Following the destruction of the Confederated Martian Colonies by synthetics, Admiral Jean-Luc Picard has resigned his commission from Starfleet in protest of Starfleet using the destruction of the Utopia Planetia Shipyards as an excuse to back out from the evacuation of Romulus, and retired to his country estate in La Barre, France. In Greater Boston, Dahj is enjoying an evening with her boyfriend, when Romulan assassins transport into her apartment. They kill him, but before they can kill her, something activates in Dahj, and she kills the assassins. She experiences visions of Picard, and seeks him out after seeing him being interviewed on the Federation News Network. Dahj finds sanctuary in La Barre, but soon runs away out of fear of bringing harm to the Admiral. Picard calls on the Starfleet Archives and discovers a painting Data made thirty years previous entitled “Daughter”, bearing a female figure resembling Dahj. Dahj tracks Picard down and reunites with him, but it proves to be a brief reunion, as she is killed by the same assassins from earlier. Picard travels to the Daystrom Institute in Okinawa and meets with Dr. Agnes Jurati, who reveals Dahj may be Data’s daughter through an experimental procedure known as fractal neuronic cloning – meaning she is an android with an organic body but a positronic brain. Jurati reveals this process results in twins. The episode ends in a Romulan reclamation site where a Romulan named Narek meets with Soji Asher, Dahj’s twin. A final view of the reclamation site reveals it to be a Borg Cube.