Date not given: Trip and Malcolm disable the warp drive of the Romulan drone. When the Romulans threaten to let Trip die, who is stuck in a radiation-poisoned service channel, Malcolm agrees to restore the propulsion system, but only to damage the ship considerably by overloading his phase pistol. Meanwhile on Enterprise, Archer and T'Pol devise a plan to hunt down the enemy vessel, but this would require humans, Vulcans, Andorians and Tellarites to cooperate. The alliance is about to fall apart before it can be forged when Talas dies of her injuries. Shran demands revenge, and because he would likely kill his Tellarite opponent in the ritual duel with saw-toothed ice miner tools, Archer steps in as a substitute. Shran nonetheless allows the fight to ensue, but it is over when Archer cuts off one of Shran's antennae. The Romulans have regained control of their drone thanks to its self-repair technology, and Reed and Trip are struggling to get to the hull to be beamed out. They escape from a hatch just before the ship goes to warp. The drone makes it back to Romulus where the pilot is disconnected from his remote control interface. He is a pale-skinned Andorian.

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