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Aboard ''La Sirena'', Dr. Jurati (MD) gives her post-mortem on Bruce Maddox, whose heart simply couldn't take the abuse and who passed of his injuries. They then discuss the Artifact, where Maddox confirmed Soji is. Elnor, whose Qowat Milat BrutalHonesty training apparently includes being a SensorCharacter, notes that Picard is not looking forward to visiting a Borg Cube, and Picard admits that his last visit to one was highly involuntary (see ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E26S4E1TheBestOfBothWorlds The Best of Both Worlds]]"). Jurati points out that the Borg on the Cube have been cut off from the Collective, and may be different in nature, but Picard doubts it: "[The Borg] don't change. They metastasize."
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Aboard ''La Sirena'', Dr. Jurati (MD) gives her post-mortem on Bruce Maddox, whose heart simply couldn't take the abuse and who passed of his injuries. They then discuss the Artifact, where Maddox confirmed Soji is. Elnor, whose Qowat Milat BrutalHonesty training apparently includes being a SensorCharacter, notes that Picard is not looking forward to visiting a Borg Cube, and Picard admits that his last visit to one was highly involuntary (see ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E26S4E1TheBestOfBothWorlds The Best of Both Worlds]]"). Jurati points out that the Borg on the Cube have been cut off from the Collective, and may be different in nature, but Picard doubts it: "[The Borg] don't change. They metastasize."
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[[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight It Was A Dark And Stormy]] {{Flashback}}. Young Soji Asha is walking down a hallway clutching a stuffed animal, looking for her father. She enters a laboratory overflowing with orchids, but then a man calls her name. Back in the present, Soji [[CatapultNightmare awakens]], and mentions to Narek that this has become a recurring dream.
Aboard ''La Sirena'', Dr. Jurati (MD) gives her post-mortem on Bruce Maddox, whose heart simply couldn't take the abuse and who passed of his injuries. They then discuss the Artifact, where Maddox confirmed Soji is. Elnor, whose Qowat Milat BrutalHonesty training apparently includes being a SensorCharacter, notes that Picard is not looking forward to visiting a Borg Cube, and Picard admits that his last visit to one was highly involuntary (see ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E26S4E1TheBestOfBothWorlds The Best of Both Worlds]]"). Jurati points out that the Borg on the Cube have been cut off from the Collective, and may be different in nature, but Picard doubts it: "[The Borg] don't change. They metastasize."
Later, Rios is keeping in shape by kicking a soccer ball around. Jurati comes out, as she has been unable to sleep. Rios asks if she wants to talk about the death of her mentor... but Jurati, if her kissing Rios is any indication, has other things on her mind than talking.
On the Artifact, Narek finds Rizzo in his quarters. She's messing with his ''tan zhekran'', the eponymous [[TitleDrop impossible box]] (AKA a Romulan Rubik's Cube). She admits that her first impulse with these things is to smash it open to get to the prize, but Narek shows her that if she simply takes the time to understand the darn thing, it will yield its secrets up to her. He relates it to Soji: he believes her dreams are not some sort of random positronic firing-off, but rather her brain trying to reconcile what she was programmed to believe -- that she is a normal {{muggle}} human -- with reality -- that she is a {{gynoid}} implanted with FakeMemories. Narek believes that, caught somewhere in that maelstrom of forced ignorance is the location of the lab whence Soji, Asha and the others (remember, the ''Zhat Vash'' are convinced there are more) came from. Rizzo allows him to proceed.
''La Sirena'' is about to leave the Former Romulan Neutral Zone and enter Actual Romulan Space. This will be a treaty violation unless they have some sort of excuse. After juggling some ideas, particularly Dr. Jurati's (perfectly legitimate) credentials as a cyberneticist, the crewheads settle on fishing Raffi, [[DrowningMySorrows drunk]], out of her room. Raffi calls an old friend, Emmy, who is still active in Starfleet, and explains the situation -- [[RefugeInAudacity exactly as it is]]. If Emmy can't get them diplomatic credentials to visit the Artifact in, oh, three hours -- yes, Picard did it all on his own, you know what that guy's like -- there's going to find Soji.be an interstellar incident. Emmy, angry, agrees. The crew applauds Raffi as she [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame staggers back to her quarters]]. Later Rios visits her to make sure she's okay, and she mentions that she has a son -- not to mention a Romulan daughter-in-law and a granddaughter on the way -- as a way to castigate herself about being too devoted to business.
Soji is, as Narek indicated, beginning to grow suspicious of her own nature. This increases when Narek mentions that every time she calls her mother, it lasts exactly 70 seconds. (He's not stalking her ''personally'' -- all transmissions into and out of a Romulan installation are monitored [[ProperlyParanoid by procedure]].) When she talks to her Mom that night, Mom mentions that she (Soji) must be tired and overworked, and Soji is almost overwhelmed by a need to sleep. When she manages to fight it by poking herself awake, "Mom" repeats the command and Soji passes out. When she wakes up, though, her memory remains. She grabs a scanner and goes through the objects in her room -- her childhood diaries, photos of herself and Asha, the stuffed animal she was carrying in that opening flashback, the twin-rings necklace she wears. All of them register as being approximately 37 months old.
The diplomatic credentials Raffi's friend manage to wrangle up will only cover Picard, who is being sent as an envoy to the Borg Reclamation Project. Picard must go in alone, litle though he cares to; he gives explicit orders to Elnor to stay behind. Once aboard the Artifact, {{flashback}}s to his time in the Collective assail him, and he's caught between rampaging Borg drones on one hand and [[NoOSHACompliance a bottomless drop]] on the other... until a voice rings out: "They don't want you to fall!" It's Director Hugh. The two old friends embrace, and Hugh agrees to bring Picard to Soji.
Soji, shaken, confesses the nature of her belongings to Narek. He offers her a solution: a (normally-Romulans-only) meditation technique called ''Zhal Makh''. It's essentially a PensieveFlashback: Soji first relives the dream, including the CatapultNightmare component, and then, under the guidance of Narek as he continues to fiddle with his ''tan zhekran'', takes control of the memory. Instead of jolting awake when her father yells at her, she presses through the orchids to see a lifesize wooden doll on a work-table... a doll that has her face. Looking up, she sees "two red moons, dark as blood, surrounded by lightning." Narissa, who has been listening in this whole time, congratulates Narek on finding the synth homeworld; Narek then bids Soji a [[InLoveWithTheMark tearful]] goodbye and locks her in the meditation chamber. He leaves behind only the ''tan zhekran''... which opens to reveal poison gas. Mortal danger, as it did for Dahj at the start of the series, triggers Soji's TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening, and she smashes through the floor of the meditation chamber.
Picard, led by Hugh, apprehends her as she drops through the floor on another level. Basically the only reason she trusts her is that he holds out Dahj's necklace, the twin-ring thing that is only 37 months old. Hugh leads them to the "queen's cell" (neither Picard nor Hugh has ever been there before, but the memories are there nonetheless), in which is secured a piece of technology called the Sikarian Trajector (see ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E9PrimeFactors Prime Factors]]"), which can send humanoid-sized objects up to 40,000 LY. Picard orders ''La Sirena'' to break orbit and meet them at "Nepenthe" (wherever ''that'' is), and Rios agrees, only to look around and realize: "Where's the kid?"
Romulan ''Zhat Vash'' Hit Mooks arrive, but then so does Elnor's sword. ("I thought I told you stay on the ship!" "Yes. I didn't listen.") He and Hugh, now armed with a disruptor rifle, stay behind to HoldTheLine, and the screen fades to black as the door of the queen's cell closes.
-->'''Elnor''': "Please, my friends, choose to live."
Aboard ''La Sirena'', Dr. Jurati (MD) gives her post-mortem on Bruce Maddox, whose heart simply couldn't take the abuse and who passed of his injuries. They then discuss the Artifact, where Maddox confirmed Soji is. Elnor, whose Qowat Milat BrutalHonesty training apparently includes being a SensorCharacter, notes that Picard is not looking forward to visiting a Borg Cube, and Picard admits that his last visit to one was highly involuntary (see ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E26S4E1TheBestOfBothWorlds The Best of Both Worlds]]"). Jurati points out that the Borg on the Cube have been cut off from the Collective, and may be different in nature, but Picard doubts it: "[The Borg] don't change. They metastasize."
Later, Rios is keeping in shape by kicking a soccer ball around. Jurati comes out, as she has been unable to sleep. Rios asks if she wants to talk about the death of her mentor... but Jurati, if her kissing Rios is any indication, has other things on her mind than talking.
On the Artifact, Narek finds Rizzo in his quarters. She's messing with his ''tan zhekran'', the eponymous [[TitleDrop impossible box]] (AKA a Romulan Rubik's Cube). She admits that her first impulse with these things is to smash it open to get to the prize, but Narek shows her that if she simply takes the time to understand the darn thing, it will yield its secrets up to her. He relates it to Soji: he believes her dreams are not some sort of random positronic firing-off, but rather her brain trying to reconcile what she was programmed to believe -- that she is a normal {{muggle}} human -- with reality -- that she is a {{gynoid}} implanted with FakeMemories. Narek believes that, caught somewhere in that maelstrom of forced ignorance is the location of the lab whence Soji, Asha and the others (remember, the ''Zhat Vash'' are convinced there are more) came from. Rizzo allows him to proceed.
''La Sirena'' is about to leave the Former Romulan Neutral Zone and enter Actual Romulan Space. This will be a treaty violation unless they have some sort of excuse. After juggling some ideas, particularly Dr. Jurati's (perfectly legitimate) credentials as a cyberneticist, the crew
Soji is, as Narek indicated, beginning to grow suspicious of her own nature. This increases when Narek mentions that every time she calls her mother, it lasts exactly 70 seconds. (He's not stalking her ''personally'' -- all transmissions into and out of a Romulan installation are monitored [[ProperlyParanoid by procedure]].) When she talks to her Mom that night, Mom mentions that she (Soji) must be tired and overworked, and Soji is almost overwhelmed by a need to sleep. When she manages to fight it by poking herself awake, "Mom" repeats the command and Soji passes out. When she wakes up, though, her memory remains. She grabs a scanner and goes through the objects in her room -- her childhood diaries, photos of herself and Asha, the stuffed animal she was carrying in that opening flashback, the twin-rings necklace she wears. All of them register as being approximately 37 months old.
The diplomatic credentials Raffi's friend manage to wrangle up will only cover Picard, who is being sent as an envoy to the Borg Reclamation Project. Picard must go in alone, litle though he cares to; he gives explicit orders to Elnor to stay behind. Once aboard the Artifact, {{flashback}}s to his time in the Collective assail him, and he's caught between rampaging Borg drones on one hand and [[NoOSHACompliance a bottomless drop]] on the other... until a voice rings out: "They don't want you to fall!" It's Director Hugh. The two old friends embrace, and Hugh agrees to bring Picard to Soji.
Soji, shaken, confesses the nature of her belongings to Narek. He offers her a solution: a (normally-Romulans-only) meditation technique called ''Zhal Makh''. It's essentially a PensieveFlashback: Soji first relives the dream, including the CatapultNightmare component, and then, under the guidance of Narek as he continues to fiddle with his ''tan zhekran'', takes control of the memory. Instead of jolting awake when her father yells at her, she presses through the orchids to see a lifesize wooden doll on a work-table... a doll that has her face. Looking up, she sees "two red moons, dark as blood, surrounded by lightning." Narissa, who has been listening in this whole time, congratulates Narek on finding the synth homeworld; Narek then bids Soji a [[InLoveWithTheMark tearful]] goodbye and locks her in the meditation chamber. He leaves behind only the ''tan zhekran''... which opens to reveal poison gas. Mortal danger, as it did for Dahj at the start of the series, triggers Soji's TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening, and she smashes through the floor of the meditation chamber.
Picard, led by Hugh, apprehends her as she drops through the floor on another level. Basically the only reason she trusts her is that he holds out Dahj's necklace, the twin-ring thing that is only 37 months old. Hugh leads them to the "queen's cell" (neither Picard nor Hugh has ever been there before, but the memories are there nonetheless), in which is secured a piece of technology called the Sikarian Trajector (see ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E9PrimeFactors Prime Factors]]"), which can send humanoid-sized objects up to 40,000 LY. Picard orders ''La Sirena'' to break orbit and meet them at "Nepenthe" (wherever ''that'' is), and Rios agrees, only to look around and realize: "Where's the kid?"
Romulan ''Zhat Vash'' Hit Mooks arrive, but then so does Elnor's sword. ("I thought I told you stay on the ship!" "Yes. I didn't listen.") He and Hugh, now armed with a disruptor rifle, stay behind to HoldTheLine, and the screen fades to black as the door of the queen's cell closes.
-->'''Elnor''': "Please, my friends, choose to live."
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* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Soji takes her boots off and walks barefoot as instructed when she follows a path to find the missing memory inside her. She is forced to flee and teleport out of the Artifact while still barefooted.
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* DisapprovingLook: Picard when [[DrugsAreBad Raffi takes a hit from her pipe]].
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** Picard himself goes on a tirade over how the Borg never change, though although to his credit credit, once he sees the work that Hugh is doing, he realises realizes its importance in making people see the [=xB's=] xBs as victims, not symbols, symbols of the Collective.
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* {{Irony}}: The plot in "Prime Factors" centred around the Sikarians refusing to let the crew of ''Voyager'' use their spatial trajector technology. Turns out the Borg [[AppealToForce just went ahead and took it.]]
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* {{Irony}}: The plot in "Prime Factors" centred around the Sikarians refusing to let the crew of ''Voyager'' use their spatial trajector technology. Turns out the Borg [[AppealToForce just went ahead and took it.]]it]].
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* PassiveAggressiveCombat: For once Narek comes out on top in his interactions with his sister.
* RansackedRoom: Picard and Hugh find Soji's room like this; in a variation it's actually the person who owns the room doing the ransacking, as she keeps scanning all her personal items and discovers they're all the same age.
* PassiveAggressiveCombat: For once Narek comes out on top in his interactions with his sister.
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Hugh has hopes that Picard will take up the cause of the [=xB's=] xBs on the diplomatic stage, but Picard just has a guilty look expression given his past failures and uncertain future.
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* RansackedRoom: Picard and Hugh find Soji's room like this;in it's a variation it's actually where the person who owns the room is doing the ransacking, as she keeps scanning all her personal items and discovers they're all the same age.
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* SexForSolace: After murdering Maddox, Jurati sleeps with Rios, though he naturally thinks it's because she's upset about his death.
* SexForSolace: After murdering Maddox, Jurati sleeps with Rios, though he naturally thinks it's because she's upset about his death.
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-->'''Raffi:''' You know Picard. Every part of that guy that's not ego is rampaging id. \\
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* SexForSolace: After murdering Maddox, Jurati sleeps with Rios,though although he naturally thinks it's because she's upset about his death.
''(Picard raises both his eyebrows in surprise)''
* SexForSolace: After murdering Maddox, Jurati sleeps with Rios,
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* WeDoNotKnowEachOther: A Romulan subcommander tries to stop Narek taking Soji into the meditation chamber for racial reasons, and Narek threatens to arrange for his demotion if he doesn't stand aside. Turns out the subcommander is a Tal Shiar operative and this is just so Soji won't realise she's being LuredIntoATrap.
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* WeDoNotKnowEachOther: A Romulan subcommander tries to stop Narek from taking Soji into the meditation chamber for racial xenophobic reasons, and Narek threatens to arrange for his demotion if he doesn't stand aside. Turns out the subcommander is a Tal Shiar operative and this is just exchange was arranged so that Soji won't realise realize she's being LuredIntoATrap.
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-->'''Raffi:''' You know Picard. Every part of that guy that's not ego is rampaging id. ''(Picard raises both his eyebrows in surprise)''
-->'''Raffi:''' You know Picard. Every part of that guy that's not ego is rampaging id. ''(Picard raises both his eyebrows in surprise)''
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** Picard referring to the former Borg drones as victims and not monsters may as well have been referring to rape survivors, refugees or former child soldiers.
** Picard referring to the former Borg drones as victims and not monsters may as well have been referring to rape survivors, refugees or former child soldiers.
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** The puzzle box looks and works a lot like a Rubik's Cube, and Narissa expresses an all-too-familiar frustration with it.
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* CharacterDevelopment: The interaction between Captain Picard and Hugh wasn't particularly friendly in the past (Hugh had befriended Geordi [=LaForge=] instead) but here they are shown to be genuine friends.
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* WeDoNotKnowEachOther: Narek exchanges threats and insults with the subcommander who tries to stop him taking a non-Romulan into the meditation chamber, but it turns out he's a Tal Shiar operative and this is just a performance so Soji won't realise she's being LuredIntoATrap.
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Hugh has hopes that Picard will take up the cause of the XB's on the diplomatic stage, but Picard just has a guilty look given his past failures and uncertain future.
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** Soji can dream [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E15Birthright just like Data]]. As with Data the dreams are not a glitch but serve an important purpose.
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* {{Irony}}: The plot in "Prime Factors" centred around the Sikarians refusing to let the crew of ''Voyager'' use their spatial trajector technology. Turns out the Borg [[AppealToForce just went ahead and took it.]]
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** Picard's past as Locutus is brought up. Understandably, he suffers flashbacks after entering the Artifact.
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* DisapprovingLook: Picard when [[DrugsAreBad Raffi takes a hit from her pipe]].
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* PassiveAggressiveCombat: For once Narek comes out on top in his interactions with his sister.
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** Also from ''Voyager'', Soji keeps her photos in an ''[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E5OnceUponATime Adventures of Flotter]]'' lunch box.
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* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Having just been betrayed to her death by her lover, Soji is understandably reluctant when Picard shows up claiming to be a friend of her father and urges her to come with him. She goes along more because she has no other choice if she wants to get off the Artifact alive.
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* FantasticRacism: The Zhal Makh, a form of Romulan meditation, is taboo to non-Romulans. The Romulan pejorative for humans is "round-ears."
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Elnor's and Hugh's back facing the viewers, and they're armed with a tan qalanq and a disruptor, respectively. They hear the voices of approaching Romulan guards while the door to the queencell closes behind them. When the scene cuts to black, Elnor says, ''"Please my friends, choose to live."''
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Elnor's Elnor and Hugh's back facing the viewers, and they're armed with Hugh preparing to take on a tan qalanq and a disruptor, respectively. They hear the voices contingent of approaching Romulan guards while the door to the queencell closes behind them. When the scene cuts to black, Elnor says, ''"Please my friends, choose to live."''
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** Rios invokes this when he inquires about Elnor's wheareabouts.
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** Rios invokes this when he inquires about Elnor's wheareabouts.whereabouts.
* SpottingTheThread: Hugh is quick to note that Picard would not suddenly come to the Artifact after all these years for whatever official purpose he claimed, then promises to help however he can.
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* TraumaButton: As soon as Picard beams onto the Artifact, his mind is assaulted with flashbacks to his time as Locutus. At one point, he can barely stand and would've fallen to a chasm if he wasn't grabbed by two [=xBs=].
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* TraumaButton: As soon as Picard beams onto the Artifact, his mind is assaulted with flashbacks to his time as Locutus. At one point, he can barely stand and would've fallen to into a chasm if he wasn't grabbed by two [=xBs=].
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* YouShallNotPass: Elnor and Hugh stay on the Artifact to hold off pursuit while Picard and Soji escape, also ensuring that there is enough time for the Sikarian spatial trajector to shut down and be concealed again before the Romulans can find it and trace Picard's and Soji's destination.
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* YouShallNotPass: Elnor and Hugh stay on the Artifact to hold off pursuit while Picard and Soji escape, also ensuring that there is enough time for the Sikarian spatial trajector to shut down and be concealed again before the Romulans can find it and trace Picard's Picard and Soji's destination.
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* InLoveWithTheMark: Narek falls for Soji and even tells her his real name (which a Romulan would only disclose to someone they're in in love with), but duty always comes first for a Romulan (especially for a spy), so he still carries out his orders to murder her, and he cries as she pleads for her life.
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* InLoveWithTheMark: Narek falls for Soji and even tells her his real name (which a Romulan would only disclose to someone they're in in love with), but duty always comes first for a Romulan (especially for a spy), so he still carries out his orders to murder her, and he cries as she pleads for her life.
