Laris and Zhaban suspect that the Romulan Zhat Vash, an ancient cabal that loathes all synthetic life, may have killed Dahj. Picard and Laris investigate Dahj's apartment, only to notice that the attackers have eliminated all of their molecular traces. They also purged Dahj's communication logs, but Laris finds evidence that she contacted her sister, who apparently doesn't reside on Earth. Picard asks Doctor Moritz Benayoun, an old friend from the Stargazer, to attest that he is fit for interstellar service. But at Starfleet Command, Admiral Kirsten Clancy turns down his request for a ship and crew. On the Borg cube, Soji spends the night with Narek. The next day, the two start their work on reclaiming Borg drones. Agnes Jurati thinks that Dahj's whole identity was created just three years ago. Picard is determined to find Dahj's sister, who may have inherited the personality of Data, and the mysterious Bruce Maddox, who supposedly created the twins. Against Laris and Zhaban's advice, he contacts a woman named Raffi Musiker to get him a ship. Meanwhile, Admiral Clancy has apprised Commodore Oh of Picard's request. Oh is secretly involved in the operation that led to Dahj's death and that was coordinated by another member of Starfleet, Lieutenant Rizzo. Rizzo has to promise to Oh to be more careful and capture the other "thing" alive, by which she obviously refers to Soji. Rizzo appears to be human but is actually a Romulan operative in disguise. The person who is in charge of finding and investigating Soji is no one else but Narek, Rizzo's younger brother.

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