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Back at the ship, the Borg Queen gets access to local cell phone signals after Jirati goes to get some sleep in the Chateau (the Queen's voice doesn't have access, so she starts faking the crew's voices. Despite Picard ordering the cloak online in a previous episode, for some reason, the computer says his voice doesn't have access in this episode. Only Rio's voice works). She calls the police, and a cop comes to investigate. I guess the cloak isn't maintaining a stable field or whatever, since it keeps shimmering, which the cop notices. Somehow he finds his way into the ship. Rather than straight up assimilating him, the Queen captures him and calls Jirati back to the ship. I guess she wants to assimilate Jirati, but says she'll settle for the cop if she refuses. Having taken a shotgun that was mounted on the wall of the Chateau (why was it loaded if it was mounted to the wall?!), Jirati kills the Queen to save the cop (but not before the Queen injects Jirati with nanoprobes). Jirati beams Seven, Rios and Raffi back to the ship, while Picard and Tallinn arrive through her own method of transportation, and catch the crew up on what they've learned.
Elsewhere, because of Q's inability to use his powers, he enlists the help of Adam Soong (Brent Spiner once again playing the role of the Soong men). Adam has a daughter (the actress who plays Soji filling this role) with a rare genetic disorder that prevents her from going outside (apparently he also had a son that has died, but don't really go into what happened to him), and despite his expertise in the field, he hasn't found a cure for her himself (he has also had is license revoked and funding taken away for running illegal experiments on former soldiers... pretty sure he should be in jail for that). Q gives him a cure, but the effects wear off after a while, forcing Adam to work with Q (to do... something to Renee) if he wants the permanent cure. (Not sure how Q has access to this cure without his abilities. Unless maybe he does still have his powers, but just can't affect Renee for some reason. Be nice if the series addressed it, or told us why Q thinks this is necessary if he's already manipulating Renee in other ways. Also, side note, Adam has drones that can create forcefields that protects his daughter from the sun. Pretty sure we are not 2 years away from that type of technology.)
With Renee Picard's launch only a couple days away, Picard and company decide if they can keep her in the program until the astronauts go into pre-launch quarantine, it'll be impossible for her to back out (if she's having anxiety attacks and stuff, it's not realistic that NASA would keep her on the mission). There is a "high security" gala (I get it's a high profile mission, but I doubt NASA would facial recognition and all this stuff) that night that they decide to crash... Jirati is sent to hack the security (apparently she's the only one with the skills necessary... Wasn't her expertise building/programming androids? How does she have the skills to hack what would be antiquated tech from her perspective? EDIT: Apparently I missed a throwaway line that Jirati took "antique coding". And wouldn't Seven have the necessary skills for this? These writers don't seem to know just how intelligent Seven is supposed to be.) it's revealed to us that the Borg Queen is inside Jirati's head.
Jean Luc doesn't seem to know much about Renee Picard. He says whatever records remain from before First Contact were chaotic. She apparently plays a big part in early exploration of the solar system and discovers a microorganism on Io at some point that she believes may be sentient, and convinces the mission commander to bring it back to Earth.