A pandemic changes everybody's lives, including Sheldon and Amy's.
Sheldon: We are all going to die, Amy. I cannot die yet. I am way too young, and too smart. The world needs me. I only have won one Nobel Prize. That cannot be everything.
Amy: Was that the most important day of your life?
Sheldon: Amy. Don't be silly. Obviously my favorite day so far was meeting Stephen Hawking.
Amy: Sheldon. I am standing right in front of you.
Sheldon: Okay. You are right. My favorite day was when I met you.
Amy: I was thinking about our wedding, but I accept it. And I treasure that dirty sock.
Sheldon panics: A dirty sock? Where?
Amy: Well hidden. Far away. But when I heard this was the reason you agreed to meet me, I needed to have it. But I cleaned it, so no worries. It's a germ free sock now, locked in a box, next to my tiara.
Sheldon: All right then. Oh I have to call Bernadette if she has the vaccine already.
Sheldon takes his phone of his pants's pocket and calls Bernadette.
Sheldon: And?
Bernadette: How am I supposed to keep working when you are calling me every five minutes? Besides, I am still on my lunch break. I am glad I don't have my phone in the lab.
Sheldon: But,... I appreciate your work. Isn't that what you always wanted?
Bernadette: Just relax, Sheldon. Eat fruits and vegetables, clean your hands, and keep your distance to other people, even over the phone. I will mute mine now. Breaks over.
She hangs up.
Sheldon: How rude.
Amy: Let her work, Sheldon. It takes time, you know that.
Sheldon: People are dying, Amy. There is no superhero who is going to save us. I want to live in a comic book. I need to go to Stuart.
Amy blocks the door.
Amy: You cannot leaves the house, remember? The comic book store is closed anyway.
Sheldon sighs: So I have to re-read my old comic books? Usually I don't go out much, but now I want to go to the comic book store, or the train station. I cannot even go to the pharmacy. Oh, Penny.
Sheldon calls Penny. During the first ring he says: Penny.
Second ring.
Sheldon: Penny.
Sheldon looks to Amy: We have an agreement that she will pick up after three rings.
Third ring.
Sheldon: Penny.
Penny: What's it now, Sheldon?
Sheldon: I need a vaccine.
Penny: There is nothing that stops people from being annoying, I'm sorry. But we are working on it.
Sheldon: Do you have Purrel at least? I am about to run out and I need my sanitizer.
Penny: No, we only have a bit left and need that, too. Who knew that a baby can poop so much? Where is all that coming from? There comes so much more out of her than goes in.
Sheldon: Oh I have an idea.
Penny: Do you know how to turn shit into money?
Sheldon gives Amy the phone and runs into the bedroom.
Amy: He acts crazy.
Penny: So at least in your apartment everything is normal.
Penny hears knocks on her door, she opens it.
Penny: Oh look, Shelbot is back.
Shelbot drives to the closet.
Sheldon says on the display of Shelbot: Open it, please. I need my Tardis cereal box.
Penny walks to the closet and opens it.
Penny: Why do you need that now? I didn't even know you had such a cereal box. Is there food in it?
Sheldon: It's my Purrel emergency spot. Nobody would look for it in there. Now give it to me.
Penny places it on Shelbot's tray and keeps looking in the closet.
Penny: Do you also have toilet paper in there?
Amy who still is on the phone with Penny: Do you have anything that will make him calm and sleepy? I could really need a break from this exaggeration.
Penny: You could give him som booze, and me, too. I miss it so much. How long do I have to breastfeed?
Amy: I wish I had a baby, too. Maybe that would help Sheldon to relax.
Penny: You are a married couple. Somewhere deep, deep down Sheldon is a normal man. That will distract him.
Shelbot drives back to Sheldon and Amy, and Sheldon disinfects his hands and Shelbot.
Penny is still on the phone: Wait! Can Shelbot do the shopping for us? I mean, now that the elevator works again, he can pick up something we ordered in advance. We really need some toilet paper, my baby is leaking and so is Leonard. He is crying so much lately. Maybe they have a competition going on. Oh, I need some sleep.
Amy walks with the phone into the bedroom, where Sheldon lies in bed, and Shelbot stands next to him.
Sheldon: Amy, you have to check if I have a fever. I feel so hot. Am I hot, Amy?
Amy: Right now you are just crazy. What if Shelbot goes shopping for us?
Sheldon: That is a brilliant idea. Somehow I knew this would be coming, so I prepared us. I am such a genius.
Sheldon jumps out of bed, takes his phone from Amy and types in a list.
Penny: You know that I am still here, don't you? And you know you can also get everything delivered, don't you? Why do I feel a flashback like 13 years ago? Oh, that was when I saw you sick for the first time. Maybe you are already infected.
Sheldon panics: What? I knew it. Amy, I know you don't want to touch me, but you have to. You are my wife. Touch me and tell me if I am hot. What are you waiting for?
He lies back into bed.
Amy: Okay okay.
Penny: Now I feel I should hang up.
Penny hangs up, and Amy puts her hand on his forehead.
Amy: You should get some rest, try to sleep. We all need some sleep now.
A few hours later, Amy wakes up. Sheldon is in the living room, playing bongos. Her phone rings.
Penny: I cannot come over. He knows that. He also knows that I need sleep, and... oh now Taylor is awake. I just put her to sleep. Get your husband under control.
She hangs up. Amy walks into the living room.
Amy: Sheldon. It's 3 am.
Sheldon: Which is bongo time. The world makes no sense at this time. We live in a world where nobody lives on a schedule anymore. Nobody can plan anything. Everything that was planned, just got canceled. It's crazy. Who can live without schedules?
Amy: Sheldon. You act crazy. People want to sleep in this house. So stop it now. I know things are crazy, but we are all freaking out. You are driving me even more crazy. Let us just get back to bed, please.
Sheldon stops playing.
Sheldon: You are right. Maybe I should stick to those few regulars I can still keep, like sleeping at night.
Amy: I know you cannot have Taco Tuesday, or go to the comic book store like you used to. But things will go back to normal one day. Together we can do this. Let's try to freak out a little less, okay? It's a new situation for us all. Nobody can look into the future. There are people like Bernadette out there who do their best to find a vaccine as soon as possible. There are doctors and nurses who help the patients, calm them down and the elderly who are in homes and cannot have visitors now. People who work at the grocery stores and pharmacies do their best to get us food and meds. The truck drivers deliver all packages, and the journalists keep us up to date. So many work even harder these days. We all are scared, that is okay.
Sheldon: Maybe I can help somehow, too. I am smart. Playing bongos was just to let it all out.
Amy: You need your rules, I get it. They give you certainty. You don't know this situation which makes you feel helpless. Let's do something that you know how to do it.
She reaches out her hand, Sheldon grabs it and they go to bed hand in hand.
When she wakes up the next morning, she was alone in the bed again. She gets up, and sees Sheldon cleaning the apartment.
Amy: Sheldon, what are you doing?
Sheldon: I am doing my cleaning routine. Everything in here seems so dirty.
Amy: I need a coffee first.
Sheldon: I know that you love to lick things. Penny told me about it. How can do something like that? It's germs everywhere. You have to be more careful, especially now.
Amy: My tongue can not only licking.
Sheldon: I am serious, Amy.
Amy: So am I. You don't know yet what my tongue can do.
Sheldon: Penny says I might have the virus, so I can be contagious. You better stay away from me.
Amy: She was tired, Sheldon. She was trying to scare you. You are absolutely healthy.
Sheldon: How can you be so sure about that?
Amy: You haven't asked me to sing Soft Kitty.
Sheldon: All right. I am not sick, but this apartment needed to be cleaned. It just feels I missed something.
Sheldon looks around.
Amy: Everything looks clean to me.
Sheldon: You. I haven't cleaned you yet.
Amy: I took a shower yesterday and I washed my clothes.
Sheldon: But you didn't do it right. Shower, Amy. Right now.
Amy: Out of my bathroom schedule?
Sheldon: Nobody sticks to schedules these days, Amy. I have to clean you.
Amy: Whoo. You are right. My mind is so dirty right now.
She puts her coffee mug on the kitchen counter, runs into the bathroom. Sheldon follows her.
Three months later, the lockdown is finally over and Sheldon is excited to go to the big reopening of the comic book store.
Sheldon: Amy, let's go. I guess I have never been this excited to go outside again. I had to give Stuart and Denise some money, but it was worth it. They cannot go out of business, when I need new comic books. Oh I finally have my normalcy, my schedules back. Finally everything is like it used to be.
Amy comes out of the bathroom.
Amy: Maybe not everything is.
Sheldon: What do you mean?
Amy: I am not feeling so well, Sheldon. Can you go alone?
Sheldon opens the apartment door, hides behind the outer side like standing behind a shield and looks anxious to Amy.
Sheldon: Do you have it now? Is the world free from this villain and it's now in our apartment?
Amy: No, I don't have the virus, Sheldon. I am not contagious. You cannot get what I have. Well, I could give it to you in about six months.
Sheldon: I don't want to have it. Keep it. I got to go.
Amy: Sheldon wait. I did a test.
Sheldon: Oh I love tests. Can I do it, too.
Amy: You can, but it will definitely be negative.
Sheldon: That's ridiculous. I can pass all tests.
Amy: Not this one. Do you remember when you wanted to clean me after you cleaned the apartment three months ago? Well, you did it properly. See, two lines.
Sheldon comes closer to Amy and takes her pregnancy test. He looks carefully at it.
Sheldon: What kind of test is this? Where are the questions?
Amy: The question was: Am I pregnant? And the answer is: Yes. You are going to be a Daddy.
Sheldon stands still, looks at the test, then looks at Amy with his eyes wide open, processing her words. Then he collapses.
Amy tries to catch him and yells: Sheldon.