Captain Archer gets a visit from Daniels, whom he hasn't seen in quite some time. Daniels wants to send Archer to Detroit, Michigan 150 years into the past. The Xindi have sent three of their agents to Earth in 2004. Daniels isn't sure what they are up to but he's sure that it isn't good. Archer can take one person with him. He chooses T'Pol.
Archer and T'Pol arrive in 2005 and search for Xindi life signs. Before they get to the Xindi they meet Loomis, a human who is working for the aliens. He is abducting people of different blood types. He doesn't know exactly who he's working for and doesn't seem to care much about the people he is turning over to them.
Archer and T'Pol act like they are undercover cops. They interrogate Loomis in his apartment, after he tries running from them. They give him a hard enough time. Eventually he spills the beans and tells them what he knows.
Loomis needs to get a couple more people for the Xindi. Archer talks Loomis into letting him pretend to be one of the victims. This gets him into their compound, on Carpenter Street. When the aliens aren't looking he starts exploring and finds their operation. They are building a biological weapon to wipe out humanity. A fight breaks out. The aliens run. T'Pol gets involved.
Archer and T'Pol catch the aliens and return to the future with them. Loomis is left sounding like a raving idiot in 2004.
Thoughts
There were a few moments that seemed like they were attempts at humor (Archer trying to steal a car, driving a stolen truck, taking money from an ATM) but they breezed through them so quickly that they weren't funny to me and felt way too easy like they had a simple solution to every problem.
I watched this one primarily because Daniels was in it. Unfortunately he's only in it for a minute or two at the beginning. On the whole I wasn't that crazy about this episode. There wasn't any aspect of it that really appealed to me. There weren't any good character moments. It wasn't awful but it felt like a halfhearted effort.
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