Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Seven of Whine
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.05.2002
Alien-ritaville. T'Pol storms back in. Quantum stops her as she makes her way over to Menos and tells her, "That wasn't too smart, you could have been hurt. What did you find?" T'Pol tells him, "Spent injector casings." Quantum looks over at Menos and tells T'Pol she'll have to go through Decon when they get back. Quick, Quantum, grab a belt and run out to Menos's ship as well -- then you can go through Decon together! T'Pol asks if she can be allowed to speak to Menos without May-blink and her Captain listening in. Quantum looks at T'Pol's heaving...shoulders, and tells May-heel that they should go find some snacks. Then he stares a little longer at T'Pol, and walks off. T'Pol winches Menos's restraints tighter and demands, "Who is Jossen?" Menos supposes she didn't find what she was looking for on his ship. T'Pol repeats her question. "If this is your idea of humor --" Menos starts, until T'Pol points her pistol at him and again demands to be told who Jossen is. Menos tells her that Jossen was no different from him -- he didn't want to be rehabilitated, and he was innocent as innocent can be. T'Pol has a Sepia Flashback to a man falling on the ground in front of her. "Where did I meet him?" she asks. Menos is all incredulous that she seems to have no memory of what happened, and tells her that he and Jossen were in Risa, in the Tropical Zone. See, I thought all of Risa was tropical -- not subject to zoning. Menos goes on and on about how innocent he and Jossen were.
Sepia Flashback of T'Pol pointing her gun at the fallen man. Normal Color Of Present Day. T'Pol tells Menos he's lying to her, but he denies it. T'Pol insists that she was only after him. Menos wants to know why she's asking about Jossen, if that's what she believes. "He didn't hurt anyone -- he didn't deserve to be hunted down like an animal," Menos tells her. Sepia Flashback of the fallen man reaching for a holster, and Long-Haired T'Pol firing a blast that scares some art-house birds out of a tree. "I killed him," T'Pol states in the four-colored present. Menos confirms this, and continues to insist on his and Jossen's innocence. Sepia Flashback to T'Pol being held down by a cleric. A really scary and craggy Vulcan, who I hope to God isn't Nimoy in a surprise cameo, stands over her and reads from a book. That's why they had that establishing shot in the opening of T'Pol reading a book in Vulcan. In the present, Menos can't understand why she doesn't remember, and asks why she killed Jossen when he never would have hurt her. "Stop talking," T'Pol whispers. "You're a Vulcan, you're trained to repress the emotion of killing, not the memory of the act," Menos tells her. Sepia Flashback of more Vulcan Exorcisms. "I said stop talking!" T'Pol shouts in a very weird voice.