The Taelons hired a political spin doctor to boost their image during the U.S. Presidential campaign. Paul Wagner (Rod Wilson) advised them to enlist the help of a popular television talk show host by giving her an exclusive tour of the Taelon mothership. When Abby Franklin (Kate Greenhouse) arrived on board, the Taelons and their protectors realized she was no pushover, as she started drilling Captain Lili Marquette (Lisa Howard) and Agent Ron Sandoval (Von Flores) with probing questions about their relationships and duties with the aliens. During this time Major Liam Kincaid (Robert Leeshock) went into an isolated computer station on the mothership and entered a sequence of codes. Almost immediately, the mothership careened into interdimensional space, its navigation systems locked into maximum velocity.

As the ship was being highjacked to some unknown destination, Abby captured the entire emergency with her video camera. Realizing some enemy must be trying to steal the mothership and all its technology, Da’an (Leni Parker) convinced Zo’or (Anita La Selva) to eject the engine core, which would strand the mothership in interdimensional space. The maneuver stopped the mothership, but damaged the craft's vital systems. As the crew ran their diagnostic assessments, Sandoval, having caught Liam on security video tampering with the navigational computer, located and arrested him.

Liam was stunned by the accusation and the video evidence, and swore he didn't touch the computer. As Liam was taken to a holding cell Zo'or told Da'an he would remove him as the North American Companion for his Protector’s treacherous actions. Lili told the Taelon leaders their predicament was worse than they feared, as the ship was trapped in a dead pocket of space; which was leeching all the remaining energy on board. Da'an confronted Liam in his cell and Liam begged to be released so he could find the imposter who had imperiled the ship. While Da'an refused to let him go, Lili was convinced of Liam's innocence and let him escape.

As Liam sneaked down a corridor he discovered Abby talking to an exact double of himself. Liam lunged at the imposter after he knocked Abby unconscious, but during the struggle the intruder morphed into the Taelons' spin doctor, Paul Wagner.

Abby woke up and leveled a gun at the two men. Suddenly, Wagner morphed into a Jaridian replicant, knocking out both Liam and Abby with a powerful energy pulse. When they came to, Liam and Abby returned to the bridge where they convinced the others that there was a Replicant on board, which came disguised as Wagner.

In fact, Abby had her video camera rolling and caught the entire sequence of events. They realized the Jaridians were highjacking the ship to their homeworld and keeping the crew alive to tell them how to harness Taelon technology.

Liam and Lili struggled to repair the ship's engine, which would also reactivate the security system's capabilities to flush out the Replicant. Sandoval arrived while they were working in the computer core, but Liam quickly noticed Sandoval's skrill was missing which could mean only one thing – he was face to face with the Replicant again. As Liam drew his weapon the real Sandoval arrived and a shoot-out ensued. Liam used his shaqarava to protect Abby and frightened off the Replicant, which realized his opponent had alien fire power. Unfortunately, Abby had also seen Liam's strange powers, and, as a reporter, was determined to find out more.

Time was running out for everyone on board, as Zo'or ordered the destruction of the mothership to keep it from Jaridian hands. In a last-ditch effort, Lili and Liam headed off in their shuttles to punch a hole in the space pocket to release the craft. But the Replicant was still interfering with power to the mothership and the shuttles, so in a daring decision, Liam fired on the mothership, ripping a hole in the hull which sucked the Replicant into space. As the mothership repaired itself, Lili managed to create an opening in the space pocket, and the three crafts slipped through into conventional space.

As Abby flew back to Earth, she viewed her footage of Liam and knew she owed him a hero's debt. She erased the evidence of his special powers, ensuring his future with the Taelons and the Resistance. Liam delivered the new computer codes he took from the mothership to Augur (Richard Chevolleau) who ran them through his system to uncover some unsettling results: in a map of the expanding Jaridian and Taelon Empires, the Jaridians were clearly in the lead.

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