The Offering | |
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Season 2, Episode 12 | |
Takes Place | {{{takesplace}}} |
Air date | 8 Jan 1994 |
Written by | Toni Perling |
Directed by | James Keach |
Episode guide | |
Previous Crossing the Line |
Next The Circus |
The Offering is the twelfth episode of Season 2 of Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman and the twenty-ninth episode of the series.
Dr. Mike and Sully convince the Cheyenne to take the government's offer of blankets. Unknown to them, the blankets are carrying typhus. Dr. Mike goes to the reservation to help, getting trapped on the reservation due to the Army setting up, and enforcing a quarantine.
Meanwhile, Matthew takes one blanket for Ingrid, resulting in Matthew also catching typhus and being quarantined in the clinic under Colleen's care, along with Brian and Horace.
Important Information[]
- The town has a pageant celebrating George Washington.
- Arc: Holidays. The townspeople celebrate the holiday "George Washington's Birthday." The holiday officially became federally recognized on January 31, 1879. The town holds a pageant celebrating George Washington, reading the Constitution, and Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The next holiday episode is Halloween II.
- Arc: Epidemics. A typhus epidemic breaks out at the Cheyenne Indian Reservation due to the Army giving the Cheyenne people blankets carrying typhus in them from the Army fort that also had an epidemic. Matthew, Ingrid's sister, an Army soldier, and Col. William Igin also fall ill to typhus.
Patients[]
- Many Cheyenne (45 died)
- Little Moon †
- Matthew Cooper
- Sister of Ingrid
- Army soldier
- Col. William Igin
† Dies as a result