Marshall says that this orchid has properties that heighten receptivity. Privately, Jack confronts Sloane, blaming him for this predicament. The team sets a trap for ‘Marvin’ Sloane, bringing him out by pretending to put the Vespertine text up for auction in Paris. Via surveillance, Dixon and Vaughn chase a man attempting to steal the papers. They stop a delivery truck. In the back, they find ‘Marvin’ Sloane.

During questioning, ‘Marvin’ Sloane invites Syd to work with him. He proposes eliminating the world's bad guys and fostering harmonic coexistence by administering the orchid extract to the general population via drinking water.

Marshall points out that ‘Marvin’ Sloane’s brain patterns are identical to Sloane. He also recalls working on an SD-6 program for brain imprinting that Jack says was run by Calvin McCullough, a senior partner in SD-6. Project Brainstorm's purpose was to explore experimental technologies for interrogation, brainwashing and transferring memories. They conclude that finding McCullough will lead them to the orchid.

Vaughn and Dixon approach McCullough in Buenos Aires. He admits that he made ‘Marvin’ Sloane believe that he is Arvin Sloane, but that ‘Marvin’ Sloane double-crossed him and kept the orchid for himself. As he calmly adds a packet of cyanide to his coffee, he declares that his employer wouldn't let him be interrogated. He drinks up and dies.

Sloane confesses that through Omnifam he contaminated the drinking water of 400 million people worldwide as the first phase of creating a more peaceful species of human. The second phase, based on Rambaldi's teachings, was to introduce the orchid's nectar into the water supply. But without the orchid, Sloane's attempts at duplicating the formula failed. Now that ‘Marvin’ Sloane has the orchid, however, he has only to drop the nectar into the water supply to bring the affected people under his control.

Marshall tells the team that ‘Marvin’ Sloane was created from Sloane's own brain scans. He postulates that the Sloane clone won't reveal the orchid's location unless he stops believing that he's Arvin Sloane. The only way to do this, he says, is to shock Sloane's personality out of him using a traumatic memory. In order to present the most vivid memory, Sloane must relive the past.

Jack hypnotizes Sloane and guides him through his memory. Sloane's sees his pregnant wife Emily and they decide that their daughter will be named Jacquelyn. They are devastated when Jacquelyn dies shortly after birth.

They upload this painful memory to ‘Marvin’ Sloane, who suddenly reveals that he's a prisoner of war named Ned Bolger. He says that the orchid is located in Switzerland. Shortly thereafter, he switches back to the ‘Marvin’ Sloane personality and breaks down.

Sloane refuses to wake up, preferring to alter his memory and live on happily with Emily and a healthy Jacquelyn. Forcing him awake, Marshall says, may kill him. Nadia nonetheless wants to get him back. She gently tells Sloane that he can't stay in his dream because his must undo what he's set in motion. When Sloane admits that he's ashamed of his past, Nadia says she believes that he can redeem himself.

Sloane awakens and Nadia embraces him. Alone with Jack, Sloane reveals that Rambaldi meant nothing to him until after Jacquelyn died, when he used the writings to fill the hole in his heart. Seeing Ned showed him how much of himself he had lost. He promises to rectify his misdeeds, though every day is a struggle.