Stardate not given: Janeway orders an away team collecting food on a planet to beam up immediately because a Kazon ship is detected in orbit. Only Seska does not show up on the sensors. Chakotay finds her in a cave where the two have to fend off a group of Kazon attackers. Later, in deep space, Voyager responds to a distress call from a Kazon vessel on which a gruesome accident with an unknown device has fused the crew with the metal structures of their ship. There is only one survivor for whose survival the Doctor needs the crew as blood donors. Tuvok reports to Janeway that the Kazon were trying to activate a food replicator built with Federation technology, and that most likely a traitor aboard Voyager gave it to them. This makes Seska, who was alone with the Kazon for a while, the main suspect. Lt. Carey, on the other hand, had a motive as well, and the message to the Kazon was sent from his console. Maje Culluh of the Kazon arrives to discuss the issue of the stolen technology with Janeway, but all he cares about is to kill the survivor in sickbay with a nerve toxin. In the meantime the Doctor has found out that Seska is lacking typical blood characteristics of Bajorans, and that she is most likely Cardassian - surgically altered to infiltrate the Bajoran resistance. Seska makes up a story about her suffering from Orkett's disease in her childhood and a Cardassian bone marrow donor saving her. But the Doctor has already ruled out this possibility. Chakotay and Tuvok set up a trap, claiming that there is still evidence in the computer, and Seska takes the bait. When Janeway and Chakotay confront her, she activates a transporter protocol and beams over to the Kazon ship.

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