1 00:00:01,243 --> 00:00:03,495 [Narek narrating] Previously on Star Trek: Picard... 2 00:00:03,578 --> 00:00:05,330 I want you to reinstate me. 3 00:00:05,414 --> 00:00:09,126 I will need a small reconnaissance ship with a minimal crew. 4 00:00:09,209 --> 00:00:11,378 You think you could just waltz back in here and be entrusted 5 00:00:11,461 --> 00:00:13,588 with taking men and women into space? 6 00:00:13,672 --> 00:00:15,966 I have reason to believe that the Tal Shiar 7 00:00:16,049 --> 00:00:19,094 is merely a mask worn by another, far older cabal. 8 00:00:19,177 --> 00:00:20,303 The Zhat Vash. 9 00:00:20,387 --> 00:00:21,930 [Commodore Oh] Admiral Clancy just called. 10 00:00:22,013 --> 00:00:26,435 Jean-Luc Picard was trying to persuade her to let him go after Doctor Bruce Maddox. 11 00:00:26,518 --> 00:00:28,603 I want you to stay on mission. 12 00:00:28,687 --> 00:00:29,896 I've put my best man on it. 13 00:00:30,689 --> 00:00:31,690 Nice of you to knock. 14 00:00:31,773 --> 00:00:33,942 Commodore Oh is quite distressed. 15 00:00:34,025 --> 00:00:35,485 [Narek] I'm still confident that my approach, 16 00:00:35,569 --> 00:00:37,779 which you approved, is the only sound approach. 17 00:00:37,863 --> 00:00:40,365 Are we allowed to be sleeping together or is that a secret? 18 00:00:40,449 --> 00:00:41,908 Very much the latter. 19 00:00:41,992 --> 00:00:45,287 How likely is the Collective to re-establish a link to your Borg? 20 00:00:45,370 --> 00:00:46,538 Well, they're former Borg. 21 00:00:46,621 --> 00:00:49,124 And we're not releasing them, we're reclaiming them. 22 00:00:49,207 --> 00:00:50,417 [Narek] There's really no danger. 23 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:53,253 -I have to go. -Go where? Go how? 24 00:00:53,336 --> 00:00:55,422 -You need help, you need protection. -Yeah. 25 00:00:55,505 --> 00:00:58,216 [Zhaban] You need someone who hates you and has nothing to lose. 26 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:03,180 Raffi, it's Jean-Luc. Please don't hang up. I need a ship. 27 00:01:04,848 --> 00:01:07,559 There isn't anything you could say that I wanna hear. 28 00:01:07,642 --> 00:01:11,146 Secret Romulan assassins are operating on Earth. 29 00:01:11,229 --> 00:01:12,230 [sighs] 30 00:01:12,689 --> 00:01:13,690 Goddamn it. 31 00:01:28,205 --> 00:01:29,206 [explosion] 32 00:01:34,794 --> 00:01:36,463 [explosion] 33 00:01:58,527 --> 00:02:00,987 [beeping] 34 00:02:05,450 --> 00:02:08,745 They give you a hard time? They start with the ships? 35 00:02:09,579 --> 00:02:12,249 Straight out. Just as you predicted. 36 00:02:12,332 --> 00:02:16,211 You were ready with the inventories from Beta Antares and Eridani A. 37 00:02:16,294 --> 00:02:17,462 Which shut them up. 38 00:02:17,546 --> 00:02:18,797 Uh... 39 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:20,340 So, they hit you with manpower? 40 00:02:20,423 --> 00:02:21,341 Mm. 41 00:02:21,424 --> 00:02:24,678 But you had the reserve rosters I got from Tanaka in personnel. 42 00:02:24,761 --> 00:02:26,221 Yeah, I laid it all out. 43 00:02:26,304 --> 00:02:29,975 By using reserve duty officers and mothballed ships, 44 00:02:30,058 --> 00:02:32,227 we could maintain the evacuation, 45 00:02:32,310 --> 00:02:35,730 though to a severely reduced level. 46 00:02:35,814 --> 00:02:37,899 Not if we use synthetic labor. 47 00:02:37,983 --> 00:02:40,610 All synthetic life-forms are banned 48 00:02:40,694 --> 00:02:43,196 throughout the Federation, effective immediately. 49 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,493 All active units are dismantled. And all research is halted. 50 00:02:48,577 --> 00:02:52,038 That's crazy. It makes no sense. 51 00:02:52,122 --> 00:02:55,208 Synths don't just wake up one morning and turn homicidal. 52 00:02:55,292 --> 00:02:59,004 They said it was a fatal code error 53 00:02:59,087 --> 00:03:00,589 in the operating system. 54 00:03:00,672 --> 00:03:01,798 That's bullshit. 55 00:03:03,508 --> 00:03:06,094 Something's off about this whole business, JL. 56 00:03:06,177 --> 00:03:09,180 It doesn't add up. I smell the Tal Shiar. 57 00:03:10,515 --> 00:03:12,058 The Tal Shiar. 58 00:03:12,142 --> 00:03:16,062 Raffi, why would the Romulans attack a fleet 59 00:03:16,146 --> 00:03:18,982 built expressly to rescue them? 60 00:03:19,774 --> 00:03:22,777 I can't answer that... yet. 61 00:03:22,861 --> 00:03:26,239 But I do know that there are billions of people out there in the Beta Quadrant 62 00:03:26,323 --> 00:03:29,117 that are in the burst radius of a supernova. 63 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,954 It's not their fault that a bunch of A500s went rogue on Mars. 64 00:03:33,038 --> 00:03:35,040 You're absolutely right. 65 00:03:35,915 --> 00:03:39,377 [sighs] Mars is burning. 66 00:03:40,420 --> 00:03:42,881 Tens of thousands are dead. 67 00:03:44,174 --> 00:03:48,470 And nobody is thinking. Nobody is listening. They're just reacting. 68 00:03:49,721 --> 00:03:53,058 Wait a minute. What happened in there, JL? 69 00:03:55,393 --> 00:03:58,813 They said that our plan was unfeasible. 70 00:03:59,439 --> 00:04:03,109 Half of them never wanted to rescue the Romulans in the first place. 71 00:04:03,193 --> 00:04:04,527 And the rest are... 72 00:04:06,029 --> 00:04:08,740 are just frightened. 73 00:04:09,616 --> 00:04:15,080 I never dreamed that Starfleet would give in to intolerance and fear. 74 00:04:16,122 --> 00:04:17,957 What happened in there? 75 00:04:18,041 --> 00:04:22,587 I said that either they accept the revised evacuation plan 76 00:04:23,963 --> 00:04:25,423 or my resignation. 77 00:04:25,507 --> 00:04:27,008 [chuckles] 78 00:04:28,009 --> 00:04:29,386 Are you serious? 79 00:04:34,516 --> 00:04:35,850 What did they say? 80 00:04:39,020 --> 00:04:40,230 Jean-Luc. 81 00:04:40,313 --> 00:04:42,524 They accepted my resignation. 82 00:04:48,780 --> 00:04:51,366 Fine. Hell with them. 83 00:04:51,449 --> 00:04:53,910 We'll figure it out. We'll find a way. 84 00:04:53,993 --> 00:04:58,998 To mount a multi-world evacuation of tens of millions of Romulans 85 00:04:59,082 --> 00:05:02,085 without Starfleet support? 86 00:05:02,168 --> 00:05:03,336 There has to be something. 87 00:05:04,879 --> 00:05:09,884 Some last desperate, wild solution, JL? 88 00:05:09,968 --> 00:05:11,928 I mean, that's what you do. 89 00:05:13,805 --> 00:05:18,309 My resignation was the last desperate, wild solution. 90 00:05:21,396 --> 00:05:25,442 I never believed that they would accept it. 91 00:05:28,153 --> 00:05:29,863 Of course, you wouldn't. 92 00:05:30,905 --> 00:05:32,907 [sighs] Now what? 93 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:37,245 You're gonna go back to your château and write your memoirs? 94 00:05:39,164 --> 00:05:42,459 I can't do this without you, JL. 95 00:05:43,418 --> 00:05:44,377 [beeping] 96 00:05:45,837 --> 00:05:46,880 [beeping] 97 00:05:46,963 --> 00:05:48,089 [scoffs] 98 00:05:48,298 --> 00:05:49,966 The CNC wants to see me. 99 00:05:51,676 --> 00:05:54,387 That's great. It's great. 100 00:05:55,430 --> 00:05:59,434 You tender your resignation and my ass gets fired. 101 00:06:03,104 --> 00:06:04,105 Raffi. 102 00:08:06,811 --> 00:08:08,187 [Raffi] A synthetic girl. 103 00:08:09,397 --> 00:08:13,234 There were two of them. One of them is already dead. 104 00:08:13,735 --> 00:08:16,195 I only hope that I'm in time to save the other one. 105 00:08:16,988 --> 00:08:19,616 Raffi, I need a ship and a pilot. 106 00:08:20,199 --> 00:08:22,619 And I have to find Bruce Maddox. 107 00:08:23,077 --> 00:08:24,078 Wow. 108 00:08:24,495 --> 00:08:25,538 [scoffs] 109 00:08:25,622 --> 00:08:26,623 I don't even know what to say. 110 00:08:26,706 --> 00:08:28,458 [Picard] Yeah, it's a lot to take in-- 111 00:08:28,541 --> 00:08:30,168 I mean, the obvious way to go would be, 112 00:08:30,251 --> 00:08:32,962 "You have some goddamn nerve!" 113 00:08:33,046 --> 00:08:37,717 But I gather you already heard that from your buddy Clancy. Right? 114 00:08:49,771 --> 00:08:52,482 Pro tip for future reference. 115 00:08:52,565 --> 00:08:57,403 On your next top-secret, unauthorized synthetic-girl rescue mission, 116 00:08:57,487 --> 00:09:02,450 try not telling the CNC of Starfleet exactly what you're planning on doing. 117 00:09:03,451 --> 00:09:06,996 I don't remember you being such a chatterbox back in the day. 118 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,333 I mean, [chuckles] I saw your interview. 119 00:09:10,875 --> 00:09:13,378 An unmitigated disaster. 120 00:09:13,461 --> 00:09:16,255 Yeah. I saw you... 121 00:09:17,799 --> 00:09:21,511 sitting back in your very fine château. 122 00:09:22,261 --> 00:09:27,183 Those big oak beams. Heirloom furniture. 123 00:09:28,309 --> 00:09:31,229 I'd show you around my estate, but it's more of a hovel. 124 00:09:31,312 --> 00:09:33,523 So that would just be, you know, humiliating. 125 00:09:35,149 --> 00:09:38,695 [chuckles] My entire life for the past 14 years 126 00:09:38,778 --> 00:09:43,157 has been one long slide into humiliation... 127 00:09:45,118 --> 00:09:46,327 and rage. 128 00:09:49,247 --> 00:09:53,251 Also a fair amount of snakeleaf-induced paranoia 129 00:09:53,334 --> 00:09:56,379 so some things never change. 130 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:09,058 Might have been nice to hear from you a time or two in there, JL. 131 00:10:09,684 --> 00:10:12,103 Not because you think I know an off-the-books pilot 132 00:10:12,186 --> 00:10:14,105 with an unregistered starship. 133 00:10:15,857 --> 00:10:16,941 Just... 134 00:10:19,527 --> 00:10:20,695 say hi. 135 00:10:23,031 --> 00:10:24,365 See how I was doing. 136 00:10:24,449 --> 00:10:27,785 -I know, I-- -Because I was not doing good. 137 00:10:29,203 --> 00:10:33,082 I lost my security clearance. I lost... 138 00:10:35,543 --> 00:10:36,961 -Don't-- No, don't-- -Raffi. 139 00:10:37,045 --> 00:10:38,463 Just don't touch me. 140 00:10:39,005 --> 00:10:40,006 Raffi. 141 00:10:49,432 --> 00:10:50,433 Raffi. 142 00:11:06,616 --> 00:11:10,119 [apparatus whirring] 143 00:11:23,758 --> 00:11:25,760 [beeping] 144 00:11:28,638 --> 00:11:29,722 [beeping] 145 00:11:29,806 --> 00:11:32,934 [Soji in Romulan] You are free now, my friend. 146 00:11:37,730 --> 00:11:39,482 [indistinct on PA] 147 00:11:44,821 --> 00:11:46,948 I really don't know what to say, Doctor Asha. 148 00:11:48,324 --> 00:11:50,993 Your work here has always been excellent. 149 00:11:51,077 --> 00:11:54,330 But speaking to a Nameless in his own language... 150 00:11:55,915 --> 00:11:56,999 outstanding. 151 00:11:58,584 --> 00:12:02,130 You taught me that even a few words in the mother tongue can be soothing. 152 00:12:02,213 --> 00:12:03,840 Even in an unconscious state. 153 00:12:05,007 --> 00:12:08,678 There's no more despised people in the galaxy than the xBs. 154 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,473 People either see us as property to be exploited 155 00:12:13,099 --> 00:12:14,892 or as a hazard to be warehoused. 156 00:12:16,018 --> 00:12:19,814 Our host, the Romulans, have a more expansive vision. 157 00:12:20,690 --> 00:12:22,191 They see us as both. 158 00:12:23,151 --> 00:12:24,569 I hate it. 159 00:12:25,278 --> 00:12:26,445 You're different. 160 00:12:27,864 --> 00:12:29,031 Thank you. 161 00:12:30,241 --> 00:12:32,743 I've decided to let you have your interview with Ramdha. 162 00:12:33,911 --> 00:12:35,580 Oh, my God. Really? 163 00:12:35,663 --> 00:12:37,999 You've been pestering me about it for a long time. 164 00:12:38,749 --> 00:12:41,335 After today, I'm inclined to grant your request. 165 00:12:41,878 --> 00:12:44,005 Tell me... why? 166 00:12:46,257 --> 00:12:49,177 How much do you know about Ramdha before she was assimilated? 167 00:12:49,260 --> 00:12:51,137 Have you read her Romulan dossier? 168 00:12:51,220 --> 00:12:53,890 Of course not. Wait, have you? 169 00:12:57,351 --> 00:12:59,145 [whispering] How did you manage that? 170 00:12:59,228 --> 00:13:01,063 I just, sort of, asked to see it. 171 00:13:01,731 --> 00:13:06,152 Usually, I find that if I ask people for help, they're happy to give it. 172 00:13:06,235 --> 00:13:08,070 That has not been my experience. 173 00:13:08,154 --> 00:13:09,614 In particular with Romulans. 174 00:13:09,697 --> 00:13:12,950 Ramdha was the foremost expert on ancient Romulan myth. 175 00:13:13,034 --> 00:13:14,327 She wrote books about it. 176 00:13:14,410 --> 00:13:16,787 And this interest of hers links you to her work how? 177 00:13:16,871 --> 00:13:20,166 There is ample evidence for the therapeutic utility 178 00:13:20,249 --> 00:13:22,460 of a shared mythical framework. 179 00:13:25,129 --> 00:13:26,339 Thirty minutes. 180 00:13:27,465 --> 00:13:30,509 As an experiment. Then we'll see how that goes. 181 00:13:34,889 --> 00:13:36,474 [Picard panting] 182 00:13:36,807 --> 00:13:37,975 [sighs] 183 00:13:41,270 --> 00:13:43,856 It makes total sense that you're angry. 184 00:13:43,940 --> 00:13:45,483 I disappointed you. 185 00:13:46,234 --> 00:13:49,362 I neglected you and I wasn't there when you needed me. 186 00:13:50,655 --> 00:13:52,365 I'm truly sorry. 187 00:13:52,823 --> 00:13:55,451 [Picard panting] 188 00:13:56,410 --> 00:13:57,828 I don't care. 189 00:13:57,912 --> 00:13:59,247 Raffi. 190 00:13:59,330 --> 00:14:04,085 There is a unit of Tal Shiar synth hunters 191 00:14:04,168 --> 00:14:06,963 operating on Earth, openly. 192 00:14:07,046 --> 00:14:11,384 That could not happen without Federation complicity. 193 00:14:12,551 --> 00:14:13,719 I'm listening. 194 00:14:14,345 --> 00:14:15,805 You always said there were 195 00:14:15,888 --> 00:14:18,516 Romulan-Federation connections I didn't see. 196 00:14:18,599 --> 00:14:20,643 I was talking about Mars, JL. 197 00:14:21,686 --> 00:14:23,187 The Romulan rescue. 198 00:14:23,271 --> 00:14:28,359 Those aren't connections I just "see," like people see angels, or ghosts. 199 00:14:28,442 --> 00:14:31,696 I have evidence. I have concrete evidence 200 00:14:31,779 --> 00:14:34,615 that a high-ranking Starfleet official conspired 201 00:14:34,699 --> 00:14:37,159 to allow the attack to go forward. 202 00:14:37,243 --> 00:14:39,078 To put an end to the rescue mission. 203 00:14:39,161 --> 00:14:40,579 -Raffi-- -Which they opposed! 204 00:14:40,663 --> 00:14:44,208 Raffi, they had no reason to sabotage their own rescue. 205 00:14:45,126 --> 00:14:47,628 What do you think happens when there's a cover-up? 206 00:14:48,671 --> 00:14:50,131 They conceal it. 207 00:14:52,049 --> 00:14:55,845 That's why I need your help. I need your mind. 208 00:14:55,928 --> 00:15:00,266 Your ability to see things others don't see. 209 00:15:00,850 --> 00:15:03,602 No. No, no, no... 210 00:15:03,686 --> 00:15:06,647 I will not go down another rabbit hole with you, JL. 211 00:15:06,731 --> 00:15:08,899 -No, never again. No. Go! -Raffi-- 212 00:15:13,863 --> 00:15:15,281 Get out of here, please. 213 00:15:18,242 --> 00:15:19,243 Please. 214 00:15:29,295 --> 00:15:31,130 I have a pilot for you. 215 00:15:33,716 --> 00:15:34,842 His name is Rios. 216 00:15:36,302 --> 00:15:37,803 And he'll be in touch. 217 00:15:38,387 --> 00:15:40,639 Rios. Thank you. 218 00:15:42,016 --> 00:15:43,017 Now go. 219 00:15:52,193 --> 00:15:54,195 [opera playing] 220 00:16:09,794 --> 00:16:10,795 [opera stops] 221 00:16:11,587 --> 00:16:12,588 Hi? 222 00:16:12,671 --> 00:16:16,926 Doctor Jurati? Commodore Oh. Director of Starfleet Security. 223 00:16:18,177 --> 00:16:19,178 Okay. 224 00:16:19,261 --> 00:16:22,556 I'd like to talk to you about your two recent visits with Admiral Picard. 225 00:16:38,406 --> 00:16:42,076 She's here to meet with Patient 4822/2. 226 00:16:42,159 --> 00:16:43,285 She'll need authorization. 227 00:16:43,369 --> 00:16:45,287 This unit is operated by the Reclamation Project. 228 00:16:45,371 --> 00:16:49,959 It is under the direct authority of its Executive Director, me. 229 00:16:51,293 --> 00:16:52,294 Open up. 230 00:17:10,104 --> 00:17:12,314 [Romulans chattering] 231 00:17:15,484 --> 00:17:17,736 All the disordered are Romulans. 232 00:17:17,820 --> 00:17:20,739 The only Romulans ever assimilated, as far as I know. 233 00:17:25,953 --> 00:17:27,621 [chattering continues] 234 00:17:28,789 --> 00:17:29,832 There she is. 235 00:17:45,639 --> 00:17:46,682 Hi. 236 00:18:01,322 --> 00:18:06,577 [beeping] 237 00:18:07,870 --> 00:18:08,871 What? 238 00:18:08,954 --> 00:18:10,664 You're doing the research, aren't you? 239 00:18:10,748 --> 00:18:11,749 No. 240 00:18:11,832 --> 00:18:14,960 I'm sending you everything that Daystrom had on Bruce Maddox. 241 00:18:15,044 --> 00:18:17,254 -I don't want it. -Carry on. 242 00:18:20,925 --> 00:18:22,051 [sighs] 243 00:18:43,739 --> 00:18:45,199 Captain Rios? 244 00:18:48,077 --> 00:18:49,578 Oh. Hi. Hello. 245 00:18:49,662 --> 00:18:50,871 Picard. 246 00:18:50,955 --> 00:18:52,206 Yes. Sorry. Of course you are. 247 00:18:52,289 --> 00:18:54,250 I'm afraid you might be too late. 248 00:18:56,418 --> 00:18:57,753 Right then. Come on. 249 00:19:03,592 --> 00:19:05,010 So, what seems to be the problem? 250 00:19:05,094 --> 00:19:07,054 Are you kidding me? Hey. 251 00:19:07,471 --> 00:19:08,472 Are you... 252 00:19:08,556 --> 00:19:10,307 Chris Rios. He's just an EMH. 253 00:19:10,391 --> 00:19:12,059 -"Just..." -I'm-- 254 00:19:12,142 --> 00:19:14,728 I know who you are. I read one of your books one time. 255 00:19:15,521 --> 00:19:16,897 What happened to you? 256 00:19:18,399 --> 00:19:21,026 I didn't die. Medkit. 257 00:19:24,655 --> 00:19:26,115 Aguardiente. 258 00:19:33,998 --> 00:19:35,040 No, thanks. 259 00:19:36,250 --> 00:19:37,751 [groans] 260 00:19:38,794 --> 00:19:41,797 What you wanna do is take the giant hunk of tritanium shrapnel 261 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:43,966 out of the hole in my shoulder. That's just a guess. 262 00:19:44,675 --> 00:19:46,176 Please. Sit. 263 00:19:57,813 --> 00:19:58,897 [Rios] Toss it anywhere. 264 00:20:00,733 --> 00:20:05,654 So, [sighs] where are we going, Admiral? Raffi says you have no idea. 265 00:20:05,738 --> 00:20:08,157 -I'm working on it. -When are we leaving? 266 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:09,867 As soon as possible. 267 00:20:09,950 --> 00:20:12,244 You breaking any laws or are intending to? 268 00:20:12,328 --> 00:20:13,662 I don't know. 269 00:20:14,913 --> 00:20:18,792 I'm not in the habit of consulting lawyers 270 00:20:18,876 --> 00:20:22,963 before I do what needs to be done. You? 271 00:20:23,047 --> 00:20:25,799 I'm not in the habit of consulting anybody about anything. 272 00:20:27,593 --> 00:20:28,719 Especially a lawyer. 273 00:20:29,678 --> 00:20:33,515 There we are. Now for the dermal regenerator. 274 00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:37,269 Leave it. Give me that. Get lost. 275 00:20:39,188 --> 00:20:41,023 He never gets any nicer. 276 00:20:41,106 --> 00:20:42,483 Duly noted. 277 00:20:42,566 --> 00:20:44,026 Deactivate EMH. 278 00:20:46,028 --> 00:20:50,282 I need a pilot. Raffi says you're the best around. 279 00:20:50,366 --> 00:20:52,117 I never argue with Raffi. 280 00:20:52,660 --> 00:20:54,203 Wise man. 281 00:20:54,286 --> 00:20:58,582 You were the XO of a heavy cruiser? 282 00:20:58,666 --> 00:21:00,167 The ibn Majid. 283 00:21:00,250 --> 00:21:03,045 You've never heard of it because it doesn't exist. 284 00:21:03,128 --> 00:21:05,297 Starfleet erased it from the records. 285 00:21:05,381 --> 00:21:09,593 Do I detect a certain bitterness towards Starfleet? 286 00:21:09,677 --> 00:21:14,932 You must know that Starfleet and I have long since have parted ways. 287 00:21:15,599 --> 00:21:18,602 If you say so. I really don't give a damn. 288 00:21:19,186 --> 00:21:20,729 Oh, really? 289 00:21:21,605 --> 00:21:25,359 I see this ship is impeccably maintained. 290 00:21:25,442 --> 00:21:29,530 Every bolt and clasp and fitting in place. 291 00:21:29,613 --> 00:21:33,367 Everything stowed in regulation Starfleet order. 292 00:21:33,450 --> 00:21:38,455 I don't know what happened to you, Rios, or to the ibn Majid. 293 00:21:38,539 --> 00:21:44,169 But five minutes on this ship and I know precisely what I'm looking at. 294 00:21:44,253 --> 00:21:48,382 You are Starfleet to the core. 295 00:21:49,383 --> 00:21:51,343 I can smell it on you. 296 00:21:51,427 --> 00:21:53,887 That's just my tragic sense of life. 297 00:21:54,555 --> 00:21:56,557 Raffi warned me you were a speech-maker. 298 00:21:58,517 --> 00:22:01,186 Look, Admiral. Hire me or find another pilot. 299 00:22:01,270 --> 00:22:02,980 Do not try to get inside my head. 300 00:22:51,028 --> 00:22:53,947 The navigation sensors are back at maximum range. 301 00:22:54,031 --> 00:22:57,117 Whatever it was, it scraped off pretty easily. 302 00:22:57,785 --> 00:22:58,869 Mm-hmm. 303 00:22:58,952 --> 00:23:03,207 So, are we excited? Intimidated? 304 00:23:03,290 --> 00:23:06,043 Maybe a teensy bit starstruck? 305 00:23:06,126 --> 00:23:10,589 Jean-Luc Picard. Chief contact with the Q Continuum. 306 00:23:10,672 --> 00:23:13,467 Arbiter of Succession for the Klingon Empire. 307 00:23:13,550 --> 00:23:16,929 Savior of Earth from Borg Invasion. 308 00:23:17,012 --> 00:23:21,725 Captain of the Enterprises D and E. 309 00:23:21,809 --> 00:23:25,354 The man even worked alongside the great Spock. 310 00:23:25,437 --> 00:23:27,898 You are an emergency hologram. 311 00:23:27,981 --> 00:23:30,317 We no longer have a navigational emergency. 312 00:23:32,736 --> 00:23:33,737 Why are you still here? 313 00:23:33,821 --> 00:23:37,783 Well, someone is experiencing an acute moodiness overload. 314 00:23:42,329 --> 00:23:43,247 [speaks Spanish] 315 00:23:43,330 --> 00:23:46,542 Picard is a good man, Captain Rios. 316 00:23:46,625 --> 00:23:49,169 He's on the side of the angels. 317 00:23:49,253 --> 00:23:52,589 It's been a long time since you helped out somebody like him. 318 00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:55,592 A very long time. 319 00:23:55,676 --> 00:23:58,679 Please spare me the juvenile Sunday school morality. 320 00:23:58,762 --> 00:24:02,099 Then spare me the angsty teenage moral relativism. 321 00:24:02,182 --> 00:24:05,143 I already had one grand heroic captain in my life. 322 00:24:05,227 --> 00:24:07,271 The last thing I need is another one. 323 00:24:07,354 --> 00:24:09,690 Ten years on, I still can't close my eyes at night 324 00:24:09,773 --> 00:24:14,611 without seeing the last one's blood and brains splattered all over a bulkhead. 325 00:24:16,613 --> 00:24:18,198 Deactivate ENH. 326 00:24:18,282 --> 00:24:20,075 Oh, no. You-- 327 00:24:58,697 --> 00:25:01,450 The familiar smell of harvest time. 328 00:25:03,076 --> 00:25:05,162 Woodsmoke. Mown hay. 329 00:25:05,245 --> 00:25:10,208 And that heavy sweetness of the grapes. 330 00:25:11,668 --> 00:25:13,170 And you won't miss it? 331 00:25:14,046 --> 00:25:16,298 Any of it, one bit? 332 00:25:16,381 --> 00:25:18,133 Oh, yes, my dear. 333 00:25:18,216 --> 00:25:22,137 I will miss you and Zhaban and Number One. 334 00:25:22,220 --> 00:25:23,221 [Laris chuckles] 335 00:25:25,182 --> 00:25:30,771 I tried my best to belong to this place. 336 00:25:33,357 --> 00:25:38,862 But I don't think I ever truly felt at home here. 337 00:25:42,407 --> 00:25:44,952 I suppose you always had one eye on the stars. 338 00:26:07,975 --> 00:26:09,643 [Soji] That looks like a door. 339 00:26:09,726 --> 00:26:10,894 Very close. 340 00:26:10,978 --> 00:26:14,147 I think that one's called shaiqouin, which means-- 341 00:26:14,231 --> 00:26:15,482 A false door. 342 00:26:15,565 --> 00:26:19,486 Traditional Romulan houses always have a false front door that's never used. 343 00:26:19,569 --> 00:26:21,363 You have to go around the back. 344 00:26:21,446 --> 00:26:23,031 You're kind of a know-it-all, aren't you? 345 00:26:37,713 --> 00:26:41,008 [in Romulan] If certain people requested entry... 346 00:26:41,508 --> 00:26:43,593 ...would it be granted? 347 00:26:53,770 --> 00:26:55,105 You may sit. 348 00:27:00,068 --> 00:27:01,653 For the road. 349 00:27:02,404 --> 00:27:05,407 Bread. Roquefort. 350 00:27:05,991 --> 00:27:08,785 Madame Arnaud's terrine d'oie. 351 00:27:08,869 --> 00:27:12,956 Far beyond the power of any replicator, I should think. And lastly the plum-- 352 00:27:13,832 --> 00:27:15,667 -[Zhaban] They killed the alarm! -Take him. 353 00:27:18,754 --> 00:27:20,297 [Picard panting] 354 00:27:21,798 --> 00:27:23,759 [blaster charging] 355 00:27:28,180 --> 00:27:29,806 [grunting] 356 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,104 [grunting continues] 357 00:27:38,690 --> 00:27:39,900 [blaster charging] 358 00:27:42,903 --> 00:27:44,613 [grunting] 359 00:27:50,035 --> 00:27:52,496 [blaster charging] 360 00:27:53,955 --> 00:27:55,040 [grunting] 361 00:27:55,123 --> 00:27:56,833 [grunts, groans] 362 00:27:56,917 --> 00:27:58,376 [blaster charging] 363 00:28:04,925 --> 00:28:07,010 [grunting] 364 00:28:12,349 --> 00:28:14,768 [panting] 365 00:28:17,270 --> 00:28:19,648 [groans] 366 00:28:24,736 --> 00:28:25,737 All right. 367 00:28:26,905 --> 00:28:27,906 All right. 368 00:28:30,909 --> 00:28:33,870 [blaster charging] 369 00:28:36,790 --> 00:28:38,250 [blaster powering down] 370 00:28:39,334 --> 00:28:42,504 Maybe... maybe it was on stun. 371 00:28:43,547 --> 00:28:46,258 Romulan disruptors don't have a stun setting. 372 00:28:47,008 --> 00:28:48,009 Oh, God. 373 00:28:51,221 --> 00:28:52,430 It's all right. 374 00:28:53,682 --> 00:28:57,811 Thank you. It's all right. Come. 375 00:29:18,081 --> 00:29:19,207 [Picard] Here. 376 00:29:22,169 --> 00:29:23,628 Her name was Oh. 377 00:29:23,712 --> 00:29:26,464 Chief of Starfleet Security. A Vulcan. 378 00:29:26,548 --> 00:29:27,591 You know her? 379 00:29:27,674 --> 00:29:31,678 No. But I hear that she's very good at her job. 380 00:29:31,761 --> 00:29:35,473 She wanted to know why you came to see me. 381 00:29:36,433 --> 00:29:37,934 And I'm sorry but I told her. 382 00:29:38,727 --> 00:29:42,772 Seemed too important not to. And anyway, I'm a terrible liar. 383 00:29:42,856 --> 00:29:45,150 Of course. It's all right. 384 00:29:46,943 --> 00:29:50,030 There's one thing I didn't tell her though. 385 00:29:50,989 --> 00:29:53,033 -Zhaban. -We've no time, Laris. 386 00:29:53,116 --> 00:29:54,492 They'll send others. 387 00:29:54,576 --> 00:29:56,369 [in Romulan] We are not like them anymore. 388 00:30:04,169 --> 00:30:05,170 Admiral. 389 00:30:05,921 --> 00:30:06,963 He's conscious. 390 00:30:18,975 --> 00:30:20,227 Let's talk. 391 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:23,605 [Romulans chattering] 392 00:30:23,688 --> 00:30:25,148 [Soji] My name is Soji. 393 00:30:25,232 --> 00:30:27,901 I'm working with Hugh on the Reclamation Project. 394 00:30:27,984 --> 00:30:30,195 But I'm an anthropologist by training. 395 00:30:38,745 --> 00:30:42,374 [in Romulan] My presence is an intrusion, forgive it. 396 00:30:44,834 --> 00:30:45,835 [Romulan coughing] 397 00:30:47,504 --> 00:30:49,673 Ramdha has good days and bad days. 398 00:30:50,590 --> 00:30:51,633 We all do. 399 00:30:51,967 --> 00:30:53,468 [Romulan coughing] 400 00:30:54,636 --> 00:30:58,265 Can you tell me about the cards, Ramdha? The pixmit. 401 00:30:58,348 --> 00:31:00,809 How do they work? Do you tell fortunes with them? 402 00:31:02,602 --> 00:31:05,397 It's kind of a mandala. Is that it? 403 00:31:10,443 --> 00:31:13,238 Do the images have a connection to Romulan mythology? 404 00:31:13,321 --> 00:31:14,656 Mythology? 405 00:31:15,740 --> 00:31:17,242 I hate that word. 406 00:31:18,034 --> 00:31:20,120 In Romulan we have no such word. 407 00:31:20,704 --> 00:31:23,915 What's a better word? Scriptures? 408 00:31:23,999 --> 00:31:26,584 Sacred stories? Legendarium? 409 00:31:26,668 --> 00:31:28,169 The news. 410 00:31:31,298 --> 00:31:34,467 I love that. That's perfect. 411 00:31:35,844 --> 00:31:39,139 The idea that former Borg might be able to create a mythol-- 412 00:31:40,181 --> 00:31:43,393 a shared narrative framework for understanding their trauma. 413 00:31:43,476 --> 00:31:45,687 Rooted in deep archetypes, 414 00:31:45,770 --> 00:31:48,106 but as relevant as the day's news. 415 00:31:48,773 --> 00:31:50,692 That's just what I'm hoping to do. 416 00:31:56,114 --> 00:31:57,282 I know you. 417 00:32:00,327 --> 00:32:03,455 Why is the Tal Shiar on Earth? 418 00:32:03,538 --> 00:32:05,665 Are you Zhat Vash? 419 00:32:06,624 --> 00:32:10,754 If you answer my questions, I will release you. 420 00:32:14,799 --> 00:32:16,009 -This is pointless. -[Laris] Yes, 421 00:32:16,092 --> 00:32:18,636 because he's a stubborn Northerner like you. 422 00:32:21,181 --> 00:32:24,976 I remember you from tomorrow. 423 00:32:26,644 --> 00:32:28,480 No, Ramdha. We've never met. 424 00:32:31,858 --> 00:32:35,236 Okay. What was I doing when you met me tomorrow? 425 00:32:41,868 --> 00:32:44,996 One of the things that makes you so special, Ramdha, 426 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,499 is that you were on board the very last ship 427 00:32:47,582 --> 00:32:49,584 ever assimilated by this Cube. 428 00:32:49,667 --> 00:32:52,295 Is that true? How do you know that? 429 00:32:52,379 --> 00:32:56,883 You were on board the Imperial scout ship Shaenor with 25 other passengers. 430 00:32:56,966 --> 00:33:00,220 You encountered this Cube. You were assimilated. 431 00:33:00,303 --> 00:33:02,055 But then something went wrong. 432 00:33:09,479 --> 00:33:14,192 What happened, Ramdha? Do you know? What caused the submatrix collapse? 433 00:33:14,275 --> 00:33:16,444 [Ramdha breathes shakily] 434 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:18,571 Why did you kill that girl? 435 00:33:19,197 --> 00:33:21,241 Why did you kill Dahj Asha? 436 00:33:21,324 --> 00:33:23,159 She's not a girl. 437 00:33:25,078 --> 00:33:26,496 Which one are you? 438 00:33:27,539 --> 00:33:31,000 Just help me understand what is happening. 439 00:33:31,084 --> 00:33:33,545 She's not what you think she is. 440 00:33:33,628 --> 00:33:36,172 Which sister are you? 441 00:33:37,966 --> 00:33:41,845 Why did you kill her? Is there another one like her? 442 00:33:41,928 --> 00:33:43,680 Which sister are you? 443 00:33:43,763 --> 00:33:46,683 The one who dies or the one who lives? 444 00:33:46,766 --> 00:33:49,144 Where is she? Where is the other one? 445 00:33:49,227 --> 00:33:52,230 You'll never find her before we do, qezhtihn. 446 00:33:55,608 --> 00:33:58,611 I know who you are. You are Seb-Cheneb. 447 00:33:58,695 --> 00:34:00,738 You are the Destroyer! 448 00:34:00,822 --> 00:34:03,992 She's the end of all. She's the Destroyer. 449 00:34:10,582 --> 00:34:12,584 [Romulan screams] 450 00:34:13,084 --> 00:34:14,294 [gasps] 451 00:34:14,377 --> 00:34:15,545 Damn. 452 00:34:16,379 --> 00:34:17,714 No! 453 00:34:24,053 --> 00:34:26,848 Let her go. She's fine. 454 00:34:26,931 --> 00:34:30,810 He's the one that needs to be disciplined. Get him out of here. Get him out. 455 00:34:30,894 --> 00:34:33,605 And make sure your own sidearms are fully secured. 456 00:34:55,543 --> 00:34:57,337 -Hi, sweetie. -Mom. 457 00:34:57,420 --> 00:34:58,546 Sweetie, what's wrong? 458 00:34:58,630 --> 00:35:00,381 Mom. Mom, is Dahj okay? 459 00:35:00,465 --> 00:35:02,133 -What? -Is she okay? 460 00:35:02,217 --> 00:35:05,553 Yes, sweetie. Dahj is fine. I just heard from her today. 461 00:35:05,637 --> 00:35:09,557 She sounds like she's doing great. She's thinking of adopting a puppy. 462 00:35:09,641 --> 00:35:11,309 I'm not sure that's the best idea. 463 00:35:11,392 --> 00:35:14,229 But you know Dahj, when she makes a [echoing] plan... 464 00:35:27,784 --> 00:35:28,785 [door beeps] 465 00:35:32,705 --> 00:35:33,706 [groans] Enter. 466 00:35:41,798 --> 00:35:42,924 Are you all right? 467 00:35:52,308 --> 00:35:53,309 Hey. 468 00:35:56,187 --> 00:35:57,188 What happened? 469 00:35:57,814 --> 00:36:01,317 I have no idea. If you had asked me five minutes beforehand, 470 00:36:01,401 --> 00:36:04,320 I would have said I didn't know anything about a Romulan ship. 471 00:36:04,404 --> 00:36:07,907 I would have said that I'd never even heard of the Shaenor 472 00:36:07,991 --> 00:36:09,784 or that Ramdha was on it. 473 00:36:09,867 --> 00:36:11,286 And would that have been the truth? 474 00:36:11,369 --> 00:36:14,622 I've probably read every unclassified document 475 00:36:14,706 --> 00:36:17,417 that there is pertaining to the history of this Cube. 476 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:19,460 It must have been in there somewhere. 477 00:36:19,544 --> 00:36:22,255 Even Romulan censors have to slip up sometimes. 478 00:36:26,092 --> 00:36:27,260 Do you believe me? 479 00:36:40,273 --> 00:36:41,691 Can you keep a secret? 480 00:36:49,532 --> 00:36:51,326 [whispering] I may be falling in love with you. 481 00:37:14,974 --> 00:37:15,975 I'm back. 482 00:37:17,644 --> 00:37:19,020 So are your ears. 483 00:37:19,103 --> 00:37:21,105 I can smell her on you. 484 00:37:25,485 --> 00:37:27,487 The smell is remarkably... 485 00:37:28,946 --> 00:37:29,947 carnal. 486 00:37:31,449 --> 00:37:34,619 She really is an extraordinary piece of machinery. 487 00:37:34,702 --> 00:37:36,079 What's she told you? 488 00:37:36,913 --> 00:37:40,166 Nothing yet. I'm not sure what she consciously knows. 489 00:37:40,249 --> 00:37:44,504 But I'm sure she has no idea what she truly is. 490 00:37:44,587 --> 00:37:46,214 And given what happened on Earth, 491 00:37:47,340 --> 00:37:49,801 I think we should keep it that way as long as possible. 492 00:37:50,677 --> 00:37:52,553 Earth was a miscalculation. 493 00:37:55,181 --> 00:37:57,225 Your miscalculation. 494 00:37:59,602 --> 00:38:02,188 Which is the only reason I agreed to let you pursue 495 00:38:02,271 --> 00:38:03,731 this highly questionable-- 496 00:38:03,815 --> 00:38:06,025 -Far more subtle. -Approach. 497 00:38:08,528 --> 00:38:11,823 Good luck, Brother. And see that you don't fall in love. 498 00:38:15,827 --> 00:38:17,787 Nice to see you looking like yourself again. 499 00:38:22,959 --> 00:38:25,253 You said you told Commodore Oh 500 00:38:25,336 --> 00:38:28,423 everything about our conversation except for one thing. 501 00:38:28,506 --> 00:38:29,632 What was that? 502 00:38:31,467 --> 00:38:32,844 That I'm going with you... 503 00:38:34,429 --> 00:38:36,973 to look for the girl. Dahj. 504 00:38:37,056 --> 00:38:38,558 The other Dahj. 505 00:38:39,350 --> 00:38:41,477 You are going to look for her, right? 506 00:38:41,561 --> 00:38:45,690 That's what Oh thought, that you were planning to get a ship and a pilot 507 00:38:45,773 --> 00:38:47,775 and go off looking for the second synth. 508 00:38:47,859 --> 00:38:48,860 Are you? 509 00:38:51,904 --> 00:38:54,782 [beeping] 510 00:38:55,074 --> 00:38:56,075 [Picard] You're early. 511 00:38:56,159 --> 00:38:58,870 Nope. My sources tell me-- 512 00:38:58,953 --> 00:38:59,954 [Picard] What sources? 513 00:39:00,037 --> 00:39:02,290 It's about to get very hot chez vous. 514 00:39:02,373 --> 00:39:03,750 It's already hot. 515 00:39:03,833 --> 00:39:06,169 -[Rios] Hotter. -Is that your pilot? 516 00:39:07,378 --> 00:39:10,548 Okay. You have to take me with you and here's why: 517 00:39:10,631 --> 00:39:14,719 A, I just killed a man to save your life. 518 00:39:14,802 --> 00:39:19,891 B, you are a good, decent man capable of empathy and pity. 519 00:39:19,974 --> 00:39:25,605 And I am a scientist who has spent her entire life imagining a miracle, 520 00:39:25,688 --> 00:39:27,565 knowing that it could never come to pass. 521 00:39:27,648 --> 00:39:31,611 And now it has, and it's real. And I have to see her. 522 00:39:32,153 --> 00:39:34,697 And C, I don't know how much it costs to go where you're going 523 00:39:34,781 --> 00:39:36,991 or how much this guy charges. 524 00:39:37,074 --> 00:39:38,201 I'm expensive. 525 00:39:38,284 --> 00:39:40,286 But I am Agnes P. Jurati. 526 00:39:40,369 --> 00:39:42,413 I'm the Earth's leading expert on synthetic life. 527 00:39:42,497 --> 00:39:45,875 And I promise you, if you take me with you, I will more than earn my keep. 528 00:39:53,216 --> 00:39:54,634 [Rios] Time to go. 529 00:40:04,393 --> 00:40:05,436 Raffi? 530 00:40:06,896 --> 00:40:08,105 What is this? 531 00:40:09,190 --> 00:40:10,316 "Sources." 532 00:40:11,651 --> 00:40:14,237 -I found Maddox. -Where is he? 533 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,531 I tell you, you promise you'll take me with you? 534 00:40:16,614 --> 00:40:18,616 I would be honored to have you join me. 535 00:40:18,699 --> 00:40:22,370 Oh, no. No, I'm not joining you. Never again. 536 00:40:23,621 --> 00:40:25,081 I'm just hitching a ride. 537 00:40:25,164 --> 00:40:26,332 To where? 538 00:40:26,415 --> 00:40:28,626 Bruce Maddox is on Freecloud. 539 00:40:29,460 --> 00:40:32,046 Freecloud. Yes, of course. 540 00:40:32,129 --> 00:40:33,840 Why do you wanna go to Freecloud? 541 00:40:34,298 --> 00:40:35,758 Have we met? 542 00:40:35,842 --> 00:40:37,134 Agnes Jurati. 543 00:40:38,469 --> 00:40:39,595 That's it? 544 00:40:39,679 --> 00:40:43,599 You're just gonna let Agnes here hitch a ride on your top-secret mission? 545 00:40:43,683 --> 00:40:48,437 Doctor Jurati is the Earth's leading expert on synthetic life. 546 00:40:48,521 --> 00:40:50,773 You didn't even ask me to run any kind of security check. 547 00:40:50,857 --> 00:40:52,650 Not even the most basic. 548 00:40:52,733 --> 00:40:54,652 Why do you want to go to Freecloud? 549 00:40:54,735 --> 00:40:57,905 I'm under no obligation to tell that to any of you. 550 00:41:00,074 --> 00:41:02,034 And once we get there you're on your own. 551 00:41:03,786 --> 00:41:05,246 Who are you, lady? 552 00:41:06,914 --> 00:41:08,291 Can we go already? 553 00:41:09,208 --> 00:41:10,209 Yes. Fine. 554 00:41:20,845 --> 00:41:22,305 Engage.