After taking the bridge of the Titan, Vadic shuts down the systems on the rest of the ship. With the bridge crew as hostages, she demands Jack to surrender, otherwise she would kill someone every ten minutes. Jack tells Picard and Crusher that he can enter the minds of other people, which Sidney La Forge confirms. Picard suggests to use his powers to get in touch with a member of the bridge crew to enter the override codex that would allow the admiral to regain control. But Vadic thwarts the attempt and murders Lt. T'Veen in retaliation. Worf arrives with a cloaked shuttle on the Shrike and liberates Riker and Troi. They find the body of Admiral Picard. It seems the Changelings extracted parts of his parietal lobe, but then the alarm sounds and they have to leave before they can finish their investigation. On the Titan, only the Soong android can possibly override Vadic's command code in time. The problem is that it requires to remove the partition between Data and Lore, without Geordi being able to support Data in his struggle in any fashion. But they have no other choice. In the mind of the android, as Data gets weaker and weaker, he gradually hands over his memories to Lore. Then Data vanishes. However, his gifts to Lore contained everything that made up Data, so he eventually becomes Data. Jack enters the bridge with a device that he says may kill Vadic but that will definitely kill him if she doesn't release the hostages. After Data has restored Picard's control over the ship, Jack activates the device, which is actually a forcefield generator that protects Seven of Nine, who has decided to stay, and himself. As the evac hatch opens, Vadic gets blown into space and dies. Worf and Raffi kill the rest of the Changelings. After destroying the Shrike, the Titan warps away to uncover the Changeling infiltration of Starfleet and to avert whatever they plan to do on Frontier Day. Troi feels a "darkness" on the ship and telepathically connects to Jack to see what is plaguing him. In his mind, they open the red door Jack always sees in his dreams...

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