With a blood test, the doctors on the Yorktown were able to determine that Timothy was the son of Lt. Commander Roy O'Hara. As the planet he had come from was quarantined, they could not return him, so they contacted Roy's only living direct relative, his sister Vickie. She still lived in the home they grew up in, a 300-year-old house that was also the family business, an antique shop.

The Coo-Coo-Clock struck 12. Timothy came out of his room at the top of the wood stairs ...