A probe weapon slices Earth killing millions. Forrest wants Archer and crew packing for home, while talky but humiliated Klingons dispatch Duras to finish their thwarted kidnapping. The Suliban however beat them at the job and snatch the Enemy of the Empire easily off his own bridge. (Man that's easy to do! NX-01 has a definite intruder control problem.) Silik introduces his captive to future guy who is kind enough to inform Archer about tedious plot details reeking of temporal cold bath. ("Sorry - somebody fingered you guys to the Xindi about Alderaaning their homeworld centuries from now. Wasn't supposed to happen but that stuff happens.")

Dropped back aboard Enterprise by his new friends, Archer resumes breakneck speed towards Sol but the Klingons miraculously pop in close enough to scrap paint and pick a fight. But lo! The intrepid cavalry appears in new ships driving the marauders away. Safe home at Fleet Operations Center, Forrest and Soval trace the probe back to the Delphic Expanse (the Bermaga Triangle?), an Irwin Allen-land gob-filled with guts where even the laws of physics don't apply. Archer relates future guy's story, proving it using quantum dating - whatever that means, fascinating as it is reading a negative 420! Soval recites the usual time travel truism and his familiar accusations of human impulsiveness but even after a showing of "Vulcans Gone Wild" Archer ain't spooked.

They begin refit for their new mission, muscling up with colonial marines (one supposes Hoshi willing to give up quarters to help bunk them all). Phlox finds loyalty and finally obeys an order, dismissing a pointy-eared spy in a strange scene feeling completely out of place. Reed installs a likely infinite supply of "photonic torpedoes" (equipped with variable yield!) and, accustomed to humans, T'Pol decides Archer needs her and passionlessly does the logical thing, resigning her commission to remain in the show. Archer moans about so many "bad guys" and gets drunk with Trip, who's sick of the non-interference crap shoved down his throat and ready to blow the hell out of the bastards whenever they're found.

Enterprise enters the Purple Haze of the expanse, but surprise! The Klingons waited through refit and attack again at warp, following their prey for seven weeks and six hours before finally opting to strike. Archer laughs at the superior, um, empire though, and destroys those pursuers insufficiently cowardly to flee. "Straight and steady, Mr. Mayweather. Let's see what's in there." Time to proceed with our new mission.

May it prosper longer than the last.