouldn't marry. **Ronon** and **Dr. Keller** trade the worst things that ever happened to them — she was a child prodigy who never fit in, he lost everyone he knew to the Wraith — and nearly kiss. **Teyla** admits to **Sheppard** that she's frightened…

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Guests: Lisa Jones, Jeff Haecker, Victor Lams

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Books & works: Quarantine, Stargate Atlantis

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