1 00:00:07,949 --> 00:00:10,326 Previously on Star Trek: Picard... 2 00:00:10,409 --> 00:00:13,204 A group of rogue synthetics dropped the planetary defense shields, 3 00:00:13,287 --> 00:00:15,665 completely destroying the Utopia Planitia shipyard. 4 00:00:15,748 --> 00:00:18,417 Tell us, Admiral. Why did you really quit Starfleet? 5 00:00:18,501 --> 00:00:20,962 Because it was no longer Starfleet! 6 00:00:21,629 --> 00:00:22,797 We're done here. 7 00:00:23,506 --> 00:00:25,133 - What's happening? - Baby, please. 8 00:00:25,216 --> 00:00:27,718 Find Picard. He can help you. 9 00:00:28,469 --> 00:00:30,638 - What do you want here? - I was with my boyfriend. 10 00:00:32,140 --> 00:00:33,432 They murdered him. 11 00:00:33,516 --> 00:00:34,809 No, no, no! 12 00:00:34,892 --> 00:00:36,936 Something inside of me just knew what to do, 13 00:00:37,019 --> 00:00:38,896 how to move, how to fight. 14 00:00:41,023 --> 00:00:43,985 Everything inside of me says that I'm safe with you. 15 00:00:44,068 --> 00:00:47,029 I had a dear friend. Commander Data. 16 00:00:47,113 --> 00:00:50,908 He painted you exactly as you are here and now. 17 00:00:50,992 --> 00:00:52,076 That's impossible. 18 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:54,453 He named the painting Daughter. 19 00:00:54,537 --> 00:00:55,663 Stay down. 20 00:00:56,831 --> 00:00:59,792 She came here to find safety. 21 00:01:04,338 --> 00:01:05,339 No! 22 00:01:06,883 --> 00:01:10,511 I owe it to her to find out who killed her and why. 23 00:01:10,595 --> 00:01:13,472 The androids that destroyed Mars came from this lab. 24 00:01:13,556 --> 00:01:17,101 No one has ever been able to redevelop the science used to create Data. 25 00:01:17,185 --> 00:01:18,811 Then came Bruce Maddox. 26 00:01:18,895 --> 00:01:21,856 His theory was that Data's entire code, even his memories, 27 00:01:21,939 --> 00:01:24,901 could be reconstituted from a single positronic neuron. 28 00:01:24,984 --> 00:01:27,945 Then Data, or some part of him, would be alive. 29 00:01:28,029 --> 00:01:30,072 There'd be no way of knowing without examining... 30 00:01:30,156 --> 00:01:32,450 Dahj. Data's daughter. 31 00:01:32,533 --> 00:01:33,868 They're created in pairs. 32 00:01:33,951 --> 00:01:34,952 Dr. Asha. 33 00:01:35,494 --> 00:01:37,455 - Narek. - Soji. 34 00:01:37,538 --> 00:01:38,998 - Twins? - Twins. 35 00:01:39,665 --> 00:01:41,876 So there's another one. 36 00:01:52,511 --> 00:01:56,057 Attention, all personnel. Happy First Contact Day. 37 00:01:57,225 --> 00:02:00,728 Celebrations will be held in designated recreational areas 38 00:02:00,811 --> 00:02:04,106 during regularly scheduled alpha and beta shift breaks. 39 00:02:05,149 --> 00:02:09,320 All directors, please submit final duty log prior to shift change. 40 00:02:09,904 --> 00:02:12,073 Sector three maintenance regulators will report 41 00:02:12,156 --> 00:02:13,616 to mandatory security training 42 00:02:13,699 --> 00:02:15,284 at 0800 hours. 43 00:02:15,368 --> 00:02:17,453 Good morning, plastic people. 44 00:02:18,329 --> 00:02:20,081 Good morning, Mr. Pincus. 45 00:02:20,790 --> 00:02:22,083 Let's go to work. 46 00:02:25,294 --> 00:02:30,216 A500 maintenance issues should be reported to synthetic personnel supervisors 47 00:02:30,299 --> 00:02:33,219 prior to initiating manual shutdown procedures. 48 00:02:36,305 --> 00:02:40,268 Every other tri-hy station in the yard gets off First Contact Day. 49 00:02:40,351 --> 00:02:42,812 Not us. What did we do wrong? 50 00:02:42,895 --> 00:02:45,648 To have a skeleton crew, you have to have skeletons. 51 00:02:45,731 --> 00:02:48,067 I bet my kids are having cake on Earth. 52 00:02:49,318 --> 00:02:50,861 Yo, F8. 53 00:02:50,945 --> 00:02:53,948 - You get into any trouble last night? - Hell, yeah. 54 00:02:54,031 --> 00:02:55,324 Oh, yeah? Doing what? 55 00:02:55,950 --> 00:02:56,951 Nothing. 56 00:02:57,743 --> 00:02:58,744 Hell, yeah. 57 00:02:58,828 --> 00:03:00,079 Hell, yeah. 58 00:03:00,663 --> 00:03:02,290 Hey, F8, I got one for you. 59 00:03:02,373 --> 00:03:04,333 What's brown and sticky? 60 00:03:05,293 --> 00:03:07,795 Teratogenic coolant. Isonucleic residue. 61 00:03:07,878 --> 00:03:09,380 Boson-enriched nanopolymer. 62 00:03:10,131 --> 00:03:11,132 A stick. 63 00:03:12,967 --> 00:03:14,051 You get it? 64 00:03:14,885 --> 00:03:15,886 No. 65 00:03:20,599 --> 00:03:22,268 Dude creeps me out. 66 00:03:22,351 --> 00:03:24,312 Hey. He can hear you. 67 00:03:24,895 --> 00:03:25,896 And? 68 00:03:25,980 --> 00:03:28,607 You can't offend them. They're not people. 69 00:03:28,691 --> 00:03:32,111 And they can rip through solid titanium without breaking a sweat. 70 00:03:32,194 --> 00:03:34,322 What are you, his sister? 71 00:03:34,405 --> 00:03:35,698 Who raised you? 72 00:03:48,627 --> 00:03:51,964 I wish they'd go back to using uno amino matrices in the replicators. 73 00:03:52,048 --> 00:03:53,049 No kidding. 74 00:03:53,132 --> 00:03:55,343 Space pineapples again. 75 00:03:56,761 --> 00:03:58,804 I know what's brown and sticky. 76 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:02,391 This food is brown and sticky. 77 00:04:03,142 --> 00:04:06,312 Hey, that dude is lucky he doesn't have to eat this crap. 78 00:04:06,395 --> 00:04:08,272 Now, here is some brown sticky shit. 79 00:04:10,149 --> 00:04:11,692 Do you replicate flies with that too? 80 00:04:18,282 --> 00:04:19,450 What are you doing? 81 00:04:19,992 --> 00:04:21,202 Security alert. 82 00:04:21,285 --> 00:04:23,621 Multiple synthetic labor units have been compromised. 83 00:04:23,704 --> 00:04:24,789 Get away from there! 84 00:04:24,872 --> 00:04:28,751 Deflector shields down in all sectors of Utopia Planitia. 85 00:04:28,834 --> 00:04:30,503 - Repeat, security alert. - Shit! 86 00:04:31,003 --> 00:04:32,046 Multiple synthetic... 87 00:04:40,304 --> 00:04:42,848 Central, this is tri-hy station A19. 88 00:04:42,932 --> 00:04:45,017 Synth unit F8 has been compromised. 89 00:04:45,101 --> 00:04:46,227 We have a man down. 90 00:04:46,644 --> 00:04:48,270 Repeat, we have a man down. 91 00:04:52,024 --> 00:04:53,275 Stand down! 92 00:04:55,778 --> 00:04:57,863 Grid failure detected. 93 00:04:57,947 --> 00:05:00,658 Move immediately to designated safe zones. 94 00:05:01,742 --> 00:05:03,994 Security grid failure in progress. 95 00:05:04,829 --> 00:05:08,290 Containments have failed. Evacuate immediately. 96 00:05:08,374 --> 00:05:10,835 Orbital defense system compromised. 97 00:05:11,794 --> 00:05:14,505 Emergency evacuation protocol in effect. 98 00:05:15,464 --> 00:05:17,633 Cascade failure in progress. 99 00:07:15,751 --> 00:07:17,586 Surface scans negative. 100 00:07:17,670 --> 00:07:22,216 No matter or trace elements consistent with Dahj Asha are present. 101 00:07:22,299 --> 00:07:23,551 They erased her. 102 00:07:24,051 --> 00:07:26,053 And then they erased themselves. 103 00:07:26,136 --> 00:07:28,806 Well, it's certainly Tal Shiar's operational style, but... 104 00:07:28,889 --> 00:07:29,890 On Earth? 105 00:07:29,974 --> 00:07:32,142 Not even the Tal Shiar would have that audacity. 106 00:07:32,226 --> 00:07:33,477 Then who? 107 00:07:35,187 --> 00:07:36,522 It has to be. 108 00:07:37,189 --> 00:07:38,190 Zhat Vash. 109 00:07:39,316 --> 00:07:40,609 And here we go. 110 00:07:41,026 --> 00:07:42,528 What is "Zhat Vash"? 111 00:07:42,611 --> 00:07:44,071 A Tal Shiar myth. 112 00:07:45,114 --> 00:07:47,700 It's a kind of bogeyman they use to frighten new recruits. 113 00:07:48,075 --> 00:07:49,285 And children. 114 00:07:49,910 --> 00:07:51,120 Please explain. 115 00:07:51,537 --> 00:07:52,997 Here in the Federation, 116 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,166 you refer to the Tal Shiar as the Romulan secret police. 117 00:07:57,251 --> 00:07:58,961 But it's a bit redundant. 118 00:07:59,044 --> 00:08:02,881 You could put the word "secret" in front of almost any aspect of Romulan culture. 119 00:08:02,965 --> 00:08:05,551 I have heard, and I have reason to believe, 120 00:08:05,634 --> 00:08:10,014 that the Tal Shiar is merely a mask worn by another far older cabal, 121 00:08:10,097 --> 00:08:14,101 that before the Tal Shiar, there was the Zhat Vash. 122 00:08:16,562 --> 00:08:19,940 "Zhat Vash" is a term sometimes used to refer to the dead, 123 00:08:20,024 --> 00:08:22,401 the only reliable keepers of secrets. 124 00:08:22,484 --> 00:08:24,403 - Ominous. - No. Fitting. 125 00:08:24,486 --> 00:08:27,281 Because that's the sole purpose of the Zhat Vash... 126 00:08:29,950 --> 00:08:33,078 to keep a secret so profound and terrible, 127 00:08:33,162 --> 00:08:35,664 just learning it can break a person's mind. 128 00:08:42,296 --> 00:08:46,300 Are you sure she said that he was murdered here, in her apartment? 129 00:08:46,383 --> 00:08:47,635 She did. 130 00:08:48,677 --> 00:08:51,722 All apparent evidence to the contrary. 131 00:08:51,805 --> 00:08:54,475 Would it be foolish to ask what is the dread secret 132 00:08:54,558 --> 00:08:56,226 that the Zhat Vash are keeping? 133 00:08:56,310 --> 00:08:58,729 No one outside the Zhat Vash knows for sure. 134 00:08:59,313 --> 00:09:00,397 But I've heard whispers. 135 00:09:01,023 --> 00:09:04,610 Romulan methods of forensic molecular reconstruction 136 00:09:04,693 --> 00:09:06,487 are illegal in the Federation. 137 00:09:06,570 --> 00:09:08,072 Really? I had no idea. 138 00:09:08,155 --> 00:09:10,032 Yeah. They're also unreliable. 139 00:09:10,115 --> 00:09:13,702 And the results are dubious, at best. 140 00:09:13,786 --> 00:09:16,372 Yeah. That's exactly what we wanted you to think. 141 00:09:16,872 --> 00:09:18,290 When I was a new recruit, 142 00:09:18,374 --> 00:09:20,334 - one of my first handlers... - My mother. 143 00:09:20,417 --> 00:09:22,920 - ...got drunk on Romulan ale... - My father. 144 00:09:23,003 --> 00:09:26,715 ...and let slip that at the heart of the Zhat Vash mission 145 00:09:26,799 --> 00:09:29,635 was a deep unassuageable loathing. 146 00:09:29,718 --> 00:09:31,303 Loathing of whom? 147 00:09:31,887 --> 00:09:34,098 Not whom. What. 148 00:09:49,279 --> 00:09:51,073 - More wine? - Surprise me. 149 00:09:59,873 --> 00:10:02,167 Dahj, your replicator menus are tragic. 150 00:10:04,670 --> 00:10:07,131 It's extraordinary. 151 00:10:08,090 --> 00:10:11,802 It's said they operate without regard for treaty or jurisdiction, 152 00:10:11,885 --> 00:10:13,971 and not just in Romulan worlds, 153 00:10:14,054 --> 00:10:16,390 but in the Klingon empire, the Gorn hegemony, 154 00:10:16,473 --> 00:10:17,975 even the Federation itself, 155 00:10:18,058 --> 00:10:22,479 and that they have kept this secret for thousands upon thousands of years. 156 00:10:22,563 --> 00:10:24,189 Cheeky fuckers. 157 00:10:24,565 --> 00:10:26,817 They've overwritten the particle residuum. 158 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:28,152 Overwritten it? 159 00:10:28,235 --> 00:10:30,487 Yes, and in a very sophisticated way. 160 00:10:30,571 --> 00:10:32,614 It's barely detectable. 161 00:10:32,698 --> 00:10:34,992 It would read as instrument failure if you didn't know better. 162 00:10:35,075 --> 00:10:37,536 But it's not. It's a flat-out wipe. 163 00:10:37,619 --> 00:10:39,246 Can you recover it? 164 00:10:41,331 --> 00:10:43,709 Have you never noticed the complete absence 165 00:10:43,792 --> 00:10:46,587 of any form of artificial life in Romulan culture? 166 00:10:46,670 --> 00:10:50,257 We don't have androids or AIs. We don't study cybernetics. 167 00:10:50,340 --> 00:10:53,844 Our computers are limited to purely numerical functions. 168 00:10:53,927 --> 00:10:56,972 They must've saturated this place in antileptons. 169 00:10:57,055 --> 00:10:59,558 At no small risk to themselves, by the way. 170 00:11:00,309 --> 00:11:04,480 This place hasn't just been cleaned, Admiral. It's been scrubbed. 171 00:11:04,563 --> 00:11:07,775 Is that to be expected of your Zhat Vash? 172 00:11:07,858 --> 00:11:11,278 They're not my Zhat Vash. And I thought you didn't believe in them. 173 00:11:12,321 --> 00:11:14,114 I may be coming around. 174 00:11:15,365 --> 00:11:21,663 So, then all this is about the Zhat Vash's hatred of androids? 175 00:11:21,747 --> 00:11:23,624 It's not simply hate. 176 00:11:23,707 --> 00:11:30,130 It's hate and fear and pure loathing for any form of synthetic life. 177 00:11:30,672 --> 00:11:31,840 Why? 178 00:11:31,924 --> 00:11:34,009 That I can't tell you. I don't know. 179 00:11:34,718 --> 00:11:39,723 But I am certain that is the silence that seals the mouths of the Zhat Vash 180 00:11:39,807 --> 00:11:42,309 as surely and eternally as death. 181 00:11:42,392 --> 00:11:45,103 The operatives who did this wouldn't have wanted to leave the impression 182 00:11:45,187 --> 00:11:46,688 that the place had been scrubbed. 183 00:11:46,772 --> 00:11:50,275 We may find they've neglected something, 184 00:11:50,359 --> 00:11:56,448 some actual clue that lay tucked inside a false clue, as it were. 185 00:11:58,075 --> 00:12:00,160 Something like this, for example? 186 00:12:07,835 --> 00:12:11,588 There's no record of any incoming or outgoing calls. 187 00:12:11,672 --> 00:12:13,382 The information's there, 188 00:12:13,465 --> 00:12:15,968 but the indexes have been surgically deleted. 189 00:12:16,051 --> 00:12:17,761 There's no way to sort the data. 190 00:12:17,845 --> 00:12:22,975 Essentially, they've sterilized it so that it's qualitatively agnostic. 191 00:12:23,058 --> 00:12:26,144 There's no distinction. Everything looks like everything else. 192 00:12:26,228 --> 00:12:31,233 All we need is a record of any contact that she may have had with her sister. 193 00:12:31,316 --> 00:12:32,693 And no doubt it's in here, 194 00:12:32,776 --> 00:12:35,112 but it will look the same as everything else. 195 00:12:38,657 --> 00:12:41,827 No, it'll look like her. 196 00:12:42,619 --> 00:12:43,871 Like Dahj. 197 00:12:43,954 --> 00:12:45,956 What's her name? Dr. Jurati. 198 00:12:46,039 --> 00:12:48,667 She said that they would be identical twins, right? 199 00:12:48,750 --> 00:12:51,461 - Even closer than twins, perhaps. - Okay. 200 00:12:51,545 --> 00:12:54,798 So what's the first thing you do when you bring a new digital assistant online? 201 00:12:54,882 --> 00:12:56,466 - Introduce myself. - Exactly. 202 00:12:56,550 --> 00:12:58,635 Computers like efficiency. 203 00:12:58,719 --> 00:13:01,763 So what a computer does is build heuristics, 204 00:13:01,847 --> 00:13:04,558 shortcuts to the tasks it performs most often. 205 00:13:04,641 --> 00:13:07,144 You're saying that if they were indistinguishable, 206 00:13:07,227 --> 00:13:11,189 then the machine, at some point, could've mistaken the sister for Dahj. 207 00:13:11,273 --> 00:13:12,274 Exactly. 208 00:13:12,357 --> 00:13:15,777 And if it did, even for a few seconds before it flagged the error, 209 00:13:15,861 --> 00:13:18,822 then the tags might still be in here, 210 00:13:18,906 --> 00:13:22,242 overlooked by even the most diligent of scrubbers. 211 00:13:23,702 --> 00:13:24,745 Got you. 212 00:13:26,079 --> 00:13:27,080 Okay. 213 00:13:27,998 --> 00:13:29,374 These were all outgoing. 214 00:13:31,043 --> 00:13:33,879 These were incoming. 215 00:13:37,049 --> 00:13:38,133 It's her. 216 00:13:39,551 --> 00:13:41,428 Ghosts in the machine. 217 00:13:42,346 --> 00:13:44,640 Can you tell me where she is? 218 00:13:45,474 --> 00:13:46,600 No. 219 00:13:47,267 --> 00:13:49,019 But I can tell you where she isn't. 220 00:13:49,102 --> 00:13:54,232 Nonlocal information packets are routed through subspace relays. 221 00:13:54,316 --> 00:13:58,487 This routing leaves tiny but unmistakable code marks. 222 00:13:59,029 --> 00:14:00,322 Nonlocal? 223 00:14:00,405 --> 00:14:03,492 I am saying this transmission came from off-world. 224 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:08,538 Are you certain? 225 00:14:08,622 --> 00:14:11,208 Wherever this girl was calling her sister from, 226 00:14:11,667 --> 00:14:13,502 it's nowhere on Earth. 227 00:14:23,553 --> 00:14:24,638 Beautiful? 228 00:14:26,431 --> 00:14:29,226 No one's ever said that before about a Borg cube. 229 00:14:32,062 --> 00:14:34,982 This isn't the Borg cube, Narek. It's the Artifact. 230 00:14:36,608 --> 00:14:39,528 The Borg cube is mighty and omnipotent. 231 00:14:44,825 --> 00:14:46,827 The Artifact is lost... 232 00:14:48,912 --> 00:14:50,539 severed from the Collective... 233 00:14:51,748 --> 00:14:53,875 broken, vulnerable. 234 00:14:55,460 --> 00:14:58,130 You find vulnerability and brokenness beautiful? 235 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,300 Is that strange, to find beauty in imperfection? 236 00:15:03,260 --> 00:15:04,845 Certainly not very Romulan. 237 00:15:05,637 --> 00:15:09,433 But then, there's nothing very Romulan about this place at all. 238 00:15:09,516 --> 00:15:11,309 Apart from the current owners 239 00:15:12,019 --> 00:15:16,440 and the profits you extract from the exploitation of Borg technology. 240 00:15:16,523 --> 00:15:18,275 Are you a subversive, Dr. Asha, 241 00:15:18,358 --> 00:15:21,987 sent by our enemies to foment revolution among the researchers? 242 00:15:22,070 --> 00:15:23,321 Yes, I am. 243 00:15:24,031 --> 00:15:27,242 But it's too late now. You already slept with me. 244 00:15:27,325 --> 00:15:29,995 That makes you an accessory to my plot. 245 00:15:32,122 --> 00:15:33,582 Clearly... 246 00:15:35,542 --> 00:15:37,502 I'll have to silence you. 247 00:15:45,761 --> 00:15:46,845 Try it. 248 00:16:00,567 --> 00:16:01,985 Time for work. 249 00:16:02,944 --> 00:16:05,113 Yeah. Me too. 250 00:16:05,197 --> 00:16:08,325 Oh, you have a job? Thought you were just some Romulan lounge lizard. 251 00:16:08,408 --> 00:16:09,951 Oh, we all have our part to play. 252 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:13,413 Can I ask you a question? 253 00:16:13,497 --> 00:16:16,208 Sure. Just don't expect an answer. 254 00:16:16,875 --> 00:16:19,586 Are we allowed to be sleeping together, or is that a secret? 255 00:16:20,587 --> 00:16:22,130 Very much the latter. 256 00:16:23,673 --> 00:16:25,717 Is everything Romulans do a secret? 257 00:16:25,801 --> 00:16:28,261 Oh, I'm not at liberty to divulge that. 258 00:16:28,345 --> 00:16:30,388 Is your name actually Narek? 259 00:16:30,889 --> 00:16:32,057 It's one of them. 260 00:16:33,141 --> 00:16:36,019 So, is there anything you can tell me about yourself? 261 00:16:36,937 --> 00:16:37,938 Yes. 262 00:16:39,147 --> 00:16:42,150 I'm a very private person. 263 00:16:45,612 --> 00:16:49,449 So, see you at the checkpoint? 264 00:16:49,533 --> 00:16:52,327 - Oh, really? - I need to see how it works. 265 00:16:53,328 --> 00:16:56,081 In your new capacity as? 266 00:16:56,665 --> 00:16:58,875 Can you keep a secret? 267 00:16:59,626 --> 00:17:00,627 Yes. 268 00:17:01,336 --> 00:17:02,337 Good. 269 00:17:07,801 --> 00:17:09,094 So can I. 270 00:17:24,609 --> 00:17:26,611 He said I'd find you out here. 271 00:17:26,695 --> 00:17:29,197 - Moritz. - Hello, Jean-Luc. 272 00:17:33,618 --> 00:17:36,913 It's been a very long time. 273 00:17:37,497 --> 00:17:38,665 Too long. 274 00:17:39,332 --> 00:17:42,252 I know there was a bit of trouble with the remote med-scan, 275 00:17:42,335 --> 00:17:44,671 but I hardly expected a house call. 276 00:17:45,172 --> 00:17:46,506 Let me just... 277 00:17:47,257 --> 00:17:48,508 Your office told me 278 00:17:48,592 --> 00:17:52,721 they would be forwarding the certificate for interstellar service 279 00:17:52,804 --> 00:17:54,890 as soon as you had seen the results. 280 00:18:00,228 --> 00:18:01,688 Oh, I see. 281 00:18:01,771 --> 00:18:04,024 You might want something stronger. 282 00:18:10,488 --> 00:18:11,781 Your med-scan came in 283 00:18:11,865 --> 00:18:15,327 at or above Starfleet minimums in every category. 284 00:18:15,410 --> 00:18:18,121 Cardiovascular. Metabolic. Cognitive. 285 00:18:18,205 --> 00:18:20,582 For a relic, you're in excellent shape. 286 00:18:21,541 --> 00:18:25,795 Just that little abnormality in the parietal lobe. 287 00:18:26,213 --> 00:18:32,802 I was told a long time ago that it might cause a problem eventually. 288 00:18:32,886 --> 00:18:36,765 Loss of appetite, mood swings, unsettling dreams? 289 00:18:39,476 --> 00:18:44,731 Inappropriate displays of anger on interplanetary news holos. 290 00:18:47,984 --> 00:18:49,194 What do you think it is? 291 00:18:49,277 --> 00:18:51,655 I'd need to run more tests. 292 00:18:51,738 --> 00:18:54,783 It could be one of a number of related syndromes. 293 00:18:54,866 --> 00:18:56,201 Prognosis? 294 00:18:59,371 --> 00:19:02,999 Come on. Let's have it, Dr. Benayoun. 295 00:19:04,834 --> 00:19:09,047 A few are treatable, but they all end the same way... 296 00:19:10,215 --> 00:19:11,758 some sooner than others. 297 00:19:14,636 --> 00:19:15,637 I see. 298 00:19:25,355 --> 00:19:30,277 I need you to certify me to Starfleet 299 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:33,154 as fit for interstellar service. 300 00:19:35,407 --> 00:19:36,992 Now, will you do it? 301 00:19:38,952 --> 00:19:41,496 I don't suppose you'd condescend to tell me why? 302 00:19:43,707 --> 00:19:45,041 Secret mission? 303 00:19:45,667 --> 00:19:48,670 We certainly had our share of those on the Stargazer, didn't we? 304 00:19:49,337 --> 00:19:51,631 Remember that time in the fire forest on Calyx... 305 00:19:51,715 --> 00:19:53,633 Dr. Benayoun. 306 00:19:53,717 --> 00:19:54,926 Forgive me. 307 00:19:56,469 --> 00:20:00,974 You really want to go back out into the cold, knowing? 308 00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:05,103 More than ever, knowing. 309 00:20:10,525 --> 00:20:13,528 I don't know what kind of trouble you're planning to get into. 310 00:20:14,321 --> 00:20:15,822 Maybe if you're lucky, 311 00:20:16,656 --> 00:20:18,283 it will kill you first. 312 00:20:51,149 --> 00:20:54,402 All visitors must report to main security desk. 313 00:20:54,486 --> 00:20:57,489 All visitors must report to main security desk. 314 00:21:01,451 --> 00:21:03,536 Admiral Kurti, please report to conference room B. 315 00:21:04,204 --> 00:21:07,374 Admiral Kurti, please report to conference room B. 316 00:21:07,457 --> 00:21:08,458 Hello. 317 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,796 I have a meeting with the CNC. I have an appointment. 318 00:21:12,879 --> 00:21:13,880 Of course, sir. 319 00:21:16,591 --> 00:21:18,676 May I have your name, please, sir? 320 00:21:19,552 --> 00:21:22,222 Oh, um... Picard. 321 00:21:22,305 --> 00:21:25,225 P-I-C-A-R-D. 322 00:21:25,308 --> 00:21:26,309 Jean-Luc. 323 00:21:26,851 --> 00:21:28,061 Ah. 324 00:21:28,144 --> 00:21:30,105 It's nice to see you up and around, Admiral. 325 00:21:30,188 --> 00:21:31,231 Welcome back. 326 00:21:33,942 --> 00:21:35,735 Come. 327 00:21:38,780 --> 00:21:40,031 Jean-Luc. 328 00:21:40,115 --> 00:21:41,199 Kirsten. 329 00:21:42,325 --> 00:21:43,326 Hello. 330 00:21:43,910 --> 00:21:44,911 May I? 331 00:21:48,289 --> 00:21:51,251 Apparently you have urgent Federation business. 332 00:21:51,334 --> 00:21:53,837 I understood you to have left affairs of state behind. 333 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,215 I am staying as far from it all as I can. 334 00:21:57,298 --> 00:21:59,843 - So, then what can I do for you? - Bruce Maddox. 335 00:21:59,926 --> 00:22:01,010 What about him? 336 00:22:01,094 --> 00:22:07,183 I believe that he is using neurons from the late Commander Data 337 00:22:07,267 --> 00:22:10,311 to create a new organic synthetic. 338 00:22:11,438 --> 00:22:14,023 Well, that's not far from all of it. It is all of it. 339 00:22:14,107 --> 00:22:16,276 The Romulans are involved. 340 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:17,819 This gets better and better. 341 00:22:17,902 --> 00:22:22,073 Commander Data was not only my colleague, he was my dear friend. 342 00:22:22,699 --> 00:22:26,870 And he gave his life, body and soul to the Federation. 343 00:22:26,953 --> 00:22:32,125 And if there is a chance that some part of him still exists, 344 00:22:32,667 --> 00:22:35,503 then I think we have an obligation to investigate... 345 00:22:35,587 --> 00:22:37,505 There is no "we," Jean-Luc. 346 00:22:37,589 --> 00:22:38,590 Kirsten. 347 00:22:39,382 --> 00:22:42,218 I know we have not always seen eye-to-eye. 348 00:22:42,302 --> 00:22:44,888 Nevertheless, I have a request to make. 349 00:22:44,971 --> 00:22:49,058 Based on my years of service, I want you to reinstate me, 350 00:22:49,726 --> 00:22:52,479 temporarily, for one mission. 351 00:22:52,562 --> 00:22:57,817 I will need a small warp-capable reconnaissance ship with a minimal crew. 352 00:22:57,901 --> 00:23:01,696 And if you feel that my rank makes me too conspicuous, 353 00:23:01,779 --> 00:23:05,325 well, then, I am content to be demoted to captain. 354 00:23:08,328 --> 00:23:10,872 The sheer fucking hubris. 355 00:23:11,498 --> 00:23:13,082 You think you could waltz back in here 356 00:23:13,166 --> 00:23:15,919 and be entrusted with taking men and women into space? 357 00:23:16,002 --> 00:23:18,087 Don't you think I was watching the holo the other day, 358 00:23:18,171 --> 00:23:19,756 along with everyone else in the galaxy? 359 00:23:19,839 --> 00:23:21,591 I should not have spoken in public. 360 00:23:21,674 --> 00:23:23,927 The Romulans were our enemies. 361 00:23:24,010 --> 00:23:26,221 And we tried to help them for as long as we could. 362 00:23:26,304 --> 00:23:29,098 But even before the synthetics attacked Mars, 363 00:23:29,182 --> 00:23:31,809 14 species within the Federation said 364 00:23:31,893 --> 00:23:34,187 "Cut the Romulans loose or we'll pull out." 365 00:23:34,270 --> 00:23:37,357 It was a choice between allowing the Federation to implode 366 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:38,733 or letting the Romulans go. 367 00:23:38,816 --> 00:23:42,987 The Federation does not get to decide if a species lives or dies. 368 00:23:43,071 --> 00:23:45,281 Yes, we do. We absolutely do. 369 00:23:45,782 --> 00:23:50,203 Thousands of other species depend upon us for unity, for cohesion. 370 00:23:50,286 --> 00:23:52,288 We didn't have enough ships left. 371 00:23:52,372 --> 00:23:53,831 We had to make choices. 372 00:23:53,915 --> 00:23:56,251 But the great Captain Picard didn't like his orders. 373 00:23:56,334 --> 00:23:59,963 I was standing up for the Federation, for what it represents, 374 00:24:00,046 --> 00:24:02,382 for what it should still represent! 375 00:24:02,465 --> 00:24:04,342 How dare you lecture me? 376 00:24:04,425 --> 00:24:06,886 Ignore me again at your cost. 377 00:24:06,970 --> 00:24:10,223 - My cost? - You are in peril, Admiral. 378 00:24:10,306 --> 00:24:12,183 There's no peril here. 379 00:24:12,642 --> 00:24:16,729 Only the pitiable delusions of a once-great man desperate to matter. 380 00:24:17,230 --> 00:24:19,941 This is no longer your house, Jean-Luc. 381 00:24:20,024 --> 00:24:23,361 So do what you're good at. Go home. 382 00:24:25,697 --> 00:24:27,490 Request denied. 383 00:24:39,836 --> 00:24:41,588 All those entering the Gray Zone 384 00:24:41,671 --> 00:24:43,756 are required to wear protective gear. 385 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,467 Security badges must be visible at all times. 386 00:24:50,597 --> 00:24:52,098 Here, let me help you with that. 387 00:24:54,767 --> 00:24:56,185 So embarrassing. 388 00:24:58,896 --> 00:25:01,399 Are you new here? Haven't seen you around. 389 00:25:01,482 --> 00:25:02,400 Yesterday. 390 00:25:02,483 --> 00:25:04,986 My residency was supposed to start six months ago, 391 00:25:05,069 --> 00:25:07,989 but the Romulan Free State revoked it when I was halfway here. 392 00:25:08,072 --> 00:25:11,784 I have no idea why or why they finally reinstated it. 393 00:25:11,868 --> 00:25:13,536 Well, that sounds about right. 394 00:25:16,748 --> 00:25:20,668 They still don't have a clear idea of how much damage this Cube sustained. 395 00:25:20,752 --> 00:25:23,880 Or maybe they do, and they just aren't telling. 396 00:25:24,464 --> 00:25:27,467 Anyway, you don't want to cross over into the Gray Zone without this turned on. 397 00:25:29,594 --> 00:25:31,679 Don't worry. You're gonna be fine. 398 00:25:39,312 --> 00:25:42,148 Morning, and welcome to Ops Cycle 9834. 399 00:25:42,231 --> 00:25:43,107 Here we go. 400 00:25:43,816 --> 00:25:46,736 As guests of the Borg Artifact Research Institute, 401 00:25:46,819 --> 00:25:48,946 your safety is important to us. 402 00:25:49,030 --> 00:25:53,117 You are standing inside one of the most destructive weapons ever known. 403 00:25:53,201 --> 00:25:56,537 And though no longer active, it remains potentially dangerous. 404 00:25:56,954 --> 00:25:59,999 Please don't venture outside of your designated research area. 405 00:26:00,375 --> 00:26:04,212 Assume that any fixture or instrument not personally known to be benign 406 00:26:04,295 --> 00:26:05,797 is malignant. 407 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,423 Romulans are into drama. 408 00:26:09,133 --> 00:26:11,094 You may not remove any object. 409 00:26:11,177 --> 00:26:12,428 Who is that? 410 00:26:12,512 --> 00:26:15,306 That's Narek. He's new here too. 411 00:26:16,265 --> 00:26:18,226 I didn't know Romulans could be so hot. 412 00:26:21,771 --> 00:26:23,398 Me either. 413 00:26:23,481 --> 00:26:24,565 While in the Gray Zone, 414 00:26:24,649 --> 00:26:28,695 you are likely to encounter former members of the Borg Collective. 415 00:26:29,070 --> 00:26:30,863 Are you researching the xBs? 416 00:26:31,656 --> 00:26:32,949 It's a little more hands-on. 417 00:26:33,032 --> 00:26:37,954 And if your gradient badge starts to blink green, run. 418 00:26:39,997 --> 00:26:41,416 Don't worry about it. 419 00:26:53,386 --> 00:26:54,971 Narek, this is... 420 00:26:55,054 --> 00:26:57,974 Dr. Naàshala Kunamadèstifee of Trill Polytech. 421 00:26:58,057 --> 00:27:00,601 The Institute is eager to see your work bear fruit, Doctor. 422 00:27:00,685 --> 00:27:04,272 How likely is the Collective to re-establish a link to your Borg? 423 00:27:04,355 --> 00:27:07,608 Is it really wise to release them? 424 00:27:07,692 --> 00:27:10,445 Well, they're former Borg. And we're not releasing them. 425 00:27:10,528 --> 00:27:12,572 - We're reclaiming them. - There's really no danger. 426 00:27:12,655 --> 00:27:14,782 When a Cube undergoes submatrix collapse, 427 00:27:14,866 --> 00:27:17,702 the Collective immediately severs its link to the afflicted population. 428 00:27:18,202 --> 00:27:21,789 As far as the Collective are concerned, this is just a graveyard. 429 00:27:21,873 --> 00:27:23,332 And what does that make us? 430 00:27:23,416 --> 00:27:25,501 The same as you find in any graveyard. 431 00:27:25,585 --> 00:27:29,297 Some have come to feed on the dead. Some are ghosts. 432 00:27:29,380 --> 00:27:33,259 And a few, like you, Dr. Asha, pin their hopes on resurrection. 433 00:27:39,807 --> 00:27:41,934 May I join you for the procedure? 434 00:27:43,060 --> 00:27:44,604 I'd like to see you work. 435 00:27:45,313 --> 00:27:46,731 That's not up to me. 436 00:27:46,814 --> 00:27:50,067 You need approval from the Director of the Borg Reclamation Project. 437 00:27:51,152 --> 00:27:53,946 Hmm. Actually, I don't. 438 00:28:03,581 --> 00:28:06,876 Ah, you have a taste for the classics, I see. 439 00:28:08,628 --> 00:28:11,506 I never really cared for science fiction. 440 00:28:12,215 --> 00:28:15,176 I guess I just didn't get it. 441 00:28:18,513 --> 00:28:21,224 - Well, thank you for coming over. - Yeah. 442 00:28:21,307 --> 00:28:24,352 It was hard to tear myself away from the action at my lab, but... 443 00:28:25,186 --> 00:28:28,147 Um, your preference? We have a selection. 444 00:28:29,023 --> 00:28:30,024 Earl Grey? 445 00:28:30,942 --> 00:28:33,110 I knew there was something about you. 446 00:28:35,488 --> 00:28:39,700 I've gathered up everything I could find from Maddox's tenure at the Institute. 447 00:28:39,784 --> 00:28:42,995 Most of what was there got black-boxed after he disappeared, 448 00:28:43,079 --> 00:28:46,040 but they left some of the ancillary stuff untouched. 449 00:28:46,582 --> 00:28:48,042 I was thinking about the painting. 450 00:28:48,543 --> 00:28:50,920 Bruce and Data were friends, after a fashion. 451 00:28:51,003 --> 00:28:54,882 If Bruce is using Data's neurons to make more synths, 452 00:28:54,966 --> 00:28:58,511 it would make sense to model them after the painting Data made. 453 00:28:58,594 --> 00:28:59,637 Indeed. 454 00:29:00,972 --> 00:29:03,808 I also did a little digging into Dahj Asha. 455 00:29:04,475 --> 00:29:07,061 You were right. She was accepted at Daystrom. 456 00:29:07,144 --> 00:29:09,355 In fact, she was the perfect candidate. 457 00:29:09,438 --> 00:29:12,108 In hindsight, a little too perfect. 458 00:29:12,191 --> 00:29:14,652 Her credentials were bogus. 459 00:29:14,735 --> 00:29:16,445 It's more insidious than that. 460 00:29:16,529 --> 00:29:17,905 I checked with Regulus. 461 00:29:17,989 --> 00:29:21,826 Their records show she was enrolled there, and her grade transcripts are on file. 462 00:29:21,909 --> 00:29:23,744 So, she was what she claimed to be? 463 00:29:23,828 --> 00:29:25,997 She was a complete work of fiction. 464 00:29:27,248 --> 00:29:30,751 There's no record of her having actually attended R3SA. 465 00:29:31,919 --> 00:29:33,629 I'm no forensics maven, 466 00:29:33,713 --> 00:29:38,342 but my sense is that her entire identity was built all at once 467 00:29:38,426 --> 00:29:39,594 about three years ago. 468 00:29:39,677 --> 00:29:41,846 By whom? Bruce Maddox? 469 00:29:42,346 --> 00:29:44,140 He certainly had the ability. 470 00:29:44,223 --> 00:29:46,225 - Motive? - I don't know. 471 00:29:47,727 --> 00:29:52,106 People in the synthetic humanoid field tend to get a little secret-planny. 472 00:29:53,774 --> 00:29:56,152 - Milk? - Yes, please. Thank you. 473 00:30:03,117 --> 00:30:04,201 There you go. 474 00:30:04,285 --> 00:30:05,286 Oh, thank you. 475 00:30:07,538 --> 00:30:10,291 It breaks my heart that I never got a chance to meet her. 476 00:30:10,833 --> 00:30:12,668 Such a wondrous thing. 477 00:30:13,586 --> 00:30:18,090 And the damn Romulans just wiped her away. 478 00:30:21,052 --> 00:30:25,890 You asked me what the plan was, what she was after at Daystrom. 479 00:30:26,474 --> 00:30:29,310 I don't think that's the most relevant question right now. 480 00:30:29,393 --> 00:30:31,604 I think the question you should be trying to answer is... 481 00:30:31,687 --> 00:30:33,439 "What about the other one?" 482 00:30:34,565 --> 00:30:36,734 If she is really out there, 483 00:30:36,817 --> 00:30:39,904 and if the Romulans haven't gotten to her too... 484 00:30:41,364 --> 00:30:43,074 then where is she? 485 00:30:43,157 --> 00:30:44,533 And what is she after? 486 00:30:55,211 --> 00:30:59,882 Continuing procedure on patient 8923 stroke three. 487 00:30:59,966 --> 00:31:01,217 One of the Nameless. 488 00:31:03,928 --> 00:31:06,931 Time in regenestasis, 14 years. 489 00:31:07,014 --> 00:31:09,684 Arm implant was successfully removed. 490 00:31:14,855 --> 00:31:17,900 Initiating ocular harvest procedure on Nameless. 491 00:31:19,735 --> 00:31:22,238 You know I hate it when you use that term. 492 00:31:26,659 --> 00:31:28,411 You may have mentioned that once. 493 00:31:29,078 --> 00:31:30,955 Why do you call them the Nameless? 494 00:31:31,956 --> 00:31:34,625 Their species had a name. We just don't know what it was. 495 00:31:35,459 --> 00:31:37,086 Nameless is a name. 496 00:31:43,551 --> 00:31:45,678 Removing ocular processing core. 497 00:31:54,645 --> 00:31:57,732 Tertiary mandible implant. Containment complete. 498 00:31:58,482 --> 00:32:00,276 Tagged for level ten storage. 499 00:32:04,864 --> 00:32:06,532 Tagged for level one disposal. 500 00:32:07,408 --> 00:32:09,452 You are free now, my friend. 501 00:33:10,971 --> 00:33:12,723 Raffi, it's Jean-Luc. 502 00:33:12,807 --> 00:33:15,434 Please don't hang up. I need your help. 503 00:33:16,769 --> 00:33:18,687 I need a ship. 504 00:33:34,203 --> 00:33:35,913 Picard again? 505 00:33:35,996 --> 00:33:40,000 And we all thought that he was safely mothballed on that vineyard of his. 506 00:33:40,084 --> 00:33:43,087 All these years, the hermit of La Barre. 507 00:33:43,170 --> 00:33:45,464 Now suddenly he is inescapable. 508 00:33:45,548 --> 00:33:47,424 That's one word for what he is. 509 00:33:47,508 --> 00:33:50,636 Going on and on about advanced synthetics, Bruce Maddox and... 510 00:33:50,719 --> 00:33:52,388 Bruce Maddox? 511 00:33:52,471 --> 00:33:54,849 - Is he still alive? - Does it even matter? 512 00:33:54,932 --> 00:33:56,225 And then there was this wild talk 513 00:33:56,308 --> 00:33:59,478 about clandestine Romulan anti-synth ops here on Earth. 514 00:33:59,562 --> 00:34:00,813 It was just... 515 00:34:02,231 --> 00:34:03,482 It was just sad. 516 00:34:03,566 --> 00:34:06,277 One might be even inclined to say tragic. 517 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,530 Admiral Clancy, I know I need hardly remind you, 518 00:34:09,613 --> 00:34:13,617 if the Romulans were running clandestine operations on Earth, 519 00:34:13,701 --> 00:34:15,035 I would know. 520 00:34:15,786 --> 00:34:17,413 And then you would know. 521 00:34:17,830 --> 00:34:19,707 And then all of Starfleet would know, 522 00:34:19,790 --> 00:34:24,170 because clearly that would be an overt and intolerable act of war. 523 00:34:24,253 --> 00:34:25,254 Of course. 524 00:34:25,337 --> 00:34:27,423 Look, Commodore, obviously there's nothing to it, 525 00:34:27,506 --> 00:34:31,260 but I thought I'd better check, out of an excess of caution, as they say. 526 00:34:31,343 --> 00:34:33,012 - Just look into it. - Of course. 527 00:34:36,682 --> 00:34:39,268 Lieutenant Rizzo to me, please. 528 00:34:39,351 --> 00:34:40,352 What? 529 00:34:41,187 --> 00:34:42,479 Have you gone mad? 530 00:34:42,563 --> 00:34:44,315 - Is it dementia? - I beg your pardon? 531 00:34:44,398 --> 00:34:46,358 Sorry, but you're not a stupid man, 532 00:34:46,442 --> 00:34:50,446 so when I hear you say such a stupid idea, I have to ask for other explanations. 533 00:34:51,197 --> 00:34:52,448 Well, how about this? 534 00:34:53,032 --> 00:34:57,203 The daughter of the man whose death I have been mourning for two decades 535 00:34:57,286 --> 00:34:59,622 comes to me for help and assistance. 536 00:34:59,705 --> 00:35:04,877 And then she is assassinated in front of my eyes by a Romulan death squad 537 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:09,298 who will then go and try and find and destroy her twin sister. 538 00:35:10,507 --> 00:35:14,511 And you want me to sit here worrying what to do about the spittlebugs on the pinots? 539 00:35:14,595 --> 00:35:16,388 I want you not to die. 540 00:35:16,472 --> 00:35:19,516 No one but the Tal Shiar could ever protect you against the Tal Shiar. 541 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,561 She's not wrong. You can't go without us. 542 00:35:23,145 --> 00:35:26,565 Idiot! He cannot go at all. He's only safe here. 543 00:35:26,649 --> 00:35:28,776 He knows about them. They have to eliminate him. 544 00:35:28,859 --> 00:35:31,820 Nevertheless, I have to go. 545 00:35:32,238 --> 00:35:33,906 Go where? Go how? 546 00:35:34,573 --> 00:35:38,202 Well, I will get a ship, and I will find Bruce Maddox, 547 00:35:38,285 --> 00:35:39,620 wherever he is. 548 00:35:39,703 --> 00:35:42,623 Laris, I have to do this. 549 00:35:43,207 --> 00:35:46,335 I don't yet fully understand all of it, 550 00:35:46,418 --> 00:35:48,504 but I know that it's important, 551 00:35:48,587 --> 00:35:49,797 and not only to me. 552 00:35:50,214 --> 00:35:52,716 No, of course, if it's important to Jean-Luc Picard, 553 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,843 it must be important to the whole galaxy. 554 00:35:56,053 --> 00:35:57,096 Go. 555 00:35:58,305 --> 00:35:59,682 And take that one with you! 556 00:36:00,224 --> 00:36:01,600 You can die together. 557 00:36:05,688 --> 00:36:08,857 Laris understands. She's afraid for you. That's all. 558 00:36:08,941 --> 00:36:10,442 I know that. 559 00:36:10,526 --> 00:36:13,487 But you have to stay here with her. 560 00:36:14,029 --> 00:36:17,574 The grapes are far more in need of protection than I am. 561 00:36:18,117 --> 00:36:20,744 And it's less than a month to the harvest. 562 00:36:20,828 --> 00:36:22,788 But you can't do it alone. 563 00:36:22,871 --> 00:36:25,374 - You need help. You need protection. - Yeah. 564 00:36:25,457 --> 00:36:29,545 You need a crew. Riker. Worf. La Forge. Hmm? 565 00:36:30,921 --> 00:36:33,007 No. 566 00:36:33,924 --> 00:36:35,009 I thought about it. 567 00:36:35,092 --> 00:36:37,511 And they would do it in a heartbeat, 568 00:36:37,594 --> 00:36:40,889 and that's precisely why I cannot ask them. 569 00:36:40,973 --> 00:36:44,184 They would put themselves at risk out of loyalty to me, 570 00:36:44,268 --> 00:36:47,563 and I do not want to have to go through that again. 571 00:36:48,397 --> 00:36:49,398 Okay. 572 00:36:49,815 --> 00:36:53,444 You need someone who hates you and has nothing to lose. 573 00:36:54,778 --> 00:36:56,739 I've already made the call. 574 00:37:02,453 --> 00:37:04,288 Come. 575 00:37:07,875 --> 00:37:09,543 You wanted to see me, Commodore? 576 00:37:10,210 --> 00:37:12,046 Take a look at this. 577 00:37:12,129 --> 00:37:14,256 Does that look like disrupter fire? 578 00:37:14,715 --> 00:37:15,883 There. 579 00:37:16,675 --> 00:37:18,177 Reflected in the handrail. 580 00:37:19,011 --> 00:37:20,346 Not to me, no. 581 00:37:23,724 --> 00:37:25,726 Admiral Clancy just called. 582 00:37:25,809 --> 00:37:27,811 Jean-Luc Picard came to see her. 583 00:37:27,895 --> 00:37:32,399 He has information about clandestine Romulan ops here on Earth. 584 00:37:32,483 --> 00:37:35,194 He referred to Zhat Vash by name. 585 00:37:35,277 --> 00:37:37,946 He was trying to persuade her to give him a ship 586 00:37:38,030 --> 00:37:40,616 and let him go after Dr. Bruce Maddox. 587 00:37:40,699 --> 00:37:43,452 Although she did not mention that last part 588 00:37:43,535 --> 00:37:45,662 nor the talk about Zhat Vash. 589 00:37:45,746 --> 00:37:49,249 - Then how do you know? - Do not insult me, Lieutenant. 590 00:37:49,333 --> 00:37:52,044 It would not be advantageous for your career. 591 00:37:53,587 --> 00:37:54,963 Apologies, Commodore. 592 00:37:55,047 --> 00:37:56,632 This is unexpected. 593 00:37:56,715 --> 00:37:59,968 A dirty word in our line of work. 594 00:38:00,052 --> 00:38:01,804 Perhaps the worst word of all. 595 00:38:02,221 --> 00:38:04,723 So, you need me to take care of Picard? 596 00:38:05,849 --> 00:38:08,060 Your zeal and passion are commendable, 597 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,647 but they are very nearly overbalanced by your impatience. 598 00:38:12,022 --> 00:38:16,485 There is a fundamental aptness in the word "undercover" 599 00:38:17,444 --> 00:38:19,822 which you have yet to fully absorb. 600 00:38:19,905 --> 00:38:22,116 So I won't take care of him impatiently. 601 00:38:23,158 --> 00:38:25,077 I'll make it last as long as you like. 602 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,997 Clancy has discouraged him adequately, I believe. 603 00:38:29,623 --> 00:38:31,959 And if the need arises, 604 00:38:32,793 --> 00:38:35,003 I will take care of Picard. 605 00:38:35,087 --> 00:38:37,673 I want you to stay on mission. 606 00:38:37,756 --> 00:38:40,467 You made a shambles of the operation here. 607 00:38:40,551 --> 00:38:44,304 Your team destroyed the thing before it could be interrogated 608 00:38:44,388 --> 00:38:46,181 and nearly blew our cover. 609 00:38:46,723 --> 00:38:48,976 We have one more opportunity. 610 00:38:49,059 --> 00:38:51,603 Do not squander it. 611 00:38:52,896 --> 00:38:53,981 Of course. 612 00:38:54,857 --> 00:38:58,610 - I've put my best man on it. - Have you? I worry about that one. 613 00:38:59,736 --> 00:39:03,449 He too has a troubling penchant for the unexpected. 614 00:39:03,532 --> 00:39:06,618 And I have had just about my fill of surprises, Lieutenant. 615 00:39:06,702 --> 00:39:08,662 Do I make myself clear? 616 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,458 I will vouch for him with my life. 617 00:39:12,541 --> 00:39:15,377 Indeed. You will. 618 00:39:15,461 --> 00:39:19,715 Which is why I strongly recommend that you manage this case in person. 619 00:39:20,799 --> 00:39:21,800 Of course. 620 00:39:21,884 --> 00:39:25,053 Everything is at stake. 621 00:39:25,137 --> 00:39:27,514 See that he does not fail. 622 00:39:28,182 --> 00:39:30,893 See that neither of you does. 623 00:39:53,248 --> 00:39:56,001 You can turn around and call that cab 624 00:39:56,084 --> 00:39:58,504 to take you right back where you came from. 625 00:39:58,587 --> 00:40:00,297 I just want to talk. 626 00:40:00,380 --> 00:40:03,383 There isn't anything you could say that I wanna hear. 627 00:40:06,345 --> 00:40:09,515 Secret Romulan assassins are operating on Earth. 628 00:40:12,559 --> 00:40:13,936 Is that the '86? 629 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:22,653 Goddamn it. 630 00:40:40,128 --> 00:40:42,256 - Nice of you to knock. - Why start now? 631 00:40:44,174 --> 00:40:46,718 How's life in Starfleet, Lieutenant Rizzo? 632 00:40:47,803 --> 00:40:51,139 That ridiculous disguise and round ears. 633 00:40:51,223 --> 00:40:53,183 - You look like a plucked wakak. - Shut up. 634 00:40:54,476 --> 00:40:56,186 - Any progress? - Yes. 635 00:40:56,270 --> 00:40:58,730 Slow, but I'm still confident 636 00:40:58,814 --> 00:41:01,775 that my approach, which you approved, is the only sound approach. 637 00:41:01,858 --> 00:41:04,069 I hope that confidence is not misguided. 638 00:41:04,152 --> 00:41:06,822 If your approach doesn't start paying off very soon, 639 00:41:06,905 --> 00:41:10,367 I'll be obliged to un-approve it, for both our sakes. 640 00:41:12,202 --> 00:41:14,288 Commodore Oh is quite distressed. 641 00:41:14,871 --> 00:41:17,207 She has been a useful ally for a long time. 642 00:41:17,291 --> 00:41:19,042 I can't have her turning on us. 643 00:41:20,043 --> 00:41:22,588 - When I arrive... - When you arrive? 644 00:41:24,006 --> 00:41:25,424 I'm on top of it. 645 00:41:30,721 --> 00:41:32,264 So it would seem. 646 00:41:33,181 --> 00:41:34,808 Have you found the nest? 647 00:41:34,891 --> 00:41:38,270 Has the machine given up the location of its fellow abominations? 648 00:41:39,896 --> 00:41:42,065 Really, has it told you anything at all? 649 00:41:45,861 --> 00:41:49,573 Grave reservations have been expressed about your approach, baby brother. 650 00:41:49,656 --> 00:41:52,701 I don't have to tell you the stakes couldn't be higher. 651 00:41:52,784 --> 00:41:54,411 Oh has reservations... 652 00:41:55,495 --> 00:41:57,706 profound reservations. 653 00:41:58,206 --> 00:42:01,251 There is no one whose survival matters more to me than yours. 654 00:42:03,712 --> 00:42:05,255 Except my own. 655 00:42:06,715 --> 00:42:10,177 If you've made no progress by the time I get there, 656 00:42:11,053 --> 00:42:14,348 I will have no choice but to try my approach, 657 00:42:14,848 --> 00:42:17,225 unfortunate as it may have been. 658 00:42:19,311 --> 00:42:21,188 If there is another such disaster... 659 00:42:22,189 --> 00:42:25,150 it will undoubtedly consume you and me too.