 | It is a bit later than 1500 hours. Kellin, Seven and Kim are working in the Astrometrics Lab as per Tuvok's earlier proposal to Chakotay.
Seven: "I've downloaded data from our tactical logs. You can access it from this console." Kellin: "Our weapons are proton-based particle beams very tightly focussed." Kim: "It's like being hit with thousands of needles." |
 | Kellin: "They can penetrate any shield even if the modulations are changed."
Kim: "Very clever." Kellin: "No defence has ever stopped these weapons." Kim: "Then maybe we're about to make history." |
 | Kellin: "You've found a way to counteract them?" |
 | Kim: "I think so. The trick is to scatter those beams. It'll make it harder for them to penetrate the shields. I think we could do that by tying the baryon sensors into deflector control. Here's what I have in mind. Why don't you look this over and let me know what you think?"
Kellin: "I'll do it right away." Kellin takes the PADD. |
 | Kim: "By the way I hear Chakotay recommended you to Tuvok to serve on a security detail?"
Kellin: "I want to help out in some way." Kim: "A word of advice. Volunteer for beta squad, they're the best team. You'll learn a lot from them." I will. Thank you." She leaves Astrometrics with the PADD. |
| Seven: "When you mentioned Commander Chakotay's name she flushed. He did the same when he saw her."
Kim: "What are you saying?" Seven: "I suspect the Commander and Kellin are engaged in a courtship ritual. It seems a complicated and unnecessary precursor to the act of procreation." Kim gets over his embarrassment about the subject, understanding that Seven, once a Borg drone, is still learning how to be human and still learning the social mores. "I know you think so, but trust me, some people need those rituals." Seven: "Explain." Kim: "It's, it's usually considered a good idea if two people get to know each other a little before they become intimate." Seven: "Why is that?" Kim: "Because it's more comfortable. You spend some time together, you laugh, you talk. That makes it easier to get closer." Seven: "But the end result is the same, is it not?" Kim: "Well, I guess so." Seven: "Then I fail to see what is accomplished by all the talk." Kim: "Seven, if you don't get it then I can't explain it to you." Seven: "Obviously." |
 | Kellin is walking along the corridor to her quarters, reading the PADD with Kim's suggestion on it about the defence against the Ramuran weapons. |
 | Suddenly she senses someone is there. She looks around. There is no one there....apparently. |  |
 | At the entrance to her quarters she again senses an unseen presence. |
 | In her quarters she is horrified to see that an intruder has secretly entered her quarters and deliberately smashed a vase, leaving the pieces for her to see. |
 | Kellin goes to Chakotay's quarters.
Kellin: "I should've known. They must've gotten somebody on board during the battle." Chakotay: "You're jumping to conclusions." Kellin: "No, there's a tracer. He's here. He's come for me. That broken vase was a warning." Chakotay: "We'll protect you. I'm not going to let anything happen to you." Kellin: "It's too late." Chakotay: "We can use the same magneton sweep we used to flush out Resket. We'll find this one and send him on his way." |
 | Suddenly a Ramuran tracer materialises. Chakotay and Kellin turn and see him. |
 | The Ramuran tracer tells them: "I'm afraid I can't let that happen."
The Ramuran is holding a neurolytic emitter which he aims at Kellin. |
 | Kellin: "Curneth, don't."
Chakotay taps his combadge.  combadge "Chakotay to security. Intruder alert, my quarters." |
 | Kellin: "Please, I beg you, don't do this!"
Curneth: "You know better than to ask that, Kellin." He fires. Kellin shouts: "No!"
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 | Kellin, hit by the neurolytic emitter, which is designed to wipe her memories. |  |
 | As Kellin is hit by the neurolytic emitter's beam, Chakotay snatches up a phaser and aims it at Curneth. "Drop it! Drop it!" |
 | Curneth does do. He looks down at Chakotay as Chakotay supports Kellin in his arms. "You're too late. She's already beginning to forget everything that's happened here." |
 | Kellin reaches for Chakotay, desperately wanting to remember him. |
 | Kellin loses consciousness. |
 | The Doctor scans Kellin and signals to Chakotay his diagnosis, then leaves him with Kellin. |  |
 | Chakotay tells Kellin: "The Doctor says there's nothing he can do. Your recent memories have already begun to fade."
Kellin says desperately to him: "Don't let this happen, please, don't let this happen!" |
 | Chakotay: "Do you have any idea how we can reverse the effect?"
Kellin shakes her head. She begs him: "Promise me: if I forget why I'm here, if I forget you, do what I did, and you tell me all about us, and you will help me to remember?" Chakotay: "I will. But I'm going to try and do more than that."  |
 | Kellin lapses into unconsciousness again. |
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