Sixty days after they were disintegrated, Rygel retrieves the pieces of John and Aeryn from the sea bed. The Diagnosian recrystallizes them and they start getting to know the people who live on that world.

Meanwhile, Scorpius and Sikozu are aboard a Peacekeeper Command Carrier on a recon mission. But when Scorpius realizes that Crichton has returned, renewing the possibility of creating a wormhole weapon to defeat the Scarrans permanently, he leaves his post to find Crichton.