After last week's opening part of this story we find Captain Archer and T'Pol in the custody of the Syrranites. Here they meet T'Pau, the woman who Archer still believes caused the explosion at Earth's embassy, not surprisingly she protests her innocence. When she learns that the spirit of Surak, the founder of Vulcan logic, has been passed to Archer she performs a ritual to move that spirit into herself but it turns out that Surak has decided to remain within Archer. While Archer is busy with the Syrranites the Vulcan High Command is ordering Enterprise to break orbit and leave Vulcan... so they can attack the Syrranites' base in secret. As the attacks begin Archer takes T'Pau and T'Pol with him to find a mythical Vulcan artefact which Surak has revealed the location of. As the episode ends Enterprise is seen heading to Andoria in order to warn them of a potential attack by the Vulcans.
This is a gripping episode which has plenty of tense moments and a well handled death scene where Jolene Blalock does a fine job as T'Pol, managing to show both restraint and subtle emotion when her mother does. Guest stars Kara Zediker and Joanna Cassidy are good as T'Pau and T'Pol's mother T'Les, both acting well and showing that it is possible to look good without wearing a revealing costume. The episode sets things up nicely for next week's conclusion of the three part story which I'm looking forward to.
This is a gripping episode which has plenty of tense moments and a well handled death scene where Jolene Blalock does a fine job as T'Pol, managing to show both restraint and subtle emotion when her mother does. Guest stars Kara Zediker and Joanna Cassidy are good as T'Pau and T'Pol's mother T'Les, both acting well and showing that it is possible to look good without wearing a revealing costume. The episode sets things up nicely for next week's conclusion of the three part story which I'm looking forward to.