PART 13:

A steward showed Archer to Ezral's private chambers, where he and Liana were having lunch.

"Captain Archer," Ezral said raising. "Is everything alright with Commander Tucker?"

"Yes, everything's fine," Archer said. "Doctor Phlox said he'll make a complete recovery."

"Please, have a seat," Ezral told him and then looked at his steward. "Get the Captain a plate of food."

Archer stopped the steward before he left the room. "No thank you," he said. "I'm not very hungry."

The steward looked at Ezral who gave him a nod to leave.

"Then please have a seat, Captain," Ezral said sitting down himself.

Archer sat down.

"Is there something wrong?" Liana asked.

"Is there something wrong?" Liana asked.

Jonathan leaned forward, folded his hands and placed them on the table in front of him. "Liana," he began gently. "I need to ask you a couple of questions."

"About Trip being hurt?"

Captain Archer nodded.

The young woman glanced at her father before answering. "Alright."

"After the rocks stopped falling, are you sure you didn't see anything?"

"I'm positive," she replied. "Everything happened so fast."

"What about when you got up, did you hear anyone running away?"

"No."

"Captain, why all the questions?" Ezral asked.

"Trip was right, wasn't he," Liana said. "This was no accident."

"I'm afraid not," Archer told her.

"I don't understand what's going on here," Ezral said.

"Commander Tucker said he thought he saw someone on top of the cave before he blacked out," Archer explained. "Lieutenant Reed and I went to take a look and someone send those rocks falling down on Trip and Liana."

"Who would do such a thing?" Ezral asked.

"Like I told Trip, that's what we need to find out," Archer replied. "And we need to find out who was the intended target Trip or Liana?"

"Me?" Liana looked at Archer with fear in her eyes.

"Have you been having problems with anyone lately, Liana?" Archer asked.

"No," Liana replied. "Ever since my father and I returned everyone's been nice to us."

"What about your Ezral?" Archer asked. "Have you received any threats for thing you did on the counsel?"

"None," Ezral answered. "Like Liana said, everyone's been nice to us."

"Well there's someone out there who isn't being so nice to you anymore," Archer said.

"What about Commander Tucker," Ezral said. "What if he was the intended target?"

"I talked about that with him already," Archer said. "The question that comes up is, who else does he know here besides you and Liana?"

"So we have no idea if this person was after Trip or me," Liana said.

"Unfortunately, no," Archer replied.

"I will get my top men on this Captain," Ezral said.

"If it's alright with you, Ezral," Archer said. "Lieutenant Reed and I would like to look into this as well."

"By all means do," Ezral replied. "Any help that I can give you I will."

"Thank you."

"In the mean time," Ezral said. "I'll have a guard posted outside of Commander Tuckers hospital room and your quarters." He looked at his daughter. "And Liana you will go no where without a guard with you."

"Yes father."

"We'll find out who did this, Captain," Ezral said.

"Lets hope we do before they try something again," Archer said.

End of Part 13