Stardate: 50537.2 Arrivng at a planet that contains a rare mineral that will greatly help with Voyager's warp coils, Torres begins to come up with an away team to examine the area. One of her engineers, the Vulcan Vorik, offers to go beyond the call of duty and join the mission, which Torres accepts.

Vorik then asks Torres to mate with him, as he is experiencing the pon farr. When Torres refuses him, Vorik must seek other means to quench his sexual desires.

Beaming down to the planet, for the long haul underground to retrieve the mineral, Torres begins to act aggressively, and then, in a tense moment, bites Paris. With the mission in jeopardy, the situation is further complicated when Chakotay, Tuvok, Paris, and Torres discover that they are not alone on the planet.

Rusty, a technician at the TV station, quits in anger after the police question him about Donna. Evan admits his feelings for Donna and confesses that he is the stalker. When she tells Brandon and Tracy, he pulls a gun and holds the entire staff hostage. He holds Donna at gunpoint and forces Brandon and Tracy to put him on the air. He eventually lets the others leave, but Brandon refuses to leave Donna. Donna tricks Evan into putting his gun down by feigning an interest in him. She kisses him, then kicks the gun away as the SWAT team moves in to arrest him. Val threatens to fire Tom unless he stops seeing Kelly. She apologizes, but he quits anyway. Kelly claims that she is not acting out of spite. Steve and Clare try to keep their parents from dating, as they are afraid of being left behind. They finally apologize after realizing how selfishly they have acted.

The detectives face a difficult struggle getting witnesses to a girl's apparent suicide to come forward while Ross tries to prove that a known bully is the one really responsible for her actions.

In the hours before the Shadows and the Vorlons meet Sheridan's alliance at Corriana 6, Ivanova and Lorien search the last of the First Ones, and Londo races back to Centauri Prime in hope of removing all Shadow influence before the Vorlon planetkiller arrives.