Three weeks earlier, near the Daystrom Institute, Commodore Oh mind-melded with Agnes Jurati, showing her disasters that are bound to happen in case research on synthetic life was continued. She told Jurati to join Picard's mission and gave her a transponder. In the present, after Picard and Soji have left through the trajector, La Sirena is caught in a tractor beam from the Borg cube, and Raffi is struggling to break the ship free. Meanwhile on the Borg cube, Narissa Rizzo wants to know Soji's destination. When Hugh refuses to answer, she executes several xBs. Picard and Soji arrive on Nepenthe, where they are greeted by Kestra Troi-Riker, the daughter of Deanna Troi and William Riker. Picard tells Kestra that he thinks Soji is Data's daughter, upon which Kestra speaks out that Soji is an android, thereby only deepening her identity crisis. Riker and Troi notice that Soji is related to Data without being told. They help Picard to gain Soji's trust. The two lost their son, Thaddeus, several years ago because of an illness that could have been cured with the help of an outlawed positronic brain. La Sirena suddenly breaks free from the tractor beam and leaves without Elnor, who remains on the Borg cube to help Hugh save the xBs. Narek follows the ship, which he can track thanks to Jurati's transponder. On the Borg cube, Hugh and Elnor head back to the Queen cell. But Rizzo thwarts their plan. While Elnor is fighting hand-to-hand with Rizzo, she pulls a knife and kills Hugh. Elnor's last hope now is a chip to call the Fenris Rangers. Jurati feels sick after eating some cake. When Rios accompanies her to sickbay, he reveals to her that he thinks Raffi has a tracking device that allows the Romulan ship to follow them - and triggers a reaction in Jurati, who is actually carrying the transponder. When she is alone again, Jurati replicates a dose of noranium hydride that destroys the device and allows Rios to shake off Narek, but she falls into a coma. Soji finally tells Picard, Riker, Troi and Kestra of the two red moons she saw in her dream and that may identify her place of origin. Kestra finds the location of that planet. Picard and Soji say goodbye to the Troi-Rikers and beam up to La Sirena.

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