Date not given: After a cultural misunderstanding, the insulted Kreetassans leave the ship in a haste. Unnoticed by the crew, a creature with tentacles slips through the airlock and hides aboard Enterprise. When crewmen investigate malfunctions aboard the ship, they are caught by the creature and spun into a web. With Archer, Tucker and three more crewmen trapped like this, the rest of the crew attempt to free them with force, but they would endanger their crewmates' lives by that. Finally, Reed devises a forcefield to get close to the creature without danger, while T'Pol and Hoshi develop a method to communicate with it. The lifeform, actually part of a huge organism, has taken the crew members as a surrogate for the lost contact with its own kind. It agrees to release the crew in exchange for being transferred to its home planet.

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