The enemy ship has targeted all systems of the Eleos. Picard, Riker and Jack Crusher prepare to move the med-pod with Beverly to the shuttle. But the shuttle gets destroyed. The last hope now is the Titan. Seven persuades Captain Shaw to rescue the two Starfleet legends, although this puts his crew of 500 at risk. The Titan enters the nebula and beams aboard the four people from the Eleos. On M'Talas Prime, Raffi doubts that the Romulan dissident Lurak T'Luco, who is officially blamed, really carried out the attack on the Starfleet recruitment center that cost 117 lives. She contacts her ex-husband Jae, who runs a bar, to get in touch with a Ferengi named Sneed, who is said to have brokered the deal between an anonymous seller and T'Luco. Inside the nebula, the commander of the enemy ship, the Shrike, a woman named Vadic, states her demands. She wants Jack Crusher to be turned over within one hour, or she would destroy the Titan. Captain Shaw is willing to extradite the young man, who has a criminal record, which Picard and Riker seek to avert. On M'Talas Prime, Raffi meets with Sneed, who demands she take a drug, to prove she is not working for Starfleet. Raffi tries to convince the Ferengi that T'Luco is her client, not knowing that the Romulan was murdered by Sneed. Worf appears, kills Sneed and his henchman and saves Raffi. The ultimatum has almost expired. Jack escapes from the brig of the Titan, but he is not going to the shuttlebay; he tries to beam over to the Shrike instead, in order to save his mother. Riker takes Beverly Crusher to the bridge, where she gives Picard a glance. He now knows that Jake is his son and demands that Shaw takes evasive maneuvers. After firing a couple of torpedoes at the Shrike, the Titan escapes to the nebula...

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