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F A C E S
Episode 14

Part D

In Sulan's laboratory Klingon Torres continues to work at freeing herself from the restraints. Suddenly the locks give way. As Sulan returns she hastily restores them so that he will not notice.

Sulan's voice is heard: "B'Elanna? I have something I want to show you."

He bends over her. His face has changed. He now wears the face of Pete Durst! Klingon Torres: "Durst!" Sulan: "I thought perhaps this new face would make me more comfortable with me."

Klingon Torres: "You've killed him!" Sulan: "Yes, B'Elanna, but his organs will save more than a dozen lives."

Outrage gives Klingon Torres extra strength and she jerks open the locks restraining her.

She leaps up from the bench, surprising Sulan.

She seizes him and throttles him. As he sinks to the floor, she escapes.

USS Voyager orbits the planet.

In Voyager's Briefing Room, the staff discuss the situation.
Kim: "Deep level scans have revealed a network of microfissures - miniscule openings which develop briefly each time the field matrix remodulates."
Janeway: "Just how small are these microfissures?"
Kim: "Less than one micron and they close up within a few seconds."

Janeway: "Would it be possible to use our phasers to expand one of these openings as it's forming?" Tuvok: "That was our first thought. But we realised that such an attempt would have to be at close range and would carry the risk of alerting the Vidiians to our presence." Kim: "So then it occurred to us: if we could narrow the transporter's energy beam tightly enough it might be possible to transport one of us through the microfissures." Tuvok: "Of course, timing the transport to the precise moment of an opening would be critical." Chakotay: "But if we could get someone inside we might be able to find our people and deactivate the forcefield." Janeway: "And then, presumably, we could beam everyone back to the ship." Tuvok: "Precisely, but you should be aware that as we are incapable of scanning beyond the forcefield we will have no way of communicating with whoever transports inside it, nor will we be able to verify that the transport has been successfully completed." Janeway: "Moreover, what's to prevent whoever goes in from being captured by the Vidiians?" Chakotay: "I've an idea about that, Captain."

In Sickbay, the Doctor is putting the finishing touches to Chakotay's Vidiian disguise. Doctor: "Dermal stimulator, please." Kes: "Remarkable work, Doctor." Doctor: "If you think this is remarkable, you should see me remove a bunion."

Tuvok enters, carrying Chakotay's clothing disguise. standard doors

Tuvok: "I have done my best to replicate Vidiian attire. I trust it will prove sufficiently convincing." Chakotay: "It's a fine piece of work, Mr Tuvok." He jokes: "Next time I need a tailor I'll know just where to look."

In the caves, Vidiian guards are directing the labouring prisoners, directing where they should take the rock loads that they have dug out. "Quickly now! In there!" Human Torres is suffering more than the other prisoners because she is far physically weaker. Seeing her close to exhaustion, Paris tells her: "Here, B'Elanna, sit down." He gives her the water bottle. "Here, it's water." She takes a drink and hands the bottle back to him. "Thanks." The Talaxian tells her: "Rest while you can. The guard won't be back right away." Paris: "Keep it." Human Torres: "Tom. I've been thinking. When they did this thing to me, I think it changed more than just the way I look." Paris: "What do you mean?" Human Torres: "Back there, when they took Durst away, I was terrified." Paris: "No one could blame you for that." Human Torres: "You don't understand. I've been in worse situations but I've never felt like that before, never. My heart kept pounding and my hands were shaking. I didn't even try to help you." Paris: "B'Elanna, I'm no doctor, but I have to believe that whatever they did to you has seriously depleted your strength. There's nothing you could've done." Human Torres: "No, that's not it. I think that when they extracted my Klingon DNA they turned me into some kind of coward." Paris: "Sometimes fear can be a good thing. Keeps you from taking unnecessary chances. Courage doesn't mean that you don't have fear. It means that you've learnt to overcome it. And I know you can find the courage to hold on until we can find a way out of this place. A Vidiian guard comes upon them. "What's going on here?" Paris: "She's ill. She needed a rest." Vidiian guard: "If she's too weak I'll take her back to the barracks." Human Torres: "That's ok, Tom. Maybe from there I can try to make contact with the ship."

In a transporter room aboard Voyager, Kim reports: "The emitter array has been initialised, Captain." Janeway: "Good." To Chakotay who is waiting on a transporter pad. "Are you ready, Mr Chakotay?" He indicates yes. An alert sounds. Tuvok reports: "Captain, there's an opening forming in the forcefield." Kim: "Initiating auto-sequence." Tuvok: "Targetting scanners to match co-ordinates. Scanners locked." Janeway: "On my mark, Mr Kim. Energise." Chakotay dematerialises. Janeway: "Well, now we wait."

The Talaxian is moving through the planet's cave system when suddenly he is seized from behind by Klingon Torres. She hisses: "Make a sound and I'll break your neck. Understand? I'm looking for my friend, Tom Paris, a human male. Have you seen him?"

Talaxian: "He was here, but they sent him to another tunnel."
Klingon Torres: "Which one?"
Talaxian: "Back that way. There is another human with them but they took her back to the barracks."
Klingon Torres: "A human female?"

At the barracks, in the prisoners' quarters, Human Torres notices when one Vidiian calls to the one manning the control console: "I need your help here." They exit and leave the control console area unguarded and unoccupied. She hurries up to it, examines the control interface and begins pressing buttons.
The Vidiian control console.
Suddenly the two Vidiians appear and shouts at her: "What are you doing?! Come with us!" Two Vidiian guards seize her and haul her toward the exit. "Where are you taking me?" she shouts, terrified. One Vidiian replies: "A shower and a hot meal." It is clearly a sarcastic euphemism.

Then suddenly Klingon Torres attacks.

Klingon Torres fells the two guards.

Klingon Torres picks up a Vidiian gun and looks at the person she has rescued.
Human Torres, who has fallen to the floor, waits for the outcome of the fight, not having the strength to help her would-be rescuer. After the Vidiian guards have been dealt with, her rescuer helps her up.

The two look at each other curiously. Human Torres stares at the fully Klingon features of her rescuer - her fully Klingon self - while Klingon Torres looks with interest at her fully human self.
When Human Torres starts to collapse, Klingon Torres picks her up and carries her from the chamber.

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