

Meanwhile, the power transfer that Data engaged with the planet's weather control cannot be cut off, and is now affecting weather on the Enterprise.


Ronin tells Beverly he loves her, then she feels the strangely pleasant caresses again, but she somehow finds the composure to ask him to stop. He identifies himself as Ronin, a ghost that has loved the women in Beverly's family for eight hundred years. While searching the house, Beverly hears the man's voice from before. She is shocked to see that it has also been filled with camellias. A severe storm then hits, and Beverly runs inside Felisa's house. He leaves, and Beverly notices her grandmother's grave has suddenly been covered with camellias. He tells her Felisa's house is haunted and warns her not to light the candle - it will bring the ghost he believes is responsible for Felisa's death. The next day, Beverly visits Felisa's grave, where she again encounters Ned. That night, Beverly experiences strangely pleasant sensations while sleeping, then is awakened by a man's voice, but finds no one there. Enterprise, Geordi and Data learn that there has been a power fluctuation in Caldos IV's weather control system, while Beverly reads in her grandmother's journals that Felisa had a young lover named Ronin.

Ned insists Beverly throw out a candle that has been in her family for generations, claiming it has brought the Howard women bad luck, but she refuses. Beverly then returns to Felisa's house, and is interrupted by Ned Quint, who has been taking care of the place for five years. At the service, Beverly sees a strange young man toss a camellia - Felisa's favorite flower - into the grave and give Beverly a knowing look. Beverly travels to Caldos IV to attend the funeral of her grandmother, Felisa Howard.
