- Picard must face the ghosts of his past when he and his crew are attacked by a new incarnation of an old enemy; Seven and Raffi face Jurati in a final showdown.
- The Queen, Soong, and the drones beam to La Sirena while Picard, Tallinn, Raffi, and Seven beam to Chateau Picard. Rios, Teresa, and her son hide inside the ship, but are found by Agnes and her Borg drones. Agnes allows them to join Picard in the Chateau. Raffi and Seven make a run from the Chateau towards the ship. They dodge the bullets from the drones attacking the Chateau.
Agnes's consciousness blocks the Queen from the ship's systems until Seven and Raffi arrive. Agnes argues that if she lets Soong win, in 400 years the Confederates will wipe out the Collective. But the Borg Queen says that she will use the time to prepare for the Confederate threat. Time is on her side. Raffi and Seven enter the ship. Seven tries to take control of the ship and to use the ship against the Queen, but the Queen mortally wounds Seven.
Agnes sends Soong to eliminate Picard at the Chateau. Soong says Picard is the unknown variable in his equation and hence needs to be eliminated. Agnes's drones attack the Chateau in force.
After they send Rios, Teresa, and her son to safety (using Tallinn's transporter), Picard and Tallinn escape from Soong and the drones in the tunnels beneath the chateau. Picard asks Tallinn to block Rios out from her home system, so Rios cannot beam back. Rios works on his own to get into Tallinn's home system.
Picard knows that Soong will help Agnes steal the ship and she will destroy the Europa mission from orbit the following day. Soong and his drones find the secret entrance to the tunnels underneath the Chateau.
Picard recalls his mother having a mental break while they were playing hide-and-seek in the tunnels when he was a boy, after which she ended her own life. Discussing this with Tallinn helps Picard come to terms with it. Back when he was a boy, when Jean-Luc opened the door where Yvette had locked herself, he found her hanging from the ceiling. That night, Maurice had locked Yvette for her own safety. She kept banging the door, asking for Picard, saying that she needed him. This was the moment, that Picard has been hiding from, all his life.
Picard leads Tallinn through the tunnels and towards the exit. He comes into a room in the Chateau where he spent the most time with his mother. Soong corners them, but Rios beams back and forces him to flee.
The wounding of Seven produces stress hormones that allows Agnes to wrest control back from the Borg Queen. Agnes argues that the Borg history always ends with their defeat. She says that the Borg also yearn for the same things as longevity and discovery.
Agnes persuades the Queen to change her ways and build a new Borg collective through cooperation rather than assimilation, truly becoming a new Borg Queen. Agnes says that the new Borg will be based on salvation and not assimilation. Agnes says that cooperation would be the true strength of the Borg. Agnes asks the Borg Queen to start with Seven. Seven used her Borg half to serve humanity to the best of her ability. Agnes wants to build a Universe of Sevens.
The new Queen heals Seven by adding her to the collective. Seven's Borg implants are back on her body. Agnes departs in La Sirena for the Delta Quadrant, leaving a message for Picard: there must be two versions of Renée, one who will fly the Europa mission and one who will die.
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