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F A C E S
Episode 14

Part B

Elsewhere in the Vidiian complex, Paris and Durst and a Talaxian are marched into the prisoners' quarters. When a Vidiian guard shoves Durst he goes to have it out with him, but Paris restrains him, telling him: "They're the ones with the guns, remember?" Once the guards leave them at the bunk-beds, Durst tells Paris: "We've got to find a way out of this place." Paris: "I agree. But I don't want to do anything until I find out what they've done with B'Elanna. In the meantime we have to keep track of the guards' movements, when are their shifts, when do they eat, when do they sleep." Durst: "There don't seem to be many of them. I guess they figure we're all so exhausted we don't have any fight left." Paris: "We'll find an opening, Pete. And when the time is right we'll make our move." The Talaxian laughs at this, peering over the edge of his upper bunk at them. Paris to Talaxian: "Something funny, friend?" Talaxian: "You." Paris: "Really? How's that?" Talaxian: "Nobody escapes from this place. Those Vidiian leeches can yank the beating heart out of you, in a heartbeat." He laughs at his own joke. "Heart out of you in a heartbeat. Now that's funny!" Durst, sarcastically: "Hilarious." Paris: "Seems like you know this place pretty well." Talaxian: "I should. I've been here six years." Paris: "Then tell me something. I thought those Vidiians were in the business of harvesting organs. How come we're all still in one piece?" Talaxian: "The disease makes them weak. They need somebody to dig their tunnels. That's us. Best way to keep alive round here is to stay strong." Paris: "Thanks for the advice." Talaxian: "Oh don't worry. They're always in need of replacement body parts. They'll get around to gutting you eventually. There were twenty-three of us on my ship. I'm the only one left." Paris: "Listen, when they grabbed us there was a woman with us - B'Elanna Torres. Any idea what might have happened to her?" Talaxian: "If she's not here, she's been taken to Organ Processing."

The away team are in the cave system. Kim: "I've deployed the transponders, Commander. The relay signal is coming through clearly." Chakotay: "Good work." Kim: "Any sign of them?" Chakotay: "According to my tricorder readings they definitely came this way. The question is: where did they go from here?" Kim: "Delightful spot to get lost." Tuvok calls. "Commander, Ensign! Over here." Chakotay: "What is it?" Tuvok: "I detect traces of at least five humanoid lifeforms." Kim: "Five? There were only three in the away team." Tuvok: "Evidently they did not enter this cavern alone."

Sulan's laboratory. Sulan: "Are you in pain?" Klingon Torres: "It's nothing." Sulan: "Remarkable. One of the symptoms of the early stages of the phage is excruciating joint pain. I find it extraordinary that you can endure it. Some who were infected have been known to die from the agony itself." Klingon Torres: "It's going to take more than an infection to kill me." Sulan: "It appears you are correct. Your body's successfully fighting off the phage. I am overjoyed." Klingon Torres: "How delightful for you."

Klingon Torres, with scanning equipment above her.

Sulan: "Soon we will begin a series of procedures, replicating your genetic code and attempting various methods of integrating your DNA with our own. In time, we'll be successful, and eliminate the phage forever! When that time comes, you will be honoured as a hero by my people." Klingon Torres: "I know I'm the first Klingon you've ever seen. So I'll tell you that Klingons find honour as warriors on the battlefield, not as guinea pigs in a laboratory." Sulan: "Earlier you accused me of mutilating you. Now you sound positively proud to be Klingon. You have me to thank for that, B'Elanna." Klingon Torres: "You'll get no gratitude from me." Sulan: "But you'll feel different in time. But I don't blame you for your obstinance. I would be proud too with a form as handsome as yours. I believe Klingons are the most impressive species I have ever seen."

A prisoner is brought into the prisoners' quarters when the other prisoners are asleep. It is Torres, fully human!

Human Torres: "Tom? Tom, wake up." Paris: "B'Elanna?" Human Torres: "Yeah, it's me."
Paris is shocked when he sees her. "B'Elanna, what have they done to you?!"

Human Torres: "I remember them grabbing us outside the caves and then I, I guess I just blacked out." Paris: "Yeah, they stunned all of us." Human Torres: "The next thing I knew they were waking me in some kind of laboratory. I was so groggy I couldn't see. I asked them what they had done to me, and then one of them said that they had completely extracted my Klingon DNA." Paris: "Doesn't seem possible, but you look human." Human Torres: "I feel so weak and sick to my stomach." Paris: "Well, considering what they've done to you I'm not surprised." Human Torres: "So strange." Paris: "What?" Human Torres: "When I was a child I did everything I could to hide my forehead - hats and scarves, you name it." Paris: "When I was a kid I wore a cap to cover the haircuts my father used to make me get, first day of every summer." Human Torres: "I grew up in a colony on Kessik IV. My mother and I were the only Klingons there, and that was a time when relations between the Homeworld and the Federation weren't too cordial. Nobody ever said anything but we were different, and I didn't like that feeling. Then my father left when I was five years old. One day he was there and the next he wasn't. I cried myself to sleep every night for months. Of course I never told anybody, and then I finally decided that he left because I looked like a Klingon, and so I tried to look human." Paris: "Looks like you finally got what you wanted."

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