The crew find Natalie Curtis, the intermediary who had the stamps, dead in her apartment. ULS Marshal Kathleen Vavaroutsos arrives as they are looking for clues. After producing footage of the suspected murderers, she allows them to depart to investigate while she calls in forensics.
Tracing the pair of suspects to Salamir’s Antiquities, they discover that the dealer (and forger) the pair work for has already made a duplicate set of stamps. After some back and forth across the tier, and a shootout at the store, everyone is taken back to the station. Gemini McCarthy is called in to identify which stamps are fake.
The ‘original’ stamps turn out to be worth less than their courier fee. Digging deeper, it’s discovered that they contain microfilm imprinted with classified information. The military gets involved.