Q tells Guinan he is dying, Picard wins over the FBI agent Wells, and the Borg Queen persuades Soong to help her seize La Sirena.
Wells questions Picard and Guinan, convinced they are aliens. Q visits Guinan and admits he is dying and that the trial is his last attempt to give his life meaning. Wells tells Picard that aliens frightened him as a boy, and Picard explains they were Vulcans who only meant to erase his memory; Wells is fired for his unauthorized investigation and lets them go.
Raffi and Seven find the Queen gathering batteries to modify Jurati's body, but Jurati holds her back. Kore, learning the truth about herself, leaves her father with Q's help, and the Queen convinces Soong to help her take La Sirena by providing mercenaries to turn into drones. Cindy Appel and Kirsten Beyer wrote the episode.