Raffi and Seven have returned to La Sirena on the search for Jurati. Picard is still unresponsive, as Tallinn prepares to enter his mind. He imagines to be in a counseling session in his ready room. The male Starfleet counselor addresses Picard's fear of enclosed spaces and his unwillingness to let people in. When requested to tell a story, Picard recounts a childhood memory of when he was with his mother and they were pursued by monsters. The story ends with him being alone in the dungeon after his mother has been dragged away. Tallinn has entered his head and arrives in the dungeon where she meets the terrified boy. Rios notices that Picard's condition deteriorates but Teresa can't help him. He has no other option but to let Raffi beam over a neural stabilizer in Teresa's presence, upon which he has quite a few things to explain. In his mind, Tallinn urges Picard to get at the bottom of his childhood trauma. The counselor turns out to be a manifestation of his father Maurice, whom the admiral remembered as being abusive, so much that he believed his mother often ran away because of him. But the truth is somewhat different. Picard's mother suffered from paranoid delusions. One time she took her son into the tunnels underneath the château. The boy got stuck in a wooden access cover. His father found him hours later. When Picard wakes up, Tallinn reveals to him that she is Romulan. Rios beams to La Sirena, accompanied by Teresa and her son. In the meantime, Raffi and Seven have traced Jurati's movements but not yet found her. They discover CCTV footage of her smashing a window. Seven concludes that Jurati is under the control of the Borg Queen and seeks excitement because that would produce endorphins and stimulate nanoprobe production, eventually transforming her into the new Queen. Picard wonders what his experience while being unconscious had to to with the current mission to fix history. He remembers something that the counselor said about knowing one's enemy and decides to confront his nemesis Q. Guinan knows a way to summon members of the Continuum. However, instead of Q, a police officer enters the bar to arrest Picard and Guinan...

• E06 Previous
• E08 Next