Strange assaults and several deaths may be related to a Doors/Taelon joint venture where Taelon core energy was used to heal people. It appears that the energy is being sucked back out of the patients.

The Taelons announce that they will all go into death stasis and wait on the mother ship for humans to discover how to create core energy and revive them. Zo'or and Da'an don't trust each other to be the last to submit to stasis.