- As the crew continues their guise, Burnham undergoes a merciless mission in hopes of helping the U.S.S. Discovery return home. Tilly works on restoring Stamets' neurofunction.
- On the USS Discovery, Stamets is found hugging Culber's dead body and talking incoherently about Forests and Trees. Stamets is under suspicion for killing Culber. Tilly says that the hyperactivity of Stamets's brain white matter has increased exponentially. The entire activity is centered in one part of the brain, rendering all of his other neural functions, non-operational. Tilly takes over Stamets's medical treatment. She compares the brain pattern of the Tardigrades and Stamets and speculates that Stamets's neurological activity is part of the Mycelial network that keeps the portals open. So, to understand the activity further, she plugs Stamets back into the spore's network.
Mirror Saru is Burnham's personal slave on the ISS Shenzhou. In this Universe, prisoners are executed by beaming them into the vacuum of space. Its been 2 days and yet Burnham has no new information on how the USS Defiant crossed in and out of the parallel Universe without the spore drive. She has found the data she needs, but she has no way of transmitting the data to the USS Discovery without being discovered.
The ISS Shenzhou is given the coordinates of the resistance leadership and ordered to kill them all. Burnham convinces her crew that instead of destroying the base from orbit, she can infiltrate the base herself and put an end to the resistance forever. Burnham tells Lorca that the rebel alliance is a Mirror of the Federation led by a Klingon. If they can learn how, that is their path to peace back home. Burnham and Tyler travel as a landing party themselves and instead surrender to the resistance in hopes of learning how the Klingons of this universe have learned to work with other species;
They find that the Mirror version of Voq is the resistance leader and is called the Fire Wolf. Burnham tells Mirror Voq that she seeks peace, against the orders of her Emperor. Burnham offers to give the group time to escape before their base is destroyed, and Mirror Sarek (James Frain) confirms that she can be trusted after connecting to her mind. Sarek has seen Burnham's entire history through the mind meld and is perplexed at a world full of possibilities.
Listening to Voq triggers Tyler's programming, and he has to be restrained. Voq obviously sees this attack as a betrayal and wants to kill both Tyler and Burnham. But Sarek stands by his assessment and says that Burnham can be trusted. Sarek demands that Burnham and Tyler be spared, so that the resistance can continue.
Back on the ship ISS Shenzou, Burnham is livid with Tyler for jeopardizing the mission. Tyler reveals to Burnham that he now knows he was once Voq, and that he underwent surgery to appear human and infiltrate Starfleet. Voq's mission was to infiltrate the Discovery and steal the spore drive. He admits to killing Culber, who had found his secret. Voq attacks Burnham to avenge T'Kuvma's death but is saved by mirror Saru.
Burnham has him beamed into space, where he is picked up by the USS Discovery. Burnham had cleverly concealed the Shenzhou's data on a drive and put that on Tyler's body. That drive is recovered by Saru, when he beams Tyler/Voq aboard the USS Discovery. Saru and Tilly imprison him, having earlier found the body of Culber.
Saru and Tilly also unsuccessfully attempted to heal Stamets, who has not been the same since his last spore jump and Culber's death. Tilly's attempt to restore Stamets's cognitive function fail as his heart rate accelerates to a near unsustainable level and then fails. But in the Mycelial network, it is revealed that Stamets comes face to face with the mirror Stamets.
Suddenly another ship enter orbit around the rebel base planet and fires on it, before the rebels have completed their evacuation. Burnham is reprimanded for not killing the resistance leaders by the Emperor-the Mirror version of Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh).
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