- Picard and the crew travel back to 2024 Los Angeles in search of the one person who can help them identify the point at which time diverged.
- Picard and the crew travel back to 2024 Los Angeles in search of the "Watcher", who can help them identify the point at which time diverged. Seven, Raffi, and Rios venture out into an unfamiliar world 400 years in their past, while Picard and Jurati attempt to gather information from an unlikely and dangerous ally.
- Seven distracts the Magistrate long enough for the group to overpower and kill him and his officers. The crew tries to treat Elnor and save his life.
The ship comes under attack from Confederate ships from the Earth. Jurati continues to plug the Queen into the ship's engines. During the attack, the Queen's pod is tumbled, and she comes out of her Statis field, which kept her immobile. The Queen takes advantage of the situation to directly connect herself to the ship's computers. She destroys their pursuers and slingshots the ship around the sun, creating a wormhole to 2024. They can tell that they are in the 21st century, as there is no Lunar colony, there is fossil fuel pollution, early ozone layer depletion and no signs of a nuclear fallout.
She tells Picard that they must find "The Watcher" in Los Angeles who knows what Q changed to cause the new time-line. The ship is hurtling towards the Earth with no shields and no navigation controls. They know they can't crash land in LA, which is densely populated. Picard takes over the helm of the ship. The ship crashes near Chateau Picard in France, and the Queen diverts all power to sustain herself.
Elnor dies of his wounds as there was no power available for the Biobed in sickbay, which was the only thing keeping Elnor alive. Picard says that they cannot kill the Queen and plans to revive her to help the crew mend the time. Jurati is not sure if fixing the time-line will bring Elnor back. Raffi angrily blames Picard before departing with Seven and Rios to start searching for the Watcher. Jurati and Picard stay back to try and revive the Borg Queen. She is the only one who knows the location of the Watcher and its purpose.
The plan is to transport to Markridge tower, which is the highest point in LA and scan for all alien life forms from there. Rios's transporter malfunctions and he is knocked out, waking up in a clinic that secretly treats undocumented immigrants. Before he can leave, immigration officers raid the clinic and arrest both Rios and his physician, Teresa (Sol Rodríguez). Rios's communicator is left behind when it drops on the floor of the clinic and is kept in a safe drawer when found by Teresa. Raffi and Seven reach the tower. They find a signal in McArthur Park and the location of Rios's communicator.
The Queen cannot be revived by fixing her externally. Somebody needs to go into her mind to help her get fixed, as she is only operating at 8% of her capacity. Picard says he cannot go in, as he had already been assimilated and the Borg Queen would take control of Picard in seconds. However, a new mind can take hours to Assimilate. Despite Picard's warnings, Agnes Jurati connects her mind to the Queen. Her aim is to fix the Borg Queen and to learn the exact location of the Watcher before she can be assimilated. The Borg Queen starts exploring Agnes's mind and Jurati is able to narrate the entire sequence of events to Picard. Picard realizes that Jurati is being assimilated by the Borg Queen and pulls her out.
The Queen is revived now and wants Picard's ship in exchange for the location of the Watcher. But Jurati says that she already has the information which she stole from the Borg Queen. The intensity of Jurati's mind impresses the Queen.
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