The government pleads with Picard to help defend them from the threat of their own making. Roga commandeers the transport vessel and steers it to Lunar V to round up his former comrades and lead an insurrection on Angosia.

Worf finally gets the drop on him, but Roga outfights him and beams himself aboard the prison transport ship. Roga leads them on a merry chase, using misdirection to consistently flummox the crew and keep his plans a mystery. Still unable to locate him with the ship's sensors, the bridge can only track his interactions with the ship, creating a cat-and-mouse game between him and Worf's security team. He breaks out of the transport beam and begins running amok on the Enterprise. When the Enterprise attempts to beam Roga to the Angosian shuttle, Roga does the impossible. In spite of his distaste over Roga's treatment at the hands of his own government, Picard's hands are bound because he has no authority over Angosia. They all can't turn off their military conditioning to react violently to any perceived threat.ДЄngosia arranges for Roga to be transported back to Lunar V and tells the Enterprise to keep their noses out of their internal security matters. And as it happens, Lunar V is a military prison where all of the soldiers from its previous war were dumped because they had become unfit to live in society anymore. Roga has no criminal record whatsoever, and his military record is an exemplary one at that. With a little research into the Angosian files, Troi and Data find something odd. He admits that he has been augmented to serve as a Super Soldier, giving him an enhanced capacity for violence and the mental conditioning to use it when threatened. She notices that for such a violent man, he is intelligent and thoughtful while displaying no signs of uncontrollable anger. Troi senses him having nightmares and goes to his holding cell to meet him. The mysterious prisoner is identified as Roga Danar. Strangely enough, the convict continues to show no life signs on the ship's sensors. Riker and Worf finally arrive as reinforcements and manage to subdue the convict. The convict refuses to surrender and puts a serious beating on two security guards and O'Brien at the same time, shaking off phaser blasts all the while.

The cry of the hunted