After some previouslies comes some neuropressure, but now Trip's doing Corporal Amanda Cole's toes; she gives him a kiss as a "little warning for next time." While NX-01 is en route to Azati Prime Archer wants Reed to coordinate training sessions with Major Hayes. They spat and Malcolm schedules the training on Fridays and Tuesdays- that's movie night you slavedriver! On the bridge Mayweather locates a small pod-ship shallow in a gravimetric disturbance that's unusually strong (like female drives). A spectacular grappler sequence brings the pod aboard and of course, once again, the crew just pops it open. Inside is Light Bright Wight, an anonymous scaly-painted grouch whom Phlox revives to a fair amount of pain and Archer's bent ethics.

Ambo jitsu time. Sparring in the gym, T'Pol takes a hit distracted watching Amanda fondle Trip. (A busy this episode thank you) Travis kicks ass but gets a shark-delivered blood-letting that tics Malcolm fierce. Trip and T'Pol study the pod and discuss Amanda's headaches and whether three-way supervision would help (and ignoring the annoying Scalosian whine in this scene). The pod is built of sphere-stuff, and its pilot likely inserted into anomaly to be detected, inspected, neglected, and selected. Archer says Canary but I say Booby.

Amanda visits T'Pol and they share high school stories and damage control from Trip's "tender touch." In a firing exercise Hayes shows up- heck a girl shows up- Malcolm, and sulking later he reveals the rumors about Trip tooling everyone on board. Back in the torture chamber Archer withholds pain meds until Wight sings nonsense about coming from a transdimensional realm as a prisoner in an experiment. He starts phasing out and escapes, walking through walls but not floors, showing that time travel is bunk.

Poorly choosing jealousy as a first emotion to play with, T'Pol goes with the assumption and drops robe during her next session with Trip. (Just can't see it between Scotty and Spock. It's rare enough he got one girl not to mention two.) Reed and Hayes have at each other in a jolly good fight that spills out into the corridors. They chase Wight into engineering and shoot up the warp core. When that doesn't work they launch a technobabble barrage which zaps him off. He wakes in sickbay and cackles Xindi before he dies. The morning after Archer dresses down the fighters, and in a crowded mess T'Pol thanks Trip for facilitating her experiment with human sexuality. They aim to "just forget it ever happened." Can we all?


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