Brennan stood outside the laboratory where Jesse was and started to pace around that hallway as if he were patrolling the area. As he stood by the door, he saw Lexa's contact pass him in his wheelchair with a disgruntled look on his face. He went through automatic doors in the same hallway where Brennan was pretending to patrol. Brennan started to wonder why the Dominion facility didn't have more automatic doors. He started to come up with a couple of possibilities, but then something caught his attention. He heard people walking down the hallway talking.

"If Mutant X doesn't deliver the disc soon, there will be hell to pay." The furious man said.

The woman walking next to him was trying to calm him down. "We'll contact Lexa first thing tomorrow morning to see why they haven't found it. They've discovered the traitors, so they must be close to finding it." They turned the corner and were soon out of earshot. It seemed very weird to Brennan that they were talking about him with him right there, although they had no idea that it was him.

As Brennan was starting to relax a little bit, he heard footsteps coming his way. A group of fifteen guards started coming down the hallway. They walked past him and stormed into the laboratory where Jesse was.


"What do you mean?" Shalimar nervously asked.

The Dominion man sighed. "Our security is much better than you are giving us credit for. I could see that the helix was landing." Shalimar felt extremely thankful that Lexa hitched a ride in Gary Welch's car instead of taking the helix the first time she snuck into Dominion headquarters. "Fortunately for you all, I altered the security files so that no one else knows of your presence. I disabled the door security to let you in. I can see Jesse Killmartin in the laboratory right now. I don't know if and how you know about the project in that lab."

Shalimar saw no reason to lie. "Yeah, we know about your virus."

"May I ask how?"

Shalimar did see no reason to lie, but she also saw no reason to tell the whole truth. "You have your secrets, we have ours." She hoped that would be enough.

"Very well. If you are planning to destroy the virus, I will not stop you as long as you leave immediately. I am also opposed to this virus, but I did not oppose it openly. I can find someone else to blame for the destruction of the virus."

Shalimar sat upright, relieved to know that he was helping them. "We have our own virus, a computer virus. It will erase all data concerning that virus."

"I am relieved to hear that." With that, his face was off the screen.


Jesse stood in terror as fifteen Dominion guards stormed into the lab. The leader stood in the front and addressed all of the scientists.

"Everyone empty your pockets. Place all of the contents onto the tables."

Jesse walked over to the nearest table next to another scientist. "I hate these daily weapons searches." She said. "They make me feel like a murder suspect."

Jesse emptied his pockets of his pens and small notebooks, nothing suspicious. He knew that they would search him again, and they would find his containment device with his stolen sample of the cure. Before they came to search him, Brennan stormed through the door and into the lab. Jesse had been keeping a close eye on Brennan to make sure he would know where he was and not mistake someone else for him. Brennan approached Jesse.

"Come with me. I saw what you were hiding." He turned to the others. "I believe he has something suspicious. I believe it's an explosive; I'll take him into the hall to search him." Brennan led Jesse out of the laboratory. Once safely out of view, Jesse sneakily slipped Brennan the containment device, and then Brennan searched him to find no explosives. Brennan took Jesse back to the lab and apologized for the inconvenience.

"Don't worry;" the leader of the guards said. "It's better to search and find nothing than to trust and be stabbed in the back." While this was his enemy saying this, Brennan knew that that was good advice. Brennan left the lab, unsure of what to do with the cure. He decided to hold on to it until Jesse was ready to destroy the virus.

For another three hours, Jesse was in the lab, Brennan patrolled the hallway, Lexa did who knows what, and Shalimar was bored out of her mind in the helix. Finally, Jesse decided it was time for his shift to end, so he left with Lexa right behind. After a few minutes, Brennan left and they all gathered in the helix.