- Burnham heads to the ISS Charon with a special "gift" for the Emperor. With the help of an unexpected source, Stamets gains clarity while trapped inside the mycelial network. Saru asks for L'Rell's help.
- Burnham and Lorca are summoned to the ISS Charon, the imperial flagship. Burnham tells Lorca that according to Saru, the Shenzhou data revealed that the Defiant used Interphasic space to cross between Universes, but the exact coordinates of the Interphasic space was struck from the record. Before landing, Burnham administers a pain suppressor to Lorca, so he can withstand the torture booths. Georgiou sends Lorca to a torturous agony booth and has dinner with Burnham. The ISS Charon is a palace.
Stamets finds himself within the Mycelial network with the consciousness of his Mirror counterpart, learning that the network has been corrupted by the Mirror Stamets' experiments. Mirror Stamets also ended up in the Mycelial network when an experiment went wrong aboard the ISS Charon. Mirror Stamets was stuck in the network and then saw Stamets enter the network for the first time and had since then been reaching out to him. The corruption of the Mycelial network is the "enemy" that Stamets referred to in the physical world. The corruption is spreading inside the network and eating up parts of it. Stamets cannot find the coordinates of his last jump, which brought the ship to the parallel Universe.
Stamets encounters a representation of Culber and accepts his loss, before waking up from his trance. Culber told him that the mirror Stamets corrupted the network and unless Stamets fixes it, everything, everywhere will be exterminated. Mirror Stamets also wakes up on the ISS Charon. He discovers that his spore collection has been infected.
Georgiou invites Burnham for a private dinner. Georgiou serves Burnham a cooked mirror Saru as a treat. Burnham almost gags but manages to suppress her vomit. Georgiou laments allowing Lorca to become a father figure to Burnham, only for the pair to fall in love and plot to overthrow her. She plans to execute Burnham, who reveals the truth about being from another universe.
Explaining how they had crossed over, Georgiou trades the spore drive's schematics for information on alternative ways to cross between universes. But Georgiou warns that when the Defiant crossed over through Interphasic space, it had severe cognitive effects on every member of its crew and they all went insane.
Burnham calls Saru and has them come to the Charon. Georgiou then says she is reluctant to let Lorca go. Shockingly, she starts to argue that Lorca is actually the mirror-universe Lorca, noting his sensitivity to light (the entire human race from the parallel Universe is sensitive to light). Recalling all of Lorca's behaviors that match Georgiou's descriptions, Burnham realizes that she is right and that the mirror Lorca has been impersonating his prime universe counterpart all along, needing Burnham to get to Georgiou. Burnham tells Georgiou Lorca is in-fact the mirror Lorca from Georgiou's Universe.
Meanwhile, Maddox (Dwain Murphy) enters the torture chamber and wants to punish Lorca for killing his sister. Lorca fakes death and Maddox rushes to get him out of the agony booth, in fear that the Emperor will punish him for killing her prisoner. Lorca attacks and ultimately kills Maddox. Lorca reveals he is in fact the Mirror Universe version of Lorca, as he knew Maddox's sister's name and what he did to her.
Meanwhile Tyler is in agony aboard the USS Discovery. Saru can see that Tyler believes he is a Klingon called Voq. Saru reaches out to L'Rell for help. L'Rell says that Voq volunteered for the mission for the glory of the Klingon empire and accepted his human shell. Saru informs her that the Discovery is now in a parallel Universe, where the Klingons have lost the war. Saru refuses to believe it. Saru then beams Tyler/Voq into L'Rell's cell to see for herself, the agony that Voq is undergoing. L'Rell says that she can reverse the surgery. L'Rell holds a device on Tyler's head, which eventually makes him calm down. He starts to describe his past in English, which makes her cry out as if he had died.
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