- Crippled, cornered, and out of options, Picard stages a gambit to trap Vadic and reveal her true motive - a gamble that puts the Titan in the crosshairs and forces Picard and Beverly to question every moral code they've ever held.
- The Titan hides amid shipwrecks in the Chin'Toka battle-space.
Seven contacts her former crew-mate Tuvok. Tuvok says that there is no record of Riker being taken into Starfleet custody. Tuvok says that the entire fleet is preparing for the Frontier Day activities. The respondent passes Seven's first trust test (Tuvok responds correctly that Seven had defeated him many times at the game of Kal-Toh), but fails her second (Seven proposes to meet Tuvok at Aklion-7, to which Tuvok agrees. But a true Vulcan would never go to Aklion-7 after the anti-Kolinahr demonstrations), revealing himself to be a Changeling. Frontier Day is just hours away.
While Worf and Raffi are out on another intelligence mission, Picard, Geordi and Beverly discuss the Changelings' interest in Jack, as well as the theft of Picard's original body. Beverly believes that she can create a biological weapon to target the Changelings, but that would be tantamount to genocide. Picard surmises that the Changelings want to create a perfect replica of himself to target Starfleet's anniversary festivities. Perhaps they are attempting to use the DNA from a close relative (DNA) to complete a DNA sequence (from Picard's decaying body).
Geordi works against Lore's persona to restore Data's dominance of the android's mind. Geordi surmises that Soong put both Lore and Data into the android, hoping that the 2 personalities would merge and give Data the one things he wanted the most: to be human. As Data and Lore's personalities vie for control, Data manages to reveal that Picard's original Irumodic Syndrome diagnosis is in doubt. To help Data, Picard asks Geordi to remove the partitions between Data and Lore's personalities. There is a danger that Lore completely takes over and Data's personality vanishes forever.
Aboard the Shrike, Vadic informs her mysterious superior that she's unable to break Riker and Troi. But the superior is adamant that they must have Jack to complete their plan for Starfleet's downfall. Jack has feelings for Sidney and discovers that he can read her thoughts.
Vadic initiates Riker's distress signal from Shrike. This signal, if accepted by Titan, will provide the Titan's location back to the Shrike. Jack tells Picard about this Telepathic abilities. Picard decides to lure Vadic and the Shrike in, by allowing the Titan's location to be transmitted. The Titan appears to be dead in space. Vadic brings a shuttle to board the Titan with her crew.
Picard enacts a plan to trap Vadic and her crew on the Titan with force fields, using Jack, and Sidney as bait. Picard and Beverly interrogate Vadic in the trap. When asked about her interest in Jack, Vadic cryptically states that he's for someone else.
Vadic says that she was a prisoner of war after the Dominion wars. She was imprisoned at the Daystrom station. She also reveals she was one of ten Changelings whom Starfleet doctors tortuously experimented on to develop a breed of super-spies. Upon their escape, she swore revenge and formed the rogue Changeling faction, taking her torturer's form. Beverly confirms the experiments' existence; Picard realizes he has to kill Vadic.
Geordi fails to revive Data in time to stop Lore from taking over the Titan's computers and disabling the force fields. This allows Vadic and her underlings to escape, storm the Titan's bridge, and take Seven, Shaw, and the rest of the bridge crew hostage. Beverly realizes that the Changelings were injected with a synthetic compound as a stabilizing agent. Tracking this compound, which has a half life of 100 years, allows Shaw & Picard to track the Changelings on the Titan and attack them. Vadic calls out to Jack and invites him to the bridge, saying she knows his true nature. Shaw is also captured by Vadic on the Titan's bridge.
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