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Previously on
Star Trek: Picard...

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I want you to reinstate me.

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I will need a small reconnaissance ship
with a minimal crew.

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You think you could just waltz
back in here and be entrusted

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with taking men and women into space?

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I have reason to believe
that the Tal Shiar

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is merely a mask
worn by another, far older cabal.

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The Zhat Vash.

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Admiral Clancy just called.

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Jean-Luc Picard was trying to persuade her
to let him go after Doctor Bruce Maddox.

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I want you to stay on mission.

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I've put my best man on it.

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Nice of you to knock.

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Commodore Oh is quite distressed.

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I'm still confident that my approach,

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which you approved,
 is the only sound approach.

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Are we allowed to be sleeping together
or is that a secret?

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Very much the latter.

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How likely is the Collective
to re-establish a link to your Borg?

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Well, they're former Borg.

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And we're not releasing them,
 we're reclaiming them.

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There's really no danger.

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- I have to go.
- Go where? Go how?

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- You need help, you need protection.
- Yeah.

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You need someone who hates you
 and has nothing to lose.

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Raffi, it's Jean-Luc.
Please don't hang up. I need a ship.

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There isn't anything you could say
that I wanna hear.

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Secret Romulan assassins
are operating on Earth.

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Goddamn it.

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They give you a hard time?
They start with the ships?

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Straight out. Just as you predicted.

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You were ready with the inventories
from Beta Antares and Eridani A.

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Which shut them up.

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Uh...

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So, they hit you with manpower?

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Mm.

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But you had the reserve rosters
I got from Tanaka in personnel.

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Yeah, I laid it all out.

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By using reserve duty officers
and mothballed ships,

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we could maintain the evacuation,

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though to a severely reduced level.

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Not if we use synthetic labor.

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All synthetic life-forms are banned

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throughout the Federation,
effective immediately.

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All active units are dismantled.
And all research is halted.

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That's crazy. It makes no sense.

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Synths don't just wake up
one morning and turn homicidal.

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They said it was a fatal code error

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in the operating system.

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That's bullshit.

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Something's off
about this whole business, JL.

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It doesn't add up. I smell the Tal Shiar.

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The Tal Shiar.

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Raffi, why would the Romulans
attack a fleet

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built expressly to rescue them?

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I can't answer that... yet.

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But I do know that there are billions
of people out there in the Beta Quadrant

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that are in the burst radius
of a supernova.

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It's not their fault that a bunch of A500s
went rogue on Mars.

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You're absolutely right.

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Mars is burning.

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Tens of thousands are dead.

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And nobody is thinking. Nobody
is listening. They're just reacting.

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Wait a minute. What happened in there, JL?

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They said that our plan was unfeasible.

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Half of them never wanted
to rescue the Romulans in the first place.

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And the rest are...

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are just frightened.

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I never dreamed that Starfleet
would give in to intolerance and fear.

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What happened in there?

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I said that either they accept
the revised evacuation plan

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or my resignation.

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Are you serious?

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What did they say?

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Jean-Luc.

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They accepted my resignation.

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Fine. Hell with them.

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We'll figure it out. We'll find a way.

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To mount a multi-world evacuation
of tens of millions of Romulans

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without Starfleet support?

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There has to be something.

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Some last desperate, wild solution, JL?

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I mean, that's what you do.

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My resignation was
the last desperate, wild solution.

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I never believed
that they would accept it.

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Of course, you wouldn't.

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Now what?

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You're gonna go back
to your château and write your memoirs?

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I can't do this without you, JL.

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The CNC wants to see me.

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That's great. It's great.

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You tender your resignation
and my ass gets fired.

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Raffi.

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A synthetic girl.

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There were two of them.
One of them is already dead.

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I only hope that I'm in time
to save the other one.

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Raffi, I need a ship and a pilot.

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And I have to find Bruce Maddox.

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Wow.

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I don't even know what to say.

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Yeah, it's a lot to take in...

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I mean, the obvious way to go would be,

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"You have some goddamn nerve!"

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But I gather you already heard that
from your buddy Clancy. Right?

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Pro tip for future reference.

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On your next top-secret, unauthorized
synthetic-girl rescue mission,

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try not telling the CNC of Starfleet
exactly what you're planning on doing.

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I don't remember you being
such a chatterbox back in the day.

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I mean, I saw your interview.

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An unmitigated disaster.

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Yeah. I saw you...

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sitting back in your very fine château.

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Those big oak beams. Heirloom furniture.

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I'd show you around my estate,
but it's more of a hovel.

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So that would just be,
you know, humiliating.

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My entire life for the past 14 years

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has been one long slide
into humiliation...

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and rage.

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Also a fair amount
of snakeleaf-induced paranoia

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so some things never change.

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Might have been nice to hear from you
a time or two in there, JL.

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Not because you think I know
an off-the-books pilot

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with an unregistered starship.

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Just...

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say hi.

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See how I was doing.

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- I know, I...
- Because I was not doing good.

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I lost my security clearance. I lost...

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- Don't... No, don't...
- Raffi.

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Just don't touch me.

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Raffi.

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Raffi.

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You are free now, my friend.

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I really don't know what to say,
Doctor Asha.

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Your work here has always been excellent.

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But speaking to a Nameless
in his own language...

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outstanding.

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You taught me that even a few words
in the mother tongue can be soothing.

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Even in an unconscious state.

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There's no more despised people
in the galaxy than the xBs.

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People either see us as property
to be exploited

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or as a hazard to be warehoused.

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Our host, the Romulans,
have a more expansive vision.

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They see us as both.

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I hate it.

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You're different.

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Thank you.

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I've decided to let you have
your interview with Ramdha.

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Oh, my God. Really?

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You've been pestering me about it
for a long time.

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After today, I'm inclined
to grant your request.

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Tell me... why?

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How much do you know about Ramdha
before she was assimilated?

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Have you read her Romulan dossier?

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Of course not. Wait, have you?

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How did you manage that?

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I just, sort of, asked to see it.

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Usually, I find that if I ask people
for help, they're happy to give it.

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That has not been my experience.

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In particular with Romulans.

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Ramdha was the foremost expert
on ancient Romulan myth.

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She wrote books about it.

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And this interest of hers
links you to her work how?

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There is ample evidence
for the therapeutic utility

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of a shared mythical framework.

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Thirty minutes.

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As an experiment.
Then we'll see how that goes.

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It makes total sense that you're angry.

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I disappointed you.

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I neglected you
and I wasn't there when you needed me.

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I'm truly sorry.

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I don't care.

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Raffi.

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There is a unit of Tal Shiar synth hunters

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operating on Earth, openly.

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That could not happen
without Federation complicity.

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I'm listening.

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You always said there were

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Romulan-Federation connections
I didn't see.

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I was talking about Mars, JL.

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The Romulan rescue.

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Those aren't connections I just "see,"
like people see angels, or ghosts.

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I have evidence. I have concrete evidence

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that a high-ranking
Starfleet official conspired

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to allow the attack to go forward.

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To put an end to the rescue mission.

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- Raffi...
- Which they opposed!

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Raffi, they had no reason
to sabotage their own rescue.

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What do you think happens
when there's a cover-up?

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They conceal it.

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That's why I need your help.
I need your mind.

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Your ability to see things
others don't see.

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No. No, no, no...

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I will not go down
another rabbit hole with you, JL.

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- No, never again. No. Go!
- Raffi...

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Get out of here, please.

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Please.

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I have a pilot for you.

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His name is Rios.

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And he'll be in touch.

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Rios. Thank you.

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Now go.

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Hi?

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Doctor Jurati? Commodore Oh.
Director of Starfleet Security.

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Okay.

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I'd like to talk to you about your two
recent visits with Admiral Picard.

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She's here to meet with Patient 4822/2.

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She'll need authorization.

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This unit is operated
by the Reclamation Project.

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It is under the direct authority
of its Executive Director, me.

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Open up.

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All the disordered are Romulans.

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The only Romulans ever assimilated,
as far as I know.

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There she is.

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Hi.

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What?

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You're doing the research, aren't you?

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No.

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I'm sending you everything
 that Daystrom had on Bruce Maddox.

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- I don't want it.
- Carry on.

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Captain Rios?

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Oh. Hi. Hello.

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Picard.

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Yes. Sorry. Of course you are.

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I'm afraid you might be too late.

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Right then. Come on.

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So, what seems to be the problem?

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Are you kidding me? Hey.

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Are you...

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Chris Rios. He's just an EMH.

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- "Just..."
- I'm...

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I know who you are.
I read one of your books one time.

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What happened to you?

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I didn't die. Medkit.

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Aguardiente.

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No, thanks.

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What you wanna do is take the giant hunk
of tritanium shrapnel

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out of the hole in my shoulder.
That's just a guess.

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Please. Sit.

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Toss it anywhere.

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So, where are we going, Admiral?
Raffi says you have no idea.

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- I'm working on it.
- When are we leaving?

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As soon as possible.

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You breaking any laws or are intending to?

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I don't know.

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I'm not in the habit of consulting lawyers

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before I do what needs to be done. You?

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I'm not in the habit of consulting
anybody about anything.

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Especially a lawyer.

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There we are.
Now for the dermal regenerator.

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Leave it. Give me that. Get lost.

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He never gets any nicer.

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Duly noted.

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Deactivate EMH.

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I need a pilot.
Raffi says you're the best around.

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00:20:55,672 --> 00:20:57,423
I never argue with Raffi.

257
00:20:57,966 --> 00:20:59,509
Wise man.

258
00:20:59,592 --> 00:21:03,888
You were the XO of a heavy cruiser?

259
00:21:03,972 --> 00:21:05,473
The ibn Majid.

260
00:21:05,556 --> 00:21:08,351
You've never heard of it
because it doesn't exist.

261
00:21:08,434 --> 00:21:10,603
Starfleet erased it from the records.

262
00:21:10,687 --> 00:21:14,899
Do I detect a certain bitterness
towards Starfleet?

263
00:21:14,983 --> 00:21:20,238
You must know that Starfleet and I
have long since have parted ways.

264
00:21:20,905 --> 00:21:23,908
If you say so. I really don't give a damn.

265
00:21:24,492 --> 00:21:26,035
Oh, really?

266
00:21:26,911 --> 00:21:30,665
I see this ship is impeccably maintained.

267
00:21:30,748 --> 00:21:34,836
Every bolt and clasp and fitting in place.

268
00:21:34,919 --> 00:21:38,673
Everything stowed
in regulation Starfleet order.

269
00:21:38,756 --> 00:21:43,761
I don't know what happened to you, Rios,
or to the ibn Majid.

270
00:21:43,845 --> 00:21:49,475
But five minutes on this ship
and I know precisely what I'm looking at.

271
00:21:49,559 --> 00:21:53,688
You are Starfleet to the core.

272
00:21:54,689 --> 00:21:56,649
I can smell it on you.

273
00:21:56,733 --> 00:21:59,193
That's just my tragic sense of life.

274
00:21:59,861 --> 00:22:01,863
Raffi warned me you were a speech-maker.

275
00:22:03,823 --> 00:22:06,492
Look, Admiral.
Hire me or find another pilot.

276
00:22:06,576 --> 00:22:08,286
Do not try to get inside my head.

277
00:22:56,334 --> 00:22:59,253
The navigation sensors
are back at maximum range.

278
00:22:59,337 --> 00:23:02,423
Whatever it was,
it scraped off pretty easily.

279
00:23:03,091 --> 00:23:04,175
Mm-hmm.

280
00:23:04,258 --> 00:23:08,513
So, are we excited? Intimidated?

281
00:23:08,596 --> 00:23:11,349
Maybe a teensy bit starstruck?

282
00:23:11,432 --> 00:23:15,895
Jean-Luc Picard.
Chief contact with the Q Continuum.

283
00:23:15,978 --> 00:23:18,773
Arbiter of Succession
for the Klingon Empire.

284
00:23:18,856 --> 00:23:22,235
Savior of Earth from Borg Invasion.

285
00:23:22,318 --> 00:23:27,031
Captain of the Enterprises D and E.

286
00:23:27,115 --> 00:23:30,660
The man even worked
alongside the great Spock.

287
00:23:30,743 --> 00:23:33,204
You are an emergency hologram.

288
00:23:33,287 --> 00:23:35,623
We no longer have
a navigational emergency.

289
00:23:38,042 --> 00:23:39,043
Why are you still here?

290
00:23:39,127 --> 00:23:43,089
Well, someone is experiencing
an acute moodiness overload.

291
00:23:48,636 --> 00:23:51,848
Picard is a good man, Captain Rios.

292
00:23:51,931 --> 00:23:54,475
He's on the side of the angels.

293
00:23:54,559 --> 00:23:57,895
It's been a long time since you helped out
somebody like him.

294
00:23:59,105 --> 00:24:00,898
A very long time.

295
00:24:00,982 --> 00:24:03,985
Please spare me
the juvenile Sunday school morality.

296
00:24:04,068 --> 00:24:07,405
Then spare me
the angsty teenage moral relativism.

297
00:24:07,488 --> 00:24:10,449
I already had
one grand heroic captain in my life.

298
00:24:10,533 --> 00:24:12,577
The last thing I need is another one.

299
00:24:12,660 --> 00:24:14,996
Ten years on,
I still can't close my eyes at night

300
00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:19,917
without seeing the last one's blood
and brains splattered all over a bulkhead.

301
00:24:21,919 --> 00:24:23,504
Deactivate ENH.

302
00:24:23,588 --> 00:24:25,381
Oh, no. You...

303
00:25:04,003 --> 00:25:06,756
The familiar smell of harvest time.

304
00:25:08,382 --> 00:25:10,468
Woodsmoke. Mown hay.

305
00:25:10,551 --> 00:25:15,514
And that heavy sweetness of the grapes.

306
00:25:16,974 --> 00:25:18,476
And you won't miss it?

307
00:25:19,352 --> 00:25:21,604
Any of it, one bit?

308
00:25:21,687 --> 00:25:23,439
Oh, yes, my dear.

309
00:25:23,522 --> 00:25:27,443
I will miss you and Zhaban and Number One.

310
00:25:30,488 --> 00:25:36,077
I tried my best to belong to this place.

311
00:25:38,663 --> 00:25:44,168
But I don't think I ever truly felt
at home here.

312
00:25:47,713 --> 00:25:50,258
I suppose you always had
one eye on the stars.

313
00:26:13,281 --> 00:26:14,949
That looks like a door.

314
00:26:15,032 --> 00:26:16,200
Very close.

315
00:26:16,284 --> 00:26:19,453
I think that one's called shaiqouin,
which means...

316
00:26:19,537 --> 00:26:20,788
A false door.

317
00:26:20,871 --> 00:26:24,792
Traditional Romulan houses always have
a false front door that's never used.

318
00:26:24,875 --> 00:26:26,669
You have to go around the back.

319
00:26:26,752 --> 00:26:28,337
You're kind of a know-it-all, aren't you?

320
00:26:43,019 --> 00:26:46,314
If certain people requested entry...

321
00:26:46,814 --> 00:26:48,899
...would it be granted?

322
00:26:59,076 --> 00:27:00,411
You may sit.

323
00:27:05,374 --> 00:27:06,959
For the road.

324
00:27:07,710 --> 00:27:10,713
Bread. Roquefort.

325
00:27:11,297 --> 00:27:14,091
Madame Arnaud's terrine d'oie.

326
00:27:14,175 --> 00:27:18,262
Far beyond the power of any replicator,
I should think. And lastly the plum...

327
00:27:19,138 --> 00:27:20,973
- They killed the alarm!
- Take him.

328
00:28:30,042 --> 00:28:31,043
All right.

329
00:28:32,211 --> 00:28:33,212
All right.

330
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,810
Maybe... maybe it was on stun.

331
00:28:48,853 --> 00:28:51,564
Romulan disruptors
don't have a stun setting.

332
00:28:52,314 --> 00:28:53,315
Oh, God.

333
00:28:56,527 --> 00:28:57,736
It's all right.

334
00:28:58,988 --> 00:29:03,117
Thank you. It's all right. Come.

335
00:29:23,387 --> 00:29:24,513
Here.

336
00:29:27,475 --> 00:29:28,934
Her name was Oh.

337
00:29:29,018 --> 00:29:31,770
Chief of Starfleet Security. A Vulcan.

338
00:29:31,854 --> 00:29:32,897
You know her?

339
00:29:32,980 --> 00:29:36,984
No. But I hear
that she's very good at her job.

340
00:29:37,067 --> 00:29:40,779
She wanted to know why you came to see me.

341
00:29:41,739 --> 00:29:43,240
And I'm sorry but I told her.

342
00:29:44,033 --> 00:29:48,078
Seemed too important not to.
And anyway, I'm a terrible liar.

343
00:29:48,162 --> 00:29:50,456
Of course. It's all right.

344
00:29:52,249 --> 00:29:55,336
There's one thing
I didn't tell her though.

345
00:29:56,295 --> 00:29:58,339
- Zhaban.
- We've no time, Laris.

346
00:29:58,422 --> 00:29:59,798
They'll send others.

347
00:29:59,882 --> 00:30:01,675
We are not like them anymore.

348
00:30:09,475 --> 00:30:10,476
Admiral.

349
00:30:11,227 --> 00:30:12,269
He's conscious.

350
00:30:24,281 --> 00:30:25,533
Let's talk.

351
00:30:28,994 --> 00:30:30,454
My name is Soji.

352
00:30:30,538 --> 00:30:33,207
I'm working with Hugh
on the Reclamation Project.

353
00:30:33,290 --> 00:30:35,501
But I'm an anthropologist by training.

354
00:30:44,051 --> 00:30:47,680
My presence is an intrusion, forgive it.

355
00:30:52,810 --> 00:30:54,979
Ramdha has good days and bad days.

356
00:30:55,896 --> 00:30:56,939
We all do.

357
00:30:59,942 --> 00:31:03,571
Can you tell me about the cards,
Ramdha? The pixmit.

358
00:31:03,654 --> 00:31:06,115
How do they work?
Do you tell fortunes with them?

359
00:31:07,908 --> 00:31:10,703
It's kind of a mandala. Is that it?

360
00:31:15,749 --> 00:31:18,544
Do the images have a connection
to Romulan mythology?

361
00:31:18,627 --> 00:31:19,962
Mythology?

362
00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:22,548
I hate that word.

363
00:31:23,340 --> 00:31:25,426
In Romulan we have no such word.

364
00:31:26,010 --> 00:31:29,221
What's a better word? Scriptures?

365
00:31:29,305 --> 00:31:31,890
Sacred stories? Legendarium?

366
00:31:31,974 --> 00:31:33,475
The news.

367
00:31:36,604 --> 00:31:39,773
I love that. That's perfect.

368
00:31:41,150 --> 00:31:44,445
The idea that former Borg
might be able to create a mythol...

369
00:31:45,487 --> 00:31:48,699
a shared narrative framework
for understanding their trauma.

370
00:31:48,782 --> 00:31:50,993
Rooted in deep archetypes,

371
00:31:51,076 --> 00:31:53,412
but as relevant as the day's news.

372
00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:55,998
That's just what I'm hoping to do.

373
00:32:01,420 --> 00:32:02,588
I know you.

374
00:32:05,633 --> 00:32:08,761
Why is the Tal Shiar on Earth?

375
00:32:08,844 --> 00:32:10,971
Are you Zhat Vash?

376
00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:16,060
If you answer my questions,
I will release you.

377
00:32:20,105 --> 00:32:21,315
- This is pointless.
- Yes,

378
00:32:21,398 --> 00:32:23,942
because he's
a stubborn Northerner like you.

379
00:32:26,487 --> 00:32:30,282
I remember you from tomorrow.

380
00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:33,786
No, Ramdha. We've never met.

381
00:32:37,164 --> 00:32:40,542
Okay. What was I doing
when you met me tomorrow?

382
00:32:47,174 --> 00:32:50,302
One of the things
that makes you so special, Ramdha,

383
00:32:50,386 --> 00:32:52,805
is that you were on board
the very last ship

384
00:32:52,888 --> 00:32:54,890
ever assimilated by this Cube.

385
00:32:54,973 --> 00:32:57,601
Is that true? How do you know that?

386
00:32:57,685 --> 00:33:02,189
You were on board the Imperial scout ship
 Shaenor with 25 other passengers.

387
00:33:02,272 --> 00:33:05,526
You encountered this Cube.
You were assimilated.

388
00:33:05,609 --> 00:33:07,361
But then something went wrong.

389
00:33:14,785 --> 00:33:19,498
What happened, Ramdha? Do you know?
What caused the submatrix collapse?

390
00:33:22,626 --> 00:33:23,877
Why did you kill that girl?

391
00:33:24,503 --> 00:33:26,547
Why did you kill Dahj Asha?

392
00:33:26,630 --> 00:33:28,465
She's not a girl.

393
00:33:30,384 --> 00:33:31,802
Which one are you?

394
00:33:32,845 --> 00:33:36,306
Just help me understand what is happening.

395
00:33:36,390 --> 00:33:38,851
She's not what you think she is.

396
00:33:38,934 --> 00:33:41,478
Which sister are you?

397
00:33:43,272 --> 00:33:47,151
Why did you kill her?
Is there another one like her?

398
00:33:47,234 --> 00:33:48,986
Which sister are you?

399
00:33:49,069 --> 00:33:51,989
The one who dies or the one who lives?

400
00:33:52,072 --> 00:33:54,450
Where is she? Where is the other one?

401
00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:57,536
You'll never find her
before we do, qezhtihn.

402
00:34:00,914 --> 00:34:03,917
I know who you are. You are Seb-Cheneb.

403
00:34:04,001 --> 00:34:06,044
You are the Destroyer!

404
00:34:06,128 --> 00:34:09,298
She's the end of all. She's the Destroyer.

405
00:34:19,683 --> 00:34:20,851
Damn.

406
00:34:21,685 --> 00:34:23,020
No!

407
00:34:29,359 --> 00:34:32,154
Let her go. She's fine.

408
00:34:32,237 --> 00:34:36,116
He's the one that needs to be disciplined.
Get him out of here. Get him out.

409
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,911
And make sure your own sidearms
are fully secured.

410
00:35:00,849 --> 00:35:02,643
- Hi, sweetie.
- Mom.

411
00:35:02,726 --> 00:35:03,852
Sweetie, what's wrong?

412
00:35:03,936 --> 00:35:05,687
Mom. Mom, is Dahj okay?

413
00:35:05,771 --> 00:35:07,439
- What?
- Is she okay?

414
00:35:07,523 --> 00:35:10,859
Yes, sweetie. Dahj is fine.
 I just heard from her today.

415
00:35:10,943 --> 00:35:14,863
She sounds like she's doing great.
 She's thinking of adopting a puppy.

416
00:35:14,947 --> 00:35:16,615
I'm not sure that's the best idea.

417
00:35:16,698 --> 00:35:19,535
But you know Dahj,
 when she makes a plan...

418
00:35:38,011 --> 00:35:39,012
Enter.

419
00:35:47,104 --> 00:35:48,230
Are you all right?

420
00:35:57,614 --> 00:35:58,615
Hey.

421
00:36:01,493 --> 00:36:02,494
What happened?

422
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,623
I have no idea. If you had asked me
five minutes beforehand,

423
00:36:06,707 --> 00:36:09,626
I would have said I didn't know anything
about a Romulan ship.

424
00:36:09,710 --> 00:36:13,213
I would have said that
I'd never even heard of the Shaenor

425
00:36:13,297 --> 00:36:15,090
or that Ramdha was on it.

426
00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:16,592
And would that have been the truth?

427
00:36:16,675 --> 00:36:19,928
I've probably read
every unclassified document

428
00:36:20,012 --> 00:36:22,723
that there is pertaining
to the history of this Cube.

429
00:36:22,806 --> 00:36:24,766
It must have been in there somewhere.

430
00:36:24,850 --> 00:36:27,561
Even Romulan censors
have to slip up sometimes.

431
00:36:31,398 --> 00:36:32,566
Do you believe me?

432
00:36:45,579 --> 00:36:46,997
Can you keep a secret?

433
00:36:54,838 --> 00:36:56,632
I may be falling in love with you.

434
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:21,281
I'm back.

435
00:37:22,950 --> 00:37:24,326
So are your ears.

436
00:37:24,409 --> 00:37:26,411
I can smell her on you.

437
00:37:30,791 --> 00:37:32,793
The smell is remarkably...

438
00:37:34,252 --> 00:37:35,253
carnal.

439
00:37:36,755 --> 00:37:39,925
She really is an extraordinary
piece of machinery.

440
00:37:40,008 --> 00:37:41,385
What's she told you?

441
00:37:42,219 --> 00:37:45,472
Nothing yet. I'm not sure
what she consciously knows.

442
00:37:45,555 --> 00:37:49,810
But I'm sure she has no idea
what she truly is.

443
00:37:49,893 --> 00:37:51,520
And given what happened on Earth,

444
00:37:52,646 --> 00:37:55,107
I think we should keep it that way
as long as possible.

445
00:37:55,983 --> 00:37:57,859
Earth was a miscalculation.

446
00:38:00,487 --> 00:38:02,531
Your miscalculation.

447
00:38:04,908 --> 00:38:07,494
Which is the only reason
I agreed to let you pursue

448
00:38:07,577 --> 00:38:09,037
this highly questionable...

449
00:38:09,121 --> 00:38:11,331
- Far more subtle.
- Approach.

450
00:38:13,834 --> 00:38:17,129
Good luck, Brother.
And see that you don't fall in love.

451
00:38:21,133 --> 00:38:23,093
Nice to see you
looking like yourself again.

452
00:38:28,265 --> 00:38:30,559
You said you told Commodore Oh

453
00:38:30,642 --> 00:38:33,729
everything about our conversation
except for one thing.

454
00:38:33,812 --> 00:38:34,938
What was that?

455
00:38:36,773 --> 00:38:38,150
That I'm going with you...

456
00:38:39,735 --> 00:38:42,279
to look for the girl. Dahj.

457
00:38:42,362 --> 00:38:43,864
The other Dahj.

458
00:38:44,656 --> 00:38:46,783
You are going to look for her, right?

459
00:38:46,867 --> 00:38:50,996
That's what Oh thought, that you
were planning to get a ship and a pilot

460
00:38:51,079 --> 00:38:53,081
and go off looking for the second synth.

461
00:38:53,165 --> 00:38:54,166
Are you?

462
00:39:00,380 --> 00:39:01,381
You're early.

463
00:39:01,465 --> 00:39:04,176
Nope. My sources tell me...

464
00:39:04,259 --> 00:39:05,260
What sources?

465
00:39:05,343 --> 00:39:07,596
It's about to get very hot chez vous.

466
00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:09,056
It's already hot.

467
00:39:09,139 --> 00:39:11,475
- Hotter.
- Is that your pilot?

468
00:39:12,684 --> 00:39:15,854
Okay. You have to take me with you
and here's why:

469
00:39:15,937 --> 00:39:20,025
A, I just killed a man to save your life.

470
00:39:20,108 --> 00:39:25,197
B, you are a good, decent man
capable of empathy and pity.

471
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:30,911
And I am a scientist who has spent
her entire life imagining a miracle,

472
00:39:30,994 --> 00:39:32,871
knowing that it could never come to pass.

473
00:39:32,954 --> 00:39:36,917
And now it has, and it's real.
And I have to see her.

474
00:39:37,459 --> 00:39:40,003
And C, I don't know how much it costs
to go where you're going

475
00:39:40,087 --> 00:39:42,297
or how much this guy charges.

476
00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:43,507
I'm expensive.

477
00:39:43,590 --> 00:39:45,592
But I am Agnes P. Jurati.

478
00:39:45,675 --> 00:39:47,719
I'm the Earth's leading expert
on synthetic life.

479
00:39:47,803 --> 00:39:51,181
And I promise you, if you take me
with you, I will more than earn my keep.

480
00:39:58,522 --> 00:39:59,940
Time to go.

481
00:40:09,699 --> 00:40:10,742
Raffi?

482
00:40:12,202 --> 00:40:13,411
What is this?

483
00:40:14,496 --> 00:40:15,622
"Sources."

484
00:40:16,957 --> 00:40:19,543
- I found Maddox.
- Where is he?

485
00:40:19,626 --> 00:40:21,837
I tell you, you promise
you'll take me with you?

486
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,922
I would be honored to have you join me.

487
00:40:24,005 --> 00:40:27,676
Oh, no. No, I'm not joining you.
Never again.

488
00:40:28,927 --> 00:40:30,387
I'm just hitching a ride.

489
00:40:30,470 --> 00:40:31,638
To where?

490
00:40:31,721 --> 00:40:33,932
Bruce Maddox is on Freecloud.

491
00:40:34,766 --> 00:40:37,352
Freecloud. Yes, of course.

492
00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:39,146
Why do you wanna go to Freecloud?

493
00:40:39,604 --> 00:40:41,064
Have we met?

494
00:40:41,148 --> 00:40:42,440
Agnes Jurati.

495
00:40:43,775 --> 00:40:44,901
That's it?

496
00:40:44,985 --> 00:40:48,905
You're just gonna let Agnes here
hitch a ride on your top-secret mission?

497
00:40:48,989 --> 00:40:53,743
Doctor Jurati is the Earth's
leading expert on synthetic life.

498
00:40:53,827 --> 00:40:56,079
You didn't even ask me to run
any kind of security check.

499
00:40:56,163 --> 00:40:57,956
Not even the most basic.

500
00:40:58,039 --> 00:40:59,958
Why do you want to go to Freecloud?

501
00:41:00,041 --> 00:41:03,211
I'm under no obligation
to tell that to any of you.

502
00:41:05,380 --> 00:41:07,340
And once we get there you're on your own.

503
00:41:09,092 --> 00:41:10,552
Who are you, lady?

504
00:41:12,220 --> 00:41:13,597
Can we go already?

505
00:41:14,514 --> 00:41:15,515
Yes. Fine.

506
00:41:26,151 --> 00:41:27,611
Engage.