The Tellarite Tevrin Krit purchases the prisoner Harry Mudd from a masked female bounty hunter. Harry Mudd slept with Krit's sister and stole his cudgel, a traditional hand weapon that he wanted to pass on to his son. Mudd initially denies his identity, then laments that he has been wrongly accused, later proposes a deal to Krit and finally begs that the Tellarite should let him go for humanitarian reasons. But Krit does not change his mind and turns over his prisoner to Starfleet. Aboard the Starfleet vessel De Milo, the two are welcomed by an officer who seems to be annoyed, rather than delighted to see them. He tells Krit that this is not the real Harry Mudd and leads him to a storage compartment full of android Mudd duplicates that were delivered by other bounty hunters. Meanwhile on Mudd's ship, the con man, in the disguise of the female bounty hunter, initiates the next sale of an android created in his image.

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