Is she going crazy or is this a glitch in the matrix? No time to sort that out as they beam back to La Sirena to find Agnes looking like she stepped into the Saw franchise.
After some fun banter, things get a bit weird as Raffi sees Elnor exiting the bus, but then it wasn’t Elnor. The more reasonable Seven uses her tricorder to shut down the bus and Rios catches on, getting some help from a compadre to take down Officer FerengiFace.
Oh right, Jurati found an old shotgun… probably should have mentioned that.Ĭohorts Seven and Raffi are still stalking Rios’ prison bus and debating butterfly effects, which seems to come a bit late after transporting out in the middle of a car chase last week. Queenie really has it bad for Agnes, launching into a whole thing about how great life would be if they were joined, but Agnes isn’t buying it, and with officer Leclerc’s life literally hanging in the balance, she fires the shotgun. But the Borg forgoes assimilation and instead uses him as a hostage, calling out to her real prey, Jurati. And he clearly hasn’t seen any horror movies as he enters the dimly-lit spooky sci-fi thing without calling for backup so yeah, he gets totally captured when tentacles pull him into the Queen’s web. The responding solo cop is too busy living up to the smoking Frenchman stereotype to notice the sleeping Agnes, but he does spot the flickering cloaked spaceship in the backyard. Scheisse!Īt Chateau Picard, the evil queen hacks La Sirena to ring the local gendarmes for help. Tallinn is concerned Renée isn’t going to make it to her destined flight and her therapist isn’t exactly helping with stuff like “Perhaps you are not ready.” In fact, there is something oddly familiar about him… OMG, it’s Q! Everything snaps together for Jean-Luc his old nemesis masquerading as an Austrian-wannabe shrink is using this 21st-century Picard to change the future. Picard and Tallin voyeuristically (but awkwardly, on Picard’s part) peer in on her mandatory psych evaluation as the young woman expresses her doubts. The former child prodigy turned NASA astronaut pilot is dealing with anxiety as she struggles in a Europa mission simulator.
Now we’re getting somewhere.Īfter seeing her brief introduction in that final scene with Q last episode, we start to get a better look at this Renée Picard. After learning he is a time traveler named Jean-Luc Picard trying to stop a divergence, she drops the bomb: Her particular charge is an ancestor of his named Renée Picard, who is set to go on a historic spaceflight in three days, which just so happens to be the exact timing of that divergence. And her job has been to protect a single individual, someone who is really important to the fabric of the universe, although she doesn’t know exactly why. Transported away to the LA apartment of the “The Watcher” who looks like a human Laris (which makes sense, since it is the same actress), Picard learns this “Supervisor” is actually named Tallinn. WARNING: Spoilers below! RECAP “Fear can be your friend.” Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 5 – Debuted Thursday, March 31, 2022Ī mixed bag of stories and genres moves the season plot forward in a big way.