 While Reed and Major Hayes are fighting over a new training program and Trip is performing neuropressure with MACO Amando Cole making T Pol seem jealous, Enterprise finds a pod in a dangerous ever expanding gravimetric field. Inside is a scaled alien dying from cellular decay. He claims he is a prisoner promised his freedom if he cooperated in an experiment. Archer knows there s more to it when it is discovered the pod s hull is of the same material the Spheres are composed of.