Janeway followed B'Elanna down to Engineering. She needed something to distract her but at the same time be productive. She decided to help Torres with the warp core. Maybe crawling around the Jeffrey's tubes would give her some much needed inspiration.

"Captain, are you sure you want to go at this alone?" It was obvious that Lt. Torres was apprehensive about letting anyone go alone anywhere, especially the Captain. "Maybe Vorik could go with you?"

"No, I'll be alright, Lt. Besides, it's crowded enough with just one person in those tubes. In this case," Janeway cocked her head to one side, "two's a crowd."

"Ok, but don't tell Tuvok I let you do this. He'd kill me."

Kathryn started crawling through the Jeffrey's tubes toward her destination. What was going on here? What did she know? She knew that the first attack was an exploding conduit that appeared to have been sabotaged. It appeared as though some one had short-circuited the wiring causing it to blow when some one, in this case Crewman Jacobs, started to replace the gel pack. However, from what Chakotay and Seven had managed to uncover before he was put out of commission, it didn't appear as though the saboteur had intended for their victim to die, just be injured enough to require the Doctor. The Doctor said that, if the Crewman had been just slightly further away, the explosion would have put him in a coma, but it wouldn't have resulted in death. So, strike one up for a coma. Next was Chakotay. It appeared as though he was headed toward his quarters, but only made it as far as Harry Kim's. He was attacked and put in a coma, but the story the Doctor was giving about the needle and the drugs used wasn't holding water in Kathryn's opinion. Yes, the evidence for the needle was there, and, yes, he was injected with those substances, but the amount wasn't enough to do the kind of damage that the Commander had. There was an element missing there, but what? After Chakotay was Harry. He, too, was fixing a conduit, but he was stabbed with a Klingon dagger, B'Elanna's to be exact. Janeway doubted that Torres had anything to do with this incident because she had solid alibis since shortly before Jacob's death. According to the Doctor, Harry was put into a coma before he was stabbed as though it was important to the attacker to make sure that he wasn't in any pain – to protect him, and the dagger wasn't placed anywhere that would kill him unless he bled to death, which wasn't possible because deck 7, section 4 was a busy intersection most of the time, and what was this unknown chemical used to put Harry in that coma?

Protection . . . that may have something to do with all of this. Chakotay was headed back to his quarters, but who was waiting for him there? More than likely it was Seven. Harry was put in a coma before he was stabbed to protect him from the pain of the dagger's blade. Jacobs, there was the one that had everyone stumped. Was there protection there? What about that Ensign Seven thought he might be dating? As soon as she was done with this conduit, she was going to look into all of these missing pieces.

"Janeway to Torres."

"Go ahead, Captain."

"B'Elanna, I'm all done here. I'm going to go to sickbay and check up on the Doctor's progress."

"Understood. Be careful, Captain."

"I will. Janeway out."

On her way to sickbay, Janeway stopped in on Seven and Tuvok in Astrometrics. She was about to get some answers.

"Captain, what can I do for you? The Commander and I have yet to find anything useful."

"I'm not here for that quite yet, but I do expect to know something as soon as you find anything that is useful. I'd like to ask you some questions, Seven." Tuvok turned an ear toward his Captain to see what she was up to.

"As you wish, Captain."

"Seven, this is a person question, but I want you to answer it as truthfully as possible." Seven placed her hands behind her back as she visibly hardened herself for the question. "Were you waiting for Commander Chakotay in his quarters the night he was attack?"

There was a pause. "Yes."

"Did you contact him, or did he contact you before he headed toward his quarters?"

"Yes. He was in Astrometrics. I had left early. He contacted me just before he left to inform me that he was on his way."

"So, anyone with in earshot would have know where he was going."

"I suppose, yes."

"You said you saw Crewman Jacobs with a female Ensign. Do you remember who she was?"

There was another pause. "Yes, it was Crewman Taylor."

"Captain," Tuvok interrupted, "Do you have an idea as to who the murder is?"

"No, not yet, Tuvok, but I may be on to something. I want to you to continue working on the residual signatures left by that deleted information."

"Captain," Seven was puzzled, "we have yet to inform you that there was indeed deleted information."

"Was there?"

"Yes."

"Then continue. I'll contact you, Tuvok, if I find anything out." He nodded.

Janeway headed out of Astrometrics with a new determination. She was going to find this person or die trying. Well, maybe not die. Hopefully not die, but she was going to find them. After all, the crew didn't call her Commando Janeway for nothing.

"Computer, where is the location of Ensign Taylor?"

"Ensign Taylor is in her quarters."

"Where are Ensign Taylor's quarters?"

"Ensign Taylor's quarters are located on deck 7, section 8."

There was another odd coincidence. Harry was found on deck 7, section 4. There was definitely something going on here.