For a while I was concerned this was going to turn into another Archer torturing people episode, but no. Instead it is all about how Archer can convince a guy to totally screw himself and his people over by just being so convincing. Except he really isn't convincing on screen which pretty much messes the whole thing up. This is made worse by the fact that according to the wiki the scientist who helps them gets executed for his trouble. WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HIM. It is one thing to be against the use of your work to make a weapon, but it should probably have been obvious he was working on a weapon to start with.
We open with Enterprise following up on the info they got from Hoshi's abductor and sure enough, there is a Xindi colony working on the weapon. Archer takes Malcolm and some marines down to investigate and luckily there is LITERALLY NO SECURITY AT THIS SECURE WEAPONS MAKING COMPOUND. They are able to walk into a lab and mess with the product without being seen by any cameras on guards. Eventually they take an engineer hostage in his own house but before he has to torture him Archer manages to convince him to help for no clear reason. They hide in caves even though revealing that he is being kidnapped is probably the best thing the engineer could do, but whatever, this is a dumb episode. Eventually he helps them sabotage the weapon and put a tracker in the material so Enterprise can find where the actual weapon is and the engineer goes back to work like nothing happened even though he is clearly the one responsible for the sabotage and is going to be executed for it.
Review: I guess they just thought Archer was so convincing that they didn't really need to actually show him convincing anyone. Which was stupid and makes an already dumb episode extra unwatchable. Not the worst of ENT, but bad bad bad.
2 out of 10
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