Culluh's henchman kills the injured Kazon man with a nerve toxin, and Janeway has them both thrown off the ship. Kes and the Doctor quietly confer with Janeway and tell her that Seska is not Bajoran. In fact, she may well be Cardassian. But Chakotay doesn't believe she could have been a Cardassian spy amongst his Maquis, and wants to hear Seska's side. While Janeway proves that she can thump her chest even harder than Culluh, Torres' engineering team efficiently retrieves the console from the Kazon ship.
Torres studies the console and finds that it's a food replicator gone horribly wrong.
Someone used it without proper shielding, and the replicator radiation just leaked out over everything. The technology has bio-neural circuits, so it's definitely from Voyager. Chakotay questions Seska about her heritage, and she explains that she had Orchet's Disease as a child and got well only from a bone marrow transplant from a Cardassian woman. She pulls at all Chakotay's strings and explains that she's not a Cardassian monster, just the woman who has loved him. Chakotay says the investigation is now trying to locate from where the replicator components were taken.