The USS Titan manages to escape its pursuers (Starfleet and the Shrike) with the help of decoy transponders. Beverly tells Picard that Jack has inherited the Irumodic Syndrome from him, which explains the boy's nightmares. Worf and Raffi are beamed aboard. They say it is inevitable to break into Daystrom Station to get hold of the manifest and find out what else besides the portal weapon the Changelings stole. Riker, Worf and Raffi beam down to the station. With their key giving them the authorization, they have at most one hour before a Starfleet patrol arrives and finds them. But two patrol vessels show up much sooner. The Titan has to run and leave the away team behind. Picard orders a course to Athan Prime, the location of the Fleet Museum, run by Geordi La Forge. On Daystrom Station, the away team runs into holograms of a crow and of Dr. Moriarty and into musical cues that Rike recognizes. They were created by the AI of the station that turns out be yet another copy of a Soong android with elements of Data, B-4, Lal and Lore, built by Altan Soong but not completed before his death. At the Fleet Museum, Geordi rejects Picard's wish to clone the Titan's signature in order to provide a cover. He says it is useless anyway because ships communicate with each other, and the fake signature would not fool Starfleet for long. Jack and Sidney act on their own and, with the help of La Forge's other daughter Alandra, steal the cloaking device of the HMS Bounty. They activate it just as Geordi is going to beam back, leaving him no other choice but to support his friends. When the device overheats, Geordi knows how to fix it. A Starfleet patrol materializes on Daystrom Station, but the Titan has not yet arrived. Riker takes a phaser to give Worf and Raffi cover. The two are beamed aboard the Titan together with Daystrom Android M-5-10, who contains the manifest. Worf vows to save Riker. Geordi successfully activates the android, who says that he is and isn't Data. When asked what the Changelings stole from Daystrom Station, the android repeatedly says "Jean-Luc Picard", which everyone ascribes to a malfunction. But it turns out M-5-10 really means to say that they got hold of the remains of the admiral. Riker has been captured on Daystrom Station. The interrogator reveals herself to be Vadic. And it turns out she has a means to get Riker to talk because she has kidnapped Deanna...

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