The Loom close in and the crew escapes through a portal opened with Janeway's diversion.
Wesley lays out a plan to find Chakotay and repair the timeline, warning that the Loom can erase people from existence. Tysess beams down with Maj'el, who uses a telepathic link with Zero to locate the crew. The Loom erase Middleton, and Janeway and the Doctor discover that nobody else remembers him. Dal rescues a cornered Maj'el, but the Loom drive the group back to the surface and destroy the Infinity.
Janeway saves Wesley and the cadets and uses shuttle weapons set to phase variance to kill one of the Loom and create a diversion. Wesley opens a time portal, through which Dal glimpses his own future, then sends Janeway back to Voyager-A and wipes out the remaining Loom. The cadets and Maj'el pass through the portal to a desert world, where they find a rusted Protostar and a weathered Chakotay. Aaron J. Waltke wrote the episode.