As Chakotay returns to the shuttlecraft, Janeway starts to set up the homing beacon in her combadge.

Chakotay fetches the supplies from the shuttlecraft. On his way he looks at the outside of the shuttlecraft.

Chakotay returns. Chakotay: "At least the storm seems to be dying." Janeway: "What were you looking at?" Chakotay: "There are phaser burns on the hull. I don't think it was lightning strikes that hit us. I think we were shot down." Janeway: "By whom?" Chakotay: "I don't know. I'm going back to see if I can get an energy signature from the burns." Janeway: "Chakotay. The homing signal. We might be telling someone just where to find us." Chakotay: "Disconnect it while I scan the shuttle."

Chakotay returns to the shuttlecraft and comes back again a moment later.

Janeway: "Can you tell anything?" Chakotay, reading from the tricorder: "The signatures are Vidiian." Janeway: "Vidiian. I thought we'd moved beyond their space." Chakotay: "If they shot us down you can be sure they'll be coming for us. We need to find a hiding place." Janeway: "What is it?" Chakotay: "Lifeforms. Fifty metres from here. Coming this way." Janeway: "Let's go." Chakotay: "There's another group in this direction. We're surrounded." Janeway: "Let's take cover. We'll have to fight."

They move quickly but cautiously, phasers at the ready. They enter a cave. Two armed Vidiians appear ahead of them.

But Chakotay and Janeway are cornered. Janeway aims a phaser as a Vidiian bears down on her. "Back off now. We'll fire if we have to. Back off!"

Vidiians appear from the other direction and open fire. Chakotay is hit!

The death of Chakotay.

Janeway calls his name but she is then borne to the ground and throttled to death.

Janeway, dead.

Janeway and Chakotay are on the shuttlecraft discussing Talent Night! Chakotay: "Harry's clarinet solo was ok. I could've done without Tuvok's reading of Vulcan poetry. But the highlight of the evening was definitely Kathryn Janeway portraying the dying swan." Janeway: "I learned that dance when I was six years old. I assure-" Suddenly she stops.

Janeway: "Wait a minute. What's happening here?" Chakotay: "You're right. We have been here before." Janeway: "Do you remember Vidiians?"

Chakotay: "Yes. They shot us down and attacked us." Janeway: "We may have wandered into some kind of repeating time loop. I'm going to scan for temporal anomalies."

the shuttlecraft alters course (pop-up window)

Chakotay: "Whatever's going on, let's change tactics this time. Let's not try to land on that planet." Janeway: "Agreed." Referring to the monitor readings: "I don't see any evidence of temporal flux or any kind of anomaly for that matter." Chakotay: "Or of Vidiian ships?" Janeway: "So far so good." Chakotay: "Chakotay to Voyager. Chakotay to Voyager. Do you read us?" Janeway: "We're out of range. I'd still like to figure out what happened to us. Send a subspace message that we won't be landing on the planet. Tell them that we'll be looking for evidence of temporal anomalies. I see a ship approaching on high impulse. It's on an intercept course." Chakotay: "Is it Vidiian?" Janeway: "Yes." Chakotay: "I've got it. It's a warship, loaded with weaponry. It's closing fast." Janeway: "Can we outrun it?" Chakotay: "We can try." Janeway: "They're 200,000 kilometres away and gaining." Chakotay: "Setting evasive pattern delta four." Janeway: "They're powering weapons. Shields up. Stand by all phaser arrays." Chakotay: "Shields down to eighty-four per cent." Janeway: "Returning fire." Chakotay: "Nice aim." Janeway: "It didn't stop them." Chakotay: "We've lost shields!" Janeway: "Firing starboard array." Chakotay: "That one hit the reactant injectors." Janeway: "Shut them down. They'll leak antimatter." Chakotay: "The magnetic fields are failing. The gas flow separators are down." Janeway: "Dump the core!" The shuttlecraft explodes!