Jeremiah - Season 1 - Eps 12: The Touch
Jeremiah and Kurdy arrive in Mayfair and find the townspeople dead of cyanide. In the next town of New Hope they find the locals have an aversion to touching. The Elders ruthlessly enforce the law, making anyone who disobeys their edicts "disobey". When the people they befriend start disappearing, Jeremiah intervenes and is taken away where he finds out the offenders are stoned to death. Both towns are an "experiment" in determining how the original virus was transmitted, and the Elders destroyed Mayfair when they "failed". Jeremiah and Kurdy break free and expose the Elders' scheme to the unsuspecting townfolk. Meanwhile, back at the base Marcus takes ill from an undiagnosed disease and begins suffering hallucinations of a Native Indian - Lee pushes the matter before the Council to determine the line of succession and fails.
About Jeremiah

Title: Jeremiah
First Air Date: 2002-03-03
Last Air Date: 2004-09-24
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.924/10 (from 66 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 3
Total Episodes: 35
Network: Showtime
Genres: Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Jeremiah is an American television series starring Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner that ran on the Showtime network from 2002 to 2004. The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the adult population has been wiped out by a deadly virus.
Cast

Luke Perry
Jeremiah

Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Kurdy

Peter Stebbings
Markus Alexander

Sean Astin
Mister Smith

Ingrid Kavelaars
Erin

Byron Lawson
Lee Chen

Joanne Kelly
Liberty Kaufman