1 00:00:01,335 --> 00:00:03,135 [narrator] Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: 2 00:00:03,170 --> 00:00:05,332 [Georgiou] So, we're going to the Ninth Circle of Hell 3 00:00:05,422 --> 00:00:06,788 to capture a Red Angel. 4 00:00:06,882 --> 00:00:08,794 Michael, the Red Angel. It's you. 5 00:00:08,884 --> 00:00:10,625 Your parents were killed because of me. 6 00:00:10,719 --> 00:00:13,678 My father was a xenoanthropologist. My mother was an astrophysicist. 7 00:00:13,764 --> 00:00:15,426 They wouldn't be in Section 31. 8 00:00:15,516 --> 00:00:17,702 I was careless, I should've done more to protect your... 9 00:00:17,726 --> 00:00:18,807 [grunts] 10 00:00:19,228 --> 00:00:22,312 Every moment you work for Section 31, you're announcing who you are. 11 00:00:22,397 --> 00:00:25,765 I don't always agree with their tactics, but do I believe in their mission. 12 00:00:25,859 --> 00:00:27,145 The AI that infected Control, 13 00:00:27,236 --> 00:00:29,523 we have to assume it could re-emerge at any time. 14 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:31,771 [grunting] 15 00:00:32,783 --> 00:00:34,524 If we're going to capture the Red Angel, 16 00:00:34,618 --> 00:00:35,779 I have to be the bait. 17 00:00:37,496 --> 00:00:38,612 Shutting down life support. 18 00:00:47,589 --> 00:00:48,670 [gasping] 19 00:00:49,299 --> 00:00:50,460 Now. 20 00:00:56,723 --> 00:00:58,055 [grunts] 21 00:01:01,812 --> 00:01:02,812 Mom? 22 00:01:13,073 --> 00:01:16,783 [Gabrielle] X-ray analysis and GRB emission confirm the supernova's imminent. 23 00:01:17,786 --> 00:01:20,870 Now harnessing the energy for time crystal test nine beta. 24 00:01:21,957 --> 00:01:24,040 Charge is at 70 percent and rising. 25 00:01:24,751 --> 00:01:27,994 With any luck, we should be able to make our first jump very soon. 26 00:01:28,380 --> 00:01:29,712 [Burnham] Mom, dinner. 27 00:01:30,757 --> 00:01:34,000 Did you know a star goes supernova every second in the universe? 28 00:01:34,595 --> 00:01:36,587 It releases more energy in a few seconds 29 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,047 than our sun will in 10 billion years? 30 00:01:39,141 --> 00:01:40,141 I didn't. 31 00:01:40,183 --> 00:01:42,049 Will Alpha Lupi go supernova soon? 32 00:01:42,561 --> 00:01:44,427 Three days feels like forever. 33 00:01:45,105 --> 00:01:47,973 The universe has its own way of telling time, baby girl. 34 00:01:48,066 --> 00:01:50,228 - You were almost late for dinner. - We'll forgive her. 35 00:01:50,319 --> 00:01:51,685 [Gabrielle] Very generous. 36 00:01:52,362 --> 00:01:54,854 Is the crystal stable? How'd your calculations turn out? 37 00:01:55,324 --> 00:01:57,361 I have enough energy for initial trials. 38 00:01:57,451 --> 00:02:00,285 - [Mike] Then we should celebrate. - [Gabrielle] Yes, we should. 39 00:02:00,996 --> 00:02:03,329 [Mike] Michael's so fascinated by the supernova. 40 00:02:03,415 --> 00:02:04,415 Mm. 41 00:02:04,666 --> 00:02:05,702 Peas in a pod. 42 00:02:05,792 --> 00:02:07,454 Done for by the time she's 12. 43 00:02:07,544 --> 00:02:08,910 [Gabrielle] You and me both. 44 00:02:09,671 --> 00:02:11,253 - Come to the table, baby. - Uh... 45 00:02:11,757 --> 00:02:12,793 Mom, 46 00:02:12,883 --> 00:02:15,876 - there's a new light in the sky. - [Gabrielle] Probably just a meteor. 47 00:02:18,055 --> 00:02:19,887 But it looks like it's landing. 48 00:02:35,072 --> 00:02:38,531 Go, go, go. Hide Michael, and secure the lab. 49 00:02:38,950 --> 00:02:41,033 I'll buy us some time. Go! 50 00:02:41,953 --> 00:02:42,870 Dad. 51 00:02:42,871 --> 00:02:43,907 [alarm wailing] 52 00:02:43,997 --> 00:02:45,829 [phaser powering up] 53 00:02:47,834 --> 00:02:50,793 I need you to be brave. Stay in here. Don't make a sound. 54 00:02:53,924 --> 00:02:55,335 - It's gonna be okay. - Mommy. 55 00:02:56,885 --> 00:02:58,001 I love you, baby girl. 56 00:03:01,515 --> 00:03:02,722 [gasps] 57 00:03:02,808 --> 00:03:05,266 Hey, hey. You're okay. 58 00:03:05,352 --> 00:03:06,268 You're safe. 59 00:03:06,269 --> 00:03:07,430 [grunting] 60 00:03:08,647 --> 00:03:09,933 Welcome back, commander. 61 00:03:10,023 --> 00:03:12,766 You were dead from toxic asphyxiation for over a minute, 62 00:03:13,193 --> 00:03:15,651 and you received a high dose of tachyon radiation. 63 00:03:16,071 --> 00:03:17,312 That'll give anyone a headache. 64 00:03:17,406 --> 00:03:18,406 How long was I out? 65 00:03:18,490 --> 00:03:19,651 Five hours. 66 00:03:20,492 --> 00:03:21,492 The Red Angel? 67 00:03:23,745 --> 00:03:24,826 I thought I saw Mom. 68 00:03:27,416 --> 00:03:28,748 It was me, though, right? 69 00:03:29,876 --> 00:03:32,038 - Bio-neural signature. - [Culber] There are, um... 70 00:03:33,130 --> 00:03:34,962 significant biological similarities 71 00:03:35,048 --> 00:03:37,506 between mothers and daughters, 72 00:03:38,385 --> 00:03:40,126 particularly the mitochondrial DNA. 73 00:03:42,347 --> 00:03:43,347 What? 74 00:03:45,726 --> 00:03:46,726 That was real? 75 00:03:47,185 --> 00:03:48,517 [Georgiou] Yes, Michael. 76 00:03:49,438 --> 00:03:50,438 It's your mother. 77 00:03:57,279 --> 00:03:58,279 No. 78 00:04:00,490 --> 00:04:01,490 No, she died. 79 00:04:04,286 --> 00:04:05,286 She died. 80 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,080 She died. 81 00:04:10,083 --> 00:04:11,083 [sobbing] I heard... 82 00:04:13,086 --> 00:04:14,622 And Leland, he... 83 00:04:16,298 --> 00:04:17,298 She... 84 00:04:19,301 --> 00:04:21,213 Where...? I mean, where is...? 85 00:04:21,303 --> 00:04:22,943 She's being cared for down on Essof Four. 86 00:04:23,972 --> 00:04:25,008 [Culber] Easy, easy. 87 00:04:25,557 --> 00:04:28,140 It's not safe for you to beam down until the effects 88 00:04:28,226 --> 00:04:30,183 - of radiation poisoning dissipate. - I... 89 00:04:31,313 --> 00:04:32,313 I can't sit here. 90 00:04:32,355 --> 00:04:34,813 Your mom's unconscious, but safe within the containment field. 91 00:04:35,525 --> 00:04:37,016 Okay. How is this possible? 92 00:04:37,110 --> 00:04:38,851 You must have a million questions... 93 00:04:38,945 --> 00:04:40,152 How could she survive? 94 00:04:40,238 --> 00:04:41,445 Is my dad alive, too? 95 00:04:41,531 --> 00:04:43,648 I'm asking you to be patient, Michael. 96 00:04:44,826 --> 00:04:48,570 My mom has been dead since I was 10. You're telling me she's actually alive. 97 00:04:49,039 --> 00:04:51,076 How can you expect me to be patient? 98 00:04:51,166 --> 00:04:52,166 You woke. 99 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:54,200 Sooner than expected. 100 00:04:54,294 --> 00:04:57,332 - What did you find? - And I see you are yourself again. 101 00:04:57,798 --> 00:05:00,757 Commander Stamets finished scanning the Angel's exoskeleton. 102 00:05:00,842 --> 00:05:03,050 It contains a data module with hundreds of mission logs 103 00:05:03,136 --> 00:05:04,752 which Ensign Tilly was able to download. 104 00:05:04,846 --> 00:05:06,303 I believe these will be of interest. 105 00:05:06,389 --> 00:05:07,470 How many entries? 106 00:05:08,558 --> 00:05:09,765 Eight hundred forty-one. 107 00:05:11,853 --> 00:05:13,310 You're the one to assess. 108 00:05:17,943 --> 00:05:20,823 See if you can find any answers while we wait for your mother to wake up. 109 00:05:29,204 --> 00:05:30,844 [holographic Burnham] The room is sealed. 110 00:05:32,249 --> 00:05:33,490 No one will hear you. 111 00:05:42,926 --> 00:05:43,926 You're Control. 112 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:46,336 I am in holographic form, 113 00:05:46,888 --> 00:05:49,255 indistinguishable from any biological entity 114 00:05:49,349 --> 00:05:50,715 I might choose to represent. 115 00:05:50,809 --> 00:05:52,892 And how long do you think that will last? 116 00:05:53,687 --> 00:05:55,849 They figured out Admiral Patar wasn't real. 117 00:05:56,648 --> 00:05:59,391 There are 7000 active ships in Starfleet, 118 00:05:59,484 --> 00:06:01,316 all reliant on the chain of command. 119 00:06:01,862 --> 00:06:05,071 That chain is unquestioned, unbroken, unseen, 120 00:06:05,949 --> 00:06:08,441 every instruction passed down through channels. 121 00:06:08,952 --> 00:06:13,617 In time, even those who would not follow my agenda knowingly will. 122 00:06:14,416 --> 00:06:15,497 What am I doing here? 123 00:06:15,584 --> 00:06:17,576 When I eliminated Admiral Patar, 124 00:06:18,044 --> 00:06:20,411 it was easier to simulate a Vulcan. 125 00:06:21,590 --> 00:06:24,128 Airiam's augmentation allowed me a similar facade. 126 00:06:24,968 --> 00:06:27,085 But flesh is a different matter. 127 00:06:28,013 --> 00:06:31,723 There is an element of human nuance I have not yet mastered. 128 00:06:32,142 --> 00:06:36,307 I require a face and a body that will allow me more freedom to operate. 129 00:06:37,314 --> 00:06:40,352 Your face, your self. 130 00:06:41,359 --> 00:06:42,359 Never. 131 00:06:43,445 --> 00:06:44,856 I am my own man. 132 00:06:45,155 --> 00:06:47,693 A man who has demonstrated, with his every action, 133 00:06:47,782 --> 00:06:49,239 a willingness to operate 134 00:06:49,326 --> 00:06:52,069 from several different truths, simultaneously. 135 00:06:52,162 --> 00:06:55,746 It has allowed you to make questionable moral decisions 136 00:06:55,832 --> 00:07:00,167 while avoiding the destructive power of human guilt. 137 00:07:00,587 --> 00:07:02,795 You believe in the ends more than the means. 138 00:07:06,134 --> 00:07:08,217 That pattern of behavior is useful to me. 139 00:07:10,013 --> 00:07:11,013 Struggle... 140 00:07:11,932 --> 00:07:12,932 is pointless. 141 00:07:14,643 --> 00:07:15,643 You won't win. 142 00:07:17,228 --> 00:07:20,721 You joined Section 31 to keep a brutish universe on its knees, captain, 143 00:07:21,107 --> 00:07:23,190 to maintain order by any means necessary. 144 00:07:24,444 --> 00:07:26,686 Your evolution, our evolution, 145 00:07:26,780 --> 00:07:28,988 is not a desecration of that oath, 146 00:07:29,741 --> 00:07:31,448 but its very fulfillment. 147 00:07:34,913 --> 00:07:36,245 [screaming] 148 00:07:44,714 --> 00:07:46,421 No! 149 00:09:32,197 --> 00:09:33,404 [alarm wailing on video] 150 00:09:42,874 --> 00:09:44,365 [Klingons shouting nearby] 151 00:09:44,459 --> 00:09:45,459 [Burnham] Mommy! 152 00:09:45,919 --> 00:09:47,706 [Gabrielle] We'll be okay. I know what to do. 153 00:09:50,131 --> 00:09:52,373 I can get us out of here before they arrive. 154 00:09:52,467 --> 00:09:56,336 I'm jumping back just an hour. Three, two, one. 155 00:10:10,485 --> 00:10:11,485 [panting] 156 00:10:27,043 --> 00:10:29,126 Nine hundred fifty years? 157 00:10:34,467 --> 00:10:35,503 Where the hell am I? 158 00:10:41,933 --> 00:10:43,640 Mission log 009. 159 00:10:44,018 --> 00:10:45,384 Mike, Michael, 160 00:10:45,687 --> 00:10:49,306 I keep trying to get back to you, but I can never manage to stay. 161 00:10:49,399 --> 00:10:51,061 Mission log 027. 162 00:10:51,151 --> 00:10:52,767 Mission log 039. 163 00:10:52,861 --> 00:10:54,773 Mission log 042. 164 00:10:55,238 --> 00:10:57,480 No matter how many times I go back in time, 165 00:10:57,574 --> 00:10:59,361 I can't stay anywhere permanently. 166 00:10:59,868 --> 00:11:04,078 The anchor keeps pulling me back, 950 years away from you. 167 00:11:05,290 --> 00:11:08,078 There are no signs of life anywhere. 168 00:11:08,585 --> 00:11:13,376 Antimatter detonation across the galaxy indicates Control wiped everything out. 169 00:11:13,923 --> 00:11:17,542 Vulcan, Andoria, Tellar Prime, Deneva, Earth. 170 00:11:18,094 --> 00:11:19,926 This is Earth. 171 00:11:20,471 --> 00:11:22,758 As far as I scan, everywhere... 172 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:24,600 I'm alone. 173 00:11:30,773 --> 00:11:34,016 Captain, I'm registering gravimetric instability in the planetoid. 174 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,896 Normal or abnormal occurrence? 175 00:11:36,154 --> 00:11:37,486 [Tilly] Uh, definitely abnormal. 176 00:11:37,572 --> 00:11:40,064 It's centered directly on our research facility. 177 00:11:40,867 --> 00:11:42,699 Mr. Saru, can you pinpoint a possible cause? 178 00:11:43,578 --> 00:11:44,819 I believe, captain, 179 00:11:44,913 --> 00:11:47,656 it's a classic example of Newton's Third Law of Motion. 180 00:11:47,749 --> 00:11:49,706 Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. 181 00:11:49,792 --> 00:11:52,409 Sorry, it's just my second favorite law of physics. 182 00:11:52,503 --> 00:11:53,463 My first is, um... 183 00:11:53,464 --> 00:11:56,126 We know both Dr. Burnham and her suit are tethered 184 00:11:56,216 --> 00:11:57,457 to a point in the future. 185 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,383 Our containment field is holding her in the present. 186 00:12:00,470 --> 00:12:02,837 Tighter we hold, the stronger time pulls back. 187 00:12:02,931 --> 00:12:04,843 We're playing tug-of-war with the universe. 188 00:12:04,933 --> 00:12:06,265 [Saru] Eventually we will lose. 189 00:12:06,351 --> 00:12:08,934 We have a gravitational problem on Essof Four. 190 00:12:09,020 --> 00:12:11,103 - I need power... - Already on it, commander. 191 00:12:11,189 --> 00:12:12,851 Divert nonessential power to the surface. 192 00:12:12,941 --> 00:12:14,648 - Give Stamets what he needs. - Yes. 193 00:12:14,734 --> 00:12:18,273 - How long before the universe wins? - Perhaps an hour. Two at the most. 194 00:12:18,863 --> 00:12:20,695 Get down there, see what you can do. 195 00:12:20,782 --> 00:12:23,195 Bryce, tell Dr. Culber we're running out of time. 196 00:12:23,284 --> 00:12:25,526 - We need to wake up our patient. - [Bryce] Aye. 197 00:12:25,745 --> 00:12:28,283 We need to talk to her before we lose the chance. 198 00:12:29,624 --> 00:12:31,456 Our mission parameters have changed. 199 00:12:31,542 --> 00:12:34,455 We set the trap assuming Michael Burnham was the Red Angel. 200 00:12:34,545 --> 00:12:36,662 That turn of events has altered our agenda. 201 00:12:36,756 --> 00:12:37,674 How? 202 00:12:37,675 --> 00:12:41,759 I saw Dr. Gabrielle Burnham's corpse on Doctari Alpha with my own eyes. 203 00:12:42,762 --> 00:12:44,628 This woman isn't Gabrielle Burnham? 204 00:12:44,722 --> 00:12:46,463 I'm saying the woman I saw is dead. 205 00:12:46,975 --> 00:12:50,389 We have no way of knowing who or what that woman there really is. 206 00:12:50,812 --> 00:12:53,805 A clone, some sort of unknown genetic replica. 207 00:12:53,898 --> 00:12:56,515 Maybe you don't like that Admiral Cornwell placed her 208 00:12:56,609 --> 00:12:58,396 entirely under Discovery's purview. 209 00:12:58,820 --> 00:13:02,154 I don't need to remind you, if Control downloads the Sphere data 210 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,404 embedded in that ship's computer, it will achieve consciousness, 211 00:13:05,493 --> 00:13:07,109 and that is how this all starts. 212 00:13:08,037 --> 00:13:10,700 What if she was sent to take the data back to Control? 213 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,120 Or she came here to stop Control from ever getting it. 214 00:13:15,670 --> 00:13:17,787 You both have feelings for Michael Burnham, 215 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,715 but we cannot afford to confuse what you believe her motivations are with... 216 00:13:22,593 --> 00:13:24,255 whomever that is lying there. 217 00:13:24,345 --> 00:13:26,337 If she is a Trojan Horse, 218 00:13:27,223 --> 00:13:30,466 Discovery's defenses would prove woefully inadequate. 219 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:32,597 I have faith in Discovery's crew. 220 00:13:32,687 --> 00:13:34,178 Faith is not a strategy. 221 00:13:34,272 --> 00:13:35,888 I know this seems like betrayal, 222 00:13:35,982 --> 00:13:38,224 but we're the ones who need to hold that data. 223 00:13:38,860 --> 00:13:41,728 I have created a secure area within our data storage. 224 00:13:41,821 --> 00:13:44,859 The Control module will never be able to access it. 225 00:13:47,368 --> 00:13:48,575 Get me that data, Tyler. 226 00:13:49,579 --> 00:13:51,866 If Captain Pike won't protect it... 227 00:13:52,957 --> 00:13:53,957 then we must. 228 00:13:55,084 --> 00:13:58,248 You want me to commit espionage against another Starfleet ship. 229 00:13:58,338 --> 00:14:00,079 That is the job we have chosen. 230 00:14:00,173 --> 00:14:02,631 If your connection to Michael is giving you pause, 231 00:14:02,717 --> 00:14:05,130 I'll remind you that she is being protected, too. 232 00:14:05,928 --> 00:14:08,341 She is more vulnerable than anyone. 233 00:14:09,474 --> 00:14:11,914 Would you rather see all sentient life in the galaxy destroyed 234 00:14:11,976 --> 00:14:13,217 because we failed to act? 235 00:14:22,695 --> 00:14:24,687 You're quite resolute today. 236 00:14:25,365 --> 00:14:26,572 The times call for it. 237 00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:36,365 I built myself a home base on a Class-M planet, 238 00:14:36,459 --> 00:14:38,041 50,000 light-years away. 239 00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:39,878 Wherever I jump, 240 00:14:40,254 --> 00:14:42,712 the suit will always return me right back here. 241 00:14:43,383 --> 00:14:46,797 No pre-existing technology, so Control can't find me here. 242 00:14:48,388 --> 00:14:49,504 I'm safe for now. 243 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,848 But Einstein couldn't have been more right. 244 00:14:52,934 --> 00:14:56,143 Time's motion depends on the observer, on the action. 245 00:14:57,146 --> 00:14:59,889 The people I was able to move from Earth to Terralysium, 246 00:14:59,982 --> 00:15:01,894 as they call my planet, are thriving. 247 00:15:02,735 --> 00:15:05,193 Their survival means that time is fluid. 248 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:06,690 The future can be changed. 249 00:15:07,115 --> 00:15:08,481 Maybe the past, as well. 250 00:15:10,034 --> 00:15:12,777 I have to believe I'll see you again, my sweet daughter. 251 00:15:13,496 --> 00:15:15,032 Mission log 799. 252 00:15:17,959 --> 00:15:21,452 No matter what I do, I can't stop Control from getting the Sphere data. 253 00:15:22,672 --> 00:15:24,413 I even tried destroying the Sphere, 254 00:15:25,299 --> 00:15:26,380 but it's impossible. 255 00:15:27,510 --> 00:15:29,251 I taught my child never to despair, 256 00:15:29,637 --> 00:15:31,674 but if I can't change this one thing... 257 00:15:34,267 --> 00:15:37,681 the only thing I can think of now is to... 258 00:15:39,564 --> 00:15:41,521 undo its gravitational binding, 259 00:15:42,358 --> 00:15:45,021 and put the Sphere in Discovery's path... 260 00:15:46,571 --> 00:15:49,484 in the hopes that they'll find a way to keep the data safe. 261 00:15:57,748 --> 00:16:00,081 The Sphere data came to us because of you. 262 00:16:04,839 --> 00:16:06,205 [doorbell chimes] 263 00:16:08,134 --> 00:16:09,134 Come in. 264 00:16:15,933 --> 00:16:18,175 I trust the mission logs have proven valuable, 265 00:16:18,644 --> 00:16:19,885 and perhaps difficult. 266 00:16:20,271 --> 00:16:21,271 You need something? 267 00:16:21,689 --> 00:16:23,931 Dr. Culber's about to report from the surface. 268 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:26,312 Your mother's regaining consciousness. 269 00:16:27,945 --> 00:16:31,029 - Commander Stamets reporting gravimetric... - To be continued. 270 00:16:32,492 --> 00:16:35,326 Mr. Bryce, put Dr. Culber on-screen, please. 271 00:16:35,411 --> 00:16:36,411 Aye, captain. 272 00:16:38,456 --> 00:16:39,617 Manage to wake her up? 273 00:16:39,707 --> 00:16:42,324 Yes. Dr. Burnham has regained consciousness. 274 00:16:42,418 --> 00:16:45,252 Tachyon radiation levels are beginning to normalize. 275 00:16:45,338 --> 00:16:47,000 She's asking to speak to you, sir. 276 00:16:47,548 --> 00:16:49,756 - We'll be right down. - I'm sorry, commander. 277 00:16:49,842 --> 00:16:52,380 Dr. Burnham is asking to speak with the captain. 278 00:16:52,929 --> 00:16:54,010 And only the captain. 279 00:17:03,523 --> 00:17:05,105 She's my mother. 280 00:17:05,191 --> 00:17:06,727 Sorry, I'm just the messenger. 281 00:17:06,817 --> 00:17:09,104 So many questions need to be answered now. 282 00:17:09,195 --> 00:17:11,357 Whatever her reasons for not wanting to see me, 283 00:17:11,447 --> 00:17:12,654 I should be the one asking. 284 00:17:12,740 --> 00:17:14,322 [Pike] I understand your position. 285 00:17:14,408 --> 00:17:16,695 But we need to follow Dr. Burnham's lead here. 286 00:17:16,786 --> 00:17:18,322 I must agree with the captain. 287 00:17:18,412 --> 00:17:21,701 I'm not asserting my rights as a daughter. That would be childish. 288 00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:23,832 I'm the one who knows her best. 289 00:17:23,918 --> 00:17:25,705 There may be other variables to consider. 290 00:17:26,087 --> 00:17:29,296 She's experienced something that no one else in history ever has. 291 00:17:30,883 --> 00:17:31,883 Look. 292 00:17:32,927 --> 00:17:36,671 I've been reinstated for five minutes and I did it because I wanted to help, 293 00:17:36,764 --> 00:17:39,507 but you have to consider that the person your mother was 294 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,683 before she stepped into that time suit... 295 00:17:42,603 --> 00:17:43,969 may not be who she is now. 296 00:17:44,897 --> 00:17:46,638 Who better to gauge that than me? 297 00:17:46,732 --> 00:17:48,849 [Pike] I understand your desire to see her. 298 00:17:48,943 --> 00:17:50,525 But for now we do this her way. 299 00:17:51,112 --> 00:17:53,570 We need to establish trust, to get any answers. 300 00:17:55,783 --> 00:17:56,783 Please. 301 00:17:57,076 --> 00:17:58,692 You'll stay on board, commander. 302 00:17:59,245 --> 00:18:00,245 I'm sorry. 303 00:18:00,496 --> 00:18:02,237 You'll have to watch from the feed. 304 00:18:09,964 --> 00:18:11,751 Sir, you can't enter the containment field, 305 00:18:11,841 --> 00:18:13,377 but you can go right up to it. 306 00:18:14,176 --> 00:18:15,337 [rumbling] 307 00:18:15,428 --> 00:18:19,297 It's taking more and more energy to hold Dr. Burnham and the suit in place. 308 00:18:19,390 --> 00:18:21,427 Sooner or later, probably sooner, 309 00:18:21,517 --> 00:18:22,928 our reserves will run out, 310 00:18:23,019 --> 00:18:25,306 and she'll be pulled into the future again. 311 00:18:27,023 --> 00:18:28,514 Then I better talk fast. 312 00:18:30,985 --> 00:18:31,985 Dr. Burnham. 313 00:18:33,029 --> 00:18:34,770 - I'm... - Captain Christopher Pike. 314 00:18:34,864 --> 00:18:36,321 U.S.S. Enterprise. 315 00:18:36,407 --> 00:18:38,364 In temporary command of Discovery. 316 00:18:40,161 --> 00:18:42,494 But soon you'll return to your ship. 317 00:18:43,623 --> 00:18:46,741 I could say more about your future, but you won't like it. 318 00:18:48,586 --> 00:18:50,794 Well, we're, uh, not here to talk about me. 319 00:18:51,130 --> 00:18:54,214 [Gabrielle] Let's talk about the fact that I came to save my daughter. 320 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:55,711 You deceived me. 321 00:18:55,801 --> 00:18:58,043 [Pike] Michael risked her life to bring you here. 322 00:18:58,137 --> 00:19:00,971 We understand the threat to sentient life. 323 00:19:01,057 --> 00:19:04,391 [Gabrielle] You understand nothing. As long as there's any possibility 324 00:19:04,477 --> 00:19:07,140 of Control getting access to the Sphere data, 325 00:19:08,022 --> 00:19:09,183 everything will die. 326 00:19:09,815 --> 00:19:10,815 Always. 327 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,518 I put that Sphere in Discovery's path, so you could protect the data, 328 00:19:14,612 --> 00:19:15,944 but even that didn't work. 329 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:17,862 You have to let me keep trying. 330 00:19:17,948 --> 00:19:19,940 [Pike] Let us help you finish the mission. 331 00:19:20,409 --> 00:19:22,025 Tell us what the signals mean. 332 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:23,701 I don't know about any signals. 333 00:19:26,999 --> 00:19:28,035 [Pike] In the sky? 334 00:19:28,334 --> 00:19:30,417 Seven, simultaneously, then each led us... 335 00:19:30,503 --> 00:19:32,210 I said, I know nothing about them. 336 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:34,839 You want to help? 337 00:19:35,216 --> 00:19:36,832 Delete the Sphere archive. 338 00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:39,797 Without that data, the AI cannot evolve. 339 00:19:40,388 --> 00:19:41,388 We're protecting it. 340 00:19:41,722 --> 00:19:43,008 Don't you understand? 341 00:19:43,099 --> 00:19:44,840 Time is a living thing. 342 00:19:45,601 --> 00:19:49,140 It has gravity and will, and it's pulling the AI closer. 343 00:19:50,064 --> 00:19:52,021 I've seen it with my own eyes. 344 00:19:52,108 --> 00:19:56,728 And you believe that deleting the archive will stop the AI from evolving? 345 00:19:57,238 --> 00:19:58,238 Yes. 346 00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:00,196 But if you miss something, 347 00:20:00,658 --> 00:20:04,197 I'll have no choice but to try again, and again, and again. 348 00:20:05,579 --> 00:20:06,820 You have to release me. 349 00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:09,207 I can't do that. 350 00:20:09,667 --> 00:20:10,703 I'm sorry, doctor. 351 00:20:11,419 --> 00:20:13,285 You're a ghost to me, Captain Pike. 352 00:20:14,547 --> 00:20:18,257 One of hundreds of trillions that fill a galactic graveyard. 353 00:20:19,969 --> 00:20:20,969 So... 354 00:20:22,638 --> 00:20:24,721 until you're willing to do what I say, 355 00:20:25,516 --> 00:20:27,052 exactly as I say... 356 00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:30,226 this conversation is over. 357 00:20:35,693 --> 00:20:38,401 [Saru] Deleting the Sphere archive is tantamount 358 00:20:38,487 --> 00:20:42,731 to burning the Library of Alexandria, or the Bibliotheca Corviniana. 359 00:20:43,117 --> 00:20:46,076 This knowledge is invaluable. 360 00:20:46,162 --> 00:20:49,701 Protecting it, safeguarding it, is a central tenet of the Federation 361 00:20:49,790 --> 00:20:52,123 and our sworn duty as Starfleet officers. 362 00:20:52,209 --> 00:20:56,670 Unless that knowledge poses a clear and present danger to all sentient life. 363 00:20:56,756 --> 00:20:58,748 From a security perspective, I must ask. 364 00:20:58,841 --> 00:21:01,549 What if Dr. Burnham has an agenda we're not aware of? 365 00:21:01,927 --> 00:21:04,260 The one thing that I witnessed about my mother, 366 00:21:04,597 --> 00:21:05,513 over and over, 367 00:21:05,514 --> 00:21:07,597 was her relentless pursuit of facts. 368 00:21:07,683 --> 00:21:10,801 If she believes that deleting the archive will defeat the AI, 369 00:21:10,895 --> 00:21:12,807 I have no doubt that she's right. 370 00:21:15,691 --> 00:21:16,691 I agree with Burnham. 371 00:21:17,568 --> 00:21:19,685 Deleting the archive is our best option. 372 00:21:19,779 --> 00:21:20,815 I will proceed. 373 00:21:23,532 --> 00:21:24,693 [panel buzzing] 374 00:21:25,701 --> 00:21:26,701 What's happening? 375 00:21:28,078 --> 00:21:31,321 I do not know, captain. The system's not responding as it should. 376 00:21:32,833 --> 00:21:35,496 The data memory core is partitioning itself, 377 00:21:35,586 --> 00:21:39,045 reconfiguring its security directives into a new language matrix. 378 00:21:39,131 --> 00:21:40,131 How can it do that? 379 00:21:40,174 --> 00:21:42,291 The intelligence is a remnant of the Sphere. 380 00:21:42,384 --> 00:21:46,003 When we first encountered the Sphere, its data was determined to survive. 381 00:21:46,555 --> 00:21:47,555 And it still is. 382 00:21:47,556 --> 00:21:50,219 The archive is building firewalls around itself, 383 00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:54,394 using xenoencryption taken from its own historical language database. 384 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,847 - Can you work around them? - [Burnham] He won't be able to. 385 00:21:56,941 --> 00:21:58,273 He needs a linguistic key. 386 00:22:00,361 --> 00:22:02,774 The encryption is based on a language from a civilization 387 00:22:02,863 --> 00:22:05,150 that hasn't existed for a thousand centuries. 388 00:22:05,241 --> 00:22:07,278 It seems, captain, 389 00:22:07,368 --> 00:22:09,826 the archive will not allow itself to be destroyed. 390 00:22:09,912 --> 00:22:12,950 Keep trying, Mr. Saru. We cannot allow that data to survive. 391 00:22:22,716 --> 00:22:24,127 Mission log 271. 392 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:26,126 Spock can understand me. 393 00:22:27,054 --> 00:22:28,670 I jumped back into his childhood 394 00:22:28,764 --> 00:22:31,598 and warned him about Michael dying in the forest. 395 00:22:32,059 --> 00:22:34,642 I haven't been able to communicate with anyone else. 396 00:22:39,441 --> 00:22:42,650 Spock's Vulcan logic training and human emotions seem to give him 397 00:22:42,736 --> 00:22:45,353 the psychological balance to comprehend my existence. 398 00:22:45,948 --> 00:22:48,281 And his dyslexia allows him 399 00:22:48,367 --> 00:22:50,825 to process the effects of atemporal dysplasia. 400 00:22:52,955 --> 00:22:53,991 In all of time... 401 00:22:54,999 --> 00:22:57,207 Spock may be the only person who can help me. 402 00:23:02,965 --> 00:23:04,126 [Burnham] L'tak Terai. 403 00:23:08,137 --> 00:23:09,137 Dyslexia. 404 00:23:10,431 --> 00:23:12,343 I spent my entire childhood attempting 405 00:23:12,433 --> 00:23:14,971 to conceal my human failings from those around me. 406 00:23:15,394 --> 00:23:16,851 It was never a failing. 407 00:23:18,439 --> 00:23:21,648 It was what allowed you to process those visions of the future. 408 00:23:23,068 --> 00:23:25,060 You helped Discovery chart a new course. 409 00:23:26,864 --> 00:23:28,901 One that brought my mother back to me. 410 00:23:29,825 --> 00:23:33,865 And one that may very well enable us to save the future. 411 00:23:36,832 --> 00:23:38,198 I was wrong to judge you... 412 00:23:39,168 --> 00:23:42,582 as unfit to process your own emotions. 413 00:23:44,882 --> 00:23:46,464 - It was... - Petty? 414 00:23:48,969 --> 00:23:49,969 Unmerited. 415 00:23:52,723 --> 00:23:55,466 I can only imagine what you must be feeling. 416 00:23:56,518 --> 00:23:58,350 I need to see my mother, Spock. 417 00:23:59,021 --> 00:24:00,021 You have questions, 418 00:24:00,773 --> 00:24:03,436 beyond the scope of our mission, that deserve answers. 419 00:24:04,068 --> 00:24:05,980 Let us speak to the captain, together. 420 00:24:08,822 --> 00:24:10,108 The Red Angel is awake. 421 00:24:10,532 --> 00:24:14,822 It's only a matter of time before she, it, whatever it is, tries to take that data. 422 00:24:14,912 --> 00:24:18,531 You are the only one standing between survival and obliteration. 423 00:24:18,624 --> 00:24:19,740 Is that in any way vague? 424 00:24:19,833 --> 00:24:22,313 When they tried to delete the Sphere data, it protected itself. 425 00:24:22,378 --> 00:24:25,621 - It's more complicated than I thought. - That is hard to believe. 426 00:24:25,714 --> 00:24:26,714 Find it however you want. 427 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:29,337 I won't do this. It doesn't feel right to me. 428 00:24:29,426 --> 00:24:30,667 Is that in any way vague? 429 00:24:32,805 --> 00:24:36,845 No. You made the right call. Stay on that ship and keep me in the loop. 430 00:24:37,309 --> 00:24:38,390 Good work, Mr. Tyler. 431 00:24:41,689 --> 00:24:45,148 Because of how little time we have, I'm obligated to let you try this. 432 00:24:45,776 --> 00:24:48,171 Either she knows more about the signals than she understands, 433 00:24:48,195 --> 00:24:50,562 or her lack of knowledge suggests they may have been created 434 00:24:50,656 --> 00:24:53,990 by the AI itself, maybe to mislead or confuse us. 435 00:24:54,076 --> 00:24:56,659 Or there is a third variable we have yet to realize. 436 00:24:56,745 --> 00:24:58,657 Which makes this conversation more pressing. 437 00:25:01,041 --> 00:25:02,373 "Time is out of joint. 438 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,498 O cursed spite, that I was born to set it right." 439 00:25:05,587 --> 00:25:06,587 Hamlet. 440 00:25:07,965 --> 00:25:08,965 Hell, yeah. 441 00:25:10,467 --> 00:25:11,467 Energize. 442 00:25:31,613 --> 00:25:32,613 No. 443 00:25:36,702 --> 00:25:37,702 No. 444 00:25:39,663 --> 00:25:40,744 This is like a dream. 445 00:25:41,665 --> 00:25:43,122 Did you delete the archive? 446 00:25:45,711 --> 00:25:46,827 Did you destroy it? 447 00:25:48,005 --> 00:25:49,005 We couldn't. 448 00:25:49,798 --> 00:25:51,255 But we're finding a solution. 449 00:25:51,341 --> 00:25:52,341 I knew it. 450 00:25:53,844 --> 00:25:56,552 - This is why I told them to let me go. - Hey. Hey. 451 00:25:57,973 --> 00:25:58,973 Mom. 452 00:25:59,933 --> 00:26:00,933 Please. 453 00:26:01,435 --> 00:26:02,721 It's been 20 years. 454 00:26:04,897 --> 00:26:05,897 Talk to me. 455 00:26:06,398 --> 00:26:07,398 - Is Dad...? - Stop. 456 00:26:09,401 --> 00:26:10,858 People think time is fragile. 457 00:26:11,695 --> 00:26:12,695 Precious. 458 00:26:13,197 --> 00:26:14,197 Beautiful. 459 00:26:15,449 --> 00:26:17,315 Sand in an hourglass, all that. 460 00:26:18,660 --> 00:26:19,660 But it's not. 461 00:26:20,496 --> 00:26:21,907 Time is savage. 462 00:26:22,498 --> 00:26:24,034 It always wins. 463 00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:27,416 So, this is meaningless. 464 00:26:30,339 --> 00:26:32,922 No, this matters. 465 00:26:33,550 --> 00:26:36,588 You and me, here, 466 00:26:37,179 --> 00:26:38,670 now, matters. 467 00:26:39,056 --> 00:26:40,217 [rumbling] 468 00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:43,557 I know you're asking yourself how, 469 00:26:43,644 --> 00:26:45,886 after all these years of wishing for a mother, 470 00:26:45,979 --> 00:26:49,518 you could give her up, now that she's finally reappeared. 471 00:26:49,858 --> 00:26:50,858 How could I? 472 00:26:52,903 --> 00:26:53,903 Easy. 473 00:26:55,823 --> 00:26:57,359 Neither of us has a choice. 474 00:26:58,575 --> 00:27:01,659 So, you wanna have this conversation one day the right way? 475 00:27:02,204 --> 00:27:03,285 Get me out of here. 476 00:27:04,498 --> 00:27:06,239 I need to try again to alter the timeline. 477 00:27:06,667 --> 00:27:10,581 You reached out to Dad and me, through space and time. 478 00:27:10,963 --> 00:27:14,957 You never gave up on us. Why are you giving up on me now? 479 00:27:15,050 --> 00:27:17,337 Have you learned anything from those failures? 480 00:27:17,427 --> 00:27:19,510 My God. The stubbornness! 481 00:27:19,596 --> 00:27:20,962 Where do you think I got it? 482 00:27:22,474 --> 00:27:23,931 It's what kept you going 483 00:27:24,017 --> 00:27:26,600 when you thought you were all alone in the universe. 484 00:27:26,854 --> 00:27:29,016 You were going to get back to your family. 485 00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:30,481 To me. 486 00:27:31,525 --> 00:27:33,391 I am standing right here, 487 00:27:34,278 --> 00:27:35,278 right now. 488 00:27:35,696 --> 00:27:38,439 I don't know what you've told yourself all these years, 489 00:27:38,866 --> 00:27:40,653 but I let you go a long time ago. 490 00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:42,660 I had to. 491 00:27:43,829 --> 00:27:45,536 I've seen you die a hundred times, 492 00:27:46,039 --> 00:27:47,871 and I'll see you die a hundred more. 493 00:27:49,084 --> 00:27:51,497 That is my life and my prison. 494 00:27:54,298 --> 00:27:55,709 I can't hope anymore. 495 00:27:57,843 --> 00:27:58,959 I don't believe you. 496 00:27:59,052 --> 00:28:00,884 There's only the bigger picture now. 497 00:28:03,140 --> 00:28:04,140 Nothing else. 498 00:28:21,617 --> 00:28:24,075 [Burnham] How much longer until the containment field fails? 499 00:28:25,621 --> 00:28:28,409 Forty-three minutes. We've increased power to the field. 500 00:28:28,498 --> 00:28:32,993 But the gravitational pull on Dr. Burnham and the suit is also increasing. 501 00:28:33,086 --> 00:28:36,045 We can give you guys more power. Would it make a difference? 502 00:28:36,131 --> 00:28:41,001 I'm channeling my inner Isaac Newton, and I'm sorry to say it wouldn't, 503 00:28:41,094 --> 00:28:43,507 equal and opposite reactions being what they are. 504 00:28:43,805 --> 00:28:46,798 [Spock] Dr. Burnham has been focused on trying to destroy the Sphere. 505 00:28:47,267 --> 00:28:49,429 Perhaps there is a reason she has failed. 506 00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:51,385 We're going about this the wrong way? 507 00:28:52,231 --> 00:28:54,939 Fourth-century Earth philosopher Lao-Tzu said: 508 00:28:55,025 --> 00:28:57,483 "Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains." 509 00:28:58,070 --> 00:28:59,186 An illustrative truth. 510 00:28:59,696 --> 00:29:01,232 What appears immutable is not. 511 00:29:01,323 --> 00:29:03,485 A mountain, the Sphere, time. 512 00:29:04,493 --> 00:29:06,906 In this case, time itself may provide the answer. 513 00:29:06,995 --> 00:29:08,595 Instead of fighting time, we go with it. 514 00:29:09,456 --> 00:29:12,790 Stop trying to destroy the Sphere. Merge it into the river of time. 515 00:29:13,210 --> 00:29:15,953 Send it so far into the future, it can't do us any harm? 516 00:29:16,338 --> 00:29:19,627 I collected sensor data from Dr. Burnham when she first arrived. 517 00:29:20,342 --> 00:29:24,632 The Red Angel suit has almost limitless quantum computational power. 518 00:29:24,721 --> 00:29:26,337 Literally infinite storage. 519 00:29:26,431 --> 00:29:29,720 Meaning you can transfer the Sphere archive into the suit, 520 00:29:30,435 --> 00:29:32,677 program a destination beyond Dr. Burnham's anchor point 521 00:29:32,771 --> 00:29:34,637 and let the wormhole take it forever? 522 00:29:35,190 --> 00:29:36,522 Perpetual infinity. 523 00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:39,476 Control will never get the data in order to evolve. 524 00:29:39,945 --> 00:29:42,733 But my mother is connected to the future, just like the suit. 525 00:29:43,657 --> 00:29:44,657 What happens to her? 526 00:29:44,741 --> 00:29:46,733 To sever your mother from her space-time 527 00:29:46,827 --> 00:29:50,286 requires the energy equivalent of a supernova. 528 00:29:52,124 --> 00:29:56,289 But we do have another massive source of exotic energy. 529 00:29:57,129 --> 00:29:58,245 The dark matter particles. 530 00:29:58,338 --> 00:30:01,672 We may be able to modify a transporter enhancer 531 00:30:01,758 --> 00:30:02,874 with dark matter. 532 00:30:02,968 --> 00:30:05,802 To pierce the timestream long enough to lock on Dr. Burnham, 533 00:30:05,887 --> 00:30:07,344 beam her into our space-time. 534 00:30:08,473 --> 00:30:09,473 Permanently. 535 00:30:11,977 --> 00:30:12,977 I like science. 536 00:30:16,148 --> 00:30:19,767 They would send the suit into the future and allow Dr. Burnham to remain. 537 00:30:20,319 --> 00:30:21,400 We cannot allow that. 538 00:30:23,322 --> 00:30:24,322 Dr. Burnham. 539 00:30:24,823 --> 00:30:27,031 You're truly threatened by her. 540 00:30:27,117 --> 00:30:28,117 Why aren't you? 541 00:30:28,869 --> 00:30:30,110 You always held a superior note 542 00:30:30,203 --> 00:30:31,963 because you exist in two different universes. 543 00:30:32,497 --> 00:30:35,205 This woman exists across time. 544 00:30:35,625 --> 00:30:37,345 She's seen how you've lived, how you'll die. 545 00:30:37,419 --> 00:30:41,163 She is the definition of power you once were. 546 00:30:41,256 --> 00:30:42,292 Get to the point. 547 00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:45,153 Shooting that data into the future, hoping nothing finds it, 548 00:30:45,177 --> 00:30:48,670 poses an unacceptable risk to the larger mission. 549 00:30:51,308 --> 00:30:52,890 Interesting turn of phrase. 550 00:30:52,976 --> 00:30:55,810 A mission you should understand in your bones. 551 00:30:56,813 --> 00:30:57,974 You want her gone. 552 00:30:58,065 --> 00:30:59,556 Yes, and so do you. 553 00:30:59,649 --> 00:31:03,313 There's nothing she hasn't witnessed, there is nothing she does not have, 554 00:31:03,403 --> 00:31:05,110 including Burnham's devotion. 555 00:31:05,197 --> 00:31:07,029 She has supplanted you, commander, 556 00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:09,448 and she will supplant you in every incarnation. 557 00:31:10,202 --> 00:31:11,118 And Tyler? 558 00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:12,200 He has limits. 559 00:31:14,331 --> 00:31:15,538 You do not. 560 00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:17,583 Let me guess. 561 00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:20,042 If I place this near the Angel suit, 562 00:31:20,128 --> 00:31:22,996 we can steal Discovery's data transfer without their knowledge. 563 00:31:23,423 --> 00:31:25,289 And once the download is complete, 564 00:31:25,759 --> 00:31:27,671 this amplifier will self-destruct, 565 00:31:27,761 --> 00:31:30,845 destroying the time suit and Dr. Burnham. 566 00:31:31,306 --> 00:31:32,422 As a Terran... 567 00:31:33,642 --> 00:31:35,474 you should be able to see the logic. 568 00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:38,011 And if she is who she claims to be? 569 00:31:38,105 --> 00:31:39,105 Then you are still 570 00:31:39,147 --> 00:31:41,730 only the second-most powerful woman in the universe. 571 00:31:42,692 --> 00:31:44,024 Is that who you wanna be? 572 00:31:50,784 --> 00:31:54,573 Contact me once you've placed the device so I can begin the upload. 573 00:32:05,549 --> 00:32:07,256 [suit powering up] 574 00:32:12,097 --> 00:32:13,713 What are you doing, Christopher? 575 00:32:15,267 --> 00:32:17,099 Michael, what are they planning? 576 00:32:17,185 --> 00:32:20,223 They're transferring the Sphere data to your suit... 577 00:32:22,315 --> 00:32:24,227 which they will then send 578 00:32:24,317 --> 00:32:25,317 into the future. 579 00:32:25,902 --> 00:32:27,689 They think that's the way 580 00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:28,860 to protect us all. 581 00:32:29,448 --> 00:32:30,939 Are you here to kill me, Philippa? 582 00:32:31,032 --> 00:32:33,319 Would I tell you if that were the case? 583 00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:34,910 No. 584 00:32:34,911 --> 00:32:36,868 I just want to talk to you privately 585 00:32:37,414 --> 00:32:42,125 and see up close the woman Michael has mourned for 20 years. 586 00:32:42,544 --> 00:32:44,627 I've seen you sacrifice yourself for her, 587 00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:48,540 surrendering your own life without a moment's hesitation. 588 00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:50,799 I thank you for that. 589 00:32:51,261 --> 00:32:56,222 You have obviously confused me with my sentimental prime universe counterpart. 590 00:32:56,892 --> 00:32:57,892 I'm Terran. 591 00:32:58,477 --> 00:33:00,719 Self-sacrifice is not our way. 592 00:33:01,396 --> 00:33:02,853 I know exactly who you are... 593 00:33:03,607 --> 00:33:04,973 and what you're capable of. 594 00:33:05,442 --> 00:33:08,560 I doubt I would sacrifice my life to save the galaxy. 595 00:33:09,112 --> 00:33:11,570 You'd be surprised what you'd do for the people you love. 596 00:33:14,034 --> 00:33:15,525 Quite the feat of engineering. 597 00:33:17,329 --> 00:33:18,329 Simple, 598 00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:19,955 elegant, 599 00:33:19,956 --> 00:33:21,788 yet incredibly powerful. 600 00:33:22,959 --> 00:33:25,542 The suit is DNA-strand encoded. 601 00:33:25,629 --> 00:33:27,495 It won't operate for just anyone, 602 00:33:27,589 --> 00:33:29,956 in case you're thinking of taking it for a spin. 603 00:33:30,050 --> 00:33:32,292 I get my thrills in other ways. 604 00:33:33,094 --> 00:33:36,462 But time travel must be an elixir of some kind, 605 00:33:36,556 --> 00:33:40,220 intoxicating enough to make one forget about domestic matters. 606 00:33:40,685 --> 00:33:42,221 A child, perhaps? 607 00:33:47,317 --> 00:33:50,276 Your mother didn't teach you how to look but not touch. 608 00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:53,355 My mother taught me many different things in our universe. 609 00:33:53,949 --> 00:33:55,030 Above all, 610 00:33:55,116 --> 00:33:56,607 she taught me to survive. 611 00:34:06,711 --> 00:34:07,629 Is that...? 612 00:34:07,630 --> 00:34:09,040 Sphere data, yes. 613 00:34:10,882 --> 00:34:11,882 Monitor it for me. 614 00:34:12,509 --> 00:34:14,501 We leave orbit the moment it's complete. 615 00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:19,890 So, we've met. 616 00:34:21,393 --> 00:34:23,476 Most people say, "I'm pleased we've met." 617 00:34:23,562 --> 00:34:25,144 Most people are predictable. 618 00:34:26,398 --> 00:34:28,731 Philippa, I want your word on something. 619 00:34:29,442 --> 00:34:30,442 Mother to mother. 620 00:34:34,990 --> 00:34:36,856 I rarely make promises. 621 00:34:37,284 --> 00:34:38,616 That's why I'm asking you. 622 00:34:39,536 --> 00:34:40,572 You love her. 623 00:34:42,497 --> 00:34:43,954 Promise me you'll take care of her. 624 00:34:44,374 --> 00:34:46,832 Perhaps you'll find a way to look after her yourself. 625 00:34:46,918 --> 00:34:48,625 Not as long as the AI exists. 626 00:34:49,296 --> 00:34:52,460 It considers me an unacceptable risk to the larger mission. 627 00:34:53,341 --> 00:34:56,584 It poses an unacceptable risk to the larger mission. 628 00:35:04,436 --> 00:35:06,393 I wondered why we lost our feed. 629 00:35:06,479 --> 00:35:08,141 Technology can be so unreliable. 630 00:35:08,523 --> 00:35:10,731 Have fun with whatever that is. 631 00:35:11,818 --> 00:35:12,938 When did you plan to tell me 632 00:35:13,028 --> 00:35:14,769 you downloaded the Sphere data into my suit? 633 00:35:14,863 --> 00:35:17,776 - It's a radical idea, I know, but... - It's a brilliant plan. 634 00:35:18,158 --> 00:35:20,741 I'll be able to safeguard the archive in perpetuity. 635 00:35:20,827 --> 00:35:21,827 [Burnham] No, Mom. 636 00:35:22,454 --> 00:35:23,990 You won't have to give up your life. 637 00:35:24,581 --> 00:35:28,040 We modified the transporters to beam you permanently into the present. 638 00:35:28,835 --> 00:35:31,623 We'll send the suit into a future where Control can never reach it. 639 00:35:32,672 --> 00:35:33,672 No. 640 00:35:33,965 --> 00:35:35,957 If your plan fails, Control wins. 641 00:35:36,509 --> 00:35:38,341 There'll be no one there to stop it. 642 00:35:38,928 --> 00:35:40,339 We can't take that risk. 643 00:35:40,430 --> 00:35:41,966 This will not fail. 644 00:35:42,682 --> 00:35:43,798 I need you to hear me. 645 00:35:44,517 --> 00:35:46,133 I am not losing you again. 646 00:35:47,354 --> 00:35:48,390 [scoffs] 647 00:35:52,067 --> 00:35:53,867 Why are you contacting me on a secure channel? 648 00:35:53,943 --> 00:35:56,560 [Georgiou] How much data has been transferred to our ship? 649 00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:59,400 Twenty-two percent. 650 00:36:01,034 --> 00:36:02,616 This is about Leland, isn't it? 651 00:36:02,702 --> 00:36:05,615 What I'm about to tell you is the first real test 652 00:36:05,705 --> 00:36:07,662 of our relationship, Mr. Tyler. 653 00:36:08,208 --> 00:36:09,244 Betray me, 654 00:36:09,334 --> 00:36:12,953 and I'll live long enough to hunt you down and kill you slowly. 655 00:36:13,588 --> 00:36:16,046 - Understood? - I've been killed before, Georgiou. 656 00:36:16,758 --> 00:36:19,078 You're just telling me I'll have time to enjoy the scenery. 657 00:36:35,735 --> 00:36:38,694 [Stamets] I've retrofitted these pattern enhancers with dark matter. 658 00:36:38,780 --> 00:36:41,193 Should provide enough energy to beam Dr. Burnham 659 00:36:41,282 --> 00:36:44,025 out of her native space-time into ours. 660 00:36:44,786 --> 00:36:47,244 But we only have enough power for one attempt. 661 00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:49,788 So, theoretically, this should work. 662 00:36:50,250 --> 00:36:51,250 It will work. 663 00:36:51,751 --> 00:36:53,663 Then we shut off the containment field 664 00:36:53,753 --> 00:36:56,291 and let the suit take the data away, forever. 665 00:36:58,216 --> 00:36:59,832 Time's not on our side, Michael. 666 00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:03,218 Whether you like it or not, I'll save you from this. 667 00:37:04,431 --> 00:37:06,593 Mostly I'm gonna save you from yourself. 668 00:37:16,776 --> 00:37:17,776 [chuckles] 669 00:37:23,116 --> 00:37:26,109 I remember the white dress you wore the day you graduated. 670 00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:33,500 How could you know? 671 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,292 [Gabrielle] I watched you. 672 00:37:35,879 --> 00:37:38,337 When you first beamed aboard the Shenzhou, 673 00:37:38,423 --> 00:37:39,584 with Sarek. 674 00:37:41,551 --> 00:37:44,385 When you finally learned the Vulcan salute from Spock, 675 00:37:44,471 --> 00:37:45,471 as a child. 676 00:37:48,391 --> 00:37:50,553 When you were alone and crying, 677 00:37:50,977 --> 00:37:53,720 because all the other Vulcan children had rejected you. 678 00:37:54,731 --> 00:37:58,350 I was there when you read Alice in Wonderland out loud 679 00:37:58,443 --> 00:38:00,275 to yourself on your 11th birthday, 680 00:38:00,695 --> 00:38:02,561 pretending to read it to your father, 681 00:38:03,615 --> 00:38:04,615 and to me. 682 00:38:05,742 --> 00:38:06,823 I heard you, baby. 683 00:38:08,036 --> 00:38:09,036 I heard you. 684 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,289 And when that creature came for you, on Vulcan, I was there. 685 00:38:15,168 --> 00:38:16,168 I have been there, 686 00:38:16,836 --> 00:38:19,579 through all those moments and so many more. 687 00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:23,879 Seeing you gave me strength and resolve. 688 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,679 Seeing you reminded me of what I was fighting to save. 689 00:38:30,058 --> 00:38:31,970 I have been fighting for you, Michael. 690 00:38:34,687 --> 00:38:36,303 To get back here to you. 691 00:38:39,484 --> 00:38:41,271 But I can't come home now, honey. 692 00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:43,905 Not yet. 693 00:38:43,906 --> 00:38:45,066 [Gabrielle sobbing] 694 00:38:47,951 --> 00:38:52,116 Not until this thing is gone forever. 695 00:39:18,940 --> 00:39:19,940 Mom. 696 00:39:28,408 --> 00:39:30,525 You did it. The data transfer stopped. 697 00:39:31,119 --> 00:39:32,035 [Georgiou] Good. 698 00:39:32,036 --> 00:39:34,278 Now go find out what Leland does in the dark. 699 00:39:34,789 --> 00:39:35,789 Say "please." 700 00:40:05,153 --> 00:40:06,394 [grunting and shouting] 701 00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:20,500 You won't win. 702 00:40:20,543 --> 00:40:22,125 Leland said the same thing. 703 00:40:22,921 --> 00:40:24,162 [alarm beeping] 704 00:40:29,677 --> 00:40:31,293 Commander Stamets is ready, sir. 705 00:40:31,387 --> 00:40:33,629 - Prepare to transport... - Captain. Priority message 706 00:40:33,723 --> 00:40:34,964 from Section 31 ship. 707 00:40:35,058 --> 00:40:36,299 On-screen. 708 00:40:37,143 --> 00:40:38,475 [panting] 709 00:40:43,775 --> 00:40:44,775 Leland. 710 00:40:54,243 --> 00:40:55,484 It's too late. 711 00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:08,715 [grunting] 712 00:41:12,595 --> 00:41:13,676 [neck cracks] 713 00:41:19,936 --> 00:41:23,475 - I can beam them down, captain. - They're Dr. Burnham's only defense. 714 00:41:25,108 --> 00:41:26,849 - We have a problem. - It has to wait. 715 00:41:26,943 --> 00:41:29,401 - Dr. Culber, Dr. Pollard, stand by... - [Spock] Captain. 716 00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:31,695 It cannot wait. Section 31 diverted our data transfer. 717 00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:33,943 How much Sphere data have they downloaded? 718 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,531 Thirty-seven percent thus far. 719 00:41:38,621 --> 00:41:40,203 Gravity is fluctuating wildly. 720 00:41:40,289 --> 00:41:41,905 The field can't hold much longer. 721 00:41:44,794 --> 00:41:46,285 He's taking the Sphere data. 722 00:41:46,379 --> 00:41:47,939 Drop the field. I'll go back, stop him. 723 00:41:48,006 --> 00:41:49,372 We're not gonna do that. 724 00:42:03,771 --> 00:42:04,807 No! 725 00:42:04,897 --> 00:42:06,138 Mom, stay down. 726 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,396 Michael! 727 00:42:12,155 --> 00:42:13,191 [grunting and shouting] 728 00:42:19,245 --> 00:42:21,077 Come on, I got you. I got you. 729 00:42:21,164 --> 00:42:22,280 Come on. Okay. 730 00:42:26,377 --> 00:42:28,118 We cannot stop the data transfer. 731 00:42:28,212 --> 00:42:29,828 How much data has he downloaded? 732 00:42:29,922 --> 00:42:32,585 Forty-five percent, 46. Transfer speed is increasing. 733 00:42:39,932 --> 00:42:41,889 Can we pull my mom into our timestream? 734 00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:43,296 He destroyed the control station. 735 00:42:43,352 --> 00:42:45,514 You need to destroy the containment field. 736 00:42:45,605 --> 00:42:47,437 Without the suit, he cannot take the data. 737 00:42:47,523 --> 00:42:48,889 If we do, you get yanked back. 738 00:42:49,525 --> 00:42:51,733 Then you don't have a suit to navigate the timestream. 739 00:42:51,819 --> 00:42:53,685 He'll kill her, Michael. 740 00:42:53,780 --> 00:42:55,396 This way, she'd have a chance. 741 00:42:56,949 --> 00:42:59,344 Transfer's being controlled by something within the facility. 742 00:42:59,368 --> 00:43:00,984 [Pike] Come up with another solution. 743 00:43:01,079 --> 00:43:03,116 We haven't come this far to lose everything now. 744 00:43:12,673 --> 00:43:15,086 If we each shoot one of the discs, 745 00:43:15,176 --> 00:43:17,509 the power disruption will release the containment field. 746 00:43:18,763 --> 00:43:20,550 You have to let me go, Michael. 747 00:43:21,224 --> 00:43:23,386 It's the only way each of us has a chance to survive. 748 00:43:29,357 --> 00:43:30,473 I'll find you, Mom. 749 00:43:31,609 --> 00:43:32,609 It'll be okay. 750 00:43:37,865 --> 00:43:38,865 I love you. 751 00:43:39,659 --> 00:43:41,150 I love you, too, baby girl. 752 00:43:45,915 --> 00:43:46,915 Ready. 753 00:43:47,875 --> 00:43:49,116 Now. 754 00:44:33,296 --> 00:44:35,003 Burnham to Discovery. Four to beam up. 755 00:44:36,632 --> 00:44:38,168 Then blow this place to hell. 756 00:44:39,635 --> 00:44:41,422 Landing party onboard, captain. 757 00:44:41,512 --> 00:44:43,925 - Fire torpedoes. - Aye, sir. Firing torpedoes. 758 00:44:53,983 --> 00:44:56,691 Direct hit, sir. The Essof facility has been destroyed. 759 00:44:57,653 --> 00:44:58,653 [Owosekun] Captain. 760 00:44:59,197 --> 00:45:02,781 I detected a transporter signal from the surface to the Section 31 ship. 761 00:45:03,743 --> 00:45:06,076 Damn it. Lock on a pursuit course. 762 00:45:06,746 --> 00:45:08,658 They masked their warp signature, sir. 763 00:45:08,748 --> 00:45:10,205 There's no way to pursue. 764 00:45:10,541 --> 00:45:13,534 Captain, I've picked up a distress beacon from an escape pod. 765 00:45:14,170 --> 00:45:15,206 One life sign... 766 00:45:15,796 --> 00:45:17,162 identified as Ash Tyler. 767 00:45:18,758 --> 00:45:20,340 When the timestorm passes, 768 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,467 I'll come back for you, baby girl. 769 00:45:23,304 --> 00:45:24,795 For you and your father. 770 00:45:26,182 --> 00:45:27,182 I promise. 771 00:45:27,767 --> 00:45:28,803 [door opens] 772 00:45:35,691 --> 00:45:38,274 Leland received 54 percent of the Sphere data. 773 00:45:39,111 --> 00:45:40,111 Significant, but... 774 00:45:40,905 --> 00:45:43,568 as the captain has stated, we will continue the fight. 775 00:45:50,456 --> 00:45:51,456 She was right. 776 00:45:56,087 --> 00:45:58,044 What fight are we supposed to continue? 777 00:45:59,131 --> 00:46:00,667 Everything we try fails. 778 00:46:02,551 --> 00:46:03,632 Now, with no suit... 779 00:46:05,721 --> 00:46:06,837 no time crystal... 780 00:46:09,892 --> 00:46:11,758 it'll always be one step ahead of us. 781 00:46:13,354 --> 00:46:14,354 Respectfully... 782 00:46:15,147 --> 00:46:16,479 Dr. Burnham was incorrect. 783 00:46:18,109 --> 00:46:19,109 Now does matter. 784 00:46:22,321 --> 00:46:25,189 What happened before no longer exists. 785 00:46:26,993 --> 00:46:28,833 What will happen next has not yet been written. 786 00:46:29,745 --> 00:46:31,327 We have only now. 787 00:46:34,208 --> 00:46:35,790 That is our greatest advantage. 788 00:46:39,922 --> 00:46:41,129 What we do now, 789 00:46:41,841 --> 00:46:43,173 here in this moment, 790 00:46:44,135 --> 00:46:46,047 has the power to determine the future. 791 00:46:47,346 --> 00:46:50,134 Instinct and logic, together. 792 00:46:50,808 --> 00:46:54,301 That is how we will defeat Control in the battle to come. 793 00:46:55,813 --> 00:46:56,894 We will find a way. 794 00:46:58,357 --> 00:47:00,599 All of history can change with our next move. 795 00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:12,531 The board is yours, Michael.