1 00:00:00,414 --> 00:00:06,414 WordsKill 2 00:00:08,138 --> 00:00:10,401 Previously onStar Trek: Picard... 3 00:00:10,445 --> 00:00:11,924 A group of rogue synthetics 4 00:00:11,968 --> 00:00:13,424 dropped the planetary defense shields, 5 00:00:13,448 --> 00:00:15,928 completely destroying the Utopia Planitia shipyard. 6 00:00:15,972 --> 00:00:17,408 Tell us, Admiral. Why did you 7 00:00:17,452 --> 00:00:18,670 really quit Starfleet? 8 00:00:18,714 --> 00:00:21,064 Because it was no longer Starfleet! 9 00:00:21,108 --> 00:00:23,762 We're done here. 10 00:00:23,806 --> 00:00:25,329 What's happening?Baby, please, 11 00:00:25,373 --> 00:00:26,417 find Picard. 12 00:00:26,461 --> 00:00:27,853 He can help you. 13 00:00:27,897 --> 00:00:29,855 What do you want here? 14 00:00:29,899 --> 00:00:30,726 I was with my boyfriend. 15 00:00:32,206 --> 00:00:33,555 They murdered him. 16 00:00:33,598 --> 00:00:35,339 No! No! No! 17 00:00:35,383 --> 00:00:37,254 Something inside of me just knew what to do... 18 00:00:44,435 --> 00:00:46,046 I had a dear friend. 19 00:00:46,089 --> 00:00:47,438 Commander Data. 20 00:00:47,482 --> 00:00:48,657 He painted you, 21 00:00:48,700 --> 00:00:51,051 exactly as you are here and now. 22 00:00:51,094 --> 00:00:52,182 That's impossible. 23 00:00:52,226 --> 00:00:54,532 He named the painting Daughter. 24 00:00:54,576 --> 00:00:56,186 Stay down! 25 00:00:56,230 --> 00:00:57,970 She came here 26 00:00:58,014 --> 00:00:59,929 to find safety. 27 00:01:04,325 --> 00:01:05,456 No! 28 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:07,284 I owe it to her 29 00:01:07,328 --> 00:01:08,633 to find out 30 00:01:08,677 --> 00:01:11,027 who killed her and why. 31 00:01:11,071 --> 00:01:13,595 The androids that destroyed Mars came from this lab. 32 00:01:13,638 --> 00:01:16,380 No one has ever been able to redevelop the science used 33 00:01:16,424 --> 00:01:18,948 to create Data. Then came Bruce. Maddox. 34 00:01:18,991 --> 00:01:21,820 His theory was that Data's entire code, even his memories, 35 00:01:21,864 --> 00:01:25,041 could be reconstituted from a single positronic neuron. 36 00:01:25,085 --> 00:01:27,217 Then Data, or some part of him, 37 00:01:27,261 --> 00:01:29,089 would be alive. There'd be no way of knowing 38 00:01:29,132 --> 00:01:31,047 without examining... Dahj. 39 00:01:31,091 --> 00:01:32,570 Data's daughter. 40 00:01:32,614 --> 00:01:34,006 They're created in pairs. 41 00:01:34,050 --> 00:01:35,530 Dr. Asha? 42 00:01:35,573 --> 00:01:36,531 Narek. 43 00:01:36,574 --> 00:01:37,619 Soji. 44 00:01:37,662 --> 00:01:39,099 Twins? Twins. 45 00:01:39,142 --> 00:01:42,014 So there's another one. 46 00:01:52,416 --> 00:01:54,375 Attention, all personnel. 47 00:01:54,418 --> 00:01:56,812 Happy First Contact Day. 48 00:01:56,855 --> 00:02:00,729 Celebrations will be held in designated recreational areas 49 00:02:00,772 --> 00:02:04,559 during regularly scheduled alpha and beta shift breaks. 50 00:02:04,602 --> 00:02:07,257 All directors, please submit final duty logs 51 00:02:07,301 --> 00:02:08,780 prior to shift change. 52 00:02:08,824 --> 00:02:11,653 Sector 3 maintenance regulators 53 00:02:11,696 --> 00:02:13,698 will report to mandatory security training... 54 00:02:14,786 --> 00:02:17,572 Good morning, plastic people. 55 00:02:17,615 --> 00:02:20,140 Good morning, Mr. Pincus. 56 00:02:20,183 --> 00:02:23,012 Let's go to work. 57 00:02:24,709 --> 00:02:27,321 All A500 maintenance issues 58 00:02:27,364 --> 00:02:29,888 should be reported to Synthetic Personnel supervisors 59 00:02:29,932 --> 00:02:32,717 prior to initiating manual shutdown proceedings. 60 00:02:35,764 --> 00:02:38,593 Every other tri-hy station in the yard gets off. 61 00:02:38,636 --> 00:02:40,203 First Contact Day. 62 00:02:40,247 --> 00:02:41,726 Not us. 63 00:02:41,770 --> 00:02:42,771 What'd we do wrong? 64 00:02:42,814 --> 00:02:43,946 To have a skeleton crew, 65 00:02:43,989 --> 00:02:45,687 you have to have skeletons. 66 00:02:45,730 --> 00:02:48,603 I bet my kids are having cake on Earth. 67 00:02:48,646 --> 00:02:51,258 Yo, F8, you get into 68 00:02:51,301 --> 00:02:52,737 any trouble last night? 69 00:02:52,781 --> 00:02:53,956 Hell yeah. 70 00:02:53,999 --> 00:02:55,262 Oh, yeah? Doing what? 71 00:02:55,305 --> 00:02:56,959 Nothing. 72 00:02:57,002 --> 00:02:58,787 Hell yeah. 73 00:02:58,830 --> 00:03:00,615 Hell yeah. 74 00:03:00,658 --> 00:03:02,356 Hey, F8, I got one for you. 75 00:03:02,399 --> 00:03:04,358 What's brown and sticky? 76 00:03:04,401 --> 00:03:06,229 Teratogenic coolant. 77 00:03:06,273 --> 00:03:07,796 Isonucleic residue. 78 00:03:07,839 --> 00:03:09,319 Boson-enriched nanopolymer. 79 00:03:09,363 --> 00:03:11,103 A stick. 80 00:03:12,931 --> 00:03:14,019 You get it? 81 00:03:14,063 --> 00:03:15,934 No. 82 00:03:20,983 --> 00:03:23,028 Hey, 83 00:03:23,072 --> 00:03:24,247 he can hear you. 84 00:03:24,291 --> 00:03:25,944 And? 85 00:03:25,988 --> 00:03:27,119 You can't offend them. 86 00:03:27,163 --> 00:03:28,556 They're not people. 87 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:30,316 And they can rip through solid titanium 88 00:03:30,340 --> 00:03:31,733 without breaking a sweat. 89 00:03:31,776 --> 00:03:33,213 What are you, his sister? 90 00:03:33,256 --> 00:03:34,997 Ugh, who raised you? 91 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,236 Report to primary reactor control sector. 92 00:03:40,437 --> 00:03:42,831 Sector 3. Hazard protocol 93 00:03:42,874 --> 00:03:45,834 in effect until further notice. 94 00:03:48,228 --> 00:03:50,708 I wish they'd go back to using uno-amino matrices 95 00:03:50,752 --> 00:03:52,971 in the replicators. No kidding. 96 00:03:53,015 --> 00:03:55,017 Space pineapples again. 97 00:03:56,584 --> 00:03:59,151 I know what's brown and sticky. 98 00:03:59,195 --> 00:04:01,980 This food is brown and sticky. 99 00:04:02,024 --> 00:04:03,068 Is this a joke? 100 00:04:03,112 --> 00:04:05,027 Hey, that dude is lucky. 101 00:04:05,070 --> 00:04:08,248 Now, here is some brown, sticky shit. 102 00:04:08,291 --> 00:04:09,771 Amen. 103 00:04:09,814 --> 00:04:11,642 Did you replicate flies with that, too? 104 00:04:17,779 --> 00:04:19,433 What are you doing? 105 00:04:19,476 --> 00:04:20,671 Security alert. 106 00:04:20,695 --> 00:04:22,305 Multiple synthetic labor units 107 00:04:22,349 --> 00:04:23,611 have been compromised.Hey. 108 00:04:23,654 --> 00:04:24,786 Get away from there. 109 00:04:24,829 --> 00:04:25,937 Deflector shields down 110 00:04:25,961 --> 00:04:28,790 in all sectors of Utopia Planitia. 111 00:04:28,833 --> 00:04:30,444 Repeat, security alert.Shit. 112 00:04:30,487 --> 00:04:32,054 Multiple synthetic... 113 00:04:40,149 --> 00:04:42,760 Central, this is tri-hy station A19. 114 00:04:42,804 --> 00:04:44,936 Synth unit F8 has been compromised. 115 00:04:44,980 --> 00:04:46,111 We have a man down. 116 00:04:46,155 --> 00:04:48,157 Repeat, we have a man down. 117 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:53,162 Stand down! 118 00:04:54,903 --> 00:04:57,601 Grid failure detected. 119 00:04:57,645 --> 00:05:01,039 Move immediately to designated safe zones. 120 00:05:01,083 --> 00:05:04,086 Security grid failure in progress. 121 00:05:04,129 --> 00:05:06,218 Containments have failed. 122 00:05:06,262 --> 00:05:08,351 Evacuate immediately. 123 00:05:08,395 --> 00:05:11,615 Orbital defense system compromised. 124 00:05:11,659 --> 00:05:14,575 Emergency evacuation protocol in effect... 125 00:05:14,618 --> 00:05:17,447 Cascade failure in progress. 126 00:07:14,912 --> 00:07:16,871 Surface scans negative. 127 00:07:16,914 --> 00:07:19,395 No matter or trace elements consistent 128 00:07:19,439 --> 00:07:21,397 with Dahj Asha are present. 129 00:07:21,441 --> 00:07:23,747 They erased her. 130 00:07:23,791 --> 00:07:26,271 And then they erased themselves. 131 00:07:26,315 --> 00:07:28,119 Well, it's certainly Tal Shiar's operational style, but... 132 00:07:28,143 --> 00:07:29,623 On Earth? 133 00:07:29,666 --> 00:07:31,929 Not even the Tal Shiar would have that audacity. 134 00:07:31,973 --> 00:07:33,453 Then who? 135 00:07:34,932 --> 00:07:36,456 It has to be. 136 00:07:36,499 --> 00:07:37,935 Zhat Vash. 137 00:07:37,979 --> 00:07:40,416 And here we go. 138 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:42,157 What is Zhat Vash? 139 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:43,811 A Tal Shiar myth. 140 00:07:43,854 --> 00:07:47,467 It's a kind of boogeyman they use to frighten new recruits. 141 00:07:47,510 --> 00:07:49,077 And children. 142 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,166 Please explain. 143 00:07:51,209 --> 00:07:52,733 Here in the Federation, 144 00:07:52,776 --> 00:07:55,953 you refer to the Tal Shiar as the Romulan secret police. 145 00:07:55,997 --> 00:07:58,652 Mm-hmm. But it's a bit redundant. 146 00:07:58,695 --> 00:08:00,238 You could put the word "secret" in front 147 00:08:00,262 --> 00:08:02,525 of almost any aspect of Romulan culture. 148 00:08:02,569 --> 00:08:05,223 I have heard... And I have reason to believe... 149 00:08:05,267 --> 00:08:07,617 That the Tal Shiar is merely a mask worn 150 00:08:07,661 --> 00:08:09,750 by another, far older cabal. 151 00:08:09,793 --> 00:08:12,056 That before the Tal Shiar, 152 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:13,928 there was the Zhat Vash. 153 00:08:15,973 --> 00:08:19,107 "Zhat vash" is a term sometimes used to refer to the dead, 154 00:08:19,150 --> 00:08:22,110 the only reliable keepers of secrets. 155 00:08:22,153 --> 00:08:24,112 - Ominous. - No. Fitting. 156 00:08:24,155 --> 00:08:27,028 Because that's the sole purpose of the Zhat Vash. 157 00:08:29,030 --> 00:08:32,337 To keep a secret so profound and terrible 158 00:08:32,381 --> 00:08:35,471 just learning it can break a person's mind. 159 00:08:41,216 --> 00:08:42,609 Are you sure 160 00:08:42,652 --> 00:08:44,524 she said that he was murdered here, 161 00:08:44,567 --> 00:08:45,655 in her apartment? 162 00:08:45,699 --> 00:08:47,744 She did. 163 00:08:47,788 --> 00:08:50,747 All apparent evidence to the contrary. 164 00:08:50,791 --> 00:08:52,575 Would it be foolish to ask 165 00:08:52,619 --> 00:08:55,883 what is the dread secret that the Zhat Vash are keeping? 166 00:08:55,926 --> 00:08:58,407 No one outside the Zhat Vash knows for sure. 167 00:08:58,450 --> 00:09:00,017 But I've heard whispers. 168 00:09:00,061 --> 00:09:02,542 Romulan methods of forensic 169 00:09:02,585 --> 00:09:05,675 molecular reconstruction are illegal in the Federation. 170 00:09:05,719 --> 00:09:06,633 Really? 171 00:09:06,676 --> 00:09:08,635 I had no idea.Yeah. 172 00:09:08,678 --> 00:09:10,550 They're also unreliable, and, uh, 173 00:09:10,593 --> 00:09:12,116 the results are 174 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:13,683 dubious at best. Ah, yeah. 175 00:09:13,727 --> 00:09:16,120 That's exactly what we wanted you to think. 176 00:09:16,164 --> 00:09:18,035 When I was a new recruit, 177 00:09:18,079 --> 00:09:20,037 one of my first handlers... My mother. 178 00:09:20,081 --> 00:09:21,691 Got drunk on Romulan ale... 179 00:09:21,735 --> 00:09:23,214 My father... and let slip 180 00:09:23,258 --> 00:09:25,869 that at the heart of the Zhat Vash mission 181 00:09:25,913 --> 00:09:29,264 was a deep, unassuageable loathing. 182 00:09:29,307 --> 00:09:30,961 A loathing of whom? 183 00:09:31,005 --> 00:09:32,397 Not whom. 184 00:09:32,441 --> 00:09:33,747 What. 185 00:09:47,935 --> 00:09:49,501 More wine? 186 00:09:49,545 --> 00:09:51,591 Surprise me. 187 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,818 Dahj, your replicator menus are tragic. 188 00:10:04,038 --> 00:10:06,693 That's... extraordinary. 189 00:10:06,736 --> 00:10:08,433 It's said they operate 190 00:10:08,477 --> 00:10:11,349 without regard for treaty or jurisdiction... 191 00:10:11,393 --> 00:10:12,916 And not just in Romulan worlds, 192 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,615 but in the Klingon Empire, the Gorn Hegemony, 193 00:10:15,658 --> 00:10:17,573 even the Federation itself... 194 00:10:17,617 --> 00:10:19,270 And that they have kept this secret 195 00:10:19,314 --> 00:10:21,446 for thousands upon thousands of years. 196 00:10:21,490 --> 00:10:24,014 Oh, the cheeky fuckers. 197 00:10:24,058 --> 00:10:26,408 They've overwritten the particle residuum. 198 00:10:26,451 --> 00:10:27,714 Overwritten it? 199 00:10:27,757 --> 00:10:29,585 Yes. And in a very sophisticated way. 200 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:30,586 It's... 201 00:10:30,630 --> 00:10:31,848 barely detectable. 202 00:10:31,892 --> 00:10:33,545 It would read as instrument failure 203 00:10:33,589 --> 00:10:34,546 if you didn't know better. 204 00:10:34,590 --> 00:10:35,635 But it's not. 205 00:10:35,678 --> 00:10:37,071 It's a flat-out wipe. 206 00:10:37,114 --> 00:10:38,768 Can you recover it? 207 00:10:38,812 --> 00:10:40,683 Uh... 208 00:10:40,727 --> 00:10:43,251 Have you never noticed the complete absence 209 00:10:43,294 --> 00:10:46,123 of any form of artificial life in Romulan culture? 210 00:10:46,167 --> 00:10:47,690 We don't have androids or AIs. 211 00:10:47,734 --> 00:10:49,692 We don't study cybernetics. 212 00:10:49,736 --> 00:10:53,304 Our computers are limited to purely numerical functions. 213 00:10:53,348 --> 00:10:56,481 They must have saturated this place in antileptons. 214 00:10:56,525 --> 00:10:59,049 At no small risk to themselves, by the way. 215 00:10:59,093 --> 00:11:01,965 This place hasn't just been cleaned, Admiral. 216 00:11:02,009 --> 00:11:03,532 It's been scrubbed. 217 00:11:03,575 --> 00:11:07,231 Is that to be expected of your Zhat Vash? 218 00:11:07,275 --> 00:11:08,755 Well, they're not myZhat Vash, 219 00:11:08,798 --> 00:11:10,757 and I thought you didn't believe in them. 220 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,629 I may be coming around. 221 00:11:13,673 --> 00:11:15,457 So, then... 222 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:21,158 all this is about the Zhat Vash hatred of androids. 223 00:11:21,202 --> 00:11:23,117 It's not simply hate. 224 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,467 It's hate and fear 225 00:11:25,510 --> 00:11:27,730 and pure loathing 226 00:11:27,774 --> 00:11:29,601 for any form of synthetic life. 227 00:11:29,645 --> 00:11:31,255 Why? 228 00:11:31,299 --> 00:11:33,518 That I can't tell you. I don't know. 229 00:11:33,562 --> 00:11:36,608 But I am certain that is the silence 230 00:11:36,652 --> 00:11:39,176 that seals the mouths of the Zhat Vash, 231 00:11:39,220 --> 00:11:40,874 as surely and eternally as death. 232 00:11:40,917 --> 00:11:42,397 The operatives who did this 233 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,442 wouldn't have wanted to leave the impression 234 00:11:44,486 --> 00:11:46,183 that the place had been scrubbed. 235 00:11:46,227 --> 00:11:50,187 We may find they've neglected something, some... 236 00:11:50,231 --> 00:11:52,712 actual clue... 237 00:11:52,755 --> 00:11:56,019 that lay tucked inside a false clue, as it were. 238 00:11:56,063 --> 00:11:58,021 Something like this, 239 00:11:58,065 --> 00:12:00,284 for example? 240 00:12:07,248 --> 00:12:09,163 There's no record of any incoming 241 00:12:09,206 --> 00:12:11,034 or outgoing calls. 242 00:12:11,078 --> 00:12:12,819 The information's there, 243 00:12:12,862 --> 00:12:14,951 but the indexes have been surgically deleted. 244 00:12:14,995 --> 00:12:17,171 There's no way to sort the data. 245 00:12:17,214 --> 00:12:19,086 Essentially, they've sterilized it, 246 00:12:19,129 --> 00:12:21,523 so that it's... qualitatively agnostic. 247 00:12:21,566 --> 00:12:23,612 There's no distinction. 248 00:12:23,655 --> 00:12:25,353 Everything looks like everything else. 249 00:12:25,396 --> 00:12:27,007 What we need 250 00:12:27,050 --> 00:12:29,792 is a record of any contact that she may have had 251 00:12:29,836 --> 00:12:32,621 with her sister. Mm, and no doubt it's in here, but it 252 00:12:32,664 --> 00:12:34,536 will look the same as everything else. 253 00:12:36,494 --> 00:12:38,714 N... No, it... 254 00:12:38,758 --> 00:12:41,238 it will look like her. 255 00:12:41,282 --> 00:12:43,284 Like Dahj. 256 00:12:43,327 --> 00:12:45,373 Wh-What's her name? Um, Dr. Jurati. 257 00:12:45,416 --> 00:12:48,071 She said that they would be identical twins, right? 258 00:12:48,115 --> 00:12:50,900 Even closer than twins, perhaps.Okay. So what's 259 00:12:50,944 --> 00:12:52,206 the first thing you do 260 00:12:52,249 --> 00:12:53,400 when you bring a new digital assistant online? 261 00:12:53,424 --> 00:12:55,818 Introduce myself.Exactly. 262 00:12:55,862 --> 00:12:58,386 Computers like efficiency, so what a computer does 263 00:12:58,429 --> 00:13:00,780 is build heuristics, 264 00:13:00,823 --> 00:13:02,564 shortcuts to the tasks 265 00:13:02,607 --> 00:13:04,392 it performs most often. You're saying 266 00:13:04,435 --> 00:13:06,176 that if they were indistinguishable, 267 00:13:06,220 --> 00:13:08,657 then the machine, at some point, 268 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:11,660 could have mistaken the sister for Dahj.Exactly. 269 00:13:11,703 --> 00:13:14,228 And if it did, even for a few seconds 270 00:13:14,271 --> 00:13:16,099 before it flagged the error, then the tags 271 00:13:16,143 --> 00:13:18,232 might still be in here, 272 00:13:18,275 --> 00:13:22,149 overlooked by even the most diligent of scrubbers. 273 00:13:22,192 --> 00:13:24,151 Got you. 274 00:13:25,456 --> 00:13:26,631 Okay. 275 00:13:26,675 --> 00:13:29,286 These were all outgoing. 276 00:13:29,330 --> 00:13:32,072 And these... 277 00:13:32,115 --> 00:13:33,943 were incoming. 278 00:13:35,945 --> 00:13:37,817 It's her. 279 00:13:39,209 --> 00:13:40,994 Ghosts in the machine. 280 00:13:41,037 --> 00:13:43,997 Can you tell me where she is? 281 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:45,912 No. 282 00:13:45,955 --> 00:13:48,392 But I can tell you where she isn't. 283 00:13:48,436 --> 00:13:53,180 Nonlocal information packets are routed through subspace relays. 284 00:13:53,223 --> 00:13:55,399 This routing leaves tiny 285 00:13:55,443 --> 00:13:57,793 but unmistakable code marks. 286 00:13:57,837 --> 00:13:59,099 Nonlocal? 287 00:13:59,142 --> 00:14:00,927 I'm saying this transmission 288 00:14:00,970 --> 00:14:03,233 came from off-world. 289 00:14:05,801 --> 00:14:08,238 Are you certain? Wherever this girl 290 00:14:08,282 --> 00:14:10,980 was calling her sister from, 291 00:14:11,024 --> 00:14:12,895 it's nowhere on Earth. 292 00:14:22,078 --> 00:14:24,254 Beautiful? 293 00:14:24,298 --> 00:14:27,997 No one's ever said that before about a Borg Cube. 294 00:14:29,999 --> 00:14:32,349 This isn't a Borg cube, Narek. 295 00:14:32,393 --> 00:14:35,222 It's the Artifact. 296 00:14:35,265 --> 00:14:38,094 A Borg cube is mighty and omnipotent. 297 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,580 The Artifact is lost. 298 00:14:47,234 --> 00:14:49,627 Severed from the Collective. 299 00:14:49,671 --> 00:14:51,629 Broken. 300 00:14:51,673 --> 00:14:53,022 Vulnerable. 301 00:14:53,066 --> 00:14:55,198 You find vulnerability 302 00:14:55,242 --> 00:14:57,200 and brokenness beautiful. 303 00:14:57,244 --> 00:14:58,941 Is that strange? 304 00:14:58,985 --> 00:15:01,422 To find beauty in imperfection? 305 00:15:01,465 --> 00:15:03,685 It's certainly not very Romulan. 306 00:15:03,728 --> 00:15:06,122 But, then, there's nothing very Romulan 307 00:15:06,166 --> 00:15:07,907 about this place at all. 308 00:15:07,950 --> 00:15:10,213 Apart from the current owners 309 00:15:10,257 --> 00:15:12,215 and the profits you extract 310 00:15:12,259 --> 00:15:16,219 from the exploitation of Borg technology. 311 00:15:16,263 --> 00:15:18,221 Are you a subversive, Dr. Asha, 312 00:15:18,265 --> 00:15:20,745 sent by our enemies to foment revolution 313 00:15:20,789 --> 00:15:22,225 among the researchers? 314 00:15:22,269 --> 00:15:23,705 Yes, I am. 315 00:15:23,748 --> 00:15:25,533 But it's too late now. 316 00:15:25,576 --> 00:15:27,404 You already slept with me. 317 00:15:27,448 --> 00:15:29,754 That makes you an accessory to my plot. 318 00:15:29,798 --> 00:15:31,234 Mm. 319 00:15:32,714 --> 00:15:34,977 Clearly... 320 00:15:35,021 --> 00:15:37,458 I'll have to silence you. 321 00:15:45,292 --> 00:15:46,946 Try it. 322 00:16:00,046 --> 00:16:02,091 Time for work. 323 00:16:02,135 --> 00:16:04,180 Yeah. 324 00:16:04,224 --> 00:16:05,965 Me, too. Oh, you have a job? 325 00:16:06,008 --> 00:16:08,054 Thought you were just some Romulan lounge lizard. 326 00:16:08,097 --> 00:16:10,099 Oh, we all have our part to play. 327 00:16:12,058 --> 00:16:13,624 Can I ask you a question? 328 00:16:13,668 --> 00:16:16,410 Sure. Just don't expect an answer. 329 00:16:16,453 --> 00:16:19,804 Are we allowed to be sleeping together? Or is that a secret? 330 00:16:19,848 --> 00:16:22,329 Very much the latter. 331 00:16:23,591 --> 00:16:25,854 Is everything Romulans do a secret? 332 00:16:25,897 --> 00:16:28,378 Ooh, I'm not at liberty to divulge that. 333 00:16:28,422 --> 00:16:30,511 Is your name actually Narek? 334 00:16:30,554 --> 00:16:32,992 It's one of them. 335 00:16:33,035 --> 00:16:36,560 So is there anything you can tell me about yourself? 336 00:16:36,604 --> 00:16:38,649 Yes. 337 00:16:38,693 --> 00:16:43,132 I'm a very private person. 338 00:16:45,221 --> 00:16:49,573 So, see you at the Checkpoint? 339 00:16:49,617 --> 00:16:51,053 Ooh, really? 340 00:16:51,097 --> 00:16:52,489 I need to see how it works. 341 00:16:52,533 --> 00:16:56,537 In your new capacity as... 342 00:16:59,192 --> 00:17:01,150 Yes. 343 00:17:01,194 --> 00:17:02,891 Good. 344 00:17:07,156 --> 00:17:09,202 So can I. 345 00:17:25,174 --> 00:17:26,741 He said I'd find you out here. 346 00:17:26,784 --> 00:17:28,308 Moritz. 347 00:17:28,351 --> 00:17:31,050 Hello, Jean-Luc. 348 00:17:33,704 --> 00:17:37,012 It's been a very long time. 349 00:17:37,056 --> 00:17:38,796 Too long. 350 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,713 I know there was a bit of trouble with the remote medscan, 351 00:17:42,757 --> 00:17:44,585 but I hardly expected a house call. 352 00:17:44,628 --> 00:17:46,500 Let me just, um... 353 00:17:46,543 --> 00:17:50,460 Your office told me they would be forwarding 354 00:17:50,504 --> 00:17:52,462 the certificate for interstellar service 355 00:17:52,506 --> 00:17:55,987 as soon as you had seen the results. 356 00:17:59,252 --> 00:18:02,124 Oh, I see. 357 00:18:02,168 --> 00:18:04,822 You might want something stronger. 358 00:18:10,263 --> 00:18:14,484 Your medscan came in at or above Starfleet minimums 359 00:18:14,528 --> 00:18:15,746 in every category. 360 00:18:15,790 --> 00:18:18,532 Cardiovascular, metabolic, cognitive. 361 00:18:18,575 --> 00:18:21,404 For a relic, you're in excellent shape. 362 00:18:21,448 --> 00:18:26,583 Just that little abnormality in the parietal lobe. 363 00:18:26,627 --> 00:18:28,890 I was told a long time ago 364 00:18:28,933 --> 00:18:33,155 that it might cause a problem eventually. 365 00:18:33,199 --> 00:18:37,377 Loss of appetite, mood swings, unsettling dreams? 366 00:18:39,422 --> 00:18:41,859 Inappropriate displays of anger 367 00:18:41,903 --> 00:18:45,515 on interplanetary news holos? 368 00:18:47,561 --> 00:18:49,519 What do you think it is? 369 00:18:49,563 --> 00:18:52,043 I'd need to run more tests. 370 00:18:52,087 --> 00:18:55,177 It could be one of a number of related syndromes. 371 00:18:55,221 --> 00:18:56,526 Prognosis? 372 00:19:00,095 --> 00:19:03,359 Come on. Let's have it, Dr. Benayoun. 373 00:19:04,404 --> 00:19:07,189 A few are treatable, but... 374 00:19:07,233 --> 00:19:09,539 they all end the same way. 375 00:19:09,583 --> 00:19:12,934 Some sooner than others. 376 00:19:14,327 --> 00:19:16,329 I see. 377 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:30,256 I need you to certify me to Starfleet 378 00:19:30,299 --> 00:19:35,217 as fit for interstellar service. 379 00:19:35,261 --> 00:19:38,264 Now, will you do it? 380 00:19:38,307 --> 00:19:42,442 I don't suppose you'd condescend to tell me why. 381 00:19:42,485 --> 00:19:45,314 Secret mission? 382 00:19:45,358 --> 00:19:46,837 We certainly had our share of those 383 00:19:46,881 --> 00:19:48,230 on the Stargazer, didn't we? 384 00:19:48,274 --> 00:19:50,711 Remember that time in the fireforest 385 00:19:50,754 --> 00:19:53,844 on Calyx... Dr. Benayoun. 386 00:19:53,888 --> 00:19:56,238 Forgive me. 387 00:19:56,282 --> 00:19:59,937 You really want to go back out into the cold. 388 00:19:59,981 --> 00:20:01,243 Knowing... 389 00:20:01,287 --> 00:20:05,334 More than ever, knowing. 390 00:20:10,034 --> 00:20:11,819 I don't know what kind of trouble 391 00:20:11,862 --> 00:20:13,734 you're planning to get into. 392 00:20:13,777 --> 00:20:16,432 Maybe if you're lucky, 393 00:20:16,476 --> 00:20:19,305 it will kill you first. 394 00:20:50,249 --> 00:20:52,686 All visitors must report 395 00:20:52,729 --> 00:20:54,470 to the main security desk. 396 00:20:54,514 --> 00:20:56,080 All visitors must report 397 00:20:56,124 --> 00:20:58,561 to the main security desk. 398 00:21:01,303 --> 00:21:03,697 Admiral Gurdy, please report to Conference Room B. 399 00:21:03,740 --> 00:21:07,091 Admiral Gurdy, please report to Conference Room B. 400 00:21:07,135 --> 00:21:09,180 Hello. 401 00:21:09,224 --> 00:21:11,357 I, uh, have a meeting with the CNC. 402 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,010 I have an appointment. 403 00:21:13,054 --> 00:21:14,795 Of course, sir. 404 00:21:16,666 --> 00:21:18,799 May I have your name, please, sir? 405 00:21:18,842 --> 00:21:21,671 Oh, um, Picard. 406 00:21:24,892 --> 00:21:26,415 Jean-Luc. 407 00:21:26,459 --> 00:21:28,199 Ah. 408 00:21:28,243 --> 00:21:31,377 It's nice to see you up and around, Admiral. Welcome back. 409 00:21:34,075 --> 00:21:36,077 Come. 410 00:21:38,384 --> 00:21:40,211 Jean-Luc. 411 00:21:40,255 --> 00:21:41,952 Kirsten. 412 00:21:41,996 --> 00:21:43,476 Hello. 413 00:21:43,519 --> 00:21:45,086 May I? 414 00:21:48,002 --> 00:21:51,353 Apparently, you have urgent Federation business. 415 00:21:51,397 --> 00:21:53,964 I understood you to have left affairs of state behind. 416 00:21:54,008 --> 00:21:57,272 I am staying as far from it all as I can. 417 00:21:57,316 --> 00:21:58,795 So then what can I do for you? 418 00:21:58,839 --> 00:22:01,102 Bruce Maddox. What about him? 419 00:22:01,145 --> 00:22:04,975 I believe that he is using neurons 420 00:22:05,019 --> 00:22:07,238 from the late Commander Data 421 00:22:07,282 --> 00:22:10,372 to create a new organic synthetic. 422 00:22:10,416 --> 00:22:12,983 Well, that's not far from all of it, 423 00:22:13,027 --> 00:22:14,158 it is all of it. 424 00:22:14,202 --> 00:22:16,378 The Romulans are involved. 425 00:22:16,422 --> 00:22:17,988 This gets better and better. 426 00:22:18,032 --> 00:22:20,643 Commander Data was not only my colleague, 427 00:22:20,687 --> 00:22:22,689 he was my dear friend, 428 00:22:22,732 --> 00:22:25,344 and he gave his life, body and soul, 429 00:22:25,387 --> 00:22:26,997 to the Federation. 430 00:22:27,041 --> 00:22:29,565 And if there is a chance that 431 00:22:29,609 --> 00:22:32,263 some part of him still exists, 432 00:22:32,307 --> 00:22:35,571 then I think we have an obligation to investigate. 433 00:22:35,615 --> 00:22:37,573 There is no "we," Jean-Luc. 434 00:22:37,617 --> 00:22:42,273 Kirsten, I know we have not always seen eye to eye. 435 00:22:42,317 --> 00:22:44,928 Nevertheless, I have a request to make. 436 00:22:44,972 --> 00:22:47,278 Based on my years of service, 437 00:22:47,322 --> 00:22:49,106 I want you to reinstate me, 438 00:22:49,150 --> 00:22:52,458 temporarily, for one mission. 439 00:22:52,501 --> 00:22:56,287 I will need a small warp-capable reconnaissance ship 440 00:22:56,331 --> 00:23:00,117 with a minimal crew, and if you feel that my rank 441 00:23:00,161 --> 00:23:02,946 makes me too conspicuous, well, then, 442 00:23:02,990 --> 00:23:05,340 I an content to be demoted to Captain. 443 00:23:08,212 --> 00:23:10,998 The sheer fucking hubris. 444 00:23:11,041 --> 00:23:14,044 You think you could just waltz back in here and be entrusted 445 00:23:14,088 --> 00:23:16,003 with taking men and women into space? 446 00:23:16,046 --> 00:23:18,222 Don't you think I was watching the holo the other day 447 00:23:18,266 --> 00:23:19,722 along with everyone else in the galaxy? 448 00:23:19,746 --> 00:23:21,574 I should not have spoken in public. 449 00:23:21,617 --> 00:23:24,446 The Romulans were our enemies, and we tried 450 00:23:24,490 --> 00:23:26,274 to help them for as long as we could, 451 00:23:26,317 --> 00:23:28,842 but even before the synthetics attacked Mars, 452 00:23:28,885 --> 00:23:32,846 14 species within the Federation said, "Cut the Romulans loose", 453 00:23:32,889 --> 00:23:34,543 or we'll pull out." 454 00:23:34,587 --> 00:23:37,372 It was a choice between allowing the Federation to implode 455 00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:39,026 or letting the Romulans go. 456 00:23:39,069 --> 00:23:40,941 The Federation does not get to decide 457 00:23:40,984 --> 00:23:43,030 if a species lives or dies. 458 00:23:43,073 --> 00:23:45,293 Yes, we do. We absolutely do. 459 00:23:45,336 --> 00:23:48,775 Thousands of other species depend upon us for unity, 460 00:23:48,818 --> 00:23:50,254 for cohesion. 461 00:23:50,298 --> 00:23:52,343 We didn't have enough ships left. 462 00:23:52,387 --> 00:23:53,867 We had to make choices. 463 00:23:53,910 --> 00:23:56,217 But the great Captain Picard didn't like his orders. 464 00:23:56,260 --> 00:23:58,567 I was standing up for the Federation, 465 00:23:58,611 --> 00:23:59,960 for what it represents, 466 00:24:00,003 --> 00:24:02,528 for what it should still represent. 467 00:24:02,571 --> 00:24:04,268 How dare you lecture me? 468 00:24:04,312 --> 00:24:06,836 Ignore me again at your cost. 469 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,231 My cost? You are in peril, Admiral. 470 00:24:10,274 --> 00:24:12,494 There is no peril here, 471 00:24:12,538 --> 00:24:15,410 only the pitiable delusions of a once-great man 472 00:24:15,454 --> 00:24:16,716 desperate to matter. 473 00:24:16,759 --> 00:24:19,849 This is no longer your house, Jean-Luc. 474 00:24:19,893 --> 00:24:22,156 So do what you're good at: 475 00:24:22,199 --> 00:24:25,072 Go home. 476 00:24:25,115 --> 00:24:27,117 Request denied. 477 00:24:44,831 --> 00:24:47,391 Security badges must be visible at all times. 478 00:24:50,184 --> 00:24:52,839 Here, let me help you with that. 479 00:24:54,971 --> 00:24:56,582 So embarrassing. 480 00:24:56,625 --> 00:24:59,280 Thank you. 481 00:24:59,323 --> 00:25:01,630 Are you new here? I haven't seen you around. 482 00:25:01,674 --> 00:25:03,153 Yesterday. 483 00:25:03,197 --> 00:25:05,765 My residency was supposed to start six months ago, but 484 00:25:05,808 --> 00:25:08,811 the Romulan Free State revoked it when I was halfway here. 485 00:25:08,855 --> 00:25:12,554 I have no idea why, or why they finally reinstated it. 486 00:25:12,598 --> 00:25:14,382 Well, that sounds about right. 487 00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:18,995 They still don't have a clear idea 488 00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:21,737 of how much damage this cube sustained, 489 00:25:21,781 --> 00:25:23,957 or maybe they do and they just aren't telling, 490 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,395 but, anyway, you don't want to cross over into the Gray Zone 491 00:25:27,438 --> 00:25:30,920 without this turned on. Don't worry, 492 00:25:30,964 --> 00:25:32,966 you're gonna be fine. 493 00:25:39,538 --> 00:25:42,541 Morning and welcome to Ops Cycle 9834... 494 00:25:42,584 --> 00:25:43,977 Here we go. 495 00:25:44,020 --> 00:25:47,633 As guests of the Borg Artifact Research Institute, 496 00:25:47,676 --> 00:25:49,591 your safety is important to us. 497 00:25:49,635 --> 00:25:51,985 You are standing inside one of the most 498 00:25:52,028 --> 00:25:55,249 destructive weapons ever known, and though no longer active, 499 00:25:55,292 --> 00:25:57,251 it remains potentially dangerous. 500 00:25:57,294 --> 00:25:58,861 Please don't venture outside 501 00:25:58,905 --> 00:26:00,689 of your designated research area. 502 00:26:00,733 --> 00:26:03,605 Assume that any fixture or instrument 503 00:26:03,649 --> 00:26:06,521 not personally known to be benign is malignant. 504 00:26:06,565 --> 00:26:08,044 Romulans are into drama. 505 00:26:11,265 --> 00:26:13,136 Who is that? 506 00:26:13,180 --> 00:26:16,662 That's Narek. He's new here, too. 507 00:26:16,705 --> 00:26:19,403 I didn't know Romulans could be so hot. 508 00:26:19,447 --> 00:26:21,077 From the Gray Zone will result in... 509 00:26:21,101 --> 00:26:24,147 Me, either. 510 00:26:24,191 --> 00:26:26,672 While in the Grey Zone, you are likely to encounter 511 00:26:26,715 --> 00:26:29,413 former members of the Borg Collective. 512 00:26:29,457 --> 00:26:31,590 Are you researching the xBs? 513 00:26:31,633 --> 00:26:33,679 It's a little more hands-on. 514 00:26:33,722 --> 00:26:36,812 And if your gradient badge starts to blink green, 515 00:26:36,856 --> 00:26:38,640 run. 516 00:26:40,642 --> 00:26:42,688 Don't worry about it. 517 00:26:53,350 --> 00:26:55,526 Narek, this is... 518 00:26:55,570 --> 00:26:58,660 Dr. Naàshala Kunamadèstifee of Trill Polytech. 519 00:26:58,704 --> 00:27:01,794 The Institute is eager to see your work bear fruit, Doctor. 520 00:27:01,837 --> 00:27:04,927 How likely is the Collective to reestablish a link to your Borg? 521 00:27:04,971 --> 00:27:08,278 Is it, is it really wise to release them? 522 00:27:08,322 --> 00:27:11,194 They're former Borg, and we're not "releasing" them, 523 00:27:11,238 --> 00:27:13,283 we're reclaiming them. There's really no danger. 524 00:27:13,327 --> 00:27:15,546 When a cube undergoes submatrix collapse, 525 00:27:15,590 --> 00:27:17,046 the Collective immediately severs its link 526 00:27:17,070 --> 00:27:18,375 to the afflicted population. 527 00:27:18,419 --> 00:27:20,769 As far as the Collective are concerned, 528 00:27:20,813 --> 00:27:22,466 this is just a graveyard. 529 00:27:22,510 --> 00:27:24,033 And what does that make us? 530 00:27:24,077 --> 00:27:26,209 The same as you find in any graveyard. 531 00:27:26,253 --> 00:27:30,039 Some have come to feed on the dead, some are ghosts, 532 00:27:30,083 --> 00:27:32,476 and a few, like you, Dr. Asha, 533 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,080 have pinned their hopes on resurrection. 534 00:27:38,352 --> 00:27:42,573 Um, may I join you for the procedure? 535 00:27:42,617 --> 00:27:45,185 I'd-I'd like to see you work. 536 00:27:45,228 --> 00:27:48,144 That's not up to me. You need approval 537 00:27:48,188 --> 00:27:50,712 from the Director of the Borg Reclamation Project. 538 00:27:50,756 --> 00:27:52,714 Hmm. 539 00:27:52,758 --> 00:27:55,238 Actually, I don't. 540 00:28:03,769 --> 00:28:05,335 Ah. 541 00:28:05,379 --> 00:28:08,556 You have a taste for the classics, I see. 542 00:28:08,599 --> 00:28:12,168 I never really cared for science fiction. 543 00:28:12,212 --> 00:28:13,953 I guess 544 00:28:13,996 --> 00:28:16,346 I just didn't get it. 545 00:28:18,697 --> 00:28:21,830 Well, thank you for coming over.Yeah. 546 00:28:21,874 --> 00:28:24,528 It's hard to tear myself away from the action at my lab, 547 00:28:24,572 --> 00:28:25,747 but... 548 00:28:25,791 --> 00:28:27,053 Um, your preference? 549 00:28:27,096 --> 00:28:28,750 We have a selection. 550 00:28:28,794 --> 00:28:31,057 Earl Grey? 551 00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:33,712 I knew there was something about you. 552 00:28:35,670 --> 00:28:38,499 I gathered up, uh, everything I could find 553 00:28:38,542 --> 00:28:40,588 from Maddox's tenure at the Institute. 554 00:28:40,631 --> 00:28:44,635 Most of what was there got blackboxed after he disappeared, 555 00:28:44,679 --> 00:28:46,986 but they left some of the ancillary stuff untouched. 556 00:28:47,029 --> 00:28:48,639 I was thinking about the painting. 557 00:28:48,683 --> 00:28:52,208 Bruce and Data were friends after a fashion. 558 00:28:52,252 --> 00:28:55,385 I-If Bruce is using Data's neurons to make more synths, 559 00:28:55,429 --> 00:28:57,257 it would make sense to model them 560 00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:58,867 after the painting Data made. 561 00:28:58,911 --> 00:29:01,130 Indeed. 562 00:29:01,174 --> 00:29:04,351 I also did a little digging into Dahj Asha. 563 00:29:04,394 --> 00:29:07,615 You're right. She was accepted at Daystrom. 564 00:29:07,658 --> 00:29:09,791 In fact, she was a perfect candidate. 565 00:29:09,835 --> 00:29:13,229 In hindsight, a little too perfect. 566 00:29:13,273 --> 00:29:15,275 Her credentials were bogus? 567 00:29:15,318 --> 00:29:18,452 It's more insidious than that. I checked with Regulus. 568 00:29:18,495 --> 00:29:20,628 Their records show she was enrolled there 569 00:29:20,671 --> 00:29:22,412 and her grade transcripts are on file. 570 00:29:22,456 --> 00:29:24,284 So she was what she claimed to be? 571 00:29:24,327 --> 00:29:26,590 She was a complete work of fiction. 572 00:29:26,634 --> 00:29:28,941 There's no record 573 00:29:28,984 --> 00:29:31,291 of her having actually attended R3SA. 574 00:29:31,334 --> 00:29:34,424 I-I'm no forensics maven, 575 00:29:34,468 --> 00:29:37,688 but my sense is that her entire identity 576 00:29:37,732 --> 00:29:40,126 was built all at once, about three years ago. 577 00:29:40,169 --> 00:29:42,737 By whom? Bruce Maddox? 578 00:29:42,781 --> 00:29:45,566 He certainly had the ability. Motive? 579 00:29:45,609 --> 00:29:47,829 I don't know. 580 00:29:47,873 --> 00:29:50,049 People in the synthetic humanoid field 581 00:29:50,092 --> 00:29:52,660 tend to get a little secret-planny. 582 00:29:52,703 --> 00:29:54,357 Milk? 583 00:29:54,401 --> 00:29:55,576 Uh, yes, please. 584 00:29:55,619 --> 00:29:57,621 Thank you. 585 00:30:03,105 --> 00:30:04,715 There you go. 586 00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:06,152 Oh, thank you. 587 00:30:06,195 --> 00:30:09,155 It breaks my heart that I never 588 00:30:09,198 --> 00:30:11,200 got a chance to meet her. 589 00:30:11,244 --> 00:30:13,899 Such a wondrous thing. 590 00:30:13,942 --> 00:30:16,684 And the damn Romulans just 591 00:30:16,727 --> 00:30:19,774 wiped her away. 592 00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:24,083 You asked me what the plan was, 593 00:30:24,126 --> 00:30:26,650 what she was after at Daystrom. 594 00:30:26,694 --> 00:30:29,653 I don't think that's the most relevant question right now. 595 00:30:29,697 --> 00:30:32,004 I think the question you should be trying to answer is... 596 00:30:32,047 --> 00:30:33,875 "What about the other one?" 597 00:30:33,919 --> 00:30:37,096 If she's really out there, 598 00:30:37,139 --> 00:30:40,839 and if the Romulans haven't gotten to her, too, 599 00:30:40,882 --> 00:30:43,363 then where is she? 600 00:30:43,406 --> 00:30:45,495 And what is she after? 601 00:30:55,375 --> 00:30:59,770 Continuing procedure on Patient 8923/3, 602 00:30:59,814 --> 00:31:01,816 one of the Nameless. 603 00:31:04,253 --> 00:31:07,213 Time in regenestasis, 14 years. 604 00:31:07,256 --> 00:31:10,172 Arm implant was successfully removed. 605 00:31:14,698 --> 00:31:18,267 Initiating ocular harvest procedure on Nameless. 606 00:31:20,095 --> 00:31:22,619 You know I hate it when you use that term. 607 00:31:26,710 --> 00:31:29,104 You may have mentioned that once. 608 00:31:29,148 --> 00:31:31,933 Why do you call them "the Nameless"? 609 00:31:31,977 --> 00:31:35,806 Their species had a name. We just don't know what it was. 610 00:31:35,850 --> 00:31:37,504 Nameless is a name. 611 00:31:43,597 --> 00:31:45,991 Removing ocular processing core. 612 00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:58,699 Tertiary mandible implant containment complete. 613 00:31:58,742 --> 00:32:01,963 Tagged for level 10 storage. 614 00:32:02,007 --> 00:32:04,270 Interlinked transceiver node confirmed inactive. 615 00:32:04,313 --> 00:32:06,881 Tagged for level one disposal. 616 00:33:10,858 --> 00:33:14,470 Raffi, it's Jean-Luc. Please, don't hang up. 617 00:33:14,514 --> 00:33:15,950 I need your help. 618 00:33:17,038 --> 00:33:18,997 I need a ship. 619 00:33:34,621 --> 00:33:36,231 Picard again? 620 00:33:36,275 --> 00:33:38,625 And we all thought that he was safely mothballed 621 00:33:38,668 --> 00:33:40,322 on that vineyard of his. 622 00:33:40,366 --> 00:33:43,456 All these years. The Hermit of La Barre. 623 00:33:43,499 --> 00:33:45,806 Now suddenly he is inescapable. 624 00:33:45,849 --> 00:33:47,218 That's one word for what he is. 625 00:33:47,242 --> 00:33:49,592 Going on and on about advanced synthetics, 626 00:33:49,636 --> 00:33:50,941 Bruce Maddox and... 627 00:33:50,985 --> 00:33:53,857 Bruce Maddox? Is he still alive? 628 00:33:53,901 --> 00:33:55,163 Does it even matter? 629 00:33:55,207 --> 00:33:56,730 And then there was this wild talk about 630 00:33:56,773 --> 00:33:59,950 clandestine Romulan anti-synth ops here on Earth. 631 00:33:59,994 --> 00:34:01,691 It was just... 632 00:34:01,735 --> 00:34:03,171 it was just sad. 633 00:34:03,215 --> 00:34:06,522 One might be even inclined to say tragic. 634 00:34:06,566 --> 00:34:09,917 Admiral Clancy, I know I need hardly remind you 635 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,353 if the Romulans were running 636 00:34:11,397 --> 00:34:14,008 clandestine operations on Earth, 637 00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:17,794 I would know. And then you would know. 638 00:34:17,838 --> 00:34:19,970 And then all of Starfleet would know, 639 00:34:20,014 --> 00:34:22,625 because clearly, that would be an overt. 640 00:34:22,669 --> 00:34:25,628 WAR.CLANCY: Of course. 641 00:34:25,672 --> 00:34:27,804 Look, Commodore, obviously there's nothing to it, 642 00:34:27,848 --> 00:34:29,110 but I thought I'd better check. 643 00:34:29,154 --> 00:34:31,460 Out of an excess of caution, as they say. 644 00:34:31,504 --> 00:34:33,506 Just look into it. Of course. 645 00:34:36,944 --> 00:34:39,207 Lieutenant Rizzo, to me, please. 646 00:34:39,251 --> 00:34:40,600 What?! 647 00:34:41,383 --> 00:34:42,732 Have you gone mad? 648 00:34:42,776 --> 00:34:44,908 Is it dementia? I beg your pardon? 649 00:34:44,952 --> 00:34:46,606 Sorry, but you're not a stupid man, 650 00:34:46,649 --> 00:34:48,782 so when I hear you say such a stupid idea, 651 00:34:48,825 --> 00:34:50,740 I have to ask for other explanations. 652 00:34:50,784 --> 00:34:52,742 Well, how about this. 653 00:34:52,786 --> 00:34:56,181 The daughter of the man whose death I have been mourning 654 00:34:56,224 --> 00:34:58,618 for two decades comes to me for help 655 00:34:58,661 --> 00:35:02,100 and assistance. And then she is assassinated 656 00:35:02,143 --> 00:35:05,103 in front of my eyes by a Romulan death squad 657 00:35:05,146 --> 00:35:07,409 who will then go and try and find 658 00:35:07,453 --> 00:35:10,543 and destroy her twin sister. 659 00:35:10,586 --> 00:35:12,936 And you want me to sit here worrying what to do 660 00:35:12,980 --> 00:35:14,764 about the spittlebugs on the pinots? 661 00:35:14,808 --> 00:35:16,636 I want you not to die. 662 00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:18,768 No one but the Tal Shiar could ever protect you 663 00:35:18,812 --> 00:35:20,944 against the Tal Shiar. She's not wrong. 664 00:35:20,988 --> 00:35:22,772 You can't go without us. 665 00:35:22,816 --> 00:35:25,384 Idiot! He cannot go at all. 666 00:35:25,427 --> 00:35:26,776 He's only safe here. 667 00:35:26,820 --> 00:35:29,083 He knows about them. They have to eliminate him. 668 00:35:29,127 --> 00:35:32,130 Nevertheless... I have to go. 669 00:35:32,173 --> 00:35:34,175 Go where? Go how? 670 00:35:34,219 --> 00:35:36,612 Well, I will get a ship, and I will 671 00:35:36,656 --> 00:35:39,789 find Bruce Maddox, wherever he is. 672 00:35:39,833 --> 00:35:43,271 Laris, I have to do this. 673 00:35:43,315 --> 00:35:46,622 I don't yet fully understand all of it, 674 00:35:46,666 --> 00:35:48,798 but I know that it's important. 675 00:35:48,842 --> 00:35:51,279 And not only to me.No, of course. 676 00:35:51,323 --> 00:35:53,368 If it's important to Jean-Luc Picard, it must be 677 00:35:53,412 --> 00:35:55,065 important to the whole galaxy. 678 00:35:56,241 --> 00:35:57,720 Go. 679 00:35:57,764 --> 00:35:59,853 And take that one with you. 680 00:35:59,896 --> 00:36:01,942 You can die together. 681 00:36:05,250 --> 00:36:06,686 Laris understands. 682 00:36:06,729 --> 00:36:09,036 She's afraid for you, that's all. 683 00:36:09,079 --> 00:36:10,298 I know that. 684 00:36:10,342 --> 00:36:13,693 But you have to stay here with her. 685 00:36:13,736 --> 00:36:16,304 The grapes are far more in need of protection that I am. 686 00:36:17,871 --> 00:36:21,004 And it's less than a month to the harvest. 687 00:36:21,048 --> 00:36:22,702 But you can't do it alone. 688 00:36:22,745 --> 00:36:24,269 You need help. You need protection. 689 00:36:24,312 --> 00:36:26,488 Yeah. You need a crew. 690 00:36:26,532 --> 00:36:28,969 Riker. Worf. La Forge. 691 00:36:29,012 --> 00:36:30,579 Hmm? 692 00:36:30,623 --> 00:36:33,234 No. 693 00:36:33,278 --> 00:36:35,193 I thought about it. 694 00:36:35,236 --> 00:36:37,282 And they would do it in a heartbeat, 695 00:36:37,325 --> 00:36:40,546 and that's precisely why I cannot ask them. 696 00:36:40,589 --> 00:36:44,027 They would put themselves at risk out of loyalty to me, 697 00:36:44,071 --> 00:36:47,857 and I do not want to have to go through that again. 698 00:36:47,901 --> 00:36:49,511 Okay. 699 00:36:49,555 --> 00:36:51,600 You need someone who hates you 700 00:36:51,644 --> 00:36:53,559 and has nothing to lose. 701 00:36:54,777 --> 00:36:56,779 I've already made the call. 702 00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:04,700 Come. 703 00:37:07,921 --> 00:37:09,792 You wanted to see me, Commodore? 704 00:37:09,836 --> 00:37:12,230 Take a look at this. 705 00:37:12,273 --> 00:37:14,493 Does that look like disruptor fire? 706 00:37:14,536 --> 00:37:16,059 There. 707 00:37:16,103 --> 00:37:18,279 Reflected in the hand rail. 708 00:37:18,323 --> 00:37:20,847 Not to me, no. 709 00:37:23,458 --> 00:37:25,243 Admiral Clancy just called. 710 00:37:25,286 --> 00:37:27,462 Jean-Luc Picard came to see her. 711 00:37:27,506 --> 00:37:28,985 He has information 712 00:37:29,029 --> 00:37:32,467 about clandestine Romulan ops here on Earth. 713 00:37:32,511 --> 00:37:35,731 He referred to Zhat Vash by name. 714 00:37:35,775 --> 00:37:37,655 He was trying to persuade her to give him a ship 715 00:37:37,690 --> 00:37:40,780 and let him go after Dr. Bruce Maddox. 716 00:37:40,823 --> 00:37:43,609 Although she did not mention that last part, 717 00:37:43,652 --> 00:37:45,828 nor the talk about Zhat Vash. 718 00:37:45,872 --> 00:37:47,177 Then how do you know? Do not 719 00:37:47,221 --> 00:37:49,397 insult me, Lieutenant. 720 00:37:49,441 --> 00:37:52,226 It would not be advantageous for your career. 721 00:37:53,358 --> 00:37:55,142 Apologies, Commodore. 722 00:37:55,185 --> 00:37:56,622 This is unexpected. 723 00:37:56,665 --> 00:37:58,058 A dirty word... 724 00:37:58,101 --> 00:38:00,060 in our line of work. 725 00:38:00,103 --> 00:38:02,192 Perhaps the worst word of all. 726 00:38:02,236 --> 00:38:04,630 So you need me to take care of Picard? 727 00:38:05,892 --> 00:38:08,286 Your zeal and passion are commendable, 728 00:38:08,329 --> 00:38:12,115 but they are very nearly overbalanced by your impatience. 729 00:38:12,159 --> 00:38:14,988 There is a fundamental aptness in the word 730 00:38:15,031 --> 00:38:17,947 "undercover" which you 731 00:38:17,991 --> 00:38:19,949 have yet to fully absorb. 732 00:38:19,993 --> 00:38:22,996 So I won't take care of him impatiently. 733 00:38:23,039 --> 00:38:25,607 I'll make it last as long as you like. 734 00:38:25,651 --> 00:38:29,437 Clancy has discouraged him adequately, I believe. 735 00:38:29,481 --> 00:38:32,614 And if the need arises, 736 00:38:32,658 --> 00:38:35,138 I will take care of Picard. 737 00:38:35,182 --> 00:38:37,793 I want you to stay on mission. 738 00:38:37,837 --> 00:38:40,405 You made a shambles of the operation here. 739 00:38:40,448 --> 00:38:44,322 Your team destroyed the thing before it could be interrogated 740 00:38:44,365 --> 00:38:47,107 and nearly blew our cover. We have 741 00:38:47,150 --> 00:38:48,891 one more opportunity. 742 00:38:48,935 --> 00:38:51,633 Do not squander it. 743 00:38:52,678 --> 00:38:54,332 Of course. 744 00:38:54,375 --> 00:38:56,899 I've put my best man on it. Have you? 745 00:38:56,943 --> 00:38:58,640 I worry about that one. 746 00:38:58,684 --> 00:39:01,251 He too has a troubling penchant 747 00:39:01,295 --> 00:39:03,471 for the unexpected. 748 00:39:03,515 --> 00:39:06,387 And I have had just about my fill of surprises, Lieutenant. 749 00:39:06,431 --> 00:39:08,476 Do I make myself clear? 750 00:39:09,782 --> 00:39:12,567 I will vouch for him with my life. 751 00:39:12,611 --> 00:39:15,483 Indeed. You will. 752 00:39:15,527 --> 00:39:17,355 Which is why I strongly recommend 753 00:39:17,398 --> 00:39:20,401 that you manage this case in person. 754 00:39:20,445 --> 00:39:21,794 Of course. 755 00:39:21,837 --> 00:39:25,058 Everything is at stake. 756 00:39:25,101 --> 00:39:27,495 See that he does not fail. 757 00:39:27,539 --> 00:39:30,933 See that neither of you does. 758 00:39:52,564 --> 00:39:54,261 You can turn around 759 00:39:54,304 --> 00:39:56,045 and call that cab 760 00:39:56,089 --> 00:39:58,483 to take you right back where you came from. 761 00:39:58,526 --> 00:40:00,310 Just want to talk. 762 00:40:00,354 --> 00:40:02,051 There isn't anything you could say 763 00:40:02,095 --> 00:40:03,401 that I want to hear. 764 00:40:05,664 --> 00:40:09,450 Secret Romulan assassins are operating on Earth. 765 00:40:11,147 --> 00:40:15,021 Is that the '86? 766 00:40:21,331 --> 00:40:22,594 Goddamn it. 767 00:40:40,046 --> 00:40:42,570 Nice of you to knock.Why start now? 768 00:40:42,614 --> 00:40:46,095 How's life in Starfleet, Lieutenant Rizzo? 769 00:40:47,619 --> 00:40:49,534 That ridiculous disguise. 770 00:40:49,577 --> 00:40:51,144 Round ears. 771 00:40:51,187 --> 00:40:53,059 You look like a plucked wakak. Shut up. 772 00:40:54,495 --> 00:40:56,062 Any progress?Yes. 773 00:40:56,105 --> 00:40:59,065 Slow, but I'm still confident that my approach, 774 00:40:59,108 --> 00:41:01,937 which you approved, is the only sound approach. 775 00:41:01,981 --> 00:41:03,939 I hope that confidence is not misguided. 776 00:41:03,983 --> 00:41:06,681 If your approach doesn't start paying off very soon, 777 00:41:06,725 --> 00:41:08,291 I will be obliged to unapprove it. 778 00:41:08,335 --> 00:41:10,337 For both our sakes. 779 00:41:11,599 --> 00:41:14,254 Commodore Oh is quite distressed. 780 00:41:14,297 --> 00:41:16,125 She has been a useful ally 781 00:41:16,169 --> 00:41:18,954 for a long time. I can't have her turning on us. 782 00:41:18,998 --> 00:41:20,652 When I arrive... 783 00:41:20,695 --> 00:41:23,437 When you arrive... 784 00:41:23,481 --> 00:41:25,352 I'm on top of it. 785 00:41:29,574 --> 00:41:32,533 So it would seem. 786 00:41:32,577 --> 00:41:34,666 Have you found the nest? 787 00:41:34,709 --> 00:41:36,363 Has the machine given up the location 788 00:41:36,406 --> 00:41:38,104 of its fellow abominations? 789 00:41:38,147 --> 00:41:41,934 Really, has it told you anything at all? 790 00:41:45,633 --> 00:41:47,548 Grave reservations have been expressed 791 00:41:47,592 --> 00:41:49,419 about your approach, baby brother. 792 00:41:49,463 --> 00:41:52,553 I don't have to tell you the stakes couldn't be higher. 793 00:41:52,597 --> 00:41:55,425 Oh has reservations. 794 00:41:55,469 --> 00:41:57,558 Profound reservations. 795 00:41:57,602 --> 00:41:59,473 There is no one whose survival 796 00:41:59,517 --> 00:42:01,083 matters more to me than yours. 797 00:42:03,477 --> 00:42:05,131 Except my own. 798 00:42:06,611 --> 00:42:08,308 If you've made no progress 799 00:42:08,351 --> 00:42:10,005 by the time I get there, 800 00:42:10,049 --> 00:42:12,094 I will have no choice 801 00:42:12,138 --> 00:42:14,444 but to try my approach, 802 00:42:14,488 --> 00:42:16,490 unfortunate as it may have been. 803 00:42:18,884 --> 00:42:21,408 If there is another such disaster, 804 00:42:21,451 --> 00:42:23,845 it will undoubtedly consume you 805 00:42:23,889 --> 00:42:25,543 and me, too. 806 00:42:28,570 --> 00:42:34,570 WordsKill