A short while later Janeway and Tuvok begin the special meditation. Janeway: "Where are you?" In a laboratory, under ground." Janeway: "Is Teero there?" There is someone. It's him." Janeway: "Describe what's happening."

Tuvok's mind recalls the buried memory. It is some seven years before, and he is restrained, kept against his will on a laboratory bench with equipment of menacing intent around him. Teero's voice addresses him: "Lieutenant." Janeway calls him. "Tuvok? Tuvok?"

But Tuvok is lost in the resurfacing memories. Teero: "It is Lieutenant, isn't it? I'm sure your Maquis comrades would be interested to know your Starfleet rank. Don't worry, I don't like to expose you."

Tuvok: "What do you want?" Teero: "You. You're the perfect subject." Tuvok: "For what?" Teero: "I'm a student of the mind. Yours is remarkable: disciplined, orderly, on the surface, that is. Beneath, boiling emotions, repressed violence. In a sense you're two different men: one I can never hope to manipulate, but the other...." Tuvok: "I've been trained to resist mind control." Teero: "That's the rational, logical part of you at work. But I want to reach your inner fire, your spirit." Tuvok: "Why?" As Teero approaches to inject him, Tuvok, unwilling to resist physically, begs: "Please, please, please, don't!" As Teero leans over him he injects him. He begins to implant powerful mental instructions: "Pagh t'em far, B'tanay."

The memories break off and Tuvok is suddenly back in the reality of 2377. But the mental image of Teero, with its forcibly induced control over Tuvok's mind, is here too! Tuvok shouts at Teero: "Stay away from me!"

Janeway: "Tuvok." But Tuvok does not hear her. He is too bound up in the mental struggle between himself and Teero's mind control. Teero: "Complete your mission." Tuvok: "No!" Teero: "This is a holy time."

Janeway goes to put a reassuring hand on Tuvok's shoulder as he is so agitated: "Commander." But Tuvok pushes Janeway aside.

Tuvok hurls her away. She collapses on the seat.

The security guard whips out his phaser but she raises her hand as signal that he should do nothing. The security guard obeys.

Janeway does not realise that Teero's mind control has at last become too strong for Tuvok to resist. He taps his combadge. "Tuvok to Chakotay." Chakotay, via comms: "Go ahead." Tuvok: "Pagh t'em far, B'tanay." A strange change comes over Chakotay. He replies, "Understood." and strides from the Astrometrics Lab. Tuvok has passed on Teero's instructions.

Janeway taps her combadge

In the Brig, Janeway uses her combadge to try and contact Chakotay: "Janeway to Chakotay." There is no reply. "Commander!" There is still no reply.

Janeway turns back to Tuvok, convinced that he has within him an explanation for their troubles and the solution. Janeway: "'Pagh t'em far, B'tanay.' What did that mean, Tuvok? Tell me!" Tuvok: "This is a holy time. A time of awakening." Janeway is becoming increasingly desperate and stern-voiced - she knows that there is a major threat here and only Tuvok has the answers. "This Teero has awakened you to do what? If you can remember, you can fight him, you can resist. What does he want?" Tuvok: "To give us instructions. Janeway: "What kind of instructions?!" Teero's mental image attacks Tuvok's mind more strongly. Teero insists: "Focus on your task!"

In Sickbay an audio alert on the computer console draws the Doctor's attention to strange readings coming from Chakotay's cortical monitor. Doctor: "It's Chakotay." Paris, who is now by the biobed on which his recently woken wife lies, asks the Doctor: "What is it?"

Doctor: "I'm not sure." He taps his combadge. combadge "Sickbay to Commander Chakotay." There is no response. "Computer, locate Chakotay."
Computer: "Commander Chakotay is in Sickbay."

At that very moment that the computer reports, Chakotay enters Sickbay and orders, "Computer, deactivate the EMH."

The Doctor, who is surprised, goes offline. For some reason, he is unable to reactivate himself.

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As the Doctor's program is taken offline, Chakotay draws his phaser. Paris turns, surprised: "Commander?" Chakotay stuns Paris with phaser fire and, ripping the monitor from his neck, gives Torres the same Bajoran 'trigger' command: "Pagh t'em far, B'tanay." She rises from the biobed, spares her fallen husband but one look, then answers Chakotay: "I understand."

Together Chakotay and Torres gather the other former Maquis who were attacked by Tuvok and who had then mind-melded with them. Armed with phaser rifles, Chakotay's group, at his gesture, split into smaller groups. Torres and two others head for Engineering.....

.....while Chakotay, accompanied by Yosa, takes a turbolift. "Deck 1," Chakotay orders - he is heading for the Bridge!

	Meanwhile, in the Brig Janeway continues trying to get answers from Tuvok. Janeway: "Why were you using mind-melds? What did Teero want you to do?" Tuvok: "To awaken the others." Teero: "Resist your doubts!" Tuvok: "No!" His mind struggles desperately to shake free of Teero's control. Janeway tells Tuvok firmly: "Focus on me."
	Teero: "Complete your mission! Pagh t'em far, B'tanay!" Tuvok shouts at Teero: "You don't control me!"

On the Bridge, Kim is in command, sitting in Chakotay's seat.

As Chakotay and his group enter, Kim gets up. "Good to see you, Commander," he says. "It's good to be back," replies Chakotay. Swiftly he draws his phaser. Kim, taken by surprise, is unable to draw his phaser in time, and is stunned by Chakotay's phaser blast.

The mutineers use their phasers and the advantage of surprise to beat down resistance on the Bridge.

Chakotay fires at a crewmember as he goes to draw his phaser, but Chakotay has the element of surprise. The crewmember collapses, stunned by Chakotay's phaser blast.

Three mutineers, led by Torres, enter Main Engineering. They fire phaser rifles to stun the startled crewmembers there. They seize control of that section.