The Seventh ( episode ) T ' Pol asks Archer to accompany her on a top - secret mission to capture a fugitive that has eluded the Vulcan High Command for two decades . Summary . Teaser . T ' Pol is reading a book in the middle of the night when she receives transmission from the Vulcan High Command . The only thing her interlocutor tells her is that they have located a man named Menos , three days from ' s location . Act One . The next morning , T ' Pol informs Captain Jonathan Archer that he will receive a transmission from Admiral Maxwell Forrest which will give him orders to assist T ' Pol in a classified mission . Archer is immediately annoyed that he is being used by the Vulcan s again , and talking to his first officer without his knowledge , but he has an amused look and doesn ' t argue too much , even when she presents no detail about what the " security threat " really is . At a senior staff briefing , the crew has the same attitude as Archer earlier , with openly frustrated at not knowing what ' s going on and just asked to sit around for awhile . Malcolm Reed , however , does state he could use the time for re - calibrating the torpedo launcher s , so Tucker says he ' ll find something to do . T ' Pol will need a , a pilot ( Travis Mayweather ) , cold weather suit s , restraint s , and phase - pistol s . Later that night , T ' Pol visits Archer as he ' s watching a game of water polo . Even if she was unwilling to tell the details of her mission earlier , she now asks Archer to be part of the mission because she needs someone she can trust , and relates the details of the mission . Menos , a Vulcan fugitive , is a surgically - altered Vulcan ex - agent that wouldn ' t return when his mission was over . A couple of years prior , T ' Pol , then under the Vulcan Ministry of Security , had been in charge of apprehending six of these fugitives , and Menos was the only one that she hadn ' t been able to catch . The Vulcan High Command , considering that a matter of honor , assigned the mission to her again . The captain initially shot annoyed comments of his situation at her when she walked in , but the fact that she told him the full story and that she trusts him gives him pause , and he accepts . On his way out , Tucker repeatedly entreats Archer to tell him what the situation is about , but Archer refuses , saying simply that T ' Pol has " unfinished business " she wants help with and hands over command of the ship to him . Tucker gives up as he boards the shuttle . On the way to the planet , T ' Pol explains that Menos is reported to have been a smuggler and amassed a large fortune with biotoxin s used for transgenic weapon s . Archer , Mayweather , and T ' Pol arrive at a bar situated on the Pernaia Prime moon where Menos is supposed to be hiding . T ' Pol confirms he ' s present . Act Two . With Mayweather guarding the door in case he tries to escape , Archer and T ' Pol advance through the crowded bar . They draw several glances , but T ' Pol is able to glance his face before an angry alien barges between them . He disappears under a table and she loses him . She reports to Archer that he saw her , so he jumps on a table and whistle s , drawing him to shoot at him and blowing his cover . They try to get to him , and Mayweather tackles him . He ' s handcuffed and led away . Meanwhile , Tucker tries to enjoy being captain , watching polo and inviting Phlox and Reed to join him for lunch in the captain ' s dining room . However , he soon finds out in regular intervals that being captain has its drawbacks . Phlox asks to inoculate the crew for a virus he found ( but with rather annoying side effects ) and Reed needs to take the warp core down for his re - calibrations . Tucker postpones the answers to later , preferring to enjoy the meal . Then , Hoshi Sato calls in to say the Vulcan ship is arriving and its captain , Tavek , wants to speak with Archer . He postpones that , too ( this time out of necessity ) . On the planet , their warrant has been validated , but the landing area is undergoing repair ( coating the area with Xylathoric acid ) that prevents them from leaving for four hours . Without any access to a jail , they shackle Menos to the bar . Now , they are forced to interact with him in the presence of other bar patrons . He recognizes Archer and Mayweather as Human and starts to recount his situation : that the people who trained him to live a different life wanted to reverse it simply , but by taking another three years of his life . He refutes the idea that he became and remained corrupt , becoming a thief . Then he confronts them , saying he only cooperated with smugglers as part of his cover , and is sustaining his family now with an honest job ( hauling spent warp injector casings ) . At the same moment , T ' Pol has a strong flashback . She remembers chasing him on Risa , as she previously explained to Archer , but someone else was there , someone named Jossen . With Menos ' manipulative attitude and all the strange memories , she begins to doubt herself . Archer says he should get a fair trial on , and that no one will hurt him , but Menos ' point is that they will find him guilty of simply not coming back , which is true , and he disagrees with the enforcement . T ' Pol has had enough . She lunges at him , not to hurt him , but to strip off a few straps holding him so she can protect her feet outside in the acid . She goes into his ship to prove him wrong , but only finds what he said she would , adding to her confusion . Act Three . Tucker finally faces the Vulcan captain . Instead of coming up with an excuse for the captain ' s absence , he pretends to be Archer himself , since he thinks it ' s unlikely that this Vulcan ever met Archer . The captain remarks that he seems young to be a captain , but takes Tucker at his word . The " important message " from Admiral Forest relayed by Tavek is the score of a water polo game , Cal beat Stanford 7 to 3 . Back on Pernaia Prime , T ' Pol returns and admits she confirmed Menos ' story and asks to speak with him alone , to which Archer agrees . She calmly sits down and asks him who Jossen is , holding her phase pistol up . He ' s not sure why she ' s asking , but says he didn ' t want to be rehabilitated either , revealing he was another operative . She only remembers hunting for Menos , but she figures out she killed Jossen on Risa . Menos emphasizes he was innocent like him , and didn ' t deserve to die . T ' Pol is agitated , previously believing he was lying but now feeling like he is telling the truth about everything . She gets more of the memory of the incident and Menos realizes she really doesn ' t remember the incident , which confuses him , as Vulcan operatives suppress the emotion of killing , not the memory . He appeals to her , implying it ' s turned her into a different person and asking her not to " conveniently forget " what she ' s about to do to him , since it will be similar to Jossen . T ' Pol leaves him and goes back to Archer , explaining to him outside more of the story she now remembers . She actually went after seven fugitives , not six . While she was chasing after Menos on Risa , she killed another man named Jossen . At the time , it appeared as if Jossen was about to draw his weapon , so she shot him . Now she remembers her guilt about this , since she was never entirely sure that he was a threat . Because she was unable to handle her guilt , she went through " fullara " , a ritual meant to suppress that memory and even the memory of performing the ritual itself . Their discussion is cut short by a disturbance in the bar . Menos caused a fire by turning over a table and claims that he would rather die on that frozen moon than be brought back to Vulcan for crimes he didn ' t commit . T ' Pol decides to free him from the restraints and he quickly vanishes . Saying their mission isn ' t to determine Menos ' guilt , Archer orders T ' Pol to show him his ship , and they brave the way there . Act Four . When the three of them go to his ship , they don ' t find him aboard . Mayweather goes to get life support started while they wait . T ' Pol is convinced he left on a different ship , but Archer isn ' t convinced , yet . He sees Menos got to her , getting her to question herself and encourages her to stay focused and wait until later to sort it out . After a while , Mayweather finds a system still running on the otherwise powered - down ship . When Archer turns it off , it reveals a secret area behind a holographic wall where Menos was hiding , weapon in hand . He takes T ' Pol hostage , forcing Archer in a locker . As he forces T ' Pol to lock it , Archer knocks her down and , after a short fight , he drops his weapon . It ' s a trick , though , and he tries to escape through a hatch on the ground . T ' Pol goes after him and points her phase - pistol at him , threatening to shoot . He continues to play on T ' Pol ' s insecurities , telling her that she won ' t shoot him , and telling Archer it ' s not his fight . Archer interferes at this moment and asks T ' Pol to trust him . She does and finally stun s Menos as he is about to disappear again . Back on his ship , they tie him up for good . Mayweather discovers that Menos was indeed smuggling biotoxins . Back on " Enterprise " , T ' Pol thanks Archer for what he did on the moon and tells him that if he ever needs someone he can trust , she will be glad to return the favor . Memorable quotes . " " Are we supposed to play some kind of guessing game ? " " " " Is there anything specific you and Travis are going to need ? " " " " Cold weather gear , restraints and phase - pistols . " " " " Before I joined the Science Directorate , I was assigned to the Ministry of Security . I was trained in reconnaissance retrieval . " " " " Move over , Porthos . Let the lady sit down . Sounds like this is gonna be good ! " " " " How am I supposed to be a good temporary captain if I don ' t know where my people are ? " " " " Any one of these people could be working with him . " " " " The Ministry of Security was very clear about that . He works alone . " " " " Ironic , isn ' t it ? ! Burning to death on a frozen moon ! " " " " Why did you want me here ? " " " " Because I trust you . " " " " Then trust me , you were sent to apprehend him . . . not to judge him . " " " " I killed him . " " " " Yes . . . and he didn ' t deserve to be killed . " " " " Come on , Travis . Let ' s see if we can find something to eat . " " " " Captain Archer ? " " " " Yes ? Is there a problem ? " " " " You seem very young for a Starfleet captain . " " " " Healthy living . " " " " I don ' t trust this guy , Travis . Find something to tie him up with . " " Links and references . 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