After dragging Aaron to the manufactory to see to some design requests, Tasha admits to the Lapi that she plans to seek punishment for her earlier decision to reveal the PersoComs Nora, Fred, and Mariel against the captain's original plan. Before that, though, she speaks with the doctors about the cloning system, learning a good many details and admitting her longing for children of her own. With nothing left between her and her punishment, Tasha reports in and faces an uncomfortable stretch of explaining followed by an equally unpleasant punishment: to clean the truck and bulldozer, naked, with the symbolic squeak toy brush and a bucket – an ancient Karnor crew bonding exercise.