On K'Tuevon Prime, Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi are locked up in an alien prison and soon find themselves on a trial. Clar, one of the natives of the planet, demands that the four speak the truth into the "Horn of Candor", while the senior officers are confined in a beam. Mariner reveals details of a confrontation with the Clicket vessel Tweerk that unexpectedly occurred after Captain Freeman had received a map of the Romulan Neutral Zone from that race on Stardate 57818.4. Mariner fails to tell what Clar wants to hear, and he threatens to throw her into a tank of eels. Rutherford testifies that Security Chief Shaxs and Chief Engineer Billups came to him on Stardate 57791.1 and ordered him to update his cybernetic enhancements with Romulan flight manuals and repair information. Rutherford soon found himself on a mission to steal an old Romulan Bird-of Prey from a museum. Tendi adds that she was about to clean the conference room on the Cerritos, but was then enlisted to a highly classified mission to Romulus, using the cloaked old ship. She and First Officer Ransom were part of a team that stole the "package", a mysterious container, on the Romulan homeworld. As it apparently still doesn't satisfy Clar's determination to find out the whole truth, he throws Mariner, Rutherford and Tendi into the eel tank. Boimler begs him to release the three. He explains that they are low-ranking officers, that they don't have the whole picture of what is going on and that sometimes the senior officers wouldn't know that either. Clar finally releases them. Mariner is upset. Then Clar explains that this never was a trial but the celebration of his liberation. It was him who was inside the "package", and he wanted to thank the crew of the Cerritos. Mariner is still miffed, and accuses him of scaring the hell out of them, whereupon Clar complains that she ruined his celebration, even more so as his time in the "event silo" is over. Freeman vows to make the Cerritos a ship of clarity, only to continue to hold back essential information. Q appears on the ship, but the four junior officers don't feel like playing his game...

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