 Captain Archer finds out the Klingon augments booby-trapped Enterprise. The ship cannot drop below warp five. The Columbia comes to help. Trip has an idea to reverse the Klingon modifications, but at this kind of speeds he cannot use the transporter. Reed is taken out of the brig for a dangerous plan. Meanwhile Antaak and Phlox find a cure that will neutralize the virus without turning the victim into an augment. They fear general K Vagh will not accept it and decide to deceive him. On Enterprise captain Archer finds out Reed was contacted by a certain Harris. He wants to know more, putting Reed in another dilemma.