1 00:00:13,013 --> 00:00:15,974 Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: 2 00:00:16,725 --> 00:00:18,352 - Michael Burnham. - Ash Tyler. 3 00:00:18,769 --> 00:00:20,521 Give a sign that you're interested. 4 00:00:20,854 --> 00:00:22,606 All my life, the conflict inside me 5 00:00:22,689 --> 00:00:25,234 has been between logic and emotion. 6 00:00:25,651 --> 00:00:27,319 You remind me of everything good. 7 00:00:27,402 --> 00:00:28,528 You are my tether. 8 00:00:29,571 --> 00:00:31,782 A Klingon took an interest in me. 9 00:00:32,241 --> 00:00:33,325 It's you. 10 00:00:33,408 --> 00:00:34,618 Speak your name. 11 00:00:35,410 --> 00:00:38,455 We modified Voq into a shell that appears human. 12 00:00:38,830 --> 00:00:40,832 We grafted his psyche into Tyler's. 13 00:00:40,916 --> 00:00:42,918 An activated Klingon spy. 14 00:00:43,001 --> 00:00:46,046 When I look at you now, I see Voq's eyes. 15 00:00:46,129 --> 00:00:47,839 Was there ever really an Ash Tyler? 16 00:00:47,923 --> 00:00:49,258 I loved him. 17 00:00:49,341 --> 00:00:52,261 They've planted a bomb in the heart of your homeworld. 18 00:00:52,344 --> 00:00:54,805 Use the fate of Kronos to bend them to your will. 19 00:00:54,888 --> 00:00:56,807 I am the Torchbearer. 20 00:00:57,516 --> 00:00:59,268 Voq has always believed in you, L'Rell. 21 00:01:00,477 --> 00:01:01,937 I'm going with her. 22 00:01:02,646 --> 00:01:05,232 - I'm gonna miss looking at you. - I see you, Ash. 23 00:01:06,608 --> 00:01:07,526 In your eyes. 24 00:01:07,901 --> 00:01:10,320 A new leader is needed to fulfill my lord's vision. 25 00:01:10,404 --> 00:01:11,863 I am that leader. 26 00:01:11,947 --> 00:01:14,408 The reunification of our race 27 00:01:14,491 --> 00:01:16,201 begins 28 00:01:16,285 --> 00:01:17,536 now. 29 00:01:21,540 --> 00:01:24,251 Stardate 1029.46. 30 00:01:25,168 --> 00:01:27,462 Personal log, Commander Michael Burnham. 31 00:01:32,092 --> 00:01:34,803 Any rational explanation for the seven signals 32 00:01:34,886 --> 00:01:38,181 that have appeared across the galaxy continues to escape me. 33 00:01:39,474 --> 00:01:41,893 And with it, perhaps any chance of a relationship 34 00:01:41,977 --> 00:01:43,145 with my brother, Spock. 35 00:01:46,273 --> 00:01:48,567 What did he see in them that I can't? 36 00:01:53,822 --> 00:01:56,033 My failure to understand feels like a failure 37 00:01:56,116 --> 00:01:58,577 to reach him at a time when he might need me most. 38 00:01:59,494 --> 00:02:00,412 Attention: 39 00:02:00,495 --> 00:02:02,414 Trainee half-marathon approaching. 40 00:02:02,497 --> 00:02:03,582 On your left. 41 00:02:10,297 --> 00:02:11,214 - Hi. - Hello. 42 00:02:11,298 --> 00:02:12,716 - Hi. It's me. - Hello. 43 00:02:12,799 --> 00:02:13,675 - It's me. - It's me. 44 00:02:13,759 --> 00:02:14,926 Silly Stilly. 45 00:02:18,180 --> 00:02:19,473 You're not really there. 46 00:02:19,556 --> 00:02:22,059 You're dead. You're dead. You're not really there. 47 00:02:22,142 --> 00:02:24,102 Of course I am, Silly Stilly. 48 00:02:24,936 --> 00:02:26,146 Where did you come from? 49 00:02:26,229 --> 00:02:28,565 - How come they don't see you? - Only you can. 50 00:02:28,649 --> 00:02:29,483 Why? Why me? 51 00:02:29,566 --> 00:02:31,860 Don't you remember? I'm May, from junior high. 52 00:02:31,943 --> 00:02:34,738 I'm May, from junior high. We were friends. 53 00:02:34,821 --> 00:02:37,449 You're the nicest person I've met at this awful school. 54 00:02:37,532 --> 00:02:39,409 I went to that school for six months. 55 00:02:39,493 --> 00:02:41,995 Then my mother got another post, and we moved away, 56 00:02:42,079 --> 00:02:44,164 and you and I have not spoken since then. 57 00:02:45,749 --> 00:02:48,126 And another thing, you died. 58 00:02:48,210 --> 00:02:49,044 Years ago. 59 00:02:49,127 --> 00:02:51,254 Is that why you're upset? Is that why you're upset? 60 00:02:51,338 --> 00:02:54,007 I'm upset because you are a symptom of an unfit mind. 61 00:02:54,091 --> 00:02:56,760 And I can't have that right now. I just can't. 62 00:03:17,572 --> 00:03:19,116 Oh, my... 63 00:03:19,199 --> 00:03:22,077 The Command Training Program's half-marathon has a victor. 64 00:03:22,494 --> 00:03:25,372 A lovely show of endurance and fortitude, Tilly. 65 00:03:26,039 --> 00:03:27,541 You are dismissed, everyone. 66 00:03:27,624 --> 00:03:30,627 But we will reconvene later in the day for Shadow Exercises. 67 00:03:31,336 --> 00:03:32,170 We won. 68 00:03:34,589 --> 00:03:37,217 There is no one else I would rather cheer on. 69 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:38,718 And support. 70 00:03:38,802 --> 00:03:41,430 - And help. - Causing a nervous breakdown doesn't help. 71 00:03:41,513 --> 00:03:43,598 - Tilly. - Set a new course record. 72 00:03:43,682 --> 00:03:45,851 She also achieved... 73 00:03:45,934 --> 00:03:48,812 Saru says you not only won, you beat your personal best. 74 00:03:48,895 --> 00:03:50,939 See? That's how I'm helping you. 75 00:03:51,481 --> 00:03:52,649 What a team we are. 76 00:03:53,316 --> 00:03:55,193 It's the training you put me through. 77 00:03:55,694 --> 00:03:56,653 Thank you, Michael. 78 00:03:58,029 --> 00:04:00,073 I've gotta go, but congratulations. 79 00:04:01,116 --> 00:04:02,993 You're amazing. Saru, wait up. 80 00:04:08,790 --> 00:04:09,833 Yellow alert. 81 00:04:09,916 --> 00:04:11,793 Undeclared craft on intercept course. 82 00:04:11,877 --> 00:04:13,670 Bearing 358 mark zero. 83 00:04:13,754 --> 00:04:16,131 Range, 9000 kilometers, and closing fast. 84 00:04:16,214 --> 00:04:17,924 No other propulsion signatures in the sector. 85 00:04:18,008 --> 00:04:20,802 Hailing on all frequencies, sir. They haven't responded. 86 00:04:20,886 --> 00:04:23,305 Tell them if they get closer without saying who they are, 87 00:04:23,388 --> 00:04:25,098 we will activate tactical systems. 88 00:04:25,182 --> 00:04:27,309 - Aye, captain. - Owo, got anything on scans? 89 00:04:27,642 --> 00:04:30,604 Detecting a small ship. Two life-forms. 90 00:04:30,687 --> 00:04:32,564 Captain, they've opened up a channel. 91 00:04:33,064 --> 00:04:35,817 It's a private vessel with a diplomatic registry number. 92 00:04:35,901 --> 00:04:37,778 They aren't required to tell us more. 93 00:04:37,861 --> 00:04:39,529 Captain asked to beam one aboard. 94 00:04:39,613 --> 00:04:41,072 Now in range for a visual. 95 00:04:41,156 --> 00:04:42,991 - On screen. - Aye, captain. 96 00:04:46,161 --> 00:04:47,162 That ship is Vulcan. 97 00:04:47,245 --> 00:04:48,497 That ship is Sarek's. 98 00:04:48,914 --> 00:04:49,748 I recognize it. 99 00:04:50,499 --> 00:04:53,710 He assembled a Federation task force to study the seven signals. 100 00:04:53,794 --> 00:04:57,130 - He might have news for us. - He may want to discuss something else. 101 00:04:58,131 --> 00:05:01,259 I reported Spock's advance knowledge of the signals to Command. 102 00:05:02,385 --> 00:05:04,638 Information likely got back to the ambassador, 103 00:05:04,721 --> 00:05:06,848 with the news that his son admitted himself 104 00:05:06,932 --> 00:05:08,391 into a psychiatric hospital. 105 00:05:09,601 --> 00:05:11,561 You didn't betray your friend, captain. 106 00:05:12,687 --> 00:05:13,855 You followed protocol. 107 00:05:15,065 --> 00:05:17,651 It's easy to say, harder to believe. 108 00:05:17,734 --> 00:05:20,362 Have you heard from Spock's doctors on Starbase Five? 109 00:05:21,154 --> 00:05:21,988 No, not yet. 110 00:05:23,698 --> 00:05:25,826 Report to the transporter room, commander. 111 00:05:26,535 --> 00:05:29,329 - Welcome the Vulcan ambassador aboard. - Yes, sir. 112 00:05:31,915 --> 00:05:32,749 Deck Four. 113 00:05:35,043 --> 00:05:36,211 Boarding confirmed. 114 00:05:36,294 --> 00:05:37,754 Transporter lock established. 115 00:05:37,838 --> 00:05:39,172 - Energize. - Aye, commander. 116 00:05:49,683 --> 00:05:50,850 Amanda? 117 00:05:57,566 --> 00:05:58,733 Please, don't react. 118 00:05:59,109 --> 00:06:00,360 Spock needs our help. 119 00:06:01,861 --> 00:06:03,238 I could only turn to you. 120 00:07:42,337 --> 00:07:45,006 Out of the fire of war, life begins anew. 121 00:07:46,299 --> 00:07:50,178 As your chancellor, this dynasty springs from me. 122 00:07:51,388 --> 00:07:52,973 From the 24 great houses, 123 00:07:53,056 --> 00:07:54,849 one offspring rises up. 124 00:07:55,976 --> 00:07:57,936 Behold the D7, 125 00:07:58,019 --> 00:07:59,854 the future battle cruiser of the Imperial Fleet. 126 00:08:00,146 --> 00:08:02,691 It bears the banner of no single house, 127 00:08:02,899 --> 00:08:05,860 but the insignia of our united empire... 128 00:08:06,653 --> 00:08:09,698 My Torchbearer will oversee production of this ship... 129 00:08:11,282 --> 00:08:13,201 A ship that shows the galaxy who we are, 130 00:08:13,284 --> 00:08:15,453 and what it means to... 131 00:08:15,912 --> 00:08:18,498 remain Klingon. 132 00:08:18,665 --> 00:08:21,167 Remain Klingon! 133 00:08:22,627 --> 00:08:27,549 Will you make this human our new fleet captain, too, chancellor? 134 00:08:28,091 --> 00:08:31,177 Perhaps we should speak in the standard tongue, too. 135 00:08:31,261 --> 00:08:33,096 Whatever language you prefer, 136 00:08:33,179 --> 00:08:34,806 the truth remains the same. 137 00:08:35,765 --> 00:08:38,935 The Torchbearer was anointed by T'Kuvma himself. 138 00:08:39,019 --> 00:08:41,021 You mean Voq was. 139 00:08:41,896 --> 00:08:45,442 If you want whatever this is as your plaything, 140 00:08:45,525 --> 00:08:47,235 he belongs in your bed, 141 00:08:47,819 --> 00:08:48,737 not here. 142 00:08:48,820 --> 00:08:51,156 He belongs wherever I am. 143 00:08:52,365 --> 00:08:54,409 Just like the allied Klingon houses, 144 00:08:54,492 --> 00:08:56,953 our union is what makes us strong. 145 00:08:57,787 --> 00:09:01,249 Your old way of thinking kept us at each other's throats. 146 00:09:02,250 --> 00:09:04,544 Remove the paint from your face, Kol-Sha. 147 00:09:05,045 --> 00:09:07,130 We are one culture now. 148 00:09:07,213 --> 00:09:10,800 Your union is an insult to my son, Kol. 149 00:09:11,634 --> 00:09:14,637 And all our sons who died by human treachery. 150 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:17,474 It is no coincidence 151 00:09:17,932 --> 00:09:20,643 those seven red lights appeared from the sky 152 00:09:21,061 --> 00:09:23,271 so soon after she took power. 153 00:09:25,023 --> 00:09:27,400 They are an omen. 154 00:09:28,443 --> 00:09:32,030 Seven drops of blood, ready to rain down on us. 155 00:09:32,113 --> 00:09:33,239 Remove the paint. 156 00:09:46,628 --> 00:09:48,797 Your chancellor doesn't get her hands dirty. 157 00:09:49,464 --> 00:09:50,924 That's the Torchbearer's job, 158 00:09:51,758 --> 00:09:52,759 whether he be human, 159 00:09:53,510 --> 00:09:54,344 Klingon, 160 00:09:55,261 --> 00:09:56,179 or both. 161 00:10:00,809 --> 00:10:02,477 You know about the seven signals? 162 00:10:03,103 --> 00:10:04,104 Yes. 163 00:10:04,187 --> 00:10:05,522 Sarek informed me. 164 00:10:05,605 --> 00:10:07,690 People are anxious to know what they are. 165 00:10:07,774 --> 00:10:08,900 Attention, all cadets. 166 00:10:08,983 --> 00:10:10,401 Duty log has been updated... 167 00:10:10,485 --> 00:10:11,820 Spock's connected to them. 168 00:10:12,779 --> 00:10:13,780 How? 169 00:10:13,863 --> 00:10:15,865 He left a log claiming that he saw them, 170 00:10:15,949 --> 00:10:18,201 long before they appeared to the Federation. 171 00:10:18,827 --> 00:10:21,287 But until we can speak to him, we have no answers, 172 00:10:22,455 --> 00:10:24,165 and I don't know what else to do. 173 00:10:24,916 --> 00:10:26,918 I have no new angles to investigate. 174 00:10:28,002 --> 00:10:29,921 Except the one I'm giving you. 175 00:10:31,089 --> 00:10:32,924 I just came from Starbase Five. 176 00:10:33,174 --> 00:10:34,926 I went to the psychiatric unit. 177 00:10:36,261 --> 00:10:38,721 They wouldn't tell me where he was. 178 00:10:39,097 --> 00:10:41,850 They wouldn't let me see him. They wouldn't say what was wrong with him. 179 00:10:41,933 --> 00:10:43,935 They wouldn't even give me his personal effects. 180 00:10:44,018 --> 00:10:46,896 You're his next of kin, and you're a diplomat's wife. 181 00:10:46,980 --> 00:10:48,648 So, I did the only logical thing. 182 00:10:50,275 --> 00:10:51,943 I stole his medical file. 183 00:10:55,947 --> 00:10:56,948 It's encrypted. 184 00:10:57,532 --> 00:10:58,825 Can you please open it? 185 00:11:00,451 --> 00:11:01,911 - Mother. - Please. 186 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:21,764 Ujilli, you are looking well. 187 00:11:25,602 --> 00:11:27,061 How was your walk? 188 00:11:27,145 --> 00:11:30,481 I dedicated everything to your cause. Your uncle could acknowledge me. 189 00:11:30,565 --> 00:11:33,401 He and the rest of House Mo'Kai believe in you. 190 00:11:33,860 --> 00:11:35,403 We have enemies enough. 191 00:11:35,486 --> 00:11:37,405 No need to dream up imaginary ones. 192 00:11:40,491 --> 00:11:42,535 Kol-Sha is telling council members 193 00:11:42,619 --> 00:11:46,205 that you are advising me to eliminate the great houses entirely. 194 00:11:46,289 --> 00:11:49,959 My uncle is disseminating the truth to counteract his lies. 195 00:11:50,043 --> 00:11:53,171 He looks at me and sees a human. They all do. 196 00:11:53,254 --> 00:11:56,215 You should not care what anyone sees when they look at you. 197 00:11:56,299 --> 00:11:59,218 On that subject, only my opinion matters. 198 00:12:01,054 --> 00:12:03,348 Why do you insist on speaking English to me? 199 00:12:03,890 --> 00:12:04,849 I'm not a human, L'Rell. 200 00:12:04,933 --> 00:12:07,727 I'm a Klingon whose body was changed to resemble one. 201 00:12:08,436 --> 00:12:10,480 If we expect others to acknowledge my Klingon side, 202 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:13,775 accept me as the Torchbearer, you must treat me like Voq. 203 00:12:21,991 --> 00:12:23,993 If you are Voq, then want me back. 204 00:12:25,161 --> 00:12:25,995 Want me. 205 00:12:39,467 --> 00:12:40,301 You touch me... 206 00:12:42,220 --> 00:12:43,221 and that intimacy... 207 00:12:44,806 --> 00:12:46,057 to me, Tyler... 208 00:12:47,141 --> 00:12:47,976 feels like... 209 00:12:51,145 --> 00:12:52,146 violation. 210 00:13:04,367 --> 00:13:07,203 Spock speaks highly of you, Captain Pike. 211 00:13:07,286 --> 00:13:09,956 My daughter does, too. I've come to the right people. 212 00:13:11,457 --> 00:13:13,835 That makes it all the harder for me to tell you. 213 00:13:14,961 --> 00:13:16,129 I can't open this file. 214 00:13:17,547 --> 00:13:20,675 I'd be in violation of the rules. My mother wouldn't like that. 215 00:13:20,758 --> 00:13:22,927 There is precedent in Starfleet case law 216 00:13:23,011 --> 00:13:24,262 for a captain to invoke... 217 00:13:24,345 --> 00:13:25,722 Was she this bossy as a kid? 218 00:13:25,805 --> 00:13:28,182 On Vulcan we call it "persistent." Yes, she was. 219 00:13:28,933 --> 00:13:30,184 She learned that from me. 220 00:13:32,478 --> 00:13:33,312 Hmm. 221 00:13:36,858 --> 00:13:37,692 Bryce. 222 00:13:38,568 --> 00:13:40,194 Get me Captain Vela on Starbase Five. 223 00:13:40,278 --> 00:13:42,655 - Tell him it's high priority. - Yes, sir. 224 00:13:46,951 --> 00:13:48,202 - Ah. - Chris. 225 00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:51,080 You and my bisabuela Nena are the only people 226 00:13:51,164 --> 00:13:53,332 in this quadrant still communicating on screens. 227 00:13:53,416 --> 00:13:56,169 Your grandma sounds like a smart lady. Introduce us. 228 00:13:56,669 --> 00:13:59,714 - Sorry I haven't returned your call. - Calls, Diego. 229 00:13:59,797 --> 00:14:01,841 I'm waiting for an update on my officer, Spock. 230 00:14:01,924 --> 00:14:03,551 I'm sorry, I can't give you one. 231 00:14:03,885 --> 00:14:05,053 His case is classified. 232 00:14:06,596 --> 00:14:09,599 I'm well within my rights as his captain to get a prognosis. 233 00:14:09,682 --> 00:14:11,684 Even if that weren't the case, Spock has information 234 00:14:11,768 --> 00:14:13,978 on the signals I was assigned to investigate. 235 00:14:14,062 --> 00:14:15,688 Starfleet declared my mission priority-one. 236 00:14:15,772 --> 00:14:18,274 The signals have nothing to do with it, Chris. 237 00:14:18,357 --> 00:14:20,234 Your guy is wanted for murder. 238 00:14:21,277 --> 00:14:23,362 He killed three of his doctors, then fled the starbase. 239 00:14:23,446 --> 00:14:26,491 Why isn't word out about his escape so that every starship can be on the hunt? 240 00:14:27,075 --> 00:14:29,577 Elements of the case just got complicated. 241 00:14:30,203 --> 00:14:33,498 Some of Spock's files are missing. We have no idea how. 242 00:14:34,165 --> 00:14:35,166 Rest assured, 243 00:14:35,249 --> 00:14:37,293 they've got people on it. 244 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:38,878 Thanks, Vela. 245 00:14:39,962 --> 00:14:41,005 Pike out. 246 00:14:42,256 --> 00:14:43,091 It's not true. 247 00:14:44,592 --> 00:14:48,846 My son is gentle and kind. 248 00:14:50,890 --> 00:14:51,933 He wouldn't do that. 249 00:14:52,016 --> 00:14:54,060 I agree, captain. 250 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:56,979 Well, that makes three of us. 251 00:14:58,981 --> 00:15:01,943 But I don't think the people handling his case would concur. 252 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:04,821 Our boy's in trouble. 253 00:15:05,530 --> 00:15:08,574 He needs a fair shake. We need to find him before they do. 254 00:15:08,658 --> 00:15:09,492 Burnham, 255 00:15:09,575 --> 00:15:11,411 break into Mr. Spock's medical file. 256 00:15:13,079 --> 00:15:13,913 That's an order. 257 00:15:22,046 --> 00:15:27,844 Lieutenant Spock's intellectual abilities and capacity for reason are intact. 258 00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:31,639 Instead, his dissociation appears acutely emotional. 259 00:15:31,722 --> 00:15:34,600 E.Q. tests and his current disaffected state 260 00:15:34,851 --> 00:15:37,019 suggest extreme empathy deficits. 261 00:15:42,358 --> 00:15:44,735 I'll transfer the rest of the files, and then... 262 00:15:46,446 --> 00:15:48,322 we'll decide the best place to start. 263 00:15:48,990 --> 00:15:50,616 Your wheels are already turning. 264 00:15:51,993 --> 00:15:53,494 Logic dictates a few theories. 265 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:56,998 Spock didn't do it, and he's wrongfully accused. 266 00:15:57,623 --> 00:16:01,669 Or he did murder those doctors, in a... mentally compromised state, 267 00:16:01,752 --> 00:16:04,839 or... in what he thought was self-defense. 268 00:16:05,465 --> 00:16:06,466 - Or... - He did it 269 00:16:06,549 --> 00:16:08,426 because he's emotionally compromised. 270 00:16:10,887 --> 00:16:12,805 "Extreme empathy deficit"... 271 00:16:14,807 --> 00:16:17,226 is code for "psychopathy." 272 00:16:18,811 --> 00:16:20,688 I can't deny that possibility. 273 00:16:22,064 --> 00:16:23,858 He didn't have a normal childhood. 274 00:16:25,359 --> 00:16:29,447 Sarek wanted Spock raised in the Vulcan manner. 275 00:16:30,114 --> 00:16:34,285 And any display of emotion was strongly discouraged. 276 00:16:34,368 --> 00:16:36,996 And in order not to confuse my son... 277 00:16:37,955 --> 00:16:39,582 I began to hide my own. 278 00:16:40,708 --> 00:16:41,792 I was not... 279 00:16:43,628 --> 00:16:44,712 a real mother. 280 00:16:48,299 --> 00:16:49,675 I wasn't what he needed. 281 00:16:49,759 --> 00:16:52,929 You gave us love, every second. 282 00:16:56,724 --> 00:16:58,476 It was different with you, Michael. 283 00:16:59,477 --> 00:17:01,562 I gave you all my joy... 284 00:17:03,606 --> 00:17:09,111 and my... affection that I was not permitted to give to him. 285 00:17:10,571 --> 00:17:12,156 But Spock is half-human. 286 00:17:13,282 --> 00:17:15,660 If he had been permitted to embrace the feelings 287 00:17:15,743 --> 00:17:17,411 that I know he has inside of him, 288 00:17:18,037 --> 00:17:22,124 it would've saved him from all the trouble that he's in now. 289 00:17:39,642 --> 00:17:41,227 Stop. Stop. 290 00:17:43,145 --> 00:17:44,105 Those images. 291 00:17:44,981 --> 00:17:46,148 Spock drew them. 292 00:17:47,024 --> 00:17:47,984 I'm sure of it. 293 00:17:48,317 --> 00:17:49,151 He must've... 294 00:17:50,611 --> 00:17:52,029 done them in treatment. 295 00:17:52,113 --> 00:17:54,532 I thought that he left it in the past. 296 00:17:56,576 --> 00:17:57,702 But it's back. 297 00:17:59,453 --> 00:18:00,496 What is it? 298 00:18:01,998 --> 00:18:03,874 Your brother called it the Red Angel. 299 00:18:04,542 --> 00:18:06,877 He started seeing it when he was a little boy. 300 00:18:07,503 --> 00:18:08,546 It changed him. 301 00:18:16,429 --> 00:18:17,263 I'm sorry. 302 00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:19,890 I have to answer this. 303 00:18:26,731 --> 00:18:27,565 Michael. 304 00:18:29,275 --> 00:18:30,359 Thanks for answering. 305 00:18:30,443 --> 00:18:31,277 Of course. 306 00:18:32,528 --> 00:18:33,821 Are you all right? Is L'Rell? 307 00:18:33,904 --> 00:18:35,865 For now. She's still in power. 308 00:18:35,948 --> 00:18:38,826 But her opponents continue to challenge and discredit her. 309 00:18:38,909 --> 00:18:40,119 It's volatile. 310 00:18:40,202 --> 00:18:41,120 How can I help? 311 00:18:41,203 --> 00:18:43,331 The Federation needs to know the situation. 312 00:18:43,414 --> 00:18:45,166 If L'Rell falls, peace falls with her. 313 00:18:45,249 --> 00:18:47,668 I'll pass it up the chain of command immediately. 314 00:18:47,752 --> 00:18:48,586 Thanks. 315 00:18:50,630 --> 00:18:51,797 - I should go. - Wait. 316 00:18:55,092 --> 00:18:55,926 What? 317 00:18:56,010 --> 00:18:56,844 I... 318 00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:00,973 I don't know. 319 00:19:02,933 --> 00:19:03,809 I like the beard. 320 00:19:08,147 --> 00:19:10,483 I heard, postwar, the Klingons are growing their hair again. 321 00:19:11,025 --> 00:19:12,026 The rumors are true. 322 00:19:14,236 --> 00:19:15,321 How are you? 323 00:19:17,114 --> 00:19:19,992 I'm dealing with some things regarding my foster brother. 324 00:19:20,743 --> 00:19:23,704 I hit a dead end, but Amanda came and got me back on track. 325 00:19:23,788 --> 00:19:25,790 Ship her here when you're done with her. 326 00:19:26,290 --> 00:19:28,000 I'm feeling a little stuck myself. 327 00:19:28,459 --> 00:19:29,293 You've got me... 328 00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:31,504 right now. 329 00:19:37,259 --> 00:19:40,262 I understood my role here, to aid L'Rell. 330 00:19:43,057 --> 00:19:44,642 But I'm afraid I'm hurting her. 331 00:19:45,726 --> 00:19:47,728 I'm an easy target for the old guard. 332 00:19:47,812 --> 00:19:51,148 - What does L'Rell think? - Their opposition is part of the fight. 333 00:19:51,524 --> 00:19:52,650 And their ignorance... 334 00:19:53,567 --> 00:19:54,902 will be their downfall. 335 00:19:57,154 --> 00:19:57,988 You admire her. 336 00:19:59,907 --> 00:20:00,950 I do. 337 00:20:02,076 --> 00:20:04,203 Sounds like she feels the same about you... 338 00:20:05,162 --> 00:20:06,580 and values having you there. 339 00:20:08,499 --> 00:20:10,000 Try to take her at her word. 340 00:20:17,007 --> 00:20:17,842 It's, uh... 341 00:20:18,551 --> 00:20:19,885 It's late here, so... 342 00:20:21,387 --> 00:20:22,596 Take care of yourself. 343 00:20:23,180 --> 00:20:24,014 You, too, Ash. 344 00:20:29,145 --> 00:20:29,979 Yeah. 345 00:20:34,942 --> 00:20:38,279 Greetings, everyone, and welcome to Shadow Exercises. 346 00:20:39,113 --> 00:20:41,824 As Starfleet's future chiefs and captains, 347 00:20:42,283 --> 00:20:46,287 this is your opportunity to build rapport with a senior officer, 348 00:20:46,370 --> 00:20:48,831 and see firsthand what their duties entail. 349 00:20:50,207 --> 00:20:52,001 So, let us begin. 350 00:20:52,668 --> 00:20:53,669 Look sharp, people. 351 00:20:53,753 --> 00:20:55,337 This is our future competition. 352 00:20:55,421 --> 00:20:56,547 Is that your captain? 353 00:20:57,381 --> 00:20:59,383 Um... Ensign Sylvia Tilly, sir. 354 00:21:00,009 --> 00:21:02,595 Fully present and focused on this important exercise 355 00:21:02,678 --> 00:21:04,346 for which I am all ears, captain. 356 00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:05,806 Your dedication is noted. 357 00:21:06,390 --> 00:21:08,058 So, what should we do? 358 00:21:09,143 --> 00:21:11,395 Marry some folks who aren't into each other? 359 00:21:11,729 --> 00:21:13,022 Oh. Very good, sir. 360 00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:15,858 Captain, I need your authorization for this. 361 00:21:15,941 --> 00:21:17,902 I don't understand. That was funny. 362 00:21:17,985 --> 00:21:20,654 The captain of this ship isn't funny, he's terrifying. 363 00:21:20,738 --> 00:21:23,449 You may be thinking of an old captain, Captain Lorca. 364 00:21:23,741 --> 00:21:24,700 Was he shorter? 365 00:21:24,784 --> 00:21:26,869 And blonder? And much, much whiter? 366 00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:29,872 - Because that's who I'm looking for. - I'm ready if you are. 367 00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:31,707 He's not the man I need to talk to. 368 00:21:31,791 --> 00:21:33,292 - Hop in the chair. - Yes, sir. 369 00:21:33,375 --> 00:21:34,752 Let's run a systems test. 370 00:21:34,835 --> 00:21:36,170 Where's the other captain? 371 00:21:36,253 --> 00:21:37,880 Uh, a systems test. Uh, where? 372 00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:41,217 Where? In the chair. 373 00:21:42,343 --> 00:21:43,886 Oh. Sorry. 374 00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:45,679 Run checklist protocol. 375 00:21:46,555 --> 00:21:47,389 Acknowledged. 376 00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:49,600 - Step one... - This is not right. 377 00:21:49,683 --> 00:21:52,019 - My plan is falling apart. - Calm down. 378 00:21:52,102 --> 00:21:54,897 I'm hearing fewer syllables out of you than normal. 379 00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:57,149 I know the chair can be intimidating, but... 380 00:21:58,025 --> 00:21:58,859 are you okay? 381 00:21:58,943 --> 00:22:00,861 No. We are not okay. 382 00:22:00,945 --> 00:22:03,072 - I want the captain. - This is the captain. 383 00:22:03,155 --> 00:22:04,406 Ensign, what is going on? 384 00:22:06,492 --> 00:22:08,202 Tilly, answer Captain Pike. 385 00:22:08,285 --> 00:22:09,203 Tilly... 386 00:22:09,286 --> 00:22:11,330 I'm not listening to you anymore. You tricked me. 387 00:22:11,413 --> 00:22:12,498 And you lied to me. 388 00:22:12,581 --> 00:22:13,415 I didn't lie. 389 00:22:13,499 --> 00:22:14,500 He's lying. 390 00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:15,793 He's an imposter. 391 00:22:15,876 --> 00:22:17,211 Shut up! 392 00:22:17,294 --> 00:22:18,504 Ensign Sylvia Tilly. 393 00:22:20,130 --> 00:22:21,590 No, I didn't. I'm... I... 394 00:22:21,674 --> 00:22:23,175 She drove me to it. I... 395 00:22:23,676 --> 00:22:25,469 That doesn't make any sense. I'm... 396 00:22:25,553 --> 00:22:26,554 I'm not... 397 00:22:26,637 --> 00:22:28,013 I'm not... 398 00:22:29,932 --> 00:22:30,975 I'm not. 399 00:22:36,730 --> 00:22:37,565 I quit. 400 00:23:27,448 --> 00:23:28,574 You were spying on me. 401 00:23:28,949 --> 00:23:30,409 Your mind plays tricks. 402 00:23:31,118 --> 00:23:33,996 What do you have against me? Why stop speaking when I enter a room? 403 00:23:34,455 --> 00:23:36,582 You'll speak now, or I'll slit your throat. 404 00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:41,003 If you feel aggrieved, take it up with my niece. 405 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,840 It is not House Mo'Kai that is keeping secrets from you. 406 00:23:45,966 --> 00:23:46,967 What secrets? 407 00:23:49,261 --> 00:23:51,805 L'Rell will be angry. 408 00:23:52,514 --> 00:23:53,891 I broke her trust. 409 00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:58,228 But I cannot keep this from you any longer. 410 00:24:32,721 --> 00:24:33,681 Behold, 411 00:24:34,390 --> 00:24:37,142 the son of L'Rell and Voq. 412 00:24:58,789 --> 00:25:00,082 I learned I was pregnant 413 00:25:00,165 --> 00:25:02,918 right as Voq was being transformed into a human. 414 00:25:03,711 --> 00:25:07,381 I could not activate him on Discovery while carrying a child. 415 00:25:08,132 --> 00:25:10,008 The gestation occurred ex utero. 416 00:25:10,926 --> 00:25:12,428 That is why it is so small. 417 00:25:15,723 --> 00:25:16,557 It? 418 00:25:18,392 --> 00:25:19,893 - Does he even have a name? - No. 419 00:25:20,436 --> 00:25:22,020 I have never met the child. 420 00:25:22,521 --> 00:25:24,523 The baby is a vulnerability. 421 00:25:24,606 --> 00:25:26,275 He's just a vulnerability to you? 422 00:25:28,026 --> 00:25:31,363 All these secrets and lies, to protect a failed wartime mission. 423 00:25:31,447 --> 00:25:32,823 What did you gain, L'Rell? 424 00:25:32,906 --> 00:25:35,033 You think your discovery, made moments ago, 425 00:25:35,117 --> 00:25:39,329 is somehow greater than the pain I have lived with all this time? 426 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:43,917 Would you have told me? 427 00:25:44,376 --> 00:25:48,922 I wanted you to be able to return to a human life without obligation. 428 00:25:49,339 --> 00:25:51,216 You will not be here forever, Tyler. 429 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:52,217 Why do say that? 430 00:25:53,177 --> 00:25:56,180 With such certainty, like you know who I am better than I do? 431 00:25:56,263 --> 00:25:59,016 I chose to be here. I'm committed to that decision. 432 00:25:59,099 --> 00:26:00,893 Why did you call Michael Burnham? 433 00:26:02,936 --> 00:26:04,438 I trusted her to notify the Federation 434 00:26:04,521 --> 00:26:06,982 that an insurrection of the High Council might be brewing. 435 00:26:07,065 --> 00:26:08,776 So, she is the only one you trust. 436 00:26:09,735 --> 00:26:14,239 That is the only reason it was that particular human woman? 437 00:26:15,032 --> 00:26:15,866 Yes. 438 00:26:17,117 --> 00:26:18,076 That is the reason. 439 00:26:25,876 --> 00:26:28,462 On my way home, I looked into one of Voq's memories. 440 00:26:29,630 --> 00:26:32,633 You and he walked across the ancestral cliffs of the Mo'Kai. 441 00:26:33,008 --> 00:26:34,051 The sun set. 442 00:26:34,134 --> 00:26:35,552 The sky dripped amethysts. 443 00:26:37,012 --> 00:26:39,848 Our love was greater than that of Kahless and Lukara. 444 00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:44,269 Voq thought so, too. 445 00:26:47,397 --> 00:26:49,107 When I stared down at that baby... 446 00:26:51,109 --> 00:26:52,611 his skin, the same as Voq's, 447 00:26:52,694 --> 00:26:54,863 the distinction that made him feel like an outsider, 448 00:26:54,947 --> 00:26:58,116 that made his life so hard, I felt like I was looking at myself. 449 00:26:58,742 --> 00:27:01,245 For the first time, the two sides of me felt whole. 450 00:27:02,079 --> 00:27:02,913 I can't be Voq. 451 00:27:02,996 --> 00:27:05,415 I can't give you back those memories of long ago. 452 00:27:07,084 --> 00:27:09,044 But I can promise you a new love story. 453 00:27:09,837 --> 00:27:10,754 I am his father... 454 00:27:12,589 --> 00:27:13,799 and I am devoted to you. 455 00:27:15,384 --> 00:27:16,635 Let's bring our son home. 456 00:27:17,761 --> 00:27:18,929 The rest will come. 457 00:27:30,524 --> 00:27:32,150 When did it first appear to him? 458 00:27:34,361 --> 00:27:37,990 It appeared to Spock the night you ran away from home. 459 00:27:39,616 --> 00:27:41,743 Logic Extremists bombed the Learning Center 460 00:27:41,827 --> 00:27:42,953 and almost killed you. 461 00:27:43,036 --> 00:27:47,082 I don't blame you for wanting to escape from Vulcan to Earth. 462 00:27:48,375 --> 00:27:50,711 I didn't make it past the outskirts of ShiKahr. 463 00:27:52,546 --> 00:27:55,048 - I still don't know how Sarek found me. - He didn't. 464 00:27:55,591 --> 00:27:56,592 That was Spock. 465 00:27:57,551 --> 00:28:03,056 We were about to alert the High Command to begin a search effort. 466 00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:07,686 And Spock walked into the room. He was still in his pajamas. 467 00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:09,521 His eyes were wide, and he said... 468 00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:12,691 that the Red Angel had visited him... 469 00:28:14,151 --> 00:28:15,986 and told him where you were. 470 00:28:17,237 --> 00:28:19,823 That's where Sarek looked, and there you were. 471 00:28:25,037 --> 00:28:28,749 Sarek and I always believed that Spock used logic 472 00:28:29,666 --> 00:28:31,168 to pinpoint your direction. 473 00:28:31,793 --> 00:28:33,670 He might've known what time you left, 474 00:28:33,754 --> 00:28:36,423 how fast you were walking, what direction you went in, 475 00:28:36,506 --> 00:28:39,718 and we just wrote the vision off as a figment of his imagination. 476 00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:41,011 But Spock never wavered. 477 00:28:42,054 --> 00:28:44,973 He said that the Red Angel was real. 478 00:28:48,602 --> 00:28:49,937 I've seen this angel, too. 479 00:28:50,812 --> 00:28:52,940 It appeared to me on our mission to the first signal. 480 00:28:53,023 --> 00:28:54,149 Were you the only one? 481 00:28:55,609 --> 00:28:56,443 Yes. 482 00:28:57,152 --> 00:28:59,279 And I wrote it off as a trick of the mind. 483 00:29:01,615 --> 00:29:04,159 And I didn't get the sense that it was nefarious. 484 00:29:08,247 --> 00:29:10,207 I cannot believe I'm talking like this. 485 00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:13,418 I'm not even sure it was real. 486 00:29:13,502 --> 00:29:14,336 It is. 487 00:29:15,045 --> 00:29:17,965 What saved you hurt your brother. 488 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,842 That vision changed him forever. I... 489 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,011 I watched him withdraw. 490 00:29:23,095 --> 00:29:25,973 I saw him lose trust in other people. 491 00:29:26,890 --> 00:29:29,685 I watched his openness vanish. 492 00:29:32,312 --> 00:29:33,814 It wasn't because of a vision. 493 00:29:37,693 --> 00:29:38,777 It was because of me. 494 00:29:40,487 --> 00:29:42,447 My presence was a danger to the family. 495 00:29:42,531 --> 00:29:44,658 If the Logic Extremists couldn't get to me, 496 00:29:44,741 --> 00:29:46,201 they would try to get to him. 497 00:29:47,869 --> 00:29:49,288 And he was my little shadow. 498 00:29:50,247 --> 00:29:53,250 So, I had to wound him deep enough to keep him away from me. 499 00:29:55,294 --> 00:29:56,128 What did you do? 500 00:30:03,427 --> 00:30:05,679 The fact that you're not saying anything means 501 00:30:05,762 --> 00:30:07,764 that you must have hurt him irreparably. 502 00:30:08,932 --> 00:30:11,101 Which is why us four can never get together, 503 00:30:11,184 --> 00:30:13,395 why you're always too busy to see each other. 504 00:30:14,730 --> 00:30:15,564 I'm sorry. 505 00:30:17,149 --> 00:30:18,859 I am sorry for what I did. 506 00:30:22,029 --> 00:30:23,405 What I thought I had to do. 507 00:30:27,159 --> 00:30:31,538 I've reached out so many times to make amends. 508 00:30:37,419 --> 00:30:38,420 He's not interested. 509 00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:44,718 But I won't give up on him. 510 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:47,721 I will find him. 511 00:30:52,809 --> 00:30:53,643 No. 512 00:30:55,062 --> 00:30:55,896 I will. 513 00:31:13,955 --> 00:31:15,165 He will not know me. 514 00:31:16,208 --> 00:31:17,459 He didn't know me either. 515 00:31:23,673 --> 00:31:24,716 Uncle. 516 00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:29,054 No, no. 517 00:31:33,266 --> 00:31:35,769 I've been awaiting your arrival. 518 00:31:37,229 --> 00:31:38,688 Your son is handsome. 519 00:31:39,856 --> 00:31:42,442 But I thought he could use a little color. 520 00:31:42,943 --> 00:31:44,027 I will hunt you down 521 00:31:44,111 --> 00:31:46,947 and rip out your entrails with my bare hands. 522 00:31:47,030 --> 00:31:47,989 Doubtful. 523 00:31:48,657 --> 00:31:50,992 The paint I begged you to wipe from my face 524 00:31:51,076 --> 00:31:52,786 was swimming with sensor implants. 525 00:31:53,328 --> 00:31:55,330 They are a listening device. 526 00:31:56,123 --> 00:32:00,585 I was only hoping to eavesdrop on your political strategies. 527 00:32:01,294 --> 00:32:04,381 But I never imagined I'd learn of this. 528 00:32:04,464 --> 00:32:07,926 The High Council will not tolerate this dishonor. 529 00:32:08,009 --> 00:32:11,596 Well, I think they are more likely to condone kidnapping 530 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,306 than harboring a spy. 531 00:32:13,849 --> 00:32:17,436 Your pet betrayed the Council to Commander Burnham. 532 00:32:17,978 --> 00:32:19,020 Did he not? 533 00:32:20,397 --> 00:32:22,149 What do you want? 534 00:32:22,232 --> 00:32:25,152 I'm willing to part with him and let you flee... 535 00:32:26,903 --> 00:32:30,824 in exchange for control of the Empire. 536 00:32:31,241 --> 00:32:33,326 You will agree to my terms 537 00:32:33,410 --> 00:32:35,579 and meet me at your residence. 538 00:32:48,467 --> 00:32:50,385 Saru called down, looking for you. 539 00:32:51,803 --> 00:32:52,637 You all right? 540 00:32:52,721 --> 00:32:54,473 What's wrong? Have you been crying? 541 00:32:54,931 --> 00:32:55,765 I asked first. 542 00:33:00,061 --> 00:33:03,148 Attention, all personnel, the CTP exercises... 543 00:33:04,149 --> 00:33:04,983 Talk to me. 544 00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:07,402 I need a problem I can solve. 545 00:33:08,653 --> 00:33:09,488 More than you know. 546 00:33:09,571 --> 00:33:12,073 Talk to me. Haven't I been punished enough? 547 00:33:13,074 --> 00:33:15,660 What happened there was upsetting to me. I panicked. 548 00:33:16,495 --> 00:33:17,829 - Tilly? - Tilly. 549 00:33:18,580 --> 00:33:20,290 Don't ruin what we have. 550 00:33:20,373 --> 00:33:22,709 We're not defeated yet. We're not defeated yet. 551 00:33:26,171 --> 00:33:27,881 After the dark matter hit me, I... 552 00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:31,927 I started to see a... 553 00:33:34,054 --> 00:33:34,888 ghost. 554 00:33:36,348 --> 00:33:38,683 She's a girl that I knew when I was a teenager. 555 00:33:38,767 --> 00:33:40,435 Her name was May, but she's dead. 556 00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:43,480 And the May that I knew was really meek and, uh... 557 00:33:45,482 --> 00:33:47,067 goofy when you got to know her. 558 00:33:47,150 --> 00:33:50,529 But this May is different. She's, um... She's insistent. 559 00:33:51,196 --> 00:33:53,698 - She's grooming me for something. - For what? 560 00:33:53,782 --> 00:33:55,116 She hasn't said. 561 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:56,785 Because you're ignoring me. 562 00:33:56,868 --> 00:33:58,578 And I'm getting scared. 563 00:33:59,037 --> 00:34:00,205 And we need a new plan. 564 00:34:03,083 --> 00:34:04,793 I am losing it, Michael. 565 00:34:06,253 --> 00:34:07,504 She's wearing me down. 566 00:34:09,381 --> 00:34:10,757 I've been avoiding Sickbay. 567 00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:14,261 But at this point, I don't know what to do. I'm desperate. 568 00:34:14,678 --> 00:34:16,930 And after today, I'm never gonna make captain. 569 00:34:18,265 --> 00:34:19,432 Your eyes are dripping. 570 00:34:20,350 --> 00:34:21,685 'Cause I'm crying. 571 00:34:25,647 --> 00:34:26,940 She doesn't know what crying is. 572 00:34:27,607 --> 00:34:28,525 I've got to think. 573 00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:31,778 I'll be back to talk some sense into you later. 574 00:34:35,824 --> 00:34:36,658 She left. 575 00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:40,036 How can she not know what tears are? 576 00:34:41,997 --> 00:34:42,914 That's impossible. 577 00:34:44,457 --> 00:34:46,543 Show me a teenage girl who's never cried. 578 00:34:47,544 --> 00:34:48,378 You can't. 579 00:34:49,754 --> 00:34:51,423 I know. I'm a xenoanthropologist. 580 00:34:55,343 --> 00:34:59,639 And if May were a hallucination, pulled from your subconscious, 581 00:34:59,723 --> 00:35:01,725 she'd know that emotion because you do. 582 00:35:03,476 --> 00:35:04,894 So, May is something, Tilly. 583 00:35:06,104 --> 00:35:07,772 But I don't think she's a ghost. 584 00:35:07,856 --> 00:35:08,732 Or an illusion. 585 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:13,695 She appeared to you after the asteroid shocked you. 586 00:35:14,070 --> 00:35:15,530 But why did it shock you? 587 00:35:15,614 --> 00:35:17,115 I held a piece in my hand, 588 00:35:17,657 --> 00:35:18,658 and I wasn't zapped. 589 00:35:20,201 --> 00:35:24,789 The dark matter component of the asteroid, it reacts when in proximity to one thing. 590 00:35:26,082 --> 00:35:26,916 Spores. 591 00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:28,710 You don't need Sickbay. 592 00:35:31,171 --> 00:35:32,088 You need Stamets. 593 00:35:43,224 --> 00:35:44,309 Sign. 594 00:35:44,392 --> 00:35:46,686 I am still your chancellor. 595 00:35:46,770 --> 00:35:49,606 You are the Federation's puppet. 596 00:35:49,856 --> 00:35:51,941 Why is she such a threat to you, Kol-Sha? 597 00:35:52,025 --> 00:35:54,027 The female? 598 00:35:54,694 --> 00:35:56,112 She's nothing but a... 599 00:35:58,865 --> 00:36:01,117 ...that lies with a human. 600 00:36:01,201 --> 00:36:03,828 If that is the gravest insult you can hurl, 601 00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:06,289 you are even less than I imagined. 602 00:36:09,250 --> 00:36:12,337 I know I am nothing to you once I have signed, 603 00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:14,631 so, be sure to kill us both, Kol-Sha. 604 00:36:15,340 --> 00:36:18,510 The one left standing will be the one who returns for you. 605 00:37:48,099 --> 00:37:48,933 Enough. 606 00:37:55,315 --> 00:37:56,399 Yes. 607 00:37:56,858 --> 00:37:57,692 Feel it. 608 00:37:58,777 --> 00:38:04,157 Paralysis is spreading to your organs. 609 00:38:04,699 --> 00:38:08,703 But I will not let you suffocate until you've signed. 610 00:38:11,498 --> 00:38:14,125 Thank you for my ink. 611 00:38:16,252 --> 00:38:20,006 Now pass me that pretty little finger. 612 00:38:26,346 --> 00:38:27,430 Now... 613 00:38:28,139 --> 00:38:30,683 for my first act as chancellor... 614 00:38:32,769 --> 00:38:34,062 an execution. 615 00:38:35,438 --> 00:38:36,481 Now... 616 00:38:36,564 --> 00:38:39,651 you can watch your Voq die... 617 00:38:41,361 --> 00:38:42,362 for good. 618 00:38:47,992 --> 00:38:49,118 What is that? 619 00:39:33,997 --> 00:39:35,582 Why have you been spying on me? 620 00:39:35,665 --> 00:39:37,083 Don't be cranky about it. 621 00:39:37,792 --> 00:39:40,712 We have to ensure that she stays in the chancellor's seat. 622 00:39:41,421 --> 00:39:42,255 Who's "we"? 623 00:39:44,299 --> 00:39:47,135 - Emperor. - You have me confused with someone else. 624 00:39:47,844 --> 00:39:49,470 I'm Philippa Georgiou, 625 00:39:49,929 --> 00:39:52,974 retired captain of the U.S.S. Shenzhou, 626 00:39:53,474 --> 00:39:56,060 now Starfleet security consultant. 627 00:39:58,605 --> 00:40:00,648 Children are parasites. 628 00:40:00,732 --> 00:40:02,400 Ungrateful. Inconvenient. 629 00:40:02,942 --> 00:40:06,988 I had to find someone else to feed mine, or I would have gotten nothing done. 630 00:40:07,614 --> 00:40:09,407 I will consider that advice. 631 00:40:11,826 --> 00:40:13,036 Thank you for your help. 632 00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:14,746 Gratitude is premature, 633 00:40:15,163 --> 00:40:18,124 as long as the disemboweled leader of House Kor 634 00:40:18,791 --> 00:40:20,376 is splattered on your floor. 635 00:40:20,460 --> 00:40:22,670 He took our child, to force her to abdicate. 636 00:40:22,754 --> 00:40:23,963 We defended ourselves. 637 00:40:24,047 --> 00:40:26,633 Kol-Sha killed your uncle. It's an eye for an eye. 638 00:40:27,091 --> 00:40:28,801 I need a word with the chancellor. 639 00:40:33,973 --> 00:40:35,433 Every minute you remain here, 640 00:40:35,516 --> 00:40:39,604 your councilors must reorganize their tiny male brains 641 00:40:39,687 --> 00:40:43,066 to rationalize why it isn't them standing on the dais. 642 00:40:43,733 --> 00:40:46,819 They will assume that all your decisions are Tyler's. 643 00:40:48,112 --> 00:40:49,405 He is a liability. 644 00:40:50,615 --> 00:40:51,491 Can you kill him? 645 00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:55,411 I had to ask. 646 00:40:57,121 --> 00:40:58,665 He is a liability, too. 647 00:40:59,582 --> 00:41:03,127 You can't show weakness when it comes to either one of them. 648 00:41:03,211 --> 00:41:05,380 I will not choose between the chancellorship 649 00:41:05,463 --> 00:41:07,090 and my son and his father. 650 00:41:07,173 --> 00:41:10,635 I told you what I am here to protect. 651 00:41:12,804 --> 00:41:15,014 I am not giving you a choice. 652 00:41:21,104 --> 00:41:22,313 Sorry I didn't tell you. 653 00:41:23,147 --> 00:41:24,023 I am sorry, too. 654 00:41:25,233 --> 00:41:28,194 Thanks to Burnham's insights, we are closer to a solution. 655 00:41:29,028 --> 00:41:31,864 And getting you back into the Command Training Program. 656 00:41:34,283 --> 00:41:35,702 What about Captain Pike? 657 00:41:35,785 --> 00:41:38,913 I am not familiar enough with him to anticipate his reaction, 658 00:41:38,997 --> 00:41:41,958 but I do know that he has a sense of humor... 659 00:41:42,917 --> 00:41:44,043 and he is fond of you. 660 00:41:44,127 --> 00:41:46,254 We should have results in one second. 661 00:41:48,047 --> 00:41:50,758 I told you, he was shorter, blonder, 662 00:41:50,842 --> 00:41:51,718 whiter... 663 00:41:52,218 --> 00:41:54,053 There he is. That's the captain. 664 00:41:54,429 --> 00:41:55,847 - No, he's not. - Yes, he is. 665 00:41:56,347 --> 00:41:58,349 - That's where he flies. - What's going on? 666 00:41:58,433 --> 00:42:00,393 She's back. She's pissed. Maybe at you. 667 00:42:00,476 --> 00:42:03,187 - Hurry. - Don't talk until I tell you what to say. 668 00:42:03,271 --> 00:42:05,148 Just as I suspected. 669 00:42:05,231 --> 00:42:07,316 You are hosting a eukaryotic organism. 670 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:08,443 A fungus? 671 00:42:08,526 --> 00:42:11,487 Obviously multicellular, since it has opinions. 672 00:42:11,571 --> 00:42:14,949 Fungus. Don't you dare diminish me. Don't you dare diminish me. 673 00:42:15,033 --> 00:42:17,160 Anyone who works around the spore drive is inoculated. 674 00:42:17,243 --> 00:42:18,578 How did she contract it? 675 00:42:18,661 --> 00:42:21,581 It's possible that a spore evolved a resistance. 676 00:42:21,664 --> 00:42:23,916 - Like bacteria. - Don't you call me bacteria. 677 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,711 Or it's a different spore than ones we harvest here. 678 00:42:27,295 --> 00:42:29,422 When Discovery escaped the Terran universe, 679 00:42:29,505 --> 00:42:31,507 their spores rained down on Engineering. 680 00:42:33,301 --> 00:42:35,219 If one attached itself to you... 681 00:42:42,810 --> 00:42:44,562 - Hey, May. - Is that her? 682 00:42:44,645 --> 00:42:47,732 He's the villain. Don't let him poison you against me. 683 00:42:47,815 --> 00:42:51,319 There's our hitchhiker. A multidimensional fungal parasite. 684 00:42:51,402 --> 00:42:53,863 Why does it appear as someone I knew as a teenager? 685 00:42:54,405 --> 00:42:55,865 Brain manipulation, perhaps? 686 00:42:56,115 --> 00:42:57,283 These people are lying. 687 00:42:57,366 --> 00:42:59,035 I am not a manipulator. 688 00:42:59,744 --> 00:43:00,870 You're special, Tilly. 689 00:43:00,953 --> 00:43:02,080 You're my only chance. 690 00:43:02,830 --> 00:43:03,664 I need you. 691 00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:09,045 - How do we get rid of it? - We use 692 00:43:09,128 --> 00:43:12,548 the attraction between the fungal spores and the dark-matter asteroid 693 00:43:12,632 --> 00:43:13,800 to suck her out of you. 694 00:43:14,383 --> 00:43:15,968 This might hurt a bit. 695 00:43:18,888 --> 00:43:22,100 If you think you can destroy me, captain, you're in for a fight. 696 00:43:25,561 --> 00:43:26,437 Ow. 697 00:43:40,159 --> 00:43:42,912 Security breach by unknown alien species in Engineering. 698 00:43:42,995 --> 00:43:45,373 Engage quarantine protocol Alpha-Omega. 699 00:43:48,292 --> 00:43:54,632 I had a child. Voq was the father. 700 00:43:54,715 --> 00:44:00,012 I made the human my Torchbearer to honor Voq. 701 00:44:02,056 --> 00:44:04,308 I can no longer say his name... 702 00:44:05,268 --> 00:44:07,937 such was the dishonor he brought. 703 00:44:09,313 --> 00:44:12,817 Secretly, he communicated with the Federation. 704 00:44:13,693 --> 00:44:16,946 He told them we are disunited and therefore weak. 705 00:44:18,030 --> 00:44:20,116 He betrayed us. 706 00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:24,412 Lest anyone think my arrangement with the human 707 00:44:24,495 --> 00:44:27,415 outweighs my loyalty to the empire, 708 00:44:27,498 --> 00:44:28,457 think again. 709 00:44:35,798 --> 00:44:38,259 The traitor slaughtered a Klingon infant. 710 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:40,595 My son. 711 00:44:46,517 --> 00:44:50,605 He would've assassinated your chancellor, had Kol-Sha not intervened. 712 00:44:51,314 --> 00:44:54,984 The leader of House Kor gave his life to defend mine. 713 00:45:01,949 --> 00:45:04,285 One house defending another. 714 00:45:05,494 --> 00:45:08,289 His sacrifice is a lesson to us all. 715 00:45:09,290 --> 00:45:10,917 I, too, have sacrificed. 716 00:45:14,003 --> 00:45:17,006 I will bear a child but once. 717 00:45:22,595 --> 00:45:23,429 Now... 718 00:45:24,847 --> 00:45:26,349 you are my children, 719 00:45:26,891 --> 00:45:29,727 as I raise this family to greatness. 720 00:45:30,937 --> 00:45:33,397 Do not refer to me as chancellor, 721 00:45:34,148 --> 00:45:36,859 for I deserve a fiercer title. 722 00:45:38,152 --> 00:45:41,572 From this point forth, you may call me... 723 00:45:42,615 --> 00:45:43,449 Mother. 724 00:46:37,586 --> 00:46:40,506 You synthesized our heads down to their neural mapping and genetic codes. 725 00:46:41,632 --> 00:46:43,384 This isn't everyday Federation espionage. 726 00:46:43,467 --> 00:46:45,720 What kind of organization could pull that off? 727 00:46:46,345 --> 00:46:47,596 This kind. 728 00:46:49,348 --> 00:46:50,182 Section 31. 729 00:46:52,018 --> 00:46:54,145 I've heard of black badges, never seen one. 730 00:46:56,647 --> 00:46:58,482 We settled into orbit around Boreth. 731 00:46:58,566 --> 00:47:01,402 Are you sure you want your boy to become a monk? 732 00:47:03,154 --> 00:47:04,321 It's what L'Rell wants. 733 00:47:04,947 --> 00:47:05,781 And you? 734 00:47:05,865 --> 00:47:10,119 To know where I belong, and to whom, and who belongs to me. 735 00:47:12,121 --> 00:47:14,749 My son will be raised by devout followers of Kahless. 736 00:47:15,583 --> 00:47:17,209 No one leaves the monastery. 737 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:19,920 No one who doesn't belong ever gets in. 738 00:47:20,588 --> 00:47:21,756 Not even his parents? 739 00:47:22,548 --> 00:47:23,549 He'll never know me. 740 00:47:25,843 --> 00:47:27,178 Never know L'Rell, either. 741 00:47:29,096 --> 00:47:30,014 But he'll be safe. 742 00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,231 You should consider staying around. 743 00:47:40,524 --> 00:47:42,902 Our command believes misfits have merit, 744 00:47:43,319 --> 00:47:44,528 so, we keep busy. 745 00:47:44,612 --> 00:47:47,907 I'm surprised you call yourself a misfit, emperor. 746 00:47:48,491 --> 00:47:49,700 The freaks are more fun. 747 00:47:55,915 --> 00:47:57,208 Take us to warp. 748 00:48:03,380 --> 00:48:05,216 Control values his skill set. 749 00:48:06,467 --> 00:48:09,345 We would like you to work on your recruitment speech. 750 00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:10,846 Don't give me notes. 751 00:48:11,388 --> 00:48:12,223 He's in.