USS Voyager arrives back at the Brunali planet.

Janeway: "Hail them."
Communications are established with Leucon and Yifay on the main viewscreen.
Leucon: "We didn't expect to see you again, Captain."
Janeway: "We'd like to ask you a few questions if you don't mind."
Yifay: "Questions?"
Seven: "Regarding Icheb and the circumstances of his assimilation."
Leucon: "We've already discussed that."
Seven: "The story you told me was inconsistent with our data."
Yifay: "We don't owe you any explanation."

Janeway: "In that case, I'd like to talk to Icheb." Leucon: "He's not here." Janeway: "Where is he?" Yifay: "That's not your concern." Janeway: "Scan for his bio-signs."
Tuvok does so and reports: "He is not in the settlement." Seven: "I'm detecting a Brunali transport vessel. Distance 9 million kilometres. It's heading for the co-ordinates of the transwarp conduit."
Chakotay: "According to these readings that ship is travelling at warp 9.8." Paris: "It only looks that way. It's been designed to emit a false warp signature, strong enough to penetrate subspace." Seven: "They're using it as bait to attract the Borg."
Janeway: "Icheb's on that vessel, isn't he?" Yifay: "He's fighting for his people."
Seven: "Alone on an unarmed transport?" Leucon: "We don't have particle weapons or powerful starships at our disposal. We're forced to use the only resource we have." Seven: "Your children." Yifay: "No, our genetic expertise." Janeway: "Icheb's not bait. He's a weapon. The first cube that captured him was infected by a pathogen. Icheb was the carrier, wasn't he." Leucon: "Every time we try to rebuild, begin to make progress, the Borg come and take it away from us!" Janeway: "Tom, set a course for that transport vessel, full impulse." Paris: "Aye, Captain."
Kim at his Ops station.
Leucon: "You have no right to interfere!" Yifay: "We're trying to save our civilisation!" Seven: "By taking away Icheb's future." Yifay: "If we don't stop the Borg the Brunali have no future."
Leucon: "Captain, a Borg ship will emerge from that conduit at any moment. You'll be destroyed." Janeway: "We'll take our chances. End transmission." viewscreen off "Red alert. Battle stations."

The Brunali transport vessel, with an unconscious Icheb aboard.

Paris: "We're coming within range, Captain."
Kim: "I'm picking up Icheb's lifesigns. Bioscans indicate he's unconscious."
Chakotay: "Transport him to Sickbay."
Seven: "I can't. There's some kind of interference."
Tuvok: "It's the conduit. By my estimate a Borg vessel will emerge in less than 40 seconds."
Janeway: "Transfer auxiliary power to the transporters."
Seven: "I still can't establish a lock, not at this distance."
Tuvok: "30 seconds."
Janeway: "Tom, get us closer to that ship."
Paris: "Yes, ma'am."
Tuvok: "The conduit's opening. 20 seconds."
Janeway: "Seven?"
Seven: "Still out of range."
Janeway: "You heard her, Tom."
Paris: "When that Borg ship comes through I'm going to have a hell of a time getting away from it."
Janeway: "One problem at a time."
Tuvok: "10 seconds. 9. 8."
Seven: "I've got a lock."
Tuvok: "7."
Seven: "Transport in progress."
Tuvok: "6. 5."
Seven: "He's in Sickbay."
Janeway: "Get us out of here, maximum-"

Suddenly the Borg sphere locks a tractor pulse onto USS Voyager!

Janeway: "Target their tractor beam generator." Tuvok: "Phasers targetted." Janeway: "Fire." Tuvok: "No effect."

The Borg send the standard challenge to Voyager. "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

Soundfiles from CC:
Borg: "We are the Borg."	Borg: "You will be assimilated."	Borg: "Resistance is futile"

Seven: "Perhaps not. There is a way to get a weapon through their shields."
Janeway: "I'm listening."
Seven: "Transport a photon torpedo to the Brunali vessel. Set it to detonate as soon as it's inside the sphere."
Tuvok: "That will occur in approximately 20 seconds. However, Voyager will be inside less than 3 seconds later."
Janeway: "Tom, full reverse thrusters. Might buy us a couple more seconds." To Seven: "Do it."

USS Voyager manages to turn while held within the Borg sphere's tractor pulse. The start of the explosion is seen, being the destruction of the Brunali transport, which will disable the tractor pulse and allow Voyager to escape. (pop-up window)

Seven: "Transport complete. Detonation in 10, 9-" Janeway: "Tom, go to warp on my mark." Chakotay: "All hands, brace for impact!"

The photon torpedo explodes, damaging the Borg sphere and causing its tractor pulse to go offline. But the explosion rips towards Voyager.
Janeway: "Now, Mr Paris!" Voyager hurtles away, and jumps to warp speed, managing to escape just in time! Tuvok: "The Borg vessel has taken heavy damage. They are not pursuing."

In Sickbay the Doctor has treated Icheb and is running a few final scans.
Janeway: "Are you saying his parents re-infected him?" Doctor: "No, they merely sedated him." Seven: "I don't understand." Doctor: "He was genetically engineered to produce the pathogen, from birth." Janeway: "Bred to kill Borg." Seven: "Is he in danger?" Doctor: "I can suppress the pathogen. He'll be fine, physically."
Janeway to Seven: "He's going to need help coming to terms with what's happened." Seven: "Captain, I-" Janeway: "Use your maternal instincts. They worked before."

Seven enters the Astrometrics Lab. standard doors She finds Icheb examining DNA samples displayed magnified on the main viewscreen.

Seven: "I thought you were studying spatial harmonics." Icheb: "My parents suggested I might have an aptitude for genetics as well." Seven: "I see. What have you learned?" Icheb: "This is the genome of a typical Brunali male. And this is my DNA. They're nearly identical, but do you notice the differences in the third, thirteenth and seventeenth chromosomes?" Seven: "Yes." Icheb: "My parents made microgenetic alterations so I would produce the pathogen, quite ingenious." Seven: "It's also barbaric." Icheb: "They were trying to defend themselves, their way of life, preserve their species." Seven: "I know how difficult it is to acknowledge your parents' faults, but what they did was wrong. You don't have to forgive them." Icheb: "Do you think they will ever forgive me?" Seven: "For what?" Icheb: "I could've destroyed that sphere. I failed them." Seven: "You would've been re-assimilated." Icheb: "I know but-" Seven: "But what?" Icheb: "Maybe it was my destiny." Seven: "Maybe. In the future you may choose to fight the Borg, but you'll do it in your own way. You're an individual and you have the right to determine your own destiny. It's time to regenerate."

Icheb: "And if I prefer to continue studying?" Seven: "It's your decision."
He stays put and so she leaves. As she does so she looks back at him as he carries on with his studies - he is at home, his home is Voyager.