Plot

Sheppard and the team continue their visits to new planets. McKay is tired of all these visits and is keen on implementing a series of gates that will allow them to travel from Atlantis to Earth in a mere 30 minutes without using the power of a ZPM or the two weeks it takes them on the Daedalus. He takes a somewhat different tack however when he sees all of the very friendly young women in the village. Their leader, Lucius Lavin, seems to be a very affable sort and has the locals eating out of their hands. He claims to be an apothecary of sorts and have a cure for every disease, which is certainly of interest to Dr. Beckett. Lavin is invited to Atlantis and soon everyone, including Elizabeth Weir and McKay have fallen victim to his charms. It's left to Sheppard to sort it all out.—garykmcd

Sheppard's patrol isn't impressed by a fairly primitive planet where everybody adores leader, Lucius Lavin, whom they won't allow to visit Atlantis. Still they dutifully report his claim of natural medicine to Becket, who comes to investigate, and soon falls under his spell, and hence takes him along to the base without announcing this guest, a stunning breach of the safety protocol Carson helped design. Sheppard and Weir duly mistrust him, so they assign permanent guards, but, by the time they realize that he uses a pheromone-based aphrodisiac, it's already turning Becket, McKay and various crewmen into his love slaves, ordering a mission to collect a key herbal ingredient at a Wraith-controlled planet. Sheppard must come up with a ruse while an antidote is developed.—KGF Vissers

Sheppard's team meets an obnoxious man who is adored by all thanks to a secret that he carries -- and who has an unexpected affect on them.