When a Jaridian probe entered Earth's atmosphere, Zo'or (Anita La Selva) ordered Da'an (Leni Parker) to destroy it by shooting it down from the Taelon Embassy in Washington. U.S. President Thompson (Barry Flatman) called Zo'or to express America's outrage that Earth was being used as an intergalactic battleground, and Zo'or sent Agent Ron Sandoval (Von Flores) to find the probe and make sure it was out of commission. Captain Lili Marquette (Lisa Howard) alerted Major Liam Kincaid (Robert Leeshock), who gathered a team to capture the probe's Jaridian technology for the Resistance.

Liam proceeded to the probe's co-ordinates with Augur (Richard Chevolleau) and Julia (Janet Kidder). Augur used a special field dampener to secure the damaged probe, while Liam diverted Sandoval, who also had arrived at the site. A shoot-out between the Resistance and Sandoval's troops ensued, with Sandoval's shuttle being blown into a million pieces, allowing Julia and Augur to escape with the probe. They removed it to a warehouse and started to study it when hooded commandos burst into the building and overwhelmed the Resistance members. Liam, Julia and Augur were taken to a fortified bunker inside Mount Weather, where they met the military group's leader, the head of Operation Dark Knight. Not only does Colonel Zeke (Dean McDermott) have extensive background information on the Resistance members' identities, he shocked them by introducing himself as the "real" Liam Kincaid, the individual Augur based Liam's Resistance identity on.

On the Taelon mothership Zo'or was furious at the loss of the probe, and expanded Sandoval's powers to give him license to kill to get it back and destroy the Resistance. Sandoval leaned on Lili to find the probe and locate Liam, thus affirming her allegiance only to him. When Sandoval left, Da'an approached Lili ostensibly to ask whether she had found Liam. Lili realized Da'an wanted to speak privately to her. The Companion opened up to Lili and questioned his own leadership abilities in the face of Zo'or's growing ruthlessness. Lili did her best to reassure Da'an, despite his apparent complicity in many of the Taelons' evil plots.

Inside the Mount Weather complex, Liam tried to defend himself to Augur and Julia, until he was taken aside by the Colonel. He asked Liam to explain his foggy past and his two-sided relationship with the Taelons, but Liam gave away nothing. The Colonel sensed Liam's integrity, and decided to trust him despite knowing his real identity. He took him further inside the complex to an advanced research lab. Augur was there working on the probe with a scientist named Bettis (Craig Erickson). When they tried to access the probe's memory, they activated its weapons systems. The probe started firing, but when Liam raised his shaqarava, the probe recognized his energy signature and retreated. However, Liam was exhausted by his efforts, and had to be brought around by the Colonel, who was suspicious of his strange powers.

The Colonel decided to put all three Resistance members into a holding cell until he could find out more about their ties to the Taelons.

Locked in the brig, Augur did some calculations, and realized his field dampener wouldn't hold and the Jaridian probe would become active once more. his predictions came true as the probe burst to life in the lab, forcing the Colonel, Bettis and their forces to seal off the area and flee to another level, collecting their Resistance prisoners en route. The probe transformed into a Jaridian replicant, which assumed the form of Augur. The replicant started to cut its way through the lab's titanium door, and the team realized they need help to contain it. Liam called Lili on board the mothership and asked her to transmit Jaridian command codes the Taelons had managed to decipher. With Sandoval watching her every move, Lili took a chance and asked Da'an to help her access the mothership's mainframe, which he reservedly does. As Lili hurried to access her data, Sandoval discovered the probe's co-ordinates, and informed Zo'or of its location in the high security military facility in Mount Weather. Zo'or grilled President Thompson about the military's involvement with the probe. When Thompson denied any knowledge, Zo'or demanded full access for Sandoval and his storm troopers.

Inside the installation the replicant was getting closer, as its human targets moved higher into the facility. Lili was finally able to download the command codes, arming the Resistance members and the commando troops just as the replicant broke through their last line of defense. Liam loaded his global with the codes and met the replicant face to face. When it looked like the replicant would fire on Liam, instead it began to speak, saying that it carried a message from the Jaridian Empire. The replicant asked humanity to join the Jaridians in their fight against the Taelons, and told Liam it could help build an advanced communications device to speak with the Jaridian leaders. But before the replicant could transmit all its instructions, Sandoval's storm troopers breached the building, forcing the Colonel's squad to put the building on self-destruct. The Resistance members and military team barely managed to get out of the building, but Sandoval's Volunteers perished in the nuclear explosion.

Emerging in hand cuffs and claiming he had been able to escape his kidnappers, Liam was able to appear an innocent victim to Sandoval. When he said goodbye to the real Liam Kincaid in the Flat Planet Café, Liam learned the Colonel's secret military operation far exceeded Resistance resources, leaving him secure in the knowledge that the Taelons were facing an even greater fight from humanity than they thought.

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