Three uniformed Volunteers named Peter (Sean Gallagher), Alan (Peter Mensah) and Ehrengraf (Lori Alter) enter the Earth Abides Political Club. When Ehrengraf meets opposition as she interrogates a party member, she skrill blasts the club. Liam Kincaid (Robert Leeshock) is assigned to find the renegade Volunteers and stop the abuse of power.

Augur (Richard Chevolleau), who has suffered great losses during a market correction, sorts out the last of his art pieces to put up for auction as the holo-accountant (Richard Liss) balances his books. Liam asks Augur to help him locate the Volunteers, but Augur informs him that the Resistance is no longer his fight. Augur insists that Liam use his own devices to solve the skrilling incident.

Renee Palmer (Jayne Heitmeyer), anticipating a backlash from the attack, asks Liam if he knows how to get hold of the new "user-friendly" Skrills used in the incident – Skrills operable by non-officers without CVI implants. Liam and Da'an (Leni Parker) visit Dr. Linford (Ylfa Edelstein) at the Skrill Development Centre to discuss the theft of a Skrill prototype. They learn that the Skrill Queen, the mother of all Skrills in service, has been stolen. Meanwhile, Ehrengraf, Peter, and Alan, who have taken the pregnant Queen, return to their hidden loft where they are keeping her.

When Zo’or (Anita La Selva) discovers the Skrill Queen has been stolen, he demands that Sandoval (Von Flores) recover her. Renee identifies Sylvia Ehrengraf, a committed Resistance fighter and member of the hard core Resistance cadre Black Wednesday, as one of the renegade Volunteers. Liam and Renee team up to apprehend Ehrengraf and rescue the Skrill Queen.

The rogue Volunteers then attempt to kidnap the President of the Society of Secular Humanity, Gregos Dinesen (Barry Blake), but Dinesen shoots and mortally wounds Alan.

Back at the loft, Noah Lockhart (Richard Eden), a biogeneticist at the Skrill Development Centre and committed member of Black Wednesday, checks on the pregnant Skrill Queen. He also examines the Skrill bonded on Ehrengraf's arm because she experiences pain and nerve damage with every Skrill blast.

Sandoval interrogates Dr. Linford when he discovers that Alan participated in her compatibility survey for the new Skrill prototype. Dr. Linford claims her innocence and provides Sandoval the equipment needed to bring the Skrill Queen safely to term. Renee convinces Augur to give her information about the vigilante Resistance group and she tracks down their secret hideout. Renee and Liam take off to apprehend them, but when they arrive at the loft, Ehrengraf manages to escape with the Skrill Queen. Sandoval arrives and takes charge of Lockhart and Peter while Liam and Renee track down Ehrengraf to the medical center. But Ehrengraf is unwilling to surrender the Skrill Queen. She points her Skrill at Liam and starts to blast wildly as she is overcome with pain. The blasts get progressively weaker and Ehrengraf and the Skrill die in a final violent spasm. Renee wants to keep the Skrill Queen in custody for the Resistance, but Liam won't allow it. He scoops up the Queen to "bond" with her and is horrified to see how the Taelons have snatched the Skrill nestlings from their parents to be reengineered into weapons. Liam vows to ensure the safety and survival of the Skrill and the human race. Liam and Renee take the Skrill Queen to the Brazilian rain forest and they watch her maternally guard her nest. Suddenly, the Skrill Queen shimmers and a beautiful bird-like energy creature emerges becoming the newest addition to the ecosystem.

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