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Commander Riker is preparing for a covert mission. Worf briefs him on what he needs to do and accidentally cuts Riker on the side of his head. Riker goes to sick bay and Crusher heals it, but it still hurts.
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During his rehearsals, Riker suffers from nervousness and paranoia; he catches a lieutenant staring at him several times, although nobody else seems to notice him.
After several rehearsals, it's finally the day of the performance. Riker delivers a spectacular performance. He grows increasingly agitated while talking to his doctor (Data); he's recovering from his latest dose of drugs and is becoming angry as he realizes his predicament. Riker's character delivers a soliliquy on sanity, seemingly convincing himself that he is indeed sane. Data shakes his head and says "I see we still have much work to do" and leaves the room. Riker dashes to the cell door and claws at it manaiacally, but then sinks to the floor sobbing. The play is over and he gets up to bow with Data. He looks up into the audience and sees the lieutenant in the middle, frowning. Riker shudders but takes a deep bow. When he straightens, he's facing a grey cell wall. He glances around; he's in the cell from the play! The doctor on his right raises his eyebrow and says "I see we still have much work to do."
Riker is taken to the asylum cafeteria. There, a guard reminds him that he killed a man. Riker, remembering the drug torture done to him in an attempt to convince him of that very fact, becomes furious and tries to strangle the guard. The guard injects him with drugs, and he collapses. He wakes up on stage in the Enterprise. He at first tries to deliver his lines, but then notices the lieutentant and attacks him. Crusher take him away to sick bay. After conversations with several of the crew (including Crusher, who wants to know how the play went in his dream, and Data who congratulates him on his convincing performance), he notices the lieutenant that had been staring at him. He instantly becomes terrified, sprinting into his quarters after seeing one of the insane prisioners in the hallway. He finds his quarters to be his cell and screams.
He is told by his doctor the next day that he must undergo treatment to try to ease his hallucenations about the Enterprise. He agrees, and they begin the procedure. A machine scans Riker's brain and projects Troi, Worf, Picard, and the lieutenant as holograms in the room. Riker interviews them and they tell him that he was attacked by his captors and he did nothing wrong. Riker rejects them to gain the confidence of his doctor and they disappear. The next day, Crusher visits Riker in the cafeteria, claiming that the Enterprise was working to get him out and she got in by posing as a health official. He refuses to listen to her and she leaves.
That night, Worf and Data appear Riker's ward to rescue him. Riker calls for help, but Data is able to overwhelm the guards. They transport back to the enterprise, and is greeted by the bridge crew. Riker realizes that something's wrong, however, when he notices his cut on his head is bigger than ever, and bleeding. Crusher silences his questions and heals him, but it instantly begins to ooze even more blood than before. Riker attacks Worf and takes his phaser but he's not willing to take the chance that he's not crazy himself, so instead of shooting Crusher, he shoots himself. The surrounding area shatters, and he finds himself in his cell with the hospital administrator, the two guards, and his doctor. He shoots one of the guards and then sets the phaser to destroy the building. He fires it but he and the administrator are unaffected. Riker suddenly wakes up on an operating table and knocks one of the nearby doctors unconscious. He threatens the other with a knife and calls for beam-up. He's returned safely to the real Enterprise.
Apparently, he went on his mission and was captured. He was taken as a prisioner to an asylum, where he had been for most of the episode.
Portions of this episode are used in a DarkMateria remix called Frame of Mind.
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