Kim knocks the security guard away. The guard falls over.

Kim uses the descending fire escape ladder to.....

....reach street level where he runs off.

Kim spots a security guard leaving the apartment building in pursuit. The guard shouts, "Hold it!"

Too many people are coming out of the subway, blocking a fast escape. Kim dodges away from the subway and runs off.

The security guard gradually gains on Kim.

The security guard pulls Kim to the ground, gets up and points a phaser at him: "Get up!"

"Excuse me," says the voice of Tom Paris. The guard looks up, surprised. Paris fells him with a blow, then shakes his hand in pain. "There goes my bank shot."

	Paris grabs the guard's phaser and helps Kim up.
	Kim: "What are you doing here?" Paris: "Helping out a friend." They notice the gathering crowd. "Let's go." They walk away.
	The crowd draws in toward the unconscious security guard.

Kim and Paris run into an alleyway, for the moment safe from pursuit. Kim: "So how did you find me?" Paris: "I still have a few friends at Starfleet. They told me you were in some serious trouble." Kim: "Yeah. Starfleet thinks I'm a Maquis spy." Paris: "I know the feeling. Those security anklets really chafe, don't they?" Kim: "You're the last person I expected to help me." Paris: "Let's just say it's a long since anybody gave a damn about my future, including me. I don't know if I'm supposed to be on Voyager like you told me, but it sounds a whole lot better than the life I have here. I'm willing to take my chances, Ensign." Kim: "Call me Harry. You always did." Paris: "Won't be long before they find us. We better keep moving." Kim: "Wait. I found a way to get back to my reality. The problem is I'll need a ship to do it. I think I have access to a runabout but we're going to have to break it out of spacedock." Paris: "Sounds to me like you need a pilot." Kim: "Know anyone who's qualified?" Paris: "I know someone who used to be pretty good, and if I'm not mistaken he still knows a few tricks." Kim: "I have an office at Starfleet Headquarters. I think we can access the runabout launch codes from there." Paris fetches something from his pocket: "Site to site transporter. With friends like mine you never know when it'll come in handy. Where's your office?" Kim: "Main complex, level 6, subsection 47." Paris: "I can beam us in but we'll only have a few minutes before Security starts kicking down the door." Kim: "Let's do it."

They beam into Kim's office. Kim and Paris do a site to site transport into Kim's office. (pop-up window)

	Inside Kim's office, Kim hurries to access the runabout. Paris: "So, Harry, once we're on board the runabout what's the plan?" Kim: "The alien said that if I recreated the conditions of the accident and fly into the time stream there's a chance I might be able to get back to my reality."
	Paris: "Might?!" Kim: "He couldn't give me any guarantees." Paris observes from the desk console: "Security's just been alerted to an unauthorised transport in the building. It'll take them another twenty seconds to track it to this office. How're you coming?" Kim: "Almost there. I've bypassed the runabout's security lockouts."

As security guards start entering the office, Paris tells Kim: "They're onto us. We've got to go." Kim: "Hang on, I've almost got it." Paris: "Now!"

A security guard fires a phaser. They duck the phaser beam.

The two security guards rush over the desk but when they look down behind it, there is only the last vestige of a transporter beam then it disappears. Paris and Kim have escaped Starfleet Headquarters.