At an exhibit of Taelon items from Strandhill, Liam jumps through a Taelon portal which takes him two days into the future, where he finds everyone in the Resistance headquarters murdered. On returning to the present, he races to stop the massacre and begins to suspect that he is the assassin. Zu'or attempting to destroy Liam, beams dangerous brain wave emissions to him from the Taelon mothership. Doors, highly suspicious of Liam, becomes agitated and demands that Liam be shot.

At the opening of a new Taelon portal station, a strange flash of energy radiates from Dr Jeffrey Whitfield, Director of Portal Research, and he collapses and found dead. Sa'al, the Taelon engineer in charge of the new portal, addresses the press about the safety of the portal. Doors argues with him and Sa'al explodes in a flash of light. Liam and Sandoval view video of both public events, they zero in on Arnold Creighton, a professor and outspoken critic of the Taelons. Augur finds that Creighton has invented a mini teleportation device, which can kill from the inside out.

When Zo'or contracts an ancient deadly plague for which there is no known cure, Renee suggests to Liam that the virus could be used to create a biological weapon to fight the Taelons. She recruits Augur to research the virus and it's potential.