TEXT: Scene: The living room of the apartment. Leonard and Sheldon are playing the three dimensional chess game from the original Star Trek series. It is Leonard's move. He takes his time, moving round the board and checking things from various angles. Finally he tentatively makes a move. Sheldon moves almost immediately. Sheldon: Checkmate. Leonard: O-o-o-o-h! Again? Sheldon: Obviously you're not well suited for three-dimensional chess, perhaps three dimensional candyland would be more your speed. Leonard: Just reset the board. Sheldon: It must be humbling to suck on so many different levels. Penny (knocking and entering): Hi guys. Leonard: Hey! Penny: Did you get my mail. Leonard: Yeah, right here. How was Nebraska? Penny: Oh, better than North Dakota! (Pause) I guess that joke's only funny in Nebraska. Sheldon: From the data at hand you really can't draw that conclusion. All you can say with absolute certainty is that that joke is not funny here. Penny: Boy, it's good to be back. Leonard: How was your family? Penny: Ugh, it was the worst trip, everyone got sick over the weekend. Sheldon: Sick? Leonard: Here we go. Sheldon (running to opposite side of the room): What kind of sick? Penny: Oh, the flu I guess. Sheldon: I don't need you to guess, I need you to know, now when did the symptoms first appear? Penny: Maybe Friday. Sheldon: Friday, was that morning or afternoon? Penny: I... I don't... Sheldon: Think woman, who blew their nose and when? Leonard: Sheldon, relax, she doesn't have any symptoms, I'm sure she's not contagious. Sheldon: Oh please, if influenza was only contagious after symptoms appear it would have died out thousands of years ago. Somewhere between tool using and cave painting, homo habilus would have figured out to kill the guy with the runny nose. Leonard: Penny, you'll have to excuse Sheldon,
SUMMARY:
Penny returns from visiting family in Nebraska, but mentions while picking up mail from Leonard that most of her relatives became sick. Sheldon, a germophobe according to Leonard, freaks out and becomes sick, becoming demanding on top of his already obnoxious personality. Familiar with Sheldon being sick, Leonard and the guys hide from him at a Planet of the Apes series marathon, leaving Penny to care for Sheldon. However, Leonard breaks his glasses in the cinema and has to retrieve his spare pair from the apartment, piloted by Howard and Raj using a laptop, an endoscope, and a Bluetooth helmet camera worn by the short-sighted Leonard. Penny intercepts him and abandons him to his fate with Sheldon. Leonard tries to escape, but runs into a wall and nearly knocks himself out. In the end, injured Leonard and sick Sheldon sit miserably on the couch.