'Star Trek: Picard': Ed Speleers on Playing Jean-Luc's [SPOILER] and Keeping It a Secret (Exclusive)

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Turns out Jack Crusher has a deeper connection to Picard than previously thought. dropped one of a reveal in the latest episode of the Paramount+ series' third and final season, confirming that Jack (played by 's Ed Speleers) is in fact not only the son of Dr.

Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), but also of Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). The signs all pointed to that being the case, from similarities in their mannerisms to their British accents to the amount of time that had passed — roughly two decades — since Beverly cut the Enterprise crew off from all communication.

It wasn't until Jack was faced with the possibility of meeting a dire fate following an ambush by an enemy swarm, led by Captain Vadic (Amanda Plummer), and his insistence to turn himself over to save his mother that Picard finally came to terms with the fact that Jack was very much of his own blood.

But it took the Admiral a while before he faced the music. Armed with Captain Shaw's (Todd Stashwick) threat that they were going to let Jack sacrifice himself to save the USS Titan's crew and civilians, Picard pulled the ultimate power move after coming face to face with Beverly, who had woken up moments prior, and declared «the boy stays here.»After a stunned Captain Shaw asked Picard why he was putting the entire crew in danger, Picard had only one response — and it was a powerful one: «Because he's my son.» Following the latest episode of Picard, which dropped Thursday, ET spoke with Speleers over Zoom about playing the son of two iconic characters, keeping and what he wants viewers to know as Jack's story continues to unfold.