A battered Nebari vessel docks with Moya. Inside is Meelak, the only other survivor of Varla’s expedition.

Varla wants Pilot to go to a nearby Nebari outpost. He is forbidden to starburst, even if they encounter the Peacekeeper patrol that recently mauled Varla’s ship.

Pilot objects, but Varla tells him that acid in the collar will kill him if he tries to disobey.

Chiana, who has been chained up with special care, tells D’Argo and Crichton that the others have been drugged. This form of cleansing is temporary but effective on every species except Nebari.

Crichton asks, "Why are your people so jazzed about getting you home?" Chiana claims she doesn’t know.

Meelak drops by their cell and interrupts. "So you’re the sister," he muses.

Aeryn tends Varla’s wounds. Varla tells her that the Nebari have initiated an advanced plan to eliminate violence -- and that Chiana could jeopardize it.

The Nebari have taken D’Argo to put him through their "spin cycle." Crichton demands to know what Chiana’s secret is, and she reluctantly tells him.

Luckily, a high official of the Establishment gave Nerri an antibody, which he administered to himself and Chiana. Since the Establishment would be very interested in where the cure came from, the siblings split up and went into hiding afterwards.

The Nebari take Crichton away and strap him into a machine. Two claws are positioned in front of his eyeballs.

Varla tells Crichton the treatment will "help" him by removing his negative impulse. A new and improved D’Argo provides a good example by apologizing for the many evil thoughts he has had about Crichton.

As Crichton and most of the SCI FI Channel’s viewers squirm in horror, the claws pull his eyes out of their sockets. A drug patch is attached to each optic nerve and the eyeballs are replaced.

Varla interviews Chiana in the galley. She wants to know where Chiana’s brother Nerri is.

Although Chiana tells her Nerri is dead, the Nebari apparently have other information. Varla has holo-images of him leading an assault on a Nebari freight convoy less than ten days ago.

Chiana wants to know what the "contagion" she was afflicted with does. A proper villain, Varla explains the Nebari’s Evil Plan.

The Establishment has been spreading their virus for 20 years. There will be no symptoms until a specific date in the near future, when the virus will activate and throw the populations of many worlds into chaos.

When that happens, Varla says, the affected worlds will present almost no resistance to the Nebari’s "emissaries."

Evil Plans out of the way, Varla returns to the question of where Nerri is. Chiana has the choice of revealing his location or becoming bait to draw him out.

He goes to see Pilot. They bring each other up to date, and Pilot tells Crichton about the Peacekeeper patrol.

Chiana has been chained up in her cell. Varla points out that she wouldn’t be in chains if she "gave herself up for the greater good."

Crichton comes by to talk to Chiana, and is surprised to find Varla there. He disguises his recovered mind by talking like a kewl surfer dude.

Varla leaves, and Crichton reassures Chiana that "my thoughts are as dirty as ever."

Now they need a plan -- one that doesn’t need weapons, the DRDs, or the assistance of D’Argo and Aeryn. "There’s no way," Chiana says.

He finds the Hynerian stuffing his face and quickly guesses that Rygel has metabolized the drug. "We’ve got to do something and I mean fast," Crichton tells him.

Unfortunately, Rygel won’t help. "They’re not mad at me," he says, "and that’s the way it’s going to stay."

Meelak walks in. Rygel announces that Crichton’s mind-cleansing has failed and Crichton proves it by thumping him.

Meelak marches Crichton back to Chiana’s cell and astonishes them both by presenting a holo-recording keyed to Chiana’s DNA. It’s a message from Nerri, and its bearer is a member of the resistance.

Nerri’s message assures Chiana that he is alive and warns her not to try and find him. Meelak is under strict orders not to take her to him.

He also isn’t going to jeopardize his position as a mole within the Establishment to save Chiana and Crichton. He won’t get in their way, but they will have to save themselves.

Crichton compares notes with Pilot. They decide to use the one thing Varla might be afraid of: the Peacekeeper patrol that nearly destroyed her ship.

Pilot has images from his databanks that he can play on Moya’s screens and simulate an attack. However, because the Nebari have shut down the DRDs, Crichton will have to rewire some of Moya’s neural clusters.

He’ll need help, and that means it’s time to confront Rygel again. Crichton finds him in a box in the maintenance bay -- a perfect hiding place if not for the Hynerian's noisy nervous flatulence.

Rygel still doesn’t want to anger the Nebari by resisting, but Crichton tells him he’ll help or else. "Else" is a threat to reveal that Rygel is only pretending to be mind-cleansed.

Just as he’s making the threat, Aeryn passes by and asks what they’re talking about. After constructing a graceless series of lies about helping a sick D’Argo make repairs on Moya, Rygel and Crichton exit.

Crichton drops by Chiana’s cell before he does the rewiring. He asks Chiana to make sure Varla is on the command deck half an hour after he goes to work.

A few minutes later, D’Argo and Aeryn pass each other in the corridor. She checks on his health, and he tells her he feels fine.

Crichton and Rygel work on Moya’s neural cluster, but the new connections prove difficult. A half an hour later, Chiana is on the command deck with Varla and they’re not ready yet.

Chiana has told Varla that she doesn’t want to be cleansed, and that she’s ready to give up Nerri’s location. Now she has to stall, and Varla doesn’t like it.

D’Argo and Aeryn check on Rygel and Crichton. They quickly figure out the Crichton is not mind-cleansed.

They decide to bring Crichton and Rygel back to the Nebari. Aeryn tells Rygel to drop what he’s doing and come along.

"Hey, Ryge," Crichton says in his best surfer-speak. "It’s a good idea, man. Drop what you’re doing."

Rygel is puzzled for a moment, but then he understands and complies. He drops the live electrical cables he’s holding, and D’Argo and Aeryn are shocked into unconsciousness.

Varla tortures Chiana. Crichton arrives, leisurely informing Varla that he has "something of great urgency" to tell her.

The Peacekeepers appear on the screen and begin firing. Despite Crichton’s hints that Pilot should be freed and the realistic explosions Pilot is touching off on the command deck, Varla orders Pilot to "maintain course at all costs."

Moments later, a "message" from Captain Crais appears on the screen. "Crais" tells Moya that he is hunting Chiana.

Crichton hints about starbursting again, but Varla decides to kill Chiana before she can arrange a rendezvous between Nerri and the Peacekeepers. Crichton leaps on her and grabs her gun, telling Pilot to cut off the simulation.

"You see," Varla tells Meelak, "Discipline and faith defeats any insurgency."

Chiana attacks Varla again. As Varla subdues her, Meelak makes up his mind and shoots Varla.

"You betrayed me," she gasps.

"You betrayed the spirit of our people," he replies.

Meelak is leaving, and he’s not taking Chiana with him. He has his orders from Nerri, and he intends to use his status as the last survivor of his mission to try to stay alive and undercover.

Chiana is heartbroken. Nerri is alive, and she wants to see him again.

"I know," says Crichton. "But since when do people like us get what we want?"