T'Pol arrives and stuns the woman with her phase pistol. Suddenly a crossbow is trained at them by a striking Akaali woman who accuses them of causing a local plague with their 'evening deliveries.' Archer and Tucker determine the antimatter reactor is located underneath a small curio shop, and upon breaking into the shop they find that the entrance to the reactor is protected by an energy barrier. T'Pol and Sato are disturbed to see that many of the people on the streets of the city are afflicted with lesions. Split into two groups, the landing team follows their scanners through the night toward the telltale emissions. So Archer sends himself, Ensign Sato, Commander Tucker and T'Pol down to the planet disguised as Akaali to investigate. But the mission becomes more critical when neutrino emissions are detected on the surface, indicating an antimatter reactor on a world that doesn't even have indoor plumbing. Over T'Pol's protestations of protocol, Captain Archer decides the crew should explore the civilization first-hand, rather than use probes. Visual and acoustic scans reveal a pre-industrial society called the Akaali. Excitement is brewing onboard Enterprise as the starship enters orbit of a Minshara-class planet with 500 million lifeforms.
