'The Seventh' Synopsis

The episode opens as T'Pol sleeps in her quarters and receives an incoming communication from the Vulcan High Command. The Vulcan representative informs her that 'Menos' has been found -- a revelation that T'Pol greets with an almost emotional surprise. This individual is only three days away from the Enterprise's current location and T'Pol is left unsettled by the news.

T'Pol, Captain Archer and Ensign Mayweather soon make it to a cold, arctic alien outpost where they search for Menos to return him to Vulcan. The landing party has tracked him using DNA scans and he's definitely inside a large alien bar. Mayweather covers the doors while Archer and T'Pol begin their search inside the strange scene.

Archer and T'Pol split up as the scene becomes mysteriously tense. T'Pol is nervous as she moves through the alien crowd, searching for Menos. Archer observes several alien men playing a dice game with a beautiful, furry female alien, who removes a silver glove to reveal pink flesh that generates a cheer from the men after one participant obviously has a good roll.

Meanwhile, T'Pol becomes more tense as she nears several men at the bar. She finally spots her target in a reflective surface above the bar. Menos is dresses in arctic gear and T'Pol spins to greet him with a phase pistol. She's knocked by someone in the bar and loses her moment, after which Menos seems gone. She looks for Archer on the other side of the room, indicating that Menos is close.

She reaches Archer and tells the captain that Menos spotted her but she doesn't know what direction he fled. Archer is struck with some human ingenuity and hops on top of a table to signal to Mayweather that the game is afoot.

As Archer gets off the table and the two NX-01 officers make toward the doors, alien weapons blasts lash out across the room, stirring up the patrons, though few find this a rare occurrence. Archer and T'Pol don their weapons and start pushing through the crowd as more weapons blasts erupt. Archer turns and runs into a seven-foot tall alien, who grunts in its native language. Taking a page from Captain Kirk, Archer makes a humorous quip and continues.

Another blast sears T'Pol's parka and she raises her weapon to return fire when both her and Archer train their views on Menos, coming toward them. Finally they see that Mayweather holds him from behind, in custody. The group heads for the Dockmaster's office to depart with their prisoner but the gruffy alien tells them that the landing pad must be thermalized for several hours to remove a thick layer of xyalthoric acid. Clearly unable to return to the Enterprise anytime soon, the take Menos elsewhere to be interrogated.

T'Pol reaches Menos' ship and begins searching the cargo bay. She seems to be looking for something particular but then is astonished to find container after container of injector casings. This discovery unsettles her and prompts a series of flashbacks: Two men run through a jungle: Menos and Jossen. Another flashback shows T'Pol herself out of control in a Vulcan monastery.

T'Pol rejoins Archer and Mayweather, holding Menos outside at a table. She asks to speak to Menos alone and after the two Enterprise officers leave she begins to interrogate the mysterious Menos. She asks him who 'Jossen' is -- she is confused by her memory of him. Menos senses that she couldn't find what she wanted on his ship and the Sub-Commander grows impatient, drawing her weapon and pointing it at him. Menos proclaims that Jossen and he were "innocent" and didn't need to be "rehabilitated."

This prompts another flashback, this time of T'Pol running through the jungle after the two men. Menos explains that he and Jossen were in the Tropical Zone of Risa; the scene intensifies as T'Pol remembers more of the incident, seeing Jossen stumble to the ground. Menos reveals that the monastery accues he and Jossen of crimes for which T'Pol was sent to apphrend them.

She doesn't trust what Menos is telling her but the memories don't lie. T'Pol sees herself approach Jossen, immobile on the Jungle floor. She tells Menos that a Tellarite captain had helped her locate them on Risa. T'Pol's flashbacks rise to a fever pitch as she remembers discharging her weapon at Jossen, killing him. This gives way to another memory of T'Pol being restrained in the Vulcan monastery and having a senior monk read incantations over her wreathing body. Menos realizes that she's finally remembered the act and tells her that she's been trained as a Vulcan to repress the horror of having killed Jossen. T'Pol finally flashes back to see herself immediately after having killed Jossen and Menos proclaims that taking him back to Vulcan won't alleviate that guilt from her mind.